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Islamist organization, OIC, to partner with U.S. State Department on their anti-Islam defamation goals!

I foolishly thought the OIC had dropped their goals at the UN to make it a crime to criticize anything Islamic.  Now, it appears they negotiated a partnership to do this with the U.S. State Department! This is according tothe OIC's own news agency, the International Islamic News Agency:

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.

Tulsa police captain punished for refusing to order officers to attend mosque event

Captain Paul Fields began a two-week unpaid suspension this week for refusing to order his officers to a mosque event at the Islamic Society of Tulsa billed as "Law Enforcement Appreciation Day" although the intent of invitation could be argued was really about teaching the officers about Islam.  Today, I noticed IST use pictures of that day to help call attention to their Facebook page although it looks like it was rather sparsely attended: 

 

This event took place just a few days after the Islamic Society of Tulsa hosted a dinner featuring alleged unindicted co-conspirator in the '93 WTC bombing Imam Siraj Wahhaj.

Appeals court rules pastor had free speech rights on Dearborn sidewalk!

Dearborn Michigan may be the only city in America that has designated "free speech" zones.  It's also a city whose police chief arrested several Christians last year when they offered Christian pamphlets while standing outside the gates of an Arab Festival.  This is in litigation as a free speech rights case now.  Dearborn imposed a restriction on handing out literature during the festival in 2009. That restriction was followed promptly with a lawsuit by Pastor George Saieg who also had been passing out Christian leaflets for several years in Dearborn. Saieg, who is from Sudan, specifically reaches out to Muslims with his Christian messages.  Last week, thankfully, the 6th U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 split decision in favor of Pastor Saieg's free speech rights. Dearborn, by the way, happens to be a city that probably has the largest Muslim population in America making what has happened to these Christians' rights about free speech more concerning.

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:

Holder vs. Humanitarian Law Project

Last June the Supreme Court ruled in Holder vs. Humanitarian Law Project that limits on free speech and free association were possible if it was coordinated with helping, aiding, and supporting a designated terrorist organization.

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.

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:

Wake up call: CAIR, free speech, Juan Williams and Islamism!

Here's a Fox News video about Islamism which is very much worth watching when Juan Williams hosted the Bill O'Reilly show last Friday.  Williams discussion about Islamism with Dr. Zuhdi Jasser is important.  Dr. Jasser is a Muslim I very much admire, he heads the American Islamic Forum on Democracy:

 

Americans must have a conversation about Islamism

Reactions to NPR's assnine move to fire Juan Williams after CAIR's call for address it continue.  Here's a good response from Dr. Zuhdi Jasser who heads the American Islamic Forum for Democracy. 

When Dr. Jasser speaks I listen.

Video:

 

Liberal NPR fires Juan Williams over Muslim concern comment!

The political correctness of the liberals is really over the top now.  Do they ignore the global Islamic supremacist movements which are aided by daily terror attacks worldwide?  Do they also ignore the larger networks of Islamists and their organizations who have a presence in America?  Well, do they?  

On the Bill O'Reilly show Monday Juan Willaims said it made him nervous when he saw Muslims in their religious garb at airports after he said political correctness can led to some kind of paralysis when you don't address reality.  This conversation was a continuation of what Bill O'Reilly said on the View recently about who carried out 9/11.

CAIR, an outgrowth of the Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood, may have started this when they issued a press release yesterday:  CAIR Asks NPR to Address Analyst's Remarks on Muslims.  MSNBC wrote NPR fires Juan Williams over anti-Muslim remarks‎, other liberal media followed suit.  Is it really anti-Muslim to express a worry that is supported by the fact there are Muslims who want to kill us and destroy our democracy?   Get real!

 

NPR wrote O'Reilly directly blamed Muslims for 9/11/01.  Oh, the horror of speaking the damn truth.  Muslims did carry out the 9/11 attack.  Many Muslims said it was wrong to do but others implied it was partly our fault because of our foreign policies, including the one who wants to build an Islamic center at a site hit on 9/11, Imam Feisal Rauf. 

Today NPR announced:

O'Reilly has been looking for support for his own remarks on a recent episode of ABC's The View in which he directly blamed Muslims for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Co-hosts Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg walked off the set in the middle of his appearance.

"Williams responded: 'Look, Bill, I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.'

"Williams also warned O'Reilly against blaming all Muslims for 'extremists,' saying Christians shouldn't be blamed for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh."

Juan Williams really got screwed here by action taken by NPR that were likely brought on by CAIR's press release.  CAIR is an organization named an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest Hamas terror-funding case in U.S. history, folks.  Islamists and some of those on the left often partner together and this is another excellent example.  More Americans need to wake up.

Juan, get a lawyer.

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Also see:

CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood and more...

CAIR Action Alert #621: Thank ‘The View’ Hosts for Refuting Anti-Muslim Remarks

Megyn Kelly to CAIR: What’s your problem with Juan Williams?

The View today about NPR (note saying Muslims carried out 9/11 does not mean you are saying ALL Muslims carried out 9/11, big difference):

 

Two women caned under sharia law in Indonesia

 

Foodstall owner Murni binti Amris wincing as she is whipped by Shariah πolice after Friday prayers in Jantho, Aceh Besar. (EPA Photo)

The brutal harshness of sharia law used against two women in Indonesia:

Three Lashes for Selling Cooked Rice During Ramadan in Aceh (Jakarta Globe)

 

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.
 

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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Also see:

CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood and more

Ousted Rev. Franklin Graham will pray at the Pentagon

Rev. Franklin Graham was uninvited from giving a prayer at the Pentagon today because a few Muslims complained because he had the audacity to disagree and criticize the teachings of Islam!  But, that didn't stop Rev. Graham from going to the Pentagon to pray outside today as a citizen of this great country.

Franklin Graham soldiers on, prays at Pentagon

Below is a recent interview with Rev. Graham with NewsMax:

 Also see:

Pence urges re-invitation of Graham

Rev. Graham: I Don't Have to Be Invited to Pentagon to Pray for Our Troops

Calvey Blasts CAIR Hypocrisy

 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Calvey Blasts CAIR Hypocrisy

OKLAHOMA CITY (April 26, 2010) – Kevin Calvey, candidate for Oklahoma’s Fifth Congressional District, today condemned the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for hypocritically applauding a decision to disinvite the Rev. Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham, from speaking at the Pentagon. The pastor was to speak on May 6, the National Day of Prayer.

“CAIR claims to be a civil rights organization, but they have shown their own biases by heaping criticism on a Christian leader,” Calvey said. “Instead of upholding freedom of speech for all Americans, even those they disagree with, CAIR is merely pushing its own agenda of identity politics and division.”

The FBI and U.S. Department of Justice named CAIR as a co-conspirator in a major terrorist fundraising case. Calvey says CAIR has failed to address frequent anti-American protests by Muslims.

“I do not understand why CAIR leaders spend their time attacking the Rev. Graham instead of working to improve Muslim-American relations,” Calvey said. “I find it reprehensible that CAIR leaders would rather attack a peaceful Christian leader than condemn violent Muslim extremists like Hamas. CAIR needs to be more concerned with its own image than with the Rev. Graham’s opinions.”

Calvey is a small businessman and a conservative former state representative from Del City. Calvey volunteered to deploy to Iraq as a captain in the Army National Guard in 2007, and his mission in Iraq was to prosecute al Qaeda leaders and other terrorists in the Iraqi court system. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for his service. Calvey and his wife, Toni, live in Oklahoma City with their baby, Anastasia.

