Blue Star Mom Confronts Muslims of America at CPAC Over Lies and Smear Campaign

Bev Perlson, fierce Blue Star Mom (go here), confronted the Muslims at the Muslims of America booth at CPAC when she saw the above flyer. CPAC has been thoroughly compromised.

She sent these pictures out and said:

I went back to this booth repeatedly after my confrontation and nobody was there. Picture of their abandoned booth.

Despicable literature at the booth. Exploiting and using the death of a Brave American Soldier who joined the Army right after 9/11 and died fighting the terrorists who killed his fellow Americans.

If this group was truly supporting this American Soldier and his fight against the Muslims who slaughtered 3000 of Americans, they would support Frank Gaffney, Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer in their fight against radical Islam. Instead, they expolit one of their own, and HIS MOTHER, to undermine American Patriots and further their twisted and evil ideology.

UPDATE: Robert unmasks their lies (taqiyya) here:

The Muslims For America group was distributing the above flier at the Conservative Political Conference; you can read the full text here. In 2009, when Pamela Geller brought Geert Wilders to CPAC with my assistance, Muslims For America distributed a flier claiming that Wilders had -- you guessed it -- taken Qur'an verses out of context in his film Fitna. So during my address that night I took the Tafsir al-Jalalayn, a mainstream Muslim commentary on the Qur'an, and showed that Wilders' explanation of the verses was entirely correct and in accord with mainstream Islamic understandings.

Perhaps still smarting from that very public debunking, Muslims For America included a gratuitous ad hominem attack against me, as well as Pamela Geller and Frank Gaffney, in this year's flier about taqiyya. More importantly, like Qasim Rashid in the Washington Post a couple of weeks ago, they're lying about lying in Islam. Did some marching orders go out from somewhere telling Islamic spokesmen in the West to start blowing out billows of fog about divinely-sanctioned deception in Islam?

In any case, the Muslims For America flier asserts:

TAQIYYA is a concept being heard frequently today, the idea that Muslims have a universal practice of "Taqiyya" that allows them to conceal their faith of Islam or lie to non-Muslims, for the sake of expanding the Islamic religion - a practice that commentators like Frank Gaffney, Pamela Geller, and Robert Spencer have purported to be highly practiced, with such practice particularly hinted against American Muslims, who are currently ascending our political stratospheres.

The Truth on Taqiyya?

The word "Taqiyya" does not exist in the Quran. In addition, there is no Islamic code of law that universally recognizes "Taqiyya" or encourages its practice.

The origin of Taqiyya, as discussed by scholars like John Esposito and Shafique Virani, is mentioned as an offshoot practice of some Shia Muslim populations, in which, Shia Imams like Muhammad Al-Baqir, of around 1256 CE, seem to have encouraged their congregations to conceal their Shia backgrounds, out of fear of mass-killing deliberately aimed against Shias. Of note, many Shia Muslims have lived as a minority and documentation of the unfortunate and sad persecution against them is well noted.

In turn, Muhammad Al-Baqir is one of thousands of Imams to have preached his interpretation of the Quran, just as any Minister would preach his understanding of our good Bible towards his congregation.

Yes - Islam does allow Imams to preach their understandings of the Quran, but such preaching is never recognized as Islamic Code, rather, it is simply the musings of one Muslim practitioner, not God.

For commentators to stretch the words of a handful of Imams, like Muhammad Al-Baqir, and pass it off as universally-practiced Islamic code, is the height of intellectual dishonesty and lie.

Nothing works against Muslims For America and our efforts to get Muslims united against thugs like Al-Quaida, more than political commentators who question our good deeds in making sure that America wins the War on Terror.

This all sounds great. And certainly taqiyya as a specific concept was indeed elaborated by Shias who were under threat from Sunnis. But the concept itself is rooted in the Qur'an, and consequently is found among both Sunnis and Shi'ites.

Qur'an 3:28 warns believers not to take unbelievers as "friends or helpers" (َأَوْلِيَا -- a word that means more than casual friendship, but something like alliance), "unless (it be) that ye but guard yourselves against them." This is a foundation of the idea that believers may legitimately deceive unbelievers when under pressure. The word used for "guard" in the Arabic is tuqātan (تُقَاةً), the verbal noun from taqiyyatan -- hence the increasingly familiar term taqiyya.

Ibn Kathir says that the phrase Pickthall renders as "unless (it be) that ye but guard yourselves against them" means that "believers who in some areas or times fear for their safety from the disbelievers" may "show friendship to the disbelievers outwardly, but never inwardly. For instance, Al-Bukhari recorded that Abu Ad-Darda' said, 'We smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse them.' Al-Bukhari said that Al-Hasan said, 'The Tuqyah [taqiyya] is allowed until the Day of Resurrection." While many Muslim spokesmen today maintain that taqiyya is solely a Shi'ite doctrine, shunned by Sunnis, the great Islamic scholar Ignaz Goldziher points out that while it was formulated by Shi'ites, "it is accepted as legitimate by other Muslims as well, on the authority of Qur'an 3:28." The Sunnis of Al-Qaeda practice it today.

