Make Room for Islamistgate: the Obama Administration’s New Scandal

Make Room for Islamistgate: the Obama
Administration’s New Scandal



Moderate Muslims have been
neglected and isolated by this project which has helped the radicals, Islamists,
and pro-terrorists.

By:
Barry Rubin

Published: June 4th, 2013 http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/analysis/rubin-reports/make-room-for-islamistgate-the-obama-administrations-new-scandal/2013/06/04/0/

Originally published at Rubin Reports.

Up to now the Obama Administration has faced three big scandals—the IRS, the
bugging of AP and Fox, and Benghazi. And now here is scandal Number 4:

For the last four years the Obama Administration has conducted a major
“outreach” program to Islamic groups in the United States and in the Middle
East. Patrick Poole has been investigating this project and in a comprehensive
article now presents the full scoop and scope of what’s been going on. His article, “Blind to Terror: The U.S. Government’s Disastrous
Muslim Outreach Efforts and the Impact on U.S. Policy” in the new, Summer, issue
of MERIA Journal is a gamechanger

You may think that you know about this subject but it goes far beyond what
you have heard about. The majority of groups and individuals promoted by the
Obama Administration have been radical Islamists, particularly Muslim
Brotherhood cadre, and more than occasionally people involved in terrorist
activity.

Moderate Muslims have been neglected and isolated by this project which has
helped the radicals, Islamists, and pro-terrorists gain hegemony in the Muslim
community in America.

Again, you may think that you know this story but it is far more extensive
than has ever before been revealed. Often, the White House and FBI have granted
access and worked with those who were simultaneously being investigated on
serious charges of terrorism.

The whole “outreach” program has been a farce and it would be charitable to
describe it as incompetent on the part of the Obama Administration. Patrick
Poole pulls all of the material together for the first time and shows serious
flaws that have endangered Americans in scores of cases.

Radicals have been given credentials as moderates, been provided with
information that should have remained secret, been allowed to advise and
influence U.S. policy. The kind of government mishandling of terrorist threats
that characterize the Fort Hood case and the Boston bombing has been business as
usual.

Here is a portion of Patrick Poole’s article:

“When President Obama hosted his annual Iftar dinner in August 2010 to
commemorate the Muslim celebration of Ramadan, the list of invitees published by
the White House was curiously missing the names of several attendees – all of
whom were top leaders of organizations known to be purveyors of jihadist
ideology and implicated by federal prosecutors in financing terrorism.[

“But it wasn’t like they had crashed the party. In fact, one of the
individuals missing on the official White House list, Mohamed Majid, president
of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), was pictured in a news service
photograph sitting at the front table just a few feet from the president as he
spoke When Majid was hailed by Time Magazine in November 2005 as a
“moderate Muslim cleric” that was helping the FBI fight terrorists, he quickly
published an open letter to his congregation on the mosque’s website assuring
his congregants that he was doing no such thing stating that his relationship
with the FBI was a one-way street only to communicate Muslim community concerns
– not to report on individuals suspected of terrorist activity.

“It was just a few years ago the Attorney General of the United States was
canceling Muslim outreach events for the sole reason that Majid would be present
at the meeting, because the Department of Justice had just named ISNA as an
unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism financing trial in American
history.

“But Majid’s connection to terrorism goes back even farther than that, since
the offices of the mosque he leads, the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS)
Center, were raided by U.S. Customs authorities in March 2002 in a wide-sweeping
terror finance investigation. In an affidavit requesting a search warrant for
the raids, Customs Agent David Kane testified that Majid’s mosque was being used
to launder hundreds of thousands of dollars for the targeted terror finance
network that shared offices with ADAMS. An appendix to the Customs Service
affidavit also names eleven ADAMS Center officials as targets of their terror
finance investigation.And yet Majid and the ADAMS Center are still considered
legitimate outreach partners by the FBI.

“This was just the most recent episode in the disastrous attempts at outreach
to the Muslim community since the 9/11 attacks. And with the release in 2011 of
President Obama’s strategic plan to combat “violent extremism” to expand
outreach to these same terror-tied groups, the present administration seems
intent on compounding the disaster wrought by previous administrations.”

The results of this investigation should be a serious embarrassment for the
Obama Administration and should be distributed as widely as possible. It
involves the expenditure of millions of dollars of taxpayer money and the
promotion of the forces most dangerous to American interests and to the American
people in the world today.

This article is also published on PJMedia.

Just great