Rollback #2: Rep. Paul Gosar amendment prohibits military funds/assistance to the Muslim Brotherhood
The Muslim Brotherhood’s growth in America has expanded greatly since the 1990s, with their stated goal “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.” The Muslim Brotherhood’s plan to impose Shariah and censorship in America reaches into our media, our government, our military and law enforcement, our textbooks and our colleges. Anyone who openly opposes the Muslim Brotherhood – that would be well over 200 million Americans, according to polls – has been labeled an “islamophobe” by the leftwing media.
Enough is enough. Americans across the nation have started pushing back against the Muslim Brotherhood’s trademark intimidation and threats. The Center for Security Policy is tracking these efforts to expose and to eliminate the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence over how we talk and think, how we govern ourselves and enforce our laws, and how we make our own plans for our children’s future of freedom under the Constitution, not enslavement under Shariah law.
We call it The Rollback.
As announced on Representative Paul Gosar’s website:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 8, 2011
CONTACT: Hannah Loy 202-225-2315 or Penny Pew 928-308-2033
GOSAR ISRAEL AMENDMENT PASSED BY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Amendment Prohibits Any Military Assistance to Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Iran, Hamas, or Hezbollah
Washington, DC –On July 7, 2011, the United States House of Representativespassed, by unanimous consent, an amendment to HR 2219 sponsored byU.S. Congressman Paul Gosar, DDS (AZ-01), that prohibited the use of any military funds, or military assistance, to the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Iran, and Hezbollah. Gosar stated, “until the Muslim Brotherhood recognizes Israel’s right to peacefully co-exist, no U.S. military assistance should be provided to an Egypt controlled even in part by the Muslim Brotherhood.” In a rare bipartisan vote, the House adopted the Gosar Amendment unanimously.
These four entities pose a direct threat to the United States and its foreign policy objectives, United States troops abroad, and the United States’ most trusted ally in the Middle EastIsrael. Just last month Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterated his nation’s policy calling for the complete elimination of Israel and justified this call for genocide by stating: “The reason for our insistence that the Zionist regime should be wiped out and vanished is that the Zionist regime is the main base for imposing oppression and harbors the main terrorists of the world.”
In the past six months, Egyptonce the United States’ closest Arab ally, has undergone a regime change that has put into power the Muslim Brotherhood. This organization poses an immediate threat to the United States’ relationship with Egypt, based on the history, ideology, and goals of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Last year, the United States provided close to $1.3 billion in aid to Egypt. With the Gosar Amendment now part of the Military Appropriations bill for FY 2012, HR 2219, as long as the Muslim Brotherhood is part of the government of Egypt, no such funding can be provided.
Said Gosar, “Any country or government that does not acknowledge Israel’s right to exist should not receive any U.S. aid whatsoever.”
Gosar continued, “It is not just formally recognized states, however, we need to be concerned about. History has shown that entities we consider terrorist fringe groups sometimes, through force, manipulation and popular vote, take over the state apparatus. This happened in the Gaza Strip when Hamas (the Islamic Resistance Movement) won a plurality of legislative seats (44%) in the 2006 elections. This is now a pattern that may be repeating with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.”
Gosar raised concerns on the Floor of the House, pointing out that “It is quite possible that extremist groups who seek the destruction of Israel are taking over the state operations in Egypt and parts of Libya. Time will tell. My amendment would ensure that we do not use our money, and military assistance, to help any entity that will not recognize the right of Israel to exist and to co-exist peacefully. That includes the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. No other nation on Earth except Israel has had to face systematic, ideological and persistent existential threats.”
With this amendment Congressman Gosar is reaffirming the Untied State’s foreign policy to Israel and the principle that the United States will not provide any sort of funding to any entity which threatens our interests abroad or the safety and security of our most loyal and steadfast allyIsrael.
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Following Rep. Gosar’s victory he was interviewed by Frank Gaffney on Secure Freedom Radio. Click here to listen.
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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