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In the spring of 1996, I had lunch with a senior adviser to the Clinton
Administration and to
Hillary. I asked him if there was any concern over the article I had
published in The Wall Street
Journal that revealed that both the president and first lady had hosted
militant Islamic groups,
which had, at the White House, proclaimed their sup****t for terrorism.
"This administration believes in a big tent." the adviser responded.
"Besides, we've gotten no
flak, so why should we back off?"
Last week the first lady finally got some flak. As a result, Mrs. Clinton
announced at an Oct. 25
news conference that she was returning $50,000 in campaign contributions
raised by the American
Muslim Alliance, an anti-Israeli group whose leaders have sanctioned
terrorism, published
anti-Semitic statements and repeatedly hosted conferences that were forums
for denunciations of
Jews and exhortations to wage jihad. Mrs. Clinton claimed she was unaware
that the group was
behind the fund-raiser, held in Boston in June. The first lady also
revealed
she was returning a
$1,000 contribution from Abdulrahman Alamoudi, an official of the American
Muslim Council, who
has openly championed Hamas and defended other terrorists, including those
behind the World Trade
Center bombing.
The most telling moment of the first lady's news conference--which has yet
to be re****ted--came
in response to a question as to why, she has met repeatedly over the years
with other groups that
had openly sup****ted Hamas, Hezbollah and other foreign terrorist
organizations.
"I think what you're referring to," she said, "is that over the course of
the last seven years as
part of the administration's efforts to open lines of communication and
build bridges with Muslim
Americans and Muslim leaders from all over the world, many, many people
have
been invited to the
White House. I have been part of some of those events. I have hosted some
of
them. I would
imagine that some of the people who were invited were members of
organizations with whom I would
have had serious disagreements about some of the things those
organizations
have said. . . . So I
think that if you want to talk about what the White House has tried to do,
what the
administration has tried to do to try to promote a framework for peace, it
certainly included
lines of communication to many different groups and many different
individuals."
Well, let's look at the results of that effort to produce a "framework for
peace," which,
according to White House records and published re****ts, began in early
1996,
when Mrs. Clinton
started hosting and inviting the Council on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR), the Muslim Public
Affairs Council (MPAC), the American Muslim Council (AMC) and the American
Muslim Alliance (AMA).
What have these groups done since Mrs. Clinton began reaching out to them?
On Sept. 16, 2000, at
a Wa****ngton rally sponsored by CAIR, AMC, and MPAC, the head of CAIR,
Nihad
Awad, declared:
"They [the Jews] have been saying 'next year to Jerusalem', we say "next
year to all of
Palestine!" (Mr. Awad also dissed Mrs. Clinton's best friends in LA:
"Hollywood has shown freedom
fighters as terrorists. Hollywood has done the work that Zionists cannot
do.")
On Oct. 13, 2000, CAIR and the AMC sponsored a rally outside the Israeli
Embassy in Wa****ngton
where the speakers led the crowd in a chant: Khybar, Khybar, ya, ya
Yahood,
jesh Mohammed sofa
ya'ud. (Translation: "Khybar Khybar, oh Jews, the army of Mohammed is
coming
for you.") It is a
refrain used by Hamas threatening the annihilation of Jews as was done to
the Jewish tribe in
Khybar, Saudi Arabia, by Mohammed in the year 628.
At another Wa****ngton rally, on Oct. 28, 2000, the AMC's Mr. Alamoudi led
the thousands in
attendance to chant their sup****t for Hamas and Hezbollah. "Hear that,
Bill
Clinton, we are all
sup****ters of Hamas," he declared. "I wish they argued that I am also a
sup****ter of Hezbollah."
(When the New York Daily News asked about these comments earlier this
week,
Mr. Alamoudi denied
making them, telling the re****ter: "You better check your Arabic." When
the
re****ter noted that
he had given the speech in English, Mr. Alamoudi replied, "It was in
English? Oh my God, I
forgot!")
In 1998 AMC, CAIR and AMA hosted a rally at Brooklyn College where Islamic
militants exhorted the
attendees to carry out "jihad" and described Jews as "pigs and monkeys."
In
1999 these same
groups, together with MPAC, sponsored a rally in Santa Clara, Calif.,
where
speakers accused
Israel and the U.S. of carrying out "a conspiracy" to "kill Muslims." One
speaker called for the
death of Jews.
