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In the aftermath of 9/11 the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and especially the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have had a policy of rooting out a phantasmagorical world-wide anti-USA Islamic terrorist conspiracy by arresting and by prosecuting Muslim American leaders on ridiculous charges. Concomitant sting operations against poor, ill-educated, or recent immigrant Muslims have effectively forestalled criticism of private and governmental action to demonize and marginalize American Muslims even when though the FBI has included among its actions the extra-judicial execution of Detroit Imam Luqman.*
Developing tactics and strategies to fight such US governmental abuses of human rights requires honest documentation, understanding and discussion of the actions, origins, tactics, and strategy of the Islamophobic conspiracy that has moved from the Israel Lobby and the organized Jewish community to the highest levels of the US government.
The ridiculousness of the charges in federal Islamophobic show trials has been obvious from the start as This American Life demonstrated in its August 7, 2009 analysis of the very early Hemant Lakhani case prosecuted by US Attorney Chris Christie, who is now the governor of New Jersey.
The February 2007 conviction of Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain and subsequent denial of all appeals and legal motions shows that nothing has changed from the Lakhani trial to the present day.
In his forward to Rounded Up: Artificial Terrorists and Muslim Entrapment After 9/11 by Shamshad Ahmad, Ph. D., attorney Stephen Downs explains a lot of the logic behind the political prosecution of American Muslims:
Eventually I came to understand that Aref was targeted by the government because he was “suspicious” – he might present a danger in the post-9/11 atmosphere. In the Bush Administration, which insisted that the FBI and the Justice Department follow a new paradigm of preventing terrorist attacks before they occurred, any Muslim who was “suspicious” needed to be targeted and incarcerated. It was a sort of “preventive conviction,” in which the “suspicious” person would be convicted of a crime before he would have an opportunity to commit the crime. (The government justified this new paradigm by saying, in effect, “What would you have us do – sit on our hands until the next 9/11?” without explaining how, under American law, someone could legally be convicted without having committed a crime.) In Aref's case, the vehicle for the conviction was a sting operation ostensibly designed to entrap him in a fake terrorist plot run by the government – but in fact, so little information was given to Aref that it would have been impossible for him to understand that anything illegal was intended. It was a frame-up designed to eliminate a “suspicious” person while at the same time [it would] send a warning to the Muslim community – and a reassuring message to the rest of the country – that the government was hard at work [in] rooting out terrorists.
At a November 9th 2006 Harvard talk shortly after the release of her book entitled Mecca and Main Street, Lebanese American reporter Genevieve Abdo provided critical background information related to Islamophobic prosecutions. She explained that American Muslims are like and unlike other immigrant groups to the USA. American Catholic immigrants often faced similar prejudices in the past, but American Muslims confront well-organized extremely wealthy or well-funded and politically powerful American Jewish Zionists willing to do practically anything to prevent the participation of Muslim citizens in American politics, academics, and business.
Jewish Zionist Islamophobe Daniel Pipes summarizes the underlying Jewish Zionist beliefs about Muslims in “A Slick Islamist Heads to Jail” (NY Sun, August 3, 2004):
Alamoudi is hardly the only high-profile, seemingly non-violent leader of an Islamist organization to associate with terrorists. At the Council on American-Islamic Relations, five staffers and board members have been accused or convicted of terrorism-related charges and the same has happened with leaders of the Islamic Center of Greater Cleveland, Holy Land Foundation, Benevolence International Foundation, and the National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom.
The Alamoudi story points to the urgent need that the FBI, White House, Congress, State Department, Pentagon, and Homeland Security – as well as other institutions, public and private, throughout the West – not continue guilelessly to assume that smooth-talking Islamists are free of criminal, extremist, or terrorist ties. Or, as I put it in late 2001: "Individual Islamists may appear law-abiding and reasonable, but they are part of a totalitarian movement, and as such, all must be considered potential killers."
Militant Islam is the enemy; even its slickest adherents need to be viewed as such.
