Scaremongering Muslim Interns, Undermining Democracy

When constituencies within the American body politic put their own people on Capitol Hill so that their voice can be heard, they help the American government serve the American public better, but the Israel Lobby has chosen instead to poison the American political process by criminally conspiring against the rights of its opponents. This practice during time of war becomes seditious conspiracy.

On Oct. 14, Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC), John Shadegg (R-AZ), Paul Broun (R-GA), and Trent Franks (R-AZ) showed themselves not merely as racial or religious bigots but acted as seditious conspirators against the United States of America and its Constitution by holding a press conference

• to attack Muslim American Congressional interns as spies and to endorse Dave Gaubatz' Islamophobic book Muslim Mafia and possibly
• to distract from the Goldstone Report, which the Obama administration failed to bury and which was about to be endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council.

Jim Morrill reported in the Charlotte Observer on Monday January 6, 2003 that Myrick fears that convenience store clerks may be engaged in a vast anti-American conspiracy:

Myrick’s comments came during a speech to the conservative Heritage Foundation last week about what she called Americans’ lack of readiness to deal with future terrorist attacks. During a question-and-answer session, she spoke about danger within the country.

“You know, and this can be misconstrued, but honest to goodness (husband) Ed and I for years, for 20 years, have been saying, `You know, look at who runs all the convenience stores across the country.’ Every little town you go into, you know?”

Myrick and her colleagues refer during the press conference and in other appearances to the Holy Land Foundation trial in which CAIR and every non-governmental organization that ever participated along with HLF in a fundraiser for Palestinians was named an unindicted co-conspirator.

The proceedings against the HLF and its principles were a political show trial put together by a conspiracy of Jewish Zionist Neocons within the George W. Bush administration.

The article From Epistemic to Bureaucratic Islamophobia points out:

Zionists will only feel secure when their [propaganda] falsehoods are elevated to religious dogma among Christians and Muslims. Unfortunately, far too many Christian leaders have been willing to acknowledge a completely bogus Jewish völkisch racist historical right to Palestine, but because practically no genuine Islamic leader accepts the claim, Neocons have come to blame the failure of Muslims to acknowledge the justice of the creation of Israel on malicious, bigoted, irrational theological thinking that they began to view as intrinsic to Islam because of the apparently implacable hostility of the Iranian revolution and continuing worldwide Muslim opposition to Zionism and the State of Israel.

Zionists researchers and leaders like Daniel Pipes have developed their own specialized political culture with its own casuistic logic as well as specialized jargon to describe the alleged perverse nature of Islam. The specialized Zionist Islamophobic vocabulary is often based on Arabic names or Islamic technical terminology like Wahhabi, jihad, sharia, taqiya, zakat, dawa or Islamic charity to which Neocon literature assigns distorted, negative, or demonic connotations.

Because George W. Bush brought so many Neocons including into the government, a previously epistemic Zionist political culture infected^$ the US government's bureaucratic culture.

Once ensconced in US government positions during the War on Terror when the public was unlikely to challenge policy that was supposed to protect America, Jewish Zionist Neocon subversives swiftly moved to transform the DOJ and the Treasury into weaponry with which American Muslim citizens could be marginalized, demonized, and ultimately imprisoned in order to prevent them from exercising their Constitutional rights fully to participate in American political culture.

Having problems neither with subversion of the US government nor with religious bigotry directed mostly toward Arabs, South Asians, and African Americans, the four Congressmen put together an anti-Muslim hate-fest that combines the theatrics of segregationists of a bygone era with a highly evolved form of the Zionist mob-and-smear.

