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since Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:04:17.
I updated Scaremongering Muslim Interns, Undermining Democracy to make it more forwarding friendly and to address ongoing Islamophobic attempts to link CAIR and Muslim Congressional interns to the Ft. Hood shootings.
What author and pundit Glen Greenwald has described as the "Ft. Hood ... media orgy of rumors, speculation and falsehoods" has at least temporarily covered up the probably more significant story of the attack on Muslim congressional interns and CAIR by four congressmen and David Gaubatz, who co-authored the Muslim Mafia with fellow Islamophobe and Hoover Media Institute fellow Paul Sperry.
In a recent Front Page Magazine Interview by Jamie Glazov, Gaubatz explicitly linked CAIR with the Ft. Hood Massacre:
Expect more. Israel has endured ‘suicide/attacks’ similar to this for many years. Malik Nabal Hasan is a terrorist supporting the ideology of Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, and yes, CAIR. In Palestine, the leaders send out the young and vulnerable to carry out the murders in the name of Islam. The same is happening in America.
Gaubatz is using a big lie to cover a more subtle insinuation.
In the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the incident most similar to Ft. Hood albeit with some significant differences is the February 24, 1994 Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre in which fanatic Jewish-American West Bank settler IDF Major Dr. Baruch Goldstein slaughtered 39-52 Palestinians during a prayer service.
Gaubatz intends for the false connection of Israel with America to create receptivity to an implicit linkage of CAIR with al-Qaeda, Hamas, and Hezbollah organizations.
In the Neocon Zionist propaganda of the War on Terror, Hamas and Hezbollah are murderous anti-Israel anti-American terrorist organiztions while al-Qaeda is a vast international jihadist organization at war with the West. The Muslim Mafia, which Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC), John Shadegg (R-AZ), Paul Broun (R-GA), and Trent Franks (R-AZ) publicly endorsed in a Capitol Hill press conference on Oct. 14, extends the mythology to accuse CAIR (Council for American-Islamic Relations) of espionage and of subversive jihad against the USA.
In reality, CAIR is a legitimate 501(c)(3) educational organization with missions of defending the right of American Muslims to practice Islam and of educating American non-Muslims about Islam in order to improve Muslim-non-Muslim relations.
On the basis of The Muslim Mafia, the four Congressmen, whose main support comes from Christian Zionists and the Israel Lobby, accused CAIR of a sinister strategic plan to place Muslim interns into Congressional offices to spy on Congressmen.
The claim is an Islamophobic delusion. CAIR’s strategic plan differed little from those of other educational advocacy and lobby groups including those which are pro-Israel.
When organizations like CAIR serve their constituencies by putting their own people on Capitol Hill so that the voice of their constituency can be heard more clearly, they help the American government serve the American public better.
The Israel Lobby version of this practice is different. AIPAC runs non-partisan institutes throughout the American college and university system explicitly to recruit interns to spy on congressman as an AIPAC recruiter explicitly told a Harvard Kennedy School audience of which I was a member in January 2003.
When Zionist interns acting as spies report back to AIPAC on deviation from pro-Israel orthodoxy, AIPAC -- in a poisoning 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 effective resources are at least two orders of magnitude less than those of AIPAC.
Because Gaubatz has long been an operative in the Israel Lobby, his perception of CAIR’s activities looks like a form of psychological projection of own activities.
Glen Greenwald has pointed out that Gaubatz has been a major supplier of Neocon disinformatsia, for he is 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.
Until recently Gaubatz was closely connected 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.
SANE has proposed arresting Muslims for voluntarily observing of Sharia:
"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 SANE’s founder David 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.
IASPS commissioned leading Neocons to produce A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm. When many of these Neocons became senior policy makers in the Bush administration, this document became the blueprint for Bush administration ME policy.
The pattern of stigmatization, marginalization, demonization, and punishment of Muslims and of anyone that does not kowtow to hyper-wealthy 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.
If people like Gaubatz, his congressional supporters, his Zionist friends and his Zionist funders have their way, not only will the ongoing political prosecutions of Muslim American leaders expand to include practically all Muslims, but the hyper-wealthy Zionist plutocracy directed by the Zionist intelligentsia will also have veto power over anyone seeking to serve in the US government, and the American way of life will be dead.
Once Zionists have a complete lock on the US government non-American Arabs and Muslims throughout the world will doubtlessly receive even worse treatment than Arab and Muslim American citizens.
Figure 1 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.
