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Islamic Circle of North America: Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything!

A recent tweet from the Islamic Circle of North America sure speaks volumes about Islamism, doesn't it?

Responding to Sheryl Siddiqui's criticism of Oklahoma "Islamophobes"

Islam doesn't allow killing of "innocent people" Sheryl Siddiqui wrote in a commentary published in the Oklahoma Gazette on September 20th. Last year in another interview, Siddiqui claimed only God has the right to take life.  I wonder if she could possibly enlighten me and other misinformed and ignorant Okies just how The Atlas of Islamic Conquests, which is sold at Islamic bookstore in the U.S., fits in the context of her claim. I assume these battles for power involved fighting, which is messy and many people were, I'm sure, killed. Were these conquests islamically sanctioned or were they a stain that reflects badly on Islam's history?  This book could be a useful resource about Islam's history of of supremacy. No matter how you spin it Islamism dominated.

A Georgia school lesson on Islam denigrates Western women!

"...I have seen pictures of women in the West and find their dress to be horribly immodest.  I would never want to show parts of my body the way Western women do because I don't think women who do that can be respected."  --- “I understand that some Westerners condemn our practice of polygamy, but I also know they are wrong, ---i have heard men in the West divorce their wives to marry a younger woman -- Women in the West do not have the protection of the Sharia as we do here."  --- Ahlima

 

This is another example of Islamism (Islamic supremacy) and it was being taught in middle school in Georgia! 

 

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.

Learn the history of Islamic supremacy and conquests

The"Atlas of the Islamic Conquests" is a reference book sold at some Islamic bookstores in the U.S., like the Dar-us-Salam bookstore in Houston, Tx. There are 490 pages to review.  It appears that Islamic conquests was a major part of its history.

Knowing this information would give one the tools to have a thorough discussion with Muslim leaders in your area about its long history of Islamic supremacy. I'd ask what makes any conquests by force Islamic and to explain why.  

 

CNN anchor Ali Velshi called me a racist, a bigot and a coward!

CNN anchors Ali Velshi and Fareed Zakaria recently discussed on air Zakaria's belief the American Goverment is Broken. 

Alert gun shop clerk led FBI to AWOL Muslim soldier Naser Jason Abdo!

American born Naser Jason Abdo, 21, volunteered to be in the U.S. military but oddly refused to deploy to Afghanistan.  Even odder he was granted status as a conscientious objector because of his religion.  Abdo was then charged with possessing child porn and faced a possible court martial.  Not too long after that he went missing in early July.  But, not for long.

Two Muslim converts plot for a military attack in Seattle foiled by authorities!

Two Muslim converts were arrested yesterday as they purchased weapons to carry out an attack against a military recruiting station in Seattle.  Only ABC News convered it fully according to NewsBusters:

Islamic supremacy: Khilafah Conference 2011 in Chicago

Islamic supremacy, if implimented globally very slowly, incrimentally, over time, will be a danger to America's freedom and, of course, the entire world. One Islamic supremacist group in America which came out of the shadows after Obama was elected is Hizb-ut-Tahrir.  Observe the screen shot I took of their video which shows an Obama 2012 ad that popped up during their trailer for the 2011 Khilafah conferenc!  Last year, their Khilafah Conference never happened but it did in 2009. This year they either are keeping the location of the conference under wraps or haven't secured a location.  The date of it is June 26th.

A caliphate or khilafah is an Islamic supremacist leader which rules over other using a sharia-based ruling system.

Islamophobia conference at University of California at Berkeley and the Saudi's OIC

Tomorrow there will be an Islamophobia conference at the University of California at Berkeley.   CAIR's co-founder and executive director, Nihad Awad, who was a former leader of the Islamic Association of Palestine, an over arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, will be speaking.  Also speaking will be CAIR's San Francisco director and self-described anarchist, Zahra Billoo and others. 

Denver Imam: purify your desires before you offer yourself on the battlefield

This is a short clip from the video on I found posted on TubeIslam titled "The Greater Struggle "Jihad al-Nafs" by Imam Karim AbuZaid from the Colorado Muslim Society in Denver. FYI: The funny word nufs you hear AbuZaid say often means your desire, your ego.  And, minor jihad is physical fighting and major jihad is personal struggles.

Could this be considered part of the radicalization process?  Clearly, I don't know what the Imam's intent here was but I found it troubling:

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Guess who came to dinner?

