The FBI’s Muslim Outreach Follies
When Time featured a profile on Mohamed Majid — imam of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) Center and current president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) — in November 2005, it highlighted Majid’s award from the FBI for “the imam’s cooperation in the war on terror,” claiming that “Majid regularly tips off the bureau.” But in a letter to the ADAMS Center community the day after the Time article appeared, Majid told his mosque members that he did no such thing (the letter has now been taken down from the ADAMS Center website, but is still available through Internet Archive).
Majid made clear that he never reported on anyone in the Muslim community, and his relationship with the FBI was one-sided, with the outreach meetings intended “solely to create avenues to work with law enforcement to preserve our civil liberties and civil rights.” It should come as no shock that Majid has recently met with top DOJ officials urging the criminalization of criticism of Islam and has been one of the most vocal cheerleaders for the FBI’s training “Islamophobia” purge, meeting at least twice with FBI Director Mueller on the topic.
Last September, Mohamed Elibiary was given the FBI’s Louis E. Peters Memorial Award in a ceremony at Quantico for his help with the FBI as a “deradicalizer” within the Muslim community. But the two cases that Elibiary trumpets — the case of five D.C. kids who went to Pakistan to fight U.S. troops, and that of “Underwear Bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab — are cases of his “deradicalization” subjects jumping headlong into terrorism, not away from it.
Questions were raised in October 2010 when Elibiary was appointed to the Department of Homeland Security’s Advisory Council in light of his previous appearance at a Dallas conference honoring Ayatollah Khomeini, his defense of jihadist ideological godfather Sayyid Qutb, and his veiled threats against the life of Dallas Morning News editor Rod Dreher.
As I reported here exclusively at PJ Media back in October, Elibiary was caught downloading documents from a secure DHS server, which he then tried to market to a left-leaning publication claiming they represented a pattern of Islamophobia by the Texas Department of Public Safety. I subsequently reported that Elibiary’s non-profit organization had its tax exempt status revoked for failing to file the required IRS Form 990s. Elibiary continues to work with the FBI and serve on the DHS Advisory Council today, and he too has been an outspoken advocate of the ongoing “Islamophobia” purge. He was described in one article as the “FBI’s Key Muslim Ally” and complained that “bigoted briefings make my job harder.”
The FBI’s Muslim outreach hasn’t always gone as planned, such as during the March 2008 Community Relations Executive Seminar Training (CREST) program hosted by the Ohio chapter of CAIR. During the session tempers reportedly flared and the three FBI agents addressing the crowd barely escaped violence. More recently, an FBI outreach event in Seattle intended to improve communications and to build trust with the Muslim community grew heated when attendees complained that the FBI’s presentation focused too much on Islamic terrorism, and that a slide on state-sponsored terrorism showed a picture of former Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini.
Unfortunately, the above are just a small selection from the FBI’s Muslim outreach follies. But they are representative of the ongoing failure by the FBI under Director Mueller’s tenure to properly vet their outreach partners.
With these episodes in mind, the concerns expressed by members of Congress — concerns regarding the FBI’s selection of outside SMEs chosen to purge their training programs and materials for supposed “Islamophobia,” and the FBI’s refusal to divulge the names of the SMEs claiming such information is classified — are reasonably rooted in the bureau’s long history of Muslim outreach failure.
Several years ago the FBI started an affirmative action program to hire Moslem special agents. I guess this was necessary cuz they couldn’t possibly justify hiring all those highly paid Islamic feds for their loyalty, given what happened in the Sami al-Arian case, when a Moslem special agent failed to wear a wire to a dinner with Sami, later claiming that listening devices violated Islamic teachings. But, don’t worry, the insubordinate special agent wasn’t fired, he was instead given a big promotion, that to head the FBI’s Saudi desk. As for the affirmative action program, that employment discrimination is just cuz of all the Arabs whose ancestors who spent hundreds of years slaving away picking cotton on southern plantations.
Allah has already sanctioned for you the dissolution of your vows.
- Holy Prophet Allah in the Holy Ko-Ran 66:2
I use to think television’s version of government law inforcement agency’s incompetence was an exaggeration. I no longer think so.
