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Adam Soltani, Director of CAIR Oklahoma, whines on Iranian-owned TV about Michele Bachman!

Somehow, I completely missed this from last August when some paint balls found their way to a mosque door in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.  I don't believe anyone was held accountable.  But, leave it to CAIR Oklahoma's new director, Adam Soltani, to find a voice on Iranian TV to complain:

"...Unfortunately there has been a lot of campaigns against Muslims recently in the media. One in particular is the smear campaign by Representative Michele Bachman that has targeted American Muslims who seek to contribute to the nation through public service,”  Adam Soltani, Director CAIR Oklahoma

I just wonder if Adam or any of the other victim claiming CAIR directors know how often churches in America are vandalized without much press, or contact with the FBI, or activating Christians community safety guides after claiming to be part of a smear campaign?  Think about it.  You can read or listen to the full interview with Adam Soltani here.

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CAIR Oklahoma 2013 banquet keynote speaker is controversial Imam Johari Abdul-Malik!

On April 13th, CAIR Oklahoma will host their annual fund-raising banquet at the Oklahoma City Marriott (@OKCMarriott).

Recently, CAIR announceed the keynote speaker will be Imam Johari Abdul-Malik (right).  And, what a controversial imam he is!  Malik showed a glimmer of what is likely his Islamic supremacist ideology in 2004 at Dar al Hijrah, a controversial mosque located in Falls Church, VA., where he is the outreach director.  Malik proclaimed Islam in the USA will be America's first religion!

Abdul Malik:People even under the pressures that you and I know about, the deen of Islam is growing because people see even within all of this struggle it is better to be a Muslim under these conditions than to be a kaffir under any conditions... before Allah closes our eyes for the last time you will see Islam move from being the second largest religion in America-that's where we are now- to being the first religion in America

You can hear him in his own words here and read a little about the mosque where he works.

Imam Johari al-Malik worked with Anwar Awlaki who was an Imam at Dar al Hirhrah in 2001-2002.  Malik defended him many times here.  In 2011, Malik blamed an unsubstantiated torture claim as the reason Awlaki changed into a more radical Muslim.  However, the Investigative Project disputes how moderate Awlaki was while in America (see previous link).  Afterall, he did catch the attention of law enforcement before he left the U.S., right?  

Malik was reported to have said at a Muslim Brotherhood linked Islamic Association of Palestine meeting in 2001 (ref: previous link): 

I am gonna teach you now. You can blow up bridges, but you cannot kill people who are innocent on their way to work. You can blow up power supplies… the water supply, you can do all forms of sabotage and let the world know that we are doing it like this because they have a respect for the lives of innocent people.

There's that phrase "innocent people" again. Who decides who's guilty in Islam and therefore not innocent, anyway?  So far, I can't find the answer.

A FOIA document obtained by IPT says this about the Dar al Hirhrah mosque:

The Department of Treasury's Enforcement Communications System (TECS) records note that Dar al-Hijrah "is a mosque operating as a front for Hamas operatives in U.S.," "is associated with Islamic extremists," "has been under numerous investigations for financing and proving aid and comfort to bad orgs and members," has "been linked to numerous individuals linked to terrorism financing," and "has also been associated with encouraging fraudulent marriages."

You can read more about Dar al Hirjrah here.

Earlier this year, the primary Imam at Dar al Hirjrah, Sheik Shaker Elsayed, spoke about Muslim men - being the first in the Jihad line!  Watch and listen to his disturbing words here.

And for some odd reason, Malik wants youto know he is not a pacifist Muslim when he wrote on his blog:

Let me say from the outset that I’m not a pacifist; the Quranic injunctions provide the right to self-defense. 2:178 retaliation has been prescribed …“O you who believe! Retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the slain, the free for the free, and the slave for the slave, and the female for the female, but if any remission is made to any one by his (aggrieved) brother, then prosecution (for the bloodwit) should be made according to usage, and payment should be made to him in a good manner; this is an alleviation from your Lord and a mercy; so whoever exceeds the limit after this he shall have a painful chastisement.”2:216 (link added) (Z: fighting has been prescribed for you and) you dislike it …“ The life of this world is made to seem fair to those who disbelieve, and they mock those who believe, and those who guard (against evil) shall be above them on the day of resurrection; and Allah gives means of subsistence to whom he pleases without measure.”

Say what?  Retaliation and fighting has been prescribed for you?  Wow!

Way to go CAIR Oklahoma.

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 CAIR OK will give Rev. William Tabbernee, President of the Oklahoma Council of Churches their best buddy award!

(source CAIR OK Facebook posting)

According to CAIR Oklahoma, sharia law isn't really ever the real sharia law - even in Islamic countries ruled by sharia law!

"Do not refer to the laws in Muslim-majority countries (even those claiming to be “Islam!ic states”) as “sharia.” They are merely a legislated selection of humanly-created fiqh rules; they cannot be said to be conclusively dictated by sharia itself."  Humanly-created?  Any sharia law ruling is done by an Islamic authority (last paragraph)

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Muneer Awad falsely claims CAIR's unindicted co-conspirator appeal was ruled in their favor!

