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IS THE #MYJIHAD PR CAMPAIGN DECEPTIVE?

In December, Ahmed Rehab, the Director of CAIR Chicago founded MyJihad. They claim it's an educational campaign to redefine or take-back the term jihad from Muslim extremists and those people who are often referred to as Islamophobes - you know those who call attention to the words and actions of the Muslims who concern us.  CAIR Chicago manages it, sponsors it, collects the donations and the phone number and address listed on the website is CAIR Chicago.  All of this is coming from a chapter of a national organization that was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest Hamas terror-funding case in US history!  Do you get the sick irony here?

 

 

The campaign insists jihad is just a personal struggle.  You can read some interesting tweets of these personal struggles, like getting ready for work or eating right on Twitter following the hashtag #myjihad.  You can also read some nasty replies to those who call attention to the actions of countless other Muslims who concern others. Does this effort change anything about what is going in the world of Islamism?  For starters the personal struggle definition is not the only definition of jihad.  On the joint webpage of the Islamic Society of Oklahoma City and Tulsa the link for Jihad in Islam (find on left side of page) goes to their War and Fighting in Islam page where they write the following:

What is Jihad? What is Not Jihad?

• Linguistic meaning of Jihad in Arabic:
  • Striving - Struggling (or to exert oneself in order to be "right with God")
• Islamic meaning:
  • A. Non-violent struggling within oneself for a life of virtue.
  • B. Fighting to establish justice, which is a supreme goal.

FIGHTING to establish justice is a supreme goal in Islam. 

So, I tweeted about the Fighting Jihad definition for which I was called a liar (the last tweet was the first one):

 

This Muslim won't even acknowledge the truth and called me a liar for telling it. This is a major problem with some Muslims - particularly Muslim activists associated with CAIR.   Take a look at some retweets from the official twitter account of the MYJihad campaign:

 

These tweets slam America and seem to show clear hatred for it - which is not uncommon with Muslims who are associated with Islamist organizations here.  So, to make a long story short, the man who started the MYJihad campaign, Ahmed Rehad, works for CAIR, an organization that was started by leaders of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood's Islamic Association of Palestine (shut down by the US government).  It's national leader, Nihad Awad, was one of those leaders.

There are many sources you can find about fighting jihad (armed or military is another way it's described)  Quran.com tells us in verse 2:216 that jihad is holy fighting.

 

Jihad (holy fighting in Allah's Cause) is ordained for you (Muslims) though you dislike it, and it may be that you dislike a thing which is good for you and that you like a thing which is bad for you. Allah knows but you do not know.

 

But, CAIR's San Francisco Director Zahra Billoo told San Francisco's ABC7 on January 4th armed jihad was basically something created by Islamophobes:

 

 "A common misconception of the word jihad is that it means armed struggle or holy war and that is something that has been perpetrated by many who've made careers out of pushing anti-Muslim sentiment."

 

Another CAIR colleague, Cyrus McGoldrick, in November retweeted a Hamas leader's call for accurate weapons.  You know -  armed jihad!  Geez!  The hypocrisy here is as thick as pea soup.

BBC Religion lists one of the reason allowed for military jihad is to STRENGTHEN ISLAM.  Look under the heading What Can Justify Jihad?  Now, you can assume if this was inaccurate an Islamic body would have sued.

 

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Need I say more?

 

 

Update 1/25/13: 

Here's a pdf of the My Jihad about page showing CAIR Chicago is heavily involved with it.  Review donation area and the bottom of the page. 

Download Myjihad-org

Here's a few concerning tweets:

 

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MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD RESOURCES

The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) is an Islamic supremacist organization founded in Egypt in 1928 shortly after the Islamic Ottoman Empire (hegemony) ended in 1924.  It was started by Hasan Al-Banna. It is a global organization with presence in the United States.  Most members in America keep their identity hidden.   It was outlawed in Egypt for a number of years because of their supremacist and sometimes radicals views until the uprising there earlier this year.  I suspect these recent "freedom" revolutions will be used by the Brotherhood for their own benefit and advancement by appealing to all who want freedom (but many do not have) claiming they also support freedom but it is an Islamic supremacist organization.

