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DonViejo

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Mon Feb 13, 2017, 01:07 PM Feb 2017

Trump's counter-jihad: How the anti-Muslim fringe conquered the White House.

Updated by Zack Beauchamp@zackbeauchampzack@vox.com Feb 13, 2017, 8:00am EST

Last July, a sharply dressed man named Frank Gaffney walked onto the stage of a crowded convention center in downtown Denver and proceeded to calmly warn his audience that Muslims were working to conquer America from the inside.

Speaking without notes at a glass lectern, Gaffney — who worked, decades ago, as a Pentagon official in the Reagan administration — told the audience that political leaders from both parties had spent years covering up the true threat to the US. It didn’t come from terrorists acting in the name of Islam. It came from Islam itself.

Gaffney said that sharia, the Arabic term for Islamic law, was a “brutally repressive, totalitarian, political, military, and legal program” for gradually subverting Western governments and replacing them with ones that adhere to harsh Islamic dictates. And in the US, those efforts were already well underway.

“This program of subversive, stealthy penetration and takedown is operating. It’s, in fact, been at work for 50 years,” he said. “Our government has been subverted.”

Gaffney wasn’t speaking metaphorically. He accused “agents of Hillary Clinton” of shredding files about Muslim radicals living both inside and outside the US and said that then–Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson was surrounded by “a small echo chamber which is filled by Muslim Brotherhood operatives.”

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Trump's counter-jihad: How the anti-Muslim fringe conquered the White House. (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2017 OP
There's nothing "counter" about this, this is just conspiracy mongering, first steps to horrors ck4829 Feb 2017 #1
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