Christians Under Attack

Imam Mahdi Bray, the executive director of the Muslim American Society, will get his award at the caucus' "Middle East Briefing and Pre-Ramadan Brunch" at the Grand Hyatt.

The Muslim American Society was formerly known as the Muslim Brotherhood in America, a secretive organization whose goals included turning the U.S. into an Islamic state, according to an investigative report in the Chicago Tribune n 2004. Officially, today, MAS denies any desire to turn America into an Islamic state.

The newspaper report quoted from the Chicago chapter's website: "It includes reading materials that say Muslims have a duty to help form Islamic governments worldwide and should be prepared to take up arms to do so. One passage states that "until the nations of the world have functionally Islamic governments, every individual who is careless or lazy in working for Islam is sinful." Another one says that Western secularism and materialism are evil and that Muslims should "pursue this evil force to its own lands" and "invade its Western heartland."

Those passages later were sanitized from the website.

Last month, MAS teamed up with ANSWER, a coalition of socialist and communist activists, and the National Council of Arab Americans in sponsorship of a "National Emergency March in Washington.

A number of leaders for ANSWER – Act Now to Stop War and End Racism – were members of the Workers World Party and now belong to the Party for Socialism and Liberation , a Marxist-Leninist organization founded in 2004

Along with the "plight of the Palestinian people and the recent atrocities in Gaza and Lebanon," the Muslim group says it will focus on the war in Iraq and "the continuous violation of civil rights and civil liberties within the American Muslim community."

The Freedom Foundation is the public affairs arm of the Muslim American Society, which calls itself the largest grassroots Muslim organization in the country, with more than 50 chapters nationwide.

As WND reported, the MAS held a rally in July during which a Jewish activist was physically assaulted and threatened.

The event at Boston's City Hall Plaza was the group's "Justice for Palestine and Lebanon Protest." Signs brought by participants included some calling for "victory" for the terrorist group Hezbollah and the "Palestinian Resistance."

In a WND interview, Bray blamed the United States and President Bush for the war between Hezbollah and Israel.

Bray said that while there are "no clean hands" in the escalating violence, the United States has failed completely.

"We have the … capability of doing something," he said. "Our position is not defensible that we have not used our leverage to obtain a cease-fire."

This year's other Congressional Black Caucus honorees include its own chairman, Mel Watt, Michigan Rep. John Conyers, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Cynthia McKinney, Georgia Democrat.

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