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CAIR Minnesota: Best Buy is the Platinum Sponsor for 2012 Banquet!

As you can read, a chapter of the highly controversial Islamist group CAIR posted an announcement that Best Buy was a key sponsor of their 2012 banquet on January 23rd.  But, what makes this so much worse was CAIR Minnesota's action last November, when they blasted two Muslims who spoke out about terror-recruiting that was going on in Minnesota!  Read CAIR Claims 2 Metro Somali Leaders are Anti-Muslim.  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Bulgarian Mufti Found Guilty of Vote-Buying

Bulgarian Top Cop Certain of Radical Islam Cells' Existence

Bulgarian Imam Exposed as Extremist Islam Leader‎

OIC Secretary General: "Your freedom ends where mine starts."

The OIC is a Saudi-based and backed inter-governmentsl global Islamist organization.  Here's what Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, its Secretary General, said recently in an interview with the Council on Foreign Relations posted on October 1st about their efforts to take on a broader role in the world and bring it under international rule: 

...The OIC adopted a separate Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in 1990, a parallel document to the UN's 1948 Universal Human Rights Declaration. Why do Muslims need a separate declaration? Are there provisions of the 1948 declaration that Muslims think are not, indeed, universal?

I believe that universal human rights are compatible with Islam, and I have no problem on that. I had made a statement in Geneva in the Humans Rights Council that we look forward to integrating our system [the Cairo declaration] with the United Nations system, and now we have established a new human rights committee for us.

...In the United States, you are free to ridicule your leaders, you can burn the flag, you can desecrate any sacred object. But in other countries it is not the case.

You don't need to ridicule Jesus Christ or to burn the Bible. This is an insult. Is burning the Quran or the Bible a sign of freedom? If I come and punch you, is it a sign of freedom? This is not ideas. There is a limit of decency. There is a limit of freedom. Your freedom ends where my freedom starts. You need freedom and responsibility. Otherwise it will be jungle.

Who decides what is sacred and what's not sacred?

The international community decides. We are not are not encroaching on freedom of expression. We invite people to respect our values as they expect us to respect their values..."

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UNHRC Votes by Narrower Margin to Condemn "Defamation of Religion" March 2010

Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam  University of Minnesota

"...Reaffirming the civilizing and historical role of the Islamic Ummah which Allah made as the best community and which gave humanity a universal and well-balanced civilization, in which harmony is established between hereunder and the hereafter, knowledge is combined with faith, and to fulfill the expectations from this community to guide all humanity which is confused because of different and conflicting beliefs and ideologies and to provide solutions for all chronic problems of this materialistic civilization..."

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.

 

OIC wants to stop critics of Islam; seeks to engage directly with American Muslims

I've written about the danger of the Islamic supremacist Saudi-based/backed Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) several times now.  Critics claim it's an Islamic caliphate in the making, with slow incremental steps already made towards that end.  No one should rule out that possibility since their leverage and influence at the U.N. is indeed growing.

OIC Conference in Chicago

The Organization of Islamic Conference along with the American Islamic College had a conference on “Islam and Muslims in America” this past September.  The Agenda can be reviewed and a couple of the sponsors included CAIR Chicago and Islamic Society of North America.

This appears to be the first time the Saudi-based and backed inter-governmental ISLAMIST organization has made it known about their goals for partnering with Muslim in America.

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Obama's Muslim Envoy, U.S. Media Both Absent from Major Islamic Conference

Religious censorship one step closer at the U.N. Human Rights Council

For a while now, human rights groups have warned the Islamic supremacist Saudi-based and backed OIC was seeking a binding resolution to make criticism of Islam against the law across all levels of control; local, state, national and international.

Last Friday, the OIC came one step closer with the formation of a censorship investigator that will oversea how the media protrays religion, i.e., Islam.  In other words, the OIC is trying to stop ANY criticism of Islam and influence how it's protrayed worldwide:

...The resolution now opens the way for the Human Rights Council to select a special investigator on religious freedom to "work closely with mass media organizations to ensure that they create and promote an atmosphere of respect and tolerance for religious and cultural diversity." 

Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based non-profit U.N. Watch, warned that what the OIC is really trying to do is "turn an international shield for religious freedom into a sword for religious-motivated state censorship."

This is a major setback for freedom of speech.  Yet, most Americans simply go about their day as if none of this is happening because they are so absorbed in their own lives.

Saudi-based OIC steps up efforts against Israel

The OIC, a Saudi-based and back inter-governmental Islamist organization,  held a press conference yesterday to claim the international community has isolated Israel and is now in conflict with many countries and faiths.  This is more of the Islamist spin on efforts they hope will led to Israel's decline rather than based in reality:

...Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said Israel was given a stern warning that its attack on the Freedom Flotilla was going to have far-reaching consequences. The incident has isolated the Zionist state from the international community, which has united in condemning Israeli aggression, he said.

...Flanked by Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Malki at the press conference, he invited OIC Ambassadorial Groups in New York and Geneva to work for the adoption of an international stand condemning “this odious crime” and the lifting of the “lawless blockade on the Gaza Strip.”

...The meeting agreed that it was no longer a conflict between Israel and Palestine, rather it was Israel versus 32 countries whose citizens were on board the aid flotilla and who were of all faiths and backgrounds. “Therefore, it should be interpreted as an attack on the United Nations and its values,” Ihsanoglu said, calling for the convening of a UN General Assembly session on the issue...

Continuing on with their efforts to stop any criticism of Islam - even if it is true, In their 3rd annual Islamophobia report (pg 11 of the report), their expressed their displeasure and surprise the Obama administration did not buy in to their attempt to get a binding resolution to stop any criticism of Islam through the U.N.

...the criticism leveled by the US Administration on the OIC proposed legally binding instrumentwas not in line with the expectations raised by promise of engagement in the Cairo speech by President Obama. In October 26, 2009 the U.S. State Department released its Annual Report on International Religious Freedom. It was critical of what it said were international efforts to limit free speech in the name of combating defamation of religion, criticizing the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) for pushing such antidefamation measures in U.N. bodies. ...A positive response by the US to the OIC’s call for engagement towards evaluating and evolving norms towards combating Islamophobia –with particular reference to defamation of religions –would constitute a positive step forward in terms of backing President Obama’s words with action....

This is Islamism and its coming to a country near you. 

Saudi influence hangs over Fox News!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Murdoch Urges 'Light' Middle East Regulation to Develop Media

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

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

 

  News Corp. Units Head to Abu Dhabi

Wall Street Journal - Chip Cummins - ‎Mar 8, 2010‎

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

 

 Opportunity: Investing in the Middle East

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

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

 

Vocal American Muslim group cast as object of mistrust

 

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

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

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

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

Rontana website

Shame on columnist Susan Campbell

I came across a blog called Fear, itself,  written by Hartford Courant columnist Susan Campbell.  In Singling out the Muslims,  Campbell made the statement "And last time I checked, we were not at war with the Muslims, either -- extremists or not," which caught my attention.  I responded to her in a comment about the largest global Islamist organization in the world, the Saudi-based and backed Organization of Islamic Conference,  whose own Fiqh Council approved of martyrdom to illustrate to her the scope of the problem we face from Islamists - or political Islam.  Here we have an inter-government organization second in size only to the U.N. who approves of martyrdom who is trying to stop any criticism of Islam with a legally-binding U.N. treaty all in the process to create a caliphate.

I suggested to her she needed to do more research.

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

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

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

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

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

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

OIC claims the Obama administration is wrong on free speech

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

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

The world needs to wake up.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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10/27/09:  US Opposes OIC Blasphemy Resolution

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

Other posts about the OIC arer here

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

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

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

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

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

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

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U.N. Permanent Mission of the OIC

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US Religious Freedom Report Hits Speech Curbs

Voice of America - David Gollust - ‎13 hours ago‎

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

Multiple bombs in Baghdad kill 75 today

Why are there always several bombs or violent attacks carried out by Muslims, in the name of their religion, that take place worldwide every day?  Why?

According to the religionofpeace website there were 207 jihadist attacks last month alone that killed 838 people. Since 9/11 nearly 14,000 people have been killed.  Is it just a mere coincidence these actions coincide with a religious ruling that sanctions martyrdom to protect the Islam creed or dignity or to please Allah issued by the Fiqh Council of the largest Islamist organization/governing body in the world, the Saudi-backed Organization of Islamic Conference? They even ruled these actions are NOT terrorism but a legitimate right.  

The OIC has an office in New York City since it has U.N. observatory status!   This is so not right.

Today, in multiple bomb attacks 75 innocent men, women and children were viciously killed in Baghdad:

At least 75 people were killed in a series of truck bombings and other attacks on Wednesday that rocked areas around official buildings in central Baghdad, wounding 300 people, the Interior Ministry said.

...Taken together, the attacks were among the most devastating in Baghdad since the withdrawal of American forces from street patrols at the end of June.

The explosions, at least one of them close to the heavily fortified Green Zone security area, sent plumes of dark smoke billowing over the capital, ripped a gaping hole in a compound wall and set cars ablaze, trapping their drivers inside.

Update 5:00 PM CT:  Death toll is at 95 now.

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Saudi based OIC to create separate Human Rights Council!

OIC's subsidiary, the Islamic Figh Council, approves of martyrdom for Islam! 

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

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

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

EU officials alarmed at U.N. conference attempts to stop criticism of Islam

EU officials appeared more alarmed and more outspoken about the OIC-backed attempt to shutter criticism of Islam at the U.N. Human Rights Council.  Let's face it, this is nothing more than an attempt to impose Sharia Law onto non-muslim countries and individuals:

European Union countries Tuesday stepped up their opposition to Muslim attempts to shield Islam from criticism and attack Israel through a U.N. conference on racism.

EU members were unusually outspoken in appearances before the U.N. Human Rights Council, saying they were worried about preparations for a global racism conference to be held next month because attention was being diverted from the real problems of racial discrimination.

"I am deeply disturbed by the turn this event is taking," Dutch Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Verhagen said.

...References to Israel and protection of religion in the current draft conclusion being negotiated for the so-called Durban II conference are unacceptable, Verhagen said.

"We cannot accept any text, which would put religion above individuals, not condemn discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, condone anti-Semitism or single out Israel," he said. Denmark, Germany, Belgium and Italy voiced similar concerns.

...The Obama administration said Friday the U.S. will stay away from this year's conference unless its final document is changed to drop all references to Israel and the defamation of religion

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Eight Iranian British Embassy staff arrested by Iranians freed, except one!

Over the weekend,  Iranian authorities arrested nine British Embassy staff in Iran.  Thankfully, all but one has been released:

Three more Iranian British embassy staff have been released by the Iranian authorities in Tehran, the country's state-run Press TV reports.

Nine members of embassy staff were detained at the weekend and Press TV said all bar one have now been freed.

