Today’s Daily Caller posted an article about the government’s outreach to Muslim groups. It’s a really good idea to reach out to Muslim groups, but like anything else, you have to know which groups to reach out to.
The article reports:
“”We don’t have any contacts in the administration,” said Avi Zonneveld, founder of Muslims for Progressive Values, based in Los Angeles. “The Canadian governmnet is much more accessible,” she said.”
Meanwhile, one of the groups the government has reached out to is the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which practices orthodox Islam and believes Islamic rules (read Sharia Law) should take precedence over the rules of whatever democracy they may currently be living in. This doesn’t sound like an ideology I want working closely with my government!
“On March 6, for example, Denis McDonough, a White House deputy national security advisor, delivered a speech in Northern Virginia at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS), where he said that “when it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you’re part of the solution.”
“Yet the head cleric at the mosque, Mohamed Magid, is also president of the ISNA, which was founded by Muslim Brotherhood supporters in the United States, and which has cooperated with other brotherhood-affiliated groups, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations. A federal judge in July 2009 concluded that CAIR has associations with Hamas, which is both an Islamist terror group and an affiliate of the Egyptian-based Muslim Brotherhood.”
As I have pointed out before, CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Case.
The Middle East Forum posted an article in 2006 stating:
“But there is another side to CAIR that has alarmed many people in positions to know. The Department of Homeland Security refuses to deal with it. Senator Charles Schumer (Democrat, New York) describes it as an organization “which we know has ties to terrorism.”[3] Senator Dick Durbin (Democrat, Illinois) observes that CAIR is “unusual in its extreme rhetoric and its associations with groups that are suspect.”[4] Steven Pomerantz, the FBI’s former chief of counterterrorism, notes that “CAIR, its leaders, and its activities effectively give aid to international terrorist groups.”[5] The family of John P. O’Neill, Sr., the former FBI counterterrorism chief who perished at the World Trade Center, named CAIR in a lawsuit as having “been part of the criminal conspiracy of radical Islamic terrorism”[6] responsible for the September 11 atrocities. Counterterrorism expert Steven Emerson calls it “a radical fundamentalist front group for Hamas.”[7]“
Please follow the link above the read the entire article and check out the footnotes. Our government is either very naive or very stupid. Both are dangerous in the current situation.