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Piers Morgan missed important opportunities interviewing Imam Suhaib Webb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

WEBB: With regards to what?

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

WEBB: Our reaction to what?

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

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

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

WEBB: Indeed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MORGAN: Imam Webb, thank you for joining me.

WEBB: Thank you, sir.

End - Transcript from CNN

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

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

Shame on you, Piers Morgan.

 

Also see:

Bomb suspect influenced by mysterious radical

Mass. Mosque: Bomb Suspect Had 2 Recent Outbursts

2/18/11: Suhaib Webb's "virtual mosque" praised Yusef Qaradawi's book on jihad as a masterpiece!

What is New about Al-Qaradawi’s Jihad?  Ikhwanweb (same article)

Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center – Timeline  Pluralistic Project

FBI document on a fundraiser that Webb and Awlaki attended on 9/9/01 (FIOA by Judicial Watch)

Boston Marathon bombers ID'd as two Muslim brothers from Chechnya!

Today we learned the perpetrators of pure evil at the Boston Marathon on Monday that resulted in the deaths of three precious lives and the wounding scores of others are two Muslim brothers from Chechnya who have been in the U.S. for about 10 years.  The older brother, Tamerlan Tsarneav, 26,  is now dead after a police shootout.  There's a massive manhunt for the younger brother, Dzhokar Tsarnaevc, 19.  Police warn those in Massachusetts he may have explosives and to stay indoors.

Here is a screen shot from Dzhokar's page at a Russian social networking site, Vkontakie (thanks JA).  Note he wrote that his world view is Islam:

A few hours after the FBI released the pictures of the suspect, a university police officer was shot and killed at MIT and a guard wounded after a car-jacking by the suspects which then led to a police chase with the brothers throwing out explosives at the police and the older brother being shot.

This is the 2nd successful jihadist-linked attack on American soil since 9/11. 

 

Also see:

Report: Boston suspect #2, Dzhokar Tsarnaevc, was granted citizenship on September 11, 2012

YouTube account that belongs to a person named Tamerlan Tsarnaev had bookmarked videos on terrorism.  Washington Post

Tamerlan Tsarnaev Youtube page

Islamic Society of Boston and the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center are two different mosque.  Suspects were associated with Islamic Society of Boston. 

Note: Muslim Brotherhood-linked mosque’s imam (Islamic Socieity of Boston CC) was replaced as speaker at service for Boston Marathon attack victims the night before.  Read article here.  This particular imam, Suhaib Webb, (a Muslim convert from Christianity and was formerly know as William Webb) is from Oklahoma. 

IPT on the Islamic Society of Boston 

Ztruth 2/18/2011:  Suhaib Webb's "virtual mosque" praised Yusef Qaradawi's book on jihad as a masterpiece! 

 

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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Review some of the people in Oklahoma who has worked with CAIR OK 

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NOW's young feminist chair, N. Jerin Arifa, falsely claimed woman's death was a hate crime

The young feminist taskforce chair at the National Organization for Women (NOW), N. Jerin Arifa, wrote one of the most misleading articles about Islamophobia I've every read.  In Arifa's piece titled Islamophobia Encourages Violence Against Women, she writes in the first sentence "There is significant and well-justified concern within the feminist community and beyond about Muslim women’s rights"  This is true but it doesn't have anything to do with Islamophobia (a non-recognized phobia that's hurled at just about any criticism of Muslims or Islam by Muslim activists). She might want to review a recent decision by the Assocated Press: AP Drops ‘Homophobia’ And ‘Islamophobia’ From Its Style Guide.  She went on to say this concern for the treatment of Muslim women was used by the US government as justification to go to war.   Say what?

Arifa admitted in her article she's been accused of using the term Islamophobia too much and was misquided: 

These “feminists,” who have spent decades working in the anti-domestic-violence field, are using the same tactics as abusers to shut me up when I point out oppression. They minimize and deflect their racism, accusing me of bringing up Islamophobia too often, although I work  on everything from sexist Halloween costumes to the labor movement. Coupled with the racism, they tell me I am misguided because of my young age and just need time to be enlightened to leave my faith, since being “a religious feminist is an oxymoron.”

She said the Quran denounced violence against women and that extremist have hijacked it for misoginist purposes. She failed (purposely, I presume) to mention the verse in the Quran that allows for hitting or beating of a wife if she's difficult which most all the Islamic sharia rulings back this up. Check out Verse 4.34 for your self.  Arifa went on to say when violence does happen to a Muslim woman it is discussed in terms of the religion or the culture rather than the victim which then (somehow?) makes it possible for hate crimes against Muslim women to take place and linked to the story of an Iraqi woman in California who was beaten to death and a hate note left behind as proof. 

Arifa failed miserably here, either by purposeful omission or just not doing her homework,  because this woman's husband was charged in the crime.  He was the one who tried to frame his wife's death as a hate crime.  This horrible and senseless death had absolutely nothing to do with Arifa's allegation.  She went on to claim that it was a false notion that other cultures treat their women differently.  Then she says if you need convincing that racism against Muslims is un-feminist she link to an article about rape.  The big problem with this accusation is Islam isn't a race, at all.

Seriously, this has got to be one of the worst articles I've ever read.  Yes, N. Jeri Arifa, your critics are right, you are misguided - and I would add - very.

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

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

Imam Imad Enchassi's fatwas

I came across a website this week called Islamopedia.  It features fatwas or religious rulings of leading Islamic religous leaders, along with news and analysis. Their about page says it is institutionally supported by the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University among others organization listed.  This support is shocking considering what's on this website.

