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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnti-Muslim Activist Katharine Gorka Named to Homeland Security Transition Team
https://theintercept.com/2016/11/30/katie-gorka-trump/KATHARINE GORKA, a controversial national security analyst who specializes in discussing the threat posted by Muslims to the United States, has complained bitterly that the Department of Homeland Security trains its agents falsely, in her opinion that Islam is a religion of peace.
Now, Gorka will have a chance to help Donald Trump remake the department. On Tuesday, she was selected by Trump to be part of the DHS landing team that will meet with Obamas DHS officials to manage the handoff to new leadership. Gorka, the president of a think tank called the Council on Global Security and the president of Threat Knowledge Group, a consulting firm, is a well known figure among anti-Muslim campaigners.
Gorka argues that the only way to defeat terrorism depend upon our being able to call the enemy by its proper name: Global Jihadism. She has pushed legislation to designate the the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group and impose sanction on its affiliates, associated groups, or agents. The affiliated groups mentioned in the legislation include mainstream civil rights organizations such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).
Gorka is also writes about Islam for Breitbart News, a website described by its former executive chairman Steve Bannon as a platform for the white supremacist alt-right movement. Bannon is one of Trumps top advisers. In one 2014 column, Gorka wrote that when Presidents Bush and Obama both publicly declared Islam to be a religion of peace, it struck a sour chord for many, and that American and Western leaders have preemptively shut down any debate within Islam by declaring that Islam is the religion of peace.
In another column, she defended five members of Congress, including then-Presidential candidate Rep. Michelle Bachman, R-Iowa, who were widely denounced by their own party leaders for spreading conspiracy theories in 2012 after they accused a top Clinton aid of ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and called on President Obama to investigate.
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Anti-Muslim Activist Katharine Gorka Named to Homeland Security Transition Team (Original Post)
Grey Lemercier
Nov 2016
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Frank Gaffney Jr., Robert Spencer, Brigitte Gabriel etc etc are all coming in in some capacity or
Grey Lemercier
Nov 2016
#2
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(23,926 posts)1. Can Pamela Geller be far behind?
Grey Lemercier
(1,429 posts)2. Frank Gaffney Jr., Robert Spencer, Brigitte Gabriel etc etc are all coming in in some capacity or
informal advisory roles. Michael Flynn is already official tapped as Trump's National Security Adviser, he is a LUNATIC.
It is sickening.