PROTEST THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUESTROSITY FEBRUARY 3 NYC
These are the times when you can affect change. These are the events that make a difference. Meet me downtown on February 3rd to protest the Ground Zero mosquestrosity. The appointment of the latest imam, one with ties to WTC bomber co-conspirator Siraq Wahhaj, is another assault in the continuing 911 attacks on America. The Ground Zero stealth jihadists have applied for taxpayer funds to build their flag of conquest.
PROTEST THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE, FEBRUARY 3Inside at the Hearings49-51 CHAMBERS STREET 12:45PMBRING SIGNS - HERE ARE SIGN IDEAS
Saturday, January 22, 2011
MUSLIM, ALLEGED LEADER OF PLOT TO BOMB NY SUBWAYS AND UK TARGETS, TO BE EXTRADITED
More incalculable contributions to humanity too numerous to recount ........
Naseer, alleged leader of al-Qaida bomb plot, to be extradited GuardianBritish targets and US authorities made the extradition request after alleging a link to a planned attack on a New York subway
MI5 alleged Abid Naseer wrote coded e-mails to an al-Qaeda member Photograph: HandoutThe extradition of an alleged leader of an al-Qaida plot to bomb British and US targets was approved today. Abid Naseer is accused of a plot to bomb British targets and US authorities made the extradition request after alleging a link to a planned attack on a New York subway. US officials said the plot had been one of the most dangerous since the 9/11 attacks. Magistrates in central London approved the extradition application at a hearing at City of Westminster magistrates court but Naseer's lawyersaid he would appeal. The case is now likely to go before the home secretary Theresa May for a final decision.
Friday, January 21, 2011
KEITH OLBERMANN FIRED!
Countdown to zero ..... :)
Don't let the door hit cha in the ace, Keefy. Olbermann is fired after Comcast takes over MSNBC.
Looks like I will have to be satisfied with only four "worst person in the world" awards from the undershtupper himself (here and here andhere and here) Keith Olbermann is out and off the air.
In a statement, MSNBC said : “MSNBC and Keith Olbermann have ended their contract. The last broadcast of ‘Countdown with Keith Olbermann’ will be this evening. MSNBC thanks Keith for his integral role in MSNBC’s success and we wish him well in his future endeavors.”
Keith Olbermann has announced that his show has been canceled and his contract terminated. heh
Keith Olbermann is leaving MSNBC, the "Countdown" host announced on his show Friday night. (CNN)
The liberal commentator told viewers he had been informed "this was going to be the last edition" of his show, but offered no further details.
NBC/Universal confirmed the news in a statement Friday night.
"MSNBC and Keith Olbermann have ended their contract. The last broadcast
of "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" will be this evening. MSNBC thanks
Keith for his integral role in MSNBC's success and we wish him well in
his future endeavors."Olbermann made the announcement in his typical deadpan style, evoking scenes from the film "Network" and thanking viewers for keeping him on the air for six years.
"In the mundane world television goodbyes, reality is laughably uncooperative," Olbermann said before launching into a story about his exit from ESPN 13 years ago.
"As God as my witness, in the commercial break just before the emotional moment, the producer got into my earpiece and he said, 'um, can you cut it down to 15 seconds so we get in this tennis result from Stuttgart,'" he said, half-smiling, pausing for composure.
"So I'm grateful I have a little more time to sign off here. Regardless this is the last edition of 'Countdown.'"
BROTHER OF HARRY POTTER STAR JAILED IN ATTEMPTED HONOR KILLING AFTER DATING NON-MUSLIM MAN, "MARRY A MUSLIM OR YOU DIE." "PROSTITUTE!"
Why wasn't the father jailed? What is pathetic is how the Potter star, Afshan Azad, pleaded for leniency. How terrified she must be -- the pressure from family, from community, from the ummah, is crushing.
Brother of Harry Potter star jailed for attack after she met non-Muslim man (This is London)
The brother of a Harry Potter star was jailed for six months today for a "prolonged and nasty" attack in which she was beaten and branded a "slag" for dating a non-Muslim.
Afshan Azad, 21, who played Padma Patil, a classmate of the teenage wizard, in the blockbuster Hollywood films based on JK Rowling's children's books, feared for her life during the three-hour ordeal,Manchester Crown Court heard.
The young actress - now believed to be staying with friends inLondon - was punched, dragged around by her hair and strangled by her brother Ashraf Azad, 28, who threatened to kill her after he caught her talking on the phone to her Hindu boyfriend on May 21 last year, the court was told.
During the row at the family home in Longsight, Manchester, which also involved her mother and father, she was branded a "slag" and a "prostitute" and told: "Marry a Muslim or you die."
The actress had pleaded for leniency from the court, begging the judge not to jail her older brother.
But Judge Roger Thomas QC sent him to prison for six months after he pleaded guilty to the assault.
"This persistent attack was accompanied by serious and very hurtful abuse and threats," he told the defendant.
