Neuhaus Schaan Note: Egypt has designated the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. See news.yahoo/egypt-designates-muslim-brotherhood-terrorist-group-182330560.html Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrates Obama Administration by John Rossomando • Jan 3, 2013 at 1:10 pm An Egyptian magazine claims that six American Islamist activists who work with the Obama administration are Muslim Brotherhood operatives who enjoy strong influence over U.S. policy. The Dec. 22 story published in Egypts Rose El-Youssef magazine (read an IPT translation here) suggests the six turned the White House from a position hostile to Islamic groups and organizations in the world to the largest and most important supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood. The story is largely unsourced, but its publication is considered significant in raising the issue to Egyptian readers. The six named people include: Arif Alikhan, assistant secretary of Homeland Security for policy development; Mohammed Elibiary, a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council; Rashad Hussain, the U.S. special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference; Salam al-Marayati, co-founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC); Imam Mohamed Magid, president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA); and Eboo Patel, a member of President Obamas Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships. Alikhan is a founder of the World Islamic Organization, which the magazine identifies as a Brotherhood subsidiary. It suggests that Alikhan was responsible for the file of Islamic states in the White House and that he provides the direct link between the Obama administration and the Arab Spring revolutions of 2011. Elibiary, who has endorsed the ideas of radical Muslim Brotherhood luminary Sayyid Qutb, may have leaked secret materials contained in Department of Homeland Security databases, according to the magazine. He, however, denies having any connection with the Brotherhood. (Neuhaus Schaan Note: Elibiary is head of the Freedom & Justice Foundation, which is suspected of ties to the Muslim Brotherhoods Freedom & Justice Party in Egypt. Elibiary also served as a consultant to Texas law enforcement, despite many individuals associated with his foundation having prior ties to Muslim Brotherhood-linked organizations such as Council of American Islamic Relations, Texas Dawa Conference, Islamic Society of North America, Islamic Society of Greater Houston, Muslim Students Association, Clear Lake Islamic Center, Muslim American Society, and the Muslim Legal Fund of America.) Elibiary also played a role in defining the Obama administrations counterterrorism strategy, and the magazine asserts that Elibiary wrote the speech Obama gave when he told former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to leave power but offers no source or evidence for the claim. According to Rose El-Youssef, Rashad Hussain maintained close ties with people and groups that it says comprise the Muslim Brotherhood network in America. This includes his participation in the June 2002 annual conference of the American Muslim Council, formerly headed by convicted terrorist financier Abdurahman Alamoudi. He also participated in the organizing committee of the Critical Islamic Reflection along with important figures of the American Muslim Brotherhood such as Jamal Barzinji, Hisham al-Talib and Yaqub Mirza. ...... Magid heads ISNA, which was founded by Brotherhood members, was appointed by Obama in 2011 as an adviser to the Department of Homeland Security. The magazine says that has also given speeches and conferences on American Middle East policy at the State Department and offered advice to the FBI. Rose El-Youssef says Patel maintains a close relationship with Hani Ramadan, the grandson of Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna, and is a member of the Muslim Students Association, which it identifies as a large Brotherhood organization. investigativeproject.org/3869/egyptian-magazine-muslim-brotherhood-infiltrates Previous article forwarded mentioned Tariq Ramadan who has been associated with Oxford. He also is a grandson of Hasan al-Banna, aka Sheikh Hassan Ahmed Abdel Rahman Muhammed al-Banna (Arabic: حسن أحمد عبد الرحمن محمد البنا, IPA: [ˈħæsæn ˈæħmæd ʕæbdeɾɾˤɑħˈmɑːn mæˈħæmmæd elˈbænnæ]) known as Hassan al-Banna (14 October 1906 – 12 February 1949) A man and 6 of the Brotherhood in the White House! by Ahmed Shawki Rose El-Youssef December 22, 2012 Not Huma Abidin alone. This very brief statement expresses what is going on inside the minds of many American politicians who are completely convinced of the Muslim Brotherhoods penetration of the Obama administration, with many articles, briefings and research messages talking about personalities which some security agencies in the United States claim have a direct relationship with the Brotherhood and its international organization. Perhaps the most famous story the American media dealt with months ago was Huma Abidin Clintons special adviser and her close friend, but what many people do not know is that there are 6 other personalities tied to the Brotherhood on the American political street .. ... ..... The Qutb-ist, who saw the most