An update on this story from Yahoo News:
NEW YORK, Jan. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A prominent national human rights and advocacy organization is again asking the Defense Department to resist efforts by the Hamas-linked Islamic supremacist hate group the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to dictate the nature and content of anti-terror training for military personnel.That renewed request by Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) comes after Hamas-linked CAIR, one of the nation's most notorious Islamic supremacist hate groups, demanded that the Defense Department not invite the noted Islam scholar Robert Spencer to offer training to military intelligence personnel. SIOA respectfully requests that the Defense Department repudiate this attempt by Hamas-linked CAIR to hinder national security by interfering with and impeding counterterrorism training.
SIOA Executive Director Pamela Geller declared: "It's outrageous that a subversive group linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, whose stated goal, according to a captured internal document, is 'eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within,' would presume to dictate to the military who they can and cannot have as a speaker. Their agenda is obvious and should be repudiated by the military and all Americans. Lives are at stake and the future of Western civilization hangs in the balance."
The Associate Director of SIOA, Robert Spencer is a highly sought-after expert on Islam and Sharia, the director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and the author of ten books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Truth About Muhammad and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) (both Regnery). He is also the author of Islam Unveiled (Encounter); The Myth of Islamic Tolerance (Prometheus); Onward Muslim Soldiers; Religion of Peace?; Stealth Jihad; and The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran (all Regnery).
Spencer is a weekly columnist for Human Events and FrontPage Magazine, and has led seminars on Islam and jihad for the United States Central Command, United States Army Command and General Staff College, the U.S. Army's Asymmetric Warfare Group, the U.S. intelligence community, and the FBI and the Joint Terrorism Task Force on previous occasions.
Spencer is the coauthor of Pamela Geller's acclaimed The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War On America (Simon & Schuster).
Bat Ye'or, the pioneering historian of dhimmitude, the institutionalized mistreatment of non-Muslims in Islamic societies, said: "Robert Spencer incarnates intellectual courage when, all over the world, governments, intellectuals, churches, universities and media crawl under a hegemonic Universal Caliphate's New Order. His achievement in the battle for the survival of free speech and dignity of man will remain as a fundamental monument to the love of, and the self-sacrifice for, liberty."
Former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy, a Senior Fellow at National Review Institute, called Spencer "America's most informed, fearless, and compelling voice on modern jihadism." The New York Times noted that Spencer's work is "widely read in conservative foreign policy circles."
CAIR, by contrast, is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case -- so named by the Justice Department during the trial of the Islamic charity known as the Holy Land Foundation.
CAIR has previously attempted to intimidate numerous government agencies and citizens' groups into dropping events featuring foes of international jihad activity, including SIOA's Executive Director Pamela Geller, ACT for America's Brigitte Gabriel, and others. In the summer of 2010 it has embarked upon a concerted campaign of intimidation and defamation to silence public figures who speak out against jihad and Islamic terrorism, including Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), the Rev. Franklin Graham, Florida Congressional candidate Dan Fanelli, and Connecticut Congressional candidate Rick Torres.
CAIR's attempt to intimidate the Defense Department and dictate the military's choice of speakers contained numerous false charges, defamation, distortions, and outright lies about Spencer, SIOA, and Geller.
CAIR has a long record of duplicity and deception. Although it has received millions of dollars in donations from foreign Islamic entities, it has not registered as a foreign agent as required by the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), despite spreading Islamic supremacist propaganda within the United States.
Although it presents itself as a civil rights group, CAIR actually has numerous links to Islamic supremacist and jihad groups. CAIR founders Omar Ahmad and Niwad Awad (who still serves as CAIR's executive director) were present at a Hamas planning meeting in Philadelphia in 1993 where they and other Hamas operatives conspired to raise funds for Hamas and to promote jihad in the Middle East. CAIR has steadfastly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups.
Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror:
* Ghassan Elashi, founder of CAIR's Texas chapter, in 2009 received a 65-year prison sentence for funneling over $12 million from the Islamic charity known as the Holy Land Foundation to the jihad terrorist group Hamas, which is responsible for murdering hundreds of Israeli civilians
* Mousa Abu Marzook, a former CAIR official, was in 1995 designated by the U.S. government in 1995 as a "terrorist and Hamas leader." He now is a Hamas leader in Syria.
* Randall Royer, CAIR's former civil rights coordinator, in 2004 began serving a 20-year prison sentence for aiding al-Qaida and the Taliban against American troops in Afghanistan and recruiting for Lashkar e-Taiba, the jihadist group responsible for the 2008 Mumbai jihad massacres.
