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The ACLU’s Islamist Connections
RadicalIslam.org ^ | Dec 26, 2012 | Ryan Mauro

Posted on 12/27/2012 1:34:59 PM PST by wesagain

On September 26, Investor’s Business Daily made an acute observation: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has fiercely fought against essential U.S. counter-terrorism programs and actions but was curiously silent when the White House pressured YouTube to take down the film Innocence of Muslims, a provocative presentation of Mohammed's life, in order to appease Muslim rioters. The background of one top ACLU official, Jameel Jaffer, may explain the inconsistency.

Jameel Jaffer heads the ACLU’s Center for Democracy and was the director of the Center’s National Security Project from 2007 to 2010. He is best known for suing to get information about CIA interrogation practices and the drone campaign to kill terrorists overseas, which he staunchly opposes.

In March 2009, Jaffer was the keynote speaker at a fundraiser for the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which the federal government designated an unindicted co-conspirator in the terrorism-financing trial of the Holy Land Foundation. The government said CAIR is an entity of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood’s secret Palestine Committee that was set up to support Hamas. The event raised $130,000 for CAIR.

CAIR-MI is led by Dawud Walid, who has a history of inflammatory rhetoric. Also speaking at the fundraiser was Kifah Mustapha, another unindicted co-conspirator that the U.S. government says is part of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee. He also was a vocalist in a band that performed pro-Hamas songs. He is an imam at the Mosque Foundation, which has strong Brotherhood affiliations.

Perhaps Jaffer’s affection for these groups is because of their stances against Israel. In a letter to the New York Times on October 11, 2000 about ...........

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1 posted on 12/27/2012 1:35:01 PM PST by wesagain
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2 posted on 12/27/2012 1:36:21 PM PST by wesagain (The God (Elohim) of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the One True GOD.)
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Is the League of Women Voters also being taken over by Islamists?


3 posted on 12/27/2012 1:37:06 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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BE WARNED PEOPLE!!!

1400 years – 270 MILLION innocents murdered by “the prophet" followers!!!

Why Should We Fear Islam? Dr. Bill Warner

The whole administration is stocked with islamic sympatizers!!!

Can It All Be Coincidence?

4 posted on 12/27/2012 1:38:03 PM PST by wesagain (The God (Elohim) of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the One True GOD.)
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Tell everybody you know, to vote for the Democratic party is to vote for the ACLU and every enemy of this country foreign and domestic.


5 posted on 12/27/2012 1:48:34 PM PST by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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I always thought the ACLU were mostly Jewish lawyers.


6 posted on 12/27/2012 1:53:07 PM PST by Venturer
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The ACLU is the property of whoever supplies their funding.


7 posted on 12/27/2012 2:07:23 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize - Voltaire)
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The self-hating types.


8 posted on 12/27/2012 2:17:41 PM PST by Amberdawn
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“1400 years – 270 MILLION innocents murdered by “the prophet” followers!”

Don’t be silly...I just saw that a judge ruled that Mosque’s are centers for peace.

...well, at least the ones that aren’t active armories.


9 posted on 12/27/2012 2:32:19 PM PST by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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A ban on the guns mooselimbs fear the most in the hands
of the people they fear the most. Obamas America.


10 posted on 12/27/2012 6:35:21 PM PST by Slambat (The right to keep and bear arms. Anything one man can carry, drive or pull.)
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!

11 posted on 12/28/2012 8:37:24 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,spend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0Bozo man can :-)
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