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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)

Muslim Brotherhood Has Secret Societies in 80 Nations, including U.S. Says Ex Member!

An ex-Muslim Brotherhood member told a conference in Abu Dhabi this week the Muslim Brotherhood has secret societies in 80 nations, including the U.S., they actively recruits Muslims, and that an international group reports to superiors in New York City!  Earlier this year, I read on the Ikhwanweb English website that @HazemMalky is an editor and lives in NYC (6th paragraph). 

Below is an excerpt from the article about the Muslim Brotherhood:   

Tharwat Al Kherbawy told a conference in Abu Dhabi that the Brotherhood with headquarters in Egypt, was infiltrating Western and Arab states by recruiting their Muslim citizens. Al Kherbawy said the Brotherhood established secret societies in more than 80 countries, with recruits pledged to violence. “So these novices are raised on obedience and allegiance to the supreme guide, accepting no criticism of him or his actions,” Al Kherbawy told the conference, entitled “Challenges and Threats posed by the Muslim Brotherhood to UAE and Countries of the Region.” “They are taught to regard the movement as their home and that standing to the national anthem of their country is polytheism.

...Al Kherbawy said the Brotherhood presence in any country consists of three units. They included a unit comprised of local residents, a secret Egyptian cell, and what Al Kherbawy termed an international group that reports to superiors in the American city of New York.

Read the full article.

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Other articles with Al Kherbawy:

Inside the Ikhwan - Daily News Egypt

Muslim Brotherhood Influences Egypt Vote - Ikhwanweb

 

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

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

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

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.

Report: Obama Muslim advisor succeeded in canceling Christian leader meeting with the President at the request of the leadership of "Brotherhood"

There's a report from Beirut Arab news agency El Nashra that Dalia Mogahed, a Muslim who advises the White House on Islamic issues, was behind the cancellation of a meeting between a Chrisitan leader, the Maronite Catholic patriarch of Lebanon Bechara Peter Rai and President Obama done at the request of senior leaders in the Muslim Brotherhood!

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

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

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.

 

Muslim Brotherhood plans newspaper and satellite channel!

Today Al-Masry Al-Youm, an Egyptian independent media outlet reported that the Muslim Brotherhood plans to launch a newspaper and a satellite channel from a statement by the group's leader, General Guide Mohamed Badie.

If successful, I wonder if it will soon be available on Dish TV International in America like pro-Islamist Al Jazeera is now?

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.

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

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

Islamic Society of Tulsa host '93 World Trade Center alleged unindicted co-conspirator!

 

The Islamic Society of Tulsa hosted a dinner last Sunday night at their mosque which featured Imam Siraj Wahhaj who was there to promote and/or raise money for ICNA Relief USA.  In 1993, Wahhaj was named an alleged unindicted co-conspirator in the first World Trade Center bombing.  ICNA Relief USA parent is the Islamic Circle of North America which is listed in a Muslim Brotherhood document that set forth their plans to destroy America's democracy  so Islamic supremacy can rein supreme (see document link below).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Islamic of Tulsa Flyer:

 

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

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

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

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

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Other posts on Islam in Oklahoma - mixed messages

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.

Muslim Brotherhood calls attention to enemy list

Disturbing:

Here is a screen shot taken 2/15/11 of a page on the Arabic website of the Muslim Brotherhood (after translation by google):

 

The Muslim Brotherhood claims this website is the work of a human rights group.  Here's the link to this page on their Arabic website.  But a few days ago, I took a screen shot of a message they had posted that an enemy list would be created by "rebels".

Interesting...

Screenshot taken today of the Muslim Brotherhood Arabic website - see next to arrow; rebels are preparing a "blacklist" of the enemies of the revolution:

 

Muslim Brotherhood Arabic website screenshot

Here's a screen shot taken on Febrary 7th of the Arabic website of the Muslim Brotherhood, a site which doesn't match its English site.  One of the headlines they featured was an article from The Guardian: The world can no longer ignore the Muslim Brotherhood (article published Sunday). 

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.

Owner of Al Jazeera met with Hamas leader!

As protesters in Egypt turn more ugly today, I've been reading tweets from those on the left who partner with Islamists calling for Al Jazeera to be added to American cable channels.  Its owner is Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani of Qatar who is picture meeting here in 2009 with a leader of the designated terrorist group Hamas whose written goal is to seeks the destruction of Israel for Islamic supremacy.  Their parent, the Muslim Brotherhood, seeks destruction of America, as outlined in their own written plans.

 

(photo source Gult Times)  Dr Mahmoud al-Zahar, Hamas's leader in Gaza, shaking hands with the owner of Al Jazeera, Shiek Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani

Muslim Brotherhood confirms participation in all protests in Egypt

 

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”

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. 

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. 

"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)

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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Cair, the Muslim Brotherhood and more...

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

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:

 

 

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.

