Posted by
Rich on Monday, June 16, 2008 12:35:21 PM
The Democratic Party has hired a group named
Voting is Power (VIP) to register voters for the upcoming Presidential election. Voting is Power is
under investigation by the Louisiana Secretary of State Jay Dardenne for voter fraud. So who is Voting is Power and why does that mean anything?
VIP is actually a Muslim American Society (MAS) organization. So who is the Muslim American Society?
The
Muslim American Society is a front group for the Muslim Brotherhood
whose militant credo states: "God is our objective, the Koran is our
Constitution, the Prophet is our leader, struggle is our way, and death
for the sake of God is the highest of our aspirations"
In May 2005, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross reported in The Weekly Standard that [the Muslim American Society] MAS is a U.S. front group for the Muslim Brotherhood -- a claim supported by a September 19, 2004 Chicago Tribune story -- and, as such, wishes to see the United States governed by sharia,
or Islamic law. "The message that all countries should be ruled by
Islamic law," writes Gartenstein-Ross, "is echoed throughout MAS's
membership curriculum. For example, MAS requires all its adjunct members to read Fathi Yakun's book To Be a Muslim. In that volume, Yakun spells out
his expansive agenda: 'Until the nations of the world have functionally
Islamic governments, every individual who is careless or lazy in
working for Islam is sinful.'"
Closely linked to MAS is the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation, whose Executive Director is Mahdi Bray, a former Students for a Democratic Society activist now affiliated with International ANSWER, an anti-war front group for the Communist World Workers Party. "Our mission," Bray has written,
"is to build an integrated empowerment process for the American Muslim
community." Toward this end, Bray and MAS have been involved in a
voter-registration drive and an effort to train 1,000 "activists" in
the "skills necessary for effective activism."
MAS also has close ties to Islamic American University, an unaccredited university in the Detroit suburb of Southfield, which teaches Islamic law and other subjects. (One IAU faculty member is Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi, who until at least June 2003 was also the Chairman -- in abstentia -- of the university's Board of Trustees. )
In addition, MAS operates programs for educating the young, providing fellowship for Muslim youth, creating its own network of Islamic schools, and sustaining a nationwide Council of Imams.
MAS was a signatory to a February 20, 2002 document, composed by the radical group Refuse & Resist,
condemning military tribunals and the detention of immigrants
apprehended in connection with post-9/11 terrorism investigations.
MAS strongly opposes
the Patriot Act, which it says “strips away the fundamental checks and
balances that safeguard many of our basic civil liberties,” and has
“drastically infringed upon every American's rights by giving the
government expanded powers to invade privacy, imprison and deport
people without due process, and punish political dissent.”
As of early June 2007, the Minnesota chapter of MAS featured the following anti-Semitic, pro-jihad quotes on its website, www.masmn.org:
- “The
Holy Prophet (and through him the Muslims) has been reassured that he
should not mind the enmity, the evil designs and the machinations of the Jews ...”
- “In view of the degenerate moral condition of the Jews and the Christians, the Believers have been warned not to make them their friends and confidants.”
- “If you gain victory over the men of Jews, kill them.”
- “The Hour will not be established until
you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be
hiding will say, ‘O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill
him.'”
- “May Allah destroy the Jews, because they used the graves of their prophets as places of worship.”
- “A Muslim must always worship Allah and wage jihad until death in order to reach his ultimate goal … Regularly make the intention to go on jihad with the ambition to die as a martyr.”
MAS's ties to the Muslim Brotherhood were confirmed on August 14, 2007, as The Investigative Project on Terrorism reported:
"As the terror-support trial of the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) continued today, FBI agent Lara Burns testified that a phonebook found at the home of Ismail Elbarrasse -- un-indicted co-conspirator and former assistant to HAMAS leader Musa Abu Marzook
-- listed the names and numbers of the Muslim Brotherhood leadership in
the United States. On the first page of the phonebook under the title
‘Members of the Board of Directors’ were fifteen names. Among those
names are Ahmad Elkadi, Jamal Badawi, and Omar Soubani: the founding incorporators of the Muslim American Society (MAS)."