* Bassem Khafagi, CAIR's former community relations director, was arrested for involvement with the Islamic Assembly of North America, which was linked to al-Qaida. After pleading guilty to visa and bank fraud charges, Khafagi was deported.
* Rabih Haddad, a former CAIR fundraiser, was deported for his work with the Global Relief Foundation (which he co-founded), a terror-financing organization.
In 1998 Omar Ahmad, CAIR's co-founder and longtime Board Chairman, said: "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."After he received unwelcome publicity as a result of this statement, Ahmad denied saying it, several years after the fact. However, the original reporter, Lisa Gardiner of the Fremont Argus, stands by her story.
CAIR's spokesman Ibrahim Hooper once said: "I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future."
SIOA is one of America's foremost organizations defending human rights, religious liberty, and the freedom of speech against Islamic supremacist intimidation and attempts to bring elements of Sharia to the United States.
"In 1998 Omar Ahmad, CAIR's co-founder and longtime Board Chairman, said: "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."
It is certainly great that there are people who bring this Islamic plan to our attention...we are learning things about taqiyyah, dawa, kitman, and tu-quoque and how to recognize them when we hear them...Short films such as Fitna, Submission, and Obsession serve to alarm otherwise unaware people to the threat Islam poses...We are learning how Islam really intends to treat people who happen to be non-Muslim and how Islam treats its own people...
Reporting on what Muslims say and practice requires no credentials at all...it requires only the courage to spread the alarm...Proving Muslims say such things is easy...they do say them....Muslim just cannot stand it when the Truth about Islam reaches Non-Muslim or Infidel ears...Truth is a powerful weapon against tyranny...and the quicker you learn and understand the truth about the threats posed to you the better you are able to confront and defeat it..
When Muslims are confronted with the truth, they usually resort to name calling, lies, and claiming victimhood or blaiming someone else for the events that have direct Islamic involvement.
And then we have Muslim bloggers who appear periodically trying to defend Islam or trying to divert the truth by misdirection or by outright attempts to disguise the truth about Islam..
But the truth about Islam is seeping out whether or not the Muslims like it...and they don't...Their daily actions, once known, serve to alert, alarm and to educate people to the Islamic intentions for mankind...
God bless those who spread the truth about Islam and thank you to all the Islamic bloggers who help the Infidels see first hand just how Muslims think and act...they make it much easier to recognize and verify what those who have taken the time to bring Islam to our attention....and it takes no credentials whatsoever....none at all...
Are we finally seeing some cracks in the dam? Go SIOA!
Excellent! An article that will have Ibe and his tribe at CAIR spitting blood.
Robert, you ARE impressive and have quite a list of accomplishments. However, I do like you in monchromatic blue - suit and tie, the tie lighter than the suit, that sky-blue one you wear. You look as fabulous as you are - intellectually, a veritable dynamo in the fight against jihad. I am proud to be associated with you, even if only in this small way.
I do think that Robert's accomplishments and those of JihadWatch are impressive.
You bring us constant news: not simply opinions, but news, of the practical effects of Islam and Islamic governments every day. Further, you provide a moderate voice: never any hatred or viciousness towards Muslims, but a commitment to recognize the rights of individual citizens, while advocating constitutional means of limiting Islamic influence in the United States. Generally, this means to 1) raise public awareness that while the rights of individual Muslims must be respected, Islam as a whole is not to be treated as another form of Methodism or Buddhism; and 2) politically, the influx of Muslims into the US must be stopped, since the more Muslims come in, the higher the political pressure on our government to accommodate to Islamic law. Also, as Muslim enclaves become more populous, it becomes more difficult for the police to enforce the rights of Muslim dissenters to express their own opinions or lead their own lives without fear of violence.
Again, congratulations, Robert, for bringing all these things to our attention through news rather than through invective. And, the fact that you are singled out by the enemy shows that you are having an effect.
a win.
OT
can anyone help me out?
i am hearing things about a splinter group, "al abash" more and more..i can't find much of relavence. except mainstreamers don't like them (blasphemers) and they are a lebanese group formed by an ethiopian in the 1970's. they are an armed group in lebanon, but so is everyone. but most importantly, they are the "preferred model for islam" as designated by a few western democracies. a quote from an oberserver / blogger on an athiests website "they seem to be the "jehova's witnesses" of the muslim world". are they smiling and shaking hands with one hand and stabbing us with the other? maybe ive just answered my own question.
apologies if ive missed something in the archives, i tried a search. but does anyone have a better knowledge of them? i like to be ready.
re above story again: pamela geller is a fantastic woman.
ahbutto may have been the closest thing they (y9u know who) will ever get to such a woman.