"It must have been a miserable and frightening experience for your sister which, she suggested, lasted for about three hours or so.
"The background to this offence lies in the concern that you, and perhaps other family members, had about Afshan's relationship with a young man who was not of the Islamic faith."
Judge Thomas added: "This is a sentence that is designed to punish you for what you did and also to send out a clear message to others that domestic violence involving circumstances such as have arisen here cannot be tolerated."
TURKEY, THE GLOBAL MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, AND THE GAZA FLOTILLA
Just released -- the comprehensive investigation by Steven Merley, former WSJ reporter, expert on the international Muslim Brotherhood in the genocidal Gaza "flotilla" ... Merley's report has a lot of new information on the in-depth involvement of the Muslim Brotherhood, the detailed role of the Turkish Government, the lack of any humanitarian aspect of the flotilla, etc. It is damning, and is more evidence of the genocidal aspirations implicit in the religious doctrine of Islamic antisemitism.
This was explicit act of war against the Jewish people.
Read the whole thing here: Download Turkey JCPA_NoPix_02 (4)
Jerusalem Center for Public affairs
Turkey, The Global
Muslim Brotherhood and The Gaza FloTilla
Steven G. Merley
This report presents the results of an investigation into the role played by the Global Muslim Brotherhood and its Turkish allies in the June 2009 Gaza flotilla which involved a violent altercation between passengers on one of the ships and Israeli naval forces.
Glossary
Global Muslim Brotherhood (GMB) – The global network of individuals and organizations that developed as Muslim Brotherhood members dispersed to other countries while fleeing the periodic crackdowns on the organization in Egypt.
Turkish Muslim Brotherhood Network (Turkish/MB Network) – The network of Turkish NGOs identified in this report which are allied with the Global Muslim Brotherhood.
Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) – The Turkish Islamist ruling political party led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Humanitarian Relief Foundation (İnsan Hak ve Hürriyetleri ve İnsani Yardım Vakfı, IHH) – A Turkish Islamic NGO active in various disaster and conflict zones around the world and part of the Turkish/MB network.
Organization of Human Rights and Solidarity for Oppressed People (MAZLUMDER) – Turkish Human Rights NGO and part of the Turkish/MB network.
Müstakil Sanayici ve İşadamları Derneği (MUSIAD) – Turkish Islamist businessman’s organization and part of the Turkish/MB network.
Türkiye Gönüllü Teşekkülleri Vakfı (TGTV) – An umbrella group founded to foster ties amongst Islamist NGOs in Turkey and part of the Turkish/MB network.
The Union of NGOs of the Islamic World (UNIW) – Founded by TGTV to coordinate Islamist NGOs on a global level and part of the Turkish/MB network.
Filistin Dayanışma Derneği (FIDDER) – Turkish Palestinian advocacy group and part of the Turkish/MB network.
Hikmet Bilim Dostluk ve Yardımlaşma Derneği (HIKMET) – Turkish member organization of the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe (FIOE)
Federation of Islamic Organizations In Europe (FIOE) – Umbrella group for the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe.
International Solidarity Movement (ISM) – Palestinian advocacy group comprised of Western citizens known for sponsoring protests in the Palestinian territories.
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Free Gaza Movement (FGM) – Western group that co-sponsored the flotilla and which emerged from the ISM.
World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) – Saudi religious youth organization close to the Global Muslim Brotherhood
International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) – Organization comprised of Muslim scholars headed by Global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi
Harakat al-Muqāwamat al-Islāmiyyah (Hamas) – Palestinian terror group that emerged from the Muslim Brotherhood.
Conclusions1. The Gaza Flotilla Was Supported by the Turkish Government
There is strong evidence for Turkish governmental involvement in the Gaza flotilla incident, including the office of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan. As this report demonstrates, Turkish government support for the flotilla was channeled through the Turkish Muslim Brotherhood network. It included the attendance of officials from Turkey’s ruling AKP party at many important Turkish/MB network events in support of the flotilla, a meeting by Erdogan himself with a delegation of Global Muslim Brotherhood and flotilla movement leaders from Britain and France shortly before the flotilla, and a message of support from Erdogan to an IUMS meeting held shortly after the flotilla incident. In addition, in a March 2010 speech, IHH leader Bulent Yildirim implied that the flotilla had official Turkish backing by incorrectly asserting that the flotilla as a whole was “sailing under the Turkish flag” and that Israel would never attack it since that would be ”the same as attacking a Turkish consulate.” Turkish government administrators facilitated the purchase of the lead ship, the Mavi Marmara, from the Istanbul municipality, which was controlled by the AKP, as well as its departure from Turkish ports.1 The Israeli Intelligence and Information Center has also reported the finding of a laptop computer aboard the Marmara containing the minutes of a meeting held by the flotilla organizers on May 16, 2010. The laptop document reportedly revealed claims by the IHH Vice-President, who chaired the meeting, that over the last few days the flotilla had received support from Erdogan and other ministers and that if the flotilla should run into difficulties, “gov[ernment] will extend what support they can.”
