From the time the Pilgrims arrived on American soil, faith in God played an important part in shaping our nation. Images of Moses adorn the Supreme Court in recognition of the Judeo-Christian origin of our laws. But it was Taxes, loss of Liberty and oppression from a mad king that led our Founding Fathers to write The Declaration of Independence and start The American Revolution. Today, those who stand for these ideals no longer call themselves The Silent Majority because we are silent no more.
Imagine if during World War II President Franklin Roosevelt appointed a member of the Nazi Party to be the head of the OSS? The OSS was the Office of Strategic Services, it was the United States intelligence agency formed during World War II. It was a predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The OSS was formed in order to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines for the branches of the United States Armed Forces. Would that have raised any eyebrows in the news media? Well, now suppose in the midst of our war against terror, the one-time Muslim, mentored by a Communist, Democrat Barack Hussein Obama nominated a Muslim to head the CIA? Nominated a Muslim to fight a war that was started by Muslims following the Muslim hijacking of four U.S. airliners who flew them on a religious suicide mission into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon. A war that has pitted us against radical Islamic groups such as al Qaida which was led by Osama bin Laden and the Taliban, both of which were created by The Muslim Brotherhood. A war that has cost us over 8,000 American lives which include almost 3,000 civilians killed on September 11, 2001 and the remainder in U.S. servicemen and women killed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Well, suppose no longer because that is exactly what is happening today. Now read the details from the Australian web site Winds of Jihad and The Investigative Project on Terrorism.
John Brennan, President Obama’s nominee for Director of the Central
Intelligence Agency, converted to Islam while working in Saudi Arabia,
states former FBI agent, John Guandolo. John Guandolo wrote the first
Muslim Brotherhood training manual for the FBI. Watch the detailed story
in this explosive interview.
Rasool Obama wants to make John Brennan director of the CIA.
Brennan
“marvelled at the majesty of the hajj and the holy two mosques” while
he was the station chief of the CIA in Soddy Barbaria.
This is the turd who told us that the Muslim Brotherhood is “largely
secular”, “jihad is a legitimate tenet of Islam”and the same Brennan
called for a stop to “Iran bashing.”
He has helped strip language about “radical Islam” and similar terms
from government vernacular, choosing instead to refer to “violent
extremism.” When it comes to jihad, he stubbornly maintains the word
does not belong in conversations about terror, no matter what the
terrorists themselves say.
Creeping Sharia asked this very question back in a February 2010 post. In that video, Brennan stated “Those Who Are Anti-Islam are a National Security Threat.” It has since been deleted from the web.
Yesterday, a former U.S. Marine and FBI agent confirmed on the trentovision radio/tv show that indeed John Brennan did convert to Islam. Watch to the end.
“Mr. Brennan did convert to Islam when he served in an official capacity on behalf of the United States in Saudi Arabia.”
Brennan’s Feb. 13, 2010 address to a meeting at the
Islamic Center at New York University, facilitated by the Islamic
Society of North America (ISNA), provided an insight into his views on
Islam, a faith which he said during the speech had “helped to shape my
own world view.”
Like the president during his childhood years in Jakarta, I came to
see Islam not how it is often misrepresented, but for what it is – how
it is practiced every day, by well over a billion Muslims worldwide, a faith of peace and tolerance and great diversity.”
Brennan Lets Radical Islamists Dictate Policy
During his time as a White House advisor, Brennan displayed a
disturbing tendency to engage with Islamist groups which often are
hostile to American anti-terrorism policies at home and abroad. Those
meetings confer legitimacy upon the groups as representatives of all
Muslim Americans, despite research indicating that the community is far too diverse to have anyone represent its concerns.
Organized by
the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the talk became an outlet
for Brennan’s argument that terrorists benefit from being identified by
religious terms, including “jihadist.” In doing so, Brennan waded into
theological revisionism by denying the Quranic foundation exists, even
though jihadists routinely cite chapter and verse.
