See No Sharia ‘Countering Violent Extremism’ and the Disarming of America’s First Line of Defense By Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. and Clare M. Lopez Volume 9 CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY PRESS 1 Copyright 2016 © ISBN-13: 978-1530234332 ISBN-10: 1530234336 See No Sharia:‘Countering Violent Extremism’ and the Disarming of America’s First Line of Defense is published in the United States by the Center for Security Policy Press, a division of the Center for Security Policy. February 24, 2016 THE CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY 1901 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 201 Washington, DC 20006 Phone: (202) 835-9077 | Email: [email protected] For more information, please see securefreedom.org Book design by Adam Savit Cover design by Alex VanNess 2 “Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country’s peace and prosperity.” -President James K. Polk,1 1845 Inaugural Address 3 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS .............................................................................. 5 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................ 9 KEY FINDINGS .......................................................................................... 19 PROLOGUE ................................................................................................ 25 INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................... 29 CHAPTER 1: HOLY LAND FOUNDATION CASE ............................... 33 A Successful Prosecution ...................................................................................... 37 A Follow-on Prosecution StillbornZakat ................................................................... 38 What Happened to the Follow-on Prosecutions? ...................................... 40 CHAPTER 2: THE JIHADISTS’ CAMPAIGN TO The Next Battle: Legitimating ................................................................ 42 SUPPRESS FREE SPEECH ............................................................. 45 A Duty Unfulfilled, a Nation Betrayed ............................................................. 43 ‘Islamophobia’ ........................................................................................................... 46 Prohibiting ‘Defamation’ of Islam ..................................................................... 47 The OIC’s ‘Ten-Year Program of Action’ ........................................................ 49 Enlisting the United Nations ............................................................................... 51 UN Human Rights Council Resolution 16/18 and the CHAPTER 3: THE FBI AS A CASE STUDY OF AMERICA’S Istanbul Process ............................................................................................. 53 UNRAVELING COUNTER-TERRORISM POLICY ..................... 57 Concluding Observations ...................................................................................... 56 The Muslim Brotherhood ‘Inside the Wire’ .................................................. 58 The Bureau’s Transformation ............................................................................ 61 Legitimating the Brotherhood ............................................................................ 62 Changing the FBI’s Lexicon .................................................................................. 64 Censoring the FBI Training Program .............................................................. 66 Punishing Those Who ‘Offend’ Muslims ........................................................ 67 Diverting the Bureau’s Attention ...................................................................... 68 5 CHAPTER 4: SUBMISSION AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY ................................................................ 71 Opening Up to the Muslim Brotherhood ........................................................ 73 Skewing the DHS Lexicon ..................................................................................... 73 The DHS under Obama ........................................................................................... 76 Organizing for Countering Violent Extremism ............................................ 76 The CVE Working Group ....................................................................................... 77 Penetrating the Countering Violent Extremism CHAPTER 5: THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Working Group ............................................................................................... 79 SUBMITSIllustrative CVE Working Group Recommendations TO C.V.E. ........................................................................ 85 ................................. 82 Rules of Engagement ............................................................................................... 86 CHAPTER 6: SUBMISSIONCulture Cards .............................................................................................................. WITHIN OTHER PARTS OF THE 87 U.S. GOVERNMENT ........................................................................ 91 The Islamic State ....................................................................................................... 88 The White House ...................................................................................................... 92 The State Department ............................................................................................ 94 The Intelligence Community ............................................................................... 95 The Department of Justice .................................................................................... 96 The Treasury Department .................................................................................... 97 CHAPTER 7: THE GREAT PURGE ..................................................... 101 The Inevitable Endpoint of a See-No-Shariah Policy Approach: The Great Purge .............................................................................................. 99 ‘See-No-Shariah’ ..................................................................................................... 102 A Concerted Offensive to Blind Our First Lines of Defense ................. 104 FBI Rocked by More Incoming FireDon’t ............................................................... 105 Red (and Green) Letter Day: October 19, 2011 ........................................ 108 If You See Something, Say Anything .................................................. 115 Attorney General Eric Holder Supports the Great Purge ..................... 118 The Muslim-American Community: ‘Nothing to See Here Folks, Move Along’ .......................................... 119 Purging the Trainers ............................................................................................ 120 The FBI and the Purge ......................................................................................... 122 Justice Department Purge Guidelines ........................................................... 125 CHAPTER 8: AFTER THE PURGE: The FBI Capitulates ............................................................................................... 126 HARD LESSONS UNLEARNED .................................................. 131 Conclusion ................................................................................................................ 127 Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood .............................................................. 132 ‘We, the People’ ...................................................................................................... 134 6 Clarity About the Brotherhood ........................................................................ 135 The Justice Department Leaves Open the Door to CHAPTER 9: THE WHITE HOUSE SUMMIT ON Shariah Blasphemy Restrictions ........................................................... 136 COUNTERING VIOLENT EXTREMISM ................................... 143 CVE’s “Bitter Harvest”: Benghazi and the Boston Marathon .............. 138 Setting the Stage for a CVE Summit ............................................................... 144 Early Indications that Islamists Don’t Like CVE ....................................... 145 What Plunging Ahead with a White House CVE Summit .................................. 146 The Islamic Supremacists Push Back ............................................................ 148 ‘Model’ Programs? ..................................................................................... 150 The Summit Goes Bust ......................................................................................... 152 Taking Both Paths – A Dual Tactical Approach ......................................... 155 Groupthink-Imposed Willful Blindness at the Summit ......................... 157 CHAPTER 10: CONGRESS AND COUNTERING After the Summit .................................................................................................... 158 VIOLENT EXTREMISM ............................................................... 163 A New ‘Model Community’ for CVE: New York City? .............................. 160 CHAPTER 11: CVE’S DEVASTATING IMPACT ON OUR The Unhappy Story of the ‘National Security Five’th .................................. 164 FIRST LINES OF DEFENSE ........................................................ 171 The 114 Congress and CVE ............................................................................. 165 Extending the Welcome Mat for