Al-Awlaki Led Prayer Services for Congressional Muslim Staffers Association After 9/11 (PJM Exclusive)
When a report challenging our national security policy of ignoring Islamic supremacism through Islamic law was released during a Capitol Hill press conference on Wednesday (disclosure: I was one of the co-authors of the report, titled: “Shariah: The Threat to America”), among the chief critics were representatives from the Congressional Muslim Staffers Association (CMSA).
This group, which has been briefing both Democrat and Republican congressional leadership in recent months, claiming that there is nothing inherently violent in Islamic law, has a very poor history of embracing Islamic radicals — even al-Qaeda terrorists.
Immediately after 9/11, the CMSA began holding Friday afternoon prayer services on Capitol Hill. Who did they choose to lead them in their prayers? Al-Qaeda sheikh Anwar al-Awlaki, who is currently subject to a kill or capture order issued by President Obama. In fact, video of al-Awlaki preaching to the CMSA was included in the 2002 documentary, Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet. (That video clip is available to view via the Investigative Project on Terrorism.)
Identified in that clip listening to the al-Qaeda cleric: Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR); then-CAIR communications specialist Randall “Ismail” Royer, who is currently serving a 20-year federal prison sentence on terrorism charges; and CMSA founder and former president Jameel Alim Johnson.
Jameel Johnson is no stranger to PJM readers. In December 2007, I reported exclusively here on an Islamic conference on Capitol Hill that had been scheduled by Johnson, as chief of staff from Congressman Gregory Meeks. The conference was cancelled at the last minute by the House of Representatives sergeant-at-arms when it was discovered that it was to feature a long list of Islamic radicals, some of whom were known to be on the terror watch list.
So when the CMSA leadership whine to the media about anyone offering an alternative view to our failed foreign and domestic policy of submitting to Islamic radicalism, we must look at the record of CMSA as an organization, and its leadership as individuals. They have given radicals and terrorists, such as al-Awlaki, a voice on Capitol Hill.
This infiltration of our highest government institutions is not limited to the CMSA.





There is no such thing as “a moderate Muslim”.
The so called “moderate Muslims” popularized bu the inane media is really either a Muslim who doesn’t take his religion seriously or a radical Muslim who tones it down when presenting himself publicly. There are only 2 different types of Muslims: The uninterested Muslim or the radical Muslim. When a Muslim starts to take his religion seriously he becomes radical by default.
And therein lies the core problem with this particular religion. It works as a Trojan horse. You might have emigrants who are uninterested Muslims who appear to be moderate and friendly. But when they for whatever reason suddenly becomes more religious or have children that are more religious than themselves, then they immediately becomes radical.
With very few exceptions, every single “moderate” Muslim is a radical waiting to wake up from hibernation.
Unfortunately you’re right. The most insidious part is, as you highlight, the Muslims who are no less radical than their bus-bombing, AK-47 wielding brethren, but who instead don well pressed suits and taqiyya rhetoric in an attempt to lobby government and shape the cultural milieu. The difference is only in modus operandi and timing – one is open and hopefully (for the Muslim) decisive, the other covert and incremental. One is forced, the other only semi-forced.
That being said, one positive to note is that the nature of real Islam is oppressive, and as such many leave through the backdoor while others are welcomed through the front (or at least want to leave, having recognised long ago that God really isn’t in it). On top of that Christianity is exploding in Africa, the far-east and increasingly the middle-east – whether you’re Christian or not, that’s good news, if for no other reason than the neutralising of the all-encompassing jihadist objectives.
What you are saying cannot be emphasized enough. The term ‘radical islam’ cons people into thinking there is an islam that is benign. There is not. True plain-jane islam is structured to take over the world by any means; using either violent or incidious methods. Destroying Jews, Christians, Hindu, Atheists, Agnostics and anything else that gives any appearance of not being subservient.
I had no idea that there is a “Congressional Muslim Staffers Association.” It explains a great deal.
Want to see some scary photos? Go to Google Images and type in “Muslims praying Capitol Hill.”
