The true Islamists are non-Muslims who advocate for Islam. The true Islamists are non-Muslims like Grover Norquist, Eric Holder, General Casey, Joe Sestak, Time magazine, the UN, et al .... non-Muslims and non-Muslim orgs that actively work to spread Islam. That is an Islamist. A muslim is a muslim. Period.
The use of the term Islamist is intellectually dishonest and misleading. Once again, attempting to obscure and confuse the multitude with deceptions manufactured for consumption of non-believers. The global jihad relies heavily on non-Muslims, aka Islamists, to further their nefarious goals.
Daniel Pipes and his wrongheaded ilk like to use the fallacious term Islamist for pious Muslims. There is no such thing. There are secular Muslims and practicing Muslims. As Andrew Bostom so brilliantly revealed in his piece Islamist or Islamic?:
Layard’s narrative demonstrates how in mid-19th century parlance, “Islamism” and “Islam” were synonymous, and meant to be equivalent to “Catholicism,” “Protestantism,” and “Judaism”—not to “radical” or “fundamentalist” sects of any of these religions. Moreover, through at least the mid-1950s, scholars devoted to the formal study of Islamic doctrine and history were still referred to as “Islamists.”
Turkey’s current Prime Minister Erdogan, commenting in August, 2007 on the term “moderate Islam,” frequently used in the West to describe his ruling political party, the AKP, stated, “These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.” Erdogan’s displeasure is ironic, even somewhat humorous, given the contemporary Western apologetic obsession to recast the terms “Islamism,” and “Islamist,” to denote, exclusively, “radical” or “immoderate” Islam, and its adherents. But the irony of Erdogan’s ire aside, artificial distinctions between “Islamism” and Islam, “Islamist” and Islamic are logically incoherent, obfuscating irrefragable truths about living Islamic dogma, and its modern manifestations.
The 1990 Cairo Declaration, or “Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Islam”—not Islamism—was drafted and ratified by all the Muslim member nations of the Organization of the Islamic—not Islamist—Conference (OIC), a 57 state collective including every Islamic nation on earth. The OIC, currently headed by Turkey’s Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, thus represents the entire Muslim ummah (or global community), and is the largest single voting bloc in the United Nations.
And Robert Spencer weighed in onTurkey's PM Erdogan, who insisted that the term "moderate Islam" was ugly and offensive -- Islam is Islam:
And so in two sentences Erdogan dismisses the concept on which the Western world has placed its hopes of survival and peace.
Islam is Islam. Will this be discussed in the Western media? Will American and European analysts publicly take up the question of whether or not Erdogan is right, and what the implications might be if he is? Or will they ignore this and continue to assume in all their analyses that the opposite is true, and to dismiss as "ideologues" or "Islamophobes" those who point out that influential Muslims like Erdogan are saying things like this?
Which course do you think they'll choose?
Will Western leaders then begin discussing political Islam and its
implications openly? Or will they ignore this and continue to pretend
that Islam has no inherent or traditional political character, or if it
does, it is infinitely malleable anyway, and can be massaged without
difficulty into something completely benign?
This is what one might call Passive Aggressive Jihad. So, if they are allowed a
parking lot why would size matter? The difference between 34 and 42 spots really
is not much. Once they have their illegal parking lot their mosque will be
established and there will be no turning back. It will grow, and the owners will
acquire the adjacent homes (easily/cheap cause no one else will want them)
expand the building and the parking spaces......no question. The home was
purchased in early June - shortly thereafter a website was created announcing
the 'Meadowbrook Islamic Center' (end of June). This was the plan all along.
And, was anyone in the nearby neighborhoods notified of this, nope. This secret stuff creeps me out."
America is waking up. Grassroots. People have had enough.
Photo: It was standing room only for the Zoning Board of Appeals meeting on Nov. 18
when residents came to protest a proposed parking lot at the Meadowbrook Islamic
Center on Eight Mile Road in Northville Township.
Zoning Board of Appeals members got an earful Wednesday night when more than 150
people came to protest some proposed changes at an Islamic center in Northville
Township.
The township hall
parking lot was full, and it was standing room only at the meeting, with
residents spending almost three hours complaining about Meadowbrook Islamic
Center board members' request for variances at 41885 Eight Mile Road to
construct a 42-space parking lot.
The Islamic
congregation has prayer services five times a day, seven days a week in a house
on the south side of Eight Mile Road a few houses east of Silver Springs
Drive.
The congregation has
hired Silvari Architects of Ferndale, a landscape architecture firm, to develop
a preliminary site plan showing a parking lot in front of the house.
Specifically, the
Islamic center board members are asking the ZBA to permit all parking in front
of the building, where it is not permitted, and setbacks of 52.1 feet on the
east, 48.4 feet on the south and 22.8 feet on the west where 100 feet is
required on all sides that abut a residential zoning district.
ZBA members voted
unanimously to table the matter until the December meeting, requesting that the
congregation return with a plan that has 33-34 parking spaces instead of
42.
Paul Slatin, ZBA chair,
said there will be an opportunity for the public to comment at next month’s
meeting.
Residents' complaints
Residents in the nearby
Quail Ridge subdivision and Highland Lakes Condominiums complained that the
parking lot would increase traffic in the area, posing a public safety hazard,
cause air pollution, affect
wildlife and that it was basically an inappropriate use for the residential
area.
A place of worship is
allowed under the R-1 single family residential zoning, according to Jennifer
Frey, director of community development.
Residents also
expressed concern that because Realtors had contacted both next door neighbors
of the Islamic center that officials had plans to expand the building.
However, center board
members Mohammad Usman and Dr. Sayed Nassar said they have no plans to do so or
make any changes to the house.
Critics of Attorney General Eric Holder's decision
to try the men in a New York City civilian courthourse have warned that the
trial would provide the defendants with a propaganda platform.
Dean Boyd, a spokesman for the Department of
Justice, said Sunday that while the men may attempt to use the trial to express
their views, "we have full confidence in the ability of the courts and in
particular the federal judge who may preside over the trial to ensure that the
proceeding is conducted appropriately and with minimal disrupton, as federal
courts have done in the past."
Let the circus begin. And the clown in the White House will enjoy every disgusting minute of this obamanation. Jihad attacked America, jihad is winning.
The White House is certainly not on our side. This is awful. Not two months ago, these Islamic killers were pleading guilty. This was an act of war. WAR. Obama should be impeached.
NEW
YORK — The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty
so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one
of the defendants said Sunday.
Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused
terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said the men would not deny their role in the
2001 attacks but "would explain what happened and why they did it."
The U.S. Justice Department announced
earlier this month that Ali and four other men accused of murdering nearly 3,000
people in the nation's deadliest terrorist attack will face a civilian federal
trial just blocks from the World Trade Center site.
Ali, also known as Ammar al-Baluchi, is a
nephew of professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Mohammed, Ali and the others will explain
"their assessment of American foreign policy," Fenstermaker said.
"Their assessment is negative," he said.
Fenstermaker met with Ali last week at the
U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. He has not spoken with the others but
said the men have discussed the trial among themselves.
Ali, also known as Ammar al-Baluchi, is a
nephew of professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Mohammed, Ali and the others will explain
"their assessment of American foreign policy," Fenstermaker said.
"Their assessment is negative," he said.
Fenstermaker met with Ali last week at the
U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. He has not spoken with the others but
said the men have discussed the trial among themselves.
One of the world's most famous children's toys, Barbie, has been given a
makeover - wearing a burkha.
Wearing the traditional Islamic dress, the iconic doll is going undercover
for a charity auction in connection with Sotheby's for Save The Children.
More than 500 Barbies went on show yesterday at the Salone dei Cinquecento,
in Florence, Italy.
Burkha Barbie: The iconic doll wearing traditional Islamic
dress
Makers Mattel are backing the exhibition which is the work of Italian
designer Eliana Lorena.
The auction is part of Barbie celebrations for her 50th anniversary this
year. The UK's biggest Barbie fan Angela Ellis, 35, has a collection of more
than 250 dolls.
The company director of Laird Assessors from The Wirral, Cheshire, said:
'Bring it on Burkha Barbie, I think this is a great idea.
'I think this is really important for girls, wherever they are from they
should have the opportunity to play with a Barbie that they feel represents
them.
Designer: Eliana Lorena is putting Barbie undercover for
an auction to celebrate the doll's 50th anniversary
'I know Barbie was something seen as bad before as an image for girls, but in
actual fact the message with Barbie for women is you can be whatever you want to
be.
'I have a Barbie in a wheelchair that was only out for six weeks.'
The mum-of-two's own Barbie collection is set to be displayed at London's
Victoria and Albert Museum in 2012.
Barbie was first launched in March 1959 by American businesswoman Ruth
Handler. The doll was joined by her long-term boyfriend Ken in 1961.
Rosie Shannon, from Save the Children, said all the proceeds from the auction
will go to the charity
If they can't deal with our ways, then DON'T COME HERE. Why the hell did the police chief apologize? Don't come here. We live under our just rule of law, not sharia law. We pat down. Deal or leave.
I get patted down every third time I travel. I hate it. I get patted down because of jihadis in our midst. I am offended by it. No one apologizes to me. Either I get patted down or I don't travel. I can't go into a building in NYC without being screened. If I don't like it, too bad.
That's how it is. Who the hell died and made Muslims the ruling class? No special rights for special classes. This is an outrage.
Windsor's
police chief has made a public apology to the local Muslim community
for the "embarrassment" caused by his tactical officers when they
conducted an arrest operation. But the head of the city's police union
is unrepentant.
"In my belief, this isn't a cultural
issue," said Constable Ed Parent, president of the Windsor Police
Association. "These officers had a warrant to arrest someone. They went
in, and they arrested this person."
The controversy stems from arrests made by the Windsor police tactical team last month.
On
Oct. 31, the team acted on a request by the RCMP and FBI to arrest
Windsor residents Mohammad Al-Sahli, 33, and Yassir Ali Khan, 30, in
connection with a radical Islamic group based in Detroit.
According
to Patrick Ducharme, the lawyer for the two accused, the officers
"patted down" a Muslim woman --Mr. Khan's wife -- who was not a part of
the arrest warrant.
"It was never the intention for Windsor
police officers to offend or embarrass the families of our Islamic
community," wrote Police Chief Gary Smith yesterday. "The actions taken
did cause embarrassment and did offend their religious beliefs. I
sincerely apologize to the families and the Islamic community."
This coward should be fired. He is afraid of a seventh century barbaric system of nonsense?
A review of the incident highlighted the need for additional "cultural sensitivity training," a news release said.
But Const. Parent said he does not know what the officers should have done differently.
Fresh on the bloody heels of the Fort Hood jihad, New York Mayor Bloomberg (who just eked out a Mayoral victory) hosts this Muslim terrorist to City Hall in a meeting with "Muslim leaders". What's the problem here? Are there no Muslim leaders who are not terrorists or tied to terrorists, or is Mayor Bloomberg a complete idiot?
A controversial imam who was an "unindicted co-conspirator" in the
1993 World Trade Center bombing was among a group of Muslim leaders
invited yesterday to a meeting with Mayor Bloomberg at City Hall.
Siraj Wahhaj has defended the convicted WTC bomb plotters, called the
FBI and CIA the "real terrorists," and said he hopes all Americans
eventually become Muslim.
He was among religious and civic
leaders who met with Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly to
discuss the deadly Fort Hood shooting spree.
Wahhaj was one of
170 people identified in 1995 as unindicted co-conspirators in the
attack two years earlier. He has denied any involvement.
Wahhaj said Bloomberg invited him to the roundtable and shook his
hand when he entered the meeting room, which was closed to reporters.
"I think that if the mayor had any discomfort he would not have invited
me," said Wahhaj, an imam at Masjid Al-Taqwa in Brooklyn.
Bloomberg, however, initially claimed not to know Wahhaj was there.
As he was leaving, a Channel 2 reporter asked the mayor if he was uncomfortable about Wahhaj's presence.
"I don't know. He's not here," the mayor responded. When told that
Wahhaj was in fact in the meeting, Bloomberg reversed course.
"That one. Yes. We have to talk to everybody," he said. "That's what
dialogue is all about. That's how you prevent tragedies."
Bloomberg's spokesman Stu Loeser later said it was aides, not the mayor himself, who invited Wahhaj and the others.
Wahhaj's name was omitted from a guest list given to the press after photographers were invited in to take pictures.
Loeser said the list was intended to identify those at the meeting and
Wahhaj arrived late, which is why his name was not on it.
Shariah law forbids criticism of Islam. And here we are.
We are witnessing an Islamized America. This is well beyond political correctness. We are enforcing Shariah law. We will not insult Islam. That is Shariah law. We self censor. That is Shariah law.
We disrespect ourselves, our nation, so that we might respect Islam.
This is dhimmitude. We should be raging. We should be outraged. We
should be strategizing for this worldwide conflict. We should be
debating about which leader will best handle Islam's war on the West.
And yet we have not one leader who begins to understand the conflict --
that's how feared the subject matter is. Not one leader.
Recently
there was an interesting debate at National Review Online between soft
conservatives who soft-pedal Islam and those who stand for reality of
Islamic doctrine, conservative principles and the essential truth. By
and large, the conservatives have dropped the ball on Islamic jihad.
This has been made painfully clear by the lack of a leader (any leader)
on the right who speaks to and takes up the fight against the sweeping
Islamization of America. America has no Geert Wilders.
The
conservatives are not really as bad as the Left is on Islam, but they
only get real when there is jihadi "intervention" that invades and
destroys the delusion of their narrative.
It
is interesting to me that the hierarchy of the conservative movement
(take CPAC, for example) stays far away from the counter-jihad forces
(i.e., Robert Spencer, Andrew Bostom, myself) except at moments like
these. Last year there was not one speaker, one event at CPAC that
spoke to the greatest threat this nation faces -- which is why I staged
the Geert Wilders event at the Omni Hotel, during CPAC (but not a CPAC event) last year.
When
the reality of war, Islamic doctrine and bloodshed lays bare the nature
of the enemy and the battle we are in, the door creaks open and Robert
Spencer starts getting invited to appear on radio shows, and NRO
finally runs pieces by Bostom and Spencer that show up the soft
conservative narrative on Islam, which is soft and fuzzy and stupid
(i.e., "Islamist" vs "Islamic"). Of course, we bad boys will be put
back in our boxes until the next terrible time the jihad comes calling.
It
pains me to say it, but expect to see us more frequently in the coming
months and years. For the giant con job on the American psyche
continues apace: He was a crazy! It was "vicarious" Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder! It was "Pre-Traumatic" Stress Disorder! It was radical
extremism! It was part of a tiny fringe! It doesn't represent Islam!
All
lies. He was devout. He was a jihadist. Period. And many Muslims admire
what he did. The Left worries about Muslim backlash. How about Muslim
backlash against the infidels? Every "Soldier of Allah"
who goes jihad is an enemy combatant. Every devout Muslim who believes
in the word of the Quran has his or her duty to Islam, his call to
jihad. Hence this terrible act of war, the 14,363 Islamic attacks across the world since 911, and all of the relentless plots, plans and to take down America in the past month alone. Devout Muslims should be prohibited from military service. Would Patton have recruited Nazis into his army?
In this, the year of our subjugation, if it had been a Muslim that was attacked, heads would be rolling....
The young man charged had worked at that mall kiosk for a few years without incident. This seems to have been a completely unprovoked act. What does that tell you?
Whoops, sorry -- this isn't backlash against the poor, innocent Muslims being
terrorized and victimized by the thousands after the Fort Hood
Nothing-To-Do-With-Islam attack. This is just the familiar Muslim backlash
against non-Muslims, which will increasingly be a feature of American life in
the coming years. Nothing to see here. Move along.
"Man arrested for 'anti-Christian' mall disturbance: Kiosk employee allegedly
tore a crucifix from someone's neck," by Emily West for the Danville Express, November 10 (thanks to Bob):
Police arrested 22-year-old Abdul Walid Hamid of Hayward on the
evening of Wednesday, Nov. 4, after he reportedly tore a crucifix from a
person's neck and scared others at Stoneridge Shopping Center.
Hamid, an employee at a mall kiosk near Starbucks, has been charged with
battery, terrorist threats and grand theft.
According to reports, Hamid was yelling "Allah is power" and "Islam is great"
while holding a pen in a fist over his head. Witnesses said he shouted
anti-Christian comments, said police.
Lt. Mike Elerick of the Pleasanton Police Department said the man was not
provoked and didn't threaten violence, but he committed robbery when he grabbed
and broke a crucifix off someone's neck.
Coworkers told police that Hamid's actions were out of the ordinary and that
he had worked at the kiosk for years.
Further proof how deeply we have lost our way, our sense of life. Plotting jihad, supporting jihad is not freedom of speech. It is sedition.
Watch the unholy leftist/Islamic allaicne try to use this free speech issue to shut up the truth tellers and those on the right. The invoke freedom of speech to kill freedom of speech. it's an old trick of the left, the cimmunists, the statists, all totalitarian ideologies. I am sure Rahm Emanuel won't let this "cris go to waste" either.
They will also blame "guns". Once again in an attempt to disarm the population. An unarmed population is like sheep to slaughter. In this war, every free man and woman needs a weapon.
Investigators would have been
"crucified" over First Amendment rights if they had launched a
full-scale probe into e-mails Fort Hood massacre suspect Army Maj.
Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly sent to a radical imam, a government
investigator told Fox News.
The claim comes as the squabble grows among officials in different
branches of law enforcement and the military over who knew what, and
when, about Hasan's leanings toward faith-inspired violence, and amid
charges that "political correctness" prevented officials from taking
pre-emptive action.
Multiple investigators familiar with the FBI's review of the Fort
Hood case told Fox News that they simply did not have enough evidence
to launch an investigation. Though officials discovered Hasan's e-mails
to the imam, one government counterterrorism investigator said the
messages suggested he was seeking "spiritual and religious guidance."
"(Hasan) appeared to be at a moral impasse, a moral dilemma who was
reaching out for advice," the investigator said. "Had we launched an
investigation of Hasan we'd have been crucified."
The investigator added that the communications were shared with the
"appropriate chains," including the Department of Defense. The source
suggested Hasan may have had other suspicious contacts, telling Fox
News"no one missed anything or connections to nefarious individuals."
Officials have consistently batted down suggestions that they "sat"
on critical information about Hasan. One investigator said Monday that
"I don't have any evidence" Hasan was given light treatment because of
his religion or fear of a discrimination suit.
But even after the attacks, some have been reluctant to cite
religion as a factor, as evidence has mounted that the alleged gunman's
Muslim faith was at least a partial factor in the decision to mount the
attack.
Partial? PARTIAL???
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley pointed to America's "love" affair with
guns as the driving factor behind last week's shooting at Fort Hood,
becoming the latest and possibly most prominent figure to show a
reluctance to cite religion.
Daley is a corrupt, morally ill crook. A tool of the left. Gangsta nonsense.
"Every day in society someone's being killed. Unfortunately, America
loves guns. We love guns to a point that we see the devastation on a
daily basis," Daley, whose city has suffered through a rash of
violence, told reporters. "You don't blame a group. You don't blame a
society, immigrant community because of actions of one group, one
individual -- you cannot say that."
Stoopid.
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence issued a statement last
week saying that legislative measures to increase the availability of
guns should be rejected in light of the attack.
This narrative must be quashed.
"This latest tragedy, at a heavily fortified army base, ought to
convince more Americans to reject the argument that the solution to gun
violence is to arm more people with more guns in more places," the
organization's president, Paul Helmke, said.
Wrong -- this is not a tragedy. Further the "heavily fortified army base" was disarmed. Time to rearm our troops on home soil.
The message was aimed specifically at a proposal backed by the gun
lobby and Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., to protect the right of veterans
to own guns. Burr responded by accusing Helmke of exploiting the
tragedy.
"It is a shame that this process has gotten to a point where some
feel that they can exploit the senseless murder of American soldiers in
the quest to secure personal triumph," Burr said.
Burr gets my vote.
Witnesses report hearing Hasan yell "Allahu Akbar" -- "God is Great"
-- during the rampage. Hasan once gave a presentation justifying
homicide bombings, according to a witness. In one presentation, he also
urged the military to let Muslim members leave the service to avoid
"adverse" effects.