Since the early 1980s at least Pipes has been elaborating a fantasy of world-wide Islamic conspiracy. On May 6, 2008, the Harvard Objectivist Club, which frequently engages in Muslim-baiting, hosted a panel discussion on Totalitarian Islam. Daniel Pipes was one of the two panelists and explained that
stealth Islamists voluntarily obey Islamic law (Sharia) and will attempt to introduce Islam into the societies where they live by discussion and by persuasion.
Perhaps they will try to convert non-Muslims to Islam, and then if they have sufficient numbers they may try to legislate Sharia or Islamic morality into the law code.
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Despite Pipes's efforts at demonizing Islam, for all intents and purposes stealth Islamists are simply Muslims that sincerely try to practice their religion. They do not differ much from orthodox Jews that voluntarily obey Jewish law (Halakhah), and they seem a lot like sincere Christians. Just as far too many Jews have prejudices against believing Christians, Jewish Zionist Neocons have problems with believing Muslims and are making an effort to incorporate anti-Muslim prejudices structurally into American society in order to limit the democratic rights of Muslim citizens of the USA for the purpose of preventing any open discussion of US ME policy and the US-Israel alliance.
In Pipes's understanding of ME politics, the Iranians are the force of direct confrontation with the USA while the Saudis use the power of their wealth both to subvert the Islamic world and also to corrupt the USA by using American Muslims as a fifth column. For Pipes, the Saudis seem to be the more serious enemy because the male members of the Saudi royal family have created something like the Soviet nomenklatura (номенклату́ра) by marrying multiple wives and by fathering lots of children.
Pipes's depiction of an Islamic world dominated by the Saudi version of the Soviet ruling class is simultaneously laughable and reminiscent of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. Pipes may be both projecting his experience within the Neocon or Jabotinskian Zionist intelligentsia onto Muslims and also making consciously or unconsciously a false equation of a ruling class with the mobilized or mobilizing intellectuals that comprise an intelligentsia.
In her July 23, 2009 Khaleej Times column entitled “Of Conspiracies and Plots,” Karin Friedemann briefly mentioned that Jewish Zionist Neocon officials of Bush administration had infected the US government bureaucracy with the Islamophobia endemic to the racist anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, anti-Muslim culture of Jewish Zionists:
Although the presence of extremist Zionists like Rahm Emanuel or Dennis Ross near the president is disturbing, lower rank staffers like Treasury Department official Stuart Levey or pro-Israel propagandist Matthew Levitt [formerly deputy assistant secretary for intelligence and analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury (2005–07), previously FBI anti-terrorism consultant] are far more threatening to US democracy. While serving the government, Boston-bred Levitt constructed a vast terrorist conspiracy out of paranoid Zionist fantasies trying to explain the refusal of Muslims to acknowledge that it was just to establish a Jewish state in Palestine.
In Levitt’s delusions, to which other lesser ranking government officials like Daniel Pipes [formerly board member of the US Institute for Peace] and Rachel Ehrenfeld [formely a consultant for U.S. Defense Department's Threat Reduction Agency] contributed, Islamic finance and Islamic charity serve as a many-headed hydra of evil. Roots of the conspiracy involving Pipes, Levitt, and Levey lead back to the Boston area, where the Israel lobby is deeply embedded in the region’s educational institutions.
Levey, Levitt, and Pipes have closely worked with Jewish Neocon Zionist Islamophobics Jonathan Schanzer and Evan Kohlmann, who both purport to have the expertise to discourse authoritatively on Islamic movements.
At least as far back as April 2004 Schanzer served as an intelligence analyst for the Department of the Treasury while Evan Kohlmann with no qualifications whatsoever (Rounded Up, pp. 145-150) served as an expert witness on Islamic radicalism for the Aref-Hossein and several other anti-Muslim political prosecutions including the trial against Care International.
