Amid talk on Capitol Hill about defunding public broadcasting—and just after NPR was exposed as willing to take money from the Muslim Brotherhood—it turns out that a film produced by PBS already has. At 5:30 p.m. on March 23, a PBS-produced movie, Cities of Light—funded by Arcapita, a shariah compliant bank supervised by a leading international supporter of jihad, Taqi Usmani—will be shown to America’s next generation of ROTC students and military leadership.
Tomorrow, the East Meets West conference celebrating the caliphate, and featuring a movie funded by a bank supervised by a leading jihad supporter, will convene at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), known as America’s oldest state military school.
Funded by Shariah Compliant Finance Giant Arcapita & Its Jihadist Advisor
Cities of Light portrays Moorish Spain as an area of tolerance and mutual understanding. In actuality, the Muslim occupiers frequently persecuted people of other religions and made them pay a Jizyah, or tax to be levied on non-Muslims. Its donor, Arcapita – the PBS documentary’s big Shariah Compliant Finance donor – is renowned for having Shariah bigshot Taqi Usmani on their Shariah advisory board. Usmani has explicitly advocated jihad against any non-Muslim state, even ones where Muslims are welcomed as equals and allowed to practice their religion without interference.In Chapter 11 of Islam and Modernism (2006), Usmani states:
There are no legal restrictions in most of the countries today on preaching Islam, but since their grandeur and authority is established in the world, it has led to developing a universal feeling which forms a greater obstacle than the greatest legal binding in the way of free propagation of Islam. For this reason the most important purpose of Jihad is to break this grandeur so that the resulting psychological subordination should come to an end and the way of accepting the Truth becomes smooth.
Taki Usmani, Shariah Compliant Finance Advisor to Arcapita
As long as this grandeur and domination persists, the hearts of people will remain subdued and will not be fully inclined to accept the religion of Truth. Hence Jihad will continue.
Killing is to continue until the unbelievers pay Jizyah [a tax to the Islamic state, historically so high that it imposed a state of abject poverty] after they are humbled or overpowered. If the purpose of killing was only to acquire permission and freedom of preaching Islam, it would have been said “until they allow for preaching Islam.” But the obligation of Jizyah and along with it the mention of their subordination is a clear proof that the purpose is to smash their grandeur, so that the veils of their domination should be raised and people get a free chance to think over the blessings of Islam.
He goes on in a similar vein through the whole chapter. Consider sending a copy of Usmani’s Chapter 11 to policymakers considering defunding PBS; they really have taken money from the Muslim Brotherhood, or more accurately, from Shariah Compliant banks supervised by a jihad supporter like Usmani.
Managed by the UAE, And Tied to CAIR
Who is managing the Defense Department grant for this conference – who has advised on the invitees and movies and marketing for this three day Muslim Brotherhood celebration?These Defense department grants are managed by the UAE’s Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation, an arm of the Al-Maktoum family, through their leading role in the Institute of International Education (IIE), as well as numerous other UAE entities in the IIE. A last point of interest is the Institute of International Education (IIE). They are the private entity that operates the newly named (under Obama)
Project GO (for Global Officers), what was previously the ROTC foreign language and culture program.
That’s right – Obama’s administration has changed the ROTC grants program, so that the ruling dynasty of the United Arab Emirates, through the IIE, is now managing Defense Department grants that define ROTC foreign language and culture education. You’ll remember the UAE Maktoum dynasty from the 2006 Dubai Ports World Corporation incident; that was their attempt to take over port security at 22 seaports across the United States.
But wait – there’s more Muslim Brotherhood background, specifically in the connections here between Conference funders and CAIR. In 2002 the Al-Maktoum foundation provided $978,031.34 in the form of a Deed of Trust for CAIR’s Washington, D.C. headquarters. In 2006 UAE Minister of Finance Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum endorsed a proposal to build a property in the United States to serve as an endowment for CAIR. And that PBS film Cities of Light, funded by jihad-supporting Usmani’s Arcapita –
Another significant funder of that film was the Sabadia Family Foundation. According to reports, the Sabadia Family Foundation was a major supporter of the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR). Over a 4-year period, the Foundation wrote $755,000 in grants to CAIR.
And CAIR, according to the prosecution’s documents in the Holy Land Foundation trial, is associated with Hamas, a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Here’s the question: which of the several congressional committees who could claim oversight on these UAE-managed Defense Department ROTC Global Officer grants will investigate taxpayers paying over half a million dollars for tomorrow’s celebration of jihad, the oppression of religious minorities and the Muslim Brotherhood?
Two Muslim Brotherhood-linked Speakers
Two of the keynote speakers at the Virginia Military Institute’s East Meets West have ties to Muslim Brotherhood front groups and have advocated for more radical Islamic influence in the US through various channels.Reza Aslan is a Board member of the National Iranian American Council, a group that genuine Iranian pro-democracy forces regard as an apologetic vehicle for the Islamic Republic of Iran. He has called Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a liberal reformer, and has called on the U.S. Government to negotiate with Ahmadinejad himself, as well as with Hamas. He has even praised the jihad terror group Hizballah as “the most dynamic political and social organization in Lebanon.”
Aslan is also an ally of the Muslim Brotherhood. He has previously spoken at Muslim Students Association events (an arm of the Brotherhood recently exposed on CBN as “a gateway to jihad”). He also recently authored a piece titled “Do Egyptians want both democracy and a role for religion in their government?” in the Washington Post, where he stated “the Muslim Brotherhood will have a significant role to play in post-Mubarak Egypt. And that is good thing.”
A second speaker to be concerned about is Professor Akbar Ahmed. Ahmed has spent the past 30 years working with a global Islamist movement towards “the Islamization of knowledge.” The movement maintains international seminars, conferences, and summer student programs. These events are organized by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT).
Islamization of knowledge is defined by its proponents as follows:
Islamization of knowledge simply refers to an attempt through which those aspects of the body and purpose of knowledge and of the process and methodologies of discovering, validating, imparting and applying it, which oppose Islam, are identified and made subservient to the Islamic worldview. [Italics in original]
The Islamization of knowledge movement seeks to ensure that anything taught in the university classroom which “opposes Islam” must be discarded. It is a global movement that was begun in the 1970s by members of the Muslim Brotherhood. IIIT was part of a network known as the SAFA group, which the federal government raided in March of 2002 on suspicion of providing material support to terrorists, money laundering, tax evasion, and ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Professor Ahmed’s CV notes that he has been a member of the Board of Trustees at the Graduate School of Islamic & Social Sciences (GSISS) since 2002. Ahmed fails to mention the fact that he was in fact a member of the faculty of this organization prior to 2002, when GSISS was known as the Islamic Institute of Advanced Studies, which was also raided in 2002 for suspected terrorism financing, money laundering, tax evasion and ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
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