The support given by the Turkish government to the Gaza flotilla is not surprising, given the increasingly Islamist nature of AKP foreign and domestic policy in recent years. Recently disclosed U.S. State Department cables reveal concern over Turkey’s “new, highly activist foreign policy” ascribed in part to the influence of Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, said to be laboring under “neo-Ottoman fantasies” of regaining lost Muslim lands and avenging Muslim defeats. Like the Muslim Brotherhood, which envisions a restoration of Islamic rule, at an initial stage, in parts of Europe that were once under the banner of Islam, a participant at an AKP think tank meeting expressed the reportedly widespread belief that a neo-Ottoman Turkey would want to “take back Andalusia and avenge the defeat at the siege of Vienna in 1683.” The same cable also asserts that many in the AKP believe that it is Turkey’s role to spread Islam in Europe. The recently disclosed U.S. diplomatic material provides a context for understanding Erdogan’s ideological ties to the Global Muslim Brotherhood network, ties which this report has documented date back to Erdogan’s affiliation in the 1970s with the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), a Saudi Wahhabi charity with known connections to extremist and terrorist groups. It should further be noted that the Gaza flotilla was also supported by leaders of the Grand Union and Saadet parties who participated in Turkish/MB network events. State Department cables expressed the view that Erdogan was trying to avoid being “outflanked” on Israel by politicians from these other Islamist parties, providing additional insight into his support of the flotilla. It should also be noted that a personal representative of Erdogan was reported to have intervened with Egyptian authorities during the December 2009 Viva Palestina land convoy, which also included five AKP deputies and 200 Turkish citizens. In another speech during a convoy welcoming ceremony in the Syrian port city of Latakiyah, IHH leader Bulent Yildirim thanked both Bashar Assad and Erdogan for “their stances, the ongoing support to the Palestinian people and their efforts to end the siege on Gaza.”
2. IHH Was Not Acting Alone – The Role of the Global Muslim Brotherhood Network
The Gaza flotilla incident brought into sharp focus an even more significant long- term development: the growing relationship between the Erdogan government and the Global Muslim Brotherhood, which has given rise to some of the most notorious Islamist terrorist groups – from al-Qaeda to Hamas. Since 2006, Turkey has become a new center for the Global Muslim Brotherhood, while the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip acted as the main axis for this activity. The AKP allowed key elements of the Global Muslim Brotherhood, and above all the International Union of Muslim Scholars, led by Sheikh Youssef Qaradawi, to operate freely on Turkish territory, with its active support, as witnessed by the large number of conferences held recently in Istanbul and sponsored and/or attended by Global Muslim Brotherhood leaders. The cooperation between the Global Muslim Brotherhood and the Erdogan government appears to have been based on mutual interests. Erdogan and the AKP were able to indulge the “neo-Ottoman” goals of reasserting a sphere of influence in former Islamic areas, while at the same time outmaneuvering the other Islamist parties and, as a bonus, satisfying Erdogan’s reported hatred of Israel. For their part, the Global Muslim Brotherhood was able to begin operating out of a major state without any of the interference that it normally encountered elsewhere in the Arab world.
Erdogan chose not to rely on the official organs of the Turkish state alone, but rather on non-governmental organizations with which he and the AKP had close ties. Prominent among those Turkish NGOs was IHH which subsequently became the focus of attention in the aftermath of the flotilla. However, as this report demonstrates, the IHH was not acting alone but rather was an integral part of a Turkish Muslim Brotherhood network comprised of seven NGOs with strong links to each other, to the Global Muslim Brotherhood, and to the Turkish political establishment. Taken together, the network possesses a business, a charity, and legal, organizational, and Palestinian advocacy capacity; two of its most important leaders are Turks of Arab ethnic origin who are associated with European Muslim Brotherhood organizations.
The Turkish/MB network has been supported by nearly the whole of the Global Muslim Brotherhood, whose affiliates, from a number of Middle Eastern countries, provided passengers for the Mavi Marmara. In addition, the Global Muslim Brotherhood frequently held press conferences and demonstrations to demonize Israel, initiated legal actions against Israeli leaders, and delivered aid to those in conflict with Israel. The Turkish/MB network played a major role in supporting the Gaza flotilla prior to its launching through statements and press conferences, and one of its most important leaders, MAZLUMDER Chairman Ahmet Unsal, was on board the flotilla. In the aftermath of the flotilla, the Turkish/MB network continued its support in more official statements, and at a post-flotilla event in Kuwait, Turkish/MB network leader Gazi Misirli revealed that MUSIAD had played a major role in funding the flotilla by “coordinating” donations. In addition, the Turkish/MB network was in ongoing contact with Hamas leaders as well as with the Union of Good, the coalition of charities headed by Youssef Qaradawi that raises funds for Hamas. These conclusions raise three further important issues.
