My article from the Sept. 19, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine:
A fugitive Muslim Brotherhood leader and Clinton operative has been
arrested by Egyptian authorities in an ongoing roundup of seditious
Islamist militants.
The arrest of Gehad el-Haddad for inciting violence is a sobering
reminder not just of how close Hillary Clinton’s network is to the
brutal Muslim Brotherhood, the Left’s favorite Islamofascist cell, but
also of the extent to which Islamist enemies of the United States have
infiltrated the American political establishment.
And it is yet another vindication
for Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) who has been viciously
attacked by left-wingers and leaders of her own party for having the
courage to sound the alarm about radical Islam’s penetration of the U.S.
government.
A mere month after Haddad quit his Clinton Foundation job for
full-time employment with the Brotherhood a year ago, now-deposed
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi received an invitation to deliver a
major address at the Clinton Global Initiative, a high-profile project
of the foundation. Morsi calls Jews “bloodsuckers” and “the descendants
of apes and pigs.”
“It was only a matter of time before Gehad el-Haddad was arrested,”
said Eric Trager who was characterized by the Washington Free Beacon as
an Egypt expert.
“Many of the other Muslim Brotherhood spokesmen have been
apprehended, and in addition to decapitating the organization, the
military-backed government has been specifically targeting the
Brotherhood’s media wing, including by shutting down its TV stations at
the time of Morsi’s ouster on July 3.”
“It has also gone after those connected to Morsi’s presidential
office, and Gehad’s father is Morsi adviser and Muslim Brotherhood
Guidance Office member Essam el-Haddad,” said Trager, a fellow at the
Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
As the Washington Free Beacon
reports, Gehad el-Haddad’s tenure at the Clinton Foundation “overlapped
with his official work for the Muslim Brotherhood, which began in Cairo
in February 2011 when he assumed control of the Renaissance Project, a
Brotherhood-backed economic recovery program.”
Although the Renaissance Project has been described as a long-term
economic recovery program, Egyptian media say it is actually a program
designed to implement the radical Islamization of Egyptian society.
“Renaissance is far more than the electoral program of President
Mohamed Morsi or the Brotherhood’s political wing, the Freedom and
Justice Party,” the Egypt Independent
reported last year. “It is a 25-year project to reform state, business
and civil society, rooted in the Brotherhood’s Islamic values but
conditioned by the experiences of the project’s founders in the modern
economy.”
“You can’t come up with concrete solutions unless you have a compass
to tell you what’s right or wrong,” Haddad told the Egypt Independent.
“For us, that compass is Islam. We believe its mission is to change
people’s lives.”
It is unclear if Clinton Foundation donors are aware that their
donations have been used to train Islamic terrorists determined to snuff
out individual rights and civil society.
Those who support the Global War on Terror should bear in mind that
Haddad’s experience at the Clinton Foundation gave him the know-how to
help build the terror apparatus, police state, and other oppressive
institutions that would be required to turn Egypt into a totalitarian
theocracy, which is the Brotherhood’s goal.
The Clinton Foundation’s Climate Initiative, which he worked on in
Egypt, “taught Haddad about managing [a nongovernmental organization]
and the role that civil society takes between the state and private
sector, lessons he is applying to the Renaissance Project,” according to
the Egypt Independent.
Haddad “officially became a senior adviser for foreign affairs in
Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party in May 2011, when he was still
claiming to be employed by the Clinton Foundation,” the news website
reports.
In Egyptian media, Haddad was a frequent apologist for the
Brotherhood’s violent crackdowns on civil liberties in the Arab
republic. He put his spin doctoring skills to use last December to
downplay Brotherhood supporters’ attacks on women and children.
When pro-democracy protests swept Egypt on June 30, Hadded called the
demonstrators violent thugs. “The anti-Morsi camp are providing a
political endorsement to the violence,” he told the Washington Free
Beacon at that time. “Some have resorted to violence because they didn’t
do well at the ballot box.”
Evidence abounds of the Clinton political network’s close ties to totalitarian Islam.
While Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, Huma Abedin was her
Deputy Chief of Staff. The wife of disgraced former congressman Anthony
Weiner (D-N.Y.), Abedin worked from 1996 to 2003 at the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs
(JMMA), a journal of Islamic supremacism founded by al-Qaeda financier,
Abdullah Omar Naseef. At the same time Abedin also worked for Hillary
Clinton in different capacities.
Naseef hired Abedin’s father, the late Dr. Zyed Abedin, to oversee the JMMA in Saudi Arabia. As Andrew McCarthy notes:
“[t]he journal was operated under the management of the
World Assembly of Muslim Youth, a virulently anti-Semitic and
sharia-supremacist organization. When Dr. Abedin died, editorial control
of the journal passed to his wife, Dr. Saleha Mahmood Abedin — Huma’s
mother.”
Abedin’s mother was also active in the women’s division of the Muslim Brotherhood.
During Hillary Clinton’s tenure in the objectively pro-terrorist
Obama administration, the entry ban applying to Islamic scholar, stealth
jihadist, terrorism funder, and grandson of the founder of the Muslim
Brotherhood, Tariq Ramadan, was lifted.
Radical imam Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993
World Trade Center bombing, claimed to have ties to the Clinton
administration. “I had dinner with [then-] Secretary of State
[Madeleine] Albright — after the list” of unindicted co-conspirators was
released. Albright refused to comment. Wahhaj is also involved the
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which is the Muslim
Brotherhood’s front group in the U.S.
Abdurahman Alamoudi helped
President Clinton and the American Civil Liberties Union develop a
presidential document called “Religious Expression in Public School,”
which established a legal justification upon the ACLU could use to sue
public schools to force them to remove Nativity scenes and curtail
Christmas celebrations. Alamoudi is a former director of CAIR and
founder of CAIR ally, American Muslim Council.
Haddad, a top Brotherhood communications official and adviser to
Morsi when he was Egypt’s president, was “city director,” a senior
communications position, at Clinton’s charity, the former William J.
Clinton Foundation, from August 2007 to August 2012. As of 2008, the
Wahhabist kingdom of Saudi Arabia was one of the largest donors to the Clinton Foundation.
Incidentally, it needs to be noted that the Bill Clinton-founded
philanthropy may yet regret a name change earlier this year. After
Hillary Clinton left her Foggy Bottom perch behind, the foundation was renamed the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation so she could share in its glory, past and future.
Frank Gaffney has written a full-length pamphlet
for the David Horowitz Freedom Center about the Muslim Brotherhood’s
connections to Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration. After the
terrorist attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11 last
year, David Horowitz previewed the pamphlet, writing:
“If anyone needed evidence that Hillary Clinton is in the
pocket of the Muslim Brotherhood, the events of the last few days
should be more than sufficient. On the anniversary of 9/11, on what
should be a day of shame for the Muslim world, the US Embassy in Cairo
issued a statement condemning critics of Islamofascism in language
appropriate to the office of propaganda for the Muslim Brotherhood.
Islamofascists launched violent attacks on Americans, repeating the
outrages in miniature of the World Trade Center attacks 11 years ago. In
the face of these outrages the posture of the U.S. government is one
that would make Neville Chamberlain blush.”
It’s unlikely that Hillary Clinton will blush. After all, she’s shameless.
But then again, what difference does it make?