I saw someone in Egypt tweeting about a talk Muslim Brotherhood media spokesman, Dr. Essam El Erian, was giving at a private dinner last night:

Tweet:  At a dinner gathering where Dr. Essam El Erian of the Muslim Brotherhood, is the guest of honor... Quite interesting.

 

Disturbing: shariah march in London on March 25th

A disturbing Islamic supremacist march took place on Oxford Street in London.  It's a great example of Islamism/political Islam.  The video shows the ultimate shariah goal of some Muslims:

 

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

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

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.

Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City to host anti-Israel speaker, Huwaida Arraf

The Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City will host a anti-Israeli speaker, Huwaida Arraf, on March 2nd.  Arraf is one of the co-founders of the International Solidarity Movement and is the Board Chair of the Free Gaza Movement.  She will talk about the upcoming Freedom Flotilla 2. 

Suhaib Webb's "virtual mosque" praised Yusef Qaradawi's book on jihad as a masterpiece!

Imam Suhaib Webb is being groomed to be a rising American-born Imam.  He was born William Webb and raised in Oklahoma as a Christian until he converted to Islam as a teenager. Webb studied Islam at the hard-line Al-Azhar University in Egypt thanks to the Muslim American Society. This is the same place where the Imam at the Islamic Society of Tulsa, Dr.Mohamed Al Gobashy (ElGhobashy) studied (update 10/2011 AlGobashy suddenly is not the Imam in Tulsa anymore). Webb said he found Islam through hip hop music which was laced with the teachings of Islam due to the Nation of Islam and Malcolm X, according to a 2008 interview (archive page) at Egypt Today. Webb's move to Egypt in 2004 was sponsored by the Muslim American Society, which began as an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood here.  Webb lives in California now but comes to Oklahoma, from time to time.

In December on Webb's "virtual mosque" a guest author praised a book on jihad written by highly controversial Islamist Sheikh Yusef Qaradawi (al-Qaradawi) who's often called the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.  Qaradawi lives in exile in Qatar and probably can't wait for the legitimacy of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt to be announced so he can return home or visit whenever he wants.

Qaradawi iwas banned from entering the U.S. for his fatwas that approve martyrdom against Israel, which included the killing of Israeli women and children!  Yet, guest author, Rashid Al-Ghannushi, called Qaradawi's book on jihad a masterpiece (see title). The author is a well-known Islamist who wrote in the beginning paragraph jihad is “the summit of Islam with wildly different views:

Those views, moreover, have an effect on relations between Muslims themselves, with their governments, and with non-Muslims, in view of the awakening witnessed across the Muslim world, both at the level of faith and the level of practice. This has led to a greater connection between Islam as a religion (creed, rituals, morals) and an ideology of great influence on the thought and behaviour of Muslims, socially and politically, or what is known as “political Islam”, in which jihad occupies a central position in one way or another.

"...As for “political Islam”, he (Qaradawi) grew up inside one of its groups, the “Muslim Brotherhood”, occupying leading positions within it...

Qaradawi's lengthy book explores the varying interpretations of jihad and, to make a long explanation short, claimed verses in the Quran are not abrogated which could be considered a disadvantage for hardcore jihadists. Many scholars do believe the verses were abrogated, though.  The two types of jihad Qaradawi said are civil and military. The practice of military jihad only becomes an obligation upon Muslims when conditions arise such as an attack on Muslims, their land or their religion. Of course, this could be highly subjective depending on whose calling the shots.  Claiming certain land is Muslim land, such as Israel, seems to be based on Islamic conquest of it way back when, is a great example.   Who defines what is an attack on a Muslim or their religion?  Muslims who believe Islam's ideology of religious supremacy and that it should be the only ruling order is central to Islamism so I'm pretty sure they would call critics of it an attack on their religion.

Qaradawi is the chairman of the group that runs Islamonline whose article on Al-Qaradawi's Fiqh of Jihad briefy reviews a few of the sections.  In their Fatwa Section under the title of Palestinian Women Carrying Out Martyr Operations (archive copy), Qaradawi proclaimed the greatest of all jihad is a martyr operation:

"This is what is clarified by the following fatwa, issued by Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi the prominent Muslim scholar:

The martyr operations is the greatest of all sorts of Jihad in the Cause of Allah. A martyr operation is carried out by a person who sacrifices himself, deeming his life less value than striving in the Cause of Allah, in the cause of restoring the land and preserving the dignity..."

The only good news here is Qaradawi apparently does not condone offensive jihad/war like many other Islamist jurist do, according to Al-Ghannushi.  But, really that's little comfort.  Webb's disclamer he's not responsible for other opinions or view posted on HIS website is a total cop-out.  Face it, it's disturbing his website is used as a vehicle to praise Qaradawi's book on jihad.

