On Thursday May 4, 2009, Barack Hussein Obama gave a speech at Cairo University in Egypt. The stated purpose of the speech was to “seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world”. However, Obama’s rhetoric only emboldened the Islamist enemies of the United States of America and Israel and confirmed his administration spinelessness in the face of Islamo-Fascist evil.

His speech abounded in typical Obama niceties, implausible feel-good scenarios and other devices of rhetorical masturbation. It was, in the usual Obama style, totally devoid of specifics. But most importantly, it was devoid of an uncompromising stance against Islamist terrorism and support for the only democracy in the Middle East: Israel. Right when you thought Obama could insult the Presidency no further than when he bowed to the despot of Saudi Arabia, Hussein threw away his dignity, groveling before the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims.

Obama’s “message” to the Islamic world started with one of the greatest fallacies ever uttered before any audience in human history: “America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles — principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.”

America and Islam are not mutually exclusive? Does Obama truly realize what he says when he asserts that the principles upon which Our Nation was built—individual liberty and responsibility of thought and conscience, independence, self-determination and self-government—are compatible with the ideology which orders its believers to kill all those who deny its supremacy and refuse to submit to its barbaric rule, a religion which seeks to take away the powers of government from the hands of the people and place them into the hands of the priests of Allah? Does Obama truly believe that our system of capitalism and democracy is not incompatible with Islam, the springboard for the world’s most notorious, cruel, ignorant, barbaric terrorists and despots? The events of 9/11 have once and for all demonstrated our inherent and irreconcilable differences with those who correctly practice the tenants of Islam. The only place where Western civilization and Islam seem to share many similarities is inside Obama’s twisted psyche.

In his speech, Obama goes on: “It was Islam — at places like Al-Azhar — that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe’s Renaissance and Enlightenment.” Really? Have the monasteries of Europe, the libraries and universities of Byzantium been suddenly replaced by an Islamic madrassa in Egypt?

“It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing; our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed. Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation.”

It seems that for Obama, the civic, military, architectural and cultural achievement of the Greeks and the Romans and other peoples of Europe, the philosophy of Aristotle, the medicine of Galen, the histories of Herodotus and Plutarch, been replaced and superseded by Islam’s elegant arches and timeless poetry. We must be shocked but not surprised. For Obama and his leftist followers, revising and fabricating human history, assigning the achievements of Western Civilization to other, lesser cultures is the only way to legitimize their sick world views.

Next, Obama states an even greater lie:

A powerful new book is wreaking havoc with the reputation myriad Islamic organizations in America have been carefully cultivating for years. Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that’s Trying to Islamize America (WND Books, 2009) reveals that, far from the moderate Muslim “mainstream” they profess to represent, these entities are associated with the insidious Muslim Brotherhood - an international criminal enterprise that has the self-professed mission of “destroying Western civilization from within.”

Muslim Mafia is the product of acclaimed journalist and author Paul Sperry and former Air Force investigator P. David Gaubatz. Much of it is informed by a six-month undercover operation conducted by the latter, his son Chris and several others into the organization Sperry calls the tip of the Brotherhood’s spear in America: the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR).

Chris Gaubatz and two female researchers affected the appearance of Muslims who adhere to the theo-political-legal program authoritative Islam calls “Shariah.” They volunteered as interns with CAIR and, in due course, were taken into the confidence of senior officials including notably the organization’s co-founder and executive director, Nihad Awad, and Ibrahim Hooper, its aggressive spokesman.

Such was the professionalism of Chris Gaubatz’s undercover work that he was given boxes of documents to dispose of - which he did, in a fashion. Upon discovering that the papers included materials relating to CAIR’s strategic plans, personnel, modus operandi and funding sources, the investigative team reviewed them carefully for evidence of conduct at odds with U.S. national security and other interests, if not downright criminal behavior. Copies were made and 52 of the thousands of pages the younger Gaubatz was given by CAIR are reproduced in the book’s appendix.

Muslim Mafia draws on Chris Gaubatz’s findings to paint a troubling portrait of CAIR and other Muslim Brotherhood-tied entities doing business under such names as the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), the Muslim Students Association (MSA), the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), etc. These organizations are working to transform the United States into an Islamic nation, governed not by the Constitution but by Shariah and subordinated ultimately to a global Muslim theocracy.

Toward that end, Muslim Mafia shows how CAIR has assiduously sought to penetrate U.S. decision-making circles, mounting successful influence operations against the executive, congressional and judicial branches. Its agents have been: included in official outreach efforts to the Muslim American community; selected by the State Department to represent the United States to foreign Muslim populations through government-underwritten speakers programs overseas; tapped to provide “sensitivity training” to the FBI and other law enforcement organizations; and prominently involved in legal proceedings advancing Shariah’s supremacist program.

In addition, CAIR officials like Hooper have been perceived as exemplary representatives of Muslims in America by many in the media - the sort of error that the Brotherhood and its ilk capitalize upon in order to legitimize their operations and further expand their influence.

Thanks to Muslim Mafia, we know that it is neither accurate nor desirable to afford the Council on American Islamic Relations such legitimacy, nor prudent to accede to its demands. Far from the grassroots powerhouse it professes to be, CAIR is exposed as a fraud. In the words of Sperry and Gaubatz, “Like the Wizard of Oz who used smoke and mirrors to transform his modest stature into something larger than life, CAIR furiously works its own levers and buttons to create an illusion of size and power.”

In fact, the authors reveal that the organization may have as few as 2,000 members nationwide and is running serious operating deficits. They contend that, but for significant infusions of foreign funding - “some 60 percent of CAIR’s total budget,” the organization would not be able to stay in business.

Sperry and Gaubatz identify such funding for CAIR as coming from “individuals, foundations and sovereign wealth funds closely identified with Arab governments.” Among these generous donors are members of the Saudi royal family and the kingdom’s preeminent institutions for spreading Shariah, including the World Association of Muslim Youth (WAMY).