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posted at 8:55 am on January 19, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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Ingrid Mattson will help lead the inaugural prayer service on Wednesday for Barack Obama, the Muslim representative who will join Christian and Jewish leaders at the National Cathedral.  However, the group that Mattson leads — the Islamic Society of North America — has ties to Hamas, according to federal investigators.  Will the Obama administration allow the president of ISNA to participate in the prayer service with these ties to a terrorist group?  Unfortunately, the preceding administration has set some precedent with ISNA:

One of the religious leaders invited to address Barack Obama’s inaugural prayer service Wednesday heads an Islamic group named by federal prosecutors as a co-conspirator in a terrorism-fundraising trial in Texas.

Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America, is scheduled to join Christian ministers and Jewish rabbis offering prayers for the new president and his family during a service at the National Cathedral in Washington, organizers announced Friday.

Mattson’s group calls itself “the largest Muslim umbrella organization” in North America. However, in May 2007, federal prosecutors included ISNA on a list of nearly 300 co-conspirators filed in a criminal case charging that the Holy Land Foundation of Richardson, Texas, funneled more than $12 million to Hamas.

Mattson appeared at a similar prayer service at the Democratic Convention in August, but as Josh Gerstein points out for Politico, that came before the guilty verdicts in the Holy Land Foundation trial in Texas.  While the jury did not deliberate on ISNA’s connections to Hamas, the 108 guilty verdicts gave the federal investigation a clear endorsement.  The feds insist that the links between ISNA and Hamas are well-documented, while ISNA has protested the characterization of their organization as terrorist-linked.

To defend themselves, ISNA points out that its representatives met with several officials in the Bush administration during the last few years.  Politico checked out that argument and notes that none of the contacts came after the Holy Land indictments in May 2007.  Alberto Gonzales canceled a meeting with ISNA the next month.  Karen Hughes attended an ISNA event in June 2008, but Hughes had already left the administration by that time.  Still, federal investigators published their findings in May 2007, but had to have developed the evidence for ISNA-Hamas ties well before then.  The Bush administration apparently didn’t bother looking into ISNA while dealing with them as a representative of American Muslims, presumably in order to avoid dealing with CAIR.

Will Obama bounce Mattson?  That wouldn’t be very Hope-and-Changey, but he has little choice.  If Obama and his team keep ISNA on board for the prayer service, it will have a definite impact on the morale at Justice, at the very least.  How would these investigators feel about having their President hobnobbing with the woman who leads an organization tied to terrorism and exposed through their hard work?

Update: American Thinker had it first.


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With Obama,nothing surprises me anymore! I’m just counting the days until 2012.

Sailor on January 19, 2009 at 9:00 AM

Obama’s first screw-up. Again.

Phoenician on January 19, 2009 at 9:01 AM

the group that Mattson leads — the Islamic Society of North America — has ties to Hamas,

Obama himself has ties to terrorism–remember Ayers?

jgapinoy on January 19, 2009 at 9:01 AM

No surprise, we already no Obama is a terrorist sympathizer.

mindhacker on January 19, 2009 at 9:02 AM

Big deal.

After the inauguration Obarfy can claim ignorance by saying, “Ingrid who? Nope, never heard of her. Move along.”

Bishop on January 19, 2009 at 9:02 AM

How would these investigators feel about having their President hobnobbing with the woman who leads an organization tied to terrorism

I’d use the words “palling around with” instead of “hobnobbing”.

jgapinoy on January 19, 2009 at 9:03 AM

This is all part of the nuance…

CarolynM on January 19, 2009 at 9:03 AM

We invited who?

Who is this “we” you speak of?

Buy Danish on January 19, 2009 at 9:03 AM

As long as we keep pretending that Islam is anything other than exactly the kind of religion that murderous, child molesting tyrant would create, we will keep making these mistakes. And it is a simple matter of fact that Mohammed was a murderous, child molesting tyrant.

thuja on January 19, 2009 at 9:03 AM

No surprise, we already no know Obama is a terrorist sympathizer.

mindhacker on January 19, 2009 at 9:03 AM

I have long since ceased to be surprised by anything or anyone that this guy is connected to. He is without a doubt the most corrupt man to ever darken the door of White House. I did not think it was possible to be more corrupt than the Clinton’s . . .

