Submitted by Jerry Gordon on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 13:23
Last weekend, the Obama White House rolled out a media blitz directed at members of the Muslim ummah both here, and in the Middle East. The elements of that orchestrated PR effort can now be seen in several actions. Those included the appointment of White House Deputy Counsel Rashad Hussain as special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Counterterrorism Advisor John Brennan’s speech at NYU Law School and President Obama’s opening remarks to the US - World Islamic Forum in Doha. In contrast Secretary of State Clinton pushed for support of sanctions against Iran’s pursuit of nuclear hegemony in the Middle East at the Doha conference.
This is a furtherance of Obama’s outreach to the Muslim ummah unveiled in speeches in Ankara and Cairo during his first year in office. This has been abetted by appointment of American Muslim staffers like Hussain and others at the White House, as well as ‘shadow warriors’ from the intelligence community like Brennan.
Obama Counterterrorism advisor John Brennan's speech last Saturday at NYU Law School under the dual sponsorship of the Muslim Brotherhood front, the ISNA and the Islamic Law Students Association is a furtherance of official dhimmitude in the Obama Administration begun under the prior Bush Administration. Brennan by the tenor of his NYU Law School speech- see here-is a member of what Ken Timmerman calls in his book, Shadow Warriors". The Shadow Warriors are members of the intelligence community who have fought against American national security during the Bush years. Among them are CIA veteran Brennan and former Acting Director of Central Intelligence, John McLaughlin, now ensconced in the Obama White House. In my view, they have been actively thwarting the war against Islamic terrorism.
On the same day as Brennan's NYU speech, Obama announced the appointment of Deputy White House Counsel, Rashad Hussain as Special Envoy with ambassadorial rank to the 56 Islamic nation OIC . The OIC's primary objective is world adoption of Sharia, strict Islamic law, directed at replacing the written and unwritten Constitutions of Western Democracies. White House Deputy Counsel Hussain's views, on Islam and Counterterrorism are reflective of the Muslim Brotherhood doctrine of stealth Jihad in the West. Now it is revealed that he espoused the innocence of convicted felon, Sami al Arian former University of South Florida computer science professor and financier of the terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Al Arian was caught on FBI wire taps in 1995 with ISNA senior official Louay Safi espousing anti-American Jihadism, see here.
Safi, who lectured to troops at Fort Hood, Texas, has now been suspended from a multi-million dollar Pentagon contract contract program to teach members of our Armed forces about Islam. Safi was only suspended because of Congressional complaints about his checkered career.
Another element in the White House media blitz of the Muslim ummah last weekend was dispatching Secretary of State Clinton to the US - World Islamic Forum in Doha to unveil the long overdue sanctions against Iran. Meanwhile the Mullahs in Tehran have imprisoned Iranian people protesting the rising military dictatorship. The Saudi representative at the US -World Islamic Forum in Doharefused to back demands by Secretary Clinton and the Obama Administration for tougher sanctions against Iran’s nuclear program.
Last Saturday's speech by Brennan, a graduate of Jesuit education at Fordham University, was laced with Arabic learned during his graduate stint at the American University in Cairo (AUC) in the 1970’s. He noted using this linguistic skill during his State Department and Intelligence postings to Saudi Arabia. Brennan is an obvious example of a traditional Arabist who has risen in the ranks of official government service to be the willing agent of President Obama's Muslim outreach both here and abroad. He has effectively limited the war against Islamic terrorism by focusing on 'extremist' al Qaeda in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen in a game of counterterrorism, 'whack a mole'.
Rabbi Jon Hausman is another AUC graduate, who also speaks fluent Egyptian dialect Arabic. The difference between Hausman and Brennan is that Hausman is well versed in the dark inner core of hatred for unbelievers (Brennan and us) in the Quranic Canon. Something that Brennan never addressed in his NYU Law School speech sponsored by the ISNA and the Islamic Law Students last Saturday.
No wonder there is a rising chorus among Congressional opponents of Obama Administration counterterrorism policy by such critics as Michigan Rep. Pete Hoekstra, Ranking Republican House Intelligence Committee Member, and South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham calling for removal of Brennan. Obama appeasement of the Muslim ummah should be viewed against the evidence of official lassitude by Brennan and others. Sic Transit Gloria Mundi dhimmitude in official Washington.