In an article about Pamela Geller's pro Israel/anti-jihad ads that went up on some New York subways, CAIR New York's Executive Director Muneer Awad was quoted (H/T @antiCAIR) in a Staten Island on-line newspaper that CAIR won the appeal of the decision by the U.S. government to name them as unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation Trial - the largest Hamas terror-funding case in U.S. history:

Awad described Ms. Geller's comments about CAIR as "arguably one of the most poorly thought-out conspiracy theories of the year.

"Geller has invested her time and energy into resuscitating attention on CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator, an issue that has already been settled by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Department of Justice in CAIR's favor."

There is just one problem with Awad's statement - IT ISN'T TRUE!  (CBN 11/26/2010): 

The U.S. Justice Department has provided "ample evidence" that the Washington-based Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has been involved in a conspiracy to support the terrorist group Hamas, according to a federal court ruling unsealed Friday.

"The four pieces of evidence the government relies on do create at least a prima facie case as to CAIR's involvement in a conspiracy to support Hamas," U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis wrote in his 20-page, July 2009 ruling.

Consequently, the court denied CAIR's request to have its name removed from documents listing the group as an unindicted co-conspirator in the case.

Among the evidence provided by the Justice Department are documents showing CAIR operated as a key member of the "Palestine Committee," the U.S. wing of Hamas. Also, both CAIR's founding chairman Omar Ahmad and acting executive director Nihad Awad were placed at a clandestine meeting with Hamas leaders in Philadelphia.

"The attendees agreed not to mention the word Hamas but to refer to Hamas as 'Samah,' which is Hamas spelled backwards," Solis said. "The Philadelphia conference essentially laid out the path that the Palestine Committee would take to accomplish its goal of supporting Hamas in the future."

Here's a link to the unsealed court document. 

Prior to becoming CAIR New York's new executive director in August, Muneer Awad was the executive director of CAIR Oklahoma.  He's the individual who sued Oklahoma for its constitutional amendment than prohibits courts from using foreign law - including sharia law in its decision. Sharia law is used in a number of Islamic countries as the basis for their laws. Awad moved to Oklahoma just a short time before he sued. The case is pending. One has to wonder if this pending case has something to do with CAIR Oklahoma's claim that Muneer Awad still resides in Oklahoma even though he's the new Executive Director for CAIR New York.  On September 26th, Awad tweeted about leaving work early to get home (Oklahoma? - that's were they say he lives):

On that same day, he tweeted:  Honored to work where my inspiration is honored: Celebrating the Living History of #Harlem. #MalcomX #LangstonHughes

Harlem is in New York City.  Two days later he tweeted about his long subway ride into work.  Well - there are no subways in Oklahoma:

Seems odd to me.

This wasn't the first time Awad denied CAIR's ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.  Shortly after Awad sued Oklahoma in 2010, he was asked in a NYC radio interview about Washington-based CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas connection which is based on court documents that led to their unindicted co-conspirator status.  

Awad said it wasn't true and that it was all lies...

 

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Jillian Holzbauer Frazier - CAIR Oklahoma's unlikely new spin-master tackles Islamophobia

Within a month of being hired for a newly created position as CAIR Oklahoma's communication director, Jillian Holzbauer Frazier tackled Islamophobia In an opinion piece published by a liberal Tulsa paper - who pretty much just publishes what CAIR gives them - titled Extreme rhetoric can nurture violence.

Holzbauer Frazier implied what appears to be legitimate concerns expressed by three public officials was extreme rhertoric.  U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann who merely inquired about possible Muslim Brotherhood infiltration into our government and simply asked how people are vetted if they have ties to it.  Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill who stated there are radical Islamists who want to kill Americans and Oklahoma Rep. Rex Duncan who helped bring to a vote of Oklahomans a constitutional amendment that would not allow foreign law, which also included sharia law - the law used by a number of Islamic countries - to be considered in state court decisions.  This amendment passed overwhelmingly in the fall of 2009. It was CAIR Oklahoma's new director, Muneer Awad, who within days of moving here, sued the state.   I should point out Muneer Awad recently became the director of CAIR New York although the CAIR Oklahoma website makes it a point to state he still lives in the state. 

CAIR Oklahoma director, Muneer Awad, to be executive director of CAIR NY!

CAIR New York has announced its new executive director will be Muneer Awad,  Awad is currently the director of CAIR's chapter in Oklahoma and is the man who appears to have moved to the state for the purpose of suing it over SQ755, a constitutional amendment that would forbid state courts from considering foreign laws in its decisions, including sharia law which is the ruling system in many Islamic countries.  Throughout Awad's arguments in court, it seemed to me, he claimed sharia law was the same as sharia guidance which is something I don't believe he was challenged on, at all.  They are not the same thing. I wasn't in the courtroom but that's what I got from how it was reported in the press.