Iran had said they were arrested over their role in protests against June's disputed presidential election.

Tehran has repeatedly accused foreign powers - especially Britain and the US - of meddling after the election.

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The head of the Executive Committee of the Parliamentary Union of the OIC demanded Obama to stop meddling in Iran.  And our government is going to partner with the OIC to eradicate polio?

EU mulls UK proposal to recall envoys from Iran AFP  EU countries are considering a proposal from Britain to recall all their ambassadors from Iran in protest at the detention of British embassy employees, European diplomatic sources said Wednesday.

CAIR to distribute 100,000 Qurans to U.S. leaders!

The Council of American Islamic Relations or CAIR, which is an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas infrastructure in the U.S.,  will begin to distribute 100,000 Qurans to U.S. leaders: 

..."Share the Quran" educational campaign was prompted by President Obama's recent address to Muslims worldwide in which he quoted from that holy text.

In the multi-year initiative, American Muslims will sponsor Qurans for distribution to governors, state attorneys general, educators, law enforcement officials, state and national legislators, local elected and public officials, media professionals, and other local or national leaders who shape public opinion or determine policy.

Do not underestimate their eventual intent.

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Saudi based OIC to create separate Human Rights Council!

The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) will create their own separate Human Rights Council just for the Muslim world.  By doing so, it seems they have rejected the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations on December 10, 1948.

 The OIC is the next largest intergovernmental organization after the U.N. and is the largest Islamic organization in the world.  It has UN observatory status and an office in New York.  The Saudi-based and backed OIC appears to be a 21st century caliphate-in-the-making and we all should pay more attention to their statements and actions. 

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OIC Secretary General concludes his visit to Washington DC And ...

ISRIA - ‎7 hours ago‎

 During a comprehensive telephone conversation, the US Secretary of State and the OIC Secretary General exchanged views as to the ways and means of furthering the engagement between the OIC and the US in the coming period. Secretary Clinton offered her thanks for the constructive response of the Secretary General to President Obama`s Cairo Speech while the Secretary General underlined the necessity of translating the good-will statements of the President into policies and of implementing those policies through concrete programs and projects. The follow up action on the new global polio initiative with the OIC announced by the President in Cairo, implementation of mother and child services framework document signed in December 2008 between the US and the OIC and appointment of a new US Special Envoy to the OIC were among other topics discussed during the conversation. Simultaneously technical meetings took place between the OIC delegation and the US Departments of State and Health Services.

 

OIC to open office in Brussels to fight Islamophobia Today's Zaman

 

OIC's subsidiary, the Islamic Figh Academy or Council, approves of martyrdom for Islam! 

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

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

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

Hilliary Clinton to meet with OIC whose own Fiqh Council approves of martyrdom!

The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Conferences (OIC) will meet with Hillary Clinton on Monday.  This Saudi-based organization has 57 members states (countries) and has UN observatory status.  It is the second largest inter-governmental organization in the world after the United Nations.  And you need to know its subsidiary Fiqh Academy (sometimes called Council) approves of martyrdom to protect the Islamic creed!.  I suspect you won't be informed about thist fact from most of the main stream media who fawn over President Obama and helped play a large role in his election. 

This is, once again, another a great example how the left partners with Islamists. 

Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, leaves for Washington DC, capital of the United States of America, at the head of a high-powered delegation which will meet the US Secretary of States, Hillary Clinton, on Monday 22 June 2009.

Ihsanoglu is expected to discuss OIC-US relations with Clinton, in the light of the new and positive language from the US towards the Middle East region as exemplified by the US President Barack Obama’s Cairo speech to the Muslim world earlier this month. This is also coming on the heels of President Obama’s visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Turkey and of the renewed American efforts to create chances for peace in the Middle East region.

A major theme of the Secretary General’s discussion with the US Secretary of State will be the Palestinian question and other issues of common concern as well as the OIC’s humanitarian efforts in Pakistan.

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The Islamic Fiqh Academy

Asharq Alawsat - ‎10 hours ago‎

By Lahem Al-Nasser The Islamic Fiqh Academy (IFA), which is affiliated to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), was created after a resolution ...

6/15/09:  The Saudi-based OIC rules out normalizing relations with Israel

OIC UN website

OIC's subsidiary, the Islamic Figh Academy or Council, approves of martyrdom for Islam. 

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

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

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

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At various meetings in Beirut, Cairo, and Kuala Lumpur in April 2002, the Arab League and the OIC did not condemn "martyrdom-bombings"/"jihadist-bombings," ...

The Saudi-based OIC rules out normalizing relations with Israel

Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the Secretary General of the Saudi-based and backed Organization of Islamic Conference, ruled out normalizing relations with Israel before they meet the Arab's world peace requirements. which is primarily a one-sided document to gain control of Jerusalem. 

The Arab world owns 99% of the land in the Middle East and want Jerusalem as Palestine's capital.

The name Palestine was not formally used until the Islamic Ottoman Empire did so in documents, if I recall correctly.  No place in the Bible or the Quran is Palestine mentioned once.  Israel is written about in both books, on the other hand.

From Arab News:

“...The OIC has adopted the Arab peace initiative, which is based on the principle of land for peace, return of Palestinian rights and endorsement of Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine,” the OIC chief said in an interview with Tunisia’s Al-Sabah newspaper.

Ihsanoglu backed the two-state proposal and hoped Israel would accept it. “The Israeli government should stop building new Jewish settlements in the occupied territories to prove its good intentions,” he told the newspaper.

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OIC UN website

OIC's subsidiary, the Islamic Figh Academy or Council, approves of martyrdom for Islam. 

Netanyahu speech reflects 'racism', says Hamas PRESS TV

6/11/09 Why the US Should Start Talking to Hamas TIME  (owned by Time Warner which also owns CNN)  recently interviewed the exhiled Political Director of Hamas terrorist organization, Khaled Mashaal (Mashal)

Note: "A 1992 video places Abdulqader and Mashal together at a major Hamas fundraising conference in Oklahoma City, where Abdulqader and his fellow Al Sakhra members, all wearing traditional kaffiyeh headscarves and desert robes, sang: "I have nerves of steel, and no threats scare me. Only the one who is proud of carrying the rifle will succeed. No to the peace conference! Yes to jihad!" 

"Our people in Al Aqsa are out to revenge, to destroy the enemy," Abdulqader sang in another Al Sakhra production. "Our revolution is spread throughout the land! With Koran and Jihad, we will gain our homes back ... My precious eyes are for Palestine, the agony of death is precious, killing Jews … Death to Jews, is precious. Jews will not fear threats, only action. So Hamas, hit them with the shoe bottoms of Islam and Hamas!" 

Videos of Abdulqader's band was submitted as evidence in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror-funding trial.  One example is here.

World Bulletin [ Hamas leader calls OIC head to rescue Jerusalem ]  

May 15, 2009 ... Hamas leader calls OIC head to rescue Jerusalem. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh called the head of the Organization of Islamic Conference to ...

OIC Secretary-General meets with Hamas delegation  

The secretary-general of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, met with a Palestinian delegation led by Hamas political ...

Violence rocks the Middle East following President Obama's speech

A few days ago, Israel stopped a number of suicide bombers on explosive-laden horses from crossing the guarded entry into Israel from the Gaza Strip.  Five of them were killed. 

President Obama has called on Israel to remove these guarded crossings which, to me,  gives the impression that it's Israel fault for repressing the Palestinians from freely traveling into Israel. 

"As part of a lasting ceasefire, Gaza's border crossings should be open to allow the flow of aid and commerce," Obama said, during his first visit to the State Department as president.

What was the president thinking with his statement? 

Such madness and needless loss of young lives.  May God help save this part of the world from destroying themselves.

Yesterday, a large bomb ripped up a luxury hotel in Pakistan killing 18.  Today, a car bombed killed 29 in a market in southern Iraq.

Since President Obama speech these are the responses from the Islamic world:

 

Date	Country	City	Killed	Injured	Description
2009.06.08	Pakistan	Peshawar	1	2	Seminary students are suspected in the bombing of a police van that killed one officer.
2009.06.08	Iraq	Baghdad	7	21	Seven passengers aboard a minibus are blown to Allah by a planted bomb.
2009.06.08	Iraq	Mosul	2	0	Two students are gunned down in separate attacks.
2009.06.08	Thailand	Narathiwat	10	12	Ten people are massacred in a surprise assault by Islamic insurgents on a local mosque.
2009.06.08	Thailand	Narathiwat	1	0	Islamists gun down a rubber tapper.
2009.06.08	Pakistan	Swat	2	2	Religious extremists attack a home, kill a guard, then kidnap a man, whom they later murder.
2009.06.07	Thailand	Narathiwat	1	19	A storekeeper is blasted to death by Muslim truck bombers.
2009.06.07	Thailand	Narathiwat	2	0	Islamic militants gun down two village defense volunteers in cold blood.
2009.06.07	Afghanistan	Faryab	4	0	Taliban ambush a police post and murder four local officers.
2009.06.07	Afghanistan	Kandahar	2	0	Mujahideen manage to kill a mother and son with a landmine.
2009.06.07	Somalia	Mogadishu	1	1	A radio station director is shot in the head by suspected fundamentalists.
2009.06.07	Iraq	Mosul	2	0	Two hospital guards are kidnapped and murdered.
2009.06.07	Pakistan	Peshawar	3	5	Three people are killed when Taliban militants attack a convoy carrying prisoners.
2009.06.07	Somalia	Mogadishu	3	5	Islamists kill three civilians with a roadside bomb.
2009.06.07	Pakistan	Dera Ismail Khan	3	9	Two Shias are killed in a Sunni drive-by. A Sunni is killed in a Shia grenade attack.
2009.06.07	Algeria	Kabylia	3	1	Three security personnel are killed in two bombings by fundamentalists.
2009.06.06	Pakistan	Islamabad	2	4	Two local cops are taken down by a Shahid suicide bomber.
2009.06.06	Iraq	Suwayra	9	15	A man and his wife are among nine people blown up in the name of Allah in various attacks.
2009.06.06	Afghanistan	Spin Boldak	5	11	Five people are blown to bits by a Fedayeen bomber at a market.
2009.06.05	Pakistan	Upper Dir	49	41	A suicide bomber manages to infiltrate a rival mosque and massacre fifty worshippers, including a dozen children.
2009.06.05	Dagestan	Dagestan	2	0	Two government officials are machine-gunned at point-blank range.
2009.06.05	Thailand	Pattani	5	0	Three civilians and two rangers are murdered in four attacks by Islamic terrorists.
2009.06.05	India	Pulwama	1	0	A 56-year-old man is shot to death inside his home by Mujahideen.
2009.06.05	Pakistan	South Waziristan	5	4	Five security personnel are killed by Islamic fundamentalists in two IED attacks.
2009.06.05	Iraq	Jalawla	1	0	A local policeman is kidnapped and murdered by Muslim militants.
2009.06.04	Afghanistan	Kandahar	4	0	Four farmers are blown to bits when Talibanis attach a bomb to their vehicle.

