Black Muslims: A Fifth Column Inside The United States?

In 1936, a Spanish Nationalist General was poised outside of Madrid waiting with four columns of troops to take back the city from Communist (Republican) forces. When General Emilio Mola Vidal was asked which of the four columns would seize the city, he replied, "The Fifth." When asked to explain what he meant, he told his subordinates that the Fifth Column was a group of his loyalists inside of Madrid who would help him subvert and overthrow the Communists who held control.

In viewing America's worldwide war on terrorism and our efforts to protect our homeland from another 9-11 attack, many political analysts are expressing grave concerns over Black Muslims serving as a Fifth Column here in the United States-and within our military.

We understand that most Muslims in the United States are loyal citizens and would do nothing to undermine our nation during a time of war. However, there is a radical contingent of Islamists operating in the U.S. who are willing to provide aid and comfort to our enemies. Black Muslim leaders like Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam, for example, have publicly expressed their hatred of America-and could easily function as a Fifth Column inside the U.S.

We may have seen this Fifth Column at work at the 101st Airborne's Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait City on March 23, 2003. During the night, Sgt. Asan Akbar is alleged to have tossed several grenades into the tents of senior officers. Two officers were killed and 15 were wounded. Akbar is a Black Muslim who was being kept back from the front lines because his superior officers were concerned about his anti-war attitudes.

The Los Angeles Times (March 24, 2003) reported that shortly after Akbar was captured, he shouted at his fellow soldiers: "You guys are coming into our countries and you're going to rape our women and kill our children." Clearly, Akbar identified with Muslim terrorist nations rather than with his own country and fellow soldiers. Akbar's terrorism and treason against his own men and nation may be the beginning of more serious problems for our nation and our military.

One think tank has expressed grave concerns over Akbar and what other Black Muslims might do as we fight Islamic terrorism. The Center for Security Policy, headed by Frank J. Gaffney, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy during the Reagan Administration, recently published an essay on Akbar and the threat that Black Muslims may pose to our national security.

In "'Fifth Column' within the U.S. armed forces," published on March 25, 2003, a Center analyst wrote: The murderous insider attack in the 101st could be the precursor for a far larger and more dangerous problem, both for the military and for American society more generally. That problem is the "fifth column" that is developing inside the United States and its institutions.

In a related article on the Black Muslim fifth column, published earlier by the Center, the author noted that Asan Akbar attended the Masjid Bilal Islamic Center in South Central Los Angeles. This mosque is predominately black and was funded by the Saudi Arabian government. According to WorldNetDaily (April 22, 2002), the Saudis provided $8 million for the Masjid mosque and another $295,000 for a school. In total, the Saudis have spent as much as $19 billion to build mosques and spread Wahhabism-the Islamic fundamentalism espoused by terrorist and murderer Osama bin Laden.

The Masjid Bilal Islamic Center is associated with the Chicago-based Muslim American Society (MAS), which is an offshoot of the Nation of Islam (NOI) headed by Louis Farrakhan. MAS is headed by Imam W. Deen Mohammed, the son of NOI founder Elijah Muhammad. Mohammed had fought for control of NOI after his father's death, but lost to Farrakhan. He later founded MAS.

The Muslim American Society web site has alarming articles against our war on terror and includes an essay entitled "Israel: America's Shame and Humanity's Stain." The author, Mohamed Khodr, claims that most of our American institutions are controlled by Jews and that President Bush is a pawn of Zionists and the religious right (Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Franklin Graham, etc.) "...whose aim is to kill Jews, Muslims, and anyone else, to bring back the 'Prince of Peace.' Thus, their plan for salvation is paved with war, death, and blood." Khodr claims that the Jewish control of our government gives Israel "a free hand to drench the soil of peace in the Holy Land with Arab Christian and Muslim blood."

According to Khodr, our war on terrorism to liberate Iraq from the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein is designed to enrich the oil interests of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and to provide billions for the military industrial complex. If this is the kind of religious instruction that Asan Akbar received at his South Central Los Angeles mosque, it is little wonder that he fragged his fellow soldiers who were going to war against Saddam Hussein.

