Wonderful: ISIS Celebrates Pro-Return-of-the-Caliphate Tweets by One of the Department of Homeland Security's Main Islamic Advisors

He also accused American conservatives of "misreading" 9/11 (what was there to misread?), and called upon them to "reassess" their "belligerence."

The Al Qaeda splinter group ISIS applauded his wise remarks.

Affiliates of the Iraqi terror group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as ISIS...

By the way, ISIL is ISIS. I've been meaning to make that clear.

... are praising and potentially recruiting extremists based on controversial tweets by a senior Department of Homeland Security (DHS) adviser who recently claimed that ISIL is proof that a Muslim “caliphate” is making an “inevitable” return.

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These controversial comments quickly ricocheted through the Muslim world after the Arabic website Rassd republished the comments in Arabic and touted the words of what it called a key "Obama adviser."

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Terrorism analyst Patrick Poole said that Elibiary’s tweets are being used to recruit jihadists and that he should face repercussions for employing such rhetoric given his sensitive position at DHS.

"For years those of us complaining about Elibiary’s extremist statements have done so to no avail," Poole said. "The Obama administration has repeatedly doubled-down on their support for Elibiary and recently promoted him to homeland security senior fellow."

"I have personally briefed a roomful of members of Congress about the situation, and only a very few have been willing to publicly raise the issue while most have privately admitted the problem but sat back and done nothing," Poole said.

By the way, this "senior fellow" at DHS is a Muslim Brotherhood booster. He called Mohammad Morsi, the now-deposed Muslim Brotherhood president of Egypt, Egypt's Nelson Mandela.

Dana Milbank just wrote an article accusing Heritage of "targeting" Elibiary.

posted by Ace at 07:59 PM

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