Govgirl on January 19, 2009 at 9:04 AM

If the president says she’s ok, then she’s ok. No questions asked. This is going to be a long administration.

Tommy_G on January 19, 2009 at 9:05 AM

From what I understand, Obarfa didn’t hold a political gladhander at terrorist Ayers house either.

Obarfa said as much, so everyone shut yer yaps.

Bishop on January 19, 2009 at 9:05 AM

She should be bounced, but I have doubts he will. This is very offensive to me. I have to wonder how the Jewish community feels about it.

becki51758 on January 19, 2009 at 9:05 AM

Okay Gang, I’ll be the first:

“This is not the Ingrid I knew!”

The wheels on the bus go thump, thump, thump.

And then would you please back up and run over her again?

kingsjester on January 19, 2009 at 9:06 AM

I think the American Nazi Party MUST be there. And the KKK!

Are we inclusive or are we not?

IlikedAUH2O on January 19, 2009 at 9:07 AM

I hate Chicago nazis.

Bishop on January 19, 2009 at 9:08 AM

She should be bounced, but I have doubts he will. This is very offensive to me. I have to wonder how the Jewish community feels about it.

becki51758 on January 19, 2009 at 9:05 AM

The Jewish community voted for Obama 3 to 1. Many Jews I know blame Israel for recent events in Gaza. It’s like the many times in the Bible when the Jews got it all wrong.

thuja on January 19, 2009 at 9:09 AM

Bishop on January 19, 2009 at 9:08 AM

Can we drive the Bluesmobile through her appearance?

kingsjester on January 19, 2009 at 9:10 AM

Hey, this is the same woman McCain would have chosen:

‘Mr. McCain, meanwhile, has told colleagues “that many of these appointments he would have made himself,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican and a close McCain friend.’

Bishop on January 19, 2009 at 9:11 AM

She should be bounced, but I have doubts he will. This is very offensive to me. I have to wonder how the Jewish community feels about it.

becki51758 on January 19, 2009 at 9:05 AM

The Jewish community shows how they feel about it by voting overwhelmingly for Obama. They show how they feel about it by identifying with the Left, the same Left that engages in pro-Palestinian marches. The Jewish community needs to take a look at themselves and figure out what they stand for.

By the way, hear all those pro-Israeli shout-outs by the Hollywood Jewish community (Spielberg et al) at the multiple award ceremonies that just took place?
Yeah, me neither.

CarolynM on January 19, 2009 at 9:11 AM

Can we drive the Bluesmobile through her appearance?
kingsjester on January 19, 2009 at 9:10 AM

Yes, but first, lunch. Four whole chickens and a coke or some dry white toast for you?

Bishop on January 19, 2009 at 9:12 AM

CarolynM on January 19, 2009 at 9:11 AM

I dont watch those award ceremonies. blah I know the Jewish community voted for Obama but I am hopeful they have buyer’s remorse.

yikes! I sound like Im on the Hopeandchange bus! I need exorcised!

becki51758 on January 19, 2009 at 9:14 AM

Now just imagine if either the Christian or Jewish leader recently spoke at or supported a pro-life organization. Or how about they support Proposition 8? The outrage would be incredible and that person’s removal would be swift.

behiker on January 19, 2009 at 9:15 AM

Bishop on January 19, 2009 at 9:12 AM

Sounds good.

For those of you Trolls that are upset that we seem to be questioning Barry’s patriotism, to quote Aretha Franklin, “You Better Think.”

kingsjester on January 19, 2009 at 9:15 AM

The idea is to exemplify the media’s ideal. Like a president you would see on TV.

This process is to get all the support he can for income redistribution, gutting the defense effort, wrecking the penal system, affirmative action everywhere, banning guns, running from foreign policy committments, legalizing all abortion, decriminalizing drugs, crazy public works projects and an an ego trip by a couple in the White House that would do Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette proud.

That is all.

IlikedAUH2O on January 19, 2009 at 9:19 AM

Did I miss anything?

IlikedAUH2O on January 19, 2009 at 9:19 AM

So, lemme’ see if I got this straight…

The Inaugural Prayers are going to be led by the president of an organization, that has paid for the rockets being fired into Israel?