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Army conforms to sharia law and rescinds invitation to Rev. Franklin Graham!

Freedom of speech doesn''t extend to critics of Islam now that the U.S. Army has now bowed down to sharia law:  Army withdraws Franklin Graham Pentagon prayer day invitation over his criticism of Islam.

CAIR and all Islamic supremacists will be very pleased.

Is no one allowed to criticize Islam in America?

In the Middle East,  those who live under Sharia law face the possibility of death if they criticize Islam.  The undeniable religious supremacist nature of Islamic rule cannot be overlooked or ignored.

In America, CAIR, an organization founded by the Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood, goes for the jugular of public officials who criticize Islam.  CAIR and their leftist partners. the dhimmicrats often work hand-in-hand to impose this same Islamic law onto non-Muslims - although they word-smith it so it's not so obvious but the intent is the same. 

The OIC, alleged to have possible ties to CAIR, is a Saudi-based and backed inter-governmental Islamist agency working to get a binding resolution approved at the U.N. that would make criticizing Islam illegal - worldwide, down to the local, state and national level.  They have already been successful in getting several non-binding resolutions passed. 

Americans had better wake up to what is going on here before it's too late.

The latest official on the hot seat this week is Rev. Franklin Graham who is scheduled to be the speaker at the Pentagon's National Day of Prayer on May 6th.  But, not if CAIR and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation get their way.  They want him uninvited.  CAIR whines that Rev. Graham said Muslims are enslaved by Islam.  But, isn't it true that Muslim cannot leave their religion in Islamic countries?  Can Rev. Graham not state this fact?  Can he also not say he does not believe in Islam?  

Think about this, anytime a Muslim recites the Quran they repeat verses that are anti-any other religion but Islam.   This is a book that makes it clear that Muslims believe Islam is the final religion that should rein over all others.  Hypocritcs?

Rev. Graham has the right to criticize Islam or any religion he wants.  Just as I do and just as you do.

Leaving Islam ads to go back on buses in Miami!

In a major victory against CAIR the "Leaving Islam" bus ads are going back up in Miami with 20 more being added, according to Jihad Watch.  Read their lawyer's statement if you get a chance, below is a short excerpt:

...It is ironic," Mr. Yerushalmi noted, "that the media allows CAIR to claim the mantle of a civil rights organization when it embraces censorship by the government all in the service of the "anti-blasphemy" platform of the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC), which calls for international legislation providing for criminal penalties against anyone who "insults Islam and its prophet Mohammed."

Mr. Yerushalmi added that the Center for Security Policy, a leading Washington D.C. national security think tank run by former Reagan administration official Frank Gaffney, has documented that CAIR is an illegal, unregistered foreign agent of the OIC, receiving millions of dollars from Islamic countries in order to pursue their political goals in the U.S. (See the CAIR Observatory at www.cairunmasked.org.) Mr. Yerushalmi is General Counsel to the Center for Security Policy.

..."This is not just an important day for the First Amendment. It is a 'teaching moment' to the media and to others in various government agencies who come across CAIR," Mr. Yerushalmi added. "CAIR is a criminal organization with ties to Hamas and other jihadists. This is not my opinion but the considered view of the U.S. Attorney's office, the FBI, and the federal courts, all based on the evidence CAIR has never refuted...

Army to consider uninviting Rev. Franklin Graham over criticism of Islam

Rev. Franklin Graham may be uninvited to the Pentagon on the National Day of Prayer because of his criticism of Islam over fears he may offend Muslims which was raised by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation who wrote a letter to Sec. Robert Gates stating that Muslims has contacted their organization and for Graham's criticism of Islam MRFF demanded that Rev. Graham being uninvited.

So, religious freedom means you are NOT free to criticism Islam, I guess?

Does that mean then that free speech is only free if you speak positively about Islam, which is required by shariah law?  Read Army considers rescinding invitation to evangelist.  If you recall,  CAIR issued a press release in December whining about Graham's criticism of Islam.  Applying shariah law to non-muslims is very troubling but this is what appears to be happening.  The Quran is offensive to Christians, if you think about it, because Muslims believe it is blasphemy to call Jesus the son of God.  So, it's OK for them to repeat these offensive verses but Christians can't speak up?  Come on.

No religion should ever be above criticism. EVER!  If the Army rescinds this invitation, it will be a dangerous step in the loss of our freedom of speech and the further bowing down to Shariah law.

Ann Coulter may file a human rights complaint in Canada!

Last Friday, Ann Coulter received an email from Francois Houle, Vice-President Academic and Provost, at the University of Ottawa advising her of the limits on the freedom of expression in Canada and wrote “Promoting hatred against any identifiable group would not only be considered inappropriate, but could in fact lead to criminal charges,”  before her speech at the university scheduled for Tuesday evening.

While I find her manner of speaking irritating it's noteworthy to call attention to the warning she received.  As a result, Coulter threatened to file a human rights complaint:

Speaking to students and academics at the University of Western Ontario Monday, Coulter said the e-mail sent to her Friday by Francois Houle, vice-president academic and provost of the University of Ottawa, targeted her as a member of an identifiable group and as such, she will be filing a complaint with the Human Rights Commission alleging hate speech.

“I’m sure the Human Rights Commission will get to the bottom of it,” Coulter said to loud cheers from the 800-strong audience. “I think I’m the victim of a hate crime here. Either what (Mr. Houle) did was a hate crime, or the whole commission is BS.”

...Coulter’s targeting of the University of Ottawa administration and Canada’s Human Rights Commissions came at the end of a half-hour speech that attacked political correctness in the United States and the mainstream media, which she said was uncritical of the Obama administration and unfairly biased against conservatives...

Update 3/24/10: Coulter speech canceled amid fears of violence at the University of Ottawa when around 2000 students did the very thing the university warn Ann about -  making hate speech. 

Way to go Canada.

Google said they will close their search website in China

Do you remember that Google was highly criticized for setting up operations in China because this communist country seriously censors its citizens?  Well, I do.  I guessed they finally wised up:

 Google Shuts China Site in Dispute Over Censorship

Update 6:31PM:  Text of Chinese official comments on Google

"Foreign companies operating in China must abide by Chinese laws. Google has violated the written promise it made on entering the Chinese market. It is totally wrong in halting (censorship) filtering of its search provider and also making aspersions and accusations towards China about hacking attacks. We firmly oppose politicising commercial issues, and express our dissatisfaction and anger at Google Inc's unreasonable accusations and practices..."

UC Irvine Jewish students break their silence

The student government at UC Irvine passed legislation last week condoning the behavior of 11 Muslim students who rudely interrupted Israeli Ambassador Michael Orin's speech in February and condemned the harsh punishment given to them by the university's administration.

A number of Jewish students stood before this student body to speak.

A must watch video

Saudi influence hangs over Fox News!

Here's some more information about recent developments at News Corporation, the parent company of Fox News found at Family Security Matters in an article titled Exclusive: Fox Becomes a Hen? ‘CAIR’ and Imbalance? News Corporation Falls Under Saudi Control. 

I am just wondering here if Fox New is now Sharia compliant?. 

...The first development was the news that Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corporation, invested $70 million in the Rotana Group, an enterprise owned by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a nephew of Saudi King Abdullah. The Rotana Group operates a host of of TV channels throughout the Middle East and is a leading producer of Arabic movies.

Next came Mr. Murdoch’s decision to make Abu Dhabi, the headquarters of the News Corporation’s global media operations in the Middle East.

