Pentagon Aide’s Invitations Contradicted U.S. Policy

Steven Emerson has done an exhaustive report on the Gordon England/Hesham Islam/Stephen Coughlin debacle. He lays out the long term influence of Islam on England and his close association with ISNA, a proxy for the Muslim Brotherhood. Here is the money quote from Emerson's report:

Founded in Egypt in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood is a global Islamist movement with a stated long-range objective of a global Islamic state with Shariah law “the basis controlling the affairs of state and society.” As stated by Hasan al-Banna, the Brotherhood’s founder, “It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.” That helps explain the Muslim Brotherhood’s motto: “God is our objective, the Quran is our Constitution, the Prophet is our leader, jihad is our way, and death for the sake of God is the highest of our aspirations.”

FROM POLITICALMAVENS.COM:

Pentagon Aide’s Invitations Contradicted U.S. Policy
By Steven Emerson
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At the urging of a subordinate, Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England scheduled at least two meetings with foreign emissaries in direct contradiction of U.S. policy at the time. The meetings date back to 2005. They involved a Lebanese ambassador considered a proxy for the Syrian government and a leading member of Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood.U.S. policy at the time was not to engage in talks with either man, because they represent groups with whom the United States was not to communicate. The meetings were organized by England’s special assistant for international affairs, Hesham Islam.
An invitation to Muslim Brotherhood official Husam al-Dairi was canceled in late 2005 after a senior State Department official heard about it and insisted it not take place. That official, J. Scott Carpenter, told IPT News he was shocked that such an invitation was issued, let alone that it was done without anyone consulting the State Department.
Carpenter was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs at the time and knew the meeting went against U.S. policy toward the Muslim Brotherhood.
“I said, ‘what are you talking about?’” he remembered in an interview last week. “It was a bad idea.”
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