Shhhh, Don’t Tell Anyone: Hamas Won

By Andrew C. McCarthy

….In its 25 years, Hamas has made good on its promise to kill. Yet Erdogan has been telling Obama since early 2009 that the United States must “redefine” what it means by “terror and terrorist organizations.” It is increasingly obvious that portraying Hamas as a “political party” and a “resistance movement,” rather than a terrorist organization, is one among the “wide range of issues” on which the president finds himself in agreement with the Turkish prime minister.

Yes, nominally, it is still a crime in the United States to provide material support to Hamas. But these days you have a better chance of being prosecuted under those immigration statutes the administration declines to enforce.

Hamas prosecutions went out with the 2008 Holy Land Foundation trial. Since then, the investigation of outfits proved by the Bush Justice Department to be cogs in the Muslim Brotherhood conspiracy to fund and otherwise encourage Hamas’s jihad against Israel have been dropped. Worse, some of those outfits, such as the Islamic Society of North America, are regular guests at the Obama White House. They are consulted in the formulation of Obama foreign policy, which — lo and behold — just happens to favor lavish financial and military support for the Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt. As for Obama national-security policy, Islamic-supremacists have been invited to censor the materials used to train our law-enforcement and intelligence agents.

Realistically, how could anyone expect the Obama Justice Department to prosecute the financial support of Hamas when the Obama administration is actively engaged in thefinancial support of Hamas — sluicing hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Gaza, fully aware that it is under Hamas’s totalitarian control. In this, too, Obama is in concord with Erdogan, whose regime has similarly backed Hamas with hundreds of millions of dollars — news that comes to us courtesy of Turkey’s grateful friends at the Union of Good.

Until 2009, U.S. policy was straightforward: Hamas was a terrorist organization and America would not deal with it unless and until it acknowledged Israel’s right to exist and convincingly renounced violence. All that has changed, though. Under Obama’s governance, Islamic-supremacists are bankrolled even as they act on their pledge to destroy Israel. Israel, in turn, is expected to apologize.

Our military’s killing of Osama bin Laden, complemented by the controversial drone campaign, has given President Obama cover. The occasional terrorist is taken out, the administration beats its chest, and few notice that al-Qaeda is resurgent, that the administration spends far more time appeasing Islamists than killing terrorists, and that Hamas has won.

Welcome to the next four years.

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Hamas: We are Not Terrorists; We Just Want to Destroy Israel

by Khaled Abu Toameh

Hamas leaders are working hard these days to have their movement removed from the U.S. State Department list for Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

The Hamas leaders are hoping to persuade a number of European Union countries to support their bid.

Hamas wants to be removed from the list without changing its strategy or charter, which call for jihad [holy war] and which do not recognize Israel’s right to exist.

Hamas is also not prepared to dismantle its armed group, Izaddin al-Kassam, as part of its effort to persuade the US and EU to drop it from the list of terrorist groups.

Nor is Hamas prepared to stop smuggling weapons or give up thousands of rockets and mortars that it possesses in various parts of the Gaza Strip.

And of course Hamas is not prepared to renounce violence in the context of its effort to seek legitimacy in the international community.

The Hamas initiative comes at a time when senior officials of the movement, including Khaled Mashaal, continue to talk about their dream of replacing Israel with an Islamic state. In addition, they are continuing to call on Palestinians to abide by the “armed resistance” as the only option for achieving their goal.

Ironically, the Hamas request to be removed from the list of terrorist groups coincides with reports about the Islamist movement’s involvement in terror activities in neighboring Egypt.

According to these reports, Hamas was behind the August 2012 killing of 16 Egyptian border guards in Sinai. Hamas has also dispatched thousands of its men to Cairo to protect Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi against his political opponents, the reports revealed.

Although Hamas has denied the reports, there are increased signs that the movement is cooperating with other Islamic fundamentalist groups in Sinai to turn the peninsula into a base for jihadists from different parts of the world. Some of these jihadists are believed to be linked to groups that are affiliated with Al-Qaeda.

Hamas claims that it has won the secret backing of a number of EU governments — a claim denied by the EU….

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Islamists Target Prosecutor in Holy Land Foundation Trial

by Pamela Geller

Islamic supremacists and their leftist lapdogs are targeting US attorneys and prosecutors who represent the people of this great nation in the prosecution of criminal offenses. They are being targeted, harassed and menaced for enforcing American law in American courts (as opposed to the sharia).

The Holy Land Foundation trial was the largest terrorist (Hamas) funding trial in our nation’s history. Zakat (islamic charity) was used to fund violence, supremacism, jihad.

It was an historic trial and succeeded in the prosecution of stealth jihadist in the United States. Hamas-CAIR and scores of other Muslim Brotherhood groups were named un-indicted co-conspirators and Muslim Brotherhood proxies.