On Monday, the Fox Network announced that it will dispatch a full-time correspondent to the Middle East in order to inform Americans of the unique business opportunities in such places as Syria, a country that provides shelter for Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah and support the insurgents in Iraq.

...Other news about the parent company of Fox News began to surface, including reports that Kingdom Holding owns at least 7 percent of the News Corporation and has become the second largest shareholder in the Murdoch conglomerate. Some speculate that the actual shares controlled by Kingdom Holding through a hedge fund may exceed 25 percent. As for charity, he gives millions to Hamas and other pro-Palestinian other and Hamas millions gives he charity..,

Walid Shoebat, Robert Spencer and Brigitte Gabriel critics of a particularly rigid strain of Islam, which includes political Islam with its persistent and never ending goals to get Islamic supremacists in power, claim they are no longer invited to participate on Fox News.  Neither is Geert Wilders, a very vocal critic of Islam, itself, who is now referred to in derogatory terms, whereas before he was an invited guest, the article claims.

This is a great boost to Islamists, like the Saudis who own and control the Organization of Islamic Conferences (OIC), a caliphate in the making right under our noses,  that's working to get a legally binding resolution at the U.N. that would ban all criticism of Islam worldwide.  It's the second largest inter-governmental organization in the world!  The largest is the U.N.

Murdock is partnering with a prince whose uncle, KIng Abdulla,  rules over its citizens with rigid Sharia law.  This country has been ID'd as one of the worst human rights violators in the world!  It is also the birthplace of Islam and it provides the world daily glimpses of Islamic rule and its not pretty.  So, is Murdock doing this for money?  Whatever the reason is here, it's shocking. 

Just two days ago Murdock  urged Middle East governments to end censorship of the media - but yet isn't that what he does at Fox News?

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 Murdoch Urges 'Light' Middle East Regulation to Develop Media

BusinessWeek - Kristen Schweizer, Brett Pulley - ‎Mar 10, 2010‎

Murdoch, whose company last month agreed to buy a 9.1 stake in Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal's Rotana Group, urged the region to create “a marketplace ... The company will move some Fox satellite channels to Abu Dhabi ...

 

  News Corp. Units Head to Abu Dhabi

Wall Street Journal - Chip Cummins - ‎Mar 8, 2010‎

Fox International Channels said Monday it is basing the Middle East operationsof its global online advertising networkin Abu Dhabi and setting up an ... 

 

 Opportunity: Investing in the Middle East

FOXNews (blog) - Frank Merola, Cheryl Casone - ‎Mar 2, 2010‎

I just finished a four day assignment in Damascus for Fox Business. We were the first business network to report live from Syria so the pressure was on me ...

 

Vocal American Muslim group cast as object of mistrust

 

New York Times - Mar 14, 2007
They include Mousa Abu Marzook, a Hamas leader deported in 1997 after the United ... like $500000 from Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia to help ...

...CAIR has raised some suspicion by accepting large donations from individuals or foundations closely identified with Arab governments. It has an annual operating budget of around $3 million, and CAIR said that it solicited major donations for special projects, like $500,000 from Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia to help distribute the Koran and other books about Islam in the United States, some of which generated controversy.

TBS 16 Interview with Tareq Alsuwaidan, General Manager of Al ...  (2006)

Interview with Tareq Alsuwaidan (z:  he is a top Kuwait Muslim Brotherhood leader who purchased a mosque for the Islamic Society of Tulsa), ...Funded by Saudi billionaire Walid bin Talal, the man behind Rotana, the popular music video channel, Al Resalah has spared no expense in an effort to bring the production of Islamic TV programs to a new level of sophistication and cool.

Rontana website

Florida Security Council video is a must watch

The Florida Security Council has produced a video you must watch which helps build upon the knowledge we have, or need to have about Islamism (Muslims who seek political power for the cause of Islamic supremacy).  In this video a term is used called "progressive Islam" which is new to me - I'm not sure about it, yet, but the history of the Islamist movement in the video is powerful.

We need to educate ourselves and our children more on this movement and we must become passionately involved because Islamists, eat live and breath their cause every hour of every day.  We no longer have the luxury to go about our daily lives without a care in the world, as we once did. The Florida Security Council will hold a demonstration (another good video) on Muslim Capitol Day on March 11th.

It is important to clarify there are Muslims who want to practice secular Islam in America who are against Islamism.  These are the Muslims who need to rise up in America and it is up to us to do it.  So, let's be clear - to be an activist against Islamism is not an indictment against all Muslims.   Islamist will not separate the two while secular Muslims will.

Sayyid Qutb (PBS), the architect of the modern day Islamist movement mentioned in the video went to college at, what is now known as, the University of Northern Colorado in 1949.  When he returned to Egypt, Qutb became a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood shortly after the founder Hassan al-Banna was assassinated in 1949.  Other Islamists have also gone to this college, for some odd reason. I am reasonably sure most everything in this video can be backed by a credible proof source.  I also want to point out the Saudi prince mentioned in the film is the largest stakeholder in News Corporation, the parent of Fox News, outside the Rupert Murdoch family, which is worrisome.

This video is disturbing because of the hate Islamists and their supporters have towards America, Christians and Jews and all others. Their view of the world is seen through Islamic supremacist lenses only.  They threaten our democracy through their intimidations, coercion, hateful protests, ill will, action alerts and anti-security efforts, to name a few.  Their cause is also aided by jihadists terrorists.  They show their American neighbors the opposite how good neighbors treat each other.  Part of their goal here is to use community organizing and other methods to mask their true intent based on internal Muslim Brotherhood documents found in America and presented as evidence in the trial largest Islamic charity in America for funding Hamas.

Video:  (10:59 min)

Thank MT.

Interrupting someone's speech is not "free speech"

I copied and pasted the open letter from Vice Chancellor Gomez at the University of California Irvine to students regarding last week's arrest of Muslim students, now called the Irvine 11,  who hatefully interrupted Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren's speech with shouts of murderer over and over again in front of a packed audience of over 500 who came to hear him talk.

 

Think about it folks, as these students stood up for Palestine they also stood up for Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organization, who violently took overtook Gaza in 2007 and embedded itself among civilians as cover.  Hamas knows that any retaliation against them would involve civilians.  It's a strategy to make it easier to cry foul against the big bad Israelis.

 

An Open Letter from Vice Chancellor Gomez

By Manuel Gomez on Feb. 15, 2010

Dear UCI Students:

Over the past few years, we have had numerous opportunities to talk about free speech – about what is and is not protected within the broad scope of the First Amendment. Now, following the incident at Israeli Ambassador Oren’s disrupted address on Feb. 8, it is clear we need to review some actions that are not protected and do not legally constitute free speech.

Preventing someone else from speaking is not the same thing as exercising free speech. As Chancellor Drake has stated, “A great university depends on the free exchange of ideas. This is non-negotiable.” Disrupting someone else’s right to speak is antithetical to the principles of the First Amendment because one cannot claim the right to speak in service of depriving someone else of that right. In some contexts we call that censorship.

In California, anyone “without authority of law willfully disturbs or breaks up any assembly or meeting that is not unlawful in its character…” can be charged with a misdemeanor under California Penal Code §403. Other penal codes can apply as well. In short, this is a very serious situation.

No one can steal the right to speak from someone else. No one’s right to speak is greater than anyone else’s. If you want to claim your right to speak, you must acknowledge and respect the same right for everyone.