In May alone 142 jihadists attacks took 657 lives worldwide, according to the ReligionofPeace website.

In every case, young men and sometimes women, some  teenagers, were brainwashed through Quranic teachings to do this for Islam.  It certainly doesn't help that the largest Islamic body in the world, the Organization of Islamic Conference, a growing power and likely caliphate, own Fiqh Council has ruled martyrdom to protect the Islamic creed is acceptable.

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OIC Fiqh Academy

Their subsidiary, the Islamic Figh Academy or Council approves of martyrdom for Islam.  The OIC has removed now the page that states it is their subsidiary academy so the first link above is an archived page.  Now the link to their website comes up with a warning that it might hurt your computer.

International Islamic Fiqh Academy   - [ Translate this page ]

This site may harm your computer.

 Written statement* submitted by the World Union for Progressive Judaism to the UN Human rights Council

At this sixth special session of the Human Rights Council we call on Muslim leaders, both

spiritual and secular — particularly the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), representing 56 Muslim States — to speak out unequivocally thus making it crystal clear to the world and to Muslims and non-Muslims alike that the traditional Islamist interpretation of the jihad-war ideology and ‘jihadist-martyrdom’ terror – as exemplified by the Palestinian Hamas regime in Gaza – is in total contradiction today with the International Bill of Human Rights. This ‘culture of hate and death’ must be firmly outlawed by the international community and the Organization of the Islamic Conference. 

Tulsa World editorial on President Obama's speech falls short

The Tulsa World wrote an editorial claiming President Obama's speech to the Muslim World (i.e., the Muslim Ummah)  "was full of honesty and straight talk."  I was surprised to see only 32 comments on their online edition but understood why when I tried to post my own.  Apparently, they shut down comments denying readers an opportunity to voice their opinions. 

Anyway, their mostly glowing response to Obama's rhetoric needs some serious feedback:

First, they overlooked how President Obama went to great lengths to distance himself from his Muslim roots while campaigning but now that he is in power he emphasizes his generations of family Muslims. He quoted the Quran and talked about the Islamic call to prayer using the correct Islamic term, azzam.

Then and now. 

For some, President Obama seems to be elevating Islam and diminishing Christianity.  Is this a legitimate complaint?  I'm not really sure yet but something doesn't seem right. 

The Tulsa World and President Obama overlooked or didn't know that Egypt was once a thriving Christian nation until it was seized by Islamic caliph Muʿāwiyah Ibn Abī Sufyān who took the rein after the assassination of the previous caliph thus sealing the fate of Christians to live under Islamic rule.  Is it dishonest to ignore this history?

There's no getting around that Obama's speech was masterfully given and overall was good in trying to build bridges towards a common ground yet there are a few problems that popped out at me right away: 

Obama said" "Recent colonialism that denied rights to Muslims" (i.e., it's the West's fault)

"...globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile"  (it's the West's fault, again)

"America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition." Political Islam (Islamism) is exclusive and in the Quran.

Obama referenced a verse from the Quran about telling the truth.  Islam is the ONLY religion that allows lying in order to gain advantage over its enemy, or to make things workable between a husband and wife or to bring peace between others.

Dr. Shahid Athar, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine and a recent president of the Islamic Medical Association of North America wrote about these reasons and a fourth one:  to make unbelievers realize the truth (see above link).  Photo source:  New York Times.

Obama said: "It was Islam at places like al-Azhar that carried the light of learning through so many centuries"

An excerpt from a TV interview with Al-Azhar University President Ahmad Al-Tayyib, former mufti of Egypt, which aired on Al-Mihwar TV on October 10, 2007, sheds some light:

Ahmad Al-Tayyib: We do not permit the killing or terrorizing of peaceful people --- But with regard to Palestine and Israel, this is not the case, and to say otherwise is to confuse things...Is it easy for a Palestinian to bring his life to an end? No, it isn't. He too is a human being, who wants to live. What makes him resort to this method? It is not despair, as is claimed by many people who try to interpret martyrdom operations as suicide operation driven by despair. No. That is not true. The Palestinian martyrdom-seeker knows that he is free to go to this operation, in order to please Allah and enter Paradise, in defense of his religion, his country, and his land.  (MEMRI clip number 1622)

Obama also said:  "I also know that Islam has always been a part of America's story. The first nation to recognize my country was Morocco" 

The Treaty of Tripoli which he referred to after making the statement above was signed after years of unprovoked attacks by Islamic pirates on our our ships and the taking of hostages and holding them for ransom - sometimes for years.  This went on for decades as America was forming.  By saying Morocco was the first country to recognize America implied something completely different by his glaring omission of what led to the treaty.  It was in this treaty that our founders emphasized that America was not founded on the Christian religion; "as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of  Mussulmen." 

Why do you think they did that? 

Numerous Islamic terror-funding networks were shut down under President Bush. Yet our new president, while on foreign soil, said to the whole world that in the United States, rules on charitable giving has made it harder for Muslims to fulfill their religious obligation.  "That's why I'm committed to work with American Muslims to ensure that they can fulfill zakat," he said.  Is he going to let it go back to the way it was?  Surely not,  but he wasn't clear at all.  He spoke directly to the small Muslim population in America and not to the concerns of the far greater majority.

Lastly, Obama announced a new global effort with the Organization of the Islamic Conference to eradicate polio.  This Saudi-based organization is considered by some experts to be the next caliphate-in-the-making.  It's the largest Islamic body in the world and has UN status.  It also works hard to encourage countries and communities to make it a crime to criticize Islam. Its subsidiary Fiqh Council approves of martyrdom which ruled it is not terrorism and that it is forbidden to say the word terrorism.

Considering the above, the Tulsa World editorial was written with an appalling lack of knowledge about historical and current facts. 

We deserves much better.

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Text of President Obama's speech

Z's posts: Organization of Islamic Conference

Dr. Shahid Athar Wins “2009 Distinguished Physician” Award

Shahid Athar, M.D. Islamonline

The Agonies of a Muslim Living in a Non-Muslim Society  Dr. Shahid Athar

The Palestinian Authority, the Arab Peace Initiative, and the OIC

Yesterday was Jerusalem Day in Israel.  The news that the Palestinian Authority may cede control of an historic mosque in Jerusalem to the OIC if the Arab Peace Initiatve is successful overshadowed this memorial day for Israelis.

 

The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) is believed to be a caliphate in the making by some experts. They are forming their own separate human rights council outside of the UN to fit within Islamic law rather than world-wide norms.  They have created their own trading block.  Their subsidiary Fiqh Council approves of martyrdom.  This Saudi-based power group is growing.

This 57 country organization (Was Obama's 57 state gaff a conincidence? ) is the largest Islamic body in the world and has UN status.

Now, it is being considered by the Palestinian Authority as the possible authority for control of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, according to the Arab News:

"The Palestinian Authority (PA) would be willing to relinquish Palestinian rights over the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound only if its sovereignty is transferred to the Jeddah-based Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) as part of a final-status agreement, sources said yesterday. The OIC is a signatory to the Arab peace initiative..."

The Al-Aqsa Mosque is located at Temple Mount in Jerusalem.  It was built over an early Jewish temple to show Islamic dominance over the land backed up by verses in the Quran that state Islam is to dominate over all other religions:

Whoever wants to adopt another way except Islam then his/her that way will never be accepted and on the Day of Judgment he/she will be total failure and unfortunate”-Al Quran (3-85)

Does the Islamic world give due respect at all to the fact that this Jewish temple was destroyed when Jerusalem was invaded and seized by the 2nd Islamic caliph Umar?  Obviously not - it wants to rule over it again.

What side of this issue does President Obama fall?  It has been floated in the press that he is more inline with the Arab Peace Initiative which calls for Israel to give up this land in East Jerusalem.  It's reported Obama's solution is an upgrade of the Saudi peace initiative with a proposal the Old City of Jerusalem become an international zone under UN control.

President Obama's upcoming speech in the former Christian dominated country of Egypt may clarify this for us.  To further add insult to injury to Christians, he has been encouraged in the press by Egypt to speak from their oldest mosque. 

We should all keep in mind an Islamic caliphate moves in incremental steps over the years and decades towards its final goal.

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OIC:

King Abdullah's '57-State Solution'

Middle East Online - ‎4 hours ago‎

These machinations were on display this week when Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu met with President Obama. The highest priority item on “Bibi's” agenda ...

 

OIC Role Reportedly Proposed as Battle for Jerusalem Heats Up

CNSNews.com - ‎5 hours ago‎

Obama spoke on the issue. “I continue to say that Jerusalem will be the capital of Israel," he said. "I have said it before and will say it again ... but ...

 

Israeli Arabs blast plan for PA to cede Temple Mount sovereignty Ha'aretz

 

OIC Hopes For Better Relations With US Under Obama

Bernama - ‎May 19, 2009‎

"...We are looking forward to the beginning of this relationship. I had the pleasure of meeting Obama in Istanbul, Turkey and has also exchanged letters where he had expressed his commitment to work closely with the OIC," secretary-generalIhsanoglu told Bernama here recently.

Hamas leader calls OIC head to rescue Jerusalem

EuropeNews - ‎May 15, 2009‎

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh called the head of the Organization of Islamic Conference on Thursday to update him on the latest developments in the Gaza Strip ...

 

OIC to set up independent human rights commission

Saudi Gazette - ‎May 13, 2009‎

By Habib Shaikh JEDDAH – Intra-OIC engagement on human rights has been an ongoing process at the organization, according to Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Asked what prompted this almost unprecedented move, Ihsanoglu told Saudi Gazette in an online interview that the OIC adopted the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam in 1990.
...

 

More posts on the OIC here.

 

Egypt:

 

CFI Urges President Obama to Remember Persecuted Christians in Egypt

Christian Freedom International - ‎May 18, 2009‎

It is inconceivable to require that the president of Egypt must approve permits to build a church or even to repair a toilet in a church. Mosques in Egypt ...

 

Egypt wants Obama to speak from historic mosque

The Associated Press - ‎May 15, 2009‎

The historic mosquewas built in 972 by the Fatimids, Shiite Muslim rulers who had just conquered Egypt and built Cairo as their capital. ...

 

Temple Mount:

 

Dome of the Rock  

Nearby the Arab conquerors undertook to build a more spectacular edifice, the Dome of the Rock, not only to proclaim the supremacy of Islam, ...

Dome of the Rock(BiblePlaces.com)  

Built atop the earlier location of the Temple, the Dome of the Rock was erected by ... Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem (Sacred Destinations) Very detailed and ...