In order to depict Aref as a terrorist because he was once employed by the Islamic Movement for Kurdistan (IMK), which the US government does not consider to be a terrorist organization, Kohlmann testified to an all but impossible collaborative connection between the IMK, the militant Kurdish Ansar al-Islam organization, al-Qaeda, and Saddam Hussein.
Schanzer seems to have been the main proponent and possibly the original fabricator of this fiction of collaboration.$
It is unlikely but hardly impossible that these Jewish Zionists Bush administration officials actively looked for an Iraqi Kurd resident in the USA for the FBI to target in order to prove the existence of a direct domestic threat to America from al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, but they were strategically placed to make opportunistic use of FBI Islamophobic hotdogging.
While Levey, Levitt, Pipes, Ehrenfeld, Schanzer, and Kohlmann have at times played key roles in Jewish Zionist subversion within the US government, the Jewish Zionist Islamophobic conspiracy is hardly confined to this tiny group.
In addition, Jewish Zionist subversion goes well beyond legal persecution of Muslims and Islam.
As Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Levey is for all intents and purposes an American Jewish Committee employee lent to the US government to make sure that US foreign policy remains subordinate to Jewish Zionist goals (David Harris presents Public Service Award to Stuart Levey from the AJC website, AJC 2008 Annual Report Impact from the AJC website).
From the Zionist standpoint Levey has a particularly important strategic role to make sure (apparently with the assistance of Jewish Zionist Obama administration officials Lawrence Summers and Martin Feldstein) to make sure that wealthy Muslims and Muslim states remain impotent in the face of the power of Jewish wealth (Steven R. Weisman, Overseas Funds Resist Calls for a Code of Conduct - New York Times, February 9, 2008).
Other members of the Jewish Zionist cabal within the US government have tremendous impact nationally and world-wide – not only thanks to their own organizations that are well-funded by the international Jewish Zionist plutocracy but because as individuals they take part in highly effective Jewish Zionist social networks in order to collaborate with overt and covert extremist and racist Jewish Zionist organizations like The Investigative Project of Steven Emerson, The David Project, the Israel on Campus Coalition, the International Hillel Society, etc. (The list is practically endless.)
Extremist Zionist plutocrat and media mogul Haim Saban has explained why Jewish Zionist subversion is so effective in N. America and Europe (“The Influencer” by Connie Bruck, The New Yorker, June 27, 2010):
His greatest concern, he says, is to protect Israel, by strengthening the United States-Israel relationship. At a conference last fall in Israel, Saban described his formula. His “three ways to be influential in American politics,” he said, were: make donations to political parties, establish think tanks, and control media outlets. In 2002, he contributed seven million dollars toward the cost of a new building for the Democratic National Committee—one of the largest known donations ever made to an American political party. That year, he also founded the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, in Washington, D.C. He considered buying The New Republic, but decided it wasn’t for him. He also tried to buy Time and Newsweek, but neither was available. He and his private-equity partners acquired Univision in 2007, and he has made repeated bids for the Los Angeles Times.
Such Jewish techniques of media and opinion manipulation often predate Zionism. We now know that the alleged anti-Semitic canard of conspiratorial Jewish media manipulation as expressed by German, French, and English anti-Semites in the late 19th century and early 20th century was simply true as the French Jewish Historian Simcha Epstein reported at Hebrew University on February 23, 2003 during the proceedings of the Sassoon Conference on Antisemitism & Prejudice in the Contemporary Media:
“The pre-war anti-Semites said that the Jews of France organized a syndicate secretly bankrolling and subverting the press. And what did the Jews say at that time? They said: ‘Of course not! No, it’s a lie, of course not! We are not engaged in conspiracies!’ And what did the historians and the Jewish historiography coming afterwards say? ‘Of course not! It is anti-Semitic drivel!’ But we know now from Jewish sources that before the WWII the Jews of France secretly financed the press.