serious American national security documents An Islamic activist from Texas, born in Alexandria Governoreate in Egypt. He grew up in Dallas in the United States. He is a founder of the American Freedom and Justice Organization, a non-profit founded in 2012, after years of refusal to coordinate between the American government and the Muslim community in the state of Texas and one of the main defenders of the ideas of Sayyid Qutb, the famous Brother, in the United States. Mohammed spent seven years in the banking sector and information and industry technology. He has a background in management and network engineering. Mohammed studied in the far north of Dallas in Richardson elementary schools and enrolled in its college there. He was a left midfielder on the football team UT Dallas. He has been married since 1996, and has three daughters He is a registered agent of the Islamic Council of Texas, NTIC, and he is also director of the Houston chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) one of the institutions of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States. He was a witness in the case of the Jihadist Sheikh Omar Abdelrahman ( Note: The Blind Sheikh) detained so far in America, where he gave his testimony, saying: The man did not do anything illegal and may not be tried. He was appointed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) specifically by the Secretary-General Janet Napolitano, as a member of the Advisory Committee in the Department of Homeland Security. The media accused him through security reports while working in Department of Homeland Security, specifically in October 2011, of his relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood, and accused him also of entering the databases of the Department of Homeland Security to obtain secret information on American intelligence and a database with secret materials which contains hundreds of thousands of intelligence reports, and obtain critical documents which threaten American national security on the grounds that he was one of 26 persons within the Department allowed access to the most critical documents through the database on the Internet. Janet Napolitano and Elibiary were questioned before the Federal Bureau of Investigation to reveal evidence of a direct relationship is between Elibiary and the Brotherhood in Egypt by the Egyptian Freedom and Justice Partys financing Elibiarys organization of the same name. The most important evidence against him was his officially speaking in many celebrations, which concerned organizations of the Muslim Brotherhood and its international organization within America, but the investigation did not result in anything. He was let off despite recognition of some officials within the Department of the probability of these important documents being diverted to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Some argue that Elibiary gained access to documents which tarnished the image of presidential candidate and Texas Governor. Rick Perry, who was one of the competitors at the start of the American elections a few months ago, and is one of the most important attackers of Islam and Muslims there. ....... Obama chose him to write all his speeches addressed to the Arab and Islamic world. It was Elibiary who crafted Obamas speech to Hosni Mubarak during the revolution of January asking him to step down and leave his office. The man who Obama and the White House trusts Rashad Hussain, born in 1978, is an American lawyer of Indian origin. Hussein was born in Wyoming and grew up in Plano, Texas. His father Mohammed Hussein was a mining engineer. A graduate of Greenhill School in Dallas, Texas, he earned a bachelors degree in two years, both in philosophy and political science, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He holds a masters degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies from Harvard University, and served as editor of the Journal of Law at Yale University . After graduation from the university, he worked as assistant to Judiciary Committee in the House, and in August 2008, co-authored a paper Reformulating the Battle of Ideas: Understanding the Role of Islam in Counterterrorism Policy for the Brookings Institution, a message which calls for the use of true Islam in the confronting terrorist. Ideas Hussein sought to expand the partnership between the United States and the Islamic world, and has been outspoken on the need to combat terrorism. In January 2009, he served as a lawyer in the American Justice Department. Hussein was appointed legal adviser to the White House by Greg Craig, and helping raise the Administrations awareness of what concerns Muslims and Islam. He began advising Obama on issues related to Islam after joining the Obama team and being appointed as legal adviser to the White House in January 2009, and Obama entrusted him to draft speeches on foreign policy,and he formulated Obamas speech in Cairo. On February 13, 2010, President Obama appoinred him United States special envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and after this appointment,.... ... Hussein represented the United States government as an observer in August 2012 at the Islamic Summit Conference in Mecca, as envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference. In