My article from the Sept. 20, 2013 issue FrontPage Magazine:
A
government watchdog’s new report takes the FBI to task for violating its
own policies by continuing to work with the Muslim Brotherhood’s front
group in the United States, the Council on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR).
The report came as CAIR issued a new report denouncing
the so-called “Islamophobia” of the Fox News Channel, Rush Limbaugh,
Mark Levin, David the Horowitz Freedom Center, and others who dare to
engage in an honest discussion of Islam and the politics surrounding it.
Islamophobia is a concept invented to intimidate critics of
Islam and Islamic jihad by implying that any and all criticism of the
Muslim religion is animated by bigotry or ethnic animus. CAIR has urged
Muslims not to cooperate with the FBI, which it characterizes as
corrupt.
The report from the Justice Department’s inspector general faults FBI
headquarters for repeatedly providing its field offices with
conflicting information and pinpoints five examples in which FBI field
office special agents-in-charge ignored or deliberately defied FBI
policy.
Five years ago the FBI was directed to end its working partnership
with CAIR that was part of the agency’s gooey, politically correct
public relations effort in Muslim communities in the United States.
The
ban on contact with CAIR applies only to outreach efforts. The FBI
continues its normal investigatory work, looking into criminal and civil
rights complaints involving Muslims and working with any organizations
to which they may belong.
FBI field office resistance to the policy goes back to late 2008.
“[W]e will decide how our relationship is operated and maintained
with CAIR barring some additional instruction from FBI Headquarters,”
wrote the head of the FBI’s field office in Los Angeles. “Please
instruct your folks at this time that [we] are not to abide by the …
[policy] but that their direction in regards to CAIR will come from the
LA Field Office front office.”
Congressman Frank Wolf (R-Va.). blasted the FBI for its behavior.
These violations of the contact ban with CAIR are “intolerable,” Wolf
wrote in a letter to new FBI Director James Comey. He demanded that
those responsible be punished and be “separat[ed] from the FBI,” the
Investigative Project on Terrorism reports.
When Wolf howls, the FBI listens. He chairs the House Appropriations
Committee’s subcommittee in charge of the FBI’s budget. The
investigation looked only at incidents in the FBI’s field offices in
Chicago, Philadelphia and New Haven, Conn., in 2010, 2011, and 2012, so
there may be many more that have yet to be uncovered.
Referring to the Los Angeles incident, Wolf criticized the
“unacceptable and insubordinate behavior from a senior leader of the
FBI.”
“Despite repeated efforts to communicate the policy to the field,” he
wrote, “this was undermined by conflicting guidance being inexplicably
offered by the bureau’s Office of Public Affairs as well as outright
violations from several field offices.”
The damning report was posted on the website of the Office of the
Inspector General for the Department of Justice yesterday and then
abruptly taken down. Sources say the OIG’s office said there was a
technical problem. A few hours later, the report itself and an executive summary resurfaced on the DoJ Inspector General’s website.
While the FBI downplayed the findings of the report in its official
reply to the OIG, the agency acknowledged its offices made mistakes and
promised to do better.
“We note that the five incidents you reviewed are but a small
fraction of the FBI’s outreach efforts with the Muslim community over
the past five years,” Nancy McNamara, assistant director of the FBI’s
inspection division, wrote in a Sept. 17 letter to DoJ Inspector General
Michael E. Horowitz that was obtained by FrontPage Magazine.
“Outreach to the Muslim community remains critical to the FBI’s
mission,” McNamara writes. “Accordingly, we will ensure our guidance on
CAIR liaison is quickly updated and clarified. In that regard, the FBI
agrees with your recommendations and has already taken steps to
implement remedial actions.”
CAIR has been a shady operation from its creation nearly 20 years ago.
CAIR, a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity, is the Islamofascist
organization in the United States most favored by leftists, Islamist
fellow-travelers, dupes, and useful idiots. It has enjoyed remarkable
success in infiltrating the American political establishment.
CAIR applauded CIA director John Brennan and President Obama for
following its recommendations by avoiding the perfectly useful word Islamist. “Islamist is a stealth slur,” according to CAIR. “It exists as a piece of coded language.”
CAIR poses as a civil rights organization in order to immunize itself
from criticism. “We are similar to a Muslim NAACP,” says CAIR spokesman
Ibrahim Hooper.
On more than one occasion CAIR has been compared to the German American Bund,
a U.S.-based organization created to promote a favorable view of Nazi
Germany. The Bund, like CAIR, was created with the assistance of
unfriendly foreign powers.
CAIR was founded
in 1994 by Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmad, both of whom worked for a
pro-Palestine group established by senior Hamas operative Mousa Abu
Marzook, and functioned as Hamas’ public relations and recruitment arm
in the United States.
“[U]ntil we can resolve whether there continues to be a connection
between CAIR or its executives and HAMAS,” wrote an FBI official in
2009, “the FBI does not view CAIR as an appropriate liaison partner.”
This latest development in the CAIR saga comes after a senior Muslim
Brotherhood official who is also a member of the Clinton family’s
political network was arrested
in Egypt in an ongoing roundup of seditious Islamist militants. Charged
with inciting violence, Gehad el-Haddad worked for the Bill, Hillary
& Chelsea Clinton Foundation from mid-2007 to mid-2012.
Gehad, incidentally, is the Egyptian version of the Arabic word Jihad.