Muslim Mafia (41 page)
Authors: Paul Sperry
Patrick Sookhdeo, a London scholar and
Shariah
finance expert, says such pressure tactics have worked frighteningly well for the Brotherhood in Britain, which has become a mecca for
Shariah
finance while suffering rapid Islamization.
“Islamic banking and finance is but one of the multiple tools they use to further their cause,” Sookhdeo says. “It is economic jihad, a key and integrated part of the larger civilizational jihad.”
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He elaborates that
Shariah
finance accords with the Brotherhood’s wider “vision of the overthrow of non-Islamic systems and the establishment of a pan-Islamic
caliphate
that will rule the earth.”
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Meanwhile, NAIT and other Brotherhood front groups are lobbying Congress and the Treasury Department to change banking rules to accommodate Islamic financing principles in everything from stock investments to mortgages to insurance.
Recently, Treasury has encouraged the groups by taking conciliatory steps in their direction.
ISLAMIC FINANCE 101
For example: After acquiring a majority stake in failed insurance giant AIG—the U.S. market leader in
Shariah
-compliant financial products—Treasury co-sponsored a forum entitled “Islamic Finance 101.”
Major Stephen Coughlin, a Pentagon consultant and expert in Islamic doctrine, argues that the government’s ownership of AIG may be unconstitutional since it tacitly supports the practice of
Shariah,
and
Shariah
is a separate legal system at odds with the law of the land.
“If politicians and the Treasury make an exception to U.S. law and allow
Shariah
-compliant finance,” he says, “they are disobeying their oath to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution.”
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A public-interest law firm agrees, and is suing the department claiming that government ownership of AIG is an unconstitutional government “establishment” of Islam. The Thomas More Law Center also argues there are a number of links between charities that receive funds as a result of
Shariah
-compliant financing and “terrorist organizations that are hostile to the United States.”
Indeed, a share of the proceeds from
Shariah
-compliant investments is automatically transferred to Islamic charities, many of which finance jihad.
An elite group of
Shariah
advisors determines how much of the proceeds will be “purified,” and which charities will be the beneficiaries. Who are these gurus? Radical Muslim Brothers who support jihad.
One leading
Shariah
advisor, Muhammad Usmani, advocates aggressive jihad against infidels. Fiercely anti-American, he has urged all Muslims to support the Taliban.
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Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who sits on the international advisory board, is an open supporter of suicide bombings, including those targeting U.S. troops. He thinks Islamic charity should be spent on jihad. In fact, the Brotherhood leader says he prefers to call such donations “jihad with money, because Allah has ordered us to fight enemies with our lives and our money.”
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CHECKERED BOARD
One of NAIT’s founding directors is Jamal Barzinji, a major Brotherhood figure who has a criminal record and has been the subject of post-9/11 terror financing investigations. According to federal court documents cited earlier, Barzinji is “not only closely associated with PIJ (Palestinian Islamic Jihad) but also with Hamas.”
The FBI has identified Barzinji as a key Brotherhood radical who is “in a position to direct the activities and support of Muslims in the U.S. for the Islamic revolution.”
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What’s more, current NAIT Chairman Muzammil Siddiqi appears in secret Brotherhood documents as a high-ranking member of its
shura
council.
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And current NAIT Trustee Gaddoor Saidi shows up on the Justice Department’s list of unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation scheme to fund Hamas terrorists.
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NAIT has established several Islamic mutual funds, including the Iman (Arabic for faith) Fund and Saturna Capital’s Amana (Arabic for trust) Growth Fund and Amana Income Fund, which have combined assets of more than $1 billion. About half of the seventy thousand investors who buy the funds through financial advisors aren’t Muslim.
Caveat emptor
: Investing in NAIT’s financial empire may mean investing in the holy war against the United States.
“Within the organizational structure of NAIT, there have been numerous groups and individuals identified as being part of a covert network of revolutionaries,” the FBI warned in a previously classified internal memo about the Muslim Brotherhood.
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“This faction of Muslims have declared war on the United States, Israel, and any other country they deem as an enemy of Islam,” the memo continues. “The common bond between these various organizations is both religious and political, with the underlying common goal being to further the holy war [Islamic jihad].”
BACK TO BASICS
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MERICA’S GREATEST CHALLENGE
in this ongoing national security threat is our reluctance to admit that our law enforcement agencies are some fifty years behind the intelligence gathering techniques of Islamic terrorist groups and their agents such as CAIR and ISNA.
Many readers will scoff at this notion. America has spent billions of dollars on electronic surveillance and data collection. Law enforcement has the best gadgets known to mankind. Officers today have better surveillance equipment than any other law enforcement agency in the world. And its sophistication is generations ahead of anything used by al-Qaida.
But our first-line defenders at the local, state, and federal levels have become so technologically advanced that they have lost sight of the common sense, street-wise approaches to law enforcement that work best in disrupting terrorist plots and dismantling terror-support networks. These approaches include basics such as talking to people on the street, and studying habits and customs to gain clues about tactics used by the bad guys. Infiltrating their culture and community is key to getting the jump on them.
