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Radical Fundraiser Becomes Illinois Police Chaplainby IPT News • Jan 5, 2010 at 4:06 pm http://www.investigativeproject.org/blog/2010/01/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 wasa 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. Related Topics: IPT News Reader comments on this itemPatriotic 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.
Radical Muslim "clerics" inside the gates Submitted by Ruler4You, Jan 7, 2010 12:04 The other day I read an article that asked the rhetorical question: Are military muslim clerics radicalized? I couldn't help but, cynically, LOL at the out right naievte of the question. As though no credible evidence exists to suggest such a thing. This story evokes the same paradoxical question as to why we make such a big deal out of 'homeland security' while disregarding border security and MILLIONS of illegal aliens, not just mexicans, and the potential threat they pose. ITS STUPID. We are institutionalizing security threats into our infrastructure as though we don't have the skill set required to identify them in the first place. Now, I understand the PC reasoning behind such acts of arrogant ignorance, and lord knows we all want to feel good about our motives, but from the practical and in reality the more secure perspective, (you know, the one that is the cause of us going through metal detectors, body searches, explosives screeing and other inconveinent delays as we enter many state and federal buildings or any airport "sterile" area), don't you think we should be a bit less philosophical and a bit more 'secure' in our actions? This is clearly a lapse in the judgement of our 'security' at the policy, administrative, functional and practial levels.
It raises concerns... Submitted by Sadie, Jan 6, 2010 00:34 It raises concerns as to whom will be guarding the detainees when/if they are transferred from Gitmo to Illinois. Following on the heels of Nadal Hassan in the military, the State Police are showing the same shrug attitude.
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