When are we going to have the “National Conversation” about ignorance and incompetence?

franksalterego on January 19, 2009 at 9:20 AM

Jews will come out in force against the 20 neo-Nazis still in existence – they feel on very solid ground taking on white males and Christians- that’s easy. Keep on rallying the cry for dead Jews with their “never forget.”

But Muslims and Leftists take to the streets, right now, right here, and call for “death to the Jews” and “back to the oven” and all I hear are crickets chirping by the Jewish community. And their enemy is emboldened. Well done.

CarolynM on January 19, 2009 at 9:21 AM

an ego trip by a couple in the White House that would do Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette proud.

“The peasants have no bread!”
“Let them eat waffles.”

jgapinoy on January 19, 2009 at 9:24 AM

Golly, it sure is hard to find Islamic organizations that don’t support Hamas. I wonder why they all support that genocidal death cult?

forest on January 19, 2009 at 9:26 AM

Jews will come out in force against the 20 neo-Nazis still in existence

I think the population of Western Europe is just a tad but higher than 20.

and all I hear are crickets chirping by the Jewish community

I wouldn’t go that far. They just don’t make the news.

reaganaut on January 19, 2009 at 9:26 AM

But Muslims and Leftists take to the streets, right now, right here, and call for “death to the Jews” and “back to the oven” and all I hear are crickets chirping by the Jewish community. And their enemy is emboldened. Well done.

CarolynM on January 19, 2009 at 9:21 AM

Some of us do try to point us in the right direction. Let’s not write Jeremiads against the Jews. I do think Jews are catching on to the current situation.

thuja on January 19, 2009 at 9:29 AM

Obama wants to appease Muslim extremists.

jencab on January 19, 2009 at 9:29 AM

You know, if Obama promises not to trot out Maya Angelou, who was ex-President Clinton’s — I guess they called her a poet, I don’t know — as long as it’s not Maya, I’ll take pretty much anything Obama wants to throw at me.

jeff_from_mpls on January 19, 2009 at 9:30 AM

This should ease the pain a little bit.

JetBlast on January 19, 2009 at 9:32 AM

reaganaut on January 19, 2009 at 9:26 AM

Sometimes you have to embellish to make a point.

CarolynM on January 19, 2009 at 9:32 AM

These things bear repeating.

Excerpt from the May 1991 Memorandum for the General Strategic Goals of the Ikhwan Muslimeen (Muslim Brotherhood):

The process of settlement is a “Civilization-Jihadist Proecess” with all the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim’s destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who chose to slack. But, would the slackers and the Mujahedeen be equal.

Cicero on the “Enemy Within”:

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
“For the traitor appears not a traitor – he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero 42 B.C

blatantblue on January 19, 2009 at 9:33 AM

Obama himself has ties to terrorism–remember Ayers?

jgapinoy on January 19, 2009 at 9:01 AM

But Ayers is a domestic terrorist.

You know how libs always shirk moral responsibility by qualifying everything? Like how Clinton didn’t commit perjury, he committed perjury about sex, so it wasn’t really perjury. Okay so they’re not exactly sticklers for logic. But it seemed to work.

Same thing here. Barack Obama isn’t linked to a terrorist, he’s linked to a domestic terrorist. So that sort of puts a smiley face on everything.

jeff_from_mpls on January 19, 2009 at 9:36 AM

Some of us do try to point us in the right direction. Let’s not write Jeremiads against the Jews. I do think Jews are catching on to the current situation.

thuja on January 19, 2009 at 9:29 AM

I hope so. But my Jewish friends still have their heads in the sand and it’s frustrating to see their apathy.

CarolynM on January 19, 2009 at 9:36 AM

an ego trip by a couple in the White House that would do Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette proud.

“The peasants have no bread!”
“Let them eat waffles.”

jgapinoy on January 19, 2009 at 9:24 AM

The whole thing is starting to remind me of the period right after Louis the XVI, except no guillotines yet. “Cult of the Supreme Being“, “Committee of Public Safety“, you know, all that good stuff.

At least none of the months of the year have been renamed yet. How about we start calling this one Barackuary or Obamador?

forest on January 19, 2009 at 9:38 AM

I don’t trust these “moderate” Muslims one ounce.

