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Napolitano, Muslim Brotherhood affiliates met secretly

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caption id alignalignleft width210 captionCritics of the Obama Administration believe that he and Secretary Napolitano are duplicitous in their relations with radical Muslims. Photo DHS img class srchttpcdn2b.examiner.comsitesdefaultfilesstyleslargehashcfdaobamanapolitanodhs081120mn0.jpg alt width210 height158 captionLast year, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet and her senior staff secretly met with a select group of Muslim, Arab, and Sikh organizations. Among the mix were three organizations directly associated with an outlawed terrorist entity the Muslim Brotherhood, who are involved in the current uprising in Egypt.Walid Phares, director of the Future Terrorism Project at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, criticized the partnership concept Through the socalled partnership between the Jihadisympathizer networks and U.S. bureaucracies, the U.S. government is invaded by militant groups.Just recently, a Washington, DCbased legal group uncovered documents from the Department of Homeland Security that detail a twoday meeting on January 27 and 28, 2010, between DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and Arab, Muslim, Sikh, and South Asian community leaders.Judicial Watch reported they obtained documents that include a list of participating individuals and organizations in Napolitanos meeting with individuals with controversial radical ties, includingdivem Imad Hamad, Midwest Regional Director of the American Arab AntiDiscrimination Committee. According to investigative reporter Debbie Schlussel, Hamad is connected to the MarxistLeninist terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and has financially supported the Islamist terrorist group Hezbollah. In a television interview in 2002 on Foxs Detroit affiliate, Hamad supported a Palestine Authority TV program that urged children to become suicide bombers, calling the program patriotic.emem Salam AlMarayati, Founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council MPAC According to press reports, AlMayarati has long been criticized for his extremist views and statements. In 1999 former House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt DMO withdrew his nomination of AlMayarati to the National Commission on Terrorism because of AlMayaratis extremist politics. AlMarayati once said, When Patrick Henry said, Give me liberty or give me death, that statement epitomized Jihad Islamic holy war.emdivdivememdivdivOne of the organizations that attended the meeting was the Islamic Society of North America ISNA, which was created by members of the Muslim Brotherhood. ISNA was named in 2007 by the U.S. Department of Justice as an unindicted coconspirator in a federal terror trial. The group was identified as a major financier of overseas Islamic terrorist organizations, particularly Hamas.divdivThe Muslim Brotherhood is the ideological foundation for todays terrorist organizations in the Islamic world. Founded in 1928, it is the oldest Islamic fundamentalist political group in modern times. Originally called the Society of the Muslim Brothers, today it is a big supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah and considered the inspirational father of alQaeda.divdivIn addition to the attendee list and biographies, the documents also included internal DHS email correspondence, talking points for Secretary Napolitano and a meeting agenda. Among the highlightsdivdivem A Thursday, February 4, 2010, email from David OLeary, DHS Office of Legislative Affairs, to David Gersten, Acting Deputy Officer for Programs and Compliance, DHS Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Gordon Lederman of Sen. Liebermans Staff called me asking about the 2day HSAC meeting last week with American Muslim and Arab groups. He was called by a reporter who told him MPAC Muslim Public Affairs Council, ISNA Islamic Society of North America and Muslim American Society rejected the ideas of soliciting their help with countering violent extremism and were angry and indignant.emem A Friday, January 29, 2010, email from Muslim Advocates Executive Director Khera Farhana to Arif Alikhan, DHS Assistant Secretary for Policy Development The commitments Secretary Napolitano made to these community leaders includeRegular quarterly meetings with the SecretaryAn honest and full discussion of legitimate grievances from members of these communities about DHS policies that are ineffective and have a deleterious, humiliating impact on Muslim, Arab, Sikh, and South Asian American communities.emem An internal DHS talking points document entitled Community Stakeholder Meeting that states Communicate that DHS understands the need for enhanced partnership with the Muslim, Sikh, South Asian and Arab groups, including those present at the meetingYou should note the importance of sharing information from a policy perspective and on threats to specific Muslim, Arab, South Asian, and Sikh communities.emdivdivememI fail to see how consorting with radicals helps the DHS protect the United States, said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.divdivThe Obama administration is bending over backward to cater to radical Muslim organizations in the name of political correctness. This is a dangerous political game that could put American citizens at risk. Some of these meeting participants have no business helping Janet Napolitano establish our homeland security policies, said terrorism expert and Fox News contributor Walid Phares.divdivPhares warned last year that this policy embraced by the Obama administration is how American national security policy has been influenced by Muslim groups, who are duping administration officials.The program requires bringing in Muslim groups as partners in a twoway information sharing program.He went on to say that the Obama administration are how American national security policy has been influenced by Muslim groups, who are duping administration officials.div