Muslim Brotherhood Group MPAC Says it was Consulted on LA Police Chief

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The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report » MPAC Says It Was Consulted On Choice Of L.A. Police Chief. (via Creeping)

The Muslim Public Affair Council (MPAC) has announced that the Mayor of Los Angeles has involved MPAC, along with other organizations, in the process of choosing the city’s next Chief Of Police. According to the announcement:

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While making his decision on the next Chief of Police for the City of Los Angeles, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa last Friday reached out to local Muslim community leaders for their input on his big decision. Prior to the Mayor’s address, Deputy-Chief Michael Downing, spoke to a congregation of 1,000 worshipers after Friday prayers at the Islamic Center of Southern California, asking them for their prayers as the Mayor deliberates on his decision. During the meeting with Muslim leaders, the mayor asked for input on the qualities the community feels are especially significant for the new chief to posses. “As a member of the group of advisors who choose the last Los Angeles Police Chief, William Bratton, I strongly encourage the use of strong criteria — to not only have someone capable of upholding public safety but also to protect the civil liberties of all Angelenos,” said Dr. Maher Hathout, MPAC Senior Advisor. Executive Director Salam Al-Marayati re-enforced that “crisis management skills are of utmost importance. An example of this is the horrendous incident that took place at a synagogue in North Hollywood recently, where had the situation not been handled well, by Chief Downing, issues could have flared out of control. The acting Deputy-Chief reached out to leadership across the city to ensure proper communication. That is the type of leadership we need to have an effective leader to protect and serve Los Angeles.” Over the weekend, the mayor met with over 100 individuals to discuss his decision. The final candidates include Deputy Chief Michel Moore, First Assistant Chief Jim McDonnell and Deputy Chief Charlie Beck. He as also invited MPAC leadership to meet the his pick for the new chief on Tuesday, November 3rd. The Los Angeles City Council is expected to confirm his choice by November 10. L.A.

MPAC was established initially in 1986 as the Political Action Committee of the Islamic Center of Southern California whose key leaders likely had their origins in the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Since that time, MPAC has functioned as the political lobbying arm of the U.S. Brotherhood. MPAC has opposed virtually every count-terror initiative undertaken or proposed by the U.S. government. At times this opposition was said to be on civil-rights grounds but, just as often, MPAC claimed that U.S. counter-terror efforts were aimed at the U.S. Muslim community itself. MPAC has consistently supported and facilitated terrorism by supporting terrorist organizations and, more broadly, constructing an elaborate ideology defending the use of violence by Islamists and Islamist organizations. More than any other U.S. Muslim Brotherhood organization, MPAC has developed extensive relationships with the U.S. government which have included numerous meetings with the Department of Justice and the FBI.

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• Los Angeles-based Muslim organization whose leadership defends extremist violence
• Opposes the shutdown of Muslim charities suspected of supporting terrorism
• Opposes the Patriot Act

Founded in 1988, the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) describes itself as “a public service agency working for the civil rights of American Muslims, for the integration of Islam into American pluralism, and for a positive, constructive relationship between American Muslims and their representatives.” The organization consists of eight chapters in California, and one each in Texas, Kansas, Nevada, and Iowa.

MPAC’s vision is “to establish a vibrant Muslim American community that will enrich American society through promoting the Islamic values of Mercy, Justice, Peace, Human Dignity, Freedom, and Equality for all.” In an effort to achieve this objective, the Council’s mission consists of: “effect[ing] positive change in public opinion and in policy with the purpose of realizing our vision”; “promoting an American Muslim identity”; “fostering an effective grassroots organization”; “training a future generation of men and women who share our vision”; “promoting an accurate portrayal of Islam and Muslims in mass media and popular culture”; “educating the American public, both Muslim and non-Muslim, about Islam”; “building alliances with Muslim and non-Muslims groups”; and “cultivating relationships with opinion- and decision-makers.”

From its inception, MPAC presented itself as more inclusive, and more open to peaceful coexistence with Jews and Christians, than other Arab and Muslim groups, and sought to make Americans comfortable with Islam by showing how much the religion embraced core American values. Throughout the 1990s, MPAC nurtured this image of moderation by organizing Muslim-Jewish dialogues in Los Angeles. Its members received invitations to the Clinton White House and appointments on federal commissions; they were similarly courted by the Bush campaign as the Clinton presidency drew to a close. MPAC’s Senior Advisor, Maher Hathout, who has close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and espouses the radical brand of Islam known as Wahhabism, was invited to address the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles in 2000. Shortly thereafter, however, MPAC endorsed George W. Bush for U.S. President.  

