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2010-04-10 Home Front: WoT

Muslim Brotherhood Working to Influence Republican Party

Republican Senate candidate in California Tom Campbell is the frontrunner in the nomination fight and his ties to radical Muslims, specifically Sami al-Arian, have become an issue, but the story is bigger. Campbell has surrounded himself with people tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, who recruited him for their political agenda in a campaign that ultimately reached the Bush White House.

In November 2001, a Brotherhood document called "The Project" from 1982 was found by Swiss police raiding the home of Youssef Nada, a Brotherhood leader thought to be financing terrorism. It detailed a sophisticated plan to incrementally bring Sharia Law to the world, including deep political influence operations in the democratic institutions of the West. The Muslim Brotherhood has been diligently following this plan ever since.

The story of the infiltration of the Republican Party should start with Sami al-Arian, a former University of South Florida professor now convicted of being a leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and admitted Muslim Brotherhood member. In 1997, his brother-in-law, Mazen al-Najjar, was held without bail based on classified evidence connecting him to terrorism after he appealed his deportation. Al-Arian began using his political connections to try to free his brother-in-law, arguing that his civil liberties were being violated. This effort ultimately failed, and al-Najjar was deported in 2002.

One of al-Arian's political allies was Suhail Khan, the Director of Policy and Press Secretary of Congressman Tom Campbell of California. Campbell introduced legislation to ban the use of secret evidence in immigration court, which would free al-Najjar. This was not merely a consequence of Campbell's legislation, it was the intent. Campbell wrote a letter defending the man and visited him in jail in May 2000.

Khan's father served as vice president of the Muslim Students Association and was in the leadership of the Islamic Society of North America, two Brotherhood-created groups. The mosque his father founded was later visited after he moved by Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the "Blind Sheikh" involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, where he preached violent jihad. In 1983, his father founded the Muslim Community Association, which was used by the Egyptian Islamic Jihad to fundraise twice, including one appearance by Ayman al-Zawahiri. His mother served on the board of the mosque and was also on the board of the California branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, whose founders are now known to be secret members of the Brotherhood's "Palestine Committee."

Lots more at the link, all of it chock full of useful details and connections.

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#1 Thomas J. "Tom" Campbell (born August 14, 1952) is a former congressman from California's 12th and 15th districts, a former professor at Stanford Law School, the former dean of the Haas School of Business, and a former professor of business administration at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently serving as a visiting professor at the Chapman University School of Law. He served as the Director of Finance for the State of California in 2004 and 2005, and he previously served five nonconsecutive terms in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican. He is currently running for the Class 3 Senate Seat held by Barbara Boxer, attempting to represent the Republican Party in the November 2010 election.

Egghead progressive professor? Islamic sympathies? California Director of Finance (not a howling success). Running against Barbara Boxer. Is there not a better candidate to run against Boxer? Seems like California is trading a pain-in-arse for a headache.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-04-10 10:41|| 2010-04-10 10:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Is there not a better candidate to run against Boxer?

Unfortunately, the best that California Republicans (a vanishing breed - I used to be one until my wife and I fled the state about 12 years ago) can come up with is either Campbell, a proven failure as a public official, or Carly Fiorina, a proven failure as a business executive. I can't remember which veteran Rantburger it was - but one of the Burg's old regulars had a REALLY adverse reaction to news that McCain was thinking of making Carly his VP pick. This 'Burger, an ex-HP employee and a firm conservative, stated flatly that if Carly was McCain's choice, he would march down to his local Obama campaign office the next morning and sign up a a volunteer.

On the bright side, Mickey Kaus has filed to run against Boxer in the Democrats' primary. He's well to my left politically, but he's not clinically insane about it. If he won (yeah, I know it's a long shot), I'd feel a little better about finally seeing a Dem Senator who's neither a machine crook nor a shrieking Marxist moonbat.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2010-04-10 13:24|| 2010-04-10 13:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Is there not a better candidate to run against Boxer?

Not really. Unlike the Democrats, the CA GOP doesn't have a deep bench of potential candidates, and is rather limited to certain parts of the state. It also doesn't help that they're run by an ineffective leadership that values name recognition and go-along-to-get-along.

Posted by Pappy 2010-04-10 18:32|| 2010-04-10 18:32|| Front Page Top

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