CAIR New York has been very active in trying to dismantle some of the anti-terror security efforts in New York City, a top target for Islamic terrorists. Its civil right manager, Cyrus McGoldrick is a Muslim activist who tweets about being a radical.

With Muneer Awad heading CAIR New York, I expect more lawsuits against New York City, its police department, the FBI going forward. Awad, for the most part, is the typical abrasive Muslim bully who uses name-calling to steam-roll over others as he goes after the target.  He's typical of the type of Muslim activist CAIR hires. He is also effective at partnering with the left for political maneuvering. 

Muneer Awad, by the way, belives the FBI radiclazies more terrorists than Anwar Awlaki!

CAIR was started by leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood's Islamic Association of Palestine.  Its national executive director, Nihad Awad, is one of those leaders. 

CAIR NY announcement:

What will happen to Awad's lawsuit if he moves to New York?

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Is CAIR increasing their presence in Oklahoma?

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Is CAIR increasing their presence in Oklahoma?

A recent notice put out by CAIR Oklahoma which is posted on their website indicates they have four positions opened.  Up until now, they had two positions in the state; the director and the operations coordinator.  It now appears a new communication manager and a new civil rights manager position have been added.  All four positions are open for new job candidates.  Interesting.

Does this mean Muneer Awad, their director here and the man who sued Oklahoma over its anti-foreign law admendment, is leaving CAIR Oklahoma?

Open Letter to Oklahoma Conference of Churches who sponsored a CAIR fund-raiser

note:  a similar letter was emailed to Dr. Tabbernee  earlier this week.  He did not give me the courtesy of a reply.

April 11, 2012

Rev. Dr. William Tabbernee

Executive Director

Oklahoma Conference of Churches

301 Northwest 36th Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73118

Dear Rev.Tabbernee:

 I read in a CAIR Oklahoma announcement your church coalition was one of the sponsors for their banquet on March 31st held at the Oklahoma City Marriott. 

 

Oklahoma Conference of Churches table at CAIR Oklahoma fundraising banquet.  Photo source: CAIR Oklahoma facebook page.

I want to express my strong concern the Oklahoma Conference of Churches used money to help finance/support a fund-raising eventfor a chapter of an organization started by leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood's Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP).  One of those former IAP leaders, Nihad Awad, is their National Executive Director who has been in this position from its inception.  He has been to Oklahoma in support of the Oklahoma chapter.

CAIR raised around $120,000 which was short of their goal. It looked like the people were encouraged to send their pledge to CAIR National based on this photo.  Perhaps, I'm wrong although the number is a DC exchange where CAIR National offices is located. Coincidence?  Maybe. CAIR OK praised the local Imam: "We also want to designate a special appreciation to our event's inspirational speaker, Imam Imad Enchassi, for helping us raise funds." Imam Enchassi prayed last year on his Facebook wall his desire the Middle East would unite as it was before WW1 with no borders under Divine guidance.  This means he's hoping for a new Islamic supremacist caliphate to emerge in the region.  Oh, the ramifications for the world should this happen. Yet, this is the goal of Islamists.  Is Imam Enchassi's Islamist wish something you support?  Would he discuss his hopes openly at an interfaith meeting if this was brought to his attention, Dr. Tabbernee?

 

Imam Enchassi also made it clear what the Islamic view of other religions are which was highlighted with a specific Quranic verse to help explain the consequences of believing in a false religion which is in writing on the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City website:

"If anyone desires a religion other than Islam (submission to Allah-(God)) never will It be accepted of Him" (The Qur'an 3:85)

I'm sure he's not quite that candid at local interfaith gatherings.  I find these statements worrisome because they are about Islamic supremacy which is the cornerstone of Islamism.  The tweet below by CAIR's Muneer Awad about the FBI is appalling.

These are but a few of the worrisome statements I've read over the last few years as I've studied Islamism.  The good news is there are a growing number of American Islamic groups that are speaking out against Islamic supremacy (Islamism).  Twenty of them have formed a coalition called the American Islamic Leadership Coalition.  CAIR and like-minded groups are currently on a mission to try derail the recent appointment of one of its key leaders, Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.  Some CAIR directors have called him an Uncle Tom, blamed him for creating a climate of MURDER in the death of an Iraqi women in California, even though evidence appears to be leading investigators to look into family problems.

My fear is your organization may not pay attention to the words and actions of CAIR and its supporters over time that are made outside of interfaith gatherings.  Perhaps, I'm wrong but this is my impression.

There are many, many other ways to show support for the fine Oklahoma Muslim community we have outside of CAIR, who wants to speak for ALL Muslims and gets really bent if other Muslim leaders dare.  Considering the support provided by the Oklahoma Conference of Churches a fundraiser for CAIR, I will find a church charity or cause that aren't associated with your organization which I will help support and promote. I also plan to inform other Oklahomans to the best of my ability.

