No consideration of the possibility that DHS might really have something on Yusuf Cat Stevens Islam and Tariq Ramadan. No consideration of all the many questions surrounding CAIR, most notably why several CAIR officials have been arrested on various terror-related charges. From OfficialWire, with thanks to Ali Dashti:
LOS ANGELES, CA -- (OfficialWire) -- 12/15/04 -- On Monday, December 20, a coalition of community, interfaith and civil rights organizations will host an emergency town hall meeting to discuss what they say is the unfair targeting of Muslims by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).Invited speakers will include representatives of DHS, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), FBI, and Department of Justice (DOJ), as well as local attorneys and family members of immigration detainees. Hundreds of community members are expected to attend.
Over the last few months, several Muslim religious leaders in California have been detained on minor immigration infractions and have been denied bail. Recent cases include the detentions of Imam Wagdy Ghoneim (Islamic Institute of Orange County in Anaheim), Abdul Jabbar Hamdan (West Coast Islamic Society in Anaheim) and Abdel Malik (Islamic Center of Irvine). According to their attorneys, these individuals have been in the country legally and have filed all necessary documents to maintain their status.
Dozens of complaints of harassment have also been filed by American Muslim travelers. The incidents include being unable to remove their names from the 'No Fly List,' repeated stops and interrogations at airports, exclusion from entry to the United States, and revocation of visas for no stated reason. Islamic leaders and activists prevented from entering this country include Yusuf Islam (formerly known as Cat Stevens) and Swiss professor Dr. Tariq Ramadan.
"While we are all in full support of securing our nation and its borders, we believe the selective application of the law only reinforces the widespread perception that government officials are targeting Islam and Muslims," said Sabiha Khan, communications director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Southern California (CAIR-LA).
CAIR, America's largest Muslim civil liberties group, is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and has 30 offices and chapters nationwide and in Canada. Its mission is to enhance understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.
If CAIR really wants to promote mutual understanding, why won't they answer my questions?
On Monday, December 20, a coalition of community, interfaith and civil rights organizations will host an emergency town hall meeting to discuss what they say is the unfair targeting of Muslims by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
What a load… if you are looking for IRA terrorists, you go to where the Irish hang out…. If you are investigating French Mafia in Canada, you go to Quebec to talk to the French…. If you are looking into black gangs in LA… then you check in with…. Well you get the picture…. Sooo.. if you are after Islamo terrorists then you talk to Muslims.
This is called survival. The part of the country that either isn't aware of the problems these people bring with them, and the ones who choose to ignore it need to wake up and recognize the facade of peaceful Islam.
If the Muslims don't like being looked at like they're criminals, let them remove those who are from their death cult. Until then, too bad for them. Muslims can't have a free ride anymore. Their lies and deception have caught up with them.
Now they go to our schools, attacking the precious young minds of our kids. This needs to stop immediately.
I have grown so wary of interfaith gatherings. All the so-called "Christian" participants water down everything, and they almost certainly give every nasty movement out there the benefit of the doubt. If people want to know about my religion, they can buy our books and come to our churches--for we don't have deep, dark secret teachings we're trying to hide from view; and we try to be courteous to any guests who visit. I'm not going to go somewhere where the ground rule is to denature it to a kind of least-common-denominator moralistic (of the constantly shifting kind) Unitarianism (I'm a Trinitarian, anyway).
I'm not for throwing bricks at "swarthy" people (I'm a tad that way myself) or vandalizing mosques; nor am I sure we have to start carrying out expulsions as in Spain after the Morisco revolt. But there does come a time when you have to admit that certain sections of the population have to be asked hard questions.
The truth is right in front of these people. Pick up a copy of the koran or go to the many sites on the internet and read what they believe. I know that many Christians want to believe that Islam is like a different Christian denomination. It is nothing like Christianity- it is the opposite of the faith of G-d. Wake up! Time is coming where we will not have the edge, they are gaining in population and influence, and we have stupid people wanting to help them in our own destruction.
I see CAIR has changed their mission statement.
While I was verifying this, I noticed that this was under their "Incitement Watch":
http://www.cair-net.org/asp/article.asp?id=35365&page=NB
It is quite interesting, and useful, to monitor what CAIR slanders as incitement - their Incitement Watch is quite illustrative of their attempts to stifle and misrepresent critical analysis of Islam.
It shouldn't be overlooked that CAIR never attempts to debate or refute the content of these articles - they are merely labeled "incitement" and left at that - what does that tell you about their desire to "encourage dialogue"?
The foundation-stone of our concern seems to be made of cotton-candy. Over and again we read that the Moslem community is organizing this and that and the other thing, and in response we bluster and bemoan.
