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CAIR Oklahoma 2013 banquet keynote speaker is controversial Imam Johari Abdul-Malik!

On April 13th, CAIR Oklahoma will host their annual fund-raising banquet at the Oklahoma City Marriott (@OKCMarriott).

Recently, CAIR announceed the keynote speaker will be Imam Johari Abdul-Malik (right).  And, what a controversial imam he is!  Malik showed a glimmer of what is likely his Islamic supremacist ideology in 2004 at Dar al Hijrah, a controversial mosque located in Falls Church, VA., where he is the outreach director.  Malik proclaimed Islam in the USA will be America's first religion!

Abdul Malik:People even under the pressures that you and I know about, the deen of Islam is growing because people see even within all of this struggle it is better to be a Muslim under these conditions than to be a kaffir under any conditions... before Allah closes our eyes for the last time you will see Islam move from being the second largest religion in America-that's where we are now- to being the first religion in America

You can hear him in his own words here and read a little about the mosque where he works.

Imam Johari al-Malik worked with Anwar Awlaki who was an Imam at Dar al Hirhrah in 2001-2002.  Malik defended him many times here.  In 2011, Malik blamed an unsubstantiated torture claim as the reason Awlaki changed into a more radical Muslim.  However, the Investigative Project disputes how moderate Awlaki was while in America (see previous link).  Afterall, he did catch the attention of law enforcement before he left the U.S., right?  

Malik was reported to have said at a Muslim Brotherhood linked Islamic Association of Palestine meeting in 2001 (ref: previous link): 

I am gonna teach you now. You can blow up bridges, but you cannot kill people who are innocent on their way to work. You can blow up power supplies… the water supply, you can do all forms of sabotage and let the world know that we are doing it like this because they have a respect for the lives of innocent people.

There's that phrase "innocent people" again. Who decides who's guilty in Islam and therefore not innocent, anyway?  So far, I can't find the answer.

A FOIA document obtained by IPT says this about the Dar al Hirhrah mosque:

The Department of Treasury's Enforcement Communications System (TECS) records note that Dar al-Hijrah "is a mosque operating as a front for Hamas operatives in U.S.," "is associated with Islamic extremists," "has been under numerous investigations for financing and proving aid and comfort to bad orgs and members," has "been linked to numerous individuals linked to terrorism financing," and "has also been associated with encouraging fraudulent marriages."

You can read more about Dar al Hirjrah here.

Earlier this year, the primary Imam at Dar al Hirjrah, Sheik Shaker Elsayed, spoke about Muslim men - being the first in the Jihad line!  Watch and listen to his disturbing words here.

And for some odd reason, Malik wants youto know he is not a pacifist Muslim when he wrote on his blog:

Let me say from the outset that I’m not a pacifist; the Quranic injunctions provide the right to self-defense. 2:178 retaliation has been prescribed …“O you who believe! Retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the slain, the free for the free, and the slave for the slave, and the female for the female, but if any remission is made to any one by his (aggrieved) brother, then prosecution (for the bloodwit) should be made according to usage, and payment should be made to him in a good manner; this is an alleviation from your Lord and a mercy; so whoever exceeds the limit after this he shall have a painful chastisement.”2:216 (link added) (Z: fighting has been prescribed for you and) you dislike it …“ The life of this world is made to seem fair to those who disbelieve, and they mock those who believe, and those who guard (against evil) shall be above them on the day of resurrection; and Allah gives means of subsistence to whom he pleases without measure.”

Say what?  Retaliation and fighting has been prescribed for you?  Wow!

Way to go CAIR Oklahoma.

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 CAIR OK will give Rev. William Tabbernee, President of the Oklahoma Council of Churches their best buddy award!

(source CAIR OK Facebook posting)

According to CAIR Oklahoma, sharia law isn't really ever the real sharia law - even in Islamic countries ruled by sharia law!

"Do not refer to the laws in Muslim-majority countries (even those claiming to be “Islam!ic states”) as “sharia.” They are merely a legislated selection of humanly-created fiqh rules; they cannot be said to be conclusively dictated by sharia itself."  Humanly-created?  Any sharia law ruling is done by an Islamic authority (last paragraph)

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Islamic Society of Tulsa to non-Muslim teenage girl visitors: cover your head, wear long skirts, enter mosque separately from the boys!

