wunaladreamin
2009-12-10, 06:13 PM
Yeah, no media coverage of this!!! It's a bit long winded, but very eye opening.
http://www.pipelinenews.org/index.cfm?page...khan10.8.09.htm
http://muslimmedianetwork.com/mmn/?p=4176
DEVOUT Muslims....remember the words....
Hezbollah Defender Arif Alikhan Appointed By Team Obama To DHS
By VINCENT GIOIA
October 8, 2009 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Purported non Muslim Barack Hussein Obama made a presidential appointment of Muslim Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Arif Alikhan for a top job at the federal Department of Homeland Security. In his new job Arif Alikhan will be Assistant Secretary for the Office of Policy Development at the Department of Homeland Security. Alikhan has been Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles – in charge of public safety for the city.
Why Muslim Alikhan at the Department of Homeland Security you might ask? DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said Alikhan's "broad and impressive array of experience in national security, emergency preparedness and counterterrorism will make him an asset" – yes, but on behalf of the US or Muslims? I am not sure what she is talking about and she probably doesn't know either. http://www.indiawest.com/readmore.aspx?id=1132&Sid=1 Alikhan says a big part of his job will be fostering communication between agencies. Alikhan, like Obama, also wants to help improve America's image with Muslims around the world. He will now set policy on security at the highest levels of the federal government. But what policies has the new Assistant Secretary embraced?
During his years in Los Angeles, Alikhan was responsible for derailing the Police Department's plan to monitor activities within the Los Angeles Muslim community, where numerous radical mosques and madrassas existed, and where some of the 9/11 hijackers had received support from local residents.
Alikhan is strongly anti-Israel; he has referred to the terrorist organization Hezbollah as a "liberation movement." Hezbollah is on the US official terrorist list while being an affiliate of the Muslim Public Affairs Council. Alikhan also opposed President George W. Bush's prosecution of the war on Islamic terror.
In 2007 Alikhan was instrumental in removing the Muslim terror tracking plan in LA. The Muslim 'Mapping' Plan of the Los Angeles Police Department is now "dead on arrival" according to Chief William Bratton. "It is over and not just put on the side," said Chief Bratton in a meeting with the Muslim leadership of Southern California at that time. The meeting was moderated by Arif Alikhan. Chief Bratton acknowledged the hurt and offense caused to Muslims and agreed to send a letter to the Muslim community announcing the official termination of the 'mapping' plan.
A major reason for the termination of the 'mapping' plan was the Muslim community's vociferous opposition and active civic engagement in making themselves heard beyond Los Angeles. Muslim organizations demonstrated a strong unity of purpose and message on the issue of 'mapping' that led to a position of strength for Muslims in the meeting. Those involved in the initial phases of this controversy were the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California http://www.shuracouncil.org/ and the Council on American-Islamic Relations http://www.cair.com/, the Muslim Public Affairs arm.
Muslim Democrats welcomed Alikhan's appointment at a banquet/fundraiser for the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California recently where the first speaker was Arif Alikhan, a devout Sunni and the son of Pakistani immigrants, http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,505573,00. Other speakers included Professor Agha Saeed of the American Muslim Task Force (AMT) who spoke about "the struggle of the Muslim Community against the pervasive atmosphere of Islamophobia and hatred in the aftermath of 9/11.. It was a struggle against the tide – a very strong tide – to prevent Muslims in America from being marginalized and silenced."
Professor Saeed issued five demands from Muslims to the Department of Justice. These demands included a cessation to the infiltration by spies of mosques and an end to the introduction of agents provocateur. In addition there was to be a cessation of attempts to undermine Muslim groups such as the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). Un-indicted co-conspirator CAIR was thrilled at the appointment: http://www.us4arabs.com/content/view/1590/31/.
Last week, Napolitano swore in Damascus-born Kareem Shora, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)'s national executive director, to a position on the Homeland Security Advisory Council, an outside-the-department group of national security experts that advises the Secretary. Shora is the first Arab rights advocate on the panel. Shora has with ties to terror backers http://www.creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2009/06another-jihad-nominee-atdept-of-homeland-security/.
