Charles Jacobs, Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT) recently said: “On Feb. 18, 2015, President Obama’s project to ‘combat violent extremism,’ is to be showcased in a Washington “Summit.” This summit cites Boston as one of three model U.S. cities that can lead the way.”
That will be a problem: The central Muslim institution with whom the Boston law enforcement agencies are partnering against extremism is itself extremist.
The Islamic Society of Boston (ISB) and its political arm, the Muslim American Society, seen as the go-to groups for civic and law enforcement partnerships, have links to many extremists who are either in jail, in flight from federal authorities, or have been killed during terrorist attacks. The Washington Times, on Feb. 11, published a full-page ad with photos of 12 jihadists connected to these organizations.
Our leaders can’t use radical Islamists to fight radical Islam. This summit will be seriously flawed; it will be an ineffectual event that will fail to fulfill its goal of combating extreme violent radical Islam.
The conflict of interest is startling. The radical Muslim leaders who are wrongly accepted as legitimate participants are connected to terrorists. This is a mistake that needs to be publicized and corrected. They must be replaced with others, who have no ties to terrorism before the meetings can have any legitimacy.
The leadership of the United States has the duty of protecting our country and our freedoms and these leaders must stop the expanding Islamist threat to our way of life before it is too late.{/mprestriction}
