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Holy Land Foundation Hamas Support Convictions Affirmed

Given the lengths to which the current administration goes to portray the Muslim Brotherhood — inside and outside the United States — as a “moderate,” “largely secular” organization, it’s nice to see any part of government recognize it for what it is: an Islamist conglomerate dedicated to the destruction of Israel and committed to raising millions of dollars to support accomplishing that end through a jihadist war.

In Texas today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for Fifth Circuit has upheld the convictions of five jihadists behind the Holy Land Foundation, the piggy bank set up by the Brotherhood in the U.S., under the guise of “charity,” to fund Hamas to the tune of tens of millions of dollars during the deadly intifada.

The three-judge panel’s unanimous 170-page opinion recounts that Hamas was created by Brotherhood operatives in 1987 as the Brotherhood’s “Palestinian branch.” Thereafter, “the Muslim Brotherhood directed its world-wide chapters to establish so-called ‘Palestinian Committees’ to support Hamas from abroad.” In the U.S., the “Palestine Committee” was led by Mousa Abu Marzook (who, for a time in the early Nineties, actually ran Hamas from his home in Virginia). The Palestine Committee created not only the Holy Land Foundation but a number of other Islamist entities in the U.S. The leaders of one of those entities, the Islamic Association for Palestine, subsequently created CAIR — the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which was cited as an unindicted co-conspirator in the case.

As the Fifth Circuit further explains, after the Oslo Accords were signed, Brotherhood operatives in the Hamas support network met in Philadelphia to try to figure out how they could “derail the peace process.” The meeting featured “an aura of deception and an intent to hide a connection to Hamas” — manifested by a decision to refer to Hamas only as “Sister Samah” (Hamas spelled backwards). Subsequently, documents recovered by the FBI at the home of a Brotherhood operative established the Brotherhood’s overarching role in the Hamas support scheme, including bylaws showing that the “Brotherhood had directed the collection of ‘donations for the Islamic Resistance Movement [i.e., Hamas].’”

Also recovered at that time was the internal memorandum in which the Brotherhood’s American leadership asserted:

The Ikhwan [i.e., the Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the 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.

That is why I called my book about the Muslim Brotherhood’s war on the West The Grand Jihad. It is what the Brotherhood and its affiliated organizations are about wherever in the world they operate. When you cite the undeniable facts out here in journalism world, they call it “Islamophobia.” Fortunately, in American courtrooms, it is still possible to see it for what it is: overwhelming evidence.

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Sonya Grabowski
   12/07/11 17:04

Great article! And very good news that our courts are still able to be objective.

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drk
   12/07/11 18:13

An article by a former Muslim that is worth reading:

External Link 

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   12/07/11 18:31

Keep fighting the good fight!

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DoJ
   12/08/11 07:49

Good job DoJ, now you are geared-up to turn your attention to more substantive sponsors of terrorism uncover-up'ed for you recently at External Link  and years ago at External Link .

In fact, you may have time to catch ConocoPhillips Chairman James J. Mulva as he disembarks from his G-V returning to Houston from the Qatar where he and his Arab cronies were almost certainly conspiring to launder Iranian gas-exports through Qatar to generate revenues for Iran to finance its development of nuclear weapons.

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   12/08/11 11:18

“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Qu’ran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth.”
----Omar Ahmed CAIR (Council for American Islamic Relations) Founding Chairman

"It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated; to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet."
----Hassan al Banna, (1906 – 1949) teacher and imam, best known for founding the Muslim Brotherhood

“The Ikhwan (Muslims Brothers) must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the 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.”
---- by Mohamed Akram, May 19, 1991, Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Muslim Brotherhood in North America

"Yes, 'imperialism,' ... The deliberate and determined expansion of militant Islam and its attempt to triumph not only in the Islamic world but in Europe and North America. Pure ideology. Muslim terrorists kill and slaughter not because of what they experience but because of what they believe."
----Dr. Tawfik Hamid (aka Tarek Abdelhamid), Islamic thinker and reformer, and one time Islamic extremist from Egypt

"Just like Nazism started with Hitler's vision, the Islamic vision is a caliphate; a society ruled by Sharia law, in which women who have sex before marriage are stoned to death, homosexuals are beaten, and apostates like me are killed. Sharia law is as inimical to liberal democracy as Nazism. It is not a fringe group of radical Muslims who've hijacked Islam and that the majority of Muslims are moderate. Violence is inherent in Islam; it's a destructive, nihilistic cult of death. It legitimates murder."
---- Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Ex-Muslim Feminist, Writer, and Politician)

“One day, millions of [Muslim] men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory.”
–--- Houari (Mohamed) Boumedienne, President of Algeria, 1965 – 1978, in a 1974 speech at the UN

"There can be two types of agreement with non-Muslims: 1) Mutual compromise and peace agreements can be made with countries that have no power which could threaten the grandeur and domination of Muslims. This will be enforced as long as they do not become a threat to the Muslims again. 2) If Muslims do not possess the capability of “Jihad with power,” agreement may be made till the power is attained. ...the purpose of Jihad is not just to get the right of missionary activities in any country, but it aims at breaking the grandeur of unbelievers and to establish that of Muslims. As a result no one will dare to show any evil designs against Muslims on one side, and on the other side, people subdued from the grandeur of Islam will have an open mind to think over the blessings of Islam. Factually, this aims at "safeguarding Islam." It is for this reason that the scholars who have called Jihad “A Protection” must look at it in the above context. But the basic element of this “protection” is to break the grandeur of unbelievers and establish the authority of Islam."
----Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani, Islamic scholar from Pakistan, expert in the fields of Islamic Jurisprudence, economics and hadith, judge on the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan and the Shari'a Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, one of the most influential Islamic authors outside the Middle East

"We demand an Islamic nation, living a true Islamic life in politics, society, economics, education, culture and every other sphere of life. Islamic law does not restrict itself to the cutting of hands or flogging criminals. To neglect prayer is also a criminal act, and to eat in public during Ramadan is a criminal act and so is the refraining from giving alms, taking interest, drinking, selling or transporting wine, opening public entertainment places and accepting taxes from these places, broadcasting (secular) songs on the radio and showing cheap exotic movies on the television, letting women dress indecently, and print heretic ideas in books and newspapers…We shall not be deceived any more. The Muslim people have a clear goal and will not settle for less than complete victory."
---- December, 1976 article from the Muslim Brotherhood publication Al-Dawa on their timeless vision of Islamic democracy and freedom

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   12/09/11 09:15

Good job DoJ, now you are geared-up to turn your attention to more
substantive sponsors of terrorism uncover-up'ed for you recently at External Link  and years ago at External Link  .

In fact, you may have time to catch ConocoPhillips Chairman James J. Mulva
as he disembarks from his G-V returning to Houston from the Qatar where
he and his Arab cronies were almost certainly conspiring to launder
Iranian gas-exports through Qatar to generate revenues for Iran to
finance its development of nuclear weapons.

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