Update:  1/2/12:  Webb is the new Imam at the Islamic Society of Boston, an organization tied to Yusef Qaradawi who, before he was banned from the U.S., reportedly served on its board of trustees.

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New Boston Imam Tied To U.S. Muslim Brotherhood

Radical Islam: Outspoken cleric, jailed activist tied to new Hub mosque [Boston]   Boston Herald 10/03

The Islamic Society of Boston, which has city approval to build a sprawling $22 million Islamic cultural center and mosque on Malcolm X Boulevard, has had a long association with Dr. Yusuf Abdullah al-Qaradawi, whose vocal support of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas prompted the State Department to bar him from entering the U.S. four years ago.

The local religious organization, now headquartered on Prospect Street in Cambridge, was founded by Abdurahman Muhammad Alamoudi - a high-profile Washington, D.C. activist who has publicly supported Hamas, Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations.

Alamoudi was arrested Sept. 28 at Dulles International Airport in Virginia and charged with making illegal trips to Libya and accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Libyan government in violation of U.S. law.

Last Thursday, Alamoudi was indicted for his dealings with Libya and portrayed by prosecutors as a key financier for militant Islamic groups and terrorist organizations.

Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Theologian of Terror  ADL

Yusuf al-Qaradawi :: The Investigative Project on Terrorism

The Qaradawi Fatwas :: Middle East Quarterly

Qaradawi Funding Hamas Efforts in Jerusalem

The politics of fatwa

Get to know John Esposito

Yesterday John Esposito who is a professor of International Affairs and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University and a Catholic convert. spoke at Montana State University.  Today the Bozeman Daily Chronicle wrote Islamic consultant says paradigm must change which I just have to talk about a little bit.  He claimed our views of Muslims are too narrow-minded and that our support of totalitarian regimes was a problem.  That's hardly fair.  The U.S. has nothing to do with who gets in power in the Middle East or other countries or how they set up their laws and constitution.  We pretty much have to play with the cards dealt us.  He also claimed women in two towns in Saudi owned most of the land to help lessen the sad reality they aren't allowed to drive in that country.

First, Esposito has a troubling history which should be reviewed.   I wrote a comment in the Chronicle and decided to post it here:

The women own the majority of land in parts of Saudi Arabia?  Hold on a minute  while I go get my boots on!   Heck, I don't think Saudi woman can vote or go anywhere without a guardian.  The local Imam in my state said it was because most of the Saudi women have chauffeurs.  Sure.

Esposito is the founding director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Center at Georgetown, which, I think, could be argued an example of Saudi bought influence/propaganda here.

He testified for the defense in the Holy Land Foundation which ought to tell you something, too (USA v. Holy Land Foundation 3:04-CR-240-G ND TX November 4, 2008) This was the largest Hamas terror-funding trial in U.S. history so his testimony should be reviewed.   here's a whole lot to know about Esposito. 

The better educated Americans become about the infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood operations/organizations and Saudi influence and those who support it within our country, the more we can participate to the fullest at these kinds of meetings.  Also study the polls done in Islamic countries and with Muslims, in general.   For example, you may find the majority of Muslims in any given a country want punishment for those who leave Islam.

We must have frank discussions at these types of meetings.  To do this well we need to have a thorough knowledge about political Islam (i.e., Islamism - a religious ideology that includes the source of power, ruling order and laws and includes the striving to achieve that end).  Political Islam is different from the quiet PRIVATE practice of one's religion.  Also, research if the speaker has a history of islamist associations.  Do you know the organizations set up in America by the Muslim Brotherhood?  If you don't know then you have work to do. Then, and only then, can we ask the right questions.   Becoming well-versed in this takes time, so get started.  Please do it for our future.

Muneer Awad thanks Peter Bergen for downplaying the Muslim Brotherhood!

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

Muslim Brotherhood confirms participation in all protests in Egypt

 

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

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

James Werrell; an Islamist's dream!

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

CAIR, ISNA and NAIT's link to Holy Land Foundation Hamas case evident judge rules

Evidence submitted in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror-funding case sufficiently linked CAIR, Islamic Society of North America and the North American Islamic Trust to it  At the time they were named unindicted co-conspirators in the largest terror-funding case in U.S. history in 2007,  I recall reading that making a list like this public was unusual but if the government felt there was compelling reasons for the public to know, it was justified. 