Do you want to see something even scarier? Type in Tea Party rally on goggle images. The horror of bigots……..
……nothing like being wilfully ignorant. Like driving in a fog; what I can’t see wont hurt me…
You don’t know the first thing about ‘bigots’ until you study the great idol of islam.
Judging by your view of the tea party, let me guess, you are a progressive liberal, right?
CMSA is a division of the OIC…
Islam is hell-bent on taking the world for Allah. Liberals embarce this “religion”. The logical and ONLY conclusion is that liberals are insane.
George Bush might have been able to plead a certain degree of ignorance about Islam, but Barack Hussein Obama, with his Islamic family tree, his early Koranic education in Indonesian schools, his ability to recite the call to prayer with a perfect Arabic accent, his trip to Pakistan as a young man, and his overt Islamophilia cannot.
Obama knows that Muhammed was a sadistic, savage, murdering tyrant.
Obama knows about the bloody, violent, intolerant preachings of the Imams, from every mosque and from his beloved Al-Azhar University, which come straight out of the Koran.
Obama knows about Islamic Jihad theology, and its 1,400 year history of Allah inspired, Muhammed mandated and koranic commanded genocide against all non-Islamic peoples.
Obama knows about the barbaric, oppressive, misogynistic totalitarianism of Sharia law.
For Obama to promulgate government polices, espoused by his puppet John Brennan, which deny these truths – these truths that threaten our Republic, our democracy and our constitution – and for Obama to give support to an enemy ideology sworn to our destruction, empowered with the full force of his massive government propaganda machine, second only to Joseph Goebbels, is nothing less than treason.
Treason.
~ The Infidel Alliance
What’s the problem?
Just another moderate Imam, right?
No problem here..move along folks…Ma’am..please adjust your head scarf….
This infiltration of our highest government institutions is not limited to the CMSA.
Certainly enabled in real time by this particular (“count all Muslims in the US, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world”) President.
In 2001, hadn’t (New Mexico born) al-Awlaki already been exposed as lying about his citizenship status on an application form to get his tuition paid at the University of Colorado and (as married religious leader) arrested for soliciting prostitutes in San Diego ?
Maybe those accusations came later. It’s hard to keep up with the plethora of gyrations of Islamic liars and dissemblers.
(slumlord Imam Rauf didn’t show up for his hearing yesterday on the horrendous disrepair of a building or two he owns in New Jersey, nor has he commented on his close association with 911 Truther Faiz Khan. Khan, reportedly, has already been leading some prayer sessions in the Burlington/ proposed mosque building in lower Manhattan)
Our government and its bloated bureaucracy is riddled with Islamic activists. Throw a rock at the State Department and you’ll hit one.
Is it any wonder, then, that this administration refuses to name radical Islam as the source of most of the unrest in the world?
Shariah: The Threat to America
Too many Muslims, to borrow a metaphor from Mao, provide the sea in which the jihadis swim. By offering little meaningful opposition to the jihadist
agenda and by meekly submitting to it, a large number of Muslim communities and nations generally project a tacit agreement with jihadis’ ends, if not with their means. At the very least, they exhibit an unwillingness to face the consequences of standing up to shariah’s enforcers within Islam. Such consequences include the distinct possibility of being denounced as an apostate, a capital offense under shariah.(p,12)
As more and more years pass since 911, I have been astonished at the reticence, the lack of vehemence from so called moderate Muslims relative to the continuing atrocities around the world being committed in the name of Islam.
