By Paul Sperry, Investor's Business Daily
The radical Muslim Brotherhood doesn't just threaten Israel and
Mideast peace. According to the Egyptian press, several of its
operatives have infiltrated the U.S. government and are influencing
policy here.
The respected Egyptian magazine Rose al-Youssef has identified at
least six Brotherhood-tied agents of influence who have worked into
positions inside the Obama administration.
The weekly publication, founded in 1925, said the operatives have
turned the White House "from a position hostile to Islamic groups and
organizations in the world to the largest and most important supporter
of the Muslim Brotherhood," an Egyptian-based jihadist movement that
supports Hamas and al-Qaida.
President Obama backed the Brotherhood's takeover of Egypt and has
courted its front groups in America. Secret Service records show their
representatives making hundreds of visits to the White House since 2009.
"The Brotherhood in America is committed to destroying the West from
within. It has spent half a
century building a considerable infrastructure here (largely with Saudi
funding). Unfortunately, our government has done much to empower
the Brotherhood's American network under the guise of 'Islamic
outreach.'"
- Andrew McCarthy, former federal prosecutor, who prosecuted the Blind Sheikh, citing
secret documents unearthed by the FBI after 9/11
The lengthy Rose al-Youssef article, translated from Arabic by the
Washington-based Investigative Project on Terrorism, is largely
unsourced.
But ex-FBI agents who have investigated the Brotherhood's influence
operations inside the U.S. confirm some of those named in the story have
come under scrutiny.
They include:
• Mohamed Elibiary, a Homeland Security
adviser who came under congressional fire for improperly accessing a
federal database. The Egyptian magazine says he's helped shape the
administration's counterterror strategy, including censoring FBI
training materials dealing with jihad.
It also alleges he helped draft Obama's remarks calling for former
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to leave power. Mubarak had banned the
Brotherhood as a terrorist group.
• Rashad Hussain, former White House
lawyer and now Obama's special envoy to the Muslim world. Hussain, who
has defended convicted terrorist Sami al-Arian and other U.S.
Brotherhood leaders, helped draft Obama's conciliatory speech in Cairo,
where he invited banned Brotherhood leaders.
• Arif Alikhan, former assistant
Homeland Security secretary for policy development and now a
distinguished visiting professor of homeland security and
counterterrorism at the National Defense University. As a Los Angeles
city official, Alikhan worked with the Brotherhood-tied Muslim Public
Affairs Council to derail police efforts to monitor radical mosques.
• Imam Mohamed Magid, another Homeland
Security adviser, who heads the Islamic Society of North America, or
ISNA, a Brotherhood front named by the Justice Department as an
unindicted co-conspirator in a criminal plot to raise millions for
Hamas.
Longtime ISNA board member Sayyid Syeed is captured in a new
documentary, "The Grand Deception," saying to fellow American Muslims:
"Our job is to change the Constitution of America."
Brotherhood agents posing as "moderate" Muslim leaders — such as
now-jailed al-Qaida fundraiser Abdurahman Alamoudi — have successfully
infiltrated previous administrations. But law enforcement officials say
Brotherhood infiltration is more extensive and alarming under Obama.
"The level of penetration in the last three administrations is deep,"
former FBI special agent John Guandolo said. "For this president, it
even goes back to his campaign with Muslim Brotherhood folks working
with him then."
Equally alarming, he says, the group also has placed several
operatives and sympathizers within the U.S. military, further
threatening national security. Guandolo says the government has ID'd
hundreds of Brotherhood and Hamas fronts inside the U.S. but has shut
down only a few due to political pressures.
"The Muslim Brotherhood controls about 500 organizations that are
overt NGOs," he said. "That means they're running thousands of covert
organizations we don't know about and nobody's monitoring."
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, has called for an investigation of the
network and its influence on the federal government, particularly
related to its support for the new Cairo regime.
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