Esam
Omeish at Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center 9-18-15
I
realize that the government situation in Libya is not exactly stable, yet I find it very amusing that a Libyan parliamentary procedure
has placed Muslim Brotherhood linked Esam Omeish - who resides in
America - on a terrorist watch list. Omeish has gone ballistic when a foreign
government has exposed his trojan nature in the USA.
Here is an Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) article on the
issue.
JRH 6/12/17
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Libyan Security Committee Calls U.S. Muslim Leader a
Terrorist
By IPT News
June 12, 2017
A prominent Muslim American political activist is included
on a list of 75 terrorists issued
by a Libyan parliamentary committee.
Esam Omeish is
a former president of the Muslim American Society and
remains a prominent figure at the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Va. He
is among 75 people the Libyan House of Representatives' Defense and National
Security Committee labeled Friday as enemies.
Libya's government remains fragmented, with the House of
Representatives based in a city called Tobruk. It is considered closely aligned with
Egypt.
Omeish is the 29th name listed on the terror
list and is described as an "international member of the Muslim
Brotherhood." Another American, Aly Abuzaakouk, appears just
after Omeish's, also identified as an international Muslim Brotherhood member.
Omeish blasted the move in
a statement on his Facebook page, saying "my name had unjustly and falsely
been placed on a so called list of supporters of terrorism." He protested
Saturday to Virginia U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, the 2016 Democratic vice presidential
nominee, and plans to try meeting more members of Congress today.
Omeish wants the committee's leader "legally prosecuted
for fraud, slander and defamation to obtain a judgement inhibiting their
ability to travel to America..." He also wants penalties for committee
members who approved the list, accusing them of "randomly charging
American citizens who have no offense or crime, or involvement with any of
the forms of terrorism, and who are major in the American landscape in the
fight against terrorism and working with all security and legal agencies to
preserve the country's security and the safety of the society and communities
with transparency and integrity which everyone near and far knows."
Omeish formerly served as president of the Muslim American
Society (MAS), which insiders have
acknowledged is the Muslim Brotherhood's
overt arm in the United States. In a December Facebook
comment, Omeish wrote that Muslims
"have not known of the people of Islam ... those more just in
understanding, wider in approach and closer in application than the Muslim
Brotherhood. We have not known of humane brotherliness and its people, (and we
are affiliated with all men whom Allah has created a propensity for love,
mercy, an upright disposition, good morals and honorable character) better in
ethics, of gentler parts, deeper in adherence to duty, nobler in morals among
all their sons, and every one of their actions than the Muslim
Brotherhood."
Last year, he advocated that
the U.S. support for a group known variably as
the "Revolutionary Shura Council," or the "Mujahideen Shura of
Derna," despite ties between its officials and al-Qaida. Egypt's air force bombed the group last
month in retaliation for terror attacks against Coptic Christians in April.
Abuzaakouk also has deep Muslim Brotherhood connections. He
has served as executive director of the American Muslim Council (AMC), and
publications director for the International Institute of Islamic Thought
(IIIT). He became foreign minister of the
Muslim Brotherhood-dominated Government of National Salvation based in Tripoli
after dictator Muammar Gaddafi fell. That group opposes the internationally
recognized government in Tobruk.
The AMC was founded in part by Mahmoud Abu Saud, who helped
Hassan al-Banna create the Brotherhood in Egypt, the Washington Post reported in
2004. FBI officials have long suspected that
the IIIT housed leading Brotherhood officials in the United States.
Despite his overt support for "the jihad way" and
for the Brotherhood, Omeish has been close to Kaine for at least a decade. When
Kaine was Virginia's governor in 2007, Omeish was forced to resign from
a state immigration panel after Investigative Project on Terrorism video showed
him praising Palestinians during a 2000 rally for knowing that "the jihad
way is the way to liberate your land."
At a separate event two months earlier, Omeish similarly praised Palestinians
"for their bravery, for their giving up their lives for the sake of Allah
and for the sake of Al-Aqsa [Jerusalem]. They have spearheaded the effort to
bring victory upon the believers in [Palestine]."
It was during a 2010 fundraiser for Omeish's state assembly
campaign that U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison – now the Democratic National Committee's
vice chair – complained that
Israel unduly influence U.S. policy in the Middle East. "A region of 350
million all turns on a country of 7 million," Ellison said. "Does
that make sense?"
Ellison added:
"We can't allow another country to treat us like we're their ATM. Right?
And so we ought to stand up as Americans. Now some of us have affinity for
other places around the globe. Some of us are new Americans and adopted America
as our home. But whether you're born here or whether you accepted America as
your own voluntarily, this is our home. Right? All of our home equally, and we
can't allow it to be disrespected because some, by a country that we're paying
money to."
In this case, Kaine serves on the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee's subcommittee for North Africa.
It is unclear what impact the Libyan House committee's
terror list will have, especially among U.S. policy makers. There's no public
information indicating Omeish was directly involved in any terror support. But
he has openly advocated for "the jihad way" and lauds the
Brotherhood, a movement which articulated a goal of creating a global
Islamic state and serves as an inspiration for
Sunni jihadist groups including al-Qaida, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic
Jihad and Ja'amat Islamiya.
"The common link here is the extremist Muslim
Brotherhood – all of these organizations are descendants of the membership and
ideology of the Muslim Brothers," former National Security and
Counter-terrorism Coordinator Richard Clarke testified in
2004 before a U.S. Senate committee.
There are twin bills pending in Congress that would designate the
Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group. The United Arab Emirates has already done so.
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