Sincerely,  

Brandi L. Eave

a concerned Oklahoman

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CAIR Oklahoma pressures church to drop speaker they don't like!

A couple weeks ago CAIR Oklahoma, led by Muneer Awad, issued a press release titled CAIR Asks Oklahoma Church to Drop Anti-Islam Agenda. Fairiew Baptist of Edmond, Oklahoma was the target: 

The keynote speaker of tonight's event at Fairview Baptist Church in Edmond, Okla., is Avi Lipkin, an infamous Islamophobe who alleges among other things that Muslims worship the devil and that all Muslims want to kill Christians and Jews.

...This kind of bigotry and hysteria only serves to fuel the growing chorus of anti-Muslim sentiment that is unfortunately spreading in the Heartland," said CAIR-OK Executive Director Muneer Awad. "We respectfully request that the church drop this speaker and other hate-mongers, and offer it's congregants a sincere opportunity for dialogue and information about Islam and Muslims.

Awad said Fairview Baptist Church is known for hosting anti-Muslim speakers such as William Boykin, who recently withdrew from a speaking event at West Point Military Academy after concerns over his remarks that Islam does not deserve religious protections under the First Amendment, and Bridgette Gabriel, who paid tens of thousands of dollars to conduct robocalls in Oklahoma in 2010 to allege Muslim men rape their wives."

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

Dr. Bill Crowell, an associate pastor at the Boston Avenue Methodist Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma has partnered with some of Oklahoma's most controversial Islamic leaders. 

(source CAIR OK)

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? 

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. 

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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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 could possibly enlighten me and other misinformed and ignorant Okies just how The Atlas of Islamic Conquests, which is sold at Islamic bookstore in the U.S., fits in the context of her claim. I assume these battles for power involved fighting, which is messy and many people were, I'm sure, 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 of supremacy. No matter how you spin it Islamism dominated.

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!

Muneer Awad misleading claim that Oklahoma SQ 755 made "Islam the target"

Muneer Awad, the Oklahoma director of CAIR, said a few days ago at a Ramadan gathering in Ohio that an Oklahoma constitution amendment, SQ 755, that passed in the fall of 2010 made "Islam the target." 

City of Tulsa alleges in legal brief Captain Paul Fields and counsel have anti-Islamic agenda!

The City of Tulsa filed a legal brief in April that answered the amended lawsuit by Captain Paul Fields wherein the city alleged, in writing, Fields and his counsel have an anti-Islamic agenda!  OMG - these are the key buzz words of those on the far-left! Tulsa police captains were ordered to send officers to an event at the Islamic Society of Tulsa (IST) in early March after few, if any, officers volunteered to go.  Fields refused the order.

CAIR Oklahoma's youth activist training conference

ac·tiv·ism

1. the doctrine or practice of vigorous action or involvement as a means of achieving political or other goals, sometimes by demonstrations, protests, etc.  Dictionary.com

CAIR Oklahoma's "Youth Leadership Symposium" will be the weekend of July 29th at Oklahoma City University and at the Oklahoma State Capitol under the leadership of its director, Muneer Awad, the man who sued the state of Oklahoma over SQ 755, a constitutional amendment, which banned state courts from considering sharia in court decisions.  Awad sued to keep the court from preventing this from happening or, in other words, I suppose someone could say he wants the court to rule in favor of sharia.

Mitt Romney praised, Herman Cain demonized; both said sharia law should not be in American courts!

Mitt Romney has been praised by some Muslims and those on the far left after he said the following about sharia law in America during CNN's GOP debate Monday night:

"Well, first of all, of course, we’re not going to have Sharia law applied in U.S. courts. That’s never going to happen. We have a Constitution and we follow the law."

Romney said this after Herman Cain expressed concern about the loyality of some Muslims. 

Anti-Israel activist Gilad Atzmon at OU; CAIR promotes, of course

CAIR Oklahoma and other Islamic activists use OU fairly often to help shape young minds into their anti-whatever way-of-thinking which supports, in my opinion, Islamism or political Islam.  Last night, anti-Israel propaganda was spewed when Sooner's For Peace in Palestine sponsored anti-zionist Giland Atamon who used the moment to rail against Israel mixed in with some jazz music at the OU Meacham Auditorium. 

Oklahoma City Councilman Ed Shadid stood with CAIR Oklahoma at press conference

Ed Shadid ran for state office in 2010.  He apparently sought the endorsement of the Oklahoma Green Party, got it and posed in front of their party sign for a lovely photo (left). He lost the race.  Today, he will be sworn in as Oklahoma City's newest councilman after winning this race.

Yesterday, at the State Capital, newly elected Shadid stood with CAIR Oklahoma, Andrew Rice, Imam Imad Enchassi of the Islamic Society of Greater OKC, Nathaniel Bathchelder and a few others at a press conference deriding those who supported an anti-foreign law bill (HB 1552) which died in the Senate Rules Committee last week.   Let me repeat, the bill had already died in the senate committee the week before so this press conference was one of those political grand-standing moments.

