Josh Rogin, The Washington Post and the Clinton Campaign: One Network
by Rebecca Bynum (August 2016)
The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is pulling out all the stops to smear Donald Trump and anyone associated with his campaign. Their shameless shilling for Hillary Clinton seemingly knows no bounds and may be in retaliation for Trump’s suggestion that Amazon.com should collect sales taxes as all storefront retailers in the US are required to do.
In a Washington Post column entitled, “Pro-Trump Muslim groups bash Khan family,” Josh Rogin launched an attack on an association I am proud to work with, the American Mid-East Coalition for Trump. AMCT is a federation of many Mideast American NGOs and federations, including Muslims, Christians, Yazidis and others. In the US a majority of people who emigrated from the Greater Middle East are of Christian background, though in the region, the Christians are a minority. Rogin’s ignorance is evident. He assumed that since AMCT is Middle Eastern, it is Muslim. His rushed to prove that AMCT doesn’t represent the majority of Muslim Americans, while it actually represents much larger communities. He wrote:
Several other Muslim American leaders I spoke with said that groups such as AMC Trump and Muslims for Trump represent only a tiny fraction of Muslim Americans and are misrepresenting Trump’s level of support in the Muslim American community.
As founding member of AMC Trump, John Hajjar, said
We live in an upside down world, where the word of Muslims with clear Islamist ties, even with ties to Hamas, such as CAIR, are taken over the word of Americans trying to do their best to help their families and friends in the Middle East.
press release perhaps? CAIR is always johnny-on-the-spot to spin the press regarding any Muslim family whose wayward relatives happen to slaughter innocent Americans, or when an incident of perceived bias as clock-boy occurs, so why would this time be any different? Nevertheless, CAIR completely denies any involvement with the Khans, according to the Rogin article.
CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper. “These Islamophobes blame us for everything, including the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby. It really gets to be a bit ridiculous at times.”
What, then, are Khizr Khan’s connections to the Clinton campaign? The intrepid reporter for the Washington Post doesn’t bother to ask. Fortunately for us, however, Breitbart reporter Matthew Boyle decided to find out. He revealed those ties to be deeper and more complicated than anyone had thought.
It turns out, however, in addition to being Gold Star parents, the Khans are financially and legally tied deeply to the industry of Muslim migration–and to the government of Saudi Arabia and to the Clintons themselves.
And there’s more. Khan is involved in securing EB5 visas for foreign nationals coming into our country. (His website advertising this, linked above, has since been removed from the internet.) This program is notorious for fraud and as Representative Chuck Grassley pointed out, these visas are “pushed through despite security warnings.”
The enforcement arm of the Department of Homeland Security wrote an internal memo that raises significant concerns about the program. One section of the memo outlines concerns that it could be used by Iranian operatives to infiltrate the United States. The memo identifies seven main areas of program vulnerability, including the export of sensitive technology, economic espionage, use by foreign government agents and terrorists, investment fraud, illicit finance and money laundering.
Luckily for Mr. Khan, Mrs. Khan speaks Farsi! Let us hope those visas he has procured and continues to procure receive close scrutiny in the future, but with an immigration system as broken as ours, that isn’t likely.
Whatever we may think of Mr. Khan and his law practice, the most recent ISIS issue of Dabiq declared their son, Army Capt. Humayun Khan, an apostate for fighting for America against his fellow Muslims. This conflict for Muslims in the military is what Major Nidal Hassan tried to draw attention to before he decided to make his position more clear by shooting up a crowded room full of unarmed soldiers, killing 13 of them.
National Security Analyst for the Clarion Project, Ryan Mauro stated:
audio is here.
Which prompts the question: which side of this ideological divide is Josh Rogin actually on? Tom Harb, founding member of AMC Trump, expressed it this way:
Rogin trying to attack the American Middle Eastern majority voice for the benefit of CAIR/ Muslim Brotherhood, who represent the minority jihadists.
Mauro was more forceful:
Futhermore, if you are concerned about anti-Muslim bigotry, you should want Walid Phares to be advising Trump. Phares has worked for a long time advocating support for secular-democratic Muslims around the world. He has not wavered on that, even though there are many who believe that betting on moderate Muslims is a failing proposition or counterproductive. There are few who have done as much as Dr. Phares to advocate for Muslims who desire human rights and freedom from Islamism, while rejecting negative stereotypes of Muslims as incapable or unworthy of the freedoms we cherish.
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