Judge Miles-LaGrange extends TRO on SQ 755!

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

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

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

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

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

"Ikhwanophobia" features Muneer Awad of CAIR Oklahoma!

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

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

 

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

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

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

Prosecutors for largest Hamas terroring funding case recognized by Eric Holder

Attorney General Eric Holder gave an "Award For Distinguished Service" to the Texas team who investigated and prosecuted the Holy Land Foundation, the country's largest terror-funding arm of Hamas.

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

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

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

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

Pakistani Christian woman sentenced to death for her faith!

From the Pakistan Christian Post: "Lahore: November 9, 2010. (PCP) A Christian woman named Asia Bibi was sentenced to death by District and Session Courts after year long trial on accusation of blasphemy filed by Muslim villagers of Ittanwali, where she was residing from generations.

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

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

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

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

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

Calls to Edmondson’s office were not returned.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Here is the judge's order:

Download PPM152_shariahtro

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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Muslim organization stands with Oklahomans on passing SQ 755

The American Islamic Forum on Democracy has issued a press release praising Oklahomans for passing SQ 755, which bans sharia and international law from consideration in state court:

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

Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, a devout Muslim and the president and founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) issued the following statement regarding the passage of Oklahoma's State Question 755.

"As Muslims dedicated to modernity, reform and our one law system in the west and in the United States, AIFD applauds the people of Oklahoma for passing State Question 755 and making "the legal precepts of other nations or cultures" off-limits to Oklahoma courts and specifically denying the use of Sharia Law.

The issue is simple. As Americans we believe in the Constitution, the Establishment Clause, and our one law system. SQ755 reaffirms the First amendment to the Constitution and prevents the Establishment or empowerment of a foreign legal system like the specific shariah legal systems implemented in many Muslim majority nations and in western shariah courts seen in places like Britain.

By filing a lawsuit, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has wasted no time in proving once again that they are unable to stand behind public declarations that the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights and our one law system supersede and are preferable to a sharia law system. They are using the American cover of religious freedom to try and knock down a simple law that prohibits the domination of one religion over others

...To those who say "Why Oklahoma?", we say "Why not Oklahoma?" The Oklahoma precedent and example is important. It has already showed CAIR's hand and where they place shariah law in relation to the Constitution. CAIR flippantly states that the law is not necessary. By implying that Islam and shariah are inseparable they demonstrate a willful denial of the internationally pervasive draconian shariah law systems around the world in places like Iran, Sudan, Saudi Arabia to name a few, and how academically clear the legal system of shariah law is. Note should be made of how CAIR's response to SQ755 does not address any of the harms instituted against Muslims and non-Muslims around the world in the name of shariah law.

AIFD and most reformist Muslims believe a ban on shariah courts is necessary to protect the rights of the individual and in particular the rights of women.."

Thank you Dr. Jasser from the bottom of this Okie's heart and the 70% of us voted to take a stand against Islamism.

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.

Watch Bill Maher's take on Mohammed - the most popular baby name in UK

Watch Bill Maher's reaction to a report that Mohammed is the most popular name in the UK now for babies Mohammed tops list of English baby names:

 

 Vote Yes for SQ 755!

Deadliest Iraqi Catholic church attack, scores dead

Recently, the Pope warned about the perils of Christians in the Middle East. Yesterday, one more reason was made very clear when a Catholic Church was attacked: 

Iraq's dwindling Christian community was grieving and afraid on Monday after militants seized a Baghdad church during evening Mass, held the congregation hostage and triggered a raid by Iraqi security forces. The bloodbath left at least 58 people killed and 78 wounded - nearly everyone inside.

The attack, claimed by an al-Qaida-linked organization, was the deadliest ever recorded against Iraq's Christians, whose numbers have plummeted since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion as the community has fled to other countries.

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Pope denounces 'ferocious' attack on Baghdad church

Christians: A declining community in Middle East

Middle East Synod conclusion: Challenges mark Church's future‎

Vatican synod sees growing concern over Islam‎

The Saudis come to the bomb-rigged packages rescue???

Last week, a plane with a possible dangerous package was escorted by military jets to New York City as news that two other likely dangerous packages were found in the UK and Dubai.  Now, think for a minute.  Does it make any kind of sense a plane would be allowed to land in one of the most populated cities in America and then be escorted to the gate by police?   To the GATE!  This defies basic public safety 101.