Of course, Mrs. Clinton cannot be held responsible for the views of other
people. Or can she?
What is her responsibility in hosting organizations that have championed
Hamas and Hezbollah?
As first lady, Mrs. Clinton began in 1996 an outreach program to Muslim
leaders in the U.S. With
America's Muslim population at some six million and growing, an effort to
include the community's
leaders in the mainstream of American politics is unquestionably a worthy
undertaking. But
curiously, nearly all of the leaders with whom Mrs. Clinton elected to
meet
came from Islamic
fundamentalist organizations. A review of the statements, publications and
conferences of the
groups Mrs. Clinton embraced shows unambiguously that they have long
advocated or justified
violence. By meeting with these groups, the first lady lent them
legitimacy
as "mainstream" and
"moderate."
One of the earliest groups with which Mrs. Clinton bonded was the AMC,
which
she invited to the
White House in February 1996, for its first reception commemorating the
end
of Ramadan. Mrs.
Clinton accepted a Koran and told the invited crowd how she acquired an
appreciation of Islam
through her daughter Chelsea.
By the time Mrs. Clinton reached out to the AMC in early 1996, that
organization had clearly
established a record in sup****t of radical Islam. In a letter to the
Philadelphia Inquirer
published on Oct. 14, 1994, Mr. Alamoudi stated that the "major Islamic
parties in Jordan,
Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Turkey are
undeniably moderates." This
is plainly false. Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, the Jordanian Islamic Action
Front, Algeria's
Islamic Salvation Front and the Pakistani Jamaat-Islami have all endorsed
or
carried out
violence. Mr. Alamoudi specifically declared in a March 5, 1993, Fox
Television interview: "I am
for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt."
In the aftermath of the February 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the AMC
emerged as a defender
of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, whose followers carried out the attack. Mr.
Alamoudi rushed to the
sheik's defense immediately after the bombing. On CNN's "Crossfire" (March
5, 1993) he said of
Abdel Rahman: "An organizer of terror? No. The man has vulgar language. He
might incite other
people, but you cannot hold him for [terrorism]." In a letter to the
Wa****ngton Times, published
March 12, 1993, Mr. Alamoudi characterized the blind sheik as a
"theologian"
who advocated
"democratization of the Egyptian political system." In 1995 Abdel Rahman
was
convicted of
conspiracy and sentenced to life in prison.
AMC served as the headquarters for the American-based offices of the
Islamic
Salvation Front
(FIS), a fundamentalist organization that is dedicated to toppling the
secular government of
Algeria and that has carried out a campaign of terror, including
beheadings
and mutilations. In
1997 Anwar Haddam, the FIS leader who worked out of the AMC offices was
arrested by U.S.
authorities; he now faces de****tation because of his sup****t for
terrorism.
Mr. Alamoudi publicly led the defense of Mousa Abu Marzuk, head of the
Hamas
political bureau,
after Mr. Marzuk's arrest on immigration charges at John F. Kennedy
International Air****t in July
1995. (Mr. Marzuk was de****ted in 1997.) Quoted in the Wa****ngton Post on
July 28, 1995, Mr.
Alamoudi declared the arrest "a hard insult to the Muslim community." In
1996 Mr. Alamoudi
declared on Middle East television that "I am honored to be a member of
the
committee that is
defending Mousa Abu Marzuk in America." Such views should not have been
surprising. On the
Charlie Rose show broadcast on Nov. 21, 1994, I asked Mr. Alamoudi whether
he considered Hamas to
be a terrorist group. "No, it's not," he replied.
On May 9, 1996, Mrs. Clinton met with an Arab delegation that included
Muthanna Hanooti, public
relations director of the Islamic Relief Association (the meeting had been
arranged by Rep. David
Bonior of Michigan). Although constituted as a nonprofit charity, the
Islamic Relief Association
clearly has a militant agenda.
On April 21, 1996--less than three weeks before the meeting with Mrs.
Clinton--the association
had held a fund-raiser in Brooklyn, N.Y., where the main speaker was Sheik
Abdulmunem Abu Zant, a
militant Jordanian cleric. From 1990 to 1998, Mr. Abu Zant was a deputy in
the Jordanian
parliament and the self-proclaimed leader of the most radical wing of the
Islamic Action Front.