Thomas More Law Center joins counsel for Tulsa Police Captain Paul Fields, amends complaint!

The Thomas More Law Center, a Michigan-based. not-for-profit public interest law firm that defends the religious freedom of Christians, has joined the legal counsel in a civil rights lawsuit filed by Tulsa Police Captain Paul Fields against the Tulsa Police Department after he was "stripped of his command" and reassigned duties after refusing to order his officers to attend an event at the Islamic Society of Tulsa which Fields believed fell outside of police community duties:

Sharia law panel: Ignorant Oklahomans were told what to think on SQ 755!

Ignorant Oklahomans were told what to think?  That's what I got out of a recent sharia law panel moderated by Rev. Bill Crowell of Boston Avenue Methodist Church.  Crowell is president of the Board of the Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry, one of the sponsors of the "Islamic Agenda in Oklahoma" PR series.  Tulsa Community College was also listed as a sponsor. 

ACTION: Oklahoma anti-foreign law bill, HB 1552, protects rights from errant judicial rulings

Oklahoma HB 1552 passed the State House in a stunning 76-3 vote on March 17th.  The bill is authored by Rep Kern and co-authored by Reps. Reynolds and Ritze.  State Senator Anthony Sykes is listed as the author in the Senate. The purpose of the bill is to protect citizens from the enforcement of any judicial ruling that could favor limits on the fudamental rights of citizens.  Representatives Mike Shelton, Cory Williams, and Emily Virgin were the state reps who voted against it.

TPD Chief Jordan reached out to CAIR's Muneer Awad with a handshake

Five short days after the Islamic Society of Tulsa hosted a dinner featuring alleged unindicted co-conspirator in the '93 WTC bombing Imam Siraj Wahhaj, members of the Tulsa Police Department attended a Law Enforcement Appreciation Day where they learned more about Islam according to a news video by Channel 2.   The local media proclaimed the day was a big success and most forgot to mention that Tulsa police captains were ordered to order some of their officers to attend the event after very few voluntary RSVPs were received.  One police captain refused to order his officers and filed suit which made quite a bit of headlines in the state in February.  Being ordered to attend an event designed primarily to teach others about Islam is worrisome.

CAIR Oklahoma urged others to call outed FBI agent!

At the end of December, CAIR Oklahoma added a note and a link on their Facebook page about an article titled Help Stop FBI Entrapment. Act Now! that was written by Meinhaj Hussain at Grandestrategy.  What you may not realize is Grandstrategy is an overtly Islamic supremacist website.

 

Tulsa Police captain Paul Fields refused to order officers to attend mosque event reassigned!

The Islamic Society of Tulsa invited the Tulsa Police Department to a "Law Enforcement Appreciation Day" event at their mosque that was scheduled, probably deliberately, to be on Friday, the day for Muslims main weekly prayer like Sunday is for Christians. The officers were invited to watch the 45 minute prayer service and/or tour the mosque and/or listen to presentations on their Islamic beliefs upon requested or ask questions about Islam or they could just come and eat the food.  I'm not really seeing the appreciation here as much as I'm seeing outright proselytizing under the banner of appreciation.  Police officers shouldn't be ordered to attend an event centered around religious proselytizing but that is what appears to have happened in Tulsa.

After police officers were asked to go on a voluntary basis and not enough signed up it then became mandatory in a memo sent out by Deputy Chief Daryl Webster.  The memo dated February 17th ordering the police captains to have officers at the mosque is titled "TOUR OF MOSQUE - MARCH 4th"and the email from Sheryl Siddiqui/Islamic Society of Tulsa, which was attached said to let her know how many were coming so she could have enough food and TOUR GUIDES!  Nothing was written whatsoever about any plans specifically for appreciation of the officers, which seems odd!  Nothing. 

Captain Paul Fields felt it was illegal to order his officers to go and he believed it violated his civil rights and personal religious convictions, according to a story (with supporting documents) obtained by Channel 6 in Tulsa.  His memo to Webster obtained by Channel 6 is worth reading.  It states past invitations to like events were voluntary and the invitation to tour the mosque or to watch the prayer and/or learn of their religious believes was not part of the duties of a police officer.  He felt being forced to enter a mosque outside of an official police call was a violation of his rights.

Webster wrote back to Captain Fields that in the past Catholic clergy invited officers to participate in services and attendance was always voluntary. He said the Islamic Society of Tulsa event was a secular law enforcement function that just so happens to take place in a venue associated with a religious belief. How Webster determined the secular part is beyond me since the invitation, although come and go, specifically asked the officers to watch the Friday Islamic prayer service, take a mosque tour, listen to a presentation on their Islamic believes and ask questions about Islam.

Webster wrote if Capt. Fields refusal became public their department would be subject to disrepute.

