Who is Tariq Salahi, and does it matter?

Canadians may come here to the U.S. for medical care, but it's a two-way street: We have to "go" there to read some Free Press:

 

Guess who came to dinner?

Given the deep-bow-to-American-enemies style of President Barack Obama, it is not even close to likely that Tareq Salahi was a party crasher at the president’s first official state dinner on Friday night.

Salahi is a former board member of The American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP), a 501(c), non profit, non-partisan organization based in Washington, D.C, established in 2003 “to provide an independent voice for Palestinian-Americans and their supporters and to promote peace”. 

While all references to Salahi have been scrubbed on its homepage, they can still be found on a Google search cache of ATFP’s site. (google-cache112809.jpg) 

According to the ATFP home page, “Mr. Salahi travels the world as the Team Captain for the U.S. Polo team and represents both the United States and Palestine on his diplomatic polo tours."

Does this sound like your typical Obama White House party crasher to you?

With most media attention on Salahi’s wife Michaele, it was Talkingpointsmemo.com that broke the story with details of Mr. Salahi’s background. 

“For this reason, I have no doubt that our present administration, an administration that is sympathetic to Arab interests including the granting of American civil rights to 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will refuse to prosecute Salahi and his American wife for breaching White House security,” says former Las Vegas city councillor and internationally syndicated columnist for Rick Porrello’s AmericaMafia.com, Steve Miller.

 

This was not the first time ATFP scrubbed their website.

 

 

BtB back in April 2008:

P.S., what's this at the ATFP website, in little teeny-tiny print?

As of January 17, 2008 Mr. Rafi Dajani is no longer an employee of the American Task Force on Palestine nor is he associated with ATFP in anyway whatsoever.

Wouldn't you know it... allegations of financial misconduct.

(IsraelNN.com) Rafi Dajani, the executive director of America’s leading pro-Palestinian lobby, the American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP), was ousted recently following allegations of financial misconduct. The lobbyist, ATFP's second-ranking official and one of the most noted speakers on PLO affairs, is accused of being responsible for the disappearance of tens of thousands of dollars from the lobby's coffers.

Dajani has been removed from the ATFP's website, including quotes, photos, and videos, with the organization working quickly to distance itself from him.

The American Task Force on Palestine, headed by Ziad Asali, was established in 2004 and is considered to have strong ties to the White House and Congress - for two years, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was the guest speaker at the group’s gala dinner. The operational funds of the group come from donations.

 

And in May 2008 I noted that:

The American Task Force for Palestine advocates, in the first of their Six Core Principles:

"Two sovereign states—Israel and Palestine—living side by side in peace and security based on the borders of June 4, 1967 with mutually agreed upon territorial adjustments."

 

In case you're not sure, June 4th = "Auschwitz borders." 

Salaam Fayyad - remember him? - made things very clear in a "major policy address" at the National Press Club - hosted by The American Task Force on Palestine - Feb. 11, 2008: 

 

The ultimate goals of the Palestinian people, today, are the same as they were back in 1988 when the PLO, under the leadership of our late President, Yasser Arafat, endorsed the two-state solution . . . .

 

I learned all this and more about the ATFP when Condi Rice was Secretary of State. She was heavily involved with the ATFP, even gave the keynote address at their inaugural gala. Back then, I noticed that

At the ATFP website, you can see a video of the "National Anthem" of "Palestine" - Mawtini - performed by Dana Yousef at ATFP's Second Annual Gala. One of the lines is "We will drink from death..."

 

I guess it's no surprise that it was never mentioned in dhimmedia and/or that those words have since been scrubbed from the website.  I should have gotten a screen capture.

Gd only knows how intertwined the ATFP is with the State Department now, in the Age of Hopenchange.  Certainly it's of interest that Secretary Hillary Clinton is talking about  1967 borders too nowadays.

So now let's circle back to all those pics of the Salahi couple hob-nobbing with American government officials, shaking hands with the president and hugging the VP, not to mention the one at the top here, with Rohm Emanuel -- who, parenthetically, according to the New York Times is designing our foreign policy toward Israel.

(We don’t know exactly what happened but we are told that Mr. Obama relied more on the judgment of his political advisers — specifically his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel — than of his Mideast specialists.)

 

Not exactly comforting.

Anyway, all these pics of the party crashers must be playing well to the international "Arab street," as it used to be called when the PC police were a little more lenient.  (Does anyone even think about the "Arab street" anymore?) 

And, I don't know how to say this carefully, so I'll  just say it. As far as I'm concerned, this "incident" fits right in with the plans of the Muslim Brotherhood. 

Yes, I think it's a conspiracy, and not only that. It's a conspiracy decades in the making of which Americans are dangerously unaware.