Manuel N. Gómez
Vice Chancellor,
Student Affairs

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Video of the speech

Chancellor Michael Drake's statement

...This behavior is intolerable. Freedom of speech is among the most fundamental, and among the most cherished of the bedrock values our nation is built upon. A great university depends on the free exchange of ideas. This is non-negotiable. Those who attempt to suppress the rights of others violate core principles that are the foundation of any learning community. We cannot and do not allow such behavior....

ACTION: CAIR pressures university over arrested students

Action: CAIR Oklahoma selects anti-Israel speaker to head banquet!

This man has made my day!

There is a man in California, whom I don't know, but he has made my day.  This man, a Muslim, spoke up after the speech given by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren that was interrupted repeatedly by a number of Muslim students who were eventually arrested.

He is what America is all about, now isn't he?  Either he or someone else also created a YouTube page called Muslims for Free Speech.  Right now it has one video.  Unfortunately, it has already received one hateful message on YouTube.

I don't know your name Sir - but thank you.

Video:

 

Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren speech results in 11 arrests at UCI

   

photo source:  Palestine Telegraph

Michael Oren, the Israeli ambassador to the U.S. was treated horribly during a speech he gave at the University of California Irvine last night.  Eleven students were arrested for disturbing the peace which involved interrupting his speech a number of times with shouts. 

The UCI Muslim Student Union opposed his presence and issued a statement condemning his appearance.  UCI is well-known for its Muslim students who have strong anti-Israel bias.  Their behavior is a stain on the college but, more importantly,  it 's a reflection on their parents and the kind of values and lack of tolerance they taught their children.

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MSU UCI Viva Palestina with George Galloway  May 2009 

note:  Galloway is banned from entering Canada for his support of Hamas but is allowed in the U.S.

Pat Condrell: Wake up America!

Freedom of speech alert from Pat Condell!

Video:

 

CAIR pounces on California mayor over Christian remarks

CAIR, an organization linked by the federal government to the Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood organization, issued a press release Friday which chastised Lancaster, California Mayor R. Rex Parris for his Christian remarks.

"We're growing a Christian community, and don't let anybody shy away from that…I need (Lancaster community) standing up and saying we're a Christian community, and we're proud of that."

..."The mayor's remarks promoting a particular faith in his official capacity at an official city event seem to violate the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Elected officials should not use public positions to impose their religious beliefs on others," said CAIR-LA Executive Director Hussam Ayloush. "We also call on California's religious and political leaders to repudiate the mayor's remarks because they could serve to marginalize people of other faiths and Christians who value the separation of church and state..."

Earlier in the week, CAIR jumped on Lancaster council woman Sherry Marquez for her anti-Islam remarks.

Over the last 7 months, CAIR has offered or is giving key elected local, state and federal decision makers and media professionals 100,000 copies of the Quran.   While CAIR feels the need to push  Islam onto our public officials - these same officials can't speak out freely about the religion that dominates this country - Christianity.

Stand up America!

CAIR pounces on public official who criticized Islam on her Facebook page!

Heads up to all public officials!  If you criticize Islam, CAIR will call you out.  This is the incremental creeping into our society of Sharia Law - which forbids any criticism of Islam.  I do hope people will take a stand to this assault on free speech.  Afterall, we do have the right to dislike Islam or Christianity or Buddhism or whatever - and say so.

Today, the latest attempt by CAIR to muzzle criticism of Islam was when a California council member wrote some remarks on her Facebook page.  CAIR even called upon the Republican Party to repudiate her comments:

In her recent Facebook post, Council Member Sherry Marquez wrote in reference to a murder trial in New York involving a Muslim defendant: "This is what the Muslim religion is all about – the beheadings, honor killings are just the beginning of what is to come in the USA. We are told this is a small majority [sic] of Muslim's [sic] in America, but it is truly what they are all about…You disrespect/dishonor them or their religion and you should die (they don't even blink at killing their own wives/daughters, because they are justified by their religion)…"

...The incident you reference in your Facebook post involves the murder of Aasiya Zubair Hassan…At the heart of this case is the very serious issue of domestic violence. Domestic violence is committed by individuals of all nationalities, religions, cultures, economic classes, ages and races…What you refer to as 'honor killings' are an aberrant practice not sanctioned by the Qur'an or permitted under the Islamic legal framework of Shari'ah. Islam does not permit a man to murder his wife for any reason…To attempt to tie this gruesome and tragic murder to Islam without any direct link places blame on that faith for an action that would be clearly and categorically condemned within an Islamic legal framework."

This is another instance of CAIR attacking free speech and they also ignored the fact that honor killings are, indeed,  carried out by Muslims on ocassion.   In the case above,  the husband now claims in court he was the abused spouse!  But,  CAIR doesn't have a problem in organizing protests that have the most vile of signs against Israel like the one held last January in Oklahoma City.

No religion should ever be above criticism.  In my opinion CAIR, an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas infrastructure here, is dangerous to the freedoms we hold so dear in America.

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Beheading in New York Appears to Be Honor Killing, Experts Say ...  

Murder in the Family: Honor Killings in America - Local News ...  

 

Tomorrow is Religious Freedom Day! References to it removed from White House Website!

God Bless America for Religious Freedom Day!

Tomorrow is the anniversary of the passage, in 1786, of the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom.  President Bush issued a proclamation about this day every year as have other presidents.  You may be shocked to know, a search of the White House turns up zero items for "religious freedom day." 

The Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom is not at the address http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/42.htm where it has historically been. In fact, the whole website is gone.  But here are its archive pages, thanks to Wayback.

A search of the White House website for the phrase "Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom" turned up nothing, either. 

The Religious Freedom Day website has links to all of President Bush's proclamations for 2002 through 2009 and they have been removed from the White House website!

 Is President Obama going to ignore this day?

Update 1/16/10:  Presidential Proclamation--Religious Freedom Day (a sigh of relief - but I did notice a typo!)

screen shot taken 1/16/10 at 7 PM CT:

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Here's the statute. 

Freedom Houses Report on Global Erosion of Freedom

Google to end self-censorship in China!

Google has taken a rather bold stand against the Chinese government:

Google Inc. defied the Chinese government by saying it will end self-censorship of its search engine and may quit the world’s largest Internet market after attacks on e-mail accounts of human-rights activists.

A series of “highly sophisticated” attacks on Google and at least 20 other companies last month, as well as limits on free speech, led to the decision, Google said in a statement on its Web log. Images of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown were among previously censored results visible on Google.cn today...

Meanwhile, China has expressed strong opposition against  recent U.S. arms sales to Taiwan - a territory formerly under China's control:

...Communist-ruled China split with Taiwan amid civil war in 1949 and continues to regard the self-governing democracy as part of its territory.

...In recent weeks, the United States awarded a $969 million contract to Lockheed Martin for the provision of 263 PAC-3 air defense missiles to Taiwan and a $1.1 billion contract to Raytheon Co. for production of the Patriot Air and Missile Defense System for Taiwan.

...China responded to the last U.S. arms offer by rejecting Hong Kong port calls by the USS Kitty Hawk and other American ships in November 2007.

Monday,  the Chinese's tested their missile-defense system and shot down one missile with another to show they mean business and show their growing military strength.

China has 1,100 missiles aimed at Taiwan.

Minnesota man, who put up anti-Muslim posters, won't be prosecuted

Citing 1st amendment protection, prosecutors in Minneapolis, Minnesota said they won't file charges against a man who put up anti-Muslim images in front of a mosque.