On Monday, Captain Fields was temporarily reassigned to another station by Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan. 

Islamic of Tulsa Flyer:

 

I don't think an officer should be ORDERED to attend any event at a religious place of worship! It should always be optional. But, this particular invitation could be considered all the more controversial for the following reasons, as well:

The Islamic Society of Tulsa (IST) has or had rather close associations with organizations and/or individuals who were named unindicted co-conspirators in the largest Hamas terror-funding case in U.S. history (U.S. vs. HLF Case 3:04-cr-00240 Document 656-2) like CAIR, the Islamic Society of North America (IST constitutionally tied to them), North American Islamic Trust, Jamal Badawi (Muslim Brotherhood leader who represented them in a debate) and a top Muslim Brotherhood leader in Kuwait today, Tariq al Suwaidan, who gave them the money to buy a mosque.

CAIR uses on-going activism to work against the FBI and other law-enforcement agencies! The FBI cut ties with them because they have refused to answer questions regarding their leaders ties to Hamas. Sheryl Siddiqui is CAIR's secretary for the Oklahoma chapter and one of the main spokespeople for the Islamic Society of Tulsa.

The Islamic Society of North America was specifically named an organization the Muslim Brotherhood set up in America to help them destroy our democracy for Islamic supremacy. CAIR was named in a Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee document along with the Holy Land Foundation. We are known and also judged by the company and associations we keep and theirs are very troubling.

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Other posts on Islam in Oklahoma - mixed messages

Muneer Awad thanks Peter Bergen for downplaying the Muslim Brotherhood!

Wow!  Talk about being a shill for an Islamic supremacist group.  Last night on CNN's Piers Morgan show Peter Bergen was briefly questioned about the danger of the Muslim Brotherhood.  Muneer Awad, the director of CAIR Oklahoma then tweeted a thanks to him and called critics fear-mongers.  Keep in mind, Bergen was ONLY asked about the Muslim Brotherhood.

CAIR Oklahoma...

 
 

Will controversial Ingrid Mattson spin sharia law in Tulsa?

Ingrid Mattson is the immediate past president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and a current member of their executive council.  She will be speaking this Sunday in Tulsa at an "interfaith meeting" at the Grace Lutheran Church headed by Rev. Mason Beecroft about Islamic law:

“What Is Islamic Law (Shariah) and For Whom Does It Apply”

Muneer Awad of CAIR OK squirmed over questions about the Muslim Brotherhood!

CAIR Oklahoma's new director Muneer Awad was interviewed on 77WABCRadio by Aaron Klein on November 7, 2010. It got real interesting when questions about the Muslim Brotherhood came up and its relationship to CAIR.  Awad's answers are typical for CAIR when they are pinned down about those nasty facts that haunt them.  

CAIR's strategic use of leftist pro-Islamist propaganda

CAIR Oklahoma tweeted today a link to article in the obscure Village Voice which slammed the viewing a documentary called the Third Jihad by the New York City Police counter-terrorism unit as anti-Muslim when the film is, in fact, about Islamic supremacy, its drive for power through non-violent political means, as well as violent methods.  It is not an attack against spiritual Islam.

Conflating Islamism as an attack against ALL Muslims is a deceptive political ploy used by CAIR, other Islamist groups and their leftists partners.  CAIR New York issued a press release:  CAIR Asks NYPD to Probe Use of Anti-Muslim Training Film  using the left-wing article to help prove their point.   CAIR-NY Board President Zead Ramadan compared "The Third Jihad" to past propaganda such as the Nazi-era film "Triumph of the Will" or "Birth of a Nation," which vilified African-Americans".

See how this works?

Watch part one of Third Jihad and judge for yourself.  It features my favorite anti-Islamism Muslim, Dr. Zuhdi Jasser (get to know him).  He was ostracized by the Muslim community in America.

Blogger questions CAIR's Muneer Awad at Islamophobic panel!

Last Sunday evening, Muneer Awad, the director of CAIR Oklahoma, spoke at an Advocates for Peace Rountable titled COUNTERING THE WAVE OF ISLAMOPHOBIA put on by left-leaning Okies held in Norman at St. Stephen’s United Methodist Church.  Other panelists were Malaka Elyazgi, Michael Korenblit, co-founder and president of the Respect Diversity Foundation of Oklahoma; and Nathaniel Batchelder, director of the Peace House in Oklahoma City.

CAIR Oklahoma features interview with CAIR's anarchist director in San Francisco

CAIR Oklahoma's website features a video of a TV interview (CAIR OK link) with Zahra Billoo the director of CAIR's chapter in San Francisco, who is, OMG, a self-described anarchist Muslim!   Billoo and the MSNBC host blasted the congressional hearings planned by Rep. Pete King to explore the root cause of radicalization. 

Islamic ad in Oklahoma: the name Jesus appears in the Quran more than Muhammad!