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Dear Robert Your message on Islam, especially the antidemocrartic sharia laws that all tue followers of Islam seek to force on the US, needs to be declared loudly and clearing from the corn silos of rural America and the roof tops of suburbia to the tops of corporate towers in the cities! It should be part of ALL school curriculae from grade school to universities. It is only by disseminating the truth about the real Islam that the populace will awaken from their self imposed somnolence and cast a decisive vote against those who would impose it's evils upon us. Even Nancy Pelosi and her ilk will be forced to confront the truth about this nefarious religion called Islam!
Inder the next President, maybe these people will be indicted--and O am not talking about Robert et al here!
Under the next President, maybe these people will be indicted--and I am not talking about Robert and the other patriots here!
Ever been in close proximity to a rattlesnake? One false move and they strike...That's CAIR...Their fangs are legal jihad, and manipulation jihad, what they can't manipulate, they use suing jihad...The venom is...venom...CAIR emits lots of venom, some of it directed toward Spencer, but Robert is smarter than the average bear...All his good looking suits are made of impervious plastic, and he has learned how to duck...
I would hope that the intelligent part of the military that arranges for Roberts talks, would continue to be intelligent and ignore CAIR's petition...An agenda driven non profit organization should have no business trying to influence the military anyway...
Another predictable response from anti-American, anti-freedom CAIR--so predictable that Robert knew it was coming when he reported
his presentation here yesterday. I was smiling and thinking, "Give 'em hell, Robert," when I recalled a line from the guy popularly named for that line, Harry S. Truman:
"I don't give them hell; I give them the truth and they think it's hell!"
And for CAIR, nothing is more hellish and the truth and those with the courage to tell it...
Should be: "Nothing is more hellish THAN the truth..."
Proofreader is penalized with 15 yards and loss of down.
The best thing here is the use of the PRNewswire-USNewswire system; turning a CAIR tactic right back on them.
The boys at CAIR must be banging their heads on the floor in frustration.
Why is Islam given the special treatment to stop Western freedom of speech and freedom of the 'infidels'? This is pathetic! Now, the crooked gang/SLAVES of Hussein Obama in the hijacked white house there are blaming the mass shootings on supposedly freedom of speech, usually by us infidels, as the root cause but yet when it comes to Islamic terrorism and fanaticism, root cause is no more important to them such as caused by Islam! Sickening hypocrisy and definitely evil!
The greatest part about this story is the fear that is being felt by CAIR. Of course they were going to say something and discredit Robert, Pamela, et al. But you can almost smell their piss-soaked pants as they whine and whine; always the victims, always the ones being treated unfairly as they go on their world rampages of conquest while the liberals assure them of their "rights."
Pamela said, (and I paraphrase), that simply telling the truth makes you a hero in today's times. She's totally correct, but to a significant degree there is danger in telling the truth--danger that goes beyond the attempt to assassinate one's character, but a real danger to the assassination of one's life. The good news is that we have people like Robert, Pamela, Bridgette, Geert, Steve Emerson, Wulfa, and others, to be the voice of sanity in the west. We need to continue to keep our friends informed of the underhanded dealings of CAIR and the rest of the rat pack.
And I think I spelled Ms. Sultan's name wrong--it's Wafa, right?
It must be hard for CAIR. To shoulder such a burden! To defend humanity against
so many i-phobe running-dog stooges! Still, it must be done, I suppose: Allah's honor is at stake.
It is as one of the true believers (a teacher at the Citadel) explained, on one of his
many moderate websites:
``The horrible truth is that, numerically and statistically speaking, Christian
Civilization is the bloodiest and most violent of all civilizations in all of
history, and is responsible for hundreds of millions of deaths. Even so,
Muslims will never associate this violence and blood bath with the teachings of
Jesus (peace be on him).''
If only we kuffar would just slit our own throats.
(Perhaps we already are.... What do they teach at the Citadel?)
Go H-SC!
> jcl
Robert, You and Pamela are fantastic. If I were a bit younger I would be there in person , helping our vital cause!. I'm 92
If these CAIR guys were not so dangerous they would almost be comical. Actually, what they are doing is simply following Muslim logic which interprets infidel defense against jihad as an attack on Islam.
CAIR is afraid of Spencer because he speaks the truth. CAIR knows that the darknesss of islam cannot survive the light of the truth. Spencer is a warrior of the light and CAIR wants him stopped. Bravo Robert, keep up the good work of spreading the light.
I think "AL Abash" is known here in Australia,im sure our Labour government is in support of them also
www.alqimmah.net/showthread.php?t=2456
Have a look at this site it may open up more information James