Terror-Linked, Anti-Semitic Group Invited to White House
One of the last places you'd expect to find a radical Islamic group with an extensive history of terrorism is at the White House—but that's exactly what happened on December 17. The Muslims of the Americas, a front for the radical Jamaat ul-Fuqra group, accepted the invitation to join its event titled, "Celebrating and Protecting America's Tradition of Religious Pluralism."
The event was organized by the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. The Office says it "forms partnerships between government and non-profit organizations," including connecting the Department of Homeland Security with community groups that can assist with disaster responses.
The selected attendees were praised by the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division leader, Vanita Gupta, as "distinguished public servants and engaged advocates for today's critical conversation about our nation's tradition of religious pluralism."
The Clinton Administration's State Department listed Fuqra as a terrorist group in its 1998 Patterns of Global Terrorism Report, but the U.S. government stopped including it in 2000 because of its inactivity. The State Department had described Fuqra as "an Islamic sect that seeks to purify Islam through violence" and is led by a radical cleric named Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani in Pakistan.
Muslims of the Americas (MOA) is today openly led by Gilani.
A 2007 FBI report obtained by the Clarion Project states "the documented propensity for violence by this organization supports the belief the leadership of the MOA extols membership to pursue a policy of jihad or holy war against individuals or groups it considers enemies of Islam, which includes the U.S. Government."
It says "members of the MOA are encouraged to travel to Pakistan to receive religious and military/terrorist training from Gilani." It warns that MOA "posses an infrastructure capable of planning and mounting terrorist campaigns overseas and within the U.S."
In fact, MOA has a history of terrorist and criminal activity.
MOA proudly announced its attendance at the White House event and was represented by its General Counsel, Tahirah Amatul-Wadud. She previously posted an article on her Facebook page by Gilani that touts 9/11 conspiracy theories and claims that ISIS is a front for British intelligence. The article also claims that the U.S. was brought into World War II by a Jewish conspiracy.
“There was no need for America to go to war against Hitler. Hitler was not the enemy of America or the American people. There was a mutual animosity between Hitler and the Jews. So, the American people paid a very heavy price for fighting someone else’s war,” Gilani wrote.
The Clarion Project was the first to report on the inflammatory article. It was deleted after we wrote about how the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has become involved with Fuqra, including Amatul-Wadud's appointment to the board of CAIR's Massachusetts chapter.
"I have never seen, in the whole of my life or even in the past thousand years, a Jew who will tell the truth," Gilani says.
In his book, Qur'anic Psychiatry, Gilani teaches, "Jews are an example of human Satans. This is why Jews are the founders of Satan worship and Masonic lodges, and are now trying to take over the entire globe in which the global religion is to be Satanism."
That's not the best fit for an event at the White House themed, "Celebrating and Protecting America's Tradition of Religious Pluralism."
The Clarion Project has contacted the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and will let readers know if there's a response.
Ryan Mauro is ClarionProject.org’s national security analyst, a fellow with Clarion Project and an adjunct professor of homeland security. Mauro is frequently interviewed on top-tier television and radio. Read more, contact or arrange a speaking engagement.
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