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Canonizing the Pallywood propaganda mill. "Terrorists or journalists? Washington's Newseum to honor fallen Hamas operatives," by Lisa Daftari for FoxNews.com, May 10 (thanks to Kenneth):

A Washington news museum plans to honor two accused terrorists among the journalists it recognizes at this year’s annual tribute to reporters, photographers and broadcasters who have died reporting the news.

Mahmoud Al-Kumi and Hussam Salama were killed by an Israeli air strike Nov. 20, 2012 while working for Al-Aqsa Television, a Hamas-funded media outlet designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. Treasury Department. While their supporters consider them to have been journalists, a 2010 report from Treasury said the TV station is “financed and controlled by Hamas,” and “airs programs and music videos designed to recruit children to become Hamas armed fighters and suicide bombers upon reaching adulthood.”

"Treasury will not distinguish between a business financed and controlled by a terrorist group, such as Al-Aqsa Television, and the terrorist group itself," Stuart Levey, then secretary for the Office Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, an agency overseen by Treasury.

Since its inception in 1997, The Newseum has recognized more than 2,000 journalists from around the world, including Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped by Pakistani militants and then murdered by Al Qaeda in 2002. The names of the journalists are engraved on glass panels as part of the facility’s Journalists Memorial.

The museum’s website describes Al-Kumi and Salama as “Al-Aqsa cameramen who were killed in an Israeli air strike. They were covering fighting between Israel and fighting between Israel and the militant group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, when a missile hit their vehicle. Al-Aqsa said the journalists’ car was clearly marked ‘TV.’”

An Israel Defense Force report about the incident in which the two were killed states: "Mahmoud Al-Kumi and Hussam Salama were Hamas operatives and cameramen for Hamas’ Al-Aqsa television network, which regularly features programming that encourages and praises attacks on Israeli civilians.”

Al Aqsa doesn’t only encourage attacks on Israelis, according to Steve Stalinsky at the Middle East Media and Research Institute, who called Al Aqsa TV “the microphone for Hamas” and a “vehicle for spreading their propaganda.”

“They are continually calling for the destruction of America. They are very active on social media and there’s a lot of Anti- American and Anti-West content,” Stalinsky said.

Stalinsky points to a YouTube video of Al Aqsa TV reporting the deaths of the two journalists at the time the attack took place, stating that the two were driving in a “regular, civilian car.” The reporter makes no claim that they were in a car with media signs.

Palestinian media also reported that the two men were Hamas operatives, according to the Weekly Standard.

Newseum maintains that the Journalists Memorial selection committee conducts “case-by-case reviews,” according to spokesman Jonathan Thompson, who defended Newseum’s decision to include the men in this year’s dedication....

The SPLC, the well-heeled propaganda machine that smears conservatives for cash, is an integral part of the ongoing Leftist effort to demonize and destroy legitimate conservative voices -- like our American Freedom Defense Initiative, which they also classify as a "hate group" -- by lumping them in with the likes of the KKK. The SPLC turns a blind eye to the real hate that comes from the Left and Islamic supremacists, and offers with its hate group listings not only an incitement to violence, but a handy tool that lazy Leftist mainstream media journalists use to try to intimidate people away from supporting our message of human rights. The SPLC richly deserves its place on AFDI's Threats to Freedom Index.

The mainstream media constantly invokes the SPLC as if it were an authority. But quis custodiet ipsos custodes? What makes the SPLC qualified to determine what is a hate group and what isn't? Particularly when they list no jihad groups -- thereby manifesting a rather enormous blind spot and political agenda.

And here are the bloody consequences of the SPLC's hateful propaganda: "FBI video: Domestic terrorist says he targeted conservative group for being ‘anti-gay,’" by Joel Gehrke for the Washington Examiner, April 24 (thanks to Jerk Chicken):

Family Research Council (FRC) officials released video of federal investigators questioning convicted domestic terrorist Floyd Lee Corkins II, who explained that he attacked the group’s headquarters because the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) identified them as a “hate group” due to their traditional marriage views.

