WND EXCLUSIVE

OBAMA ADVISER REASSERTS U.S. IS 'ISLAMIC

COUNTRY'
Homeland Security senior fellow also touts rise of 'Caliphate'

DREW ZAHN



Mohamed Elibiary
An Obama adviser who ruffled feathers last year claiming the
U.S. is an Islamic country with and Islamically compliant
constitution is reportedly at it again.

Mohamed Elibiary is a senior fellow of Obamas Department of
Homeland Security Advisory Council.

According to a report from the Investigative Project on Terrorism, or IPT, Elibiary revisited his
October 2013 tweet in which he claimed the U.S. was an Islamic country, explaining in another
tweet Saturday (reportedly since deleted), I said America was an Islamic country not a Muslim
country. Pls study up on the difference b4 attacking me.
IPT reports a source close to Elibiary explained the Homeland Security adviser meant to say that he
feels there is nothing in the U.S. Constitution and the American system that runs contrary to Islam.
IPT, however, also quoted Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy,
who rejected Elibiarys claims.
His entire attempt to repeatedly say that American is Islamic is pure deception, Jasser said. In
fact it is not.
Islamism is incompatible with liberty and is a supremacist doctrine, Jasser continued. In all of
[Elibiary's] work, you will not find any critique of Islamism, the Islamic state, or government imposed
shariah in his opinions or any admission of the deep reforms necessary for American ideals to be
compatible with Islam.
The IPT report was also noticed by former Florida Republican Congressman Allen West, who wrote
a blog piece in which he also opposed Elibiarys assessment of Americas Islamic compliance.
I hate to disagree with this fella, but he fails to understand that America is a Constitutional
Republic, West wrote. And how he comes up with the conclusion that our U.S. Constitution is
Islamically compliant is beyond comprehension considering Islamic law is rooted in the practice
called Sharia rooted in the Koran. That is clearly a violation of our establishment of religion clause.
Indeed, in nations where Islamic Shariah law has been implemented, Christians, Jews and women in
particular have suffered discrimination, violence and court-supported persecution a legal system in
clear contradiction not only of Americas religious freedoms, but also of several other constitutional
rights.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is how it begins. Islamists infiltrate our governing systems and deceive
us with lies, making us believe there is no true delineation in our fundamental beliefs, West
continued. What I find disturbing [but] not surprising is this man is allowed to have a position in the
most important domestic security government agency, our Department of Homeland Security.
Elibiary, in fact, has a long record of reportedly working with those whose brand of Islam strays into
the conquering, oppressive form of Islamism.
According to Judicial Watch Elibiary admits hes a longtime friend of self-described Islamist Shukri
Abu Baker, convicted in 2008 of financing the terrorist organization Hamas through his U.S. Muslim
Brotherhood entity, the Holy Land Foundation. Judicial Watch reports Elibiary donated to the Holy
Land Foundation monthly until it was shut down by the U.S. government and defends Baker,
depicting his prosecution as a case of political persecution.
According to a Breitbart report, Elibiary was a speaker in 2004 at an event called A Tribute to the
Great Islamic Visionary, which honored the ruthless, theocratic Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini, and in
2006, Elibiary penned an op-ed stating that everyone should read Sayyid Qutb, a man widely seen
as the founder of radical Islamic groups like al-Qaida and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Elibiary wrote, Id recommend everyone read Qutb, but read him with an eye to improving America
not just to be jealous with malice in our hearts.
Elibiarys Twitter account, though he vehemently insists it reflects only his personal opinions and not
any official government positions, has repeatedly been a source of comments that can be interpreted
as sympathetic to the Islamist cause.
Earlier this month, for example, Elibiary tweeted, As Ive said b4 inevitable that Caliphate returns.
Choice only whether we support #EU like Muslim Union vision or not.
A week later, Eliabary also tweeted, Itll be hard at times but over next 10years conservative movt
will evolve towards Muslim majority world.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/06/obama-adviser-reasserts-u-s-is-islamic-
country/#HtSVrWsA7MF0sVQ8.99