Another Al-Arian update: "Sami Al-Arian's Islamic Academy," from Laura Mansfield in FrontPage (thanks to EPG):
Florida's tuition voucher program is designed to help improve the education level of children who attend schools which do not meet educational standards. In 2003, Florida taxpayers indirectly subsidized the Islamic Academy of Florida in Tampa, with over $350,000 in funds.Why is this a problem? What makes funding an Islamic school any different from funding a Christian school?
The difference is that at the time, the school's principal was none other than Sami Al Arian, who was under indictment for terrorism-related charges. He is at this very moment going to trial.
The Florida Islamic Academy was founded in 1992 by Sami Al-Arian. North American Islamic Trust holds the the title to the school property, as well as to the Tampa-area mosques at 130th Ave. E in Temple Terrace, FL and at 6307 Barclay Avenue in Spring Hill, FL. The trust owns about 27 percent of the 1,200 mosques in the United States.
The North American Islamic Trust is a subsidiary of the Islamic Society of North America.
Sami Al Arian, along with seven others, was indicted in February 2003, on racketeering charges for allegedly financing and supporting homicide bombers in Israel.
The Florida Islamic Academy is explicitly named in the indictment:
The Islamic Academy of Florida, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as "IAF") was a tax exempt Florida corporation established on August 24, 1992. SAMI AMIN AL-ARIAN was the Director of IAF from its inception through at least June, 2002. SAMEEH HAMMOUDEH was also employed by the IAF and served as its Treasurer. IAF was located at 5910 East 130th Avenue, Tampa, Florida.
And then later goes on to state:
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Jihad-Shiqaqi Faction (PIJ), including the ICP, WISE, IAF, and others known and unknown, constituted an "enterprise" (hereinafter referred to as the "PIJ Enterprise"), as defined by Title 18, United States Code, Section 1961(4); that is, a group of individuals and entities associated in fact which engaged in, and the activities of which affected, interstate and foreign commerce. The enterprise constituted an ongoing organization whose members functioned as a continuing unit for a common purpose of achieving the objects of the enterprise.
The indictment also alleges:
On or about May 5, 2002, SAMI AMIN AL-ARIAN and SAMEEH HAMMOUDEH caused an employee at IAF to tell an unidentified woman during a telephone conversation that the woman should write a check to IAF after she indicated she wanted to send money for the Palestinians.
Yet, despite this, the Islamic Academy of Florida continued to receive money from the tuition voucher program in Florida through July 2003.
Here's a quote for all that I keep posted on my website: www.madzionist.com
[“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of Scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth.”
Omar Ahmad – co founder of the Council of American Islamic Relations]
Says it all about what we are dealing with, now, doesn't it.
Given that Islam is not merely a religion but a geopolitics, and that the Qur'an, Hadith and Sira promote unremitting hostility, including murderous hostility, to Infidels who refuse to submit to Islam, how is it possible for any taxpayers' money go to fund any group connected with Islam in any way? Lawsuits must be coming --lawsuits that will make clear to Infidel taxpayers that they are paying for their own destruction whenever they give money to Muslim peoples or states, outside of the United States, and within this country. This cannot continue. What would we say if we discovered that taxpayer's money had gone to fund Communist cells after World War II, or Nazi agents before and during World War II? All of our post-war stupidities are rolled up in one ball, and perfectly expressed by this paradoxical situation we are asked to endure -- but will not.
One good reason for the seperation of church and state -and a point to raise to any pandering politicians: that you insist that they prevent any public funding going to any faith or "faith-based initiatives".
If the believers are so righteous and devoted and inspired and generous, let them pay for their own theocratic educations and charities.
I'd rather see may taxes go for border security than religious promulgation of any sort.
My faith (with a nod toward Saint W.C. Fields) is: people tend to be suckers. And God is often their biggest lollipop.
Believe what you want, but pay for it yourself.
Isn't that the American Way?
Or are we sliding toward Mecca?
(Don't grease the chute to our destruction with the fat of calves.)
"The enterprise constituted an ongoing organization"
Geeeez . . .Islam in America operates like the mafia.
With all the connections to Al Arian - Palestinian Islamic Jihad/The Florida Islamic Academy/North American Islamic Trust/Islamic Society of North America/Jihad-Shiqaqi Faction (PIJ), including the ICP, WISE, IAF, etc.
Does RICO apply?
What in H... is going on?
Florida's tuition voucher program is designed to help improve the education level of children who attend schools which do not meet educational standards. In 2003, Florida taxpayers indirectly subsidized the Islamic Academy of Florida in Tampa, with over $350,000 in funds.
Hey Gary, Fish-boy, Carolyn... guess which Florida governor pushed to change Florida law and the Florida Constitution to make this happen.
Was it:
A) Liberal Democrat Bob Graham?
B) Liberal Democrat Lawton Chiles?
C) Liberal Democrat Buddy McKay?
D) Conservative Republican Jeb Bush?
Which one can we thank for stealing TAXPAYER money and handing it to Dr. Al-Aryan's cult? Please find out and get back to me, because I would really like to know who the biggest dhimmi is Florida is, and what his political affiliation is.
