I hate this small world.
Last year in order to obtain extra credit I attended a small discussion of getting Democracy in the Middle East. The main speaker was, at the time, an adviser in Texas on Muslim affairs, and has worked in the FBI. Further more he was, as he put it, " a life long Republican…"
Mohammed Elibiary
Here is the press release from my school:
http://www.tntech.edu/pressreleases/ttu-panel-discussion-explores-democracy-in-the-muslim-world/
Checking my news sites, I landed on theblaze and discovered this article from them. The link comes from CBN.
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2011/November/Homeland-Security-Advisor-Accused-of-Leaking-Docs/
The panel, with Elibiary taking the lead, had very great points: Afganistan was the key in getting democracy to spread in the Middle East; beating back the old colonial dogmas that many have there, and showing them how democracy is suppose to work.
I had chatted with him, and had also asked questions, including how the U.S. is keeping the rural villages safe from the Taliban, and what we were doing to keep the support in those areas. Here he had stated: (paraphrasing) “I’ve been a life long Republic, but I will say this, the Bush Adminstration dropped the ball on Afghanistan…” I couldn’t have agreed more.
But with this coming to light, I can’t but doubt the information he has said, his credentials that was said he possessed, and if the his statements were accurate or some underlying plan. I want to believe, and still do because of the sound logic and the history that supports it. But damn.
Thats what happens when you pander to savages. This guy supports radicals like Ayatollah Khomeni yet is given access to terror watch lists and internal documents of the government related to terrorism.
Maybe we should have hired some Japanese nationalists or American Nazi Party members to work in the code breaking rooms during WW2.
No Stranger to Controversy
Elibiary is no stranger to controversy. In 2004, he spoke at a Texas conference honoring Iran’s notorious Ayatollah Khomeini as a “great Islamic visionary.”
He’s written in praise of one of the most influential Islamic radicals of the modern era: former Muslim Brotherhood leader Sayyid Qutb.
He has also spoken out against the prosecution of Hamas fundraisers in the United States.
In a disturbing 2006 email exchange with a Dallas Morning News editor, Elibiary wrote: “Treat people as inferiors and you can expect someone to put a banana in your exhaust pipe or something.”
Yet Elibiary has marketed himself as a moderate expert on Muslim de-radicalization – and the U.S. government has taken notice.
In 2010, he was named to a working group that helped shape the Obama administration’s counterterrorism strategy.
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2011/November/Homeland-Security-Advisor-Accused-of-Leaking-Docs/
Maybe they can have him go lead a prayer at the US Capital like they let Al-Awlaki do and meet with top gov officials.
CBN?
That’s an objective source. :rolleyes:
“Fundamentalists bashing fundamentalists”
Film at 11:00
There are plenty of other sources on this issue if this one he posted didn’t meet your needs. In fact Janet Nepalitano was questioned by Congress about how Elibary was given access to sensitive documents and lists just recently.
Here is video of it: http://youtu.be/354GJU3X54Y
Fortunately, rock-ribbed Rep. Louie Gohmert is on the case. At a House oversight hearing, he grilled DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano about Elibiary. Video is here. She professes not to know anything about the matter — or about how a guy who appears at a conference honoring Ayatollah Khomeini, who praises Muslim Brotherhood theorist Sayyid Qutb, and who condemns the Justice Department’s successful prosecution of the Brotherhood’s Hamas financing network (the Holy Land Foundation case), somehow winds up on the DHS advisory council that helped devise the Obama administration’s counterterrorism policy.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/281958/napolitano-elibiary-i-know-nothing-i-know-nothing-andrew-c-mccarthy