“Since the end of 19th century, there was a secret Jewish organization, well financed, which bought and bankrolled newspapers. Sometimes it took over existing newspapers, which suddenly became pro-Dreyfus because they received Jewish subsidies. New papers were created especially by the Jews. Two very important papers of the period, one was called Les Droits de l'Homme, the Rights of Man, was financed by the Jews, and L’Humanité, which was the Socialist and then the Communist newspaper of France, was also financed by Jews. I say this on the authority Jewish sources of course.
“And this brings us to a dramatic dilemma of historiography. Saying this, saying what I said, is something horrible and unacceptable, because it means that the Jews organized a conspiracy and secretly bought the media, or part of the media. That was precisely what the anti-Semites said at that time, and what they still say today. And we know now from Jewish sources that the allegations were true, that there was a Jewish clandestine activity of bankrolling the press.”
In general the more honest historians study the issues, the more obvious it becomes that traditional anti-Semitic allegations against Jews had a lot of truth and that Jews have cheated in order to achieve dominance American politics, economics, finance and academia.**
Not only have Jewish Zionist political economic intellectual oligarchs established themselves as the new American elite that has displaced upper-class White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPS), but they have imposed a pervasive web of control that makes the realities of the Soviet and German Nazi systems as well as the fantasies of George Orwell in 1984 seem penny-ante by comparison.
Such perfidy requires response, and Muslims must form the avaunt-garde of the resistance because of the attack Jewish Zionist subversives have made on Islam, on Muslim leaders and on ordinary Muslims in the USA and throughout the world – often via funding local proxies like Geert Wilders.***
In some sense Muslims are fortunate that Zionist subversives overreached after 9/11 to manipulate Congress into enacting tough anti-terrorism legislation, for after the the IDF Gaza Rampage and Flotilla Massacre no one can rationally deny that Israel is a terrorist state and that American supporters of Zionism materially aid Zionist terrorism.
American Muslims can use US anti-terrorism laws as key elements of a comprehensive strategy to eradicate the international Jewish Zionist conspiracy in the context of working for the liberation of Muslim political prisoners and of supporting Muslim defendants in the continuing sequence of show trials resulting from FBI entrapment tactics.
First Muslim organizations and individuals have to admit that everything they have done so far has been a failure.
It seems to make no difference whatsoever how stupid the indictment or the outrageous the behavior of the FBI is -- what has been done so far in the case of Imam Luqman?
Instead of arguing legal technicalities, these cases must become national and international political hot potatoes that the Obama administration will try to terminate by any means possible including pardons.
Muslims need to create a rapid reaction strategy.
When the FBI and the US Attorney move to arrest and to indict, Muslim defense organizations need to make as much noise as possible about yet another US violation of Muslim or Arab American civil and human rights.
The key words should be fairness, equal protection, and reciprocity.
Why do the FBI and the US attorneys only pursue alleged Muslim extremism and material support of terrorism when Jewish Zionist extremism and material support of terrorism are open and blatant?
Yick Wo v. Hopkins is as important today as it was in 1886 when the Supreme Court's decision established that it was just as unfair to enforce laws unequally as it was to write racial inequality into laws.
Muslims must protest against media outlets that refuse to cover the issue of unequal enforcement of anti-terrorism laws.
Muslim American leaders will have to start demanding that NPR and other news outlets provide objective and honest coverage of Jewish Zionist racism, extremism, and subversion.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) seems to be open to Muslim concerns in these matters. Kenneth Roth of HRW is willing to criticize Zionists and hates Harvard Professor/Zionist propagandist Alan Dershowitz. Are Muslim leaders talking with Roth about the most effective way to aid Muslim political prisoners in the USA?
Al-Jazeera, Al-Arabiya, and Iranian PressTV are willing to cover these stories. Are Muslim leaders trying to get international coverage via Press Releases, phone calls and emails?
Maria Balinska, who is international bureau chief at the BBC, answers her email. Are Muslim leaders approaching her? Obviously Guantanamo represents blatantly obvious misbehavior on the part of the US, but with effort it should be possible to drive the BBC and other sections of the British press to cover American Islamophobic show trials and political arrests.