MPAC’s centrist public image unraveled after the September 2000 launching of the Second Palestinian Intifada, when the Council severed its ties to the Jewish community and issued one-sided condemnations of Israel’s response to the Arab violence.

MPAC’s support for President Bush similarly disintegrated after 9/11, when the Council actively opposed Bush’s military incursions into Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as his “excesses” in the war on terror. In February 2003, MPAC joined the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the American Muslim Council, and the American Muslim Alliance in forming a coalition to repeal and amend the Patriot Act, which these organizations depicted as an assault on the civil liberties of Americans, particularly Muslims. Seven months earlier (on July 14, 2002), MPAC National Director Ahmed Younis had stated that “if Thomas Jefferson or Madison or the like were alive today, they would go to John Ashcroft's house and just shoot him." (Ashcroft was the Attorney General who sought to enforce the Patriot Act.)

MPAC claims that Islam is a religion of peace and moderation, and contends that Muslim extremists are no more numerous or dangerous than fundamentalists in any other faith. “There are radical Christian, Jewish and Hindu movements, too,” says MPAC, “which are also capable of slaughtering innocents.” On occasion, MPAC has publicly condemned Islamic suicide bombings. These condemnations, however, are invariably accompanied by endorsements of Muslim “resistance” and “armed struggle” which MPAC frames as justified retribution against prior Israeli or Western transgressions.

Holding Israel entirely responsible for the "pattern of violence" in the Middle East, MPAC asserts that Hezbollah “could be called a liberation movement.” The Council likens Hezbollah members to American “freedom fighters hundreds of years ago whom the British regarded as terrorists.” In a November 1997 speech at the University of Pennsylvania, MPAC Co-Founder and Executive Director Salam Al-Marayati steadfastly refused to call Hezbollah a terrorist organization; he justified the existence of Hamas as a political entity and a provider of social programs and “educational operations”; and he equated jihad with the sentiments of the American statesman Patrick Henry, whose “Give me liberty or give me death” declaration was, in Al-Marayati’s view, “a way of looking at the term jihad from an American perspective.” In a 1999 position paper, MPAC justified Hezbollah’s deadly 1983 bombing of the American Marine barracks in Lebanon as a "military operation" rather than a terrorist attack. As Maher Hathout puts it: "Hezbollah is fighting for freedom, an organized army, limiting its operations against military people, this is a legitimate target against occupation. … this is legitimate, this is an American value — freedom and liberty."

MPAC’s worldview is further revealed by its many additional public statements on a wide array of issues and events:

• According to MPAC: “Israel was established by terrorism”; its founding “involved the unjust and illegal usurpation of Muslim and Christian land and rights”; and “to recognize the legitimacy of that crime is a crime in itself.”
• MPAC characterizes Israel as a “racist, chauvinistic and militaristic” state that is prosecuting “a war to steal land from Palestinians, to decimate their leadership, to humiliate the Palestinian people.”
• Condemning Israel’s “apartheid-like ideology,” MPAC warns: “History shows that Muslim and Christian religious rights are not safe under Israeli occupation.”
• Israelis are “the worst terrorists in the world,” says MPAC, “… Yet Israel is not found on the list of state sponsors of terrorism in the [U.S.] State Department Report on Terrorism.”
• MPAC co-sponsored pro-Palestinian rallies in the fall of 2000, where MPAC speakers chanted “Khaybar, Khaybar, oh Jews, the Army of Muhammed is coming for you!” The rally featured literature and many placards calling for the annihilation of the Jews and Israel.
• A few hours after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, MPAC Co-Founder Salam Al-Marayati told a Los Angeles talk radio audience: "If we're going to look at suspects, we should look at the groups that benefit the most from these kinds of incidents, and I think we should put the state of Israel on the suspect list because I think this diverts attention from what's happening in the Palestinian territories so that they can go on with their aggression and occupation and apartheid policies."
• On November 30, 2002, MPAC Vice Chairman Aslam Abdullah said: "Those who are part of the political Zionist movement in America … know it very well that without the support of the United States … their country, namely Israel, would not be able to pursue its apartheid and racist policies in the Middle East. They will use every means possible to ensure that American administration stays on their side. They will create false enemies, they will distort facts, they will manipulate events; and they will concoct and fabricate lies. They have taken America hostage.”
• MPAC was a signatory to a MAY 20, 2004 Joint Muslims/Arab-American Statement on Israeli Violence in Gaza, which "strongly condemn[ed]" Israel's "indiscriminate killings of innocent Palestinians, including many children," and its "demolition of Palestinian homes" — but made no mention of Arab terrorism.
• On March 23, 2005, MPAC National Director Ahmed Younis spoke at a Muslim Students’ Association-sponsored event, where he explained that because Adolf Eichmann was himself a Jew, it could accurately be said that Jews had killed themselves in the Holocaust.
• MPAC endorsed a November 1, 2001 document characterizing the 9/11 attacks as a legal matter to be addressed by criminal-justice procedures rather than military means. Ascribing the hijackers' motives to alleged social injustices against which they were protesting, this document called on the United States "to promote fundamental rights around the world."
• MPAC speakers regularly complain that the U.S. is “dominated” by Zionists and favors Jews over Muslims.
• Opposed to efforts to shut down Islamic charities that fund terrorism – alleging that such efforts interfere with freedom of religion and the exercise of the Muslim obligation to give to charity — MPAC states that the U.S. government should instead investigate what it terms Jewish “terrorists” like the Jewish Defense League. The Council signed and sponsored a petition to reinstate the assets of Hamas’ charitable front, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, after it was designated as a front for terrorist financing.
• According to MPAC, “A major threat to the safety of the Muslim community is the Islam-bashing that has been very evident since 9/11. There has been a steady stream of attacks on the Quran … These attacks are vicious, mean-spirited, and politically motivated. … [T]he most sustained and vitriolic [attacks] are from right-wing Christian groups led by Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.”
• The MPAC 2002 Annual Banquet featured Ali Al-Mazrui, a SUNY-Binghamton professor who said: "There is also suspicion that some members of the Bush administration in collusion with Israel are more than ready to plunge the Middle East into turmoil in the hope that the final outcome would be to the territorial advantage of Israel and the strategic advantage of the United States. All this is part of the emerging external sadism of the United States, a readiness to hurt others abroad."
• In a May 7, 2004 statement, MPAC said: “The scandal of Abu Ghraib was not an isolated incident but a manifestation of hate rooted in a distortion of American culture. The soldiers charged for torturing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners were reflecting, among other things, an irrational hatred against Arabs and Muslims. Hatred in Abu Ghraib is inextricably linked with hatred increasingly fostered by some elements of our government, our media, and other major national institutions.”
• After a series of arrests made in connection with an August 2006 airline terror scare in London, President Bush called the uncovered plot “a stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom, to hurt our nation.” MPAC spokeswoman Edina Lekovic reacted, “When the people we need most in the fight against terrorism, American Muslims, feel alienated by the President’s characterization of these supposed terrorists, that does more damage than good.”

In September 2005, MPAC joined with the anti-war organization Code Pink for Peace to sponsor a Culver City, California event promoting a new book by UC-Irvine professor Mark LeVine, who contends that an "Axis of Empathy" is the only strategy that can bring about a long-term solution to the war between radical Islam and the West. MPAC has also worked closely with International ANSWER, which has intimate ties to Ramsey Clark’s International Action Center and the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party.

In November 2010, MPAC reported that it had recently given — to some 2,200 Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) responsible for screening passengers and luggage at U.S. airports — a two-month training program in cultural awareness about Islam and Muslims. MPAC President Salam Al-Marayati, MPAC Civic Outreach Coordinator Saadia Khan, and two MPAC volunteers conducted the trainings at Los Angeles International Airport. According to MPAC, the four trainers taught the TSOs "how to properly handle a Quran"; they "discussed the different ways Muslim women and men choose to cover or dress"; and they "allowed trainers to discuss the common practice of Muslims praying in various areas of the airport, adding that they do this because LAX does not have a designated prayer area as other airports do."

