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Sharing Foundation Fall 2008 Newsletter
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High School Sok Pharoth is the star of the 11th grade as she is ranked #1 in her class at Jayavaraman VII High School. She is also special to TSF because she is one of our own, a resident at Roteang Orphanage. Pharoth, now 17 years old, came to our gate over seven years ago with her baby brother, Darith. Her mother had died after childbirth complicated by TB, and her father disappeared. Since Pharoth had no means to raise the baby, and she also desperately wanted to go to school, Darith came to live with us.
After an unsatisfactory placement in a boarding school in the city and no one in the village who would take her in, Pharoth came to live at Roteang. Pharoth, who really enjoys school, as well as her many friends in the village, is currently studying math, chemistry, physics, biology and Khmer literature. She absolutely wants to go to University to study hotel management and tourism, and hopes eventually to establish a home for herself and Darith. She is a big help when visitors come, as her English is excellent, she knows all the children, and can explain how everything works at the Orphanage.
Pharoth comments, ?TSF gave hope for my life. Without The Sharing Foundation I could not possibly be who I am. They treat me as if I am one of their own children. My future is bright. My brother is cared for so well and I have no worries.?
Currently sponsoring 49 high school students for small group [?private?] classes at the Jayavaraman VII High School, 8 km south of Roteang village, our other students, with the exception of Vuthea, our other Orphanage teenager, are all from Roteang village, or contiguous ones. The Sharing Foundation Board members are very grateful to all the sponsors who contribute 0/year to make this possible, though we worry about enlarging the program as TSF?s pledge is to send to university all students who pass the National High School Graduation exam at the end of 12th grade, who score level 4, or better [of 12 levels] on the Australia Center for Education English test.
Our high school students are chosen on the basis of a written application, teacher recommendations, an interview with a Board member, and a home visit by Elephant to determine financial need. They are taught by the Khmer high school teachers around their regular schedules, and involve textbooks, plus small group discussions which large classes at the huge regular school cannot provide. Prior to our High School sponsorships, NO students from the Roteang area had passed the National exams at the end of 12th grade or gone on to universities!
Sharing Foundation Fall 2008 Newsletter
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English School / Computer school Att Vannak, 18 years old, started in The Sharing Foundation?s English School seven years ago as a total beginner. He can now speak English fluently, and enjoys talking to our foreign visitors. Vannak says the TSF English program is very important to the younger generation. ?It is the path to a better living standard,?
?I want to have knowledge to study IT [information technology] in a university. English is essential? Vannak emphasizes.
Vannak?s mother and father are both 55 years old. They are subsistence farmers. His mother never went to school; his father quit in?th grade. Vannak is one of the youngest in his family of 7 brothers and 2 sisters, and only his younger sister is still in school and able to be in TSF?s English program also.
Vannak also is sponsored for high school by a TSF donor, and he is in grade 11, #10 academically, of 63 students. He is hoping, of course, to be able to go to University under TSF?s sponsorship. In addition to his special classes at JayavaramanVll, and his daily English school, Vannak attends TSF?s computer school every day he is eligible. He says that in his ?spare time? he helps his family with farming, and likes to play football [soccer] if there are other free minutes.
The Sharing Foundation English school, begun in 2001, uses the facilities of the Roteang Village Elementary School, from 3:? to 7:30 pm, five days a week. Currently 450 students pour in totally voluntarily after their classes end at the junior high or high school for one hour sessions with one of our nine teachers. We have steadily improved the quality of the teachers, both by searching out truly dedicated and trained individuals, and by sending them all, at our expense, to the Australia Center for Education in Phnom Penh for ongoing honing of their own English skills. [The biggest issue is that the teachers have learned their own English as a second language, and though reading and writing may be excellent, pronunciation often is not: ACE has native English speakers as teachers, and this is key.]
Standards are strict in our school under head teacher Mam Sary, and non-hard working students are soon dismissed. In addition, all the teachers come back to Roteang on Saturday mornings for a full morning session together, where discussion of teaching techniques, student progress and lessons further enhances their skills. We have seen a steady upgrading of students?? abilities, as graduating students, tested at ACE, score better and better.
The computer school is a small but much enjoyed program, which helps position our possible future university students for college standards. In a separate building on the main road of the village, the school holds classes five days a week, on donated laptops and sturdy local desktops. We have? working computers, all that space allows, and the students, by lottery, are in 6 groups. Each group has lessons for 6 weeks, starting with word processing and spreadsheets, and soon moving on to publishing sample newsletters and programs. After 6 weeks, group one comes back again, and so on through the rotation.