 Muslim leaders in Oklahoma seem to be scurrying about as they try to mitigate some of the damage caused by a lawsuit filed by Muneer Awad, the new director of CAIR Oklahoma, against the state over a new constitutional amendment, SQ 755,  passed by 70% of Oklahomans who voted that bans foreign and sharia laws from consideration in state courts.  They started off with a couple of fluffy PSA videos after Oklahomans were called all kinds of vile names leading up to the election which still continues to this day. 

CAIR Oklahoma and Muslim leaders scramble!

Muslim leaders in Oklahoma seem to be scurrying about as they try to mitigate some of the damage caused by CAIR's lawsuit initiated by Muneer Awad against the state over a new constitutional amendment, SQ 755, passed by 70% of Oklahomans that banned foreign and sharia laws from consideration in state courts.  

Oklahoma Islamic leaders fluffy PR campaign; The Islamic Agenda In Oklahoma

I've noticed significant outreach by some Muslim leaders this Christmas.  I even got an email from an Oklahoma City Imam whom I've criticized some of his actions, like when he called the Tea Party the KKK in drag.  Why would he reach out to me?  He's called my  blog a hate group because I call attention to their actions I find troubling and the man thinks I have a spy at his mosque.  And get this, in ending his message to me, right there under his signature, was a quote from the 2nd Islamic supremacist caliph, Omar.  If you are not familiar, Omar's armies of Islam seized control of Jerusalem, the center of the Christian world, at the time.  Nope, definitely not feeling the outreach there.

Islamic Council of Oklahoma thanks Muneer Awad and CAIR Oklahoma!

The fairly new Islamic Council of Oklahoma that is dominated by CAIR Oklahoma Board members issued a press release on November 29th thanking Muneer Awad and CAIR for suing the state of Oklahoma to defend their right to use sharia law.  They sure don't seem to want to pass up any opportunity to call supporters of SQ 755 names.

SQ 755 awaits Oklahoma's new attorney general, Scott Pruitt

On January 10th, Oklahoma's newly elected attorney general, Scott Pruitt,  will inherit the legal fight to get SQ 755 certified.  He'll surely be more aggresive than current AG, Drew Edmondson (D), who has been criticized how he defended the amendment to ban foreign law, including sharia law:

ACTION: Counter CAIR Oklahoma demand "Oklahoman" letter-to-editor be removed!

CAIR Oklahoma, a chapter of unidicted Hamas terror-funding co-conspirator CAIR National, posted on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/CAIR-Oklahoma/44660013720?v=wall&filter=1#!/permalink.php?story_fbid=164091173632429&id=44660013720) today a plea for its supporters to demand a letter-to-the-editor that was critical of sharia law be removed published by the Oklahoman:

James Werrell; an Islamist's dream!

James Werrell is the opinion editor for the The Rock Hill Herald who wrote on November 23rd an article which was a veiled swipe at Oklahoma's SQ 755, which bans foreign and sharia laws from being considered by state judges, in Commentary: The 'Islamish invasion' has already started, published in the Bellingham Heard in Washington. 

Oklahoma AG appeals preliminary Injunction against SQ 755

Yesterday, the Oklahoma Attorney General's office filed a notice of appeal to the preliminary injunction that stops the certification of the vote for SQ 755 that was issued Monday by Federal Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange.

Judge grants preliminary injunction on SQ 755!

Federal Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange took the side of CAIR Oklahoma's director Muneer Awad this afternoon agreeing that his 1st amendment right would be violated if the state banned sharia law from consideration in state courts.  She granted him a preliminary injunction which will prevent the Oklahoma Election Board from certifying SQ 755 which passed with 70% of the votes, until the court rules on its legal merits, which could take a few months.

Judge Miles-LaGrange extends TRO on SQ 755!

Moments ago in Oklahoma City, Federal Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange extended her Temporary Restraining Order by one week on the certification of the vote on Oklahoma SQ 755 that took place on November 2nd. 

Chuck Guzak in "Who's Afraid of the Big-Bad Sharia" slams Oklahoma

Chuck Guzak blamed the right wing in Oklahoma for the passing of SQ 755 and fueling Islamophobia in his opinion article, Who's Afraid of Big-Bad Sharia in the Cornell Daily Sun today.  He argued that allowing Sharia courts in the U.S. would change nothing here. 

Amicus Curiae brief opposes SQ 755 suit by Muneer Awad of CAIR Oklahoma

Attorney Kevin Calvey filed an Amicus Curiae brief for The United States Border Control, the United States Border Control Foundation, the Lincoln Institute for Research and Education and the Conservative Legal Defense and Education Fund in Oklahoma in federal court yesterday regarding SQ 755. 

"Ikhwanophobia" features Muneer Awad of CAIR Oklahoma!

There's a fairly new website called Ikhwanophobia setup to expose those horrible people they claim have an irrational fear of members of the Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood and, of course, for good measure they extended that fear to all Muslims.  This Islamist website claims, among other things on their about page, that "Intimidation of the Muslim Brotherhood, of course, leads to many negative consequences that are contrary to basic human rights."