One such religious leader featured is Yusef Qaradawi who is often referred to as the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.  Qaradawi, an Egyptian, lives in excile in Qatar and is banned from entering the U.S. because of his fatwas approving martyrdom to kill Israelis.  His latest two fatwas Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Injustice allows for Arab youth to revolt against their rulers and Qaradawi Permits the Assassination of Gaddafi give the go ahead for Muslim to rise up against rulers and to kill Gaddafi.  More of his fatwas are here.  Review ADL's Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Theologian of Terror.

These universities are helping a sheik strongly associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, who is banned from the U.S., gain more legitimacy it seems to me!  If you don't think Islamists have infiltrated our universities - well - I've got some swamp land in Florida to sell you.

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”

Rep. Keith Ellison blasts hearings on homegrown radicalization

Here's a good example how some of the far-left media, in this case MSNBC's Ed Schultz, work with Islamists.  The interviewer spurred on the first Muslim elected to the U.S. House of Representative, Keith Ellison, as he blasted Rep. Pete King's plans to hold hearings to help find the root cause of homegrown Islamic terrorism, which, by the way, threatens us relentlessly on an on-going basis. 

Think about it.  Why would any Islamic leader NOT want to find the cause???  

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.

Virginia Glee Club Christmas performance included "Zikr" Chant to Allah!

The Virginia Glee Club’s annual Christmas Concert pleased many but some noticed they sang "Zirk" - a chant to Allah!   This prompted, at least, one parent to write a letter-to-the-editor to the Daily Progress:

American life hits some immigrant Muslim families hard

Here's a disturbing article about how some immigrant Muslim families from of Buffalo, New York have a hard time adjusting to living in a civilized society:

Muslim medical clinic aims to give a positive view of Islam

A Muslim clinic opened this past January in Ohio adding to the list of Muslim-run clinics here.

Islamic call to prayer heard loud and clear in Brooklyn

Five times a day starting at sunrise the Islamic call to prayer is heard from a loudspeaker at a mosque in Brooklyn.  Some say they can hear it from blocks away:

Minnesota Court of Appeals: plant "khat" doesn't violate Islamic religious freedom!

A Minnesota Appeals Court ruled Tuesday an euphoric-producing plant called"khat" is illegal and doesn't violate religious freedom which several Muslims prosecuted for using it claimed.  An advocate said these men might now be ripe for terror recruiting:

CAIR Oklahoma's Muneer Awad gets worked-up on radio after questioned about CAIR

Today, in little over an hour, the brand new director (<month) of CAIR Oklahoma, Muneer Awad, will be in federal court in Oklahoma City to legally challenge the will of the people of Oklahoma after they passed SQ 755 on November 2nd to ban sharia and international law from consideration by state courts in the future.  The suit wants to stop the election board from certifying the results.  It will be heard before a judge appointed by President Clinton, the Honorable Vicki Miles-LaGrange.  Last year, Judge Miles-LaGrange gave a commencement speech titled "Idealism" to the graduating students at Oklahoma City University School of Law.

Muneer Awad, apparently, recently moved to Oklahoma to assume his position at CAIR but he sued the state as an individual. 

Yesterday,  Awad was interviewed on New York City's WABC 770 AM.  Near the end he gets agitated when questioned about some of the facts that haunt CAIR.  Listen to his interview at CAIR's Shariah defender dodges questions on terror ties.  The really interesting stuff starts at the 9:50 minute mark.

Awad dodged facts about CAIR similar to his predecessor, Razi Hashmi, who did it over and over again. 

I do believe Awad imply the interviewer was a liar.

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OU's Routes pushing Islam on heels of historic vote to ban sharia law!

 
Photo credit Kelly Marose for ROUTES

Routes is an college magazine that showcases work of college students relating to issues about Oklahoma run by the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma.

I was completely taken aback to see their front page and cultural section mainly devoted to Islam or Muslim victimhood. This includes a slide show of pictures where one featured a photo of a larger Quran next to a smaller Bible, pictured above.

Some of Routes latest articles presented a peaches and cream positive image of Islam, or of their victimhood.  All  ignored a move by Muslims leaders in Oklahoma to hookup with one of the most controversial Islamist organizations in the country, CAIR, which was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest Hamas terror-funding trial in U.S. history.

Their new director in Oklahoma sued the state this week to stop the will of the people in their historic vote to ban sharia law from being used in state court.  One of their article features Saad Mohammed, one of the two co-founders of CAIR Oklahoma but they didn't mention this at all.  Last summer, CAIR Oklahoma's board chair, Michael Aziz Gipson was charged with mortgage fraud and conspiracy.

Here are some of their recent articles:

November 5, 2010

Locals connect to community through giving back

An Oklahoman recalls childhood in Gaza Strip

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November 5, 2010

Oklahoma Muslim looks past criticism

Muslims coming together to turn negatives into positives

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November 5, 2010

Civil rights violations are becoming a growing concern among Muslims

Oklahomans speak about anti-Islamic sentiments

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November 5, 2010

Local Muslims voice opinions on New York mosque

Controversy rages in New York, but effects felt close to home

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video

November 5, 2010

"I am an American Muslim. I love my state. I love my country."

Find out how to get searched at the airport, guaranteed

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A hearing is scheduled for Monday before a judge appointed by President Clinton.

