Another pseudo coalition of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood has announced that it has published a full page advertisement calling on the Republican Party to “reach out to Muslim voters by rejecting anti-Islam bias and discriminatory legislation. According to the announcement:
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, 2012 — /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A coalition of 11 major American Muslim organizations* today called on the Republican Party to reach out to Muslim voters by rejecting anti-Islam bias and discriminatory legislation. At a noon news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., the coalition announced the publication of a full-page advertisement in the conservative Washington Times newspaper outlining recent examples of intolerant speech and actions by Republicans and offering recommendations to help improve GOP relations with the Muslim community. That open letter to the GOP states in part:
‘We are writing to offer an open invitation to reassess your party’s current relationship with American Muslims. As with other demographics, American Muslim support for Republicans has dropped precipitously in recent years. This shift away from the GOP is not set in stone, but its future direction is dependent on choices your party makes.’
Recommendations for GOP leaders outlined in the open letter include:
- The party establishment should speak out strongly against biased speech within its ranks
- The party should make a concerted effort to engage Muslim voters.
- The party establishment should oppose efforts to pass discriminatory legislation.
- The party establishment should reject any member’s effort to use official public forums to smear a minority.
- Party officials should end the persistent witch-hunt targeting legally operating Muslim institutions.
The coalition’s letter concludes by stating:
‘Let us all work together to maintain America’s leadership in support of emerging democracies and the rule of law worldwide by promoting the humanitarian principles enshrined in our Constitution’s Bill of Rights. May God Almighty bless the United States of America.’
A similar statement of American Muslim concerns will be addressed to the Democratic Party in the near future.
Last month, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, released the results of an informal exit poll indicating that more than 85 percent of American Muslim voters picked President Obama in the November 6 election.
Past posts have stated that one of the most ubiquitous tactics of the Global Muslim Brotherhood is the establishment of a dizzying number of organizations and initiatives and which create the impression of broad based support when, in reality, the sponsors are the same individuals and groups whose leaders have not changed in many years. Consistent with this tactic, of the eleven signatories to the letter, seven are organizations that are part of the the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood including:
- American Muslim Alliance (AMA)
- American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections (AMT)
- Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
- ICNA Council for Social Justice (CSJ)
- Muslim American Society Public Affairs and Civic Engagement (MAS-PACE)
CAIR, ICNA, and the MAS have all been identified as part of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood. The AMT includes CAIR, ICNA, and the MAS as well as the AMA so in essence, the same organizations are counted three times. It should also noted that in 2004, the coordinator, of the AMT was identified as Agha Saeed chairman of the American Muslim Alliance (AMA) which in turn was part of the American Muslim Political Coordination Council, both organizations representing earlier U.S. Brotherhood electoral coalitions. GMBDW notes a further elaboration of the coalition tactic as two parts of the same organization (ICNA) are counted as individual coalition members.
Past posts have discussed the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas ties of the AMP.