Also, there is Muhammad's statement, "war is deceit." He also allowed for lying in battle and between a husband and wife. And when he gave permission to one of his followers, Muhammad bin Maslama, to murder one of his critics, Ka'b bin al-Ashraf, he also gave Muhammad bin Maslama permission to lie to Ka'b in order to lure him close enough to be killed.

And Muhammad is the "excellent example of conduct" for Muslims (Qur'an 33:21).

So why is Muslims For America lying about lying in Islam? And why did CPAC give them a platform?

Pamela Geller has another angle on this story here.

Comments

[R4]

It's ghastly to exploit the dead for political gain! (Unless of course YOU are the one doing it, Pamela. Then it's TRUTHTELLING!)

The poster has a point. Muslims have fought and died to keep us free. Pamela and Robert just shout lies in conference rooms and internet websites.

[MamaGrizzly]

http://tinyurl.com/4nohdx7

Muslims have infiltrated CPAC board

[Vern Parker]

@R4: Pamela, Robert and all of the rest who are out there speaking in public against radical Islam, or if you prefer just plain Islam because they are the same thing, put their lives on the line every day. We honor all muslims who have shed their blood for America, but if they are fighting for America then they aren't practicing the Islam of Mohammed. Just what percentage of American muslims fight for the ideals of this country? Compare that to the percentage of muslims who back the Muslim Brotherhood's goal to overthrow America.

[Cat K]

Those empty chairs speak volumes as perhaps there simply no muslims who are truly for America.

When I see attacks on Geller, et al I become more turned off. Never do they speak of their love for this country. Instead, they insult and accuse. I guess this is because you simply cannot be moderate jihad, moderate conquest, moderate hate.

[When*Pigs8Fly]

Not enough by far, not nearly enough are loyal to the country that sustains them. There is of course the odd exception to the rule.

Oh, and what lies are you talking about , troll? Let's have some examples and quotes. It's easy to go to websites and spread your lies without proof, where is it?

[anon]

TRUTHTELLING! = exposing the evil insanity of islum
political gain! = to restore political sanity in America.

[Telly]

It's not the same, R4.

Whose idea was it to take the photo?

Do we even know this is really the soldier's mother?

I am going to look into Cpl. Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan and get the real story of who he was and what he did. I hope others do the same. Let's see what we can find out.

[Telly]

Apparently it's true. And even Colin Powell has spoken of the Cpl. as an example of an "American patriot Muslim."

I have a lot of respect for the general, but it was under his watch that PC became institutionalized in the US military.

[R4]

It's pretty clear: Cpl. Khan GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY. Pamela and Robert have offered no such sacrifices. And why isn't there more investigation into the Spencer, an Arab/Turk who worked for Maoists in his youth? When did he convert and was it legitimate, or more of the altaqquiyyiah(sp?) Or did his family convert as part of a long-term strategy? Was Spencer conceived an anchor terror baby, a sleeper agent for the Long War?

For Pamela, I'd ask the same question. Is she trying to hide something? What of her ties through the car dealership to Muslim gangs? When did she convert and is she sincere? (Muslims, we are told, refuse to operate crimes with Kaffirs.) Yes of course she claims innocent but that is easy to do if the Muslim epistimology says that only Kaffirs can be guilty.

Neither of them have served their country. What are they hiding? Why can't we see Spencer's alleged "Master's THesis" why are the records sealed? Who is funding them?

[R4]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzPTkFTx98E

[Nelson Abdullah]

Wikipedia even has a statement that says Taqiyya originates in the Qur'an and the fact they have allowed this to remain there is significant by itself because they habitually remove controversial material.

"The practice of concealing one's faith in dangerous circumstances originates in the Qur'an itself, which deems blameless those who disguise their beliefs in such cases.[3] The practice of taqiyya in difficult circumstances is considered legitimate by Muslims of various persuasions. Sunni and Shi'i commentators alike observe that Q 16:106 in particular refers to the case of 'Ammar b. Yasir, who was forced to renounce his beliefs under physical duress and torture.[4]

Similarly, Q 3:28 enjoins believers not to take the company of doubters unless as a means of safeguarding themselves. "Let not the believers take those who deny the truth for their allies in preference to the believers – since he who does this cuts himself off from God in everything – unless it be to protect yourself against them in this way…"[5] Regarding 3:28, Ibn Kathir, a prominent authority writes, "Whoever at any time or place fears their [infidels'] evil may protect himself through outward show." As proof of this, he quotes Muhammad's companion, al-Hassan, who said, "taqiyya is acceptable till the Day of Judgment [i.e., in perpetuity]."

[American]

yes they have...