Debate on Islam: Chris Hitchens vs. Tariq Ramadan

“If you want diversity, you need a secular state with a godless constitution. Secularism is the only guarantee of religious freedom.”   -----Christopher Hitchens

Here's a snipette from a debate between Christopher Hitchens and Tariq Ramadan title Is Islam a Religion of Peace? moderated by Laurie Goodstein, October 5, 2010 at the 92nd Street Y in New York. More was written about the debate here at Vanity Fair, which I encourage you to read:

 

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A Conversation With Tariq Ramadan 4/27/10

Controversial Tariq Ramadan to speak at Oklahoma City University

 This Mondy the highly controversial, and suspected covert-Islamist, Tariq Ramadan gave a lecture titled "A Radical Reform of Muslim Minds” at Oklahoma City University in the Wanda L. Bass Music Center at NW 25 and Blackwelder Avenue in Oklahoma City.  Professor Mohamed Daadaoi of OCU claimed in the NewsOK article his talk is needed because of the push-back Muslims are getting from their Islamic activism.  Of course, he didn't word it quite that way but expressed it as their alleged victimhood.

Tariq Ramadan is the grandson of the founder of the Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan al-Banna. He is the son of Said Ramadan a prominent Muslim Brotherhood figure who was expelled from Egypt by Gamal Abdel Nasser, according to Oxford Islamic Studies.

They were Islamists. Hamas was created from the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine with goals to destroy Israel for Islam which is a big part of their religious goals.  Ramadan was banned from entering the U.S. in 2004 for allegedly contributions to an Hamas-linked charity.  It apparently wasn't an issue for the current administration because Hillary Clinton personally lifted the ban. Ramadan is a strong critic of American foreign policy, just like most Islamists.  They want to take down our democracy.

Ramadan wrote of his admiration and reverence for his grandfather's religious life's work. This is a man who was assassinated for his religous extremism after a brotherhood member killed the Prime Minister of Egypt.  Disturbing.  I am unaware he has denounced the Muslim Brotherhood.

al-Banna once wrote that Islamic scholars:

"Agree unanimously that jihad is a communal defensive obligation imposed upon the Islamic ummah in order to broadcast the summons (to embrace Islam), and that it is an individual obligation to repulse the attack of unbelievers upon it." As a result of unbelievers ruling Muslim lands and humbling Muslim honor: "It has become an individual obligation, which there is no evading, on every Muslim to prepare his equipment, to make up his mind to engage in jihad, and to get ready for it until the opportunity is ripe and God decrees a matter which is sure to be accomplished."  Five Tracts of Hasan al-Banna (1906-1949): A Selection from the Majmu‘at Rasa’il al-Imam al-Shahid, translated by Charles Wendell (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1978), page 150-151

Can anyone provide me with Ramadan's specific denouncement of the Muslim Brotherhood Islamic supremacy idealogy?

CAIR is an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas infrastructure in America which is documented in several court cases.  Professor Daadaoui has participated in several venues with them. Are you surprised?  The Muslim Brotherhood set up a number of national organizations which were identified in their own document for their plans to take over America - slowly, incrementally over a long period of time.

Mohamed Daadaoui writes a blog called Maghred Blog. On Sharia law he wrote:

"A must-read on Sharia and political Islam. Johnson relies on the latest Gallup poll 2008 results which indicates a new understanding of how Muslims view Shari'a, not as a corpus of legal codes promoting theocracy, but good governance. Shari'a has become a manifesto for liberating Muslims from corrupt governments. The challenge remains in chaotic regions, where there is a power vacuum, such as Northwestern Pakistan and Somalia, where tribal leaders have perverted Quranic and Hadithic texts to suit their fossilized view of the religion."

Are you paying attention?

Update 10/11/10:  The Region: The declaration of war that went unnoticed‎
Jerusalem Post - Barry Rubin

Here's something important: The Muslim Brotherhood's leader has endorsed anti-American jihad and a view virtually identical to al-Qaida's ideology. ...Yet here is the Brotherhood’s new supreme guide, Muhammad Badi giving a sermon entitled, “How Islam Confronts the Oppression and Tyranny,”

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Ramadan was the keynote speaker at CAIR National banquet Sat, Oct 9, 2010.  At this event disgraced White House reporter Helen Thomas was given a life time achievement award.

An April 9th interview with Tariq Ramadan with Democracy Now  They want changes in America!

Live, From New York, It’s Tariq Ramadan 4/9/10

The discussion was called, “Secularism, Islam, & Democracy,” but what it was really about was figuring out how far the West should go to accommodate its Muslim population (and how far it shouldn’t).

“Now is not the time to speak about integration, but about contribution,” he argues. He quickly gets on a roll, speaking faster and faster. “They ask, ‘Are you first American, or first a Muslim?’ It’s a silly question. I don’t answer silly questions. I have multiple identities.”  Ramadan said.

A Conversation with Tariq Ramadan  3/2010  Video

Religion doesn't inspire violence.

Dutch University Fires Islamic Scholar Ramadan: Dutch university fired Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan on Tuesday for hosting a show on Iran's state television, which the school said could be seen as ...

Grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder wants Barack Obama as president 11/3/08 _ (I predicted his visa ban would be lifted)

Tariq Ramadan: You cannot call Hezbollah a terrorist group!

Grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder seeks entry into the U.S.!

A Muslim Scholar Raises Hackles in France

Hasan Al-Banna Young Muslims Canada archived webpage

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Other posts on Ramadan

SQ 755: A yes vote bans sharia law in Oklahoma!