“Southern Poverty Law lists anti-gay groups,” Corkins tells interrogators in the video, which FRC obtained from the FBI. “I found them online, did a little research, went to the website, stuff like that.”

The Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard reported that Corkins, who pleaded guilty to terrorism charges, said in court that he hoped to “kill as many as possible and smear the Chick-Fil-A sandwiches in victims’ faces, and kill the guard.” As Bedard explained, “the shooting occurred after an executive with Chick-Fil-A announced his support for traditional marriage, angering same-sex marriage proponents.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center still lists FRC as an “anti-gay” hate group on the “hate map” Corkins used. “The SPLC’s reckless labeling has led to devastating consequences,” said FRC President Tony Perkins. “Because of its ‘hate group’ lists, a deadly terrorist had a guidemap to FRC and other organizations. Our staff is still reeling from the attack, and the chilling effect this could have on organizations that are simply fighting for their values is outrageous.”

Of course. Who else? "UN Official Justifies Boston Bombings as ‘Retribution’, Blames America," from UN Watch, April 22:

GENEVA, April 22, 2013 –  In a letter sent today to UN chief Ban Ki-moon and U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice...., UN Watch demanded the condemnation of top UN Human Rights Council official Richard Falk over his latest remarks blaming the Boston terrorist attacks on U.S. foreign policy and “Tel Aviv.”

For more on Falk, who was recently expelled by the Human Rights Watch organization yet retains his UN position, click here.

Sadly typical. "New York Times shows sympathy for Boston terrorist suspects," by Christopher Bedford for the Daily Caller, April 19 (thanks to Anne Crockett):

A New York Times feature story on the suspected Boston terrorists showed Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in a sympathetic light, with the headline “Far From War-Torn Homeland, Trying To Fit In” and a black-and-white picture of one of the men.

The New York Times: Far from war-torn homeland, trying to fit in. (Screenshot by TheDC’s Jim Treacher.)

The sympathetic portrayal of the men — who murdered three civilians, including a child, wounded 180 people, murdered one unsuspecting police officer and wounded another officer — was met with quick condemnation on social media networks.

Since The Daily Caller’s Jim Treacher took a screen-grab of the article, the Times changed the layout of the page to one more seemingly aware of the hundreds of victims and their friends and families, the entire United States and much of the non-terrorist planet:

The new page does not contain the phrases “war-torn” or “trying to fit in.” The image of a man looking at an image of one of the suspected terrorists is still on the page and links to a boring video about what Chechnya is.

In most news organizations, the layout of an article is chosen by editors, and not the reporter who wrote the story.

When TheDC performed a Google search for “far from homeland, trying to fit in,” the original title and layout was apparent. The two links at the top of the page link to the same page on The New York Times’ website.

But a Google search still shows that someone at The New York Times is an idiot.

Google is often a nuisance to public figures and institutions because it makes it more difficult to hide stupidity.

In this appallingly stupid and racist article, the clueless and complicit Leftists at Salon reveal whom they believe to be their foremost enemy, and the chief threat to their ideal world: white Americans: "Let’s hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American," by David Sirota for Salon, April 16 (thanks to Pamela Geller).

Pamela Geller remarks: "Can you imagine if I ever said, 'Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a Muslim'? Can you imagine the media firestorm that such a sick comment would elicit? But these quislings can say and do anything without consequences."

Indeed, if Pamela Geller or I ever said or thought such a thing, Leftists and Islamic supremacists would rush to rake us over the coals for our "hatred." And Salon would be first in line.

When this was first published over at Atlas Shrugs, those who stepped forward to offer other places for Pamela Geller to speak had not yet been found. But the main point still holds: the thuggish foes of the freedom of speech and the enablers of jihad and Islamic supremacism are targeting anyone and everyone who dares to stand up to them. Free people must stand up now.

