Sue Myrick's "Wake Up America Agenda"
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
By: Sue Myrick

Legislative Action Items Proposal As Launched in 2008

1.  Will call for a government investigation of all US military chaplains who were approved by Abdurahman Alamoudi.

  Allegedly, the US Government allowed Abdurahman Alamoudi, then head of the American Muslim Council, to approve Muslim chaplains to serve in the United States military.  In fact, Alamoudi, a leader in the radical Muslim Brotherhood, set up the Pentagon’s Muslim chaplain’s corps beginning in the early 1990s.   In 2004, Alamoudi was sentenced to 23 years in jail on terrorism charges.  The chaplains that were approved by Alamoudi have not been re-vetted since his sentencing.  While there may be nothing wrong with the Muslims chaplains that he approved, it seems logical that our Government would re-check the chaplains who were approved by a convicted terrorist. 

  The investigation should also cover US military chaplains who received training at Islamic schools and think tanks connected with the radical Muslim Brotherhood. 

2.  Will call for a government investigation of all US prison chaplains who were approved by Abdurahman Alamoudi.  

  Allegedly, the US Government allowed Abdurahman Alamoudi, then head of the American Muslim Council, to also approve Muslim chaplains to serve in prisons managed by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons.   In 2004, Alamoudi was sentenced to 23 years in jail on terrorism charges.  The chaplains that were approved by Alamoudi have not been re-vetted since his sentencing.  While there may be nothing wrong with the Muslims chaplains that he approved, it seems logical that our Government would re-check the chaplains who were approved by a convicted terrorist. 

3.  Will call for the Government Accounting Office (GAO) to investigate the selection process of Arabic translators in the FBI and DoD. 

  It has come to Representative Myrick’s attention that the FBI, desperate for new hires, is currently recruiting candidates through pro-jihad publications, organizations and even mosques connected to the radical Muslim Brotherhood. 

4.  Will call for the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) 501(c)(3) non-profit status which restricts “lobbying on behalf of a foreign government”. 

  CAIR’s website claims, and its communications director has claimed in press releases since 9/11, that they receive no foreign government support, but CAIR’s headquarters near the US Capitol were until 2005 owned by the ruler of Dubai, who put up nearly $1 million, and the ruler’s foundation recently pledged $50 million to CAIR.

  CAIR also has received $500,000 from Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, and $250,000 from the Saudi-based Islamic Development Bank.  Records show that financial support has also been provided by the Bank of Kuwait. 

5.  Amend US law to make the preaching, publication, or distribution of materials that call for the overthrow of the United States Government, death of American citizens, attacks on the United States Government or Armed Forces, or the financing of the means and/or operations to accomplish these acts, acts of sedition and/or solicitation of treason.  

  While we have a Constitutional guarantee to freedom of speech, it is not absolute.  You can not incite violence.  The Supreme Court has ruled that yelling fire in a crowded movie theater is not protected speech.  While this would definitely be challenged for its constitutionality, it should be addressed.  There was a problem that occurred throughout England in the 1980s and 1990s where the British authorities turned the other way so long as the preachers were not advocating for violence within England.  The result was the July 2005 bombings that were carried out by English citizens who were radicalized within the country’s mosques. 

6.  Will call on the Government Accountability Office to conduct an audit to verify the total sovereign wealth fund investment in the United States. 

  A sovereign wealth fund, is a fund that is owned and/or controlled by a government that invests in public or private assets.  The recent purchases by the United Arab Emirates and China of Citigroup, Blackstone Group, Carlyle Group, and Bear Stearns have left me very concerned. The recent spike in the amount of sovereign wealth funds acquiring interests in U.S. industries and companies has largely been a result of our economic downturn.  While I do not oppose foreign investment in our economy, I am very worried about foreign governments investing in our defense, financial, and other industries vital to national security.  Many of these sovereign wealth funds are not transparent and it puts our national security at risk since we cannot be assured that they would act in a non-political manner. 

7.  Will attempt to cancel scholarship student visa program with Saudi Arabia until they reform their textbooks.

  Saudi textbooks that are sanctioned by the Royal Kingdom and distributed throughout the world, specifically in the United States, preach hatred and violence against non-Muslims.  Until the Saudi’s adequately change the textbooks that are used by young children within the Kingdom and in the United States, we should end their access to our visa program.  Why should we be giving the Saudi’s benefits of our great country when they are teaching to destroy the United States? 

8.  Will introduce a bill to restrict R-1/R-2 religious visas for imams who come from countries that do not allow reciprocal visits by non-Muslim clergy. 

  Too many imams immigrating here on such visas from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other Muslim countries have been caught up in counterterrorism investigations.  They are a serious potential national security threat, since they can radicalize scores of young Muslim men.  Yet the State Department in its visa-application process and the Department of Homeland Security in its border security procedures essentially treat Muslim clerics no differently than they would Buddhist monks from Thailand. 

9.  Will introduce a bill to cancel contracts to train Saudi police and other security forces in US Counterterrorism tactics until the Saudi’s certify the prosecution of Al Qaeda financiers, like Yasin al-Kadi, and the detention of repatriated Guantanamo terrorists that keep being released into the general population after being “rehabilitated”. 

  Under Saudi law, terrorists are allegedly rehabilitated and then sent back into the public.  The terms of the rehabilitation apparently state that the terrorists pledge to not attack within Saudi Arabia.  However, they are not required to make a pledge not to attack outside Saudi Arabia, such as against U.S. Armed Forces in Iraq.

  Yasin al-Kadi (or al-Qadi) is listed by the US Government as a terror financier.  His funds have been frozen in the United States and by the United Nations and European Union.  A senior Treasury official recently complained on ABC News that the Saudi Government has failed to comply with US requests to prosecute al-Kadi. 

  However, rather than hold Saudi Arabia accountable for making sure such terrorist financiers are held responsible for aiding terrorism, we have given them a pass.  In response, we need to show that we are serious and put some “sticks” with our “carrots”.  

10.  Will introduce or sponsor a bill to block the sale of sensitive military munitions, especially Joint Attack Direct Munitions, to Saudi Arabia.

  The Bush Administration recently authorized, by executive order, $20 billion in military equipment to be sold to Saudi Arabia.  Representative Myrick objects to this sale on the grounds of Saudi Arabia being the largest source of funding for Wahabism in the world.