But some pointed to stress as a leading factor.
Stress? He was as happy as a clam. As cool as a cucumber. This is insane. When will these asshats read the koran. Send your congressman, senators and representatives a copy of this: The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran
"We're dealing with a very different kind of war here," Dr. Phil
McGraw, a celebrity psychologist, told CNN's Larry King on Thursday
night. "And we know that there is a tremendous degree of stress with
this war. And I think the military will tell you that it's a new animal
and nobody knows exactly what to do with it."
Dr. Phil is an idiot.
But with "political correctness" cited as a reason why warning signs
from Hasan were potentially overlooked by the military in the first
place, some see Hasan being treated the same way in the wake of the
shooting.
Bernard Goldberg, a former CBS News correspondent, took the media to task for its coverage.
"What's the story line they run with? Religion? Of course not. Can't
do that. He's a Muslim," he said Friday on Fox News' "The O'Reilly
Factor." "They run with post-traumatic stress syndrome because that
gives them a chance to take a shot at a couple of wars they never liked
from the get-go."
Privately, top Army officers have acknowledged that the massacre may have been a terrorist act.
d'oh
In a series of e-mails sent 24 hours after the shootings and
obtained by Fox News, one colonel in a two-star command instructed
subordinate officers: "Please send a message to our training centers,
the (logistics support bases), and the (divisions) advising them of
...(their) responsibility to provide this command a status of their
respective anti-terrorism plans."
Publicly, however, the army's chief of staff seemed reluctant to
acknowledge what appears to be the dominant factor in Hasan's world
view: his turn toward Islamist views as he turned against the wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq.
"I think the speculation could potentially heighten backlash against
some of our Muslim soldiers," said Army Chief of Staff Gen. George
Casey. "And what happened at Fort Hood was a tragedy, but I believe it
would be an even greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty
here."
Some other commentators took note of Hasan's faith only to suggest that its consideration served to rile up conservatives.
"I cringe that he's a Muslim," said Evan Thomas of Newsweek. "I
mean, because it inflames all the fears. I think he's probably just a
nut case. But with that label attached to him, it will get the right
wing going and it just -- I mean these things are tragic, but that
makes it much worse."
Left wing pimp.Look who gets TV time, this totalitarian kook. . Wafa Sultan? MIA. Robert Spencer? MIA. Ibn Warraq? MIA? Andrew Bostom ? MIA.
Fox News contributor Monica Crowley called that assessment "incredible."
"I think he's knee-deep in political correctness, as so many people
are, including now, as we know, the United States military. Political
correctness is turning out to be the death of this country," she said.
It's not political corectness, it's enforcement of shariah law.
Satirical blogger Barry Rubin of "The Rubin Report" wondered if
today's New York Times covering the Lincoln assassination would
overlook the fact that John Wilkes Booth shouted out a Confederate
motto after the shooting and report instead that he "was
psychologically unstable...frightened of the Civil War coming to an end
and having to face a peacetime actors' surplus."
UPDATE: Rep McCaul wants an investigation. Go Texas(hat tip Kasper):
In surveying the cultural carnage in the wake of the worst terrorist attack on a military installation in US history, it bears noting that there have been seismic shifts in America. When America was free of the shackles of Islam, say, fifty years ago, the response to such an attack by an enemy faction would have been unthinkable.
I have watched in abject horror the stunning reaction in this country to this act of war. The denial, the submission, the excuses, the dodging, the self-flagellation, the shame, the deceiving of the American people by the media, the military, society, law enforcement, authorities and politicians, all the way up to and including the White House, is the enforcement of sharia law.
We are witnessing an Islamicized America. This is well beyond political correctness. We are enforcing shariah law. We will not insult Islam. That is shariah law. We self censor. That is shariah law. We disrespect ourselves, our nation, so that we might respect Islam. This is dhimmitude. We should be raging. We should be outraged. We should be strategizing for this worldwide conflict. We should be debating about which leader will best handle Islam's war on the west. And yet we have not one leader who begins to understand the conflict -- that's how feared the subject matter is. Not one leader.
Islam's best ally is not the devotion of its followers, but the confusion of its enemies. To fight it, we must understand it.
On this day, Veterans day, I call upon all Americans to step back, consider the unfathomable loss at Fort Hood, the ensuing apologia, and the tragic consequences of such behavior. This is a call to action. You're either with us or against us.
Dhimmitude: the Islamic system of governing populations conquered by jihad
wars, encompassing all of the demographic, ethnic, and religious
aspects of the political system. The word "dhimmitude" as a historical
concept, was coined by Bat Ye'or
in 1983 to describe the legal and social conditions of Jews and
Christians subjected to Islamic rule. The word "dhimmitude" comes from dhimmi, an Arabic word meaning "protected". Dhimmi was the name applied by the Arab-Muslim conquerors to indigenous non-Muslim populations who surrendered by a treaty (dhimma)
to Muslim domination. Islamic conquests expanded over vast territories
in Africa, Europe and Asia, for over a millennium (638-1683). The
Muslim empire incorporated numerous varied peoples which had their own
religion, culture, language and civilization. For centuries, these
indigenous, pre-Islamic peoples constituted the great majority of the
population of the Islamic lands. Although these populations differed,
they were ruled by the same type of laws, based on the shari'a.
This similarity, which includes also regional variations, has
created a uniform civilization developed throughout the centuries by
all non-Muslim indigenous people, who were vanquished by a jihad-war and governed by shari'a law. It is this civilization which is called dhimmitude. It is characterized by the different strategies developed by each dhimmi
group to survive as non-Muslim entity in their Islamized countries.
Dhimmitude is not exclusively concerned with Muslim history and
civilization. Rather it investigates the history of those non-Muslim
peoples conquered and colonized by jihad.
Dhimmitude encompasses the relationship of Muslims and non-Muslims
at the theological, social, political and economical levels. It also
incorporates the relationship between the numerous ethno-religious
dhimmi groups and the type of mentality that they have developed out of
their particular historical condition which lasted for centuries, even
in some Muslim countries, till today.
Dhimmitude is an entire integrated system, based on Islamic theology. It cannot
be judged from the circumstantial position of any one community, at a given
time and in a given place. Dhimmitude must be appraised according to its laws
and customs, irrespectively of circumstances and political contingencies.
Or the guys who say "Hey, let's have this fellow counsel our traumatized veterans and then promote him to major and put him on a Homeland Security panel?
Or the Army Chief of Staff who thinks the priority should be to celebrate diversity, even unto death?
General Casey has a point: An army that lets you check either the
"home team" or "enemy" box according to taste is certainly diverse.
But the logic in the remarks of Secretary Napolitano and others is that
the real problem is that most Americans are knuckledragging bigots just
waiting to go bananas. As Melanie Phillips wrote in her book Londonistan:
Minority-rights doctrine has produced a moral inversion, in which
those doing wrong are excused if they belong to a 'victim' group, while
those at the receiving end of their behaviour are blamed simply because
they belong to the 'oppressive' majority.
To the injury of November 5, we add the insults of American officialdom and their poodle media. In a nutshell:
The real enemy — in the sense of the most important enemy — isn’t a
bunch of flea-bitten jihadis sitting in a cave somewhere. It’s Western
civilization’s craziness. We are setting our hair on fire and putting
it out with a hammer.
Obama: 'We cannot fully know' motive of Ft. Hood shooter
Gays in the military is not the issue, though the party in power is obsessed with it. The immediate problem is JIHADIS IN THE MILITARY.
Dhimmi General Casey said: "what happened at Fort Hood was
a tragedy, but I believe it would be an even greater tragedy if our
diversity". Really? This is his concern? Would you follow this putz into battle?
Army Major in Fort Hood Massacre Used 'Electronic Means' to Connect
with Terrorists
ABC News, Nov. 9, 2009 —
U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Hasan
was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two
American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News. It
is not known whether the intelligence agencies informed the Army that one of its
officers was seeking to connect with suspected al Qaeda figures, the officials
said.
One senior lawmaker said the CIA had, so far, refused to brief the
intelligence committees on what, if any, knowledge they had about Hasan's
efforts.
CIA director Leon Panetta and the Director of National Intelligence, Dennis
Blair, have been asked by Congress "to preserve" all documents and intelligence
files that relate to Hasan, according to the lawmaker.
On Sunday, Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) called for an investigation into
whether the Army missed signs as to whether Hasan was an Islamic extremist. "If
Hasan was showing signs, saying to people that he had become an Islamist
extremist, the U.S. Army has to have a zero tolerance," Lieberman told Fox News
Sunday.
Investigators want to know if Hasan maintained contact with a radical mosque
leader from Virginia, Anwar al Awlaki, who now lives in Yemen and runs a web
site that promotes jihad around the world against the U.S. In a blog posting
early Monday titled "Nidal Hassan Did the Right Thing," Awlaki calls Hassan a
"hero" and a "man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of
being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against his own people."
According to his site, Awlaki served as an imam in Denver, San Diego and
Falls Church, Virginia. The Associated Press reported Sunday that Major Hasan
attended the Falls Church mosque when Awlaki was there.
The Telegraph of London reported that Awlaki had made contact with two of the
9/11 hijackers when he was in San Diego. He denied any knowledge of the
hijacking plot and was never charged with any crime. After an intensive
investigation by the FBI, Awlaki moved to Yemen.
People who knew or worked with Hasan say he seemed to have gradually become
more radical in his disapproval of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Army Chief of Staff
A fellow Army doctor who studied with Hasan, Val Finell, told ABC News, "We
would frequently say he was a Muslim first and an American second. And that came
out in just about everything he did at the University. Finell said he and other
Army doctors complained to superiors about Hasan's statements. "And we
questioned how somebody could take an oath of office&be an officer in the
military and swear allegiance to the constitution and to defend America against
all enemies, foreign and domestic and have that type of conflict," Finell told
ABC News.
The Army Chief of Staff, General George Casey, raised concerns over the
weekend that innocent Muslim soldiers could suffer as a result of the shooting
at Fort Hood. "I think the speculation (on Hasan's Islamic roots) could
potentially heighten backlash against some of our Muslim soldiers," he said on
ABC's "This Week."
9 November 2009: According to an
intelligence source speaking to the Northeast Intelligence Network, forensic
analysis of Nidal Malik HASAN’s computer and other media determined that HASAN
had routinely visited al Qaeda and Islamic terrorist web sites in months and
weeks leading to last week’s massacre at Fort Hood. According to this
investigative source, HASAN also downloaded material from the web site operated
by former Dar al Hijrah mosque leader and terrorist facilitator Anwar Nasser al
Awlaki. As reported here, al Awlaki was an
imam at the Dar al Hijrah mosque in Fall Church, Virginia in 2001, where he
advised and facilitated two of the 9/11 terrorists in the months prior to the
attacks. Al Awlaki also counseled HASAN during that same period.
The information obtained from HASAN’s digital
files reportedly shows a “pattern of deliberate and willful planning to conduct
some type of attack against the U.S. military prior to his deployment” [to
Afghanistan], stated this source who requested anonymity as he is not authorized
to speak publicly. “The motive behind the massacre appears to be rooted in his
ideology, an ideology which was emboldened by online activity,” added this
source.
As indicated by a ABC
News Online article, intelligence sources reportedly had a level of
knowledge that HASAN was in communication with al Qaeda assets abroad. The
source speaking to this author confirmed that report but went further, stating
that this and information similar but not directly related to such
communications became a “political issue” between government agencies and
officials “at the policy making levels” of the administration.
According to this source, the now infamous
pre-9/11 walls erected within government agencies have returned, “but this time
they are higher and stronger.” “There is an unwillingness to address ‘delicate’
intelligence and security matters by sharing information outside of the beltway,
and that directive comes right from the top. That’s all I’m going to say right
now,” stated this source.
Based on the information provided during this
interview, it would appear that intelligence officials were well aware of not
only HASAN’s prior associations with known Muslim terrorists, but his current
sympathy with anti-American, pro-jihad, al Qaeda ideology and his views about
the U.S. military engaging the enemy on Muslim soil.
What in heaven's name is the State department doing? This is a freak
show. When, at any time, did the State department put itself to work in
the advancement of Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, or in the
service of a violent ideology, i.e., Nazism?
What happens to Americans who go to work in these cesspools? They lose their soul.
On September 11, the State department sent out an invitation to
employees from the South Asian-American Employee Association (SAAEA)
for a screening of the film "What Billion Muslims Really Think," which
will be aired on broadcast television on Spring 2010. The actual
premiere was in June, and all employees at the State department got an
invitation to attend that screening as well.
Below is the "Department Notice" announcing the film event of September
14 that took place at the Acheson auditorium. Acheson is the largest
auditorium at main State.
Afterward, everyone was invited to the Iftar dinner at the Delegates Lounge.
It is increasingly clear that the Department of State does not represent the United States.
Notice that the da'wah is headed by DOS's domestic headquarters
office and its aim is to reach not just audiences abroad, but Muslim and
non-Muslim audiences internally. That is really the purpose for the new Muslim
outreach office headed by Farah Pandith.
It's disgusting!
Every day a new bomb is thrown at us. Just a few days ago it was Iran,
etc. The new guidance for the Iranian talks are very dangerous. It's a malabarism
with different players and interests; however, in the end this
administration will fall and no matter where it falls it will not be
nice. It's a no win situation. All the players that this administration
is choosing to play with are our arch enemies. How could we ever win?
Here is a link of the film "What a Billion Muslims Really Think"
that was shown at State. It is full blown cultural jihad -- taqiyya.
Please notice the usual suspects/players, i.e. Albright, Esposito, etc.
Any mention of the over 14,000 Islamic attacks since 911? The honor
killings? Subjugation and oppression of women? Child abuse? Forced
marriages? Brainwashing and indoctrination? Clitorectomies?
............. Why split hairs on an ideology whose objective is to
conquer the West and the whole "non-believing" world?
Here DOS
employees comment on the event and discuss ideas as to how to put more
money and resources abroad and to expand it to every level. Not just
Foreign Service, but also Civil Service, etc. It's the Muslim DOS blog
headed by the newly created (under Obama) high level office of Muslim outreach at the State department, headed by Pandith.
The comments on the new Statement blog are ........... unsettling:
While
I have participated in Iftars organized by U.S diplomats overseas, I am
not aware if State has organized such in the past for employees, in
order to justify any deparment resources on the event, we could easily
turn it into a public diplomacy event by inviting foreign diplomats and
representatives from civil society.
I
like the idea to bring back having Iftars at the white House or even at
the department of state for Muslim civil employees. Please include my
name in the event volunteers list for White house or Department of Dtate iftars or Eld Holidays event. Best Regards.
Happy
Ramadan to everyone. I think it would be a great idea to have an Iftar
party from DOB or WH not only to celebrate the Muslim's holy month, but
also to support the "Diversity" initiative is currently being taken by Secretary Clinton. I can be a big part of it by providing any kinds of
efforts from me. Thank You
An update on this story. "Official: Plot Suspect Admits al Qaeda Ties, May
Plead Guilty: Three-Day FBI Interrogation Reveals Denver
Man Had Received Explosives Training," by Richard Esposito, Clayton Sandell and
Brian Ross for ABC News, September 18 (thanks to Benedict):
The Denver man at the center of an alleged New York bomb plot, Najibullah
Zazi, has admitted he has ties to al Qaeda and is in negotiations to plead
guilty to a terror charge, a senior law enforcement official told ABC News.
The official said Zazi had received explosives training and his possible
guilty plea would be part of a deal to cooperate with the government.
The 24-year old Zazi had insisted he had "no ties, no connection to al
Qaeda" in interviews with reporters earlier this week after his name surfaced in
connection with the investigation.
But after two eight-hour interrogations at the FBI
offices in Denver on Wednesday and Thursday, Zazi told a different
story this morning, the law enforcement official said.
The plea negotiations were first reported by the New York Daily News.
A lawyer for Zazi, Arthur Folsom, called the reports "completely
unfounded."
Zazi has been under investigation for almost a year, according to law
enforcement and intelligence officials. The CIA
reportedly first learned of his alleged al Qaeda ties when Zazi visited
Pakistan and official said they later learned of "deeply troubling"
conversations that were picked up on government intercepts.
Zazi and his lawyer, Arthur Folsom, had maintained his trips to Pakistan were
only to visit his wife....
Relax! It's multiculturalism, and multiculturalism is grand!
"Ban Ave Maria in the California Public Schools but Allow Islamic Prayers,"
by Joseph Klein for the NewsRealblog, September 13:
[...] The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion on September 8th
upholding a public school superintendent's decision to ban a student group's
performance of an instrumental version of "Ave Maria" at their public high
school's graduation ceremony. The superintendent's reason for the ban: because
the song might be interpreted by some as an endorsement of religion.
Remarkably, this left-leaning federal court sees no
inconsistency between its ruling several years ago allowing Islamic prayers to
be said on a daily basis in public school classrooms, and its current decision
to prohibit a one-time instrumental performance of a Christian-inspired musical
piece.
What will be next on the list of banned musical compositions -- The Battle
Hymn of the Republic?
Islam on Capital Hill - "Our Time has Come" (so it says on the bottom of the pages of islamoncapitolhill.com.)
Washington, D.C. -
On September 25th there will be a national prayer gathering of Muslims
on the west front of the U.S. Capitol Building. They are expecting at
least 50,000 to attend from mosques all across America. They will
gather to pray from 4:00 AM until 7:00 PM. The gathering will take
place by the site where U.S. Presidents have been inaugurated since
1981. The organizers say that it was Obama's inauguration speech in
January and his speech broadcast from Egypt in June that gave them the
idea for this prayer gathering on Capitol Hill.
They have a website set up for this event. If you never look at another
website look at this one, especially the final words:
islamoncapitolhill.com (hat tip Cathy)
I did not post on this when I saw it last week because I have no problem with folks praying. I took no issue with it whether it was Muslims, Christian, Jews ............... pet rock owners. But when I got a gander at islamoncapitolhill.com, I posted it as an update to the "Interfaith day of Service" on 911. But it is clearly in need of its own post, especially when one looks at the two leading the thousands of Muslims in prayer: Sheik Muhammad Jebril and Sheik Ahmed Dewidar, two Egyptians (home base to the Muslim Brotherhood), and prayer organizer Hassen Abdellah. First, let's take a close look at Dewidar.
Ahmed Dewidar is the New York Imam who said Jews control America.
Dr. Ahmad Dwidar is imam of the Islamic Center in New York. MEMRI captured an interview he did with the Middle East Broadcasting Centre:
Dwidar: In 1995 I heard some sermons, saying that Muslims should march on the White House from some of the mosques.
Host: What do you mean by “march on the White House”?
Dwidar: One cleric said in his sermon: “We are going to the White House, so that Islam will be victorious, Allah willing, and the White House will become into the Muslim house.”
Host: How? I don’t understand.
Dwidar: This is simply a slogan. I’m only saying this to...
Host: Are they going to occupy the White House or what?
Dwidar: No, they say that through the domination of Islam and its ideas, the White House will change.
Host: This will happen one day, but not this way. Islam will be victorious, no doubt, but not this way.
Dwidar: It will not happen unless the Muslims abandon their slogans
and become a role model. If a Muslim doctor who invents a cure in the
hospital or performs an important operation successfully – all the
media will broadcast it live and announce it worldwide. The Muslim who
makes do with breaking the wooden podium, with screaming, and with
patronizing, condescending rhetoric that “Islam is coming, and it will
change the face of the earth,” while at the same time he cannot even
change the face of the Islamic capitals, which overflow with garbage –
this path will lead to no good.
And while the imam does not urge marching on the White House, he echoes those other clerics who do. As for the White House
becoming the “Muslim House,” well, he is down with that.
Dewidar was called “the face of the next generation of Muslims in America."
In the now dark New York Sun, MEMRI’s Steven Stalinsky wrote
about Dr. Dewidar’s jihadi statements in an interview for
a Muslim Brotherhood web site. In that interview, Dewidar said that American society is controlled by the Jews.
