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Former director of Missouri Islamic charity admits guilt

Mubarak Hamed, a naturalized citizen from Sudan, admited last Friday he sent over $1 million to Iraq in violated of U.S. sanctions.  He and others involved spent years denying allegations, though. He is the third person to have plead guilty in the case.  Two more remain to be tried, including former U.S. congressman Mark Deli Siljander.

Hamed served as executive director of the now-defunct Islamic American Relief Agency-USA from 1991 until October 2004, when federal agents raided the charity’s Columbia offices and carted off truckloads of documents and computers.

The same day, the U.S. Treasury Department froze the charity’s assets and said it was part of a global network of similarly named charities that supported terrorists, including Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida, the Taliban and Hamas.

In pleading guilty, Hamed also admitted to a long string of facts in his plea agreement, many of which he and others had spent years denying. After contending that his charity was an entirely independent organization, he acknowledged Friday that it was part of an international organization headquartered in Khartoum, Sudan, that also used the initials IARA.

The African charity, according to federal officials, had frequent contact with the worst players in international terrorism.

...Siljander is accused of taking $75,000 from IARA to help the charity have its name removed from a U.S. Senate Finance Committee list of organizations that allegedly supported terrorism. Prosecutors contend the money had been stolen from a U.S. Agency for International Development grant that IARA was supposed to have used for relief projects in the African nation of Mali.

Four Christians arrested outside Arab Festival in Dearborn, Michigan!!!

Below is a Fox News Video of a recent arrest of four Christians who were standing outside of an Arab Festval holding Christians phamlets, if anyone wanted them: 

 

The Thomas More Law Center is going to represent these Christians in their right to stand on a public sidewalk.  There's more information and videos at the Thomas More Law Center.
 

Shortly after ex-CAIR chair voted on Jacksonville H.R. board, ACLU seeks end to Christian prayer before city meetings!

Shortly after the former chairman of the board of CAIR, an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas infrastructure in America was elected to the Jacksonville Human Rights Board, the ACLU wrote a letter to the Jacksonville City Council threatening a lawsuit if they continue to allow Christian prayer before their meetings. 

Did I mention the ACLU partners with CAIR?

The appointment of Parvez Ahmed was highly controversial.  For example, in 2008 he co-wrote a CAIR op-ed for convicted terror-supporter (DOJ document) Sami-al-Arian and claimed he was a political prisoner of the U.S. government!  CAIR, for those of you who don't know, was started by leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood.  Al-Arian admitted his involvement with this Islamic supremacist organization.  This is the organization that started Hamas who seeks the destruction of Israel for Islam.

In May, after his election to the council,  Ahmed wrote in the Huffington Post the opposition to his election was "contrived"    Contrived?  

The City of Jacksonville now reaps what they sowed, in my opinion.

Video:

Oklahoma family not happy with new Muslim neighbors

This is an example how not to greet your new Muslim neighbors.

KFOR Video:

The quranic verse they used was 2:193.

The issues that concerns me, and others, regarding Muslim are when they team up with Islamists and their organizations (i.e., CAIR), or help fund terrorists through Islamic charities such as with the Holy Land Foundation, which was the largest Islamic charity in the U.S. and it was shut down for sending millions to Hamas, a terror organization founded by the Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood, which has set up a number of organizations in the U.S.. And, of course, the global terrorists threat which is never ending and is unprecedented in history.  All this goes far beyond the mere practice of own's personal religion and it gives Islam a bad name. 

While this family has a right to free speech and mostly used a verse out of the Quran, let's contrast this freedom with life in a Muslim dominated country run by sharia law.  There, this family would have been arrested or worse.  By the way, In a few conversations I've had with a couple Oklahoma Muslims, they strongly support sharia law, which I found alarming.

CAIR, an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas infrastructure here in America, claims this is another sign of growing Islamophobia. 

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CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood and more

Razi Hashmi claims Oklahoma's anti-Sharia amendment is anti-Muslim bigotry!

In an interview with Fox News yesterday, Razi Hashmi, the director of CAIR Oklahoma said efforts to ban Sharia law from ever being considered in Oklahoma courts was “really all about anti-Muslim bigotry.”  However, Hashmi generally responds to troubling documentation about CAIR as the fault, hate or bigotry of others.  So, this issue appears no different. 

Everyone needs to be aware that there is an assistant attorney general in Oklahoma who regularly shills for CAIR in a local newspaper, the Edmond Sun. This man appears to be in a position that could affect legal ruling, to some degree, either now or in the future. Fox News should interview William F. O'Brien and ask him why he stands up for such a controversial organization as CAIR. 

His boss, Drew Edmondson (D) is running for governor.

Since November, Razi Hashmi has either bragged about CAIR (OETA interview), called other liars in a Newson6 article and in an interview with Dr. Bruce Prescott or distanced CAIR Oklahoma from CAIR(OU Daily) or refused to answer questions (News9) or claimed critics are misinformed (Edmond Sun) when he's been confronted about facts that haunt the organization he represents.  There is a serious problem if you can't even be honest.

Hashmi has even shilled for Hamas in the Oklahoma press.  He said in the Fox News interview Duncan refused to accept the Quran at an "official state ceremony." recently.   Hummm...  Official state ceremony?  Now that claim he made ought to get your attention.  There was no official state ceremony recently.  The Quran was offered in a 2007 letter written by the Governor's Ethnic American Advisory Council that was sent to all Oklahoma legislators.  The council which is made up of Muslims was set up by democratic governor Brad Henry, at the request of several Muslim leaders.   Hashmi claimed it was an official state ceremony?  I don't think so.

I say thank you to Rep. Rex Duncan and the Oklahoma legislators who had the political courage to take on this issue that will allow Oklahomans to decide. 

Fox News Video:

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CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, and more

CAIR was funded in part with a donation (canceled check copy of HLF trial document)  from Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror trial.

