Muslim Mafia (11 page)

“They were warned by CAIR that we were coming to do a search warrant. We were pissed. It was obvious to us they knew we were coming.”

—Senior investigator, FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in Washington, recalling blown raid of a Saudi-controlled jihadi seminary
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T
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for Counter Terrorism Research has trained more than eight thousand law enforcement officers in counterterrorism methods. They include hundreds of detectives and patrol officers from the Fairfax County Police Department, which works with the National Counter Terrorism Center and has originated or aided many of the FBI’s major terrorism cases in the Washington area. Its jurisdiction includes Falls Church, Virginia, an al-Qaida hotbed.

The large northern Virginia police force contracted with the Higgins Center for training for several years without a complaint. The courses were taught by respected instructors Brian P. Fairchild, a former CIA officer who operated against radical Islamic targets in Southeast Asia and Europe, and Peter M. Leitner, a former Pentagon official who has taught at George Mason University’s National Center for Biodefense.

But in 2006, the Fairfax County PD suddenly canceled the courses and did not invite the instructors back.

“We were essentially blackballed,” Leitner recalls.
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He cites complaints from the Council on American-Islamic Relations—which like many Muslim Brotherhood front groups, publicly appears eager to cooperate with law enforcement officials while sabotaging their efforts behind the scenes.

CAIR claimed that one of the courses taught by the Higgins Center portrayed Islam in a bad light, police sources say. In at least two phone conversations, CAIR officials complained directly to Fairfax County Police Chief David Rohrer, and the chief eventually canceled the training in 2006.
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That same year, Rohrer spoke at CAIR’s annual fundraising dinner in Washington, crediting the group with “helping police departments to better understand the Muslim community.”

But the chief was being used—by the Islamist enemy. While he was breaking bread with CAIR, one of his officers working with CAIR at the time was under federal investigation for aiding and abetting terrorists.

And so was CAIR—the group from whom Rohrer was accepting phone calls and on whom he was conferring legitimacy. In fact, U.S. prosecutors at the time were adding CAIR to a list of co-conspirators in a terror scheme to funnel more than $12 million to Hamas suicide bombers and their families.

Yet CAIR persuaded the politically correct Rohrer to nix the anti-terror training, which included counterintelligence measures to help police guard against the very infiltration from terror supporters and facilitators that has taken place on Rohrer’s watch.

In fact, CAIR had help on the inside. “CAIR was successful through two Muslim officers in getting the Higgins group removed from our training curriculum,” a high-ranking FCPD official says.
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One of them was Fairfax County police sergeant Mohammad Weiss Rasool, who in 2008 pleaded guilty to illegally accessing a classified federal database to tip off a Muslim friend under surveillance as part of a terrorism investigation.

“This is precisely why Fairfax PD needs our training,” Leitner says. “They need to learn about Fifth Column activities and penetrating agents.”
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Sadly, he says, the chief appears more concerned with protecting the force from charges of “Islamophobia” than Islamist penetration.

“Let us choose tolerance over intolerance, acceptance over prejudice, and understanding over ignorance,” Rohrer intoned at CAIR’s banquet, which raised more than $600,000 and only made the job of his detectives that much harder.

Such funds aren’t used just to raise “cultural awareness,” as CAIR would have the public believe. They’re also used to raise the banner of jihad overseas, while blocking counterterrorism training and investigations at home. The chief unwittingly helped the bad guys stay in business while denying his squad valuable training.

And contrary to CAIR’s bellyaching, the Higgins Center did not teach anti-Islamic propaganda, insists the high-ranking FCPD official, who wished to go unnamed. The instructors keyed in on the militant part of Islam that’s promoting terrorism and never bashed the faith or Muslims in general.

“They came in and talked truth,” he says, noting that the human resources office had approved the course content. “They didn’t follow some PC check-off list.”

