Rashad Hussain’s Troubling Ties

Posted by Bio ↓ on Feb 18th, 2010 Comments ↓

 

President Obama has chosen Rashad Hussain to be his special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, a post originally created by the Bush Administration in 2008. Hussain’s past association with Muslim Brotherhood-connected entities raises major questions about the type of outreach he envisions for the Muslim world.

The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report took a look at Hussain’s official biography and found several concerning affiliations. The first is that in October 2000, Hussain spoke at a conference sponsored by the Association of Muslim Social Scientists, which was listed in an internal Muslim Brotherhood document as one of “our organizations and the organizations of our friends,” and the Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding of Georgetown University, which receives Saudi funding and is directed by prominent Muslim Brotherhood advocate, John Esposito.

In September 2004, Hussain played a role in the Muslim Students Association’s annual conference, which was founded by Muslim Brotherhood in 1963 and is also listed as one the group’s fronts in its own documents. Since then, many of its nearly 600 college chapters have engaged in extremism and the group closely collaborates with the other Brotherhood fronts. For example, MSA was part of an umbrella organization called the American Muslim Taskforce that led a campaign against the FBI’s use of informants in mosques and accused the agency of “anti-Muslim activity.” Several Brotherhood affiliates are in this coalition including the Muslim-American Society, the Islamic Circle of North America, the Islamic Society of North America, the Muslim Public Affairs Council and the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

At this conference, Hussain spoke alongside the daughter of Professor Sami Al-Arian, who was convicted of being a key leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group and later admitted to being a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Hussain also defended Al-Arian and described his prosecution as being a “politically-motivated persecution.” The network of Brotherhood-affiliated groups have consistently been on his side throughout the entire ordeal and celebrated his release.

Interestingly, the story in The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs that quoted Hussain’s defense of Al-Arian has been altered since its original publication. CNSNews.com reports that the quote was removed “sometime after October 2007” and that the reporter who wrote the article “expressed surprise but said she no longer worked at WRMEA and could not explain the edit.”

Last May, Hussain spoke at a conference sponsored by several Brotherhood affiliates, including the Muslim Public Affairs Council, an organization whose extremism has been catalogued in a series by The Investigative Project on Terrorism, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The latter was listed by the federal government in 2007 as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the terrorism financing trial of The Holy Land Foundation, another Muslim Brotherhood front that was found to be financing Hamas. Its founders are former officials at the Islamic Association of Palestine, a Brotherhood front shut down for supporting Hamas and are said by the FBI to be members of the Brotherhood’s “Palestine Committee” in the United States.

Hussain’s view on the cause of terrorism is important to note as it will play a significant role in the Obama Administration’s outreach to the Muslim world. He quoted a study that concluded that “The primary cause of broad-based anger and anti-Americanism is not a clash of civilizations but the perceived effect of U.S. foreign policy in the Muslim world.” In this statement, it appears that he believes that terrorism is the product of opposition to foreign policy, rather than the product of a politico-religious totalitarian ideology, which explains his opposition to terms like “Islamic terrorism.”

On the other hand, Hussein does support the use of the term “Hamas terrorists,” so he cannot be said to be a supporter of Hamas, which grew out of the Muslim Brotherhood. He has an entire section in his paper titled, “Discrediting the Terrorist Ideology.” He opposes making democracy promotion a central part of that goal, saying that it can be interpreted as imperialism and an attempt to bring about freedom that enables immorality, but admits that it may be part of the solution. He instead suggests that the government use Muslim voices to argue that Islam forbids acts of terrorism and extremism.

One other important part of his paper is when he proposes that the U.S. build a Muslim coalition “not limited to those who advocate Western-style democracy, and avoid creating a dichotomy between freedom and Islamic society.” This would set the stage for a partnership with the Muslim Brotherhood. Rather than focusing on supporting elements that will genuinely argue that democracy is compatible with Islam, his standard for allies is that they just oppose terrorism and extremism. Apparently, those who pursue Sharia Law through other methods do not fit his version of “extremist.”

Unfortunately, the Brotherhood apparatus is so vast and powerful that it will be difficult for any administration to find someone without some sort of affiliation with one of their fronts. Hussain should be given an opportunity to clear his name by condemning the Muslim Brotherhood by name and the undemocratic ideology they espouse.

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Ryan Mauro is a fellow with RadicalIslam.org, the founder of WorldThreats.com and a frequent national security analyst for Fox News Channel. He can be contacted at ryanmauro1986@gmail.com.

38 Responses for “Rashad Hussain’s Troubling Ties”

  1. Robert Bernier says:

    Every American should know the truth

    No one should miss this video:

    http://xrl.us/bf29mb

    Look to the end ( 10 min.)

  2. Robert Bernier says:

    Every American should see this video !