 

Omar Ahmad co-founder and CAIR President Emeritus:  He was quoted in 1998 in the San Ramon Valley Herald newspaper that Islam wasn't to be equal to any other faith in America but to be dominate.  Ahmad said the Quran should be the highest authority in our country.  He was chairman of the Board of CAIR at the time. Download 398Ahmad 

 

The Washington Times reported 3/16/04: "...At the Islamic Association of Palestine's third annual convention in Chicago in November 1999, CAIR President Omar Ahmad gave a speech at a youth session praising suicide bombers who "kill themselves for Islam." "Fighting for freedom, fighting for Islam -- that is not suicide. They kill themselves for Islam, " he said.

 

Oklahoma International Law Amendment, State Question 755  (Secretary of State document) 

 

Four Christian Arrested in Dearborn, MI. for standing outside an Arab festival (see videos)  Thomas More Law Center

Supreme Court upholds federal law that criminalizes "material support" for designated terror groups

This decision was the most reasonable conclusion possible. 

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld the federal law criminalizing "material support" for designated terrorist groups, rejecting complaints that the law is so vague that it would stifle political speech by groups with peaceful intent.

The 6-3 decision was a major victory for government prosecutors, who frequently use the statute as a weapon to neutralize individuals with suspected ties to terrorist groups. In most war-on-terror cases the Supreme Court has ruled on since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the government has not fared nearly as well.

...Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. author of the decision, gave strong deference to "the considered judgment" of Congress and the executive branch that even benign support for groups with terrorist aims helps their violent activities. 

Failed Times Square bomber pleads guilty - warns of more attacks

This afternoon in New York City Faisal Shahzad plead guilty for the failed Times Square bombing and said he would plead guilty 100 times more and warned of more attacks:

The Pakistani-born Connecticut man arrested who attempted to detonate a car bomb in Times Square pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in a New York court on Monday.

Faisal Shahzad was indicted on 10 counts, including attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, and said he planned to plead guilty to all 10 charges.

He told the judge he wanted to "plead guilty and 100 times more." He also warned that unless the U.S. leaves Muslim lands, "We will be attacking U.S." 

I believe this may have been the first attack in the U.S. facilitated by the Taliban.

Religious censorship one step closer at the U.N. Human Rights Council

For a while now, human rights groups have warned the Islamic supremacist Saudi-based and backed OIC was seeking a binding resolution to make criticism of Islam against the law across all levels of control; local, state, national and international.

Last Friday, the OIC came one step closer with the formation of a censorship investigator that will oversea how the media protrays religion, i.e., Islam.  In other words, the OIC is trying to stop ANY criticism of Islam and influence how it's protrayed worldwide:

...The resolution now opens the way for the Human Rights Council to select a special investigator on religious freedom to "work closely with mass media organizations to ensure that they create and promote an atmosphere of respect and tolerance for religious and cultural diversity." 

Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based non-profit U.N. Watch, warned that what the OIC is really trying to do is "turn an international shield for religious freedom into a sword for religious-motivated state censorship."

This is a major setback for freedom of speech.  Yet, most Americans simply go about their day as if none of this is happening because they are so absorbed in their own lives.

Akert: 10 Afghan officers brought to Texas for training missing!

Yesterday, a nationwide alert was issued for 10 missing Afghan officers brought to Lackland Air Force Base for fight training who, one-by-one, walked off the base over the last two years.

There's something seriously wrong with oversight here:

...The Afghan officers and enlisted men have security badges that give them access to secure U.S. defense installations, according to the lookout bulletin, "Afghan Military Deserters in CONUS [Continental U.S.]," written by Naval Criminal Investigative Service in Dallas and obtained by FoxNews.com. 

EXCLUSIVE: 10 of 17 Afghans Who Deserted U.S. Air Force Base Remain Missing

CAIR complains as FBI and CIA question Americans in Yemen

CAIR wrote a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday asking him to investigate the FBI and CIA who are working hard and non-stop to prevent a terror attack by concentrating on Americans who have traveled to Yemen which is high on the radar because of Anwar al-Awlaki and the Yemen Al Qaeda branch there and whose handprints appear to have been on the Ft. Hood shooting, the failed Christmas Day bombing and the failed Times Square bombing. 

Late last month, the Department of Homeland Security reported terror plots are at a record high.

Yet, today, CAIR had a press conference which, once again, went after the FBI.

...In his letter to Holder, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad described the pressure exerted on the Virginia Muslim and on others in similar circumstances:

"His passport was confiscated and FBI agents have subjected him to at least eight interrogations, despite assertion of his constitutional right to remain silent as advised by his attorney. He has been explicitly told that he is on the no-fly list, and he has been pressured to submit to a polygraph test.

"The use of apparently illegal pressure tactics flies in the face of President Obama's commitment to abandon unconstitutional policies instituted under the previous administration.

"We are also deeply concerned that this apparent targeting of American Muslims not only infringes on constitutional rights, but also sends the message that Muslims are second class citizens and that the due process of law does not apply to them.

"I therefore respectfully request that your office investigate these incidents and take whatever remedial actions are necessary based on the results of that investigation. I would also request that the U.S. Department of Justice allow all American citizens to return to the United States, and, if there are any reasons to charge or investigate particular individuals, to do so once they are in their country of birth...

Why the nerve of the FBI to question someone and have them take a polygraph test.  This press conference was specifically about Yahya Wehelie who after spending 18 months in Yemen and who admitted having conversations with suspected Al Qaeda operative, Sharif Mobley, now finds himself on a no-fly list - the poor victim of the big bad U.S. government. 

Bomb scare in Oklahoma City

 
screen shot of live feed from KFOR TV taken a few minutes ago

Most of these scares turn out to be nothing. This one is near 122nd and Broadway.  A metal box supposedly has the word BOOM! written on it is near a transformer.  

 http://www.kfor.com/news/livestreaming/

Another live feed is at KOCO

Update 2:18 PM CT:  It was a toolbox and somebody had written a word or two on it.  No explosives.

