1 PATTERNS OF TREASON: A CASE FOR THE IMPEACHMENT AND TRIAL OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA FOR TREASONOUS ACTS COMMITTED AGAINST THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND HER PEOPLE The Constitution, Article III, Section 3. “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” Terms defined: Adhere: to be a devoted follower or supporter Aid: to furnish with assistance, support, or relief Comfort (from synonyms): to make [circumstances] more bearable, to provide encouragement Two Enemies identified: The Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood’s creed1 is the same as that of Hamas2: “Allah is our objective. The prophet is our leader. Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”3 Their logo is a green disk with two crossed swords and the command, in Arabic script, “Get Ready.”4 According to Dr. Michael Youssef, who has studied Islamic movements, the statement means “the Brothers are to always be ready for jihad.”5 Their grand mission is “Civilization Jihad” through “settlement” with the ultimate goal of establishing a global Islamic State [Caliphate]. America and Canada have been made primary targets of Civilization Jihad.6 “The Ikhawan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”7 One of the Muslim Brotherhood’s main “settlement” techniques involves using Islamic Centers, “run by Brotherhood acolytes” and “built largely with funds supplied by wealthy donors in the Persian Gulf region, particularly from Saudi Arabia and Qatar.”8 In the Explanatory Memorandum it states under point 17 (Understanding the role and the nature of the work of “The Islamic Center” in every city with what achieves the goal of the process of settlement): “The center we seek is the one which constitutes the “axis” of our Movement, the “perimeter” of the circle of our work, our “balance center,” the “base” for our rise and our “Dar al-Arqam” to educate us, prepare us and supply our battalions in addition to being the “niche” of our prayers…As much as we own and direct these centers at the continent level 2 we can say we are marching successfully towards the settlement of Dawa’ [proselytization] in this country.”9 Within the United States, the Muslim Brotherhood utilizes various front groups to carry out aspects of “Civilization Jihad” under the guise of “promoting desirable goals such as world peace, civil rights, tolerance, understanding, ecumenism and education.”10 These include the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), Islamic Teaching Center (ITC), Muslim Students’ Association (MSA), Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), and the International Institute for Islamic Thought (IIIT).11 CAIR and ISNA area un-indicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation Trial. The Texas-based Islamic charity was charged with conspiracy to provide aid to Hamas and the families of suicide bombers. 12 According to the current president of Egypt, Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, Al Qaeda, ISIS, Hamas, the Taliban, Boko Haram and others were spawned and are supported by the Muslim Brotherhood.13 These terrorist arms of the Muslim Brotherhood carry out its agenda of jihad and the establishment of a global caliphate beginning in the Middle East. Iran. The spiritual and secular leadership of Iran view America as the “great oppressor” (the Great Satan) and Israel as “occupying regime” (the Little Satan).1415 Iran’s “Supreme leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said, “The Zionist regime is a true cancer tumor on this region that should be cut off. And it definitely will be cut off.”16 He has extended that fight to America: “This battle will only end when the society can get rid of the oppressors’ front with America at the head of it, which has expanded its claws on human mind, body and thought.”17 Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in 2005 at an Islamic Student Associations conference held in Tehran: “Many who are disappointed in the struggle between the Islamic world and the infidels have tried to spread the blame. They say it is not possible to have a world without the United States and Zionism. But you know that this is a possible goal and slogan.”18 Ahmadinejad has also told friends that he believes the way to hasten the arrival of the Islamic messiah (the Mahdi) is to unleash an apocalyptic war against the Christians and Jews. Thus, he has vowed to annihilate the U.S. and Israel.19 The Iranian leadership is willing to use nuclear weapons to that end. Former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani said in December 2001, “If a day comes when the world of Islam is duly equipped with the arms Israel has in possession, the strategy of colonialism would face a stalemate because application of an atomic bomb would not leave anything in Israel but the 3 same thing would just produce damages in the Muslim world.”20 In January 2015, the commander of Iran’s infamous Basij forces, Gen. Mohammad Naghdi, said ”Our ideal is not [nuclear] centrifuges but the destruction of the White House and the annihilation of Zionism [Israel].”21 The Iranian leadership views the current nuclear talks as another form of jihad, which they have used to their tremendous advantage. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani described the talks as ““an active “jihad that is just as significant to Tehran’s advancement as the slew of new weapons and missiles showcased by the Islamic Republic’s military.”22 In a more explicit remark on March 18, 2015, Ayatollah Khamenei said: “We will fly the Islamic flag of jihad over the White House.”23 Khamenei gave a speech on March 21, 2015 in Tehran during which the crowds chanted “Death to America!” He responded: “Of course yes, death to America, because America is the original source of this pressure [the pressure of economic sanctions related to nuclear talks].”24 Pattern: Adhering and Extending Comfort to the Enemy Obama’s father and stepfather were both Muslims and Obama attended an Islamic madrassah [a religious school] as a boy in Indonesia. He had close friendships with Pakistani Muslims, including his roommate, during his years at Occidental College. 25 Obama’s sympathy for Muslims is reflected in his vow to “stand with them [Arab and Pakistani Muslim Americans] should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”26 Obama “invited Ingrid Mattson, a Canadian-born Muslim with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, to offer prayer at his inaugural prayer service.”27 He bowed to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia during the April 2009 G-20 summit in London. According to Erick Stakelbeck, “The Bow” conveyed that “debasing America and exalting Islam would be key elements in achieving his oft-stated goal of improving America’s image in the Muslim world.”28 It also “represented a green light [to the Islamists] to further expand their tentacles into the United States….”29 Obama skipped the National Day of Prayer in 2009, but “recorded a special message to Muslims at the start of Ramadan [Aug. 21, 2009].”30 He also issued a Hajj message to all Muslims on Thanksgiving Eve, 2009.31 Obama has celebrated Ramadan and other Muslim holidays at the White House.32 Although he participates in the annual Christmas tree lighting in Washington D.C., Obama avoids any other formal celebration of Christmas in his role as president by taking his annual Hawaiian vacation at that time.33 4 The Obama administration, allied with Qatar and Tariq Ramadan, grandson of Hassan al-Banna who founded the Muslim Brotherhood, has used the new Common Core standards as a means to indoctrinate public school children about the beliefs and practices of Islam such as: “Islamic vocabulary lessons in high school; the teaching of Islamic culture; [and] the five pillars of Islam….”34 In an interview with Al-Jazeera in July 2010, NASA chief Charles Bolden said that Obama assigned NASA a new primary mission: "…perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering.”35 During his Cairo address of June 2009, Obama again championed Islam: “The partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn’t. And I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.” Obama had members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood sit in the front row for this speech.36 Obama and his administration, in keeping with that promise, have often refused to call terrorist acts terrorism, much less Islamic terrorism. For example, the 2009 murder of 13 fellow Fort Hood soldiers by U.S. Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Hasan was characterized as workplace violence37 even though, according to survivor Kathy Platoni, he shouted "Allahu Akbar!” before he commenced shooting.38 In the months leading up to the shooting, Hasan had exchanged up to 20 emails with Anwar al-Awlaki, who was once a spiritual leader at a mosque in suburban Virginia where Major Hasan worshiped. The radical cleric currently resides in Yemen and is known for his incendiary anti-American teachings.39 The White House only issued a “no comment” response to the beheading of Colleen Hufford [September, 2014] in Moore, Oklahoma by recent convert to Islam Alton Nolen.40 Nolen had made “radical Islamic comments” on his Facebook page. “According to the Washington Post, two FBI officials said that the incident is being treated as an act of “workplace violence,” despite Nolen’s ties to radical Islam.”41 In the wake of the beheading, Obama sent a personal representative to a mosque Nolen attended - the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma - to read a message from the president, in which he extended his greetings: “Your service [helping rebuild Moore after a 2013 tornado] is a powerful example of the powerful roots of the Abrahamic faiths and how our communities can come together with shared peace with dignity and a sense of justice.”42 5 Obama said the attackers of four Jews at a Kosher store in Paris in January 2015, were “violent, vicious zealots who behead people or randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris.” He would not refer to the ‘zealots’ Islamic religion, nor did he call the acts terrorism.43 The February 2015 ‘summit’ held at the White House in the wake of various acts of terrorism by ISIS was called “Countering Violent Extremism.”44 In rejecting the use of labels such as “Islamic terrorism” and “Islamic extremist” Obama is following the strategy of Rashad Hussain. Referred to by Obama as “a hafiz of the Qur’an,”45 Hussain is a close advisor to the Obama administration and has co-authored a paper called “Reformulating the Battle of Ideas: Understanding the Role of Islam in Counterterrorism Policy.” One of the points made by Hussain in the paper is “policymakers should reject the use of language that provides a religious legitimization of terrorism such as “Islamic terrorism” and “Islamic extremist.” They should replace such terminology with more specific and descriptive terms such as “Al-Qaeda terrorism.””46 Obama has taken Hussain’s suggestion a step further by removing the word terrorism altogether. At the first Ramadan dinner hosted at the White House Obama said, “Islam, as we know, is part of America.”47 He has also declared that "Islam has been woven into the fabric of our country [America] since its founding."48 Obama has frequently referred to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as the Islamic State of the Levant (ISIL), which is a term covering the territory of Israel and Jordan as well. It can be taken as a subtle statement of support for ISIS in their pursuit of claiming Israel and Jordan for their caliphate.49 Obama softened any criticism of ISIS after they burned a Jordanian pilot alive in early February 2015 by equating their conduct with the conduct of Christians during the Crusades: “Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our own home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.”50 One consequence of Obama’s remark was that the February 2015 issue of Dabiq, the Islamic State English-language magazine, “reframe[d] the war between the Islamic State and civilization as a revisiting of the Crusades.” The President’s Crusade comment can therefore be characterized as “very close to reciting enemy propaganda.”51 6 Although Obama issued a statement condemning the beheadings of 21 Coptic Christians by ISIS (February 2015), he did not refer to them as Christians but as Egyptian citizens.52 His administration also refused to back Egypt’s bombing of ISIS in Libya following the beheadings.53 On April 2, 2015, 147 Christians were specifically targeted and killed by Al Shabaab militants at Garissa University College in Kenya. Once again, Obama did not mention that the “innocent men and women [who] were brazenly and brutally massacred” were Christians nor did he mention that Al Shabaab is an Islamist extremist group affiliated with al Qaeda.54 Obama’s plan to counter ISIS propaganda is the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communication (within the State Department), which is now being headed by Rashad Hussain. Hussain has ties to the American Muslim Council (AMC), the International Institute for Islamic Thought (IIIT), and the Muslim Student’s Association (MSA).55 All of these are Muslim Brotherhood front groups.5657 In February 2015, this center re-tweeted AlAzhar Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayeb’s tweet that "blamed unrest in the [Middle East] region on a conspiracy by what he called 'new global colonialism allied to world Zionism'…" Himelfarb, author of the Newsmax article, states: “It is just the latest recent case in which State Department counterterror organs have come under fire for linking to and appearing to endorse questionable Islamic clerics.”58 Obama has hinted to Islamists that he believes we are ripe for transition to a Muslim state: “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation. At least not just.”59 “One of the points I would like to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”60 Obama and his administration have worked with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to implement UN resolution 16/18, which would establish guidelines criminalizing “hate speech” about Islam worldwide. 61 On July 15, 2011, Hillary Clinton met with OIC members in Istanbul to find a way to ‘thread the needle’ between the recently passed resolution and America’s First Amendment right of free speech.62 Clinton told OIC that the U.S. would address “Islamophobia” through “old fashioned techniques of peer pressure and shaming.”63 OIC’s overarching aim is to Islamize societies through the gradual implementation of Sharia standards.64 Obama used the brutal murder of four Americans in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 as an occasion to promote the outlawing of “hate speech”. He blamed the event on the reaction to the U-tube video “The Innocence of Muslims” and said in his speech to the UN General Assembly on September 25, 2011 “That is what we saw play out in the last two weeks, as a crude and disgusting video sparked outrage throughout the Muslim world…The future 7 must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”65 Although Obama also said that the future must not belong to those who target Coptic Christians in Egypt, his statements and actions have exclusively supported his declaration about the slander of Mohammad. For example, twelve employees of the French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo were killed (in January 2015) by Islamists who took offense at the paper’s cartoons of Mohammed. Obama stayed home while the leaders of many nations came together in a show of solidarity against terrorism.66 His absence signaled to Islamists that he felt such actions were justified given the slander of Mohammed. In February 2015, at the National Prayer Breakfast, Obama inferred that we need to verbally pressure anyone who would insult Mohammed: “…And if, in fact, we defend the legal right of a person to insult another’s religion, we’re equally obligated to use our free speech to condemn such insults and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with religious communities, particularly religious minorities who are the targets of such attacks. Just because you have the right to say something doesn’t mean the rest of us shouldn’t question those who would insult others in the name of free speech.”67 Pattern: Providing Aid to the Muslim Brotherhood in America In his policy paper “Reformulating the Battle of Ideas,” Rashad Hussain lays out eight main points, three of which have particularly influenced the Obama administration’s policies and actions: “Fifth, the United States should incorporate the Muslim community as well as scholars of Islam and of the Muslim world in the policymaking process to help craft policies that reflect a more nuanced understanding of those targeted.” “Seventh, recognizing the benefit