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[FONT=Palatino, Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][COLOR=#000000]'Indignant' Muslims reject U.S. request to counter violent extremism

Meeting with Napolitano included promise of regular consultations

Posted: July 29, 2010
10:50 pm Eastern


A series of e-mails from the Department of Homeland Security, the federal agency that has warned of a threat from "right-wing extremists" like those worried about national sovereignty, reveals the agency has held a series of meetings with Muslims who apparently rejected the government's request to help counter violent extremism.

The new e-mails were uncovered by Judicial Watch, the government-watchdog organization that hunts down and seeks the prosecution of government corruption.

The e-mails relate to several days of meetings the DHS held Jan. 27-28 between DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and various Arab, Muslim, Sikh and South Asian "community leaders."

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The e-mails reveal the attendees included Imad Hamad, the Midwest regional director of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, who Judicial Watch reported has been documented by investigative reporter Debbie Schlussel as being linked to the Marxist-Leninist terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Judicial Watch reported in a 2002 interview on Detroit television Hamad "supported a Palestine Authority TV program that urged children to become suicide bombers, calling the program 'patriotic.'"

Another participant, according to Judicial Watch, was Salam al-Mayarati, who founded the Los-Angeles-based Muslim Public Affairs Council. Judicial Watch said al-Mayarati "has long been criticized for his extremist views and statements. In 1999 former House Minority leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., withdrew his nomination of al-Mayarati to the National Commission on Terrorism because of al-Mayarati's extremist politics."

Further, the e-mails show that on Feb. 4 David O'Leary, DHS Office of Legislative Affairs, wrote to David Gersten, acting deputy officer for programs and compliance in the agency's civil-rights division:

"Gordon Lederman of Sen. Lieberman's Staff called me asking about the 2-day HSAC meeting last week with American Muslim and Arab groups. He was called by a reporter who told him (Muslim Public Affairs Council, Islamic Society of North America) and Muslim American Society 'rejected the ideas' of soliciting their help with countering violent extremism and were 'angry and indignant'."

WND calls and e-mails to DHS, asking for an explanation of the e-mail that suggests prominent Muslim groups rejected the government's request for help in minimizing "violent extremism," were not returned.
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