Weekly Terrorism Spotlight

Volume 1, Issue 9 (May 13)

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Myrick plan calls for infiltration probe

NC Rep. Sue Myrick calls for probe of Islamic military and prison chaplain endorsements against possible terrorist infiltration

North Carolina Congresswoman Sue Myrick said a review is called for of Islamic military and prison chaplain endorsements made by Abdurahman Alamoudi, a convicted Islamic terrorist.

Her call for action on the appointments is part of a 10-point agenda Myrick announced recently as a point of reference to begin turning back threatened Islamic jihadist infiltration in America.

Myrick contends the U.S. Government is alleged to have allowed Alamoudi undue latitude in approving Muslim chaplains for military and prison service.

She noted further Alamoudi’s headship of the American Muslim Council masked her radical activism as a leader in the Muslim Brotherhood.

He set up the U.S. military’s Pentagon-based Muslim chaplain’s corps in the early 1990s. “In 2004, Alamoudi was sentenced to 23 years in jail on terrorism charges,” a statement released by Myrick’s Washington DC office said.

“The chaplains that were approved by Alamoudi have not been re-vetted since his sentencing,” the statement added.

“While there may be noting wrong with the Muslim chaplains that he approved, it seems logical that our government would re-check the chaplains who were approved by a convicted terrorist.”

Myrick said the investigation into the chaplains should include a thorough examination of chaplains who had any involvement with Islamic schools and think tanks connected with the Muslim brotherhood.

Myrick cited reports from the Wall Street Journal and other publications exposing Muslim schools and centers with ties to radical, pro-jihad, pro-terrorist organizations.

Some of the ties suggest the organizations are themselves mere front organizations for a global network for violent jihad.

A Dec. 3, 2003, Wall Street Journal article noted a recruitment ad for “a qualified imam for leading Friday prayer” for Muslim employees at the Pentagon posted at the Institute of Islamic and Arabic Sciences in America, located nearby.

“The Defense Department’s reliance on the Islamic institute has a potentially troubling side,” Glenn R. Simpson wrote for the Journal.

“The institute’s…Muslim-American activist who helped arrange for [their] training of Muslim lay leaders, Alamoudi, was indicted in October for taking from Libya money prosecutors suspect was intended to finance terrorism.”

A subcommittee hearing on terrorism included testimony by Dr. Michael Waller in Oct. 2003, noting the influence by foreign powers and ideological causes to promote and finance a “radical,” “political” form of Islam “within America’s armed forces and prisons,” he said.

“That alien ideology, with heavy political overtones, preaches intolerance and hatred of American society, culture, government, and principles enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.”

He provided a timeline for Alamoudi’s activities alleging a wide opportunity for him to carry out subversive, intended infiltration of American institutions he had access to.

This “shows the Pentagon’s Muslim chaplain program was compromised at the start due to the fact that Alamoudi founded it and guided it, and nominated the first chaplains,” Waller said.

It “unfortunately calls into question the integrity of the entire Muslim chaplaincy, and requires thorough investigation.”

Myrick indicated her displeasure at the long-standing tendency for foot-dragging on the issue – with Waller’s warnings now nearly five years past.

“We have underestimated the will and capability of our enemy for more than 30 years,” she said. Meanwhile, “they are patient and determined to achieve their radical agenda.

“I know that some people will refuse to admit there is a subversive movement going on here,” she added, “but if we fail to emerge victorious, our radical enemy threatens to establish fascist, Taliban-style governments in many parts of the world.”