Radical Fundraiser Becomes Illinois Police Chaplain
by IPT News • Jan 5, 2010 at 4:06 pm
http://www.investigativeproject.org/1620/radical-fundraiser-becomes-illinois-police
Previously on the IPT blog we stressed the need for the Defense Department's Islamic Chaplaincy program to adopt a stricter vetting process, citing historically radical imams who have served in the program. Now the same can be said for the chaplaincy program for the Illinois State Police. The Mosque Foundation website reports that Sheikh Kifah Mustapha recently completed a four day training session in Springfield, Illinois to become the first certified Muslim chaplain for the Illinois State Police.
Mustapha's name appears on a list of unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) Hamas financing trial, which ended with sweeping convictions in November of 2008. On this list he is identified as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee. According to the indictment in the HLF trial, the "Muslim Brotherhood is an international Islamic fundamentalist organization" that is "committed to the globalization of Islam through social engineering and violent jihad." It created the Palestine Committee with a "designed purpose to support HAMAS" politically and financially.
A 1991 internal memo to Palestine Committee members reveals that members of the committee intended to further the Muslim Brotherhood's goals "on the American front." Mustapha appeared on the list due to his positions with HLF and Hamas' U.S. propaganda arm, the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP).
The IAP also was a component in the Palestine Committee's Hamas-support network.
In a deposition for the civil litigation Boim v. Quranic Literacy Institute Kifah Mustapha explained that he was a "registered agent for HLF in Illinois" from the mid 1990s until 2001 when HLF's assets were frozen. During this time Mustapha raised money for HLF.
During the deposition Mustapha also described himself as a former member of a volunteer committee for the IAP beginning in the early 1990s. As a volunteer, he "distributed flyers" and helped prepare for "festivals or conventions." Those meetings often featured incendiary rhetoric and skits portraying Hamas violence against Israelis. Additionally Mustapha said that he donated money to HLF and "maybe" IAP.
In addition to his work with the HLF and IAP, Mustapha has helped raise money for other U.S. Muslim Brotherhood front groups. Mustapha has raised money for the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) which is under fire for its origins in the IAP and is also listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the HLF trial. As recently as March of 2009, at a Dearborn, Michigan CAIR event, Mustapha helped raise $130,000 for CAIR. He also helped raise over $150,000 at a 2007 CAIR Chicago fundraiser. He has also raised money for the Muslim American Society (MAS) during a 2005 Chicago event.
It's not clear whether the Illinois State Police knew about these connections and didn't care, or whether it failed to adequately research Mustapha's background. Either raises serious concerns about who will counsel the state's Muslim troopers.
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Reader comments on this item
Missing the real threat...
Apr 28, 2011 18:39
C'mon, guys and/or gals. It is Muslim-bashing. It's interesting that the anti-Muslim paranoia in these comments deceptively omit the rise of the Religious Right wackos, the Christian Dominionists who want to rule America with the Bible, and the End-Times freaks who support world instability and pray for Armageddon so they can ascend to their idea of heaven in the Rapture. Their numbers are growing in our socially isolated and overworked professional army. As influences in our military these Christians constitute a force that poses a more immediate threat than CAIR to our country.
And then your grandkids can ask, "Gee, Grandpa, where were you when the military coup happened?
Duh, I was protecting America from Islam.
To counter that threat, a military draft needs to be put into effect immediately. BTW, a draft would also give you commentators something positive to do with your lives.
Kudos to Citizen
Submitted by J.T., Jun 24, 2010 20:57
How is this even an issue for litigation? If this had been a Christian chaplain, and it was found that he had ties to the KKK or some other terrorist organization, would muslims cry discrimination for him as well? This is ridiculous and law abiding muslims should stop defending terrorists in the name of discrimination. ANY law enforcement officer with ties to organizations that incite hatred and violence should absolutely have the badge removed. This is a matter of security, simple enough!
NOT Muslim Bashing!!
Submitted by Citizen, Jun 23, 2010 18:32
To "Patriotic Muslim." Thank you for your service. Tthis Imam's organization raises money for Hammas but it's muslim bashing? Do you ever criticize fellow muslims who promote terror???? That is why we have become so cynical!! Now the center for american muslim relations is bring forth a lawsuit crying discrimination...omg, give me a break!!!
Patriotic Muslim
Jan 11, 2010 18:15
I am so sick and tired of the Muslim bashing. Listen I served 8 years, 8 years in the US Army. I am also a Muslim and I have been a cop for the last 20 years. Why shouldnt there be a Muslim Chaplain at Illinois State Police? Whatever happened to freedom of religion and innocent until proven guilty. There are over 14,000 Mulsims in the US Armed Forces, there are over 3,000 Muslim Law Enfocement Officer in the US (Federal, State, County, and Local). How many of you bigots ever served this GREAT country in this manner? Answer my question. I bet you cant. So until you serve dont slander. You are just scared. Dont worry....we will protect you.
It'll take another.......
Submitted by reddes, Jan 7, 2010 19:32
....911 before America wakes up. However, and I truly believe this, the current residents of the US have simply been sold down the river. The big money players here and abroad need the cheap labor that is flowing like a tsnumai into the US from basically everywhere.
I think that I, a middle aged white US born citizen, became irrelevant at some point and am now probably a "speed bump" to progress of the New World Order.
Thanks to all of the corporations that have yielded to the lure of higher profits for the stockholders at the sacrifice of a lot of the US population that helped to get them where they are. Natural progression I suppose.
One of many negative side effects is the people who wish harm to this country are slowly and patiently setting up shop in the US. Any idea that Islam can coexist with anything else is a complete and idiotic idealistic fantasy. Me talking? Nope, Islam speaks for itself. Read their book. You who are non-muslim have 3 possible fates in an Islamic world, 1 is conversion, 2 is living under muslim rule as a slave paying the "jizyah", and 3 is your painful non-"believing" kafir death. That;s it. Prove me wrong. Wake up.
Hassan in Killeen most recently showed you how Islam comforts the human being of planet earth. Rogue? Random? Yeah.....right.
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Radical Muslim "clerics" inside the gates |
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