The Islamic Society of Tulsa operates the Masjid Al-Salam Mosque,  For the upcoming annual interfaith youth tour the mosque has advised the young girls who may attend:

** Your cooperation is requested in dressing modestly at the Masjid Al-Salam Mosque.
Women are requested to wear long skirts or loose slacks and a head covering such as a hat or headscarf. Men and women will enter separately and be seated on the floor.

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Backgrounder on the Islamic Society of Tulsa

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

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

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

Rep. Emily Virgin hosts 2nd Muslim Iftar Dinner at Oklahoma State Capitol!

Last night, Rep. Emily Virgin (D Norman) hosted the 2nd Iftar dinner at the Oklahoma State Capitol.  She tweeted how proud and honored she was to host it:

 

I first read about this in a tweet from CAIR National:

An Iftar dinner is a religious dinner observed by Muslims.  The link that CAIR tweeted was to a AP story about it.  Oklahoma senators Tom Ivester and John Sparks also hosted it.  I asked Rep. Virgin, via a tweet, this morning who funded the dinner. So far, nothing.  As a Oklahoma taxpayer, I want to know.  Another question I have for Rep. Emily Virgin is what religious dinners were held at the Oklahoma State Capitol that honored Christian, Jewish or other faiths in the last two years.  When I asked her a similar question last year she said she didn't know"

I tweeted Rep. Virgin a number of times since then to ask that a similar dinner be held to honor the Christian faith - which she just ignored.

 Update 8/2/12:  Rep. Emily Virgin yesterday evening told me by Twitter the dinner was privately funded.

Tulsa's Boston Avenue Methodist Church had classes about "myth-free" Islam

Dr. Bill Crowell, an associate pastor at the Boston Avenue Methodist Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma has partnered with some of Oklahoma's most controversial Islamic leaders. 

(source CAIR OK)

Muneer Awad's holiday card to legislators drips of hypocrisy!

The 2011 holiday card sent out by Muneer Awad, the director of CAIR's chapter in Oklahoma, to state legislators, officials and others thanked them for their continued support to make Oklahoma a great "Home for the Holidays."

Wait a minute... What continued support? 

Tulsa progressives boot "Christmas" from title of decades old parade!

Somewhere along the line mostly conservative Tulsa became hostage to some progressives. For one thing, the local paper's editorial writers are stance liberals which is why I don't subscribe to it. In early 2009,  they laid off 28 employees and last year they put in a pay-wall similar to what the liberal New York Times has done which makes their online news a closed-source. I would venture to guess their polarizing ideological views are so contrary to the majority of Tulsans might have, in some small way. contributed. Tulsa is also home to billionaire Obama bundle George Kaiser who is embroiled in the Solyndra controversy. 

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

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

Occupy Tulsa Protesters Arrested

Early this morning, after defying an 11 PM curfew and police orders to leave a downtown Tulsa park after being told repeateldy to do so, ten Occupy Tulsa protesters were arrested.  Below are their mugshots that can be found at Tulsa Mugshots.  Four protesters had outstanding warrants according to the Tulsa Police Department.

Rep. Emily Virgin will you host a dinner at the Oklahoma State Capitol for a Christian holiday like you did for Ramadan?

On the 17th of August, for the first time in history Oklahoma Muslims prayed on floor of State Capitol at Inaugural Iftar dinner.  The event was hosted by Rep. Emily Virgin (D Norman) who had tweeted about it although she left off the key word - Iftar, which is specific to the Muslim holiday of Ramadan. 

Oklahoma Muslims prayed on floor of State Capitol at Inaugural Iftar dinner!

 Interesting...

 
(photo credit Bryan Jones Oklahoman)

Tulsa police captain punished for refusing to order officers to attend mosque event

Captain Paul Fields began a two-week unpaid suspension this week for refusing to order his officers to a mosque event at the Islamic Society of Tulsa billed as "Law Enforcement Appreciation Day" although the intent of invitation could be argued was really about teaching the officers about Islam.  Today, I noticed IST use pictures of that day to help call attention to their Facebook page although it looks like it was rather sparsely attended: 

 

This event took place just a few days after the Islamic Society of Tulsa hosted a dinner featuring alleged unindicted co-conspirator in the '93 WTC bombing Imam Siraj Wahhaj.