of strengthening the authoritative voices of mainstream Islam, the United States should welcome and encourage the further development of mainstream Muslim organizations and moderate institutions.” [e.g. CAIR, ISNA, and other Muslim Brotherhood front organizations] “Finally [point 8], the United States should continue to promote effective economic and social reforms and to work with allies in crafting fair and peaceful resolutions to conflicts in the Middle East and in other parts of the Muslim world, as these conflicts are often the preeminent grievances fueling extremist violence.”68 8 “Between 2010 and 2013, the Obama administration imported almost 300,000 new immigrants from Muslim nations – more immigrants than the U.S. let in from Central America and Mexico combined over that period.”69 The background checks are minimal so any number of these 300,000 immigrants could be terrorists. The FBI recently admitted that ISIS is active in all 50 states.70 Border Agent Chris Cabrera said in an interview that the border is at best 3540 percent secure. The Department of Homeland Security has manipulated the statistics to make it seem like it is 75 percent secure.71 Compounding the problem of a leaky border is a low deportation rate of illegals caught in the interior of the country. “The removal rate in 2014 for illegal aliens who were not explicit ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] priorities was onehalf of one percent.”72 The wave of illegal immigration in 2014, which Border Patrol agents believe was engineered by Obama and his administration, kept the border patrol occupied while untold numbers of terrorists, gang members and drug cartel members flooded into America.73 The Obama administration, through Attorney General Eric Holder and the Department of Justice, has promoted the building of Islamic Centers. As mentioned earlier, these are used by the Muslim Brotherhood to conduct “Civilization Jihad.”74 Whenever local communities have denied permits for the building of Mosques and Centers, the DOJ has intervened and applied pressure by filing religious discrimination lawsuits against the communities. More than 28 such lawsuits have been filed.75 Obama has refused to release 80 boxes of information from the Holy Land Foundation Trial to journalists or members of the intelligence community. As mentioned earlier, Muslim Brotherhood front groups CAIR and ISNA were among the un-indicted co-conspirators.76 There are at least seven individuals with suspected ties to the Muslim Brotherhood who have been appointed to positions within the Obama administration and who have helped shape domestic and foreign policy: Rashad Hussain, Director for the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communication; Arif Alikhan, Assistant Secretary for Homeland Security for Policy Development; Eboo Patel, Member of the President’s Advisory Council to the Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships; Huma Abedin, Personal Aide/Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; Mohamed Magid, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Countering Violence and Extremism Working Group; Mohammed Elibiary, Senior Member of DHS’s Advisory Council; and Salam Al-Marayati, administration representative to UNESCO and United Nations.7778 9 Mouasz Moustafa, another individual with suspected Muslim Brotherhood ties, is the executive director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF), and has worked closely with the Obama administration. “SETF has partnered with the State Department to implement training projects in Syria. Last December [2013], the SETF’s executive director endorsed working with a coalition of Syrian opposition groups called the Islamic Front, even though several entities involved, including Ahrar Al-Sham, had fought with ISIS and the radical Jabhat al-Nusra, or al-Nusra Front. Four Islamic Front affiliates also endorsed a declaration calling for “the rule of sharia and making it the sole source of legislation” in a post-Assad Syria.”79 Obama’s appointee for FBI director, Robert Mueller, purged hundreds of counterterrorism documents of “Anti-Muslim” language such as “Islamic terrorism,” “radical Islamist,” and “jihadist” after meeting with representatives from ISNA and MPAC. Mueller also purged the documents of the methods and motivations of Islamic terrorists and he removed the trainers who taught these courses before the purge.80 One likely result of this purge was the FBI’s mishandling of the warning given in 2011 by Russia about Tamerlan Tsarvaev, one of the Boston Marathon Bombers (April 15, 2013). They were warned that Tsarvaev was a radical Islamist and had been caught on tape speaking about jihad with his mother. Yet, the FBI agents who interviewed him found no cause for suspicion.8182 Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi, a Saudi National, was originally designated as a person of interest in the Boston Marathon Bombing. He had been set to be deported under section 212 3B — “Security and related grounds” — “Terrorist activities” after the bombing. On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 “President Obama had a “chance” encounter with Saudi Foreign Minister Saud and Saudi Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir” and at 5:35 p.m. Alharbi’s file was altered “to disassociate him from the initial charges.”83 Besides Mueller and Holder, other administration members who were appointed by Obama and have shown sympathy toward the Muslim Brotherhood or radical Islamists include Hillary Clinton (former Secretary of State), Janet Napolitano (former head of the Department of Homeland Security), John O. Brennan (CIA director), James Clapper (Director of National Intelligence), Anne Peterson (Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs), and Thomas Perez (Former Assistant Attorney General, current Secretary of Labor). It was under Janet Napolitano’s watch that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) added the three Muslim Brotherhood affiliates to various DHS advisory positions and granted them top-secret clearance.84 Also during this time, the DHS was investigated by Congress for having a secret “hands off” 10 list which allowed easy entrance into the United States for individuals with known terrorist ties. According to the Washington Free Beacon, the documents are part of “a larger campaign by DHS and its former head Janet Napolitano to purge the internal security records of potentially hundreds of terror suspects, allowing them to more easily travel in and out of the United States.”85 CIA director John Brennan, a possible convert to Islam,86 has remarked that ISIS is psychotic, not Islamic. Echoing the strategies and words of Rashad Hussain, Brennan said, “By ascribing it as a Muslim terrorism or Islamic extremism — I think it does really give them the type of Islamic legitimacy that they are so desperately seeking, but which they don’t deserve at all…”87 During a Congressional hearing about the Muslim Brotherhood, James Clapper described them as “a “largely secular” organization that has “pursued social ends” and a “betterment of the political order.” He claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood has “no overarching agenda, particularly in pursuit of violence, at least internationally.”88 Anne Peterson met with the Muslim Brotherhood and was accused of supporting them during her tenure as ambassador to Egypt.89 On September 8, 2011, Thomas Perez sent a letter to various members or associates of the Muslim Brotherhood “touting all the DOJ's actions on behalf of Muslims, including a suit against the city of Lilburn, Georgia for resisting the expansion of a mosque and amicus participation calling for dismissal of a suit brought by Murfreesboro, Tennessee patriots against an Islamic supremacist mosque there.”90 The Department of Homeland Security, now under Jeh Johnson, recently [February 2015] received praise from CAIR for placing “right-wing sovereign citizen extremist groups,” rather than Islamic terrorists, at the top of their list of domestic threats of “violent extremism.”91 The State Department under Hillary Clinton and John Kerry has refused to classify Jamaat Al Fuqra, Muslim Brotherhood front organizations (e.g., CAIR, ISNA), and other organizations as terrorist groups because of their inactivity in overt terrorist acts.92 Under Lois Lerner, the IRS has targeted “hundreds of conservative groups, Constitutional groups, groups [and individuals] that criticized Obama, and 5 pro-Israel groups”93, while granting tax-exempt status to terrorist front groups such as ISNA, the Muslim Community Association (MCA), and The Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA).94 11 Secretary of State John Kerry has stated that global warming is a greater threat than terrorists95 and has demonstrated his willingness to negotiate with known terrorist groups such as Hamas. Just after the National Prayer Breakfast [February 5, 2015], Obama met behind closed doors with various Muslims including the current and former heads of the Islamic Society of North America. During that meeting, “the president reiterated his administration’s commitment to safeguarding civil rights through hate crimes prosecutions.” The ISNA leaders requested, among other things, that Obama nominate a Muslim as a federal judge. 