The push to place Muslims in elective offices. My latest in FrontPage:
Editor’s note: In this monograph, Robert Spencer reveals the disquieting agenda and goals of those who are working hard to get Muslims elected to political office at the national, state, and local level. He shows how this initiative is gaining ground despite the frank anti-Americanism of Ilhan Omar and others – or is it because of that anti-Americanism?
Building power
“Invest in building power for Muslims in politics,” is the invitation from the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) in a tweet on May 23, 2020, which features a photo of a smiling Salam al-Marayati, MPAC’s President and co-founder, with the notorious Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Ca.).[1] “We ensure that Muslim voices are heard by decision-makers in Washington, DC,” the tweet also says, “and we work diligently with policymakers like Rep. Adam Schiff to advocate for legislation that protects our communities.”[2]
To those who are aware of Adam Schiff’s central role in the attempt to frame President Trump for an impeachable offense and railroad him out of office, MPAC’s upbeat declaration of civic engagement was hardly reassuring. Even more disturbing was the fact that the stated goal was not something to the effect of “Help Muslims begin to participate in the American political process,” much less anything such as “Encourage Muslims to assimilate and adopt American values,” but “invest in building power for Muslims in politics.”
Building power. It is not unreasonable to surmise from this language that MPAC, at very least, appears to be aiming toward establishing a Muslim bloc in American politics, one that will wield power and influence with its Muslim identity at the forefront, contending for candidates and policies that it deems to be in line with Islamic teachings and values.
While there are many organizations in the United States defending their own group’s interests, MPAC’s endeavor is different from the others in that Islamic law, Sharia, is authoritarian by nature, denying the freedom of speech, as well as aggressive, expansionist, and supremacist. In its classic formulations, Islamic law denies equality of rights to women and non-Muslims, and allows for a host of practices that are incompatible in numerous with American principles and customs; discussion of these issues, however, has been effectively silenced by charges of “Islamophobia” and “bigotry,” not least from al-Marayati and MPAC itself.
Ann Corcoran of Refugee Resettlement Watch asked pointed questions in November 2019, after another Islamic advocacy group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), sent out a press release celebrating the large number of Muslims who had just been elected to various offices. “One might wonder,” Corcoran wrote, “as I did here in 2007 why if refugees and Muslim migrants of all stripes were eager to assimilate did they need to place their people (representing their religion) into local, state and federal government? And, just imagine, I asked then, if we would blatantly say—we want Catholics, Jews, other Christians as our leaders—wouldn’t all hell break loose in the media? Yet, no one seems to care if CAIR says we are electing our people, Muslims, everywhere we can!”[3]
Becoming dominant
Yet there is ample cause to be concerned about this. Not a few Muslim leaders in the United States have been quite clear about their long-term goals and intentions, including Omar Ahmad, CAIR’s co-founder and longtime Board chairman, who once said in an unguarded moment: “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”[4]
When confronted about these words, Ahmad vehemently denied saying them; however, the original reporter, Lisa Gardiner of the Fremont Argus, hardly a hardline “Islamophobe” with an axe to grind, stood by her story.[5]
What’s more, CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper once said: “I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.”[6]
Meanwhile, according to a captured internal document, the Muslim Brotherhood (to which all the major Muslim groups in the US, including CAIR, are linked) is dedicated in its own words to “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within, and sabotaging its miserable house….so that it falls, and Allah’s religion is victorious over other religions.”[7]