Muslim Americans will have to start reaching out to Muslim countries that are being pressured by the USA to take action against alleged Islamic terrorist organizations. For example, Turkey should be encouraged by American Muslims to demand that the US arrest Jewish Zionists that have supported the IDF in its murder of US and Turkish citizens during the Gaza Flotilla Massacre.
Some important international Catholic figures like Cardinal Joachim Meisner could probably be encouraged to speak out on the topic, for he himself has been subjected to a Zionist trial by public slander (the entartete Kunst issue). He has also shown awareness that whenever Catholic leaders speak out on Palestine, Jewish gatekeepers in the media trot out the articles on priestly sex abuse that took place 10 years or more in the past.
There certainly sees to be a possibility of using national and international interfaith activities to bring up the issue of Islamophobic show trials and political prosecutions.
Muslim must start asking why Jews fail to take a stand against Jewish Zionist terrorism and have yet to demand the arrest of Jewish Zionist leaders like Sheldon Adelson and Irving Moskowitz, who blatantly send material aid to IDF terrorists.
US government officials talk about winning the hearts and minds of Muslims both nationally and internationally. If such government officials are serious, they should stop the political prosecutions of Muslims and start taking action against American Jewish Zionists that blatantly aid and abet Zionist terrorism.
Creating negative international reaction to US human rights abuse might seem like a round-about way to thwart political prosecutions, but civil rights became an important issue to US foreign policy makers when they realized that the Soviet Union was using Jim Crow to depict the USA as a racist hypocritical nation. Paul Nitze discussed the issue (obliquely) in NSC-68 which was the fundamental strategy document of fighting the cold war:
Compulsion is the negation of freedom, except when it is used to enforce the rights common to all. The resort to force, internally or externally, is therefore a last resort for a free society. The act is permissible only when one individual or groups of individuals within it threaten the basic rights of other individuals or when another society seeks to impose its will upon it. The free society cherishes and protects as fundamental the rights of the minority against the will of a majority, because these rights are the inalienable rights of each and every individual.
In addition Muslim activists must target key Zionist operatives.
As long as arch-Jewish Zionist subversive Stuart Levey holds his post in the Treasury despite prima facie violation of Federal Seditious Conspiracy law, which makes preventing enforcement of the US criminal code in time of war a crime almost equivalent to treason, legal persecution of Muslims will continue while Yassin Aref and many other good and decent Muslims rot in jail.
Not only must Muslims be willing to battle the Zionist politics, ideology, and mobilization, on which the Islamophobic prosecutions Americans have been based, but Muslim activists must have the ultimate goal of putting Jewish Zionist criminals into jail before any more Muslims are imprisoned for praciticing Islam or for refusing to grovel and to lick Jewish Zionist feet..
*The organized Jewish community is no stranger to involvement in extra-judicial executions by the FBI. See Karin Friedemann Threatened by SPLC.
$See Ansar al-Islam: Iraq's al-Qaeda Connection, PolicyWatch January 15, 2003, The Al Qaeda Connection New York Post February 6, 2003, Ansar al-Islam: Postmortem or Prelude to More Attacks? , Policy Review, April 3, 2003, Ansar al-Islam: Back in Iraq Middle East Quarterly Winter 2004, Saddam's Ambassador to al Qaeda, Weekly Standard March 1, 2004.
** Jews aren’t smarter -- I lift my curse, and yours by Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss Blog, February 10, 2010, the meritocracy and Jewish kinship networks by Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss Blog, January 13, 2010, Kagan appointment shows, Jews are the new WASPs by Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss Blog, May 10, 2010.
*** See “Wilders gaat steeds een stapje verder” van Janny Groen, Annieke Kranenberg in de Volkskrant op 21 juni '09, 11:21, bijgewerkt 22 juni '09, 08:25.
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