Relatives of Slain N.J. Family of Four Speak Out for First Time in Washington, D.C. Press Conference

A press release from the U.S. Copts Association:

Relatives of the slain Armanious family of four will speak at their first press conference since the brutal murders on Tuesday, Feb. 15 at 3 p.m. at the National Press Club's Zenger Room in Washington, D.C. U.S. Copts Association president Michael Meunier will join the Armanious family's relatives in addressing the investigation's status and expressing the family's point of view on the horrific crime. The family will also address erroneous reports circulated by some national and foreign media outlets. The family will be joined by friends of the Coptic-American community, including representatives of NGOs and human rights organizations.

Ayman Garas, the brother of victim of Amal Garas, will speak alongside Garas' brother-in-law Emad Fahmy and uncles Emil, Gameel, and Milad Garas. The family members will also discuss the case with lawmakers and government officials during their visit to Washington. "We feel it is extremely important that the public hear the Armanious family members' side of the story and we are pleased to help them express their point of view on this disturbing crime," said Meunier.

The bodies of the Coptic-American family, including father Hossam Armanious, 47, his wife Amal Garas, 37, and daughters Sylvia, 15, and Monica, 8, were found bound and gagged with throats slashed in their Jersey City home in January. Hudson County prosecutors continue to explore several possible motives for the slayings, including retaliation by terrorists against Hossam Armanious, an outspoken advocate for Coptic Christian religious freedom in his native Egypt and a well-known leader of online ministry to the Muslim-American community.

The press conference will take place in the Zenger Room of the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. at 3 p.m. EST.

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CAIR Watch is on.

Condolences to friends and family and again they have to reach out for help, the inattention by authorities wreaks of PC.

Its time for the United States to act like the Piranha fish:

Close all Mosques and
Close all affiliated Islamic organizations
For those who wish to continuing their practice of hate bigotry and violence ask them to leave to be free to do so elsewhere.
Muslims have no Heritage in America.
No immigrants other than Islam ever came here with the intent to kill American.


They are what they are BARBARIANS!

I'm sure the major networks will give this one full coverage, yeah right. They'll prolly spend more time coaxing self pitying crap from MSA and CAIR about Islamophobia than about this Islamic mass murder!

What I hear from people who know people in Jersey City's municipal government is that there has been an effort from day one to suppress the islamic factor in this heinous crime. Apparently they want to keep the truth of what they know from the people because they think it will cause undue hysteria and retribution. If this is true it is really disturbing that they are voluntarily doing CAIR's bidding.

The family is showing courage, which is to be commended. Evidence they are receiving wise counsel.

Following the aftermath of the slaughter, I am finding that national MSM coverage is limited to those vacuous AP stories we have been reading. Hopefully, the press conference will remove the investigation from the quagmire that is New Jersey politics. Hopefully it will position the family and community to counter possible pressure from the national government to quash the investigation for the sake of diplomacy.

Once again, my condolences to the family, I hope you find the justice you seek.

Off topic, but GREAT NEWS!

Lynne Stewart, the lawyer that helped the jihadi smuggle secret messages out of prison, has been found GUILTY. She looks a little "butch" so if the punishment really fits the crime, they will send her to a men's prison. Perhaps there she will see will see another side of Islam... meanwhile Islam will see another side of her: the inside.

They should send her to the prison her client is in. Or even better, send her to a prison in Egypt or Israel.

For those of you that say I never criticize "my" side, (even though I have again and again) perhaps this will make you see a little clearer.

KJ,
The Lynne Stewart verdict is great, she should be hanged for treason though!

So long as common sense remains the inheritance of a significant percentage of the population, efforts such as that which has been undertaken to suppress the obvious Islamic angle on the slayings will only serve to further pressurize the eventual explosion of popular vigilantism against Mohammedans in the US. This is nearly self-evident.

Or am I mistaken, having failed to recognize that the dhimmi consciouness is already our own?

