THE INROADS OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION

This article was written by Douglas Farah on April 14, 2009, first posted on the Website: www.analyst-network.com. It is important that more people understand the real threat of this administration so I am posting it here.

First, a note updating my pessimistic view of the Somali pirate hostage taking. I stand corrected, and thank the Navy Seals and others who carried out the rescue operation. Well done!

But, as the the Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report (free subscription required) makes clear, the news is not all good.

The Muslim Brotherhood legacy organizations have recently made tremendous strides in occupying positions of influence within the Obama administration, at the same time the FBI and other law enforcement officials have move to cut ties to the very same organization.

The MB has only one political agenda-its own. Its organizations strongly backed George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004, (remember the famous picture of Bush hugging the al Arian family?). Hoping for friendlier pastures, the groups switched their support to the Dems in ‘08. So far, it appears to be paying off. Big time.

The architect is Dr. John Esposito, a long time defender of the MB and the head of the Saudi-financed Georgetown University Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the Walsh School of Foreign Service.

The same Dr. Esposito who maintained prior to 9/11 that radical Islam was essentially a myth and certainly no danger. It is hard to imagine any academic being so consistently wrong in their professed field of expertise maintaining much influence, but there he is, deeply enmeshed with all the major MB legacy groups in the country.

What is fascinating is that all the same small groups appear in every event, and, if needed, new groups are created, but all led by the same small group of people. Recall that the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) he’s a paid membership of less than 2,000-a drop of more than 80 percent since 9/11. Yet it continues to cast itself as the premiere voice of Muslim in America, and is often treated as such.
To be clear: these groups have a clearly enunciated and never renounced policy of toppling the government, hollowing out the institutional structures, and imposing the caliphate here, where Sharia law is the law of the land. As I have often said, if they want to openly join the political process and espouse this, they are welcome and they will be marginalized, even within the Muslim community.

It is the fact that these organizations are front groups for a foreign movement that wants to end our political system (while supporting radical Islam) that I object to.
First is the announcement by the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID), a sort of umbrella organization for many of the MB groups in the United States, that Secretary of State Clinton (along with a senior MB leader from Britain who has been banned from the United States previously will be keynote speakers at their 10th anniversary celebration.

It is hard to imagine the vetting process of the Secretary letting this one through, and time will tell if it really on her agenda or an attempt to hype the event. Here is what GMBDR says on CSID:

CSID was founded in 1998 largely by the efforts of Georgetown University academic Dr. Esposito who, during the 1990’s, had served in the State Department as a “foreign affairs analyst.” Many members of the early CSID board were associated with the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), the American Muslim Council, and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). For example, past CSID board members included Jamal Barzinji and Taha Al-Alwani, both important Brotherhood leaders who are closely associated with the now defunct SAAR Foundation, still under investigation by the U.S. government. Both Barzinji and Al-Alwani helped to establish many of the most important U.S. Brotherhood organizations. The current CSID Vice-Chair, Antony Sullivan, has many ties to U.S. Brotherhood groups including the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS), the United Association for Studies and Research (USAR), and the Circle of Tradition and Progress (COTP), a group whose other founding members included Youssef Qaradawi, the most important leader of the global Muslim Brotherhood. From its inception, CSID has argued that the U.S. government should support Islamist movements in foreign countries and has received financial support from the National Endowment for Democracy and the United States Institute of Peace.

Dr. Esposito, who will also be attending the conference, has been a long-time supporter of the global Muslim Brotherhood and has espoused views consistent with Brotherhood doctrine. During the 1990’s was known for his claims that Islamic fundamentalism was, in fact, democratic and posed no threat to the U.S. Dr. Esposito has at least a dozen past or present affiliations with global Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas organizations including having served on the advisory boards of the Institute of Islamic Political Thought in the U.K. and the United Association for Studies and Research in the U.S. and has served with global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi on the Steering Committee of the Circle of Tradition and Progress. In 2005, Saudi prince Alaweed bin Talal, a financial supporter of the global Muslim Brotherhood donated $20 million to the Center for Muslim Christian Understanding at Georgetown, headed by Dr. Esposito.

The second is the naming Dalia Mogahed as one of the Muslim members of the President’s Advisory Council Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. She is (surprised gasps all around) an Esposito protege.

Ms. Mogahed, who was born in Egypt and lived in the U.S. since the age of 5, is the executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies and the co-author of a book with Dr. Esposito suggesting that majority of the world’s Muslims support some form of democracy. Dr. Esposito is also a member of the Gallup Center along with Ahmed Younis, previously a National Director for the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), part of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood. In 2003, Ms. Mogahed was identified in 2003 as the Outreach Coordinator for the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh (ICP) whose co-founder recently lost a DOE security clearance and whose Imam will probably be deported on immigration violations. Ms. Mogahed is the daughter of Elsayed Mogahed, an Egyptian immigrant who is a former engineering scientist at the University of Wisconsin and director of the Islamic Center of Madison (ICM). The website of the ICM links mainly to U.S. Muslim Brotherhood organizations and Souheil Ghannouchi, the President of the Muslim American Society (MAS), was ICM Imam and President for several years. The MAS is part of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood and closest to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.

So, there we have it. And it isn’t pretty.