The Muslim American Society and the Nation of Islam preach hatred against Israel and are opposed to our nation's war against terrorism. The MAS has aligned itself with the Communist front organization known as International Answer (Act Now To Stop War & End Racism). ANSWER is run behind the scenes by the Workers World Party, a Communist group that supports North Korea. A MAS representative participated in an anti-war rally on September 4, 2002 and the group continues to oppose our war efforts.

MAS has published a lengthy document, "War in Iraq: Guidelines for American Muslim Leaders," that outlines the organization's opposition to our effort to rid the world of tyrants and Islamic terrorists. According to Islamist expert Daniel Pipes, MAS founder W. Deen Mohammed and Louis Farrakhan reconciled with each other in February, 2000, and have vowed to work together on common goals ever since then.

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has long been associated with terrorists and nations that sponsor terrorism. He embarked on a "World Friendship Tour" in 1996 that included visits to several states that sponsor terrorism: Libya, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, and Syria. During this tour, he denounced the United States as the "Great Satan." Farrakhan's good friend, Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi, said this about their meeting: Our confrontation with America used to be like confronting a fortress from outside. Today, we have found a loophole to enter the fortress and to confront it. On this basis, we agreed with Louis Farrakhan and his delegation to mobilize in a legal and legitimate form the oppressed minorities, and at their forefront the blacks, Arabs, Muslims, and Red Indians, for they play an important role in American political life and have weight in the U.S. elections. (Reuters, January 26, 1996)

Farrakhan is far more racist than is MAS founder Mohammed, but their overall goals are the same: the spreading of their peculiar brand of Islam among our nation's black population. This effort is going on in our nation's public housing projects as well as in prisons-where alienated black criminals are converting to Islam in increasing numbers.

We also face a potential threat of radicalized, anti-American Black Muslims within our military's chaplaincy program. According to the Center for Security Policy, as of June, 2002, nine of the military's 14 Muslim chaplains received their training at the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences (GSISS) in Leesburg, Virginia.

In March of 2002, a federal task force called "Operation Green Quest" raided the offices of GSISS, along with 23 other Muslim groups. Agents also raided the homes of Dr. Iqbal Unus, the Dean of Students and Dr. Taha Al-Alwani, the school's president. According to the search warrants issued at the time, these groups were raided for "potential money laundering and tax evasion activities and their ties to terrorist groups such as … al Qaeda as well as individual terrorists…(including) Osama bin Laden." The GSISS was raided because of its suspected ties to the World and Islam Studies Enterprise, a terrorist front group established by former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian who was arrested in February, 2003 for being a leader in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

The fragging of American soldiers by a Black Muslim in Kuwait City could be an aberration, but the teaching that Black Muslims receive creates a mindset that is predisposed to hate America, whites, and any war against Muslim terrorists. Daniel Pipes has expressed alarm over this incident. He says the Asan Akbar terrorist attack re-enforces what he said in January, 2003: There is no escaping the unfortunate fact that Muslim government employees in law enforcement, the military and the diplomatic corps need to be watched for connections to terrorism, as do Muslim chaplains in prisons and the armed forces. Muslim visitors and immigrants must undergo additional background checks. Mosques require a scrutiny beyond that applied to churches and temples.

Clearly, we face not only an external threat but an internal one from a dangerous, hate-filled Fifth Column.

For additional resources on Black Muslims and Islamic terrorism, access Daniel Pipes' web site: www.danielpipes.org; and The Center for Security Policy: www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org.

Please see my post #20.

Whether the Russians or the Muslims are behind the Islamofacist attacks on the FRee world is, IMHO, immaterial.

The fact is that they are occurring, and must be stopped.

If the Islamofacists succeed in destroying Western Culture, the world will enter a period of death and destruction unlike any known to man. I, for one, do not have any intention of letting that happen on my watch.