What is the problem with the Western World's population? Why do we sit day after day reading horror stories, all the while awaiting "The Big One"? We know the Moslem world is determined to commit murder against us. There is no doubt. You have a chance of being one of those who dies. Your children could well be murdered, and you know that's true. Those who would kill you and your family openly encourage the destruction and death of your family, and yet we do nothing to protect ourselves from that eventuality. I have to ask: "Why?" What is it that prevents us from organizing among ourselves a collective group working as a resistence to Islam in our midst?
I am completely stumped here, and I'd like some feed-back. Can anyone suggest why it is that we, who know so much and are so totally aware of the urgency of the threat against us, we do nothing at all. I'm missing something here, and I'm not getting it on my own. I need someone to explain to me clearly why we do not organize. Will someone please let me know what the problem is?
Frontpagemag: CAIR publishing 52 full page advertisements in the New York Times for over a million dollar. Can we see their propaganda, anybody got it at hand to post it?
Then you know why the NYT is so Muzzie friendly: Money talks!
Sonofwalker:
I'm afraid that for fear of lawsuits, PC, greed or just plain and simple ignorance we are losing this. The Islamic movement is politicised, entirely.
Our society is disinterested, a-political, history is not learned and also not properly tought to our kids, our media is as good as any prostitute, nothing but trivia and 10 second soundbites.
As long as we see Larry King on prime time instead of Robert Spencer I do not see any change for the better.
Sonofwalker, Terminator:
In the immortal words of Samuel Adams, American Patriot:
"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards;and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood,and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an ever lasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men."
It's up to us - EAGLE UP.
How can anyone not love America, and loving it not defend it? I hardly get home in these past 30 years of being on the road, and maybe that's why I love America as much as I do, not because I don't see the flaws: I see the rest of the world in comparison.
When is this same group going to address the unfair targeting practices of Islam against non-Muslims? (Never, we think?) Which would be the case with the Qur'an's targeting of Jewish persons for murder, discriminatory practices of Islam against followers of all other faiths...which would include the people of this inter-faith council calling the meeting.
Just wondering...
Sonofwalker: I so agree with you and your feelings, I have the same concerns as you, I view most of the people in this great country as deers standing on a dark highway with a large truck barreling down on them and there blinded by the headlights and they're just standing there waiting to be splattered on the highway, I have looked for organizations that might have formed to try and stop the muslims, these people are like cock roaches, one day you see one or two and then a few days later there's hundreds of them, and there just spreading, and like cock roaches we have to stop that spread.
sonofwalker, maybe you missed my post of last week, but I have had some modest success with my church project. I contacted fifteen churches within a twenty mile radius of my house. (There are an abundance of churches in this area!) I made appointments with the pastors and took a sample of my leaflet about Islam, and asked permission to leave the leaflets in the church foyers. All but three of them gave me permission on the spot; one refused, and two had to ask a higher authority. Both of them later called and said it was ok. So out of fifteen, I left leaflets in fourteen churches and six of them have called and asked for more! All this cost was the price of printing the leaflets and the gas it took to drive to the churches.
I have created three new leaflets, adding new information to each one. After Christmas, I will call on some more churches. It's a small start, but as I said, there are plenty of churches and potential leaflet readers! I provided my name and phone number to all of the pastors, this info is not on the leaflets. I've had a rough year and I'm not up for death threats right now, but I might add my name and phone number later. I'm thinking about it. There aren't too many muslims around here yet, but who knows what tomorrow might bring?
A very dark day for Western Civ. It is now officially illegal for Christians to criticize Isalm and Mo in Australia. Free speech dead in Australia:
http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1274&storyid=2397847
Susanp--
That is exactly what many should be doing, all over the Infidel world. The governments have abdicated their responsibilities out of fear or wilful ignorance, or a combination of both. So it is, alas, a matter for private citizens, foundations, institutions. Perhaps you will post somewhere the contents of those pamphlets, so that they might be printed out, and copies made, by others.
Do you include a short list of suggested reading, or of 4-5 websites that should be consulted (and remind them that the best websites have archives that can be easily retrieved, and that do not date).
Suzan
That article is extremely distressing. Notice that -- other than overestimating the number of Muslims in Australia (the horror!) -- the Judge does not argue that Pastor Scot has actually misrepresented any of the beliefs or objectives of Islam. Rather, the menacing transgression is that the ministry's seminar, newsletter, and website "made fun of Muslim beliefs and conduct". Did the Judge even bother to read the passages of the Quran or Hadith that serve as the basis for Scot's claims about Islam?
Judge Higgins said that, during the seminar, Pastor Scot had claimed that the Koran promoted violence, killing and looting and that Muslims were liars and demons.