96 In the February 2015 summit on “Countering Violent Extremism,” hosted by Obama at the White House, at least two individuals associated with the Muslim Brotherhood were in attendance: Nabeel Khudairi (leader of the Islamic Council of New England) and Nichole Mossalam (executive director of the Islamic Society of Boston’s Cambridge Mosque, the same mosque attended by the Tsarvaev brothers).97 The conference is part of the strategy derived from the White House’s “Strategic Implementation Plan for Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States.” [Issued December 2011] The Obama administration seeks to empower the very groups that are responsible for “Civilization Jihad” and terrorism such as the Council on American-Islam Relations and the Islamic Society of Boston.98 Pattern: Providing Aid to the Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East The Arab Spring. Since its inception, one primary goal for the Muslim Brotherhood has been to “liberate Egypt from British rule and to erase all non-Islamic influence” by returning to Sharia law, based on the Koran. Sharia law mandates that the form of government be an Islamic caliphate.99 Beyond Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood desires to bring all Middle Eastern nations under Sharia law, to restore the historical Caliphate. Their ultimate goal, as declared up until 2001 by the Muslim Brotherhood London-based publication Risalat Al-Ikhwan, is world domination.100 In 2004, the former Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Muhammad Mahdi Othman Akef, declared, “I have complete faith that Islam will invade Europe and America, because Islam has logic and a mission.”101 Obama personally issued Presidential Study Directive 11 (PSD-11) in 2010, ordering an assessment of the Muslim Brotherhood. The study concluded that “the U.S. should shift its longstanding policy of supporting “stability” in the Middle East and North Africa (that is, support for “stable regimes”, even if 12 they were authoritarian) to a policy of backing “moderate” [e.g., the Muslim Brotherhood] Islamic political movements….”102 “U.S. State Department documents obtained under the FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] confirm the Obama administration maintained frequent contact and ties with the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood. At one point, in April 2012, US official arranged for the public relations director of the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammad Gaair to come to Washington to speak at a conference on “Islamists in Power” hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.”103 Obama authorized covert operations to support the Libyan rebels in their move to oust Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi.104 According to Clare Lopez, a former twenty-year CIA officer, ‘The United States switched sides in the war on terror with what we did in Libya, knowingly facilitating the provision of weapons to known al-Qaeda militias and figures…”105 “Specifically, the Benghazi “embassy” became the CIA headquarters for transferring – after Gaddafi fell – weapons in Libya to the Syrian Al Qaeda rebels, as confirmed by Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Sy Hersh.”106 Prior to the overthrow of Gaddafi, the “Muslim Brotherhood was banned from Libya for over three decades and its members were fiercely pursued by the Gaddafi regime.”107 Afterward, the Muslim Brotherhood organized for an active role in politics through the Justice and Construction Party under the leadership of Gaddafi Mohammad Sawan. Sawan met with Deputy Secretary of State William Burns and ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens along with ambassadors of the United Kingdom, France and Italy. After the meeting, a State Department cable reflected the U.S. support for the Muslim Brotherhood: “On their part, the Ambassadors praised the active role of the Party [Justice and Construction] in the political scene and confirmed their standing with the Libyan people and Government despite its weaknesses and they are keen to stabilize the region…The guests affirmed that they will assist through Libyan legitimate entities as they did during the revolution.”108 In the wake of the chaos created by the removal of Gaddafi, al Qaeda is now largely in control of Libya109 with the exception of the northern coastal territory where ISIS is seeking to consolidate control. This can serve as a platform for ISIS to stage terrorist attacks on Europe.110 ISIS may also use their Libyan base to create pandemonium by threatening cruise ships111 and closing down shipping lanes.112 Obama used Ambassador Christopher Stevens as his point man to funnel arms first to the Libyan rebels and then to the Syrian rebels, via Turkey, to support their fight to oust Syrian president Assad.113 13 Obama is now openly arming so-called moderate Syrian rebels under the pretext of fighting ISIS.114 Obama pledged a staggering $1 billion in aid back in May 2011 to support the Muslim Brotherhood revolution in Egypt to oust Hosni Mubarak.115 A delegation from the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party met with Obama administration officials in April 2012. Mohammed Morsi, prominent member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, was elected president of Egypt in June 2012. Later that year, Morsi was hailed by the Obama administration as a peacemaking pragmatist for his role in brokering a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.116 After Morsi became Egypt’s president, the Obama administration remained on course to deliver no less than 20 F-16’s and 200 Abrams tanks that the U.S. had promised to Mubarak’s administration.117 While Morsi was still in power, Obama pledged another $250 million of U.S. aid to Egypt.118 In Jordan, the Brotherhood’s Islamic Action Front, the main opposition force to King Abdullah II, is gaining ground fast on the heels of the ‘Islamist Winter’ [i.e., Arab Spring] revolutions and has helped lead regular demonstrations against the monarchy.119 Near the end of May [2015], ISIS began moving south from the Syrian city of Palmyra, which it had just conquered, toward the northeastern border of Jordan. Some military sources believe ISIS is positioning itself for a future attack on Jordan.120 Even though the U.S. has pledged additional financial aid to Jordan since the immolation by ISIS of a Jordanian pilot, it is unlikely that the Obama administration would provide more than air support should ISIS invade Jordan. Obama imposed a December 21, 2011 deadline for the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq. Armed with this information, the terrorist groups only needed to wait things out before they could continue their efforts to takeover Iraq. The result of the premature troop withdrawal has been the rise of ISIS.121 As of June 2015, ISIS controls major cities such as Ramadi, Fallujah, and Mosul, and strategic border crossings into Jordan and Syria.122 At each turn, Obama has communicated to ISIS what the U.S. will and will not do in fighting them. In February 2015, the U.S. military considered an attack by ground troops to retake Mosul. The Pentagon gave a press conference to defense reporters describing the troop strength that would be used, the timing of the attack, and how the forces would descend on Mosul.123 In the furor that followed that revelation, the attack was postponed indefinitely.124 14 After nearly a year of U.S. air campaigns against ISIS, the terrorist group has effectively adapted its battlefield approach to use smaller and more mobile units that opt for