3. The Flotilla Was Not A Humanitarian Effort
Although IHH declared that the flotilla was humanitarian in nature, the history of IHH suggests that it is not only a humanitarian organization. Some of the IHH’s key founders fought in the 1990’s in the Mujahidin Brigade of the Bosnian Army along with many veterans of the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan. In addition, there have been multiple reports of terrorist/jihadist activity by IHH, including allegations that IHH was in possession of weapons and explosives, was recruiting soldiers for jihad and sending them into war zones such as Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Chechnya, and that calls had been made from IHH headquarters to an Al-Qaida guest house. The reports also say that during the 2003 Iraq war, IHH sent donations and aid to areas under insurgent control in Iraq, including to Fallujah in mid-2004, before US and British forces defeated a coalition there made up by Al-Qaida\Iraq and former Baathists at the end of the year. Finally a French magistrate testified in a US court that IHH played an important role in the 2000 Al-Qaida Millennium bomb plot targeting Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
In addition to these reported terrorist ties, this report demonstrates that IHH and the Turkish Muslim Brotherhood network had numerous contacts with Hamas and the Hamas government in Gaza including joint press conferences, delegations to Gaza, and telephone calls with Hamas leaders, including Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. IHH and its leaders met with senior Hamas activists including Hamas political leader Khaled Mashaal in Damascus, held joint press conferences with Hamas spokesmen, and attended a Hamas rally in Gaza. The Turkish/MB network also had a relationship with the ‘Union of Good’, a coalition of charities headed by Youssef Qaradawi raising money for Hamas and reported by the Israeli government to include IHH as a member organization. This relationship included hosting a Congress of the Union in Istanbul that included the IHH chairman as well as the reported transfer by IHH of tens of thousands of dollars to two Hamas charities associated with the Union. Both Israel and the US have designated the Union of Good as a terrorist organization.
Aside from these terrorist connections, this report demonstrates that IHH and the rest of the Turkish/MB network are in fact Islamist, politicized organizations. During the run-up to the Iraq war, IHH convened large anti-US rallies and during the 2004 fighting In Fallujah called for a boycott of US, British, and Israeli goods, claiming: “The United States has been committing a massacre in Fallujah, city of Iraq.” IHH also further organized in 2004 anti-Israeli and anti-US demonstrations in Istanbul, and by 2006 its website had shifted its focus largely to anti-Israeli reporting, Other NGOs in the network engaged in similar political activity. MAZLUMDER, the network’s legal component, also showed early signs of politicization, holding anti-US demonstrations during the Iraq war and joining IHH to protest a 2004 NATO summit. In 2005, MAZLUMDER began its own focus on anti-Israeli rhetoric.
4. The Intent of the Flotilla Was Breaking the Blockade and Delegitimizing Israel
The Israeli Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center has provided evidence that the violent altercation with Israeli forces was most likely planned by IHH in advance of the flotilla.2 If this is true, given that IHH was embedded in the Turkish/MB network that in turn was supported by both the Turkish government and the Global Muslim Brotherhood, it must have been clear to IHH and its leaders that a violent altercation would have repercussions for these partners. While it is beyond what can be proven with information available to the public, it is difficult to believe that IHH would have taken such a risk without the knowledge and assent of key players such as Youssef Qaradawi, the Turkish Prime Minister or his representatives, and/or Kuwaiti funders and flotilla participants.
Whether or not the violence was planned, this report demonstrates that the intent of the flotilla was breaking the Gaza blockade and delegitimizing Israel.
The choice of the Free Gaza Movement (FGM) as the flotilla’s Western partner is telling, in that FGM had grown out of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), known for its ties to Palestinian terrorist organizations as well as for sponsoring political protests in the West Bank and Gaza and welcoming any violence that occurred in consequence. The ISM was also known for encouraging its volunteers to compare Israel with the Nazis. This report demonstrates that the IHH has been acting in concert with the Turkish/ MB network and the Global Muslim Brotherhood in a massive effort to demonize and delegitimize Israel by leveling accusations of serious crimes, such as massacres and genocide and by invoking Nazi imagery such as concentration camps in connection with Israeli actions and policies. This effort included numerous conferences, press events, demonstrations, and other activities during which such charges were made.
At the 2008 Right of Return conference in Damascus, Hamas leader Mashaal raised the concept of sending a fleet of boats to Gaza in order to break the Israeli blockade, while a Western activist was reported to have brought a plan to open a ship line between Cyprus and Gaza that would “not only break the siege but also embarrass Israel on the side of democracy and human rights.” Erdogan himself met a group that included representatives of the European Campaign to End the Siege of Gaza (ECESG) in Istanbul on May 12, 2010 and told them, according to their account, that it was Turkey’s intention to end the Gaza blockade.