My Merriam-Webster defines a demon as "a source or agent of evil, harm, distress, or ruin". Given the literary and historical accuracy of Pastor Scot's other claims, can one really censure him for suggesting that Muslims are demons?
OT - But relevant
UK Action Alert: Bishop Richard Harries of Oxford
On this morning's 'Thought for the Day' on BBC Radio 4 (For those of you not in the UK - this is BBC Radio's flagship current affairs programme) the Bishop of Oxford saw fit to discuss the merits of Turkey joining the EU. With entirely predictable results.
According to him (wait for it) - It's the Christian thing to do! Apparently respect for the 'other' demands it. Oh yes and it would strike fear in the heart of Islamists as it will show them what Islam 'properly understood' really is. Besides, said the bishop, no disconnect whatsoever between Islam and European values.
It is especially the Islam 'properly understood' bit that got me. Besides this 'proper understanding' leading him to ludicrous positions on the effect of Islam on the West; it is just plain arrogance! What he is basically saying is: "I have seen Islam and it is fuzzy, warm and kind. Just like me in fact." No matter that those who study Islam all their lives come to totally different conclusions. I'll be the arbiter. Case closed.
The clincher was that he used Kemal Ataturk's magnanimous statement to mothers of dead allied soldiers after WW1(They are our sons...) as proof of how 'properly understood' Islam looks. No mention of the fact that Ataturk is the 'bogeyman' of the majority of those who claim to 'properly understand' Islam in Turkey.
People (especially those who should know better!) should not be allowed to get away with this kind of insipid nonsense anymore. They either need to be challenged or educated.
Please help me in doing the following:
* Write the Bishop a respectful letter challenging his position.
* Send him a copy of 'Islam unveiled'.
If you want to listen to what he said, you can follow this link (should be updated later today):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/programmes/thought/index.shtml
A written version will be added during the next few days, probably also to this own website.
Here is his contact details:
The Rt. Rev. Richard Harris
Bishop of Oxford
Diocesan Church House
North Hinksey
Oxford
Oxon
OX2 0NB
There is also a web form, here:
http://www.oxford.anglican.org/contact.php?PHPSESSID=05a10e9ea3dc559cd4ffa1f4bdd43849
(Select 'Bishop of Oxford')
Please keep letters short, to the point and above all respectful.
Suzan, I'm distressed at the Australian ruling, and plan to write the Australian Ambassador in the US and their rep. in Taiwan.
I wrote to the Bp of Oxford, suggesting that it would be appropriate for Turkey to admit and apologize for the Armenian genocide and stop harrassing new Evangelical churches in Turkey (descendants of Muslims, not Dhimmi). I also made it a point to thank the Anglican communion for its illustrious history in Sinitic Asia.
OT.
Catherine sent this in. It's a good idea.
FYI. Here's a way to help brighten wounded GI's spirits at Walter Reed.
Many of you have requested ways to help the returning wounded from Iraq. I'm sending a recent request received from Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Bruce G. Nitsche
Veterans Liaison to the Secretary
Department of Veterans Affairs
The number ONE request at Walter Reed hospital is phone cards.
The government doesn't pay long distance phone charges and
these wounded soldiers are rationing their calls home.
Many will be there throughout the holidays.
Really support our troops --Send phone cards of any amount to:
Medical Family Assistance Center
Walter Reed Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20307-5001
They say they need an "endless" supply of these -- any amount
is greatly appreciated.
Many of the discount warehouse stores such as Walmart, Costco, BJ's Wholesale, etc. have good prices on phone cards.
Please pass this request on to others.
WAR 0N ISLAM = WAR ON TERROR...!!
Have a problem you can't live with? eliminate it! 3 steps to fix the problem:
Bomb the Saudi's- destroy their military...
Occupy the oilfields in SA, blow up the mosques, round up the Imams, 'Royals' and other parasites and execute them, occupy the palaces, release the slaves, hang the 'princes' by the hundreds...
(and chase the rest (tied to camels into the desert...)
Next: Control the money, import missionaries and people who can offer the survivors a 'decent' education, free of Islamic indoctrination...Forbid Islam, anyone calling out 'Allahu Akhbar' will be shot on the spot, burn the Qu'ran in public bonfires, ban the 'burkha, chador, hijab' for women...Make sure muslim women wear miniskirts and dance in the streets celebrating their liberation...
