Is America funding terrorists? Does the Justice Department care? Which side is the Justice Department on?
These are some of the questions I had as I read an article posted today at National Review by Andrew McCarthy. The article opens by pointing out the difference between the way Paul Ryan was treated in the President's speech on the budget last week and the way prominent members of the Muslim Brotherhood were treated as they sat in the audience in Cairo in June 2009. Paul Ryan was invited to attend the speech and then verbally attacked in it. The Muslim Brotherhood, banned at the time in Egypt, must have loved what they heard from the President. The article reports on the speech in Cairo:
"That was when al-Azhar University -- the font of Sunni theology and training ground for the virulently anti-American clerics who green-light jihadist terror -- sponsored his eagerly awaited oration on U.S. relations with the Muslim world. As usual, the speech was specious: a whitewash of the legacy of Islamic savagery, the expurgation of violent injunctions from Islamic scripture, historical ignorance of the Jewish claim to Israel, and even the adoption of "resistance" as the euphemism for Palestinian terrorism -- a touch that must have brought a smile to the faces of Hamas and the president's pal Rashid Khalidi, the former PLO mouthpiece turned Columbia professor."
It was just a speech, right?
Mr. McCarthy reminds us of the history of the Muslim Brotherhood:
"In 2008, not long before Obama's Cairo speech, the Brotherhood was proved to be the prime mover in the biggest terrorism-financing conspiracy ever prosecuted by the Justice Department -- specifically, by the Bush-era U.S. attorney's office in Dallas. Five defendants were convicted in the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) case of routing tens of millions of dollars to Hamas during the intifada. As its charter attests, Hamas is the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestinian branch. Since its creation in the late 1980s, Hamas's sustenance has been the top priority of the Brotherhood's U.S. operatives, including Mousa abu Marzook, who actually ran Hamas from his Virginia home in the early 1990s."
OK. We know who they are. Now Mr. McCarthy reports:
"At Pajamas Media on Thursday, terrorism researcher Patrick Poole broke the news that the Obama Justice Department has put the kibosh on the Dallas U.S. attorney's plan to bring follow-up terror-financing cases against some of the unindicted coconspirators from the HLF case."
When Patrick Poole was asked why his source was coming forward at this time, he answered:
Until we act decisively to cut off the financial pipeline to these terrorist groups by putting more of these people in prison, they are going to continue to raise money that will go into the hands of killers. And until Congress starts grilling the people inside DOJ and the FBI who are giving these groups cover, that is not going to change. My biggest fear is that Americans are going to die and it will be the very Muslim leaders we are working with who will be directly or indirectly responsible.
Mr. McCarthy concludes:
"As the Obama administration's rough treatment of Representative Ryan shows, it's not a comfortable time to be a member of Congress who starts asking a lot of questions this president doesn't want to hear. Fortunately for the economy, it appears that Ryan is not backing down. For the sake of our security, though, somebody up on the Hill better step up. It is past time to ask: What on earth is this administration's infatuation with the Muslim Brotherhood?"
We will never end the jihad against America by supplying terrorists the money to fight it.
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