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Coalition of Muslim groups support Michigan's foreign law ban!

Good news!  A coalition of Muslim organizations and their leaders in North America issued a press release in support of Michigan's foreign law bill that was introduced this year.

Here's an excerpt from the American Islamic Leadership Coalition:

"A coalition of diverse American Muslim leaders has announced support for a proposed bill in the Michigan State Assembly, HB 4679, that is intended to bar Michigan courts from enforcing any foreign law, if doing so violates any rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and/or the state of Michigan’s constitution.

Like many Americans, members of the American Islamic Leadership Coalition (AILC) have been observing the efforts of a growing number of state legislatures, which are seeking to address the incompatibility of various shari‘ah court systems around the world with the principles and foundations of our Constitutional republic and its laws. As American Muslims, we believe that the law should treat people of all faiths equally, while protecting Muslims and non-Muslims alike from extremist attempts to use the legal instrument of shari‘ah (also known as Islamic jurisprudence, or fiqh) to incubate, within the West, a highly politicized and dangerous understanding of Islam that is generally known as “Islamism,” or “radical Islam...”

The full press release can be read here.

The American Islamic Leadership Coalition proposes revisions to Obama's national strategy on counter-terrorism

The American Islamic Leadership Coalition, a most welcomed group of American Muslim organizations and leaders, took issue with the Obama's administration's national strategy on counter-terrorism, which included their recommendation to "Distinguish between the religion of Islam and Islamist ideology..."

You can read all of their recommendations at the link below:

American Muslim leaders provide analysis to strengthen US efforts against militant Islamist terror

CAIR refused to appear on Bill O'Reilly to discuss woman charged with blasphemy

On Thursday, CAIR refused an invitation from the Bill O'Reilly show to discuss Asia Bibi, a Christian woman charged with blasphemy under sharia law in Pakistan. CAIR's refusal is in line with their practice to only discuss Islam in a positive manner, which -- surprise surprise-- is in compliance with sharia law where nothing negative is dared uttered about Islam, Islamism or sharia!  Bibi could face death for defending her faith.  Under sharia law/rule, Islam is placed above criticism and above all other religions, as stated in verse 9:33.  Muslims believe each verse in the Quran is the exact word of Allah.

Open letter to Awlaki from Dr. Zuhdi Jasser

Below is an open letter from Dr. Zuhdi Jasser to Al-Awlakis audio message:

 

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Dear Imam Anwar al-Awlaki:

I am in receipt via coverage on CNN of your offensive audio message to American Muslims. As the head of an American Muslim organization dedicated to combating the very ideas you represent, I feel obligated to respond immediately and openly to your offensive call for jihad. I am writing this open letter to you to respond to the cowardly audio you sent from your hole in Yemen to our shores today. Your audio is a cowardly salvo form a man who realizes that his ideas for Islam will never win in a fair playing field of the hearts and minds of Muslims. Your ideas only prevail among Muslims through violence, evil, deception, and coercion. As a father, a doctor, a soldier, a devout Muslim, and most importantly as an American I will no longer allow your toxic message to put our children and our families at risk without a direct American Muslim response.

No, Anwar, this country it is not evil. It is you who is evil and this nation and its people who are blessed. This nation gave my family the freedom and liberty to practice Islam in a way that no majority Muslim nation has ever allowed. I was raised learning to pray, fast, give charity, build mosques, and help those in need in the character of my faith as a result of the free environment of this United States. I learned this despite the repulsive nature of imams like yourself who drive so many reasonable Muslims away from the faith and so many weak and vulnerable ones towards your fascism. My parents fled the radicalism of theo-political fascist thugs like you in the Middle East in order to give our family a fresh start in the land of freedom- America. I have throughout my life in my soul accepted spiritual Islam as my relationship with God; however, I have also always wholly rejected political Islam because of its supremacist mindset which you embody.

Growing up in Wisconsin, learning to become a physician and then serving in our armed forces as a naval officer and a physician, I learned about the beauty of the diversity of America and the equal access of all of its citizens to our society and our government. I learned about the beauty of a government which separates church and state and yet was formed by very pious Christian and all people of faith but yet remaining “under God” as a nation of common morals and values. The United States is a nation which you intentionally misunderstand and twist for your own despotic ambitions. You may believe that moderate Muslims like us at the American Islamic Forum for Democracy are apostates since we reject the Islamic state, political Islam, and governmental shar’iah. But I know Islam well enough to know that there are no intermediaries between a Muslim and God. Takfir (excommunication) is forbidden and you may also be a Muslim but your Islam is not my Islam. You are nothing but a fascist theocrat who uses Wahhabi interpretations of our Qur’an in order to wage illegitimate wars.