Maybe in this cowed and cowardly age, the denouement was inevitable: on Wednesday night, the Great Neck Synagogue on Long Island canceled a speech by Pamela Geller that had been scheduled for Sunday. This was after Islamic supremacists, led by one Habeeb Ahmed of the Nassau County Human Rights Commission, and Leftists mounted a large-scale campaign of defamation of Geller in the media and intimidation of synagogue officials through private channels. It is bad enough that it was done. It is even worse that it succeeded.

This ugly little affair in Great Neck closely parallels my own recent experience. I had been scheduled to speak on March 16 at a Catholic Men’s Conference in Worcester, Massachusetts, but after a Leftist reporter at the Boston Globe and a local Muslim leader who is an open supporter of a convicted jihad terrorist raised a controversy, Bishop Robert McManus of Worcester cancelled my appearance. He also subsequently ignored my repeated requests for a meeting to clear my name, as well as a petition that garnered over 3,000 signatures, asking that he reinstate my talk.

In his only public statement on the matter, McManus spoke of “concern” that “Mr. Spencer’s talk about extreme, militant Islamists and the atrocities that they have perpetrated globally might undercut the positive achievements that we Catholics have attained in our inter-religious dialogue with devout Muslims.” In other words, to discuss the Muslim persecution of Christians might offend the Muslims here who profess to oppose that persecution. The bishop did not explain why they would be offended by an honest discussion of something they claim to oppose.

Great Neck Synagogue officials were not as craven as McManus, who added that an honest discussion by me of the real atrocities committed by Muslims in the name of Islam around the world might “generate suspicion and even fear of people who practice piously the religion of Islam” – thereby repeating the Islamic supremacist smear that my work for the defense of Constitutional freedoms somehow endangers innocent people.

By contrast, the synagogue leaders acknowledged none of the intense barrage of lies great and small about Pamela Geller that had been sent their way since the controversy was ginned up. Rather, they ascribed the cancellation to the determination that it would be “irresponsible to jeopardize the safety of those who call Great Neck Synagogue home, especially our children, even at the risk of diverting attention from a potentially important voice in the ongoing debate.”

Nonetheless, the outcome is the same: the precedent is reinforced that smear campaigns work, and that all the foes of freedom have to do in order to shut down any voices opposed to them is mount a campaign simultaneously vilifying and demonizing their targeted speaker and showing the host the price he will have to pay for featuring the target. As Saul Alinsky said, “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it.” His thuggish children and heirs are doing just that: picking off the defenders of freedom one by one, isolating, demonizing and marginalizing them, and making people who stage and host speakers afraid to invite them, for fear of the firestorm that is certain to ensue.

Their capitulations, however, only make more such firestorms inevitable. And so while it is understandable that no one wants to face them, and no one wants a media frenzy around what was supposed to be a quiet event, the more people cave in to them, the worse it is going to be for everyone else. For the enemies of free speech and the enablers of jihad terror aren’t just targeting Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer: they’re going after anyone and everyone who dares to utter a truthful word about the global jihad and Islamic supremacism. No one is spared, and no one will be spared – not even those who repeat politically correct niceties about how the Religion of Peace has been hijacked. The crocodile will eat them as well, even if it eats them last.

If host organizations and institutions in the United States realized what was at stake, they would be inundating Pamela Geller with speaking invitations right now. And when the Leftists and Islamic supremacists began their smear and intimidation campaigns, they would show themselves resolute, determined, and immovable.

But this is not an age of iron. It’s an age of jelly. And so the order of the day will be more intimidation, more threats, and more defamation directed against anyone who speaks out against the jihad and Islamic supremacism, and anyone who dares to host that speaker. Until finally, there is no one left to speak out, no one at all.

Spencer Ackerman, the hard-Left propagandist at Wired whose "exposes" of U.S. government training materials led to the wholesale purge of any true information about jihad and Islamic supremacism from those materials, has just interviewed the American jihadist Omar Hammami. The interview has some interesting bits, and is here -- but most interesting was a portion of the Twitter exchange between the two, which Ackerman (@attackerman) published along with the article.

