[Vision2020] jihadaphobia

[No Weatherman]

Btw: before anyone accuses me of being an Islamaphobe, I want to make
one sharp distinction. I am not afraid of Muslims proper, but I am
absolutely terrified of jihadist Muslims.

That would make me a jihadaphobe.


Would Obama Pass a Standard Security Clearance?
By Daniel Pipes

With Colin Powell now repeating the lie that Barack Obama has "always
been a Christian," despite new information further confirming Obama's
Muslim childhood (such as the Indonesian school registration listing
him as Muslim), one watches with dismay as the Democratic candidate
manages to hide the truth on this issue.

Instead, then, let us review a related subject — Obama's connections
and even indebtedness, throughout his career, to extremist Islam.
Specifically, he has longstanding, if indirect ties to two
institutions, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), listed
by the U.S. government in 2007 as an unindicted co-conspirator in a
Hamas-funding trial; and the Nation of Islam (NoI), condemned by the
Anti-Defamation League for its "consistent record of racism and
anti-Semitism."

First, Obama's ties to Islamists:

·	The Khalid al-Mansour connection: According to former Manhattan
Borough president Percy Sutton, Al-Mansour "was raising money for"
Obama's expenses at Harvard Law School. Al-Mansour, a black American
(né Don Warden), became advisor to Saudi prince Al-Walid bin Talal,
CAIR's largest individual donor. Al-Mansour holds standard Islamist
views: he absolves the Islamist government in Sudan of sponsoring
slavery, he denies a Jewish tie to Jerusalem, and he wrote a booklet
titled "Americans Beware! The Zionist Plot Against S. Arabia." (Both
Obama and al-Mansour deny Sutton's account.)

·	The Kenny Gamble (also known as Luqman Abdul-Haqq) connection:
Gamble, a once-prominent pop music producer, cut the ribbon to the
Obama campaign headquarters housed in a south Philadelphia building he
owns. Gamble is an Islamist who buys large swaths of real estate in
Philadelphia to create a Muslim-only residential area. Also, as the
self-styled "amir" of the United Muslim Movement, he has many links to
Islamist organizations, including CAIR and the Muslim Alliance in
North America. (MANA's "amir" is Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted
co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.)

·	The Mazen Asbahi connection: The Obama campaign's first Muslim
outreach coordinator resigned after it came to light that he had
served on the board of a subsidiary of the Saudi-sponsored North
American Islamic Trust, with Jamal Said, another unindicted
co-conspirator in the 2007 Hamas funding trial. Asbahi has ties to
CAIR's Chicago and Detroit offices, to the Islamic Society of North
America, yet another unindicted co-conspirator in the Hamas funding
trial, and to other Islamist organizations.

·	The Minha Husaini connection: The campaign's second Muslim outreach
coordinator has an Islamist background, having served as an intern in
the Muslim Public Service Network. Immediately upon her appointment by
Obama, she met with a group of about thirty Muslims including such
notorious figures as CAIR's Nihad Awad; the Muslim American Society's
Mahdi Bray, who has publicly supported the Hamas and Hezbollah
terrorist groups; and Johari Abdul Malik of the Dar Al-Hijrah Mosque
in Falls Church, Va., who has advised American Muslims: "You can blow
up bridges, but you cannot kill people who are innocent on their way
to work."

Second, Obama's ties to the Nation of Islam:

Obama's long-time donor and ally Antoin "Tony" Rezko partnered for
nearly three decades with Jabir Herbert Muhammad, a son of NoI leader
Elijah Muhammad, and says he gave Jabir and his family "millions of
dollars over the years." Rezko also served as executive director of
the Muhammad Ali Foundation, a rogue organization that, without Ali's
permission, exploited the name of this CAIR awardee.

Jeremiah Wright, Obama's esteemed pastor for twenty years, came out of
a Nation background, recently he accepted protection from an NoI
security detail, and has praised Louis Farrakhan, the NoI's leader, as
one of the "giants of the African American religious experience."
Wright's church celebrated Farrakhan for his having "truly epitomized
greatness."

Farrakhan himself endorsed Obama, calling him "the hope of the entire
world," "one who can lift America from her fall," and even "the
Messiah."

That Obama's biography touches so frequently on such unsavory
organizations as CAIR and the Nation of Islam should give pause. How
many of politicians have a single tie to either group, much less seven
of them? John McCain charitably calls Obama "a person you do not have
to be scared [of] as president of the United States," but Obama's
multiple links to anti-Americans and subversives mean he would fail
the standard security clearance process for Federal employees.

Islamic aggression represents America's strategic enemy; Obama's many
insalubrious connections raise grave doubts about his fitness to serve
as America's commander-in-chief.

Mr. Pipes (www.DanielPipes.org) is director of the Middle East Forum
and Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of
Stanford University.
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