ABC News & Little Green Footballs mock Oklahoma on Sharia Law amendment

In November, Oklahomans will likely vote on a constitutional amendment called "Save Our State" (SQ 755) that would prohibit state courts from considering or imposing sharia law or international laws when they decide cases. This amendment would stop foreign or Islamic religious laws from creeping into our legal system but it has met with some ridicule.

But, do not kid yourself that elements of Islamic law are not creeping into America.  Recently, the American Academy of Pediatricians issued a policy statement about FGM and felt a "nick" in a young child's privates should be allowed!  This caused a number of groups to express outrage.  Shamed, AAP reversed themselves and removed the policy paper from their website.

Yet, Oklahoma is considered foolish by some.  In a ABC News article titled Islamic Sharia Law to Be Banned in, ah, Oklahoma, they believed the prospect of sharia law ever being applied in the sate was remote based on the relatively low number of Muslims.  Have you not noticed their numbers are small most everywhere in Amerca but their activism is very high?  Do you think the use of the phrase "Ah, Oklahoma" was suppose to be a dig against Oklahoma legislators for being so far out there it's ridiculous? The legal commentary ABC sought was Fordham professor, Jim Cohen, who represented several Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants in the past and who spoke out against the U.S. case against Al Qaeda operative Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a CBS interview in 2008, so his comments seemed biased to me and meant to put the proposed legislation in a bad light.

Hummm...

Little Green Footballs, a former conservative blog written by Charles Johnson that swung 180 after Obama was elected and shortly after Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated CAIR filed a complaint with the FBI about some reader's comments, wrote Oklahoma Will Ban Sharia Law, Which Was Just About to Take Over and categorized it in the far right-wing nutsville world: Oklahoma, Far Right, Republican Party, GOP, Religious Right, Sharia, and Bigotry.

Bigotry? Far Right?  Nope, it's more like willful neglect on Johnson's part who knows first hand how CAIR tries to stop free speech over and over again when it comes to criticism of Islam or Islamism, which is one and the same to them. 

I wonder if he or ABC News has heard of the Texas Islamic Court?

It also appears they know very little about the long Islamist history in Oklahoma dating as far back as a 1988 speech made to Oklahoma Muslims by Abdullah Azzam - the godfather of Al Qaeda! What about the very open jihadist convention held on Christmas Day in the convention center in downtown Oklahoma City in 1992?  A convention stumbled upon by a CNN reporter whose life was changed forever.  And, from the NEFA Foundation read about The Muslim Brotherhood in the United States; which referenced a Muslim Brotherhood document written by Zeid al-Noman aregarding their weapons training camps in Oklahoma and how officials started getting suspicious (page 8 which referenced Government Exhibit 003-0089; 3:04-CR-240-G; U.S. v. HLF, et al.. p.18.).

Isn't it a strange coincidence that 9/11 hijacker Nawaf Alhazmi was ticketed in Oklahoma in April 2001 and that Bin Laden's pilot, Ihab Ali Nawawi, trained in Norman, Oklahoma - you know the same place where 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui trained for a while? Airmen's Flight School was on the radar of the FBI in 1999 and before. A September 2001 Boston Globe article Flight school says FBI trailed suspect prior to hijackings (archive) gives more detail:

The vice president of a flight school in Oklahoma told The Boston Globe yesterday that three weeks before Tuesday's suicide hijackings, FBI agents interviewed him about a suspected terrorist who had trained at the school.

Dale Davis, the vice president of Airman Flight School in Norman, Okla., said FBI agents showed up at the facility asking questions about Zacarias Moussaoui, who was arrested in Minnesota last month after he tried to get flight simulator lessons on flying a commercial-size jet.

In addition, Davis said that FBI agents visited his flight school two years ago to ask questions about a former student who had been identified by federal authorities as an associate of Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born dissident who is the prime suspect in organizing last week's hijackings.

in January 2008,  the Islamic Society of Tulsa invited a known Muslim Brotherhood leader by the name of Jamal Badawi, who was individually named an unindicated co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror-funded trial, to represent them in a debate about Islam and Christianity with a Muslim convert who is now a Christian pastor. The summer before, CAIR, an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas infrastructure in America, was apparently invited to start a chapter here by local Islamic leaders.

But, what do these things have to do with Islamists and their left-wing partners infiltrating Oklahoma's legal system?  Well, to being with, Gov. Brad Henry (D) created the Governor's Ethnic American Advisory Council at the request of several Muslims who, in short order,  offered free copies of the Quran to every state legislator in 2007 that was embossed with the state seal.  That move got national attention when some of the offended legislators were highly ridiculed.  Razi Hashmi, the director of CAIR's chapter in Oklahoma said distribution of the Qurans was to educate legislators. He said the rejection was disturbing.

Why was a council, created by a governor and supported by the Oklahoma Office of Personnel Management which is funded by taxpapers, giving out a religious book, anyway?  Since that event one of the council members was placed on the influential Oklahoma State Textbook Committee and this spring Rep. Tom Cole held a special "townhall" for Muslims which was not listed on his schedule of public townhalls.  Cole's office insists it was not a townhall but it certainly was advertised as one.

The director of CAIR Oklahoma, Razi Hashmi, shilled for Hamas in the Oklahoma press last year and implied U.S. Rep. Mary Fallen (running for governor now) should keep her mouth shut about her support for Israel.  Oklahoma even has an Assistant Attorney General by the name of William F. O'Brien who shills for CAIR in opinion articles published in the Edmond Sun - a paper based in a suburb of Oklahoma City.  His boss, Drew Edmondson (D) is running for governor.

CAIR's national spokesman, Ibrahim Hooper, said the "anti-Islam rhetoric is approaching “Nazi-like” levels" when asked about the proposed amendment.  Saad Mohammed, CAIR Oklahoma co-founder, claimed extremists have distorted Sharia."  Does he also mean Saudi Arabia which shows the world almost daily the harsh life under Sharia?  CAIR and many other Muslim groups proudly claim Islam is the fastest growing religion in America.  Are you paying attention?  But It's important to distinquish secular Islam from Islamism which has a goal to gain power, bit by bit, for their religiously supremacist ideology.  Islamists do not recognize Islamism becasue it's all Islam to them. Islamism's goal is to dominate.  Chrisianity once thrived in the Middle East and is now a minority religion there because of Islamism and it can happen again, if we don't pay close enough attention. 