The tactic goes back at least as far back as 1937 when NY Jewish Zionists tried to punish a NY City official for giving a member of the Palestinian Arab High Command time on a city radio station to explain Arab objections to Zionism (Baksheesh Diplomacy, Secret Negotiations between American Jewish Leaders and Arab Officials on the Eve of World War II, by Rafael Medoff, p. 87):

Three days later [June 14, 1937], [Izzat] Tannous [a member of the Arab Higher Committee -- the chief Palestinian political body] called [Dr. Albert] Amateau [a colleague of Maurice Karpf, a leading non-Zionist member of the American wing of the Jewish Agency for Palestine] to inform him that he would be sailing back to London in two weeks at the request of Haj Amin el Husseini, better known as the mufti of Jerusalem, the most prominent leader of the Palestinian Arab community. In the meantime, Tannous offered vaguely to "do what he could" to hold off Arab disturbances in Palestine pending further negotiations with the Jews. Tannous also had a favor to ask. It seemed that an official at the New York City-owned radio station WNYC had broadcast one of Tannous's lectures, prompting Jewish protests and an investigation by the municpal Board of Aldermen. Tannous feared the investigation might cost the man his job; could Amateau arrange for some prominent Jews to intervene on the man's behalf? Felix Warburg [NY German American Jewish community leader and philanthropist] immediately wrote the requested letter. "I thought it would be a good thing to make a record here which the Arabs no doubt will see, letting them know that everybody is not of the same mind," he explained to [Maurice] Hexter [Warburg's right hand on Palestine matters].

Not only is such courteousness foreign to contemporary Jewish Zionist Neocons and their bedfellows, but a recent example the mob-and-smear includes the successful effort to drive Esam Omeish from the Virginia Commission on Immigration in 2007 for daring to express outrage in 2006 at wanton Israeli destruction of Lebanon and heinous mistreatment of Palestinians.

Approximately a year later, a particularly ridiculous mob-and-smear, which was started by the secretive Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report, forced Mazen Asbahi to resign his volunteer post as Obama campaign national coordinator for Muslim American affairs because according to Steve Clemons

[he] served on a board "for a few weeks" that included a muslim fundamentalist imam from Illinois. Asbahi resigned from the board . . . eight years ago."

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-clemons/wrong-wrong-wrong-obama-l_b_117270.html

As the mob-and-smear has evolved since the 30s, the trails to the key strategists and funders have tended to become more obscure while the accusations and the accusers have become more bizarre and even more vicious.

In the case of Muslim Mafia, Gaubatz and his Congressional collaborators attacked CAIR for developing a strategic plan that differed little from those of other educational advocacy and lobby groups including those which are pro-Israel.

Of course, no one worries that AIPAC has been running non-partisan institutes throughout the American college and university system explicitly to recruit interns to spy on congressman for years.

I attended one in January 2003 at the Harvard Kennedy School.

According to an online resume recent Jewish Zionist Tufts graduate Emily Anne Thomas was running an AIPAC non-partisan recruitment institute at Tufts in 2005:

NEWS & POLITICAL EXPERIENCE
American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Washington, DC
New England Region Intern, 06/05-8/05

• Researched Middle Eastern government policy, organized voting records, coordinated donor outreach project, planned and organized lobbying efforts for Boston students
• Coordinated and led panel at AIPAC’s Non Partisan Student Campaign Training Institute, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
• Spoke and led sessions at AIPAC’s Saban Conference. Led workshop titled: “The College Democrats and College Republicans Role in the Political Process”

When Zionist interns acting as spies report back to AIPAC on deviation from pro-Israel orthodoxy, AIPAC -- in a subversion of the American political process -- springs into action either to intimidate the offending congressman into conformity or to target him for political destruction.

Exactly for whom the four congressmen believed Muslim interns were spying was never particularly clear, and they implied that an American Muslim organization became the equivalent of the most paranoid conceptualization of al-Qaida simply by attempting to educate congressmen about American Muslim interests and issues.

Even if a Muslim intern reported back to CAIR, what could CAIR possibly do? CAIR's budget is at least an order of magnitude less than that of AIPAC.

Muslim Mafia is hardly the the first instance of looniness from Gaubatz, who is according to Glen Greenwald the sole source of delusional right-wing claims that Saddam had WMDs and shipped them out of the country during the disorder of the collapse of Baathist Iraq -- something that George W. Bush does not even believe.

