John Kerry is lying. There may be a few moderate, pro Western Muslims fighting the Assad regime but the revolution is infested with anti Christian jihadists. Jihadists who have beheaded priests one of which is caught on video. Furthermore when rebel forces speak publicly it is often through a spokesman, one Louay Safi that the US military has cut ties to. Thirteen members of Congress asked the Defense Department to "stop any lecturing by Louay Safi or the Islamic Society of North America, ( ISNA ) affiliated speakers."
Safi used to wok on US military bases, lecturing on Islam until the Fort Hood massacre. He then became the subject of a criminal investigation. The investigation produced a report that has never been made public but the Dallas News has released this summation.
1) On a wiretapped 1995 phone call, Safi and a terrorism suspect mocked a U.S. order that banned dealings with foreign terrorist groups. They also said that Jews controlled the White House. The suspect, a Florida professor named Sami al-Arian, later pleaded guilty to conspiracy. Prosecutors named Safi an unindicted co-conspirator in that case.
2) In early 2002, counter-terrorism agents raided the International Institute of Islamic Thought and related entities in the Washington, D.C., area. Safi was research director for the institute, which funded al-Arian. A man who'd worked for one of the institute's affiliates was later convicted on a terrorism charge.
3) Safi denounced the raids as a "campaign against Islam." That's jihadist rhetoric, experts say. Similar language was later used by Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan and a radical imam he corresponded with before the massacre. (The imam, Anwar al-Awlaki, once led an ISNA-affiliated mosque outside Washington. He left the U.S. after the FBI questioned him about his dealings with some of the 9/11 hijackers. The government later tied al-Awlaki to other al-Qaeda plots and killed him in Yemen.)
4) In 2004, Safi became a top staffer at ISNA, the nation's largest Muslim group. It was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the government's largest terrorism financing case: the successful 2008 prosecution of Richardson-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development.
Safi and his employers were never criminally charged. They have denied wrongdoing and publicly denounced terrorism. U.S. officials from both major parties have consulted ISNA for years, calling it a partner in the fight against extremists. Muslim leaders' mere association with radicals doesn't necessarily signal support for them, intelligence experts say.
This ISNA is the same ISNA that Obama is proud his administration is partnering with.
A little research shows Obama and Valerie Jarrett have twice met with ISNA leaders in spite of the organization's indictment for terrorist funding. ( It's good they didn't have to meet with Rahm Emanuel or David Axelrod as Safi had publicly said the White House was run by Jews). One can bet this cozy relationship won't be mentioned at any of the classified Congressional briefings Kerry and Obama are using, probably in vain, to build support for going to war against Assad. And going to war with Syria is exactly what the resolution that was voted out of the Senate committee Wednesday means, “it is the policy of the United States to change the momentum on the battlefield in Syria.”
Long after we are dead some historian is going to make a big name for himself when he confirms treason in the White House.
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