One may wonder how does an obscure (but Democrat) bureaucrat and devout Muslim come to the position of Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles – in charge of public safety for the city and now becomes Assistant Secretary to DHS under purported non Muslim Democrat President Barack Hussein Obama?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/message/119894
Re: [osint] Obama Appoints 2 Devout Muslims to Homeland Security Posts - WHILE AMERICA SLEEPS.
If even in modern Australia the Jews are factually being denied employment in a
set of professions, even in civic ones, would it be right not to use potential
of an already professional US security expert of Muslim faith in the States?
Perhaps, spreading Islamism round the USA is a number one task rather than
rejecting own citizens of non-Christian background.
-- Beowulf wrote :
Obama Appoints 2 Devout Muslims to Homeland Security Posts
Obama and Janet Nappy Appoint Devout Muslim to Homeland Security Post
Arif Alikhan as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development
Source for announcement:
Homeland Security Press
http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1240595153301.shtm
"Today, I am proud to make two key personnel announcements for the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)-President Obama's intent to nominate
David Heyman as Assistant Secretary for Policy and my appointment of Arif
Alikhan as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development. Arif comes from Los
Angeles Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa's office, where he served as Deputy
Mayor for Homeland Security and Public Safety. As a key adviser to the
Mayor, he has led the City's efforts to develop homeland security, emergency
management and law enforcement initiatives, including operational oversight
of Los Angeles Police, Fire a nd Emergency Management departments." said
Secretary Janet Napolitano
The Islamic loving Obama has appointed Arif Alikhan a devout Sunni Muslim to
assistant secretary for the Office of Policy Department of Homeland
Security. Mr. Alikhan was instrumental in taking down the LA Police
Department's plan to monitor it's Muslim community.
Alikhan is affiliated with MPAC, the "Muslim Public Affairs Council".
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6177
"Founded in 1988, the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) describes itself
as "a public service agency working for the civil rights of American
Muslims, for the integration of Islam into American pluralism, and for a
positive, constructive relationship between American Muslims and their
representatives." The organization consists of eight chapters in California,
and one each in Texas, Kansas, Nevada, and Iowa."
>From its inception, MPAC presented itself as more inclusive, and more open
to peaceful coexistence with Jews and Christians, than other Arab and Muslim
groups, and sought to make Americans comfortable with Islam by showing how
much the religion embraced core American values.
However, looking deeper into this group:
MPAC's Senior Advisor, Maher Hathout, who has close ties to the Muslim
Brotherhood and espouses the radical brand of Islam known as Wahhabism, was
invited to address t he Democratic Convention in Los Angeles in 2000.
MPAC's centrist public image unraveled after the September 2000 launching of
the Second Palestinian Intifada, when the Council severed its ties to the
Jewish community and issued one-sided condemnations of Israel's response to
the Arab violence.
This group actively opposed Bush's military incursions into Afghanistan and
Iraq, as well as his "excesses" in the war on terror. In February 2003, MPAC
joined the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the American Muslim
Council, and the American Muslim Alliance in forming a coalition to repeal
and amend the Patriot Act, which these organizations depicted as an assault
on the civil liberties of Americans, particularly Muslims.
MPAC claims that Islam is a religion of peace and moderation, and contends
that Muslim extremists are no more numerous or dangerous than
fundamentalists in any other faith.
Holding Israel entirely responsible for the "pattern of violence" in the
Middle East, MPAC asserts that Hezbollah "could be called a liberation
movement." The Council likens Hezbollah members to American "freedom
fighters hundreds of years ago whom the British regarded as terrorists."
In a 1999 position paper, MPAC justified Hezbollah's deadly 1983 bombing of
the American Marine barracks in Lebanon as a "military operation" rather
than a terrorist attack. 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, which killed 299
servicemen, including 220 U.S. Marines. As Maher Hathout puts it: "Hezbollah
is fighting for freedom, an organized army, limiting its operations against
military people, this is a legitimate target against occupation. . this is
legitimate, this is an American value -- freedom and liberty."
.
Shora, who was born in Damascus, Syria
Kareem Shora Appointed by DHS Secretary Napolitano on Homeland Security
Advisory Council (HSAC)
Washington, DC
June 5, 2009
http://www.adc.org/index.php?id=3458
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is proud to announce
that earlier today at a ceremony held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, DHS
Secretary Janet Napolitano swore-in ADC National Executive Director Kareem
Shora as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC).