Update 11/02/10 8:41 PM CT:   70% voted yes to ban sharia & International law

Liberals in Oklahoma and their Islamist partners, like CAIR Oklahoma,  often call those of us who are in favor of SQ 755, which is an amendment to ban sharia and international law from being considered in our states courts, Intolerant, ignorant, bigots, fear-mongers, paranoid schizophrenics, "born-again" bigots, intolerant, hateful, anti-Islamic, McCarthy-like, xenophobics, Islamophobics and, of course,  anti-Muslim. Their verbal smear tactics are nothing but red flags waving widely in our faces.  Do you feel all that hot air trying to seal your mouth shut?  Let's fact it, being able to explain one's objections against this measure in an intelligent, logical and meaningful ways without casting dispersions on others is the right way to defend a position.  I'm thinking when Oklahomans are called these names over SQ 755, it will increase the votes for it.

 

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..."

CNN contributor Mona Eltahawy tweets I'm a teabagger!

Recently, columnist and CNN contributor (CNN video) Mona Eltahawy wrote an article tltled Hey, America: I’m a Muslim, Let’s Talk.  She published this on her blog after she spent four days in front of the Park51 building (the controversial site for an Islamic center in NYC) with other supporters and talking to people over the Labor Day weekend.  One thing she said stood out to me; "I learned to resist labelling as a “bigot” anyone who opposed its building."    Park51 tweeted her article yesterday to its followers. Eltahawy is a feminist and a Muslim.

Really?  She wants to talk.  Ok.  I'll give it a try.

I tweeted her a perfectly reasonable question if she supported Imam Feisal Rauf after news that Union City, New Jersey had sued him and that 9/11 truther, Faiz Khan, had preach from his mosque for seven years,  which had come to light this week:

Me:  "so, u support Imam Rauf, a slumlord sued by city who had 9/11 truther preach from his mosque 4 7 yrs? Classy."

She replied with a non-answer: "Who are you and your assumptions and whatever gave you idea I have to justify my "classsiness" to some faceless entity on Twitter?"  and in a follow-up tweet, she wrote;  "I see you're in Oklahoma - I'm here to teach at OU so I guess someone in your home state thought I was "classy" enough"

What?  Come to find out she's here teaching college students how to become blogging activists at the University of Oklahoma.  Great.  I asked her the same question again; "1 more try OU teacher. Do u support Imam Rauf, a slumlord who had 9/11 truther preach from his mosque 4 7 yrs?"

Eltahawy replied "You obviously need to join my class because you lack basic intellectual skills."

Come on Mona, my question was straight-forward and simple.  Why the derogatory reply? 

Me:  "Your predictable leftwing name-calling diversionary response didn't answer my question #OU. 

She sounded as defensive as do most leftists and Islamists when confronted with a prickly question who quickly try to stomp out answering it with ridicule slung hard at the questioner - you know like a verbal slap-in-the-face to shut them up.  So, I did a quick search on the Internet where I found something interesting she wrote about her support for the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization banned in Egypt for its religious supremacy goals and out by the FBI in 2007 for their incrimental and detailed plans to take over the American government through their networks of organizations that will use strong relentless Islamic activism (the "grand jihad") to change it.

I tweeted @ouWGS (OU Women's & Gender who were pleased to have their "Center for Social Justice's Activist-in-Residence Eltahawy there) Are you proud to have pro-Muslim Brotherhood @monaeltahawy at OU???

Eltahawy:  One of my fave tweets! Hilarious! “@ztruth: @ouWGS Are you proud to have pro-Muslim Brotherhood @monaeltahawy at OU???”

Eltahawy:  I'll explain really slowly; u tweet a string of accusations I am supposed to condemn, ur tone is accusatory & u expect an answer? 

Accusations?  But, I continued.

Me:  "Your opinion piece "I Will Stand Up for the Muslim Brotherhood" is quite telling @ouWGS #OU"

Eltahawy:   @ztruth Brandi! You can read! I'm impressed. 'Atta girl!

Eltahawy:  But can you read beyond the headline, I have to wonder. That's a bit more challenging, no?

Ok, she sort-of questioned their misogynistic treatment of women but certainly not their seriously religious supremacist ideology.  And she wrote of the irony of defending them.  This is an organization that openly supports Hamas, which grew out of the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine.  Their goal is the destruction of Israel for Islam and they are strongly anti-American.  At this point, Eltahawy was not happy with me and called me something she has just written she would refrain from labeling others:

Eltahawy:  "I should've called u a bigot from the get go for ur assumptions. Now this "pro Muslim Botherhood leftie" laughs at ur ignorance"  

Assumptions?  Keep in mind, she hadn't even answered my initial question.  What did I assume? I was asking for claraification. 

Eltahawy:  "And I urge you to collect your fellow teabaggers and protest a leftwing, pro Muslim Brotherhood brainwashing the youth of ur state."

Ok, now she's down and dirty.  This is the first time in my life I've been called a teabagger (I know this is a highly repugnant name but I've chosen not to find out exactly what this means).  

Me:  "Bottom line is you defended a movement that seeks Islamic supremacy @ouWGS #OU."

Eltahawy:   "It's no longer fun dealing with @ztruth. If anyone else wants to explain the world beyond teabags to her, be my guest."

