Elibiary (cont’d): Plus, as part of my engagement with Muslim communities across the country, I have met privately with all the major nationalMuslim organizations regularly demonized as “front groups” for the Muslim Brotherhood and gained from them all a very clear understanding of their perspectives on Islamism/Political Islam in our country. Inmy opinion, these community organizations are in 2013 operating asAmerican organizations fully within the bounds of US law for the benefit of the American Muslim community and broader American society.
If it’s a matter of recognizing and addressing legitimate security concerns about the “US Muslim Brotherhood,” you’d be hard pressed to find someone who’s done more substantively on the topic than I have over the past decade.
As the FBI’s own press release53 about some of my work stated, I’ve been building up community-based partnerships with law enforcement since2003. One can’t do that in the Dallas-based environment where I grewup without first addressing the mess left behind by HLF. Therefore, it’s illogical to ever accuse me of being dismissive of legitimate “concerns about the US Muslim Brotherhood” as simply “Islamophobia.”
