Friday, January 14, 2011

Compliments of the U.S. State Department: Muslim Rep to speak at Duke University


Farah Pandith, the U.S. State Department’s representative for Muslim communities


U.S. State Dept’s Muslim Rep to Speak to Islamists at Duke

Posted on January 14, 2011 by creeping sharia
DURHAM, N.C. — Farah Pandith, the U.S. State Department’s representative for Muslim communities, will give a lecture at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 18, in Duke’s Rubenstein Hall, Room 153.
A reception will begin at 4:15 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Pandith will discuss the challenges of engaging the Muslim world in the 21st century.
She was appointed by President Obama in June 2009 and also has served as the director for Middle East Regional Initiatives for the National Security Council and chief of staff for the Bureau for Asia and the Near East for the U.S. Agency for International Development.
The talk is sponsored by the American Grand Strategy Program, the Duke Islamic Studies Center, the Triangle Institute for Security Studies, Duke’s Center for Muslim Life, the Duke Muslim Student Association, the Office of Public Affairs and Government Relations, the A World Together initiative, and the Middle East Studies Center.
21st century, 20th century, 7th century – is there a difference?
The State Department is sending one of their Muslim reps to give a talk sponsored by a Muslim Brotherhood-founded group, the Muslim Student Association. Any surprise?
Established (by members of the Muslim Brotherhood) in January 1963 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the Muslim Students Association of the United States and Canada, or MSA (also known as MSA National) currently has chapters on nearly 600 college campuses (including more than 150 chapters affiliated with the national organization) across North America.
In its earliest days, MSA was financed largely by Saudi Arabia. In return, says a February 2008 New York Times piece, the organization’s leaders “pushed the kingdom’s puritan, Wahhabi strain of Islam.” In the 1960s and 70s, adds the Times piece, MSA chapters “advocated theological and political positions derived from radical Islamist organizations and would brook no criticism of Saudi Arabia.” From its inception, MSA had close links with the extremist Muslim World League, whose chapters’ websites have featured not only Osama bin Laden’s propaganda, but also publicity-recruiting campaigns for Wahhabi subversion of the Chechen struggle in Russia. According to author and Islam expert Stephen Schwartz, MSA is a key lobbying organization for the Wahhabi sect of Islam.
MSA was named in a May 1991 Muslim Brotherhood document — titled “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America” – as one of the Brotherhood’s 29 likeminded “organizations of our friends” that shared the common goal of destroying America and turning it into a Muslim nation. These “friends” were identified by the Brotherhood as groups that could help teach Muslims “that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands … so that … God’s religion [Islam] is made victorious over all other religions.”

CAIR: “Build a Wall of Resistance – “Don’t Talk to the FBI”

Posted on January 14, 2011 by creeping
The FBI is still getting punked by Islamist groups like CAIR, even though the FBI reportedly cut ties to CAIR after the Holy Land Foundation trial during which CAIR was linked to terror group Hamas. via Fox News:
The Council on American Islamic Relations said they will remove a poster from their website promoting an upcoming conference that encourages people not to talk to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The poster, which appeared on the website of CAIR’s California chapter, features a sinister looking FBI agent with the headlines, “Build a Wall of Resistance,” and “Don’t Talk to the FBI.”
“I think it’s subject to misinterpretation,” spokesman Ibrahim Hooper told Fox News Radio. “We decided out of extreme caution to take it down.”
An FBI spokesperson told Fox News Radio they were aware of the poster but would not comment.
Terror-linked CAIR’s Dougie Hooper tried to squirm out of it, but it’s just another instance in a long pattern of anti-law enforcement activities by Islamists in the U.S. (image from CAIR’s site here)


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