Muneer Awad's lawsuit against Oklahoma made on his "own Shariah-compliant will"

What is Shariah? Shariah is a dynamic legal framework derived from the Quran (Islam’s revealed text), the traditions of the Prophet Muhammad, the ongoing consensus of Islamic scholars, and analytical reasoning.  ---CAIR  

Below is a copy of the lawsuit filed today in Federal Court against the Oklahoma Election Board regarding a constitutional amendment passed by 70% of Oklahomans to not allow state courts to consider sharia or international law in the decades to come.  The individual suing is Muneer Awad the new director of CAIR Oklahoma.  He just recently moved to Oklahoma to assume the position.  Now he, and he alone,  wants to stop the election board from certifying the election result for SQ 755.

(photo credit peacearena.org)

In CAIR's press release it stated in part:

"...At a news conference today in the State Capitol Building, CAIR-OK Executive Director Muneer Awad said he has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court -- Western District Of Oklahoma as an individual seeking a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction to prevent final certification of the amendment by the Oklahoma State Board of Elections.

Awad's lawsuit, which is based on his own Shariah-compliant will, says SQ 755 violates the First Amendment's Establishment Clause that bars government bodies from making laws "respecting the establishment of religion."

His own shariah compliant will???

Lawsuit:  Download Argument

Click here for an audio of the press conference CAIR Oklahoma held with their left-wing partners in Oklahoma city yesterday found at Oklahomacitizen.  Imam Enchassi stated he uses sharia law everyday. Today we learn, for sure, that CAIR see sharia law as completely intertwined with Islam.  This is Islamism to me. Throughout the press conference you hear the Muslim victim-mentality and the name-calling rhetoric continue. 

Many would argue that Sharia law and/or Islamic supremacy is a rising threat to democracies throughout the world.  CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest Hamas terror-funding case in U.S. history and was founded by leaders of the Islamic Association of Palestine, an overt arm of the Islamic supremacist Mulsim Brotherhood.

Update 11/5/10 5 PM CT: 

AIFD PRESS RELEASE: American Muslim organization applauds Oklahoma anti-shariah law

CAIR Oklahoma really miffed about Oklahoman's ban on sharia law!

Last night, News Channel KFOR (4) in Oklahoma City reported more about a possible lawsuit against -  well - the majority of Oklahomans who voted to amend their state's constitution to ban sharia and interntaional law from consideration in court cases on November 2nd.

Although CAIR and other Muslims claim sharia law is impossible here they have found it necessary to try to prevent it from being prevented with a lawsuit.  So, you really have to ask yourself why.  Are they saying Islam and Sharia law are one and the same?

KFOR Video:

   

Did I mention Imam Imad Enchassi in Oklahoma City posted part of verse from the Quran on Facebook yesterday which could be considered an incitement for Muslims to fight?  I don't know what his intent was but it was a provacative verse to use, to say the least.  See my previous post for more details.

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:

 

Thousands of attacks by Muslims since 9/11

Since 9/11 over 16,000 attacks carried out by Muslims have taken place worlwide.  It happens multiple times a day - every single day.  There is a serious threat to the world.

So, with that in mind here's a good discussion that took place on CNN about NPR's firing of Juan Williams.  CAIR representative, Ahmed Rehab, insisted Williams personal opinion was irrational and bigoted.  CAIR is an outgrowth of the Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood and has a long history of problems in the U.S. so you get what you get with them.  Why the media even uses them is beyond me.  The other guest was Cliff May, who is the president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) which was formed shortly after 9/11.   The video is below.

Also, Hayri Abaza, a senior fellow at FDD co-wrote a very good article in Newsweek (OMG, will wonders never cease?) titled "Is It Islamic or Islamist?" chiding the left for supporting Islamism, i.e., political Islam/Islamic supremacy and the right for it dislike of Islamism and confusing it with Islam (however, Islamism is a part of Islam):

"...The left is wrongly defending Islamism—an extremist and at times violent ideology—which it confuses with the common person’s Islam, while the right is often wrongly attacking the Muslim faith, which it confuses with Islamism. Western thinkers must begin to recognize the difference between Islamism and Islam, or we are headed toward an ideologically defined battle with one quarter of humanity.

...The confusion over Islam has real consequences. When was the last time you read a piece by a leftist intellectual criticizing how the AKP is trampling media freedoms in Turkey? Or the Muslim Brotherhood’s refusal to recognize equal rights for women and Christians in Egypt? By defending Islamism, liberals are strengthening one of the biggest threats facing Muslims and Western liberalism alike. Meanwhile, by targeting the Muslim faith, the right is alienating potential allies in the Muslim community: conservative Muslims who want to practice their faith and despise Al Qaeda’s vision...

We have to face the fact that most Islamic countries and all those millions of very good Muslims are not stopping the global Jihadist and Islamist movements.  Why???  There's nothing irrational, bigoted or Islamophobic about this threat.

CNN Video:

 

 

Hezbollah flags waved near White House; tenured college professor calls for Israel destruction

A video taken last month over the Labor Day weekend by the Investigative Project on Terrorism shows Islamists gathering near the White House where they waved the flag for the terrorist group Hezbollah and Dr, Kaukab Siddique, a tenured associate professor of English and Mass Communications at Pennsylvania’s Lincoln University, spoke out against Israel:

 

More from CBN's Stakelbeck on Terror here

School apologizes for what happened on field trip to mosque

A Massachusetts school district apologized last month for a field trip to the Islamic Society of Boston where the children were proselytized:

"...On Thursday, nearly four months after the incident, the Wellesley School District sent a letter to parents apologizing for what happened. "I extend my sincere apologies for the error that occurred and regret the offense it may have caused,” Superintendent Bella Wong wrote in a statement provided to FOX News Radio. “In the future, teachers will provide more clear guidance to students to better define what is allowed to fulfill the purpose of observation...”