CAIR simply had an ax to grind, he says. The police department has actively worked cases against CAIR, including the investigation of former CAIR official Randall Ismail Royer, now serving twenty years in prison on terrorism-related charges.

The official says the Higgins Center’s instruction in counterterror methods, which began in 2003, was valuable to patrol officers and detectives.

“If the Fairfax County police can’t hear this,” he says, “we are diminishing our ability to be effective in this particular environment.”

WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK WILL ‘TREMBLE’

Leitner points out that one Muslim cop who complained about the training felt compelled to defend Islam’s peaceful and tolerant nature. But in doing so, ironically, he quoted a notorious Islamic extremist. He says the unidentified officer praised Maulana Maududi, the late violent Pakistani radical who preached that Islam will destroy the West.

“The objective of Islamic jihad is to put an end to the dominance of the un-Islamic systems of government and replace them with Islamic rule,” wrote Maududi, founder of Pakistan’s religious party Jamaat e-Islami.

“A time will come when capitalistic democracy will tremble for its safety in Washington and New York,” he ominously warned before the 9/11 attacks on those cities.

CAIR actually uses works by Maududi for internal training, and recommends his books as “sources of
dawah
training material,” according to a document found at its headquarters.
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Dawah
is the Muslim mission to convert others to Islam (others such as Royer, unfortunately).

The other Muslim officer who worked with CAIR to kill the Higgins Center training course happens to be from Pakistan. His name is Sergeant Naveed I. Butt, and he was Rasool’s partner on the inside. In fact, it was Butt who conducted the original employee background investigation of Rasool, who was easily hired on his recommendation.
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Essentially, a Muslim spy for the enemy was vetted by another Muslim, who as it turns out is equally suspect.

While Rasool is gone, Butt remains on the force. The son of a Pakistani government diplomat, he’s also deeply embedded with CAIR, the department official says, and openly brags about his contacts with the group.

CAIR’s guest register shows Butt traveled with Rasool to CAIR’s headquarters at least twice to meet with officials there, once in 2007 and again in 2008.
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Also, Butt arranged a critical meeting between CAIR and the director of FCPD’s criminal justice academy. The powwow took place the year before the academy canceled the Higgins Center training courses.

CAIR memorialized the meeting in an “activity report” written under the heading, “FFPD [
sic
] Training of Employees on Bias-Related Incidents.”

According to CAIR’s summary of the meeting, CAIR and other members of the Muslim mafia gave Fairfax County police academy director Major Tyrone Morrow “input in the formulation of the PD’s new bias policy regarding Muslims.” They specifically warned against “racial profiling and police misconduct.”
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They also asked to train patrol officers in the proper Islamic way to respond to domestic violence calls at Muslim residences. Instead of cuffing and stuffing batterers, they suggested police respect Islamic law and allow local Muslim clerics to sort out guilt, offering counseling where necessary. Under Islamic law, husbands have the authority to beat their wives for disobedience. Therefore, they argued, Muslim men who beat their wives should be treated different from the public at large by police.

CAIR’s three-page report notes that a video on handling “domestic violence situations involving Muslims” was prepared for Fairfax County police by CAIR and a group called FAITH,
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which runs a Muslim thrift shop located inside one of the Herndon, Virginia office buildings raided by federal agents after 9/11. FAITH is headed by a woman named Suad Barzinji, who is related to Jamal Barzinji. A senior Muslim Brotherhood leader, he was arrested in 2000 by Fairfax County police and charged with “domestic abuse and resisting arrest,” according to court records.
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Watchdogs against so-called “
Shariah
creep” warn that such politically correct policing could give amnesty to wife-beaters and keep their victims trapped in a cycle of violence.

This year’s brutal murder of Aasiya Hassan is an object lesson, they say, in why police cannot look the other way in Muslim domestic-violence cases solely to appease religious zealots like CAIR, who want to erect a parallel legal system for the Brothers.