Here is an example of why:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024453.php

blatantblue on January 19, 2009 at 9:39 AM

Another example of him trying to be everything to everybody. He has not had enough experience to realize this tactic never works. People rely on and respect a solid core.

sherry on January 19, 2009 at 9:40 AM

At least none of the months of the year have been renamed yet. How about we start calling this one Barackuary or Obamador?
forest on January 19, 2009 at 9:38 AM

Let’s use the Chinese method instead.

2009 will the Year of the Rat.

Bishop on January 19, 2009 at 9:41 AM

For some, the fact that a girl Muslim is acting as a prayer leader will dull the edge of accusations, however correct. Why, radical Islamists wouldn’t let a girl pray any more than Shiite Iran would fund Sunni Hamas, or the 9/11 hijackers would go to a strip club.

raybury on January 19, 2009 at 9:42 AM

These “moderates” are in reality plants for the more general and broad Civilization-Jihadist plot. I suppose some people reel from seeing this and consider me a nutty person, along the lines of a 9/11 truther. But i digress:

Europe is being colonized by Muslims. Mega mosques are being planned. Thought control is being attempted to be implemented by Muslims and their useful idiots on the left.

I think there is plenty of evidence to this “civilization-jihadist” process that the Ikhwan spoke of in that 1991 memorandum.

I suppose the best way to think of it is how Britain, during its struggle with Northern Ireland (I forget what year, late 1800s i think), planted protestants or catholics (just woke up and i cant remember) to slowly outnumber the other religion in northern ireland. the same sort of idea

blatantblue on January 19, 2009 at 9:42 AM

Let’s see how long before her ‘prayer’ invites us to become muslim.

RickZ on January 19, 2009 at 9:42 AM

Hey, this is the same woman McCain would have chosen:

‘Mr. McCain, meanwhile, has told colleagues “that many of these appointments he would have made himself,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican and a close McCain friend.’

Bishop on January 19, 2009 at 9:11 AM

There both were are ARE bad for America. Until we can get a Conservative like Sanford or Jhindal or Palin on the top of the ticket and retake the moral and Christian high ground we will continue the choices of BAD or WORSE, this time American idiots chose WORSE. They deserve what they get, I personaly will not allow the election of this Messiah to affect me or my family. We will survive, but what we have left to save is a different matter. There WILL be attacks on American soil by terrorists like this lady… There WILL be radicals on the SC and our judicial system will grind to a halt with more and more PC rules, laws and Constitutional restrictions. Our FLAG will continue to be disrespected by our PotUS, our Military will be his personal playground for gays and fagots… Prop 8 will be overturned by radicals forcing amoral marriages across America shoving aside any Consent of the People… But hey, it could have been worse, could have been a RINO doing the same things and blaming Conservatives for all the ills of the world. Now we have Obama-geden… Is it the end?

Mark Garnett on January 19, 2009 at 9:43 AM

Obama > Mattson > Hamas > Iran…

“Sen. Obama, would you be willing to meet with leaders of Iran, Syria, Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea?”

katy on January 19, 2009 at 9:44 AM

blatantblue on January 19, 2009 at 9:39 AM

Ahh yes, the MMMS (mythical moderate Muslim spokesperson)

CarolynM on January 19, 2009 at 9:44 AM

jgapinoy on January 19, 2009 at 9:01 AM

You mean Rashid Khalidi.

katy on January 19, 2009 at 9:46 AM

CarolynM on January 19, 2009 at 9:44 AM

Yep! Like a mythical Unicorn girl, or something (Office episode)!

blatantblue on January 19, 2009 at 9:46 AM

It’s all about diversity, and they need a member of the terror supporting community to show how tolerant they are.

Besides, she supports Hamas and I dare say a good chunk of Obama supporters do as well.

JammieWearingFool on January 19, 2009 at 9:52 AM

They are silently subverting us, and we don’t even want to hear it. I cannot tell you how many self-proclaimed “republicans” and “conservatives” have told me to shaddup when I try to explain to them our problems with Islam. They just look away. It is so sad.

blatantblue on January 19, 2009 at 9:57 AM

blatantblue on January 19, 2009 at 9:42 AM

I agree with how you think. The threat of islam is real. I do not trust any muslims…and if that makes me racist, so be it.