Al-Aqsa Mosque  

An on-line tour of the complex of Islamic architecture in Jerusalem centered on the Dome of the Rock, from Palestine Home of History by Esam Shashaa.

Florida Rep. Adam Hasner must stand strong against CAIR

CAIR has been after Florida House leader Rep Adam Hasner (R). Yesterday, during the opening prayer in the house, which was Islamic, Hasner left the chamber and then returned after it was over. 

Rep. Hasner represents the Boca Raton area.  In 2005, when a Muslim physician from Boca Raton was arrested for supporting Al-Qaeda it was CAIR Florida who came to his defense (page 3).  The physician was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Now, CAIR Florida seeks Hasner's removal as leader of the House:

"...The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) cited the apparent walkout as an additional reason for Hasner to step down from his leadership post.

Yesterday, CAIR called on Republican Party leaders to remove Hasner from his post because he co-hosted a recent event at which the speaker said Islam should not be recognized as a legitimate faith and Muslims should not have religious freedom..."

CAIR is well known for going after public officials who criticize Islamic activities that cause them concern.  Usually, this has to do with the political component of this religion, which is called Islamism.  Political Islam can and does lead to Islamic rule.  

Political Islam is in the Quran, as is theological Islam.

CAIR refuses to distinguish between political Islam and theological Islam and is the outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas infrastructure in America. 

Other Muslim leaders do make this distinction, such as Zuhdi Jasser, M.D., a former Navy Lieutenant:

“...Islamist doesn’t always mean terrorist. There are some studies showing that five to 10 percent of Muslims actually condone terrorism, but political Islam is an ideology that may include 50 to 60 percent of Muslims globally,” he told FamilySecurityMatters.org in an interview in March 2008. Jasser is also critical of certain Muslim lobbyist groups in Washington, notably the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). That particular group, in his words, doesn’t outright condemn “the idea of an Islamic state...”

Islamism is a totalitarian religious ideology and is what we see rule most Islamic countries.  For example, Egypt once was a predominately Christian country until Islamism took it over.

It is important to know CAIR is not working alone to move Islamism forward by first shutting down criticism of it.

The OIC is a Saudi-based Islamic organization with UN status and an office in New York.  The OIC has been successful in getting non-binding resolutions put through the U.N. Human Right's Council urging that criticism of Islam should be a crime even down at the local or regional level.

The OIC is the largest Islamic organizational body in the world.  When I called them out about their Fiqh Council's approval of martyrdom, the Academy's website was pulled from the Internet.  Luckily, I was able to retrieve an archive copy of it which states it is their subsidiary.  Coincidence?

CAIR's efforts to go after American leaders who are critical of Islamism, often with the help of left-leaning organizations, and the OIC's goal to make it a crime to criticize Islam is nothing more than imposing Sharia Law on non-Muslims and non-Muslim countries.

CAIR Press Release

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Become familiar with the Muslim groups we should be lifting up in America:

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

CAIR's recent attempts to pressure others:

CAIR Florida slams Rep. House Leader, Adam Hasner!

Action Alert #572: Ask Calif. Radio Station to Reprimand Anti-Muslim Hosts

Action Alert #571: Challenge Bill Banning Hijab in Okla. Driver’s Photos

CAIR-Chicago Condemns Hate Speech by IL GOP Candidate

CAIR-CAN: Muslims Call for 'Consistent' Stand on Free Speech (they are mad that  Brigitte Gabriel  *Act for America) was coming to Canada)

America's fusion centers concern CAIR

CAIR: Fla. Muslims Ask Synagogue to Balance Presentation on Islam

CAIR Canada seeks to bring enemy combatant to Canada

Razi Hashmi, CAIR-OK, claims Oklahomans concerned about taxpayer's support for Israel

Razi Hashmi, CAIR-OK, shills for Hamas

Razi Hashmi, CAIR-OK, implies U.S. Rep. Mary Fallin should be neutral in Israel/Hamas conflict

Action Alert #542: Ask Attorney General to Free Sami Al-Arian

OIC Fiqh Academy

Their subsidiary, the Islamic Figh Academy or Council approves of martyrdom for Islam.

Other:

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May 21, 2007 ... Sabir, of Boca Raton, Fla., testified at trial that Shah never told him he was talking with an Al Qaeda recruiter. At the pledge ceremony, ...

OIC adopts Durban II

The Organization of Islamic Conference, the world's largest Islamic organization, who is likely positioning itself to be the next caliphate, has adopted the final document of Durbin II which was ratified three days earlier than expected by voice vote. 

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's strong denouncement of Israel and the very public walkout by EU delegates during his speech at Durban II followed by the media frenzy is probably the reason the adoption of the final document was hurriedly finished.

Nevertheless, the OIC will push forward with their attempt to stop criticism of Islam.  This Saudi-based organization, with a permanent seat at the UN,  will continue to try to apply Sharia law on non-Muslim countries and I hope you are paying attention.

It will be so much easier for Islamists to march forward in weak and even some strong countries, if they are successful in enforcing the non-binding resolution to end criticism of religion, (i.e., Islam)  adopted by the UN Human Rights Council in March. 

It's clear by their statement they believe their efforts have been successful:

"...The Organization of the Islamic Conference welcomes and expresses its satisfaction at the adoption of the final text by consensus at the Durban Review Conference on the second day of its session. It feels that the success of the conference.

The OIC believes that the limits of discrimination and racism have already been defined by existing international human rights instruments. It also acknowledges Freedom of Expression as a fundamental right which must be exercised with responsibility and respect. However, it feels the need to have a proper mechanism to assure the implementation of such norms with full respect and to this end supports the proposal of the UN Special Rapporteur and the UN High Commissioner to establish national, regional and international monitoring bodies for racist, xenophobic and discriminatory acts.

The OIC has always emphasized that the international community should act in the spirit of moderation and dialogue and not confrontation. As such, the consensus text adopted by the Durban Review Conference would further strengthen its conviction to continue to work in the same line with the international community towards a world free of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance..."  OIC

No religion should ever be above criticism

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OIC's monthly Islamophobia Reports (they are keeping track)

World Bulletin [ OIC discusses set-up of independent human rights ... 

President Obama to work with OIC; its Fiqh Academy approves of martyrdom!

Islamonline 2004: This is the same principle that serves as a basis for the recent resolution issued by The Islamic Fiqh Council affiliated to the OIC in its fourteenth session, held in Duha (Qatar) 5–13 Dhul-Qi`dah 1423 A.H., 11–16 January 2003 C.E., 
... The Islamic Fiqh Council (Academy)  stresses that martyr operations are a form of jihad, and carrying out those operations is a legitimate right that has nothing to do with terrorism or suicide. Those operations become obligatory when they become the only way to stop the aggression of the enemy, defeat it, and grievously damage its power.

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

Islamic Fiqh Academy

The Islamic Fiqh Academy (IFA) is a subsidiary organ of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), created by the Third Islamic Summit Conference held in Makkah al-Mukarramah (Saudi Arabia) in Rabiul Awwal 1401 H (January 1981). It is based in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia).

Note:  They have pulled this website off-line and the link above is an archived page.

Nigeria signs OIC Charter

In mid March, the Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) revised their 1972 charter.  This organization is likely positioning itself to be the next Islamic caliphate:

"...Adopted unanimously, the new charter allows new countries to join the 57-Muslim body with just a majority vote instead of the usual unanimous agreement, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).

It allows faster decision making, creating new institutions for the 57-nation body and streamlining the OIC's operations.

...The charter was adopted after several days of intense talks and despite the absence of several prominent leaders including Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah and Libya's Moamer Kadhafi.

..."The possibility of an Islamic Renaissance lies before us," Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told the summit.  "We need to get our act together as an organization of Muslim nations."

Islamonline

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OIC Charter

OIC Member States

The Federal Republic of Nigeria signs the OIC Charter

OIC discusses set-up of an independent and permanent human rights commission

Iran president to attend Geneva racism meet: UN

Reuters - ‎7 hours ago‎

Also present will be Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary- general of the 56-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), which has sought to have ...

An Islamic Caliphate may be closer than you think

UN urged to reject bar on defamation of religion

Reuters - ‎Mar 25, 2009‎

The OIC resolution says "Islam is frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and terrorism" and calls on UN member states "to combat ...

President Obama to work with OIC; its Figh Council approves of martyrdom!

 

CAIR Florida slams Rep. House Leader, Adam Hasner!

Florida Security Council Free Speech Summit banner

CAIR, a spinoff of the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas infrastructure in America, is at it again.  This time they are blasting Florida House Leader, Adam Hasner, for being on the host committee of a Free Speech Summit sponsored by the Florida Security Council which features Geert Wilders as a keynote speaker.  The International Free Press Society is also on this committee.

Free Speech Summit Video:

From the CAIR Florida press release:

"The Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on the leader of that state's House Republicans to disassociate himself from an upcoming anti-Islam conference backed by a "motley collection of Islamophobes and Muslim-bashers."

CAIR said Rep. Adam Hasner is on the "host committee" for the April 27 conference in Delray Beach, Fla., featuring Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders. Wilders was recently denied entry to Britain because of his extreme anti-Muslim views, including urging that the Quran, Islam's revealed text, be banned/

......The founder of another conference sponsoring group, Act! for America's Brigitte Gabriel, told the Australian Jewish News: "Every practicing Muslim is a radical Muslim." She also claimed that "Islamo-fascism is a politically-correct word...it's the vehicle for Islam...Islam is the problem."

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Free Speech Summitt

Hasner shrugs off CAIR slam

CAIR's recent attempts to pressure others:

Action Alert #572: Ask Calif. Radio Station to Reprimand Anti-Muslim Hosts

Action Alert #571: Challenge Bill Banning Hijab in Okla. Driver’s Photos

CAIR-Chicago Condemns Hate Speech by IL GOP Candidate

CAIR-CAN: Muslims Call for 'Consistent' Stand on Free Speech (they are mad that  Brigitte Gabriel  *Act for America) was coming to Canada)

America's fusion centers concern CAIR

 CAIR: Fla. Muslims Ask Synagogue to Balance Presentation on Islam

CAIR Canada seeks to bring enemy combatant to Canada

Razi Hashmi, CAIR-OK, claims Oklahomans concerned about taxpayer's support for Israel

Razi Hashmi, CAIR-OK, shills for Hamas

Razi Hashmi, CAIR-OK, implies U.S. Rep. Mary Fallin should be neutral in Israel/Hamas conflict

Action Alert #542: Ask Attorney General to Free Sami Al-Arian

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

U.S. to join the U.N. Human Rights Council

The U.S. will join the U.N. Human Rights Council, you know the one that just passed a resolution to make defaming religion, specifically Islam, a crime. 

"The Obama administration decided Tuesday to join the U.N. Human Rights Council, reversing a decision by the Bush administration to shun the United Nations' premier rights body to protest the influence of repressive states, according to U.N. diplomats and rights activists.

