Posted on 03/05/2015 4:20:58 PM PST by SJackson
Is the State Dept’s New Muslim Run Office Promoting Anti-Semitism?
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On March 4, 2015 @ 11:02 am In The Point | 14 Comments
The Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications, best known for its Think Again Turn Away Twitter account, has a new boss, Rashad Hussein.
Hussain spoke at a conference sponsored by the Association of Muslim Social Scientists, which was listed in an internal Muslim Brotherhood document as one of “our organizations and the organizations of our friends,” and the Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding of Georgetown University, which receives Saudi funding and is directed by prominent Muslim Brotherhood advocate, John Esposito.
In September 2004, Hussain played a role in the Muslim Students Association’s annual conference, which was founded by Muslim Brotherhood in 1963 and is also listed as one the group’s fronts in its own documents. Since then, many of its nearly 600 college chapters have engaged in extremism and the group closely collaborates with the other Brotherhood fronts….
At this conference, Hussain spoke alongside the daughter of Professor Sami Al-Arian, who was convicted of being a key leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group and later admitted to being a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Hussain also defended Al-Arian and described his prosecution as being a “politically-motivated persecution.”
Now that Twitter account has sent out a problematic link.
The State Department’s counterterrorism office is facing pushback after promoting recent remarks by a Muslim cleric who blamed regional unrest in the Middle East on what he called a “conspiracy” by a “new global colonialism allied to world Zionism.”
The State Department’s official anti-terrorism Twitter account last week tweeted out remarks made by a leading Muslim cleric who, during a speech in Mecca, linked terrorism by the Islamic State (IS) to a plot by supporters of Israel around the world.
Al-Azhar Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayeb, a leading voice in Sunni Islam, made the comments during a counter-terrorism rally held in the Muslim holy city last week, according to AFP.
Al-Tayeb “blamed unrest in the region on a conspiracy by what he called ‘new global colonialism allied to world Zionism,’” according to the AFP report, which was linked to by the State Department’s Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications (CSCC).
What is particularly startling is that the Tweet went directly to an article containing Al-Tayeb’s comments so they were certainly aware of what they were tweeting.
Multiple State Department officials did not respond to requests for comment on al-Tayeb’s comments about Zionism and the reasons why the CSCC tweeted the article referring to the speech.
The State Department’s counter-terror organs have faced criticism in recent months for linking to and endorsing controversial clerics, as well as materials that have called jihad “noble.”
Maybe they should adopt their own motto: Think Again.
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Yes, if they're distributing links to antisemitic material they're promoting antisemitism.
do bears defecate in the woods?
is the pope a Jesuit?
Perfect, just keep giving them more rope and they will hang themselves.
Haven’t seen a Muslim yet that can contain the “Joo-Hate”
The Obama administration is totally infested with Muslims and Muslim sympathizers along with the entrenched Marxists brought in over the last generation or two. It will take a flushing out of tidal wave proportion to make a dent.
Now THAT would be a big surprise.....
Obama must be removed before it’s too late.
Duh
Sure. It’s been 15 years and we are well into dhimmitude. Our entire ruling class is basically Muslim in outlook if not in fact.
Newt was right, State needs to be scrubbed from top to bottom. They have their own agenda, though in this case I doubt it differs from their boss.
*8Is the State Dept’s New Muslim Run Office Promoting Anti-Semitism? **
I never dreamed I would see that headline in the United States.
Of course, these people haven’t visited Aushwitz or Dachau either.
Hmm. Our state department is anti-Israel.
We are so toast.
Let's break out the big guns and do the planet a favor.
Now, THIS is the kind of cleaning the U.S. Department of States needs...burn ‘em out and no prisoners.
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