I’m off today to get Brigitte Gabriel’s new book. It should be required reading for our Congress.

becki51758 on January 19, 2009 at 10:00 AM

Oh yes! I WANT to sit and discuss world peace with someone who would much rather <stronslit my throat!

Goodie! Let’s do it!

Vntnrse on January 19, 2009 at 10:03 AM

becki51758 on January 19, 2009 at 10:00 AM

I wouldn’t worry about race relations. Islam is a truly trans-ethnic movement.

If I saw a white Muslim I’d be just as suspicious. The reason I have never trusted the majority of Muslims I’ve met (I trusted my Arabic teacher, idk why) is because Muslims view themselves as Muslims first, and everything else is secondary.

That and how many times have we seen British born nationals go and join Jihad against the West?

blatantblue on January 19, 2009 at 10:05 AM

Muslims have no allegiance to the US. I go to the MSA on my school’s campus, and I don’t see any American flags.

I see tons of flags with ‘Allaaaaahhhuuu aaakkkkkbbaaaarrr
or allah al-rahman l-raheem written on them, but no Stars and Stripes. nothing.

like liberals. They are citizens of “one world.” Muslims are really citizens of the worldwide ‘Ummah

blatantblue on January 19, 2009 at 10:09 AM

They are slowly infiltrating our county and our country is pandering to them. It seems they didnt pander like this before 9/11..why now?

They dont allow Christian churches in their country so why do we allow their mosques here? Italy has banned the building of new mosques..why cant we? ohh..right, the liberals wont allow it.

becki51758 on January 19, 2009 at 10:12 AM

I saw the word “muslim” and “terrorism” in the same post, and I was confused. I hardly ever see these two words together. The world has suddenly turned upside down.

TheBlueSite on January 19, 2009 at 10:15 AM

Will Obama bounce Mattson? That wouldn’t be very Hope-and-Changey, but he has little choice.

Ed M

That’s weird – I don’t see any chance that Obama will dump this terrorist skank.

Jaibones on January 19, 2009 at 10:16 AM

Very informative video about how Islam incrementally overtakes a country. Watch and learn.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlI16pbQ_WE

katy on January 19, 2009 at 10:18 AM

It’s just another example of Obama pallin’ around with terrorists… Oh wait, you can’t say that, it’s unfair! It criticizes the Messiah!

I think Jewish folks are going to seriously regret voting for Obama. My prediction is that he’s going to take a decidedly harsher stance against Israel once in office. Given that Israel is hanging on by a thread down there, that can’t be a good thing.

Outlander on January 19, 2009 at 10:18 AM

This’ll bounce around righty blogs, but not hit the mainstream. We are in the momentum right now, and there may be a question or two raised afterwards. She’ll pray, along with the other religious leaders, and the show will go on.

cs89 on January 19, 2009 at 10:24 AM

Who here is surprised?

leetpriest on January 19, 2009 at 10:27 AM

Kick her ass back to where she came from. She’s not even American. Was their a shortage of Americans to give a prayer at the inauguration?

Blake on January 19, 2009 at 10:38 AM

-sipping the kool aid-

Tomorrow the crooks get the keys to the house. wonderful. just friggin wonderful.

johnnyU on January 19, 2009 at 10:42 AM

“If Obama and his team keep ISNA on board for the prayer service, it will have a definite impact on the morale at Justice, at the very least.”

As if nominating Eric Holder hasn’t had an impact there already?

GarandFan on January 19, 2009 at 10:43 AM

I’m just counting the days until 2012.
Sailor on January 19, 2009 at 9:00 AM

Check that, you mean 2016. It’s being baked in by mass hysteria promoted by the media.

FireBlogger on January 19, 2009 at 10:53 AM

Not surprised at all. What is next? We will see.

sheebe on January 19, 2009 at 10:57 AM

how many of the Fool’s selections and confidants have now been tied to terrorists?

answer: too many to count

notagool on January 19, 2009 at 11:09 AM

Not surprised at all. What is next? We will see.

sheebe on January 19, 2009 at 10:57 AM

He will legitimize CAIR.
The gains Muslims will make in their soft jihad on our culture and heritage will have repercussions for years to come.

CarolynM on January 19, 2009 at 11:10 AM

Tomorrow the crooks get the keys to the house. wonderful. just wonderful.