One feeble and expensive phone line supplies Internet capability, so the students know about Google, for example, but can?t really do more than try it. Long term, a larger facility, more computers, an additional teacher and a real internet connection would be great, but high school work here does not even involve computers and the TSF computer school is only a taste [albeit delicious] and an inspiration for possible things to come in the wider world outside the village.
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Coming August 31: ?Direct Access? Stimulus Grants for the Muslim Brotherhood
Posted by Christine Brim Aug 29th 2010 at 4:55 am in Culture/Art, Economy, Espionage, Featured Story, Israel, Justice/Legal, Media Criticism, Obama, Politics, Strategy, ground zero mosque, sharia | Comments ?)
Think of it as ACORN reborn, with a slice of Jihad on the side.
On August 31, this coming Tuesday, the Muslim Brotherhood-associated ?Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations? (CCMO) will bring 25-30 Muslim leaders of 20 national Muslim groups to attend a special workshop presented by the White House and U.S. Government agencies (Agriculture, Education, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services etc.) to provide the groups ?funding, government assistance and resources.? The workshop will apparently provide special access for these Muslim Brotherhood organizations: the organizers pledge to provide ?direct access? and ?cut through red tape.? Government and Muslim groups will hold an Iftar dinner (breaking the fast of Ramadan) after the workshop.
The event was announced in an email newsletter sent August 27 by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism finance trial, long associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, the global Islamist network (great backgrounder here from Hudson Institute). Here are three key paragraphs from the email (the entire article on the August 31 event from the ISNA email is pasted below this post as reference):
This year, a phenomenal next step has been made where government iftars become coupled with workshops to provide resources and benefit the Muslim community. The US Department of Agriculture (DOA) and the Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations (CCMO) have paired the first of such events, scheduled for August 31, 2010.
?Leaders from Muslim organizations around the nation, particularly social service organizations, are invited to a workshop with representatives from the DOA, Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Health and Human Services, the White House, Department of Education, the Department of Homeland Security, and more. Twenty five to thirty Muslim leaders representing 20 Muslim organizations are expected to attend the workshop.
According to a representative of CCMO, this workshop is designed to clarify how Muslim nonprofits, mosques, Islamic centers, and social service organizations can strengthen their communities through more direct access to opportunities provided to social service agencies at the Federal level. ?It will hopefully help cut through some of the red tape and shine light on the many opportunities for funding, government assistance, and resources that we just don?t know about at the local level,? said Elsanousi.
The Problem: Your Money, redistributed to the Muslim Brotherhood
This workshop constitutes an abdication of their professional responsibility by all government participants ? and a taxpayer-funded government stimulus program for the attending Muslim Brotherhood-associated groups. The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in 1928, is a global Islamist political movement dedicated to imposing Shariah law on all nations and institutions. Their credo is “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Qur?an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.?
Why do we think some of these groups attending, possibly all, may be associated with the Muslim Brotherhood?
Because the sponsoring organization ? the Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations (CCMO), co-sponsoring with the Department of Agriculture ? has a long history of associations with the Muslim Brotherhood. They also signed a 2009 American Muslim Task Force statement threatening to ?suspend? relations with the FBI, because the FBI was investigating possible links to homegrown terrorism in mosques and other Muslim organizations.
Not so evident on the current website, of course. This happens all the time with groups associated with the Muslim Brotherhood ? the current CCMO website has a LOT less information than the older ones preserved at archive.org (aka ?The Wayback Machine?). Here are the previous websites for the CCMO from 2004-2008. The pre-whitewashed CCMO websites are highly revealing. They expose the degree to which this Administration intends to direct taxpayer money (and ?reduced red tape?) to Muslim Brotherhood-associated organizations in the U.S.
The Administration has not revealed which 20 groups and 25-30 leaders will attend the special workshop, but if they include the 41 CCMO members listed in 2007, the attendees could include the following groups , which I?ve linked to descriptions published by The Investigative Project (please support their work):
The Islamic Society of North America, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Terrorism Finance trial, and the source of Friday?s email promoting this CCMO/Department of Agriculture Event;
The Council on American Islamic Relations, shunned by the FBI, several of its leaders indicted or convicted for terrorism, a possible violator of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, sued for fraud by Muslim, Hispanic and African-American families, named as an unindicted co-conspirator (CAIR fundraiser advertised at the CCMO site);
The International Institute of Islamic Thought , the ?think tank? of the Muslim Brotherhood, described at that link by The Grand Jihad author and former prosecutor Andrew McCarthy. One of the current and longest serving officers of CCMO is Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, founder of the educational arm of IIIT, the Fairfax Institute and the Director of Outreach Program for Dar-ul Hijrah ?Terror? Mosque ?? more on him below.