    The ambition of Islam to conquer the world.
    For centuries Islam of the militants have been on the march to conquer the world. We did not notice because we chose not to notice. The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in
    1920 by Hassan al-Banna in Egypt and was in deep confrontation with the Egyptian government. The current goals for Islam to achieve global domination for a Muslim Caliphate: a world under strict Islamic “Sharia” law, pulling Muslims back to the 7th Century. Consult : http://xrl.us/bf66jj

  3. Linda Rivera says:

    Will Rashad Hussain, empowered by the U.S. as special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), seek to stop the horror perpetrated against Egypt's Christians by Muslims? If not, WHY NOT?

    EGYPT KIDNAPS CHRISTIANS
    The world is shamefully silent over the Egyptian government and Saudi Arabia involvement in the kidnapping of Christian Egyptian girls in Egypt. Kidnapped Christian female children are violently converted to Islam and forcibly married/raped to adult Muslim males.

    Does the uncaring, mainstream media not report this because telling the truth about Islam would make Islam look bad? Protecting Islam is considered more important by Western mainstream media and government leaders than protecting the lives of desperate, defenseless innocent children!

    ASSYRIAN INTERNATIONAL NEWS AGENCY
    8-11-2009
    Abduction and Forced Islamization of Christian Coptic Girls Continues in Egypt

    (AINA) — The systematic abduction and forced Islamization of Coptic minor girls in Egypt is a frequent, dangerous and a rapidly escalating phenomenon. Coptic Pope Shenouda III, December 17th, 197: “there is pressure being practiced to convert Coptic girls to embrace Islam and marry them under terror to Muslim husbands” and demanded that the abducted girls be brought back to their families.

    Abductions are done in cooperation between Saudi-funded associations and the Egyptian State Security.

    …in the majority of cases, the State Security is the one who masterminds the kidnapping plans.”
    http://www.aina.org/news/20090811125748.htm

    The U.S. gifts Egypt with 2.2 billion dollars every year.

    ‘He who kidnaps a man, whether he sells him or he is found in his possession, shall surely be put to death.’ Bible, Exodus 21:16

    Saudi authorities shred all Bibles found on anyone at the airport in Saudi Arabia. Bibles that contain the unchangeable laws of G-D.

  4. USMCSniper says:

    I said it before. How does the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) rate the same status as the Vatican State even with recognition let along ab offical State Department envoy? Ahh….of course… Yes…. we have a clandestine Muslim in the Oval Office

  5. Linda Rivera says:

    Long ago, Egypt was a Christian country invaded by Arab Muslims. The fate of a country invaded by Muslims is horrifying. Many centuries after the CRUEL Muslim conquest, Christian females are regarded by the modern-day Muslim Egyptian government, as booty to be seized and horribly abused.

    See: Abduction and Forced Islamization of Christian Coptic Girls Continues in Egypt
    http://www.aina.org/news/20090811125748.htm
    Christian in Egypt: "They Try to Kill Us" Fox news
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xicHP-S5Bqg&fe…

    Coptic Christians Protest for Freedom and Equality
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh2KA1FfAPg&fe…

    STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST COPTS IN EGYPT.wmv
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu2I6Jwhg5E&NR…

    Copts Under Siege 1/2
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix5OU6lLQNw&fe…

    Copts Under Siege 2/2
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9qKPN6Py0o&NR…

    GLORIFYING the MURDER of INNOCENTS: Jihad is an obligation in Islam!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kreXb6yxJsE&fe…

  6. BS1977 says:

    I wonder if President Reagen would have bothered to appoint an "envoy" to the OIC . I seriously doubt it. ……Why would any sitting President give this outfit the legitimacy of appointing a virtual Government rep? This is very strange. Is there an envoy to Hamas or an envoy to Al Queda?

  7. Linda Rivera says:

    Will Rashad Hussain, highly paid, and empowered by the U.S. as special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), seek to stop the horror and terrible suffering of slavery? If not, WHY NOT? Should not stopping slavery be a top priority of a black president? For wonderful human rights hero and great American, Martin Luther King, it would be a top priority! I hope we will hear a statement very soon from both the president and special envoy to the OIC, Rashad Hussain, that the fight is now on to end slavery. If not, WHY NOT ???

    SILENCE IS CONSENT

    END BLACK SLAVERY by Arab MUSLIM MASTERS
    We Must Protest Globally Demanding Freedom for the Slaves.

    BBC NEWS
    13 December 2004
    Slavery: Mauritania's best kept secret
    By Pascale Harter
    BBC News, Nouakchott

    Skyra is a runaway Mauritanian slave. Her earliest childhood memories are of fetching water, tending animals and cooking and cleaning.