Then there was the Washington, DC imam Abdul Alim Musa, who declared in 2007 that he wanted to “establish an Islamic State of America by 2050.”[8]
Record numbers
Whether the drive to elect as many Muslim candidates to office as possible is part of the effort to make Islam “dominant” in the United States, or is rather a healthy manifestation of Muslim assimilation, it has been gathering steam in recent years. NPR reported in July 2018 that “a record number of Muslim Americans ran for statewide or national office this election cycle, the most since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, made Islam a political target for many, according to Muslim political groups. The Muslim civil rights group, Emgage, estimates that as many as 100 Muslims filed to run for elected office this year. Of those 100, about 50 Muslim-American candidates remain more than midway through the primary season…which is significantly higher than the dozen that ran in 2016.”[9]
NPR claimed that this was because of “Islamophobia” and Donald Trump: “Many of the candidates say they were motivated by growing anti-Muslim sentiment in the U.S., inspired by President Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric and policies. ‘I’m running for office because I felt a dire need to help the community,’ says Saima Farooqui, who, if elected, would be the first Muslim representative in the Florida statehouse [she lost]. ‘[Trump] has kind of ignited the minorities to be together and stand with each other and to make a difference.’”[10] The Washington Post agreed, running a story with the headline “The blue Muslim wave: American Muslims launch political campaigns, hope to deliver ‘sweet justice’ to Trump.”[11]
The Post and NPR were not alone. This unprecedented number of Muslim candidates received abundant and enthusiastic attention from the establishment media. The Associated Press announced happily in July 2019: “Record number of Muslim Americans make bids for elected office.”[12] Despite the evidence to the contrary that was right before their faces in the very fact of these candidacies themselves, some media outlets still did their best to portray Muslims as the victims of widespread discrimination and harassment in the United States. The Seattle Times headline for AP’s story was “Muslims run for office in record numbers but the path is uphill.”[13] Minnesota’s Star-Tribune headlined the same story: “Muslim candidates running in record numbers face backlash.”[14] The article laments that “the path to victory can be tougher for a Muslim American. Some promising campaigns already have fizzled out while many more face strong anti-Muslim backlash.”[15]
As an example of this backlash, the AP offered the claim that “in Michigan, Democrat candidate for governor Abdul El-Sayed continues to face unfounded claims from a GOP rival that he has ties to the controversial Muslim Brotherhood, even though Republican and Democratic politicians alike have denounced the accusations as ‘conspiracy theories.’”[16]
However, it was not simply a “conspiracy theory” that, as the Christian Post reported, “while a student at the University of Michigan, El-Sayed was ‘an active member’ and vice-president of the Muslim Students’ Association (MSA) – a group founded mainly by members of the Muslim Brotherhood for the express purpose of spreading Wahhabist ideology — an austere form of Islam that insists on literal interpretation of the Quran and views those who disagree as enemies.
The MSA bills itself as a networking and support group for Muslim students. But according to terrorism expert Patrick Poole, the MSA ‘has been a virtual terror factory. Time after time after time again, we see these terrorists . . . MSA leaders, MSA presidents, MSA national presidents — who’ve been implicated, charged and convicted in terrorist plots.’”[17]
Yet throughout El-Sayed’s unsuccessful gubernatorial bid, his campaign refused to address suspicions about his connections to the Muslim Brotherhood except to charge those raising concerns with “Islamophobia.”[18]
In reality, there was abundant reason to be concerned about the priorities and even the loyalties of Muslim candidates, given the fact that mainstream Islamic teaching holds that one’s allegiance to Islam, and to the worldwide Islamic community (umma), transcends all other loyalties, including one’s loyalty to one’s nation. Whenever such concerns arose, they were buried under accusations of “Islamophobia,” and legitimate concerns were ignored.