Oh no, Mona doesn't think I'm fun anymore.

Me:  "Defending yr. positions by name calling is weak. And, you teach "Blogging for Social Change" at OU? LOL @ouWGS #OU"

Eltahawy:  Brandi, sweetie, told you already I'm here on stealth jihad not to teach but to brainwash. Now leave me to prepare my nefariousness

How proud OU must be.

By the way, Mona, do you know you misspelled "Muslim" in the title of two recent articles on your blog? 

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The Women’s and Gender Studies’ Center for Social Justice  (FB) is sponsored, in part, by Center for Middle East Studies at OU

My other posts on Park51, Imam Rauf and Sharif el-Gamal

Muslim Brotherhood website helps CAIR get message out against U.S. government

Screen shot taken 7/16/2010 of an MB article:

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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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

Oklahomans to decide on forbidding Sharia Law from court consideration

Oklahoma may become the first state in the nation to allow its citizens the right to decide whether state courts should be forbidden from using Sharia Law or other international laws when making legal decisions:

State Question 755, which likely will be on the ballot in November, would make in-state courts rely on federal and state laws when deciding cases and forbid courts from using international law or Sharia law when making rulings.

...Council on American-Islamic Relations spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said he has been working on Muslim civil rights issues for several decades and anti-Islam rhetoric is approaching “Nazi-like” levels.

...Saad Mohammed, director of Islamic information for the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City, said 80 percent of the U.S. Constitution is compatible with Sharia, which leads to justice and equality for all. Mohammed said extremists have distorted Sharia...

Hooper appears to have accused Oklahoma legislators of being Nazi-like!  CAIR, an outgrowth of the Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas infrastructure in America, often responds with name calling to avoid answering direct questions like in this case - the horrors of Sharia Law.

Mohammed is one of the founding members of its chapter in Oklahoma - a fact left out of the article linked to above. 

Most Islamic countries who use Sharia law as the basis for its ruling system does not give a Muslim the right to change their religion while, at the same time,  represses all other religions, including the building of churches and other houses of worships.  It is religiously supremacist and is what changed the Christian majority there forever.  Sharia Law stops religious freedom cold.  What's more, the entire history after full implimentation of Islam placed Muslims in the Middle East under strict Islamic rule by a long series of caliphates - until the last one was defeated in 1924.  Make no mistake, Islamists want this ruling system returned and a new caliphate in place.

The Oklahoma Director of CAIR, Razi Hashmi, said "the proposal is a way of promoting division and bigotry instead of promoting unity and understanding of other faiths and cultures,"  which is strikingly similar to his typical response to criticism of the highly controversial Islamist organization he represents.  Again, name calling is used to maneuvers out of answer direct questions regarding Sharia Law.  Did I mention the Muslim Brotherhood was created to gain power for the return of the caliphate?

The only members of the Islamic community in Oklahoma interviewed were from CAIR!  My God, this is one of the most controversial Islamist organizations in America which has a long and troubling history.  One has to seriously question why they were invited to come to Oklahoma by the Islamic leaders here, in the first place.  It certainly does not help the perception of our Muslim neighbors to have CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror-funding trial, speak for them.  

Considering all this, I applaud the brave and excellent work by the Oklahoma legislators on this issue.

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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.

Were Israeli soldiers beaten on Gaza "Freedom Flotilla?

First, though, you need to know about a recent Guardian interview with Khaled Meshal, the political leader of Hamas, which reeked of scorn against the U.S. whose envoys, he claimed, talk to the terrorist group directly but the U.S. isn't brave enough to do it openly (i.e., they meet in secret).  He then lavished praise on Russia's president for a direct meeting with him in what appeared to be a political ploy to make the U.S. look very timid.

We all know Israel is the stated enemy of Hamas who wants its destruction for "Islam" that you can read all about in their 1988 charter.  This is just one part of a much larger global Islamist movement to regain the land once under the firm control of a long series of Islamic supremacist caliphates.  The ultimate goal of this movement is global control aided by multiple jihadist attacks carried out daily worldwide which, surprise, surprise, the Obama administration refuses to recognize.

It seems to me Muslims don't want to be reminded that in June 2007 Hamas violently overthrew the Gaza Strip (area in white above) in a Palestinian civil war that seized power from the Fatah government.  After this happened, access to the area was severely limited by Israel and Egypt.  Yes, Egypt.

A flotilla of ships heading towards a Gaza port was stopped by the Israeli Navy today after it has been warned it would not be allowed to sail directly to the strip. In spite of the warnings, Hamas had planned a big reception for them.

While the Arab world condemns Israel, a recently released video by the IDF appears to shows Israeli soldiers being attacked as they boarded one of the ships in the flotilla:
 

Anna Baltzer, CAIR Oklahoma's keynote (anti-American, anti-Israeli) speaker recently, was to travel to Palestine during this time as noted on her twitter post.  Here you will also find two links to the speech she gave in Oklahoma City posted on May 20th.  I don't know if she was on the flotilla but she is an excellent example how Islamists and their leftist minions try to make everything all Israel's (and the U.S.'s) fault.