2009 a tragic year for journalists

In 2009, 138 journalists died doing their job.  The majority were murdered or killed:

In the past year, 138 journalists have died in the course of their work. The International Federation of Journalists reports that 113 were murdered or killed in other violence, while the remaining 24 died in work-related accidents.
 
The most recent journalist to be killed was Canadian Michelle Lang, who died in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan on Tuesday.
 
The report identifies the Philippines, Mexico and Somalia as the most dangerous countries for journalists to work in. Last month 31 journalists were killed in the Philippines after being abducted. In Iraq, the worst country for fatalities among journalists over the past decade, five media workers were killed this year.
 

This is another sign of the dangerous world we live in.  Let's hope for a better 2010.

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Statement:  2009 Leaves One of Worst Records for Targeted Killings of Journalists, Says IFJ

CAIR goes after Rev. Franklin Graham

CAIR, an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas infrastructure in America,  is taking Rev. Franklin Graham to task for his criticism of Islam on CNN - thus staying true to form in their efforts to apply Sharia Law onto non-Muslims leaders in America:

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said it has received a number of complaints from concerned Muslims who watched an interview last night on CNN during which Graham stated in part: "...we have many Muslims that live in this country. But true Islam cannot be practiced in this country. You can't beat your wife. You cannot murder your children if you think they've committed adultery or something like that, which they do practice in these other countries... I don't agree with the teachings of Islam and I find it to be a very violent religion..."

...In a new letter sent today to Graham, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad again called for a meeting at which Graham could be offered accurate and balanced information about Islam.

Awad wrote: "I believe your views on Islam are unworthy of a respected religious leader and are based on misinformation and misconceptions that could be cleared up in a face-to-face meeting with representatives of the American Muslim community..."

It is important to point out that a large number of Islamic scholars in Turkey are working to reform Islam.  "According to Fadi Hakura, an expert on Turkey from Chatham House in London, Turkey is doing nothing less than recreating Islam - changing it from a religion whose rules must be obeyed, to one designed to serve the needs of people in a modern secular democracy."  

 Another example, the Quran does NOT require a women cover her head.

CNN transcript

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CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, and more

Comcast acquires controlling interest in NBC Universal

A major announcement was made today about the parent company of NBC and MSNBC News, NBC Universal:

Comcast and General Electric announced today that they have signed a definitive agreement to form a joint venture that will be 51 percent owned by Comcast, 49 percent owned by GE and managed by Comcast.  The joint venture, which will consist of the NBC Universal (NBCU) businesses and Comcast’s cable networks, regional sports networks and certain digital properties and certain unconsolidated investments, will be well positioned to compete in an increasingly dynamic and competitive media and digital environment. 

Comcast serves around 24 million cable users.  It has been sued for interfering with Internet use; Comcast hit with class-action lawsuit over traffic blocking.  The status of the lawsuit is unknown.

Politically, the CEO of Comcast, Brian Roberts, contributes primarliy to democratic candidates.

Report: Princeton and Columbia cancel anti-Islamist speaker!

Princeton and Columbia Universities canceled lectures featured Nonie Darwish, an activist against Islamism.  It has been reported Princeton and possibly Columbia caved to pressure from on campus Muslim groups and their supporters. 

Below is a recap of this by OU history professor,Stephen H. Norwood:

Last week's last-minute cancellation at Princeton and Columbia Universities of a lecture by Arab feminist Nonie Darwish- an author who has strongly denounced Islamic intolerance and jihadism - brings to mind American universities' unwillingness to protect campus free speech rights for opponents of Nazism during the 1930s.

Shame on these supposed bastions of free speech for rolling over rather than courageously defending academic freedom.

Princeton's reason for shutting down the scheduled presentation by Darwish strikingly resembles those given by Queens College's president in April 1938 when he withdrew an invitation to anti-Nazi German Jewish exile Ernst Toller to speak on campus.

For its part, Columbia says it cancelled Darwish's talk for a technical reason, because her trip was planned without sponsorship from any recognized Columbia group. I have no doubt, however, that the university could have found a way to accommodate this speaker if it had wanted to.

...It is chilling that prominent American universities in our day and age provide platforms for virulently anti-Semitic speakers like Iran's leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a Holocaust denier who threatens to wipe Israel off the map, while they shut down lectures by opponents of Islamic jihadists.

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Former Muslims United 

Nonie Darwish muzzled by Muslim Intimidation and Dhimmitude at Princeton ... One of these conditions is killing an apostate. by Nonie Darwish, ...

Egyptian activist's invitation withdrawn

Princeton University The Daily Princetonian - Hannah Martins - ‎Nov 18, 2009‎

A planned Wednesday talk by controversial Egyptian-American activist Nonie Darwishwas cancelled Tuesday evening when both of the event's ...

 

Nonie Darwish intimidated by Muslim guard at Toronto airport

Examiner.com - ‎Nov 5, 2009‎

Last night I went to hear ex-Muslim Nonie Darwish of Former Muslims United talk about creeping sharia, media misinformation and more at U of T. What sticks ... 

 

Keep Islamophobia off campus

Socialist Worker Online - François Laforge - ‎Nov 24, 2009‎

... NJ—A campaign by students at Princeton University forced the cancellation of a planned speech by the anti-Islam, pro-Israel conservative Nonie Darwish. ...

Care about democracy? Criticize political Islam and Sharia, Darwish urges

Jewish Tribune - Joanne Hill - ‎Nov 12, 2009‎

... and human rights have a responsibility to examine and criticize political Islam and its legal system, known as Sharia, says author Nonie Darwish. ...

More than 100 organizations oppose OIC's attempt to make criticism of Islam illegal!

The continued attempts by the Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) at the United Nations to stop criticism of Islam has prompted, and rightly so,  a petition against it that was signed by more than 100 concerned organizations.

For the first time, the OIC seeks to make criticism of Islam a treaty which will be legally binding!  Freedom of religion and speech means no religion should be above criticism.  What the OIC is trying to do is exactly how Islamic countries keep their Muslims shackled to Islam.  Yes, shackled to Islam.  For these people, to criticize Islam could mean death. 

Free speech will end eventually, if the Saudi-based OIC is successful!  They have been in able to get non-binding resolutions passed at the U.N. - so wake up.  We already see political correctness in America that is detrimental to the publc good.

The OIC is the largest Islamist inter-government body in the world - it's second in size only to the United Nations.

The deliberate efforts of this Islamist caliphate in-the-making is taking place right under our noses while most Americans go about their daily self-absorbed cocooned life as if nothing is amiss. I don't know what it will take to wake more Americans up to the real danger a growing Islamist force in the world poses to our country.  9/11 was a big wake-up call and not just an anomaly.  15 deaths have occurred in American in the last 5 months by Islamists.  These are the first deaths since 9/11.

Authors of Muslim Mafia went undercover at CAIR; face lawsuit

CAIR, an organization that grew out of the Muslim Brotherhood Hamas infrastructure in America, apparently, has sued the authors of Muslim Mafia who allegedly went undercover at CAIR in order gather information to write the book, according Courthouse News Service of which I am not familiar.

The author of a book called "Muslim Mafia" had his son use an alias to get an internship with the Council on American-Islam Relations (CAIR), and use his position to steal thousands of sensitive documents and record meetings, CAIR claims in Federal Court. CAIR claims that Paul Gaubatz conspired with his son Chris Gaubatz to hatch what he calls in his book - "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America" - "a 6-month counter-intelligence operation."

Chris Gaubatz told CAIR that he was a Muslim named David Marshall, a student at Ferrum College, and that his father was in the construction business, according to the complaint. As David Marshall, he signed confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements.