The relatives of the Armanious family should be commended for their courage and outspokeness. This crime must not go unpunished or undeclared! It needs to be recognized as the religiously motivated crime that it is and addressed at the community and national level. The nation needs to show these criminals that Islamic intolerance and violence have no place in the United States.

f.g.

Time conservative bloggers and the genuinely free media (such as it is) chips in and gives this act of indisputable courage plenty of play.

Let us each mail our favorite blogs, callup our favorite talk show hosts and radio jocks and let them know about this event!

Will these people have justice? I am beginning to wonder.

The idea that CAIR can get away with interference in a horrific murder investigation just boggles my mind.

In the Zenger Room -- John Peter Zenger. The American press, having obtained freedom from government restraint, should be using that freedom wisely. It ought to be informing and instructing us. Is it? Do you have the feeling that The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other publications have, in the last few years, fulfilled their solemn obligation to assign reporters to learn what is contained in Qur'an, Hadith,and Sira, in order to make sense of what Muslims say and do? Have they asked their reporters to learn even a minimum about the history of Islamic conquest? Have those who mouth off so much about the Middle East, such as Tom Friedman, been required to acquire any such knowledge, or are they allowed to continue as before ("When I was in Davos recently.." or "I tend to think" or "I call it the Friedman theory of politics" or "some Moroccon intellectuals I had dinner with..." Good God, fire these people, and start over. They simply are not up to it. They lack the intelligence, they are not used to studying, they are guides to nothing at all. Someone, somewhere, must realize that a brouhaha over Jason whatsisname which led to Howell Raines's resignation is completely trivial, compared to the greater irresponsiblity of not covering, or covering in an idiotic manner, Islam.

What is really surprising is, that the only major MSM that has published the murder of the Armanious family and the islamic connection, is The Daily Telegraph in Britain. The New York Times and the Washington Post are conspicuous by their silence.

This is very strange indeed, as this story should have been headline news in the US.


I can assure you that CAIR is already planning a counter-press release and will try to get it out before the update on the Islamic slaughter of Christians in America.
The Coptic assoc could come up with a pretty good PSA for FOX's 24 show and run it to dispell the Islamic myth that Christians are a threat to Muslims in America.


BTW,it's bad enough CAIR censors the American media with their Psy-ops threats to TV networks,but here in Canada CAIR was upset that the pre-show PSA didn't appear on our broadcasts.
CAIR-Canada is fighting for un-censored Al-Jazeera Arab TV for Canadian Cable and satellite
service.
Muslims in America have no right to dictate what I can watch on TV or should be forced to watch to purge me of the "Perceived" Islamophobia that all non-Muslims suffer from according to the Quran and Ibrahim Hooper.

Here's the crap from CAIR and ironically the newspaper posted the article about the Al-Qaeda Khadr Family in Canada right beside the this PSA claim that Muslims aren't terrorists.
Mother Khadr has praised the 9/11 hijackers and OBL for the slaughtering of infidels which incleded 24 Canadians,she has also said she hates Canada because of all the homosexual that are a bad example for her sons to see.
Cinsidering there have been about 4 Muslims families in Canada connected to terrorism or supporting Jihad against Canadians,CAIR has a hell of a nerve in Canada to expect the media to hide the truth about terror-cells in Canada.

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Muslims rip Global-TV

ANTI-RACISM MESSAGE DROPPED

By JOHN MCKAY, CP

"HI, MY name is Kiefer Sutherland and I play counter-terrorist agent Jack Bauer on Fox's 24." So begins a new public service announcement that aired in the U.S. Monday during this week's episode of the hit action series.

However, the disclaimer did not air in Canada during Global TV's broadcast and the Canadian branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations wants that changed.
Rian Saloojee, head of the Ottawa-based CAIR, says he is asking Global to carry the Sutherland PSA or to produce something similar in this country. During the Fox PSA, Sutherland says that while terrorism is a critical challenge to America and the world, it is also important to know that the American Muslim community denounces and resists all forms of terrorism, too.

"So, in watching 24, please bear that in mind."