One caveat: Hammami is actually @abumamerican on Twitter, while this shows Ackerman corresponding with @abuamerican, who appears to be someone else, so the whole exchange may not be authentic -- and I don't think Ackerman would be above fabricating the whole thing. However, Ackerman's repeated attempts to get Hammami, if this is Hammami, to acknowledge that he is only fighting because of U.S. foreign policy, and Hammami's counter that fighting is an imperative in his Islamic religion, has the ring of truth: Leftists like Ackerman hold the unshakeable assumption that the Islamic jihad against the free world is solely motivated by U.S. policies -- an ethnocentric and paternalistic presupposition that Muslims are merely passive reactors who have no thoughts or aspirations of their own, but can only react to what the big, bad powerful U.S. does. It never occurs to them that jihadists may hate the U.S. for reasons of their own, stemming from their own beliefs and outlook on the world.

And so Ackerman here practically begs Hammami to blame it all on the U.S., and Hammami refuses: "US policy is the factor defining specific target, but fighting is part of the religion." But Ackerman can't hear that, or investigate the questions of whether or not what Hammami says is accurate, how many other Muslims believe that same way, etc. For him to do anything like that would be "Islamophobic."

The suicidal endorsement by the Left of the jihad against free people extends even to the front lines of that jihad, Israel. We saw yesterday yet another example of this, and of how Leftists turn against their own when one of them dares to step off the reservation and criticize jihad and Islamic supremacism. And now we see that the Israeli Left has just as much of a taste for authoritarianism and violence as the American Left. Given how viciously Haaretz has gone after counter-jihad freedom fighters like Pamela Geller in the past, this is really no surprise.

#MyJihad in Israel: 2-year-old Israeli girl in critical condition, mother wounded after Muslims throw stones at car -- Jihad Watch, March 19, 2013

"Everybody must not get stoned," by Joshua Davidovich for the Times of Israel, April 4:

Say what you will about Israeli journalism, there exists a certain camaraderie among the corps of journalists doing their job everyday to get the news out and make sure no source goes named (zing!). Yet when Haaretz Palestinian affairs columnist/reporter Amira Hass called on Wednesday for Palestinians to exercise their right to throw stones at Israeli soldiers, writers from both Maariv and Israel Hayom unsheathed their fangs.

Both papers report the news that the Yesha settlers council is looking to sue Hass for incitement, especially as her words came just hours after a court found a Palestinian man guilty of murder for throwing stones at a car that overturned, killing Asher Palmer and his infant son, and while a 3-year-old girl remains in intensive care following a similar attack three weeks ago.

Israel Hayom features both Dror Eydar and former peace negotiator Yossi Beilin calling out Hass for her endorsement of violence. “Am I the only one that understands that Hass is teaching the killers of Fatah and Hamas to keep their knives and guns, bombs and suicide belts ‘just’ for soldiers,” Eydar asks rhetorically. “Dear mothers — the compassionate nurse Hass is encouraging her allies to harm ‘only’ your sons and daughters serving in the IDF. All this is written in a Hebrew-language paper on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day.”

Beilin, on the other hand, takes a softer, but still biting, stance against Hass.

“I have a lot of appreciation for Amira Hass,” he writes. “She is a very brave woman, not afraid to find herself in the minority and open to criticism, and doesn’t bend on her values. The column from yesterday was surprising and saddening.… It’s also not smart. The greatest blow to the peace camp in Israel after the Rabin assassination was the breakout of the Second Intifada, in the middle of the most serious talks to date between Israel and the Palestinians. None of us in the peace camp were able to explain why the provocative visit by then-opposition head Ariel Sharon to the Temple Mount justified, in the Palestinians’ eyes, that violence.”