MPAC has long worked to promote positive portrayals of Islam and Muslims in movies and television programs. Shortly after 9/11, the organization established its own Hollywood Bureau for this purpose. Since then, MPAC has consulted with the producers of such TV shows as "24," ''Bones," ''Lie to Me," ''7th Heaven," ''Saving Grace" and "Aliens in America." The organization also has held meetings with top network executives from ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC, and organizes a Muslim-inspired version of a Hollywood awards show each year for productions that advance the public's understanding of Islam. In 2009, for instance, this event recognized "The Simpsons," for an episode that featured young Bart befriending a Muslim boy named Bashir. In early 2011, MPAC announced that it would soon be hosting a series of workshops — taught by Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated veterans of the entertainment industry — to further promote more positive images of Muslims in film and television.

In November 2011, MPAC held a Washington, DC event in honor of Rachid Ghannouchi, the leader of the Ennahda, the Muslim Brotherhood affiliate that had recently emerged victorious in the political elections in Tunisia. Ghannouchi is a longtime Islamist who, during the 1990s, was invited to the United States by Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami Al-Arian but was banned from the country. Yet by MPAC's reckoning, Ghannouchi is “one of the most important figures in modern Islamic political thought and theory.”

Just a few months prior to the November 2011 event, in an interview with an Arab-language website, Ghannouchi had stated that the Arab Spring “will achieve positive results on the path to the Palestinian cause and threaten the extinction of Israel.” Added Ghannouchi: “I give you the good news that the Arab region will get rid of the bacillus of Israel. Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the leader of Hamas, said that Israel will disappear by the year 2027. I say that this date may be too far away, and Israel may disappear before this.”

Parts of this profile are adapted, with permission, from Stand4Facts.org.

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Anneke9

12 years ago

Hope someone has a screen shot of the MPAC announcement page. If you click on the link, you get a “page not found” error message.

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Kufar Dawg

12 years ago

According to MPAC: “Israel was established by terrorism”; its founding “involved the unjust and illegal usurpation of Muslim and Christian land and rights”; and “to recognize the legitimacy of that crime is a crime in itself.”
LOL, like the muslo-nazi bastards give a FFF about Christians.

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Guy Macher

12 years ago

Did he also reach out to the Crips and the Bloods, and M13?

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Keith Mahone (aka Charles Martel)

12 years ago

This is a textbook example of the weasel guarding the chicken coop. It just goes to show how far we’ve descended into chaos under Chairman ObaMao.
Keith Mahone (aka Charles Martel)

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Richard

12 years ago

It’s been a well know fact for some time that Villaraigosa is a bona fide idiot. This is just more evidence.

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Ben Yehuda Street

12 years ago

No article of the American soldier who killed 16 Afghani civilians?

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Keith Mahone (aka Charles Martel)

12 years ago

This was chilling to read:
MPAC’s vision is “to establish a vibrant Muslim American community that will enrich American society through promoting the Islamic values of Mercy, Justice, Peace, Human Dignity, Freedom, and Equality for all.” In an effort to achieve this objective, the Council’s mission consists of: “effect[ing] positive change in public opinion and in policy with the purpose of realizing our vision”; “promoting an American Muslim identity”; “fostering an effective grassroots organization”; “training a future generation of men and women who share our vision”; “promoting an accurate portrayal of Islam and Muslims in mass media and popular culture”; “educating the American public, both Muslim and non-Muslim, about Islam”; “building alliances with Muslim and non-Muslims groups”; and “cultivating relationships with opinion- and decision-makers.”
I took the liberty to fix some errors. Here’s the truth:
MPAC’s vision is to establish an irresistible army of Muslim subversives in America that will destroy American society by paying lip service to non-existent Islamic values of Mercy, Justice, Peace, Human Dignity, Freedom, and Equality for all. In an effort to achieve this objective, the Council’s mission consists of: effecting utter confusion and chaos in public opinion and in policy with the purpose of realizing our destructive, totalitarian vision of conquest; promoting a false “American” Muslim identity; fostering an effective propaganda and terror network; training a future generation of radical subversives, spies and terrorists who share our secret agenda; promoting a grotesquely inaccurate and disarming portrayal of Islam and Muslims in mass media and popular culture; confusing and indoctrinating the American public, both Muslim and non-Muslim, about Islam; building subversive and seditious alliances with anti-American Muslim and non-Muslims groups; and cultivating deceitful relationships with anti-American or simply gullible opinion- and decision-makers.
Please Note: Islam is a preventable, treatable form of mental illness spread by contact with powerfully overbearing victims of the same who act out on their disease according to its pathology.
If you are a Muslim, it’s because you were terribly abused and you are currently suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. If your infection was involuntary, as in most cases, it’s not your fault, but you must get help or you will eventually become an abuser yourself, passing on the disease. That is the irrevocable nature of your untreated psychosis. (By simply modeling this behavioral disorder among the impressionable, you are already a highly contagious transmitter.)
Don’t be afraid to reach out for help. We want to help you become part of the human race. American Psychiatric Association: 1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1825, Arlington, Va. 22209-3901; phone: 703-907-7300. Please call to request a free referral for a psychiatric professional in your area before you hurt yourself or someone else.
Embrace hope. You are not doomed. And it doesn’t take a miracle, just treatment. But you must admit you have a problem and seek the help you need – not just for your sake, but for all of humanity. Just as polio was eradicated from the modern world, there is a cure for Islam.
Keith Mahone (aka Charles Martel)

