Rising "Islamophobia"

"[The Obama Administration is] living in a fantasyland, a bubble, where they have a pre-concocted narrative that terrorism is the result of economic hardship, political disenfranchisement… global warming, climate change is much more dangerous… the real jayvee team is ISIS, al-Qaeda is on the ropes… This is the narrative that they’ve spun themselves into for seven years, and anything that counters that, any shock of reality that goes against the White House meme, has to be ignored. So let’s talk about gun control. It’s incredible."
"Let’s not talk about jihad, let’s not talk about why these people do it.  Let’s talk about gun control.  It’s like a bad Saturday Night Live skit in my opinion."
"The war is real.  The war is here. 30 percent of the 82 people we’ve killed or arrested in America in the last two years [for ISIS involvement] didn’t want to go abroad to be jihadis. They wanted to kill Americans in America.  This is a war that is real and global.  Jihad has arrived at the shores of America.  9/11 isn’t history – it is now."
"We need leadership that says one thing very clearly: we have an enemy – not global climate change, the enemy is global jihad, and these people are evil."
Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Breitbart National Security contributor, Chair of Military Theory, Marine Corps University

"I know that after so much war, many Americans are asking whether we are confronted by a cancer that has no immediate cure. The threat from terrorism is real, but we will overcome it."
"This was an act of terrorism designed to kill innocent people. What we can do and must do, is make it harder for them to kill [by tightening gun laws]."
"[The spread of radical Islam within the U.S. is] a real problem that Muslims must confront without excuse."
President Barack Obama

Anas Altikriti (senior member of Muslim Brotherhood) standing next to Iraqi Parliament Speaker Usama al-Nujaifi shaking hands with President Obama / Flickr

Well, then! The President's caution to the American people not to hold their fellow Muslim citizens responsible for the evil done by jihadis gave comfort to some. The Muslim Brotherhood has entree to the Oval Office; they have President Obama's ear and he listens carefully as though what they have to tell him will reflect the fact that they are 'moderate' Islam personified, whereas in reality their incubation foretold those of all their successors. When the president urges Muslims to do something about the pretenders-to-Islam hijacking their religion in the creation of pious carnage, perhaps he should look to whether the Brotherhood has his ear.

The President's initiative in the wake of the latest Islamist atrocity in his country is to urge Congress to pass authorization to approve legislation so that those on the "no-fly list"; pinpointed specifically because there are concerns over their allegiance and their possible Islamist interests and contacts -- would be prevented from obtaining firearms. That is, obtaining them through a legal process. Jihadists are nothing if not determined, and in the black market that thrives anywhere and most particularly in America, procuring weapons would be no problem.

He did emphasize that the nation's law enforcement and intelligence communities are unable always without fail to identify threats and neutralize them before they become yet another jihadist atrocity. Which was why, he emphasized, gun laws must be tightened, as a matter of consolidating national security. Gun laws should indeed be tightened but not in response necessarily to the attacks by Islamist jihadists. To link Islamist jihad and domestic gun laws entirely misses the point.

And the point is the infiltration into America of the poisonous elixir of Muslim triumphalism as expressed through successful jihadist attacks. Even those that are apprehended can be regarded as successes, since they have elicited the terror reaction they were meant to produce, putting the country and its citizens on high alert, and causing new and possibly useless defensive props to be installed, costly to the nation and with but a thin veneer of security.

When warning a society that government agencies are pressed to the limit, doing all they can to thwart such attacks, and succeeding mostly, but failing on occasion, that society has been placed on alert that their government is not quite capable of protecting them adequately. When warning people that as citizens they must be alert to anything unusual that can be reported to authorities to avert calamity, a general atmosphere of low-grade panic is not far from the surface.

In alerting people in general that the Muslim community is entitled to the same considerations as any other Americans, people are being informed that government is there for the protection of all, which is all to the good, but it is well to remember that it is within the mosques and the Islamic social services institutions that American values and virtues are being undermined. Among the vast numbers of innocent Muslims do indeed lurk maleficent usurpers of public order.

Islamist terrorist groups are well represented throughout the West and their presence is well enough known to the broader Muslim community, from among many of which there is sympathy for their Islamist agenda. Islamists cleverly know how to twist situations to reflect the helplessness of Muslims when they and more likely their religion are held responsible for the violence of jihadists. They are turned into victims. And their accusers are Islamophobes. 

"Hate-filled rhetoric and anti-Muslim attacks are putting the lives of American Muslims and their families in real danger."
"We are particularly concerned by an emerging pattern of government officials and employees, as well as other public figures, seeming to endorse or encourage violence against Muslims."
Nihad Awad, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)

Remember, terrorism has become an Islamist tool of first choice. It is a choice made by Islamists as a weapon against the West. Their intention is to prevail in jihad which their religion instructs the devout to engage with. To enable Islam to be empowered through the surrender claimed by Islam as its right in the larger purpose of achieving global domination. Achieved in time through the steady infiltration of Islam throughout the lands of non-Muslims for the patient.

For those prepared to accelerate the process, it is Islamist jihad wielding the venomous violence of terrorism that becomes the choice where two things can be accomplished; venerated martyrdom in the process of diminishing the number of non-believers from a life they do not deserve.

CAIR Gives Award to Extremist Pro-Hamas Group 'Code Pink'

The Council on American-Islamic Relations awarded the extremist group the “Community Organization of the Year” award at its 20th Annual Banquet.

By Meira Svirsky

Tue, September 30, 2014

Code Pink leader Medea Benjamin (L) chants as she and other demonstrators are escorted out of the hearing room by U.S. Capitol police officers at the request of Senate Intellgence Committee Chairman Senator Dianne Feinstein. Code Pink protestors repeatedly interrupted Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan testifying before a hearing on his nomination to be the Director of the CIA. (Photo: © Reuters)

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) awarded the extremist group “Code Pink,” the “Community Organization of the Year” award at its 20th Annual Banquet September 27.

