Posted on 09/25/2009 8:35:57 AM PDT by IbJensen
Purported non Muslim Barack Hussein Obama made a presidential appointment of Muslim Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Arif Alikhan for a top job at the federal Department of Homeland Security. In his new job, Arif Alikhan will be Assistant Secretary for the Office of Policy Development at the Department of Homeland Security. Alikhan has been Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles--in charge of public safety for the city.
Why Muslim Alikhan at the Department of Homeland Security you might ask? DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said Alikhan’s “broad and impressive array of experience in national security, emergency preparedness, and counterterrorism will make him an asset”--yes, but on behalf of the U.S. or Muslims? I am not sure what she is talking about and she probably doesn’t know either. www.indiawest.com/readmore.aspx?id=1132&Sid=1
Alikhan says a big part of his job will be fostering communication between agencies. Alikhan, like Obama, also wants to help improve America’s image with Muslims around the world. He will now set policy on security at the highest levels of the federal government. But what policies has the new Assistant Secretary embraced?
During his years in Los Angeles, Alikhan was responsible for derailing the Police Department’s plan to monitor activities within the Los Angeles Muslim community, where numerous radical mosques and madrassas existed, and where some of the 9/11 hijackers had received support from local residents.
Alikhan is strongly anti-Israel; he has referred to the terrorist organization Hezbollah as a “liberation movement.” Hezbollah is on the U.S. official terrorist list while being an affiliate of the Muslim Public Affairs Council. Alikhan also opposed President George W. Bush’s prosecution of the war on Islamic terror.
In 2007, Alikhan was instrumental in removing the Muslim terror tracking plan in Los Angeles. The Muslim '‘Mapping’' Plan of the Los Angeles Police Department is now “dead on arrival” according to Chief William Bratton. “It is over and not just put on the side,” said Chief Bratton in a meeting with the Muslim leadership of Southern California at that time. The meeting was moderated by Arif Alikhan.
Chief Bratton acknowledged the hurt and offense caused to Muslims and agreed to send a letter to the Muslim community announcing the official termination of the ‘'mapping’' plan.
A major reason for the termination of the '‘mapping’' plan was the Muslim community’s vociferous opposition and active civic engagement in making themselves heard beyond Los Angeles. Muslim organizations demonstrated a strong unity of purpose and message on the issue of ‘'mapping’' that led to a position of strength for Muslims in the meeting. Those involved in the initial phases of this controversy were the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California http://www.shuracouncil.org/ and the Council on American-Islamic Relations http://www.cair.com/ , the Muslim Public Affairs arm.
Muslim Democrats welcomed Alikhan’s appointment at a banquet/fundraiser for the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California recently where the first speaker was Arif Alikhan, a devout Sunni and the son of Pakistani immigrants, www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,505573,00 .
Other speakers included Professor Agha Saeed of the American Muslim Task Force (AMT) who spoke about “the struggle of the Muslim Community against the pervasive atmosphere of Islamophobia and hatred in the aftermath of 9/11. It was a struggle against the tide--a very strong tide--to prevent Muslims in America from being marginalized and silenced.”
Professor Saeed issued five demands from Muslims to the Department of Justice. These demands included a cessation to the infiltration by spies of mosques and an end to the introduction of agents provocateur. In addition there was to be a cessation of attempts to undermine Muslim groups such as the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). Un-indicted co-conspirator CAIR was thrilled at the appointment: www.us4arabs.com/content/view/1590/31/
Last week, Napolitano swore in Damascus-born Kareem Shora, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)’s national executive director, to a position on the Homeland Security Advisory Council, an outside-the-department group of national security experts that advises the Secretary. Shora is the first Arab rights advocate on the panel. Shora has with ties to terror backers www.creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2009/06another-jihad-nominee-atdept-of-homeland-security/
One may wonder how does an obscure (but Democrat) bureaucrat and devout Muslim come to the position of Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles--in charge of public safety for the city and now becomes Assistant Secretary to DHS under purported non Muslim Democrat President Barack Hussein Obama?
Does anyone in this country have the cajones to put a stop to this President? We continually allow our country to get slapped in the face at every turn. This has got to stop!
