Farhana Khera testifies at Senate hearing June 28, 2016 (Screenshot Senate Judiciary Committee video).
The question from Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., was fairly straightforward.
“What do we do when we find radical imams out there in the country that sympathize with ISIL and al-Qaida inside the country, inside the United States?” Graham asked during a Tuesday hearing before the Senate Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts.
Farhana Khera, president and executive director of Muslim Advocates, replied, “I’ve never heard of one inside the United States.”
Sitting next to Khera was Philip Haney, a former Department of Homeland Security officer turned whistleblower. Haney was astonished to hear his fellow witness claim she had never heard of a radical imam inside the U.S. He found her answer very telling.
“She’s basically endorsing the implementation of Shariah law because there are a lot of imams in the United States that are teaching that Muslims should follow Shariah law, and there are entire organizations made up of imams and sheiks who are overtly promoting Shariah law,” Haney told WND in an interview.
“So if she doesn’t consider those individuals to be radical, which is in violation of the U.S. Constitution plus state and federal civil law, then she is by default agreeing with and/or endorsing what they’re doing.”
Haney and Khera were two of seven witnesses who testified at the Tuesday Senate subcommittee hearing titled “Willful Blindness: Consequences of Agency Efforts to Deemphasize Radical Islam in Combating Terrorism.” The topic was right up Haney’s alley. As a Customs and Border Protection officer for 12 years, he compiled valuable information on Muslim individuals and organizations with ties to terrorism. However, Haney testified the administration “modified” or eliminated more than 800 of his records related to the Muslim Brotherhood network in the U.S. because they were an offense to Muslims.
What’s more, Haney was the target of numerous internal DHS investigations, culminating in a Department of Justice criminal probe. He recounts his odyssey in his new book, “See Something, Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad.”
Haney thinks there are two definitions of “radical” at work. He said the senators on the panel probably defined a “radical” as one who supports the use of violence, and Khera answered Graham’s question based on that definition. But Haney thinks any Muslim who supports the imposition of Shariah law in America is “radical.”
“[Khera] might honestly be able to say she doesn’t know any imams who are overtly promoting violence; however, they are promoting Shariah law, which is in violation of the Constitution. And I would say that’s about as radical as you can get,” Haney reasoned.
Radical imam Abu Hamza was sentenced to life in prison in 2015 by a court in New York on 11 terrorism charges. He helped set up a terror training camp in the U.S. and sent two followers to Oregon. Hamza also sent an associate to Afghanistan to help al-Qaida and the Taliban plot against the U.S.
A few minutes before the radical imam question, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., asked Khera directly, “Do you live in a Muslim neighborhood?”
“No, I do not,” Khera replied with a chuckle.
“Do you know what a Muslim neighborhood is?” Durbin asked with a smirk.
“I was scratching my head at that when I first heard that term used,” the witness responded. “The Muslim community in the United States, with few exceptions, is actually quite spread out and integrated into the broader America.”
Haney was floored by that response as well.
“What she’s doing is she’s implying that they’re thoroughly assimilated into the fabric of American culture, that there is no notable distinction between the American mainstream culture and the Muslim community,” he told WND. “But that’s obviously not true. Just go to Dearborn [Michigan] or other places like it.
“What she’s trying to do is promote a false narrative that there’s no effort in the Islamic community to create a distinction between their culture, their Shariah worldview, and mainstream American culture, which defies what we see right in front of us. Otherwise women wouldn’t wear hijabs, would they?”
Despite what she said, Khera appears to know there are Muslim neighborhoods in America. At one point in her prepared testimony she stated “the NYPD targeted Muslim neighborhoods.” She also complained about “biased policing that targets individuals and communities based on religion.”
Again, Haney found Khera’s words to be very revealing of her mindset.
“It implies that she agrees with their objective, which is to promote the spread of Islam without any interference from either social pressure or law enforcement,” Haney said. “She’s implying that she accepts it.”
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