Saloojee concedes CAIR has not been as involved as its U.S. counterpart in the stereotype issue but the potential negative effect of the portrayal of American Muslims on 24 might also affect Canadian Muslims. "Much of the imagery and sometimes even the raw atmosphere in the United States does percolate down to Canada," he said.

The bullsh*t is amazing,CAIR Canada is part of a class-action suit for their support of terrorism and failing to screen the members
of CAIR that are now in Prison for their connection to Hamas,terrorism,Hizzbolah,Al-Qaeda,and the Saudis funding of Whahabbism in America by building Mosques to claim more land for Islam in America.

NO CAIR - NO CENSORSHIP

I pray these folks are successful. In the very least I hope they are more successful than many others that have suffered from similar (as yet unclassified) hate crimes.

Daniel Pipes ran an article which identifies several incidents that seem to have been white washed at

http://www.danielpipes.org/article/2396

Several potential incidents are added by others in the comments section of the above article .

Mr Pipes later added to his own list in the following:

http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/403


One incident, in particular (mentioned in the comments section) demonstrates this blatant white wash effort. . . it's the story of the untimely death of the controversial JDL chairman, Irv Rubin .

While in jail, Rubin supposedly cut his own throat with a jail-issue razor then jumped or fell 18' to his death.
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/West/11/04/rubin.suicide.attempt.reut/

Wikipedia (online encyclopedia) states
Rubin cut his "wrists" (a significant alteration to reflect suicide).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irv_Rubin

They are what they are BARBARIANS!

Posted by: paulc37

well said my friend.

wonder if the fbi hate crime unit made it yet or if they will even come.anyone know if this has happened yet?

Good for the Family....... Through their own persistence, they will get the attention of MSM. Through MSM, slowly but surely the average Joe might get the message...

ISLAM IS THE PROBLEM

For all the folks that want to do well by informing MSM of the dangers of i-SLAM, I say, just start sending those .99 koran's and .50 hadith's to legislators. If they bother to read these hate-filled texts, they might take the position of Gert Wilders in the Netherlands.

I don't fear evil=islam.. I ABHOR it, and I will fight it (islam) to my last breath. The same way that they want to fight me. For you see, I'm the son of a monkey/pig in their eyes. If a son of a monkey/pig can defeat an islamist, then it's well worth it... I'm armed, and ready. I am a proud infidel. islamists forget the 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution.

It is worth my life to expose this evil, vile, disgusting cult for what it is, and I challenge any muslim male to (in the words of GWB) to "bring it on...."

Fookers!

Murder Fuels Rumors of Egyptian Involvement
By MARC PERELMAN
February 11, 2005

The gruesome murder of a Coptic Egyptian family in New Jersey last month has fueled a whirlwind of accusations, with some hawkish commentators blaming Islamist radicals and some locals seeing the Egyptian government’s hand.

Hossam Armanious, 47, his wife and their two daughters were found bound and gagged at their home in Jersey City on January 14 with their throats slit and with several stab wounds.

Law enforcement authorities say they have found no evidence that religion motivated the killings and that they are considering robbery or a vendetta as a more likely cause. The results of the autopsy are expected to be released March 14.

Rafique Iscandar, a close friend of the Armanious family and the head of a local organization called the American Coptic Union, said he believed the Egyptian authorities were the likely culprits in an effort to expand abroad their repression against Copts, who make up about 10% of Egypt’s population.

While he did not offer evidence to support his claims, he added that Egyptian diplomats had pressured local families to tone down such complaints.

Magdi Shaker, a spokesman for the Egyptian mission to the United Nations, denied any government involvement and said American authorities had ruled out any religious motives.

In addition, the Hudson County prosecutor is looking into assertions about a possible link between the murders and hate e-mails posted on an Islamic Web site. The allegations were made in an article published last week in The New York Sun by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, an analyst with the Investigative Project, a group run by terrorist expert Steven Emerson.