Speaking of keys, will Bush administration employees steal all of the Os from the White House keyboards?

jgapinoy on January 19, 2009 at 11:18 AM

With the Bus warmed up in the background, PEBO announces that “this is not the Igrid Matteson I have come to know.”

Mallard T. Drake on January 19, 2009 at 11:21 AM

Can someone please explain what women jihadists are supposed get in the next world? The men are supposed to get 77 virgins, but, what’s in it for the women? 77 sexist, wife beating, men probably isn’t that appealing to a normal woman, when one is enough.

DL13 on January 19, 2009 at 11:21 AM

Can someone please explain what women jihadists are supposed get in the next world? The men are supposed to get 77 virgins, but, what’s in it for the women? 77 sexist, wife beating, men probably isn’t that appealing to a normal woman, when one is enough.

DL13 on January 19, 2009 at 11:21 AM

Given that Mohammed described hell as being populated primarily by women, my guess is that the female jihadists are the select few women who don’t go to hell after death. Just another in the many special wonders that are Islam.

Now just imagine if either the Christian or Jewish leader recently spoke at or supported a pro-life organization. Or how about they support Proposition 8? The outrage would be incredible and that person’s removal would be swift.

behiker on January 19, 2009 at 9:15 AM

Given that Muslim countries strictly prohibit abortion and consider homosexuality a crime, I’m doubting that Mattson has a perspective on these issues any different from a pro-life Christian or Jew or a Christian or Jewish supporter of Prop. 8. What Mattson does have is a story of Muslim victimhood that, however false, is believed by a significant proportion of the historically-challenged on the left. I also have no doubt that if pressed on these issues, Mattson would strategically lie about her anti-abortion and anti-homosexual views in order not to alienate her useful idiot audience or she would cite her off-limits-from-criticism-because-its-”exotic”-and-its-adherents-are-”oppressed” religion in a way that would get a Jew or Christian exactly zero sympathy.

venividivici on January 19, 2009 at 11:33 AM

One more time, with feeling. Heavily-linked for your convenience.
Islamic-Turkish Caliphate ends with Axis loss in WWI.
Muslim Brotherhood formed in 1920s by Hassan Al Banna (The Way of Jihad — Hassan Al Banna).
Muslim Brotherhood slogan:
Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.[2][3]
Muslim Brotherhood “Ikhwan al Musilmoon” leader-founder Hassan Al-Banna and Nazism

The growth of the Muslim Brotherhood was accompanied or caused in part by the fact that Al-Banna associated it with the German Nazi party and the Third Reich. From the ideological point of view, the Jew hatred, authoritarianism, addiction to violence and desire to defeat the British of both the Muslim Brothers and the Nazis were quite enough to make the two movements find common cause. (more at link)
Not to mention suicide attacks and ‘martyrdom’ for the cause. Remember the Beer Hall Putsch casualties Hitler extolled as martyrs.
Council on American Islamic Relations is Muslim Brotherhood Palestine Committee in USA
HAMAS is Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine

Moreover, if the links have been distant from each other and if obstacles, placed by those who are the lackeys of Zionism in the way of the fighters obstructed the continuation of the struggle, the Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to the realisation of Allah’s promise, no matter how long that should take. The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said:
“The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews.” (related by al-Bukhari and Muslim).
The Slogan of the Islamic Resistance Movement:
Article Eight:
Allah is its target, the Prophet is its model, the Koran its constitution: Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes.

New Disclosures Tighten ISNA-Muslim Brotherhood Bonds
by Steven Emerson

So anyway, the direct lineal descendants of the Nazi Party will be at the inauguration.

Beagle on January 19, 2009 at 11:41 AM

Obama knows a lot of people..

the_nile on January 19, 2009 at 11:54 AM

The direct lineal descendants of Nazi ideology will be at the inauguration.

ISNA is Muslim Brotherhood, like HAMAS, CAIR, or MAS…

Al-Banna and Nazism

The growth of the Muslim Brotherhood was accompanied or caused in part by the fact that Al-Banna associated it with the German Nazi party and the Third Reich. From the ideological point of view, the Jew hatred, authoritarianism, addiction to violence and desire to defeat the British of both the Muslim Brothers and the Nazis were quite enough to make the two movements find common cause.

