Yesterday (2/12/20) Brigitte Gabriel via ACT for
America sent out an email alerting her readers that
terrorist supporting Islamic organizations are beginning public and legal
pressure to remove their Islamic terrorist connections associated with the Holy Land Foundation trial that ended with
several guilty verdicts for supporting Hamas Islamic terrorism.
The ACT for America website picked up a 2/7/20 Center for Security Policy (CSP) story
on the attempt to erase the unindicted co-conspirator list in America.
JRH 2/13/20
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Re-litigating the Holy Land Foundation Trial?
Sent Brigitte Gabriel
Sent Feb 12, 2020, 4:34 AM
Email from ACT
for America
Hamas Linked "Bridge Initiative" wants to re-litigate
the Holy Land Foundation Trial
The ultimate goal of the Bridge
Initiative is to remove Hamas/CAIR and other radical Islamic
organizations from the designated
terrorist list. The Bin Talal Center claims that the terrorist designation
raises issues about “due
process, equal protection, judicial deference, the chilling of free speech...”
This is how the EU weasels out of designating Hezbollah
as a terrorist entity!
I've detailed where projects like the Bridge Initiative get
their funding extensively in my book, "Because They Hate."
In 2006 alone, Georgetown University received 28.1 million US dollars from
Saudi Arabia to fund programs like their Bridge Initiative.
In 2009, at the request of the White House, Georgetown
University covered all religious symbols during an address given by Obama --
Georgetown is the oldest Catholic and Jesuit institution of higher education in
the United States.
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Hamas-linked “Bridge Initiative” wants to re-litigate
Holy Land Foundation trial
By Kyle Shideler
CSP Date 2/7/20
The Bridge Initiative, a project of the Alwaleed Bin Talal
Center for Muslim Christian Understanding, continues to embarrass its host,
Georgetown University, this time by publishing a “factsheet” in defense of the
convicted Hamas fundraising organization known as the Holy Land Foundation.
The sheet is short on facts, and long on emotional appeal.
It distorts basic facts about the Holy Land Foundation case, in which the
nation’s largest Islamic charity and five of its employees were convicted on
104 felony counts, including providing material support for the terrorist
organization Hamas.
While the Bridge Initiative wants to relitigate the HLF
case, wholly endorsing arguments made by the defense that were soundly
rejected by judge and jury, ultimately what it seeks to do in their factsheet
is argue that Hamas should not be designated as a terrorist organization at
all. They likewise condemn U.S. Treasury Terrorism designation efforts in
general, despite these efforts being a mainstay of the effort to combat
terrorism since 9/11.
The Jewish Journal describes the project’s factsheet noting,
“The fact sheet says that Hamas
‘was founded in Palestine in 1987 as a political and social organization, with
an armed wing aimed at resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestine.’ It
acknowledges that the United States designated Hamas a terror organization in
1997, but then states that designating Hamas as a terror group “has been
criticized by legal scholars as being politicized by the State Department, and
as raising issues concerning due process, equal protection, judicial deference,
the chilling of free speech, and having ‘disparate impact on the Arab Muslim
community.’”
The defenders of Hamas have long relied on the false
distinction that the group has an “armed wing” which engages in violence,
claiming the majority of the group merely performs otherwise legal work in the
social and political spheres. Ironically, Hamas’ own founder rejected the
distinction between armed and unarmed wings, and the organization is tightly
integrated. Terrorist activities take place under the direction of the group’s
political leadership, as Matt Levitt, Author of “Hamas: Politics, Charity and
Terrorism in Service of Jihad” has ably documented.
It’s no surprise that Bridge Initiative would be playing the
role of Hamas apologist, given that its founder, John Esposito, has a history
with the very Hamas network of which the Holy Land Foundation was the prominent
member. Esposito served as a member of the advisory editorial board for the
journal of the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR). UASR, which
the federal government described as a Hamas “think tank”, was founded by Mousa
Abu Marzook, currently deputy chairman of Hamas’ political bureau. UASR’s
executive director and the editor of the journal of which Esposito was an
advisor, Ahmad Yousef, who went on to serve as a Hamas spokesman.
Esposito’s Bridge Initiative is not alone among groups with
questionable ties seeking to memory-hole the reality of the Holy Land
Foundation Trial. The Charity and Security Network (CSN), a project of the
Center for Effective Government (formerly OMB Watch), has been a leader in this
regard. CSN also attempts to paint the Holy Land Foundation case as an overly
broad smear of Muslim charities. As Sam Westrop of Middle East Forum has ably
demonstrated, however, CSN itself receives funding and support from several
charities with known links to terror finance.
First designated for its terror ties in 2001, and convicted
in 2008, it seems that HLF’s partisans believe the time is right to proclaim
these Hamas financiers as champions of virtue wrongly convicted. They are no
doubt counting on the fact that few in 2020 remember the long trial or the
copious documentary and surveillance evidence the government produced in the
case. They likewise are convinced of their ability to falsely slander those
experts who have studied the case as Islamophobes and bigots.
But it isn’t going to work.
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been placed in restricted Facebook Jail! The restriction was relegated after
criticizing Democrats for supporting abortion in one post and criticizing
Virginia Dems for gun-grabbing legislation and levying protester restrictions.
Rather than capitulate to Facebook censorship by abandoning the platform, I
choose to post and share until the Leftist censors ban me completely.
Conservatives are a huge portion of Facebook. If more or all Conservatives are
banned, it will affect the Facebook advertising revenue paradigm. SO FIGHT
CENSORSHIP BY SHARE – SHARE – SHARE!!! Facebook notified me in
pop-up on 1/20/20: “You're temporarily restricted from joining and posting to
groups that you do not manage until April 18 at 7:04 PM.”
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