While an intern, Chris Gaubatz routinely filled the trunk of his car with boxes of sensitive documents - more than 12,000 of them, CAIR claims.

...CAIR seeks punitive damages for trespass, breach of contract, conversion, and breach of fiduciary duty...

H/T/ Politico

CAIR and other Islamist organizations and some Democrats have blamed the right-wing for this book and the call to investigate CAIR.

According to Politico the case is being heard by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly.  She ordered the released of two Gitmo detainees this summer.

So far, CAIR has been silent on this suit.

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CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, and more 

Guantanamo ex-inmate arrives in Kuwait: lawyer

AFP - ‎Oct 8, 2009‎

In July, US District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered the government to release Mutairi. She ordered the release of another Kuwaiti inmate, ...

 

OIC claims the Obama administration is wrong on free speech

The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) ongoing efforts to stop criticism of Islam reached a new peak today when they collided with the Obama Administration and claimed their resolutions are now existing international convenants!  Warnings from various organizations about this have been ongoing for several years! 

The OIC is trying to apply Sharia law on non-Muslim countries.  They seek ultimately to get criticism of Islam banned down at the local level world-wide with a binding treaty.  If successful, it will make the Islamists job easier as they push forward to create Sharia law villages, cities, states, and countries. 

The world needs to wake up.

In response to the Obama administration’s comments that an Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) resolution condemning religious defamation was a violation of human rights, the OIC has said the resolution is based on existing international covenants.

Michael Posner, assistant secretary of state for human rights, democracy and labor, recently said that an OIC resolution that was handed to the UN’s Human Rights Council “goes too far.”

“The notion that a religion can be defamed and that any comments that are negative about that religion can constitute a violation of human rights to us violates the core principle of free speech,” he said.

However, OIC Secretary-General Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said that the OIC position on defamation of religions was based on existing international covenants which have outlined limits to freedom of opinion and expression in cases of incitement to hatred on religious grounds.

He added that for the last 10 years OIC-sponsored resolutions on the defamation of religion have been passed by the General Assembly in New York and the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

The text of these resolutions has evolved over the years and, in its current form, is not restricted to Islam but denounces defamation of all religions, he said. “It is important to note that passage of these resolutions by a majority vote beyond the membership of the OIC lends international legitimacy to the OIC position on this issue,” Ihsanoglu said.

If you recall, the Obama Administration partnered with this Islamist organization to fight polio earlier this year.  But that didn't stop Hillary Clinton from speaking up against the OIC goal, as well.

The Saudi-based OIC is a caliphate in the making.  It is the 2nd largest inter-governmental organization in the world.  Only the U.N. is larger.  It is the largest Islamist organization.

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10/27/09:  US Opposes OIC Blasphemy Resolution

10/5/09: OIC - Ihsanoglu and Clinton Discuss Bilateral Relations and Cooperation in ...

Other posts about the OIC arer here

Saudi-backed OIC continues push to make criticism of Islam illegal!

The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) is moving once again, through the U.N. Human Rights Council,  to make criticism of religion (i.e., Islam) illegal.  This time they are seeking "new binding normative standards."  This organization is likely a caliphate in the making and their actions should not be ignored.  Many member states of the OIC have permanent mission status at the U.N.  The pending resolution is to be voted on in mid-November.

The OIC is proposing the development of "new binding normative standards relating to religious ideas, objects and positions while incorporating contemporary issues" such as "defamation of religions, religious personalities, holy books, scriptures and symbols"; "provocative portrayals of objects of religious veneration as a malicious violation of the spirit of tolerance"; "prohibition of the publication of gratuitously offensive attacks on matters regarded as sacred by the followers of any religion and ; "abuse of the right to freedom of expression in the context of racio-religious profiling".

OIC and the African group are also proposing that a new instrument shouldprovide for the "legal prohibition of publication of materials that negatively stereotypes, insults or uses of offensive language on matters regarded by followers of any religion or belief as sacred ..." and "legal restriction to public insults".

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Clinton said today free speech at risk in Islamic defamation idea.

Update 10/29/09:  US Opposes OIC Blasphemy Resolution

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U.N. Permanent Mission of the OIC

Other posts on the OIC

US Religious Freedom Report Hits Speech Curbs

Voice of America - David Gollust - ‎13 hours ago‎

The Organization of the Islamic Conference, or OIC, has been pushing such anti-defamation measures in UN bodies. This year's State Department report placed China, Eritrea, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan among the worst violators of religious liberties...

White House whines about Fox News

There seems to be a lot more to criticize the new Obama administration about these days after a short ten months in office.  So,  did they try to create a diversion by attacking Fox News?  Is this a possibility to consider?  The Dems do try other tactics such as calling those who speak up at town hall meetings the mob, astro turfers, racists and so on.  All this is classic lefitst Sal Allnsky techniques for shutting down those who criticize. But, it's important to remember that the media should be skeptical in order to flesh out the truth.

What about MSNBC and their opinion shows which features strong and constant anti-conservative rhetoric?  No problem with that, right?  I didn't think so.  Nor will the White House have  problems with CNN, NBC, ABC and CBS who all tend to spin the news from a leftist perspective unless they start turning up the heat on the White House actions, that is.

Today is Constitution Day

 

On this day in 1787, the U.S. Constitution was signed by 39 men who put much forethought into each careful word chosen that safeguards the freedoms we enjoy today. 

God Bless America!

10 Fast Facts on the Constitution

1. The U.S. Constitution was written in the same Pennsylvania State House where the Declaration of Independence was signed and where George Washington received his commission as Commander of the Continental Army. Now called Independence Hall, the building still stands today on Independence Mall in Philadelphia, directly across from the National Constitution Center.
2. Written in 1787, the Constitution was signed on September 17th. But it wasn't until 1788 that it was ratified by the necessary nine states.
3. The U.S. Constitution was prepared in secret, behind locked doors that were guarded by sentries.
4. Some of the original framers and many delegates in the state ratifying conventions were very troubled that the original Constitution lacked a description of individual rights. In 1791, Americans added a list of rights to the Constitution. The first ten amendments became known as The Bill of Rights
5. Of the 55 delegates attending the Constitutional Convention, 39 signed and 3 delegates dissented. Two of America's "founding fathers" didn't sign the Constitution. Thomas Jefferson was representing his country in France and John Adams was doing the same in Great Britain.
6. Established on November 26, 1789, the first national "Thanksgiving Day" was originally created by George Washington as a way of "giving thanks" for the Constitution.
7. Of the written national constitutions, the U.S. Constitution is the oldest and shortest.
8. At 81, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania was the oldest delegate at the Constitutional Convention and at 26, Jonathon Dayton of New Jersey was the youngest.
9. The original Constitution is on display at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, it was moved to Fort Knox for safekeeping.
10. More than 11,000 amendments have been introduced in Congress. Thirty three have gone to the states to be ratified and twenty seven have received the necessary approval from the states to actually become amendments to the Constitution.   Source:  National Constitution Center

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Interactive Constitution

Explore the Constitution with this easy to use, clause-by-clause guide to constitutional principles and facts.

Meet the Founders

Complete biographies of the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

The Constitution in a pdf file

Noor Islamic Center in Columbus, Ohio may provide clues to Rifqa Bary's fear

Rifqa Bary is a 17 year old Christian.  She was born into a Muslim family but converted 4 years ago.  After alleging she received death threats from her father for her conversion, she ran away from her home in Ohio and her story made national headlines.  The father denies he made any threats to her and she remains in foster care in Florida.

