we must remove all foreign lobby groups from DC asap by any means necessary that includes AIPAC
On Feb 5, 12:32 pm, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > Appalling as it might sound, the U.S. State Department is actually sending > the Executive Director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) to Europe > to speak about "religious freedom and free speech." > > MPAC is a Muslim-Brotherhood (MB) affiliated organization whose leadership > espouses Wahhabism, a radical Islamic ideology. It has sought to repeal the > Patriot Act and undermine law enforcement efforts to monitor Muslim > communities. The organization has characterized Israel as a "racist state" > and blames the Jewish state for the "pattern of violence" in the Middle > East. MPAC has likened members of terrorist groups, such as Hezbollah, to > "freedom fighters" and featured an article in its magazine, Al-Talib, > praising Osama Bin Laden. At an MPAC-sponsored rally in 2000, literature > was distributed that called for the annihilation of Jews and Israel. > > In July, Barack Hussein Obama appointed MPAC member Arik Alikhan as > Assistant Secretary of Policy Development at the Department of Homeland > Security. Alikhan was instrumental in pressuring the LAPD to abandon a > program to monitor radical mosques and madrassas in Los Angeles, including > communities where 9/11 hijackers received support. > > In 2000, MPAC's Senior Advisor, Maher Hathout, was invited to address the > Democratic Convention in Los Angeles. - J. L. > U.S. State Department Sends MPAC Executive Director To > Europe<http://globalmbreport.com/?p=2087> > > <http://globalmbreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/200908271948.jpg>The > Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) has announced that Executive Director > Salam Al-Marayati traveled to Europe last month at the invitation of the > State Department to speak about religious freedom and free speech. According > to the report <http://www.mpac.org/article.php?id=1020#axzz0eD4e9az0>: > > *Last week, Executive Director Salam Al-Marayati traveled to Europe at the > invitation of the State Department to speak about religious freedom and free > speech. He spoke at UNESCO in Paris and at the U.S. mission to the United > Nations in Geneva. Al-Marayati explained that religious freedom and free > speech are opposite sides of the same coin of human rights. Given the > alarming degree of Islamophobia in Europe, some Muslim countries have sought > to pass anti-defamation legislation to counter anti-Islamic rhetoric. In > Geneva, Al-Marayati told a group of Muslim ambassadors that legislation will > not resolve the problem of Islamophobia, but rather, engagement in the > political, social and cultural arenas of any society. The Quran chronicles > attacks against the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) without suppressing free > speech.Ê Instead, the good work of the early Muslims replaced the negative > stereotypes that others imposed on them. The same applies in this day and > age. Many of the ambassadors were thankful for Al-Marayati’s perspective on > this issue and for working to bridge the divide between Muslim and Western > countries.* > > MPAC was established initially in 1986 as the Political Action Committee of > the Islamic Center of Southern California whose key leaders likely had their > origins in the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Since that time, MPAC has > functioned as the political lobbying arm of the U.S. Brotherhood. MPAC has > opposed virtually every count-terror initiative undertaken or proposed by > the U.S. government. At times this opposition was said to be on civil-rights > grounds but, just as often, MPAC claimed that U.S. counter-terror efforts > were aimed at the U.S. Muslim community itself. MPAC has constructed and > consistently espoused an elaborate ideology defending the use of violence by > Islamists and Islamist organizations. More than any other U.S. Muslim > Brotherhood organization, MPAC has developed extensive relationships with > the U.S. government which have included numerous meetings with the > Department of Justice and the FBI. > > GlobalMB @ February 1, 2010 > > 200908271948.jpg > 13KViewDownload -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
