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White House and Executive Agencies to Aid Muslim Brotherhood Fronts in tapping Federal Stimulus Grants
Christine Brim of the Center for Security Policy has a stunning example of stealth jihad in a dossier piece published today on Big Peace: "Coming August 31: 'Direct Access' Stimulus Grants for the Muslim Brotherhood". It involves the White House and Executive Agencies educating member organizations of the Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations (CCMO) many of them Muslim Brotherhood front groups, on how to access, on a fast track basis, Federal Stimulus money for 'social services' projects. Brim amply documents who are the leaders of the CCMO and many of these Muslim Brotherhood groups like the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR), and Muslim Political Action Committee (MPAC) who have been identified as unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation Trial convictions.Here is what Brim discloses:
Think of it as ACORN reborn, with a slice of Jihad on the side.
On August 31, this coming Tuesday, the Muslim Brotherhood-associated "Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations" (CCMO) will bring 25-30 Muslim leaders of 20 national Muslim groups to attend a special workshop presented by the White House and U.S. Government agencies (Agriculture, Education, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services etc.) to provide the groups "funding, government assistance and resources." The workshop will apparently provide special access for these Muslim Brotherhood organizations: the organizers pledge to provide "direct access" and "cut through red tape." Government and Muslim groups will hold an Iftar dinner (breaking the fast of Ramadan) after the workshop.
Brim cites email sent on Friday, August 27th by ISNA describes what the CCOM event is poised to do and who is involved:
This year, a phenomenal next step has been made where government iftars become coupled with workshops to provide resources and benefit the Muslim community. The US Department of Agriculture (DOA) and the Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations (CCMO) have paired the first of such events, scheduled for August 31, 2010.
...Leaders from Muslim organizations around the nation, particularly social service organizations, are invited to a workshop with representatives from the DOA, Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Health and Human Services, the White House, Department of Education, the Department of Homeland Security, and more. Twenty five to thirty Muslim leaders representing 20 Muslim organizations are expected to attend the workshop.
According to a representative of CCMO, this workshop is designed to clarify how Muslim nonprofits, mosques, Islamic centers, and social service organizations can strengthen their communities through more direct access to opportunities provided to social service agencies at the Federal level. "It will hopefully help cut through some of the red tape and shine light on the many opportunities for funding, government assistance, and resources that we just don't know about at the local level," said Elsanousi.
Whenever I see the White House Council of Faith Based and neighborhood partnerships involved, I immediately think of Dalia Mogahed, an Obama Muslim appointee and head of Muslim polling for the Gallup Organization. Mogahed is co-author of Who Speaks for Islam: What a billion Muslims Think? Is she the White House insider abetting this thinly disguised grant assistance program for Muslim brotherhood front groups? After all she has been overwhelmingly silent on application of Islamic Sharia law in America and elsewhere. For example, she did not respond to the Freedom Pledge letter sent her by Former Muslims United requesting her to abjure death fatwas against those who have chosen to leave Islam. Then, she was on a British television program with representatives of the extremist Islamic group Hizb ut Tahrir failing touting Sharia treatment of women. Could it be that she organized this event in consort with the CCMO inviting more than 20 American Muslim organizations to this Washington, DC conference on Tuesday, August 31st to instruct Muslim Brotherhood groups on how to help the Obama Administration by tapping into backlogged Stimulus funds? Is this a case of Muslim Executive Agency staffers assisting brothers in the ummah to engage in 'social agency' project funding?
I raise the question of whether this Federal inter agency project orchestrated by the Obama White House is effectively giving preferential treatment to Muslim groups in possible violation of the establishment clause of the First Amendment?
Brim in an email about this program noted a central concern:
This speaks to the intentions and connections of the Muslim federal employees who organized this event at the White House and Department of Agriculture - as well as those other agencies attending. It seems to me that this might violate separation of church and state, given how they seem to be preferencing one religion? And also the language in this email suggests that an interagency group of Muslim employees (the executive equivalent to the Congressional Muslim Staffers Association) is organizing these events, explicitly in partnership with CCMO. Does anyone know about such a group? There's nothing illegal about such a group existing as far as I know, but it would be typical Muslim Brotherhood tactics. Does any Congressional Committee have oversight responsibility or standing to ask questions about this event and the organizers?
After all, it is Ramadan. Muslims are obligated to perform acts of charity, Zakat. What better means of furthering "the way of Allah" then to tap into available Federal Stimulus funds? We note that one of the applications of Zakat is to support Jihad.
As Brim said, this amounts to a Muslim version of ACORN, 'with a slice of Jihad on the side'. Notwithstanding the Congressional Summer Recess, concerned members of Congress ought to seriously question the Obama White House on this misguided venture. When they come back after Labor Day they will have only a few weeks to do any business, prior to the Campaign recess in October. Perhaps White House Muslim aides knew that when ISNA sent out Friday's email to Muslim Brotherhood groups to attend the grant assistance program on Tuesday, the 31st.
Brim suggests a few things that might be done, given these disclosures:
One solution: Cancel this meeting, and schedule one for all religious organizations. If government grants are to be given to religious groups (a policy some question, but set that aside here), then all grant applicants of all religions, including Muslims should be treated equally. And if Muslim social service groups attend, they should be ones without ties to the Muslim Brotherhood or other Islamist groups dedicated to imposing Shariah law in the U.S.
An alternate solution: Keep the event as currently planned - apparently arranged and dominated by CCMO - but open it up to the media (including network, cable, radio, Big Peace, bloggers, etc.) as well as organizations with expertise on the Muslim Brotherhood, like the Investigative Project, the Middle East Forum, NEFA Foundation, Hudson Institute, the Center for Security Policy and many others. Let the sunshine in...
This White House CCMO orchestrated event will likely ensue, unless there is an immediate klieg light of disclosure prompted by Congressional and public outrage. Unfortunately, there is just too little time in the next 36 hours to crank up a campaign to oppose it.
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