Meanwhile, Hamas welcomes Israel aid ship action 'condemnation' (good video interview) which hasn't waivered from their goal to destroy Israel for Islam in over 22 years.  And as a final reminder, Palestine was a territory of the Ottoman Empire - an Islamic hegemony that lasted centuries,  It did not exist in Bibical times and was never mentioned in the Quran which was written centuries later.

Update 6/1/10:  It also appears secular Turkey, whose ancient city, Istanbul, once thrived with Christians until it became the headquarters of the Ottoman Empire, has taken a turn towards Islamism; Turkey urges world to punish Israel for 'massacre'  and Turkey wants US condemnation of Israeli raid.  

The Turkish flag was flown on at least one of the flotilla ships.

Nihad Awad: "False premise to say 9/11 had anything to do with Islam

Nihad Awad, one of the co-founders and Executive Director of CAIR, a key player in the Islamic Supremacist Muslim Brotherhood infrastructure and movement in America, said on Fox News last night it was fear-mongering to think 9/11 had anything to do with Islam and those who say so are trying to divide Americans among themselves.

Folks, this is nothing more than complying with Sharia law which means you never say anything negative about Islam - even if it is true.  Unfortunately, you may have also noticed, Islamists have now convinced the Obama administration to also follow Sharia despite Islam's long, long, long  history of Islamic supremacy conquests and rule along with the unprecedented global jihadist movement of today.

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Calvey Blasts CAIR Hypocrisy

 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Calvey Blasts CAIR Hypocrisy

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

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

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

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

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

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Razi Hashmi whines U.S. on wrong path with Muslim immigration

Razi Hashmi, the director of CAIR's chapter in Oklahoma spoke at a “Immigration in the Heartland” conference at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.  The event was co-sponsored by the Institute for Justice and Journalism and the University of Oklahoma’s Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

After, the conference CAIR Oklahoma issued a press release stating, in part:

"..CAIR-OK Executive Director Razi Hashmi spoke in a session on Muslim Immigration and the scrutiny that Muslim foreign-born immigrants have faced since 9/11. Mohamed Elibiary, President and CEO of the Freedom and Justice Foundation also spoke during this session.

“If we continue down the path we are going now, we will turn away some of the best and brightest minds and they will end up going somewhere else, leaving us at a disadvantage in competing in a global economy. Our community is proof positive of the success stories and contributions that Muslims have made to our great nation. We have an obligation to continue that promise of hope and prosperity,” said CAIR-OK Executive Director Razi Hashmi...

If we continue down the path we are going?  What is that suppose to mean?  Certainly, Hashmi isn't suggesting we not scrutinize Muslims in order to weed out extremists and those linked to them, is he?  To give credence to this man who works for an organization founded by the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic supremacist entity from which Hamas sprung that seeks the destruction of Israel for Islam is shameful.   Hashmi has shilled for Hamas in the Oklahoma press, which, surprise surprise, follows the mantra of the Muslim Brotherhood. 

CAIR's press release also mentioned Mohamed Elibiary who participated in the same session as Hashmi.

Elibiary lamented in a 2008 op-ed piece that the Holy Land Foundation trial which sent its Muslim defendants to prison for decades after being found guilty of sending millions to Hamas was a big loss for America, an invasion of their privacy and denied their civil liberties!  CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in this case and one of the HLF defendants was a former CAIR official in Dallas.

I think it's fair to conclude that to have these two people speak at this conference was a serious mistake.

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Tariq Ramadan will speak in America about jihad for young hearts

"I am critical towards the American policy—I have been—and very much against the Bush administration ," --- Tariq Ramadan 4/9/2010

 

Tariq Ramadan is the grandson of the founder of the Islamic Supremacy Muslim Brotherhood who was banned from entering the U.S. on allegations he gave to a charity that funded Hamas. On Wednesday, he arrived in America after Sec. Hilliary Clinton removed the ban. He certainly couldn't have picked a more provacative title for his first lecture in America: "Jihad Within Young Hearts: Toward a Positive Engagement."

By the way, he is still banned in Egypt and 5 other Islamic mahority countries.

...The lecture is being sponsored by Sound Vision, an Islamic media company in Chicago headed by Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid, a leader in Chicago's Muslim community.

Mujahid said the previous ban on Ramadan "was ill advised considering he was among the top intellectuals of the world." He added that "Notre Dame's loss can't be compensated, but...this can now open the door...Stopping Americans from hearing diverse voices is unconstitutional."

Supporters of Ramadan say he is a thoughtful academic who is reasonable.

Critics say that Ramadan promotes Islamic supremacy and extremism. Zuhdi Jasser, head of the Arizona-baesd American Islamic Forum for Democracy, said he "considers Ramadan a threat to American Muslims because he puts a passive face on the ideology of political Islam and the concepts of Islamic supremacy."

"While the words Muslim Brotherhood rarely leave his lips, Tariq Ramadan’s ideology is indistinguishable from the Brotherhood which is counter to the principles of liberty and freedom found here in America," Jasser said in a statement.

Ramadan could not be immediately reached. He says on his website that: "I am very happy and hopeful that I will be able to visit the United States very soon and to once again engage in an open, critical and constructive dialogue with American scholars and intellectuals."