The choice was not surprising, considering that the two groups share many of the same goals. Code Pink, which ironically bills itself as a grassroots organization of “women working for peace,” has a history of  supporting Hamas and the brutal Iranian regime as well as being anti-American.

CAIR, for its part, is an entity of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, according to the U.S. Justice Department. More specifically, as confirmed by Muslim Brotherhood documents, CAIR is part of the Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee, a secret body that was established to push the agenda of Hamas and the overall Islamist cause.

Code Pink, known for its theatrical and outrageous street protests, was originally established in 2002 to agitate for an end to American military involvement in Iraq. The group made its first trip to Iraq in 2003, at which time Code Pink leader Jodie Evans praised the government of Saddam Hussein for providing “a good education and health care system, food for everyone.” At the same time, Evans accused America of “destroy[ing] any form of infrastructure that could have held the country together.” Evans also observed, “What's cool about the resistance is that the Iraqis don't back down."
Two years later, Code Pink helped that “resistance.” Evans and fellow Code Pink leader Medea Benjamin, travelled to Iraq as part of delegation of “peace groups” and delivered $600,000 in cash and medical supplies to the families of insurgents fighting against American forces in Fallujah.

Code Pink activities supporting terrorists did not end in Iraq. In 2006, the organization’s leaders travelled to Venezuela to meet with Hugo Chavez, that country’s brutal and murderous dictator. After the trip, Evans blogged, “He was a doll. Generous, open, passionate, excited, stimulated by the requests and happy to be planning with us.” 

Fellow Code Pink leader Benjamin was also enamored with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Benjamin , who lived in Cuba for a time said life in Cuba was so idyllic that it “made it seem like I died and went to heaven,” (even though she was deported for writing an article published in a communist newspaper that the government disapproved of).

In 2008, Code Pink leaders met with then-Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in New York City. Following that meeting, Benjamin and Evans accepted an invitation by Ahmadinejad to visit Iran as his guests. Again, the two had nothing but praise for Iran’s leaders, which ironically coincided with the Iranian regime’s hanging of Fatemeh Haghighatpajou, who was put to death for defending her daughter from a rapist.

At the Democratic National Convention in 2008, Code Pink demonstrated for “Peace with Iran.” Code Pink demonstrators maintained that Iran had fulfilled all of their obligations. “They are doing what they can. They’ve already had the inspectors they need,” a Code Pink demonstrator maintained.
“Iran isn’t threatening anyone. They haven’t threatened another country in over 260 years,” said another.

This is despite the fact that then-president Ahmadinejad vowed at the "World Without Zionism" conference in 2005 (as well as numerous other times) that "his eminency Imam Khomeini ... said that the occupation regime of Qods [Israel] must be wiped off from the map of the world, and with the help of the Almighty, we shall soon experience a world without America and Zionism, notwithstanding those who doubt."

When asked if peace takes two partners, another Code Pink demonstrator replied, “Not with the United States being the biggest bully on the planet.”
“Not only that, it’s not our job to worry about a bunch of mullahs threatening people,” said yet another Code Pink protester.

The next year, Code Pink led an international delegation to Gaza, where they delivered tens of thousands of dollars in “humanitarian aid” and were feted at a five-star hotel owned by Hamas.
In 2013, Code Pink, still billing themselves as a pro-peace women’s group, held a demonstration in conjunction with the Interfaith Peace-Builders in Washington, D.C. Code Pink demonstrators screamed on the streets of Washington, D.C., calling for a new, violent uprising against Israel, “Long live the intifada... intifada, intifada!"  (In the previous intifada, over 1,000 civilians were killed in shootings and suicide bombing on Israeli streets, buses, cafes and hotels.) 

The same year, Code Pink took part in a protest in Yemen against U.S. drone attacks on terrorists. The protest was in conjunction with the Islamic organization, al Karama, whose founder and president, Abdul Rahman al-Naimi, was listed by the Treasury Department as a "specially designated global terrorist." Al-Naimi is suspected of funneling $600,000 to al Qaeda in Syria. 

Most recently, Code Pink led protest against Israel for defending themselves from a barrage of 3,621 rockets and mortars fired by Hamas into Israeli population areas after Hamas militants kidnapped and killed three Israeli teenagers.

At the protest, Code Pink leader Benjamin said, “I think it is horrible that the Israeli state does not value the lives of Palestinian people.”

Code Pink’s history of activism for the Islamist cause dovetails with CAIR’s. In 2007, the Justice Department branded CAIR an unindicted co-conspirator in the trial of the Holy Land Foundation, another U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity found guilty of financing Hamas. The designation was upheld by a federal judge in 2009. The FBI subsequently ended its use of CAIR as an outreach partner, citing evidence linking it to Hamas.

In yet another terrorism trial in 2007, federal prosecutors stated in a court filing:
“From its founding by Muslim Brotherhood leaders, CAIR conspired with other affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists … the conspirators agreed to use deception to conceal from the American public their connections to terrorists.”

The ongoing extremism of CAIR is evident in its suspicious money transfers, use of Islamist radicals for fundraising, defense of the Jamaat ul-Fuqra terrorist group and the statements of its chapter leaders. CAIR officials recently questioned whether to honor U.S. soldiers on Memorial Day, compared the U.S. military to the Taliban and criticized American nationalism.

Even though CAIR’s history paints a clear picture of the extremist nature of the organization, its public support for a group like Code Pink exposes its agenda for all to see.

It’s time for the public and government officials to wake up to the fact that CAIR is not the “Islamic civil liberties group,” it purports to be. 

Meira Svirsky is the editor of ClarionProject.org