Shock: Government ‘De-radicalization’ Expert on Terror Watch List
After Qadhi was denounced by Dominic Grieve, the UK’s shadow home secretary and attorney general, during a speech at the 2008 Global Peace and Unity event (where Qadhi was also speaking) as an example of the radicalism infecting the Muslim community, Qadhi came out — seven years after making those statements — with an explanation. He said he had been tricked into making these statements because he didn’t know that the Holocaust deniers he relied upon would actually be pushing Holocaust denial.
But no sooner had Qadhi walked back his previous statements did he appear at last year’s Islamic Society of North America conference, decrying the treatment afforded to notorious Holocaust denier David Irving (video is here). As I observed in an article more than two years ago, Qadhi had also posted links to articles by another Holocaust denier, Alexander Baron, on an Islamic online forum after Baron had returned from a Holocaust denial conference in Tehran sponsored by the Iranian regime.
A Boston Globe editorial published last July noted that Qadhi had said that Jews want to destroy Muslims and had described Christians as theologically “filthy.”
Qadhi has not reserved his special brand of hate just for infidels. In 2006, Qadhi took to the AlMaghrib online forum to denounce prominent Sunni Islamic scholar Sheikh Alawi al-Maliki as a polytheist (and thus deserving of condemnation to hell). After Muslim bloggers began calling for a boycott of AlMaghrib in response to Qadhi’s takfiri ideology, the post quickly disappeared from the AlMaghrib forum.
And just last April, the UK-based Islamic group Quilliam Foundation issued an alert noting Qadhi’s anti-Jewish tirade, and also noting statements he had made attacking Shia Islam as “the most lying sect of Islam,” including: “The Shias are allowed to lie and it is their religion to lie.”
Again, this is the NCTC’s “de-radicalization” expert.
Yasir Qadhi is not alone amongst the AlMaghrib instructors responsible for promoting the extremist ideology that nurtures Islamic radicalization and terror. AlMaghrib founder Muhammad Alshareef expressed his thoughts on Muslim-Jewish relations in an article entitled “Why the Jews are Cursed.” And in a speech entitled “What Have You Done for the Deen of Allah,” AlMaghrib instructor Waleed Basyouni identified the behavior of Jews during Muhammad’s era as the reason that Jews do not and cannot know Allah.
Comments made by another AlMaghrib instructor, Ashraf Ismail, were recorded in 2006 by the Investigative Project on Terrorism. During his speech, he instructed the video camera operators to turn off their equipment and explained how Islam was destined to become preeminent throughout the world. Ismail’s comments after the video was turned off were captured by the Investigative Project operatives — showing yet again that the public face of the AlMaghrib Institute is directly contrary to the one it reveals privately to its devotees.
If Yasir Qadhi represents what the NCTC believes to be an example of a leader in de-radicalization — and it quite clearly does — then Congress should begin an immediate investigation into the usefulness of the agency. In this instance, Qadhi had already connected the dots for the NCTC, admitting in a meeting with top Homeland Security officials that he was on the government’s terror watch list. By representing that Yasir Qadhi is a partner in de-radicalization efforts, the NCTC has been outwitted by a two-faced, low-level ideological Islamic thug — proving that it is no match for the likes of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and al-Qaeda.
Bug? … or feature?
You really should consider renaming this site, Character Assasination Dot Com, because though quite inept at unearthing anything useful, the writers here excel at distorting and misreprenting. Did you know about this:
“The comments were made in the context of the creation of the modern state of Israel. I claimed that Jews used the guilt of the Holocaust to extract from the UN the promise of a Jewish state, even though the Arabs from whom land was being taken had not been complicit in the crimes of the Nazis… In the summer of 1999, someone had forwarded me a website of a group that called itself the ‘Institute for Historical Review’. At the time, I found the articles on it quite fascinating; the pseudo-scientific style in which they wrote gave the impression that they were a serious academic research body. It was only later, after more research, that I realized that they were a front for a group of actual anti-Semites, and were the leading Holocaust-denial organization in the world… But even in that talk, I did not deny the actual occurrence of the Holocaust, or express any support or admiration for Hitler, or claim that all Jews were worthy of being despised or hated… Just to clarify: I firmly believe that the Holocaust was one of the worst crimes against humanity that the 20th century has witnessed. Such a crime did not happen overnight, either. Rather, the systematic dehumanization of the Jews in the public eye of the Germans was a necessary precursor to this event.”
