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Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton\u2019s newly-announced running mate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, has a history of embracing Islamists. He appointed a Hamas supporter to a state immigration commission; spoke at a dinner honoring a Muslim Brotherhood terror suspect; and received donations from well-known Islamist groups.
\nAppointing a Muslim Brotherhood Front Leader Who Supports Hamas<\/p>\n
In 2007, Kaine was the Governor of Virginia and, of all people, chose Muslim American Society (MAS) President Esam Omeish to the state\u2019s Immigration Commission. A Muslim organization against Islamism criticized the appointment and reckless lack of vetting.<\/p>\n
Federal prosecutors said in a 2008 court filing that MAS was \u201cfounded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America.\u201d A Chicago Tribune investigation in 2004 confirmed it, as well as MAS\u2019 crafty use of deceptive semantics to appear moderate. Convicted terrorist and admitted U.S. Muslim Brotherhood member Abdurrahman Alamoudi testified in 2012, \u201cEveryone knows that MAS is the Muslim Brotherhood.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Omeish\u2019s website, he was also President of the National Muslim Students Association (click there to read our profile about its Muslim Brotherhood origins) and served for two years on the national board of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which the Justice Department also labeled as a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity and unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas-financing trial.<\/p>\n
His website says he was Vice President of Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center, a radical mosque known for its history of terror ties including having future Al-Qaeda operative Anwar Al-Awlaki as its imam and being frequented by two of the 9\/11 hijackers and the perpetrator of the Fort Hood shooting. Omeish\u2019s website says he remains a board member.<\/p>\n
It says he was chairman of the board of Islamic American University, which had Hamas financier and Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yousef Al-Qaradawi as chairman of its board until at least 2006. Omeish was also chairman of the board for the Islamic Center of Passaic County, a New Jersey mosque with heavy terrorist ties and an imam that the Department of Homeland Security wants to deport for having links to Hamas.<\/p>\n
Omeish directly expressed extremism before Kaine appointed him. He claimed the Brotherhood is \u201cmoderate\u201d and admitted that he and MAS are influenced by the Islamist movement. In 2004, Omeish praised the Hamas spiritual leader as \u201cour beloved Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.\u201d Videotape from 2000 also surfaced where Omeish pledged to help Palestinians who understand \u201cthe jihad way is the way to liberate your land\u201d (he denied this was an endorsement of violence).<\/p>\n
When a state delegate wrote a letter to then-Governor Kaine warning him that the MAS has \u201cquestionable origins,\u201d a Kaine spokesperson said the charge was bigotry.<\/p>\n
Kaine obviously failed to do any kind of basic background checking in Omeish.<\/p>\n
Omeish resigned under heavy pressure and Kaine acknowledged that his statements \u201cconcerned\u201d him. But, apparently, they didn\u2019t concern him enough to actually learn about the Muslim Brotherhood network in his state and to take greater precautions in the future.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a Dinner Honoring Muslim Brotherhood Terror Suspect<\/p>\n
In September 2011, Kaine spoke at a \u201cCandidates Night\u201d dinner organized by the New Dominion PAC that presented a Lifetime Achievement Award for Jamal Barzinji, who the Global Muslim Brotherhood Watch describes as a \u201cfounding father of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood.\u201d<\/p>\n
He first came on to the FBI\u2019s radar in 1987-1988 when an informant inside the Brotherhood identified Barzinji and his associated groups as being part of a network of Brotherhood fronts to \u201cinstitute the Islamic Revolution in the United States.\u201d The source said Barzinji and his colleagues were \u201corganizing political support which involves influencing both public opinion in the United States as well as the United States Government\u201d using \u201cpolitical action front groups with no traceable ties.\u201d<\/p>\n
Barzinji had his home searched as part of a terrorism investigation in 2003. U.S. Customs Service Senior Special Agent David Kane said in a sworn affidavit that Barzinji and the network of entities he led were investigated because he \u201cis not only closed associated with PIJ [Palestinian Islamic Jihad]\u2026but also with Hamas.\u201d Counter-terrorism reporter Patrick Poole broke the story that Barzinji was nearly prosecuted but the Obama Justice Department dropped plans for indictment.<\/p>\n
Barzinji played a major role in nearly every Brotherhood front in the U.S. and was vice president of the International Institute of Islamic Thought, which came under terrorism investigation also. Barzinji\u2019s group was so close to Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative Sami Al-Arian that IIIT\u2019s President considered his group and Al-Arian\u2019s to be essentially one entity.<\/p>\n
The indictment of Al-Arian and his colleagues says that they \u201cwould and did seek to obtain support from influential individuals, in the United States under the guise of promoting and protecting Arab rights\u201d (emphasis mine).<\/p>\n
The quotes about Brotherhood operative Barzinji\u2019s aspirations to use civil rights advocacy as a means to influence politicians are especially relevant when you consider that video from the event honoring Barzinji shows Kaine saying that it was his fourth time at the annual dinner and thanked his \u201cfriends\u201d that organized it for helping him in his campaign for Lieutenant-Governor and Governor and asked them to help his Senate campaign.<\/p>\n
Islamist Financial Support<\/p>\n
Barzinji\u2019s organization, IIIT, donated $10,000 in 2011 to the New Dominion PAC, the organization that held the event honoring Barzinji that Kaine spoke at. The Barzinji-tied New Dominion PAC donated $43,050 to Kaine\u2019s gubernatorial campaign between 2003 and 2005. That figure doesn\u2019t even include other political recipients that assisted Kaine\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n
The PAC has very strong ties to the Democratic Party in Virginia, with the Virginia Public Access Project tallying almost $257,000 in donations. This likely explains why Barzinji\u2019s grandson served in Governor McAuliffe\u2019s administration and then became the Obama Administration\u2019s liaison to the Muslim-American community.<\/p>\n
The Middle East Forum\u2019s Islamist Money in Politics database shows another $4,300 donated to Kaine\u2019s Senate campaign in 2011-2012 by officials from Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Another $3,500 came from Hisham Al-Talib, a leader from Barzinji\u2019s IIIT organization.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s worth noting that Barzinji\u2019s IIIT donated $3,500 to Esam Omeish\u2019s 2009 campaign delegate campaign, tying together the cadre of Muslim Brotherhood-linked leaders who got into Kaine\u2019s orbit.<\/p>\n
Conclusion<\/p>\n
Kaine has no excuse. If he has an Internet connection, then he and his staff should have known about their backgrounds. They were either extremely careless (something Kaine would have in common with the top of the ticket) or knew and looked the other way in the hopes of earning donations and votes.<\/p>\n
Clinton\u2019s choice of Kaine is widely seen as a way of strengthening her campaign\u2019s national security credentials.<\/p>\n
How can you trust a candidate on national security who appoints a Hamas supporter to their immigration commission and speaks at a dinner honoring a Muslim Brotherhood terror suspect?<\/p>\n
And how can you trust a candidate who picks such a person as their \u201cstrong on national security\u201d running mate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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