Obama Takes the 'Moderate' Iranian President's Bait?

By Joseph Klein

The Obama administration is using the election of Iran’s new president-elect, Hassan Rouhani, as an excuse to consider resuming negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program. Iran is cleverly running the clock, using the election of the moderate-appearing Rouhani as bait to lure the Obama administration and its European allies into another round of useless talks while Iran forges ahead to develop a nuclear arms arsenal.

Rouhani, a cleric, had served as the Supreme National Security Council chairman under Presidents Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (1989-1997) and Mohammad Khatami (1997-2005), and was Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator from 2003 to 2005.  He is perceived as a "moderate" compared with the other candidates who ran for president against him. However, everything is relative. Hundreds of reformist and pragmatic candidates, and all women, were barred from running. Rouhani was the last so-called "reform" candidate standing. [more...]

Mideast Red Star Rising

By Joseph Klein

According to reports, last weekend’s California summit between President Obama and his Chinese counterpart, President Xi Jinping, focused on subjects such as North Korea, cyber security and areas of potential cooperation between the two world powers. President Obama said that "we're more likely to achieve our objectives of prosperity and security of our people if we are working together cooperatively, rather than engaged in conflict." However, as President Obama tries to pivot away from his disastrous Middle East-North African policies to focus more on Asia, and China in particular, he finds himself faced with China’s increasing presence in the chaotic region he is leaving behind. Conflicts developing between China and the United States over Middle East interests on diplomatic, economic and even military levels are inevitable, made more imminent by Obama's reckless policies and shift in priorities. [more...]

6-10-13 National Security Updates

By Ryan Mauro

Gov. Christie Appoints Islamist -Friendly AG to Be New Senator

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a likely Republican presidential candidate, has appointed Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa to the Senate following the death of Senator Frank Lautenberg. Chiesa, who will serve until a new candidate is elected, has led the Christie Administration’s outreach to Islamist radicals. [more...]

Obama Official to Share Stage with Three Islamists

The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity, has announced that the U.S. Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Rashad Hussain, will be speaking at its banquet in Dallas on June 15. Hussain will share the stage with at least three Islamists with a record of incendiary rhetoric. [more...]

Egypt: Majority Supports Morsi and His Islamist Agenda

A new Pew poll indicates that the protests in Egypt against the country’s Muslim Brotherhood-led government -- specifically against President Morsi -- may have given an exaggerated picture of the opposition’s strength. [more...]

Turkey Erupting 'Like a Volcano'

I’ve referred to Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan as the “king of the Islamists” because of his ability to swoon the West, make Israel bend and maintain popularity while implementing Sharia using the doctrine of “gradualism.” He now faces his biggest internal challenge as protests against him enter their fifth day in what one expert compares to the “eruption of a volcano.” [more...]

Local Residents Challenge U.S. Muslim Brotherhood Mosques

Local residents are challenging proposals to expand Muslim Brotherhood-linked mosques in Oklahoma and Alabama. The mosques’ land is owned by the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) which was identified as a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity by the federal government and the Brotherhood’s own documents. [more...]

10 of 12 Rebel Groups in Syria Are Islamist

The Economist has published an informative chart about the different Syrian rebel groups and the results aren't encouraging: Ten out of twelve groups are Islamist, though there is some overlapping in leadership. One of the non-Islamist groups is an offshoot of a Kurdish terrorist group, leaving only one potentially Western-friendly rebel force. [more...]

Susan Rice's Prize for Lies

By Joseph Klein

President Barack Obama's foreign policy is in shambles all over the world. On his watch, the Middle East is crumbling into sectarian violence, not only in Syria but in Iraq where Obama has squandered the victory over Islamists achieved during George W. Bush's administration. The Muslim Brotherhood has taken over Egypt and turned it into an autocratic Islamist state. Violent Islamic jihad has spread way beyond Afghanistan and Pakistan to the Middle East and Africa. Iran is closing in rapidly on achieving a nuclear arms capability, while its ally North Korea is moving ahead with its nuclear program and advanced missile systems capable of delivering nuclear payloads to attack our allies and the United States itself. China is pressuring Japan and other neighboring countries in a strong hegemonic move to expand its sphere of influence, while Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is working to recreate the vestiges of the old Russian empire.

Yet, in the midst of this morass, to whom does President Obama turn to succeed Tom Donilon as his chief adviser on national security? To Susan Rice, the same woman who agreed to front and blatantly lie for him and Hillary Clinton on national television last fall, delivering the Obama administration's false narrative about the causes of the Benghazi attack that left four Americans dead. [more...]

Palestinians at U.N. Warn of 'Consequences' for 'Apartheid' Israel

By Joseph Klein

Saeb Erakat, Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and Chief Palestinian Negotiator, addressed the 352nd meeting of the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People at UN headquarters in New York on May 20th. His message was wrapped in the standard Palestinian victimhood narrative. It contained superficially nice sounding words about the Palestinians' interest in peace but only on their terms. [more...]

5-23-13 National Security Updates

By Ryan Mauro

Turkey Stakes Claim in America with $100 Million Mega-Mosque

The Islamist government of Turkey is building a 15-acre, $100 million mega-mosque in Lanham, Maryland. Prime Minister Erdogan visited the site on May 15 in a ceremony that was attended by the leaders of two groups linked to the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood. The state of Maryland was officially represented at the event by its Secretary of State John McDonough. [more...]

U.S. Gov't: Radical Muslims Approved, Moderates Shunned

A 2011 Department of Homeland Security document released by The Daily Caller advises government agencies against training about the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood and to shun "Muslim reformers." Shockingly, the advisory committee that likely influenced these guidelines includes numerous individuals affiliated with the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood. [more...]

Muslim Brotherhood Inside American Colleges

In 1988, an FBI informant inside the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood network warned that it had a front called the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). The IIIT leadership, the source reported, said they were in the first of six phases to "institute the Islamic Revolution in the United States." Their current objective was to "peacefully get inside the United States government and also American universities." And they have. [more...]

Iranian Factory Blows Up: Covert Op or Accident?

On May 7, three explosions were heard in the vicinity of the Raja-Shimi chemical complex in Tehran Province. Though the Iranian regime claims the site is privately owned and the explosions were part of planned detonations of out-of-date ammunition, local residents confirm that the site is related to Iran’s ballistic missile program. [more...]

5-9-13 National Security Updates

By Ryan Mauro

New York Times Whitewashes Islamist Zaytuna College

Although the New York Times showcases Zaytuna as a model of moderation, videotaped lectures at the school tell a different story. Zaytuna College was founded by three Islamists with a history of anti-American rhetoric, but you wouldn’t know that if you read the New York Times puff piece about the California school. Readers are left to believe this is a moderate Muslim institution that will “foster an American Islam” to lead the Muslim world into the twenty-first century. [more...]

Air Force Recruits Chaplains from MB Front Group

The U.S. Air Force paid the Islamic Society of North America, a Muslim Brotherhood front group, to advertise in their magazine to look for military chaplains.  The U.S. Air Force has confirmed to The Clarion Project that it paid nearly $5,000 for advertisements in the magazine of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism-financing trial that was also labeled a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity by the government. The Air Force said it would continue to consider paying ISNA for ads. [more...]

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