Ban Sharia law: Oklahoma ballot measure reflects wisdom

I am convinced after four years of research that given the chance Islamists who are in our country want to advance their agenda, primarily through partnerships with the left, into the power struture at the local, state and national governments levels. We've already seen some of this happen. Islamists want to chance our country.  They've said so.  Are you listening?  Are you doing your own research?

Oklahoman's have a chance to protect their constitution by banning the creep of Sharia or Islamic law, as well as, Internation law from entering into our court system.  I suggest you review my many writings about the mixed signals we get from Muslim leaders in Oklahoma here and here.  Also review pages upon pages of sourced information about CAIR, which is an outgrowth of the Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood,  who sadly have been embraced by the a number of Muslim leaders in Oklahoma.

Protect our future!  Vote smart, vote YES for SQ 755.

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:

 

 

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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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):

 

Saudi-based OIC seeks to support Muslims in non-OIC countries

The OIC recently had a meeting in Saudi Arabia with the grand mufta of Bulgaria, Mustafa Haci:

"...OIC Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu welcomed the grand mufti and reiterated the OIC’s close interest and continued support of Muslim communities in non-OIC countries. During the meeting, the secretary-general expressed his concern at restrictions imposed on the Muslim community to elect their own mufti and the way the country’s Islamic Council is recognized by the government.

...Bulgaria, a member of the European Union, does not treat its Christians and Muslims equally. Most of the Bulgarian Waqf bodies have been nationalized and mosque lands are being illegally confiscated,” the grand mufti said.

“When a new mosque is proposed for construction, the community is labeled fundamentalist. At least 130 of the 1,430 mosques in the country have been closed for no valid reason,” he said, adding that anti-Islamic policies are very much in vogue.

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Bulgarian Mufti Found Guilty of Vote-Buying

Bulgarian Top Cop Certain of Radical Islam Cells' Existence

Bulgarian Imam Exposed as Extremist Islam Leader‎

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

Controversial Imam Dremali and wife arrested on marriage fraud charges

Imam Ibrahim Abdelrahman Dremali, a Gaza native,  and his wife Safaa Rashad Eissa were arrested by immirgation officials on federal charges in Arlington, Texas on October 6th after a grand jury in Iowa accused each of them of marrying Americans in order to gain American citizenship.  Dremali is alleged to have displayed extremist views (achieve of Islamonline "South Florida Protest Calls for Jihad" 10/18/2000).  

...They are scheduled to enter pleas Nov. 12 in Iowa on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, which can carry a five-year sentence, and procurement of citizenship or naturalization unlawfully, which can result in 10 to 25 years in prison.

...After Dremali emigrated to the U.S., he co-founded the Islamic Center of Boca Raton in 1998. In 2000, the Gaza native, participated in a pro-Palestinian rally in Miami that featured the burning of Israeli flags and a mock funeral for Palestinians killed in the Israeli conflict. According to a published report, Dremali told the crowd "not to be sad for those who were martyred, and to not be afraid to die for what they believe in."

...In May, a grand jury in Iowa accused Dremali of marrying an American citizen in Broward County, Florida, shortly after coming to the U.S. in 1989. Dremali swore on government forms that he was single at the time, even though he had married Eissa in 1987 in Egypt, the indictment states. He divorced his American wife in 1994, the indictment states.

The indictment alleges that in 1991, Eissa came to the U.S. In 1994 she married a man in Fort Lauderdale and divorced him March 26, 1997. A week later, she married Dremali a second time in the U.S., according to the indictment.

During a December 2009 interview with a customs official in San Antonio, Eissa said she had never been married before her first U.S. husband.

...By 2009, Dremali was the director at the Islamic Center of Greater Austin. He also taught Islamic studies at the Austin Peace Academy, a Muslim school..."

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CAIR Iowa:  ACTION ALERT! Sh. Ibrahim Dremali and Wife Arrested!

Goldberg, Behar walk off "The View" during Bill O'Reilly today!

What has it come to in America when we can't say Muslims carried out 9/11, when they did?  People had better wake here.

My God,  the largest Islamist inter-government organization in the world, the Saudi-based and backed OIC, own Islamic Figh Council has approved of martyrdom to protect Islam,  They also ruled this can not be called terrorism:

"....The Islamic Fiqh Council asserts that jihad and martyr operations done to defend the Islamic creed, dignity, freedom and the sovereignty of states is not considered terrorism but a basic form of necessary defense for legitimate rights. Thus the oppressed peoples who are subjected to occupation have the right to seek their freedom via all means possible.