Gaubatz recently terminated his connection with the Society of Americans for National Existence (SANE), where he headed the Mapping Sharia project. Here is the project definition:

It is our task to conduct an extensive mapping of all the Islamic day schools, mosques, and other identifiable organizations in the US and to determine which ones teach or preach Islamic law, Sharia

This investigation will also map the leadership of these Muslim organizations and their other affiliations. We will also attempt to uncover any related businesses used or run by the organizations as fronts for money laundering and other illicit activities.

Finally, we will examine and map any potential targets situated near these organizations, such as city, county, and federal government buildings, schools and universities, US military installations, major utility or infrastructure sites (i.e., nuclear installations, pipelines, water supply, etc.), and transportation hubs.

A vigilante effort entailing only invasion of privacy, harassment, and intimidation was not Islamophobic enough for Gaubatz:

I have resigned (effective 15 Mar 2009) as the Director of SANE's Mapping Sharia Project. The Mapping Project is vital as long term U.S. policy and as an educational tool for the American public and law enforcement, but I want to utilize my skills and time ensuring our elected officials implement legal action now against Islamic scholars and their organizations who advocate the destruction of America, as Ahmadinejad (Iranian President) has often stated is what our friends in Israel will face.

Based on hundreds of visits throughout the U.S. to Islamic Centers conducting first-hand research, our country faces a 'grave' national security danger by many Saudi and Pakistani trained Islamic scholars advocating the destruction of America. We have innocent Muslim children throughout America being taught to hate the U.S., our U.S. Constitution, our law enforcement and our military personnel. I do not believe our country has 'years' to wait for policy change within our government. If our leaders do not understand by now, it is highly unlikely they will 'catch on' anytime soon. I will help them. How?

I will conduct CT research in selected cities. The research will be very basic and a type anyone could conduct if they knew who distributes and what violent materials to look for at Islamic Centers for the Muslim children to study (again all children are innocent, it is adults who teach them). I will then focus on the selected city to do everything I can legally (working with local law enforcement) complete investigations are conducted on Islamic leaders advocating the overthrow of our country.

During the research in selected cities I will obtain evidence even an attorney directly out of law school could understand is a criminal offense being committed by Islamic leaders and a danger to the children being taught to kill innocent people.

I ask any U.S. prosecutor (state or federal) this basic question:

"If leaders of a local Baptist church were teaching their worshippers to overthrow (treason and sedition) the U.S. Government and to kill anyone who does not adhere to their beliefs, would you(Prosecutor)seek charges against the person or group? If 'YES' then you owe it to the American people of all races, religions, and cultures to do the same at Islamic Centers.

If you answered 'No', then our country has little chance of defending ourselves from Islamic Jihadists. Respectfully, Dave G.

Even though Gaubatz and SANE have parted company, there is no reason to assume that the latter organization and its founder David Yerushalmi (ne Beychok) are any less loopy than Gaubatz.

Here is the SANE's anti-democratic mission statement, which provides a highly racist and distorted view of the founding of the USA.

The Society of Americans for National Existence or SANE is what its name declares: a society of sane Americans dedicated to preserving and strengthening America's national existence. By national existence we mean what you normally mean when speaking of such matters. America is a unique people bound together through a commitment to America's Judeo-Christian moral foundation and to an enduring faith and trust in G-d and in His Providence. America's founding, and its greatness was neither accident nor staging ground for some better existence or world state. America was the handiwork of faithful Christians, mostly men, and almost entirely white, who ventured from Europe to create a nation in their image of a country existing as free men under G-d. The founding fathers understood that party-led parliaments and democracy were the worse form of government and sought to resist the movement that was soon to find fertile ground in France with the French Revolution, the end of which we can see now before our eyes."

One SANE article asks:

"Is there something unique about the Black American (or, at least the Black New Yorker) that leads him to murder so disproportionately and to most often kill and victimize his own? Do we see patterns of Black culture that arise out of Africa and the wanton murder of blacks by blacks there? Why have the colonized blacks of the African continent, after having acquired their freedom and independence, so willingly slaughtered their own and live in despicable disease and squalor despite a land of enormous riches while Indians of the Indian sub-continent have successfully moved from British rule to democracy and relative civility even in a country that still maintains social inequalities as a fact of their culture?"