The field trip was recorded by a mother who went along.  The video below includes her video plus information known about the Boston Islamic center.

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Must watch debate "Should Americans Fear Islam?

This past Sunday, Christiane Amanpour had a panel debate about Islam on her show on ABC.  I urge everyone to watch it.   A partial video of the program is embedded in a Washington Post article by Islamist-denier Eboo Patel who wrote "the most striking voices" in the debate were Rev. Franklin Graham and the Islamic supremacist interviewed from London, who declared Islam's goal is to take over the world and the flag of Islam will fly over the U.S. Capitol.  Patel claimed these two men represented the same position!  Patel went on to ask how does one build a fear bomb?  Implying, to me anyway, that any concern about the global Islamist movement is a mere figment of our imagination.  Eboo Patel serves on the Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

I highly recommend watching the entire show:   Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 

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Open Letter to Reza Aslan, Deceptive Mouthpiece of so-called Moderate Muslims

Times Square attempted bomber gets life sentence kypost

"...Brace yourselves, because the war with Muslims has just begun," 31-year-old Faisal Shahzad told a federal judge. "Consider me the first droplet of the blood that will follow."

...“We do not accept your democracy or your freedom because we already have Sharia law and freedom,” Shahzad said.

 

 

Disneyland designed hijabs for costume; employee rejects them

Even though Disneyland created several designs for a hijab to match the costume of a particular Muslim resturant hostess by the name of Imane Boudlal, they have been rejected by her, according to OC180News.com and the OCWeekly.  She apparently found the hijab designed to match her hostess costume offensive and filed an EEOC complaint.  Disneyland also offered for other roles where she could wear her own hijab, as well.   Another Disneyland Muslim worker reached an acceptable agreement for her costume-matching hijab.

Here's news coverage from ABC7 about Boudlal from August:

 

Interesting video: NYC Muslim Day Parade

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Hamas-linked unindicted co-conspirator CAIR steps into the Park51 Islamic center fray

CAIR and other Islamic organizations held a press conference yesterday in front of the newly purchased Park51building to extend their help to the GZM-dubbed project. Opponents have been called bigots for opposing the proposed Islamic center at the site where landing gear projectiled threw the roof from one of the planes used as weapons of mass destruction by Islamic extremists on 9/11/01.  The second attack on the WTC by such extremists destroyed the well-known landmarks.

Four days before the attack, CAIR and other Islamic organizations (Library of Congress archive) blasted the U.S. government after a major raid on a key Islamic Internet company called Infocom.  CAIR and others played the victim game big time and claimed it was an "anti-Muslim witch hunt promoted by the pro-Israel lobby in America".  BBC and others reported the raid resulted in a temporary shutdown of websites it hosted for about 500 Islamic customers, including that run by Al-Jazeera television and the newspaper Al-Sharq, both based in the Gulf state of Qatar. 

Its a strange and creepy coincident this anti-American Islamic press conference took place just four days before 9/11/01. 

At Monday's press conference, CAIR's director, Nihad Awad, said this project wasn't a case but a "cause" and its all a misunderstand and misinformation if you are against it.  To handle this they called for a week of "dialogue" next month to help make it all go away.  A cause? 

 

photo credit: Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times

The years between these two press conference are filled with disturbing rhetoric and actions by CAIR.  They are an outgrowth of the Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood infrastructure in this country, as identified by the FBI.  In Palestine, the MB branch started Hamas which wants to destroy Israel for ISLAM (read it in their charter).  The Muslim Brotherhood is anti-American and pro-Hamas.  At most every opportunity CAIR tries to impede the FBI in doing their job to keep us safe from another Islamic-motivated terror attack.  Whenever CAIR is confronted about their history, they whine its  bigotry aimed at ALL Muslims, which is dishonest. 

I urge every American to become better educated about Islamism (Islamic activism to gain power for Islam) which is far different than the secular and the quiet private practice of one's own religion.  This way if you decide to attend one of their so-called Islamic whitewashing  "National Week For Dialogue" events you know exactly what kinds of questions to ask.  Do not let them off the hook when they try to avoid the question - keep drilling down and repeating the specific question when they try to change to subject.  One way to learn is to review my many pages on CAIR and take some time to study them and other like groups.

Did I mention CAIR is bestowing Helen Thomas, the ex-White House correspondent whose anti-Israel comment led to her downfall and disgrace a lifetime achievement award?  So, it all fits, doesn't it?

They and their leftist partners can have all the dialogue and outreach they want but it won't hide the goals of Islamists to push Islam into stronger more powerful positions at all levels of local, state and federal government and other entities as they try to convert as many of us to Islam to help change our views, our policies and our country with their Islamic activism. 

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CAIRtries to squash criticism of agenda through intimidation and lawfare ...

"...Since their founding in 1994, CAIR has sued and/or attacked with consequence such media outlets as: The Washington Times, The Los Angeles Times, The National Post, National Review, Anti-CAIR, various talk radio hosts, and college newspapers. Recently, even The Daily Caller has found itself caught in CAIR’s crosshairs..."

Seattle cartoonist in hiding

Seattle cartoonist, Molly Norris, has gone into hiding on advice from the FBI after her Draw Mohammad Day cartoon resulted in an apparent fatwa against her, reports the Seattle Weekly News: 

"You may have noticed that Molly Norris' comic is not in the paper this week. That's because there is no more Molly.

...She is, in effect, being put into a witness-protection program—except, as she notes, without the government picking up the tab. It's all because of the appalling fatwa issued against her this summer...

