US agencies should take Muslim Brotherhood fronts’ threat to stop ‘cooperating’ as opportunity to work with pro-US Muslims

(Washington, D.C.): The Coalition for Security, Liberty and the Law – an informal team of organizations and experts that join forces to support the U.S. Constitution from threats, foreign and domestic – noted with interest the following statement issued Tuesday by the so-called American Muslim Task Force on Civil Rights and Elections: 

A coalition of major national Islamic organizations today announced that it is considering suspending outreach relations with the Federal Bureau on Investigations, citing recent incidents in which American mosques and Muslim groups have been targeted. 

The press release circulated by one of the participating "national Islamic organizations," the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), goes on to say:

Early last fall, the FBI began a disengagement campaign in its relations with the CAIR, the nation’s largest and most respected Muslim civil rights organization. The FBI suspended contacts with CAIR pending the resolution of unspecified "issues."

The press release concluded with a threat:

If the FBI does not accord fair and equitable treatment to every American Muslim organization, including CAIR, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), then Muslim organizations, mosques and individuals will have no choice but to consider suspending all outreach activities with FBI offices, agents and other personnel. This possible suspension, of course, would in no way affect our unshakable duty to report crimes or threats of violence to our nation.  (Emphasis in the original.)   

In fact, the CAIR-disseminated press release engages in a bit of characteristic disingenuousness.  The statement’s thrust is to warn that non-cooperation is in the offing, but notes that it has already begun, reporting that "The Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, an umbrella organization of many Muslim groups, suspended outreach to the FBI in February."  

Who is behind the American Muslim Task Force threats?

The Coalition for Security, Liberty and the Law notes that the three American Muslim groups mentioned by name in the Task Force press release have been shown to have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.  In the federal government’s successful prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation last year on terrorism financing conspiracy charges, the U.S. Attorney’s office introduced into evidence an internal Brotherhood strategy memorandum that included an attached list of groups which were identified as "associated or friendly" organizations.

Worse yet, CAIR, ISNA and NAIT were named, among other American-Muslim groups, as unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation’s conspiracy to finance a designated terrorist organization: Hamas.

Finally, the Brotherhood memorandum stated plainly that the purpose of its "mission in America was to destroy Western civilization from within." 

In other words, according to the government’s own evidence, the organizations now threatening to withhold their "cooperation" from the FBI are the sort whose assistance would have to be considered profoundly suspect, at best – and misleading, suborning and even seditious, at worst. 

Far from feeling pressured into abandoning the sensible – indeed, long-overdue – suspension of "sensitivity training" of FBI agents by CAIR operatives and other forms of "outreach" to that and fellow Muslim Brotherhood fronts, U.S. agencies should seize the opportunity of their threat to adopt a new policy:  Henceforth, any organization identified by the Muslim Brotherhood as "associated or friendly" and new groups spawned by individuals previously involved with such fronts will be excluded from official "outreach" efforts. 

This was a sound idea before CAIR, ISNA, NAIT and their ilk demonstrated with their new threat the unpatriotic and thuggish character of the Brotherhood apparatus in America.  The unmistakable implication of this non-cooperation– despite the laughable disclaimer about the fronts’ "unshakable duty to report crimes or threats of violence to our nation"– is to conspire to discourage Muslims from helping law enforcement in the face of possible terrorist activity from within their community.  This could give rise to criminal conduct known as "misprision of felony." 

The Muslim Brotherhood fronts’ press release clearly hopes that President Barack Obama will intervene in order to compel the government to continue doing business, basically exclusively, with them.  Indeed, it explicitly invokes him twice.  First, the release claims that, in light of "President Obama’s initiative of dialogue with the Muslim world," there would be a "negative impact on U.S. interests" if the FBI does not allow its continued penetration by the likes of CAIR, ISNA and NAIT.  Then, it concludes with another, thinly veiled threat, saying they expect "that the President’s calls for inclusion will not be derailed by irresponsible elements in and outside of government fomenting anti-Muslim bias in this great nation."

The Coalition for Security, Liberty and the Law calls on the FBI and other federal agencies to seize this opportunity to develop relationships with organizations and influential figures within the American Muslim community that: have no ties to the Muslim Brotherhood; wish to live under and within the Constitution of the United States; and reject the idea of insinuating into this country the seditious theo-political-legal program authoritative Islam calls Shariah. 

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