Within weeks of September 11, 2001, an Egyptian
sheik serving as Al-Azhar University's representative in America and an
imam at the Islamic Cultural Center and Mosque of New York City,
Muhammad al-Gamei'a, was interviewed at an unofficial Al-Azhar
University Web site, www.lailatalqadr.com.
Sheik al-Gamei'a returned to Egypt shortly after his interview was
translated. Many of his friends in the interfaith community were
shocked at what this "moderate" said.
In the interview, he claimed the Jews were behind the September 11
attacks and offered the following as evidence: "four thousand Jews did
not come to work at the World Trade Center," and "Jews control
decision-making in the airports and in the ... White House and the
Pentagon." Another outrageous statement: "Muslims do not feel safe even
going to the hospitals, because some Jewish doctors in one of the
hospitals poisoned sick Muslim children, who then died." Sheik
al-Gamei'a also predicted the collapse of America.
Almost four years after Sheik al-Gamei'a made headlines, another
influential Egyptian-born New York imam gave a series of interviews to
the press in his homeland. He also did not expect his words would be
translated by MEMRI.
An imam at the Islamic Society of Mid-Manhattan and a lecturer on
Islamic studies at Manhattanville College, Ahmad Dewidar, was recently
called "the face of the next generation of Muslims in America." He has
met with President Bush, Mayor Giuliani, Governor Pataki and U.N.
Secretary-General Annan.
Recently, Dr. Dewidar attended the annual Conference of the Supreme
Council of Islamic Affairs in Egypt, where he gave a series of
interviews. In one that aired on MBC TV on June 9, he discussed the
spread of Islam in America. He referred to sermons he had heard in 1995
that stated, "We are going to the White House so that Islam will be
victorious, Allah willing, and the White House will become Muslim
House." To view the broadcast, visit www.memritv.org.
On June 15, Dr. Dewidar was interviewed by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's Web site, www.ikhwanonline.com.
When asked about how the attacks of September 11, 2001, impacted the
spread of Islam in America, he said that he witnessed hundreds of
Americans converting to Islam. Hinting at an American government
conspiracy related to the attacks, he said, "Whether or not these
events were planned, or pinned on the Muslims, or something else - [it]
provided an opportunity for [the American government] to legislate
dubious laws that restrict the growth and presence of Islam in the U.S."
Regarding American skepticism toward Islam following September 11,
2001, he said, "The media - most of which is under Zionist control -
has helped to spread this perception." Later in the interview he said
that "the Jews" control the press. When asked, "What is the extent of
the Muslim community's influence on American society?" He answered,
"The Zionist community numbers only 3 million, but they control the
government, the politics, the economy, and the media in the U.S."
Also while speaking to the Web site of the Muslim Brotherhood, he
denounced President Bush's policy in the Middle East, claiming it was
dictated by Natan Sharansky: "This Jew has despicable goals, and we see
their effects today in America's actions in the region, imposing its
opinion and its outlook on democracy, education, and political
involvement on our countries."
Dr. Dewidar and Sheik al-Gamei'a's interviews shared some themes,
such as blaming Islam's poor image in America on a Zionist-controlled
press. They also both said the Zionists control political
decision-making and economic institutions. Both were extremely positive
on the future of Islam in America and discussed a trend of Americans
converting to Islam following September 11, 2001.
Once again we have a Muslim who puts his taqiya face on for the lapdog West and shows his true face to the Muslim world.
His partner in the mass Muslim prayer service is Muhammad Jebril. Jebril got his B.A degree in shariah law (Islamic Law) at Al-Azhar University. Sheikh Jebril
was
named Imam of the extremist mosque Amr Ibn Al’Ass in Cairo in 1988. Sheikh Muhammad Jebril is also a University professor in Jordan.
This national mass prayer is JIHAD under the guise, once again, of a political "religion."
-Mr. Abdellah represented Numan Malafi who was convicted of making false statements to federal agents, according to this report from The New York Times: When
the agents questioned him in 2003, he denied helping a Yemeni cleric
who prosecutors said made a fund-raising trip to Brooklyn mosques in
1999. Prosecutors said Mr. Maflahi, a gas station owner who lives in
Little Ferry, N.J., had been the driver and personal assistant for
Sheik Abdullah Satar, a former member of parliament in Yemen. They have
described Sheik Satar as a fund-raiser with ties to Al
Qaeda.”Yesterday, Mr. Maflahi's lawyer, Hassen Ibn Abdellah, told Judge
Nina Gershon of Federal District Court in Brooklyn that her sentencing
decision was a test of whether "this country could be fair to
Arab-Americans
-Mr. Abdellah was briefly the lawyer of Mohamed el-Atriss, who was convicted of selling fake IDs to two of the 9/11 hijackers. Atriss did provide the fake IDs, but claimed he did not know what they would be used for. At some point during the case Atriss replaced Mr. Abdellah with another attorney.
-Click here to read an interesting article about the trial of the World Trade Center accused. That's the beauty of our system," Mr. Abdellah said. "There's no problem with the practice of Islam." "That's
also the problem that this case presents," he added. "You look at
Ayyad," he said of one of the defendants. "He's an American. He can
practice his religion and his way of life here. Why would he blow up
the World Trade Center?"
-Mr. Abdellah made these statements about the Islam on Capitol Hill Event : Most
of the time, when Muslims go to Washington, D.C., they go there to
protest some type of event," Abdellah said. "This is not a protest.
Never has the Islamic community prayed on Capitol Hill for the soul of
America. We're Americans. We need to change the face of Islam so people
don't feel every Muslim believes America is 'the great Satan,' because
we love America." In fact, it was President Obama's words at his
inauguration in January, and then his speech in Egypt in June, that led
Abdellah and an area imam, Abdul Malik, to begin discussing the idea,
Abdellah said. "For the first time in my lifetime," Abdellah said,
"I heard someone of his stature speaking about Islam and Muslims not in
an adversarial sense, but in the sense of being welcome and
acknowledging we are integral citizens in the society -- that we're
gainfully employed, we're educated." "He said he had his hand open to the Islamic world," he said. "The Islamic world wants to open their hand and shake it." -New English Review
Imam Abdul Malik, another event organizer
I highly recommend taking a look at Abdul Malik's Facebook page, and watching the video - during which he says many interesting things including: Polygamy is an American tradition.
He also has this quote posted on his wall (SMW has added the bold):
Democracy
is not revelation, and democracy does not equal freedom, for in
democracy you have apartheid, you have slavery, you have homosexuality,
you have lesbianism, you have gambling, you have all of the voices that
are against the spirit of truth; so no we don’t want to democratize
Islam, we want to Islamize democracy. That’s what we want.
I came across another video at this link titled
"Anti-Zionism", which is quite, well, watch for yourself and decide..
The video is allegedly Imam Abdul Malik speaking at University of
California Santa Cruz on May 11th 2006. Due to the image and sound
quality SMW cannot say for certain that this is the Abdul Malik in
question.
Did the ummah (the worldwide Muslim community) ever apologize for 911? Did the ummah apologize for Madrid train bombings, London bombings, Mumbai bombings, Bali bombings, homicide bombings in Israel, jihad in Thailand, Lebanon rout, Darfur genocide, Beslan, etc.?
State department personnel are supposed to pray with Muslims on the newly declared "interfaith day
of service," whatever that means on 911.
Not only more Muslim outreach garbage but also more diffusion of religion
(Islam) and State/state.
We don't stop bending over backward to an ideology intent upon destroying us. It's insanity.
Add another Obama insult to injury on 911, the national day of terrible
grief and mourning. First he desecrated the memory of 911 with this: Obama's 911 proclamation of his mandatory civilian service on 911. He means to erase the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks from the American
psyche and convert Sept. 11 into a day of leftist celebration and statist
idolatry, and an "interfaith day of service".
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SUBJECT: INTERFAITH DAY OF SERVICE
REF: 09 STATE 77580
1. This is an action request (Para 4). The Department
encourages posts to consider organizing an Interfaith Day
of Service in their host countries as a way to commemorate
the anniversary of the tragic events of September 11,
2001.
2. President Obama called for interfaith service to foster
collaboration between people across the world in his Cairo
speech: "Indeed, faith should bring us together. And
that's why we're forging service projects in America to
bring together Christians, Muslims, and Jews. Around the
world, we can turn dialogue into interfaith service, so
bridges between peoples lead to action -- whether it is
combating malaria in Africa, or promoting relief after a
natural disaster."
3. Interfaith service has been an inextricable part of
Americans' dedication to serving others, which as early as
1831 was identified as a distinctive American
characteristic by Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville. In
State 77580, Secretary Clinton specifically encouraged
Department of State employees to support President Obama's
domestic United We Serve campaign that embraces this
tradition of community service. By participating in an
Interfaith Day of Service, posts have the unique
opportunity to expand the domestic commemoration of 9/11
as the National Day of Service and Remembrance -- as
signed into law by President Obama on April 21, 2009 --
into a global initiative.
4. ACTION REQUEST: Posts are encouraged to plan an
Interfaith Day of Service to commemorate 9/11 that would
send a message of goodwill, cooperation, and shared
interest to their host countries and their religious
communities. To accommodate posts in countries where
Muslims may be observing Ramadan until/about September 19,
posts are requested to plan an Interfaith Day of Service
between September 11 and October 18, 2009. We encourage
you to bring together leaders of different religious
backgrounds and identify jointly a priority project. Those
leaders would encourage their members to join mission
employees and resident Americans in working together on a
community project. We request that posts keep their
regional bureaus informed of their 9/11 commemoration
plans so that the information can be made available to
interested USG officials and agencies.
5. Sustainability is a key theme of President Obama's
United We Serve campaign and Secretary Clinton's remarks
at the Global Philanthropy Forum where she announced the
appointment of the Special Representative for Global
Partnerships (S/GPI) and described the Department's role
as a convener, catalyst, and collaborator by fostering
public-private partnerships with groups such as
faith-based organizations. The Interfaith Day of Service
is an opportunity for posts to expand their contact bases,
initiate long-term partnerships with civil society, and
spread goodwill in observing September 11, 2001. Some
programming ideas and suggestions are listed in paragraph
six, however posts are encouraged to be creative based on
the needs, religions/sects, and opportunities in their
country.
6. Programming Ideas
- Meet with interfaith leaders or an interfaith
organization before the Interfaith Day of Service to
identify a local development issue. For example,
Interfaith Youth Core and Tony Blair's Faith Foundation
collaboratively identified malaria as a problem in Africa
and supported a service project for youth to raise funds
and show the film "The Story of a Bed Net" in their faith
communities.
- Form local partnerships:
- Organize a food-drive for the end of Ramadan with
religious leaders and citizens in Muslim communities to
donate to a local mosque or community, such as this
activity in Dubai in 2008:
- Partner with universities or secondary schools to
organize a day of awareness-raising, school clean-up, park
rehabilitation, or a donation drive that includes students
from different faith traditions.
- Work with the Red Cross/Red Crescent or a local hospital
to promote the giving of blood and partner with different
religious leaders to involve their congregations.
- Organize a free music workshop for a neighborhood where
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musicians from different faiths can share their
traditions. This event could be a good way to promote a
longer term arts education project, for example.
- Set up an interfaith sports competition for youth that
includes interfaith teams and incorporates skill-building
activities.
- Organize a writing competition at a local school on
respect for people of all faiths.
7. Resources
- Communities@State's new Religion and Global Affairs
Community can be a resource for posts to submit service
ideas. Washington can help connect posts to an interfaith
and/or youth organization active in their host countries.
Posts can participate in the Community at:
http://www.intelink.gov/communities/state/ediplomacy/archiv
es/new_community_r.html
- The Global Partnership Initiative (S/GPI) has developed
new tools and talking points for the Department's efforts
at the nexus of faith and foreign policy. These can be
accessed on the intranet at http://gpi.state.gov, on the
internet at http://www.state.gov/partnerships/, or by
contacting Rob Lalka (lalkart@state.gov).
- The Office of the Special Representative for Muslim
Communities (S/SRMC) can be a resource. Contact
information: tel. 202-647-7710 or via email SSRMC
- INFOCENTRAL is a repository of information that all
posts can use for outreach. A list of Ramadan 2009
outreach materials for Muslim communities can be found
at:
https://infocentral.state.gov/info-topics/democracy--human-
rights/democracy--human-rights/archive/ramadan
- America.gov focuses on the theme of American Giving in
several articles:
http://search.state.gov/search?oe=utf8&ie=utf8&q=American+G
iving&filter=0&entqr=3&ud=1&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&output=x
ml_no_dtd&lr=lang_en&client=americagov&proxystylesheet=amer
icagov&getfields=*&site=americagov&Submit.x=40&Submit.y=14
- Serve.gov, the United We Serve website, lists service
opportunities in the U.S. that could provide ideas for
similar activities at posts.
8. Reporting
IIP would appreciate a brief description of any plans for
an interfaith service activity sent to your IIP policy
officer in advance of the event. Following the event, IIP
could potentially use photos and text about the activity
on the English or language versions of America.gov and/or
a social networking platform. Photos should be e-mailed
to state61per@photos.flickr.com. The subject line will
become the title of the photo. The body of the e-mail
should include:
A description of the photo which will become the caption
A photo credit in parentheses at the end of the description
A carriage return followed by: tags: #service
If you have any questions about uploading photos, please
contact Jason Katz (katzjx@state.gov).
Please report your activities on Mission Activity Tracker
and to your regional bureaus.
9. This is an exciting opportunity to answer the
President's call to interfaith service and the Secretary's
commitment to partnerships. We hope posts will find the
Interfaith Day of Service a beneficial way to commemorate
September 11 abroad and to promote goodwill in their host
countries.
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Washington, D.C. - On September 25th there will be a national prayer gathering of Muslims on the west front of the U.S. Capitol Building. They are expecting at least 50,000 to attend from mosques all across America. They will gather to pray from 4:00 AM until 7:00 PM. The gathering will take place by the site where U.S. Presidents have been inaugurated since 1981. The organizers say that it was Obama's inauguration speech in January and his speech broadcast from Egypt in June that gave them the idea for this prayer gathering on Capitol Hill.
They have a website set up for this event. If you never look at another website look at this one, especially the final words: islamoncapitolhill.com
Just in time for 911, an agreement has been reached on land for Flight 93 memorial. The red crescent is a go. If it was to be a religious symbol, what could be more egregious? It should have been a cross.
The federal government has reached final agreements with landowners to
purchase 1,400 acres at the Flight 93 crash site in southwestern Pennsylvania
yesterday, clearing the way for construction to begin on the 9/11 memorial park
this fall.
The announcement means the government will not invoke eminent domain to seize
the land, a prospect that was raised in the spring.
"The fields of western Pennsylvania, where the heroes of Flight 93 perished,
are hallowed ground for a grateful nation," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said
at a news conference announcing the deal.
"Thanks to the collaborative efforts of the landowners, the Families of
Flight 93 and the employees of the National Park Service, we have reached this
important milestone in properly honoring the courage and sacrifice of the men
and women who gave their lives that day."
Salazar said the property owners would be paid a total of $9.5 million.
Your infidel taxpayer dollars at work.
Negotiations between the Park Service and the property owners, which had
dragged on for years, got a jumpstart this spring when Salazar and Sen. Arlen
Specter (D., Pa.) traveled to Somerset County to meet with landowners and family
members of the 40 passengers and crew aboard the ill-fated plane.
[...]
Both Specter, who in 2002 introduced the Flight 93 National Memorial Act,
authorizing the Park Service to establish the memorial, and Sen. Bob Casey (D.,
Pa.) said they were pleased that after all the years of negotiations, park
construction would finally move forward.
Specter and Casey have helped secure more than $18 million in federal funds
for the 2,200-acre memorial, projected to cost $57 million.
Patrick White, vice president of the board of Families of Flight 93 and the
group's point person on the real estate transactions, said he was relieved the
process was over.
"It has been a long and detailed and at times seeming impossible task with
the amount of issues and concerns to be addressed," said White, whose cousin
Louis Nacke of New Hope was aboard Flight 93. "But with the support of folks in
federal and state and local government, we were able to work in a public-private
partnership to get funds and acquire land as quickly as humanly possible."
Acting Park Service director Dan Wenk said he expected real estate closings
on the remaining properties to take place by mid-October and construction to
begin immediately after the groundbreaking on Nov. 7.
Outrage over this clear Islamic symbolism forced the Memorial Project
to agree to make changes, but all they did was slightly disguise the
giant crescent:
More information is available at CrescentOfBetrayal.com).
His position is simple: The planned Flight 93
Memorial is a terrorist memorial
mosque. Not only does the giant
crescent point to Mecca, but architect Paul Murdoch proves that this
orientation is intentional by repeating it in the crescents of trees
that surround the Tower of Voices part of the memorial.
Not only does the giant
crescent point to Mecca, but architect Paul Murdoch proves that this
orientation is intentional by repeating it in the crescents of trees
that surround the Tower of Voices part of the memorial. (Repeated
Mecca-orientations demonstrated in this animation). We hosted an open
design competition in time of war and literally invited the whole world
to enter. Of course we should have expected that the enemy would enter,
and try to win a memorial to their heroes instead of ours. Much harder
to understand is the willful blindness of those who are charged with
the memorialization of Flight 93, which is supposed to be the symbol of
our woken vigilance.
Every place where the terrorists are memorialized in the
crescent design, they are placed in the symbolic Islamic heavens (the
crescent and star parts of the design). Every place where the 40 heroes
are memorialized, they are depicted as symbolically damned, cast out of
the symbolic Islamic heavens. One example is in the Tower of Voices,
where an Islamic shaped crescent soars in the sky above forty symbolic
souls that literally dangle
President Barack Obama highlighted the contributions made by Muslims to
American culture and the “dynamism and diversity” of the Islamic community.
“Islam, as we know, is part of America,” Obama said at a White House dinner
celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. “Together we have a
responsibility to foster engagement grounded in mutual interest and mutual
respect.”
“That’sone of my fundamental commitments as presidentboth at home and
abroad,” Obama said. “That is central to the new beginning that I’ve sought
between the United States and Muslims around the world and that is a commitment
that we can renew once again during this holy season.”
Honoring Ramadan, which began Aug. 22, is the latest part of Obama’s sustained
outreach efforts to the Muslim world. The president pledged during a June 4
speech in Cairo, Egypt to “seek a new beginning” between the U.S. and Islam.
Seated next to Obama was Bilquis Abdul-Qaadir, a devout
Muslim who, as a high-school basketball player in Massachusetts,
scored more than 3,000 points, breaking the state record -- while wearing a traditional hijab." (here)
Singling her out for a round of applause and noting that
she’s under five foot five inches tall, Obama said Abdul-Qaadir
is “an inspiration not simply to Muslim girls, she’s an
inspiration to all of us.”
It should have been Rifqa Bary. Rifqa should have been seated next to Obama. He should have singled her out for singular courage.
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press
Secretary ___________________________________________________________________________ For
Immediate Release September 1,
2009
Below is a list of some of the expected attendees at tonight’s White House
dinner celebrating Ramadan:
CABINET Secretary Robert Gates, Department of
Defense Attorney General Eric Holder, Department of Justice Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius, Health and Human Services
DEPUTY CABINET SECRETARIES Deputy Secretary Dennis
Hightower, Department of Commerce Deputy Secretary Tony Miller, Department of
Education
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS Congressman Andre Carson
(Indiana 7th) Congressman John Conyers (Michigan 14th) Congressman Keith
Ellison (Minnesota 5th) Congressman Rush Holt (New Jersey 12th) Senator
Richard Lugar (R-IN)
DIPLOMATIC CORPS Ambassador Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid
Al Hussein, Jordan Ambassador Adel A.M. Al-Jubeir, Saudi Arabia Ambassador
Husain Haqqani, Pakistan Ambassador Erlan A. Idrissov,
Kazakhstan Ambassador His Excellency Said Tayeb Jawad,
Afghanistan Ambassador Aziz Mekouar, Morocco Ambassador Peter N.R.O.