I suggest a review of some of Al-Banna's writings found on a Canadian website used by impressionable Muslim youth.   Read Al-Banna's call for Jihad.  The Young Muslims (Brotherhood???) of Canada website claims to have copywrited the Arabic translations of Al-Banna's work into English.  Sayyid (Syed) Qutb, an early Muslim Brotherhood leader and activist whose book Milestones (Ma'alim fi al-Tariq) is also posted, too.  This book led to his state imposed death in Egypt shortly after it was published in the 60s.  Qutb intensely disliked the West, like Al-Banna, who both felt man-made laws were far inferior to sharia law (a cornerstone of Islamic supremacy or Islamism).  It's believed Qutb may have heavily influenced Al Qaeda (PBS).

In October of 2010, the Muslim Brotherhood's supreme guide? confirmed in a sermon their hate for the U.S. and that jihad was necessary.  ??On the 21st of January he wrote ??in Arabic about jihad against injustice (translated by google) is necessary even if it costs them their lives and discussed the eminence of pursuing major powers.  Here's a link to a recent interview (YouTube)  by CNN of a couple female Egyptians whose hatred for the U.S. and Israel is similar to many in the Middle East.  They are branwashed by an Islamisic supremacist mindset, IMO.

The Muslim Brotherhood branch in Palestine created Hamas in or around 1987, whose written goals is to destroy Israel for Islam.  Read The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement at Yale Law School.

In December 2008, an article appeared on Al Arabiya News Channel Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood calls for Jihad.  The article is not available on the website now but the pdf file of it is online.

The Muslim Brotherhood has been active in the U.S. since the 60s and set up several national organizations for political activism to further their goals, increase their political influence and, less overtly, advance their supremacist goals.  Their detailed plans to destroy America for Islamic supremacy was discovered by the FBI in 2004 in a search of the home of Ismail Selim Elbarasse (see the plan below). This plan was a summation of goals already achieved and what they planned to achieve in the future.  It was written in 1991 so it was in place a long time.  Like-minded Muslims here do not openly speak of their support for the Islamic supremacist ideals of the Muslim Brotherhood and will go to great length to give us a different impression.  Do all Muslims believe this ideology?  No. One out-spoken anti-Islamist Muslim activist is Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, a physician from Arizona who is president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy.  Most Islamists here go after him with vicious and ridiculous criticism.  Also, most Islamists will attack their critics with name-calling buzz words like bigots, hate-mongers, Islamophobes and refuse to discuss the SUBSTANCE of the criticism. 

Complicating their subversive threat in the U.S. are those on the far-left who down-play Islamism and this threat and call critics the sames hateful names as Islamists here do. They help enable these Islamist organizations to further their shared anti-American agendas, I guess.  A Muslim Brotherhood document submitted in the Holy Land Foundation terror funding trial reviews briefly their history in America.  It's in their own words.

I recently found some Muslim Brotherhood writings posted at the University of Maryland by Rasayil Al-Imam Al-Shahid (this is an archived webcopy because the originals have been removed) that were posted by graduate student, Kareem Darwish, who appears to be working for Microsoft in Cairo now. 

A 1994 written agenda for a meeting of the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee actually mentions CAIR (the Council on American Islamic Relations) and other MB organizations.  They wrote America was the ideal location to support their movement worldwide.  Check out copies of several paid checks from Hamas leader Mousa Marzook to the Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP), an overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood.  Linking CAIR to the MB also are the IAP leaders who started CAIR, Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmed.

A 1992 Internal memo of the Islamic Association of Palestine states:  Download IAP1192  (GOVERNMENT EXHIBIT 3:04-CR-2404 U.S. v. HLF,et., ")..Like other Western, Arab and Islamic arenas, the American arena has seen a move for action for the Palestinian cause by the grace of God and due to the presence of the Islamic Movement and its pioneer the Muslim Brotherhood Movement. The first organizational frame for Islamic action for Palestine came in the beginning of the eighties when the leadership of the Movement decided to establish the "Islamic Association of Palestine in North America".

