Update and Thoughts on “Communism Will Win” Spenser Rapone

Posted by Tina

When I posted the story about Spencer Rapone I couldn’t help but wonder if his position had been formed at the academy. Now there’s damning information to support the possibility that Rapone was singled out and recruited for nefarious purposes and that his mentor could have been purposely placed by the Obama administration for that reason:

Rapone entered West Point in 2012, and it was during this time that a boy whose Reddit profile previously featured only wrestling photos and video game questions devoted himself to the Communist Party and pro-Islamic causes.

There are many glaring national security issues with this scenario, including exactly how Rapone became radicalized, whether it was after entering the United States Military Academy, and why it took West Point so long to do anything about it: Rapone’s anti-American posts available to the public date back to 2014. While we can (we hope) expect a detailed report from West Point investigators and administrators on this matter, what we do know currently is that Rapone’s Cadet Advisor was a man named Dr. Rasheed Hosein. According to the West Point faculty biography page:

“Dr. Rasheed Hosein has been teaching Western Civilization and Middle Eastern history at the United States Military Academy since July of 2011. Prior to his time at West Point, Dr. Hosein earned his doctoral degree in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago in pre-Islamic and early Islamic history in December of 2010. During his time in Chicago, Dr. Hosein also served as the Director of Public Education for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago – a Title VI National Resource Center. Prior to his time in Chicago, Dr. Hosein attended the University of Toronto, where he earned a Master’s Degree in Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, and the University of Manitoba, where he attained an Honours degree in Medieval European history and civilizations.”

Dr. Hosein’s PhD dissertation, Tribal Alliance Formations and Power Structures in the Late Jāhiliyah and Early Islamic Periods: Quraysh and Thaqīf (AD 530-750 CE) was not available online, but Hosein is a published author of two books, including Islamic Civilization: A better understanding of history, society, and culture of Islam is needed to help address the negative perceptions of Muslims in the West. Hosein also serves as the Muslim Chaplain at West Point.

Hosein does not appear to be proud of his employment at West Point; his Linkedin page says that he is a professor at a “liberal arts college since 2011.” Not exactly the pride or patriotism that we traditionally find becoming of a West Point professor. Also on his Linkedin page, but not his biography page on the West Point faculty page, is that he spent the summer of 1996 at the American University in Cairo. Whether or not Hosein is a U.S. citizen is also unclear; although he completed his undergraduate studies in Winnipeg, and it appears his citizenship may be Canadian.

Former President Barack Hussein Obama’s military purge began shortly after the September 2011 Benghazi incident, and lasted until mid-2012. During this time, 170+ officers were fired and replaced. It was during this time in 2011 that Hosein was hired at West Point. It appears he was in Canada prior to his appointment at the military academy.

The disturbing connection between Rapone’s radicalization and his mentorship with Hosein cannot be overlooked. Rapone was one of only two cadets that Hosein advised in the 2016 graduating class, and they even traveled internationally together. How does a professor advisor who is close enough to travel internationally with his mentee not know or even have a hint that his mentee harbors these views? From various reports that pieced Rapone’s timeline of radicalization together, it appears that a trip the two took to the Taj Mahal in India directly coincides with the time Rapone started to become increasingly anti-West and pro-Islam on his Reddit page. (emphasis mine)

This information is disturbing on many levels. The worst scenario: A deadly enemy of America was purposely delivered into a U.S. military academy to recruit and train young minds and strike a blow to America from within by our former president. The very least this information can do is dispel Libby’s naive notion that Rapone’s stance represents normal “kid” behavior at graduation…a prank. I’m fairly certain that those looking into the incident would agree.

Related: Silent Soldier:

Since Barack Obama has been in the White House, according to General Paul Vallely, high ranking military officers have been removed from their positions at a rate that is absolutely unprecedented. Things have gotten so bad that a number of retired generals are publicly speaking out about the ‘purge’ of the U.S. military that they believe is taking place. … “Every communist regime on the planet did this as soon as they gained power.”

The firings are old news. However, I suggest you click on the Silent Soldier link! Read and be prepared to be blown away by the sheer numbers of high ranking military officers that were systematically fired during the reign of President Obama. The experience and expertise these men and women brought to the military cannot be easily replaced. Now ask yourself whether our military was purposely undermined or not by a former regime that preferred communism to the tenets of our free republic and was sympathetic enough to the aims of radical jihadist to assist in their ruinous and deadly radical cause.

Another article on Spencer Rapone’s “mentor” appears today in American Military News

Just a thought…do all roads lead back to Chicago?

Related: Clarion Project:

The following is the official document from a 1991 meeting which outlines the Muslim Brotherhood’s strategic goals for North America. The document was entered as evidence in the 2008 Holy Land Terror Funding Trial. Federal investigators found the document in the home of Ismael Elbarasse, a founder of the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, during a 2004 search. Elbarasse was a member of the Palestine Committee, which the Muslim Brotherhood had created to support Hamas in the United States. …

… Page 7:

“The process of settlement is a ‘Civilization-Jihadist Process’ with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers…”

Gatestone Institute:

To be sure, the patient task of Da’wa includes establishment of Islamic institutions, education of the non-Muslim population, and countering “the prejudices of Judeo-Christians against Islam,” as Ikhwan scholar Shamim A. Siddiqi wrote in 1989.[13] But in Islam, Da’wa, or the call to Islam, is always followed by jihad. Siddiqi, writing for the Muslim Brotherhood cadre in the U.S., was candid with them and cautioned that “[i]n this initial stage there may not be any opposition to Dawah work. For some time the Islamic Movement of America may have some smooth sailing. But with the increase in Dawah efforts, in the number of activities and growth of the strength of the organization, the anti-Islamic forces will take notice of the multifarious activities of the Movement,” “…the fight…may become a challenge for them,” and “[a]larming signals will be raised by the so-called ‘free press.'”[14]

“Smooth sailing” indeed would seem to characterize the early decades of the Ikhwan’s Da’wa movement in America. The first official Muslim Brotherhood front organization founded in the U.S. was the Muslim Students Association (MSA), established on the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois in 1964. Today, there are over 600 MSA chapters at colleges and universities across North America, working to recruit members to the Muslim Brotherhood and jihad. According to former FBI Special Agent John Guandolo, “The MSA serves as a recruitment tool to bring Muslims into the Brotherhood…[w]hich was its original purpose: to evaluate Muslims and to bring them into the Brotherhood and to recruit non-Muslims into Islam as a dawa entity, giving them the call to Islam.”[15] The MSA was the blueprint model for the thousands of Muslim Brotherhood front groups that exist, function, and continue to multiply across the U.S. today.

The radical left in America will not stand for Christian’s proselytizing and will not tolerate the sight of Bibles, crosses, or Creches during the Holidays but they defend to the death the right of Muslims to indoctrinate, proselytize, and recruit for the jihadist cause. There’s something “fundamentally” rotten going on with those on the left who only claim to love America.

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