You Must See the Muslim Brotherhood's 1991 "Explanatory Memorandum On the General Strategic Goal for the Goup in North America" (English translation starts on p. 16) http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/20.pdf

Page 21, in part:

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Understanding the role of the Muslim Brother in North America:

The process of settlement is a "Civilization-Jihadist Process" with all the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim's destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who chose to slack. But, would the slackers and the Mujahedeen be equal.

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Understanding that we cannot perform the settlement mission by ourselves or away from people:

A mission as significant and as huge as the settlement mission needs magnificent and exhausting efforts. With their capabilities, human, financial and scientific resources, the Ikhwan will not be able to carry out this mission alone or away from people and he who believes that is wrong, and God knows best. As for the role of the Ikhwan, it is the initiative, pioneering, leadership, raising the banner and pushing people in that direction. They are then to work to employ, direct and unify Muslims' efforts and powers for this process.

In order to do that, we must possess a mastery of the art of "coalitions", the art of "absorption" and the principles of "cooperation".

 

 

At the end of the Memorandum [pdf p. 32, "Attachment number 1"] there is a "list of our organizations and the organizations of our friends."  Of course the ATFP isn't listed... It didn't exist back then. Neither did CAIR, as such.

 

1- ISNA=ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA

2- MSA=MUSLIM STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION

3- MCA=THE MUSLIM COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION

4- AMSS=THE ASSOCIATION OF MUSLIM SOCIAL SCIENTISTS

5- AMSE=THE ASSOCIATION OF MUSLIM SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS

6- IMA=ISLAMIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

7- ITC=ISLAMIC TEACHING CENTER

8- NAIT= NORTH AMERICAN ISLAMIC TRUST

9- FID=FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

10- IHC=ISLAMIC HOUSING COOPERATIVE

11- ICD=ISLAMIC CENTERS DIVISION

 

 

12- ATP=AMERICAN TRUST PUBLICATIONS

13- AVC=AUDIO-VISUAL CENTER

14- IBS=ISLAMIC BOOK SERVICE

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MBA=MUSLIM BUSINESSMEN ASSOC.

16- MYNA=MUSLIM YOUTH OF NORTH AMERICA

17- IFC=ISNA FIQH COMMITTEE

18- IPAC=ISNA POLITICAL AWARENESS COMMITTEE

19- IED=ISLAMIC EDUCATION DEPT.

20- MAYA

=MUSLIM ARAB YOUTH ASSOCIATION

21- MISG

=MALASIAN [sic] ISLAMIC STUDY GROUP

22-

IAP=ISLAMIC ASSOCIATION FOR PALESTINE

IAP was the parent organization of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which was co-founded in 1994 by Nihad Awad (IAP's President), and Omar Ahmad (IAP's Public Relations Director), and Ibrahim Hooper.

23-UASR=UNITED ASSOCIATION FOR STUDIES AND RESEARCH

24-OLF=OCCUPIED LAND FUND {later known as the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development}

25- MIA=MERCY INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION

26- ISNA=ISLAMIC CIRCLE OF NORTH AMERICA

27- BMI=BAITUL MAL INC

28- IIIT=INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC THOUGHT

29- IIC=ISLAMIC INFORMATION CENTER

 

 

As you can see, what's amazing about all this is that it's RIGHT OUT IN THE OPEN... just like Malik "Solider of Allah" Hassan was right out in the open at Fort Hood, just like Salahi and his blonde wife walked right into the White House.

There is no sneaking around and yet somehow, with few exceptions, it is hidden from public consciousness. Go figure.

The good news, if there is any, is that the O-merican Far Left has the opportunity to become aware of Salahi's connections to what they call The Palestinian Lobby [funny, that bit at HuffPo has only attracted one comment so far]. 

Such a "lobby" sounds pretty innocuous.  The question I suppose you have to ask yourself is whether one man's "lobby" might be another's "brotherhood." 

 

You decide.

 

 

Comments

[AJ Weberman]

Were the couple married in a Christian Church or by a Imam? There are Palestinian Christians.

[AJ Weberman]

Turns out they were married in a Church.

[Jo Ann Milligan]

You would think that there would be some Americans who know/study both world history and the history of Islam. But why should America/Americans be any more aware or alert to the danger of Islam infiltration and domination than Europeans? Just several days ago Switzerland citizens voted against the building of any more mosques there, when the Moslems there already represent 8% of the population and have many mosques (at the high rate of births/woman, the percent will continue to rise). Bringing in foreign citizens, especially Moslems, to Europe to fill labor needs has been going on since the '60's and few, let alone any government, has restricted this or sounded an alarm. The founder of Islam, Mohammed, preached and used any means to achieve his ends of domination-territorial as well as religious. And that still is the objective of Islam and its adherents.