He added: "Other governments — in the Near East — continue to ban me from their territory and forbid me to express myself freely. We must salute the progress accomplished by the United States — while remaining vigilant and critical of American policies...The road ahead is long."

Thanks Sec. Clinton for lifting the ban on this controversial Islamist.

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An April 9th interview with Tariq Ramadan with Democracy Now

We want to see things happen in America, he said. --- And your father was friends with Macolm X? Why, why yes he was. This is a good interview because it gives insights into his anti-American Islamist mindset. He does talk a little about the Muslim Brotherhood and said he would support what his grandfather did - to fight against British colonialism but he failed to mention that the goal of the Muslim Brotherhood is to establish an Islamic supremacist state:

Muslim Brotherhood Chairman urges resistance

On this Good Friday, it's imporant for Christians and all other non-Muslims to know there are forces at work to create an Islamic state.  From the new chairman of the Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood:

Dr. Mohammed Badie chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood called on all Arab leaders to take a firm stance and assume full responsibility in all of the Islamic nation's issues. In his weekly statement titled "When will rulers realize their full duty and serve their nation?" he emphasised that for Islam's glory to be restored it had to be fought for and resistance against all that opposed and threatened Islam is the only solution.

Badie expressed that it was imperative that the Arab rulers annul any futile negotiations both direct and indirect, and support all forms of resistance to liberate every inch of occupied lands in Palestine, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He also called on them to support the NGO and institutions who appealed on the leaders to stop the normalization, and support the resistance.

Badie advised rulers to allow the people to express their anger against the arrogance of the Israeli occupational forces throughout their peaceful protests warning them that the suppression and continued arrests will only result in further anger. He denounced the continued daily arbitrary arrests of people from all walks of life who united to voice their anger against the desecration of Islam's holy sites.

 

...Badie call on the one and a half billion Muslims to unite and combat together in resistance against the American and Israeli hegemony and the handful of arrogant Israelis who are tampering with the sacred and holy places which should be acknowledged and attributed worldwide as belonging to the Muslims.

The Muslim Brotherhood is banned in Egypt and a number of their leaders and supporters have infiltrated the U.S.

CAIR was founded by leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Allegations: CAIR is acting as a foreign agent

While, I do not know if all these allegations are true or not, you should, at least,  be aware of them because the main stream media won't go near it, nor will our government, for some reason.  Financial documents are available at The CAIR Observatory for your review.  You have a right to know.

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Oklahoma elected officials attending CAIR Oklahoma dinner!

In an email sent out by CAIR Oklahoma this week titled "Guess Who Is Coming To Dinner?" it gives the impression that federal tax dollars might have been used to help sponsor their dinner tonight.  CAIR's an Islamist organization named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror funding trial in 2007 as part of the Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas infrastructure in America, yet, the U.S. Census Bureau is listed as a sponsor along with the Red Cross, IHOP (never eating there again) and others!  

Sponsor Al Furqaan Foundation  wants to deliver the message of the Quran to every individual in America.  This is another Islamic organization that could have foreign funding involved in their operation, like CAIR does.  When are we going to wake and and realize non-violent Islamic activism here is not just about living in peacfeul co-existence but is about pushing Islam forward politically, socially, in every way? 

The fact is there is a political ideology embedded within the Islamic holy books. There are Muslims here in America who reject this ideology such as Dr. Zuhdi Jasser and his organization American Islamic Forum for Democracy. His cause and other such groups is to support spiritual or secular Islam. These are the Islamic organizations that need to rise up in America with our help and support.  Not CAIR.

The Oklahoma elected officials listed in the email as attending CAIR's dinner are Governor Brad Henry's office, Attorney General Drew Edmonson (who is running for governor), Lt. Gov. Jan Askins, State Senators Kenneth Corn, Andrew Rice and State Representatives Shane Jett (now running for the 5th U.S. congressinal district), Wallace Collins, Ryan Keisel, Al McKaffrey, Richard Morrisette, Mike Shelton, and Jabar Zumate.

How, in the hell, do these officials get past CAIR's history or that the FBI has stated CAIR failed to answer their questions about its ties and/or support of Hamas and, as such, considers them an unsuitable partner? Or what local director Razi Hashmi has said and done in support of Hamas and against Israel that virtually mirrors the Muslim Brotherhood. The three founders of CAIR worked at the Islamic Association of Palestine, an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood.  An idea came about at a secret Hamas meeting in 1993, recorded by the FBI, to create an organization less noticeable.  CAIR was that organization per testimony of the FBI given in the HLF trial. CAIR came into being in order to blur the extreme differences between the views and goals of IslamIC-American community and that of the IslamIST.

According to an article written in the Edmond Sun by Mark Schlachtenhaufen yesterday, "...State Rep. Richard Morrissette, D-Oklahoma City -- told The Sun he was not intending to attend CAIR’s event, and after he learned about the issue Friday afternoon he informed CAIR he was disassociating himself from the group..."   It took a question from a reporter?   I just want to point out, again, Schlachtenhaufen is the ONLY reporter in Oklahoma that is doing his job here.

Tonight, these officials elected by the citizens of Oklahoma will likely sit through an anti-Israel talk given by Anna Beltzer, their keynote speaker. It's as shameful as it gets and it's disturbing.