Golly,  gee whiz, ABC News and Little Green Football -  do you think it's possible there are other Islamists and their minions from the left who have worked or will work their way into Oklahoma government that could eventually influence legislation and/or our state courts? 

I say this is one smart move, Oklahoma!

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Oklahoma State Rep. Aims To Stop 'Liberal Judges' From Imposing Sharia Law TPM  (BTW, I would have advised Rep. Duncan not to go on far-left anti-conservative MSNBC)

Islamophobia Watch - Documenting anti Muslim bigotry - Ballot to ...  

Jun 5, 2010 ... Ballot to ban Sharia law in Oklahoma ..."SQ 755 will constitute a pre-emptive strike against Sharia law coming to Oklahoma." State Sen. ...

Islamic University of Minnesota graduates first class  The university is divided into three colleges: the College of Sharia Law, the College of Islamic Education, and the College of Arabic Language.

Armed couple tried to gain access to key military base in Florida

A man and woman were stopped from entering MacDill Air Force Base outside of Tampa, Florida, Monday evening.  The base is the home for the U.S.Central Command which oversees military efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq.

After the couple was stopped for not having proper ID, their car was searched and military-style weapons found.

The couple were taken into custody and have not been named.

Is secular Turkey turning Islamist?

Istanbul, Turkey was once the capitol of the Ottoman Empire, a Islamic supremacist ruling system that lasted centuries.  A number of Islamist organizations want to return to caliphate rule.

After, the Ottoman collapse in 1921, Turkey became secular but there have been many signs over the last few years of its turn towards Islamism.  Today, Defense Secretary Robert Gates Criticizes Turkey's Rejection of Iran Sanctions.

Its something to keep our eye on.

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Video: Israeli tourism to Turkey plummets

Turkey's president uses Twitter to speak out against country's ban on YouTube ... 

Hamas, Turkey teaming for lawsuits against Israel

Funeral for Murdered Apostolic Vicar in Turkey

Gaza flotilla: Turkey's stance is a lesson to the west 

Is a global sharia court possible in the future?

Well, it may not be too far off considering the Gulf States May Have Single Shariah Council by 2013 for Islamic financing, according to Business Week. 

Could this be the first step in the creation of a global Islamic court? 

New York Times hires former CAIR lobbyist to write about Gound Zero Mosque

Former employees tied to CAIR are working for the media and may be less-than-balanced on the news they cover,  such as the Ground Zero Mosque.

From NewsBusters:

...Sharaf Mowjood, who helped pen the Islam-focused articles for The New York Times and the Times' world-affairs paper the International Herald Tribune in December of 2009, worked as a government relations coordinatorfor CAIR up until at least March of 2008.

Mowjood's gushing, 1,200-word article on the controversial mosque planned for construction near the former site of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks was titled "Muslim Prayers and Renewal Near Ground Zero." All eight of the sources cited in the piece said they approved of the project or lauded its advocate Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf.

...The Associated Press also employed former CAIR Canada spokeswomen Hadeel Al-Shalchito cover subjects like Israel-Palestine relations, the Goldstone report that condemned Israel, the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic radicalism.

...The [Muslim Brotherhood] website described Islamonline as ‘the most prominent voice of the global Muslim Brotherhood,' wrote the IPT. However, Al-Shalchi's story "cast the Brotherhood as moderate and Brotherhood spiritual leader and Islamonline founder Youssef al-Qaradawi as a ‘relative moderate.'"

Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood has issued fatwas approving of martyrdom against Israel and has spoken of the desire for Islamic domination.

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Must read: More about Imam Feisal, leader of proposed Ground Zero mosque

Restaurant thrives in Gaza and more

Here's something you won't see CNN or any of the left-controlled media report to you about Gaza:

Watch a promotional video for Roots The Club restaurant in Gaza which I found on Tom Gross's Mideast Dispatch where you will find many more pictures of life in Gaza. 

Cactus Development and Investment owns this restaurant.  It also owns a number of other restaurants in Palestine, too:

Gaza a concentration camp?  I'm so confused.

Rise up and be counted!

This is an awesome song featuring Jeremy Hoop singing "Rise Up".  It's inspirational and bursting with patriotism:

 

Oklahoma City: pro-Israel supporters and random acts of kindness!

photo credit:  Mark Schlachtenhaufen| The Edmond Sun

Last Thursday,  CAIR Oklahoma posted a headsup about an anti-Israel rally planned that was organized "primarily" by the Tulsa Peace Fellowship and Oklahoma City's Peace House run by director Nathaniel Batchelder to decry Israel's stopping of the flotilla of humanitarian aid to Hamas-controlled Gaza.  Aid which Hamas has now refused to allow into Gaza - giving this whole incident the impression the flotilla was a deliberate act of provocation. 

The anti-Israel rally was countered by two pro-Israel women whose determined efforts brought out the goodness of Oklahomans who passed by them, some even joined them,  as they stood across the street from the small anti-Israel group that included the director of CAIR, Razi Hashmi - a man who has shilled for the terrorist group Hamas in the press before.

My friend at OkieCampaign posted an account of that evening titled Two Became Twenty written by one of the determined women.  It's definitely worth reading in its entirety.  It's a heart-warming story of their efforts and the random acts of kindness of others.

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Razi Hashmi front and center at anti-Israel rally

Paul McCartney insults Americans with lack of character

After receiving an award last week at the White House, Paul McCartney, one of the two remaining aging Beatles,  felt compelled to spout off  "After the last eight years, it's great to have a president who knows what a library is."   Isn't it just like a far-left lib to hurl snide remarks at a conservative?   Why, we wouldn't know what to do if there was civility shown by them.

This is one character revealing moment which insulted the American people who elected George Bush to two terms, if you think about it. 

