In September 2014, members of Congress were informed that disgraced former Homeland Security adviser Mohamed Elibiary was being relieved of his duties after a long series of controversies, including the fact that his tweets cheering the inevitability of an Islamic caliphate were used by ISIS supporters for recruiting purposes.
Now Elibiary has gone after Egypt’s Coptic Christian community — again — after a prominent Coptic businessman expressed support for Donald Trump. Elibiary ominously warned in a tweet today that such support would be “not good 4 Copts in Egypt.”
#PT Where’s wisdom in most prominent #Egypt‘n Copt endorsing most anti-Islam Pres candidate in US history? That’s not good 4 Copts in Egypt.
— Mohamed Elibiary (@MohamedElibiary) June 25, 2016
This is not the first time that Elibiary has attacked the persecuted Coptic Christian community.
In September 2013, Elibiary went after the Coptic Christian community for nurturing anti-Islam and anti-Muslim sentiment just a month after Muslim Brotherhood cadres had burned down 70+ Coptic churches in Egypt:
For >decade since 9/11 attack extremist American #Coptic activists have nurtured anti #Islam & anti #Muslim sentiments among AM RT wing. 1/2
— Mohamed Elibiary (@MohamedElibiary) September 15, 2013
Remarkably, this incitement came only three days after his appointment by DHS as a Homeland Security fellow.
I’m honored to be reappointed to Secretary’s Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) and promoted to Sr. Fellow position @DHSgov #Service
— Mohamed Elibiary (@MohamedElibiary) September 12, 2013
Those comments brought condemnation from Coptic authorities, including the revered Bishop Angaelos in the UK (just recently knighted by Queen Elizabeth), who expressed his astonishment that an official from the Obama administration would promote such bigotry and invite further attacks by Muslims against Christians:
VERY disturbing if true: http://t.co/BkhFQPxmZZ US DHS adviser accuses #Coptic #Christians of inciting Muslims! #Speechless! Pls comment! — Bishop Angaelos (@BishopAngaelos) September 28, 2013
Caught inciting more violence, Elibiary then claimed to be the REAL victim:
When I advised #Coptic activists 2stop wrkn w/ #Islamophobes bcuz it wont grow #Freedom, #Egypt Coup media attackd ME http://t.co/mtN9ofPzkj
— Mohamed Elibiary (@MohamedElibiary) December 23, 2013
Coptic Christians are not the only ones he attacks for his claims they promote “Islamophobia.” Just last September he went after the embattled Chaldean Christians in Iraq and Syria who are actively persecuted by the Islamic State.
Chaldean Christians, like Coptic community activists I wrote about last decade, are unwise 4 promoting #Islamophobia https://t.co/zn55TjIurM
— Mohamed Elibiary (@MohamedElibiary) September 11, 2015
Elibiary is content to scapegoat Jews, too, equating arguments in favor of the Jewish state of Israel with those by ISIS for the Islamic State caliphate.
Interestingly #IS‘s Caliph used same logic Jews use on why Israel’s needed:Sunnis are targeted & won’t enjoy security w/o #Caliphate. 10/End
— Mohamed Elibiary (@MohamedElibiary) May 14, 2015
It is somewhat ironic that Elibiary, who in December 2004 spoke at a conference honoring virulently anti-American Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini (an event which the Dallas Morning News editorialized as a “disgrace”), would be throwing around terms like “Coptic Fascism,” but consistency has never been one of his strong suits. 
And by going after the group Coptic Solidarity for the statement of Naguib Sawiris, and then warning that Sawiris’ comments would be bad for the Coptic Christians in Egypt, he is engaging in the very collective guilt that he so often rails against:
#RtWing #Islamophobes hate 2b called out on their bigotry but that’s what assigning collective guilt certainly is. Wisdom is in GOLDEN RULE! — Mohamed Elibiary (@MohamedElibiary) December 4, 2013
@Jr88kyle Collective guilt is not an American value Kyle. Judge everyone, Muslims included, by their personal acts lest you too be judged… — Mohamed Elibiary (@MohamedElibiary) November 25, 2013
In a moment of perfect lack of self-awareness, Elibiary eschewed collective responsibility while simultaneously engaging in it.
We don’t assign collective guilt 2 whole groups of fellow Americans under our constitution & laws. #Chistianists culture wars are just that.
— Mohamed Elibiary (@MohamedElibiary) January 27, 2015
Time has shown that Twitter has provided a platform for Elibiary to spread his bigotry and ignorance, which led to his downfall at DHS. Namely, his cheerleading for the caliphate.