Gartenstein-Ross contends that the Web site, Barsyomat.com, tracked Christian users of an online chat room called on the Web site www.PalTalk.com, where participants use instant messaging, voice messaging and Web cameras, posting information on their whereabouts and even pictures.

Armanious was reportedly a frequent PalTalk debater, under the user name “I love Jesus,” and allegedly received a death threat two months before the slayings from another PalTalk user, according to the Sun report.

The authorities are investigating the Web site, which was run by a Jordanian until its Minnesota-based hosting company shut it down last week.

PalTalk is a New York city-based company founded in 1998, and providing a whole range of Web-based communication tools.

The site allegedly posted pictures of Armanious and his wife, with a comment referring to them, respectively, as a “filthy dog” and his “filthy wife” who “got what they deserved for their actions in America,” according to the article.

Iscandar cited the death by hanging of another Copt in Bayonne, N.J., a couple of months ago as a possible indication of an anti-Copt campaign waged by Cairo.

He said the police department did not mention in its report the fact that the victims’ throats were slit; the report referred only to the stabs. He said that the assailants had tried to cut the crosses tattooed on the family’s wrists.

In addition, he brushed aside the hypothesis of a vendetta as implausible since Armanious was not politically involved now or before he came to the United States 10 years ago. As to the robbery theory, he said that although some money was stolen, gold and a ring worth $3,500 were found.

He said Armanious had been laid off six months ago from a job at a local Marriott hotel but continued to work as a handyman. His wife was working at a post office.

“They were just normal people living a normal life,” he said.

Interesting take on lack of msm exposure of Armanious case -

Journalistic Ethics or Bias? Why do the MSM ignore NJ’s Coptic killings?

by John David Powell

Begins with:

"Kudos to the much-maligned Mainstream Media (MSM) for
their remarkable restraint in reporting last month’s massacre of a Jersey City, NJ family."

Concludes with:

"MSM honchos would rather let biased e-zines, bloggers, and Christian activists cover the possibility that cutthroat Islamists stalk cyberspace and roam our streets. Kudos, indeed."

"Mundus vult decipi"



The world wants to be deceived????

In the above URL from FORWARD (thanks Silvester) it says "hawkish commentators blaming Islamist Radicals"

Great Gugglymuggly! Nothing without appeasement anymore these days, PeeCee and nothing but PeeCEE. The government doesn't want to touch it, law-enforcement doesn't want it, SO DOESN'T THAT MAKE IT CLEAR THAT THEY ALL LIVE IN FEAR OF THESE PRIMITIVE MURDERERS JUST LIKE THE DUTCH AND THE BRITISH??? They don't want to see the blood in the street, they don't want to seed the riots and the mayhem, but when it comes it will be worse than what they can possibly imagine. We are not dealing with a minority here that needs protection, we are dealing with criminals and perverts, murderers and hatemongers who need to see that we will enforce the death penalty against them if they trespass on us!!!

This is disgusting! All they have to do is go to the local Mosque where the Armanious family lived and round up the "usual supects", put them all in solitary confinement until one of them cracks. you don't need James Bond for this!? Just do the Job you spineless pencil pushers!

This press conference will be very interesting. I hope they present their case well, so that CAIR and apologists can't distort the issue any more than they already have.

It's time to stop covering for Islam. It seems like that is going on more and more. I read Daniel Pipes' column and blog on this. It's shocking and disgusting. Islam gets a free pass all the time, every time, and it shouldn't. These are Americans being slaughtered, on home soil. The more this goes on, the more empowered that backward, brainwashed vermin feels, and they'll continue doing it. Laughing at our stupidity.

Forgive my ignorance, but what is "MSM"? "Mainstream Media"?

re: Forgive my ignorance, but what is "MSM"? "Mainstream Media"?

The answer is yes, msm = mainstream media.

Posted by: Hugh at February 10, 2005 05:21 PM

Do you have the feeling that The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other publications have, in the last few years, fulfilled their solemn obligation to assign reporters to learn what is contained in Qur'an, Hadith,and Sira, in order to make sense of what Muslims say and do?