So is not surprising that the Hamas-trained Muslim group, the violent “Students for Justice in Palestine,” protested against the US attorney who successfully prosecuted that case by disrupting and shutting down a lecture of his. So now it becomes crystal clear that any opposition to jihadi war, Islamic imperialism, Islamic supremacism, and the ruthless war on non-Muslims across the world is “racist” (Islam is not a race) and “islamophobic” (opposition to mass murder is not a phobia).

Click on the link to read one account.

Illinois Police: Terror Ties Cost Imam Chaplain Post

by STEVE EMERSON

Court papers filed in an Illinois federal civil lawsuit make it clear that a Hamas-supporting imam would have been a state police-sanctioned chaplain in 2010 if not for disclosures made by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT).

Attorneys for the Illinois State Police (ISP) have asked a federal judge to grant their clients’ motion for summary judgment, effectively ending a lawsuit brought by Imam Kifah Mustapha. Mustapha cleared an initial background check to the ISP’s first Muslim chaplain in late 2009.

In his application, he failed to disclose his work as fundraiser for the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. The foundation was convicted a year earlier of illegally routing millions of dollars to Hamas. The IPT reported on Mustapha’s documented connections to the Holy Land Foundation in January 2010, after he received a state identification card.

The ISP received an e-mail alerting it to the IPT report a day later, a legal memorandum filed with the motion Thursday said. The state police “were previously unaware of Plaintiff‟s association with HLF, as it was omitted from his resume,” the memo said. A second background check resulted in Mustapha’s invitation to be a chaplain rescinded. He sued, claiming violations of his 1^st and 14^th Amendment rights.

The suit should not be allowed to continue because Mustapha was never deprived of pay or benefits, something required by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which covers workplace discrimination, state lawyers wrote. In addition, Mustapha’s attorneys have not shown evidence of actual discrimination. All the pending chaplain candidates went through additional background screening, but they all were cleared.

Ahmed Rehab, head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) Chicago chapter, tried to deflect attention away from Mustapha, telling a television reporter that the state police were “kowtowing to articles online published by notorious anti-Muslims who have been in the business of smearing Muslim activists leaders and Imams for the longest time.”

But there’s a funny thing about court records. They show what they show no matter who finds them. When the state police looked, they found exactly what the IPT reported…..

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Obama’s ‘Friends of Hamas’?

By Frank Gaffney, Jr.

….Even more alarming, as Steven Emerson and John Rossomatndo make clear in a must-read analysis of John Brennan’s record published last week by the indispensable Investigative Project on Terrorism (http://www.investigativeproject.org/3902/obama-cia-nominee-john-brennan-wrong-for-the-job), the CIA Director-designate himself actually agreed to demands made in 2011 by CAIR and other Islamist and leftist groups to politicize the training of intelligence, law enforcement, homeland security and military personnel.  In a letter dated November 3rd of that year, Brennan promised that an interagency review and new guidelines would “address the valid concerns” raised by this insidious Red-Green axis.

Among other things, the guidelines promulgated under Brennan’s supervision required the purging of hundreds of documents and training materials from the files of the FBI and other agencies on the grounds that they might “offend” Muslims like the Islamists of CAIR and other friends of Hamas.  Experienced trainers like Major Stephen Coughlin – a former advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and one of the nation’s preeminent experts on the enemy threat doctrine of shariah – were barred from providing instruction at the CIA and elsewhere.  And “community partners” (read, senior officials of CAIR and other Muslim Brotherhood fronts who profess to be “leaders” of the Muslim-American community) are to be consulted before any trainers or training materials are used to prepare with federal funds to counter “violent extremism.”

Despite this record and myriad other examples of what is, at best, John Brennan’s willful blindness to the threat posed by Islamists and the jihad – both violent and previolent – in which shariah obliges them to engage, not a single member of the Senate Intelligence Committee used its hearing on his appointment last week to question the nominee on this score.  A second hearing on Tuesday, this one behind closed doors, offers another opportunity to do so.  Will it, too, be missed?

During the Cold War – our last epic struggle with a totalitarian ideology, it would have been unimaginable for individuals who were friends of the KGB, or associated with those who were, to have been nominated to lead the Pentagon or the CIA, let alone both.  As Congressman Trent Franks, a member of a courageous group Newt Gingrich has dubbed “the National Security Five,” said on the House floor last week:  “I believe the success of the [Muslim Brotherhood's] ‘stealth jihad’ has been significantly enhanced by remarks and public statements made by John Brennan over the past four years. He should, therefore, not be allowed anywhere near – let alone be given the responsibility for running– America’s premier intelligence agency.”  Amen.

Senator Jim Inhofe has said he will insist on there being sixty votes to confirm Chuck Hagel.  The same should apply to John Brennan and any other friend of Hamas. Because a true friend of Hamas is by definition an enemy of ours.

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