“As Muslims you have seen a small fringe of fanatics who cloak
themselves in religion, try to distort your faith, though they are
clearly ignorant of the most fundamental teachings of Islam. Instead of
creating, they destroy – bombing mosques, schools and hospitals. They
are not jihadists, for jihad is a holy struggle, an effort to purify for
a legitimate purpose, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing holy or
pure or legitimate or Islamic about murdering innocent men, women and
children,” Brennan said. “We’re trying to be very careful and precise in
our use of language, because I think the language we use and the images
we project really do have resonance. It’s the reason why I don’t use
the term jihadist to refer to terrorists. It gives them the religious
legitimacy they so desperately seek, but I ain’t gonna give it to them.”
Like his positions on Iran and Hizballah, Brennan’s views about using
religious references like “jihad” have been uttered repeatedly and
consistently. “President Obama [does not] see this challenge as a fight
against jihadists. Describing terrorists in this way, using the
legitimate term ‘jihad,’ which means to purify oneself or to wage a holy
struggle for a moral goal, risks giving these murderers the religious
legitimacy they desperately seek but in no way deserve,” Brennan said in
an Aug. 6, 2009 speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
“Nor do we describe our enemy as ‘jihadists’ or ‘Islamists’ because
jihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenant of Islam, meaning to
purify oneself or one’s community, and there is nothing holy or
legitimate or Islamic about murdering innocent men, women and children,”
Brennan said.
Brennan’s interpretation of jihad stands in stark contrast with how
the term has been consistently understood, especially by the
intellectual founders of the global Islamist movement.
Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna, whose ideas have
influenced all subsequent Islamic extremists including Hamas and
Al-Qaida, rejected the definition of jihad that Brennan suggests is
correct.
In a pamphlet titled “Jihad,”
al-Banna wrote: “Many Muslims today mistakenly believe that fighting
the enemy is jihad asghar (a lesser jihad) and that fighting one’s ego
is jihad akbar (a greater jihad). The following narration [athar] is
quoted as proof: ‘We have returned from the lesser jihad to embark on
the greater jihad.’ They said: ‘What is the greater jihad?’ He said:
‘The jihad of the heart, or the jihad against one’s ego. This narration
is used by some to lessen the importance of fighting, to discourage any
preparation for combat, and to deter any offering of jihad in Allah’s
way. This narration is not a saheeh (sound) tradition …”
Sayyid Qutb, al-Banna’s successor in defining Islamist thought,
clearly endorsed the idea of violent jihad, suggesting that it should
not be fought merely in a defensive manner.
“Anyone who understands this particular character of this religion
will also understand the place of Jihaad bis saif (striving through
fighting), which is to clear the way for striving through preaching in
the application of the Islamic movement. He will understand that Islam
is not a ‘defensive movement’ in the narrow sense which today is
technically called a ‘defensive war.’ This narrow meaning is ascribed to
it by those who are under the pressure of circumstances and are
defeated by the wily attacks of the orientalists, who distort the
concept of Islamic Jihaad,” Qutb wrote in his book Milestones.
“It was a movement to wipe out tyranny and to introduce true freedom to
mankind, using resources according to the actual human situation, and
it had definite stages, for each of which it utilized new methods.”
Even Brennan’s NYU host advocated violent jihad. A December 1986 article appearing in ISNA’s official magazine Islamic Horizons
notes that “jihad of the sword is the actual taking up of arms against
the evil situation with the intention of changing it,” that “anyone
killed in jihad is rewarded with Paradise,” and that “a believer who
participates in jihad is superior to a believer who does not.”
Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, the senior Muslim Brotherhood imam who the Obama administration reportedly has used in its negotiations with the Taliban, connects jihad with fighting in his book Fiqh of Jihad.
In it, he says that Muslims may engage in violent jihad in the event
Muslim lands are threatened by or occupied by non-Muslims as he contends
is the case with Israel.
These Brotherhood treatises are relevant because Brennan’s host,
ISNA, was founded by Muslim Brotherhood members in the United States,
some of whom remain active with the organization. And, although it denied any Brotherhood connection in 2007, exhibits in evidence in a Hamas-support trial show ISNA’s “intimate relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood.” In addition, the federal judge in the case found “ample evidence”
connecting ISNA to Muslim Brotherhood operations known as the Holy Land
Foundation, the Islamic Association for Palestine and Hamas.
