Gaffney rebukes Al-Jazeera’s intimidation tactics and condemns use of discredited SPLC as source
19 March 2018
I received today an email with an attached so-called “legal letter” from a senior producer at Al Jazeera Media Network. One need look no further than the letterhead, “Confidential” marking and warnings at the bottom of that attachment to recognize that, quite apart from its content, this email is intended to threaten and intimidate.
It asked for my prompt written response to several allegations about me and my organization, the Center for Security Policy. Those allegations are clearly defamatory. These unfounded charges say more about the purported “experts” who have made them than about those they are smearing. According to the author, Jeremy Young, such tripe will nonetheless be featured in a forthcoming, hour-long “documentary” about “Islamophobia” in the United States.
I will not dignify the falsehoods Al Jazeera intends to promote by commenting upon them. It is enough to note that Al Jazeera is a wholly owned subsidiary of the government of Qatar and an instrument that Sharia-supremacist regime routinely uses to propagandize Arab and, wherever possible, other audiences. Even by the low standards of contemporary journalism, the network has become an object of ridicule for its slavish devotion to the Muslim Brotherhood line, its virulently anti-American “reporting” and its wonton disregard for the facts.
Such contempt is further warranted by Al Jazeera’s decision to cite the discredited Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a source for its calumnies about the Center and me. The network is on notice that, by so doing, it risks being implicated in future episodes like two violent assaults on innocent American citizens reportedly inspired by the SPLC’s hate-mongering (one in which a terrorist attacked the Family Research Council and another in which Republican legislators were shot at during practice for a congressional baseball game).
The Center for Security Policy has thoroughly documented the threat posed by the sort of Sharia-supremacism proselytized by Al Jazeera. It has also chronicled the political warfare waged by the Southern Poverty Law Center – increasingly in league with Islamists – to destroy its enemies. Ignorance of our scrupulously documented findings is no excuse for mischaracterizing them. And touting the fraudulent claims of violent and/or pre-violent “civilization” jihadists and their fellow travelers and enablers at the SPLC amounts to professional misconduct by Al Jazeera.
Frank J. Gaffney
President and CEO
Center for Security Policy
Mr. Gaffney is the host of Secure Freedom Radio, a nationally-syndicated radio program heard weeknights throughout the country. He is an associate author of highly acclaimed Shariah: The Threat to America and the publisher of over a dozen other books and monographs from the Center for Security Policy Press.
In April 1987, Mr. Gaffney was nominated by President Reagan to become the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, the senior position in the Defense Department with responsibility for policies involving U.S.-USSR relations, nuclear forces, arms control, missile defense policy and U.S.-European defense ties. He acted in that capacity for seven months during which time, he was the Chairman of the prestigious High Level Group, NATO’s senior politico-military committee. He also represented the Secretary of Defense in key U.S.-Soviet negotiations and ministerial meetings.
From August 1983 until November 1987, Mr. Gaffney was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy under Assistant Secretary Richard Perle.
From February 1981 to August 1983, Mr. Gaffney was a Professional Staff Member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, chaired by the late Senator John Tower (R-Texas). And, in the latter 1970’s, Mr. Gaffney served as an aide to the late Senator Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson (D-Washington) in the areas of defense and foreign policy.
Mr. Gaffney holds a Master of Arts degree in International Studies from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
Mr. Gaffney’s leadership has been recognized by numerous organizations including: the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Award (1987), the U.S. Business and Industry Council’s Defender of the National Interest Award (1994), the Navy League of the United States’ Alfred Thayer Mahan Literary Achievement Award (1999), and the Zionist Organization of America’s “Louis Brandeis Award” (2003), the Western Conservative Summit’s Stephen H. Long Award (2015), the Council for National Policy’s George Washington Military Leadership Award (2016) and the IMPACT Award from Ginni Thomas and United in Purpose (2017).
Mr. Gaffney was born in 1953 and resides in the Washington, D.C. area.
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