Justice Department Partners with Islamic Supremacists

by Robert Spencer
Human Events
June 25, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1829/justice-department-partners-with-islamic

Excerpt:

In its ongoing quest to win the hearts and minds of Muslims in America, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division has asked its employees to volunteer to man an information booth at the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) convention in Washington over the July 4 weekend. According to an internal email that Pajamas Media obtained and published, the Division is seeking staff members to "hand out literature and answer basic questions." This is, says the e-mail, a "unique opportunity."

And what could be wrong with this? After all, two administrations now have made outreach to Muslim moderates a significant element of their counterterror strategy -- this will, we are told, marginalize the Islamic jihadists who try to portray counterterror efforts as "anti-Islamic." One of the many problems with this strategy, however, is that State and Justice Department officials, along with the FBI and other agencies, have never shown any great ability to be able to determine reliably who is a genuine moderate Muslim and who isn't. The influence and access to the highest levels of government that Abdurrahman Alamoudi of the American Muslim Council, now serving a 23-year prison sentence on jihad terror financing charges, is only the most notorious case in point among many instances of misguided contact and cooperation between Islamic supremacists and U.S. government agencies.

And now the Justice Department's outreach to the Islamic Society of North America is the latest manifestation of this misguided policy. In 2007, ISNA was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) terror funding case. The Holy Land Foundation, once the nation's largest Islamic charity, was ultimately found guilty of funneling millions of dollars in charitable contributions to the jihad terror group Hamas.

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