Maariv goes even more directly for the jugular, asking in its headline “Whose Haaretz is this” (a play on words, as ‘Haaretz’ means “land”) and running a big picture of a girl covered in blood after being the victim of a stone-throwing attack. The paper also enlists Adva Bitton, the mother of the aforementioned seriously injured 3-year-old girl, to write a column addressing Hass directly.

“Amira, a stone does not discriminate between blood and blood and not between a grown man and a 3-year-old girl,” she writes. “A stone kills. A stone is a weapon of death in every way. Three weeks ago, I experienced on my own flesh how one stone can overturn a whole family.”...

Pamela Geller has the story:

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We have many times seen here at Jihad Watch how Leftists and Islamic supremacists are enemies of the freedom of speech, who work to shut down and demonize their opponents rather than engaging us on substance. They can't engage us on substance, of course, because what we say is true. And here is a fascinating glimpse into how they operate when they work to silence voices of freedom. Pamela Geller explains:

Here is the latest on Habeebgate, the attempt by Habeeb Ahmed of the Nassau County Human Rights Commission to deploy a small coterie of leftists and Islamic supremacists in a covert effort to intimidate the Great Neck synagogue into cancelling my scheduled speech there.

Habeeb Ahmed is reportedly the uncle of Farhat "Daisy" Khan, the wife of the Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf, the unscrupulous Islamic supremacist grifter behind the failed attempt (which we successfully blocked) to plant a 16-story victory mosque at Ground Zero.

The fact that Farhat and Habeeb are blood relatives shows that the Islamic supremacists are a small but powerful group, that makes up in influence what it lacks in real numbers. They act as if they think they're Don Corleone, maneuvering behind the scenes, pulling the puppet strings of politicians. When the rock on their scheming over the Great Neck synagogue was lifted, we really saw how this machine operates -- like the rackets, like the mafia.

Here's how: notice that they didn't make a public call to cancel my talk. They didn't go public because they knew that if they did, we would win. Even if they had succeeded in getting the talk canceled, we would have won in the court of public opinion, just as we did when the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles canceled my talk there last summer.

And so instead of going public, this leftist/Islamic supremacist cabal worked in the shadows. Habeeb and his accomplices ordered their minions to make calls, and to get to the synagogue leaders -- all on the QT, with nothing public -- just some strongarm calling. They wanted to make the cancellation of my talk happen before anybody knew what hit them. And if they had succeeded, once the cancellation happened and became public, and became the cause of a great controversy and scandal, the synagogue leaders wouldn't have been able to go back and reverse themselves again to allow my talk, because they would have looked enormously stupid.

This is the difference between them and us. We operate in sunlight, and they operate covertly, under cover of darkness.

Tom Trento unearthed the emails, and Pamela Geller has them:

READ MR. HABEEB AHMED'S SHOCKING EMAILS OF A COORDINATED MUSLIM/LEFTIST PLAN TO STOP COUNTER-JIHAD ACTIVIST PAMELA GELLER FROM SPEAKING AT A JEWISH SYNAGOGUE!

 

THIS MUSLIM ANTI-FREE SPEECH JIHADI SITS ON THE NASSAU COUNTY HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION!

 

{THE EMAILS ARE IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

AND REPRODUCED IN THEIR ENTIRETY}

 

EMAIL # 1

From:Richard Tibbets
To: Bob Nuxoll ; Dolores Tibbets; earthhomej@aol.com; Elaine Peters ; Faroque Khan ; Habeeb Ahmed ; Hank Arond ; ismahc24@aol.com; Mark Lukens ; Marty Melkonian ; Paul Auerbach
Cc: Claire Deroche ; Tom Goodhue; Jay Keller
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 1:07 PM

Subject: Pam Geller to speak in Great Neck

Dear TIA-LI Board Members,

Claire Deroche of UUCSR advised me Pamela Geller, founder of the organization, Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) will speak in Great Neck next month.

Her talk, “Imposition of Sharia in America” will be:
DATE/TIME:  Sunday Morning, April 14, at 10:00am
LOCATION:  Great Neck Synagogue. 