And, Muslims call us bigots for expressing concern about Islamic fanaticism, like the recent burning of the American flag in front of the American Embassy in Britain and the growing global Islamic supremacy movements.  On the other hand, it's stupid and in bad taste to mock any religion in a cartoon.

NAIT argues unindicted co-conspirator designation in secret at 5th Circuit

Politico's Josh Gerstein wrote a curious article about an appeals case involving the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) which was argued before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans beginning yesterday.  But, the judge closed the proceedings to the public.

"...The legal battle stems from federal prosecutors’ decision in 2007 to place NAIT and two other prominent Islamic organizations, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and Islamic Society of North America, on a publicly filed list of about 300 unindicted co-conspirators in a Dallas trial of a defunct Islamic charity accused of being a front for Hamas, the Holy Land Foundation.

...But the secrecy applied in the middle of the process, after briefs on the issue were filed publicly by both sides, seems like an effort to close the barn door after the horse has escaped.  The closed-door proceedings are also likely to fuel both the widespread suspicion about Islam that many Americans have expressed in recent polls triggered by the New York mosque controversy and the perception among many Muslims that they aren’t being dealt with fairly or forthrightly by the justice system.

...Expected to be on hand for today's closed-door arguments are Vijay Shanker and Elizabeth Shapiro of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, NAIT counsel Tim Maggio and Kevin Wisniewski, NAIT Executive Director Mujeeb Cheema and trustee Bassam Osman..."

Muslim soldier believes Muslims should not serve in U.S. military

Texan Pfc. Nasser Abdo, 20, filed in June for conscientious objector status because he claims his Islamic faith and the military don't mesh and that he has suffered from religious discrimination.  He's deployment to Afghanistan has been deferred.  Abdo complained while in basic training he was cut off from his Islamic community and that the Imam at Ft. Campbell were he is stationed doesn't know Islam like his own personal Islamic community. 

Abdo also believes Muslims should not be in the US. Military.

A Muslim is not allowed to participate in an Islamicly unjust war,"the Texan told ABCNews.com. "Any Muslim who knows his religion or maybe takes into account what his religion says can find out very clearly why he should not participate in the U.S. military.",

Abdo set up a website called freenasserabdo.org where he accepts donations to help him get out of the Army. 

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick embraces Imam Abdullah Faarooq

Disturbing investigative report from Peace and Tolerance:

 

Some U.S. textbooks rewrite history!

Did you know Jesus was a young Palestinian?  Or, that Muslims were in America before Columbus?  Watch the video.

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In the New York Post today read HS test 'slams' Christianity, lauds Islam which shows how horribly slanted the Regents exam in this liberal state has become in its favoritism towards Islam and its denigration of Christianity:  "...The most troubling passage came from Daniel Roselle's "A World History: A Cultural Approach," observers said.

The passage reads: "Wherever they went, the Moslems [sic] brought with them their love of art, beauty and learning. From about the eighth to the eleventh century, their culture was superior in many ways to that of western Christendom..."

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Public Schools Teach the ABCs of Islam (this is a companion article)

Arab World Studies Notebook lobs Muslim propaganda at teachers (e-mail letter of 8 October 2003 from The Textbook League's president, William J. Bennetta, to Stuart Elliott, of Wichita, Kansas)

Saudi Aramco World : Indexes : Subjects  ARAB WORLD AND ISLAMIC RESOURCESAND SCHOOL SERVICES. A Banquet for the Teacher, Vincent-Barwood, A., MJ 94: 14-19. Taking The Mystery Out of the Middle ...
www.saudiaramcoworld.com/index/Subjects.aspx
 

President Obama responds to question about comments on GZM

I've got to say, President Barack Hussein Obama's response to a question about his comments about GZM/CordobaHouse/Park51 is kinda like he was for it before he was against but its more murky.  Doesn't this remind you when he stated emphatically Jerusalem will always be the undivided capitol of Israel and the back-track the next day when he was campaigning? 

The long pause before he answered the question and the he way he looked is worth watching in the video below. 

Did I mention that on the National Day of Prayer this year there was verbal silence from this president?

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Cordoba Initiative hearts the Cordoba Caliphate!

The Cordoba Initiative is run by Imam Feisal Rauf who is one of key leaders for the ground zero mosque called Cordoba House - oops, now Park51. 

A 2008 archive copy (scroll to bottom of page) of the Cordoba Initiative website explained the meaning behind their name:

The Cordoba Name

For hundreds of years during the middle ages, Cordoba was the capital of Muslim Spain. During much of its “golden age” from the 8th to 12th centuries, the Cordoba Caliphate witnessed a great flowering of culture, art, and philosophical inquiry amid a remarkable climate of religious tolerance. Religious freedom, while not perfect, was sufficient that many Jewish and Christian intellectuals emigrated to Cordoba, where they lived, wrote and flourished side by side with their Muslim counterparts in a strikingly pluralistic society. The Cordoba name reminds both Muslims and non- Muslims that a great Islamic civilization was once the most open and tolerant of its era.

Islamic conquest?  Ground zero mosque? 

Wake up!

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Mysteries Of The Absent Imam Feisal (Forbes) 8/11/10

"...Later that same day I found him by phoning a Malaysian office that was listed on the "Contact Us" page of his Cordoba Initiative, just under the New York office coordinates. In Malaysia, the street address is that of a luxury high rise in the capital of Kuala Lumpur. Rauf came to the phone. When I began asking about the funding of his Malaysian office, he got right off again, saying he was in an "important meeting." Personnel at his Malaysian number then told me all media questions should be referred to Khan, at the their office in New York..."