Bin Laden urged followers to target smaller cities yet counterterrorism funds to many smaller cities will be cut!

Documents found in the Bin Laden raid showed Osama Bin Laden eyed smaller cities as targets to expand their attack sites. 

He schooled his followers to work around U.S. counterterrorism methods which he was apparently well-versed.  He wrote of ways to ferment political dissent and play politicians against one another.  Bin Laden also wanted to exploit minorities that would help drive a wedge between them and others as a method to help tear down the country.  Is it just me or have you notice CAIR seems to do all these things?   What a remarkable coincidence.

We learned this week counterterrorism funding to half of the smaller cities will end.  Congress probably decided to cut these funds before these documents were discovered so I hope they are paying attention here.  Some of the thirty-three "smaller cities" include Syracuse, Tuscon, Columbus, Toledo, New Orleans, Oklahoma City and Tulsa, to name just a few.

Also this week, Congress leaders agreed to extend for four years a vast array of surveillance and search powers put in place since 9/11.  Both houses will vote on this agreement next week.

Prayers to family and friends of Oklahoma City bombing victims

 

I'm thinking about the horribly evil act that took place at the Murrah Federal Building 16 years ago today.  My thoughts and prayers goes out to all who lost a loved one or a friend that morning 

 

Oklahoma City Councilman Ed Shadid stood with CAIR Oklahoma at press conference

Ed Shadid ran for state office in 2010.  He apparently sought the endorsement of the Oklahoma Green Party, got it and posed in front of their party sign for a lovely photo (left). He lost the race.  Today, he will be sworn in as Oklahoma City's newest councilman after winning this race.

Yesterday, at the State Capital, newly elected Shadid stood with CAIR Oklahoma, Andrew Rice, Imam Imad Enchassi of the Islamic Society of Greater OKC, Nathaniel Bathchelder and a few others at a press conference deriding those who supported an anti-foreign law bill (HB 1552) which died in the Senate Rules Committee last week.   Let me repeat, the bill had already died in the senate committee the week before so this press conference was one of those political grand-standing moments.

Governor's Ethnic American Advisory Council to be disband by Gov. Fallen

The controversial Quran-giving Governor's Ethnic American Advisory Council will be disband by Governor Mary Fallen, along with 2 other councils.  Although the name implies a diverse ethnic group it had only one religious group on it, Muslims.

The council was created by Democratic Governor Brad Henry in 2004 at their request. In the fall of 2007, they gained national attention when they offered Qurans to all Oklahoma legislators which some thought was an inappropraite religious gesture.

Current members are:

Chair
Malaka A. Elyazgi

Vice-Chair / Secretary
Dr. Basel S. Hassoun

Members
Dr. Riaz Ahmad
Dr. Muhammad Anwar
Mohammad Farzaneh
Tony Pezeshkian
Dr. Sandra Kaye Rana
Wes Salous
Marjaneh Seirafi-Pour

Other posts about this council are here.

Thomas More Law Center joins counsel for Tulsa Police Captain Paul Fields, amends complaint!

The Thomas More Law Center, a Michigan-based. not-for-profit public interest law firm that defends the religious freedom of Christians, has joined the legal counsel in a civil rights lawsuit filed by Tulsa Police Captain Paul Fields against the Tulsa Police Department after he was "stripped of his command" and reassigned duties after refusing to order his officers to attend an event at the Islamic Society of Tulsa which Fields believed fell outside of police community duties:

Sharia law panel: Ignorant Oklahomans were told what to think on SQ 755!

Ignorant Oklahomans were told what to think?  That's what I got out of a recent sharia law panel moderated by Rev. Bill Crowell of Boston Avenue Methodist Church.  Crowell is president of the Board of the Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry, one of the sponsors of the "Islamic Agenda in Oklahoma" PR series.  Tulsa Community College was also listed as a sponsor. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Islamic of Tulsa Flyer:

 

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

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

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

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

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Other posts on Islam in Oklahoma - mixed messages

