President Obama Sends Support Message To Radical Muslim Brotherhood Front Group

The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) is a Muslim Brotherhood front group with an interesting history.It was started by, among others, Sami al-Arian, Islamic Jihad's own man in America who was convicted of laundering money and lending material support to terrorist groups. Another prominent Brotherhood jihadist, Adurahman Alamoudi worked closely with ISNA for years. He’s currently in a federal prison for funding al Qaeda and Hamas.

ISNA was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial. Like CAIR, they had been raising money for Hamas, some of which was used to murder American citizens. Many of their top executives were scheduled to be convicted and sent to prison in what would have been an open and shut second trial which might even have resulted in the groups being outlawed - until Eric Holder and the Obama Department of Justice filed 'decline To prosecute' motions on all of the players back in 2011.

Since then, like CAIR, ITNA, The Muslim Public Affairs Council(MPAC) and The North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), ISNA has been a real favorite of the president. One of the president's close advisers is Mohamed Magid, the president of ISNA, who works directly with White House officials and even sits on a Homeland Security group that deals with ‘extremism’.

Another important Obama adviser with extremely close ties to ISNA and CAIR is none other than Dalia Mogahed, President Obama's personal pick to be his adviser on the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, a group most Americans have never heard of both which has real access to the president's ear.Like Magid, she was also a significant contributor to the Homeland Security Advisory Council's Countering Violent Extremism Working Group.It was Mogahed who reportedly helped write President Obama's apologetic speech in Cairo.

Magid and ISNA also participated in a 2012 review of FBI counter-terrorism training documents that ended in the bureau agreeing to purge any training materials documents that ISNA and other Muslim Brotherhood groups found offensive or “Islamophobic.” In fact, they even lobbied, along with other Muslim Brotherhood fronts to get the FBI's role in investigating Islamist terrorism in America reduced significantly, if not entirely.

They did exactly the same thing to the Department of Homeland Security in May of this year, vetting the training materials of anything remotely concerning Islamists, the Brotherhood or "Islamophobia"..with the full support of the president and members of his administration charged with what passes for security.

Mogahed and Magid are by no means unique in terms of being people with extremely close ties to the Ikhwan serving in the Obama Administration.

Again, the question comes up. Why is President Obama so enamored of the Muslim Brotherhood? The message he sent ISNA singles them out as 'White House Partners', a unique honor for a group which was heavily involved in one of the largest money laundering and terrorism trials in U.S. history.

Why has this president consistently intervened on the behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood at home and abroad? What's the benefit to America of supporting and enabling fascists who use a crescent instead of a swastika? Why has no mainstream American journalist ever asked President Obama this question?

Holy Land Foundation Convictions Upheld On Appeal

There are some very sad jihadis in Texas today...

The convictions in the Holy Land Foundation trial have been upheld by the Fifth Circuit and the appeals denied:

Ghassan Elashi, of Richardson, a Holy Land Foundation founder, received 65 years for support of Hamas, money laundering and tax fraud. Shukri Abu Baker, of Garland, who was Holy Land's CEO, received 65 years for support of Hamas, money laundering and tax fraud. Mufid Abdulqader, of Richardson, was a top volunteer fundraiser and sang about Hamas in a Palestinian band that played at fundraising rallies, received 20 years for conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization; conspiracy to provide funds, goods and services to a specially designated terrorist; and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Abdulrahman Odeh, who started Holy Land's office in New Jersey, received 15 years in prison for conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization; conspiracy to provide funds, goods and services to a specially designated terrorist; and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Mohammad El-Mezain, an imam who ran Holy Land's office in California, received 15 years in prison for providing support to Hamas.

The HLF, once the largest Muslim charity in the United States, had been under investigation for years before it was shut down by the Bush administration months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

In their appeals, defense attorneys argued that the government's use of anonymous Israeli witnesses and other issues resulted in an unfair outcome for their clients, two of whom are serving 65-year sentences.

In today's opinion, Fifth Circuit Judge Carolyn Dineen King, writing on behalf of colleagues Emilio M. Garza and James E. Graves, Jr., noted:

"While no trial is perfect, this one included, we conclude from our review of the record, briefs, and oral argument, that the defendants were fairly convicted. For the reasons explained below, therefore, we affirm the district court's judgments of conviction of the individual defendants. We dismiss the appeal of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development."