The strange case of Ammar Campa-Najjar
Take, for example, Ammar Campa-Najjar, a Democratic candidate for a California Congressional seat. Campa-Najjar is not a Muslim at all, but a Christian; nevertheless, he has earned a place in these considerations with his questionable statements about his grandfather. In October 2018, Joel Pollack reported in Breitbart that Campa-Najjar “deleted an Instagram post in which he referred to his grandfather, Palestinian terrorist Muhammad Yousef al-Najjar, as a ‘legend.’ Muhammad Yousef al-Najjar was ‘a senior member of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September that murdered 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics,’ according to the Times of Israel, and a deputy for Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat.”[19]
The Breitbart report added: “Earlier this year, when Campa-Najjar’s roots were first reported, he condemned his grandfather’s actions and supported peace. But in a 2015 Instagram post praising his father, who is a former Palestinian Authority (PA) official and Palestinian ambassador, Campa-Najjar referred to his grandfather as a ‘legend.’ He offered no criticism or condemnation of his grandfather’s terrorist acts. Breitbart News reported the existence of that Instagram post on Monday, as well as another in which he noted that his family was close to Yasser Arafat’s.”[20]
What’s more, Campa-Najjar “received a campaign donation from a Palestinian ambassador; and donated campaign funds to a radical group, CAIR, while taking donations from CAIR officials. Breitbart News reported earlier this week that Campa-Najjar’s campaign made a ‘civic donation’ of $650.00 to CAIR in 2017, and that he had received nearly $9,000 from CAIR officials. Breitbart News had reached out to Campa-Najjar’s campaign Tuesday to ask about his appearance on the ‘top ten’ list of political candidates who had received contributions from ‘Islamist’ sources, as compiled by the Middle East Forum’s ‘Islamist Money in Politics’ (IMIP) project. (Campa-Najjar himself is a Christian, of mixed Palestinian and Mexican-American origin.)”[21]
The money from CAIR is a matter of grave concern. Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmad, two officials of the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP) (which was listed as one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s allied organizations in the 1991 memorandum), founded this Hamas-linked Muslim Brotherhood group in 1994. The federal government shut down the IAP in 2005 as a Hamas front.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service reported in 2001 that the IAP was so close to its parent organization that it published and distributed Hamas communiqués on its own letterhead, “as well as other written documentation to include the HAMAS charter and glory records, which are tributes to HAMAS’ violent ‘successes.’”[22] Oliver Revell, a former chief of the FBI’s counter-terrorism department, called the IAP “a front organization for Hamas that engages in propaganda for Islamic militants.”[23]
Several CAIR officials have already been convicted of participating in violent jihad activities. Randall Todd (“Ismail”) Royer, CAIR’s former communications specialist and civil rights coordinator, participated in the “Virginia jihad group,” which was indicted on forty-one counts of “conspiracy to train for and participate in a violent jihad overseas.”[24] Royer served over a decade in prison after a plea bargain that had him pleading guilty to lesser charges.[25]
Ghassan Elashi, the founder of CAIR’s Texas chapter, likewise served time in prison for jihad activity. In 2009, he was sentenced to sixty-five years in prison for funneling over $12 million in charitable contributions to Hamas while serving as head of the Holy Land Foundation.[26] Other former CAIR officials have been convicted of jihad terror activities as well, raising the question of how this supposedly moderate group failed so abysmally to distinguish “moderates” from “extremists.”
CAIR itself was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land case. The organization not only facilitated donations to the Holy Land Foundation, but also received money from it – no less than half a million dollars. CAIR cofounder Nihad Awad vehemently denied this when terror researcher Steven Emerson confronted him: “This is an outright lie. Our organization did not receive any seed money from the Holy Land Foundation. CAIR raises its own funds and we challenge Mr. Emerson to provide even a shred of evidence to support his ridiculous claim.” Emerson then published an image of the canceled check.[27]
Meanwhile, the two highest-profile Muslim politicians in the United States, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) showed that to dismiss concerns about the loyalty of Muslim candidates simply as signs of “bigotry” was facile and dangerous.
There is much more. Read the rest here.
mortimer says
The goal of Muslim politics is clearly to introduce Sharia law and Sharia blasphemy law in particular, so that no one and nothing Islamic may every be criticize or called into question in future. This is of course the first step of Muslim supremacy. Once implemented, Islamic supremacy, may never end.
We thought it had ended in Turkey, but lo and behold, it has been ‘resurrected’ in the word of Erdogan.
Red Pill says
+1
John Novak says
I do not understand why American can’t do like China and suppress Islam I do not
Mean I want communist rule but you see all the fake laws and rules put in place after
911 to make our country safe and now these crazy rules and regulations for the COVID 19 disease we should make a rule that deems Islam a religion dangerous to democracy and confiscate all its property and outlaw any public display or worship of its religion leaving Muslims allowed to only pratice it in your home
gravenimage says
Exactly, Mortimer.
