Muslim Cleric Who Backed Fatwa On ‘Killing Of U.S. Soldiers’ Promoted By State Dept. -- Washington Times/Washington Free Beacon
The State Department’s Counter Terrorism (CT) Bureau promoted on Friday a controversial Muslim scholar whose organization has reportedly backed Hamas and endorsed a fatwa authorizing the murder of U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
The CT bureau on Friday tweeted out a link to the official website of Sheikh Abdallah Bin Bayyah, the vice president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), a controversial organization founded by a Muslim Brotherhood leader “who has called for the death of Jews and Americans and himself is banned from visiting the U.S.,” according to Fox News.
Bin Bayyah is reported to have been one of several clerics who endorsed a 2004 fatwa that endorsed resistance against Americans fighting in Iraq, PJ Media reported in 2013, when Bin Bayyah met with Obama’s National Security Council staff at the White House.
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My Comment: WTF?!?!?!?!
Update: It appears that saner heads have prevailed .... State Department Apologizes for Promoting Muslim Cleric Who Backed Killing of U.S. Soldiers -- Washington Free Beacon
Insanity at its highest level.
ReplyDeleteWhen you start questioning what side your govenment is on, and if you come to the conclusion that it isn't on your side, then, and only then, should you decide to pack up and leave before you find yourself surrounded by your enemies.