The wars of Iraq and Afghanistan are legitimate and are in fact waged with the intention of leaving a far better nation for Muslims and non-Muslims in the free practice of Islam and all faiths than the tyrant Saddam or the despotic Taliban ever did for their citizens which they considered their slaves. You intentionally ignore the representative forms of government being empowered in those nations so that you can deceive those who listen to your propaganda. American troops are simply doing what Muslims should have done in Iraq and Afghanistan long ago. As a freedom-loving Muslim, I pray that the same revolutions for liberty happen from within the nations of Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran, Libya, Jordan, the Emirates, and Pakistan to name a few led this time by civil wars from Muslim liberty movements against the thugs, monarchs, autocrats, and theocrats like yourself who are running these nations.

You may have lived in the U.S. but you were never a real citizen of this nation. In fact, let me be the first to call on all American Muslims of conscience to lead a movement and a call of our communities to join our military so that one day when you and your colleagues are brought to justice it may be at the hand of another American Muslim. This is not a war between Muslims and non-Muslims. It is a war between Muslims. The ummah (Muslim nation) is dead. We have abandoned it for the greater protector of freedom which are nations based in freedom like the United States.

The penalty Anwar, for treason against our nation and declaring war against our citizens is death. When I first heard about your influence upon Nidal Hasan, we at AIFD called for your capture by our armed forces immediately as a global threat to the security of our nation and its citizens. I continue that call today.

I am proud as a devout American Muslim to say that I wholly support our nation and our armed forces in their war effort against you, Al Qaeda, and all of your global supporters. I know of many American Muslims that would love to see you suffer the ultimate punishment for your crimes against our nation and our citizens that give our Muslim families freedom and liberty.

Anwar, the Islamic state is dead. The creation of secular liberal democracies in the west that separated church and state (mosque and state for Muslims) after the American Revolution have proven in their success and in my experience living here that they are the best form of government and far preferable for Muslims over your theocratic oppressive Islamic state. As a Muslim, I prefer a legal system that all of our citizens can understand and reason over one based in the oppressive oligarchy of shar’iah.

Anwar, the concept of jihad must be dispensed to the dustbin of history. No oath can ever conflict with our oath to protect this nation as citizens and my oath to protect it as a former U.S. Navy officer. This is not only against the Islam I know, but I as a Muslim want nothing to do with your interpretations of Islam. As an Islamist who believes in political Islam you are certainly in direct conflict with America’s principles of liberty. But as a Muslim who has dedicated my life to countering and combating the ideas of political Islam, I will not allow you to monopolize what is and what is not Islam.

We can separate mosque and state as Muslims. We can abandon all militant jihad and ascribe to the concept of war as deemed just between secular states and reject your collectivization of Muslims. We can read the same Qur’an and tell fascists like yourself that your understanding of freedom is flawed and your interpretation of the Qur’an is medieval.

My conscience and oath as an American and as a Muslim guides me to trust in my military, my communities, and in my government against all enemies foreign and domestic whether Muslim or not. Anwar, our American nationalism and love for this great country and its egalitarian values of liberty is far stronger than your blind hate and fascism will ever be which hides under the veneer of Islam.

I invite you to turn yourself in. to authorities and face a military tribunal for your war crimes. I invite you to be subject to the death penalty for your treason, your disloyalty, and your war crimes to the citizens of the United States of America.

You and the ideas for which you stand are the greatest liability to Muslims across the world. The continuum of political Islam which created you is an assembly line of radicalism against the west which prevents Muslim youth from identifying with a system based in liberty over theocracy. Many Muslims start like you said you did in ‘non-violent Islamic activism’ only to find spiritual sanctioners who lead them to become violent. One day you will realize that most Muslims want nothing to do with the Islamic state and once given freedom to protest and question authority they will express their disgust with theocrats like yourself and your interpretations of Islam.

Enough is enough Anwar. I and other Muslims will no longer remain silent against the spread of your hatred and evil. You may be Muslim, but your Islam is certainly not our Islam. May you soon see the other end of my fellow citizen’s rifles. You are not my brother in Islam.

Sincerely,

Mohamed Zuhdi Jasser

 

 

Audio from U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick's townhall with her Muslim constituency

The American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) has posted the audios of last month's townhall meeting Rep. Sue Myrick held with Muslims in her community in an artilce titled AIFD Briefer: Connecting the Dots of Islamism-Jibril Hough, the Islamic Political Party of America (IPPA), and the Jamaat al-Muslimeen (JAM).  Dr. Zuhdi Jasser is the Chairman of the Board, founding member, and president.  He is a devout Muslim and a physician,  who is an educator about the dangers of Islamism. 

The entire townhall meeting is worth listening to when you have time.  If you only have time for one part, listen to Dr. Jasser - it's very important:

Introductions and Q & A (Part 1 of Muslim Town Hall)

Q & A (Part 2 of Muslim Town Hall)

Comments by Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, AIFD President (Part 3 of Muslim Town Hall)

Comments by Hedieh Mirahmedi, WORDE President (Part 4 of Muslim Town Hall)

Rep. Sue Myrick discusses Islamism with Muslims

U.S. Congresswoman Sue Myrick is founder of the Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus.  She also serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

Below is a brief excerpt from an article titled Sue Myrick Meets the Muslims - and Brings Backup which summarized a town hall meeting  Myrick held last Thursday in her district in North Carolina with Muslims:

...Many Muslims, including some of Myrick's constituents, believe her warnings about radicals – and their sympathizers in U.S. government agencies -- working to "throw out our Constitution and force us to live under sharia law" have spread a fear of all Muslims.