Aaron Klein, wrote about this at http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=100486
Napolitano adds adviser with ties to terror backers
Swears in leader of Arab group that hailed jihadists as 'heroes'
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano swore in to her official
advisory council the head of an Arab American organization whose officials
have labeled deadly anti-U.S. jihadists as "heroes" and opposed referring to
Hamas as a terrorist organization.
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, or ADC, also has close ties
to anti-Israel professor Rashid Khalidi, whose association with President
Obama - first exposed by WND - stirred controversy during last year's
presidential campaign.
The ADC takes an openly anti-Israel line.
The ADC also leads the opposition to domestic anti-terrorism measures taken
after the 9-11 attacks, such as watch lists, background check delays for
visas and an initiative meant to more comprehensively screen visitors from
select Mideast countries or specific individuals labeled as possible
national security threats.
In 1994, during one of the main peaks of Hamas suicide bombings against
Israeli civilians, then-ADC President Hamzi Moghrabi said, "I will not call
[Hamas] a terrorist organization. I mean, I know many people in Hamas. They
are very respectable. . I don't believe Hamas, as an organization, is a
violent organization."
Discover the Networks notes that two years later, Moghrabi's successor, Hala
Maksoud, defended the Hezbollah terrorist group.
"I find it shocking," Maksoud said, "that [one] would include Hezbollah in .
[an] inventory of Middle East 'terrorist' groups."
In 2000, new ADC President Hussein Ibish characterized Hezbollah as "a
disciplined and responsible liberation force."
When Israel released Hezbollah prisoners in early 2004, Imad Hamad, ADC's
Midwest Regional Director, openly celebrated the freedom of "the heroes."
Besides its deadly terrorism against Israel, Hezbollah distinguishes itself
as second only to al-Qaida among terror groups responsible for killing the
most Americans. It's responsible for such deadly attacks as the 1983 Beirut
barracks bombing, which killed 299 servicemen, including 220 U.S. Marines.
ADC linked to Khalidi
The ADC is linked to Columbia University's Khalidi, who spoke at several of
the organization's events. At one speech, in June 2002, the New York Sun
documented how Khalidi appeared to condone the killing of armed Israelis.
"Killing civilians is a war crime. It's a violation of international law.
They are not soldiers. They're civilians, they're unarmed," Khalidi said in
a recorded address. "The ones who are armed, the ones who are soldiers, the
ones who are in occupation, that's different. That's resistance."
The ADC also has collaborated on numerous projects with the Arab American
Action Network, or AAAN, an organization founded by Khalidi's wife Mona, and
which WND first reported received start-up funds from a nonprofit, the Woods
Fund, on which Obama served as a paid director.
The AAAN, headquartered in the heart of Chicago's Palestinian immigrant
community, worked on projects supporting open boarders and education for
illegal aliens. Speakers at AAAN dinners and events routinely have taken an
anti-Israel line. The organization co-sponsored anti-Israel projects and
exhibits.
Khalidi, an apologist for PLO terrorism, holds the position of Columbia's
Edward Said professorship of Arab Studies. Said, a well-known far-leftist
intellectual and apologist for Palestinian terrorism, served on an advisory
counsel to the ADC.
ADC opposes anti-terrorism screening
According to the ADC charter, the organization seeks to "empower Arab
Americans; defend the civil rights of all people of Arab heritage in the
U.S.; promote civic participation; and encourage a balanced U.S. foreign
policy in the Middle East."
The organization has actively lobbied against the Patriot Act and was
reportedly instrumental in scaling back some of the restrictions of the
National Security Entry-Exit Registration System program, or NSEERS. Shora
was personally involved in those efforts.
The NSEERS required persons whose nationality identifies them as a possible
security risk to submit to control processes governed by the Department of
Justice. NSEERS also targeted specific individuals labeled as possible
national security threats, at times making them undergo fingerprinting,
photographing and registration.
Last week, Napolitano swore in Damascus-born Kareem Shora, the ADC's
national executive director, to a position on the Homeland Security Advisory
Council, an outside-the-department group of national security experts that
advises the secretary. Shora is the first Arab rights advocate on the panel.
At the ceremony in Albequrque, Shora reportedly recounted how he watched
with his immigrant father Obama's address last week to the Muslim world.
