Posted by
Bob Siegel on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 1:49:51 PM
NOTE: Today's article will make more sense if you first read the prologue I wrote yesterday:
Let's Just See What A Little Research Does
OK, Here is what I discovered:
1) The two new appointees to Homeland Security are Arif Alikhan, as Assistant Secretary For Policy Development, and Kareem Shora for Homeland Security Advisory Council.
2) Alikhan is a devout Sunni Muslim, affiliated with MPAC (Muslim Public Affairs Council). This organization describes itself as "a public service agency working for civil rights of American Muslims, for the integration of Islam into American pluralism, and for a positive, constructive relationship between American Muslims and their representatives." MPAC claims a desire to co-exist peacefully with Christians and Jews. However, interested parties may help themselves to a few facts:
a) MPAC's Senior Advisor, Maher Hathout, has close ties to the terrorist organization, Muslim Brotherhood, and accepts the most violent faction of Islam called Wahhabism. Not only does Wahhabism, openly, unabashedly practice Jihad, this movement was influenced by real, honest to goodness NAZIS during the days of World War Two!
b) After 9/11, when the Palestinians began the Second Intifada, MPAC broke off its ties to the Jewish community and made public statements condemning Israel for retaliating against the violence. Such violence, you will recall, included terrorists blowing up civilian buses and killing innocent women and children.
c) MPAC holds Israel one hundred percent responsible for all Middle East violence.
d) MPAC openly opposed Bush's military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq.
e) In 1999 MPAC supported Hezbollah's 1983 bombing of the American military barracks in Lebanon.
I could continue with more but I need some time to talk about the other appointee. Besides, my purpose this morning is to write a blog, not a phone book.
3) In a CNN interview, Kareem Shora urged the United States to stop shipping arms to Israel. This statement is tame compared to the organization he represents. Shora was the head of ADC (American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee). Here is some dope on ADC:
a) They have a warm association with Anti-Israeli professor, Rashid Khalidi. But then, so does Obama, so no big surprises here.
b) ADC's public policy is anti-Israel.
c) ADC has openly opposed many anti- terrorist measures in the United States and has lobbied against the Patriot Act.
d) In 1994, then President of ADC, Hasmzi Moghrabi, responded to Hamas suicide bombings by saying, "I will not call Hamas a terrorist organization."
e) In 2000, the new ADC President, Hussein Abish, called Hezbollah "a disciplined and responsible liberation force."
What fine additions these gentlemen make to our Department of Homeland Security. I want to say something clever here but somebody beat me to the punch years ago: The fox is watching the hen house.
May I ask again? How do you like the change so far?
Sources:
-Boston's Patriots, July 17, 2009
-Monkey in the Middle, July 23, 2009
-CNN Situation Room, November 4, 2008
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