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Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade
Brad Sherman (D-CA), Chairman
Date:
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Time:
10:30 AM
Subject:
Foreign Aid and the Fight Against Terrorism and Proliferation: Leveraging Foreign Aid to Achieve U.S. Policy Goals
witnesses:
Panel I
The Honorable Dell L. Dailey
Ambassador-at-Large
Coordinator for Counterterrorism
U.S. Department of State
Ms. Patricia McNerney
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary
Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation
U.S. Department of State
Panel II
Mr. Steven Emerson
Executive Director
The Investigative Project on Terrorism
Mr. Douglas Farah
Senior Investigator
Nine Eleven Finding Answers Foundation
Senior Fellow
International Assessment and Strategy Center
If the hearing comes off as scheduled, it will be against the urging of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC).. Lets all express our support for this act of resistance. Here is the text of my email:
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Thank you for having the courage to call Steven Emerson as a witness to testify about terrorism. I understand that ISNA & MPAC have applied pressure to censor truthful testimony and I respect your courage in resisting that pressure. Terrorism is a tactic, not an enemy. It is a function of sacramental doctrine, not of poverty, deprivation, illiteracy or ignorance. Your committee and the congress should study the actual sources of terrorism, which include Surahs 8, 9, 33 & 59 of the Qur'an and these ahadith: Bukhari 1.7.331 & 4.52.220. All of those sources are documented, with links to souce, in an on line petition, with 1108 signatures: http://www.petitiononline.com/ckd2005/ .
Terrorism & genocide are subsets of Jihad, the Islamic law of which is laid down in the Qur'an and explicated in The Reliance of the Traveler, Book O, Chapter 9. You can find it quoted and linked in many of my blog posts. Search for O-9.8: The Objectives of Jihad.
Ben 07/30/08
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