I’m sorry, but I cannot agree with the sentiment that religious belief, even one as wrong as being a Muslim, should disqualify you from employment in law enforcement, the military, or DHS, or other jobs where you are expected to defend America.
It is too broad a brush in my opinion. I know that others strongly believe that no Muslim can be trusted at all; of course, I know people who believe the same about certain types of Christians, or Mormons, or Jews, or people of other faiths.
It is a downside to a pluralistic society that respects freedom of religion, that this means having to turn a somewhat blind eye to what we know to be belief in false religions, lest people who dislike our religions use our precedent to equally discriminate against us.
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Allah hu akbar
(firing my AK47 in the air)
Lelelelelelelalalalalalalalala...
And in a few years, we’ll hear breaking news about how Arif Alikhan has been arrested for passing sensitive information on to islamic terror groups.
That bast*rd is going to turn us into a Muslim country - just watch ...
Alikhan is strongly anti-Israel; he has referred to the terrorist organization Hezbollah as a “liberation movement.” Hezbollah is on the U.S. official terrorist list while being an affiliate of the Muslim Public Affairs Council. Alikhan also opposed President George W. Bush’s prosecution of the war on Islamic terror.
NO, we dont. We will sit around and talk about until we have NOTHING left. What to do, what to do.
In the latest sign that the Muslim American community is becoming better organized and more activist, a book with the résumés of 45 successful Muslim Americans was submitted to the White House in the hopes they will be considered for some of the thousands of jobs that have yet to be filled.
Muslim Americans overwhelmingly supported Barak Obama during the campaign and community leaders, including the first Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison, want to ensure they are considered for positions in the new administration. article
Yes, you are RIGHT.
Not good. Bush appointed a few Muslims to high-level jobs in the Pentagon and elsewhere (e.g., Hesham Islam). But that was just a matter of not being seen as anti-Islam.
With Obama, I’m afraid it’s part of a considered policy of favoring Islam and undermining American defenses.
I believe you carry this a bit far. We can’t sit back and ignore what has happened in this world during the last few years. If we do, we are fools. It has been muslims that have caused distruction in the middle east. Now, all muslims aren’t bad, I agree. But enough of them have turned against the world that we must be watchful of all of them. Now they are developing Nuclear weapons. Do we wait until they use them? I don’t think so.
Friday, September 25, 2009
THIS POST CONTAINS ERRONEOUS OR UNSUBSTANTIATED INFORMATION
Obama appoints a radical Muslim to top position in the Department of Home Security
UPDATE: I posted this yesterday. Our fellow contributor Epaminondas points out that there is no actual documentary evidence that Alikhan ever supported Hezbollah.
Therefore, I believe it was wrong for me to post this, and I apologize to Mr. Alikhan. Consider this a retraction. I will not throw it down the memory hole by simply removing it from the blog, because I consider that to be a cowardly maneuver. I made a mistake, and I will man up and admit it.
Vincent Gioia
Alikhan is strongly anti-Israel; he has referred to the terrorist organization Hezbollah as a “liberation movement.” Hezbollah is on the U.S. official terrorist list while being an affiliate of the Muslim Public Affairs Council. Alikhan also opposed President George W. Bush’s prosecution of the war on Islamic terror. In 2007, Alikhan was instrumental in removing the Muslim terror tracking plan in Los Angeles. The Muslim '‘Mapping’' Plan of the Los Angeles Police Department is now “dead on arrival” according to Chief William Bratton. “It is over and not just put on the side,” said Chief Bratton in a meeting with the Muslim leadership of Southern California at that time. The meeting was moderated by Arif Alikhan.
During his years in Los Angeles, Alikhan was responsible for derailing the Police Department’s plan to monitor activities within the Los Angeles Muslim community, where numerous radical mosques and madrassas existed, and where some of the 9/11 hijackers had received support from local residents.
It's not that he is Muslim, it is that he has a history of undermining national security. And this is no broad brush, they are specifically discussing the actions of the individual(s) in question. Do you really want someone like that in a position of power in the DHS?
On page 261 of the “Audacity of Hope”, Obama wrote: “In the wake of 9/11..., I will stand with the [Muslims] should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
That is the point. Obama did say in his book, when the political winds shift, he would stand Muslim. Oh never mind, no one believed it...
Bump for later.
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