I certainly do not because their coverage is not critical enough. I will not venture a guess as to why because that premise, as usual, will fall on deaf ears.

I am not talking about the mainstream media either. Aquaintances, family members and others who may offer a feigned ear do not want to hear these things.

It is interesting that the common US citizen is more interested in what is on reality TV than what might possibly become THEIR reality.

Will they wake up then? Possibly, but the run in their pants will precede that awareness.

It is indeed, unfortunate.

justamomof4,

Thanks.

I hope C-SPAN covers the press conference and broadcast it on C-SPAN.I have no faith in the MSM.

this interference by CAIR reminds me of the following:

20 Point Muslim Plan to Destroy America & The Free World
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

A refugee from the Muslim Middle East thinks he has discovered Islam's 20-point plan for conquering the United States by 2020 – a plan revealed in the latest issue of Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

Anis Shorrosh, author of ''Islam Revealed'' and ''The True Furqan,'' is a Christian Arab-American who emigrated from Arab-controlled Jerusalem in January 1967.

''The following is my analysis of Islamic invasion of America, the agenda of Islamists and visible methods to take over America by the year 2020,'' Shorrosh says. ''Will Americans continue to sleep through this invasion as they did when we were attacked on 9/11?''

1. Terminate America's freedom of speech by replacing it with statewide and nationwide hate-crime bills.

2. Wage a war of words using black leaders like Louis Farrakhan, Rev. Jesse Jackson and other visible religious personalities who promote Islam as the religion of African-Americans while insisting Christianity is for whites only. What they fail to tell African-Americans is that it was Arab Muslims who captured them and sold them as slaves. In fact, the Arabic word for black and slave is the same, ''Abed.''

3. Engage the American public in dialogues, discussions, debates in colleges, universities, public libraries, radio, TV, churches and mosques on the virtues of Islam. Proclaim how it is historically another religion like Judaism and Christianity with the same monotheistic faith.

4. Nominate Muslim sympathizers to political office to bring about favorable legislation toward Islam and support potential sympathizers by block voting.

5. Take control of as much of Hollywood, the press, TV, radio and the Internet as possible by buying the related corporations or a controlling stock.

6. Yield to the fear of the imminent shut-off of the lifeblood of America – black gold. America’s economy depends on oil and 41 percent of it comes from the Middle East.

7. Yell ''foul, out-of-context, personal interpretation, hate crime, Zionist, un- American, inaccurate interpretation of the Quran'' anytime Islam is criticized or the Quran is analyzed in the public arena.

8. Encourage Muslims to penetrate the White House, specifically with Islamists who can articulate a marvelous and peaceful picture of Islam. Acquire government positions and get membership in local school boards. Train Muslims as medical doctors to dominate the medical field, research and pharmaceutical companies. (Ever notice how numerous Muslim doctors in America are, when their countries need them more desperately than America?) Take over the computer industry. Establish Middle Eastern restaurants throughout the U.S. to connect planners of Islamization in a discreet way.

9. Accelerate Islamic demographic growth via:


Massive immigration (100,000 annually since 1961).

Use no birth control whatsoever – every baby of Muslim parents is automatically a Muslim and cannot choose another religion later.

Muslim men must marry American women and Islamize them (10,000 annually). Then divorce them and remarry every five years – since one can't legally marry four at one time. This is a legal solution in America.

Convert angry, alienated black inmates and turn them into militants (so far 2,000 released inmates have joined al-Qaida worldwide). Only a few ''sleeper cells'' have been captured in Afghanistan and on American soil.
10. Reading, writing, arithmetic and research through the American educational system, mosques and student centers (now 1,500) should be sprinkled with dislike of Jews, evangelical Christians and democracy. There are currently 300 exclusively Muslim schools in the U.S. which teach loyalty to the Quran, not the U.S. Constitution. In January of 2002, Saudi Arabia’s Embassy in Washington mailed 4,500 packets of the Quran and videos promoting Islam to America's high schools – free of charge. Saudi Arabia would not allow the U.S. to reciprocate.

