An Annotated Interview with DHS Advisor Mohamed Elibiary
Chiefs of Police (IACP), a member of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance(INSA) and a member of the International Association of Business Communicators(IABC).
In September 2011, then-FBI Director Robert Mueller awarded Mohamed Elibiary the Bureau’s highest public service award for his involvement with several field offices in countering Homegrown Violent Extremism (HVE).
An indication of Elibiary’s true colors can be found in a presentation he made in2007 to the 4th Annual Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA) Imam-training conference held jointly with the North American Imams Federation in California. Both are hardline Islamist groups. His presentation states:
“The Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt, Jordan, Tunis, etc. is a social movement for religious revival that seeks to Islamicize the society through cultural changing Dawah and that includes the political system, sound familiar?Yup you’re right they are the Muslim world’s version of the EvangelicalChristian Coalition/Moral Majority movement.”
“We must always resist the temptation to force one group such as Islamiststo reform by adopting ‘Liberalism’ for example. That would be denyingthem their self-determination to structure their societies according to theirpublic will.”
“We should remember that them [Islamists] ruling their countries withShariah law doesn’t mean them coming to our country and using our planesto destroy our buildings.”
It boasts of how his organization mobilized the Muslim community in Texas to “build expansive interfaith partnerships that include all of civic and political society in order to clarify the language used in the Global War onTerror (GWOT) in order to accurately define the enemy.”
Elibiary received significant attention when Reps. Michele Bachmann, Trent Franks, Louie Gohmert, Tom Rooney and Lynn Westmoreland drew upon research conducted by the Center for Security Policy4 in writing letters about the US MuslimBrotherhood to the Inspector-Generals of the Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Defense Department, State Departmentand Justice Department. The June 13, 2012 letter to the Department of Homeland Security5 specifically mentioned Elibiary, naming him as one of three DHS advisors with“extensive ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, other Islamist organizations and causes.” Italso mentioned reports by investigative reporter Patrick Poole6 that Elibiary allegedly tried to leak confidential information for political purposes. Elibiary maintains that he was exonerated7 by the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.