The Muslim Public Affairs Committee , exposed in that linked 88-page IPT report particularly for their defense of terrorists and terrorist financers. MPAC advertised here at the CCMO site for an event co-sponsored by Islamic Free Market Institute, the latter described in Paul Sperry?s pathbreaking book Infiltration)
The Dar al Hijrah Mosque (known as the ?Terror Mosque? in Northern Virginia for its links to imprisoned, indicted or wanted terrorists as vividly described by Frank Gaffney), advertised here at the CCMO site.
The Muslim American Society ?Freedom Foundation? run by three-time felon Mahdi Bray (MASFF Fundraiser advertised at the CCMO site). The Muslim American Society was originally founded as the U.S. branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. MAS leader Mahdi Bray was elected on September 7, 2003 to the Executive Committee by over 40 CCMO member organizations.
I suggest that the Administration knows these groups are linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. They think that?s a good thing.
This isn?t incompetence it?s intentional.
The CCMO Officers: Muslim Brotherhood Leaders
These are not just your garden-variety Muslim Brotherhood operatives. The CCMO officers include leading national and international figures in the Muslim Brotherhood, settled in the Washington DC suburbs to enjoy ?direct access? to the Administration and Congress. CCMO is a major U.S. node in the loosely coordinated Muslim Brotherhood network. Just the fellows to give your tax dollars as stimulus money!
CCMO appears to have started as an umbrella organization in the late 1980s, when so many Muslim Brotherhood organizations were expanding. According to this 2005 article at Washington, DC?s Muslim Link Newspaper, CCMO was 18 years old in that year, making the start date around 1987.
Who are these CCMO officers? We could write a book on each of them; their personal biographies are the tale of the Muslim Brotherhood?s ongoing ?Project?? to bring Shariah Law to America. Here are brief sketches on a few (Mahdi Bray, previously a CCMO officer and linked above, is not on the current CCMO board):
Who are these CCMO officers? We could write a book on each of them; their personal biographies are the tale of the Muslim Brotherhood?s ongoing ?Project? to bring Shariah Law to America. Here are brief sketches on a few (Mahdi Bray, previously a CCMO officer and linked above, is not on the current CCMO board):
Dr. Iqbal Unus
Unus, like fellow CCMO officer Anwar Haddam below, holds the position currently of ?Member at Large? on the CCMO board. Daniel Pipes notes that Unus unsuccessfully sued anti-terrorism researcher Rita Katz, and that his house was searched in the Green Quest investigation. He?s a leader in an alphabet soup of groups named as unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism finance trial, or known to be associated with the Muslim Brotherhood. Just review his published biography ( pdf ) from a 2007 ?Islamophobia Conference? in Turkey (here?s the conference program in Google translation to English). Several of the organizations he directs are listed in ?An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America,? the Holy Land Foundation terrorism finance trial?s most famous document (p. 32), which I noted in brackets below in Unus bio below:
Dr. Iqbal Unus is director of The Fairfax Institute (TFI), the instructional division of International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) [listed on p. 32], located near Washington, D.C., U.S.A., where he has also served as director of human development and director of administration since 1989. Between 1995 and 1998, he taught and worked at the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences as dean of students and registrar. Prior to joining IIIT, Dr. Unus served as secretary general of Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) [listed on p. 32] after having worked as director of administration and assistant secretary general since 1977. Between 1980 and 1982, Dr. Unus taught in the applied sciences and nuclear engineering departments at King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Dr. Iqbal Unus has had a wide ranging volunteer service experience in the Muslim community in the United States for over 37 years. Some of the prominent offices he has held include president of the Muslim Students Association [listed on p. 32] of the United States and Canada (1975), several offices including president of the Association of Muslim Scientists and Engineers (AMSE) [listed on p. 32], member of Majls ash Shura of Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) [listed on p. 32], trustee of Amana Mutual Funds Trust, working committee member of International Council of Awqaf and Non-Governmental Organizations (ICANO), board member of Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations in Washington Area (CCMO), and trustee of All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS).
In his lecture at the 2007 Islamophobia conference, Unus stated, ?Western academic institutions must reevaluate their curriculum on all levels and purge material that may encourage or promote violence or hatred towards others through Islamophobia and xenophobia.? Why this is important: the Department of Education will attend the August 31 workshop to provide ?direct access? to grants. Americans have a right to know if the DoE will be talking to Unus on August 31 about funding projects to purge school curricula according to Unus? standards.
Johari Abdul-Malik
Dr. Iqbal Unus
THIS IS A LINK TO THE WEBPAGE AND ACTUAL ARTICLE INCLUDING ALL LINKS TO REFERENCE
bigpeace.com/cbrim/2010/08/29/coming-august-31-direct-acc?
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