Here is a 2008 (the latest available) archive copy showing the Malaysia office.

A subchapter in Imam Feisal Rauf book What’s Right with Islam is What’s Right with America: A New Vision for Muslims and the West is titled America: A Sharia-Compliant State (ACLJ pdf file):

"...Rauf states “(w)hat I am demonstrating is that the American political structure is Shariah compliant, a „state inhabited predominantly by Muslims neither defines nor makes it synonymous with an Islamic state. It can become truly Islamic only by virtues of a conscious application of the sociopolitical tenets of Islam to the life of the national, and by an incorporation of those tenets in the basic constitution of the country.‟ By the same token, a state that does incorporate such sociopolitical tenets has become a de facto Islamic state even if there are no Muslims in name iving there, for it expresses the ideals of the good society according to Islamic principles. For America to score even higher on the „Islamic‟ or „Shariah Compliance‟ scale, America would need to do two things: invite the voices of all religions to join the dialogue in shaping the nation‟s practical life, and allow religious communities more leeway to judge among themselves according to their own laws” (86)

Review all my posts on the ground zero mosque here

ACLJ calls on State Department to end sponsorship of ground zero Imam Rauf

The American Center for Law and Justice who represent a 9/11 New York firefighter has issued a press release calling the government to not sponsor a Middle East trip for controversial Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf who is a key figure associated with the ground zero mosque who has refused to call Hamas a terror group and has said America was an accessory to 9/11. 

Why is our government sponsoring the promotion of Islam, or any religion, in any shape or form?

The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which represents a New York City firefighter who survived the 9-11 terrorist attacks, today called on the U.S. State Department to immediately remove Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf from a taxpayer-funded trip to the Muslim world to promote what the government calls fostering a "greater understanding" of Islam. The ACLJ says the publicly-funded trip is absurd in light of the fact that the Imam has, on at least one occasion, refused to declare Hamas a terrorist organization and in the days following the tragic attacks of September 11th said the United States was "an accessory" to the crimes of 9-11.

...The ACLJ is planning to file an official letter of protest with the State Department - demanding that the government "cease and desist" in its plans to sponsor the Imam's globe-trotting journey.

The ACLJ already has filed suit in New York challenging a vote by the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC), which denied landmark status to the building where the mosque is planned.

ACLJ Petiton

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Petition of Protest to the State Department

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For Obama, All Politics Is Local . . . Except When It’s Not

Now it emerges that the Obama State Department is not only footing the bill for Imam Feisal Rauf’s fling to the Persian Gulf region; it has also posted Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s speech in vigorous support of Rauf’s Ground Zero project on its website (here).

Ground zero mosque site only half owned!

Well, here's a new development. The property owned by the ground zero developers is not fully owned by them, according to the Washington Post's Half-baked mosque.  Seems there are two building connected together with common walls and Con Edison owns the other building.  But, the backers apparently failed to tell inform the Landmark Commission, if this article is accurate. 

Sharif El-Gamal, who heads SoHo Properties bought one of the two buildings with cash and leased the 2nd building.  Yet, a few short years ago he, apparently, was a waiter: 

Ok, there's more -  SoHo Properties Buys Chelsea Building for $45.7 M!   What a truly amazing success story for former waiter now SoHo CEO, El-Gamal.  Don't you find it odd, though, SoHo's website is password protected?

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Further Travels Of Imam Feisal 

"..Since locating the absent Rauf last week in Malaysia, I have now discovered that he's about to embark on a nearly month-long swing through the Middle East, with plans to visit Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and Qatar..."

Sharif El-Gamal The CEO of SOHO Properties The Developer Of The Ground Zero Mosque Grew Up And Went to School in Liberia And Waited Tables in NYC.

Another Review for Mosque Plans Downtown? Wall Street Journal

Ground Zero mosque/Cordoba House morphs into Park51

Today the Landmark Preservation Commission in New York City will decide if a 150 year old historic building can be torn down in order to build a 13 story mosque/community center.  There have been indications in the press they will approve this move.

The primary front people and backers of the mosque are Kuwait-born Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and his wife, Daisey Kahn, who have recently stopped calling it the Cordoba House, apparently, because that name is a constant reminder of the real Islamic conquest of Cordoba, Spain centuries ago. So in case you hadn't heard, it's now called Park51. 

Rauf's father, Dr. Muhammad Abdul Rauf, moved to New York in the 60s, probably after President Johnson changed the immigration laws which allowed many more citizens from Middle East countries to immigrate here (coincidentally that's around the time when the Muslim Brotherhood first started some of their organizations here).   Did you know another Islamic Cultural Center (NYT 1984) was also built in New York City with funds from Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Libya?  Imam Feisal is on its board of trustees and his father was its first director.  It has been reported Dr. Rauf was a Muslim Brotherhood member but I can't find confirmation of this, at this point.  The Cultural Center's first shiekh, Muhammad Gemeaha, apparently said (NYT 11/4/01)''only the Jews'' were capable of destroying the World Trade Center and added that ''if it became known to the American people, they would have done to Jews what Hitler did.''  The interview with Gemeaha took place less than a week after he resigned (NYT 10/23/01)as Imam and suddenly moved to Egypt to live.

Yesterday,  Kahn said  they would include a memorial to the 9/11 victims which I think is the most insulting of all their promises.  Gee, that makes everything all better - NOT!

In March, Imam Feisal was referenced or wrote an article on an Arabic website of the media department at Cario University titled “The Most Prominent Imam in New York: ‘I Do Not Believe in Religious Dialogue,’” according to Pajama Media!  The page that linked to his statement has been removed.