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

Imam Suhaib Webb is being groomed to be a rising American-born Imam.  He was born William Webb and raised in Oklahoma as a Christian until he converted to Islam as a teenager. Webb studied Islam at the hard-line Al-Azhar University in Egypt thanks to the Muslim American Society. This is the same place where the Imam at the Islamic Society of Tulsa, Dr.Mohamed Al Gobashy (ElGhobashy) studied (update 10/2011 AlGobashy suddenly is not the Imam in Tulsa anymore). Webb said he found Islam through hip hop music which was laced with the teachings of Islam due to the Nation of Islam and Malcolm X, according to a 2008 interview (archive page) at Egypt Today. Webb's move to Egypt in 2004 was sponsored by the Muslim American Society, which began as an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood here.  Webb lives in California now but comes to Oklahoma, from time to time  (update 1/2/2012:  Webb is now Imam at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center)

In December Webb's website posted a paper presented at a conference about Yusef Quaradawi's "Figh of Jihad."  Qaradawi rose to a leadership position within the Muslim Brotherhood, according to the paper.  We learn here that a large number of Muslim jurists are propoents of offensive jihad - meaning it is a legitimate act to attack non-Muslims for their disbelief in Isalm!  This same paper is also posted on the Muslim Brotherhood's English website called Ikhwanweb (see below). 

Let's face it, the Muslim jurist who believe in offensive jihad against non-Muslims play a major role in forming extremist views.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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New Boston Imam Tied To U.S. Muslim Brotherhood

What is New about Al-Qaradawi’s Jihad? (Ikhwanweb)  A paper presented about Quaradawi's "Figh of Jihad"

Military Jihad: Between Daf’ and Talab (Defensive and Offensive Jihad)

Is it of a religious nature, meaning it is obligatory upon Muslims to fight non-believers until they embrace Islam or submit to its authority, which they call jihad al-talab, that is voluntary offensive jihad? Or is it of a political nature, necessitated by the need to defend the lands of Islam against transgressors and to defend Muslims against those who prevent them from freedom of faith, and the oppressed generally- which they have termed jihad al-daf`, that is necessary defensive jihad, which, if Muslims must engage it, should be engaged in with pure intentions, for God’s sake, and following strict ethical guidelines which cannot be neglected.

Classically, and in the modern era, jurists have been divided between two groups, which al-Qaradwi calls the hujumiyyin (proponents of offensive jihad) and difa`iyyin (proponents of defensive jihad)

...The hujumiyyin consider it an obligation for the Muslim nation to attack the land of the non-believers at least once a year in order to call to Islam and expand its territories. They hold disbelief per se as a sufficient reason to initiate war and legitimate killing, even if non-believers do not attack or harm Muslims, to the extent that Muslims would be sinful if they do not do so. The proponents of this view, a large number of jurists, most prominent of which among classical scholars is Imam al-Shafi`i, and among contemporary thinkers are Sayyid Qutb and al-Mawdudi, support their view with evidence from the Quran and the Sunnah, and from historical practice.

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

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

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

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

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

Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Theologian of Terror  ADL

Yusuf al-Qaradawi :: The Investigative Project on Terrorism

The Qaradawi Fatwas :: Middle East Quarterly

Qaradawi Funding Hamas Efforts in Jerusalem

The politics of fatwa

Muneer Awad thanks Peter Bergen for downplaying the Muslim Brotherhood!

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

Will controversial Ingrid Mattson spin sharia law in Tulsa?

Ingrid Mattson is the immediate past president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and a current member of their executive council.  She will be speaking this Sunday in Tulsa at an "interfaith meeting" at the Grace Lutheran Church headed by Rev. Mason Beecroft about Islamic law:

“What Is Islamic Law (Shariah) and For Whom Does It Apply”

Oklahoma Islamic leaders fluffy PR campaign; The Islamic Agenda In Oklahoma

I've noticed significant outreach by some Muslim leaders this Christmas.  I even got an email from an Oklahoma City Imam whom I've criticized some of his actions, like when he called the Tea Party the KKK in drag.  Why would he reach out to me?  He's called my  blog a hate group because I call attention to their actions I find troubling and the man thinks I have a spy at his mosque.  And get this, in ending his message to me, right there under his signature, was a quote from the 2nd Islamic supremacist caliph, Omar.  If you are not familiar, Omar's armies of Islam seized control of Jerusalem, the center of the Christian world, at the time.  Nope, definitely not feeling the outreach there.

Islamic Council of Oklahoma thanks Muneer Awad and CAIR Oklahoma!

The fairly new Islamic Council of Oklahoma that is dominated by CAIR Oklahoma Board members issued a press release on November 29th thanking Muneer Awad and CAIR for suing the state of Oklahoma to defend their right to use sharia law.  They sure don't seem to want to pass up any opportunity to call supporters of SQ 755 names.