The Islamic Fiqh Council stresses that martyr operations are a form of jihad, and carrying out those operations is a legitimate right that has nothing to do with terrorism or suicide. Those operations become obligatory when they become the only way to stop the aggression of the enemy, defeat it, and grievously damage its power.

It is not allowed to use terms such as “jihad”, “terrorism”, and “violence”, which have become frequently used by today’s mass media as scientific terms, to mean other connotations beyond their basic well known meanings..."

To defend Islam is a noble cause and martyrdom is a high honor.  The original link has been removed to this ruling on Islamonline and the whole website went from English to Arabic in a schuffle for power not too long ago.  If you copy and then google the first paragraph of their statement you will see it comes up in on Islamonline.  I also have the webpage saved and will upload it.

Here's a screen shot:

 

Does Joy Behar and Woopie Goldberg realize the OIC is also trying to limit free speech at the U.N. and partner with American Muslims?  Recently, they had a conference in Chicago.  What does all this mean, exactly?  Well, there are Islamists - political Islam proponents - who want to futher their Islamic supremacy cause.  Its global.  Does that automatic mean every Muslims is part of it?  No, it doesn't. But to shame people into ignoring Islamism and their terrorist subordinates undermines our need for clarity and dialogue about it among Muslims in this country.  If you are just walked out on or called any number of names implying you hate Muslims, then we can not have an important dialogue.

This is a must watch video of Bill O'Reilly's visit to the "The View" today:

 

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West being 'out-manoeuvred' by Islamic extremism, Tony Blair warns 10/6/10

''...Look at the funds it receives. Examine the education systems that succour it. And then measure, over the years, the paucity of our counter-attack in the name of peaceful co-existence. We have been outspent, outmanoeuvred and out-strategised...''

Musllim Brotherhood's new Supreme Guide: U.S. is in its end...

The Muslim Brotherhood's new Supreme Guide, Muhammad Badi, has given several sermons about waging jihad since taken office in January, according to MEMRI. 

This includes his September 30th sermon about the end of America titled "The U.S. is now experiencing the Beginning of Its End'; Improvement and Change in the Muslim World 'Can Only Be Attained Through Jihad and Sacrifice".

"According to the Islamic shari'a that Allah [has bequeathed] to mankind, the status of the Muslims, compared to that of the infidel nations that arrogantly [disdain] his shari'a, is measured in a kind of scale, in which, when one side is in a state of superiority, the other is in a state of inferiority...

...They crucially need to understand that the improvement and change that the [Muslim]nation seeks can only be attained through jihad and sacrifice and by raising a jihadi generation that pursues death just as the enemies pursue life..."

I just wished MEMRI had a copy of the sermon they translated. Anyway, I sure can't find it,  but I can't read arabic,  either.

If this is true, and I have no reason to doubt it, the Muslim Brotherhood's rhertoric towards violence may be racketing up.

Today, Hamas, a splinter group from the Brotherhood in Palestine, shut down the headquarters of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate without explanation.

Mayor John O’Reilly, sharia law not even discussed in Dearborn?

John O’Reilly, the Mayor of Dearborn Michigan was on CNN last to refute (CNN video) Republican Senate Candidate Sharon Angle allegations about Sharia law.  She singled out Dearborn and Frankfort, Texas. 

Mayor O'Reilly flatly denied Sharia law was in Dearborn and even said - are you ready for this - that there was hardly any sharia law in the Middle East!  Well, that's definitely not what the State Department Religious Freedom reports states about a number of Islamic countries, whose constitution often states Islamic law is the source of its legislation. 

O'Reilly said Sharia law isn't even talked about in Dearborn. 

It's not even discussed?

I did a google search "Islamic law in Michigan" and  "sharia law Dearborn" here's what I found after spending about 30 minutes looking:

Islamic Law Farmington, Michigan Attorney - Farmington MI Islamic ...  ...  ad for Islamic law attorneys

Arab Festival 2009: Sharia in the US

Exclusive: Dearborn's “Sharia Law” Christians On Trial ...

YouTube - Is Sharia Law Being Practiced in Dearborn Michigan 

Michigan state appeals court nixes sharia law in divorce case!

Muslims in Michigan: Islamic Finance  PBS 4/14/10

MSU College of Law to host Islamic law conference on April 13 ...

Islamic Finance | Muslims in Michigan

Sherman A. Jackson - University of Michigan Law School

Professor Sherman ‘Abd al-Hakim’ Jackson from University of Michigan expands on the debate surrounding sharia law in the West:  Sharia law Theocracy or Democracy?

Part 1

 

Part 2

   

Part 3