Ogego, Kenya Ambassador Roble Olhaye, D’jibouti Ambassador Michael Oren,
Israel
Asked about the unusual step of inviting the Israeli ambassador to the dinner,
the White House described it as a small part of the event." we thought it was an
opportunity to reach out to ambassadors of nations with sizable Muslim
populations, including the ambassadors of France, the [United Kingdom], India,
and Israel."
It's indecent.
Ambassador Sudjadnan Parnohadiningrat, Indonesia Ambassador Klaus
Scharioth, Germany Ambassador Meera Shankar, India Ambassador Nabi Sensoy,
Turkey Ambassador Sir Nigel Elton Sheinwald, United Kingdom Ambassador
Sameh Hassan Shoukry, Egypt Ambassador Samir Shakir Mahmood Sumaida’ie,
Iraq Ambassador Pierre Nicolas Vimont, France Chargé d'Affaires Sheikh
Mohammed Belal, Bangladesh Chargé d'Affaires Ilango Karuppanan,
Malaysiav Chargé d'Affaires Mohamed O Maiga, Chargé d'Affaires Angela Oi
Foong Shim, Brunei Chargé d'Affaires Baba Gana Wakil, Nigeria Mr. Maen
Areikat, Chief of Mission, PLO
COMMUNITY MEMBERS Ms. Bilquis Abdul-Qaadir,
University of Memphis Professor Azizah Al-Hibri, University of Richmond
School of Law Ms. Reema Ali, Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human
Rights Mr. Hasan Chandoo, Oppenheimer & Co.
Mr. Hasan Chandoo, Oppenheimer & Co. $100,000 donation bundler and the
Pakistani friend whose family opened their home to Obama
during his 1981 visit to Pakistan.
"For some reason Barack Obama has never mentioned his
three week stay in Pakistan in any of his writings. On the infamous San
Francisco trip in which Obama called small town Americans “bitter” he also
bragged that he had more foreign policy credentials than Hillary Clinton and
John McCain. One of the things he listed on his resume was his extensive foreign
travel including a 1981 trip to Pakistan. However since this admission, slip of
the tongue, or however you would characterize it, Obama has never mentioned this
trip again.
Although his campaign manager did discuss it when pressed:
As a freshman, he quickly became friends with Mohammed
Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, two wealthy Pakistanis In 1981, Obama
transferred from Occidental to Columbia. In between, he traveled to Pakistan - a
trip that enhanced his foreign policy qualifications, he maintained in a private
speech at a San Francisco fundraiser last month. Obama spent
“about three weeks” in Pakistan, traveling with Hamid and staying in Karachi
with Chandoo’s family, said Bill Burton, Obama’s press secretary.
The Chandoo he was referring to is Mohammed Hassan Chandoo which this website
claims is now a major campaign bundler for Obama:
Bundler: Hasan Chandoo
Employer: Oppenheimer & Co State: NY Bundler Status
for 2008: Bundler for Barack Obama, raised at least $100,000.00
Nathan Diament, Director,
Institute for Public Affairs, Orthodox Union* Imam Plemon El-Amin, Atlanta
Masjid al-Islam
Imam Plemon El-Amin of the Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam and chairman of
the Faith Alliance of Metro Atlanta addressed the audience at the press
conference, held at the Atlanta Masjid:
Metro-Atlanta Muslim leaders condemn Muhammad cartoons (here)
The statement also noted that “the right to freedom of
expression” has limits and reminded Muslims and non-Muslims alike of the
Prophet Muhammad’s words: “The strong is not the one who overcomes the people by
his strength, but the strong is the one who controls himself while in
anger.”
"Under U.S. and International law, the right to freedom of expression is
not considered unlimited and is only considered legitimate when in pursuit of an
aim recognized as legitimate and should not violate the rights and reputations
of others nor violate the preservation of national security or public order,
health and morals. Slanderous, libelous, demeaning and demonizing images that
provoke public anger and discord cannot be considered legitimate exercises of
free speech."
Mr. Wahid Hamid, PepsiCo
Hamid is Obama's other travel companion from
1981 Pakistani visit
Ms. Dina Hammad Mr. Lutfi
Hassan Ms. Nashala Hearn Ms. Rosalind Hearn Imam Yahya Hendi, Chaplain,
Georgetown University Pastor Joel Hunter, Northland Church* Mr. Nooman
Husain Mr. Imad Hussain Mr. Sanford Ibrahim, CEO, Radian Group Mr.
Jameel Jaffer, Staff Attorney, ACLU
He's the ACLU GITMO guy-I'm sure he's great friends with Holder-bet they sat together for dinner
Jameel Jaffer is a litigator for the National Legal Department of the ACLU. Mr. Jaffer is currently counsel to the plaintiffs in ACLU et al. v. Department of Defense, litigation under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that has resulted in the release of tens of thousands of documents concerning the treatment of prisoners held by the United States in Iraq, Afghanistan, and at Guant�namo Bay Naval Base. Since 2002, Mr. Jaffer has also served as counsel in several of the most significant cases involving the USA Patriot Act. Before joining the staff of the ACLU, he served as law clerk to Hon. Amalya L. Kearse, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then to Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada.
Mrs. Elsheba Khan Dr. Mansur Khan,
UMMA Community Clinic Ms. Farhana Khera, Muslim Advocates
"she worked for six years directly for Senator Russell D. Feingold (D-WI),
the Chairman of the Constitution Subcommittee. Ms. Khera focused substantially
on the USA PATRIOT Act, racial and
religious profiling, and other civil liberties issues raised by the
government's anti-terrorism policies since September 11, 2001. She was the Senator's lead staff member in developing anti-racial
profiling legislation and organizing subcommittee hearings on racial
profiling"
AND SHE HAS THE POWER TO APPROVE MUSLIM CHARITIES
AS OKAY AND NOT AFFILIATED WITH TERRORISTS.(Philanthropy .com)
Lt. Commander
Abuhena Saifulislam, U.S. Marine Corps Mr. Kareem Salama Imam Yusuf
Saleem, Masjid Muhammad Dr. Ingrid Mattson, President, Islamic Society of
North America Mr. Farooq Mitha Ms. Dalia Mogahed, Director, Gallup Center
for Muslim Studies* Ms. Hutham Olayan, Olayan America Corp. Mr. Eboo
Patel, Interfaith Youth Corps* Imam Yusuf Saleem, Masjid Muhammad Rabbi
David Saperstein, Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism* Ms. Mina
Trudeau, Executive Director, El Fatiha Foundation Mr. J. Saleh Williams,
Congressional Muslim Staffers Association Mr. Mohamed Zakariya, Zakariya
Calligraphy
*denotes members of the President’s Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood
Partnerships
UPDATE: Pols chowing down with US front for Hamas. OT ..."break fast" totally stolen from the Jews' Yom Kippur (like they steal everything else from us).
Dozens of California lawmakers are expected to gather in the state Capitol this
evening for an Iftar dinner – the meal breaking the daily fast for Muslims
during the month of Ramadan.
In doing so, the politicians are partnering with a
group that federal law enforcement officials say is a Hamas-front.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations' (CAIR)
California chapter issued a news release Monday boasting that the dinner is
co-hosted by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Speaker Karen Bass and Senate President
Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and 35 other lawmakers.
A plan to create what could become the
first recreation center in the country designed to comply with Muslim religious
beliefs is gaining steam in the Twin Cities. The proposal for a $48 million
Muslim Youth and Recreation Center comes from Somali Youth Action of Minnesota,
a new nonprofit organization working to reduce youth violence. Early sketches
of the project reveal separate swimming pools for men and women, separate
exercise rooms, an indoor soccer field and a large multi-purpose room for
weddings and other events.
The group hasn't purchased land for the
proposed center and is just starting to form a fundraising committee. "We're
going to go after it ... and we're going to hope that the local community and
donors and foundations respond," said Matthew Palombo, secretary of Somali Youth
Action (SYA). "If they do, then it will move forward." Creating a safe place
for Somali youth to meet has been at the forefront of community discussions on
preventing youth violence. A 2007 report on Somali youth violence
commissioned by the city of Minneapolis noted a lack of youth programs
available, and called for a drop-in center that would be culturally sensitive to
Muslims.
Just for the record, Rifqa had no laptop when she converted four years ago.
Rifqa Bary says: "And
I had a laptop and he took that laptop and waved it in the air and he
was about to beat me with it, and he said, 'If you have this Jesus in
your heart, you’re dead to me. You’re not my daughter.' And I refused
to speak but he said, 'I will kill you. Tell me the truth.' In these
words, bad words, cuss words. So I knew that I had to get away.
The deception to cover and advance Islam is staggering over at the dhimmi Sentinel. Decrying Christian extremists and diabolical laptops, everyone and everything is to blame, but Islam and the laws mandating the death penalty for apostasy are never called into question. This is Nazi propaganda.
And this is the case they are going to make to the courts. There is a reason such trash is being printed. The Huffington Post printed a giant lie about apostasy today in regards to Rifqa (look for Spencer's piece later on that).
Let me first digress and dispense with Al-Maryati’s crudely unsophisticated taqiya [3]. Yes, despite Al-Maryati’s denial, apostasy is mentioned in the Koran—Koran 4:89 [4] most prominently—and the punishment is death, as noted for example by two of the most important classical Koranic exegetes, Baydawi and Ibn Kathir, in their commentaries on this verse. Al-Maryati’s crude taqiya fully ignores the fact that punishment by death for apostasy from Islam is firmly rooted in all the most holy Muslim texts—both the Koran, and the hadith—as well as the sacred Islamic Law (the Shari’a). Koran 4:89 [4] states, “They desire that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you might be (all) alike; therefore take not from among them friends until they fly (their homes) in Allah’s way; but if they turn back, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper.” (Andrew Bostom)
When it comes to the welfare of a minor child, you err on the side of caution. But not according to the shills in the media. This has nothing to do with years of abuse and shariah law; the laptop made her do it. Anyone, anything, but never dare speak ill of Islam
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Mohamed Bary is a doting Muslim father, intent on
giving his daughter the best education he can. But he says he made a
terrible mistake last October: He bought her a laptop computer.
Because of that laptop and access to the Internet, he says he lost his daughter to Christian extremists.
If that were true, why would she make up all that stuff? And if he is so doting, why would she run away at all? And if she is such a Christian, she wouldn't lie so. Lying is not part of Christianity. There is no taqiya in Christianity.
Fathima Rifqa Bary, 17, is 800 miles away, living with a Christian
foster family in the Orlando area. She is a runaway who has become a
cause célèbre among evangelical Christians.
But I'm Jewish.
She fled Ohio last month,
saying her father had threatened to kill her because she had converted
to Christianity.
Not true, Mohamed Bary said.
"I still cannot believe she would think that," he said.
But somebody planted that idea in her head, and he is convinced it was someone she met on the Internet.
Facebook,
an online social network in which users select "friends" from anywhere
and everywhere, is where Rifqa met Blake and Beverly Lorenz, the
Orlando husband-and-wife minister team who took her in after she ran
away.
In the weeks before she fled, her parents noticed she would sleep all day and stay up all night exploring the Internet.
Until this spring, Rifqa was a model student, an obedient
daughter. She earned good grades, worked part-time at a Chinese
restaurant and called home even if she were running just 10 minutes
late.
But about the time school ended in May, she began all-night Facebook
sessions. She started withdrawing from family members and longtime
friends, her parents said.
Many of her chats were with evangelical Christians, her father said. They turned her against him, he said.
People who know the Barys say Rifqa's allegations are crazy.
"There is no way this man would hurt his daughter," said Neil Javery,
52, a Hindu and family friend in Westerville, the Columbus suburb where
the Barys live.
Aysha Bary is a stay-at-home mom who speaks little English but breaks into tears over what has happened.
What about the business she runs? Why no mention of Custom Bridal Veil?
"My heart goes out to them," said Holly Easton
of Plain City, Ohio, who owns a wedding gown business and pays Rifqa's
mother to stitch beads onto gowns. "It's horrible. ... I hope they're
able to reconcile, and she comes home and they can be a family again."
The Barys are not radical Muslims, friends and associates say. Their household is as normal as any other.
"It's just typical," Easton said. "Kid comes in, looks at parents, rolls her eyes and goes upstairs."
How would Easton know? Do we take some plant's word over Rifqa? Read the whole bloody mess so you can see what Rifqa and, frankly, the whole of the West is up against.
CAIR: EEOC Says Neb. Muslim Workers Faced ‘Unlawful
Harassment’ CAIR-Chicago receives favorable determination in religious
accommodation case
(CHICAGO, IL, 8/28/09) - The Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago)
today announced that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission (EEOC) has determined that Somali Muslim employees at a
meatpacking plant in Nebraska faced “unlawful harassment” because of their
religion.
Last fall, Muslim workers at the Swift Co. plant in Grand Island, Neb.,
began facing harassment, and in some cases termination, after requesting that
their break schedules be adjusted to allow them to perform their daily prayers.
(Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 mandates
that employers must accommodate the religious practices of employees unless it
causes the employer undue hardship.)
After a year-long investigation into the complaints, the EEOC this week
said in a letter to CAIR-Chicago that “such accommodation would not have posed
an undue hardship to [Swift]” and that the evidence further establishes that
Swift’s supervisors “subjected Somali Muslim Employees to unlawful harassment,
disparate treatment, and
discrimination in terms and conditions of employment based on their religion,
national origin, race, and color.” The letter also confirms that some employees
were unlawfully terminated in retaliation for their requests for religious
accommodation.
“This determination is a major victory for the Somali Muslim workers and
for every employee who has been denied reasonable religious accommodation,” said
CAIR-Chicago Civil Rights
Director Christina Abraham. “Americans work hard and they deserve to be
able to earn a living while knowing they are not sacrificing their beliefs to
put food on the table.”
Abraham and CAIR-Chicago Volunteer Attorney Rima Kapitan have been
advocating on behalf of the workers.
CAIR is America's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy
organization. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam,
encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build
coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.
CAIR officials handed out copies of this Orlando Sentinel article and want
supporters to push the meme that Christians have brainwashed and abducted this
gullible teenage girl.
I am not sure if you read the Orlando Sentinel today, but here is a portion:
The incident has left her family in suburban Columbus befuddled.
"Honestly," said her father, Mohamed Bary, "we didn't know why she left."
There is no evidence, according to Columbus-area authorities that her father poses any threat.
The girl's father, a jeweler, insisted he never threatened to kill his daughter.
A police officer involved in this case from Columbus, told my source that he had talked to 20 people and almost all 20 said she was in fear for her life.
Rifqa Bary said in her interview that she left a note for her parents telling them why she ran away. They are questioning why she would run away? Did they not read the note?
Rifqa Bary: I ran away from home. I
wrote my parents a note, I said, I refuse to deny Jesus and He’s my Lord and
Savior and I pray you find His forgiveness and mercy and I love them both
dearly. I wrote that, but they never showed it to the police officers. They want
me back home, I can’t go back to Ohio, you guys don’t understand. That
community, they’re like – I will die within a week. My life is at stake. My dad
threatened me.
One of Rifqa's out of state friends used to talk to Rifqa frequently on the phone. She said they had to use code words (that they had established earlier) when talking about Christianity so her parents would not know what she was saying on the phone.
And one of Rifqa's teachers said she knew Rifqa's life was in danger, but became very frightened when told by the school to "stay out of this"...
Personally, I think this is a giant cover-up by the city of Columbus.
The big brass non-existent balls of our heaviest heavyweight intellectual elites: they are weeping like little girls, wetting their bloomers for fear of insulting Islam.
Yes, those giant amoebas at Yale University Press published a book about the cartoon jihad: The Cartoons That Shook the World by Jytte Klausen, but would not publish the cartoons. Got that?
John Donatich, the director of
Yale University Press, explained that “the cartoons are freely
available on the Internet and can be accurately described in words,”
and thus “reprinting them could be interpreted easily as gratuitous.”
He said he had “never blinked” when publishing controversial material
before, but “when it came between that and blood on my hands, there was
no question.”
Tell me how that is not surrender to an enemy that wishes to destroy Western civilization and its freedoms. This guy represents the forefront of American intellectual thought. Then close up shop, my friends: he has no spine. I move heaven and earth to fight for the right to speak freely and write freely. How dare this intellectual boulevardier treat what is so precious and dear as so much excess, unwanted baggage.
Adopting the world view of the enemy. In "Cartoon Jihad Continues" in Human Events today, Robert Spencer explains how Yale University Press has unwittingly taken on the jihadist world view. Spencer has more here.
A much-needed new book is coming from Yale University Press: The Cartoons That Shook the World by Jytte Klausen,
a professor of politics at Brandeis University. It discusses the
cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad that were published in the
largest newspaper in Denmark, Jyllands-Posten, late in 2005, touching
off murderous rage from Muslims around the world.
Such a book could be a useful exploration of the free speech issues
that the cartoon controversy raised. And it has already shed new light
on the Islamic challenge to free speech represented by the response to
the cartoons, even before it has been published.
But it has done so in a way that neither Jytte Klausen nor Yale University Press intends.
For Yale University Press, according to the New York Times, checked
with twenty-four “diplomats and experts on Islam and counterterrorism,”
as well as other authorities, and they all made the same
recommendation: this book about the Muhammad cartoons should not
actually include the Muhammad cartoons. John Donatich, the director of
Yale University Press, explained that “the cartoons are freely
available on the Internet and can be accurately described in words,”
and thus “reprinting them could be interpreted easily as gratuitous.”
He said he had “never blinked” when publishing controversial material
before, but “when it came between that and blood on my hands, there was
no question.”
Blood on his hands? Really? While it may seem laudable to want to
protect Yale University Press staff and employees from violent
reprisals by Islamic jihadists, in fact Yale University Press’s
position represents a capitulation of astonishing proportions. He is
demonstrating that threats of violence work, and that Western
non-Muslims will not stand up and defend the principle of free speech
against Islamic supremacist intimidation....
Even worse, when Donatich speaks of blood on his hands, he shows
that he has, in a pathetic manifestation of intellectual Stockholm
Syndrome, adopted the world view of the violent Muslim foes of free
speech around the world. For what if the decision had been made that
The Cartoons That Shook the World would reproduce the cartoons? Would
that really have been “gratuitous”? Of course not. It would have been
precisely appropriate to the book at hand. And what if Islamic
supremacist thugs murdered more innocent people because of the book?
Would that blood have been on the hands of John Donatich or Jytte
Klausen? Only in the eyes of the Islamic supremacists themselves. But
not in reality. For if someone flies into a murderous rage because of a
perfectly reasonable action, the reasonable actor does not thereby
become responsible.
If I meet someone who says that he will kill a person every time I
step on a crack in the sidewalk, I do not thereby become responsible
for the deaths of those people he murders as a result. And if I began
to behave as if I were indeed responsible in such a case, I would only
be feeding the psychosis of the killer....
Evil unleashed. You can judge the health of any society by its treatment of the beleaguered, the unprotected, fair game ... in a word, the Jew. These stories used to shock me, as I expected this not from Europe but from the Arab/Muslim world - the Middle East - as this is the currency in which they traffic. Increasingly, western countries are handing themselves over to the supremacists of Islam. Look at the depravity of Sweden.
This is the lowest of the low. The anti-Israel Swedish newspaper, Aftonbladet, is at it again, this time around they dip deep into the well of anti-Semitism and accuse Israelis of profiting from Palestinian organs. Remember folks, all an Arab has to do is to make a claim against Jews/Israel for the media to pick it up, their own anti-Semitism takes care of the rest. KGS
UPDATE: The TT's Swedish source, Reinhard, says this about the Swedish Aftonbladet's journalist: "Boström edited Salam, a book about "Islam's message of peace" featuring a bunch of Muslim and pro-Muslim activists who tried to explain why Islam really is a peaceful religion. Most of them were straight taqqiyah pieces, and the rest were all about Israel. So he's dedicated.
The Foreign Ministry responded furiously on Tuesday to a story in Sweden's largest circulation daily, Aftonbladet, that accused IDF soldiers of abducting Palestinians to steal their organs, saying this was a grotesque throwback to the blood libels of the Middle Ages.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor characterized the story as "racist hysteria at its worst."
"No one should tolerate such a demonizing piece of medieval blood libel that surely encourages hate crimes against Jews," Palmor said. "This is a shame to freedom of expression, and all Swedes should reject it unconditionally."