11. Provide very sizeable monetary Muslim grants to colleges and universities in America to establish ''Centers for Islamic studies'' with Muslim directors to promote Islam in higher-education institutions.

12. Let the entire world know through propaganda, speeches, seminars, local and national media that terrorists have hijacked Islam, when in truth, Islam hijacked the terrorists.

13. Appeal to the historically compassionate and sensitive Americans for sympathy and tolerance towards Muslims in America who are portrayed as mainly immigrants from oppressed countries.

14. Nullify America's sense of security by manipulating the intelligence community with misinformation. Periodically terrorize Americans with reports of impending attacks on bridges, tunnels, water supplies, airports, apartment buildings and malls.

15. Form riots and demonstrations in the prison system demanding Islamic Sharia as the way of life, not America's justice system.

16. Open numerous charities throughout the U.S., but use the funds to support Islamic terrorism with American dollars.

17. Raise interest in Islam on America's campuses by insisting freshman take at least one course on Islam.

18. Unify the numerous Muslim lobbies in Washington, mosques, Islamic student centers, educational organizations, magazines and papers by Internet and an annual convention to coordinate plans, propagate the faith and engender news in the media.

19. Send intimidating messages and messengers to the outspoken individuals who are critical of Islam and seek to eliminate them by hook or crook.

20. Applaud Muslims as loyal citizens of the U.S. by spotlighting their voting record as the highest percentage of all minority and ethic groups in America.

Shorrosh is a member of the Oxford Society of Scholars, has traveled in 76 countries, and is a lecturer and producer of TV documentaries. ''Islam Revealed'' is a bestseller now in its eighth printing. His forthcoming 10th book, from which the 20-point plan is abridged, is titled ''Islam: A Threat or a Challenge.'

By the time America wakes up it might be too late

i'm outraged and woken up!


The link below seems to indicate that a Egyptian muslims in Canada thinks that Jews and Coptic Christians have it good in Egypt because of their protection under islamic rules for pluralism and minorities in Islamic States.

The article belittles the murder of the Jersey family and just shows morally bankrupt some Muslims are when non-Muslims are slaughtered because of their faith,the authors email address is at the bottom of the diatribe if you want to forward him the Jersey story so he can read it once he get his head out of his ass and puts down the glue-bag.

http://arab2000.net/wnewsDetails.asp?id=18591&cid=25

The guy is a weasel just like the Khadr family that declared it hates canada and was glad the 9/11 hijackers killed civilians for Osama.

Dear American and Canadian friends: If you're worried about hate-crime and hate speech laws, monitor every liberal institution, leftist college professor, mosque, advocacy group, etc., and when they say something untrue and nasty about Christian fundamentalists("they're all racists"; "they're a threat to democracy", etc.)or "Zionists" (translated: Jews who remain in the countries of their birth), sue them under the hate speech laws.

The Left will then whimper, whine, and stick its numerous tails between its legs all the way up to the US Supreme Court, and argue with customary legal eloquence that the laws they helped push through are a violation of the First Amendment (or whatever you have up in Canada). They'll then wake up and realize that if they really want to go after the Kuku Kluckers, neo-Nutzies, and real haters, there are plenty of old-fashioned common law crimes to get them on. After all, if you truly love your neighbor or simply just respect him, you won't murder or rob him.

There are probably few things worse in our world than having a truth you were already aware of shoved in your face with extreme brutality. We are deeply sorry for the Armanious family's murder. We grieve for their family and friends.

This tragedy ONCE AGAIN illustrates the need to OUTLAW Islam in America.

The Armanious family and its friends learned that Islam is conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to commit genocide. So should we all have here in America.

Islam constitutes criminal activity by our nations' statutes. Permitting it to be practiced on our soil is discriminatory to the remainder of our citizens who do not as a matter of 'religion' conspire to kill or slaughter fellow human beings based upon their religion.