Giving Terrorists Elected Credibility

By Bill Wilson

Daily Jot News Service

WASH–Jun 22–DJNS–There is a story in The Daily Beast about Hani Nour Eldin, an elected member of the Egyptian Parliament, who came to Washington for a meeting with senior Administration officials. Turns out that Eldin is a member of the Gamaa Islamiya, the Egyptian Islamic Group, which is a designated terror group by the US State Department. But wait, there’s more…Eldin, according to The Daily Beast, was arrested in 1993 on terrorism charges when he and his radicals “got into a shootout with Egyptian security officials at a mosque.” The spiritual leader of his political party, Omar Abdel Rahman, is serving a life sentence in a North Carolina prison convicted in 1995 for plotting terror attacks on New York landmarks.

The Eldin visit has put the White House in a tight position. Eldin should be denied a US Visa and should not be allowed entry to the US because he is a leader of a terrorist organization and has a record of being a terrorist himself. So how did he get into the US? Eldin told The Daily Beast, “I have taken the American visa from the embassy as a member of the parliament representing a political party that has been elected and is a legitimate party.” A State Department official concurred: “We have no information suggesting that he or anyone else in the delegation is a member of the Egyptian Islamic Group.” Obviously, the State Department’s private records are not as good as what is made public.

This Administration is known for turning a blind eye to the obvious in order to do what it wants. We see it everyday as the White House refuses to enforce laws Congress passes, or to create laws by Executive Order that Congress will not pass. But the problem here is deeper. When President George W Bush set out to legitimize the Palestinian Authority with elections, Hamas, a known terrorist group, took power. Bush set a precedent: Democracy in Islamic majority nations results in duly elected terrorists holding office. It legitimizes terrorism and terrorists. It legitimizes Islam. The current White House has followed suit by encouraging the same in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, and soon to be, Syria.

Now we have terrorists entering the US on State Department-issued visas because they have been elected “Democratically.” Moreover, the State Department denies that these known terrorist organizations turned political parties are indeed still terrorist organizations. The White House is jeopardizing the security of our nation, of you and your children, by allowing this. In the Bible, the king of Babylon sent ambassadors (read spies) to King Hezekiah, who showed them all his armaments and treasures. In Kings 20:17, Isaiah prophesied to him: “Behold, the days come that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left.” Is America repeating this grave error?