What do you think? Will Honest Ibe Hooper and Brave Ahmed Rehab of CAIR rush to sign up? Why not? CAIR has denied that Islam mandates death for apostates. So has M. Cherif Bassiouni, distinguished professor emeritus etc. etc. Will they sign? Will Salam al-Marayati of MPAC? Will any Muslim leader in the US? This will be very interesting to watch. A press release from Former Muslims United:
Former Muslims send "Freedom Pledge" Nationwide to Muslim Leaders for 220th Anniversary of Bill of Rights
"Muslim Pledge for Religious Freedom and Safety from Harm
for Former Muslims"Call on DOJ, US Commission On Civil Rights to Investigate Hate Crimes and Discrimination Against Apostates from Islam
WASHINGTON, DC (September 23, 2009) - Prominent former Muslims-- apostates from Islam-- have mailed a groundbreaking Freedom Pledge to over 50 Muslim leaders asking them to repudiate the Islamic law that requires the execution of apostates who have left Islam. The pledge and cover letter have just been released to the public at the website of the new civil rights organization - Former Muslims United - www.formermuslimsunited.org.
Former Muslims United will be formally launched at a press conference Thursday, September 24, to announce the start of their national campaign to educate the American public and policymakers about the threat from authoritative Shariah-- Islamic law-- to the religious freedom and safety of former Muslims. The names and organizational affiliations of the Muslim leaders sent the Freedom Pledge will be released at the press conference and posted online at www.formermuslimsunited.org. Additional Muslim leaders will be sent the pledge in the next months as the national campaign gets underway.
Former Muslims United founders, authors Nonie Darwish and Ibn Warraq, will also release the text of letters which were hand-delivered Wednesday, September 23, 2009 to Attorney General Eric Holder, U.S. Department of Justice, and Gerald A. Reynolds, Chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The letters call on Holder and Reynolds to investigate possible hate crimes and civil rights violations against apostates from Islam, including the circumstances of the current Florida case of 17-year old Rifqa Bary, a former Muslim. The letters were signed by Former Muslims United founders Nonie Darwish, Mohammad Asghar, Amil Imani, Wafa Sultan and Ibn Warraq.
In the cover letter to the Freedom Pledge, the five founders speak directly to Muslim leaders : "We are all aware of incidents of intimidation, threats of violence and actual assaults against former Muslims. We reach out to you with a sincere hope that you and your organization will join with us in ensuring peace and justice, safety and freedom for Muslims and former Muslims alike...."
The "Muslim Pledge for Religious Freedom and Safety from Harm for Former Muslims" includes numerous citations for Shariah legal opinions on death for apostates. The full pledge can be read and downloaded at www.formermuslimsunited.org .
Security at the press conference will be tightly maintained, and photo identification will be required of all attendees.
EVENT: Launch of Former Muslims United
PLACE: Longworth House Office Building, Hearing Room 1334
DATE: Thursday, September 24, 2009
TIME: 2:00 p.m.
All Former Muslims United founders are available for interviews.
For more information, contact Former Muslims United director Nonie Darwish at 818-314-3972 or email info@formermuslimsunited.org
Rain on their parade would be a sweet cleansing. Them tents get heavy when waterlogged.
With this launching of www.formermuslimsunited.org. I still hear that they expect a gathering of up to 50,000 Muslims on the steps of the Capital Building in Washington D.C. all day friday.
I don't know if this will materialize or not.Promotors of the all day event claim they where encouraged by the speech given by Obama in Cairo.
Anyone have any updates on this?
Well, well, well. Looks like Muslim apologists are being "hoisted by their own petard".
Hey we got our own Islamic taquiyya artists right here! Maybe you folks could run right down and sign the "Muslim Pledge for Religious Freedom and Safety from Harm for Former Muslims".
Let us know how it goes.
prayers may be well said for the success of this proposal.
the petition to the elders for "religious freedom and safety from harm" is noteworthy. but, only the One blessed with power to change the will, the heart, the mind, can remove the mental roadblocks plaguing the Mohammedans. the teachers at the mosque who claim the authority of the Muslims' holy books to guide initiative and will, surely need an extra measure of Divine intervention for true righteous motive.
that this group calls attention to the danger of Sharia is both significant and, prayerfully, helpful.
The only problem I forsee is this...
I think that many so called "moderate" Muslems will sign it. But they are not allowed to "honor" treaties with the "enemys of Islam" (That is if Islam has any honor)
It will be fun to watch them squirm but when it come down to a Muslimah, dating a Christian. I think that Muslem's will do, what Muslem's do best.
Taqyya + Murder = Islam.
Mobamad.
With the best of intentions, the Former Muslims United founders are attempting to make things better for themselves and for future apostates.
I can't help but wonder, though, if this outreach means anything to the more rabid Muslims who seriously believe all apostates should die. They may come, they might even sign on the dotted line, but does it mean that the apostates of the future are or will be safe? We all know what such signatures are worth.