A Blog by Farzad Banifatemi
On Tuesday, December 15 in New York City’s legendary 21′ Club, the Center for Security Policy honored Norman Podhoretz with its Mightier Pen Award. Both in his prepared remarks and in answering questions, Mr. Podhoretz addressed the issue of Iran and its quest for nuclear weapons and, specifically, recent American diplomatic history that, he believes, will make a confrontation inevitable. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/p18260.xml
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Former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith addressed the Center for Security Policy’s National Security Group on Capitol Hill on the topic of nuclear deterrence. Mr. Feith– a long-time supporter of the Center and the author of War and Decision– is a distinguished scholar at the Hudson Institute.
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Frank Gaffney discusses Obama’s foreign policy on Fox Business News, putting it in the context of Carter-era disarmament during the Cold War. April 1, 2009.
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This is another in a series of Frank Gaffney’s special video commentary on national security and defense issues. This episode references his recent column for the Washington Times: http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/p18095.xml
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The Center for Security Policy hosted its annual Freedom Flame Dinner in New York’s Metropolitan Club. One of the highlights of the program was a moving tribute to actor and patriot Ron Silver, who died this year of cancer. A short film made in his honor by David Bosse, and was introduced by his friend and fellow Hollywood conservative and New Yorker Tony LoBianco. Frank Gaffney and Mr. LoBianco presented the ‘Ron Silver Star’ to Ron’s daughter, Alexandra.
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On December 5, 2008 Frank Gaffney, President and CEO of the Center for Security Policy, spoke to members of Lawyers for Civil Justice in New York City. The topic of his talk was the intersection of Shariah and the US Constitution.
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Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy discusses the start of the COALITION TO STOP SHARIAH (www.USAStopShariah.org) at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.
STATEMENT BY THE COALITION TO STOP SHARIAH
REGARDING
U.S. TREASURYS EFFORTS TO PROMOTE SEDITIOUS ISLAMIC FINANCE
We are Americans opposed to the stealth jihad being waged in this country by those who promote Shariah – authoritative Islams theo-political-religious program for establishing a global theocracy. As such, Shariah and its espousal of violent and stealthy jihad constitute sedition. We are determined to resist efforts now underway to create parallel Muslim societies and otherwise to insinuate Shariah into this country via its mosques, prisons, campuses, media, government and financial institutions.
Of particular concern is the progress being made to establish Shariah-Compliant Finance (SCF) within Western, and most recently, U.S. banks and other institutions that trade securities. Islamic finances leading Shariah authorities have made plain that they consider SCF to be jihad with money, financial jihad and a means of promoting their objective of destroying the Wests economic system and replacing it with an Islamic one.
Incredibly, in recent days, the U.S. Treasury Department has begun embracing Shariah-Compliant Finance. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Robert Kimmitt has professed an interest in studying the salient features of Islamic banking to ascertain how far it could be useful in fighting the ongoing world economic crisis. According to a press report out of Saudi Arabia, he has declared that experts in the Treasury Department are currently learning the important features of Islamic banking.
To this end, the Treasury Department is hosting in its headquarters building on Thursday, November 6th a seminar for the policy community entitled Islamic Finance 101. This event is being co-sponsored – and, it would appear, orchestrated – to promote Shariah-Compliant Finance by one of Americas leading promoters of the industry: the Islamic Finance Project at Harvard Law School. Harvard has benefitted from the infusion of millions of dollars from a Wahhabi Saudi prince and his government. Such funds are evidently translating into its fealty to the Islamist agenda and the promotion of Shariah and SCF by Harvard professors such as Frank Vogel (who will preside at the Treasury seminar).
It is especially alarming that the Treasury Department is now in a position to impose its submission to Shariah on the various financial institutions which it has bought in recent weeks or otherwise controls. With the nationalization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, its purchase of – at last count – 17 banks and the enormous leverage associated with its $700 billion slush-fund, Treasury can be an irresistible force should it actively promote Shariah-Compliant Finance. The fact that Assistant Treasury Secretary Neel Kashkari, the official charged with administering that slush fund, is the host of Islamic Finance 101″ certainly looks like active promotion of Shariah-Compliant Finance.
The Coalition to Stop Shariah calls on the Treasury Department to cancel this indoctrination session, to cease its efforts to promote Shariah-Compliant Finance and to recognize Shariah for what it is – sedition – and treat it accordingly by banning its use in U.S. financial institutions and products.
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Mark Groombridge was the State Department’s special assistant to John Bolton, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security. Prior to that he was a fellow at the Cato Institute and the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC. He received his B.A. in international relations and Chinese from the University of Minnesota, and his Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University. He again addressed the Center for Security Policy’s usually off-the-record National Security Luncheon on Capitol Hill.
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President Obama’s much-anticipated speech at West Point Tuesday night constitutes an opportunity with the potential to be as strategically momentous as Richard Nixon’s visit to China in 1972. Mr. Obama is in a unique position to tell the truth about the nature of the enemy we confront, not just in Afghanistan but worldwide, and thereby put the effort to defeat that enemy on a sound, coherent and supportable footing. Will he rise to the occasion? http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/p18239.xml
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Mark Groombridge was the State Department’s special assistant to John Bolton, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security. Prior to that he was a fellow at the Cato Institute and the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC. He received his B.A. in international relations and Chinese from the University of Minnesota, and his Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University. He addressed the Center for Security Policy’s usually off-the-record National Security Luncheon on Capitol Hill.
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