The Defense Contractors of Islam

One of the more peculiar twists in the caliphate’s tale is that a sizable amount of the funding for Islamic propaganda aimed at Americans comes from Muslim-owned defense contractors.

Sabtech Industries recently made the news when it lost its security clearance after some suspicious donations to Muslim charities cost its president, Rahim Sabadia, his security clearance. Sabtech’s work on upgrading the Navy’s AEGIS system on warships put it at the nerve center of one of the most important defense technologies in the United States.

The real question, though, is not how Rahim Sabadia lost his security clearance, but how he got it in the first place. Sabadia was foreign born and had close ties to Pakistan as a member of (COPA) the Council of Pakistan-American Affairs. After being stopped on his return trip from Turkey, he used his favorite congressman to introduce a bill allowing people with their names on no fly lists to have them removed.

Through the Sabadia Family Foundation, Rahim was a major funder of CAIR to the tune of a quarter of a million dollars and also sits on the board of the One Nation Foundation, which exists to promote the confusingly dual proposition that Muslims are persecuted in America and that they are loyal Americans.

Please post this again every day for about a week.

It really needs to sink in.

It should be emailed to news outlets as much as possible, as well as to as many in Congress as possible as often as possible.

IMHO.

I worked for an American subsidiary of the French company Schlumberger. We had top secret contracts and I never had the slightest doubt that the security rules were observed and that the technology would remain the sole property of the US government customer.

Then, I worked for an Israeli owned (now out of business) US subsidiary with defense contracts. The Israeli engineers and management openly talked about obtaining the secret V chip (GPS decoder), flying it to Israel and copying it.

The difference of whether the United States can trust foreign ownership or not is purely one of culture. The French were businessmen first and all else was secondary. The Israelis were looking to curry favor with management, obtain “bonuses” and secure their personal standing at the company; all else be damned. Management was happy to accept any gifts that came their way and facilitated the gift giving whenever it had the opportunity. Bribes and under-table personal payments are part of the culture and are not only proper, they’re expected. To an Israeli who had access to technology that his company could use and then to not provide it would be unethical. (At least this was true among the Israelis I worked with.)

I’ve never worked for an Islamic led business, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the culture is similar to the Israeli attitude.

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