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Digital mix guy (OP) User ID: 19975970 United States 04/13/2018 10:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | QUOTE: (less than 50%): A Syrian-American advocacy group with Muslim Brotherhood links and a history of misrepresenting jihadist groups as moderates recently completed a weekend-long training session with left-wing activists on lobbying Congress and how to do demonstrations. The Syrian American Council (SAC) organized the “Revolution Bootcamp: The 7th Anniversary of the Syrian Revolution,” held at the New America Foundation. A group called Beautiful Trouble, which “exists to make nonviolent revolution irresistible,” led much of the training. The SAC has misrepresented Syrian rebel groups as moderate, despite their jihadist orientations. It succeeded in persuading the Obama administration to arm these groups. The Syrian opposition “has increasingly become more defined by its moderation, more defined by the breadth of its membership, and more defined by its adherence to some, you know, democratic process and to an all-inclusive, minority-protecting constitution,” Kerry said in 2013 during congressional testimony. At the time, however, U.S. intelligence agencies were concerned that “the most radical elements” were poised to dominate the opposition to dictator Bashar Al-Assad. That’s exactly what happened, as rebel groups fell in line behind the growing ISIS caliphate. Now the SAC is looking for allies on Capitol Hill to pressure the Trump administration to continue supporting these same groups. The training sessions March 18-19 aimed to help SAC’s members and their non-Muslim/non-Syrian partners lobby effectively on their behalf. The group brought representatives of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) to Washington in January to lobby the Trump administration to resume training and equipping its fighters. President Trump stopped arming the FSA last year in favor of supporting the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) that subsequently dislodged ISIS from much of Syria with U.S. help. This lobby effort took place days before FSA fighters joined the Turkish military in its invasion of the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northwestern Syria. Reports indicated that FSA forces engaged in widespread looting in Afrin after it fell last month, and many of the brigades that took part have jihadist orientations. By working with the SAC on Syria, the trainers in effect signed up to lobby on behalf of jihadists who oppose democracy, support slavery and promote hatred of religious minorities. No distinction existed between the Free Syrian Army (FSA), Ahar al-Sham or Jabhat al-Nusra, Anas al-Abdeh, former president of the anti-Assad National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces (ETILAF), which includes FSA representatives, told the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat in 2016. But SAC presented a very different image to U.S. leaders. At a minimum, the SAC is led by Muslim Brotherhood supporters. The Brotherhood wishes to see an Islamic state spread from the Middle East throughout the world. Molham al-Droubi, a key leader of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, told the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) in 2013 that many of the SAC’s members formerly belonged to the Syrian Brotherhood. An Arabic post on the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood’s website from 2014 stated that its ideology stood closer to that of ISIS than to the West. [link to www.jta.org (secure)] Have no fear, Spock is here!!! LLAP |