    "I was tied up all night and all day.
    They only untied me so I could do my chores. In the end I could barely move my limbs." She never earned a single penny…

    Rape
    Skyra was born to a slave mother so there was never any question she would be anything else. She remembers the years she spent treated like an animal.

    "They raped me often," she says shaking with anger.

    "My master is the father of my first child, my master's son is the father of my second child and my baby girl's father was my master's nephew".
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4091579.stm

    Mohammad, founder of Islam, beheaded 700 Jews who obeyed G-D's Laws, because they refused to follow the new religion of Islam. Mohammad was a huge slave trader and considered the perfect man and role model by Muslims.

    January 22, 2001
    by Samuel Cotton
    (This article appeared in the February 1-February 7, 1995, issue of The City Sun.)
    ARAB MASTERS-BLACK SLAVES

    "Black Africans in Mauritania were converted to Islam more than 100 years ago," says Mohamed Athie, Executive Director of the American Anti-Slavery Group, [and]. . ."the Koran forbids the enslavement of fellow Muslims, but in this country race outranks religious doctrine. . . Though they are Muslims, these people are chattel: used for labor, sex and breeding."

    Africa Watch reported that "Religion has been used by masters as an important instrument to perpetuate slavery.
    http://www.raceandhistory.com/historicalviews/225…

    When Muslims occupied and ruled Eastern Europe, as a tax, one out of five European children were taken as slaves to Turkey. In our day, hundreds of thousands of Black Sudanese Christians have been taken for slaves by Sudan's Arab Muslims.

    Islamic SLAVERY, Atrocities and Tortures of Slaves so terrible, that the article 'ARAB MASTERS-BLACK SLAVES' declare they cannot print them. What IS printed is utterly horrific.

    Conversion to Islam is supposed to buy protection from Islamic barbarism.

    Bible, Genesis 4:10 And G-D said, "What have you done? Your brother's blood cries out to Me from the ground."

    WHY no outcry and prosecution of these terrible crimes against Black humanity from the US/EU/UN?

    WHY are Black Muslims not protesting by the millions against the barbarism and slavery perpetrated against Blacks by Arab Muslims? Black brothers and sisters are wickedly betrayed!

    Why are African Muslims waging jihad against non-Muslim Blacks? Have the Black brothers and sisters not suffered enough down through history until this present day?

    Why are African Muslims and ALL Black Muslims everywhere not fighting to STOP the barbarism and slavery perpetrated against Black Muslims in Mauritania and Sudan by Arab Muslims? It is SHAMEFUL.

  8. Brian H says:

    The closing suggestion that Hassein "clear his name" is hilarious. No Muslim would believe any repudiation of the Brotherhood he made. And if they did, his life expectancy would shrink to nothing.

  9. Linda Rivera says:

    Above article states: "in October 2000, Hussain spoke at the Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding of Georgetown University, which receives Saudi funding and is directed by prominent Muslim Brotherhood advocate, John Esposito."

    Did Hussain explain, and does the Prince Alaweed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding of Georgetown University, explain to students why it is Islamic practice (ongoing for 1,400 years), for Muslims to take Christians and other non-Muslim infidels for slaves?

  10. [...] here for my latest FrontPage Magazine article about Rashad Hussain, the man chosen to become the envoy [...]

  11. landa says:

    Mr. rashid is not saying the truth, as is with all muslims. Islam is a lie. Mohammed aside from marrying a 6 yr old girl also had Head Lice. This is true, not kidding

    http://staringattheview.blogspot.com/2010/02/muha…

    http://www.thereligionofpeace.com

  12. Len Powder says:

    From Muslim Mafia (p. 234) by P. David Gaubatz:

    "The matter of the financial support was never the basis of our
    relationship, for our relationship added to the Brotherhood of faith," Al-
    Alwani wrote Sami al-Arian in a letter, referring to at least $50,000 Safa
    transferred to the now-convicted terrorist.
    He reiterated that they shared "the same objectives," and that "all of
    your institutions are considered by us as ours." Al-Alwani is an unindicted
    co-conspirator in the al-Arian terrorism case.13
    With each new indictment, the Muslim establishment in America
    looks more and more like a religious crime syndicate."

  13. Len Powder says:

    Bush and Obama have two things in common:

    1. Not understanding that their 'bailout' would rescue no one except the crooks and criminals on Wall Street, and,
    2. That Islam in NOT a religion of peace, but a CONSPIRACY to dominate the World, a goal made far more reachable by Islamization of the US FIRST!

    For these 2 reasons alone they should be immortalized in the Museum of First-Rate Idiots.

  14. bardefa says:

    We will continue accepting Muslim soldiers, so they can do "inside jihad"?
    News:
    "CBN News has learned exclusively that five Muslim soldiers at Fort Jackson in South Carolina were arrested just before Christmas."

    Who makes those idiotic decisions?….A rhetorical question, isn't it?

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