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Tarek Fatah, (born November 20, 1949) is a Canadian political activist, writer, and broadcaster. He is the author of Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State. Fatah's second book, titled The Jew Is Not My Enemy: Unveiling the Myths that Fuel Muslim Anti-Semitism. He founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress. Fatah's advocates gay rights, a separation of religion and state, opposition to sharia law, and advocacy for a "liberal, progressive form" of Islam. Some of his activism and statements have met with considerable criticism from Canadian Muslim groups. (Wikipedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

WRITTEN BY RAVEN CLABOUGH – THE NEW AMERICAN ON LINE
\nTHURSDAY, 18 AUGUST 2011<\/p>\n

Tarek Fatah \u2014 a self-described devout Muslim Marxist \u2014 has issued a strong warning that there is a Muslim Brotherhood influence at the White House. Fatah, a Canadian, delivered this caution back in June at Canada\u2019s annual \u201cPremier Meeting of the Minds\u201d function; however, his announcement was all but ignored.<\/p>\n

At the conference, Fatah expressed his own viewpoints on mainstream and radical Islam, including the Muslim Brotherhood. He asserted, \u201cThe religion of Islam is being used as a tool by a fascist force.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then moved on to discuss what he views as the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood at the highest level of the federal government. \u201cInstead of bringing victory over the fascist forces of the Muslim Brotherhood, we now recognize that their infiltration is right up to the American White House, but we can\u2019t say that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

According to Cal Thomas of the Washington Examiner, Fatah may be onto something, as it has been a longtime goal of the Muslim Brotherhood to infiltrate the leadership ranks of the United States. He wrote:<\/p>\n

In 1991, a memo written by Mohamed Akram for the Shura Council of the Muslim Brotherhood spelled out the objective of the organization. Akram said the Muslim Brotherhood \u201cmust understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and \u2018sabotaging\u2019 its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God\u2019s religion is made victorious over all other religions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some observers began to ponder a potential Brotherhood influence when James Clapper, President Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, publicly referred to the Muslim Brotherhood as a \u201cheterogeneous\u201d and \u201clargely secular group\u201d just hours after the organization had declared Sharia law as its ultimate goal.<\/p>\n

Likewise, blogger Trevor Loudon has pointed to two members of the White House with potential ties to the radical group. The first is Rashad Hussain, the U.S. Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). The Examiner’s Cal Thomas has stated that Hussain\u2019s appointment to the OIC \u201cshould be of serious concern to Congress and the American public.\u201d<\/p>\n

FrontPage Magazine, a David Horowitz publication, expanded on this subject:<\/p>\n

The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report took a look at Hussain\u2019s official biography and found several concerning affiliations. The first is that in October 2000, Hussain spoke at a conference sponsored by the Association of Muslim Social Scientists, which was listed in an internal Muslim Brotherhood document as one of \u201cour organizations and the organizations of our friends,\u201d and the Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding of Georgetown University, which receives Saudi funding and is directed by prominent Muslim Brotherhood advocate John Esposito.<\/p>\n

FrontPage also reports that Hussain \u201cplayed a role\u201d in the 2004 conference of the Muslim Students Association, which was founded by the Muslim Brotherhood in 1963.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Hussain defended Professor Sami Al-Arian, a convicted leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad who later admitted to being a Muslim Brotherhood member. Despite these findings, Hussain claimed that the legal battle launched against Al-Arian was \u201cpolitically-motivated persecution.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hussain has also spoken at a conference sponsored by Islamic Brotherhood affiliates.<\/p>\n

The second name put forward by Cal Thomas is Dalia Mogahed, senior analyst and executive director at the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, and a sitting member of Obama\u2019s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.<\/p>\n

According to David Horowitz\u2019s DiscovertheNetworks.org, Mogahed is the co-author of the book Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think. The website adds:<\/p>\n

In early October 2009, Mogahed was interviewed on a British television program hosted by Ibtihal Bsis, a member of the extremist Hizb ut Tahrir party, which seeks to facilitate the non-violent destruction of Western democracy and the creation of a worldwide Islamic state governed by Sharia Law. Bsis and another guest (also a member of Hizb ut Tahrir) stated that Sharia should be \u201cthe source of legislation\u201d for all nations in the world; they also repeatedly condemned the \u201cman-made law\u201d and the \u201clethal cocktail of liberty and capitalism\u201d that existed in Western societies. Mogahed did not dispute any of their assertions.<\/p>\n

Instead, Mogahed stated that the Western view of Sharia was \u201coversimplified,\u201c and that the majority of Muslim women around the world associate Islamic Law with \u201dgender justice.\u201c \u201dI think the reason so many women support Sharia is because they have a very different understanding of Sharia than the common perception in Western media,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Mogahed was referred to by Tablet Magazine in 2010 as the \u201cmost important person shaping the Obama Administration\u2019s Middle East message.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Investigative Project on Journalism conducted a detailed investigation of Mogahed\u2019s past and asserts that she is a staunch defender of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), both recognized as Muslim Brotherhood front groups.<\/p>\n

Robert Spencer of Human Events has also written about the Obama administration\u2019s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood:<\/p>\n

Obama first reached out to the Brotherhood when he chose the leader of a Muslim Brotherhood-linked group that had been named an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case to give a prayer during his inauguration ceremonies. Ingrid Mattson, then-president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), offered this prayer at the National Cathedral on Obama\u2019s Inauguration Day \u2014 despite the fact that the ISNA has admitted its ties to the Brotherhood….<\/p>\n

Obama didn\u2019t ask Mattson to explain the ISNA\u2019s links to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. On the contrary: He sent his senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett . . .<\/p>\n

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