June 2002 Hussein was included as part of a team of Congress aides at the annual conference of the American Islamic Council CAMC) headed by Abdulrahman Al Amoudi a Muslim Brotherhood leader in the United States currently imprisoned after being accused of masterminding a plot to assassinate Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. He was also part of the organizing committee of the conference of the Critical Islamic Reflections (CIR) organization with elements of the American Muslim Brotherhood, Jamal Barzanji, Hisham Taleb, and Yaqub Mirza. He has also been linked to the SAFA organizartion and a network of Islamic organizations located in Northern Virginia whose headquarters was raided by the federal government in March 2002 which confiremd their relationship with the international organization of the Brotherhood whose senior leaders are Tariq Ramadan, Jamal Badawi, and Taha al-Alwani ..... read more: investigativeproject.org/3868/a-man-and-6-of-the-brotherhood-in-the-white-house Group Run by al Qaeda Terrorist Invited to Brief Dems on Drone Policy Reps. Grayson, Lee invited al Qaeda sympathizer for drone briefing BY: Alana Goodman January 6, 2014 4:59 am The representative of a human rights group headed by a designated al Qaeda terrorist was denied a visa by the State Department after being invited by congressional Democrats to discuss drone strikes. Mohammad Al Ahmady, the Yemen director for Geneva-based NGO Al Karama, was expected to brief Reps. Alan Grayson (D., Fla.), Barbara Lee (D., Calif.), and Jan Schakowsky (D., Ill.) the morning of the Nov. 19, according to press release from Grayson’s office. Ahmady, who also serves as a top official in an al Qaeda-linked Yemeni political party, did not attend because of visa issues. The State Department said it could not comment on visa matters. Several Al Karama officials have faced terrorism allegations. Al Karama’s founder and current president Abdul Rahman Naimi was designated as a terrorist and al Qaeda supporter by the U.S. Treasury Department in December, along with the group’s Yemen representative Abdulwahab Al-Humayqani. Al Karama’s legal director, Rachid Mesli, is currently wanted for terrorism charges in Algeria. Schakowsky’s office referred questions to Grayson and Lee, saying the other offices led the briefing. “She is listed as a member attending the briefing, the briefing was led by the other 2 offices,” said a spokesperson in an email. A spokesperson for Grayson said Ahmady did not actually attend the briefing and that the terrorist designation of Al Karama’s president was “not in place at the time of the briefing, so again, we had no reason to suspect any wrongdoing on the part of Mohammad [Al Ahmady].” Lee’s office did not respond to request for comment. Al Karama executive director Mourad Dhina said he was unsurprised the State Department turned down Ahmady’s visa request. ….. National security hawks blasted the Democrats for seeking advice on U.S. policy from a group run by an apparent al Qaeda supporter. ….. The Capitol Hill briefing is one of several instances of the terror-linked Al Karama attempting to influence U.S. counterterrorism policy through Washington policymakers, international institutions, and the media. The group has issued reports criticizing the U.S. drone program in Yemen and has worked with major names in the human rights community, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, the Daily Beast reported in December. Naimi is still president of Al Karama, the group told the Free Beacon. He had previously told other media outlets he resigned after his terror designation was announced. Al Karama’s executive director said the foundation must go through a formal process to decide whether Naimi will resign, beginning with a board meeting that will likely be held next week. ….. According to the Treasury Department, last year Naimi “ordered the transfer of nearly $600,000 to al Qaeda via al Qaeda’s representative in Syria, Abu-Khalid al-Suri, and intended to transfer nearly $50,000 more.” Naimi also “reportedly oversaw the transfer of over $2 million per month to al Qaeda in Iraq for a period of time” and “provided approximately $250,000 to two U.S.-designated al-Shabaab figures” in 2012. Prior to Naimi’s terrorist designation, the State Department routinely cited Al Karama’s work in its annual Human Rights Country Reports. A spokesperson for the State Department did not respond to questions about whether it would continue to use Al Karama as a resource for its reports. The Congressional Progressive Caucus has also touted Al Karama’s work, posting the group’s testimony on U.S. drone policy on its website. Al Karama has tried to make inroads at the United Nations as well. Later this month, the U.N. Committee on NGOs is scheduled to rule on the group’s application for consultative status, which would allow it access to official U.N. events and human rights mechanisms.... Human Rights Watch said Naimi’s terrorist designation should not detract from the rest of Al Karama’s work..... read more: freebeacon/group-run-by-al-qaeda-terrorist-invited-to-brief-dems-on-drone-policy/ -- Joan Neuhaus Schaan Director Texas Security Forum Tel. 713-818-9000 [email protected]
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