...The laughter stopped when Myrick introduced two speakers, examples of the moderate, mainstream Muslims that she counts as advisers. Phoenix physician M. Zuhdi Jasser founded the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) in 2003 to serve as an "example of an American Islamic institution which can be a leading voice for liberty-minded Muslims in America in the war on terror," its website reads.

"We as Muslims are in denial," Jasser said. He decried what he called the "victimology" of groups such as CAIR and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).

 

...Jasser later said the forum was an internal Muslim dialogue that needs to happen. "We try to do this in mosques and they shut us down..."

Dr. Jasser is a Muslim whom I admire very much because he is not afraid to speak out about Islamism - politcal Islam that threatens our country.  When he speaks, I listen.

 

He is not alone.  Below is video Rep. Myrick released in January of a discussion she had with three other Muslims who also deserve our attention because of their insight about the threat we face in America by Islamists.  This is a must watch video because of their powerful candidness and bravery.  The video features Dr. Hedieh Mirahmadi, president of the World Organization for Resource, Development and Education (WORDE), Zeyno Baron, Director of the Hudson Institutes Center for Eurasian Policy; and Farid Ghadry, an Executive Member in the Reform Party of Syria.

Video (58 min):

 

Muslim groups who support the FBI's decision to break with CAIR speak out!

A coalition of American Muslim organizations have issued a press release today in support of the decision the FBI made to stop their association with CAIR, an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas infrastructure in America!  Excellent.  This is exactly what hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands of Muslims in America should do. Congratulations for taking a stand that is brave which appears to reject Islamism (political Islam and the march toward Islamic rule).  It's exactly what many Americans needed to see.

These are the Islamic organizations Americans need to see and hear from more often:

"...CAIR and the Islamic Educational Center of Orange County were among several Muslim advocacy groups that signed on to a statement saying they are considering breaking ties with the feds over such snooping and the FBI's previous breaking of ties with CAIR. But not every Muslim group supports that stand. A different coalition of American Muslim groups has issued a statement of its own commending the FBI.

We, the undersigned American Muslims, have long known the true character of CAIR and its allies. Therefore:

• We observe that they denounce "terrorism" in general terms but not the specific actions of Islamist groups like Hamas or Hezbollah. They denounce violence but not the ideologies behind it.
• We observe their commitment to radical aims, their attempts to chill free speech by calling critics of radical Islam "Islamophobes," and their false, ugly accusations against moderate American Muslims who disagree with their agenda.
• We reject any claim that CAIR and its supporters are legitimate civil liberties advocates or appropriate partners between the U.S. government and American Muslims.
• We congratulate the FBI for adopting a firmer attitude toward CAIR, as a defense of Americans of all faiths from the menace of radical Islam, including Muslims of all backgrounds - Sunni, Shia, Sufi, secular, etc.
• We call on the U.S. Department of Justice to affirm and continue this decision.
• We call on the entire United States government to follow suit in rejecting relations with the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

 The statement was signed by Kemal Silay, president of the Center for Islamic Pluralism; Supna Zaidi, assistant director of Islamist Watch; M. Zuhdi Jasser of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy; Imaad Malik, fellow with the Center for Islamic Pluralism; Ahmed Subhy Mansour with the International Quranic Center; Khalim Massoud, whose email address is Reform Islam; Nawab Agha Mousvi of the American Muslim Congress; Kiran Sayyed of the Council for Democracy and Tolerance; Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, executive director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism; a group called Shia Protest; and Jalal Zuberi, Southern U.S. director with the Center for Islamic Pluralism."

Orange County Weekly

  

We, the undersigned American Muslims, have long known the true character of CAIR and its allies. Therefore:

• We observe that they denounce "terrorism" in general terms but not the specific actions of Islamist groups like Hamas or Hezbollah. They denounce violence but not the ideologies behind it.
• We observe their commitment to radical aims, their attempts to chill free speech by calling critics of radical Islam "Islamophobes," and their false, ugly accusations against moderate American Muslims who disagree with their agenda.
• We reject any claim that CAIR and its supporters are legitimate civil liberties advocates or appropriate partners between the U.S. government and American Muslims.
• We congratulate the FBI for adopting a firmer attitude toward CAIR, as a defense of Americans of all faiths from the menace of radical Islam, including Muslims of all backgrounds - Sunni, Shia, Sufi, secular, etc.
• We call on the U.S. Department of Justice to affirm and continue this decision.
• We call on the entire United States government to follow suit in rejecting relations with the Council on American-Islamic Relations.