Israel's embassy in Stockholm was expected to issue a sharp denunciation.
In the story, headlined "They plunder the organs of our sons," and accompanied by a gruesome photograph, Palestinians are quoted as saying IDF soldiers kidnapped their sons and stole organs.
Only savages could projectile vomit such bile.
Haaretz quoted Donald Bostrom as writing the following:
"'Our sons are used as involuntary organ donors,' relatives of Khaled from Nablus said to me, as did the mother of Raed from Jenin, as well as the uncles of Machmod and Nafes from Gaza, who all had disappeared for a few days and returned by night, dead and autopsied."
The article makes reference to the recent arrests in New Jersey of several US Jews, including rabbis, for a number of alleged crimes, including brokering the sale of organs for transplant.
The story also cites allegations of similar instances of organ-snatching in 1992, during the first intifada.
"To anyone's knowledge, Rifqa never told anyone that she was frightened
while living with her parents in Ohio. Those words only came out of her
mouth after being missing for two and a half weeks and surfacing in the
tight embrace of Mr. Lorenz, who had not promptly reported that the
runaway had been in his home," the parents' statement read.
We know this is a liebecause when Rifqa disappeared, friends immediately voiced concern that she may have met foul play because of her conversion to Christianity -- that was why I posted on it. Back on August 3rd it was reported that "the girl's friends told detectives that it was possible she ran away because of conflicting religious beliefs in her home. "
"If this case is perceived as a clash of religions, it is because Mr.
Lorenz recklessly and without authorization put someone else's child in
front of television cameras to publicly renounce her previous faith,"
McCarthy said in the statement. "The parents who love Rifqa are in the
best position now to protect her from the mess that Mr. Lorenz has
made." (more here)
But Lorenz told ABCNews.com Tuesday that they were the people Rifqa sought out for protection.The tactic is to demonize the person that Rifqa Bary ran to for safety. Get it? Rifqa is her best advocate, ask her.
A Muslim teenager made a dramatic plea to be saved from her abusive parents a
few months before she died in what police believe was an "honour killing".
Shafilea Ahmed was seen with injuries on her neck, an inquest heard
yesterday.
The westernised 17-year-old, who wanted to become a solicitor, was frightened
her parents would send her to Pakistan and force her into an arranged
marriage.
[...]
She ran away in February 2003, climbing out of a window of her home in
Warrington, Cheshire, with the help of her friend Melissa Powner.
Miss Powner confirmed that Shafilea had lived in fear of her parents. Months
earlier she had been off school for a week and returned with visible injuries on
her neck.
Shafilea explained they came from a confrontation with her parents over boys'
phone numbers on a phone bill.
Miss Powner said: "She didn't have much of a life - she wasn't able to be
with her friends and socialise outside school.
No one listened to Shafilea's desperate plea prior to her murder.
Contact Governor Charlie Crist today:
Phone Calls to (850) 488-7146
Fax letters to (850) 487-0801
or Email him at Charlie.Crist@MyFlorida.com
The Florida Department of Children and Families
George H. Sheldon, Secretary
1317 Winewood Blvd.
Building 1, Room 202
Tallahassee, Florida
Fax: (850) 922-2993
Verne Melvin Acting Regional Director / Ninth Judicial Circuit Florida
Department of Children and Families 400 W. Robinson St. Orlando
32801 407-245-0400 (Maxine McGregor, client relations coordinator)
For the better part of the last hour I have been talking to someone who is very close to Rifqa Bary. The more that is revealed of Rifqa's story, the more urgent it is for us to ACT in defense of this child.
Rifqa Bary is an honor student, a cheerleader - a good girl. Like Amina and Sarah Said, she lived two lives: she was a happy productive successful student in school and a tortured, oppressed and brutalized victim at home. Many in her school were shocked to hear that Rifqa, the quintessential good girl, had run away from home; those close to her were not surprised at all.
On several occasions friends of Rifqa would bring her down to the school counselor because of bruises on her legs and her arms, beatings suffered at the hands of her father and brother (sounds like Islam Said). The middle school, in a serious dereliction of duty, did not report these beatings to child welfare services. Beatings were random, violent, unprovoked. Take, for example, when Rifqa and her father Mohammad were driving in the car. He would force her to wear the hijab, which she hated. In her discomfort she would slouch down, embarrassed, and her father would haul off and sock her in the face so that she never forgot to sit up straight in her costume. The beatings were regular and so much a part of the landscape of Rifqa's life, she became inured to them, just like Amina and Sarah and Aqsa and every "honor" victim.
Rifqa: "He took that laptop and waved it in the
air and he was about to beat me with it, and he said, “If you have this Jesus in
your heart, you’re dead to me. You’re not my daughter.” And I refused to speak
but he said, “I will kill you. Tell me the truth.” In these words, bad words,
cuss words. So I knew that I had to get away"
It was only when her father was warned by the members of the Muslim community at Noor Islamic Cultural Center that his daughter was an apostate, that Rifqa bolted. She had to run: he vowed to kill her in the time honored Islamic tradition of honor killings. The Noor Islamic Cultural Center has a notorious reputation for extremist ties. Salah Sultan was the scholar in residence at the Noor mosque. Patrick Poole has his story here:
Salah Sultan, internationally renowned Islamic hate sheikh
from Hilliard, Ohio, was recorded yesterday on Egyptian Al-Nas TV preaching Jew
hatred and spewing conspiracy filth. In his interview, Sultan approvingly cites
the infamous Protocols of the Elders of
Zion. Sultan also warns of the forthcoming destuction and deaths of
Americans, vowing that more Americans will be killed than Palestinians in Gaza —
and soon!
Wonder what his friends at the Noor Islamic Cultural Center, especially his best friend and
mosque president Hany Saqr, think about that? Oh, and did I mention that Sultan
used to be the religious director at the Islamic school in Hilliard, Sunrise Academy, and the scholar-in-residence for the Islamic Society of Greater Columbus? They have any thoughts on
his comments? And was this what Sultan was preaching while he was touring
Columbus-area mosques this month?
Here’s the transcript of his interview courtesy of MEMRI:
Al-Nas TV, December 29,
2008
Egyptian cleric Dr. Sallah Sultan: The arch-murderer who
commanded the campaign against Jenin in 2003 went to America a few months later
and boarded a NASA space shuttle. The space shuttle was launched by NASA, and a
few minutes later, it reached Texas, the land of President Bush. Then this space
shuttle shattered to pieces, along with the five top American space scientists,
and that commander of the Zionist airforce was on board with them. Where exactly
did it shatter and fall? By Allah, Sheik Mahmoud, although I was living in
America, I didn’t know that there was a city called “Palestine” in America.
Sheik Mustafa, the space shuttle fell, of all places, in the city of Palestine,
in President Bush’s state of Texas.
[ . . . ]
The stone, which is
thrown at the Jews, hates these Jews, these Zionists, because Allah foretold, via His
Prophet Muhammad, that Judgment Day will not come before the Jew and the Muslim
fight. The Jew will hide behind stones and trees, and the stone and the tree
will speak, saying: “Oh Muslim, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill
him.” The only exception will be the Gharqad tree.
Yes, that’s our local terror sheikh, Hilliard resident Salah Sultan (right)
hamming it up with Qaradawi (center) and Lebanese Muslim Brotherhood leader
Faisal al-Malawi (left). Sultan serves on the board for two of Qaradawi’s
organizations along with al-Malawi, the International Association of Muslim
Scholars and the European Council for Fatwa and Research. Qaradawi and Malawi
are both banned from the US for their open support of HAMAS and other terrorist
organizations, as well as for issuing fatwas allowing for suicide bombings
against civilians. In 2004, Qaradawi, Malawi and Sultan issued
a fatwa in the name of IAMS calling for jihad against American troops in
Iraq.
Sultan is also a member of the Fiqh Council of North America, which bills itself
as the top Islamic ruling body in the US.
Here’s another shot of them
laughing it up:
Rifqa cannot be returned to this town in Ohio where the local scholars glad hand with the likes of a jihadist Islamic supremacist genocidal sheikh like Qaradawi.
Rifqa told her story to as many as twenty adults before she fled. No one would listen.
This girl has been abused enough. When she was brought into custody in Florida, this tiny bit of a thing was shackled at the ankle and waist and incarcerated with the juvenile criminals. Shame on them.
Rifqa Bary's day in Juvenile Court is August 21st, the first day of Ramadan.
Write Crist and DCF
In the Orlando area- go to the courthouse and rally for her life.
I, once again, URGE ATLAS READERS AND THEIR FRIENDS AND FAMILY, TO CONTACT GOVERNOR CRIST OF FLORIDA and ask him to make sure that the Department of Children & Families (DCF) keeps custody of Rifqa Bary. She cannot go back to Ohio. We have one shot with this girl. They only have to kill her once.
People can also call George Sheldon, Secretary of DCF. Contact information:
Contact Governor Charlie Crist today:
Phone Calls to (850) 488-7146
Fax letters to (850) 487-0801
or Email him at Charlie.Crist@MyFlorida.com
The Florida Department of Children and Families
George H. Sheldon, Secretary
1317 Winewood Blvd.
Building 1, Room 202
Tallahassee, Florida
Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of
the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress
of grievances. (here)
Here is but the latest act of submission to Islam by your State Department. Perhaps this is an initiative of Obama's newly created Office for Outreach to the Ummah at the State Department.
The Bureau of International Information
Programs (IIP) has assembled a range of innovative and
traditional tools to support Posts' outreach activities
during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
We act as if we were a slave of the muslim world. This sickness of licking the boots of an ideology that wants to destroy us is incomprehensible. Burt
Prelutsky wrote:
What is wrong with our leaders? Are they worried that they won’t be invited to those cool Ramadan parties? The Islamists have been actively at war with us for 30 years and generally at war with western civilization for well over a thousand years, and still we pay lip service to these people in a way we never did with Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan or the Soviet Union. Is it because the Muslims commit sadism and murder in the name of religion and not country? If anything, I would think that would make their evil acts all the more contemptible.
Seriously, can you imagine every Embassy and consulate putting up a Menorah and having some Rabbis as speakers via a webcast?
Can you imagine if we had the stations of the cross put on the walls of all of our Embassies, Consulates, and other posts, as well as the many DOS buildings across the country, including C street?
Can you imagine if the Buddha were revered and we had some monks coming to do a meditation session with all of the officers of each Embassy, consulate, etc.?
Why aren't priests, pastors, etc. invited during Christmas to bless or talk about Christianity in the US?
Can we get printed and distributed Hare Krishna posters for all of our posts and reach massive audiences?
I mean, put it in reverse and see how crazy it is. Absolutely nuts.
Don't forget where the funds come from, your wallet. Here's the cable:
FM SECSTATE WASHDC
TO ALL DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR POSTS COLLECTIVE TAGS: OEXC, OIIP, OPRC, KPAO, KIRC, KISL SUBJECT: PUBLIC DIPLOMACY RESOURCES FOR RAMADAN 2009
1. This cable contains an action request in paragraph 30.
2. Summary. The Bureau of International Information
Programs (IIP) has assembled a range of innovative and
traditional tools to support Posts' outreach activities
during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
This cable
highlights these tools and requests Posts to report on use
of IIP programs and products for Ramadan programming to
Regional Bureau PD offices and IIP Geographic Office
Directors. This year, Ramadan will begin on or about
August 21 and will end with Eid al-Fitr celebrations on or
about September 19. Ramadan and Eid dates differ among
countries. Post should refer to local religious
authorities to confirm dates. Please note that as IIP is
moving to new office space over the next two months, some
phone numbers listed in this cable will change. End
Summary.
INFOCENTRAL
3.INFOCENTRAL has created a Ramadan page, which features
the tools and products listed below, as well as other
resources. New content will be added to the page as it
becomes available. . Contact:
infocentral@state.gov.
AMERICA.GOV
4. Multicultural Ramadan Feature: On August 10,
America.gov will publish a "Multicultural Ramadan"
feature. American Muslims trace their ancestry to more
than 80 countries and the feature will highlight the
richness of these various cultural traditions through the
lens of Ramadan and Eid. Content will include essays by
young Muslims who are part of Eboo Patel's Interfaith
Youth Core (IYC). Contact: Alexandra Abboud
(AbboudAM@state.gov)
5. IIP/NEA-SCA will publish three articles for Ramadan
2009 addressing the concept of an Islam in America
'brand'; advocacy (civic and political) of the Muslim
American community; and community innovation/community
building. The writer will contact Muslim American experts
in each of these fields. These articles will be available
on America.gov in English, Arabic, and Persian.
PUBLICATIONS
6. BEING MUSLIM IN AMERICA (March 2009): Conceived as
IIP's flagship print publication on the rich and varied
experiences of the nation's growing Muslim population,
this lavishly illustrated new book links the
Muslim-American experience to those of other American
racial, religious, and immigrant groups as they moved into
the American "mainstream."
7. The title is available online in English at
http://www.america.gov/publications/books/being-muslim-in-america.html with additional languages on the way. Print
versions can be ordered from https://gps.state.gov
(Catalog V0600) for $2.70 each, in English, Arabic, and
French for $2.70 per copy plus shipping.
8. MUSLIM LIFE IN AMERICA (October 2002): explores the
extraordinary range and richness of American Muslim life.
This publication remains available in English in PDF
format for Post download at:
https://infocentral.state.gov/outreach-tools/more-electronic--print-products. Arabic, French, Spanish, Russian, and
Yawee print versions can be ordered from
https://gps.state.gov (Catalog Number V0225) for $1.30
each.
9. The PowerPoint version (in English) for Muslim Life in
America can be found at
https://infocentral.state.gov/outreach-tools/powerpoints/muslim-life-in-america
10. ISLAM IN THE U.S.A. POSTER SHOW: Illustrates how
Muslims thrive in the United States as Americans while
maintaining Islamic traditions. It can be previewed at
https://infocentral.state.gov/uploads/Iq/Fp/IqFpTIsbl40zbBnecXKDAQ/islamposter.pdf. English and French print
versions can be ordered from https://gps.state.gov
(Catalog Number T0500) for $28.75 each. For a full
listing of IIP poster shows, go to
https://infocentral.state.gov/outreach-tools/poster-shows2.
12. MOSQUES OF AMERICA: A 22 x 31 inch poster displaying
U.S. mosques is available in English and Arabic for $1.10
from http://gps.state.gov. (Catalog Number V0223)
13. BUILDING ON FAITH: This 20-slide PowerPoint
presentation offers statistics on Islam and other
religions in the United States, plus a "coast to coast
tour" in photographs of mosques from across the country.
The presentation is available at
https://infocentral.state.gov/outreach-tools/power-points.
14. FREEDOM OF FAITH eJOURNAL (August 2008): highlights
the historical roots of U.S. religious freedom and
examines how our nation remains true to these principles
while adjusting to demographic changes that bring great
religious diversity to many communities nationwide.
"Freedom of Faith" is available online in English at
http://www.america.gov/publications/ejournalusa.html#freedom_faith.
15. Previous issues of eJOURNAL USA include a March 1997
issue (available in English, French, Russian, and Spanish)
on the religious landscape of the U.S. and a November 2001
issue on religious freedom as a human right (available in
Arabic, English, French, Persian, Russian, and Spanish).
The most recent editions of eJOURNAL USA are on the
Internet at http://www.america.gov/publications/ejournalusa.html.
Archived issues of eJOURNAL USA can be found on the
Intranet, and are available to Posts but not to the
public, at
https://connect.infocentral.state.gov/ejspubs/ejs/usinfo.state.gov/journals/journala.htm . For more information on
eJOURNALs, please contact Richard Huckaby at
huckabyrw@state.gov (202) 453-8415.
16. For more information about IIP Publications, please
contact Michael Friedman at FriedmanMJ@state.gov.
SPEAKERS
17. Speakers from the U.S. Speaker, Strategic Speaker,
and Citizen Dialogue programs will be heading to some 12
countries to discuss issues such as tolerance, Islam in
America, and civic responsibility during Ramadan.
Unfortunately, due to programming and funding deadlines,
additional programs requiring speaker travel are not
possible. We encourage Posts to plan early in the year so
that we may accommodate requests.
18. DVCs/WEBCASTS: The U.S. Speaker and Specialist
program office is available to work with Posts to the
degree possible to provide Digital Video Conference (DVC)
programming. Requests for FY-09 DVCs should be submitted
immediately and supported with funds from Posts' GOE.
Since we do not know the deadline for completing all FY-09
Grants, and to ensure that we can meet posts' needs,
please submit your request to your Regional Program
Officer no later than noon, Washington DC time, on Friday,
July 31, 2009. Should any DVCs be arranged, we will, with
the participating posts' and speaker's permission, webcast
the DVC so that other Posts may passively participate. If
Posts are interested in webcasts with Washington-based
speakers, we can try to arrange it so that Posts will be
able to pose questions from anywhere in the world to
Washington guests. Worldwide webcasts will be listed on
the Multimedia page of America.gov and at the webcast site
- www.cpcwebcast.com/state. Stay tuned for a webcast with
the Smithsonian's curators for Islamic art and artifacts.
19. CO.NX WEBCHATS: We are also committed to work with
posts to set up English and French language webchats
(different from webcasts) with U.S. based speakers.
Webchats are available on the CO.NX homepage
(http://co-nx.state.gov and
www.america.gov/multimedia/askamerica.html ).
20. Posts can also access archived webchats at
https://statedept.connectsolutions.com/archives/
21. For information about how to participate or to
request a webchat, please contact IIP CO.NX Mark Betka or
Tim Receveur at conx@state.gov.
VIDEO
22. "A Son's Sacrifice" Programming Tool: Posts can use
a lesson plan and various content in conjunction with the
"Son's Sacrifice" DVDs that were distributed to Posts in
2008. This video, in English and with Arabic or French
subtitles, is still available free of charge to Posts.
For a copy, please contact IIP_Video@state.gov. "A Son's
Sacrifice" is the story of a young American Muslim named
Imran who struggles to take over his father's halal
slaughterhouse in New York City. Filmed on location in
Ozone Park, New York, this award-winning film explores the
powerful traditions of American Muslim communities. (See:
http://www.sonsacrifice.com/) Contact: Lynne Scheib
(Scheibeld@state.gov)
23. Materials to support programming of "A Son's
Sacrifice," including a lesson plan, are available on
INFOCENTRAL's Ramadan page:
https://infocentral.state.gov/info-topics/democracy--human-rights/democracy--human-rights/archive/ramadan
24. RAMADAN DVD: A DVD containing nine short videos
(each no longer than four minutes) will be available free
of cost to Posts. The videos, some of which can also be
seen on America.gov, are available in English and with
Arabic subtitles. For copies, please contact Jason Katz
at KatzJX@state.gov or 202-453-8747. The nine videos are
listed below:
-- "Three Faiths Building Community" - An interfaith group
builds a home for a Connecticut family.
-- "Arab International Festival" - Festival highlights and
the profile of a family involved in its organization.
-- "Welcome to Dearborn" - A celebration of Arab-American
life.
-- "Deen Sharif" (earlier called "Ramadan: Waheed Deen
Sharif") - a Newark city official discusses Ramadan and
New Jersey's Muslim community.
-- "Liberty Science Center" (called "American Ramadan" on
America.gov) - highlights a New Jersey Eid celebration
that includes an exhibition on Muslim contributions to
science.
-- "Mohammed" - A Sudanese-American van driver talks about
observing Ramadan in the U.S.
-- "Training" (called "Training for a Religious Call" on
America.gov) - Religious diversity in divinity schools.
-- "Walking to End Hunger" - Video highlighting interfaith
participation in a charity event.