Boycott McCartney!

Video:

Oh look, there's Jerry Seinfeld next to McCartney, laughing.

 

Hamas claims Helen Thomas remarks reflect the American majority!

Hamas praises Helen Thomas’ anti-Jewish statement then said her views represented the majority of Americans!  What the heck?

Hamas affiliated Al Qassam website on Sunday, June 6th, regarding remarks made by White House correspondent Helen Thomas.

The website reports “This statement by Thomas Helen reflects the opinion of American majority in USA and all masses who support justice and peace in Palestine an  whole world...

This is an excellent example, and a stark reminder, how Islamists twist the truth.

Update 6/7/10 1 PM CT:  Thomas' will  retire immediately from Hearst Newspapers.  Her long-standing front row center seat in the White House press room was empty today.

Boo Hoo...

Saudi-based OIC steps up efforts against Israel

The OIC, a Saudi-based and back inter-governmental Islamist organization,  held a press conference yesterday to claim the international community has isolated Israel and is now in conflict with many countries and faiths.  This is more of the Islamist spin on efforts they hope will led to Israel's decline rather than based in reality:

...Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said Israel was given a stern warning that its attack on the Freedom Flotilla was going to have far-reaching consequences. The incident has isolated the Zionist state from the international community, which has united in condemning Israeli aggression, he said.

...Flanked by Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Malki at the press conference, he invited OIC Ambassadorial Groups in New York and Geneva to work for the adoption of an international stand condemning “this odious crime” and the lifting of the “lawless blockade on the Gaza Strip.”

...The meeting agreed that it was no longer a conflict between Israel and Palestine, rather it was Israel versus 32 countries whose citizens were on board the aid flotilla and who were of all faiths and backgrounds. “Therefore, it should be interpreted as an attack on the United Nations and its values,” Ihsanoglu said, calling for the convening of a UN General Assembly session on the issue...

Continuing on with their efforts to stop any criticism of Islam - even if it is true, In their 3rd annual Islamophobia report (pg 11 of the report), their expressed their displeasure and surprise the Obama administration did not buy in to their attempt to get a binding resolution to stop any criticism of Islam through the U.N.

...the criticism leveled by the US Administration on the OIC proposed legally binding instrumentwas not in line with the expectations raised by promise of engagement in the Cairo speech by President Obama. In October 26, 2009 the U.S. State Department released its Annual Report on International Religious Freedom. It was critical of what it said were international efforts to limit free speech in the name of combating defamation of religion, criticizing the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) for pushing such antidefamation measures in U.N. bodies. ...A positive response by the US to the OIC’s call for engagement towards evaluating and evolving norms towards combating Islamophobia –with particular reference to defamation of religions –would constitute a positive step forward in terms of backing President Obama’s words with action....

This is Islamism and its coming to a country near you. 

IDF: Several flotilla passengers linked to Hamas, Al Qaeda, and more

From the IDF blog:  Specific Flotilla Passengers Linked to Al-Qaeda, Hamas and Other Terror Organizations, 6 June 2010.  Two of the five names listed are Americans.  More here at Haaretz.

Also, Iran's Revolutionary Guard has offered to provide a military escort to cargo ships trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza, which has been in place since 2007 when Hamas violently took over the Gaza Strip.  Since 1988, Hamas has called for the destruction of Israel for Islam, which is stated in their written charter.

Update 6/7/10:  Al Jazeera interview with Ken O'Keefe, one of the two American (if you can call him one).  Does he have a tattoo around his neck, or what??  How odd.  Anyway, this is one angry man.

On his FB page called Aloah Palestine,  he claimed America is the greatest terrorist!

"In response to the Israeli governments claims that I, Ken O'Keefe, am an operative of Hamas who intended to train terrorists in Gaza, I make a counter charge; Israel and the United States, along with their British partner, are the greatest terrorists of our time. Selling, distributing and using more weapons of mass destruction than all other nations combined. When I speak of terrorism I am using the Black's Law Dictionary definition of the word, with that definition it is clear that the United States is the number one terrorist of the 20th and 21st centuries."

He lives in London.

Update 6/8/10: It seems O'Keefe denounced his American citizenship which he talked about in an interview on Al Jazeera in 2008 (its starts off in French but he speaks in English).

"I charge the United States with being the number 1 terrorist in the world..."

Must read: More about Imam Feisal Raul, leader of proposed Ground Zero mosque

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf (Imam Feisal or Imam Abdul-Rauf)  is the leader of the proposed $100 million 13 story mosque and community center which will be just two blocks from the site of the World Trade Center attack.   He is the Chairman and founder of the Cordoba Initiative which receives some of its funding from the Malaysian government.  The new gz mosque and center planned will be called the Cordoba House.   Cordova, Spain was a center of Islamic conquest and caliphate rule that lasted several hundred of years that took place over a 1,000 years ago, by the way.  So, Is the name just coincidental?  I highly doubt it - but who knows.

It appears from a New York Post article, and others sources, there's plenty of information about Feisal that you need to know and which the main stream media will probably not tell you. 

Excerpts from the New York Post:

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is a key figure in Malaysian-based Perdana Global Peace Organization, according to its Website (z: see their about page and here)

Perdana is the single biggest donor ($366,000) so far to the Free Gaza Movement, a key organizer of the six-ship flotilla that tried to break Israel's blockade of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip Monday.

...“We have two Imam Raufs," Deborah Burlingame, the sister of the American Airlines pilot whose hijacked plane struck the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, told the New York Post. "We have the anti-Israel, anti-democratic imam, and we have the smiling, soft-spoken moderate Muslim who says, 'Why can't we all get along?'... "

Hummm...  Is it possible Perdana is pro Hamas? 

Rauf said in 2003 "And we believe that 100 years more of targeted assassinations will never dry up the reservoir of young Palestinians willing to give up their lives."  He then stated in 2004 that the U.S. and the West "must acknowledge the harm they have done to Muslims before terrorism can end" and that it was Christians who started mass attacks on civilians.  He also said there was an endless supply of angry young Muslims ready to martyr themselves and there was no sign of the attacks ending unless there was a fundamental change in the world.   Well, that doesn't seem too peaceful to me.  In fact, it's the typical talk of an Islamist.