For several years, the Buffalo, New York, woman was serially beaten by her husband, Muzzammil “Mo” Hassan, founder of Bridges TV, a Muslim cable network heavily endorsed by CAIR. She finally filed for divorce and asked police for a restraining order.

‘THE WORST FORM OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE POSSIBLE’

But a restraining order didn’t stop Hassan’s supposedly “moderate” Muslim husband from attacking her again. In a horrific final confrontation, he sawed off her head with a large hunting knife in a suspected Islamic “honor killing,” leaving their young children motherless.

“Obviously,” the local district attorney remarked after the beheading, “this is the worst form of domestic violence possible.”

Bridges TV began broadcasting in 2004. Hassan, a Pakistani immigrant who called CAIR chief Awad a friend and advisor, said he launched the network hoping to portray Muslims in a more positive light. To say he failed in that endeavor would be a howling understatement.

More than 80 percent of women in his native Pakistan suffer from domestic violence, according to ABC News. While that may be the accepted norm in Pakistan—which also happens to be Sergeant Butt’s family home—it’s a serious felony in America and throughout the civilized Western world.

Nonetheless, Butt has been shaping official department policy on behalf of the theocrats at CAIR since at least 2004, when he celebrated CAIR’s opening of its Herndon office and pledged to “lend us his support,” according to the CAIR report cited earlier.
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One of his allies in that office was none other than CAIR’s phony lawyer Jamil Morris Days, who was later accused of fraud and had to leave the organization under an ethical cloud.

Days lodged complaints against the Fairfax County police department, including one over a terror alert the department issued to local school bus drivers.

In 2007, federal law enforcement received a credible threat that Islamic extremists in the United States were planning to hijack school buses loaded with children. As a safety precaution, Fairfax County police dispatched a detective to brief local school officials and bus drivers. CAIR got wind of the meeting, which gathered together more than seventeen hundred county bus drivers, and fired off a letter to the department claiming the briefing discriminated against Muslims. It took particular exception to a Department of Homeland Security video showing Palestinian suicide bombers.

“It is my unfortunate duty to report a case of religious discrimination perpetrated by one of the officers of Fairfax County Police Department,” Days wrote, claiming the detective made “derogatory statements concerning members of Islam.”

In the future, Days demanded, CAIR will “expect officers assigned to the community not to be so biased and intolerant and insensitive” to Muslims.
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The police department’s internal affairs bureau ruled his charges “unfounded,” according to police records, and the detective, Kenneth Larson, was not disciplined. The police chief, meanwhile, received a letter signed by more than two hundred bus drivers thanking Larson for his “outstanding” presentation.
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It was yet another example of CAIR undercutting efforts by police to protect Americans—in this case schoolchildren—from Islamic terrorists.

Even more maddening to career law enforcement officials is that some of their own officers, including Sergeant Butt, are helping CAIR undermine their efforts to investigate suspicious activity in the Muslim community and keep the post-9/11 public informed about threats.

“The problem is, we’re letting Muslim officers dictate policy and determine what we will and won’t hear” about the threat from militant Islam and jihadists, says the high-ranking Fairfax County police official.

“These officers are advocates for CAIR,” he adds, “and we’re letting them win.”

And Chief Rohrer is letting more of them into the department. He’s promised the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors to continue diversifying the police force to reflect the county’s changing demographics, which now include some of the heaviest concentrations of Muslims in the nation. This of course is music to the ears of the subversives at CAIR.

MUSLIM MOLES INSIDE THE NYPD?

CAIR may have also infiltrated law enforcement agencies in New York.

In August 2007, the president of the Brooklyn-based Islamic Officers Benevolent Association pledged his undying support to CAIR. “As Muslims and law enforcement officers, we are prepared to support your field operations in New York,” wrote Michael G. Kilpatrick, aka Abdul Saboor, in a letter to CAIR research director Mohamed Nimer found among the files at CAIR’s headquarters.
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