I do not deny that membership in certain definable groups may at various times correlate with measurable indices like incarceration rates for certain types of crimes, but there are reasonable ways to discuss such topics, and there are racist ways to broach the subject.

I have no doubt that Yerushalmi would scream anti-Semitism if I wrote about the disproportionate involvement of Jews in financial crimes with the same sort of language his organization uses to discuss African Americas.

While Yerushalmi does not appear to advocate imprisoning African-Americans for precrime, he has no reservations about such an idea for Muslims.

Even though as a religious Jew Yerushalmi is almost certainly aware that Jewish sacred law (halakhah) barely differs at all from Muslim sacred law (sharia), SANE has proposed arresting Muslims for voluntarily observing of Sharia in the same way Yerushalmi voluntarily obeys Halakhah:

"Whereas, adherence to Islam as a Muslim is prima facie evidence of an act in support of the overthrow of the U.S. Government through the abrogation, destruction, or violation of the U.S. Constitution and the imposition of Shari'a on the American People...It shall be a felony punishable by 20 years in prison to knowingly act in furtherance of, or to support the, adherence to Islam." (The last reference to "adherence to Islam" was changed to "adherence to Shari'a" in the final version.)

Like Gaubatz Yerushalmi has been active in efforts to prevent Muslims from serving as US government officials. Until CAIR outed his racist and anti-democratic political views, Yerushalmi was a leading activist in Stop the Madrassa, which mobbed-and-smeared Debby Almontaser until she resigned from her position as designated principal of the Khalil Gibran International Academy (KGIA).

Yerushalmi's Stop The Madrassa activities connect him with Daniel Pipes, who scare-mongers the legal Islamist threat and who is fairly closely connected with European Islamophobes like Geert Wilders, Danish Ukrainian Jewish anti-Muslim activist Flemming Rose, and Danish Islamophobe Lars Hedegaard. In addition Yerushalmi has also claimed to serve as attorney for Frank Gaffney, Alex Alexiev and Martyn Burke, the producers of the controversial PBS documentary "Islam vs. Islamists: Voices from the Muslim Center."

Obviously, people like Gaubatz, Yerushalmi, and Pipes are busy little bees flying all over the place.

Who funds them?

The biography of Yerushalmi on the website of the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (IASPS) in Jerusalem provides some information on the money connection:

From the Institute's founding, Yerushalmi took a leading role as a substantial financial contributor, in addition to serving on the Board of Trustees for over a decade and as Chairman for more than five years. In 1991, teaming up with the Institute's policy experts, Yerushalmi was instrumental in establishing the Israel Export Development Co., Ltd., as an entrepreneurial policy tool to initiate radical free market reforms in Israel. Working along side fellow board members and shareholders such as Robert Tishman, Jerry Speyer, Larry Silverstein, Lawrence Tisch, Eugene Grant and Sy Syms, Yerushalmi was appointed the company's CEO and Chairman.

[Note that A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm was prepared for IASPS.]

The 70 year pattern of stigmatization, marginalization, demonization, and punishment of Muslims and of anyone that does not kowtow to hyperwealthy Zionists is unmistakable. If extreme Israel advocates succeed in the stigmatization of Muslim interns, yet another category of government jobs will in effect be reserved only to Israel Lobby approved candidates in a gradual process that constitutes a slow-speed coup killing American democracy and putting ultimate control of the US government into the hands of the hyper-wealthy Zionists that fund the Israel Lobby.

One day soon the Zionist plutocracy directed by the Zionist intelligentsia will have veto power over anyone seeking to serve in the US government, and the American way of life will be dead.

PHOTO: Madoff at Yeshiva University's (YU) 79th Hanukkah dinner,. From the left: Bernard L. Madoff, YU's treasurer and chairman, Syms School; Sy Syms, vice chairman, Board of Trustees; and Josh S. Weston, chairman of Boys Town Jerusalem foundation. It should be noted that Sy Syms has long been a director of the Israel Discount Bank, a scandal plagued Israeli bank based in Tel Aviv.

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