5. There Are Serious Implications from the Gaza Flotilla for Turkey’s Future Relations with the West
Whether or not the Turkish government was aware of any IHH advance plans for violence, there is no doubt that the effort by the Turkish/MB network was supported by that government, its leaders and representatives, and by other Islamist political parties. That Turkey and its government have become partners of the Global Muslim Brotherhood has implications for both Turkey and its Western allies, including NATO. Until recently, Turkey has been a vital lynchpin of the West as a whole and of NATO in particular. However, the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates are strongly anti-Western. This clearly emerges from Qaradawi’s own rhetoric, with his repeated references to the goal of Islamic domination of Europe. The IHH president, Bulent Yildirim, sees the Islamic world in direct conflict with the West, as well as with Russia, China, and India. How Turkey can maintain its traditional role as a Western ally while its political leadership is tying it to some of the most virulent anti-Western forces remains a difficult question.
Moreover, the historical precedents for partnerships of Middle Eastern governments with the Muslim Brotherhood are troubling for another reason. When Muslim Brotherhood ideologue Hassan Turabi was ruling the Sudan in the 1990s, the country became a haven for terrorists of all kinds including Osama bin Laden, who based his operation there until 1996. While Turkey has not yet progressed to this point, its support for a Hamas/ Muslim Brotherhood-related propaganda effort is not encouraging, and terrorism is not the only concern. Under the AKP government, Turkey has shown increasing signs of Islamization, a primary goal of the Global Muslim Brotherhood. With Saudi Arabia struggling to control its own export of Islamic fundamentalism and extremism, the possibility exists that Turkey could become another center for exporting such activities. Also, as a growing economic power, Turkey is in a position to become a financial supporter of the Global Muslim Brotherhood as well as providing a sanctuary for its anti-Western political activities.
6. How Could the Role of the Global Muslim Brotherhood Be So Overlooked?
The Global Muslim Brotherhood and its Turkish allies were able to play a major role in both the Gaza flotilla and in years of prior anti-Israel activity without this role being reported by the global media or other sources of public information. On the contrary, there does not appear to have been awareness in any quarter that the Global Muslim Brotherhood was active inside Turkey. Moreover, in recent years there has been a troubling trend in the West to present the Muslim Brotherhood as a more moderate Islamist alternative to al-Qaeda, without considering its true ideology and intentions. Since its early days in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood operated overtly as a social and religious organization engaged in charitable enterprises, but at the same time it had a covert side known as the “Secret Apparatus” that trained cadres in the use of weaponry and engaged in political assassination. This duality continues to the present day. This speaks well of the efforts by the Global Muslim Brotherhood to obscure both its nature and its activities, while casting doubt on the ability of the media or others to monitor and report on this activity. Israel, being perhaps the major current target of the Global Muslim Brotherhood, would be well advised to enhance its efforts to track the activities of the Global Muslim Brotherhood in both Turkey and other countries in the region.
BACKGROUND
On May 31 2010, Israeli naval forces were involved in a violent altercation with individuals aboard the MV Marmara, one of six ships in a Turkish flotilla attempting to run the Israeli blockade of Gaza. World attention in the wake of the incident was focused either on the group of Western activists known as the Free Gaza Movement (FGM) or on the IHH, the Turkish charity that owned and operated the Marmara. Yet neither the FGM nor the IHH, despite their respective ties to terrorist organizations, had the organizational, financial, media, or other capabilities sufficient to carry off an operation of such magnitude. This report demonstrates that those capabilities were provided by the Global Muslim Brotherhood and its network of Turkish allies.
The Global Muslim Brotherhood is a worldwide network of individuals and organizations that developed as Muslim Brotherhood members dispersed to other countries while fleeing the periodic crackdowns on the organization in Egypt. Many of these Muslim Brothers (Ikhwan) also settled in Europe and the United States where they went on to found what have become the some of the most prominent Islamic organizations in their new home countries. These organizations and their leaders have sought legitimacy while attempting to control the development of Islamic discourse and political activity in their respective countries, and they are associated with fundamentalism, anti- Semitism, and support for terrorism, particularly Palestinian terrorism. This network has become far more important to the Islamist movement worldwide than the Egyptian organization, which is largely confined to activities inside Egypt where its members are under constant government surveillance and control.
The single most important leader of the Global Muslim Brotherhood is Youssef Qaradawi, a Qatari cleric whose fatwas in support of suicide bombing were instrumental in the development of that terrorist tactic. He is known for fiercely anti-Western statements, including his comments about Islam returning to Europe as a “conqueror and victor,” albeit by means of ideology and preaching. Qaradawi is most vitriolic in his hatred for Israel and has called for the death of all Jews and the destruction of Israel. He is also known for many extremist statements on social issues, such as contemplating the
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killing of homosexuals and ruling that beating is “suitable” for some wives, and his views are pervasive throughout the Global Muslim Brotherhood. Qaradawi is head of the European Council for Fatwa and Research (ECFR), the theological body of the European Muslim Brotherhood and is also the leader of the Union of Good, a global coalition of charities raising funds for Hamas.The Turkish political establishment has had ties with the Global Muslim Brotherhood since at least the 1970’s when Prime Minister Erdogan was reported to have been associated with the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), a fundamentalist Saudi religious organization that has been accused of promoting extremism and supporting terrorism all over the world. Erdogan has since maintained his ties to the global Brotherhood as evidenced by his close relationships to Global Muslim Brotherhood leaders such as former Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Akef, Malaysian opposition politician Anwar Ibrahim, and Yassin Abdullah Qadi, a Saudi businessman blacklisted by the United Nations for funding terrorism and who had links with the US Muslim Brotherhood.