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Karol Kibbie

12 years ago

Church and state violation here.
What happened to separation of church and state?
Oh yeah. Doesn’t fit. A mosque is not a church!
Not holding my breath for the ACLU to move on this one.

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Asha

12 years ago

This is scary. We need to eliminate this pandering to Sharia and Taqquiya. I hope its not too late and that whatever damage obama has caused to american 1st amendment can be remedied if he gets defeated in november.

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armaros

12 years ago

President Hussein and his propaganda ministry (MSM) have established that CAIR and its affiliates are civil rights groups. Like the ACLU and NAACP.
Thus they can enter the vetting process of all our institutions.
They have successfully brought Islamic Supremacism into our governance.
If 4 more years are given to this regime, I bet Canada will have to build a wall on its border keeping the fleeing Americans out.
They have systematically weakened the economy, except the sectors which are owned by their backers, they have soiled the institutions with PC and by the bringing in of Islam into the American public square and they are systematically dismantling Americans authority, reputation and strength abroad.
Soon enough these Islamists will have say in the selection of our teachers, congressmen, mayors and CEOs.
America is becoming like a mix of Turkey and Venezuela.

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RalphB

12 years ago

Sorry: Old News
This is interesting to learn about but Creeping Sharia appears to be reporting old news here. The article in question may be found at the MPAC website at:
http://www.mpac.org/programs/government-relations/l.a.-mayor-seeks-advice-from-muslim-leaders-as-he-chooses-next-chief-of-police.php
That article is dated November 5, 2009 from and in the current version was first captured by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine on October 7, 2010
http://web.archive.org/web/20101007172804/http://www.mpac.org/programs/government-relations/l.a.-mayor-seeks-advice-from-muslim-leaders-as-he-chooses-next-chief-of-police.php
The web page cited above is dated November 5, 2009, and was first captured on November 5, 2009. The text appears to be unchanged, only the page layout differs:
http://web.archive.org/web/20091105233503/http://www.mpac.org/article.php?id=953
The then-Deputy-Chief Charlie Beck was selected and became the Chief in November, 2009, an office he still holds:
http://www.lapdonline.org/lapd_command_staff/comm_bio_view/7579
It would seem a better use of our time to watch for current official consultations with these Muslim Brotherhood groups and act (blog, e-mail, call, etc.) before they gain influence they should not have.

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infidel4life

12 years ago

Villaraigosa whores himself out to whatever the latest left-wing bandwagon du jour is.
Perhaps we should have asked the Japanese to approve the next Pacific Fleet Commander after they bombed Pearl Harbor.

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emo-hamhead

12 years ago

LOL, like the muslo-nazi bastards give a FFF about Christians.
they will, AFTER the Saturday People are gone

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RalphB

12 years ago

Taking my own advice (see my message above), I have resolved to put the Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report on my watch list.
See: http://globalmbreport.org/
Many search engines and news sites also allow one to monitor stories on any specific topic, e.g. Google News RSS feeds will alert you on any topic.
See: http://support.google.com/news/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=59255

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Dave

12 years ago

I’m sure the mayor also asked Christian groups for input. NOT!!!!

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