OBAMA'S STORM TROOPERS WAGE CLASS WARFARE

When Obama managed to put $1.5 billion dollars in the stimulus bill for ACORN, he was insuring that his thugs will have buses and wages to continue his campaign, as they did during the brutal caucuses against Hillary. Now, we are faced with these people who don't work and have the time to climb on buses to travel the country and intimidate anyone who dares to disagree with the Messiah. Is this Democracy? I suppose it is for those who voted for the Obamanation. After all, we are always supporting free elections in countries that coddle murderous dictators. So now we have Hamas in power in Gaza, Hezbollah on the rise, and Obama's Storm Troopers doing the job for him right here in America. Look at the people threatening ordinary AIG employees and family members. That's a forecast of what's to come for anyone who speaks out against Obama and his move to socialist/fascism. He's going to bankrupt this country and destroy our defense capability, tax the enterpreneurs and confiscate the property of those who have worked hard and obeyed the rules. His Congressional minions are conspiring to achieve his goals in complete disregard of our U.S. Constitution. This is what happened in Zimbabwe and in South Africa. Now, we have Obama to take us in the same direction. Wow! What we have come to!!

OBAMA, BEHOLDEN TO UNIONS TO GET RE-ELECTED

Welfare is coming back larger than ever. Clinton cut welfare rolls and by doing so, people were motivated to work. Millions went off the dole and into the work force. A lifetime limit of five years on the dole was set for family benefits. That is all about to change.

The stimulus bill just signed by Obama is going to reward states to increase their welfare case load far more than it ever was under AFDC. The overall cost for the next 10 years is estimated to reach $1.34 trillion.

Big question: Why do this now when it will hurt our recovery?

Obama was elected by the efforts of ACORN, the Unions and the mainstream media. Hillary's supporters were shouted and shoved out of the way at caucuses by both ACORN and Union organizers.

The unions have never liked workfare, and they fought against it when Clinton promoted it. Why? Because the presence of all these additional workers reduced the wages of union workers flooding the work force with too many people willing to work as non-union workers. So now it didn't require a union worker to screw in a bulb and then wait for the other union worker to turn on the switch.

Well, guess what, folks?

Obama, the great Messiah and role model for his people is ready to reward them again for what they did to get him elected--give them welfare checks to sit on their duffs. Here come the welfare queens sitting around and making more and more babies out of wedlock to increase their checks. What havoc this will wreak on our country with all the other problems he's compounding.

FAMILY ESTRANGEMENTS ARE REAL AND PAINFUL

Over the period of my blog, I have had many queries about estrangements that are real and painful, almost always with a previously close family member. There are a variety of reasons for these sad rifts--a messy divorce, an in-law problem, an interracial marriage, religious differences, a family business that failed, inheritance issues, or an announcement that a family member is gay. Whatever the reason for the breakdown of a once loving relationship, time is an essential component to the very definition of the word estrangement. I wrote a book to help people find a road map toward reconciliation. If you are having this problem, it would be a benefit to you and all the member of your family to resolve the dispute. You may think you've tried everything, but chances are there are some different paths to take that you haven't tried. This book can be your answer. FAMILY ESTRANGEMENTS was "highly recommended" by Library Journal. If you can't find FAMILY ESTRANGEMENTS in your library, you can usually find it at your favorite bookstore. Order it there or on Amazon. Life really is too short to waste it on grudges.

OBAMA, PLEASE PAY ATTENTION!

We are on a precipice in the world of finance because there will certainly be a changing paradigm. The direction we take can decide whether we will remain a world power. I fear Obama could send us off a cliff. A nation’s financial system is the key to its prosperity. The better capitalized and developed the financial industry, the greater the strength of the country. As the Pulitzer Prize winner, Daniel Yergin put it “The era of easy globalization is over. The power of the state is reasserting itself.”

The U.S. may become a relatively slow-growing economy like Europe and Japan with aggressively regulated financial systems. This could seriously curtail financing entrepreneurial risk and growth. China and India, on the other hand will use free-wheeling offshore global hedge firms, private equity firms, and other investment vehicles to help fuel huge expansion and control throughout the rest of the world. As a result, the current power shift in manufacturing away from the West to Asia could very well lead to Pacific Rim financial dominance over the West in a very short time. WE DON’T WANT TO HAVE AMERICAN COMPANIES FORCED TO RELY LARGELY ON EUROPEAN, JAPANESE AND CHINESE BANKS FOR FINANCING. If we do that, our financial services industry will most assuredly go the way of the U.S. auto industry.

To avoid this result we need a team of financial policy gurus from both the public and the private sectors. I mean really smart people without a political agenda. Of course, they will require political backing, so it would be wise to tap some of the smart and savvy leaders in Congress, and there are a few.

Believe it or not, even some Democrats have the know how to be in this brain trust. Chuck Schumer is smart enough. On the other side of the aisle, Richard Shelby comes to mind. And we’ll have to do what our law enforcement does, work with some of the bad guys to get the rest of the bad guys. In this brain trust, we'll have to include some of the people tarnished by this downturn because they understand the financial world. They understood it well enough to make themselves rich at the expense of our country and the global financial world. Yes, the inmates will have to run the Asylum for a while, but we need to pick the ones who are cured of their malady and about to be released. Some of the names that come to mind are Robert Rubin, John Corzine, and Larry Summers, providing Summers would not be a puppet for the socialist regime we now have in power. Lots of others are out there.

I know I have no standing to speak except that I am self taught, a lawyer, and I have a sincere desire to see our country remain on top.