Muslim Brotherhood

https://www.globalmbwatch.com/2020/09/24/featured-joe-biden-addresses-us-muslim-brotherhood-conference-continues-to-legitimize-the-us-brotherhood/

In perhaps its biggest success towards legitimization to date, Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden has addressed the 57th annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a long-time component of the Muslim Brotherhood in the US. ISNA boasts that this is the first time a Presidential nominee has spoken before the event and Biden was introduced by Zaki Barzinji, the grandson of Jamal Albarzinji who was one of the founders of the USMB. According to video of his remarks, candidate Biden made three key points:

He thanked ISNA for “supporting and engaging Muslim America” although the only available polling data reported that when a sample of Muslims was asked if ISNA represented their interests, the affirmative responses by both men and women were in the single digits.

Biden claimed that there had been a startling rise of Islamophobia during the Trump administration, a claim made by USMB groups constantly over many years, although the only hard numbers in this regard are FBI hate crime statistics which reported in 2019 that 270 crimes were reported against Muslims and Arab-Americans, the fewest since 2014. It is hard to imagine that a vast rise in Islamophobia could be accompanied by a record decrease in hate crimes.

Most ominously. Biden said that his administration would have “Muslim Americans serving at every level” despite, as discussed below, his campaign’s and former Obama administration’s seeming inability or unwillingness to vet appointees for ties to the US Brotherhood.

September 24, 2020

https://www.ntd.com/china-gene-firm-providing-worldwide-covid-tests-worked-with-chinese-military_560445.html

BGI Group, the world’s largest genomics company, has worked with China’s military on research that ranges from mass testing for respiratory pathogens to brain science, a Reuters review of research, patent filings and other documents has found.

The review, of more than 40 publicly available documents and research papers in Chinese and English, shows BGI’s links to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) include research with China’s top military supercomputing experts. The extent of those links has not previously been reported.

BGI has sold millions of COVID-19 test kits outside China since the outbreak of the new coronavirus pandemic, including to Europe, Australia and the United States. Shares of BGI Genomics Co, the company’s subsidiary listed on the Shenzhen stock exchange, have doubled in price over the past 12 months, giving it a market value of about $9 billion.

But top U.S. security officials have warned American labs against using Chinese tests because of concern China was seeking to gather foreign genetic data for its own research. BGI has denied that.