Here's a link to a copy of a 60 Minute interview Rauf did on on Sept. 30 2001 that which is posted on Islam for Today:

...Bradley: it is the Islamic belief in the afterlife that could be an incentive to die in the name of Islam. According to the prophet Mohammed, the next life is paradise, offering forgiveness.

Faisal: In the Islamic belief system, the next life is the primary life. The next life is more real, more intense, and more vivid.

...Bradley: And throughout the Muslim world, there is also strong opposition to America's foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East because of its support of Israel and economic sanctions against Iraq.

Faisal: it is a reaction against the US government politically, where we espouse principles of democracy and human rights, and where we ally ourselves with oppressive regimes in many of these countries.

Bradley: Are you in any way suggesting that we in the United States deserved what happened?

Faisal<: I wouldn't say that the United States deserved what happened, but united states policies were an accessory to the crime that happened.

Bradley: You say that we're an accessory? How?

Faisal: Because we have been accessory to a lot of innocent lives dying in the world. In fact, in the most direct sense, Osama bin Laden is made in the USA.

Did you also know Imam Rauf's book on calling others to Islam was titled "Seruan Azan Dari Puing WTC Dakwah Islam di Jantung Amerika Pasca 9/11" in Malaysia?  Translated?

"A call to prayer from the WTC debris - Islamic Da'wah in the heart of American post 9 / 11"

 Here's a link to the book.

There are very serious reasons for concern about the Ground Zero Mosque/CordobaHouse/Park51 backers, the funding of it and their promises.

Update 8/3/10 10:10 AM CT:  Landmark Preservation Commission denied landmark status to building

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Planned Sign of Tolerance Bringing Division Instead NYT 7/14/10

"...On Sept. 11, the landing gear assembly of one of the planes used in the attack crashed through the roof of what was then a Burlington Coat Factory..."

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

A Muslim case against the mosque  Stephen Schwartz executive director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism

Statement On Islamic Community Center Near Ground Zero  (ADL)

"...In recommending that a different location be found for the Islamic Center, we are mindful that some legitimate questions have been raised about who is providing the funding to build it, and what connections, if any, its leaders might have with groups whose ideologies stand in contradiction to our shared values..." 

 

 

Courageous Muslim women challenge segregation at U.S. mosques

Here is an excellent story about some brave Muslim women in the U.S. who are working towards equality in their mosque, from the Wall Street Journal:

Muslim feminists call it the "penalty box." It's the area of a mosque where women, segregated from the men, pray. In Islam, prayer is required five times a day and Muslims often pray in congregation at mosques. During these prayers, women usually are partitioned off in a separate room or behind a curtain, "like naughty children," one Muslim woman tells me, while men pray in a grand main hall.

One Muslim, Fatima Thompson, describes the penalty box at her mosque in Maryland as an overheated, dark back room. Another Muslim woman, Asra Nomani, tells me that at a major Washington D.C. mosque, the female section was in a trailer, where the voice of the imam (the prayer leader) came from a crackling speaker. "It was so humiliating I never went back," says Ms. Nomani, a former reporter for the Journal.

Now these Muslim feminists have had enough. Hoping to reform Islam by making it more women-friendly, Ms. Thompson—an American convert to Islam—has organized several "pray-ins" at mosques in the D.C. area. These include the Islamic Center of Washington and the Dar Al-Hijra Islamic Center in Falls Church, Va., a mosque attended by several of the 9/11 hijackers and the Fort Hood mass killer Maj. Nidal Hasan. Ms. Thompson's next pray-in target is a mosque in Washington.

...Though neither Ms. Thompson nor Ms. Nomani has been arrested, say, for trespassing, Ms. Nomani—who has been fighting sexism at her mosque in West Virginia for seven years—says she has received several death threats. Such violence-oriented intolerance, which in the West has become the public image of Islam, seems irreconcilably at odds with the moderate feminism of the pray-in group...

Ground Zero Mosque, Cordoba House, too similar to Islamic conquest of Cordoba

***Be sure to read the latest updates linked at the bottom - there are new developments.***

 

Cordoba, Spain was once ruled by Islamic supremacists for hundreds of years.  It was a major Islamic conquest.

AhluBayt News Agency reports that an Islamic TV channel is currently planned in Spain. This station will be funded by Saudi Arabia Risalat-ul-Islam Institute!   The name of the TV station?  Cordoba TV.  The article goes on to explain more about Cordoba, Spain:

Córdoba is a city in Andalusia, southern Spain. In the Middle Ages it was capital of the Islamic caliphate which conquered and ruled Spain for nearly 800 years. During this time Cordoba was one of the largest cities in the world whose name continues to represent a symbol of Islamic conquest to many faithful Muslims around the world.

In another article from May by the same news source about the Ground Zero mosque it claimed there was no opposition to the mosque.

The Cordoba House - that's the name of the Islamic center will be - will stand above the former Burlington Coat Factory building, World Trade Center.

“The Muslim community must provide an opportunity to educate individuals about Islam through education and organized experiences of art, culture, and entertainment,” as quoted from a release.

“We decided we wanted to look at the legacy of 9/11 and do something positive,” said Daisy Khan, the executive director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement.

Initiator of the project, Cordoba Initiative, is now concerned with raising funding at around $100 million.

This will apparently be accomplished smoothly as the initiator said there was no criticism as well as opposition so far, adding that full support of the Cordoba House Islamic center is supported by surrounding Muslim community.

Calling the Ground Zero mosque "Cordoba House" is insensitive and insulting:

screen shot taken 7/25/10:

Location of the Cordoba House:

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Read all my posts about the ground zero mosque, including recent developments here.