The United States will participate in elections in May for one of three seats on the 47-member council, joining a slate that includes Belgium, Norway and New Zealand. New Zealand has offered to step aside to allow the United States to run unchallenged, according to a U.S. official..."

Now, will the U.S. support the resolution that asks governments to make it a crime to criticize Islam?

The Washington Post

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The Sword of Islam, the Pen of the UN The New American

The new threat to freedom of expression

Christian Science Monitor - ‎Mar 30, 2009‎

The UN passage of a resolution barring defamation of religion, especially Islam, should be a wake-up call. By Paula Schriefer Washington - "In the future ...

CSW decries passing of UN defamation resolution ChristianToday

UN urged to reject bar on defamation of religion

Reuters - ‎Mar 25, 2009‎

The OIC resolution says "Islam is frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and terrorism" and calls on UN member states "to combat ...

U.N. Council ignores mass petition - OIC and Islamic countries wins!

Islamic countries, through the OIC, have won again with the adoption of a defamation of religions resolution for the 2nd or 3rd year in a row calling for criminal prosecution of those who criticize religion down to the local level. 

Where is the outrage from President Obama, our American leader who should stand strong for the principles of human rights and freedom?

This is very bad news for freedom, especially in weaker countries where it will be easier now for Islamists to move in and try to take over parts of these countries since to criticize their actions would be considered defaming Islam.  Over time, their goal will be to take over all the country.  Other countries, who want the U.N. to be more powerful (President Obama?), can be in peril, as well. 

This won't happen overnight but stayed tuned:

"The U.N. Human Rights Council adopted a “defamation of religions” resolution (note: which only mentions Islam) on Thursday, ignoring a mass petition signed by over 180 non-government organizations from more than 50 different countries.

"Human rights protect people, not ideas," responded L. Bennett Graham, Becket Fund representative to the U.N., in a statement after the resolution was passed. "The passage of this resolution by the Human Rights Council is a disaster for people of all faiths."

...Critics of the defamation of religions resolution warn that it could be used to legitimize anti-blasphemy laws and intimidate human rights activists and religious dissenters. Instead of protecting adherents of religions, including those of religious minorities, the resolution protects religions themselves, they say.

“Unfortunately these resolutions seek to undermine the very principles we were celebrating just last December with the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” said U.K.-based Christian Solidarity Worldwide advocacy director Alexa Papadouris. “They attack freedom of expression and freedom of religion and seek to protect powerful governments at the expense of often powerless individuals.”

The OIC rejected the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and created their own Sharia-compliant onein 1990 which is tied to the principles of the Koran, the Sunnah, and the sharia protecting Islam over individuals rights.

The OIC is a forming caliphate and is a danger to the entire world.

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Z: Organization of Islamic Conference meets strong opposition

The OIC & the UN: Islamophobia and "defamation of religion".

The draft declaration recommends that local, national and international laws and human rights covenants be reviewed and amended as necessary so that "defamation of Islam" is made a criminal offence, losing the protection it has long enjoyed under the "pretext" of "freedom of expression, counter terrorism or national security". It recommends that legal instruments be established to punish offenders -- that is, those who "defame" Islam by associating it with violence, human rights abuses or terrorism.

World Jewish Congress Blasts UN Vote Threatening Freedom of Expression

Z: Ambassador Susan Rice: UN is indispensable  1/30/09 (May God help us...)

Z: Other posts on the OIC

Organization of Islamic Conference meets strong opposition

Islamic countries, through the Organization of Islamic Conference, are trying to impose Sharia Law on non-Muslim countries through the U.N. as it pertains to criticizing Islam.

Today a group of 187 NGOs from 50 countries launched their campaign against this assault on freedom.

No religion should EVER be above criticism:

"UN Watch, Freedom House, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, and the International Humanist and Ethical Union and 183 other non-governmental organizations from more than 50 countries around the world today called on U.N. member states to reject a "pervasive and mounting campaign" by Islamic states to ban criticism of religion under international law. (See joint NGO statement below.)

"It’s an attempt to gut the concept of human rights of its original meeting, which is to protect individuals from harm or state control, not to shield a set of beliefs from critical inquiry," said Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based UN Watch, an independent human rights monitoring organization.

"Our freedoms of speech and religion are facing a combined assault by multiple regressive resolutions this week at the U.N. Human Rights Council, and proposed provisions for next month’s Durban 2 conference that endorse the Islamic proposal to change a core UN treaty on racism."

Within the letter, which is linked below these bullet items should be reviewed:

Alarmed by the draft resolution on freedom of expression circulated by Egypt, whose amendments seek to restrict, not promote, protections for free speech;

Alarmed by the recently-announced initiative of the U.N. “Ad Hoc Committee on Complementary Standards” to amend the International Convention for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) by adding a protocol on “defamation of religions”;

Alarmed by provisions in the latest draft outcome document of the Durban Review Conference that, through coded language and veiled references, endorse and encourage these anti-democratic initiatives;

1. Call upon all governments to oppose the “defamation of religions” resolution currently tabled at the UN Human Rights Council, and the objectionable provisions of the freedom of expression resolution;

2. Call upon all governments to resist the efforts of the “Ad Hoc Committee on Complementary Standards” to alter the ICERD;

3. Call upon all governments not to accept or legitimize a Durban Review Conference outcome that directly or indirectly supports the “defamation of religions” campaign at the expense of basic freedoms and individual human rights.

You can read who signed the letter here

Update 3/26/09 4:10 PM:  UN body adopts resolution on religious defamation:

A United Nations forum on Thursday passed a resolution condemning "defamation of religion" as a human rights violation, despite wide concerns that it could be used to justify curbs on free speech in Muslim countries.

The U.N. Human Rights Council adopted the non-binding text, proposed by Pakistan on behalf of Islamic states, with a vote of 23 states in favour and 11 against, with 13 abstentions.

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Islamic states seek to impose Islamic law on non-Muslim countries through the U.N.!

Everyone must know what the Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) is trying to accomplish at the UN Human Rights Council.  If they are successful enough times to get non-binding resolutions passed, as they have in the past few years,  to makes it a crime to criticize Islam, it can become a "international legal norm" according to UN Watch!

What the OIC is trying to do is to impose Islamic law on non-Muslim countries!  Islamic law does not allow any criticism of Islam, even if the criticism is true.  This is how the totalitarian component of Islam works.  If they succeed, it could destroy free speech throughout the world, especially in weaker countries which then would likely fall under Islamic rule, over time, since no one could crticize the Islamists march forward.  My God, I hope you are paying attention.

Do you think this will be the only time the OIC tries to impose Islamic law on non-Muslim countries?  Not likely.  If this caliphate in-the-making can stifle any criticism of Islam in non-Muslim countries we are in big trouble! 

This is extremely serious.  Are you going to stand for it?

"The Islamic states circulated a new resolution at the current session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday that would criminalize defamation of Islam as a human rights violation and encourage the imposition of Shari'a.

According to the nonbinding governmental resolution, titled "Combating Defamation of Religions," anything deemed insulting to Islamic sensitivities would be banned as a "serious affront to human dignity" and a blatant violation of religious freedom.

The resolution would attempt to influence "local, national, regional and international levels" to incorporate such guarantees of this perceived freedom in their "legal and constitutional systems."

"It is a covert package coordinated by Pakistan against the West," said Leon Saltiel, director of communications at the Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch, on Thursday. "They think there is too much liberty and freedom of expression in the Western world, which therefore defames religion."

This resolution is part of the ongoing campaign of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, a powerful bloc of 56 states at the UN, which began to introduce annual resolutions in 1999 to ban the "defamation of Islam."

Although similar resolutions have been passed for the past couple of years, this resolution is of particular importance because "the ideas of the resolution will be incorporated into Durban texts," said Saltiel, referring to the UN Durban Review Conference on Racism to be held in Geneva next month.

"If the resolutionis passed enough times, it becomes an international legal norm," Saltiel said.

"Tragically, given that Islamic states completely dominate the Human Rights Council, with the support of non-democratic members like Russia, China and Cuba, adoption of the regressive resolution is a foregone conclusion," UN Watch said.

The "Combating Defamation of Religions" resolution will be voted on March 26-27, giving organizations in Geneva such as UN Watch two weeks to mobilize international opposition to it, Saltiel said..."

Jerusalem Post

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Australia threatens 'Durban II' boycott  

Swiss Jews worried by pre-Durban IIanti-Semitism spike

UN Watch Applauds Dutch FM’s Call on EU Ministers to Withdraw from Discredited Durban II Conference

Free speech threatened by U.N. (CNN video)

An Islamic Caliphate may be closer than you think

President Obama to work with OIC; its Figh Council approves of martyrdom!

UN Watch website

Top UK Islamic leader calls for attacks against those who stop smuggling to Gaza

Islamists have such freedom in Britain.  I only hope to God these hateful Islamic hegemony people never get this bold in America! 

The Istanbul Declaration that is referred to in this article is not easy to find on the Internet and I'll keep looking but it sounds like it could be a Muslim Brotherhood-backed document:

"One of the UK's most influential Islamic leaders, who has helped counter extremism in the country's mosques, is accused of advocating attacks on the Royal Navy if it tries to stop arms for Hamas being smuggled into Gaza.

Dr Daud Abdullah, deputy director-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, is facing calls for his resignation, after it emerged that he is one of 90 Muslim leaders from around the world who have signed a public declaration in support of Hamas and military action.

Abdullah, who led the MCB's boycott of Holocaust Memorial Day, was a member of the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board, the body endorsed by the government that trains imams and was set up to curtail the activities of extremist clerics. In January, he briefed the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, and communities secretary Hazel Blears on the situation in Gaza and its likely impact on social cohesion in the UK.

There were calls last night for the government and the MCB to condemn Abdullah's actions. "The British government should stop funding organisations such as the MCB and supporting events such as Islam Expo, which hosts scholars from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan who hold extremist views," said Irfan Al Alawi, international director of the Centre for Islamic Pluralism.

Abdullah's name appears as a signatory to a declaration in Istanbul last month that describes Israel's recent military campaign as "the manifest victory which Allah has granted us in the land of Gaza". It opposes the "so-called Arab peace initiative" and the Palestinian Authority and issues a series of obligations to the "Islamic Nation", calling on it to "carry on with the jihad and resistance against the occupier until the liberation of all Palestine".

Obligation six declares that Muslims must seek to open the crossings in Palestine so that "money, clothing, food, medicine, weapons and other essentials" can enter Gaza and Palestinians "are able to live and perform the jihad in the way of Allah Almighty".

It warns: "The closure of the crossings, or the prevention of the entry of weapons through them, should be regarded as high treason in the Islamic Nation, and clear support for the Zionist enemy."