Shora said his father cried when he heard Obama's message of reconciliation.
http://www.pipelinenews.org/index.cfm?page...khan10.8.09.htm
http://muslimmedianetwork.com/mmn/?p=4176
DEVOUT Muslims....remember the words....
Hezbollah Defender Arif Alikhan Appointed By Team Obama To DHS
By VINCENT GIOIA
October 8, 2009 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Purported non Muslim Barack Hussein Obama made a presidential appointment of Muslim Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Arif Alikhan for a top job at the federal Department of Homeland Security. In his new job Arif Alikhan will be Assistant Secretary for the Office of Policy Development at the Department of Homeland Security. Alikhan has been Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles – in charge of public safety for the city.
Why Muslim Alikhan at the Department of Homeland Security you might ask? DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said Alikhan's "broad and impressive array of experience in national security, emergency preparedness and counterterrorism will make him an asset" – yes, but on behalf of the US or Muslims? I am not sure what she is talking about and she probably doesn't know either. http://www.indiawest.com/readmore.aspx?id=1132&Sid=1 Alikhan says a big part of his job will be fostering communication between agencies. Alikhan, like Obama, also wants to help improve America's image with Muslims around the world. He will now set policy on security at the highest levels of the federal government. But what policies has the new Assistant Secretary embraced?
During his years in Los Angeles, Alikhan was responsible for derailing the Police Department's plan to monitor activities within the Los Angeles Muslim community, where numerous radical mosques and madrassas existed, and where some of the 9/11 hijackers had received support from local residents.
Alikhan is strongly anti-Israel; he has referred to the terrorist organization Hezbollah as a "liberation movement." Hezbollah is on the US official terrorist list while being an affiliate of the Muslim Public Affairs Council. Alikhan also opposed President George W. Bush's prosecution of the war on Islamic terror.
In 2007 Alikhan was instrumental in removing the Muslim terror tracking plan in LA. The Muslim 'Mapping' Plan of the Los Angeles Police Department is now "dead on arrival" according to Chief William Bratton. "It is over and not just put on the side," said Chief Bratton in a meeting with the Muslim leadership of Southern California at that time. The meeting was moderated by Arif Alikhan. Chief Bratton acknowledged the hurt and offense caused to Muslims and agreed to send a letter to the Muslim community announcing the official termination of the 'mapping' plan.
A major reason for the termination of the 'mapping' plan was the Muslim community's vociferous opposition and active civic engagement in making themselves heard beyond Los Angeles. Muslim organizations demonstrated a strong unity of purpose and message on the issue of 'mapping' that led to a position of strength for Muslims in the meeting. Those involved in the initial phases of this controversy were the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California http://www.shuracouncil.org/ and the Council on American-Islamic Relations http://www.cair.com/, the Muslim Public Affairs arm.
Muslim Democrats welcomed Alikhan's appointment at a banquet/fundraiser for the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California recently where the first speaker was Arif Alikhan, a devout Sunni and the son of Pakistani immigrants, http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,505573,00. Other speakers included Professor Agha Saeed of the American Muslim Task Force (AMT) who spoke about "the struggle of the Muslim Community against the pervasive atmosphere of Islamophobia and hatred in the aftermath of 9/11.. It was a struggle against the tide – a very strong tide – to prevent Muslims in America from being marginalized and silenced."
Professor Saeed issued five demands from Muslims to the Department of Justice. These demands included a cessation to the infiltration by spies of mosques and an end to the introduction of agents provocateur. In addition there was to be a cessation of attempts to undermine Muslim groups such as the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). Un-indicted co-conspirator CAIR was thrilled at the appointment: http://www.us4arabs.com/content/view/1590/31/.
Last week, Napolitano swore in Damascus-born Kareem Shora, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)'s national executive director, to a position on the Homeland Security Advisory Council, an outside-the-department group of national security experts that advises the Secretary. Shora is the first Arab rights advocate on the panel. Shora has with ties to terror backers http://www.creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2009/06another-jihad-nominee-atdept-of-homeland-security/.
One may wonder how does an obscure (but Democrat) bureaucrat and devout Muslim come to the position of Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles – in charge of public safety for the city and now becomes Assistant Secretary to DHS under purported non Muslim Democrat President Barack Hussein Obama?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/message/119894
Re: [osint] Obama Appoints 2 Devout Muslims to Homeland Security Posts - WHILE AMERICA SLEEPS.