I may not be able to do much, but I am ready, willing and able to do whatever I can to prevent that, including taking up arms, to defend my life, my family's life and my country FRom these thugs and to ensure that the Western Culture survives the war we are waging against them.

"Black Muslim leaders like Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam, for example, have publicly expressed their hatred of America-and could easily function as a Fifth Column inside the U.S."

Well, go figure. All them folks that have publicly proclaimed their disdain for the U.S. need to find themselves a new abode-perhaps Cuba. Castro would be quite happy to take care of their maggot mouths.

"Whether the Russians or the Muslims are behind the Islamofacist attacks on the FRee world is, IMHO, immaterial."

I appreciate what you're saying about your willingness to fight, and if need be sacrifice in the fight against this Islamofascist threat.

But do you really, when you think about it, believe that it does not matter if the Russians are behind these attacks? It is true that we have to deal with the Islamofascist attacks either way. But can't you envision some pretty important strategic considerations that come in to play if the Russians are behind it?

The most fundamental aspect is that if the Russians are behind it, we can start to prove it, and then we can start to pressure them directly to stop it. Doesn't this sound more promising to you than dealing with one proxy attack after another and never addressing the source, while the Russians go scot-free?

Since you put it that way, yes. That is, of course, if the Russians are really behind the Islamofacist terrorism the world is experiencing.

And we should root out and attack (either diplomatically or militarily) any other country that supports and encourages Islamofacist terrorism.

Just as DubYah said we would.

Saudi Arabia, for example, has spent (I believe) $18,000,000,000.00 (yeah, Billion!) building Whahabbi Mosques and schools in the US. I do not believe that the Whahabbi sect of Islam is very FRiendly to the West.

What to do about them?

If you want to be even more shocked, go to the NOI website and read some of the racist, hate-mongering crap they have there. I called and emailed them but got no response. The garbage is still there.

I think everyone here feels the same as I do, in that this is a very fine line we're dealing with here. This leads me to another of my rambling thoughts.
I do not condone, nor would I ever participate in the bombing of an abortion clinic. I do however believe that abortion is the murder of innocents. Therefore I understand why some feel driven to do so. I get sick to my stomach if I dwell on the activities inside one of those places. Many of those who do commit those acts of violence do so (wrongly I believe) in the name of God. I mention this only because I see some similarity between that and what the Muslims are doing, and both have to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. This allows us to justify going after violent Muslims without saying their religion is the reason.
Does that make sense, or am I way off the mark.

I firmly believe that abortion is murder, and is only "appropriate" in certain dire situations -- i.e., rape, incest, life of mother (REALLY!) in danger, etc.

HST, I do not condone nor would I participate in a violent protest at an abortion clinic, either.

But I would not lump the anti-abortion crowd with the Islamofacists -- both are evil, IMHO, but on a far different level. While the one targets specific individuals and commits a criminal act, the other targets whole societies and commits an act of war.

There is a world of difference between the two.

"Saudi Arabia, for example, has spent (I believe) $18,000,000,000.00 (yeah, Billion!) building Whahabbi Mosques and schools in the US. I do not believe that the Whahabbi sect of Islam is very FRiendly to the West.

What to do about them?"

Yes, Saudi Arabia is a tough one. In terms of the Wahhibi mosques in the United States, I believe we should pass a law making such a mosque illegal in the United States. This may require a constitutional amendment in reference to the phrase: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..." The amendment defining possible exceptions would be pretty specific: banning religious establishments that advocate terrorism, advocate the destruction of the United States of America, etc. (I'll admit, I'm not a constitutional scholar or even a lawyer.)

In terms of the larger Saudi problem, realistically we are probably going to compromise with them as long as we are so dependent on oil. I would advocate an accelerated program of building safe nuclear reactors to help reduce that dependency dramatically (admittedly this program would not start to have an effect for about 10 years).

"If you want to be even more shocked, go to the NOI website and read some of the racist, hate-mongering crap they have there. I called and emailed them but got no response. The garbage is still there."

I believe you but have no desire to see it.

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