A 1993 Palestine Committee document states it was formed by the Muslim Brotherhood (U.S. vs. HLF, Exhibit 003-0017). They wrote of the Islamic Association of Palestine on page 8.  In a Muslim Brotherhood phone book (U.S. vs. HLF Asqar Search 1) it lists Sadoun as living in Tulsa, Nihad Awad, CAIR's Executive Director is listed along with Ahmad (Ahmed) Agha of Ponca City, #34, 32, and 24 respectivel.

In an article at the Forth Worth Star from 1994, Nihad Awad was reported as being the spokeperson of the Islamic Association of Palestine:  Download Fort Worth Star1994

In 2008, at the Holy Land Foundation terror-funding trial the Dallas Morning News Crime Blog reported:  FBI: CAIR is a front group, and Holy Land Foundation tapped Hamas clerics for fundraisers.

It's been my experience during my five years of research and self-education about Islamism that Islamists are not truthful when questioned about the Muslim Brotherhood infiltration in the United States.  Listen to CAIR Oklahoma's director, Muneer Awad squirm with irritation when asked. Also, if they are call-out about something they wrote that's worrisome they will likely remove the webpage so its important to capture it.

On February 23rd or so, the Muslim Brotherhood wrote on their Arabic website:  "...All people of Egypt join protest tomorrow; "the global anti-globalization of American hegemony & Zionism...Global Movement for protests to be set up in Algeria, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen and Morocco...that the Arab armies must prepare for war..."  In other articles or interviews, they will flatly deny these things.

Resources:

WSJ reporter, Ian Johsnon, investigative work 'A Mosque in Munich: Nazi, the CIA, and the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West" Hudson Institute talk BookTV (video 1:45 min.) Note:  at 20 minute mark Johnson talks about Said Ramadan as a Muslim Brotherhood leader.  He is the son-in-law of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood and the father of Tariq Ramadan.

Muslim Networks and Movements in Western Europe  Muslim Brotherhood and Jama'at-i Islami Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life  (Sept 2010)

"...The Muslim Brotherhood is without question the world’s most influential modern Islamist organization..."

Politics in God's name  AL-AHRAM  November 1995

"...The Brotherhood rejects the secularist approach of confining Islam to a relationship between man and his creator. It became a political movement because it demanded a reform of the government and a reconsideration of the relationship of the Umma (Muslim nation) with other nations..."

Islamic Terrorism's Links To Nazi Fascism  (Assyrian News Agenct 2007)

The Muslim Brotherhood's Conquest of Europe  Mid East Quarterly (2005)

The History of the Muslim Brotherhood (tuftsgloballeadership)?

Al-Qaeda's Egyptian Prophet: Sayyid Qutb and the War On Jahiliya (Jamestown Foundation 2005)

Muslim Brotherhood Movement   Ummah.net archive page from 2008 

Frequently Questions

However, the Ikhwan everywhere (even in Jordon) agree that the only way to liberate Palastine is the military Jihad, and (even in Palastine) they agree that elections is one of the suitable ways to work in Egypt or Jordon. They (all) agree that building Islamic organizations is the best way to work in North America ...

One now tends to wonder what the two swords in the symbol of the Ikhwan stand for ?? 

 

The book is quran. The two swords symbolise Jihad. Muslim Brotherhood spokesman,Kamal El-Helbawy, helped start Muslim Council of Britain, heads Centre for the Study of Terrorism Here he is in a Feb 3rd video misleading others. Off-shoot: Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya is Egypt's largest militant group Center for Defense Information (2002) Elbarasse search. transcript of a conversation about the Muslim Brotherood that included when Oklahoma was brought up regarding Muslim Brotherhood shooting camps and the difficulty they had in continuing them. (see page 16)

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)  (1991).  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.

