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2003-09-18 | |
EFL: The "moderate" image of some high-profile US Muslim groups continues to collapse as the Senate steps up hearings on Islamist terror networks inside the United States and as federal investigators find increasing alleged connections to terrorism. In recent days, former officials of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) have pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges. Now, the Wall Street Journal reports that senior figure in the American Muslim Council (AMC) - which an FBI spokesman had previously characterized as one of the most "mainstream" Muslim groups in the country - has been held since June as a major player in the financing of international terrorism. That senior terrorist figure is AMC advisory board member Soliman Biheiri, an Egyptian whom a federal prosecutor says "came here as the Muslim Brotherhood’s financial toehold in the US." The goal is to spread a global Islamic theocracy. The Muslim Brotherhood, according prosecutors, spawned both al Qaeda and Hamas.
They still think (publicly) that CAIR and AMC are "moderate" muslim groups they can work with. Both Rove and Norquist reportedly are behind an effort to pressure President Bush to slow down the war against the terrorists, called the "No More War in ’04" strategy. Humm, I haven’t seen any evidence of this, it may be a figment of the extreme far, far right’s imagination. | |
Posted by:Steve |
#1 From our distant vantage points it is difficult to verify that Rove and Norquist are playing footsie with the so-called Muslim moderates™. But it is a good thing that the Senate is doing something useful in this area and holding hearings on what is going on. The DOJ must keep the heat on this 5th column and needs all the help it can get to keep the mission going, for all of our safety. Religious freedom in the US is seen as a weakness to exploit by the Wahabbis and other nutcase groups. |
Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-9-18 10:22:41 AM |