The most contentious obligation instructs Muslims to attack foreign navies. In January, Gordon Brown offered Royal Navy resources to help monitor events in Gaza and to stop weapons being smuggled into the territory.

But, according to the Istanbul declaration, there is an obligation for "the Islamic Nation to regard the sending of foreign warships into Muslim waters, claiming to control the borders and prevent the smuggling of arms to Gaza, as a declaration of war, a new occupation, sinful aggression, and a clear violation of the sovereignty of the Nation". It continues: "This must be rejected and fought by all means and ways..."

Guardian

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Daud Abdullah video dated January 2009 about Gaza threatening to march on the government's door.  And here's another video from March 2008

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The Iconoclast - New English Review  

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Muslim Brotherhood Announces Movie of its Founder

Middle East Times - ‎Mar 5, 2009‎

(Sipa Photos via Newscom) CAIRO -- After years of rumors and discredited announcements, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has confirmed that a movie will be made ...

 

In Defense Of Democracy Promotion

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Stand for Israel

The conflict between Israel and Palestine is largely a religious one. This is how it is written in the Hamas charter, which is supported by the Muslim Brotherhood, a global Islamist movement and organization, and others in the Muslim world and even here in America.

For example, the largest Islamic charity in the U.S., the Holy Land Foundation, was shut down and its operators were convicted of supplying millions to Hamas.

The director of CAIR-OK, Razi Hashmi, said during the recent Israeli/Gaza conflict and I quote: "America should take immediate steps to end Israel’s "illegal and immoral” offensive against the Gaza Strip Hamas rulers" (NewsOK).

 

The Gaza Strip Hamas rulers?

Most of the Islamic societies in Oklahoma have partnered with this organization which is an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas infrastructure in America. It was named an unidicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case for this reason.

A good number of Muslim religious leaders have ruled that to martyr oneself to kill an Israeli is NOT TERRORISM.  This includes the Islamic Figh Council,  a subsidiary of the Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Conference, the largest Islamic international organization in the world. It even has a permanent delegation to the United Nations. Other than the United Nations, it is the largest international organization of any kind! It's a caliphate organization in the making, folks. Start paying attention to it more as it tries to impose Sharia law through the United Nations on non-Muslim countries. This is taking place now in the free speech area.  And it is probably only the beginning.

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

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

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

So for ANY Muslim leader or organization to claim they are against terrorism seems incomplete, at this point. They must clarify that martyring oneself for Islam and the sake of Allah is wrong AND that it is wrong to martyr oneself to kill an Israeli.

The use of the standard partial Quranic verse, "there is no compulsion in religion" that we often hear in America is an attempt to show you there is not a problem with Islam, so don't sweat it. However, there are many verses of war and Islamic supremacy in the Quran. Cherry picking verses from the Quran can be very deceptive. 

 

"And whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, it will never be accepted of him, and in the Hereafter he will be one of the losers. Aal ‘Imraan 3:85

Verse 6.165, 9.033, 048.028, 61.009 in the Quran have been translated by at least five Arabic experts into English to say that Islam is to prevail or is to be superior over all other religions.

See what I mean?

 

All one really has to do is look how Islamic law is applied in the Middle East and understand the global Islamic terror threat the world faces is unprecedented in history.

The UN created Israel after the last Islamic caliphate was defeated - the Ottoman Empire. The ugly head of a reforming Islamic powerhouse is gearing up but are enough Americans paying attention?

 

Lastly, Palestine did not exist during Biblical times or when the Quran was created, it is not mentioned in either book. Israel is mentioned in both books.

God bless Israel and the United States of America!

 

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The Middle East 1916-2001 : A Documentary Record   Yale Law School

 

The Hamas Covenent 1988  Yale Law School

 

Free speech threatened by U.N.

Free speech threatened by U.N.

This is a must watch video of the inherent danger facing the world and our freedom which I've been discussing for quite a while now:

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More posts:   Organization of Islamic Conference, the Saudi-backed global Islamist body, in other words, the next caliphate in the works, is behind these actions

An Islamic Caliphate may be closer than you think

I've written a number of times about the Organization of Islamic Conference and also the Muslim Brotherhood. Both are worldwide Islamic organizations which seek to gain influence and control over the Muslim worldwide community (ummah). Their ultimate goal is an Islamic Caliphate. How, or if, these two organizations intertwine is unknown.

Below is an article about the Saudi-based OIC that's a must read:

"Britain has just witnessed the spectacle of a duly elected parliamentarian from another EU country, Geert Wilders of the Netherlands, being denied entry to the country because he constituted “a threat to public policy.” Wilders, after being detained briefly at Heathrow, was sent back to Holland — where he has further legal troubles. Three weeks earlier, a Dutch appeals court had ordered prosecutors to begin criminal proceedings against Wilders for “inciting hatred and discrimination” and “insulting Muslim worshippers” through his public statements and his 2008 film, Fitna. The order to proceed with the criminal prosecution resulted from pressure put on European states and on the UN Human Rights Council by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). The OIC’s aim is to punish and suppress any alleged Islamophobia, around the world but particularly in Europe, and it has been a leader in creating the conditions that made the U.K.’s Wilders ban possible.

The OIC is one of the largest intergovernmental organizations in the world. It encompasses 56 Muslim states plus the Palestinian Authority. Spread over four continents, it claims to speak in the name of the ummah (the universal Muslim community), which numbers about 1.3 billion. The OIC’s mission is to unite all Muslims worldwide by rooting them in the Koran and the Sunnah — the core of traditional Islamic civilization and values. It aims at strengthening solidarity and cooperation among all its members, in order to protect the interests of Muslims everywhere and to galvanize the ummah into a unified body.

The OIC is a unique organization — one that has no equivalent in the world. It unites the religious, economic, military, and political strength of 56 states. By contrast, the European Union represents half as many states and is a secular body only, and the Vatican — which speaks for the world’s 1.1 billion Catholics — is devoid of any political power. Many Muslims in the West resist the OIC’s tutelage and oppose its efforts to supplant Western law with sharia. But the OIC’s resources are formidable.

The organization has numerous subsidiary institutions collaborating at the highest levels with international organizations in order to implement its political objectives worldwide. Its main working bodies are the Islamic Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), which seeks to impose on the West the Islamic perception of history and civilization; the Observatory of Islamophobia, which puts pressure on Western governments and international bodies to adopt laws punishing “Islamophobia” and blasphemy; and the newly created Islamic International Court of Justice. As stated in its 1990 Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, the OIC is strictly tied to the principles of the Koran, the Sunnah, and the sharia. In a word, the OIC seeks to become the reincarnation of the Caliphate."

Read the full article here

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National Review Online, NY - Feb 16, 2009
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HENTOFF: UN attacks the individual right of conscience
Galesburg Register-Mail, IL - Feb 9, 2009
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Obama Takes the Appeasement Path
MyFox Dallas, TX - Feb 12, 2009
... the President doesn’t seem to have addressed in it the question of whether this cooperation would extend to the OIC’s stated goal of forcing the UN to ...

 

UNIslamophobia resolution is a free speech killer
EuropeNews, Denmark - Feb 3, 2009
... after it got the United Nations to pass a gag rule on insulting religions, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) told our new president in a ...

 

OIC: Obama says US can work with Muslims
Today's Zaman, Turkey - Feb 2, 2009
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Muslim Ummar awaits Obama’s vision, pledges beyond America - OIC boss
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Examining The Islamic Campaign To Destroy Free Speech
Evening Bulletin, PA - Jan 22, 2009
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called the film “offensively anti-Islamic” and regurgitated OIC arguments: “There is no justification for hate speech or ...

 

OIC Monthly Islamophobia Bulletin

President Obama to work with OIC; its Fiqh Academy approves of martyrdom!

The Organization of Islamic Conference or OIC is the largest organization in the world.  It has permanent status at the United Nations. Their influence worldwide is growing and is likely positioning itself to be a leader of the Muslim Ummah (world) with possible goals for an Islamic caliphate. Currently, the OIC already claims:

"...The Organization has the singular honor to galvanize the Ummah into a unified body and have actively represented the Muslims by espousing all causes close to the hearts of over 1.5 billion Muslims of the world..."

Its animosity toward Israel apparent since it was "established in 1969 as a result of criminal arson of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem".

On President Obama's Inauguration day the OIC placed an open letter to him in the New York Times.

Yesterday, President Obama had a letter delivered to the OIC Secretary General thanking them for their open letter, which was also carried in the International Herald Tribune (France).  Obama's letter was not released to the public:

"He (Obama) expressed "his staunch confidence in the ability of the US and the OIC to work together in a spirit of peace and friendship for the sake of building a more secure world over the next four years."

He also expressed "his willingness to work with the Secretary General in order to enhance these efforts and reinforce the good relations binding the US and the OIC..."

The OIC is Saudi-based and their subsidiary, the Islamic Figh Academy or Council. approves of martyrdom for Islam; asserts "that jihad and martyr operations done to defend the Islamic creed, dignity, freedom and the sovereignty of states is not considered terrorism but a basic form of necessary defense for legitimate rights."

Way to go President Obama. 

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Organization of the Islamic Conference and the International Organizations

Islamic Fiqh Academy

The Islamic Fiqh Academy (IFA) is a subsidiary organ of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), created by the Third Islamic Summit Conference held in Makkah al-Mukarramah (Saudi Arabia) in Rabiul Awwal 1401 H (January 1981). It is based in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia).

Note:  They have pulled this website off-line and the link above is an archived page.

Saleh Bin-Humaid Named World Fiqh Academy President 

Martyr Operations Carried Out by the Palestinians  7/26/07 

Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour, senior advisor to Saudi Prince, connection to Barack Obama

Organization of Islamic Conference wants a new partnership with President Obama

In an article where Nat Hentoff, an authority on the First Amendment and the Bill of Rights was interviewed, we read about an open letter to President Obama from the Organization of Islamic Conference that was printed in the New York Times on the day Obama was inaugurated:

"...In its address to our new president, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (which has permanent status at the United Nations) made no mention of its own strategic skills that resulted, on Dec. 18, in the passage by the U.N. General Assembly of a nonbinding resolution (with strong advice to its members) that condemns "defamation of religion," especially Islam.

In a 83-to-53 vote, with 42 abstentions, the U.N. General Assembly urges nations to provide "adequate protections" in their laws or constitutions against "acts of hatred, discrimination, intimidation and coercion resulting from defamation of religions and incitement to religious hatred in general."

Only Islam and Muslims are specifically named in this resolution against religious defamation sponsored by Uganda -- on behalf of the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference -- with co-sponsors Belarus and Venezuela. In the opposition were the United States, a majority of European countries, Japan, India and a number of other nations..."  Galesburg.com

In the OIC's open letter to American's new president, the OIC states the myths about Islam is the fault of extremists in the West and East.  Islam is a religion of peace they wrote.  