small-scale attacks.125 State Department Marie Harf has promoted the talking points set out by Rashad Hussain in his paper “Reformulating the Battle of Ideas: Understanding the Role of Islam in Counterterrorism Policy.” On February 12, 2015, she stated that the U.S. can’t defeat the Islamic State by killing them. Instead the U.S. needs to go to the root causes that lead people to join ISIS such as lack of job opportunities.126 The Destruction of Israel. After its founding in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, the Muslim Brotherhood became allied with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Amin al-Husseini. He was fiercely opposed to a national home for Jews in Palestine and used his position “to infuse Islam with fierce anti-Semitism.” In the 1930’s, al-Husseini joined forces with the Nazis. He wrote in his memoirs, “Our fundamental condition for cooperating with Germany was a free hand to eradicate every last Jew from Palestine and the Arab world.” The Germans provided funds which al-Husseini used to arm and train recruits to carry out revolts and terrorist acts against the Jews.127 The Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran was a follower of al-Banna’s teachings. Al-Husseini’s cousin, Yasser Arafat, became the head of the PLO. Hammas was co-founded by Muslim Brotherhood member Abdullah Azzam. While teaching at the University of Jordan, Azzam hooked up with Osama bin Laden. They eventually ended up in Afghanistan where they fought the Soviet Union and then trained recruits to go back to Palestine and fight Israel. They called the group al-Qaeda.128 Mohamed Badie, General Guide of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, said in a speech given on July 27, 2012 "How happy would be the Muslims if all Muslim rulers made the Palestinian cause a pivotal issue, around which Muslims, rulers and the ruled, would line up.” Badie exhorted all Muslims to form an alliance for the sole goal of recovering the “al Aqsa Mosque [located in the old city part of Jerusalem], freeing it from the filth of the Zionists, and imposing Muslim rule throughout beloved Palestine."129 The Muslim Brotherhood’s revered and widely influential Spiritual Guide Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, is one of the most vocal proponents of Palestinaian suicide bombings. In a 2010 interview on Egyptian television he said, “According to Islamic law, in any country that is invaded by foreign infidels, all the local people should conduct resistance against the occupation, 15 using all the means at their disposal…The Muslims worldwide must contribute to the regaining of Palestine.”130 During the 2014 conflict between Hamas and Israel, Secretary of State John Kerry conducted negotiations in Paris with representatives of Turkey and Qatar, but not with any representatives from Israel or Egypt. The resulting proposal was highly favorable toward Hamas.131 An Army Radio report on July 25, 2014 noted that the US had signed an $11 billion arms deal with Qatar on July 21st, and that “Qatar is championing Hamas’s demands in the ceasefire negotiations, and is also alleged by Israel to be financing Hamas’s rocket production, tunnel digging infrastructure, and other elements of its military infrastructure.”132 Obama gave the Palestinians more than $400 million in aid during 2010, much of which was likely used by Hamas to build the tunnels into Israel and to purchase their arsenal.133 After the war between Hamas and Israel in 2014, the U.S. pledged a total of $414 million in aid. Again, there is no reassurance that this aid will be used solely for humanitarian relief and repair of the damaged buildings and other infrastructure.134 In fact, Hamas resumed launching rockets at Israel in April 2015,135 with multiple rocket attacks occurring during the last week of May and first week of June 2015.136 In the Middle East peace talks, Obama continues to insist on a complete moratorium on building by Israel in the West Bank and to pressure Israel to go back to their pre-1967 national boundaries. These boundaries are not defensible and Israel would be forced to relinquish control over Jerusalem.137 Obama has publically snubbed and insulted Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at every possible turn. The evening before Netanyahu spoke before Congress on March 3, 2015, John Kerry and White House officials warned Netanyahu to not divulge any classified information from the negotiations with Iran.138 No one from the Obama administration attended the speech; vice president Joe Biden and secretary of state John Kerry were – conveniently - elsewhere.139 Obama said he wouldn’t listen to the speech and when he “read the transcript,” he dismissed Netanyahu’s speech and concerns saying there was nothing new there.140 Before Netanyahu’s speech, the Obama administration limited the information it shared with Israel about Iran’s nuclear program and the current talks.141 Just prior to the speech, the Pentagon also released a declassified Top Secret document revealing Israel’s nuclear secrets.142 Obama’s state department provided $350,000 in grants to the One Voice Movement, whose subsidiary Israel-based Victory 15 actively campaigned for Netanyahu’s rival Yitshak Herzog in the March 17, 2015 Knesset elections. 16 Herzog is in favor of a two-state solution and would likely have been amenable to Obama’s agenda for Israel and Jerusalem.143 The White House accused Netanyahu of seeking to “marginalize Arab-Israeli citizens” during the elections and POLITICO reported that, consequently, the Obama administration is reconsidering the long-standing support that the U.S. has given Israel at the United Nations.144 In other words, if the U.N. votes on a resolution forcing a two-state solution upon Israel, the U.S. will vote in favor of it. Netanyahu has insisted that the Iran nuclear agreement include the recognition of Israel’s right to exist. The Obama administration has denied that plea.145 Pattern: Aiding Iran Eric Stakelbeck believes that “[d]espite the current differences (seen most clearly in the Syrian civil war, where Iran and Hezbollah are battling the Brotherhood and al-Qaeda)…Shia Iran will [eventually work] closely with the Brotherhood-led Sunni Islamist movement toward the common goals of destroying Israel and taking on the West.”146 “…both Sunni and Shia consider wiping Israel off the map and subjugating the hated, infidel West, led by the United States, as the more pressing jihad [than Sunni versus Shia] and overriding priority.”147 Although Sunni Hamas is supported by the Muslim Brotherhood, “the Iranian regime has long served as Hamas’s largest supplier of funds – to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars a year – as well as terror training and weaponry.”148 In Stakelbeck’s assessment, if Iran acquires “nuclear weapons and the longrange missiles capable of delivering them to the shores of the United States”,” Iran would become “the undisputed strong horse in the Middle East. All of a sudden, Iran would be able to flex its muscles and influence like never before and legitimately claim the mantle of the leader of the Muslim World.”149 “The harsh reality for the Sunnis is that a nuclear-armed jihadist Iran would provide the best chance to crush Israel and the West and unify the Islamic world.”150 On the other hand, Saudi Arabia has indicated that they won’t sit back and idly watch should Iran obtain nuclear weapons. Former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki bin Faisal, said in April 2015: “Whatever the Iranians have, we will have, too.”151 The Saudis may temporarily ally with Iran for the destruction of Israel and America, but the age-old conflict would soon resume with both Sunni and Shia armed with nuclear weapons. 