A Muslim Brotherhood spokesman has also said that the Brotherhood has maintained ties with the “Islamic movement” in Turkey since the days of Necmettin Erbakan’s early political parties, and the European Muslim Brotherhood has fused with Erbakan’s movement in Europe known as Millî Görüş. German Muslim Brotherhood leader Ibrahim El-Zayat is married to a member of the Erbakan family, and El-Zayat’s business partner is the Secretary-General of Millî Görüş in Germany. El-Zayat, formerly the head of WAMY in Western Europe, also runs Millis Gorus’ extensive portfolio of mosque properties throughout Europe as well as serving as a leader in the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe (FIOE), the umbrella group representing the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe.
Recently disclosed US State Department cables discuss what one of the cables called Turkey’s new, highly activist foreign policy” which this and other cables ascribe to the influence of Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who is said to be laboring under “neo-Ottoman fantasies” of regaining lost Muslim lands and avenging Muslim defeats. The cables also ascribed the new Turkish foreign policy to both domestic political considerations and to Erdogan’s personal hatred of Israel. Whatever the motivation, consistent with the ties between key Turkish politicians and the Global Muslim Brotherhood, Turkey under the AKP has pursued a foreign policy in line with the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, including moving closer to Iran and participating in the demonization of and attacks on Israel. Turkey under the AKP is also showing increasing signs of Islamization.
Individuals tied to the Global Muslim Brotherhood have participated in FGM flotillas since the founding of FGM, and important Brotherhood leaders were onboard the Gaza Flotilla, including the personal secretary of Youssef Qaradawi and the head of the Islamic Movement (Muslim Brotherhood) in Israel. Less well known are the European and Turkish groups that provided substantial support to the flotilla. This report focuses on what is called the Turkish/Muslim Brotherhood Network, comprised of seven Turkish NGOs with extensive links among themselves, to the Global Muslim Brotherhood, and to the Turkish government. Two of the most important leaders of this network are Turkish citizens of Arab origin who are also leaders within European Global Muslim Brotherhood organizations.
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TURKISH/MB NETWORK
1. MÜSIȦ D (Business)
T h e M ü s t a k i l S a n a y i c i v e I ş̇ a d a m l a r ı D e r n e ğ i ( M Ü S I Ȧ D ) w a s f o u n d e d i n 1 9 9 0 b y religiously-devout entrepreneurs with ties to Prime Minister Ozal or to the Islamist Necmettin Erbakan and as an alternative to TUSIAD, the organization representing the secular middle class. MÜSIȦ D fused a pro-business philosophy with an Islamic critique of capitalism, seeking to replace it with a system based on Islam. MÜSIȦ D is supported by Prime Minister Erdogan, is pro-Palestinian/anti-Israel, and has a strong relationship with the Middle East through its Foreign Relations division, at one time headed by Gazi Misirli, a Turk of Syrian origin who joined MÜSIȦ D in 1998. Mr. Misirli came to Turkey in either 1983 or 1987 and studied engineering at Istanbul University. He is a Trustee of the Europe Trust, an arm of the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe (FIOE), which has amassed a real-estate portfolio and uses part of the income to fund FIOE projects. All of the Trustees, including Ibrahim El-Zayat, are leaders in the European Muslim Brotherhood. Mr. Misirli appears to have close ties to Prime Minister Erdogan.
2. IHH (Charity)
The İnsan Hak ve Hürriyetleri ve İnsani Yardım Vakfı (known as IHH) was founded in 1995 by individuals operating amidst the Balkans conflict. The organization had shown ties to the Global Muslim Brotherhood as early as 1998 when police discovered links to a Muslim Brotherhood student organization as well as to the now defunct Islamist Refah party, and IHH also had received funds from a foundation headed by a US Muslim Brotherhood leader. IHH expanded its work to global disaster zones, and by 2002 was showing increasing politicization, such as fomenting anti-Western sentiment in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq War and orchestrating protests over Gaza in 2004. IHH is funded by “religious business men”, a likely reference to MÜSIȦ D, and is reported to be a member of the Union of Good. Many of the IHH Trustees have ties to the AKP, and its leader Bulent Yildirim is an attorney who also studied at Istanbul University.