Rule #1: Don’t sow discord within the community
“It is an oft-repeated and quite valid complaint of Americans that most Muslims are unwilling to offer full-throated, unconditional, unambiguous condemnation of terrorism. There is a reason for their reluctance: They are not free. Sharia, the authoritarian system of Islamic law that Muslims are expected to follow, severely discourages Muslims from sowing discord within their community. Rank-and-file Muslims are consequently inhibited in expressing dissent when jihadists portray themselves as “fighting in Allah’s cause” — a condition aggravated by the penchant of Muslim community leaders to blame atrocities not on the jihadists but on American policies that purportedly “humiliate” the jihadists into acting. Even if ordinary Muslims are repulsed by the terrorists, sharia and its executors intimidate them into silence.”
tans-which goes right back to the beginning point. islam is a problem institutionally. the problem IS the Koran and the slavish devotion moslems have to it. it is a tool of BRAINWASHING. problem is, its not Bin laden and Zawahari out trying to build ‘victory mosques” at ground zero. Its the so-called “moderate” moslem and the enablers of Islamic goals of a worldwide calpihate, which is roughly 75% of there adherents. We have to make the Koran out for whatr it is, a manual of hatred. That likely will take generations. And until then,Islam must be crushed.
Communisum clears away Christianity and sets the plate for islam at the head of the un table.
obammy mammy is a traitor.
Scrape a bit and ‘whoo ugg’ you found the Dog poop composter.
What is it about our moderate muslims?
With regard to so-called “moderate” Muslims, here’s the skinny:
Until a Muslim understands the deeds of the fanatically violent messenger, committed at the behest of the fanatically evil false god they worship, and REJECT COMPLETELY everything that stands for, not a single one of them is to be trusted, ever.
All who can recite from the Hadith or Koran in a CONVERSANT way are supporters of terrorism, period.
The key here is knowledge (a.k.a malice aforethoght). While I can recite “fair-a-jack-ah” from my kindergarten memories, I really dont know what it means. Its just some rhyming la la la I can spew upon command.
So are the “original arabic” recitations to alot of Muslims. They are taught to memorize the sylables of a song in a language they dont comprehend, and are then lied to about its meaning, poor fools.
But I CANT give the benefit of that kind of doubt to any Muslim Iman, professor, teacher, or leader of any sort. They know the deal, and they are lying when they say Islam is not an implement of terror in and of itself.
Most “Muslims” worldwide truly are ignorant of, or disinterested in, the roots and tennents of their religion. To them, being “Muslim” is more about geographic cultural traditions of dress, food, holidays and a little ritual a few times a year.
We need to expose them to the truth, while simultaneously calling out the deeds of Mohammed to every Muslim appologist everywhere they appear…every speaking engagement, interview, broadcast and debate, on every network, in every website.
Let the ignorant masses of “cultural” muslims know the poison their “leaders” are hiding, and offer them the repentence and acceptence of the Western Judeo-Christian model mode of BEHAVIOR. We dont have to Baptise them, just get them on board with NOT being racist murderers and beheaders like the Koran demands them to be.
When they admit what an evil abhorition of Satan Mohammed was, and openly reject him and his teachings, THEN we’ll treat them like decent people, fully deserving the courtesies of a free society.
Until then, they are a mortal danger to all Mankind.
I FAX’d the URL for this webpage to my two North Carolina Senators; purposely left out my Congressman, Brad Miller who is a useless conformist to the Obama agenda, a regular contributor to the Daily Kos. Here’s the content of the FAX:
“Recognition of the existential threat of political Islam and, in particular, the depth and scope of Islamic infiltration in American society and in the Washington D.C. political establishment is long overdue. Please do your constituents and your country, our country, a favor and take the time to familiarize yourselves with this threat and recognize that the undercurrent of legitimate concern regarding Obama’s true faith has little to do with religious bigotry. Go here to start or continue the learning process:
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/al-awlaki-led-prayer-services-for-congressional-muslim-staffers-association-after-911-pjm-exclusive/?singlepage=true
This concerns the Congressional Staffers Muslim Association, an organization you are likely familiar with.
It is understood that you probably have a great deal on your plate but, if you are insufficiently informed, as is likely given the lack of in depth coverage at all levels of the so called main stream media, including FOX News, I urge you to take this threat seriously, adjust your priorities and move this to the top of the list.”