Those 'anonymous Israeli witnesses' were Shin Bet and other security personnel whose personal safety and the secrecy involved in other ongoing investigations might have been compromised had they been identified.

These cockroaches helped fund the murder of countless civilians, including a number of American citizens. However, I agree that they didn't merit these kind of sentences.

A rope and a pigskin burial would have been more in line with what they merited.

It should be noted that this was the trial in which CAIR,ISNA and a number of other organizations people associated with these Muslim Brotherhood fronts were named as unindicted conspirators. This was supposed to be only the first round of trials associated with the HLF, and a second round of trials was scheduled to go after the 'unindicted co-conspirators'.

That trial would have been a slam dunk, because the Islamist group's attorneys appealed to have their names removed and not only lost the appeal but ended up causing government evidence to be unsealed that connected them even more directly with the Hamas fundraising and material support for a terrorist group.However, the Obama Department of Justice filed Disinclination to Prosecute briefs in these cases, letting the Islamists walk free. So today's verdict is just a partial victory.

It isn't just Fast and Furious Eric Holder is covering up for.

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CAIR, ISNA and NAIT Shown To Be Hamas Supporters In Federal Court

Boy, when things go wrong...

The Muslim Brotherhood fronts CAIR, The Islamic Society of North America(ISNA) and the North American Islamic Trust(NAIT) have been moaning about being libeled ever since they were publicly named as unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) terrorist fund-raising trial.

Since Judge Jorge Solis' verdict and legal memorandum were sealed, the aforementioned groups have been clamoring for these items to be released and unsealed and the 5th Court of Appeals finally complied, agreeing that the Islamist groups' rights had been violated by Judge Solis since the trial records were sealed without their being allowed to respond.

Unfortunately, not only did Judge Solis ruling make a prima facie case for these groups in fact providing material support for terrorism,but the appellate court endorsed the findings!

The Government identifies four portions of the record from the first trail that purportedly established that CAIR was a "joint venturer and co-conspirator": (1) a Government exhibit showing the objective of the Palestine Committee is to support Hamas; (2) a Government exhibit showing CAIR founder Omar Ahmad is part of the Palestine Committee and Mousa Abu Marzook is its head; (3) a Government exhibit listing CAIR as part of the Palestine Committee; and (4) the testimony of Special Agent Lara Burns and accompanying exhibits placing the CAIR founder at the 1993 Philadelphia conference and describing the CAIR founder's mediation of a dispute between HLF and Ashqar over Hamas fundraising . (Resp. at 12-13.) The Government does not mention any occasion where it used the 801(d)(2)(E) hearsay exception to introduce a statement of CAIR. The four pieces of evidence the government relies on, as discussed below, do create at least a prima facie case as to CAIR's involvement in a conspiracy to support Hamas. (p. 6-7)

Judge Solis clearly shows the evidence against ISNA, NAIT and CAIR concerning their active support of HLF's fundraising for Hamas pages (pp. 14-19) and ruled that while the list of unindicted co-conspirators should be sealed, their names should not be expunged.

CAIR issued a press release trying to spin this by claiming that they had been 'vindicated', but that was sheer bolshoi on their part. They should have left well enough alone.

While the 5th Circuit agreed that the unindicted co-conspirator list should not have been made public and that Judge Solis went overboard in sealing the records, they did not vacate his findings. Instead, the appeals court endorsed them, finding that the Government had "produced ample evidence to establish the associations of CAIR, ISNA and NAIT with HLF, the Islamic Association for Palestine (‘IAP’), and with Hamas," and that, "The Muslim Brotherhood supervised the creation of the ‘Palestine Committee,’ which was put in charge of other organizations, such as HLF, IAP, UASR, and ISNA," and, "During the [1993 Philadelphia] conference, Palestine Committee members discussed using ISNA as official cover for their activities."

Whoopsie.

The actual ruling is here:

2009 order on Holy Land Foundation unindicted coconspirator list

( hat tip, Weasel Zippers and Rusty)

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