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To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (817)	1/3/2013 7:02:58 PM
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CAIR demands media drop term “Islamist” Legal Insurrection ^ \| 3 January 13 \| Anne Sorock

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (817)	1/3/2013 7:15:57 PM
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Egyptian Magazine: Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrates Obama Administration by John Rossomando • Jan 3, 2013 investigativeproject.org 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 Tariq 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."

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (817)	1/4/2013 11:04:43 AM
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Republican Collaborationists GO TO HELL Reaganite Republican ^ \| 04 January 2013

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (817)

1/4/2013 11:09:38 AM

From: joseffy

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Why NOT questioning Hillary Clinton’s illness is media malpractice

by Marinka Peschmann Friday, January 4, 2013
canadafreepress.com

Some media outlets such as the New York Post, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Infowars, and Republicans are under fire and criticism from outlets like Huffingtonpost, The Daily Beast, Seattle Times, The Week, Politico, Media Matters, the Los Angeles Times, MSNBC, BuzzFeed, Atlantic Wire and the DailyDownload for questioning the veracity of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s illness. But the real question is—how can they not question Hillary’s truth-telling?

It is absolutely awful when one cannot take a government official’s word at face value but that is the world we live in today. If Hillary had not told so many falsehoods in the past there would be no reason to question her honesty today.

That includes lying to investigators. Remember Travelgate?

From The Fix is in Part II: Hillary’s Benghazi Coverup and The Whistleblower:

Seven years after the firings Special Prosecutor Robert Ray (who succeeded Ken Starr in the Office of the Independent Counsel), concluded in his final report that Hillary Clinton’s sworn testimony was “factually inaccurate.” “The overwhelming evidence establishes that she played a role in the decision to fire the employees. ... Thus, her statement to the contrary under oath was factually false.”

Seven years later, the public had tuned out. Ten years later, the Clintons re-wrote the facts about Travelgate in their respective memoirs absolving Hillary of any wrongdoing or of telling falsehoods to investigators—a prosecutable offense.

After Ray’s report on Travelgate was released, Dale said, “Everyone, especially Robert Ray, knows Hillary Clinton lied under oath about her role. It is disappointing that the Office of Independent Counsel ... would not prosecute her simply because of a fear of what a Washington, D.C., jury might do.”

If your or I did what Hillary did we would have been charged with perjury.

The truth is not left or right. It is right and wrong. A liar and a hypocrite, be it in the Democrat or Republican party, is still a liar and a hypocrite—just like corruption, whether it appears on the Right or the Left of the political spectrum is still corruption. The media should be speaking truth to power instead of attacking each other.

Wishing Hillary Clinton a speedy recovery and looking forward to her telling the truth again.

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (817)	1/4/2013 3:34:01 PM
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STRATFOR scoop: Iranian Al Qods Force head met with Egyptian President Morsi Aides and Muslim Brotherhood Leaders newenglishreview ^ 03JAN12 \| by Jerry Gordon STRATFOR had this scoop posted on its website today, “Egypt: Sources Say Presidency Consulted with Iranian Military Official on Security:” Essam al-Haddad, a foreign relations aide for Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, met Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani in Cairo from Dec. 26-30 to discuss Suleimani's expertise in exercising control over state security, unnamed sources said, Dr. Jacques Neriah, reported Jan. 3. Muslim Brotherhood leaders arranged the visit, angering Egypt's Interior Ministry, sources said. Clare Lopez, Senior Fellow at the Washington, DC – based Center for Security Policy commented: STRATFOR earns kudos for this scoop about the recent visit to Egypt by Iranian Qods Force commander Qassem Suleimani but evidently missed its true significance. Suleimani has no direct responsibility for 'state security' inside Iran but he does hold the portfolio for external liaison relationships with Iran's jihadist partners: al-Qa'eda, HAMAS, Hizballah, the Taliban -- and now, it appears, the Muslim Brotherhood. Suleimani's discussions with Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood representatives signal the revival of historically close relations between these two pan-Islamic jihadist organizations: the Khomeinist regime that has ruled Iran for 33 years and the Muslim Brotherhood that has now seized power in Egypt. The ideology of both prioritizes Islamic unity for the sake of jihad against Christians, Jews, and all not yet subjugated to Islamic Law. This is an alarming development that should sound a tocsin across the region as well as the West and especially in Washington, D.C. The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has had a role in protecting Egypt’s over 2.2 million Shia minorities, in part because of their shared pan-Islamist doctrine. Note this comment from a Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs article on Egypt’s Shia minority by IDF res. Col. Dr. Jacques Neriah, “Egypt’s Shiite Minority: Between the Egyptian Hammer and the Iranian Anvil:” While some 90 percent of Egyptians are Sunni Muslims, the number of Shia in Egypt has been estimated at up to 2.2 million, including “Twelvers” and Ismailis. A Shiite dynasty, the Fatimids, conquered Egypt in 969 and ruled the country for 200 years. [. . .] The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s leadership has consistently sought to avoid entanglement in the Sunni-Shia controversy and has downplayed Shiite efforts to convert Sunnis as marginal. They have further claimed that Sunni-Shia strife has been instigated by the U.S. as a way of dividing Muslims. The Sunni and Shia, they argue, comprise one Muslim nation that must unite in order to confront “the American Zionist project that seeks to eradicate Islam.” The standard Muslim Brotherhood position has been that the Shia are Muslims for all intents and purposes, and that the differences between Sunni and Shia pertain to matters of jurisprudence that are of secondary importance, not to principles of faith. But this general formula became insufficient in view of the Shiite conversion debate and virulent attacks on Shiite beliefs and practices. Historically, as the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has downplayed religious differences between Shia and Sunni, they have argued that Twelver Shiism should be recognized as an acceptably orthodox school of Islamic jurisprudence. Thus, the Brotherhood effectively serves as a counterbalance to the Wahhabi/Salafi-led campaign to vilify Shiism. In this way, the Brotherhood’s ecumenical approach has helped make Sunni society increasingly more open to Shiite religious proselytizing. Lopez commented to this author that a 1958 Al -Azhar fatwa held Shi'a Islam was as valid for a Muslim to follow as Sunni. Moreover, the Iranian Islamic Republic Constitution recognized the FourSchools of Sunni Jursipurdence (Fiqh); Hanafi, Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali. Thus, pan-Islamism trumps the alleged Sunni Shia divide. Moreover, despite the contretemps exhibited over Syria by Morsi at the Non –Aligned Movement Summit in Tehran in August 2012, Morsi and Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood have aligned themselves with the Shia Mahdists in opposition to the US and the West. This looks like another ‘foreign policy success’ by the Obama Administration inadvertently forging a unified Jihadist Middle East following the fundamentalist uprisings across the region in the Arab Winter.