He is an ardent sup****ter of Hamas and has repeatedly called for holy war
against Israel and the
U.S. During the 1991 Gulf War, Mr. Abu Zant stated that the conflict "is
not
a war between Iraq
and the U.S., but rather one between Islam and the infidels." In August
1990
he gave a sermon,
during which he thundered: "May God attack the Jews and those who stand
with
them. May God attack
the Americans and those who stand with them."
Mrs. Clinton also embraced the Muslim Women's League and its parent group,
the Muslim Public
Affairs Council (MPAC), headed respectively by Leila Al-Marayati and her
husband, Salam
Al-Marayati. In her speech to these groups in Los Angeles in May 1996, the
first lady lauded her
hosts for fighting "hatred." Mrs. Clinton's husband appointed Mrs.
Al-Marayati to several
presidential commissions. In January 1998, Mrs. Clinton organized a
reception celebrating the end
of Ramadan honoring both Al-Marayatis and Muslim Public Affairs Council.
What do these groups stand for? In September 1993, MPAC signed a statement
declaring that the
"establishment by force, violence, and terrorism of a Jewish state in
Palestine in 1948 as well
as the expansion of that state in succeeding years involved the unjust and
illegal usurpation of
Muslim and Christian lands and rights" and therefore it was illegal to
recognize the Jewish
state. In February 1996, following a series of suicide bus bombings, an
American-born Islamic
militant drove his car into Israeli citizens waiting at a bus stop in
Jerusalem, killing one and
wounding 25. After Israelis opened fire in self-defense on the terrorist,
MPAC issued a press
release calling accusing Israel of a "terrorist" act and asking the State
Department to initiate
criminal proceedings against the Jewish state.
Four months after standing alongside Mrs. Clinton at the White House, MPAC
senior adviser Maher
Hathout spoke in June 1998 at the National Press Club in Wa****ngton about
Hezbollah, the
Lebanon-based group that the U.S. State Department classifies as a
terrorist
organization.
"Hezbollah is fighting for freedom, an organized army, limiting its
operations against military
people. This is a legitimate target against occupation," Mr. Hathout
declared, "The whole country
keeps condemning Hezbollah, I disagree with them on other issues, but on
the
issue of fighting to
liberate their land and attacking only armed forces, this is legitimate,
this is an American
value--freedom and liberty."
The American Muslim Alliance's June fund-raiser for Senate candidate
Hillary
Clinton was simply a
culmination of her outreach to militant Islamic groups. Beyond its
anti-Israeli postings on its
Web site, the AMA's head, Agha Saeed, has openly sanctioned the use of
"armed resistance" against
Israel and declared that the "Zionist occupiers of Palestine can be beaten
back." At its 1997
annual convention, the AMA distributed an article by S.A. Ahsani, head of
the AMA's Texas
chapter, denying the existence of "Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek." At
AMA
national conferences
in 1997, 1998 and 2000, numerous speakers numerous speakers condemned the
"Jewish and Zionist"
lobbies and their "control" of the United States.
In the end, the issue is whether Mrs. Clinton has unwittingly enabled
these
groups to gain
legitimacy. Clearly she is aware of the danger attending to associations
with extremists. In
January of this year, Mrs. Clinton's campaign criticized New York Mayor
Rudolph Giuliani--then a
prospective Senate opponent--for sharing a dais in New York with Joerg
Haider, the far-right
Austrian head of the Freedom Party. In March, the Clinton campaign manager
attacked the mayor for
hiring fund-raiser Richard Viguerie--who Clinton aides pointedly noted,
had
raised money for
Patrick Buchanan and had once praised David Duke.
Later, when Rick Lazio said he would be willing to accept an endorsement
from the New York branch
of the Reform Party, whose presidential candidate is Mr. Buchanan, Mrs.
Clinton blasted Mr.
Lazio: "I think his [Buchanan's] record--anti-Semitic comments, his record
of intolerant and
prejudicial remarks--are ones that I don't want to be associated with."
These are noble sentiments. If Mrs. Clinton is willing to denounce Messrs.
Haider and Buchanan,
why has she associated with groups that have espoused anti-Semitism and
sup****ted terrorism?
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