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Tulsa's Boston Avenue Methodist Church had classes about "myth-free" Islam

Dr. Bill Crowell, an associate pastor at the Boston Avenue Methodist Church, has partnered with some of Oklahoma's most controversial Islamic leaders.  Not too long ago, he moderated a panel in Tulsa on sharia law where some of the participants claimed ignorant Oklahomans were told what to think regarding a constitutional ban on litigating cases in Oklahoma court based on foreign law, including sharia law, which is the law of many Islamic countries.  One of the participants was Muneer Awad the director of CAIR's chapter in Oklahoma and is the man who sued the state.  Sharia law is NOT the same thing as sharia guidance (religious guidance) something Awad fails to distinguish.  Another panelist, Imam Imad Enchassis, of the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City, last year expressed his desire and hopes the Middle East will unite under a new caliphate!  Wonder if he would discuss this at an interfaith meeting?  Shortly after I wrote about this, he blocked me from his Facebook which had been public.  You can read all my post about Enchassi here.

Awad works for an organization that was started by leaders of the Islamic Association of Palestine, an over arm of the Muslim Brotherhood. 

During October and early November, Boston Avenue Methodist Church offered classes about Islam in an attempt to dispel the myths about this religion. Rev. Crowell was the contact. There were six sessions.  One session included speaker Allison Moore, an occasional spokeswoman for the Islamic Society of Tulsa.  She got my attention when she railed on against the FBI and in support of poor mistreated Anwar Awlaki at a Tulsa 9/11 Truthers meeting (see video)!  Another session included Muneer Awad.  You can read all my posts about Muneer Awad here. 

I wonder if one of the classes covered Islam's history of supremacy and conquests that's illustrated in the Atlas of the Islamic Conquests available at Islamic bookstore in the U.S.  I do know classes about the caliphates have been offered at Islamic Society of Tulsa.

A Muslim acquaintance of Awad even tweeted him on December 5th, they felt Dr. Crowell might be a potential Muslim someday.

I kinda think classes in the Christian faith have not, nor ever will be, offered at the Islamic Society of Tulsa or Oklahoma City.

10th Circuit Court upholds injunction against Oklahoma sharia law ban!

The 10th Circuit Court in Denver, Colorado today upheld an injunction against the implementation of Oklahoma SQ 755, a constitutional amendment that instructed judges not to consider foreign laws in making their decisions, it included sharia law, I believe, in that it is the ruling order used in a number of Islamic countries and is the basis for their laws.  The amendment passed overwhelmingly in the fall of 2010.  The amendment reads, in part:

“The courts shall not look to the legal precepts of other nations or cultures. Specifically, the courts shall not consider international law or Sharia law.”

I take this to mean laws that govern other countries can't be used in state court decision to settle matters.  Sharia law are laws a number of Islamic countries use, the religious aspect of the law is irrelevant.

In their brief, the court ignored that Muneer Awad, the director of Oklahoma's chapter of CAIR, an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood infrastructure in the U.S., did not actually demonstrate any harm from the amendment (he merely claimed he would be).  The court, for some reason, agreed with him.  Yet, they said the state failed to show a compelling interest because there weren't any problems sharia law has caused and faulted them for it!  So,  if I read this right, the state had to show a problem first and Awad didn't.  An imam in Oklahoma City claimed in a local paper he 's testified in court many times about Islamic code which should be reviewed for this important case.  Maybe he should be deposed to get more information about these many cases.  Where is the Oklahoma Attorney General's office here?

I also noticed the court didn't distinguish sharia practices (Islamic religious guidelines) from sharia law, which could be a big mistake. In fact,  they may have ignored, or were not aware, Awad appears to use the two terms interchangeably in his brief bluring the difference.  This may have been intentional.  These two terms should be made crystal clear by the court.

Shortly after SQ 755 passed, Muneer Awad claimed on national TV its success was based on a campaign of fear, hate and violence, a blatantly false statement. There was not one incident of violence that I am aware.   Awad also uses non stop name-calling bullying tactcs that continues to this day.  The hipocrisy in this is so clear when you review CAIR's campaign against school bullying, which includes verbal intimidation and harrassment! They use the very tactic they call bullying.