Finally: Round up all members of CAIR, Amnesia International, 'human rights" lefties who want to see us all get killed and have them denounce their stupidity (otherwise they will be sentenced to 30 years of hard labour) and finally eject all Muzzies out of our countries (regardless whether they're born there or not,- if they can't be 'persuaded' to get with it they are most welcome to join the cattle trains heading for the outer outer desert where they shall be dumped...Converts to Islam will be hanged, publicly since they are beyond redemption,
Anyway: You get my drift? I'm offering SOLUTIONS!! This is not instigating hatred for a 'peaceful religion'- this is a way out of this mess! Using what we know, using the weapons we have, to defend ourselves against an enemy that is hellbent on our destruction. Are you calling me a radical? Knock knock: This is about saving lives, our history, our values, our way of life, everythting we hold dear! What are you gonna do to defend yourself?
Terminator,
With all due respect. Posts like yours severely limit the possible effect of JW/DW. This is a war that will not be won by military means. Mention any sort of ‘Final Solution’ and (besides it being morally abhorrent!) see people heading for the door in horror! Our biggest asset is intelligence and information. If however this information is interspersed with calls for brutality and indiscriminate killing we can just as well shut up shop before we start. People will come here and just be confirmed in their prejudices that those who oppose Islam is just a bunch of radical nuts. One post like yours can undo all the good work of people like Robert and Hugh, and everyone who tries to get out the word about what we are facing out there. It also means that I cannot refer my friends and acquaintances to this site to be educated about Islam.
Please desist.
PJS1,
Not to mention that his "final solution" was tried many times by Joseph Stalin, and did not work!
Hugh, my leaflets are very simple, one page lists of Islam's most offensive characteristics. I have designed four so far, with large-lettered titles to elicit attention.
The Baptists are the most avid readers thus far.
I listed four website links, JihadWatch included, of course. They're in the trunk of my car. I'll scan one tomorrow and post it.
I was uncertain how they would be received without a name or some type of sponsorship, but the lack thereof does not seem to matter. I wanted them to be provocative enough to make people curious and want to know more. I'm new at this, so I just did it instinctively. The purpose of the leaflets is to encourage people to learn about Islam by visiting the websites.
A priest called me today and asked if I would talk to his superior from Savannah next week. I agreed, although I feel like I might be stepping out of my element. I've always been somewhat intimidated by the hierarchy of the Catholic church; those big guys scare me and I'm not an expert on Islam by any stretch of the imagination, although I do know what's bad about it. But he has piqued my curiosity, so I'll go.
I think churches will be invaluable allies in this endeavor, much more helpful and sympathetic than the news media.
PC Entertainment
Many of the new Islamic migrants are former goat or camel herders – modern concepts and ideas of freedoms – will be lost on most for at least a few generations. But does the extended – culture shock give them the right to murder us?
Many Islamic people wish to migrate to Western countries because they believe that we have everything. In their minds – our streets are paved with gold.
Many Western people believe that they had to work for everything they have – and that even golden streets need paving.
Turkey should not enter the European Union. The Turkish people will only come for the money – but will not want to integrate.
Perhaps Turkey should join an Arab Union. Human rights and the rights of women will not feature high on the list of reforms – needed to join it. And the economic policies will be simplified to – where there is oil – there is prosperity and economic growth. The Turkish worker could fill this need for Islamic workers in the Saudi Kingdom.
More than half of Turkish women believe it is OK to be beaten by their husbands or other male members of the household.
The Theo Van Gogh film was provocative in that it showed the partially naked body of a Muslim woman – covered in Islamic verse.
The Theo Van Gogh film was provocative in that it showed the total humiliation and abuse of a woman by her husband – under the sanction of a belief in God.
An Islamic Imam is deported to Algeria – for teaching the Qur’anic verse – on how best to beat your wife – without leaving visible marks.
Islam should moderate itself – if it is to co-exist peacefully in Europe.
Does the Islamic man feel that he should have dominion over all women / even when he walks the streets in a Western country?
According to the teachings of the Holy Qur’an – women are as farm animals. Are they?
Muslims in Western countries are using – those countries’ laws to suppress their women – as they were in the old country. In the spirit of openness and PC’correctness it is being allowed.
Did you see how few women were in the Olympic line-up for Islamic countries – I am sure they were all happy and completely satisfied to watch the other women of the world perform at such a high level.
There was an unprecedented level of security at the 2004 Olympics.
All Islamic people are not violent.
Why all the security at the airports – if Islamic violence is a not a real threat?
Which Islamic people are you afraid of?
Islam is a religion of Peace.
Where Islam can not take over a non-Islamic area - peacefully – the Qu’ran teaches us that violence should be used.
If you are a Muslim and wish to convert to another religion – you should be put to death under Shari’ah Law.
We should all try to understand Islam – to live together in harmony.
We should all try to understand Islam – to find out why we are being attacked.