Alleged Hamas operative held after videotaping bridge

A rare look at secretive Brotherhood in America  Chicago Tribune 2004

 group aiming to create Islamic states worldwide has established roots here, in large part under the guidance of Egypt-born Ahmed Elkadi

Base jumping anyone?

Some of the jumps were from Prekestolen (Pulpit Rock) in Norway:

 

PREKESTOLEN: 600 meter ned.
Illustrasjonsfoto: SCANPIX

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Lawmakers agree on economic plan?

  

Doug Mills/The New York Times

Historic meeting with President Bush took place this afternoon to work out a plan to keep our economy from collapsing.

Update:  6:00 PM CT:  Reports are coming out of Washington now that the meeting ended badly with no deal.  Some say it was a disaster.  No doubt, Obama will blame McCain.

Piers Morgan missed important opportunities interviewing Imam Suhaib Webb

Last night Imam Suhaib Webb of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center (ISBCC) was interviewed by Piers Morgan on CNN.  The ISBCC is an affiliate of the Islamic Society of Boston where the Boston Marathon suspects attended on occasion.  I just had to make note of some of the big opportunities Piers Morgan missed where he could of asked Webb some rather relevant followup questions:

Piers Morgan interview with Imam Suhaib Webb April 22, 2013:

Joining me is Imam Webb of the Islamic Society of the Boston Cultural Center. Welcome to you, Imam Webb. You're actually imam of a local mosque affiliated with the one that Tamerlan Tsarnaev attended. From all that you've now gleaned about what went on with him, were we seeing somebody who was being radicalized very quickly?

IMAM SUHAIB WEBB, ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF BOSTON CULTURAL CENTER: I'm not sure I can answer that question but definitely someone standing up in a Friday prayer and questioning a preacher who is talking about Martin Luther King Jr. might draw some flags but I don't think would necessitate calling law enforcement.

MORGAN: Now, he made two protests on two different incidents. He branded people a kafir, a non-believer. Clearly he was getting quite intense about his religion.
 
WEBB: Yes, I think that's where a qualified scholar or leader would need to step in and talk to him and see kind of what his mindset was, and from there, make a call on kind of what direction he was taking his religiosity.

Missed Opportunity:  I believe he called the Imam kafir for comparing Martin Luther King to the Islamic prophet, Mohammad, isn't that right?   Did the Imam talk to him about this outburst?  Have you spoken to the imam at your sister mosque about this?

MORGAN: What has been the reaction in the mosques, both yours and the one of course that Tamerlan Tsarnaev attended?

WEBB: With regards to what?

MORGAN: Well, to what's happened. Obviously he's been --

WEBB: Our reaction to what?

MORGAN: Your reaction to the discovery that somebody attending one of the mosques has been the perpetrator of this appalling bombing.

WEBB: Well, I think first and foremost as Bostonians, our hearts and prayers are with the community. And then there's a sense of anger and frustration that someone who would frequent one of our faith institutions would carry out such acts, so people seem to be very angry and upset with what he's done.

MORGAN: Is there any new system that you can put in place to raise more warning flags about characters like Tamerlan? Because it just seems to people that he's been plotting this in his head by being inspired by Islamic fundamentalists on videos that he;s found on the Internet, to commit an appalling act of terror, and yet he's been going to this mosque --

WEBB: Indeed.

MORGAN: -- hanging around with people. Somebody must have spotted that he was getting more intense, potentially dangerous, because we know the Russian authorities were wary enough about him to contact the FBI.

WEBB: Indeed, but I have to say, I don't think most mosques or churches or synagogues are law enforcement agencies. They don't have the same access that they would have.

Missed Opportunity:  Actually, those who attend a mosque together on a regular basis may have more access. When he called the Imam a kafir he revealed a bit of his fundamentalist views. Do you agree? Could this be a sign of radicalization or rigid fundamentalist believes?  Did his outburst cause concern?  It's been reported Tamerlan was in company of another Boston area Muslim convert by the name of Mihsa who practiced a strict form of Islam. Do you know who this person is?  I believe he has a red beard.   I wonder, Imam Webb, - do you advise your fellow Muslims to contact the FBI if they see something odd?  Does you mosque discuss radical Islam and its danger? Do you go over the warning sign?  Or, do you tell them not to talk to the FBI, say as CAIR does?