@davereaboi #Silly. As I’ve said b4 inevitable that “Caliphate” returns. Choice only whether we support #EU like Muslim Union vision or not. — Mohamed Elibiary (@MohamedElibiary) June 13, 2014
As I noted at the time, Elibiary’s pro-caliphate statements were then used by pro-ISIS supporters for recruiting:
@alimhaider It’s not like @MohamedElibiary‘s pro-caliphate tweets were used by ISIS recruiters http://t.co/32ajypeo9Z pic.twitter.com/l7ShPSCJ41
— Patrick Poole (@pspoole) November 17, 2014
But he remains defiant, returning to the topic of the caliphate and even doubling-down on his past statements in support of such.
When I explained months ago Caliphate concept inevitable & we in US can impact but no eliminate, I was attacked. Now: http://t.co/OHhXKNikzG
— Mohamed Elibiary (@MohamedElibiary) August 26, 2014
“global caliphate” concept is Islamophobia nonsense 2 scare GOP into sacrificing Americans in endless #MidEast wars. https://t.co/j1xeP4ceFn
— Mohamed Elibiary (@MohamedElibiary) January 26, 2016
.@Imakesyoulaugh Concept of #Caliphate is flexible. There’s #IS totalitarian thugocracy model, or can also be a 21st Century Republic model. — Mohamed Elibiary (@MohamedElibiary) September 8, 2015
Despite billing himself as a staunch Republican supporter, he just can’t bring himself to support actual GOP candidates.
An American Muslim voting 4 @tedcruz would be like #Egypt-ian Coptic Christian voting 4 #MuslimBrotherhood‘s Morsi. Possible but terrifying.
— Mohamed Elibiary (@MohamedElibiary) December 11, 2015
Oh no @BobbyJindal isn’t racist, he’s what we call in the #GOP a bottom feeder appealing to southern segregationists http://t.co/ZrWX1YAeKC
— Mohamed Elibiary (@MohamedElibiary) January 28, 2015
I reported here at PJ Media on Elibiary’s attack on LA Governor Bobby Jindal as a “bottom feeder.” I ran down some of Elibiary’s greatest hits:
- Elibiary admitted that his mentor and long-time friend was none other than Hamas terrorist leader Shukri Abu Baker, who is currently serving a 65-year prison sentence.
- In 2003, Elibiary was listed as a board member for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Dallas chapter, which was founded by now-convicted Hamas operative Ghassan Elashi. In 2008, federal prosecutors declared in a federal court brief that “from its founding by Muslim Brotherhood leaders, CAIR conspired with other affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists.
- In Dec 2004, Elibiary was a featured speaker at a Dallas rally honoring the Ayatollah Khomeini as a “Great Islamic Visionary,” an event the Dallas Morning News called a “disgrace.”
- Immediately after the Fort Hood massacre in November 2009, Dallas Morning News editor Rod Dreher recounted Elibiary’s strident defense of jihadist ideologue Sayyid Qutb, whom the 9/11 Commission identified as the chief architect of Al-Qaeda’s ideology.
- In April 2010, he published an op-ed at Fox News pleading with the Obama administration to not kill senior Al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
- In June 2010, he attacked the Supreme Court after they upheld the material support for terrorism statute in an op-ed for the Dallas Morning News.
- In June 2011, the IRS revoked the 501c3 tax-exempt status of Elibiary’s Freedom and Justice Foundation for failing to file the required IRS Form 990s over a period of several years, documents which would reveal the source of his organization’s funding.
- In October 2011, I reported exclusively here at PJ Media that Elibiary had downloaded sensitive documents by the Texas Dept. of Public Safety from a secure DHS database, and then unsuccessfully tried to shop them to the media claiming then-Gov. Rick Perry was running an “Islamophobic” operation. Despite multiple claims by top DHS officials that an internal investigation exonerated Elibiary, in Sept 2013 DHS admitted in response to the Judicial Watch FOIA request that no records related to any internal investigation existed, prompting members of Congress to claim DHS was engaged in a cover-up. Texas DPS, having conducted their own investigation, severed their relationship with Elibiary.
- After 30 million Egyptians took to the streets to remove Muslim Brotherhood president Mohamed Morsi, leading to his ouster, Elibiary added a Muslim Brotherhood logo to his Twitter avatar in solidarity with the extremist Islamic group.
- In November 2013, Elibiary took to Twitter to announce that the U.S. was a shariah-compliant Islamic country.
So if anyone is mystified about how our national security and federal law enforcement agencies are so clueless about the threat from radical Islam after the Orlando attack, you don’t have to look any further than this disgraced former DHS adviser who was advising them on the issue.
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