-- "Young" (called "Young Fashion Designer" on America.gov)
25. Many of the videos on Ramadan DVD and on America.gov
can be accessed on the YouTube America.gov channel at
http://www.youtube.com/user/Americagov. Users can take
videos from the YouTube channel and embed them on other
websites, such as embassy internet sites and any blogs on
which Embassy officers post. For guidance on how to use
the America.gov videos, please contact IIP_Video@state.gov
26. The Bureau of Public Affairs Office of Broadcast
Services (PA/OBS) has obtained public screening rights to
several productions, such as the film, "Three Faiths, One
God" discussing religious diversity and Islam/Muslims in
America. PA's Video Catalog is available at
https://broadcasting.state.gov/pavideo/OBScat08.pdf. To
order, please click on the "Video Acquisitions" under the
Outreach Tools tab on INFOCENTRAL
(https://infocentral.state.gov). For further information
about the documentary catalog, contact the PA Video
Acquisition's staff at pavideoacquisitions@state.gov.
PODCASTS
27. IIP will produce a series of audio podcasts to
accompany the PowerPoint presentations listed above for
educational and other uses. An interview with "A Son's
Sacrifice" director Yoni Brook is also available. Podcasts
will be sent to Posts worldwide and posted on
INFOCENTRAL's Ramadan page:
https://infocentral.state.gov/info-topics/democracy--human-rights/democracy--human-rights/archive/ramadan.
RESOURCES
28. The information listed above, as well as other
resources, can be found on INFOCENTRAL's Ramadan page:
https://infocentral.state.gov/info-topics/democracy--human-rights/democracy--human-rights/archive/ramadan
content will be added to the page as it becomes
available. If you have any questions, please contact:
infocentral@state.gov.
29. The following regional Policy Officers are also able
to assist with Ramadan related materials and
requests:
30. Action Request: Posts are requested to report on use
of IIP programs and products for Ramadan programming to
Regional Bureau PD offices and IIP Geographic Office
Directors.
Rifqa Bary said she ran to Orlando to save her life, but her
father and the Islamic Society of Central Florida say she's being
"brainwashed by a cult", "kidnapped by a cult", that she's a "rebel", a "troubled teen". Well, which is it?
Brainwashed by a cult? Which is the cult? One that calls for the murder
of a daughter who shames the family by not wearing the proper head dress, or wanting to live a free life, or
dating the wrong Muslim boy, or choosing another religion? Or is it the religion
that offers sanctuary?
Rifqa Bary's father is alleging that she was "brainwashed by the Pastor" of a church. Pastor Lorenz refutes that and says that Rifqa had been a Christian for four years, "long before he met her".
Let's look at the facts.
Below is Rifqa's myspace page - last log in
2007. She had already converted by then. Rifqa told Pastor Lorenz she converted four years ago - the myspace page is evidence of at least two years.
There's more evidence on that same myspace page. Check out the choice of "Christian layout" and her favorite movie "A Walk to Remember"
(a good Christian flick that I love watching with my kinderlach). The
movie is about a Pastor's daughter, a good Christian girl who changes
the life of a popular but rebellious teenage boy through her indomitable spirit,
purity and goodness.
A Walk to Remember found a warm reception in the Christian
community due to the film's pandering; as one reviewer approvingly
noted, "The main character is portrayed as a Christian without being
psychopathic or holier-than-thou" (Wikipedia here)
Further, under Rifqa's favorite book, there is a small icon of a page from the bible. The passage highlighted? Love is patient.Notice
how it's all done cryptically, as if she is hiding. JC is Jesus Christ.
The movie is a Christian movie. The book is the bible. And this is 2007.
The family that is accusing her of lying and saying "she is free to practice her Christianity" is a devout Muslim family. It was the members of the family's mosque that alerted Rifqa's father of her conversion to Christianity. The devout family's mosqueratted Rifqa out. How can this girl be safe?
The Islamic Society of Central Florida President Imam Muhammad Musri wonders if Rifqa is "nothing more than a troubled teen" and a "rebel teenager running away from home".
Let's look at the hard facts.
When I first ran the story of a missing teen in Ohio here on August 3rd, she was feared dead - my headline was,"Fathima Rifqa Bary: I hope she got away". The report said,"according to police, the girl's friends told detectives that it was possible she
ran away because of conflicting religious beliefs in her home".
Counter Jihad blog has this update from Rifqa's friend:
I know that her dad
is a threat to her, because I am friends with her and have heard her talk about
it. In addition, when she took off and ran, I was one of the last people to talk
to her via cell phone and as a result her dad started obsessively calling me and
being very harsh and threatening towards me, while demanding that i tell him
where she went to.
So
all of this "troubled teen" propaganda is a yarn spun (taqiya) to con the
authorities into sending this girl back to a dangerous and deadly
situation. She is not only in jeopardy from her father and other family
members but from all devout Muslims. She committed the worst of all sins, apostasy. And she broke the code of silence.
Fathima Bary converted to
Christianity and said her Muslim father threatened to kill her for
dishonoring the family. Her father is on the defense, while the Islamic
Society of Central Florida said its faith doesn't condone murder and
wonders if the religious runaway is nothing more than a troubled teen.
"It's completely false," said father Mohamed Bary. "Honestly, it's not my daughter who is speaking."
Mohamed Bary said he denies he ever threatened to kill his 17-year-old
daughter for turning her back on the family's Muslim faith by becoming
a Christian. He said he believes the Ohio girl fled to Florida last
month after being brainwashed by the pastor of Global Revolution Church
of Orlando, who she met on Facebook.
Rifqa Bary says: "And
I had a laptop and he took that laptop and waved it in the air and he
was about to beat me with it, and he said, 'If you have this Jesus in
your heart, you’re dead to me. You’re not my daughter.' And I refused
to speak but he said, 'I will kill you. Tell me the truth.' In these
words, bad words, cuss words. So I knew that I had to get away."
"This is a cult group who kidnapped my daughter and took her away," Mohamed Bary said.
She hitchhiked to the bus and took a Greyhound from Ohio to Florida. How is that a kidnapping?
The Rev. Blake Lorenz spoke with WESH 2 News earlier this week.
"She's just afraid for life," he said.
"She has been a Christian for four years, long before we ever met her," he said.
Fathima Bary is in protective custody in Central Florida, but Lorenz
said he believes she won't be safe if the court returns the religious
runaway to her family. He said former Muslim followers call it an
"honor killing."
"There's no such thing as honor killing in the Koran," said Islamic Society of Central Florida President Imam Muhammad Musri.
Murder is unjust killing. To say that their faith doesn't condone murder doesn't
address the real question: does their faith consider the killing of an apostate
to be a just action? If so, then to kill Rifqa wouldn't be murder at all, but an
act of justice. Yet again we see a Muslim group using weasel words instead of
condemning genuine injustice. This statement still leaves Rifqa's life at risk. (thanks to Robert Spencer)
Musri
said, like Christians, Muslims believe killing someone is murder. He
said, while there are extremists in every religion, he hopes Fathima
Bary isn't hiding behind faith to find freedom.
Show
me one Jew or one Christian who has been murdered by their family for
such an act. I can find you thousands upon thousands of Muslims.
Musri added "hiding behind faith to find freedom" - a very telling quote , is it not?
"Is she a rebel teenager running away from home, or is she really in danger?" Musri said.
That's the question that the Department of Children and Families is
asking. There's another custody hearing for Fathima Bary next Friday.
Further,
let's look at how the newspaper Pakistan Daily describes Rifqa
Bary. Notice the headline says pregnant, but nowhere in the article do
they write about it. It's just an Islamic smear campaign against a brave young girl fighting for her life, and it's vile.
A very disconcerting video is being shown by the Christan church. A minor Sri
Lankan girl belonging to well to do parents has been kidnapped by a church in
Ohio and being kept away from the legal guardians and parents of the girl. The
family maintains that the girls was into drugs, promiscuous behaviour and
raunchy messages on facebook. She was discussing sex with multiple older married
men. When the parents tried to control her behaviour she refused to do so. On
her return to the home she conjured up a story of conversion to Christianity.
There are serious accusations against the church on holding a minor girl in
custody against the will of her guardians and parents.
How many more girls will
the church kidnap?
Media reports indicate that the
Muslim father denies his daughter’s charge that he plans to take her life in an
“honor killing” because of her conversion to Christianity.
This is what they do all the time.Destroy the truth tellers.
I will be on the Young Gun Conservative Radio show Monday night at 7pm. They will be interviewing Rifka Bary's parents' lawyer. I will provide the counterpoint. Listen live at 7pm (click on YGC Radio at the top of the page on the right).
Remember, Islam is the only religion with a propaganda wing, and it works 24/7/365. The taqiyya (lies to advance Islam) is full on, and Rifqa's life hangs in the balance.
The fact is that this teenage girl converted to Christianity more than four years ago. Get it? This is not some ruse. The family's performance in the video is a ruse. Here is the screen shot of her myspace page from 2007(last log on 2007)
Her savior was JC back in 2007. So Rifqa has been hiding this from her father and brother, her family since 2007.
The Christian teen also said her father had threatened to kill her after he
heard that she had been baptized. (here)
And Rifqa ran for her life. She hitched to the bus and went to the only port in a storm. The Pastor Blake Lorenz. I do not think the good pastor has a clue as to what he is dealing with. Nor does law enforcement, which believes that the father is "sincere". And I am not entirely sure her lawyer is up to speed on Islam.
There are those who think she is "too emotional" in the video. I would like to see how you would react if your life was in danger and death around the corner.
If they return her to the father, it will set a standard like the Dred Scott decision did back in the day. Rifqa refers to Amina and Sarah Said. She knows. And Rifqa's crime is worse than that of the Said girls: Rifqa is an apostate.
Rifqa Bary is a target for all Islamists now. In the interest of the safety of the child, experts on Islam should be consulted, as Islam is little understood. Apologists come out of the woodwork almost immediately and obfuscate the truth.
Contrary to claims made in court, Islam DOES prescribe the death penalty for apostasy. Look at the family. Look at how the mother is dressed. Rifqa said on her video, her family is devout -- so is al qaeda.
This would be not only an honor killing, but the killing of an apostate, which
adds an additional dimension.
Islam’s death penalty for apostates is only a dead letter if no one
cares or is able to enforce it in a particular case, but it is deeply
rooted within Islam. Some argue that it derives from Qur’an 4:89, which
speaks of those who have embraced the Islamic faith and then turned
“renegade,” directing Muslims to “seize them and slay them wherever ye
find them.” Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, said, “Whoever changed his
Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari, vol. 9, bk. 84, no. 57).
This is a universal principle in Islamic law. The Islamic scholar and
ex-Muslim Ibn Warraq explains that all the schools of Islamic
jurisprudence teach this: “Under Muslim law, the male apostate must be
put to death, as long as he is an adult, and in full possession of his
faculties….According to Hanafis and Shia, a woman is imprisoned until
she repents and adopts Islam once more, but according to the
influential Ibn Hanbal, and the Malikis and Shafiites, she is also put
to death.”
And here:
Here is a cluebat for those who might be tempted to believe the
soothing lies that are coming from Islamic apologists in connection
with the Rifqa Bary story:
"Why should a person who disbelieves after becoming Muslim be executed?
The punishment for the apostate is execution. Why such harshness?,"
from Islam Question and Answer, Fatwa No. 12406 :
The punishment for the apostate is execution. Why such harshness?.
Praise be to Allaah.
The punishment for apostasy from the religion of Islam is execution. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
“And whosoever of you turns back from his religion and dies as a
disbeliever, then his deeds will be lost in this life and in the
Hereafter, and they will be the dwellers of the Fire. They will abide
therein forever”
[al-Baqarah 2:217]
And it was proven that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be
upon him) said: “Whoever changes his religion, execute him.” Narrated
by al-Bukhaari in his Saheeh. What this hadeeth means is that whoever
leaves Islam and changes to another religion and persists in that and
does not repent, is to be executed. It was also proven that the Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “It is not
permissible to shed the blood of a person who bears witness that there
is no god but Allaah and that I am the Messenger of Allaah except in
three cases: a life for a life, a previously-married person who commits
adultery, and one who leaves Islam and forsakes the jamaa’ah.” Narrated
by al-Bukhaari and Muslim.
This harsh punishment is for a number of reasons:
1 – This punishment is a deterrent to anyone who wants to enter
Islam just to follow the crowd or for hypocritical purposes. This will
motivate him to examine the matter thoroughly and not to proceed unless
he understands the consequences of that in this world and in the
Hereafter. The one who announces his Islam has agreed to adhere to all
the rulings of Islam of his own free will and consent, one of which
rulings is that he is to be executed if he apostatizes from the faith.
2 – The one who announces his Islam has joined the jamaa’ah (main
body) of the Muslims, and whoever joins the main body of the Muslims is
required to be completely loyal and to support it and protect it
against anything that may lead to fitnah or destroy it or cause
division. Apostasy from Islam means forsaking the jamaa’ah and its
divine order, and has a harmful effect on it. Execution is the greatest
deterrent that will prevent people from committing such a crime.
3 – Those Muslims who are weak in faith and others who are against
Islam may think that the apostate has only left Islam because of what
he has found out about its real nature, because if it were the truth
then he would never have turned away from it. So they learn from him
all the doubts, lies and fabrications which are aimed at extinguishing
the light of Islam and putting people off from it. In this case
executing the apostate is obligatory, in order to protect the true
religion from the defamation of the liars and to protect the faith of
its adherents and remove obstacles from the path of those who are
entering the faith.
4 – We also say that the death penalty exists in the modern laws of
man to protect the system from disorder in some situation and to
protect society against certain crimes which may cause its
disintegration, such as drugs etc. If execution can serve as a
deterrent to protect man-made systems, then it is more appropriate that
the true religion of Allaah, which Falsehood cannot come to it from
before it or behind it [cf. Fussilat 41:42], and which is all goodness,
happiness and tranquility in this world and in the Hereafter should
punish those who commit acts of aggression against it and seek to
extinguish its light and defame its image, and who fabricate lies
against it to justify their apostasy and deviation.
Crown prosecutors are seeking to send the head of Ottawa’s taxi union to jail for up to two years, alleging that a campaign of threatening and intimidating behaviour directed toward his daughter after she turned her back on the family’s Muslim beliefs was an honour crime.
"Pamela, I have been in Law enforcement for the past 20 years and am currently training the police here in Iraq. I worked homicide in the US and am now training with Iraqi Investigators here in Baghdad. TRUST ME, I know, first hand how much danger this young lady is in. I see it everyday here. I see the results of Sharia law and and how fanatical Muslims are and how deep it is embedded into their culture. I will take this knowledge and experience back with me when I return to US law enforcement so we wont be so "clueless" :-)
BTW, keep fighting the good fight, I stand with you!"
I said this before and I'll say it again. The courts and the cops have no clue what they are dealing with. Subversive groups like CAIR, ISNA and MPAC have been successful at shutting down any discourse on Islam. Anyone who tries to escape is in real danger. The media have subjugated themselves to Islam and in their silence are complicit in Islamic misogyny, oppression and suppression. Have you noticed how quiet CAIR has been on this? One can only wonder what their "involvement" is behind the scenes. Rifqa Bary needs experts to testify on her behalf. The leading scholars on Islam - Ibn Warraq, Robert Spencer, Wafa Sultan (living in hiding in the US because she speaks the truth about Islam), Nonie Darwish should be called to testify. This girl cannot be returned to her devout Muslim home.
Just as the West
failed Amina and Sarah Said in life and death, the West cannot fail Rifqa Bary in life, or it will result in her death. This cannot be her fate.
Based on the cops' ignorance, they will err on the side of political correctness and expose this teenage girl to the prospect of an early, horrible death. This reminds me of the FBI's capitulation on the Said honor killings. They too bowed to Islam and pulled the description of HONOR KILLING from the Said honor killing murders wanted poster. The FBI copped a plea. "As far as we're concerned until motive is proven in a court of law, this is just a homicide".
How many girls have to die? How many girls have to live in abject terror?
Fathima Rifqa Bary, 17, was found in Florida and placed in foster care there pending investigation.
A Northeast Side 17-year-old who ran away, saying that her father would
kill her for leaving Islam, is in state custody in Florida.
But Sgt. Jerry Cupp of the missing-persons unit of the Columbus
police special-victims bureau, disputes Fathima Rifqa Bary's
allegation. He said her father, Mohamed Bary, appears to be a loving
parent who knew about her conversion to Christianity months ago.
The New Albany High School cheerleader, who goes by Rifqa,
disappeared on July 19, prompting fears that she had been abducted,
Cupp said....
Cupp has interviewed the father several times, he said, and doesn't think the man is a threat.
"The parents knew months ago that she was … going to different
religious, Christian functions," Cupp said, and there's no evidence
that they threatened her with violence.
It "seems outlandish to me," he said, "but that's not for me to decide. We'll gladly let the courts work this thing out."
This is happening in America. Listen to her cry. This is here now. WATCH THIS VIDEO. It is the most compelling plea I have ever seen.
Link:
This is so tragic, so frightening - we must act. Can someone get the name of this girl's lawyer? Experts must testify on her behalf. We will raise the money to fly scholars on Islam to Orlando to speak for the veracity of this girl's claims. Please contact me off line if you know anything. Please. Quickly.
The court does not know what it is dealing with: the obfuscation and lies of the propaganda wing of Islam. Florida took emergency jurisdiction until the court can confirm, but Ohio will take over the case and investigate........"the child should be returned to Ohio".
Girl Says Family Wants To Kill Her For Being Christian
ORLANDO, Fla. -- An Ohio girl ran away to Orlando because she said her family threatened to kill her for converting to Christianity. Rifqa Bary, 17, said she was threatened by her family because she converted from Islam to Christianity.
"What did your father say to you?" WFTV reporter Mary Nguyen asked.
"He said he would kill me!" replied Bary.
They have to kill me. My blood is now halal which means because I am now a Christian, I am from a Muslim background, it is an honor, if they love god more than me, they have to do this."
This is not just some threat. This is reality. This is truth. This is reality.
This is to break the heart. The status hearing is set for next Friday. Something must be done. You can hear the cries of Amina and Sarah, Aqsa, Rand ............. all of those girls, you can hear them in her voice.
I beg you to help this child. This girl is in real trouble. The court does not understand. They will buy into the Muslim lies. Apostasy is death in Islam. If this girl is sent back to her family, they will ship her off to Sri Lanka and we will never hear from her again.
Regular Atlas readers are well aware of the Islamic Saudi Academy's agenda of Islamic supremacism and attempt to expand their school in Fairfax, Virginia. I have been documenting the great patriots fighting against it. The Fairfax County government, in the tank for the Saudis, shows
a 3 p.m., Monday, August 3 item for voting on the ISA expansion.
Could they have found a more difficult time for working people to attend?
This is not government by the people, it is government against the people.
“I cannot put the safety of the American citizenry at risk.” U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee on sentencing ISA valedictorian Ahmed Omar Abu Ali to life in prison.
Jim Lafferty, leading the movement to stop the insanity, wrote,
Fairfax County Supervisors could use a blood transfusion (and perhaps a spine
transplant) from Judge Lee in Alexandria as we approach Monday’s vote on the
massive expansion plan of the Saudi government’s Islamic Saudi Academy.
How is it possible for a federal judge in Alexandria to understand a threat
and just a few miles away 10 people in Fairfax don’t ?
If one single terrorist is a threat, isn’t a training facility like the ISA
which prepared him to join Al quaeda and consistently turns out numerous
terrorists every year a multiple threat to “the safety of the American
citizenry?”
Monday afternoon’s vote is critical in the fight against the spread of
Shariah. Washington’s, Jefferson’s and Patrick Henry’s voices cry out
from Virginia’s distinguished history – “Don’t squander the liberty
given to you by God and preserved by brave American men and women who stood
their ground from Yorktown to Normandy and Afghanistan. The first generation
of Americans ran a brutal king out of our country, don’t let this generation
be the one to yield quietly and timidly to enslavement by yet another
tyrannical sovereign.”
I was reviewing tapes of the various hearings related to the Islamic Saudi
Academy last night and I was struck by how belligerent the Supervisors were
when there were only six of us at the hearing. They called us just about
every name they could summon from their limited vocabulary.
That treatment changed dramatically when their switchboards were crowded with
thousands of calls from Virginians and from people around the globe who have
experienced first-hand the tyranny of shariah rule.
Please revisit your Blackberries (and for those of us older folks – your
rolodexes) and call people you haven’t called before. Invite them to Monday
afternoon’s hearing because the Supervisors may commit a crime and there
need to be thousands of witnesses, thousands of American eyes and ears.
