good article by Daniel Pipes.

[zachor_ve_kavod]

Daniel Pipes very articulately relates Obama's ties with terrorists in this article.

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Jewish World Review Oct. 23, 2008 / 24 Tishrei 5769

Obama Would Fail Security Clearance

By Daniel Pipes

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | With Colin Powell now repeating the lie that Barack Obama has "always been a Christian," despite new information further confirming Obama's Muslim childhood (such as the Indonesian school registration listing him as Muslim), one watches with dismay as the Democratic candidate manages to hide the truth on this issue.

Instead, then, let us review a related subject - Obama's connections and even indebtedness, throughout his career, to extremist Islam. Specifically, he has longstanding, if indirect ties to two institutions, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), listed by the U.S. government in 2007 as an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas-funding trial; and the Nation of Islam (NoI), condemned by the Anti-Defamation League for its "consistent record of racism and anti-Semitism."

First, Obama's ties to Islamists:

The Khalid al-Mansour connection: According to former Manhattan Borough president Percy Sutton, Al-Mansour "was raising money for" Obama's expenses at Harvard Law School. Al-Mansour, a black American (n� Don Warden), became advisor to Saudi prince Al-Walid bin Talal, CAIR's largest individual donor. Al-Mansour holds standard Islamist views: he absolves the Islamist government in Sudan of sponsoring slavery, he denies a Jewish tie to Jerusalem, and he wrote a booklet titled "Americans Beware! The Zionist Plot Against S. Arabia." (Both Obama and al-Mansour deny Sutton's account.)


Kenny Gamble, or Luqman Abdul-Haqq, "amir" of the United Muslim Movement.
 
The Kenny Gamble (also known as Luqman Abdul-Haqq) connection: Gamble, a once-prominent pop music producer, cut the ribbon to the Obama campaign headquarters housed in a south Philadelphia building he owns. Gamble is an Islamist who buys large swaths of real estate in Philadelphia to create a Muslim-only residential area. Also, as the self-styled "amir" of the United Muslim Movement, he has many links to Islamist organizations, including CAIR and the Muslim Alliance in North America. (MANA's "amir" is Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.)

The Mazen Asbahi connection: The Obama campaign's first Muslim outreach coordinator resigned after it came to light that he had served on the board of a subsidiary of the Saudi-sponsored North American Islamic Trust, with Jamal Said, another unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007 Hamas funding trial. Asbahi has ties to CAIR's Chicago and Detroit offices, to the Islamic Society of North America, yet another unindicted co-conspirator in the Hamas funding trial, and to other Islamist organizations.

The Minha Husaini connection: The campaign's second Muslim outreach coordinator has an Islamist background, having served as an intern in the Muslim Public Service Network. Immediately upon her appointment by Obama, she met with a group of about thirty Muslims including such notorious figures as CAIR's Nihad Awad; the Muslim American Society's Mahdi Bray, who has publicly supported the Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist groups; and Johari Abdul Malik of the Dar Al-Hijrah Mosque in Falls Church, Va., who has advised American Muslims: "You can blow up bridges, but you cannot kill people who are innocent on their way to work."

Second, Obama's ties to the Nation of Islam:


Louis Farrakhan, who calls Obama "the Messiah."
 
Obama's long-time donor and ally Antoin "Tony" Rezko partnered for nearly three decades with Jabir Herbert Muhammad, a son of NoI leader Elijah Muhammad, and says he gave Jabir and his family "millions of dollars over the years." Rezko also served as executive director of the Muhammad Ali Foundation, a rogue organization that, without Ali's permission, exploited the name of this CAIR awardee.

Jeremiah Wright, Obama's esteemed pastor for twenty years, came out of a Nation background, recently he accepted protection from an NoI security detail, and has praised Louis Farrakhan, the NoI's leader, as one of the "giants of the African American religious experience." Wright's church celebrated Farrakhan for his having "truly epitomized greatness."

Farrakhan himself endorsed Obama, calling him "the hope of the entire world," "one who can lift America from her fall," and even "the Messiah."

That Obama's biography touches so frequently on such unsavory organizations as CAIR and the Nation of Islam should give pause. How many of politicians have a single tie to either group, much less seven of them? John McCain charitably calls Obama "a person you do not have to be scared [of] as president of the United States," but Obama's multiple links to anti-Americans and subversives mean he would fail the standard security clearance process for Federal employees.

Islamic aggression represents America's strategic enemy; Obama's many insalubrious connections raise grave doubts about his fitness to serve as America's commander-in-chief. ["]

[muman613]

Shalom Zachor_ve_Kavod,

I really think Pipes is very good at expressing his point. I think that most brain-dead Americans just don't get what is wrong with associating with terrorists. Somehow they rationalize it and some even think that america is really the terrorist. I call these people self-hating Americans like Rev Wright and his sick church. How could Americans even sit in the pews of a Church spewing such hatred against this country. Apparently there are a lot of people who buy into this hate crap. I think they are traitors to this country and when I was young these people would have been hauled off to jail and kept far from society. Now the prisoners are wardens in the big house. Somehow the liberal line has extended to the point which my dad foresaw 30 years ago when the libs were trying to bus in kids from the inner city. He foresaw that our countries education system would be devastated and our quality of life reduced to a third world country. For many years I did not believe him and even mocked him a few times. I have had time to apologize for my not honoring my father and now I think he was right.

Only the fittest will survive this onslaught of mediocrity. I will be looking into ways to hide my assets so that the mobs will not be able to take this from me. I will start encrypting most of my vital information so that the parasites will not be able to destroy me and my family. I am very afraid of what will become of the health care system as at the time I need to see doctors for an ailment. I am afraid I may have more physical pain from this because of the failing medical system.

I know that America had it in it to be a great country. I have always been a patriot and still hold a hope that we will see through this bad wind. But there is much to be worried about and I am just wondering. My faith in Hashems providence is absolute but even the sages foresaw great tribulations as the world lurches forward towards the Messianic days.

muman613