Wellington says
Yep, mortimer.
Islam is very patient and will take advantage of freedom to destroy freedom. Most clueless here are Western Leftists who have made an alliance with Islam due to mutual hatred of Western Civilization. Parasites and fools abound and liberty is in peril once more because so much of mankind despises liberty.
James Lincoln says
Yes, Wellington – islam is very patient.
Non-muslims use stopwatches, while muslims use calendars…
Jerome B Bigge says
Islam is and always was a threat to Western ideals. It is even more evil than Marxist Communism in that its long term objectives since the 7th Century have relentlessly been world conquest. It also endorses human slavery based upon sex and race.
We need to get far more “serious” over getting off those fossil fuels we buy from Islamic countries. Without being able to sell these fuels to the “West”, the power of the Islamic states will be much less than it is today. However the first step should be to kick Turkey out of NATO, do the rest to all the Islamic states. If Russia or China wants to step up and wage wars of conquest, we should support their activities since Islam is even more “EVIL” than Marxist socialism. Proof of this can be seen in the status of women when the USSR held Afghanistan. They enjoyed a much better level of freedom that disappeared when Russia pulled out than anything they have today. So for any woman, Islam is “WORSE” than Marxism as practiced by Russia or China.
Islamophobia is just as “justified” as Naziphobia would be. Or fear of Communism as practiced by Stalin and Mao. Or that guy in North Korea.
Del says
This is an almost hidden policy of the Trudeau Liberals.
Robert Porter says
Mortimer, The question to me, a foreigner, is how stupid, ignorant and lacking in sound values, not least Judeo-Christian values, have Americans become that they are permitting intellectually limited individuals who embrace the utterly worthless ideology that us Islam, to get a foothold in the United States. Do they no longer teach history in the U.S. that few know anything about the violence and misery brought to millions by Islam? To what avail did the Crusaders save Europe from Islam and save America from a similar fate?
gravenimage says
Robert, most Americans, even now, are in denial over Islam being a threat to us.
And sadly few Americans know much about history.
abad says
+2
mortimer says
If candidate for governor Abdul El-Sayed is not a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood (a terrorist organization), then he should clearly denounce it and state his reason why.
Members of the MB or CAIR (its front organization), when asked to denounce Hamas never do. CAIR and MB are one with Hamas.
GreekEmpress says
Here’s a factoid about Abdul El-Sayed:
In 2014 he completed his M.D. at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and was funded by the Soros Fellowship for New American and Medical Scientist Training Program. El-Sayed did not complete a residency after medical school and is therefore not licensed to practice medicine.
mortimer says
Who does Abdul El-Sayed actually work for? Why does he want a medical diploma that will not be utilized?
What is Soros grooming him for? Is he an Islamist or a Globalist?
Jerome B Bigge says
Thankfully the voters voted for Gretchen Whitmer as governor here in Michigan. While she can be criticized for her actions regarding COVID-19, she is at least looking out for the people of the State of Michigan. El-Sayed? He campaigned on the issue of healthcare. Suggesting a single payer system based upon the same ideas as Bernie Sanders. That got him a lot of public notice and doubtless was helpful in his campaign. The guy was “smart” and didn’t say anything about being a Muslim or supporting Muslim causes. He’s still around and has an Internet presence supporting left Democrat causes.
gravenimage says
Here in California we have the appalling Shahid Buttar running against Nancy Pelosi.
As bad as she is, he would be *much* worse.
GreekEmpress says
Mohammad Arif is running for US Senate seat in AZ. He withdrew, then is running as a write in.
I think he ran for office in California at one time, didn’t he GI?
gravenimage says
GreekEmpress, he ran for California Senate 16th District in 2013. I think he lost pretty badly–but he’s still at it.
He also, even more implausibly, ran for California Governor in 2002 and 2010.
I hope his campaign goes down in flames in Arizona as well.