But here's the deal, their own Islamic Fiqh Academy (Council) reaffirmed in January 2003 that martyrdom operations to defend Islam are acceptable.  They also ruled this is not terrorism which may be why these Islamists organizations get so worked up when we use phrases like "Islamic terrorism":

"The Islamic Fiqh Council asserts that jihad and martyr operations done to defend the Islamic creed, dignity, freedom and the sovereignty of states is not considered terrorism but a basic form of necessary defense for legitimate rights...Those operations become obligatory when they become the only way to stop the aggression of the enemy, defeat it, and grievously damage its power...It is not allowed to use terms such as “jihad”, “terrorism”, and “violence”, which have become frequently used by today’s mass media as scientific terms, to mean other connotations beyond their basic well known meanings."

I hope you are paying close attention here how Islamists twist the truth.  The rulings by this council and others that martyrdom operations are not terrorism negates, any and all, anti-terror statements made by Islamic organization and individuals in the United States.

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"...Many myths about Islam, fostered by extremists in both the West and East, have proliferated in the last decade, and a new word –“Islamophobia”– has even entered the world’s lexicon to describe anti-Muslim acts of prejudice and violence. Despite these pernicious myths, you will find that Islam is a religion of peace. Tolerance is its benchmark and borne of the very nature of Islam. Nor is Islam an exclusive religion. It is an integral part of the history of world religions. It continues and confirms the previous scriptures. Along with Christianity and Judaism, Islam emanates from the same part of the world, comes from the same God, and holds to the same Prophets, mainly Abraham. It has been tested over fourteen hundred years, and shown itself to be a religion of compassion, mercy, justice, and equality.

... As Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, I wish to assure you that we will be at your side to see that justice prevails and that the forces which are out to undo peace are defeated.

Krauthammer: Obama Distorts America's Stance on Muslims

OIC Islamophobia report for December:

"Obama requested to take oath using his middle name 'Hussain'

–Addressing a public meeting after Eid-ul-adha prayers in New York (Dec 8), Sheik Ubaid has requested US President-elect to take oath of the office using his full name Barack Hussain Obama and bury "Islamophobia" in the "cemetery of other social evils." The leader asked Obama to launch a new chapter in the American history in which "racism" and "sexism" are stamped out of public life and human rights of all are respected. He also said that with "anti-Semitism" already erased from the country, the other major social ill to be defeated is "Islamophobia".

Islamic Fiqh Academy

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Billboard in Detroit warns about Sharia Law danger in U.S.

 

 

I found this picture in the Organization of Islamic Conference November Islamophobia report:

Detroit billboard says religious law imposed by Islam threatens rights. Shariah, or Islamic law, may be spreading around the world, but it isn't going to be established in the United States without opposition, vow members of the United American Committee (UAC). Officials with the non-profit have erected a 48-foot-long billboard just outside of Detroit, home to one of the largest groups of Muslims in the U.S.

The UAC says it's "dedicated to awakening the nation to the threats of radical Islam" and works to "educate Americans on the nature of Islamic extremism." The group's mission is to battle against "the ideological aspects of the war on terror to counter elements of radical Islam in America." The announcement about the sign comes as Islam expert Daniel Pipes warns in a report in the Jerusalem Post Shariah is advancing one step at a time into Western Europe and North America.

In: http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=82062 retrieved on 29.11.2008

OIC November Islamophobic Report

Saudi king seeks global interfaith respect while public practice of non-Islamic faiths in own country banned!

What a joke:

The head of the UN General Assembly decried the West's "unbridled greed" yesterday as he opened a conference on religious tolerance that appeared to be full of contradictions.

Reverend Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann spoke just before Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, who called for inter-faith respect despite laws in his country permitting the practice of only one narrow sect of Islam.

...Mr. Brockmann, a Nicaraguan priest and president of the 192-country assembly since September, organized the conference. It is "sponsored" by Saudi Arabia, which had sought a UN follow-up to its efforts aimed at promoting interfaith dialogue through a conference held in July in Madrid.

...The Saudi monarchy's critics dismiss the campaign, claiming such statements are frequently made on the international stage while the practice of restricting religious observance continues domestically.

Saudi Arabia enforces a strict and conservative version of Sunni Islam, while its more than two million Shiites face discrimination in education and employment. Public worship for all other religions is banned and religious police ensure Muslims pray five times a day.

National Post

Update 8:25 PM:  "...One delegate announced the plan to establish an Islamic peace foundation in the US by the end of this year, adding that the foundation would work for translating the king’s initiative into action.  Oh, oh...

...Jordan’s King Abdallah said it was impossible to talk about interfaith harmony without resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

“I can think of no more effective way to ease East-West and interfaith tensions than to end this divisive conflict,” he said.

A string of Arab leaders said Islam was falsely accused of backing terrorism. They said their religion calls for moderation and tolerance and eschews extremism, violence and bigotry.  Sure...

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See also:

• UN:  High-level meeting on the culture of peace 

• Saudi king calls for unity in face of terror

• Secretary-General's remarks at a press conference with Prince Saud Al-Faisal, Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia, following the conclusion of the High-level Meeting on Interfaith Dialogue

• Religious freedom is for Ummah to decide

King Abdullah wants UN to create body to oversee religious dialogue

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia may propose to the UN they create a UN interfaith body that oversee all religious dialogues.  His kingdom forbids the practice of religious freedom so why would he encourage interfaith talks that are forbidden in Saudi Arabia?  It makes no sense. 

Today and tomorrow, the UN is holding an interfaith conference at the request of King Abdullah.  It is clear, based on previous reports, his goal is to protect Islam, rather than protect religious freedom.

Will he succeed?

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Saudi Arabia to Lead U.N. Faith Forum

Will King Abdullah seek U.N. oversight over ALL religious dialogue?

A religious dialogue conference, organized this past summer by the ruler of Saudi Arabia where the strictest form of Islam is practice, seeks to create guidelines for worldwide interfaith dialogues, overseen by the United Nations,  This is an attempt to bring Western countries and their freedom of expression under the arm and critique of the U.N. with the goal to stop criticism of Islam.  

It is dangerous.

You can call me a skeptic, if you like, but this conference did come up with a declaration calling for the U.N. to oversee ALL religious dialogue even at the local level.

From the Madrid Declaration:

"...To agree on international guidelines for dialogue among the followers of religions and cultures through which moral values and ethical principles, which are common denominators among such followers, so as to strengthen stability and achieve prosperity for all humans..."

To work on urging governmental and non-governmental organizations to issue a document that stipulates respect for religions and their symbols, the prohibition of their denigration and the repudiation of those who commit such acts..."

The Saudi ruler will travel to the United States to discuss his proposal further with the U.N. next month.  

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See also my post about the Organization of Islamic Conference attempts to stop criticism of Islam here.

Islamic world renews efforts to limit freedom of expression to prevent criticism of Islam

Earlier this month, a large number of human rights delegates came together to discuss limits to freedom of religion at the request of Islamic countries.  The non-stop efforts of the Islamic world, in this regard, should be a big wake up call to everyone who values free speech. 

No religion should ever be declared immune from being criticized:

...Convened by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the request of the Islamic States, a dozen experts and many other speakers took the floor to explore the links between Freedom of Expression and incitement to religious hatred.

Many of the experts urged caution in proposing new legislation that could have negative consequences for the very people whose rights we are striving to protect, and while implementation of the existing legislation permitted under Articles 19 and 20 of the ICCPR (the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights) is still so patchy in its adoption.

Pakistan, Algeria, Egypt, Indonesia and the representative of the OIC were joined by former UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Doudou Diene, in calling for a review of Articles 19 and 20 of the ICCPR, and tighter restrictions on Freedom Expression in the aftermath of 9/11 which, they argued, has created an entirely new set of circumstances. This view was strongly opposed by several Western delegations (as well as IHEU) on the grounds that today’s tensions are nothing new, that the limits already offered by Articles 19 and 20 are entirely adequate – and in any case have still to be fully adopted by many states.

There is much more at Europe News

Saudi's interfaith conference seeks UN oversight over all religious dialogue!!

One participant at the Saudi-backed interfaith dialogue that took place in Spain this week presented a draft resolution for the UN to oversee all religious dialogue, including local and regional talks!  If this happens it will eventually mean no one will be able to bring up troubling aspect of Islam or discuss Islamism and its goal of Islamic rule or discuss honor killings or Islamic terrorism and so on because these discussions would be ruled insulting to Islam:

The World Conference on Dialogue opened by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah in Madrid on Wednesday gathered momentum yesterday with a call from the former speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives, Congressman Jose de Venecia Jr., for an interfaith dialogue council to be set up as a formal UN body.

He presented a draft resolution calling on the conference to petition King Abdullah, King Juan Carlos of Spain and Spanish Premier Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to organize a joint Saudi-Spanish request to the UN for an Interfaith Council to promote and oversee “all global, regional and local interfaith dialogues among the great religions, civilizations, cultures, governments… to help resolve politico-religious, sectarian and ethnic conflicts and tensions in various parts of the world.”  arab news

This is exactly what Islamists wanted to happen.  It is far more palatable when the proposal was bought forth by someone outside of Islam such as de Venecia. If Islamists can get religious leaders to buy into being overseen by the U.N in all their religious discussions then that's just one more step to bring the world under UN rule.  This is the likely international body where the Islamic world wants to instill their caliphate on the world!   I actually read this is the goal on a website of a Islamic center in America!

Will this proposal be presented to the U.N.?  I think it will.  Will the U.N. act upon it?  Remember the Islamic world was successful recently when they shut down any future criticsm of Islam in the U.N.'s human rights council.  Now, only Islamic scholars are allowed to Islam at this council!  

This is Islamic trickery at its best.  It's dangerous for all religions and for free speech we so cherish in America since it is all presented under the guise of interfaith dialogue. 

Something the Saudi's will not allow their own citizens to do.

Update 7/21/08:  Muhammad bin Ahmed Tayeb, director general of the Foreign Ministry’s regional office, has called upon the United Nations to adopt the resolutions taken by last week’s interfaith conference in Madrid as working plans for its various organizations.

He said the World Conference on Dialogue in the Spanish capital which was called by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah, was a big success in terms of the large-scale participation of the leaders of different faiths, and the important resolutions it passed.  Arab News

Update 7/21/08:  ,,,the conference ended on a sour note as Christian and Jewish participants complained that the organizers, the Muslim World League, had too much control over the conference's closing communiqué. The document appeared to have been revised without the consent of members of a drafting committee. And the vast majority of participants never had a chance to review any version of the statement before Abdul Rahman Al-Zaid of the Muslim World League read it aloud. "For us as participants from other religions this is not an acceptable procedure for adopting documents," a Russian Orthodox priest participating in the conference, George Ryabykh, said.