17 In an exclusive interview with NBC News during the first week of March (2015) Iran’s Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif, said the Netanyahu regime “should be annihilated.”152 Obama’s closest advisor, Iranian born Valerie Jarrett, is believed to have secretly led negotiations in Iran for a year before formal negotiations began in Geneva in November of 2013.153 At a minimum, between her inexperience, and the potential bias toward Iran as the nation of her birth, Jarrett would not have been able to effectively negotiate a treaty on America’s behalf. Coupled with the communist connections of her family154 and what we now know about the proposed agreement, it is likely she was willing to give Iran everything they wanted. Obama and John Kerry gave Iran $7 billion in released assets and loans as sanctions relief in return its promise to limit its nuclear program.155 In 2014, Iran was given access to $2.8 billion in frozen assets just for agreeing to continue talks for four months.156 The Obama administration has enlisted the aid of Iran in fighting ISIS. Since the fight takes the Iranian militia into Iraq, Obama may be giving Iran an opportunity to take over Shia territory in Iraq.157 Although acknowledging that Iran has sponsored terrorism and wants to get a nuclear bomb, Obama is firm in his belief that Iran can be a “very successful regional power” and seems determined to provide them that path.158 The current (spring - summer 2015) negotiations with Iran would allow it to keep most of its nuclear infrastructure, while, in theory, delaying their bid for nuclear weapons for 10 years. It seems Iran will not have to disclose the full range of its nuclear activities nor will Iran be subject to oversight over its nuclear infrastructure. “The United States is now willing to let Iran keep many of its most controversial military sites closed to inspectors until international sanctions pressure has been lifted…”159 Iran’s long-range missiles and sponsorship of terrorism are not being discussed in the talks.160 Obama has avoided negotiating a formal treaty with Iran, calling it “a mere executive agreement,” in order to avoid the necessity of having it ratified by the Senate. Instead, Obama and Kerry have been working with the United Nations to come up with “a comprehensive United Nations resolution [that] can serve as a legally binding international treaty…”161 The Iranians will be allowed to keep their previously secret, “massive, heavily-fortified, underground, blast-proof [nuclear] enrichment bunker” and retain 1,000 centrifuges. The agreement does not forbid the installation of advanced centrifuges, as long as they do no uranium enrichment.162 18 Iran’s FARS news agency reported on April 7, 2015 that Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Atomic Energy Organization Head Ali Akbar Salehi told Iranian lawmakers that “Iran planned to inject UF6 gas into its latest generation centrifuge, the IR-8, which Iran has said could enrich uranium 16 times faster than its older IR-1 centrifuge.” They plan to do this as soon as the final deal takes effect.163 In spite of the Obama administration’s contention that the Iranian nuclear program has been “frozen” during the negotiations, or even reduced as Obama boasted, in reality Iran has increased its stockpile of nuclear fuel 20% over the last 18 months.164 Middle East specialist Clare Lopez of the Center for Security Policy believes that “all the evidence suggests that Iran already has nuclear warheads” and that the only thing we don’t know for sure “is whether the Iranians have been able to marry the nuclear warheads to missiles, which is technically a difficult thing to do.” Lopez believes the Obama administration knows this but Obama has pushed hard for a deal for the following reasons: “Obama has decided to remove U.S. power and influence from the Middle East and North Africa.” “He has a worldview that sees America as influence for ill in the world therefore, he must diminish that influence wherever and however possible.” “He has a worldview that sees Islam as suppressed and oppressed by Western (colonial) powers and the U.S. as the inheritor of that oppressive role.” “He has a desire to “rectify” what is viewed as “injustice” suffered by Islam at the hands of the West and has decided that the best way to do that is for the U.S. to withdraw and allow and empower Islam to rise back up again to what is seen as its “rightful” place in the world.”165 Lopez suggests that, in order to secure a nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama administration may also have “agreed to Iranian regional hegemony, perhaps a dominance secured by a nuclear capability.”166 The leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, commended the nuclear deal and said “the deal will allow for a “stronger and wealthier Iran” regime that will “stand by its allies [Hezbollah], and especially the Palestinian resistance [Hamas], more than at any other time in history.””167 The National Intelligence Agency Director, James Clapper, delivered a report (dated February 26, 2015) to the Senate that removes Iran and Hezbollah from the terrorism list, citing the country's work against ISIS as one of the reasons why.168 19 In April 2015, the Obama administration cut funds to Hayya Bina, the leading anti-Hezbollah group in Lebanon. Instead, the U.S. will sell TOW-II missiles and launchers to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), which has a close relationship with Hezbollah. The LAF is “basically protecting Hezbollah’s rear and flank on the Lebanese side of the border…to help sustain Hezbollah’s effort in Syria.”169 According to former Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. General Michael Flynn (Ret.), the nuclear agreement with Iran will give them “carte blanche to become the hegemonic…dominant country in the Middle East…”170 Ali Reza Zakani, who is close to Ayatollah Khamenei and a Iranian parliament representative from Tehran, said back in September 2014: “Three Arab capitals [Beirut, Damascus, and Baghdad) have today ended up in the hands of Iran and belong to the Islamic Iranian revolution.” Zakani noted that the Yemen capital Sanaa) was on its way to also joining that revolution.171 Through these client states, Iran effectively surrounds all the pro-American states (Israel, Jordan, and the Gulf States). If Yemen is secured by Iraniansponsored Houthi rebels, then Iran will have some measure of control over Mandab Strait (connecting the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden)172 along with its existing control over the Strait of Hormuz.173 With Syria’s army on the verge of collapse (June 5, 2015), Iran is sending up to 50,000 troops to prevent the fall of Syrian president al-Assad. A major deployment to Syrian would further inflame tensions in the Middle East along the Shia-Sunni “fault line.”174 Since any nuclear deal with Iran would eventually eliminate existing sanctions, Russia has decided to proceed with a deal to sell Iran Russian S300 air defense missiles. These missiles would make it very difficult to take out Iran’s nuclear capabilities should they ‘breakout’ from the treaty and build nuclear weapons. 175 The Obama administration is willing to offer almost any concession in order to break the current [as of July 1, 2015] deadlock in the nuclear talks with Iran. This includes a proposal to “forgo actual IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] inspections of suspect Iranian nuclear facilities.”176 Fred Fleitz, article author and national security expert wrote: “This proposed U.S. concession is appalling, because it would allow Iran to shield military and undeclared sites from IAEA inspectors.”177 Once Iran has secured a nuclear agreement, billions of dollars in unfrozen assets would be made available for Iran to support its military deployment to Syria and its proxy wars.178 20 Even the UN believes that Obama has “whitewashed” both sanctions and nuclear violations so that the nuclear talks with Iran are not jeopardized.179 Although Iran has been in violation of UN Security Council resolutions and the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPOA, from April 2015 negotiations), the Obama administration “is denying they ever happened or labeling them as inconsequential.”180 For instance, Iran was obligated by the JPOA to convert all excess uranium gas into uranium dioxide, but instead converted into a different oxide that is easily reconverted into usable uranium. “Once it became news that the Iranians cheated on the conversion, the Obama administration went to work retroactively rewriting the deal on Iran’s behalf.” 181 Update: An agreement was reached with Iran on July 14, 2015 in which “according to Iran state media, none of the Iranian nuclear facilities will be dismantled or decommissioned and nuclear research and development activities will continue. The arms embargo, they report, will “be annulled and replaced with certain restrictions” that only last five years.”182 Although Obama touts the verification aspect of the agreement, it appears to give Iran the ability to veto any inspection they choose.183In addition, the agreement frees up some $150 billion in assets that have been frozen under the previous sanctions.184 Iran will also be able to sell its oil once again on the world markets; the potential for a glut has already driven oil prices lower.185 Obama has warned Congress that if they attempt to pass any legislation to thwart the agreement, he will veto it.186 21 End Notes A creed is a formal statement of beliefs. It provides the foundation and guiding principles to unite a group of individuals and to direct their activities. 