Yesterday I received one of those "scare" messages about the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrating the White House:
Look who's new in the white house!
Arif Alikhan - Assistant Secretary for Policy Development
for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Mohammed Elibiary - Homeland Security Adviser
Rashad Hussain - Special Envoy to the
Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)
Salam al-Marayati - Obama Adviser and
founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council
and is its current executive director
Imam Mohamed Magid - Obama's Sharia Czar from
the Islamic Society of North America
Eboo Patel - Advisory Council on Faith-Based
Neighborhood Partnerships
The foxes are now officially living in the hen house...
Now ask me why I am very concerned!!!
Do you feel OK with this???
How can this happen, and when will we wake up???
We are quiet while our Country is being drastically changed!!!
If you’re not CONCERNED, DELETE this. Go to bed tonight...sleep well!
Otherwise, pass it on—get the word out!
We’ve got to have some relief starting with the 2014 Elections!
I thought I'd do some research to find out who these "terrorists" were, and learned the following:
Dear XXXX:
This source of scare information is linked to Steven Emerson, who is controversial. Some negatives:
Adrienne Edgar, writing in The New York Times Book Review described Emerson and Cristina del Sesto's 1991 book Terrorist, as "marred by factual errors (such as mistranslations of Arabic names) and marked by "a pervasive anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian bias."[48]
In a 1995 editorial in The Nation, Robert I. Friedman accused Emerson of "creating mass hysteria against American Arabs."[50]
A 1999 article in the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram Weekly criticized the detention of two Saudi airplane passengers who mistakenly tried to open the cockpit door of the plane they were on, thinking it was the bathroom. The newspaper claimed Emerson was the cause of the "Islamaphobia" that led to the authorities' overreaction, as he had "turned denigrating Islam into a full-time job."[51]
Emerson was also criticized in a 2002 review of American Jihad in [52] Salon by Eric Boehlert (left), Boehlert called Emerson a "heavy-handed scaremonger who fails to grasp – or deliberately blurs – the most rudimentary distinctions between different radical groups." Boehlert also criticizes Emerson for saying that Ghazi Ibrahim abu Mezer, a Palestinian immigrant who planned to blow up a Brooklyn, N.Y., subway station,[53][54] was a member of Hamas when James Kallstrom, head of the New York FBI office, said that he wasn't.[55]
There are more than 3,000 staffers in the West Wing of the White House, but the following individuals only serve on panels and councils for the White House and don't actually work there. Of course they are all Muslim, so much the better to interact with other Muslims to bridge understanding.
1. Arif Alikhan was born in the U.S., got his law degree from Loyola Law School and is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California.
2. Mohamed Eliabary is one of 28 members of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, and does tend to represent the Arab point of view.
3. Rashad Hussain is a Yale lawyer who was born in Wyoming and raised in Texas. His father is a mining engineer, mother and older sister are medical doctors, and younger brother is in medical school.
4. Salam al-Marayati has written various Huffington Post articles, one in particular:
To my fellow Muslim Americans,
A moment of truth has arrived for us. We now must demonstrate, beyond the condemnations and condolences, that we are working for America, not merely taking seats on the margins of our society. Are we an integral part of the American fabric or...
5. Imam Mohamed Magid also has written for the Huffington Post and promotes dialogue to better understand Islam. One of his postings is titled, "A Bright Future for American Muslims."
6. Eboo Patel grew up in Illinois, earning a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship.
It's a shame that there are elements in our society who have overreacted to the dangers of Islam. Certainly, there are terrorists around, but most are just trying to fit into the country as best they can. Remember the internments of Japanese "radicals" 70 years ago. Hopefully, we'll be more rational this time.
Aloha.
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