State Sen. Anthony Sykes, who led the Senate's effort to bring this amendment to a public vote issued a statement emphasizing this matter is, and will continue to be, an on-going effort:

“On Tuesday the federal appeals court in Denver attempted to silence the voice of 70 percent of Oklahoma voters. At some point we have to decide whether this is a country of by and for the judges, or of by and for the people. How far will the people let them go? This ruling is right along with legalizing abortion and forced busing of school children.”

“The issue raised by this constitutional amendment is very simple – you are either for Sharia law or you are against it.”>

“This is just the first battle in an ongoing effort. Although the courts have attempted to silence the voice of the people, I won’t let that happen. I’ll continue fighting to restore government to the people.”

The case goes back to Oklahoma federal court who will decide on the constitutionality of the law, itself. I worry a court will unwittingly rule in favor of sharia law which will be used by Muslim activists in the future to advance the use of it in the U.S.

A number of other states are also considering bans on foreign laws.

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Muneer Awad's holiday card to legislators drips of hypocrisy!

The 2011 holiday card sent out by Muneer Awad, the director of CAIR's chapter in Oklahoma, to state legislators, officials and others thanked them for their continued support to make Oklahoma a great "Home for the Holidays."

Wait a minute... What continued support? 

There's only a couple of legislators on the far left this would fit.  People like Ed Shadid, an Oklahoma City councilor and maybe a couple others in the legislature - but that's about it.  Remember, Awad is the man who sued the state for passing SQ 755, a constitutional amendment that banned state courts from considering foreign laws in their decisions, including sharia LAW. Muneer Awad attacked state legislators using CAIR's vile name-calling bullying tactics with words like ignorant, hate, bigots and Islamophobic.  Surely most people see how CAIR tries to shift focus from the real issue with this hatefull tactic to try to shut people up. Oklahomans first heard of Awad when he sued the state shortly after moving there so he set a combative and hateful first impression for the majority of its citizens.

On the Rachel Maddow show, Muneer Awad had the gall to claim the campaign to pass SQ 755 included violence (there was NONE!).  In August, he said the amendment made "Islam the target" (it didn't).

Awad works for an organization started by officials of the Islamic Association of Palestine, an overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood that was eventually shut down for sending money to support a terrorist organization - Hamas and found guilty in the death of a Jewish teenager, David Boim. CAIR's co-founder and executive director, Nihad Awad, came from this organization. Muneer Awad has insisted all money to fund CAIR Oklahoma is raised in the state.  Yet, Nihad Awad solicited money to fight the state! Last year CAIR lost their tax-exempt status for failing to file proper IRS documents on their financial backers.  More sinister are CAIR efforts that try to dictate how U.S. national security efforts are carried out and has utter contempt for the FBI which was reflected in one of Muneer Awad's tweets recently that said the FBI radicalized more terrorists that Al Qaeda-linked Anwar Awlaki! 

Is Awad home for the holidays?  Nope, he twitter publicly he went to Houston to attend activist meetings on sharia in during Christmas weekend: 

Update: Awad tweets he'll be "home in Atlanta" for New Year's!

This holiday card included information about their annual banquet on March 31 at the Marriott Hotel at 3233 NW Expressway in Oklahoma City to celebrate their commitment to "unapologetic activism" for 2012.  There's no mention about living in harmony.  Sigh.

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Muslim Brotherhood Resources - a quick review

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MERRY CHRISTMAS

Happy Holidays everyone! 

I want to wish all my Christian friends and readers a very Merry Christmas!  Your support means so much to me.   2012 will be an important year for Christians and everyone, really.  We need to become more knowledgeable - more vocal - so we can stand up for what's right together.

God Bless

 

DOJ seeks assets of Tulsa Ace Auto Mart in massive Hezbollah terror-financing operation!

A federal complaint filed in court in New York City last Thursday, December 15, 2011 seeks the assets of a number of car dealers across the U.S. in order to shut down a massive money laundering scheme the DOJ claims helped fund Hezbollah, a designated terrorist organization.

Law enforcement agents in Tulsa were at Ace Auto Mart, one of the car dealers named in the complaint, located on 11th St.in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Friday.  Ace Auto was allegedly involved in wire transfers of over $20 million dollars!

Wire transfers:

Channel 6 in Tulsa reported the complaint lists Mohammad K. Soukieh & Sami H. Nasreddine as the persons on the bank accounts for Ace Auto Mart.  Soukeih is also listed as the owner of the propery.

Download Www.assessor.tulsacounty.org-assessor-property.php-account=R16300930303738

For some perspective on the magnitude of this alledged terror-funding operation, the Holy Land Foundation case involved somewhere around $12 million that was sent to Hamas.  Their assets were seized in December 2001 by EU and the U.S. and indictments came down in 2004.  The principals were convicted for up to 65 years in prison for their role in funding terrorism. The latest DOJ case alleges over $300 million was laundered in order to help fund Hezbollah!

It's not clear if the car dealer owners and managers were part of the scheme.

Read the complaint:

Download Pr121511_filed-complaint

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Feds say 9 Mich. companies part of scheme tied to Hizballah

Progressives join activist Muslims to belittle Lowes and anyone who disagrees!

Lowes hates Muslims?  That's one of the hastags used on twitter by Islamists and their partners on the left recently. Perhaps, though, if you dig a little deeper all this rhertoric is cover for something else; Christians must be stopped from pursuing a cause.  Too ridiculous?

(screenshot taken 12/16/11 at 10:30 am of tweet to me by Chris Lavoie, co-host and executive producer of the Stephanie Miller Show)

Tulsa progressives boot "Christmas" from title of decades old parade!

Somewhere along the line mostly conservative Tulsa became hostage to some progressives. For one thing, the local paper's editorial writers are stance liberals which is why I don't subscribe to it. In early 2009,  they laid off 28 employees and last year they put in a pay-wall similar to what the liberal New York Times has done which makes their online news a closed-source. I would venture to guess their polarizing ideological views are so contrary to the majority of Tulsans might have, in some small way. contributed. Tulsa is also home to billionaire Obama bundle George Kaiser who is embroiled in the Solyndra controversy. 

Butterball: Why do you slaughter ALL whole turkeys according to Islamic law?

Butterball, what are you thinking?

Today I was stunned to learn Butterball slaughters ALL their turkeys according to Islamic religious law (halal).  All of them. 

CAIR New York and other Muslim groups to march against New York police Friday!

I find a protest, along with a public Muslim prayer scheduled for tomorrow in New York City, a disturbing sign of Islamism.  Activist Muslims who argue that proactive efforts by law enforcement to prevent another terrorist attack is repression seriously ought to have their heads examined. It's a tactic that gives all Muslims a bad name because these groups, like CAIR and others, are the ones who make the news.  In their flyer, which you can see below, they demand the dismateling of ALL surveillance efforts:

CAIR OK: Sharia has historically been allowed & considered in American courts

CAIR Oklahoma claims in their "Understanding Sharia" brochure that it, "sharia," has historically been allowed in American courts.  If this is true, it's news to me! I'd like to see a listing of the court cases where this happened, wouldn't you? 

 For clarification, as I understand it,  sharia is religious guidance for Muslims while sharia law is Islamic jurisprudence.

Update 12/16/11:  Florida judge backs off decision to use Sharia Law in mosque lawsuit

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Below is a copy of their "Sharia" brochure:

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New York Muslim leaders tell community not to talk to police on terror concerns!

New York Muslim leaders are flexing their collective muscle to encourage Muslims NOT TO COOPERATE with law enforcement who are charged with protecting a city that has been attacked twice by terrorists who practice the Islamic faith.   According to liberal Huffington Post NY Muslims Angry Over Spying: 'Don't Call NYPD' For Terror Concerns.

Below is an excerpt from the article: 

At another meeting, organized by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, students watched a film of two actors portraying FBI agents talking their way into a young Muslim's home and interrogating him. At the meeting, students were warned not to speak with police even if their parents, imams or Muslim clerics urge them to cooperate.

"You'll even hear imams saying, `As long as I obey the law, I have nothing to worry about.' But that's not how it plays out on the ground," said Cyrus McGoldrick, CAIR New York's civil rights manager.

CAIR has had a strained relationship with law enforcement and was named an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorist financing case.

Also, today CAIR Files Multi-State Records Requests on Anti-Muslim Law Enforcement Trainings which include 15 of its chapters.  CAIR often goes on Russian TV to blast the U.S. counter-terrorism efforts and whines about how Islamophobic Americans have become.

Islamism.

 

Responding to Sheryl Siddiqui's criticism of Oklahoma "Islamophobes"

Islam doesn't allow killing of "innocent people" Sheryl Siddiqui wrote in a commentary published in the Oklahoma Gazette on September 20th. Last year in another interview, Siddiqui claimed only God has the right to take life.  I wonder if she would enlighten me and other misinformed and ignorant Okies just how The Atlas of Islamic Conquests, sold at Islamic bookstore in the U.S., fits in the context of her claim. I assume these Islamic battles for power involved fighting, which is messy and many people are often killed. Were these conquests islamically sanctioned or were they a stain that reflects badly on Islam's history?  This book could be a useful resource about Islam's history of Islamism also referred to as political Islam and its belief in the relentless pursuit to spread Islam and gain power to enforce Islamic supremacy over a region or a country or an empire. Islamism dominated Islamic history. I've seen where lessons on caliphates were taught at Oklahoma mosques so they seem to be proud of this history of Islamic supremacy.  More Americans should study how a long series of Islamic supremacist leaders, called caliphates, ruled over others. 

And, we should question Muslims about this history. Likewise, the Muslim Brotherhood network that has been documented in America and those who support it are clearly fair game, too.

Siddiqui complained to the Gazette "locally escalating Islamophobia weigh heavily on our minds." Here she continued the blame others strategy of Hamas-linked CAIR.  Siddiqui's been CAIR Oklahoma's board secretary since the chapter was started in 2007.  What Siddiqui and other CAIR minions fail to do, over and over again, is to acknowledge Islamism which is what most people have justifiable concerns.  Until they openly discuss Islamic supremacy and stop their "Islamophobia" whining bait and switch tactic, their actions, words, history and links to the Muslim Brotherhood will continue to be subject to criticism and rightly so.  That doesn't mean CAIR doesn't have some legitimate concerns, at times, when others act hatefully towards Muslims - which is clearly wrong.  But, they go too far when they try to surpress free speech which seems to impart a nasty sharia strictness where no one can criticize Islam.

Siddiqui said "The Muslim world is fighting the same enemy as America: al-Qaida, which is responsible for more deaths of Muslims than of Westerners."  Ok.  This is reasonable, on the surface, but then why does CAIR constantly fight efforts by law enforcement to proactively stop terror attacks from happening and stand with terrorists, both convicted and accused?  Recently, their executive director, Nihad Awad even spoke out against the killing of al Qaeda leader Anwar Awlaki. Al Qaeda!

CAIR often speaks in slimy double-talk.

A well-known Islamist scholar, Yusef Qaradawi, linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and is considered its religious leader, has said "The establishment of the Islamic State is a Wajib (Obligatory) according to the Glorious Qur'an, the Purified Sunnah, and the history of Islam and its nature."  After 9/11 the Islamic Society of Tulsa, of which Siddiqui is the spokeswoman, quoted Qaradawi in their written statement where he said the attacks were wrong but then complained Muslims were the real victims because of the evil Israelis. His words are quite meaningful to a good number of American Muslims and this is concerning.  Have you noticed how many Muslims really do hate Israel?  This is part of the ideology of Islamism.  These people want control of this area again just like when it was under the control of caliphates for centuries.  Remember, Palestine was a territory of the Islamic supremacist Ottoman Empire.

Let's briefy review a few documents that tied CAIR to the Muslim Brotherhood.  A 1993 Palestine Committee document confirms it was formed by the Muslim Brotherhood (U.S. vs. HLF, Exhibit 003-0017). They wrote of the Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP) on page 8. In a 1994 written agenda of a Palestine Committee meeting it listed CAIR, IAP and other MB organizations.  They wrote America was the ideal location to support their movement worldwide.  A few paid checks from Hamas leader Mousa Marzook were made out to the Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP).  Marzook, who use to live in the U.S. is a top Hamas leader today living in excile in Syria. The IAP leaders who left this association and started CAIR were Nihad Awad, their executive director, and Omar Ahmad (Ahmed) who has since resigned.  Ahmed is well-know for his statement in 1998 declaring the Quran should be the highest authority in the U.S.  Islamism.

CAIR leaders are vehemently anti-Israel.  And, they often use Iranian TV to air their verbal assaults against the U.S., particularly to blast the U.S. efforts on counter-terrorism or to claim Americans are so Islamophobic, which they say is rampant here.  CAIR Oklahoma's director, Muneer Awad recently tweeted the FBI radicalized more terrorists that al Qaeda's Anwar Awlaki (see my last post).  I see him as having an worrisome attitude and the same political ideology as the Muslim Brotherhood leaders who started CAIR.

Remember CAIR National recently lost their tax-exempt status for failing to submit IRS paperwork about their funding, which remains in question today.  Each chapter separately maintains their own tax-exempt status. CAIR National was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest Hamas terror-funding trial in U.S. history in 2007. CAIR clearly has a long and troubled history and should be scrutinized.  According to the FBI, the reason they broke off their relations was "due to the failure of CAIR to answer our questions about a connection between their executives and Hamas, a designated terrorist organization (Edmond Sun 3/6/2010: What’s the truth about CAIR?). 

No one should be criticized for concerns they have about Islamism. Americans see everyday the effect this ideology has on young men who attack and kill others for their Islamic cause. However, there a far more non-violent Islamists than there are terrorists - both share a similar religious supremacist ideology. Siddiqui and others associated with CAIR appear bent on denying Islamism exists today or in Islam's lengthly history but, fortunately, there will be more and more educated Oklahomans and Americans who know better and will challenge them.

Surely, Siddiqui didn't suggest concerns about Islamism is Islamophobic.  Or, did she?

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Backgrounder:  Islamic Society of Tulsa

General Strategies for the Group in North America (Muslim Brotherhood internal document discovered by the FBI in 2004 (link to the U.S. District Ct of Northern Texas).  Detailed overview of their plans to destroy America for Islamic supremacy.  CAIR was formed by leaders of the Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP), an overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood (court documents).  IAP was listed in their plans along with the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and a number of other organizations.  Many mosques in America are affiliated with ISNA.  Plan covertly in place from 1991 until 2004.

Occupy Tulsa Protesters Arrested

Early this morning, after defying an 11 PM curfew and police orders to leave a downtown Tulsa park after being told repeateldy to do so, ten Occupy Tulsa protesters were arrested.  Below are their mugshots that can be found at Tulsa Mugshots.  Four protesters had outstanding warrants according to the Tulsa Police Department.

Report: Obama Muslim advisor succeeded in canceling Christian leader meeting with the President at the request of the leadership of "Brotherhood"

There's a report from Beirut Arab news agency El Nashra that Dalia Mogahed, a Muslim who advises the White House on Islamic issues, was behind the cancellation of a meeting between a Chrisitan leader, the Maronite Catholic patriarch of Lebanon Bechara Peter Rai and President Obama done at the request of senior leaders in the Muslim Brotherhood!

2nd incident when a young, possibly Muslim, man caused problems on an airline!

Yesterday, Ali Reza Shahsavari, 29, of Indialantic, Fla., was charged with interfering with a flight crew a Southwest Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Kansas City.  Initial reports said he tried to get into the cockpit but that was denied by others who said he was unrly and confronted the cabin crew.   Mohammad Shahsavari, the man's father, said  he did not know what led to the incident.  The FBI said early indications were the incident was not terror related.  CNN reported on this today but didn't name the man.

Earlier this month Saudi passenger, Abdulaziz Mubarak Alshammari, was pulled away from the cockpit door on an American Airlines flight bound for Indianapolis.  No charges were filed.

Muneer Awad: FBI radicalized more terrorists than Anwar Awlaki!

Well, here's a horrible tweet from Muneer Awad, the director of CAIR's chapter in Oklahoma, to the FBI:

 

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Pew Research: 40% of Black Muslim Americans know of extremist support in their community!

A Georgia school lesson on Islam denigrates Western women!

"...I have seen pictures of women in the West and find their dress to be horribly immodest.  I would never want to show parts of my body the way Western women do because I don't think women who do that can be respected."  --- “I understand that some Westerners condemn our practice of polygamy, but I also know they are wrong, ---i have heard men in the West divorce their wives to marry a younger woman -- Women in the West do not have the protection of the Sharia as we do here."  --- Ahlima

 

This is Islamism (Islamic supremacy) and it's being taught in middle school in Georgia! 

 

Pew Research: 40% of Black Muslim Americans know of extremist support in their community!

In late August, Pew Research released a report on Muslims in America. It's happily titled Muslim Americans: No Signs of Growth in Alienation or Support for Extremism which gives the impression that all is well.  Upon further review, I found, though, there's significantly higher support for Islamic extremism among the black Muslims polled!  40% of native-born black Muslim Americans reported they knew there was a great deal and/or a fair amount of extremist support in their communities compared to 20% of all U.S. Muslims, which is bad enough having 1 in 5 Muslims know of this kind of support in America.  Support for suicide bombings and for al Qaeda was doubled for the native-born black Muslims than for all U.S. Muslims.  Why?  Something appears to be very wrong.

Coincidentally, perhaps even sinister,  this could be am indication - a marker - of a widespread Islamist game-plan that mimicks Osama Bin Laden's Anti-U.S. Strategy: Exploit Minority Converts we heard about from the raid on his home in Pakistan.  His goal and, I assume, that of his followers and sympathizers was to "specifically recruit African-American Muslim converts to carry out attacks on the homeland.  The goal was to not only kill and maim in the actual operations, but to create a divisiveness that would cause more damage than al Qaeda could ever hope to do on their own!"

On the other hand, maybe, I'm reading too much into one poll.

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But, if this poll is accurate, there could be a national security threat lurking.

Coalition of Muslim groups support Michigan's foreign law ban!

Good news!  A coalition of Muslim organizations and their leaders in North America issued a press release in support of Michigan's foreign law bill that was introduced this year.

Here's an excerpt from the American Islamic Leadership Coalition:

"A coalition of diverse American Muslim leaders has announced support for a proposed bill in the Michigan State Assembly, HB 4679, that is intended to bar Michigan courts from enforcing any foreign law, if doing so violates any rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and/or the state of Michigan’s constitution.

Like many Americans, members of the American Islamic Leadership Coalition (AILC) have been observing the efforts of a growing number of state legislatures, which are seeking to address the incompatibility of various shari‘ah court systems around the world with the principles and foundations of our Constitutional republic and its laws. As American Muslims, we believe that the law should treat people of all faiths equally, while protecting Muslims and non-Muslims alike from extremist attempts to use the legal instrument of shari‘ah (also known as Islamic jurisprudence, or fiqh) to incubate, within the West, a highly politicized and dangerous understanding of Islam that is generally known as “Islamism,” or “radical Islam...”

The full press release can be read here.

Rep. Emily Virgin will you host a dinner at the Oklahoma State Capitol for a Christian holiday like you did for Ramadan?

On the 17th of August, for the first time in history Oklahoma Muslims prayed on floor of State Capitol at Inaugural Iftar dinner.  The event was hosted by Rep. Emily Virgin (D Norman) who had tweeted about it although she left off the key word - Iftar, which is specific to the Muslim holiday of Ramadan.