SQ 755 awaits Oklahoma's new attorney general, Scott Pruitt

On January 10th, Oklahoma's newly elected attorney general, Scott Pruitt,  will inherit the legal fight to get SQ 755 certified.  He'll surely be more aggresive than current AG, Drew Edmondson (D), who has been criticized how he defended the amendment to ban foreign law, including sharia law:

More state legislatures considering sharia law options

Other states besides Oklahoma are weighing their options about sharia law:

Progressively Scrooged in Tulsa

Here's a poem for the progressives in Tulsa like snarky parade chairman Larry Fox who changed the name of the long-standing traditional Christmas Parade which dates back to 1936 and Elliott Nelson the sponsor whose pub McNeillie's is on the parade application.  He recently said he would have liked to change the title to the Parade of Cheers, you know, more in line with his many drinking establishments: 

Boycott Tulsa's "McNeillie's Holiday Parade of Light" and stores!

  
 
Above:  Larry Fox, Chairman of the McNeillie's Holiday Parade of Lights on Fox News.

Many progressive libs seem to take delight, with a certain smugness, as they dimish Christians and Christmas.  I found Larry Fox the Chairman of the Tulsa parade rather snarky on Fox News when he explained its out with Christmas for this year in the parade title.  A boycott of the whole nasty affair seems reasonable to me! 

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

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

James Werrell; an Islamist's dream!

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

Oklahoma AG appeals preliminary Injunction against SQ 755

Yesterday, the Oklahoma Attorney General's office filed a notice of appeal to the preliminary injunction that stops the certification of the vote for SQ 755 that was issued Monday by Federal Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange.

Tammy Banovac, with only bra and panties on, failed TSA screening in Okahoma City!

Native Oklahoman Tammy Banovac's and/or her wheelchair tested positive for nitrates yesterday during screening at Will Rogers Airport in Oklahoma City which she decided to do in bra and panties! TSA told her to come back today.

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

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

Judge grants preliminary injunction on SQ 755!

Federal Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange took the side of CAIR Oklahoma's director Muneer Awad this afternoon agreeing that his 1st amendment right would be violated if the state banned sharia law from consideration in state courts.  She granted him a preliminary injunction which will prevent the Oklahoma Election Board from certifying SQ 755 which passed with 70% of the votes, until the court rules on its legal merits, which could take a few months.

Judge Miles-LaGrange extends TRO on SQ 755!

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

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

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

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

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

"Ikhwanophobia" features Muneer Awad of CAIR Oklahoma!

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Calls to Edmondson’s office were not returned.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Here is the judge's order:

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Federal judge approves temporary injunction on SQ 755

 
 

Today federal judge, Vicki Miles-LaGrange,  who was appointed by President Clinton, approved a temporary 14 day hold on the certification of the overwhelming vote of the citizens of Oklahoma to amend the state's constitution to ban sharia and international law from consideration in state courts.  Note, this amends the constitution so that state courts do not use or consider foreign law.

A hearing is planned for November 22nd at 10 AM where arguments for both sides will be heard.

 Update 6:00 PM CT:  From KOCO Oklahoma City:  "...Islamic leader, Imam Imad Enchassi said the passing of SQ 755 would impose on his civil liberties as an American and damage the character of Muslims.  

"I've been called to court many times on Middle Eastern and Islamic ways and Islamic codes and ethics and so on and so fourth. Now, a judge might look at the law and say you know what, we'll take the rabbi testimony, we'll take the preacher testimony, but your testimony is null and void just because you're Muslim," he said.  

Enchassi said it is disturbing that lawmakers aren't condemning the state question.Islamic leader, Imam Imad Enchassi said the passing of SQ 755 would impose on his civil liberties as an American and damage the character of Muslims..."

Is that right Imam Enchassi?  Can you name some cases?

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

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

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

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

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

I do believe Awad imply the interviewer was a liar.

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Muslim organization stands with Oklahomans on passing SQ 755

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(photo credit peacearena.org)

In CAIR's press release it stated in part:

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

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

His own shariah compliant will???

Lawsuit:  Download Argument

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

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

Update 11/5/10 5 PM CT: 

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

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

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

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

KFOR Video:

   

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