ISNA has sought to publicly moderate its image, yet it has kept radicals such as Jamal Badawi on its board of directors and granted a 2008 community-service award to Jamal Barzinji, a founding father of the Muslim Brotherhood in America, as well as a former ISNA board member.
Badawi has defended violent jihad including suicide bombings and has suggested that Islam is superior to secular democracy. Barzinji was named in a federal affidavit as being closely associated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas.
At the NYU event, Brennan was introduced by then-ISNA President Ingrid Mattson, who made Qutb’s writings required reading in a course she taught. Mattson has advocated
against using terms like “Islamic terrorism” since the earliest days
after 9/11. During his speech, Brennan praised Mattson as “an academic
whose research continues the rich tradition of Islamic scholarship and
as the President of the Islamic Society of North America, where you have
been a voice for the tolerance and diversity that defines Islam.”
Brennan met privately around the time of the NYU speech with another
advocate of ignoring the Islamic motivation driving many terrorists.
Both Salam al-Marayati and his organization, the Muslim Public Affairs
Council (MPAC) have long records of defending suspected terrorists and terror supporters and of arguing the terrorist threat in America is exaggerated.
During a 2005 ISNA conference, al-Marayati blasted the idea that
Muslims would be used as informants to thwart possible terrorist plots.
“Counter-terrorism and counter-violence should be defined by us. We
should define how an effective counter-terrorism policy should be
pursued in this country,” he said. “So, number one, we reject any
effort, notion, suggestion that Muslims should start spying on one
another.”
The White House invited
al-Marayati to attend the NYU speech despite his prior comments
suggesting Israel was responsible for the 9/11 attacks, condemning the
FBI’s use of informants in counter-terror investigations, and his argument that Hizballah engages in “legitimate resistance.”
After the meeting, MPAC claimed credit for the administration’s
policy of sugar-coating terrorist motives. “Mr. Brennan made two
important points in his address that signified the importance of MPAC’s
government engagement over the last 15 years in Washington,” an MPAC
statement said. Among them, “He rejected the label of ‘jihadist’ to
describe terrorists, because it legitimates violent extremism with
religious validation, a point MPAC made in its 2003 policy paper on
counterterrorism.”
Terrorists Disagree
While Brennan and his associates like Mattson and al-Marayati may
wish to disconnect terrorism from religion, this strategy has proven
meaningless among those who plot attacks against Americans. Many
describe acting out of a belief that America is at war with Islam.
Asserting that religious motivation doesn’t exist does nothing to lessen
the threat.
When Army Pvt. Naser Jason Abdo’s mother asked her son what would
drive him to plot a bombing and shooting attack on a restaurant that
serves personnel at Fort Hood, Tex., his answer was succinct.
End note: In the wartime annals of American history, putting a Muslim in charge of the CIA is not the first time American soldiers have fought a battle with an enemy who had one of their own running the show. The Korean War was fought by American troops fighting under the flag of the United Nations. While communist North Korea was being aided by communist China and the Soviet Union, the United Nations office of Under-Secretary-General for Political and Security Council Affairs was coordinating all of our U.S. Military troop movements.
For decades, since the founding charter of the U.N. was written, only Communist leaders would be appointed to fill the UN's highest military post, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Security Council Affairs. Fourteen of the fifteen men who held this vital post up until 1995 (and probably into the new century) represented the USSR. The one exception was Dragoslav Protitich, a Communist from Yugoslavia. So when American soldiers fought Communism in Korea and Vietnam in partnership with the UN, the top UN military leaders were Communists. No wonder American soldier fought two futile and deadly wars.**
Since the founding of the U.N. in 1945, when delegates from 50 countries met in San Francisco to sign the UN Charter, U.S. State Department employee and Communist spy, Alger Hiss, co-authored that founding charter and served as the first acting UN Secretary-General.**
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