Cornelius says
The interesting thing is that neither of these two elected Muslim representatives are non-descript American politicians who just happen to be Muslim, they are both anti-American radicals, keen to re-make America according to their own respective, twisted versions.
Strange that in all our sociological posturing we offer up on behalf of the so-called Muslim moderate, we’re hard-pressed to find one when actually we go out looking.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Cornelius.
And great to see you posting again.
donato says
“Leader of radical black-only militia NFAC ‘believes in violence’ & wants a real-life Wakanda for every black person in America”
https://www.rt.com/usa/495109-nfac-black-militia-blm/
gravenimage says
‘Building Power for Muslims in Politics’
…………….
More stealth Jihad.
TruthSeeker says
Very true, I have noticed this disturbing trend at all levels of government and administration from the county level, school board candidates to state and national level. They are invariably Democrats and vote to ruin everything in the name of equity.
Mike says
and thank you Bill Clinton, Chuck Schumer and Nance Pelosi for passing the law in 1991 that allowed Muslims to be able to take office in America
Rescinding the law that was instilled in about 1952 to avoid this very issue
Members of that Congress were Dick Cheney, John McCain, Joe Biden, Al Gore, John Kerry, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer & Nancy Pelosi…… see the agenda?
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/mar/27/facebook-posts/no-congress-didnt-repeal-law-bars-muslims-holding-/
gravenimage says
There was no specific ban on a Muslim taking office in the US–but there was an old immigration law asking potential new immigrants if they practiced polygamy. That should not have been scrapped.
David says
Ilhan Omar swore into office on the Koran FFS! Also probably Tlaib.
CogitoErgoSum says
The intent of these women is to burn down the U.S. just as surely as if it were a great cathedral. Their hate for this country scorches their very souls. You can see it in their eyes and hear it in their voices. Islam and its temporary ally, Marxism, are the greatest evils in the world right now and those who cannot see this will be cursed by their grand-children as they struggle to undo the damage being done today.
Jake2169 says
This gradual and stealthy agenda is also happening in Europe. The more Muslims elected, the closer to the implementation of Sharia! All Western leaders, senators, Mps, whoever is in government right now must do everything in their power to prevent any Muslim taking any position of power. Look at London, a Muslim mayor who has lost control of knife crime, who has done little for the people unless they are Muslim. He then pretends to have suffered under lockdown in order to avoid difficult questions about his handling of running the capital city of Britain. Islam is an evil the world could well do without. You vote a Muslim into power at your peril. The British government is hamstrung, a captive of their own Political Correctness Programme. They take little action against Muslim grooming gangs raping children because they are afraid of being called “Islamophobic”. They allow Mosques known to preach hatred of the West to remain open, they allow after school lessons in Islamic Centres to poison the minds of children, and they allow Muslim Charities to operate even though many of them channel money to terror groups across the globe. FFS, the American people have to get rid of all Muslims in congress and never fall foul of the current epidemic of Political Correctness. Learn the lessons that European politicians refuse to acknowledge. Islam is an evil we can all do without!!
James Lincoln says
Well put, Jake2169.
David says
Yes Jake, as they “Houston, we have a problem” (Understatement of the facts)
There are two sorts of knife crime in the UK. Most of it is black on black criminals. The other is random muslim attacks.
infidel says
For long I’ve been virtually hollering on this forum that Muslims are MASTERS in worming themselves into the power woodwiork of the infidel and this they do very very insidiously. We Hindus in India have these share of Jehaadi woodworms who blatantly (mis) use their positions of power into sedition and the promotion of Sharia. And these Ilhans and Tlaibs and the Sadiq Khans and that mad M103 Canadian MP are all into this worm game. And BTW, Huma Abedin had tried to worm herself all the way to become the next secretary of State for the USA.. TG. Crooked Clinton did not win. Just imagine the Trojan damage that Abedin would have inflicted on the USA….
infidel says
And I would like to add one more thing here… Notice how these Islamic Trojans NEVER SPEND one second doing REAL WORK for the constituencies which elected them to power in good faith. All their efforts go into just cheap politicking and Sharia games and pitting one infidel against another, spreading vicious innuendos and rumors that split infidel society VERTICALLY AND HORIZONTALLY, and then fishing in troubled waters…Muslims, U will find, are some of the most crooked political creatures that U will ever find.
gravenimage says
Very true, Infidel.