At your church, synagogue or elsewhere, ask people to come to the hearing.
Those cunning Supervisors have scheduled the vote for mid-afternoon when they
suspect all us will be at work. Take a vacation day or move your lunch hour
back so that you can look in the eye those who will sell out America for a
campaign contribution or a handful of votes.
Monday’s hearing amounts to an auction and the public’s trust is for sale.
We need to remind the Supervisors that it may also be the day that their
unprincipled and visionless political careers come to an end.
CAIR is claiming victory in yet another encroachment on our freedoms in the advancement of the implementation of sharia law.
In a craven capitulation to Islamic supremacism, Wal-Mart will accommodate Muslim prayer in the workplace. It is not for us to bend to the will of Islam.
Mind you, it is not necessary for a Muslim to prayer at a certain time. These actions are merely devices in which to impose Islam on non-believers. Prayer is not required on a strict schedule and Muslim prayers are
commonly “made up” after work or school. This is true even in Muslim countries, i.e., Iran.
....
prayer is not required on a strict schedule and Muslim prayers are
commonly “made up” after work or school in Islamic countries including
Iran, I decided to investigate the facts behind Islamic Law, foot baths
and prayer requirements.
[...] Islamic authorities agree
that foot baths are not required to fulfill their washing rituals prior
to prayer and that provisions have been clearly defined. According to
Islamic Law, you have a symbolic washing alternative or you can wash in
one location and pray at another and this one washing can last you through an entire days prayers. (more here)
A major retail chain has rehired a fired Muslim employee in the Twin Cities
and is now accommodating his right to pray in the workplace, an Islamic civil
rights organization in Minnesota is reporting.
The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations announced
Monday that Walmart agreed to the accommodation after CAIR-MN intervened on
behalf of employee Abdi Abdi, who was fired from his job in February as a
stocker and loader at the Woodbury store.
CAIR-MN says that Abdi, a four-year employee with Walmart, was let go for
violating a new supervisor's ban on prayer during work breaks. A previous
supervisor had allowed him to perform his daily prayers, the organization
said.
Abdi was rehired last month at a Walmart in St. Paul and is now allowed to
pray during breaks, following negotiations between CAIR-MN and local and
national representatives of Walmart, the St. Paul-based rights group said.
"We appreciate Walmart's handling of this case and its willingness to
accommodate the religious practices of employees," CAIR-MN Civil Rights
Coordinator Zahra Aljabri said.
Abdi was rehired at the Walmart in the Midway area of St. Paul because it is
closer to his home, his wife works there and managers at that store are "more
familiar with the prayer schedule," Aljabri said. "At least a dozen" Muslims
work at the Midway Walmart, she said.
As part of the agreement, Walmart has agreed to send about 10 of their
employees for diversity training next month that CAIR-MN is conducting, Aljabri
said.
If there is anything that should make Americans' blood run cold about
immigration, it is the sight of Europe—and Britain, the home of Western
civilization—being buried by
millions of Muslim colonists.
Europe is just hoping against hope that Islam isn't going to explode into massive rioting (or worse),
or impose total cultural Islamification.
Some Europeans already accept the coming Eurabia. One
Dutchman, mourning the future loss of Europe was quoted by Paul Belien as saying, "I am
not a warrior, but who is? I have never learned to fight for my freedom. I was
only good at enjoying it."
Well, that's honest. But how about less self-pity and more directed anger?
Many Americans I know in the patriotic immigration reform movement had a
come-to-Jesus moment of awakening from
passivity, turning to resolve to save the country.
Did America encourage Europe's socialist pacifism by protecting it too
well, starting after the Second World War?
Perhaps. Having your freedom handed to you on a plate is no way to
appreciate its value.
Other causes of the continent's tragic downfall are rooted in recent
history. They include business' desire for cheap labor (so familiar!), a trendy
belief in secular multiculturalism as a replacement for
Christianity and apparent ignorance of Islam's long-standing enmity toward
Europe.
Now the triumphs of Tours
and Vienna are
being trampled by immigrants, entering
mostly legally. It's a wonder the Muslims bother with terrorism at all when demography
is working so well for them.
Europe's swirl down the toilet bowl is little reported in this country
largely because the Main Stream Media is not interested in showing it. The top media elites are still
stuck on multiculturalism. But the European experience shows what a bogus
ideology that is.
“But nothing prepared France for what happened to a 17-year-old French
Muslim girl named Sohane Benziane. Her case really woke up the country to the
nightmare that has been festering so long in these projects.
“Sohane was burned alive in the basement of an apartment complex by a
gang leader who had told her that he didn't want to see her on his turf. After
her murder, her sister, Kahina, dedicated a memorial at the site of her
killing.”
Though emotionally searing, the Sixty Minutes piece contained no
mention that France's Muslim population is expanding rapidly. The number of
Muslims residing in Western Europe in 1900 is estimated
at around 50,000 . Now France alone is home to somewhere between four
and eight million followers of Islam.
“Although there are no official statistics on how many Muslims live in
Brussels, it is believed they make up about 25 percent of the city’s 1 million
urban residents. [Filip] Dewinter, who opposes immigration and has called
Islamophobia a "duty," claims three of the 19 sections of Brussels, each with
its own mayor, now have Muslim
majorities.
“‘In those neighborhoods it's not our government that's in power,’ he
said, ‘but the Muslim authorities — the mosques, the imams — who are in charge.’
“FOX News visited one of those neighborhoods, called Molenbeek, which
looks more
like North Africa than the heart of Europe…
“Yet Molenbeek remains disconcerting. Belgian police assigned three
plainclothes officers to watch over a FOX News team shooting street scenes one
morning in Molenbeek. When FOX News returned in the afternoon as more people
were out and about, the police said it would be safer not to get out of the car.
It wasn't even dark yet.”
Notice this level of danger exists in Brussels—the supposed capital of the
Europe Union.
Had Murrow lived during our own time rather than WWII, he may well have
tried to alert 21st century Americans to the present danger from totalitarian
Islam on the march. But there is no modern Murrow to warn the people, because
the MSM no longer does its job to inform about the pressing issues.
In the eye of the slow-moving storm, resistance to the invader is not
particularly strong. Denmark has stiffened its
entry requirements to keep out the unfriendlies, but it is the exception and not
the rule. Italy's education
minister has suggested that a limit of 30 percent foreign students be the
limit per classroom, so that the immigrants
assimilate to the national culture rather than the
other way around. Naturally, the economic downturn has made the majority
of Europeans want the excess immigrants to go home, but many governments
prefer not to upset Muslims, who are famously
sensitive about the most minor slight.
Many Muslims are happy to remain on the dole anyway. One example is
generous Sweden, where the primarily immigrant Rosengaard neighborhood of Malmo
has an unemployment rate of 70
percent. (Plus, the area is so violent that fire trucks need police escorts,
and the number of rapes has tripled in 20 years.)
Americans often have a low opinion of Europeans, particularly the French (once
described on The Simpsons as cheese-eating
surrender monkeys, a rip that has stuck). But we hate to see Britain turn into a
quivering bowl of sharia jello out of respect for our shared Anglophone
culture.
Who could have imagined that the countrymen of Winston Churchill would
meekly acquiesce to recognizing and rewarding
polygamy? Multi-wifed Muslim families even receive extra
welfare benefits for the various harem members and kiddies—though bigamy is
still illegal.
There was an uproar
last year when Archbishop Rowan Williams suggested that Islamic sharia should be
accepted as part of British law.
The Archbishop remains ensconced in Lambeth Palace, despite
demands for his resignation during the sharia kerfuffle. In fact, weathering the
crisis appears to have made him bolder.
“On the anniversary of the interview in which Dr Rowan Williams said it
‘seems inevitable’ that some parts of sharia would be enshrined in this
country's legal code, he claimed ‘a number of fairly senior people’ now take the
same view.
“He added that there is a ‘drift of understanding’ towards what he was
saying, and that the public sees the difference between letting Muslim courts
decide divorces and wills, and allowing them to rule on criminal cases and
impose harsh punishments.”
Is everyone assured that "harsh
punishments" —flogging,
amputations, etc.—will not occur at some future date?
And whatever happened to the proud tradition of the Magna Carta? Is nothing
worth defending? How shameful to surrender
founding legal principles of centuries' duration so thoughtlessly to the Islamic
interlopers.
Britain is fascinating to observe because it is far advanced along the
immigration road to hell, especially given its powerful multicultural nanny
state.
It is increasingly clear that in municipalities with high Muslim/Arab populations, our Constitution, our freedoms are under attack. They are being tested and we are failing to stand up for who and what we are.
Last week I reported that law enforcement caved to Islamic demands of supremacism,
in breach of our inalienable rights guaranteed to us in our
Constitution and Declaration of Independence.
"The Arabic Christian Perspective
(ACP), and Pastor George Saieg attend the annual Arab International street
festival there every year handing out Christian material to Muslims. They do
this along the public sidewalks that run along the street, where the festival is
conducted. It is open to the public and admission is free. Business
establishments along the street remain open during the festival.
It is a bold thing to do, but in the five years ACP has been going there,
it has never encountered any problems."
The Dearborn Police Department has asked ACP to stand on a single
corner, where they would be unable to freely mingle with festival gatherers and
unable to reach their intended audience. This is a violation of the group's First
Amendment rights.
Bill Becker had filed a lawsuit and the Thomas More Law Center, based in Ann Arbor, is assisting in
this matter. Go here for more of the back story. Our freedoms are being eroded, our very way of life torn asunder by Islam.
Today I received this from Bill Becker:
As you know, my client, Arabic Christian Perspective (APC) was denied its request for a temporary restraining order, which would have prevented the City of Dearborn from restricting APC's First Amendment right to distribute its Christian material on public sidewalks adjacent to the annual Arab International Festival. Meanwhile, because they are not subject to the court order, numerous other groups, including Christian groups, are milling about the Festival distributing their material and conducting various types of transactions. APC cannot disobey the order of the United States District Court, so where last year it had handed out some ten thousand leaflets, booklets and DVDs on the first day of the Festival, its volunteers have handed out only a small number this year.
The Festival offered APC a booth to give out their material, and Dearborn police gave it the option of two locations, one of which was in the center of the Festival and where APC could reach large numbers of people. APC chose that location and operated there for awhile until the same police officer who had given them the option told them to move to a remote location on the outer east end of the Festival, where they see few passersby. The order does not restrict their location, and in fact doesn't cover the Festival's offer to provide them with a booth location, so there is nothing APC can do about it. It has essentially been sent to Siberia.
What is the lesson of all of this? Apparently, it does no good to give law enforcement authorities advance notice of your intention to peacefully assemble at a public event. APC traditionally has notified local law enforcement authorities of its visits as a courtesy. In the future, I will advise them not to do that. There is simply no point. Christians no longer are being given the same rights as others. Municipal authorities see them as provocateurs, rather than citizens entitled to equal protection under the 14th Amendment.
One of your readers responded to this story with the following comment: "Yawn." I wonder if that person would feel that way if he were told he could no longer express his views on the Internet and would be arrested if he did. The City of Dearborn has singled out one organization due to the content of its message. It has applied what it believes is a reasonable time, place and manner restriction on the one group that gave it notice of its visit to the Festival, while others are not so limited. This is an invidious form of discrimination, and the City of Dearborn will have to justify it in the lawsuit that I and the Thomas More Law Center have filed against it to permanently end this violation of the First Amendment.
Resolution 1281, passed overwhelmingly by the New York City Council Education
Committee, calls on the “New York City Department of Education to
incorporate the Muslim holidays of Eid Ul-Fitr and Eid Ul-Adha as observed
school holidays in the school calendar for the city school district of the city
of New York” and also asks that the state legislature “pass, and the
Governor to sign into law, A.8108/S.5837, an Act to amend the education law, in
relation to requiring that Eid Ul-Fitr and Eid Ul-Adha be school holidays in the
city school district of the city of New York.”
Islamic supremacism on the move in New York City, home to ground zero.
CAIR-NY Welcomes City Council Vote on Muslim Holidays in
Schools
(NEW YORK, NY, 6/18/09) - The New York chapter of the
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) today joined a coalition of
community organizations in welcoming the passage of a resolution by a committee
of the city council that calls for adding Muslim holidays to the school
calendar.
Resolution 1281, passed overwhelmingly by the New York City Council Education
Committee, calls on the “New York City Department of Education to
incorporate the Muslim holidays of Eid Ul-Fitr and Eid Ul-Adha as observed
school holidays in the school calendar for the city school district of the city
of New York” and also asks that the state legislature “pass, and the
Governor to sign into law, A.8108/S.5837, an Act to amend the education law, in
relation to requiring that Eid Ul-Fitr and Eid Ul-Adha be school holidays in the
city school district of the city of New York.”
The Coalition for Muslim School Holidays - a broad
interfaith, inter-ethnic coalition of labor, community, civil rights, and
religious organizations also urged the entire city council to support including
Muslim holidays in the school calendar.
“Today marks a positive step forward in the effort to provide a more
inclusive educational environment for all students,” said CAIR-NY
Community Affairs Director Faiza N. Ali, who sits on the steering committee of
the Coalition for Muslim School Holidays. “This resolution advances
religious liberty, recognizes the growing Muslim population in New York and
promotes our great city's values of diversity and inclusion.”
She noted that the New York City area is home to some 1 million Muslims, one
of the fastest growing and most diverse religious populations in the city. More
than 90 percent of Muslim students attend public schools and one in eight public
school students is Muslim.
Ali also urged Speaker Christine Quinn and the entire city council to pass
Resolution 1281: “Our community continues to face issues of harassment and
discrimination in schools. The city now has an opportunity to help foster a
better understanding of Islam and re-affirm that Muslims are a valued part of
this city.”
A better understanding of Islam? The dhimmi Quinn doesn't have a friggin clue.
Law enforcement has begun to cave to Islamic demands of supremacism in breach of our inalienable rights guaranteed to us in our Constitution and Declaration of Independence.
Dearborn, Michigan, features the most highly concentrated
population of Muslims in the nation. Arabic Christian Perspective
(ACP), and Pastor George Saieg attend the annual Arab International street
festival there every year handing out Christian material to Muslims. They do
this along the public sidewalks that run along the street, where the festival is
conducted. It is open to the public and admission is free. Business
establishments along the street remain open during the festival.
It is a bold thing to do, but in the five years ACP has been going there,
it has never encountered any problems.
Now, the Dearborn Police Department has asked ACP to stand on a single
corner, where they will be unable to freely mingle with festival gatherers and
unable to reach their intended audience. This is a violation of its First
Amendment rights.
Bill Becker has filed a lawsuit and the Thomas More Law Center, based in Ann Arbor, is assisting in
this matter. A copy of the complaint, which they filed today is attached.
Becker said
The relevance of our lawsuit is based on the idea that in Iran, we applaud
what the people are doing to express their objection to the election, but in the
U.S., police officials are restraining my clients' rights to practice its free
speech liberty.
Today, a federal judge denied our request for a TRO (temporary restraining order), which would have allowed Arabic Christian Perspective to continue to distribute their literature along the public sidewalks adjacent to a street occupied by the annual Arab International Festival.
The court reasoned that restrictions imposed by the City of Dearborn only on ACP were reasonable time, place and manner restrictions. We naturally disagree, inasmuch as no other citizen is ordered to restrict what he or she can say or hand to another person. This is content-based discrimination against a Christian group, whose mission is to peaceably bring the good news of salvation to people attending the Festival.
Why would the judge find this to be anything but unconstitutionally content-based discrimination? We don't have a clue. ACP will now be treated as second-class citizens, forced to pass out their DVDs and booklets around the corner from the Festival, while other groups will be able to freely distribute their materials. Strangely, the Festival is allowing them to set up a booth and participate in the festival. It will be impracticable for ACP's 90-some volunteers to man the booth, so they will have to find another place to go. They are free to mingle along the Festival just as long as they don't pass out their free material.
Our lawsuit will proceed, and we will seek an order permanently enjoining the city from violating ACP's First Amendment rights. To many people this controversy may seem minor, but as Spencer observed in his book, "Stealth Jihad", the OIC has made it clear that Muslims are to use the judicial process to eliminate criticism of Islam. In this case, we do not know whether the Festival had anything to do with the city's decision. And ACP is not there to criticize Muslims. They are there to do the good work of evangelizing, which might be perceived as threatening activity in a city boasting the highest per capita population of Muslims in the nation.
This image of Muhammad graces the north wall of the U. S. Supreme Court's
chamber. The frieze by sculptor Adolph A. Weinman, completed in 1932, depicts
Muhammad among 26 historical and legendary lawgivers. Muhammad is shown holding
a Qur'an partly covered by his scimitar—a hint of violence to which American
Muslims have periodically objected. After a complaint by the Council on
American-Islamic Relations, the court adopted incoherent language to describe
the image: "a well-intentioned attempt by the sculptor . . . to honor Muhammad"
but one that "bears no resemblance to Muhammad."
Frickin cowards. Ishcabibble, ishcabobble.Their knees must be bloody.
This is part of a fascinating article here.R. Joseph Hoffman over at the Council for Human Secularism. (hat tip Jan Span)
Last month, Muslim groups threatened and intimidated the Marriott in Del Ray into canceling our Freedom of Speech Summit featuring Geert Wilders. Organizers scrambled and we held an enormously successful summit despite Muslim oppression. Further, CAIR called for Representative Adam Hasner's resignation just because he attended a dinner with Wilders.
Once again, Muslim groups have taken a club to our first amendment, freedom of speech, and succeeded in threatening and bullying the Loew's in Nashville.
Once again the Muslims use freedom of speech to kill freedom of speech. They invoke democracy to impose Islamic supremacism on our basic freedoms - speech and freedom of assembly.
Shame on Loew's for not standing up for America and our basic inalienable human rights. This is dhimmitude. Period.
The manager of a prominent Nashville hotel cancelled a contract with a
conservative foundation to hold a conference this weekend on radical Islam,
apparently after learning that the group would feature a keynote address by
controversial Dutch parliamentarian and filmmaker, Geert Wilders.
Muslim groups succeeded in preventing Wilders from screening “Fitna,” his
15-minute movie on radical Islam, in the House of Lords this February, on claims
it was insulting to Muslims, and dogged him during a recent U.S. tour as well.
Thomas A. Negri, managing director of Loew’s Vanderbilt Hotel and Office
complex in Nashville, told Newsmax on Wednesday that he had taken the
extraordinary step of cancelling the conference at the last minute “for the
health, safety and well-being of our guests and employees.”
Negri refused to say why he felt the conference would adversely affect the
“health, safety and well-being” of the hotel’s guests and employees, except to
refer to the website of the New English Review, the group organizing the
conference.
The website features articles that warn about radical Islam written by
activists, journalists and scholars, including former federal prosecutor Andrew
McCarthy, and former Muslim scholar, Ibn Warraq.
One article, written by a retired U.S. army intelligence officer, Jerome
Gordon, warns of the growing problems caused by the recent influence of several
thousand Somali Muslim refugees who have come to work for a nearby Tysons Food
plant to replace illegal Hispanic meat packers.
Negri appeared at a 2003 pro-immigration event on the same dias with a
well-known Somali warlord, Gordon told Newsmax.
In a written statement to the conference organizers, Negri said that the
hotel had “not received any information related to a specific security threat
concerning this event,” and declined to provide any justification for cancelling
it at the last minute.
One of the conference organizers told Newsmax on Wednesday that the group was
considering a lawsuit against Negri and the Loew’s hotel chain for “unlawful
breach of contract.”
Take notes. So that you can relay to your grandchildren how it happened, how we lost America. How America lost her way and gave it all away.
What are we celebrating here? Mecca? The subjugation of women? The persecution of non-Muslims? Islamic supremacism? Islamic imperialism? Islamic jew hatred? The Muslims dancing in the streets on 911? Terrible, all of it.
School district to consider Muslim holidays Published: May 27,
2009
PROSPECT, Conn. (AP) - A Connecticut school district is
considering a proposal to close schools on two Muslim holidays. The
Region 16 Board of Education is expected to take up the Student Council’s
proposal this week. The board represents the towns of Prospect and Beacon
Falls, Conn. The resolution asks the board not to hold classes on the day
that marks the end of the fasting period of Ramadan and on the day that
concludes the annual observance of the pilgrimage to
Mecca.