Believe what you want, but pay for it yourself.
Big Sleep, this USED to be part of a certain political idealogy, but it's devotees seem to have forgotten it these days.
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Like most people I worry about our western, secular democracies becoming theocratic Muslim hellholes. But I have great faith that once on country falls (France, Holland, Germany, or Sweden seem to be the most likely candidates) the rest of the West will at long last wake up and start taking these crazy mobots seriously.
KJ-
I appears that it takes a 2 x 4 (-like another worse 9/11-) smacking them 'upside' their heads before enough people wake from the daydream of "can't we all just get along" and control this tyrannical religious infiltration.
I don't like my pocket picked by those who claim it's for a 'good cause'.
Islam is the best cause according to its believers.
For me, it is the best cause to keep my semi-automatic lubricated, my politicians honest, and the Constitution functioning.
And by believe what you want, I naturally also mean "within the law". (Even as the insanity of the Supreme Court last week legalized Satanism and witchcraft as equivalent faiths to be respected in the U.S.- deciding a case to do with practicing one's religion in prison... )
"The Lord helps those who help themselves." doesn't mean "to the public coffers".
I think I hear Thomas Jefferson spinning a little faster in his grave... or is that another jet heading toward the Pentagon?
While Muslims in Canada push for Shariah law
for females during the family dispute issues,I researched some Anti-Racism groups and traced them back to Mosques that work with CAIR to produce literature about the Quran and the history of Islam in America under the guise of
"Anti-Racism/Islamophobia" Workshops.
So what's the problem you ask,well turns out that Teachers Unions and a pro-Labour National
Politican Party endorses this and the Budget
Statement posted online by the City Of Tornto
shows all 3 levels of Government funding these groups and allowing them to be forced on children
in the Public Schools as part of the classroom
programs.
But guess what,no matter which Politician I emailed the proof to from this(now in its 3rd year since the 9/11 attack) overt Tax-fraud
of funnelling Public money to Tax-exempt Religious entities to promote a religion
in public schools that teach the killing of Jews and Christians,not one person cared and even
our now Mayor David Miller had his name on the documents for approving Grants in the 2002 City Of Toronto "Grants Program" that doesn't demand
accountability from groups getting some of the 45,000,000 dollars of Property Taxes that go to the money pit.
Those poor Gay groups,while they made it into the classroom to access our children to affirm their lifestyle,Muslims have snuck in through the backdoor and get Government funding to tell those same children to kill Gays that are the enemies of Allah and Islam.
And if the're Gay Muslims Canada will allow
Shariah Law to be used to purge islam of these
sinners just as Palestinians kill homosexuals
in Public as a favour to Allah.
Even as the insanity of the Supreme Court last week legalized Satanism and witchcraft as equivalent faiths to be respected in the U.S.- deciding a case to do with practicing one's religion in prison...
...and why shouldn't they? If they let them practice Islam in prison, why not Satanism and witchcraft? In the eyes of the US Constitution, they are equivalent to the "good" religions. Remember, the only difference between a cult and a religion is that religion is practiced by the rulers.
You sound pretty libertarian... what do you think about the Supreme Court denying people with terminal diseases the right to smoke a plant that improves their health?
Hmmm... looks like the biblethumpers "don't have time" to answer the question I posed above. So I guess the answer MUST be A, B, or C.
LOL kj it was Jeb Bush, that was a no brainer, but your correct about the Bible Thumpers.
They and the Muslims vent their spleen and spit venom at the secularists, and (no it is not a tu quoque) that makes them no different than the Muslims.
It is their god against the muslim god and there are no winners in the battle for god.
Besides, and the thumpers don't want to hear this, Islam is a patient nation (as Zawahiri or was it Zarqawi said) time is on their side and so is fecundity, they breed like rats, like what they are, carnivorous rats who feed off the soul of liberty and free thought. Hmm don't all religionists just hate free thought and free speech (unless it is their kind).
I wish these good Christians luck in their war against the Jihad, they need it, they don't have any allies because they bend over backwards to turn potential allies into enemies.
There was an event in Jerusalem recently. A gay pride parade was scheduled, the Mufti of Jerusalem, the Rabbi of Jerusalem, the two Catholic (Eastern and Roman Rite) church heads all united to condemn gays, they also unite to condemn secularists..
Isn't ecumenical hate so brotherhood?
Just imagine a couple of million more members of the church of no church ;) can be so threatening to the big three that they actually cause a comming together of the brotherhood of dhimmitude.
Pope JP II laid the groundwork, kissing the Qur'an, Presbyterians (home of Dominion Theology) has followed.
Us secularist not only have to worry about the beheading buck knife of Muslims, but the pile of stones of the Righteous Christians.
Last I looked the Jews, religious and secular have managed to get along, but who knows now that the Sanhedrin has been re established in Jerusalem after some 1600 years or so
LOL... Gary, Fishboy, Carolyn, NONE of them have the decency to admit WHO gave all that taxpayer money to Sami's hate-cult "school."
I will remember this.
Yeah Gai I knew it was a no-brainer... I just wanted to see if any Xtians out there would have the decency to answer. What a surprise that they didn't.