Former NY Times Writer's Dismissal of Key Brotherhood Document is 'Journalistic Malpractice'
David K. Shipler, a former New York Times writer and Pulitzer prize winner, wants you to believe there is no threat from radical Islam in America.
Writing in the New Yorker, Shipler has authored a piece called "Pamela Geller and the Anti-Islam Movement" in which he tries to undercut a key piece of evidence cited not only by people like Geller but also federal prosecutors, the FBI and judges authoring court rulings. Shipler wants you to believe that the document called, "An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America," is of no importance whatsoever.
The document, uncovered in 2004 and used in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation Trial, lays out a plan by the Muslim Brotherhood to undo Western civilization from the inside and bring about their goal of an Islamic North America.
Patrick Poole, national security and terrorism reporter at PJ Media, calls Shipler's article "journalistic malpractice." In a brilliant takedown of Shipler's piece, Poole shows source documents, court testimony and rulings to counter the claims published in the magazine that caters to New York's elite.
According to Shipler, the document is a bit of a fraud that was blindly accepted by the judge and not properly challenged, was admitted as hearsay and failed to make a distinction between key groups claimed to belong to the Muslim Brotherhood infrastructure in North America.
Poole tackles Shipler's claim that the document is not of sound provenance and hasn't been challenged properly in court by citing not only court testimony to show it was tested but also Shipler's own admission in his book that defense lawyers in the Holy Land Trial challenged the admission of the document at both the trial and appeal:
These are what are generally known as “adversarial proceedings,” much as Shipler claims never occurred. It’s not clear exactly then what Shipler was expecting. An entirely separate trial over the Explanatory Memorandum? With his own damning acknowledgement of these defense team challenges, we can only conclude that he’s being duplicitous, or really, really thick.
Poole goes on to show several more source documents to make his point and to contradict Shipler's claim that the document was admitted as hearsay by the Bush administration to deny the groups named their day in court. Again, citing actual court records, Poole rips apart Shipler's assertions that this faulty document is part of a conspiracy.
The Muslim Brotherhood has spawned many of the groups taking up violent jihad around the world, but terrorism isn't the only threat. The Brotherhood's civilizational jihad is just as real and already far advanced. We cannot afford to be willfully blind to that threat.
Read Patrick Poole's full article for source notes and documentation.
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