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U.K. Jewish media is reporting that Israeli Muslim Brotherhood dear Raed Salah has lost his deportation case and is now subject to deportation. According to the report:

Palestinian activist Raed Salah has lost his deportation case and could now be forcibly removed from Britain.

An Immigration Tribunal found in favour of Home Secretary Theresa May’s order that Sheikh Salah should be banned from Britain as his presence “would not be conducive to the public good”.

The judgment found she had acted correctly on grounds of his alleged “unacceptable behaviour”.

Sheikh Salah is expected to appeal against the decision.

A Home Office spokesman said: “We are pleased the court agrees Sheikh Salah’s removal would be conducive to the public good and that he has engaged in unacceptable behaviour. We will seek to deport him at the earliest opportunity.”

Sheikh Salah, the leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, was detained in London in June after entering despite Mrs May imposing the banning order.

The tribunal ruled that a poem, said to be antisemitic and written by Sheikh Salah, was not racist and was not “directed at the Jewish people as a whole”.

In its judgment the tribunal acknowledged that Sheikh Salah had “behaved lawfully throughout this matter, and that he has been the victim of unfairness and procedural irregularity…and was detained unlawfully for a period of time”.

A Community Security Trust spokesman said: “CST welcomed the government’s tightening of anti-extremist legislation, and we are glad to see it being supported by this important test case.”

The 52-year-old father-of-eight won the right to seek damages earlier this month after a High Court judge ruled his detention had been partially unlawful.

An earlier post reported on the ongoing support offer to Mr. Salah by the U.K. Muslim Brotherhood.

Other posts have discussed the arrest of Mr. Salah in the U.K. and the support offered to him by the Global Muslim Brotherhood. A BBC producer and MEMRI have both covered the anti-Semitic and extremist views of Mr. Salah. In 2010, the Jerusalem Post profiled Mr. Salah who leads the Northern branch of the Islamic Movement, essentially the Israeli Muslim Brotherhood.

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Palestinian TV has reported on comments by a Hamas leader during a sermon in which he said “We Will Sweep the Siblings of Pigs and Apes out of Our Land.” According to a MERI translation of a sermon given by Deputy Speaker of the Hamas Parliament Ahmad Bahr:

Following are excerpts from a Friday sermon delivered by Ahmad Bahr, deputy speaker of the Hamas parliament, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on September 23, 2011:

Ahmad Bahr: Allah said: “Your Lord said that he would send against them, till the Day of Judgment, those who would afflict them with cruel torment. The Lord is quick in retribution, but he is also Most Forgiving and Most Merciful.” Allah Akbar! The commentators said with regard to this blessed verse that Allah would impose the nation of Muhammad upon the Jews until the Day of Judgment, when they would be defeated and Allah would transform them, just as He transformed them [into apes and pigs] when they disobeyed Him. That is why Allah imposed the nation of Muhammad, and the Jihad-waging Palestinian people, upon those siblings of apes and pigs, until we sweep them out of our land and our holy places.”

The Hamas charter states that it is “is one of the wings of the Muslim Brothers in Palestine” and an early media report indicated that shortly after Hamas took over the Gaza strip, Muslim Brotherhood representatives were present to review Hamas military formations. In 2007,  a Hamas journalist acknowledged the role that the “international Muslim Brotherhood” has played in providing funds for the purchase of weapons and in 2008, an Israeli TV station reported that Muslim Brotherhood “representatives” had traveled to Gaza from Egypt through the open border to meet with Hamas. Hamas is supported financially and politically by the global Muslim Brotherhood and a NEFA Foundation report has documented the Hamas fund-raising activities of the Union of Good, a coalition of Islamic charities linked to the Brotherhood that provides financial support to both the Hamas “social” infrastructure, as well as its terrorist activities. Previous posts have also discussed the worldwide campaign orchestrated by the global Brotherhood against Israeli actions in Gaza during the 2008-2009 conflict with Israel.

Anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli incitement in Hamas media is commonlyreported.

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Global media is reporting that Ennahda, the Tunisian political party tied to the Global Muslim Brotherhood and the apparent victor in recent elections, has put forward its Secretary General Hamadi Jebali as the next prime minister. According to a BBC report:

Tunisia’s moderate Islamist party Ennahda, has said it will form a new government within a month.

Preliminary results for Sunday’s election give it a commanding lead, but not an overall majority, in the first democratic elections prompted by the Arab Spring uprisings.

Ennahda has put forward its number two, Secretary General Hamadi Jebali, as the next prime minister.

Coalition talks with secular parties have begun.

Mr Jebali, 62, is an engineer by training and a former journalist. He was a co-founder of Ennahda.

A vehement opponent of the ousted president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, Mr Jebali spent 16 years in jail – 10 in isolation – for his political activities.