Allah is the ‘One True God’.
Allah was a Moon God to the ancient Arabs.
Allah had three daughters – the ‘trinity’ / named Al-Lat, Manat and Al-Uzza. (See Encyclopedia Britannica (Islam/Life) Book 22 / page 105 – top right – sharing of the deities [Origin of Hajj – same page – bottom left]. Allah’s three daughters / all mentioned in the Koran / page unknown.
Encyclopedia Britannica – not allowed in the Saudi Kingdom. In the past the books have been shredded on entry.
Islam is a backward religion. It requires blind devotion – to ancient ideas. The problem comes when it requires the rest of us – to do the same.
One day Islam will take over America and Europe.
Does anyone remember when Osama bin Laden first declared war on America and the West? At the time – how seriously did any of us take the threat?
Did you ever see a beheading?
Before and during the beheading – an Islamic prayer is chanted in a hypnotic fashion. The knife is usually too dull to do the job quickly and so the barbaric fest lasts for up to 3 minutes or more.
Those are not the true followers of Islam.
The Koran says…...women can work / women can choose whether or not to wear a head covering / women are like farm animals / men can beat and starve them.
Questioning the Islamic faith is hateful.
In Islamic countries – real questions on Islam are forbidden.
Islam is a good religion - which has been hijacked by a few radicals.
Challenging Islam does no one any good.
Islam is a beautiful religion.
Islamic knowledge was a part of the foundation of a modern Europe; so should it not be too rude to ask - What has Islam done lately?
Why should we care anymore if Islamic women are mistreated? They have made the sacrifice for the Greater Good – and they prefer it that way.
Honor killings are good for Islamic women and girls. A family’s honor is more important than the female’s freedom.
The Jordanian women voted to keep Honor Killings. It is thought that it was more difficult for the men – who were responsible for carrying out the merciful act.
An Islamic woman’s worth is in her virginity. With all the things that today’s woman can accomplish – from being an astronaut to running a country as Prime Minister – it all comes down to ‘Are You a Virgin?’ – No one ever asks the men.
If an Islamic woman looses her virginity outside of marriage – even through rape – she might be killed or discarded at best. A single piece of skin – separates her from the rest of humanity.
An Islamic woman can work outside the home – with her family’s permission.
Islamic women are not so smart – they need to be controlled – it is for their own good.
Many Islamic women are kept illiterate – as with slavery – it is a lot easier to control those who can not read.
But the Koran doesn’t say this…………….
Islam is perfect and so should not be challenged.
September 11 / March 11 train bombing / Beslam siege / the beheadings – expose an underbelly of the Islamic faith which many never expected – existed. Starting with Saudi Arabia – young people in the Islamic World are taught to hate and possibly to kill – those who do not fall under their religious faith – in state run schools.
Perhaps Saudi Arabia’s desire to gain control of the West – equates to having us all face East while praying.
Islam teaches tolerance of other religions.
CNN’s ‘Inside the Middle East’ invites viewers to visit Iran – for a vacation. About one week later, Iranian government officials openly call for ‘Death to the Americans’. Does CNN think that maybe the Canadians and British can still go?
Islam is being portrayed badly by the world’s media.
When pressed – on China TV – about the death of Chinese workers in the region – the Pakistani Prime Minister said – Islam is a religion of companion, tolerance, love and moderation – he went on to site the Palestinian Crisis as the underlying cause for all Islamic violence. (Even the three attempts on the Pakistani President’s life?)
Peaceful protest worked for Gandhi in India and Martin Luther King in the US and after 40 years considerable progress has been made – but this probably would not work for the Palestinians. Living in rubble is good.
Sudanese leader tells group of Arab League in Egypt that – Israel – is responsible for the Brown skin Muslim against Black skin Muslim – Darfur crisis.
Is it true – that nonviolent Buddhist Monks have to walk with armed guards in Thailand – because they are being attacked by Islamic people and at least one of these Monks was found beheaded? I am sure these same Buddhist Monks will have all Muslims in their prayers.
Are the armored tanks parked outside Saudi Royal families’ homes – there to protect them from the – Freedom Fighters / Terrorists / American Infidels / Israeli Invasion?
Islamic countries repress all information – including that of the News Media and Scientific programs – in favor of high religious content and the glorification of the leaders.
How long will we be dependant on the oil?
How long could the Middle East remain prosperous on the illusionary Islamic Science – without the oil revenues?
At the moment Saudi Arabia can afford its eccentricities – but they may prove too expensive – in the future.
Besides oil – we know that there is also a large market in black cloth in ‘The Kingdom’.
Women’s Rights anyone? – Baa Humbug!