Posted on 03/25/2002 1:38:02 PM PST by knighthawk
WASHINGTON, March 25 (IslamOnline) – A celebrated U.S. Nazi hunter and staunch pro-Israel lobbyist, John Loftus, is behind recent raids on Muslims homes and businesses in the U.S., according to Muslim American leaders and press reports.
The Washington Post reported Sunday that John Loftus, a former federal prosecutor and current president for the St. Petersburg Holocaust Museum in Florida, filed a civil suit in the state court urging the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other U.S. law enforcement authorities to clamp down on Muslim institutions for possible links to terrorist groups.
The complaint by the pro-Israel lobbyist alleged that some Muslim institutions and individuals conspired against the United States with the Saudi government and funneled money into terrorist groups under the guise of charity.
The report conforms with views expressed by Muslim leaders last week that self-styled Middle East “experts” like Daniel Pipes and Steven Emerson were possibly behind the raids against some of the country's most respected Islamic instituions.
But Muslims expectations were yet again proven correct that the pro-Israel lobby in the U.S. was behind creating a rift between American Muslim and the Bush administration through feeding the information-thirsty authorities with distorted information about Muslims in the U.S.
Loftus remains a controversial figure with extremist views that despite all of the U.S. support to the Jewish state, America has in fact “sold Israel out”. He argues that the U.S. has bureaucrats who see America’s national interest in getting a cheap supply of oil.
Since the Arabs have it and Israel does not, Loftus argues, U.S. administrations have sold Israel out. He claims that Washington has in fact e worked against Israel in every war.
He claims that not only did the United States sell Israeli secrets to the Arabs in the 1956 and 1967 wars, but in the 1973 Yom Kippur war, in order to punish Israel for its intransigence in not bowing to the then Secreteary of State Henry Kissinger's peace policies and to keep oil flowing.
"Kissinger asked the Secretary of Defense to hold off sending Israel aid for seven days," by which time, he thought, Israel would agree to any suggestion.
Israel was saved, Loftus said, by General Alexander Haig, who not only warned of the impending attack as soon as he learned of it, but secretly shipped Israel a highly effective anti-tank missile.
It was not clear how Loftus managed to push his recent agenda on the latest attacks on Northern Virgina but Muslim Americans say he was not acting alone.
But the Washington Post reported that federal agents who searched 16 homes and offices in Northern Virginia last week were in fact focusing on “a tightly interconnected, complicated and very private financial empire.”
The newspaper said that investigators were watching this “empire” for the past seven years. While the latest probe of these entities began years ago, U.S. officials say it heated up after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
But sources told the Post that they had to plan their raids in a hurry starting two weeks ago "because of a telephone call from a lawyer in Florida, John Loftus."
Loftus, a former Nazi hunter for the Justice Department and more recently a lawyer for U.S. intelligence agency whistleblowers, reportedly contacted government officials March 11, saying he was about to file a lawsuit in Florida against Sami Al-Arian, a Muslim professor at University of South Florida, that would lay out the ties among him and Saudi charity interests.
The paper said Customs and Treasury officials hustled to prepare their raids for March 20, the day that Loftus filed his lawsuit claiming various frauds by Al-Arian, Loftus and government officials said. "There was no coincidence," Loftus said.
Muslim, Arabs leaders said this example shows how effortlessly the government here can be pushed against Muslims, Arabs, and how easily the Bush-administration has come to forsake America's long traditions of civil rights and freedoms.
“This really shows you how our government (U.S. government) can be so easily driven by anti-Muslim individuals and organizations that have anti-Muslim agenda,” said Ibrahim Hooper, communications director with The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Washington-based Muslim advocacy group. “We are disturbed by the news.”
Hooper said this example also showed that the government may not be actually working for the interest of Americans or out of concerns for security but by lobby efforts of anti-Muslim groups. “It is not just one individual,” Hooper said. “There is an industry behind individuals like that who try to restrict Muslim outreach to the government and to exercise their rights.”
Hooper pointed a finger at pro-Israel groups for the anti-Muslim feeling sweeping the United States. He said that his group, one of the largest Muslim organizations, was routinely barred from attending civil rights movements because of behind-the-scene efforts by the pro-Israel Jewish group, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
“It happened to us at least five times since September 11,” Hooper said adding that CAIR was preparing a set of action but declined to give details.
Ask the imam: Why can t the Jews and Muslims live together in peace?
Hooper is an idiot. The "anti-Muslim feeling sweeping the United States" has a lot more to do with what happened on 9/11 and what's being spewed from Muslim cleric and newsrags like this one than any "pro-Israel group" could ever hope to create. I disagree with President Bush. Islam is the enemy.
It was Arab Muslims that leveled the WTC and attacked the Pentagon. Why do you think we're looking at Musilm and Arab groups? Do they really think Israelis the Joooos were behind the Sept 11 Attacks?
Oh wait! They really do think that. I forgot...
Precisely- my "tolerance" for Islam vanished on 9-11. I doubt it will ever return, either.
Mine might, just might, return if I ever hear a Muslim, any Muslim, just one, that's all I ask one, uno, eins, ever publicly declare the 9/11 attacks to be an abomination, without then going on to say it was justified.
I doubt mine will ever return, either...
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The complaint by the pro-Israel lobbyist alleged that some Muslim institutions and individuals conspired against the United States with the Saudi government and funneled money into terrorist groups under the guise of charity.
A fascinating manifestation of the conspiracist mindset. That Mr. Loftus filed a suit hardly makes him "behind" the raids.
Unless, you know, "pro-Israel lobbyists" secretly control the court system. The way, you know, those people always have.
I wonder how representative this group is of Muslim thinking in the U.S.
The report conforms with views expressed by Muslim leaders last week that self-styled Middle East “experts” like Daniel Pipes and Steven Emerson were possibly behind the raids against some of the country's most respected Islamic instituions.
LOL. How could two people who are not part of the government be "behind" a government raid? The conspiracist mentality is alive and well at this group. Every action against a Muslim group must, apparently, be because of the hidden hand of Israeli or other anti-Islamic groups, rather than for ordinary reasons.
I was not militantly anti-Arab or Muslim before that.... but I am now, and I suspect I have a lot of company in America.
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