Oh - but there's more.  Feisal started the Shariah Index that will rate countries’ Islamic law.  He has written of his fondness for Islamic law and claimed he needs no one's permission to build the mosque in the video linked above. 

He said to PBS;  "So any law, anything studied in the Quran or the hadith, is definitely [Sharia],' and  "what really defines Islamic law [is] the sum total of Islamic law as has been practiced by Muslims throughout the last 14, 15 centuries."  In another PBS interview he shilled again for Sharia by claiming people often think of few penalties for certain crimes (z:  those that are gruesome) and fail to consider the sum total of Islamic law.  Not too comforting. 

Critics claim Feisal's father, Dr. Muhammad Abdul Rauf, was a leader in the Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood.  Dr. Rauf was born in Egypt and moved to Kuwait where Imam Feisal was born and then he came to America where he was involved in the building of the Islamic Cultural Center on the Upper East Side, according to a 1984 New York Times article which reported "plans for the center were first announced in the mid-1960's after organization efforts by Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Libya."  Imam Feisal, his son, is a permanent trustee of the Center.

On a 60 Minutes program which aired on 9/30/2001, shortly after the 9/11 attacks, Imam Feisal said "I wouldn't say that the United States deserved what happened," -- "but United States policies were an accessory to the crime that happened." Rauf further stated, “because we [Americans] have been accessory to a lot of innocent lives dying in the world,” it could be said that “[i]n fact, in the most direct sense, Osama bin Laden is made in the USA.”  Watch the September 30, 2001 segment at the 8:09 minute mark, but I recommend you watch the entire 15 minute video).

In October 2001, Rauf praised Sheik Yusef Qaradawi as "probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today."  One major problem here, he is the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and is banned from the U.S. for his fatwas approving of martyrdom against Israel! 

On May 20th, just a couple weeks ago, New York Councilman Robert Jackson, Councilwoman Margaret Chin, State Sen. Daniel Squadron, City Comptroller John Liu and Borough President Scott Stringer actually stood with Imam Feisal against a tea party leader who opposed the mosque which he described with poorly chosen words, for which he later apologized.  State Sen. Daniel Squadron, City Councilwoman Margaret Chin and Councilman Robert Jackson, the Council’s sole Muslim, all spoke in favor of the plans.

There's strong and growing opposition to the Ground Zero mosque, including concerns expressed by my favorite Muslim, Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, who is  head of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy here and here.

Update 6/7/10:  1000 protest planned Islamic center, mosque near Ground Zero

Update 8/11/10: ACLJ infor on Imam Rauf

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Perdana Global Demands Unconditional, Immediate Release Of Peace Activists 

screen shot taken 6/6/10:

 Daisy Kahn is his wife

Video: CNN interview with Daisy Kahn and Pamela Geller.

Kahn danced around the question about who is paying for the center.  She flatly denied Feisal's father was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

 Shariah Index Project

A 2008 archive copy on Cordoba Initiative website

2006 August:  The Shariah Project – Initial Meeting in Kuala Lumpur
Convened in Malaysia by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Shariah Project’s initial meeting assembled five distinguished scholars of Islamic holy law from four countries. In addition to Imam Feisal, the group included:  Professor Dr. Mahmood Ahmad Ghazi, Pakistan (Chairman of the Shariah Board for the State Bank of Pakistan and former president of International Islamic University); Professor Dr. Mohammad Hashim Kamali, Malaysia (Dean of the International Institute of Islamic Thought & Civilization and Former Interim Chairman, Constitutional Review Committee, Afghanistan); Professor Dr. Tahir Mahmood, India (Founder/Chairman, Amity University Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, New Delhi, and former Dean of the Faculty of Law, Delhi University); Dato’ Abdul Hamid Mohamad, Malaysia (Judge, Federal Court of Malaysia … Malaysian Supreme Court).  The Shariah Project is sponsored by the ASMA Society in cooperation with the Cordoba Initiative.

A NATION CHALLENGED: THE AMERICAN MUSLIMS A NATION …

New York Times - Oct 19, 2001
Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki, spiritual leader at the Dar al-Hijra mosque in ... Va., and Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, spiritual leader of the Al-Farah mosque in Lower ...

Update 8/11/10:  Archive copy of Cordoba Initiative showing Malaysia office where reporter

Two Americans allegedly on way to join terror group arrested at JFK Airport

Two American Muslims from New Jersey were apparenlty on their way to join a terrorist group in Somalia when they were arrested at JFK Airport before they boarded two different flights to Egypt.  The men had been under the eye of the FBI for a number of years. 

...Mohamed Hamoud Alessa, 20, of North Bergen, and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, 26, of Elmwood Park were apprehended at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens before they could board separate flights to Egypt, where they were to start journeys to Somalia. 

...Authorities said the men planned to wage jihad as part of a Somalia-based Islamist terror group called al Shabaab, an organization of several thousand fighters spread through Somalia’s southern region. Al Shabaab, whose full Arabic name means "Mujahideen Youth Movement," has had ties to al Qaeda since 2007, according to national security experts.

In the months leading up to their planned travel, authorities said, Alessa and Almonte saved thousands of dollars, conditioned themselves physically through tactical training and dry runs at paintball fields and acquired gear and apparel to be used once they joined up with al Shabaab in Somalia.

...In October 1993, 18 American soldiers were killed trying to take out key members of the leadership of the warring clan that controlled the Somali capital of Mogadishu. Some have suggested there was a link between that skirmish and bin Laden, although others dispute that.

...Al Shabaab has been waging its own militant battle and has been listed on the U.S. government’s roster of international terror organizations.

Miss USA said there's more Catholics than Muslims in Lebonon!

