

If a leader of that organization even did something remotely suspicious in their past, that would raise huge red flags,” he said. “We vetted organizations all the time and the leaders of those organizations.

While the USDA is quick to lay the faith based partnerships at the feet of the previous Bush administration, a source who worked in the Bush administration’s faith based initiative told me about how important it was to vet the various non-profits, religious groups, and other organizations who would come in contact with the government. And we continued that effort to grow access to USDA programs an office that reaches out to non-profits, religious groups, and other entities to fully engage all communities and increase all access to their government,” the USDA representative told me.
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I believe the office was created during the Bush administration. “Within the USDA there is the community of faith-based partnerships. Twenty-five to thirty Muslim leaders representing 20 Muslim organizations are expected to attend the workshop.”Īccording to the USDA, no one from the White House was in attendance at Wednesday’s event, but the purpose of the USDA’s function grew out of the government’s faith based partnerships. Leaders from Muslim organizations around the nation, particularly social service organizations, are invited to a workshop with representatives from the DOA, Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Health and Human Services, the White House, Department of Education, the Department of Homeland Security, and more. “The Workshop: So what exactly is this workshop, you may ask. On Tuesday morning, the USDA seemed oblivious about an ISNA e-mail obtained by Big Peace which says: taxpayer funding for these terrorist funding-related groups.Īn email announcement was sent out August 27 by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a group long associated with Muslim Brotherhood and an un-indicted co-conspirator in the HLF trial. Event organizers said they would dedicate themselves to “cutting through red tape” to provide “direct access” to U.S.
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Some of CCMO’s member groups were un-indicted co-conspirators in the successfully prosecuted terrorist funding trial against the Holy Land Foundation (HLF). The event’s main organizer, the Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations (CCMO) has long-established ties to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, which fostered many Islamist terror groups. We have met with leaders from a number of groups representing underserved communities as well as a number of faith-based organizations such as Bread for the World, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, and Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger.Ĭonnie Hair at Human Events, though, pointed out the chief organizer of the event, has questionable ties:

To enhance our effectiveness in reaching those in need of USDA’s services, we continue to meet with a broad range of leaders and organizations to explain what services USDA provides to the American people and ways in which we can strengthen our outreach efforts. When I first contacted the USDA last Friday regarding details (who attended?, was the USDA aware of controversial connections?, etc…) about the event, a spokesman sent a vague response: The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is cited as one of the sponsors of the event in an email from Islamic Society of North America about the event. Last week, media reports surfaced that the Obama administration sponsored workshops for controversial Muslim organizations last Tuesday that would help the groups gain “direct access” to government programs.