If even in modern Australia the Jews are factually being denied employment in a
set of professions, even in civic ones, would it be right not to use potential
of an already professional US security expert of Muslim faith in the States?
Perhaps, spreading Islamism round the USA is a number one task rather than
rejecting own citizens of non-Christian background.
-- Beowulf wrote :
Obama Appoints 2 Devout Muslims to Homeland Security Posts
Obama and Janet Nappy Appoint Devout Muslim to Homeland Security Post
Arif Alikhan as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development
Source for announcement:
Homeland Security Press
http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1240595153301.shtm
"Today, I am proud to make two key personnel announcements for the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)-President Obama's intent to nominate
David Heyman as Assistant Secretary for Policy and my appointment of Arif
Alikhan as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development. Arif comes from Los
Angeles Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa's office, where he served as Deputy
Mayor for Homeland Security and Public Safety. As a key adviser to the
Mayor, he has led the City's efforts to develop homeland security, emergency
management and law enforcement initiatives, including operational oversight
of Los Angeles Police, Fire a nd Emergency Management departments." said
Secretary Janet Napolitano
The Islamic loving Obama has appointed Arif Alikhan a devout Sunni Muslim to
assistant secretary for the Office of Policy Department of Homeland
Security. Mr. Alikhan was instrumental in taking down the LA Police
Department's plan to monitor it's Muslim community.
Alikhan is affiliated with MPAC, the "Muslim Public Affairs Council".
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6177
"Founded in 1988, the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) describes itself
as "a public service agency working for the civil rights of American
Muslims, for the integration of Islam into American pluralism, and for a
positive, constructive relationship between American Muslims and their
representatives." The organization consists of eight chapters in California,
and one each in Texas, Kansas, Nevada, and Iowa."
>From its inception, MPAC presented itself as more inclusive, and more open
to peaceful coexistence with Jews and Christians, than other Arab and Muslim
groups, and sought to make Americans comfortable with Islam by showing how
much the religion embraced core American values.
However, looking deeper into this group:
MPAC's Senior Advisor, Maher Hathout, who has close ties to the Muslim
Brotherhood and espouses the radical brand of Islam known as Wahhabism, was
invited to address t he Democratic Convention in Los Angeles in 2000.
MPAC's centrist public image unraveled after the September 2000 launching of
the Second Palestinian Intifada, when the Council severed its ties to the
Jewish community and issued one-sided condemnations of Israel's response to
the Arab violence.
This group actively opposed Bush's military incursions into Afghanistan and
Iraq, as well as his "excesses" in the war on terror. In February 2003, MPAC
joined the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the American Muslim
Council, and the American Muslim Alliance in forming a coalition to repeal
and amend the Patriot Act, which these organizations depicted as an assault
on the civil liberties of Americans, particularly Muslims.
MPAC claims that Islam is a religion of peace and moderation, and contends
that Muslim extremists are no more numerous or dangerous than
fundamentalists in any other faith.
Holding Israel entirely responsible for the "pattern of violence" in the
Middle East, MPAC asserts that Hezbollah "could be called a liberation
movement." The Council likens Hezbollah members to American "freedom
fighters hundreds of years ago whom the British regarded as terrorists."
In a 1999 position paper, MPAC justified Hezbollah's deadly 1983 bombing of
the American Marine barracks in Lebanon as a "military operation" rather
than a terrorist attack. 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, which killed 299
servicemen, including 220 U.S. Marines. As Maher Hathout puts it: "Hezbollah
is fighting for freedom, an organized army, limiting its operations against
military people, this is a legitimate target against occupation. . this is
legitimate, this is an American value -- freedom and liberty."
.
Shora, who was born in Damascus, Syria
Kareem Shora Appointed by DHS Secretary Napolitano on Homeland Security
Advisory Council (HSAC)
Washington, DC
June 5, 2009
http://www.adc.org/index.php?id=3458
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is proud to announce
that earlier today at a ceremony held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, DHS
Secretary Janet Napolitano swore-in ADC National Executive Director Kareem
Shora as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC).
