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Dem Candidates Sanders, Castro to Speak at Radical
Islamist Convention
Democrat candidate for
president Bernie Sanders campaigns in Pasadena, California (Photo:
David McNew/Getty Images)
By Ryan Mauro
August 6, 2019
Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Julian
Castro have agreed to speak at the convention of a radical Islamist group with
ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and
hostility towards progressive Muslims and values.
Sanders and Castro will participate in a “presidential
forum” held by the Islamic Society of North America
(ISNA) during its convention in Houston August 31, 2019.
ISNA says it is inviting other Democratic presidential
candidates and President Donald Trump to address its audience.
The U.S. Justice Department lists ISNA as an “entity” of the
Muslim Brotherhood, a radical and often violent arm of the
Islamist global political project. The Brotherhood’s goal is a worldwide caliphate with all of
humanity living under sharia law.
The Trump administration announced three months ago that it
was considering designating the Brotherhood as
a domestic terrorist organization.
As we reported in June, Trevor Noah,
the progressive host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, is also
slated to speak at the ISNA convention.
He, like Sanders and Castro, is apparently unaware of—or is
unconcerned with—ISNA’s radical ideology, including expelling Muslims for
Progressive Values, a pro-LGBT group, from its conference in 2017 or the fact
one of ISNA’s past presidents endorsed the execution of
homosexuals by sharia-based governments.
By speaking at the event, Noah, Sanders and Castro are
helping ISNA appear as moderate leaders of the Muslim-American community (not
to mention helping ISNA raise money through ticket sales).
The presidential forum is also being hosted by Emgage
Foundation and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), a group that has
an inflammatory and Islamist-friendly history but
has taken a stronger public stance against the Islamist ideology in recent
years.
ISNA was designated as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest
terror-funding trial in U.S. history – that of the Holy Land Foundation, an
entity founded by the Muslim Brotherhood to finance Hamas (the Brotherhood’s
Palestinian wing).
It was during this trial that the Justice Department
explicitly listed ISNA as an “entity” of the Muslim Brotherhood’s American
network. This determination was supported by large quantities of publicly
available evidence and internal Brotherhood documents.
The Holy Land Foundation actually operated from within ISNA,
with money for Hamas passing from ISNA accounts to the Holy Land Foundation for
distribution to the terrorist group.
U.S. District Court Judge Jorge Solis upheld the designation
of ISNA as an unindicted co-conspirator in 2009, citing “ample” evidence
linking ISNA to the Hamas/Brotherhood operation.
The current president of ISNA, Sayyid Syeed, was one of ISNA’s
founders when it was established by the Brotherhood. ISNA was listed in a 1991
Brotherhood memo, which described their “work in America as a kind of
grand jihad in
eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within.”
Syeed was filmed in 2006 saying,
“Our job is to change the constitution of America.”
The Fiqh Council of North America, once a part of ISNA but
now an official “affiliate” of ISNA, also has radical members and
underpinnings.
You can read more about the
radical makeup of the ISNA-affiliated Fiqh Council here.
The website for ISNA’s upcoming convention does
not currently list its speakers but, if the past is any indication, it will
include known extremists who appear moderate for condemning Al-Qaeda, ISIS and
“terrorism” but support other terrorists like Hamas and an assortment of
extremism, bigotry and anti-Western conspiracy theories.
By speaking at ISNA’s event, it is clear that these top
leaders in the progressive movement still have a blind spot when it comes to
the Islamist ideology. They usually don’t want to name it, exert no effort
to identify it and seem uninterested in taking the time for a simple Google
search to vet groups like ISNA.
The presence of Trevor Noah, Bernie Sanders, Julian Castro
and possibly more Democratic presidential candidates helps ISNA hide behind a
moderate veneer and cleverly use its progressive partners to advance its
anti-progressive agenda.
If Sanders, Castro and Noah are genuine about the need to
detoxify our political environment of extremist rhetoric and ideologies as they
say they are, they should cancel their appearances at ISNA’s convention.
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Ryan Mauro is ClarionProject.org's Shillman Fellow,
national security analyst and the director of Clarion Intelligence Network.
Mauro is also an adjunct professor of counter-terrorism. He is frequently
interviewed on top-tier television and radio.
The Clarion
Project (formerly Clarion Fund) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization
dedicated to educating both policy makers and the public about the growing
phenomenon of Islamic extremism. The Clarion
Project is committed to working towards safeguarding human rights for all
peoples.
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