I beg those in the press who attend this dinner to hold Hashmi's feet to the fire about his refusal to answer specific questions on documented facts about his organization, their on-going support for convicted terror-supporter Sami Al-Arian and others and about the financial support they may have received from the Census Bureau for their dinner tonight. 

What are we to think of our Muslim neighbors who associate with CAIR?

Below is the email sent out by CAIR Oklahoma which mysteriously showed up in my inbox a day or two ago: (Comments made about CAIR that were in the email are highlighted in red below).

 

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In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

 

With Only 3 Days Left and Counting...

 

 

 

WHAT: CAIR-OK Fourth Annual Banquet. "A New Era of Hope: Our Role, Our Future"

 

WHEN: Saturday, March 20, 2010

Registration: 6:00 p.m. Program & Dinner: 7:00 p.m.

WHERE: National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum

   1700 NE 63rd St. Oklahoma City, OK 73111. Click HERE for Directions.

 

CONTACT: CAIR-OK. Tel: 405-415-6851. Email: info@ok.cair.com.

    Register Here: www.cairoklahoma.com

 

 

 

What They Say About CAIR-Oklahoma

"Your dedication embodies the very essence of our society's steady pursuit of social, racial and economic equality for all. CAIR has assisted with Norman's cultural awareness through their efforts in helping training of our local law enforcement officials."

    -Mayor Cindy Rosenthal, Norman

"The Council on American-Islamic Relations has a progressive agenda working toward a comfortable assertion of their American identity."

  -Senator John Sparks, District 16

 

"For their work in fostering the causes of peace, understanding and better community relations in the Great State of Oklahoma and for the pride and patriotism they display towards the United States of America and the Great State of Oklahoma."

  -Senator Andrew Rice, District 46

"It is definitely a pleasure to work with and get to know better CAIR and its members. We share many similar values, such as our interests in good government, our love and best wishes for our children, and a desire for pleasant, safe communities."

  -Representative Wallace Collins, District 45

 

"I recognize you and your colleagues at CAIR - Oklahoma on the deep sense of mission you bring to your efforts, and the myriad of achievements you have accomplished in your ongoing work with the many citizens of the state of Oklahoma."

   -Representative Ryan Kiesel, District 28

"Conditions in the world today make it imperative that the people of our world must work together to accomplish peace, establish communications and understanding."

  -Representative Al McKaffrey, District 88

"I applaud and commend the Council on American-Islamic Relations for its stellar efforts and commitment in helping to ensure justice, civil rights and the ending of discriminatory practices throughout the communities you dutifully serve."

  -Representative Richard Morrissette, District 92

"The Oklahoma City Chapterof the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has worked for the betterment and unity of people and for justice and peace in Oklahoma for many years."

  -Representative Anastasia Pittman, District 99

 

"Through the resilience of organizations such as yours, the message of peace, multiculturalism, equal opportunity and inclusion continues to have a meaningful and positive effect on our nation."

    -Representative Mike Shelton, District 97

"We saw in the last election how important civic engagement was and I am thankful that CAIR nationwide played a significant role in voter education and registration within the Muslim community."

  -Representative Jabar Shumate, District 73

 

Our Sponsors

                                       

To get involved, please contact CAIR-Oklahoma by email at info@ok.cair.com, call 405.415.6851 or 405.248.5853.  Please inform CAIR-Oklahoma of your contact information, availability and volunteering preference. You can also stay up to date for Banquet information on Facebook and Twitter.

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CAIR is America's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.

Council on American-Islamic Relations, Oklahoma

1112 NW 23rd St., Suite 207 Oklahoma City, OK 73106?

Phone: 405.415.6851  Fax: 405.246.9442  

E-mail: info@ok.cair.com      Website: www.cairoklahoma.com

   

Tariq Ramadan coming to California!

Tariq Ramadan is the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Islamic supremacist organization called the Muslim Brotherhood.  Under the Bush administration he was banned from entering the United States over a reported contribution to a terrorist organization.  But, recently, Hillary Clinton personally signed the order to lift the ban on his visa.  First, The Council on American Islamic Relations in Chicago announced Ramadan will be their keynote speaker in April. 

Now, the Shura Council of California has announced he will also speak before their group. Ramadan has never denounced the Muslim Brotherhood and its religous supremacist ideology,  that I am aware. His father Said Ramadan was reportedly a top Muslim Brotherhood leader in Sweden:

 

Most Oklahoma 5th district congressional candidates ignorant on CAIR

Former state representative Kevin Calvey, James Lankford, Johnny Roy, Mike Thompson, and Rick Flanigan are vying to win the Republican spot in the 5th District Congressional primary for the seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Mary Fallen.  Clark Duffe is the Independent candidate.   No Democrat has announced.

Today, after reading a new article about CAIR in the Edmond Sun by Mark Schlachtenhaufen it became abundantly clear most of these candidates don't know what the heck they are talking about regarding an organization that is the outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas infrastructure in America!  I write this because it is very important to point out the only candidate in this congressional race who did his homework about CAIR is Kevin Calvey.