3. MAZLUMDER (Legal)
MAZLUMDER was founded in 1991 as an alternative to the existing human rights organization, one that would be sensitive to the issue of the Islamic headscarf. The organization has branches all over Turkey and says it is associated with Islamist organizations tied to Hamas/Muslim Brotherhood, Iran, and the Jamaat-e-Islami of Pakistan. MAZLUMDER also showed early signs of politicization, holding anti-US demonstrations during the Iraq war and joining IHH to protest a 2004 NATO summit. In 2005, MAZLUMDER began focusing on anti-Israeli rhetoric and since 2006 has been headed by Ahmet Unsal, a former Lockheed engineer and Amnesty International board member. Mr. Unsal served as an AKP Member of Parliament from 2002 to 2007 and was the representative of Turkey to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. Currently, he is a member of the IHH board along with another MAZLUMDER board member who is also part of the AKP. Gazi Misirli is also a member of MAZLUMDER.
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BEN SMITH: DOPE
It takes a special kind of stupid to write uninformed crap like this. Leave it to an "insider" and self-inflated puffball to get this so completely and abysmally wrong. Did he bother to contact me and ask? Ha! Did he bother to contact CPAC? Ha ha! Did he read Atlas' numerous explanations as to why I hold these events at CPAC? Not a chance. He's a leftoid, he knows better.
CPAC is not holding this event. I am, with Spencer. Our dime, our film. I do this every year to inject some relevance and honesty about the jihad to clueless and compromised CPAC that is hugely attended by good Americans unaware that Keene and co. has sold them out.
Dept. of infiltrationOne of the strangest moments in this year's civil war over CPAC was the charge that it had fallen under the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood and of sharia, something rather convincingly rebutted by new of an event tited, "The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of the 9/11 Attacks."
Reports TPM:
The event is a movie premiere, hosted by mosque opposition leader Pamela Geller and her partner Robert Spencer. It will be followed by "a question and action and strategy session on how to stop the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero."
UPDATE: Benny updates: Infiltration, cont'd
Nevermind; the blogger Pamela Geller's screening of a film at CPAC doesn't mean she's not worried about the inflitration of the conservative gathering by the Muslim Brotherhood:
CPAC is not holding this event. I am, with [Robert] Spencer. Our dime, our film. I do this every year to inject some relevance and honesty about the jihad to clueless and compromised CPAC that is hugely attended by good Americans unaware that Keene and co. has sold them out.
Also:
It takes a special kind of stupid to write uninformed crap like this. Leave it to an "insider" and self-inflated puffball to get this so completely and abysmally wrong.
I've asked CPAC and Geller for a bit more detail on whether they approved her event or had anything to do with it, and will update when I get hear back.
UPDATE: Geller emails that she's renting a room that CPAC has reserved, but paying the Marriott, and did it without discussing the event with CPAC, which may or may not put it on their schedule.
ALSO: CPAC's Lisa De Pasquale describes the event as "independent."
To be clear, shruggers: There are fees to both CPAC and the Marriott. And while I have issues with CPAC, and I do, I commend Lisa De Pasquale for giving me the opportunity to hold the event at CPAC, which she has done every year despite my outspoken criticism.
DePasquale rocks.
GROUND ZERO MOSQUESTROSITY NEW IMAM ADHAMI: MOSES IS MUSLIM
NEW YORK: February 3rd, Protest the Ground Zero mosque at NYC Council hearings, 49-51 CHAMBERS STREET 12:45PM
WASHINGTON DC: February 11th, CPAC FOR DEBATE AND WORLD PREMIERE SCREENING OF AFDI/SIOA'S DOCUMENTARY: The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of the 911 Attacks 3pm Maryland Ballroom. R.S.V.P GROUNDZEROMOSQUE@AOL.COM
NEW YORK PREMIERE of FDI/SIOA film The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of the 911 Attacks in Manhattan at the St. Luke Theatre 7:30 pm. Refreshments and Q&A will follow.
More bridge building to islam and only Islam from the new and even more radical imam over at that proposed Ground Zero mosquestrocity on hallowed ground:
Muslims have "more of a right" than Jews to the biblical prophet Moses, declared the imam who has become the new face of the proposed Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero in New York City.Imam Abdallah Adhami also urged Muslims to "compete" with other religions.
"We must be doing it first, we must compete with you to be doing more of that. We want to fast Ashura too, because that's the day God saved Moses; that is certainly a day to be celebrated. We have more right to Moses," stated Adhami in a 2008 lecture obtained and reviewed by WND.
Ashura is an Islamic fast day that commemorates Muslim events, including the Islamic claim that Moses fasted on that day to express gratitude to God for liberating the Israelites from Egypt.
In his lecture, Adhami recounted the Islamic story of the Muslim figure Muhammad arriving in Medina, where he encountered Jews who fasted on Ashura and asked them why they were celebrating the holiday.
The Jewicidals over at the Jewish Forward, who somehow can reconcile the genocidal wishes and holocaust dreams of these Islamic supremacists while vilifying me, are saddened by Rauf's firing:
The Park51 Cordoba spokesman declined to make Adhami available. A phone message left with Gamal went unanswered. Rauf and Khan were said to be traveling and unavailable for comment.
Supporters of the project seemed taken aback by Park51’s sudden announcement. In a January 8 talk at the Society for the Advancement of Judaism, a synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Khan made no mention of the coming change.