For robberies, homicides, narcotics, and white-collar fraud cases, keep the Blackberries, laptops, and night vision goggles. Fighting Islamic jihadists, on the other hand, requires learning their mindset, ideology, and tactics. CAIR and other jihadist front groups block the real training officers need. In fact, their “sensitivity” training is designed to throw sand in their eyes.
For starters, police chiefs, sheriffs, and FBI special agents in charge must refocus their efforts on self-study of the materials used by the enemy. If al-Qaida manuals and jihadi literature detailing how to fight the West are produced in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia, then it’s incumbent upon our police forces to get these materials.
Note: They are available in virtually every U.S. mosque or Islamic bookstore. Focus on the Sunni materials first
.
Next, start relying on Human Intelligence (HUMINT). This does not have to be limited to recruiting criminal informants to obtain counterterrorism intelligence. Use your own officers after they’ve been properly trained. Islamic groups and scholars—and the FBI officials they’ve brainwashed—will tell you the Islamist ideology is very complicated. And they will tell you that if you’re not Muslim, or haven’t lived in an Islamic country, or don’t speak Arabic, then you or your informants will not understand what to look for if they conduct an undercover operation in the local Islamic center.
This is what CAIR and the rest of the Muslim mafia want officers to believe. But don’t buy it. Jihadism is not rocket science. There are telltale signs to watch for when identifying radicalism. And you don’t need sophisticated tools to help you detect them, according to veteran federal investigator P. David Gaubatz:
The first-hand research my team and I conducted within CAIR and in nearly two hundred U.S. mosques across the U.S. is very basic. During the training of my researchers, I provided them the kind of old-school training that veteran law enforcement officers have used going back decades. These time-tested methods rely on common sense, street smarts, and the most basic of equipment (pen and notebook), combined with the ability to handle stress in a hostile environment. We had little funding and basic equipment. But my researchers had the ability to adapt quickly to various situations; they utilized basic skills such as human communication. They were very personable, and did not portray themselves to be above others or to know more than they actually did.
Gaubatz stresses humility:
Oftentimes law enforcement officers who work undercover have a hard time checking their egos. Criminals see through this very quickly. When conducting undercover operations, you must realize you most likely do not know as much about your target as they know about the illegal work they are conducting. Build rapport with them. People love to talk about their jobs and accomplishments. Even Corey Saylor and Ibrahim Hooper, who are trained to say as little as possible to people outside CAIR’s inner circle, will talk when they do not feel intimidated or threatened. Abide by their
Shariah
law, and always be professional and respectful.
All the while searching out clues to extremism and radical behavior:
Investigators and the public, just as importantly, should understand that Muslims who follow the most violent aspects of
Shariah
law adhere to very specific rituals, habits, and styles of dress that to the untrained eye appear otherwise harmless. But they are red flags signaling extremism. Within
Shariah
law, Muslims must always do everything opposite their enemies the Christians and the Jews. For instance:
If a Muslim wears a beard it should be a fistful in length, but the mustache should be trimmed because this would be opposite the style of the Christians and Jews.
Shariah
compliant by their dress. Their robes, for example, will more than likely be cut above the ankle and contain black stitching.
Their robes, for example, will more than likely be cut above the ankle and contain black stitching.
These are just a few examples of the practical tips law enforcement authorities can arm themselves with before knocking on doors in the Muslim community—as opposed to the politically correct disinformation they’ve received in “cultural-awareness” classes organized by CAIR and other fronts for the bad guys.
U.S. law enforcement must take a more proactive role investigating organizations and people linked to terrorism. We’re still handling terrorism in a traditional law enforcement way that is predicated on the bad guys acting first, which is reactionary—and always tragic.
That’s minimizing the casualties after the fact.
That’s restoring order.
That’s returning the damaged buildings and property to some form of usefulness.
That’s preparing after-action reports.
That’s holding endless hearings on what went wrong.
In short, that’s having a nice funeral.
We can no longer afford to have that kind of mindset. We shouldn’t have to bleed more to get leaders to change. We’ve already bled enough.
We need to give law enforcement—the case agents, the detectives, the beat cops—tools to collect predictive intelligence on the bad guys. And not just when the threat level is high—but all the time—because the bad guys never stop casing, infiltrating, scheming, and plotting. Recall that eight full years elapsed between the botched 1993 World Trade Center bombing and 9/11 when the terrorists returned to finish the job.
They’re relentless, and law enforcement must constantly poke and prod them and cause them to daylight; then take them out of the picture with whatever charges stick—tax fraud, visa fraud, money-laundering, perjury, obstruction. Whatever will hold up in court. Lock them up, deport them, put them out of business.
Our children deserve leaders who are proactive, who won’t be known for heroic activities performed only after responding to a terrorist event they could have prevented. It’s madness to continue to allow known terrorists and their supporters to operate inside America.
Ferreting them out and shutting them down requires going back to the basics. Cut the political red tape. Learn the enemy’s playbook. And most important, put the basic investigative work back in the hands of the street agents and detectives.
Maybe then we can honestly hope to stop another child—Muslim, Christian, Jewish, or any other belief—from becoming the victim of another major terrorist attack or possibly even worse, a country controlled more by
Shariah
law than our Constitution.