As you can see Muneer Awad of CAIR Oklahoma is featured on their home page today  (screen shot taken 11/15/10).  Standing next to him in support is Nathaniel Batchelder, the Director of the Peace House in Oklahoma City:

 

A link to Ikhwanophobia can be found on the official Muslim Brotherhood English language website (screen shot taken 11/15/2010):

CAIR was started by leaders of the Islamic Association of Palestine, an overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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Also see:

CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood and more... (a chronological listing of many of CAIR''s words and actions)

Oklahoma AG has a duty to its citizens to question motive of CAIR!

Muneer Awad, who has been on the job at CAIR Oklahoma for less than a month and who just graduated from law school last year, said sharia law is merely a religious guide and a religious freedom right.  Is that accurate?  To me, religious guidance is not the same thing as religious rulings/sharia law. I am unaware the U.S. has legally defined it, yet.   Many Islamic countries use sharia as the basis for all their laws, which includes the loss of religious freedom, an irony worth noting. 

Tap down the ignorance in Oklahoma; Rachel Maddow interviews Muneer Awad

Last night the new director of CAIR's chapter in Oklahoma, Muneer Awad, was on the low-rated leftist Rachael Maddow's show where he ripped Oklahoma politicians who authored or supported SQ 755 and claimed their campaign was one of misinformation designed to raise fear and disrespect of Muslims.  Before Maddow interviewed Awad she went over some of the hate mail CAIR claimed they received (how stupid can one be?).  Near the end of the video Awad said the campaign to pass SQ 755 was based on hate, VIOLENCE and fear. 

Did Oklahoma Attorney General NOT file a response on behalf of voters in SQ 755?

One of the authors of Oklahoma SQ 755, Rep. Anthony Sykes, was quoted by Fox News today making an astonishing claim that Attorney General Drew Edmonston (D) did NOT file a brief to defend the people's vote in court today:

"District Court Judge Vicki Miles-LeGrange ruled that the measure, which passed by a large margin in last Tuesday's elections, would be suspended until a hearing on Nov. 22, when she will listen to arguments on whether the court's temporary injunction should become permanent.

...Supporters of the Oklahoma ballot initiative, which passed with 70 percent of the vote, would not comment on the impact of the ruling. But state Sen. Anthony Sykes, who co-authored the measure, charged that the judge ruled as she did because the state’s attorney general, Drew Edmondson, failed to respond to the suit.

“The attorney general failed to file a response,” Sykes said. “I am afraid that this might get written in stone that shouldn’t be because the attorney general is leaving and a new one is coming in.” 

Calls to Edmondson’s office were not returned.

Oklahoma state Rep. Rex Duncan, who co-sponsored the bill, said he hadn’t seen the judge's written ruling yet, but he was disappointed that “her words from the bench indicated she had completely embraced the plaintiff’s arguments.”

“They were pretty extraordinary statements from the judge,” he said.

Duncan and Sykes both said the state should have challenged whether Awad had the standing to bring the case.

“As far as we know, he flew into here from Georgia just to make the case," Duncan said. "We don’t think he is an Oklahoma resident or plans to stay. We don’t think he had standing...”

An Assistant Attorney General in Edmondson's office, William F. O'Brien, has written numerous opinion articles shilling for CAIR and promoting Islam since 2008.

The Honorable Vicki Miles-LaGrange was appointed by President Clinton.

ACTION:  I encourage people to flood his office with calls expressing concern that he did not file a response/brief on the voters behalf on SQ 755 yesterday.   OKC 405-521-3921 | Tulsa 918-581-2885

Here is the judge's order:

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New video calls for jihad against Americans; Awlaki's daddy in court today

In a courtroom in Washington, D.C., attorneys representing the father of Anwar Awlaki argued that the targeted kill list his son is on violates his constitutional rights.  Kinda embarassing for Awlaki's daddy since today his son released another video calling for death of Americans. 

What kind of crazy world are we in now???

Judge hears arguments in targeted killing case:

U.S. District Judge John Bates heard arguments in the case of Anwar al-Awlaki on the same day that the American cleric made a renewed call for jihad against U.S. citizens in a video posted on extremist websites.

...Al-Awlaki's father, Nasser al-Awlaki of Yemen, has sued Obama to stop the targeted killing of his son, who was born in New Mexico, and to force the government to disclose standards for determining whether U.S. citizens can be targeted for death. He argues that the president's authority to unilaterally declare a targeted killing violates his son's constitutional right to due process.

"What the government is doing is imposing the death penalty without trial," said Jameel Jaffer, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, which along with the Center for Constitutional Rights has taken al-Awlaki's case.

(DOJ) Letter told Bates the court has no legal authority to be "looking over the shoulder" of the president as he makes military decisions to protect Americans against terrorist attacks.

"We're going to the very core powers of the president as commander in chief," Letter said.