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Brotherhood U.S. Front Groups a Threat September 14, 2007 http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/09/muslim_brotherhood_front_groups.php Report: Muslim Brotherhood U.S. Front Groups a ThreatBy Jeffrey Imm
On September 10, Douglas Farah posted a CTB Blog report on a DOD memorandum "Analysis of Muslim Brotherhood's General Strategic Goals for North American Memorandum". The Washington Times is reporting on additional comments on the Muslim Brotherhood from a Pentagon Joint Staff analyst and this week's congressional hearings. The Washington Times reports that Pentagon Joint Staff analyst Stephen Caughlin issues a memorandum on September 7 that stated that the Muslim Brotherhood has a number of U.S. front groups posing as moderate organizations. Stephen Caughlin is a lawyer and military intelligence specialist on the Joint Staff. The Washington Times report states that documents from the Holy Land Foundation trial "reveal new security threats from a network of more than 29 U.S. Muslim groups", and quotes Mr. Caughlin as stating "[t]hese documents are beginning to define the structure and outline of domestic jihad threat entities, associated nongovernmental organizations and potential terrorist or insurgent support systems". The Washington Times report quotes Mr. Caughlin as stating that a 1991 Muslim Brotherhood memorandum "describes aspects of the global jihad's strategic information warfare campaign and indications of its structure, reach and activities", and identifies unindicted HLF trial co-conspirator Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) as part of the Muslim Brotherhood. Per
the Washington Times report, Muslim Brotherhood memo on organizing
Muslims in North America said that all members "must understand their
work in America is 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 believers so that it is eliminated
and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions." The
Washington Times quotes Mr. Caughlin's memorandum as stating that
"consequently, outreach strategies must be adjusted in the face of
credible information that seeming Islamic humanitarian or professional
nongovernmental organizations may be part of the global jihad with
potential for being part of the terrorist or insurgent support system." Regarding congressional hearings this week with top security
officials, the
Washington Times reports that Senator Joseph Lieberman asked about
operational efforts to counter Islamic extremism, quoting Senator
Lieberman as stating "[b]ecause this is a war, but it is ultimately a
war against, and with, an ideology that is inimical to our own values of
freedom and tolerance and diversity," "FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III revealed during the hearing that the FBI has no counterideology response other than its 'outreach' to Muslim-American communities so they 'understand the FBI' and address 'the radicalization issue,' he said. Asked whether the FBI has a responsibility to wage a battle of ideas within U.S. Muslim-American communities, Mr. Mueller said: 'You put that where I would say no, that it would not be our responsibility for any religion to engage in the war of ideas.' The FBI's responsibility, he said, is 'to explain that once one goes over the line and it becomes not a war of ideas but a criminal offense, this is what you can expect, and to elicit the support of those in whatever religious community to assist us in assuring that those who cross that line are appropriately investigated and convicted.' The comment shows that despite the creation of a dedicated FBI intelligence-gathering branch, the bureau remains limited to investigation and law enforcement."
The Washington Times also reported that: "Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff also said nothing is being done domestically to battle Islamist extremist ideas. The department's incident management team, he said, is focused on civil rights or civil liberties -- not fighting terrorists' ideology. "
September 14, 2007 - The Washington Times: "Jihadist Threat" - by Bill Gertz September 10, 2007 - U.S. Muslim Brotherhood Groups Called "Threat Organization" in DOD Memo -- CTB Blog -- by Douglas Farah
September 14, 2007 - Holy Land Foundation...A Thought Before Final
Arguments - CTB Blog - Dennis Lormel August 2, 2007 - The Muslim Brotherhood’s "Military Work" in the US - The Investigative Project
August 1, 2007 - The Smoking Gun on the Muslim Brotherhood's Agenda --
CTB Blog -- Douglas Farah August 28, 2007 - DOJ, ISNA & HLF -- CTB Blog -- Steven Emerson August 30, 2007 -- ISNA and Jihad: Why DOJ's Involvement in ISNA Conference Sends The Wrong Message -- CTB Blog -- Jeffrey Imm Islamism - Definition - Wikipedia 9/11 Commission Report: Cluster References to "Islamism" in U.S. Final Report of the 9/11 Commission September 11, 2007 - 9/11 and the Inconvenient Truths about Jihad and Islamism -- CTB Blog, Jeffrey Imm
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