Party leader Rachid Ghannouchi was not an election candidate and has said he had no government ambitions

In May, an earlier post reported that the Center for the Study of Islamic and Democracy (CSID) had hosted Mr. Jebali at a recent forum. According to a CNN report at that time:

One of the few organized bases [in Tunisia]  is al-Nahda, the largest Islamic party. Much of the nervousness is over what role Islam will play in Tunisia.Those nerves spilled over into a recent debate hosted by the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy in Washington.The big draw was Hamadi Jebali, the secretary general of al-Nahda.Jebali spent nearly two decades in prison for being a member of al-Nahda under the old dictatorship. Al-Nahda means renaissance — and it is having one. The party is expected to emerge from Tunisia’s first elections with real power. So Tunisians in this secular society are listening very carefully to what al-Nahda’s leaders say — and what they do not say. Jebali wore wire-rim glasses, a suit, and a soft smile. His speech was filled with the lush language of democratic principles: Equality. Dignity. Diversity.”The Tunisian revolution shows a peaceful democratic way to address the needs of the country,” he told the audience of several dozen. “And that peaceful and democratic change works and gives hope to the whole region. It is possible to build development with justice, dignity, and stability without violence and without wars.”He spoke this way for 15 minutes. Big beautiful words. Few specifics.

Mahgreb Confidential (source below) had further reported that Jebali also held meetings with U.S. senators and a State Department official:

Jebali managed to squeeze in discreet meetings in the Senate with senators Joe Lieberman and John McCain, as well as with John Kerry ‘s aides. He also met at the State Department with Margaret Nardi, head of the Office of Maghreb Affairs. As a result, Ennahda has become the first Islamic Arab movement to win Washington’s seal of approval at a time when the U.S. is thinking of curbing contacts between American politicians and Egypt’s Moslem Brotherhood.

The Mahgreb Confidential also commented on the role of CSID leader Radwan Masmoudi in bringing the U.S. together with the Tunisian “moderate Islamists”:

A Tunisian engineer living in the United States, Radwan Masmoiudi, is a leading architect of the rapprochement between American diplomats and Tunisia’s moderate Islamists. In 1999, he founded the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID) and plans to shortly open an office in Tunis. Championing dialogue between the secular and Islamist worlds, the center is financed by the State Department, the National Endowment for Democracy, and the US Institute of Peace. One of its representatives in Tunis is businessman Mondher Ben Ayed, well connected at the U.S. embassy. Six years of contacts. Masmoudi organized the first meetings between U.S. diplomats and Tunisia’s Islamists as long ago as 2005. The following year an American envoy knocked on the door of Hamadi Jebali, who was under house arrest. Washington bet on the right horses. The militants at the time are now in prominent positions. Saida Akremi represents lawyers on the Haute Commission pour la Realisation des Objectifs de la Revolution ; and Slaheddine Jourchi is vice president of the Ligue Tunisienne de Droits de l’Homme.

The relationship between Mr. Jebali and Ennahda with CSID, an organization close to parts of the U.S. government, raises question about the influence of the Global Muslim Brotherhood on U.S. policy. CSID was founded in 1998 largely by the efforts of Georgetown University academic Dr. Esposito who during the 1990′s served in the State Department as a “foreign affairs analyst” and who has at least a dozen past or present affiliations with global Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas organizations. Many members of the early CSID board were associated with IIIT, the American Muslim Council, and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). For example, past CSID board members included Jamal Barzinji and Taha Al-Alwani, both associated with IIIT and both important leaders in the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood who helped to establish many of the most important U.S. Brotherhood organizations. Antony Sullivan, the current CSID Vice-Chair, has many ties to U.S.Brotherhood groups including the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS), the United Association for Studies and Research (USAR), and the Circle of Tradition and Progress (COTP), a group whose other founding members included Youssef Qaradawi, the most important leader of the global Muslim Brotherhood. From its inception, CSID has argued that the U.S. government should support Islamist movements in foreign countries and has received financial support from the U.S. State Department, the National Endowment for Democracy and the United States Institute of Peace. A previous post discussed the 2010 CSID annual conference describing it as representing “perhaps the largest public gathering of Global Muslim Brotherhood leaders and U.S. government officials to date.”

It should be noted that Mr. Jebali had also been hosted by a U.K. organization known as Forward Thinking, also close to the Global Muslim Brotherhood.

Tunisian media have supplied biographical information on Mr. Jebali and his long-term role in Ennahda, formerly known as the Islamic Tendency Movement (MTI):

Hamadi Jebali, born in the coastal city Sousse, is an engineer specializing in solar energy. He is currently the spokesman and secretary-general of Ennahda, Tunisia’s most prominent Islamist party. Since the January 14th revolution, and especially during the campaign for the Constituent Assembly elections, he has appeared in Ennahda’s press conferences several times, to illustrate the party’s positions and explain its plans. Jebali entered politics in the early 1980s, when Ennahda’s high-profile leaders were systematically chased and arrested by former President Habib Bourguiba’s regime. Shura Council (a former wing within the party) chose him to undertake the responsibility of steering and managing the party’s affairs in collaboration with Ali Ariadh. He was also a member of Ennahda’s executive council. In the 1990s, he served as the editor-in-chief of Ennahda’s official weekly newspaper Al-Fajr, before Ben Ali’s regime prohibited its publishing and condemned him to 15 years imprisonment, of which he served 11 years in solitary confinement.