On Monday, her attorney filed an affidavit about the mosque her family attended;  the Noor Islamic Center in Columbus, Ohio, and its leader, who was identified by the FBI as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.  Below are some highlights from the 35 page document (pdf file):

I. THE NOOR CENTER CEO AND THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD

The leader of the mosque, Dr. Hany Saqr, was previously an imam for another area mosque at the same time the largest known Al-Qaeda cell in the U.S. since 9/11 was operating out of the mosque. Additionally, Dr. Saqr was identified in exhibits submitted by the Department of Justice in a recent terrorism finance trial in Texas as being one of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in North America – an international organization responsible for birthing virtually every Islamic terrorist organization in the world, including Al-Qaeda. One of his subordinates identified in those trial exhibits was identified in a FBI memorandum as providing $735,000 to Hamas while under Dr. Saqr’s direction.

II. THE NOOR CENTER SCHOLAR AND TERRORIST LEADERS

A former Islamic scholar associated with The Noor Center is Dr. Salah Sultan, a cleric that has been photographed with terrorist leaders designated as such by the U.S. government.

Dr. Sultan has recently appeared on television inciting violence against Jews, and he has previously appeared at events in support of designated terrorist organizations while an active part of the Noor Center community. Following his departure to Bahrain, unconfirmed reports indicate that his US citizenship application has been denied and that he has been banned from reentering the US.

III. THE NOOR CENTER AND EXTREMIST SPEAKERS

A number of extremist speakers have been featured at recent Noor Center events who are on record making statements in support of violence, terrorism and extremism.

Evidence also indicates that some of these speakers have been directly involved in fundraising and supporting the mosque since its inception. One regular speaker and fundraiser for the Noor Center was listed by federal prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing trial.

IV THE NOOR CENTER TIED TO NATIONWIDE FBI TERROR INVESTIGATION

The Noor Center has also been directly tied to the ongoing nationwide investigation into Somali-American youths who have left the U.S. to train in terror camps operated by the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab terror organization.

CNN has identified Columbus as one of the main centers of the FBI’s investigation. This story was recently the subject of a lengthy front-page New York Times story..."

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1992 Muslim Brotherhood phonebook

Download 1992_Phone_Directory (I believe page 3 shows Saqr as Hani Saker (614 is an Ohio area code).  Note: page 2:  Jamal Badawi - the man the Islamic Society of Tulsa invited to represent them in a public debate, also in the Oklahoma area code:  page 5: Foad Khaleely, page 4:  Nuridine Giayash) 

Report: Cybersecurity Act of 2009 give President power to shutdown Internet!

A revamped Cybersecurity Act of 2009 (S773) that's in the Senate has been reported to give President Obama the authority to kill the Internet of private networks by declaring a cybersecurity emergency, according to Fox News.

A Senate bill would offer President Obama emergency control of the Internet and may give him a "kill switch" to shut down online traffic by seizing private networks -- a move cybersecurity experts worry will choke off industry and civil liberties. Details of a revamped version of the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 emerged late Thursday, months after an initial version authored by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V., was blasted in Silicon Valley as dangerous government intrusion.

...The new legislation allows the president to "declare a cybersecurity emergency" relating to "non-governmental" computer networks and make a plan to respond to the danger, according to an excerpt published online-- a broad license that rights experts worry would give the president "amorphous powers" over private users.

"As soon as you're saying that the federal government is going to be exercising this kind of power over private networks, it's going to be a really big issue," Lee Tien, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told CNET News..."

Is this too much power for a president?  Is this totally accurate?  Right now, according to Thomas, the bill is in Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.  I'm not ready to say this is a major issue or simply smart security for the protection of the U.S. infrastructure against cyber attacks.  The website, Politech,  that is the source of the updated information about the revamped legislation hasn't posted since 2008, so that seems odd.  I wonder if this is really accurate information.  But CNET wrote yesterday Bill would give president emergency control of Internet and said; " Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet..."   It links to Politech, as well, and may be the source of the Fox News report. 

In any event, its worth keeping an eye on this legislation.

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Library of Congress/Thomas:  status of this bill 

Cybersecurity: A Briefing - Part II

The Metropolitan Coporate Counsel - ‎Aug 5, 2009‎

Meanwhile, the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 (S.773), would create a Cybersecurity Advisory Panel that would advise the President and be composed of outside ...

 

Senate Cybersecurity Act of 2009 Could Shut Down the Internet

HULIQ - ‎10 hours ago‎

The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 could possibly give the President of the United States the ability to turn off the internet for public use in the case of an ...

 

Open Congress S773

FCC's new Chief Diversity Officer, Mark Lloyd

 Mark Lloyd is the new FCC Chief Diversity Officer and Associate General Counsel for the Obama administration.  His picture here is from a post at civilrights.org which states he is a staff member of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund.  This was dated July 29, 2009.  Their Executive Committee includes leaders of AARP, Asian American Justice Center, ACLU, AFL/CIO, and SEIU to name a few.  So, I guess, he is a civil rights activist.

You may want to pay serious attention to what he does going forward to see, if or how, his actions might affect free speech in America.  For example, he is one of a number of people who co-authored a report in 2007 titled, “The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio,” which seeks to change the structure of the media.  In a follow-up article,  Lloyd wrote the report did not call for a return to the Fairness Doctrine but wants more local ownership.  He also said; "We trace the rise and influence of Rush and other conservative radio hosts to relaxed ownership rules and other pro-big business regulation that destroyed localism..."  

In a speech before the lefist National Conference for Media Reform last year he highlighted Rwanda and Venezula for their ability to make social change through state run media (see below for video).  Talk about disturbing.

Is Lloyd in a position of power to actually make sweeping leftist changes to the FCC? 

Update 8/27/09:  CNSNews wrote about his 2006 book Prologue to a Farce: Communications and Democracy in America

” ....Lloyd also said that public broadcasting should be funded through new license fees charged to the nation’s private radio and television broadcasters, and that new regulatory fees should be used to fund eight new regional FCC offices.  These offices would be responsible for monitoring political advertising and commentary, children’s educational programs, number of commercials, and content ratings of the programs...Frequently referencing one of his heroes, left-wing activist Saul Alinsky, Lloyd claims in his book that the history of American communications policy has been one of continued corporate control of every form of communication from the telegraph to the Internet...Government, Lloyd said in his book, is the “only” institution that can manage the communications of the public, arguing that Washington must “ensure” that everyone has an equal ability to communicate..."

The government is the only institution that can manage the communication of the public?  Are you kidding me?  I haven't read this book yet but the author of the article apparently did.  It's possible his book could be at your local library so you can read it for yourself.

Update 8/28/09:  In a 1998 Essay, Lloyd said the Republican communication policy hurts minorities.

Update 12/15/09: FCC Diversity Officer Lloyd Vociferously Denies Things He’s Written and Said on Tape

...Because we have a written, video and audio archive of his thoughts, positions and policy prescriptions.  So we know the differences between what he has said in the past, and what he claimed yesterday to have said in the past.

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Videos:

Lloyd spoke at the 2008 National Conference for Media Reform:

NCMR 2008 Media Reform and Social Change w/Mark Lloyd 1/2 (8.38 min)

NCMR 2008 Media Reform and Social Change w/Mark Lloyd 2/2

In this video Lloyd discusses two countries and their ability to be able to make social change through their state TV:  Rwanda and Venezuela.  This is beyond disturbing:

mass genocide was able to be committed by state radio in Rwanda---Chavez led an incredible revolution - a democratic revolution ------- media and social change ---

Also see:

AmericanProgress 2004 archive page on Mark Lloyd: states he was a as a reporter and producer at NBC and CNN, and a consultant to the Clinton White House.  He also worked for George Soros Open Society.