I’ve been reading about the threat of Islam for at least the last four years and have been waiting for the spotlight to go on in America and around the world but it’s on a dimmer and a “full on” switch is needed. The world has been lulled to sleep by what Robert Spencer calls the “Stealth Jihad,” the Islamic religiously sanctioned acts of deceit, Taqiyya and Kitman, and modern societies misguided devotion to political correctness, multiculturalism and diversity. America needs to be kicked out of this warm bed of feathery down, a cold pitcher of ice water in the face before we suffer what may very well be a nuclear version of 9/11/01 followed by another round of commiseration (taqiyya and kitman) by CAIR, ISNA, IIIT, MSA, MAS and more than likely CMSA, etc. If some of those acronyms are unfamiliar expand on Google.
I am one small voice but if the FAX machines and email Inboxes of Americas government representatives swell with similar selected and directed information perhaps those in the best position to take some action will wake up and stop drinking the Kool Aid. Perhaps.
9/12/2001-Moslem employees at the FBI had cakes and coffee catered into FBI HQ to “celebrate” there ‘victory” on 9/11/01. And these are the so-called “moderate” moslems? Btw-since when is there a CMSA for anyway????????? Moslem staffers?
Nice article, thanks for the information Mr. Poole. More importantly, thanks for bringing this to the attention of capitol hill. I hope with all my heart they listen, appreciate the unassailable facts, and act in our best interest.
Whatever you do, don’t draw Mohammad, or burn the Koran, or make a law to keep women from wearing the burka, or your will be murdered by the religion of peace!
Of course, it is OK to burn the American flag, or Bible.
BZO, or Die!
The one politico-religious belief system, that has made it to then present day, and invokes universal, violent paranoia from its adherents is Mo/uhammedanism a/k/a Islam. From his first conscious moment, the male Muslim child is indoctrinated with hatred of the Jew and the Crusader. To be a mujahideen and wage jihad against Muhammed’s enemies is considered the highest calling. Non-Muslims, who refuse to convert must be killed or compelled to live as inferiors among the Muslims, subject to exorbitant taxation, harassment and even a threat of death, when the Muslims are stirred to insane frenzy by their Imams or Mullahs.
Americans fail to understand that Islam does not distinguish between it’s political and religious tenents. They are one and the same. The Muslim makes no such distinction. His religious beliefs are his political beliefs and his political beliefs are his religious beliefs.
Failure to comprehend this fact and understand it’s implications by non-Muslims is the single most dire, destructive an perilous vulnerability and menace facing Western society.
Moderate Muslim – an oxymoron!! Muslims probably laugh at this dhimmi stupidity all the way to Mecca and Medina.
There is no moderate Muslim nor there is any moderate Islam. It is term invented by Muslim apologists in the West and it gives shelter to all the Muslims who are radical at heart with a soft “moderate” outer shell. Any perceived insult o Isllam and Muslims breaks this outer sell and the real radical Muslim is exposed.
Let’s not be under the illusion that there is a moderate Muslim!!!
The moderate Muslims in America sure seem kinda radical when you look a little closer…
Not too long ago President Obama bowed to the Saudi King. If the Islamic supremists think that they’ll ever have the entire nation bowing to Islam, they’ve got another thing coming.
http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/3696
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/09/islam-on-capital-hill-.html
I’ve seen all over YouTube and the internet in general how muslim immigrants harass and threaten the people of Europe and get away with it. In Australia, it’s another matter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_gang_rapes
The families of these rapists begged the Court for lenient sentences based on the fact that the defendants “didn’t understand the culture”, to that the Australian citizens said an in unison “wtf?” The obvious assumption was that they came from a culture where it was no big deal to gang rape under age girls as long as they weren’t muslims.
Then there was this…
http://www.australian-news.com.au/Cronulla_riots.htm
It appears that the media in Australia is just as left bent as here in the US and the Aussies are having none of that. Islam will have a very difficult time infecting their sharia law into that country.
“What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning embattlements, our bristling sea coasts. These are not our reliance against tyranny. Our reliance is in the love of liberty, which God has planted in our bosoms. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit, and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.” President Lincoln, from the Speech at Edwardsville, Illinois (September 11, 1858)
“At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some trans-Atlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined could not, by force, take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, that if it ever reach us, it must spring from amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we ourselves must be the authors and finishers. As a nation of free men, we must live through all times, or die by suicide.” President Lincoln, January 27, 1838. Address before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois.