Martha Stewart does serious time for telling a lie. This Canadian
Islamic terrorist, who in an act of war hoped to destroy western
civilization in violent attacks against Canada as part of the worldwide
global jihad, goes free.
The Western brain is broken. Fundamentally. Crushing dhimmitude.
The
first person convicted in a domestic terrorism plot bent on wreaking havoc on
Canadian targets was handed a 2 1/2-year sentence today, and with time already
served factored in, he walked free.
The youth belonging to the so-called
Toronto 18 homegrown terror cell was sentenced as an adult, but a temporary
publication ban granted prevents him from being named for 30 days. He was
found guilty in September of helping and taking part in a terrorist organization
- the first verdict under Canada's new anti-terrorism laws.
In handing
down the sentence today, Ontario Superior Court Justice John Sproat underscored
the seriousness of the crime, but noted that the youth had shown an intention to
turn his life around.
Back on April 9th, I exposed the first-hand undercover investigation that was done in Al-Farooq
mosque in Nashville, TN. What had been exposed was unthinkable.
I ran video footage of a first-hand undercover investigation done in Al-Farooq mosque.Go here to hear a 7-year-old talk about her husband and how they are beaten during shariah class.
It was easy to understand why un-indicted co-conspirator (and
Zakat-eligible) CAIR has been working feverishly to keep the FBI out of the
mosques. Their daily action alerts are rife with accusations of some
bogus grievance, some right violated .....all to protect the most
heinous crimes. Many Atlas readers wrote in large numbers to law enforcement, child services and the prosecutor's office, demanding that the child abuse be investigated and prosecuted so that the little girls' lives could be saved.
And now this from Child Services: I thought you might like to know the results of the Al Farooq mosque
investigation...I guess it was not enough to tell them that the abuse occurred
in the school and mosque and give the child's name and mother's name. We were supposed to follow them to their residence too, right?
form letter
April 26, 2009
Ref # 3862552
Thank you for sharing your concerns about [name redacted -ed] reported to the
Department of Chnildren's Services on 04-11-2009. The item checked below refers
to the disposition of this report.
Although we understand your concerns, the information that you provided of
suspected child abuse and/or neglect will not result i n an assessment or
investigation. The information that you provided of suspected child abuse and
or neglect:
X Does not provide information necessary to locate the family. (Example:
No valid address, location or whereabouts of the famiily are unknnown)
Sincerely
Stephen Scaglione,
DCS CM3 Team Leater
letter prepared by Geneine Duff
They did nothing. Private citizens did all the work, took all the chances, presented law enforcement with the case, with the evidence and they did nothing. Imagine if these were Mormons, not Muslims.
My CT researchers and I conducted ‘first-hand’ research at a predominately Somalia based mosque, Al-Farooq Masjid, 1421 4th
Ave. S. Nashville, TN. Initially I conducted a pre-assessment of the
various Islamic Centers within the area. Although there are other
mosques in the area advocating the ideology of Sharia law for the U.S.
and advocating the same ideology as Islamic terrorists groups, our
research uncovered more frightening and disturbing intelligence. Not
only does Al-Farooq provide materials by convicted Islamic terrorists
to their worshippers, they practice polygamy (per statements made by Al
Farooq worshippers) as allowed under Sharia law, which also advocates
children to be taken as ‘child brides’ married to older men. One need
only research how often this occurs in Somalia.
In Feb 09, I obtained evidence and there were several indicators the
children were being physically and emotionally abused. I immediately
provided my analysis and concerns to authorities. Almost immediately
First Amendment religious freedom rights came up and their fear of
being sued by Islamic organizations. I knew from the beginning when I
had to explain the basics of Sharia law and who Islamic scholars such
as Ahmad Sakr (U.S. based scholar who lectures to children and informs
them to not follow the U.S. Constitution, but instead to follow Sharia
law) are, it would be useless to rely on them alone to protect the
innocent children of al Farooq, which ultimately means our country is
not being protected. The objective of my company is to simultaneously
provide the research intelligence to the American public and to Law
Enforcement (LE). In our current times it is often necessary for news
organizations and the public to become involved before issues are taken
seriously.
In Mar 2009, I sent two researchers (male and female) to Al Farooq
to obtain further information. On 9 Mar 2009, a female child informed
one of our female researchers she and other children are ‘hit’ at the
‘Al Farooq School’ by a teacher and ‘her’ legs hurt. Additional
lectures by convicted terrorists and their supporters were provided to
my team. Again I notified authorities, but received no encouragement
the allegations of child abuse or the evidence pertaining to Al Farooq
leadership advocating violence would be responded to.
Authorities wanted ‘hard evidence’ children were being abused and
Islamic leaders at Al Farooq were educating the worshippers to commit
violence against innocent people, America, and Israel. Respectfully I
advised authorities Americans rely on them to take the lead and conduct
investigations pertaining to allegations. My organization is limited in
manpower and funds. Taxpayers pay our LE and elected officials to
protect our country. It is beyond my capability to convince authorities
that distributing material by Al Qaeda, Mawdudi (JI), and Ali Al Timimi
to children can lead to violence and is dangerous for all concerned.
One need only look at the Palestinian schools who are educated by
Hamas.
Department of Children's Services
Cordell Hull Building, 7th Floor
Nashville, TN 37243 (615) 741-9701
dcs.email@state.tn.us
Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN 5th District)
Russell Rumbaugh, Homeland Security Legislative Assistant
Lisa Quigley, Chief of Staff
1536 Longworth House Office Building,
District of Columbia 20515-4205 (202) 225-4311 Phone (202) 226-1035 Fax
Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN 5th District)
605 Church Street
Nashville, Tennessee 37219 (615) 736-5295 Phone (615) 736-7479 Fax
Check out the map and the list of notorious attendees. DHS should be monitoring this event rather than sitting at the head table. Sick. Ellison, MPAC, Dingle, J street -- all the usual suspects. They are going to club us to death inverting the Constitution.
The American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is proud to announce that Deputy
Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Jane Holl Lute will deliver the keynote remarks during this year’s Civil Rights Awards
Lunch headlining an outstanding program of awards and speakers at one
of the anchor events during the ADC Annual National Convention.
The Deputy Secretary, the second-ranking official at DHS after
Secretary Napolitano, has over 30 years of dedicated military and
executive experience and has served as Assistant Secretary General to
the United Nations responsible for the support of international
peacekeeping operations. ADC is pleased to welcome Deputy Secretary
Lute to discuss the ongoing challenges facing law enforcement and the
post-9/11 communities and the struggle to maintain and promote civil
rights and security simultaneously.
Also confirmed to deliver special remarks at the Saturday June 13
lunch is Chair of the House Judiciary Committee Congressman John
Conyers (D-MI). [...].
The honorees at this year’s Civil Rights Awards Lunch include Yale Law School’s Lowenstein Human Rights Clinic and National Litigation Project.
Spearheaded by Professors Michael Wishnie, Hope Metcalf, Ramzi Kassem,
Tina Monshipour Foster, and an outstanding team of Yale law students,
the clinic continues to play a central and instrumental role in
exposing targeted round-ups of Muslim immigrants during Operation
Frontline in 2004 and 2005. Through the work of the clinic, a Freedom
of Information Act lawsuit resulted in the release of key documentation
on Operation Frontline which, when analyzed, demonstrated systematic
discrimination in immigration raids targeting Muslim immigrants.
Also, ADC is proud to present this year’s Excellence in Advocacy Award to the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC)
for their outstanding work toward substantively and constructively
addressing challenges facing the Arab and Muslim community post-9/11.
The Award will be accepted by MPAC Executive Director Salam Al-Marayati
who has successfully spearheaded MPAC’s excellent advocacy efforts on
multiple levels.
Other confirmed speakers during this year’s ADC Annual National
Convention include Surprise Special Guest ***, Congressman Keith
Ellison, Congressman John Dingle, Congressman Brian Baird,
Congresswoman Donna Edwards, Archbishop Cappucci of Jerusalem, Dean of
the White House Press Corps Helen Thomas, Professor John Mearsheimer, J
Street Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami,Palestinian Member of the
Kenesset Said Naffaa, Professor Saad Eddine Ibrahim, ACLU National
Board Member Preetmohan Singh, FBI Assistant Director John Miller, and
AFL-CIO Middle East and North Africa Director Heba El-Shazli.
It keeps getting worse. Regular Atlas readers are familiar with the abomination being built on the site where those brave Americans on flight 93 fought back and averted another massive Islamic terror attack on the capital on 911. United Flight 93 was traveling from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco when it was diverted by hijackers with
the goal of crashing it into the White House or Capitol. The official 9/11 Commission
report said the hijackers crashed the plane as passengers tried to wrest control
of the cockpit.
To memorize to those brave Americans, the dhimmis in charge plan to erect a giant Islamic crescent. We have fought this for the past year (Atlas coverage here). Khalim Massoud, president of Muslims against Sharia--Islamic Reform Movement, issued a press release
in support of Tom Burnett Sr.'s efforts to stop the Park Service from
planting a giant Mecca-oriented crescent atop his son's grave.
As if that weren't terrible enough, now they are stealing private land to build this monstrosity.
The green circle, marked with the
qibla for Somerset, is from Islam.com. A person standing at the midpoint between
the most obtruding tips of the crescent structure and facing into the center of
the crescent (red arrow), will be facing almost exactly at Mecca.
Read more about the Crescent of Betrayal. It's as if this horror is surrender -- Islam's victory over America monument. They attacked America and we are building monument to the icon of their ideology.
PITTSBURGH – The government will begin taking land from seven property owners
so that the Flight 93 memorial can be built in time for the 10th anniversary of
the 2001 terrorist attacks, the National Park
Service said.
In a statement obtained by The Associated Press, the park service said it had
teamed up with a group representing the victims' families to work with
landowners since before 2005 to acquire the land.
"But with few exceptions, these negotiations have been unsuccessful," said
the statement.
Landowners dispute that negotiations have taken place and say they are
disappointed at the turn of events.
I can't tell you what those folks are thinking, but why September 24th? Why not September 11th? The Democrats passed it 22-3. Who started this initiative? Why? What instigated this further capitulation to Islamic supremacism?
The resolution to proclaim Sept. 24, 2009, as Islam Day passed the Senate today on a 22-3 vote.
As
more than 100 Christians gathered in the Senate to oppose same-sex
civil unions cheered, the Senate's two Republicans argued that members
of all religions shouldn't forget the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11,
2001.
Democrats countered that the diversity and positive contributions of the Islamic world should be honored.
Jewish day? Christian day? Sikh day? Pagan day? Wicca day?
The Senate's two Republicans
argued that a minority of Islamic extremists have killed many innocents in terrorist attacks.
"I
recall radical Islamists around the world cheering the horrors of 9/11.
That is the day all civilized people of all religions should remember,"
said Republican Sen. Fred Hemmings to the applause of more than 100
people gathered in the Senate to oppose a separate issue -- same-sex
civil unions.
The resolution to proclaim Sept. 24, 2009, as Islam Day passed the Senate on a 22-3 vote. It
had previously passed the House and now goes to Republican Gov. Linda Lingle.
The
bill seeks to recognize "the rich religious, scientific, cultural and
artistic contributions" that Islam and the Islamic world have made. It
does not call for any spending or organized celebration of Islam Day.
"We
are a state of tolerance. We understand that people have different
beliefs," said Sen. Will Espero, a Democrat. "We may not all agree on
every single item and issue out there, but to say and highlight the
negativity of the Islamic people is an insult to the majority" of
believers "who are good law-abiding citizens of the world."
But Republican Sen. Sam Slom argued that the United States has become too sympathetic toward Islamic
extremists.
"I
don't think there's any country in the history of the world that has
been more tolerant than the United States of America, and because of
that tolerance, we've looked the other way a lot of times, and many
thousands of our citizens have been killed by terrorists," said Slom, a
Republican.
The lone Democrat voting against the bill opposed it on church-state
separation fears.
It strikes me as bloody savage that militant Muslims in Congress (whose trip to the hajj was on the Muslim Brotherhood's dime) are protesting for "muslims in Darfur," when in fact it is an Islamic government that has murdered millions in the cause of jihad. It's an Islamic jihad in Sudan. No one ever talks about that.
US Islamist Congressman Keith Ellison was arrested as he was
protesting for aid groups to be allowed into Darfur to help his Muslim
brothers.
Rep. Ellison arrested during Darfur protest By BOB VON STERNBERG, Star
Tribune U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., and four other members of Congress
were arrested this morning in front of the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, D.C.,
as they protested the expulsion of aid groups in Darfur.
It was an
apparently unprecedented act by a member of Minnesota's congressional delegation
and somewhat out of character for Ellison, who has kept a generally low profile
since he arrived in Congress, attracting international attention as its first
Muslim member.
News archives show that no other members of the
state's delegation have been arrested for civil disobedience; former Sen. Dave
Durenberger was arrested on disorderly conduct charges in 1986 after he argued
with a police officer and a taxi dispatcher. The charges were
dismissed.
Before being led away in handcuffs during the
mid-morning protest, Ellison said it's wrong to deprive aid to what he called
"the most vulnerable people on our planet."
"They were speaking on the
embassy steps and were asked to leave," said Ellison spokesman Rick Jauret.
"When they didn't, they were arrested."
Ellison and a total of seven
other protesters were taken away by U.S. Secret Service agents and are expected
to be charged with trespassing, Jauert said.
Also arrested were
Reps. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., John Lewis, D-Ga., Donna Edwards, D-Md., and Lynn
Woolsey, D-Calif., and three Darfur activist leaders.
To insert islamic law (shariah) in the same sentence as "humanitarian" law is so patently dishonest and dangerous and bad enough, but a conference that attempts to put the two together is criminal. It is propaganda under the guise of education.
What deception! This is taqiyya, lies to advance Islam. Who is underwriting this? What petrosheikdom is Syracuse whoring itself out for? Or is this part of OIC compliance in league with the Alliance of Civilizations? Islamic law ...think taliban. Think stoning, public hangings of gays, honor killings, clitorectomies, beheading, death penalties for apostasy and hypocrisy, (and reinterpreting the Koran), shariah finance, child marriage, marital rape, death to rape victims..... Islamic law should be crushed, extinguished from the pages of modern history - relegated to seventh century barbarism.
Atlas reader Scott G wrote me, "I recently received a self congratulatory e-mail from the Dean's office for the school of Arts and Sciences boasting of a conference that explores and celebrates Islamic thinking in humanitarian law. This conference takes place this week.
Dhimmitude in CNY? It seems this conference will whitewash Islamic law and give it legitimacy as a valid source of legislation. No one reads my blog, but maybe you can get some action on stopping this. Though I'm sure it's too late now."
Any of my readers on the board of Syracuse? Someone needs to slap these asshats out of it. These people are going to be eaten alive.
4.17.2009 Workshop, Syracuse University: The goal of the initiative’s first workshop is to begin identifying the most pressing issues at the intersection of Islamic jurisprudence and humanitarian law and to consider how their shared concerns may prompt creativity in addressing present gaps in IHL—notably, the lack of standards for dealing with the rise of irregular armies or the inability of the law to accommodate asymmetric forms of attacks by non-state entities against sovereign states.
III Network and Related Initiatives: INSCT is developing partnerships on different aspects of this topic with the United Institute for Peace’s (USIP) Rule of Law Center of Innovation, which develops strategies for policymakers and practitioners to promote the rule of law in fragile and post-conflict societies; and Harvard University’s International Humanitarian Law Research Initiative (IHLRI), a central resource for the reaffirmation and development of international humanitarian law based at the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR) at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Well, the 20 million dollar gift that Harvard received from the Saudis really did pay off.
ISLAM AND INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW (hat tip Scott G)
304 Tolley Humanities Building, Syracuse University
Overview: The Islam-IHL initiative examines from multiple perspectives the ongoing role of Islam, including Islamic leaders, in International Humanitarian Law (IHL), and the potential of that contribution for contending with new forms of warfare and international conflicts. The goal of the Workshop is to begin identifying the most pressing issues at the intersection of Islamic jurisprudence and humanitarian law and to consider how their shared concerns may prompt creativity in addressing troubling gaps in IHL today—notably, the lack of standards for dealing with the rise of irregular armies, or the inability of the law to accommodate asymmetric forms of attacks by non-state entities against sovereign states.
NUTS!
Topics for Discussion will likely include the role of culturally and religiously-based legal norms and their authoritative sources for limiting armed conflict’s effects on victims; the meaning of asymmetry from the perspective of the weaker party; conflicting and even incompatible notions of legitimacy and defense in military actions; and the role of universal human rights standards in relation to culture and conflict.
Approach: The bodies of law under consideration are “living traditions,” to paraphrase the 8th century jurist al-Awzai’s view of Islamic law, the uninterrupted, intergenerational practice of adapting approved legal precepts to contemporary circumstances. This view rebuts the tendency to reduce Western and Islamic legal traditions to static or monolithic constructs by recognizing each as complex, dynamic, and plural (made up of sub-traditions). Given the inherent complexity of this subject across traditional disciplines and practice areas (i.e., international humanitarian, military, legal, and policy communities) an interdisciplinary approach and sustained collaboration for advancing knowledge on this pressing topic is necessary.
Objective: The resulting analysis from the Islam-IHL initiative will lay the groundwork for engaging a larger community of practitioners and scholars in understanding the relationship between IHL and Islamic law for internationally viable approaches to present-day asymmetric challenges—including those involving Islamic groups or states.
Research questions:
· What role does Islam play in international laws and norms for conducting warfare and why do some consider Islamic law an alternative to IHL?
· Does incorporating primary and secondary Islamic sources foster a different understanding and legal interpretation of key IHL provisions and its present challenges today?
· What shared or divergent visions and precepts underlie IHL and Islamic attempts to humanize warfare?
· Do Islamic doctrines of warfare have lessons for contemporary conflict settings, asymmetric warfare, non-state belligerents, present gaps in IHL, or the relationship between Jus in bello and Jus ad bellum?
· Are contesting interpretations of Islamic law enabling Islamist interpretations of warfare and the use of violence for social and political change?
· What would a productive synthesis look like between Islamic jurisprudence and IHL that humanizes war while preserving state’s sovereignty, a balance central to the universal acceptance of IHL?
Please contact Corri Zoli if you are interested in this initiative.
This is the taqiyya being spread by the dhimmi Chicago Police Department. This is beyond frightening when you consider that Islam is at war with the West in every country they invade across the world. (hat tip rqf)
Muslims respect civil law, even where it conflicts
with sharia
Islam is typical of our diverse heritage of
faiths
Muslims sectarianism doesn't exist
Islam promotes peaceful solutions
Rear base muslims have nothing to do with forward
base jihad-terror
How do I know the above? The Chicago Police
Department says so:
Video produced by the Chicago Police Department about the culture and Religion of Islam.
NUTS!
Straight from Obamaland. Is it any wonder? This is the same city where
yesterday the Muslim who beat and bit her niece to death complained of
insult and humiliation when her mug shot was taken. CAIR spokesman in Chicago said, "they should respect the modesty of the accused." The child had 55 separate bruises and was beaten "from head to toe".
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A man whose ability and independence leads others to reject him, but who perseveres nevertheless to achieve his values. Man as an individual, as a creator. What's the most depraved type of human being? Not a sadist or a murderer or a sex maniac or a dictator; "The man without a purpose." Yet most people seem to go through their lives without a clearly defined purpose.
Life has Loveliness to sell,
All beautiful and splendid things,
Blue waves whitened on a cliff,
Soaring fires that sways and swing,
And children's faces looking up,
Holding wonder like a cup
Life has Loveliness to sell,
Music like a curve of Gold,
Scent of pinetrees in the rain,
Eyes that love you,
arms that hold,
And for your spirit's still delight,
Holy stars that star the night.
Spend all you have for loveliness,
Buy it and never count the cost;
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Count many a year of strife well lost
And for a breath of ecstasy
Give all you have been, or could be.
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