Had you bothered to read the article, you would have seen that I not only noted this, but linked to Qadhi’s explanation:
Excellent column, thank you.
The fifth column is growing more powerful every day.
1. JFM:
Bug? … or feature?
I will go with feature. I have always been of the opinion that the clowns presently in the white house are sympathetic to islam. if not actively working with it at least as enablers.
Congress, to the rescue? So, the “beautiful people,” the middle class Bill Ayers and Jane Fonda and their fellow travelers in congress, after a sojourn renouncing traditional middle class values during the Vietnam War, have now discovered the discrete charm of middle class family values? It is curious how the urban middle don’t do wars anymore: “Hell no, we won’t go!” Now that being bourgeois is popular again, it’s amusing watching the baby boomer elite bungle as usual. It’s hard being a role model to lower class gang banging dregs when the upper classes practice the same perfidy and bad behaviors on a higher cultural level; but, then again, in the age of cultural and linguistic relativity, it’s difficult to connect dots when you don’t even know what “bad” is and can only profile people to dole out the goodies.
Islamic , radical, symphathizers, enablers = present administration
..and maybe the one before it to some extent.
American public in general = blind as a bat.
Could it get any more bizarre? Only if we find out that Qadhi is Obama’s cousin.
What do we do with media outlets that think that this is OK? There was a time when someone being this stupid would have to flee the country They are dieing but Government money keeps getting diverted to keep them alive
It makes perfect sense…hire a terrorist because you want to understand them enough to deradicalize them…yeah right. Yet another instance of idiots in government service who would have you believe they know what they are doing. They work for the goverment because they are unfit to do anything useful…like produce something that society can actually use. So, they suck off of Uncle Sugar’s hind tit.
Wow, news flash! Muslim terrorist expert actualyy muslim terrorist! Who, who’d have thought! D’oh!
10: that’s why he is the expert. A science expert is a scientist, a terrorist expert is a terrorist. On the other hand a climate expert can be Al Gore. Go figure.
You have to wonder – do we not have anyone in our counter terrorism community that is familiar with the Muslim concept of taqiyya? Taqiyya is an Arabic word roughly translated meaning snow-job when talking to infidels about Islam.
There is an awesome book out there that was recently released that details the spiderweb of terror connections thru and around all of these groups and individuals with CAIR at the center of it and how we are doomed unless we realize that the enemy is not merely at the gates but it has made itself the gatekeeper of our very lives in preparation for its ultimate goal of destroying our society and replacing it with an unending tyranny that makes even the abomination of Nazism look tame.
The book is called THE MUSLIM MAFIA by P. David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry.
http://www.muslimmafia.com/about/about-the-book/
Good God, I thought I had clicked on to the Onion. I did, I’m serious.
Couldn’t disagree more, with Carol B. that is. The general public gets more & more up to speed on what ISLAM really is every day. It is the “in the tank” politically correct media that refuses to acknowledge the truth. This is a religious war, whether we like it or not, because our enemies have deemed it so. Let’s fight it like one. An imam is a far easier target than a muhajadeen. We know where he stands every Friday.
i once hired a fox to guard my chicken coop at night, sure enough i never had to worry about my chickens ever again. to quote Forest Gump stupid is as stupid does.
john from cinncinatti:
The government gave you a free (“paid for by tax dollars”) fox to guard your chicken coop. I guess that is a lot like hiring one!
“I claimed that Jews used the guilt of the Holocaust to extract from the UN the promise of a Jewish state, even though the Arabs from whom land was being taken had not been complicit in the crimes of the Nazis.”
Firstly, no land was ‘taken’ from the Arabs, it was won/captured in a war of self-defence.
Secondly, the “Palestinian” leadership was *directly* complicit in the crimes of the Nazis:
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“The [Palestinian] Mufti was one of the initiators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry and had been a collaborator and adviser of Eichmann and Himmler in the execution of this plan. … He was one of Eichmann’s best friends and had constantly incited him to accelerate the extermination measures. I heard him say, accompanied by Eichmann, he had visited incognito the gas chamber of Auschwitz.” – Dieter Wisliceny, Eichmann’s Assistant
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Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Himmler_to_Mufti_telegram_1943.png
Firstly, no land was ‘taken’ from the Arabs, it was won/captured in a war of self-defence.
Or bought and paid before Israel’s independence.
Is he OUR deradicalization expert or THEIRS?
I’ll vote for the obvious, theirs.
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