Another “slide down the slippery slope” of accommodationist claptrap of the current (and previous) administration regarding the current Islamist threat. The FBI tactics to assuage disgruntled and vocal Muslims regarding “Islamophobia” is reflective of the Intelligence Community at large; intellectually suspect at best, intellectually dishonest at worst. Through various strategies and tactics since 2001 (and before such as during “ finger in the wind Bill Clintonian times”), various excuses, apologies, and trends attempted to explain the failure of the majority of the American Muslim population to stand up and state their beliefs regarding past and future events including 9/11. The “spokesmen” for the “Silent American Muslim majority” appear to be heavily Saudi funded, pro-Hamas and Hezbollah, Salafi Wahabbist terrorist sympathizers or enablers. In a previous career I would be censored for what I just wrote, but the winks and nods throughout the government whenever the question about Saudi involvement in events or which particular Islamic school might adhere to certain beliefs and practices was evident, at least amongst a minority of bureaucrats. The FBI approach is multi-dimensional, but effused by the apologetic emotion of not wanting to “disrespect” practitioners of the religion of “peace”. The failure to be intellectually honest and precise in discussing, researching, and identifying Islamist threats due to fears of being discriminatory fruition into the examples provided in this informative article of letting the “foxes” into the henhouse with veto authority and litmus test policies as to politically correct “Islamophic-free” approaches. The US military is also a victim of this as seen in the recent “freeze” on training due to controversial power point presentations! This weakness also diminished any proactive response which may have prevented the Ft. Hood massacre as well. The current “Taliban catch and release” program simultaneous to US service members fighting and dying is part of this failed approach. I wonder when someone will stop the sliding!
The problem is that until the FBI is allowed to declare that Islam is the enemy, then they will be continuously stepping in Islamic doo doo trying to ally with the agents of Islam. Think of Muslims as double agents that you have possibly cajoled into giving up the goods on their buddies, but still be very wary that they may still be working for the other team (and will certainly have supressed loyalties to it.
And then, of course, the fact the FBI never could figure out who “Deep Throat” of Watergate fame was is just the icing on the cup cake (since the snitch turned out to be the Associate FBI director, perhaps some slack should be cut here?). And “D.B. Cooper,” the first airline hijacker for ransom, is still a John Doe and unsolved case. The FBI do not always get their man or woman, or whatever.
To repeat a comment I made to an earlier Patrick Poole posting: FBI stands for Fumbling, Bumbling, Incompetents. The agency needs a makeover: Remove the counter-intelligence component and make it a separate agency, and then create another agency to fight petty theft which the FBI is very good at (although not so good at grand larceny).
The problem with the FBI is that it is a bureaucracy in the bad sense. By that I mean it has been around so long that the bureaucratic mindset has taken deep root. While there are no doubt some good agents in there, the higher ranks are filled with those are are best at infighting and gaming the system to get promoted. Studies show that narcissists tend to do well in bureaucracies, the stuffier it is and the more complex the rules the better.
This looks like a prime example of that. You’ve got agents bucking for promotion if not within the agency then their political career outside of it and so they pull something as PC (and stupid) as this. They are aiming to please whoever is going to give them a leg up on that promotion. Any ill effects their actions have on the agency or national security are irrelevant compared to moving up the ladder.
The problem is political correctness, and the lie it is based upon.
Simple critical truths are forbidden, and thus all manner of well meaning back-bending occurs in the “hope” that the truth can be modified, and some new reality forged from lies and wishful thinking.
Remove them, and you will find simplicity. Mohammad was evil, vile, and criminal by any interpretation. That he gained strength, and conquered many, is his only success. Blood and torture replacing any worthy Ideas of Worldy Value. He has no redeeming human character, other than to demonstrate what the human condition will sink to when the lowest and darkest desires rule.
After 13 centuries, there are but two types of personages that self identify as “Muslims”:
A- People of middle-eastern backgrounds who share regional/cultural similarities of dress, food and holidays, but are for the most part “Christian” in their attitudes of peaceful co-existence with others. They are seldom involved in the upper ranks of any Islamic organization, and are rather like the “Christmas and Easter” churchgoer , just average nobodies who otherwise has no real involvement/influence on their parish activities, priorities, or positions on issues.