1 Eric Stakelbeck, The Brotherhood: America’s Next Great Enemy (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2013), p. 138 2 3 Ibid, p. 138 Michael Youssef, Blindsided: The Radical Islamic Conquest (self published, Michael Youssef, 2012), p.26 4 5 Ibid, p.26 Mohamed Akram, “An Explanatory Memorandum On the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America,” Investigative Project on Terrorism, May 19, 1991, p. 7 (of English translation), http://www.investigativeproject.org/document/id/20.psf 6 7 Ibid, p.7 8 Stakelbeck, p.7 Akram, “An Explanatory Memorandum On the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America,” English translation, p. 10 9 Thomas Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, “U.S. Government Purges of Law Enforcement Training Material Deemed “Offensive” to Muslims,” Judicial Watch, December 5, 2013, p.2, http://www.judicialwatch.org/wpcontent/uploads/2013/12/JWSRGovtPurgeAndActiveMeasures5Dec2013.pdf 10 11 Akram, p.1; Stakelbeck, p. 47-49 Steven Emerson, Jihad Incorporated: A Guide to Militant Islam in the US (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2006), p.189 12 Jordan Schachtel, “Egypt President: Muslim Brotherhood is the Godfather of Global Terrorism” Breitbart News Network, March 13, 2015, http://www.brietbart.com/national-secruity/2015/03/13/egypt-pres-muslimbrotherhood-is-the-godfather-of-global-terrorism/ 13 22 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in a speech given to an Islamic Student Associations conference on “The World Without Zionism.” translated by Nazila Fathi, New York Times, October 30, 2005, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/weekinreview/30iran.html?pagewanted=al l&_r=0 14 The terms Little Satan and Great Satan in parentheses were from an Israeli Mossad Agent quoted by Joel C. Rosenberg, Epicenter: Why the Current Rumblings in the Middle East Will Change Your Future (Carol Stream, Ill., Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2008), p.110 15 As quoted in an article by Thomas Erdbrink, “Ayatollah Khamenei says Iran will back ‘any nations, any groups’ fighting Israel” Washington Post, February 3, 2012, http://www.washingtonpost.comworld/middle_east/iran-says-it-launchedsatellite/2012/02/03/glQARNuKmQ_story.html 16 Ali Khamenei as quoted by Reza Kahlili, former CIA operative in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, in his article “Iran General: Our Ultimate Goal is the destruction of America and Israel”, The Daily Caller, January 5, 2015, http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/05/iran-general-our-ultimate-goal-is-thedestruction-of-america-and-israel/ 17 18 Ahmadinejad, “The World Without Zionism” 19 Rosenberg, p. 120-121 Iranian Press Service, “Rafsanjani Says Muslims Should Use Nuclear Weapon against Israel,” December 14, 2001, http://www.iran-ress-service.com as cited by Rosenberg, Epicenter, p. 108 20 Mohammad Nagdi, as quoted by Kahlili, “Iran General: Our Ultimate Goal is the destruction of America and Israel” 21 Hassan Rouhani as quoted by Adam Kredo, “Iranian President: Diplomacy with U.S. is an Active ‘Jihad’”, Washington Free Beacon, March 12, 2015, http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iranian-president-diplomacy-with-u-s-isan-active-jihad/ 22 Khamenei as quoted by Glenn Beck, “This is Evil: Obama Plans to use United Nations to Undercut Israel, Force Two-State Solution” transcript from program on March 19, 2015, http://www.glennbeck.com/2015/03/19/this-is-evil-obamaplans-to-use-united-nations-to-undercut-israel-force-two-state-solution/ 23 23 Khamenei as quoted by Dave Urbanski, “While Kerry Notes ‘Substantial Progress’ in Iran Nuclear Talks, Ayatollah Plays to Crowd Heard Chanting ‘Death to America’”, The Blaze, March 21, 2015, http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/03/21/whilekerry-notes-substantial-progress-in-iran-nuclear-talks-ayatollah-plays-to-crowdchanting-death-to-america/ 24 25 Stakelbeck, The Brotherhood, p.53 Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 2006), p.261 26 27 Youssef, Blindsided, p.143 Erik Stakelbeck, The Terrorist Next Door: How the Government is Deceiving You about the Islamist Threat (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2011) p. 35, 36 as cited in Stakelbeck, The Brotherhood, p.56-57 28 29 Ibid 30 Youssef, Blindsided, p.144 31 Ibid 32 Ibid http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/obama-family-planning-17-daychristmas-vacation-hawaii-ariticle-1.986392 Looking at this and articles for other years, the president has left Washington D.C. between December 17th – December 21st for his annual Christmas vacation. 33 Andrea Shea King, et.al., The Coalition of Concerned Citizens, “The Betrayal Papers, Part III” Bear Witness Central, March, 2015, http://bwcentral.org/2015/03/the-betrayal-papers-part-iii-of-v-obamas-scandalsand-assaults-on-freedoms-explained/ 34 Charles Bolden as quoted by Michelle Spitzer, “NASA Chief Bolden’s Muslim Remark to Al-Jazeera Causes Stir” Florida Today, July 7, 2010, http://www.space.com/8725-nasa-chief-bolden-muslim-remark-al-jazeerastir.html 35 36 As quoted by King, et. al., “The Betrayal Papers, Part III” 24 Michael Daly, “Nidal Hasan’s Murders Termed ‘Workplace Violence’ by U.S.”, The Daily Beast, August 6, 2013 http://www.thedailybeastcom/articles/2013/08/06/nidal-hasan-s-murderstermed-workplace-violence-by-u-s.html 37 Kathy Platoni, “The Army’s Fort Hood Disgrace”, The Wall Street Journal, March 20, 2015, http://www.wsj.com/articles/kathy-platoni-the-armys-fort-hooddisgrace-1426806479 38 James C. McKinley Jr., “U.S. Knew of Suspect’s Tie to Radical Cleric” New York Times, November 10, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/us/10inquire.html?_r-0 39 Doug Powers, “White House Finally Delivers Apologetic Statement after Oklahoma Beheading”, article at Michelle Malkin’s Website, October 5, 2014, http://michellemalkin.com/2014/10/05/white-house-finally-delivers-apologeticstatement-after-oklahoma-beheading/ 40 Washington Free Beacon Staff, “Perry: White House Must Address Oklahoma Beheading”, Washington Free Beacon, September 29, 2014, http://freebeacon.com/national-security/perry-white-house-must-addressoklahoma-beheading/ 41 Powers, “White House Finally Delivers Apologetic Statement after Oklahoma Beheading” 42 Joel B. Pollak, “Obama Calls Terror Attack on Paris Jews “Random’ Shooting”, Breitbart News Network, February 9, 2015, http://www.breitbart.com/nationalsecurity/2015/02/09/obama-calss-terror-attack-on-paris-jews-random-shooting/ 43 Office of the Press Secretary, “Fact Sheet: The White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism”, February 18, 2015, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-pressoffice/2015/02/18/fact-sheet-white-house-summit-countering-violent-extremism/ 44 Office of the Press Secretary, “President Obama Announces Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference,” February 13, 2010, http://www.whiehouse.gov/the-press-office/president -obama-announces-specialenvoy-organization-islamic-conference/ [note: A hafiz is one who has memorized the Qur’an.] 45 Rashad Hussain and al-Husein N. Madhany, “Reformulating the Battle of Ideas: Understanding the Role of Islam in Counterterrorism Policy,” Brookings Institution, an analysis paper Number 13, August 2008, http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2008/8/counterterro rism%20hussain/08_counterterrorism_hussain.pdf%20 46 25 47 Youssef, Blindsided, p.144 Susan Jones, “Obama: ‘Islam has been Woven into the Fabric of our Country since its Founding,” CNS News, February 19, 2015, http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/obama-islam-has-beenwoven-fabric-our-country-its-founding 48 T. Becket Adams, ‘Why does the Obama administration say ‘ISIL’ while everyone else says ‘ISIS’?,” Washington Examiner, September 8, 2014, http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/why-does-the-obama-administration-sayisil-while-everyone-else-says-isis/article/2553031 