As elements of the Bush administration continue their jihad against any discussion of jihadism (i.e. — as I outline in Willful Blindness — the ideology that fuels radical Islam’s war against the United States and the West), the State Department is reportedly funding the soft jihad being practiced by faux “moderate” Muslim groups. See this from Belia Rabinowitz and William Mayer of PipeLineNews.com:
A grant made by the U.S. Dept. of State to the Islamic Society of North America [ISNA] … and the left wing National Peace Foundation is being used to fund Islamic da’wa via a spurious “citizen exchange” program.
The grant is confirmed on ISNA’s website, here.
What is State buying with your money? Well, Islamic da’wa, you may be interested to know, is the “call to Allah” — the summons to Islam. ISNA, as Rabinowitz and Mayer elaborate, is “an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood and named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the ongoing Holy Land Foundation terror funding prosecution,” principally involving the Hamas jihadist terror organization. (Link to NYSun article added.) The Muslim Brotherhood is the ideological engine of modern jihadism, and though it purports to have abandoned violence in favor of other means of persuasion that we should all be governed by Sharia, its mission statement remains: “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.”
Wonderful!
The PipeLine report continues:
As the ISNA press release states:
“…This program brings young professionals from the Middle East, specifically from Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, to the United States…The goal of this project is to explore Islam, the functions of Islamic institutions in the United States, and the activities of interfaith work.”
As we have noted in previous pieces, for example Bush Administration Moves To Legitimize The Muslim Brotherhood?, there has been a move afoot, primarily originating within the State Dept., to recognize the Muslim Brotherhood as a moderate organization, an idea so spectacularly stupid it could only originate in Foggy Bottom.
It follows then that if the reputation of the Muslim Brotherhood, which created Hamas and is a constant specter in terror prosecutions, is on the verge of being whitewashed, then making nice with ISNA seems equally reasonable.
The ISNA press release stated that one of these State Dept. funded delegations met with Dr. Ali Goma, the Mufti of Egypt:
“…I think there were two events of the many, many that transformed us (the delegation as a whole). One was the meeting with the personal representative of the Dr. Ali Gomaa, the Mufti of Egypt…”
Regarding suicide bombings, the supposedly moderate Ali Goma was quoted in a 2003 interview in Egypt’s “Al-haqiqa” newspaper as defending this terror practice on religious grounds:
“…he is a Shahid [martyr], because Palestine is a special case and not the ordinary case existing in the world…This is because in Palestine there is an enemy that rules the land. This rule is considered a crime by international conventions and resolutions. The world has let the Jews spread corruption throughout the land and they have succeeded in obtaining international legitimacy to territories that were conquered after 1967, Israel is a special case that does not exist [anywhere else] on the face of the earth. We are facing a criminal occupation that is the source of terror…The one who carries out Fedaii [martyrdom] operations against the Zionists and blows himself up is, without a doubt, a Shahid [martyr] because he is defending his homeland against the occupying enemy who is supported by superpowers such as the U.S. and Britain.”
Mindful that their warriors are being defeated on the ground in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, the Islamists continue to transition from violent to a stealth jihad mode, confident that they will triumph by following the Muslim Brotherhood’s plan to use the West’s freedoms to subvert it from within….