Mike Rogers, the House Intel Committee chairman and future Cumulus radio host, will be the keynote speaker at an event honoring the man who wanted to build a mosque next to Ground Zero, Feisal Abdul Rauf:
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) has committed another blunder that may threaten his talk radio career before he even starts.
According to a Breitbart News column by Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney, Rogers will be the keynote speaker at an event held by The International Center for Religion and Diplomacy (ICRD), an organization with extensive ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. The dinner’s guests of honor will be Feisal Abdul Rauf—the infamous “Ground Zero Imam” who refused to describe Hamas as a terrorist organization when scrutinized over his plan to build a mosque near the remains of the World Trade Center—and his wife Daisy Khan.
Gaffney sent a letter on May 21st “laying out the ties between the ICRD and various American Muslim Brotherhood fronts and leaders,” then urging Rogers not to attend:
While there is certainly no objection to qualified Americans, of any religion, serving in U.S. policy-making positions, it appears that members of the Muslim Brotherhood, a subversive terrorist organization with intimate ties to terrorism, are using the ICRD as a venue for an ongoing influence operation to manipulate U.S. policy. Your attendance at this event would risk further legitimizing this event to the detriment of U.S. national security.
Walid Shoebat, who has exposed Rauf’s support for the Islamic state, has even more on the ICRD:
While ICRD’s connections to Muslim Brotherhood front groups in the U.S. – laid out in a letter to Rogers – is itself disturbing, the connections of the organization’s Vice President to a State Sponsor of Terrorism should be greater cause for alarm, not just concern.
The ICRD website lists Abubaker Y. Ahmed Al-Shingieti as its Vice President for Preventive Engagement.Shoebat.com has written extensively about al-Shingieti [here and here].
In additioin to al-Shingieti’s role with Muslim Brotherhood front, the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), he also has a history that includes time as an extremely prominent figure with the government of Sudan at a time when Osama bin Laden was hiding there. Shockingly, his bio on the ICRD website doesn’t hide it, though few people might recognize the significance:
As Shoebat.com has reported on extensively, the older brother of the President of the United States – Malik Obama – works as an Executive Secretary for the Islamic Da’wa Organization (IDO) under Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, a figure wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity. Sudan remains listed by the U.S. State Department as a State Sponsor of Terrorism. It was originally designated as such in 1993, when al-Shingieti was a top propagandist for al-Bashir.
You’d think our House Intel Committee chairman would know better than to keynote an address honoring a man like this. But many Republicans are stupid when it comes to Islam.