Even Rabbi Michael Lerner, who was positive about the conference overall, conceded in an e-mail that "The Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs, and others who were in attendance here were props" and that though there were some women in attendance, they were essentially excluded from the dialogue. For all the oil money the Saudis have, the Madrid conference underscores the difficulty they will have in buying legitimacy in America or among the other world religions.  New York Sun

Update 7/23/08: The Madrid Declaration:  Everyone must be told to respect religion and follow our guidlines for religious dialogue

...5. Respecting heavenly religions, preserving their high status, condemning any insult to their symbols, and combating the exploitation of religion in the instigation of racial discrimination.

7. The significance of  religion and moral values and the need for humans to revert to their Creator in their fight against crime, corruption, drugs, and terrorism, and in preserving the institution of the family and protecting societies from deviant behaviors.

Based on the above, the conference has adopted the following recommendations:

• To reject theories that call for the clash of civilizations and cultures and to warn of the danger of campaigns seeking to deepen conflicts and destabilize peace and security.
• To enhance common human values, to cooperate in their dissemination within societies and to solve the problems that hinder their achievement.
• To disseminate the culture of tolerance and understanding through dialogue so as to be a framework for international relations through holding conferences and symposia, as well as developing relevant cultural, educational and media programs.
• To agree on international guidelines for dialogue among the followers of religions and cultures through which moral values and ethical principles, which are common denominators among such followers, so as to strengthen stability and achieve prosperity for all humans.
• To work on urging governmental and non-governmental organizations to issue a document that stipulates respect for religions and their symbols, the prohibition of their denigration and the repudiation of those who commit such acts.

Update 7/29/08:  The Organization of Islamic Conference had this to say about the interfaith meeting:

The Secretary General of the OIC, Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu today hailed the outcome of the three day World Conference on Dialogue among religions held in Madrid and paid tribute to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud for initiating the Conference.

The OIC Secretary General stated that the Conference was successful in raising awareness of the dangers of the growing intolerance of religious faiths and highlighting cooperation and understanding among diverse religious faiths. He stated that the declaration issued at the end of the Madrid Conference had sent strong message to the international community to uphold respect for the diversity of religions and condemning any insult to their symbols and to combat the exploitation of religion in the instigation of racial discrimination.

The disturbing "sharia compliant" UN Human Rights Council

The UN Human Rights Council, a sham of a council if there ever was one, has decided to be in compliance with sharia law where no discussion that brings forth troubling components of Islam is permitted.  What has happened with this council is exactly how Islamic countries rule over their citizens - where they are allowed only to say "Islam is peace".  These countries reasoned to the UN if you speak the truth about Islam it's akin to spreading hate.  Of course, they didn't phrase it this exact way but that's what is going on.

Why Islamic organizations in the U.S. aren't issuing statement after statement about their fellow Muslim''s lack of freedom of religion or free speech ought to be a big clue about where their hearts and mind are in the grand scheme of things.  At interfaith meetings or forums where Islam is discussed we often hear from Muslims there is no compulsion in religion,  Yet, in Islamic countries where most Americans Muslims come from, this isn't the case, at all.  In these countries if you are born a Muslim the laws, constitution and practices compels one to remain a Muslim.  Most all Islamic countries forbid Muslims from hearing the Gospel of Jesus yet in America they will tell you that Islam includes this gospel.  This discrepancy between what Muslims tells us and the facts is where we need to challenge them as often as possible.  There is an overview of how Islamic countries force its citizens into Islamic bondage here.  Questions you can use that can help weed out false information that is being told to us about Islam are here.  Most Muslims are very persistent and won't bat an eye to tell you about a version of Islam that is not practiced in any Islamic country.  the more you know the more you can stand up to their misinformation.

What I believe we are witnessing is one component of an Islamic caliphate (Islamic rule) taking hold in an international body:

On Monday the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU)---tried to make a brief statement about honour killings, female genital mutilation and stoning.  But as they tried to make the statement, they were constantly interrupted by the representative of Egypt who accused the NGOs of trying to “crucify Islam”. They insisted that sharia law must not be mentioned at the UNHRC, let alone criticised. A Pakistan delegate — whose country speaks for the 57-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in the rights body — said the grouping had “strong objections” to any direct or indirect discussion of sharia.  Joining Egypt in asking the president, Romania's Daru Romulus Costea, to bar any debate that took this path, he said that if allowed it would “amount to spreading of hatred against certain members of this Council”.

On Wednesday Mr Costea told a press conference that he had ruled that only Muslim scholars can be permitted to talk about Islam in the Council. He said that religions deserve special protection because any debate about faith is bound to be “very complex, very sensitive and very intense”. The ruling will not affect findings by the Council’s experts, just its chamber debates, although in a later ruling it was decided that independent experts could be sacked after three years. “Good mandate holders who do their  job right upset governments,” a spokesman for Amnesty International said.

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Is the UN special rapporteur biased against the West?

The Islamic world already has a very strong foothold in the new U.N. Human Rights Council.  What's next? 

The Council, whose membership consists of some of the worst human rights violators in the world appears to be sticking their nose in the U.S. elections.

In its first eleven months of existence, the Council only censured one country in the entire world for human rights violations: Israel. Review all the resolutions against Israel here to get a good perspective of the bias this council has against Israel. 

Soon it will be reporting about racism in America, perhaps just in time to guilt people into voting for Barack Obama, with a bit of Islamophobia through in for good measure.  

Could this be a calculated move designed to shame the U.S. even though the U.S. said they invited this man's critique? 

Diène is from Senegal, a predominantly Muslim country which is a member of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the largest voting bloc at the United Nations.  He has consistently sided with that bloc against Western and other democracies such as Japan.  His cultural and religious biases have led to his obsession with Islamophobia, which he has called “the most serious form of religious defamation.”

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on “contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”, Dr. Doudou Diène, has been invited by the U.S. government for a three week visit this month and next to the cities of Washington, New York, Chicago, Omaha, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Miami, and San Juan in Puerto Rico.

...The invitation should be rescinded immediately. This unwelcome visitor is hardly an objective reporter or impartial judge of racial conditions anywhere.

...Diène talks about how Western-style racism against Muslims is the major factor causing the so-called clash of civilizations between the Judeo-Christian and the Islamic cultures. Where is his condemnation of Islamic fanatics practicing a faith that demands conquest and subjugation of the adherents of all other beliefs, whether they are Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Bahá'ís, or atheists?

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OIC Islamophobia report for April

Below are a few excerpts from the Organization of Islamic Conference new monthly Islamophobia report for April.  The OIC wants to position itself to be a major voice for the Islamic world-wide community in the coming decades and call out those who disrespect Islam:

Negative:

Speaker Calls on Muslims to Boycott Trade with West

– Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said that the Muslim world should boycott trade with any country that allows insult to Islam---He expressed his opinion that the Western countries will reconsider their attitude toward Islam when they see their economic interests at stake.  In 2009 the OIC will begin their new trade block.

McCain's anti-Islam spiritual guide

–Inflammatory anti-Islam remarks by televangelist Rod Parsley, the spiritual guide of White House contender Senator John McCain, has drawn rebuke from a host of American intellectuals, Muslims and non-Muslims alike, the The Washington Post reported on Saturday, April 5.

...Parsley, the leader of a 12,000-member congregation, has described Islam, the religion of nearly 1.5 billion people worldwide, as a "false religion," asking Christians to wage a "war" to obliterate it.

Positive Occurrences

Vote on Freedom of Expression Marks the End of 7th Session of Human Rights Council

– With the support of their allies including China, Russia and Cuba the Islamic States succeeded in forcing through an amendment to a resolution on Freedom of Expression. The amended resolution was adopted on Friday, March 28, 2008 in Geneva by 32 votes in favour. There were no votes against, but 15 abstentions. The resolution intended to renew the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and turning it into an order to report on defamation of religion. It requires the Special Rapporteur: “To report on instances in which the abuse of the right of freedom of expression constitutes an act of racial or religious discrimination…”  In other words, if you criticize Islam its a big offense.

In order for global Islamic forces to take over the world as they want to do, they first have to stop all negative discussions about Islam which then will make their job that much easier.

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Isn't violence done in the name of Islam an insult to Islam?

It would be extremely helpful for the world to hear Islamic leaders condemn the horrific acts carried out in the name of Islam shown in Geert Wilders film as the source of what is insulting to Islam - rather than calling the film itself an insult to Islam.  An apology from these leaders for the pain and suffering caused by those who kill because of their misguided Islamic beliefs would be nice, wouldn't it?  It's so odd they are just blaming Wilders.  It would go something like this:

We, the Islamic leaders of the the United States are deeply worried that some Muslims have taken our beautiful and peaceful religion and abused it by killing innocent people and speaking hatefully of others throughout the world. Groups like Hezbollah, Hamas, al-Qaeda and so on have given our religion a very bad name which is very troubling to us.  In our effort to assure the world that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance we will work daily with Islamic leaders throughout the world to stop the abuse of Islam.

Seriously, why are these leaders not in a major uproar their religion has been so horribly tarnished by violence carried out in the name of Islam that is done on a daily basis?  This is such a major abuse of the religion of peace!  They should all be very, very upset.

But the world's largest Islamic body, the Organization of Islamic Conference, greatly disappointed us today with their failure to condemn the acts of violence and hate-filled words by Muslims shown in the film.  Basically, the OIC is saying how dare you call attention to these acts of Islamic violence.  This makes sense, though, because in Islamic countries no one is allowed to criticize Islam - even if it's true. 

Also in their statement, is their on-going push to shut the entire world up from criticizing Islam by calling for a binding UN Resolution and national legislation by member states. The OIC is trying to make criticism of Islam an abuse of free speech and they want to make it effective world-wide.  DANGEROUS!

The OIC's lack of condemnation and outrage over the violence committed in the name of Islam is significantly more insulting than Wilders' film. 

Are you paying attention?

The Secretary General of the OIC, Prof Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu today condemned in the strongest terms the release of the film “Fitna” by Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders defaming and denigrating the Holy Quran causing insult to the sentiments of more than 1.3 billion Muslims in the world.

The OIC Secretary General said that the film is a deliberate act of discrimination against Muslims, incitement for hatred and an act defamation of religions which is solely intended to incite and provoke unrest and intolerance among people of different religious beliefs and to jeopardize world peace and stability.

He added that when the international community including the Dutch government had rejected Wilder’s film and that its broadcast was turned down by Dutch national as well as the international media, Mr. Wilders has openly defied the will of the international community by having it released through an internet website. He said that this action once again vindicated the OIC’s call for a consensus on a binding UN Resolution and for national legislations against actions such as those of Geert Wilders and other marginal groups who are actively involved in inciting hatred and intolerance through defamation of religions by abusing freedom of expression.

He urged the international community to condemn the showing of the film and the Dutch Government to complete its legal inquiry and examine steps to prosecute the author of the documentary under the Dutch law.

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