October 21, 2012
A year-long investigation by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT)
has found that scores of known radical Islamists made hundreds of visits to the
Obama White House, meeting with top administration officials.
Court documents and other records have identified many of these visitors as
belonging to groups serving as fronts for the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and
other Islamic militant organizations.
The IPT made the discovery combing through millions of White House visitor
log entries. IPT compared the visitors' names with lists of known radical
Islamists. Among the visitors were officials representing groups which
have:
Been designated by the Department of Justice as unindicted co-conspirators
in terrorist trials; Extolled Islamic terrorist groups including Hamas and
Hizballah;
Obstructed terrorist investigations by instructing their followers not to
cooperate with law enforcement;
Promoted the incendiary conspiratorial allegation that the United States is
engaged in a "war against Islam"? a leading tool in recruiting Muslims to carry
out acts of terror;
Repeatedly claimed that many of the Islamic terrorists convicted since 9-11
were framed by the U.S government as part of an anti-Muslim profiling
campaign.
Individuals from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) visited
the White House at least 20 times starting in 2009. In 2008, CAIR was listed as
an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorist money laundering case in
U.S. history ? the trial of the Holy Land Foundation in which five HLF officials
were convicted of funneling money to Hamas.
U.S. District Court Judge Jorge Solis later ruled that, "The Government has
produced ample evidence to establish the association" of CAIR to Hamas,
upholding their designations as unindicted co-conspirators. In 2008, the FBI
formally ended all contact with CAIR because of its ties to Hamas.
In January 2004, Hussam Ayloush, executive director of CAIR's Los Angeles
office, publicly defended Palestinian terror attacks in comments before Muslim
students at the University of California ? Los Angeles, saying that terrorists
were exercising their "legitimate right" to defend themselves against Israeli
occupation.
Ayloush, who was a delegate to the 2012 Democratic National Convention in
Charlotte, N.C., casts the United States as controlled by Israeli interests. At
a 2008 CAIR banquet in San Diego, he imagined "an America that respects and
humanizes religion. It's an America that is free to act on its values and not on
the interests of any foreign lobby." In 2004, he said that the war on terror had
become a "war on Muslims." Ayloush attended at least two White House
meetings.
The logs show Ayloush met with Paul Monteiro, associate director of the
White House Office of Public Engagement on July 8, 2011 and Amanda Brown,
assistant to the White House director of political affairs Patrick Gaspard, on
June 6, 2009.
According to reliable sources, Monteiro was White House liaison for secret
contacts with CAIR, especially with Ayloush. IPT has learned that the White
House logs curiously have omitted Ayloush's three meetings with two other senior
White House officials.
Louay Safi, formerly executive director of the Islamic Society of North
America, visited the White House twice ? meeting in intimate settings with Paul
Monteiro on June 29, 2011 and July 8, 2011.
Law enforcement first noticed Safi in 1995 when his voice was captured in
an FBI wiretap of now-convicted Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami Al-Arian.
At the time of his conversation with Al-Arian, Safi served as executive director
of the International Institute of Islamic Thought, an organization listed in
law-enforcement and in internal Muslim Brotherhood documents as one of the
movement's top front groups in North America.
Safi also wrote for the Middle East Affairs Journal, produced by the United
Association for Studies and Research (UASR). That group was established by Hamas
deputy political leader Mousa Abu Marzook and part of the Hamas-support network
called the "Palestine Committee."
Safi has repeatedly expressed understanding for the underlying causes that
provoke terrorism: "Terrorism cannot be fought by?ignoring its root causes. The
first step?is to examine the conditions that give rise to the anger,
frustration, and desperation that fuel all terrorist acts." He also called
Palestinian terrorists "freedom" fighters.
Esam Omeish, former head of the Muslim Brotherhood-created Muslim American
Society, visited the White House three times.
In 2000, Omeish personally hired the late terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki to be
the imam of Falls Church, VA, Dar al-Hijrah mosque. According to IPT analysis,
more terrorists have been linked to Dar al-Hijrah since 9/11 than to any other
mosque in America.
Omeish publicly mourned the Israeli airstrike that killed Hamas founder
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin at an April 10, 2004, MAS conference.
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