The Brotherhood’s political and military alliance with Nazi Germany blossomed into formal state visits, de facto ambassadors, and overt and covert joint ventures. The Muslim Brotherhood transformed Nazi anti-Semitism into a Muslim version, providing Arab translations of Mein Kampf (translated into Arabic as “My Jihad”) and other Nazi anti-Semitic works, including Der Sturmer hate-cartoons, adapted to portray the Jew as the demonic enemy of Allah rather than the German Volk.

When World War II broke out, al-Banna worked to firm up his alliances with Hitler and Mussolini. He sent them letters and emissaries, and urged them to assist him in his struggle against the British and the westernized regime of Egypt’s King Farouk. The Intelligence Service of the Muslim Brotherhood vigorously collected information on the heads of the regime in Cairo and on the movements of the British army, offering this and more to the Germans in return for closer relations.

Some Muslim Brotherhood rhetoric, starting with their oldest slogan:

“Allah is our purpose, the Prophet our leader, the Qur’an our constitution, Jihad our way and dying for God’s cause our supreme objective.”

AND

1- Building the Muslim individual: brother or sister with a strong body, high manners, cultured thought, ability to earn, strong faith, correct worship, conscious of time, of benefit to others, organized, and self-struggling character [3].
2- Building the Muslim family: choosing a good wife (husband), educating children Islamicaly, and inviting other families.
3- Building the Muslim society (thru building individuals and families) and addressing the problems of the society realistically. .
4- Building the Muslim state.
– Building the Khilafa (basically a shape of unity between the Islamic states).
6- Mastering the world with Islam.

Beagle on January 19, 2009 at 12:02 PM

The new Attorney General was a key figure in the FALN (terrorist murders) commutations. Obama seems to like terrorists and other people who like terrorists. (Picture: HIllary kissing and making nice with Yasser Arafat’s wife).

jerseyman on January 19, 2009 at 12:15 PM

Everyone pictures Bin Laden in his cave, reaching out to spill evil here and there. No one cares about Hesham Islam in his cave like office next to Gordon English, helping to facilitate Islam even more efficiently than Osama. And how many Heshams are there in the employ of government? When your young military officers are not allowed to read or know about Islam for example at the insistence of Muslim employee’s, well, why worry about a token woman Muslimina offering a little hate prayer?

Bush has already seeded the disease thoroughly in your halls of officialdom.

BL@KBIRD on January 19, 2009 at 12:28 PM

I hope no one is surprised at this point. B. Hussein Obama has surrounded himself with terrorists, terrorist sympathizers, crooks, liars, America haters, black separatists, countless scandal plagued individuals… not to mention appointing people not qualified for jobs (of course, that’s what the country did on election day), appointing tax evaders, as well as a massive amount of former Clinton people (’cause you know, “that’s Change”).

RightWinged on January 19, 2009 at 1:18 PM

“chilling.” (And no doubt augurs more of the same to come in the future.) Bush’s dalliances with and coddling of Islamists was “Bush League” compared to what I fear we will see coming from the Obama Administration.

sanantonian on January 19, 2009 at 1:54 PM

Big deal.

After the inauguration Obarfy can claim ignorance by saying, “Ingrid who? Nope, never heard of her. Move along.”

Bishop on January 19, 2009 at 9:02 AM

That should be no problem, because that happened when Obama was only forty seven years old.

Johan Klaus on January 19, 2009 at 2:06 PM

I’m not sure it would even be possible to find a Muslim that doesn’t have SOME tie to terrorist organizations.

UltimateBob on January 19, 2009 at 2:10 PM

Now just imagine if either the Christian or Jewish leader recently spoke at or supported a pro-life organization. Or how about they support Proposition 8? The outrage would be incredible and that person’s removal would be swift.

behiker on January 19, 2009 at 9:15 AM

Which explains the absence of ANY Catholic clergy, mirroring the DNC’s lack of invitation to Denver Archbishop Chaput at the Convention last summer….

AmPap has it here.

Fallen Sparrow on January 19, 2009 at 3:46 PM

Lucky for the people on stage, the cease fire will be in full effect by then.

- The Cat

MirCat on January 19, 2009 at 4:59 PM

One more pudding-faced apologist for militant misogynistic theocratic imperialists.

Some women must just hate women.

profitsbeard on January 19, 2009 at 6:20 PM

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