Analyst's note:  Will somebody wake me up.  This must be a nightmare that our nation is experiencing as I watch the workings of too many elements of our federal gov't.  Lets start by considering the words of Andrew C. McCarthy on page 376 of his book "THE GRAND JIHAD How Islam and the Left Sabotage America" and tell me what I'm missing.

“[….] more details are emerging about the Homeland Security Department’s high-level pow-wows with tentacles of the Muslim Brotherhood.  DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, along with her top aides, personally held two days of intensive briefing in late January 2010 for, among others, ISNA, MPAC (the Muslim Public Affairs Council), and the Muslim American Society.  The concept, imported from the United Kingdom, is to treat these anti-Western Sharia organizations as allies and devise in collaboration with them, a “two-way information-sharing” framework.  As one exasperated former U.S. intelligence officer explained to Pajamas Media: 

The “counter-radicalization” program is something that the other side created for us ….. It initially started in Britain.  The Muslim Brotherhood groups suggested it.  We went over there and got it.  We thought it was a great idea and now we’re using it.  It’s the enemy giving us a way to destroy ourselves.” 

Just so.  If you didn’t know better, you’d think Islamist had developed “a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house.” 

Why, it’s almost as if they now has a government that was helping them do it.”  

This is not a joke as we read here again, again, again , again, again, again, and yet again just to name a few, of situations demonstrating that our nation is being duped by our enemy. The American public must quickly learn about our global jihadist enemy - who they are and how they think as well as operate.  We must demand the same from our gov't officials or quickly move them out of office.  I can not say it strongly enough -- the current TSA activities must be properly reworked

Now for the latest article showing that our gov't does not yet understand.  Ignorance is no excuse on such matters as described here by Connie Hair in her Human Events article:

"The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) has completed training for 2,200 Transportation Safety Officers (TSOs) at the Los Angeles International Airport according to a press release found on the MPAC website. 

The MPAC release notes that the two-month training course informed officers of "the diversity of Muslims around the world from cultural dress to language to tenets. The four trainers taught the TSOs how to properly handle a Quran and discussed the different ways Muslim women and men choose to cover or dress. For example, the TSOs learned if a woman wears hijab and needs a secondary screening she should be screened in a private area by a female TSO officer."

(The Drudge Report shocked the nation with this photo of a nun being patted down by a Muslim woman in head garb. Apparently Christian women are afforded only public groping sessions.)
 

In 1986, MPAC was formed as a political action arm of one of the largest Wahhabi mosques in America, the Islamic Center for Southern California.

As the Center for Security Policy's Team B II report entitled "Sharia: The Threat to America" notes, "The founders of the Islamic Center for Southern California are Hassan Hathout and his brother Maher Hathout. The late Hassan Hathout was a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood Movement. The two brothers Maher spent time in an Egyptian prison during the early days of the Muslim Brotherhood’s activities there, led by the Brotherhood’s founder Hassan Al Banna.  MPAC’s own publication, The Minaret, has proudly called Hassan a 'companion of' and Maher 'a close disciple of' Brotherhood founder Hassan al Banna."

Maher Hathout also founded and is currently a senior advisor for MPAC.  He and others at MPAC also currently work for and maintain a close relationship with the Islamic Center of Southern California.

Hathout was also on the board of directors and a member of the American Muslim Council (AMC) from 1993 to 1997. AMC was founded by the al Qaeda financier and Hamas operative Abdurahman Alamoudi who is currently serving 23 years in prison for funding terrorist groups including al Qaeda.

Maher Hathout served on the AMC Board of Directors at the same time Alamoudi was serving as its Executive Director.

"Maher Hathout has publicly voiced his approval of Designated Terrorist Organizations such as Hezbollah; decried many U.S. counterterrorism efforts; called for the destruction of Israel; and, openly supported known terrorists such as Hasan al Turabi, the leader of the National Islamic Front of Sudan. Yet, the organization he founded, MPAC, enjoys a reputation in official U.S. circles as a 'moderate' Muslim organization," the Team B II report states.

"Salam al-Marayati is the current president of MPAC. Al-Marayati was denied a leadership position on the National Commission on Terrorism by then-House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt when it came to light that Al-Marayati claimed that the terrorist group, Hezbollah, was a legitimate organization and has the right to attack the Israeli Army.

"Edina Lekovic is MPAC’s Communications Director. Previously, Lekovic was editor of the magazine Al-Talib when it editorialized that Osama bin Laden was a freedom fighter and warrior for Allah, who should be defended by Muslims. Al-Talib is the magazine published by the UCLA chapter of the Muslim Student’s Association. ... The MSA was the first Muslim Brotherhood organization established in the United States."

MPAC works as a propaganda and misinformation ministry for the Muslim Brotherhood.  One example offered in the Team B II Report is its aggressive and successful pursuit of total control of the language used by the United States government in regard to Muslim terrorists.

"MPAC attacked the language used to describe the events of September 11, 2001 detailed in the 9/11 Commission Report. MPAC demanded an end to the use of words such as jihad, ummah, caliphate, shariah and others in relation to terrorist doctrine," the report states.

"In subsequent years, the National Counterterrorism Center, the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have all issued strategic counterterrorism documents devoid of these terms. Such conformity to shariah by U.S. government entities such as the FBI and DHS is an extraordinary strategic victory for the enemy in the information battlespace."

The Investigative Project offers another extensive background study of MPAC's links to jihadi terrorist groups.

You can obtain a copy of the Team B II report on the Center for Security Policy website here."