Charles M. Kupperman, the newly appointed deputy national security adviser, previously served on the board of directors for the anti-Muslim hate group Center for Security Policy (CSP).
When the Center for Security Policy was founded back in 1988, it was a respected conservative think tank focused on foreign affairs. Now, however, it has become “a conspiracy-oriented mouthpiece for the growing anti-Muslim movement in the United States,” known for “accusations that a shadowy ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ has infiltrated all levels of government and warnings that ‘creeping Shariah,’ or Islamic religious law, is a threat to American democracy.” One of its more restrained examples:
“At best, they [Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder, and Barack Obama] are acquiescing to far-reaching concessions to the Muslim Brotherhood and its ilk. At worse [sic], they are enabling the MB’s efforts to destroy the West from within. So pervasive now is the MB’s ‘civilization jihad’ within the U.S. government and civil institutions that a serious, sustained and rigorous investigation of the phenomenon by the legislative branch is in order. To that end, we need to establish a new and improved counterpart to the Cold War-era’s HUAC [House Un-American Activities Committee] and charge it with examining and rooting out anti-American – and anti-constitutional – activities that constitute an even more insidious peril than those pursued by communist Fifth Columnists fifty years ago.”
The author is CSP’s founder and president, Frank Gaffney Jr., who has also:
Called Muslims “termites [that] hollow out the structure of the civil society and other institutions”;
Falsely accused President Obama of being a Muslim;
Falsely accused President Obama of giving military support to Al-Qaeda;
Falsely accused President Obama of having “kind of an affinity for, if not the violent beheading and crucifixions and slaying of Christians and all that, but at least for the cause for which these guys [Muslims] are engaged in such activities”; and
Falsely accused Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin of having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Needless to say, our Islamophobe-in-Chief loves the CSP, calling them “very highly respected people, who I know, actually,” and using a bogus and debunked CSP “poll” to justify his demand for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” Trump also loves Gaffney, who was a member of his transition team focusing specifically on the selection of Trump’s National Security Advisers.
Charles M. Kupperman was on the board of the CSP for at least ten years. That’s all the qualifications Trump needs; he has now appointed Kupperman as his new Deputy National Security Adviser.
