The Holy Land Verdict in Perspective
By Douglas Farah
My colleagues on the Counterterrorism Blog Matt Levitt and Andrew Cochran have discussed the sweep of guilty verdicts in the Holy Land Foundation case.
I wanted to add briefly, some perspective, which can only be gleaned if one goes through the voluminous exhibits, available at the NEFA Foundation site, which give the reasons for the trial to begin with.
The Holy Land Foundation was a direct outgrowth of the international Muslim Brotherhood, as are CAIR, MSA and other groups under the MB umbrella. The ties, based on the trial evidence, are outlined in this paper I co-authored for the NEFA Foundation. As described, the entire enterprise was not only to fund Hamas, but to set up the architecture to wage jihad in this country, with the aims of radically altering the entire U.S. system of government.
What is still most fascinating to me, after two trials, is that the most damning documents were not contested at all by the defense.
And herein is the main point, as I wrote earlier: The most compelling evidence of the Brotherhood’s true aims is contained in an internal memorandum written in 1991 by a senior Brotherhood leader and titled: “On the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America.” In the document, the author is strikingly clear about the ultimate goal of the Muslim Brotherhood (referred to as Ikhwan) in the United States, as these quotes make clear: My full blog is here.
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