David says
These ‘worms’ are like human parasites, feeding off the host.
Lenny Leaps In says
Surely the US voting public cannot again vote these two Muslim women back into power come November?
We get bad government by voting in the wrong people.
E T says
Imam Mazin Abdul-Adhim, living in London, Ontario, head of the Canadian wing of Hibz ut-Tharir, an off shoot of the Muslim Brotherhood hoods seems not to understand our hate speech motion-103, or does he know as a Muslim he can say whatever he wants in Justine Trudeau’s version of Canada. This is how a man of the so-called Religion of Peace expresses himself.
“I thought it couldn’t get any dumber than Bush, but then Trump came along. And then I thought it couldn’t get any dumber than Trump, but Kanye is actually dumber than Trump, so I’ve been proven wrong again.
And you know what I think he could win it too. This is how moronic the U.S. voter base is. Absolutely the dumbest collective of human beings possibly in the entire history of mankind.
When the Prophet (saw) spoke about Ruwaybidha ( the idiot who speaks about public affairs), I never thought that it could this bad.
A real life idiocracy.
The truth of the matter is , this is what happens when the world has no real, respectable, global leadership. The standard for the world is Ruwaybidha, and therefore the world accepts Ruwaybidha as their leaders —whether on a global, national, local, or organized level. this is the age we live in. The age of Ruwaybidha.
Only with a true Khilahah on the Path of the Prophethood will the world understand what real POLITICAL LEADERSHIP is. Only then will people understand that our POLITICAL LEADERS must be the best of US, the most sincere of US, the most intelligent of US and the most knowledgeable of US — not simply the wealthiest or most famous.
“ Canadian soldiers are war criminals. During WW11 the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem met with Hitler to discuss the elimination of the Jews —-Muslim troops served the Waffen SS on the Eastern Front and the war between the Nazis against Britain, France, America and some others”.
He sounds just like Louis Farrakhan, Nihad Awad, Omar, Ellison and all the other Muslim Brotherhood hoods.
Again the dirty kafirs MUST remember Syed Abul Ala Maududi’s words: “Non-Muslims have no right to seize the reins of power in any part of God’s Earth nor to direct the collective affairs of human beings according to their own doctrines. If they do, the believers would be under an OBLIGATION to do their utmost to dislodge them from political power and make them live in SUBSERVIENCE to the Islamic way of life.”
Sheikh Ahmed Badran, “Once Muslims come to power, they will never allow infidels to rule over Muslims “.
Muslims are champions of Cultural Destruction.
We in the West do NOT practice:
taharrush, thighing, stoning, cutting off limbs, child marriage, sex slaves, four wives, blasphemy laws, killing Apostates, FGM, beating wives, slavery, quisa, killing homosexuals or Jews.
DO NOT VOTE FOR ANY MUSLIM. Islam is not a race. Any wise person would be Islamophobic.
David says
Lenny: Well, all muslims will be ordered to vote for their muslim reps(short for reptiles) so if there are enough of them, well that is it! In nuclear terms, a ‘critical mass’ Add in some dhimmi (sucker)votes. Also misguided BLM supporters (Do they know Muhammad owned black slaves?)
gravenimage says
A lot of foolish Infidels had to vote for these Muslim thugs.
David says
‘CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper once said: “I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.” ‘
I thought The US had already had an islamic government with Obama sin Laden.
OLD GUY says
I hope the idiots that voted for these two are happy with what they got. Unfortunately as of this time non of the muslims including President Obama have done anything to make America a better place to live accept if you are a radical islamic.
abad says
All the more reason to vote for President Trump this November.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/joe-biden-vows-abolish-vile-192143922.html