Those words were as true today as when he spoke them.
President Obama, “We are not at war with Islam.”
Islam is at war with us.
Right now, most of America is still asleep. I’m sure you’ve heard the term “sleeping giant”. Here’s another: ugly American, it’s not referring to our fashion sense, by the way, but to the way we behave once fully enraged.
Because the MSM and the Obama Administration refuses to admit that there is a threat, radical islam will become more and more emboldened. So will the infidel hating thugs. If anything like Cronulla or the Leb rape gangs were to happen here, do you really think that Americans will huddle up in there homes with all the windows and doors locked and bolted?
The truth about Islam and Sharia law is out. More and more Americans are waking up every day in spite of the MSM and the Obama administration’s attempts to mollify.
I’m oddly reminded of the 1988 science fiction film “They Live”.
I’ll be at the malls and town halls handing out sunglasses to anyone who is willing to see.
“I came here to kick arse, and chew bubble gum, and I’m all out of bubble gum.”
Grover Norquist needs to called out on his support of these radicals. He is either with us or with the terrorists. It’s his choice.
Grover Norquist needs to be called out on his support of these radicals. He is either with us or with the terrorists. It’s his choice.
I totally agree with you! Grover Norquist has been a nasty thorn in the Republican establishment for AGES now. He and his Arab wife are constantly trying to get Republican candidates (and George W Bush too, when he was president — all those statements about “religion of peace all came from Norquist) to “snuggle up” to radical Muslims in this country.
He’s had a THOUSAND chances to cut his ties to radical Islam. At this point he simply needs to be “banished” from the GOP. That simple. Let him work directly for the people he so seems to love. Muslims. He’s very talented and I’m sure he can be an excellent leader at CAIR. But ANY connections that still remain between the GOP (or G-d forbid, the Tea Party).
In short, whether consciously or not, Norquist will betray us all.
There are many articles about him — the best I think is one, a lengthy one by a gentleman who shared his office space, and I *think* that was Kenneth Timmerman. But it’s on Front Page somewhere.
It looks like we need a new “Tail Gunner Joe” to kick over the rocks in the government and find the radical Muslims hiding under them.
They aren’t hiding under rocks. They are standing on them screaming their hatred at us. And laughing at our pathetic weakness that we let them.
A ‘fatwa’ by a Swami in US. Watch this video – Spend 4 minutes to know the reality – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxUzKoIt5aM
I encourage anyone who believes that there are “radical Muslims” and “peaceful Muslims” to view this video. If any Muslim tells you that they are peaceful they are either lying to you (Taqiyya, anyone?) or truly ignorant of what Islamic law requires.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib9rofXQl6w
LITTLE MORE INSITE ON THE LYING ISSUE:
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Quran/011-taqiyya.htm
PLEASE, FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN, WATCH THIS VIDEO!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvlvS2a2AVE&feature=player_embedded
I have put MANY HOURS INTO STUDYING THE QURAN, READING MANY ‘VERSIONS’, AND AM ON A MISSION! I have been studying a Quran/Islam course under the instruction of Dr. Mazhar U. Kazi. I WILL CONTINUE TO STUDY THIS ISSUE…
I AM SORRY PEOPLE IN THE U.S. ARE MORE INVOLVED IN THINGS THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY HAS TO OFFER FOR THEIR AMUSEMENT, THAN WHAT WILL BE THE FUTURE OF YOUR GRANDCHILDREN, SHOULD SHARIA/ISLAM NOT BE STOPPED!
AMERICA NEEDS TO WAKE UP, anyone who believes otherwise about Islam needs to WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE!!!