Aaron Klein, wrote about this at http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=100486
Napolitano adds adviser with ties to terror backers
Swears in leader of Arab group that hailed jihadists as 'heroes'
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano swore in to her official
advisory council the head of an Arab American organization whose officials
have labeled deadly anti-U.S. jihadists as "heroes" and opposed referring to
Hamas as a terrorist organization.
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, or ADC, also has close ties
to anti-Israel professor Rashid Khalidi, whose association with President
Obama - first exposed by WND - stirred controversy during last year's
presidential campaign.
The ADC takes an openly anti-Israel line.
The ADC also leads the opposition to domestic anti-terrorism measures taken
after the 9-11 attacks, such as watch lists, background check delays for
visas and an initiative meant to more comprehensively screen visitors from
select Mideast countries or specific individuals labeled as possible
national security threats.
In 1994, during one of the main peaks of Hamas suicide bombings against
Israeli civilians, then-ADC President Hamzi Moghrabi said, "I will not call
[Hamas] a terrorist organization. I mean, I know many people in Hamas. They
are very respectable. . I don't believe Hamas, as an organization, is a
violent organization."
Discover the Networks notes that two years later, Moghrabi's successor, Hala
Maksoud, defended the Hezbollah terrorist group.
"I find it shocking," Maksoud said, "that [one] would include Hezbollah in .
[an] inventory of Middle East 'terrorist' groups."
In 2000, new ADC President Hussein Ibish characterized Hezbollah as "a
disciplined and responsible liberation force."
When Israel released Hezbollah prisoners in early 2004, Imad Hamad, ADC's
Midwest Regional Director, openly celebrated the freedom of "the heroes."
Besides its deadly terrorism against Israel, Hezbollah distinguishes itself
as second only to al-Qaida among terror groups responsible for killing the
most Americans. It's responsible for such deadly attacks as the 1983 Beirut
barracks bombing, which killed 299 servicemen, including 220 U.S. Marines.
ADC linked to Khalidi
The ADC is linked to Columbia University's Khalidi, who spoke at several of
the organization's events. At one speech, in June 2002, the New York Sun
documented how Khalidi appeared to condone the killing of armed Israelis.
"Killing civilians is a war crime. It's a violation of international law.
They are not soldiers. They're civilians, they're unarmed," Khalidi said in
a recorded address. "The ones who are armed, the ones who are soldiers, the
ones who are in occupation, that's different. That's resistance."
The ADC also has collaborated on numerous projects with the Arab American
Action Network, or AAAN, an organization founded by Khalidi's wife Mona, and
which WND first reported received start-up funds from a nonprofit, the Woods
Fund, on which Obama served as a paid director.
The AAAN, headquartered in the heart of Chicago's Palestinian immigrant
community, worked on projects supporting open boarders and education for
illegal aliens. Speakers at AAAN dinners and events routinely have taken an
anti-Israel line. The organization co-sponsored anti-Israel projects and
exhibits.
Khalidi, an apologist for PLO terrorism, holds the position of Columbia's
Edward Said professorship of Arab Studies. Said, a well-known far-leftist
intellectual and apologist for Palestinian terrorism, served on an advisory
counsel to the ADC.
ADC opposes anti-terrorism screening
According to the ADC charter, the organization seeks to "empower Arab
Americans; defend the civil rights of all people of Arab heritage in the
U.S.; promote civic participation; and encourage a balanced U.S. foreign
policy in the Middle East."
The organization has actively lobbied against the Patriot Act and was
reportedly instrumental in scaling back some of the restrictions of the
National Security Entry-Exit Registration System program, or NSEERS. Shora
was personally involved in those efforts.
The NSEERS required persons whose nationality identifies them as a possible
security risk to submit to control processes governed by the Department of
Justice. NSEERS also targeted specific individuals labeled as possible
national security threats, at times making them undergo fingerprinting,
photographing and registration.
Last week, Napolitano swore in Damascus-born Kareem Shora, the ADC's
national executive director, to a position on the Homeland Security Advisory
Council, an outside-the-department group of national security experts that
advises the secretary. Shora is the first Arab rights advocate on the panel.
At the ceremony in Albequrque, Shora reportedly recounted how he watched
with his immigrant father Obama's address last week to the Muslim world.
Shora said his father cried when he heard Obama's message of reconciliation.