WEBB: But I think what's important is that the mosque here in Boston, the other mosque didn't appeal to his theology, so I think the way to address that -- there was an interesting Harvard study that said only 2 percent of the imams worldwide who called for global jihad had actually degrees from Islamic educational institutions that are considered respectable. So I think one of the best ways is through properly trained scholars who can mediate and talk to people and see where they're coming from and try to address some of those radical ideas that they have. He wasn't radicalized in Boston. It appears now that he was radicalized online.

Missed Opportunity:  Say, what was the name of the Harvard Study?  What year was it done?

Missed Opportunity:  You said 2% of imams who call for global jihad had degrees from proper Islamic institutions. How many imams would you say this represents 10 - 100 - 1000?  How many imams in total have called for global jihad? You don't know?  Hummm... The study referred to 2% of the total, right?  It seems odd you don't know the total. Didn't the study mention the total?  Do you see this global call for jihad by imams as a major concern for most non-Muslims?  Shouldn't the Imams who disagree with the call for global jihad stand up?  What is being done collectively?  Can you give me an example of a written statement from a collective of Imams specifically denouncing the call for global jihad?  What?  What do you mean you can't?

Missed Opportunity:  I noticed (since I did some research) that you have on your own website (SuhaibWebb.com) a glowing review of a presentation given at a conference on th book about Jihad by the highly controversial martyrdom-approving Sunni cleric Yusef Quaradawi.  This presentation, by the way, is also on the Muslim Brotherhood's English Website Ikhwanwebb. Is this wise, Imam?

Missed opportunity:  Did you attend a fund-raiser a few days before 9/11 for Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, otherwise known as H. Rapp Brown, who was convicted for killing a sheriff deputy?  Why were you there?  I read an FBI document about this fundraiser. Anwar Awlaki was there, as well, right?

MORGAN: Imam Webb, thank you for joining me.

WEBB: Thank you, sir.

End - Transcript from CNN

Last week, Webb was replaced (by Bretbart.com) as a speaker at the Boston Marathon Memorial Service the night before but Piers Morgan didn't bother to bring that up either. Another missed opportunity, Piers - geez. On the 21st, Suhaib Webb tweeted a link to this article stating. "They are liars."

There's just one problem, though, this very short article is accurate the best I can tell.  Webb was replaced the night before, he even tweeted about it. The Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center is linked to the Islamic Society of Boston and is referred to as the sister organization on the ISB website. Both are linked in the Islamic Society of North America (probably written in their constitution about their permanent affiliation to ISNA) who was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror-funding trial (documented court evidence). This was the largest Hamas terror-funding case to date.  There you go again, Piers, missing another opportunity.

Shame on you, Piers Morgan.

Professor Jaleel Abdul-Adil speaks at Hizb ut-Tahrir Caliphate conference

(screen shot of Jaleel Abdul-Adil at the Hizb ut-Tahrir Islamist conference from a few minutes ago)

This man, Jaleel Abdul-Adil, who wants America to be ruled under an Islamic caliphate, is an associate professor of clinical psychology at the University of Illinois Chicago.  He teaches young impressionable minds!

The caliphate will prevent terrorism he said.  We will impliment Sharia Law... Just because terrorists also say they want a caliphate doesn't mean we are working with them...

And he teaches some of your children!

Signing off for vacation

I am taking some time off to vacation with family.  I will be back to blogging on August 1st

I also want to say I could not do this blog without all the support of all my readers.  Thank you.