These Muslims are called “Apostates” by every known form of Islam. The Prophet himself condemns them in no uncertain words, and they are ultimately slated for death as traitors to Allah. Their existence in the mean time is neutral, or used as a shield/ploy by the second type of Muslim.
B- Ideological supporters of Mohammad and his goals. That is to say, ones who believe in, support financially, and may personally participate in, terroristic activities against Infidels and their institutions. They will without conscious, kill and maim thousands of type “A” muslims if the effect will cause grief, blame, consternation or further expenditure of resources of the Infidels.
These Muslims are the ones who make up the leadership cadre of every “Islamic” organization worldwide. Being duplicitous, lying, and deceiving to bring down the Infidels is a tenet of their faith. They have no moral restraint when it comes to cooperation with, or obligation toward ,the object of their distain. Their speeches in Arabic to the masses, verses their “media message” to West, quite clearly reveals this two-faced aspect of their religion.
Among the American Muslim organizations, every move is planned to conceal their motives, every engagement with us used to keep us off balance. Some will actively play the part of “extremist” to create a false differential between them and the “moderates” who are their co-conspirators. This is done to encourage our “engagement” with the “moderates”, prove our willingness to co-exist, and somehow (in our imagination of wishful thinking) soothe and/or discredit the angry extremists, and ensure our safety.
For them, it is simply a case of the artificial relationship dynamic known as “good cop/bad cop”…in which the suspect (in this case, us) is caused to bring harm upon himself by aligning/cooperating with the lesser demands of the “good cop”, in the mistaken belief that honesty, accommodation, and an admission of SOME small sins will lead to a greater understanding of the whole…and the frightful charges pursued by “bad cop” will be seen as overboard and unjustified via this honestly demonstrated cooperation/friendship with the “good cop”. Mutual understanding thus achieved, we walk away each satisfied with the other.
We seek kinship with the lesser of the two evils, in the mistaken hope the greater evil will ratchet down their demands and accept us as “innocent”, not realizing the supposed “lesser evil” has the exact same intent (to show us no mercy) and this entire “interrogation” is choreographed between the two of them to ensure, as much as is possible, our ultimate doom.
It is, ironically, quite unfortunate that Jesus was a good person, and Mohammad such a thoroughly bad one…because the specter of “religious intolerance” at this point in human history hamstrings our ability see the simple the truth for what it is, and act accordingly.
In other words, would we, in the not so distant past, have “engaged” and/or promoted , at an OFFICIAL GOVERMENTAL OUTREACH LEVEL, “moderate” Nazi’s, Communists or Anarchists as “legitimate” voices in the dialog of our republic?
Poor, misunderstood, valuable, viable , positive and worthy pieces of the mosaic of our culture of freedom and self determination?
The Truth.
Stranger now, than Fiction.
The FBI couldn’t pour urine out of a boot with written instructions on the heel. If these people are supposed to be protecting us, we are in deep trouble. Who pays them anyway, Hamas, Al Queda, Iran or the Taliban?
There is a reason we refer to them as the Fumbling Bumbling Idiots!
Everyone here is correct. The FBI is terrible and we should privatize it. We should privatize all police forces. Or better yet, just expand our Second Amendment Rights and eliminate the FBI and police altogether.
Every organization is a mirror image of its leader. Who is the current leader of the DOJ? Who is Holder’s leader? Get it? All of this asinine silliness keeps us, the American public, at risk of further exposure to violence and mayhem. Mueller is a career diplo-cop who no longer has the stones to keep the FBI from morphing into another agency as silly and inept as Homeland Security: see leadership/mirror example above. Root ’83, you are very correct, and Brutus, while I do not agree with privatizing law enforcement at any level, I wholeheartedly agree with your 2nd amendment expansion (allow full auto weapons purchases for non-felons).
It is time to realize that the “enemy” that the FBI, ATF, TSA, CIA, et al is preparing to fight is the American citizen who cherishes his freedom and liberty. These G men are not our friends; they in fact work for our enemies and are dead set to destroy everything that the United States once represented.
Was it Mueller who didn’t know anything about the Muslim Brotherhood?