In the first of a two-part interview posted on Al Jazeera yesterday, Rima Fakih, the new Miss USA said most people think Lebonon is mainly Muslim and tried to correct that perception by saying there were probably more Catholics than Muslims in Lebonon (at the 8:40 minute mark).  There is just one problem - she's totally wrong.

According to the 2008 Religious Freedom Report:

...However, the most recent demographic study conducted by Statistics Lebanon, a Beirut-based research firm, showed 28 percent of the population is Sunni Muslim, 28 percent Shi'a Muslim, 22 percent Maronite Christian, 8 percent Greek Orthodox, 5 percent Druze, and 4 percent Greek Catholic.  Over the past 60 years, there has been a steady decline in the number of Christians as compared to Muslims, mostly due to the emigration of large numbers of Maronite Christians and a higher than average birth rate among the Muslim population.

Oklahomans to decide on forbidding Sharia Law from court consideration

Oklahoma may become the first state in the nation to allow its citizens the right to decide whether state courts should be forbidden from using Sharia Law or other international laws when making legal decisions:

State Question 755, which likely will be on the ballot in November, would make in-state courts rely on federal and state laws when deciding cases and forbid courts from using international law or Sharia law when making rulings.

...Council on American-Islamic Relations spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said he has been working on Muslim civil rights issues for several decades and anti-Islam rhetoric is approaching “Nazi-like” levels.

...Saad Mohammed, director of Islamic information for the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City, said 80 percent of the U.S. Constitution is compatible with Sharia, which leads to justice and equality for all. Mohammed said extremists have distorted Sharia...

Hooper appears to have accused Oklahoma legislators of being Nazi-like!  CAIR, an outgrowth of the Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas infrastructure in America, often responds with name calling to avoid answering direct questions like in this case - the horrors of Sharia Law.

Mohammed is one of the founding members of its chapter in Oklahoma - a fact left out of the article linked to above. 

Most Islamic countries who use Sharia law as the basis for its ruling system does not give a Muslim the right to change their religion while, at the same time,  represses all other religions, including the building of churches and other houses of worships.  It is religiously supremacist and is what changed the Christian majority there forever.  Sharia Law stops religious freedom cold.  What's more, the entire history after full implimentation of Islam placed Muslims in the Middle East under strict Islamic rule by a long series of caliphates - until the last one was defeated in 1924.  Make no mistake, Islamists want this ruling system returned and a new caliphate in place.

The Oklahoma Director of CAIR, Razi Hashmi, said "the proposal is a way of promoting division and bigotry instead of promoting unity and understanding of other faiths and cultures,"  which is strikingly similar to his typical response to criticism of the highly controversial Islamist organization he represents.  Again, name calling is used to maneuvers out of answer direct questions regarding Sharia Law.  Did I mention the Muslim Brotherhood was created to gain power for the return of the caliphate?

The only members of the Islamic community in Oklahoma interviewed were from CAIR!  My God, this is one of the most controversial Islamist organizations in America which has a long and troubling history.  One has to seriously question why they were invited to come to Oklahoma by the Islamic leaders here, in the first place.  It certainly does not help the perception of our Muslim neighbors to have CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror-funding trial, speak for them.  

Considering all this, I applaud the brave and excellent work by the Oklahoma legislators on this issue.

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Also see:

CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, and more

Helen Thomas tells Jews they are in occupied land and to get out!

White House correspondent Helen Thomas doesn't seem to know that Palestine did not exist in Biblical times and is never mentioned in the Bible or the Quran.  On the other hand, Israel is mentioned in both books.  She said the Jews should get the he** out of Palestine and to their home, which she said, was in Poland, Germany and America! 

Is this woman that ignorant of  all the Jewish artifacts found in Israel and the jewish history there?

Folks, Palestine was a territory of the Islamic supremacist Ottoman Empire which drove many Jews and Christians from their homeland during centuries of rule.

This woman sits in the front row at White House press briefings.  It's time for her to go.

Video:

This is more troubling leftist media bias. 

Update 6/6/10:  Yesterday, Thomas apologized over the remarks she obviously meant.  Today,  entertainment agency 9 Speakers, Inc. dropped her as a client and she was dropped from speaking at a high school graduation later this month.

Helen Thomas tells Jews they are in occupied land and to get out!

White House correspondent Helen Thomas,  a columnist for the Hearst Newspapers, apparently hasn't a clue  that Palestine did not exist in Bibical times which is why it was never mentioned in the Bible or the Quran.  On the other hand, Israel is mentioned in both books. 

Palestine was a territory of the Islamic supremaist Ottoman Empire which drove out many, many Christians and Jews over the centuries.  Helloooo???  Is anyone paying attention here?

This woman sits in the front row at White House press briefings.

Video filmed at the White House on May 27th:

More troubling leftist media bias. 

Update 6/6/10:  Yesterday, Thomas apologized over the remarks she obviously meant.  Today,  entertainment agency 9 Speakers, Inc. dropped her as a client and she was dropped from speaking at a high school graduation later this month.

Where is the outcry over the hatred from the Islamic Thinker Society?

Below are a couple screen shots taken from a video posted by the Islamic Thinker Society from a anti-Israel rally that took place on June 1st in New York City. This New York-based Islamist group joins others, like Hizb ut Tahrir, RevolutionMuslim and the Muslim Brotherhood, who consistently portray Islam in a bad light - except the MB is more covert about it. These groups and their affiliates are the ones who claim others are Islamophobic when officials speak out about the dangers of Islamic supremacy.

Where's the outcry from the American Muslim leadership about these Islamic supremacist groups? Oh, wait - at least half of them or more are themselves part of the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas infrastructure in America.

2nd screen shot:

Their video is posted on their YouTube channel. It's very graphic but it shows the absolute hatred they have for Israel and their supporters.

Please, please flag this video as inappropriate.

Texas man indicted for providing material support to al Qaeda!