Brandi

Wal Mart store in Minnesota will provide prayer time for Muslims

CAIR, an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas infrastructure in America, issued a press release yesterday to announce they have convinced a Wal-Mart store in Minnesota to Accommodate Muslim Worker's Prayers:

 

The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) announced today that a Wal-Mart store in that state has agreed to accommodate a Muslim employee's right to pray in the workplace. CAIR-MN said the religious accommodation came after its intervention in the case of a Muslim Wal-Mart employee who was reportedly fired for violating a new supervisor's ban on prayer during work breaks. A previous supervisor had allowed the worker to perform his daily prayers. Following discussions between CAIR-MN and local and national representatives of Wal-Mart, the Muslim worker was re-hired and allowed to perform his prayers during breaks. "We appreciate Wal-Mart's handling of this case and its willingness to accommodate the religious practices of employees," said CAIR-MN Civil Rights Coordinator Zahra Aljabri. Aljabri noted that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Minnesota Human Rights Act protect the right of any employee with a bona fide religious belief to have accommodation in the workplace as long as that accommodation does not cause "undue hardship" for the employer.

Likewise, devout Christians, Jews, Budists, Hindus and so on should take advantage of their right to prayer at work and become more vocal in this regard   There is a massive force in the world (i.,e, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hizb ut-Tahrir, Islamists, OIC, and jihadists) who all want Islam to dominate over all other religions and political parties.  This ideology is in the Koran and the intent of this book is to bring everyone under Islamic authority.  However, it is important to point out there are Muslims in America who do NOT believe in the political component of Islam and they lead a lonely fight against Islamists here in America.  Dr. Zuhdi Jasser and his organization, American Islamic Forum for Democracy is one of these brave and strong Muslims.  These are the voices of Muslims that need to rise up in America.

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Also see:

CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood and more

U.S. House strongly rebukes President Obama's signing statement

Wow!  With a bi-partisan vote Congress Rebukes Obama on Dictatorial Claim:

 

The U.S. House of Representatives on July 9 voted almost unanimously to rebuke President Barack Obama over his June 26 signing statement openly declaring that he could ignore provisions of the law he was signing.

The bipartisan 429-2 vote was a direct result of Obama's assertion that he could ignore restricitons on how the $106 billion loan guarantee to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) could be used. In his signing statement, Obama claimed that “provisions of this bill within sections 1110 to 1112 of title XI, and sections 1403 and 1404 of title XIV, would interfere with my constitutional authority to conduct foreign relations by directing the Executive to take certain positions in negotiations or discussions with international organizations and foreign governments, or by requiring consultation with the Congress prior to such negotiations or discussions. I will not treat these provisions as limiting my ability to engage in foreign diplomacy or negotiations.”

The House vote rebuking Obama was on an amendment offered by Representative Kay Granger (R-Texas) that would add the following language to the Fiscal 2010 State-Foreign Operations appropriations bill (H.R. 3081): “None of the funds made available in this Act may be used by the Secretary of the Treasury to negotiate an agreement in contravention of [law].”

That Obama’s signing statement was a clear assertion of dictatorial powers was recognized by Republican and Democrat alike in Congress. Representative Barney Frank (D-Mass.) stressed that “we do this not on behalf of this institution, but literally on behalf of democracy, on behalf of the process by which people get elected and deliberate and do this. And there is a kind of a unilateralism, in an undemocratic, unreachable way, to these signing statements that is the opposite of what we do here.”

When even his fellow liberal Democrats are rebuking him with such strong language, stating that his actions are a threat to free government itself, then you know Obama has really gone off the dictatorially deep end!

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Also see:

Statement on Signing the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2009 (by Barack Obama)

President gets spanking for ignoring Congress NJ.com

Bush Challenges Hundreds of Laws (by Charlie Savage, Boston Globe)

Both Parties in House Slam Obama Signing Statement

Shadowy Islamist group, Hizb ut-Tahrir, streams their caliphate conference

This session is about the need for an Islamic caliphate. I can't believe the Hilton Oak Lawn, outside of Chicago, Illinois hosted this anti-American conference:

Shame on the Hilton.

Very disturbing views of the West by Hizb ut-Tahrir. I hope the FBI is watching this live stream:

(update: live stream stopped at 5:30 PM CT but it will probably be posted to YouTube soon).