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ErikJ

(6,335 posts)
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 07:48 PM Apr 2013

New RW "outrage" story making the rounds. Any truth to it?

Got sent this by a T-Party type person today in a mass email. Would like to respond. I dont think it would be a bad idea even if it is true. We do need "insiders" helping us out with foreign policy it would seem.

Egyptian Magazine: Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrates Obama Administration

by John Rossomando • Jan 3, 2013 at 1:10 pm
An Egyptian magazine claims that six American Islamist activists who work with the Obama administration are Muslim Brotherhood operatives who enjoy strong influence over U.S. policy.

The Dec. 22 story published in Egypt's Rose El-Youssef magazine (read an IPT translation here) suggests the six turned the White House "from a position hostile to Islamic groups and organizations in the world to the largest and most important supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood."

The story is largely unsourced, but its publication is considered significant in raising the issue to Egyptian readers.

The six named people include: Arif Alikhan, assistant secretary of Homeland Security for policy development; Mohammed Elibiary, a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council; Rashad Hussain, the U.S. special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference; Salam al-Marayati, co-founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC); Imam Mohamed Magid, president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA); and Eboo Patel, a member of President Obama's Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships.

Alikhan is a founder of the World Islamic Organization, which the magazine identifies as a Brotherhood "subsidiary." It suggests that Alikhan was responsible for the "file of Islamic states" in the White House and that he provides the direct link between the Obama administration and the Arab Spring revolutions of 2011.

Elibiary, who has endorsed the ideas of radical Muslim Brotherhood luminary Sayyid Qutb, may have leaked secret materials contained in Department of Homeland Security databases, according to the magazine. He, however, denies having any connection with the Brotherhood.

Elibiary also played a role in defining the Obama administration's counterterrorism strategy, and the magazine asserts that Elibiary wrote the speech Obama gave when he told former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to leave power but offers no source or evidence for the claim.

According to Rose El-Youssef, Rashad Hussain maintained close ties with people and groups that it says comprise the Muslim Brotherhood network in America. This includes his participation in the June 2002 annual conference of the American Muslim Council, formerly headed by convicted terrorist financier Abdurahman Alamoudi.

He also participated in the organizing committee of the Critical Islamic Reflection along with important figures of the American Muslim Brotherhood such as Jamal Barzinji, Hisham al-Talib and Yaqub Mirza.

Regarding al-Marayati, who has been among the most influential Muslim American leaders in recent years, the magazine draws connections between MPAC in the international Muslim Brotherhood infrastructure.

Magid heads ISNA, which was founded by Brotherhood members, was appointed by Obama in 2011 as an adviser to the Department of Homeland Security. The magazine says that has also given speeches and conferences on American Middle East policy at the State Department and offered advice to the FBI.

Rose El-Youssef says Patel maintains a close relationship with Hani Ramadan, the grandson of Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna, and is a member of the Muslim Students Association, which it identifies as "a large Brotherhood organization."

http://www.investigativeproject.org/3869/egyptian-magazine-muslim-brotherhood-infiltrates

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upaloopa

(11,417 posts)
1. I stopped reading at "the story is largely unsourced"
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 07:55 PM
Apr 2013

Don't waste good time and band width with right wing crap

ZRT2209

(1,357 posts)
2. Good God these people have nothing better to do with their time
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 07:57 PM
Apr 2013

than spin more conspiracy theories...

 

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
3. Uh-oh. They're onto us. Better fire up the FEMA Camps- STAT!
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 07:57 PM
Apr 2013

Code: 27 Blue Monkeybutt!

This is not a drill...

Repeat, this is NOT a drill!

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
9. sounds like some shit from beforeitsnews.com or something
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 08:04 PM
Apr 2013

Oh, I see Rossomando is a Daily Caller shill...He's in a circle of hell lower than beforeitsnews or newsmax...

 

ErikJ

(6,335 posts)
13. I found this 2 year old Daily Kos article
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 08:25 PM
Apr 2013

SUN AUG 28, 2011 AT 12:39 PM PDT
Latest wingnut myth--Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated White House
byChristian Dem in NCFollow
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There's a new meme floating around the winghutosphere--the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood has burrowed its way into the White House.

The shocking charge was first leveled by Muslim reformer Tarek Fatah during a recent speech in Toronto.
"When someone says that there is penetration of jihadi Islamists within society, do not dismiss it as some right-wing, xenophobic, racist rant," warned Fatah, a Canadian journalist.

Fatah also named "Dalia Mogahed, who writes (Obama's) speeches, who comes from the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt; and another woman, an academic, (who) was appointed in that circle."

Fatah is supposedly on our side--he's a member of Canada's Liberal Party. And yet, he spewed this in perfect wingnut fashion--no evidence to support such a claim. Hmmm--could that be why most people dismiss it as "some right-wing, xenophobic, racist rant"? And so far, there doesn't appear to be any--a search for these people next to "Muslim Brotherhood" on Yahoo and Google only turns up wingnut sites regurgitating this stuff.

Fatah's claims seem to be backed up by John Guandolo, a former FBI agent who claims that the Muslim Brotherhood managed to penetrate the Obama campaign, and had its fingers pretty deep into the Clinton and Bush administrations as well.

But Guandolo has some pretty serious credibility issues. He claims to have been forced out of the FBI by a pro-Muslim Brotherhood leadership. In reality, he was forced to resign after being caught banging the government's star witness in the William Jefferson corruption trial.

If the wingers are already focusing on destroying Obama in 2012, they need to do a lot better than this.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
12. Sounds like they took the time to comb through all the names of people
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 08:15 PM
Apr 2013

holding positions and pull out some Muslim-y sounding ones.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
14. Wasn't Ali Kahn Rita Hayworth's husband at one time and the son of a Shia caliph?
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 08:30 PM
Apr 2013

Alikahn sounds like a really make up name.

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