Days after a devout Muslim terrorized a U.S. Army base in Texas several news reports remind that two key Homeland Security posts are occupied by equally devout Muslims, one of them a former Los Angeles deputy mayor who eliminated a crucial program that tracked terrorist activities in the city.  

Earlier this year President Obama appointed Arif Alikhan to be the nation's Assistant Secretary for Policy Development at the Department of Homeland Security and Kareem Shora to the agency's influential advisory council, which provides recommendations and advice directly to the Secretary of Homeland Security.

Alikhan, who leads a Homeland Security team responsible for developing policy issues to secure the country against terrorism, has referred to the renowned terrorist organization Hezbollah as a "liberation movement" and was responsible for killing a Los Angeles Police project that monitored terrorist activities in the city's notoriously radical mosques. The defunct Muslim terror tracking plan was designed to identify hotbeds of extremism in an area where several locals offered the September 11 hijackers support.  

Shora was the head of a well-known Arab organization whose officials refer to anti-U.S. jihadists as heroes. As executive director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), Shora had close ties to radical Ivy League professor Rashid Khalidi, a Palestinian terror supporter who has reportedly worked on behalf of the extremist Palestine Liberation Organization.

An Israeli newspaper criticizes Obama for reaching out to Muslims by appointing them to key security posts amid charges he wrongly ignored internal Muslim terror. The passage undoubtedly refers to the Muslim, al Qaeda wannabe Army major (Nidal Malik Hasan) who went on a murderous rampage at Ft. Hood as he chanted "Allahu Akbar!" ("God is great!") in Arabic.

Days after the massacre, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was most concerned about preventing a wave of anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States. She vowed that her agency is working hard with groups across the U.S. to deflect any retaliation against Muslims for one man's fury.

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written by JK, November 23, 2009

Some info about Arif Alakhan:
From http://www.scpr.org/news/2009/...-top-pos/:
Graduated from UC Irvine and Loyola Law School, he clerked for a federal judge, worked for the prominent law firm Irell and Manella, and finally joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles. He’d wanted to be a prosecutor ever since hearing one at career day in middle school.
Alikhan rose to chief of the Cyber and Intellectual Crimes Section and worked as a senior adviser to then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez in Washington. Now, after two years as L.A.’s deputy mayor for public safety, the 40-year-old returns to the nation’s capital as a*sistant secretary for the Office of Policy Development at the Department of Homeland Security

Hmm.. Senior advisor to Alberto Gonzalez, Bush's AG... Are you sure he's a terrorist?


Kareem Shora was offered the job on the Homeland Security Advisory Council back in October. He's been there for 2 months.

In 2002 he got an FBI Certificate of Recognition at the "Countering Terrorism Conference", FBI Academy. In 2007 he got recognition from the Police Foundation, Advisory Board 2008 immigration enforcement by local police.
Oh but look, he was the director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. Looks like another terrorist for sure...

As far as these guys being "devout muslims", I'm not really sure how devout they are - I didn't see any references to that in the biographical material available on the internet. Does anyone have anything beyond that email that would shed some light on that?

But seeing as how we have freedom of religion in this country that shouldn't matter, should it?
That nut job that killed those people in Fort Hood was in a completely different category from these people.
Would you advocate we set up Manzanar-style camps for "devout Muslims"?

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