A window on the muslim brotherhood in america

Elibiary (cont’d): The bottom line is that my decade-plus track record isclear to anyone with an objective eye. In my career, I have both advocat­ed in defense of the Muslim community as well as directly pioneered the at-times dangerous counter-ideological work associated with several ofour nation’s biggest homegrown terrorism investigations.

Post-9/11, I decided to respond by assisting our government counterthreats to the homeland from al-Qaeda and its associated allies. Simul­taneously, I helped my community pick up the pieces and safeguard itsnonprofit organizations, in order to protect its liberties, after the HLF’s closure and eventual conviction.

A segment of our fellow Americans see those two goals as mutually ex­clusive. I naturally disagree with that assessment and my track record in­dicates that. I staked out a flag early after HLF was closed that, due to some mistakes made before 9/11 by community members, the criminaltrial should be allowed to proceed and the criminal justice system’s ver­dict respected. But the corollary to my position was that if the Muslimcommunity leadership and the government can mutually reconcile andturn a new page, then the targeted national Muslim community organi­zations should be allowed to proceed anew.

This passage is instructive in several respects. In it, Elibiary makes plain his workin promoting the false narrative that “the threat to the homeland” comes only from “alQaeda and its associated allies.” This characterization of the threat has as its corollarythe contention that the Muslim Brotherhood and its front organizations he has de­scribed as “mainstream” must be viewed not as the problem but as part of the solution.