Civil Rights Forum on Communications Policy, a project of the Tides Center.  Lloyd was the executive director in 1994 according to this archived page.

An affiliate of the Asian American Justice Center mentioned in the post abouve is the Asian Law Caucus: 

zTruth : Asian Law Caucus claims Muslims are being targeted advise ...  

Aug 13, 2009 ... An Asian Law Caucus staff attorney has informed the public they advise people NOT to talk to the FBI because if they were to lie or ...

Saul Alinsky: 

Saul David Alinsky  He is generally considered to be the founder of modern community organizing in America. He was from Chicago,  Wikipeda (9/1/09 Wikipedia removed the word "communist")

Saul Alinsky on McCarthyism and Woodlawn  (he said he never joined any organization - even the ones he created!

Saul Alinsky. Interview with Saul Alinsky, Part Ten ... PLAYBOY: What was your own relationship with the Communist Party? ALINSKY: I knew plenty of ...Back in the Thirties, the Communists did a hell of a lot of good work; they were in the vanguard of the labor movement and they played an important role in aiding blacks and Okies and Southern sharecroppers...Without the Communists, for example, I doubt the C.I.O. could have won all the battles it did. I was also sympathetic to Russia in those days, not because I admired Stalin or the Soviet system but because it seemed to be the only country willing to stand up to Hitler. I was in charge of a big part of fund raising for the International Brigade and in that capacity I worked in close alliance with the Communist Party. "

Book Reveille for Radicals by Saul Alinsky

---Random House, Inc. Academic Resources | Reveille for Radicals by ... 

---Mere tolerance is not enough (excerpt from book for a college course) at Virgina Tech

Book:  Rules for Radicals  Amazon

In 1971, Saul Alinsky wrote an entertaining classic on grassroots organizing titled Rules for Radicals. Those who prefer cooperative tactics describe the ...

Word for Word | Saul Alinsky New York Times  Noam Cohen

 ‎Aug 22, 2009‎ This article claims that the angry citizens at Town Hall meetings got their approach from Alinsky!

For Clinton and Obama, a Common Ideological Touchstone ...  

Saul D. Alinsky, the Chicago community organizer whose ideas intrigued and influenced Hillary Rodham and Barack Obama as they began their careers. ...

 

Older Articles:

 

Faculty Forum Another Side of Grapes: Daily Collegian (1940 - 1987) - Penn State University - Nov 6, 1969 For example , Mr. Shall quotes Mr. Chavez in Pittsburgh last Saturday: " We ... fact that he received most of his organization training under Saul Alinsky, ... Alinsky Defied Labels, Too St. Petersburg Times - Google News Archive - Jun 16, 1972   A Commentary on the Industrial Areas Foundation Catholic Culture - Jul 11, 1986 Rules for Radicals opens with a quote about Lucifer, written by Saul Alinsky: "Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first ... But Saul Alinsky was an American revolutionary which meant he saw our history as a series of revolutionary upheavals. His favorite Jeffer son quote was ...

 

Website specializes in 3rd party government to citizen communications!

There is a website that specializes in delivering e-mails to citizens for all level and types of governmental entities.  It is called GovDelivery.com.  It act as a third party service to deliver news to those who sign up for the service at government website.

It claims to be the "leading provider of government-to-citizen communication solutions".  It works for all levels of the government, federal, state, county, city and local.

I looked over their website and found on their privacy page that it states "...we grant select outside vendors limited and controlled access to this information. These vendors do not use it for any purpose other than to enhance our ability to deliver services to you and other customers and are bound to keep the information confidential. In some cases, our client organizations using the GovDelivery service (such as governmental and public bodies) have ownership of the information and its privacy and use is subject to that client organization's separate privacy policy.  We will also share this information with outside parties as required by law..."

So, I suspose it's possible that if you signed up for updates on any government website, they could share you e-mail with others, if it so states in their privacy policy.  So this is an FYI.

Suit filed after Muslim principal fires Christian coach

A former coach sues Dearborn schools in Michigan because his former assistant, a pastor,  caused him to be fired by Muslim principal, Imad Fadlallah, he claims.  As most of you know, it is against Islamic law to preach the Gospel of Jesus to a Muslim in Islamic ruled countries.  But, this happened in America!  

As is the casee in all lawsuits, facts presented will determine if there is any merit to the coach's claim.

A former high school wrestling coach who is Christian filed a lawsuit Monday against Dearborn Public Schools and a high school principal who is Muslim, saying he was terminated because of his association with an assistant who had helped convert a Muslim student to Christianity.

The suit was filed in Detroit by a Livonia law firm and attorneys with the Thomas More Law Center in Ann Arbor.

Jerry Marszalek, a longtime wrestling coach at Fordson High School in Dearborn, was let go last year by the district, which did not renew his contract.

The lawsuit says that the district and Imad Fadlallah, principal at Fordson High School, violated constitutional rights to free speech and exercise of religion, and Michigan laws against discrimination.

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Also see:

5/30/08:  Muslim principal fires wrestling coach; alleges his assistant converted Muslims

...According to Schlussel, the principal's cousin is Hezbollah spirtual leader, Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Fadlallah who is on the State Department Terrorist List and issued the fatwa to Hezbollah terrorists to murder over 300 U.S. Marines and U.S. Embassy officials. But in 2005, Hancock came under attack by some Muslims after he baptized in Port Huron a Muslim student from Dearborn.

..."If people want to come to Jesus, I'm here for them," Hancock said. He added that such activities were done outside Fordson and the wrestling team..."

Senator Arlin Spector cancels free speech appearance - CAIR takes credit

CAIR is praising Sen. Arlin Spector today after he cancelled an appearance at a free speech conference, according the the American Spectator.  CAIR claims they are responsible after branding the conference anti-Islam and launched a petition drive against Spector attending the "anti-Islam" conference.

Remember, my fellow Americans,  no religion should ever be above criticism.  So when CAIR tries to surpress someone from criticism of Islamism or even Islam they are trying to impose Sharia Law onto non-Muslims in a non-Muslim country:

"Sen. Arlen Specter backed out of speaking at a Tuesday conference on the global effort to silence speech critical of Islam, citing a scheduling conflict, but the Council on American-Islamic Relations has taken credit for his decision.

In February Specter introduced legislation in the U.S. Senate aimed at protecting American authors who have been sued under plaintiff-friendly libel laws overseas. He was scheduled to speak about the trend, known as "libel tourism," at a Washington conference being sponsored by the Legal Project of the Middle East Forum, the Federalist Society Center for National Security Law, and the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression.

...But Brooke Goldstein*, who organized the conference in her role as director of the Middle East Forum's Legal Project, said that Specter had canceled his scheduled appearance two days before CAIR launched its online petition. The group issued a press release responding to CAIR this morning, noting that Specter has not changed his support for the legislation he co-sponsored with Sens. Chuck Schumer and Joe Leiberman..."

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Also see:

Middle East Forum Reports CAIR Misstates the Facts About Sen. Arlen Specter

Sen. Specter Cancels Speech at Anti-Islam Event  CAIR

Petition: Sen. Specter to Speak at Anti-Islam Conference in D.C.   CAIR

Conference on Islamist Lawfare - May 19th, Washington DC