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August 7, 2012

My Neighbor, The Hamas Leader

National security correspondent, Patrick Poole, has a very interesting piece in PJ Media entitled “My Neighbor, the Hamas Leader.”

Poole writes: 

"Back in March, my friend and colleague Erick Stakelbeck of CBN News emailed me a link to an article in Tablet Magazine and asked: “Hey – isn’t that your neighbor with the head of Hamas?” Sure enough, it was. My former neighbor Salah Sultan was standing right beside Ismail Haniyeh – the Hamas “prime minister” of Gaza – as Haniyeh left a meeting with Muslim Brotherhood leaders in Cairo…."

The piece is a fascinating read and includes photos and video clips supporting Poole’s investigation of the "neighbor" and his affiliations. More importantly, it describes the resistance Poole met during his investigation, including accusations of  “racism.”

And while it may be tempting to chalk up such resistance to small minds in Hillard, Ohio (Poole’s hometown), there appears to be an over-representation of these minds in the Pentagon, White House and throughout the U.S. government today.

After you read the article, be sure to listen/watch the video clip (at the end), which includes a riveting group discussion with some familiar faces (e.g., Andrew McCarthy, Stephen Coughlin and others.)

PJ Media  |  August 3, 2012

My Neighbor, the Hamas Leader

By Patrick Poole

Hamas leader & Salah Sultan.jpg
Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas "prime minister" of Gaza (L) and Salah Sultan (R)

Back in March, my friend and colleague Erick Stakelbeck of CBN News emailed me a link to an article in Tablet Magazine and asked: "Hey — isn't that your neighbor with the head of Hamas?" Sure enough, it was. My former neighbor Salah Sultan was standing right beside Ismail Haniyeh — the Hamas "prime minister" of Gaza — as Haniyeh left a meeting with Muslim Brotherhood leaders in Cairo.

Stakelbeck knew about my neighbor Sultan because Erick and I had worked together on a video segment highlighting Sultan's activity and residence in my hometown of Hilliard, Ohio, back in 2007. That was more than a year after I had first written about returning home to Ohio to discover that I had an internationally known Hamas cleric living about a mile from my own house. Not only that, but Sultan was the religious director at the local Islamic school, Sunrise Academy, which had taken over the former public library building in town. Sultan was also the resident scholar of the newly built Noor Islamic Cultural Center in Hilliard.

As I later recounted, the Columbus Dispatch attacked me as a racist and a bigot, characterizing me as a Christianist Neo-Nazi. This after I had identified Sultan’s rabidly anti-Jewish remarks, his calls for violent jihad, his open support for Hamas, his ties to Muslim Brotherhood front organizations, and his association with international Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi.

The Dispatch article encouraged readers to attend an open house set up in response to my article at the local Islamic school. The relevant section of the Dispatcharticle responding to my claims was... more here


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