A South African think tank explains in more detail the nature of the charges against Mr. Jebali during the 1980′s:

In the aftermath of these developments, the MTI was implicated in a plot to overthrow the Tunisian government and replace it with a new government based on the Iranian model. Subsequently, in August 1987, 99 MTI members were charged with ‘forming an illegal organisation; plotting subversive actions with Iran; and attempting to overthrow the government’. Five of the seven members sentenced to death were Hamadi Jebali, Ali Laaridhi and Salah Karkar, accused of organising the violent street protests in July; Fethi Maatoug, accused of planting bombs in a hotel on 2 August; and Abdelmajid Mili, charged with direct involvement in the blasts. Another 69 received sentences ranging from two years to life imprisonment. These sentences had international repercussions. For example, in Beirut on 28 September 1987, Islamic Jihad, a pro-Iranian Lebanese group which was holding Western hostages, threatened to kill Tunisian government officials if the death sentences were carried out (The Globe and Mail 1987).

Previous posts have reported on the extremist/Muslim Brotherhood background of Rachid Ghannouchi, the leader of the Ennahda Party who has recently called for the “end of Israel.”

(Source: Maghreb Confidential “Washington ready to play soft Islam card” May 26, 2011)

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Canadian local media is reporting on a controversial conference associated with the Islamic Society of North America being held in Mississauga, Ontario. According to the report, critics of the conference have accused the sponsors of anti-Semitic and anti-gay remarks and one of the conference organizers suggested that the Jews were behind the 911 attacks:

People who spread hatred about others are not welcome in Canada.

That was the message a group of more than 75 peaceful protesters delivered today at the Canada Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) mosque on South Sheridan Way, where the “Calling the World Back to Allah” conference was being held.

The full-day conference is part of the Canada launch tour of the Islamic Education and Research Academy (IERA), a British organization seeking to establish a presence in Toronto and Montreal. They say the conference was held to build bridges amongst Muslim communities in Canada.

Jewish Defence League National Director Meir Weinstein said he and other groups came out for one simple reason.

“We don’t want those individuals, who believe in hatred, coming into Canada,” he said. “They’re looking for a fertile country for radical influence.

“They’ve said things like ‘Jews are cursed,’ among all kinds of different hatred.

“The bottom line is, this organization is coming here from England trying to set up here,” he said. “In an Islamic state, there’s no freedoms. Iran is not a beacon of humility or light.”

IERA describes itself as a global “dawah” organization that’s committed to presenting Islam to wider society.

Allegations of speakers making anti-Semitic and anti-gay remarks resulted in the IERA’s conference being cancelled at some venues, including Toronto’s Sheraton Centre where today’s event was originally scheduled.

“This has to be exposed and confronted,” said Weinstein.

ISNA staff confirmed the conference was taking place there all day, but at the same time, sought to distance itself from the event.

“ISNA is not organizing the conference. All we’re doing is providing a venue for the event,” was the response to an inquiry.

IERA head of communications Saleem Chagtai said the protesters demonize his group’s speakers.

“We’re reaching out and we’re not interested in hate,” Chagtai said. “We’re interested in moral discussions.”

He said media reports that link them to hate allegations are taking their words “deliberately out of context … stereotyping. It’s very much not like that.”

He also said his group was disturbed by the Sheraton’s decision to oust them.

“We don’t think that’s fair,” he said. “It’s very unbecoming for a multinational corporation to cancel.”

He defended the IERA’s stance on homosexuality, which is looked upon as a sin by his group. But that doesn’t give “anyone a right to taunt or treat them any differently than anyone else.”

One of the IERA speakers, Malaysian convert Hussain Yee, has said “the Jews” are “the most extremist nation in this world.” He also suggested that Jews perpetrated and celebrated the 9/11 attacks in America.

People from various faith groups carried Israeli flags outside the Clarkson area mosque. They also carried signs that read “Stop Islamic Racism.” The protesters represented Canadian Hindu Advocacy, International Christian Voice, the Canadian Egyptian Congress, the Costa Christian Mission and Lakshmi Narayan Hindu Temple.

Peel Regional Police officers were at the scene to ensure crowds stayed controlled, but most of the protesters appeared peaceful.”

A report by the Hudson Institute has identified ISNA as a major part of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood. The organization has a long history of fundamentalism, anti-semitism, and support for terrorism and during the recent Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial, ISNA was named as an unindicted co-conspirator. Although recently ISNA has issued condemnations of terrorism which for the first time identify Hamas and Hezbollah by name, there is no indication that the organization has ever addressed or acknowledged its history.

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