49 Juliet Eilperin, “Critics Pounce after Obama Talks Crusades, Slaver at Prayer Breakfast,” The Washington Post, February 5, 2015, http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obamas-speech-at-prayer-breakfastcalled-offensive-to-christians/2015/02/05/6a15a240-1350-11e4-d71-7b9eba0f87 50 John Hayward, “’Religion of the Sword’: ISIS Magazine Heavy on Crusades Propaganda,” Breitbart News Network, February 12, 2015, http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/02/12/religion-of-the-swordisis-magazine-heavy-on-crusades-propaganda/ 51 Samuel Smith, “Obama Doesn’t Identify 147 Victims in Kenya Massacre as ‘Christians’ or Jihadi Group as ‘Islamic,’” The Christian Post, April 9, 2015, http://www.christianpost.com/news/obama-doesn’t-identify-147-victims-inkenya-massacre-as-christians-or-jihadi-group-as-islamic-137092/ 52 Edwin Mora, “Pentagon Refuses to Back Egyptian Bombing of ISIS after Christian Slaughter,” Breitbart News Network, February 19, 2015, http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/02/19/pentagon-refuses-toback-egyptian-bombing-of-isis-i-libya-after-christian-slaughter/ 53 54 Ibid John Rossomando, “Egyptian Magazine: Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrates Obama Administration,” Investigative Project, January 3, 2013, http://www.investigativeproject.org/3869/egyptian-magazine-muslimbrotherhood-inflitrates# 55 Wikipedia entry, “American Muslim Council,” retrieved on 6-24-2015, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Muslim_Council 56 Akram, “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America,” English translation, p.1 57 26 Joel Himelfarb, “State Dept Re-tweets Imam Blaming Terror on ‘Global Zionism’,” Newsmax, March 3, 2015, http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/StateDepartment-counterterroism-Twitter/2015/03/03/id/628032/ 58 Aaron Klein, “Obama: American is ‘No Longer Christian’,” World Net Daily, June 2008, http://www.wnd.com/200806/67735/ 59 Barack Obama, in a June 1, 2009 interview with French TV correspondent Laura Haim, as cited by Factcheck.org, http://www.factcheck.org/2009/06/obama-usone-of-the-largest-muslim-countries-not/ 60 Nina Shea, “The Administration Takes On ‘Islamophobia’,” National Review, September 1, 2011, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/276021/administration-takes-onislamophobia-nina-shea 61 Soeren Kern, “OIC Blames Free Speech for “Islamophobia” in West,” Gate Stone Institute, December 11, 2013, http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4088/islamophobia-oic-free-speech 62 Hillary Clinton as quoted by Thomas Fitton in “U.S. Government Purges of Law Enforcement Training Material Deemed “Offensive” to Muslims,” Judicial Watch, December 5, 2013, p.21, http://www.judicialwatch.org/wpcontent/uploads/2013/12/JWSRGovtPUrgeAndActiveMeasures5Dec2013.pdf 63 Andrew McCarthy, Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy, (New York, NY: Encounter Digital, 2013), pp. 123-124, as cited in Stakelbeck, The Brotherhood, pp.61 64 Office of the Press Secretary, “Remarks by the President to the UN General Assembly,” September 25, 2012, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-pressoffice/2012/09/25/remarks-president-un-general-assembly 65 Carol E. Lee, “Obama, Biden Absent From Paris Solidarity March,” The Wall Street Journal, January 11, 2015, http://www.wsj.com/articles/obama-biden-absent-fromparis-solidarity-march-1421027516 66 Office of the Press Secretary, “Remarks by the President at National Prayer Breakfast,” February 5, 2015, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-pressoffice/2015/02/05/remarks-president-national-prayer-breakfast 67 68 Hussain, “Reformulating the Battle of Ideas” 69 King et. al., “The Betrayal Papers, Part III” 27 70 Ibid Pete Kasperowicz, “Border Agent Accuses DHS of Manipulating Border Security Stats: ‘The Border is Not Secure’,” The Blaze, March 17, 2015, http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/03/17/border-agent-accuses-dhs-ofmanipulating-border-security-stats-the-border-is-not-secure/ 71 Heather Mac Donald, “Practical Thoughts on Immigration,” (Primus, February 2015, vol. 44, no.2, published by Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI) 72 Melanie Batley, “Ex-Border Agents: Government Invites Influx of Illegal Immigrant Children,” Newsmax, June 12, 2014, http://www.newsmax.com/US/border-agentsimmigration-minors/2014/06/12/id/576627/ 73 74 Akram, “An Explanatory Memorandum,” p.10 75 Stakelbeck, The Brotherhood,” p.223 Tiffany Gabbay, “‘The Project’ Part I — All Totalitarian Ideologies Are Threat to U.S.,” The Blaze, September 26, 2012, http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/09/26/the-project-part-i-all-totalitarianideologies-are-threat-to-u-s/ 76 77 King et. al., “The Betrayal Papers, Part II” Fitton, “U.S. Government Purges of Law Enforcement Training Material Deemed “Offensive” to Muslims,” p.24-25 78 Ravi Kumar, “Syrian Brotherhood Stands Nearer to ISIS than to U.S.,” Counter Jihad Report, September 16, 2014, http://counterjihadreport.com/tag/syrianemergency-task-force/ 79 Fitton, “U.S. Government Purges of Law Enforcement Training Material Deemed “Offensive” to Muslims,” p.8 80 81Glenn Beck, “Watch Unanswered Questions Surrounding Boston Marathon Bombing,” program transcript obtained from http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/04/29/watch-unanswered-qustionssurrounding-boston-marathonbombing/?utm_source=glennbeck&utm_medium=contentcopy_link Fitton, “U.S. Government Purges of Law Enforcement Training Material Deemed “Offensive” to Muslims,” p.14 82 28 Erica Ritz, “Beck Breaks Exclusive Information on Saudi National Allegedly Connected to Boston Bombings,” The Blaze, April 22, 2013, http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/22/beck-breaks-exclusiveinformation-on-saudi-national-allegedly-connected-to-boston-bombings/ 83 Fitton, “U.S. Government Purges of Law Enforcement Training Material Deemed “Offensive” to Muslims,” p.24-25 84 Adam Kredo, “DHS Stonewalls Congress on ‘Hands Off’ Permitting Those with Terror Ties into U.S.,” Washington Free Beacon, May 28, 2014, http://freebeacon.com/national-security/dhs-stonewalls-congress-on-hands-offpermitting-those-with-terror-ties-into-u-s/ 85 John Guandolo, former FBI Islam expert claimed, “Mr. Brennan did convert to Islam when he served in an official capacity on behalf of the United States in Saudi Arabia,” as quoted by Drew Zahn, “Shock Claim: Obama Picks Muslim for CIA Chief,” World Net Daily, February 10, 2013, http://www.wnd.com2013/02/shock-claimobama-picks-muslim-for-cia-chief/ 86 John Brennan, as quoted by Jordan Schachtel, “CIA Director: Islamic State is ‘Psychopathic,’ not Islamic,” Brietbart News Network, March 14, 2015, http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/03/14/cia-director-islamicstate-is-psychopathic-not-islamic/ 87 “Obama Administration Corrects Clapper’s Claim That Muslim Brotherhood is ‘Secular,’” Fox News, February 10, 2011, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/02/10/administration-corrects-dniclapper-claim-muslim-brotherhood-secular/ as cited by Stakelbeck, The Brotherhood,” p. 108 88 Walid Shoebat, “Obama Promoting Muslim Brotherhood “Stooge” at State,” Shoebat.com, November 12, 2013, http://shoebat.com/2013/11/12/obamapromoting-muslim-brotherhood-stooge-state/ 89 Pamela Geller, “New Docs Reveal How DOJ Kowtows to Muslim Brotherhood,” American Thinker, January 23, 2012, http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2012/01/new_docs_reveal_how_doj_ko wtows-to-muslim_brotherhood.html 90 Patrick Goodenough, “CAIR Praises DHS Report on Domestic ‘Right Wing’ Extremists,” CNS News, February 22, 2015, http://cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/cair-praises-dhs-reportdomestic-right-wing-extremists 91 29 Ryan Mauro, “Designate Jamaat ul-Fuqra as a Foreign Terrorist Organization,” The Clarion Project, February 18, 2014, http://www.clarionproject.org/petition/designate-jamaat-ul-fuqra-foreignterrorist-organization 92 93 King et. al., “The Betrayal Papers, Part II” Walid Shoebat and Ben Barrack, “Lois Lerner Caught Granting Muslim Brotherhood Front Groups Tax Exempt Status as Far Back as Bush Administration,” Shoebat.com, June 23, 2014, http://shoebat.com/2014/06/23/lois-lerner-caughtgranting-muslim-brotherhood-front-groups-tax-exempt-status-bushadministration/ 94 Katie Pavlich, 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