In U.S. vs. SabriBenkahla CN 07-4778 on appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th District on page 58, footnoted at the bottom, it's clear what the concern is about CAIR:

 
Did you get that?  From its founding by Muslim Brotherhood leaders, CAIR conspired with other Muslim Brotherhood affiliates to support terrorists and used deception to do so!

Razi Hashmi, the director of CAIR's chapter in Oklahoma has been giving six opportunities to address troubling facts about CAIR, of which the above court case is just one example.  Since November, he has either bragged about CAIR (OETA interview), called other liars here (Newson6) and here (interview) or distanced (OU Daily) CAIR Oklahoma from CAIR, or refused to answer questions (News9)  or claimed critics are misinformed (Edmond Sun).  I just want to point out that the Tulsa World has stayed out of the fray as they generally only publish what CAIR gives them to publish.

Hashmi darts all over the place as he deflect questions.  How can he sleep at night?

So, Calvey is on top of things here.  The other candidates in the 5th district race simply showed their total ignorance or unwillingness to talk about this troubling Islamic organization, which is quite worrisome.  James Lankford went off about free speech to show he is for everyone practicing the faith of their choice and couldn't possibly paint all Muslims and Muslim groups with a single, biased, broad brush -  i.e., the man has no clue about CAIR.

Duff, the Independent, said unless Calvey is privy to facts he is not, Calvey is suppressing the flow of information.   What?  He just didn't do his homework, folks.

The remaining three candidates, Roy, Thompson and Flanigan, declined to comment or admitted they did know enough to comment, which is utterly pathetic.

***UPDATE 7/9/10 Read a followup:   James Lankford's stand with CAIR very troubling!

CAIR highlights article calling Bible organization extremist group!

Hamas-linked CAIR has an article from The Independent on their website which they titled Anti-Muslim NC Rep. Linked to Extremist Group which claims  U.S. Representative Sue Myrick is aligned with a right-wing Evangelical group, The National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools. 

The horror!

screen shot of CAIR website taken 11:45 am CT

FBI: CAIR won't answer our questions about its executives and Hamas!

Mark Schlachtenhaufen of the Edmond Sun wrote an excellent article titled What’s the truth about CAIR? on March 6th.

The Sun even called the FBI in Washington and got their response to this highly controversial Islamic organization:

“CAIR has been advised of the reasons behind our suspension of formal partnership,” the FBI stated. “These reasons include the fact that CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in United States v. Holy Land Foundation and CAIR’s failure to answer our questions about a connection between their executives and Hamas. Until these questions are answered, the FBI does not consider CAIR an appropriate partner for formal liaison activities.”

CAIR's National Communications Director, Ibrahim Hooper, responded to the Sun by saying: “It is particularly galling when we hear these kinds of smears because we know what we do on a daily basis. He said he hoped American leaders would stand by CAIR when these smears happen.  Hooper is reportedly a former employee of the Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP) which was founded by the Muslim Brotherhood (U.S. vs. HLF Exhibit 003-0003, page 5), an internal MB document used as an exhibit in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror funding trial. On their website it states Hooper has been with CAIR since it was founded.  CAIR's founders, Nihad Awad, its former president Omar Amad and Rafeeq Jaaber were all employees of IAP.

Hamas was started by the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine.

Hooper calls the truth a smear.  CAIR is sadly mistaken to think deceit is going to work here.

Kevin Calvey, 5th District Congressional candidate, Cindy Crenshaw the President of Oklahomans Against CAIR Hate and Charlie Meadows, chairman of the Oklahoma Conservative Political Action Committee were interviewed for the article:

...Area resident Charlie Meadows, chairman of the Oklahoma Conservative Political Action Committee, said CAIR is a front organization to make Islam as appealing as possible to western culture...Calvey said the federal government should investigate CAIR, that the group’s tax exempt status should be in question and he wants all Oklahomans to be aware of what the organization is about. He said it is a problematic organization and his goal is to put the truth out about CAIR....Last month, Cindy Crenshaw, president of Oklahomans Against CAIR Hate, called for the condemnation of CAIR after a former CAIR leader was deported.  Crenshaw, who was injured by an explosive device while she was serving in the Air Force in West Germany, said she wants Oklahomans to know the truth about CAIR, that it is a hate group like the Ku Klux Klan...

“It’s really very scary,” Calvey said. “This isn’t some innocuous group.”

Razi Hashmi, the director of CAIR's chapter in Oklahoma claimed this was part of larger problem of  misunderstanding and misinformation.

No, it's part of the problem CAIR's has about being honest.

This article is very important.  First, there's actually a reporter in Oklahoma brave enough to confront CAIR -  unlike the Tulsa World and other newspapers and media who only publish what CAIR gives them.  Secondly, CAIR employees has shown time and time again they will not be honest about the facts.  Thirdly, Edmond Sun writer, William F. O'Brien, an Assistant Attorney General for the state of Oklahoma has written pieces that shills for CAIR here, here, here, and here.  The last article recounted their annual dinner last year where a proclamation was displayed by Gov. Brad Henry which applauded the work done by CAIR in Oklahoma.  I'm glad to see the Edmond Sun step up to the plate.

And lastly, Oklahomans aren't cowering down to CAIR's attempts to call the truth "smears" or lies and are taking action!