Muslim attorney to hold rally for four Christians arrested at Arab festival

How refreshing to see efforts being made to right what appears to be a wrong in Dearborn, Michigan:

A Muslim attorney from Dearborn plans to hold a rally on Monday to express support for the four Christian missionaries arrested last month for allegedly disturbing the peace at an Arab festival.

Majed Moughni said the rights of the four Christians were violated when police arrested them on July 19 during the Arab International Festival, one of the biggest gathering of Arab-Americans in the U.S. The missionaries claim that Islam promotes violence and want to convert Muslims to Christianity.

"They should never have been arrested," said Moughni, who is Arab-American and Muslim. "They have a constitutional right to freedom of speech and religion."

Moughni said that the rights of the missionaries should be respected even if people disagree with their views or aggressive tactics.

...Moughi was the organizer of the anti-terrorism rally in January outside the federal courthouse in Detroit during a hearing for the Christmas Day bomber. After organizing the rally, Moughni received a death threat from a Muslim man in Europe linked to a plot to kill a cartoonist who drew Islam's prophet, Mohammed.

Who is funding the Ground Zero Mosque?

Rep. Pete King was on Fox News a couple of days ago and raised legitimate questions about the proposed ground zero mosque:

There was also a boisterous debate this week from the public who argued this building should be designated a landmark a historic building; Ground Zero Mosque & Landmarks Preservation Commission (Part 1) (video) and not be torn down.   CAIR New York Board President Zead Ramadan called the opposition (video) to the mosque Islamophobia at the meeting (yawn). 

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Exclusive: Ground Zero Mosque Imam's Radical Connections

NBC, CBS reject ad against ground zero mosque

Dr. Zhudi Jasser Discusses The Ground Zero Mosque

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

University of Illinois fired Christian professor over comment but ignored anti-American Islamist professor

The University of Illinois fired, or didn't renew the contract, of a Christian professor by the name of Dr. Ken Howell for his comments about church teachings on homosexuality (which I disagree, for the record) but they won't touch Jaleel Abdul-Adil, a professor of clinical psychology there who is affilated with the Islamic supremacist group Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) who has spoken out about the need to end our democracy and replace it with Islamic rule!  This professor seeks the end of our government,  which is a treasonist act to me.

Below is a screen shot of Professor Adil's videoed speech at the HT first pro-caliphate conference last year: 

Anyway, during the Q & A at HT's first anti-American pro-calipahte conference last year, Abdul-Adil was asked if shari'a, or Islamic law, would trump the U.S. Constitution. "Yes, it would be gone," Abdul-Adil replied."  and that every Muslim should use their skills in the struggle for an Islamic caliphate.  

What a blatant and disturbing double standard.  Now, that's a story the leftist media won't touch. 

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Hizb ut Tahrir America: America must be treated as an enemy state

Video:  Professor Adbul-Adil talk at the 2009 HT conference:

 

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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CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood and more

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

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

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

Excerpts from the New York Post:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Also see:

Perdana Global Demands Unconditional, Immediate Release Of Peace Activists 

screen shot taken 6/6/10:

 Daisy Kahn is his wife

Video: CNN interview with Daisy Kahn and Pamela Geller.

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

 Shariah Index Project

A 2008 archive copy on Cordoba Initiative website

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

A NATION CHALLENGED: THE AMERICAN MUSLIMS A NATION …

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2nd screen shot:

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

Please, please flag this video as inappropriate.

Muslim woman says she was kidnapped by parents in Ohio

Now, why would this happen?  Well, she said it was because she had married a Christian. 

There's really no telling what might have happened to her had her husband not got the police involved who then tracked her approximate location by GPS.  The whole incident involved a rented van, other men, and her parents.  No charges have been filed as police are still gathering information.

Oklahoma country music singer on Middle East tour paid by State Department

What?  Oklahoma native and Muslim convert, Kareem Salama, is on an all expense paid month-long singing trip to a number of Middle East countries with the goal to help improve relations with the Muslim world.  Think it will work?  Well, he does have a great voice. 

U.S. Public Diplomacy Through Music: Kareem Salama Tours the Middle East

Here's a video posted to the U.S. EmbassyCairo YouTube channel:
 

 

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.

Some Texas Muslim students feel targeted by the FBI

Instead of applauding the FBI for their relentless work to help prevent the next attack on innocent Americans by Muslim extremists, several Muslim college students at the University of Texas in Dallas (UTD) or the University of North Texas (Denton) either complained or hired an attorney who advised them NOT to talk to the FBI (was CAIR was involved?):

...Political science senior Borna Danesh (pictured) said he first encountered the bureau when representatives greeted him outside his class in November, around the time of the Nov. 5, 2009 Fort Hood shooting.

Danesh said FBI agents questioned him as they walked across campus, asking him to identify radical UTD students, radical preachers and asking him about his political views.

He said he was questioned again this spring, and still isn’t sure what prompted the interest.

Danesh also found out he was on the Transportation Security Administration “no-fly” list when he was stopped at an airport.

...He sometimes attends prayers at UTD, and is a member of Muslim Students for Justice (linked added by z), an off-campus group he described as hosting pro-Palestine and Malcolm X-influenced events.

...Danesh’s friend Irfan Hussain, a University of North Texas senior, said he was contacted by the FBI last October and again in March. An agent went to his home to speak with him and also called him by phone.

“It seems like they’re just trying to frame or harass me,” Hussain said.

Hussain hired an attorney, who advised him to not answer the FBI’s questions.