ISNA's Reform Hasn't Shed It of Radical Ideologues

Thousands of American Muslims are expected to descend on Washington July 3 for the annual conference of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).
Government agencies are lining up to sponsor informational booths and offer their officials as speakers. But a new report by the Investigative Project on Terrorism finds ISNA still is bound to many of the same people who helped the Muslim Brotherhood create the organization nearly 30 years ago. And its conferences still feature extremist rhetoric that rationalizes Hamas terrorism and other extremist ideology.

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Saudi Hate Film Draws Private State Department Fire

State Department officials are upset about the false history in a new Saudi Arabian-produced film, which distorts the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and incites anti-Semitism.
"As the US government works to push the Israeli-Palestinian peace process forward, a significant obstacle to winning Arab public opinion and achieving lasting a lasting peace is the current narrative of the conflict," an anonymous State Department official wrote in a June 16 "Counterterrorism Communication Alert" obtained by IPT News.
What i's not clear is why these concerns are being kept under wraps.

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FBI Replaces Brotherhood-Tainted Liaison with Brotherhood-Tainted Liaison

A top FBI official met Wednesday with the vice president of the Islamic Society of North America, a move which followed the Bureau's decision "to use ISNA as their official point of contact with the American Muslim community," an email from an intelligence community veteran that was widely distributed Wednesday said.
The FBI has not yet commented on the claim. But the IPT has confirmed that the meeting did take place at FBI headquarters. The decision to make ISNA the FBI's contact point came over the objections of case agents and supervisors investigating Muslim Brotherhood activity in the U.S.

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ACLU Recommendations Would Mean "More Money for Hamas"

The American Civil Liberties Union released a report June 16 attacking government efforts to shut down terrorist-financing charities. The report was based on 120 interviews, 115 of which were conducted with Muslim community leaders and other Muslims "directly affected by" U.S. government policies regarding the charities.
It is part of a campaign that argues that U.S. crackdowns on terror financing are making it difficult for Muslims to fulfill their religious obligations regarding charity. But following the ACLU recommendations would would make it much more difficult (if not impossible) to shut down terrorist- financing charities like the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, a former top FBI terror finance investigator tells the IPT.

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