Rauf and Khan had strong relationships with many local Jewish religious leaders. Still, some leading Jewish groups suggested that the center’s funders should be closely scrutinized, and the Anti-Defamation League called for the center to be relocated.
Several New York rabbis involved in interfaith affairs who had been supportive of Rauf and the Park51 project said that they did not know much about Adhami.
“I do not know him. I’ve heard some good things about him so far. We’re trying to figure out what his thoughts are,” said Rabbi Robert Kaplan, who heads the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York’s interfaith initiative. “It was not something we had any heads-up on.”
Indeed, Adhami appears to be something of an unknown quantity. Imam Shamsi Ali, the leader of the Islamic Cultural Center of New York, a large Upper East Side mosque, said that he knew Adhami, but that he wasn’t very familiar with him.
“I think his profile is as a scholar, which is not the same as imam,” said P. Adem Carroll, founder of the Muslim Consultative Network and a member of the Muslim American Civil Liberties Coalition. “I think he’s known as having a positive voice, and humanitarian approach to religious life.”
Carroll said that Adhami has cachet among younger Muslims. The imam is scheduled to appear at a February conference hosted by the Islamic Center at New York University.
The most vocal critics of the Park51 project, led by anti-Muslim blogger Pamela Geller, have mounted a sustained rhetorical assault on Rauf and Khan. Geller is claiming the shake-up at Park51 as a win for her cause. “We are declaring victory,” she wrote.
Now Geller and her allies are turning their fire against Adhami. They have zeroed in on his ties to Imam Siraj Wahhaj, a nationally prominent African-American Muslim leader from Brooklyn who has made a number of inflammatory remarks over the years.
A 2003 Wall Street Journal profile noted that Wahhaj had praised Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman while testifying as a character witness in the 1995 trial in which the Egyptian-born cleric was convicted of seditious conspiracy for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. And in a 2003 radio interview, Wahhaj bristled when asked whether he thought Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden were behind the September 11 terrorist attacks. “I’m not going to get into that,” he responded. “I’m saying that whoever did it is wrong — absolutely. I’m saying that the majority of people that I speak to are not convinced simply because the American government said this one did that and that one did that. I’m just not convinced.”
The website of an educational organization called Sakeenah, founded and chaired by Adhami, singles out Wahhaj for praise. “Siraj Wahhaj is the voice of the spirit of Islam in America and its pride,” the site says.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
MUSLIM LEADERS ATTACK THE POPE
Only in Islam ........ the world's leading Muslim leaders are breaking off talks with the Vatican because the Pope spoke about the onlaught of Islamic genocide against non-Muslims in Muslim countries. The horrible bloodthirsty mass murders of Christians in Nigeria, Egypt, andIraq go unpunished. And you are not allowed to speak of it; do not insult Islamic genocide!
The Muslim world has ethnically cleansed the whole of the Middle East; their annihilationist plans for the tiny Jewish state are made plain.
The Pope speaks out and Islamic leaders are insulted. Now that is rich. How dare we question Muslim mass murdering. And what does the non-Muslim world achieve in these bogus talks with Muslim leaders? These talks are a one-way street. It is a negotiation for surrender. Talk is one way in Islam -- their way.
MUSLIM LEADERS ATTACK THE POPE (hat tip Benedict)
The president of Al-Azhar, an Egyptian university, Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, along with the leading members of the Islamic Research Academy, announced today they are breaking off dialogue with the Vatican in response to Pope Benedict XVI's criticism of Muslim violence against Christians. After the suicide bombing of a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria that killed 23 people, the pope called attention to "non-Muslims being oppressed by Muslim states in the Middle East," and complained that not enough was being done by Muslim-run governments to protect Christians.
Sheikh Ahmed is now accusing the pope of interfering in an "internal affair," and is leading a boycott of future Catholic-Muslim dialogue. This follows an Arab leadership summit held yesterday that also denounced "foreign interference in Arab affairs." Already, the annual inter-religious meeting between the Vatican and Muslim leaders scheduled for next month has been called off.
Catholic League president Bill Donohue defended the pope today:
We are constantly being told that Islam is just like every other world religion—indeed, it is a religion of peace—and that while every religion has its share of crazies, most Muslims are no different than most Christians and Jews. Yet daily we read about unprovoked violence, or threats of it, against Christians and Jews, and just as often we read how it is justified by leading Muslims clerics in the name of their religion.
If a lone Christian zealot kills an abortionist, he gets zero support from Christian leaders. But when a Muslim woman decides to convert, there is no end to the number of Muslim leaders who say she should be put to death. If this is what the "religion of peace" believes, God help those who live under its more radical rulers.
The Muslim leaders also blasted the Holy Father again for his 2006 speech at Regensburg University. At that time, the pope warned against the evils of faith without reason, and reason without faith. The pope was right then, and he is right now. Indeed, these Muslims give expression to the former evil.
Jeff Field
Director of Communications
The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights
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