Islam is an ideology that is less about religion than it is about governance. This combination of Western trappings and Islamic interior will doom the West because Islam is an ideology that is less about faith than it is about governance. Unlike their Western liberal patrons, Muslims do not recognize any distinction between church and state. Which means they are bent on imposing their religion on the state. Western liberals believe that most Muslims are moderate. Most Muslims, however, believe the remedy for all social political and moral ills lies in Islam.
A believing Muslim, whether Westerners consider him an extremist or a moderate, will believe Islam and he Koran have the solution to society’s ills. Social problems are caused by a lack of Islam. In his worldview, Muslim countries can only repair their problems through Islam. And non-Muslim countries in the Dar al Kufr (Realm of the Infidels), Dar Al Harb (Realm of the Sword) are bound to be even worse off because they don’t follow Islamic Law. Which ultimately means their only solution is Islam.
In such a scenario, Sharia is inevitable because, as Western liberals think of social reforms in terms of added government control, Muslims think of reform as added clerical control. This makes Muslims and Socialists seem like natural allies, at least for a time, because both confuse reform with centralization that takes individual liberties.
Meanwhile, the Western liberal is deluded enough to think that any application of Sharia law will be moderate, when in fact it will be no such thing, as the Muslim understanding of the world is radically different than the Western understanding of the world.
The Quran has many verses sanctioning slavery, promoting inferior status for women and unbelievers, commanding war and slaughter of the unbelievers, not to mention all the verses calling non-Muslims “the worst of animals” and other choice names and descriptors, generally fermenting a noxious, anti-outsider cult mentality among Islam’s followers. Muslims consider the book to be the unfailable, eternal word of Allah, that’s to be revered and obeyed without question; no compromises or reforms are possible in orthodox Islam.
This book offends me deeply, as it stands against the very foundations of my culture, the culture of secular western civilization.
Again, a believing Muslim, whether Westerners consider him an extremist or a moderate, will believe Islam and he Koran have the solution to society’s ills. Social problems are caused by a lack of Islam. In his worldview, Muslim countries can only repair their problems through Islam.
So far, in MY studies of the Quran, I have found 527 quotes encouraging dissention, hatred, deception, violence and just general DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR IN BELIEVING MUSLIMS!
Give me an “Eff”’ing BREAK PEOPLE! JUST HOW DEEP IN DENIAL ARE YOU???
You CANNOT co-exist with people who hate you and want to KILL you!
PERIOD!
WHAT IN THE HELL DO YOU NEED TO HAVE IT PROVEN TO YOU???
YOU HAVE THEIR SO CALLED ‘INFAILABLE’ BOOK, THEIR DIRECT QUOTES, THEIR SPOKES PEOPLES WORDS, THEIR DAMNED ACTIONS AND YOU STILL BELIEVE THEY ARE LOVING, PEACEFUL PEOPLE????!!!
The problem IS ISLAM!
Islam is a POLITICAL IDEOLOGY under THE GUISE OF a RELIGION!
Muslims use religious freedom as a “straw man” to advance their political ideologies!
I have a wonderful idea, I suggest since the leaders of the Congressional Muslim Staffers Association (CMSA apparently hope for interfaith dialogue to help end growing anti-Muslim rhetoric, I suggest that that they invite the Seattle cartoonist behind “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day!”
Even though a Christian expert on Islam is not surprised that the Seattle cartoonist behind “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day!” was threatened by extremists and forced into hiding and Dr. William Wagner, author of “How Islam Plans to Change the World,” says intimidation is one of radical Islam’s most effective tools, I bet everything would be peachy.
And even though “They (radical Muslims) are constantly looking for persons who seem to go against Islam and then threaten them,” says Wagner, a long-time Southern Baptist who currently serves as president of Olivet University in San Francisco, the liberals tell us that everything is hunky dory. I am so looking forward to this break- through, aren’t you?
Do you want to see something even scarier? Liberal surfers who don’t have a clue
I know this is scary folks but don’t worry. Barry Hussein went to a Christian church on Sunday. Great huh? Not only that but I am sure he will be visiting Billy & Franklin Graham again soon before the election in November. There, don’t you feel better?
When did The Jewel Of The Nile become such a violent extremist? (wink)
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