A 29 year old Hempstead, Texas man was indicted (FBI pr) by a grand jury today for providing material support to al Qaeda and had been in communication with Anwar Awlaki (al-Aulaqi):

A federal grand jury in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas returned an indictment today charging Barry Walter Bujol, Jr., with attempting to provide material support to a designated terrorist organization and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney José Angel Moreno and FBI Houston Special Agent in Charge Richard C. Powers announced today.

...The indictment charges Bujol, 29, a U.S. citizen and resident of Hempstead, Texas, with attempting to provide material support to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in the form of personnel, currency, pre-paid telephone calling cards, mobile telephone SIM cards, global positioning system receivers, public access-restricted U.S. military publications, including one involving unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations and another involving the effects of U.S. military weapon systems in operations in Afghanistan, as well as a military-issue compass and other materials. The maximum statutory penalty for this offense is 15 years in prison.

...The charges resulted from a long-term investigation that culminated on May 30, 2010, when Bujol boarded a ship docked at a Houston-area port. According to court documents unsealed today, the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force began investigating Bujol in 2008 and determined he had been communicating via e-mail with Anwar al-Aulaqi, a known associate and propagandist for AQAP. Among other things, the court documents allege that Al-Aulaqi had provided Bujol with a document entitled “42 Ways of Supporting Jihad,” and that Bujol had asked Al-Aulaqi for advice on how to provide money to the “mujahideen” overseas.

Catholic bishop murdered in Turkey

A leading figure for Christians in the Middle East, Bishop Luigi Padovese. was murdered in his home today in southern Turkey.  His driver has been arrested.

...Church officials in Rome expressed worry over the killing.

"I can only express shock, worry and solidarity with the local Catholic community over this," Father Federico Lombardi, the chief Vatican spokesman, told reporters in Rome.

Fr Lombardi said Pope Benedict would speak out about violence against minority Christian communities in the Middle East during his trip to Cyprus, which begins tomorrow.

Bishop Padovese's murder comes four years after a Catholic priest, Andrea Santoro, was murdered in the Turkish Black Sea town of Trabzon by a teenager with suspected links to ultra-nationalists.

In 2007, three members of a Bible publishing company, one of whom was a German citizen, were tortured and killed in the central Turkish town of Malatya.

Today Al Qaeda Orders Abduction of Christians, Royals in Saudi Arabia over a female prisoner and yesterday an Afghan Parliamentarian Calls for Execution of Christians who have converted from Islam.

Meanwhile, CAIR and other American Islamic organizations and the Obama administration refuse to acknowledge Islamism - political Islam and its quest for Islamic supreamacy and power.

Sponsor of flotilla may be linked to the Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood

According to an article in Family Security Matters, "The Foundation for Human Rights and Freedom and Humanitarian Relief" (IHH) was a sponsor of the ship seized by the Israeli Navy and is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood:

Insani Yardim Vakfi  (aka IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation, The Foundation for Human Rights and Freedom and Humanitarian Relief) was the sponsor of the ship involved in today’s military confrontation with Israel. Although the IHH web site has described a wide variety of charitable activities, Israel banned the organization in July 2008 as a member of the Union of Good. Four months later, the US designated the Union of Good as a terrorist entity stating:

 The leadership of Hamas created the Union of Good in late-2000, shortly after the start of the second Intifada, in order to facilitate the transfer of funds to Hamas. The Union of Good acts as a broker for Hamas by facilitating financial transfers between a web of charitable organizations–including several organizations previously designated under E.O. 13224 for providing support to Hamas–and Hamas-controlled organizations in the West Bank and Gaza. The primary purpose of this activity is to strengthen Hamas’ political and military position in the West Bank and Gaza, including by: (i) diverting charitable donationsto support Hamas members and the families of terrorist operatives; and (ii) dispensing social welfare and other charitable services on behalf of Hamas.

A NEFA Foundation report noted that the Union of Good” is headed by global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi, and most of the trustees and member organizations are associated with the global Muslim Brotherhood. One of those trustees is Abd-al-Majid Al-Zindani, a Yemeni Muslim Brotherhood leader who was also designated by the US in 2004...

A description of this organization at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs | Georgetown fails to mention this relationship. which seems typical of the short-of-all facts filter used leftist (including the media) that is taking place all across America as a result of their partnering with Islamist groups,  which is to our great detriment.  Wikipedia's pageon the Union of Good provides more information, including its ties to the Holy Land Foundation which was shut down and found guilty in the U.S. for sending millions to Hamas.

It appears likely this flotilla wasn't just about delivering goods since they rejected Israel's request to inspect the ships and deliver the goods but, rather,  it's main goal was to break the blockade put in place after Hamas violently overthrew the Gaza Strip in 2007.

UPDATE 6/3/10:  Confirmed Hamas Leader Among Flotilla 'Activists'

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Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick's Mosque Visit Sponsored by Islamic Group with Ties to Terrorism Financing and Links to the Gaza Flotilla.
PR Newswire (press release)
Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT), a Boston based group of Christians, Jews and reformist Muslims said today that Governor Patrick's controversial visit to the Saudi-funded mega-mosque in Boston was sponsored by Islamic Relief a group with longstanding terrorist connections and close ties to the Gaza Flotilla.

Gaza Flotilla Organizer Was Part of Dutch Hamas/Muslim Brotherhood Network 

Islamic charitable funds

IHH Facebook page

IHH website

The Union of Good: INTERPAL and the UK Member Organizations March ...   NEFA report

HP-1267: Treasury Designates the Union of Good  11/2008

Islamic Professor: Islam is coming and Gaza is the spearhead

(screen shot from video below)

The Turkish flotilla that headed towards Gaza was far more than just a few ships of aid for the Hamas controlled Gaza Strip - it was a symbol that Islam is coming - at least according to an Yemeni Islamic professor based in Gaza. What he really meant by this statement was that Islamic supreamacy is coming which is Islam in its fullest sense and implimentation (backed by centuries of Islamist rule as proof). And despite all the denials and calls of Islamophobia about critics of this global movement from CAIR and other Islamic groups in America, we all know otherwise.

This video will give you a good sense of what Islamists think and believe: