The Summit of All Fears

The four main Muslim advocacy groups in the US have just come out in favor of the ground zero mosque.  Do you know who these groups are and what they stand for?

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Sunday, Sept 20^th, in New York City the four largest American Muslim advocacy groups got together for a summit on Islamophobia, intolerance and anti-Muslim backlash in the wake of the ground zero mosque controversy.  The groups are: Islamic Society of North America, Islamic Circle of North America, the Muslim Alliance of North America and the Council on American-Islamic Relations.  Most Americans do not know who these groups are or what they advocate.  Maybe it is time to learn more.

    Established in 1981 the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) and created by the MSA (Muslim Student Association) the ISNA is funded by Saudi money and is the largest proponent of Wahhabi doctrine in the US.  One of the creators of the ISNA was Sami Al-Arian, now serving time for funneling money to jihadist groups, including Hamas.  The ISNA holds up to 80% of all mosque mortgages in the US, virtually assuring the  fundamental Wahhabi doctrine is the dominant narrative in these mosques.

Steve Emerson, founder of the Investigative Project on Terrorism says the ISNA “is a radical group hiding under a false veneer of moderation”.  The ISNA conventions have hosted fundamental Islamists who incite hatred and promote violence.  PLO official and  Al-Qaeda supporter Yusuf Al-Qaradhawi was an invited speaker and they have held fundraisers for jihadists in order to secure the release from jail Hamas leader Mousa Marzook. The ISNA also publishes a bi-monthly magazine called “Islamic Horizions” that often supports and champions fundamental Islamic doctrine.

The Islamic Circle of North America was founded in 1968 as a grass roots Muslim advocacy group.  In December 2009 at their annual convention (With the MAS, Muslim American Society) in Chicago the ICNA called for Islam to be “clean and clear of all extremism”.  The reality, as reported by Abe Foxman and the ADL was that the meeting provided support for anti-Israel and anti-American views.  Mr Foxman finished with “No legitimate blueprint for change can emerge from a convention permeated by messages conveying hatred of Jews, the denial of Israel's right to exist and the idea that the U.S. is at war with Islam."

   The ADL and other Islamic watchdog groups have been monitoring the ICNA for years.  According to Steven Emerson’s Investigative Project, at ICNA’s Annual Conference in 2001, ICNA president Zulfiqar Ali Shah led the crowd in a chant of “our way, our way, is jihad, jihad.”

   One of his predecessors as ICNA president, Muhammad Yunus, wrote in 1991 that “the ultimate purpose of Jihad is to establish an Islamic system of government…all over the world and to bring about a world Islamic revolution, because the message of Islam is for all mankind.” The Islamic Circle of North America has been named in "a list of our organizations and the organizations of our friends" by the Muslim Brotherhood, which is bent on waging "a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions."

The Muslim Alliance of North America is currently led by Ihsan Bagby, associate professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Kentucky and board member of both Council on American-Islamic Relations(CAIR) and the Islamic Society of North America.  As a devout Islamic fundamentalist Ihsan Bagby states, “Ultimately we [Muslims] can never be full citizens of this country [the U.S.], because there is no way we can be fully committed to the institutions and ideologies of this country.”

   Lastly there is CAIR.  An unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation money-for-Hamas trial their leader in 1998 said,  “Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran . . . should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth." 

  CAIR communications spokesman Ibrahim Hooper has stated, “I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.” 

   All four of these groups are on the Muslim Brotherhoods list of “friends” in the United States and all four have come out in united support for the ground zero mosque/community center.  Are we to hear a clear condemnation from imam Rauf and the proponents of the mosque of these groups or will there be, once again silence?

  I hear crickets.