PRESENTED BY:  Great Neck Synagogue Men’s Club.

You can check it out at her website:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2013/03/pamela- geler-to-address-great-neck-synagogue.html 
I also checked out the Synagogue’s website at www.gns.organd found the following by clicking on the Calendar event listed for April_14th:************************************

Men's Club Presents: Pamela Geller @ GNS
When:  Sun, April 14, 10am – 11am
Description:  The Great Neck Synagogue Men’s Club Presents Pamela Geller

Sunday, April 14, 2013, 10:00 am
“Imposition of Sharia in America”
Pamela Geller is the founder, editor and publisher of Atlas Shrugs.com and President of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) and Stop Islamizationof America (SIOA). She is
the author of The Post‐American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America, (foreword by Ambassador John Bolton), (Simon& Schuster). Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance (WND Books). She is also a regular columnist for World Net Daily, the American Thinker, and other publications. The Queens Village Republican Club, the oldest Republican club in America, honored Pamela Geller as the “American Patriot of the
Year” in February 2013. That same month, the Creative Zionist Coalition gave her the Queen Esther Award
************************************
Richard Tibbets, Secretary The Interfaith Alliance - Long Island Chapter  www.interfaithalliance-li.org

 

 

 

EMAIL # 2

From:Habeebudddin Ahmed [mailto:jifsha@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 1:41 PM
To: Richard Tibbets; Bob Nuxoll; Dolores Tibbets; earthhomej@aol.com; Elaine Peters; Faroque Khan; Hank Arond; ismahc24@aol.com; Mark Lukens; Marty Melkonian; Paul Auerbach

Cc: Claire Deroche; Tom Goodhue; Jay Keller; beth lilach
Subject: Re: Pam Geller to speak in Great Neck

 

Dear Friends,

We need to stop her from coming to Great Neck.........do we do a petition  on the stationary of council of churches, The Interfaith Alliance and The Holocaust Center?? Her views are well known...she is the personification of an Islamophobe!!!

 

Brothers and Sisters what do you think?? 
Regards,
Habeeb.

Habeeb U. Ahmed
First Vice President
Islamic Center of Long Island

835 Brush Hollow Rd
Westbury, NY 11590

Commissioner

Human Rights Commission
Nassau County
516 581 5893

jifsha@yahoo.com

 

EMAIL #3

From: CDeroche@uucsr.org
To: jifsha@yahoo.com; richard.tibbets@verizon.net; bignux@msn.com;dolores.tibbets@verizon.net; earthhomej@aol.com;
eljamka3@hotmail.com; FaroqueKhan@yahoo.com; hirho@aol.com;
ismahc24@aol.com; revlu@optonline.net; ecomzm@hofstra.edu;
auerbachp@aol.comCC: tomgoodhue@optonline.net;
jkeller@interfaithalliance.org; bethlilach@holocaust-nassau.org
Subject: RE: Pam Geller to speak in Great Neck
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:44:26 +0000

 

The group I was speaking with last night who gave me this information suggested contacting other rabbis in the area who would then contact the Great Neck Synagogue. They also talked about contacting the chief rabbi of the big synagogue in Manhattan and asking him to contact Great Neck Synagogue.

Warm regards,
Claire
Claire Deroche
Social Justice Coordinator

UUCSR
48 Shelter Rock Road

Manhasset, NY 11030
516-627-6560, ext. 177, phone
516-627-6596, fax
cderoche@uucsr.org

 www.uucsr.org
"Nurture Your Spirit. Help Heal Our World” www.uua.org

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EMAIL #4

From: robert nuxoll
To: Claire DeRoche ; Habeeb Ahmed ; Richard Tibbets ; Dolores Tibbets ; "earthhomej@aol.com" ; Elaine Peters ; Faroque Khan ; Hank Arond ; Dr. Isma H Chaudhry ; Mark Lukens ; Marty Melkonian; Paul Auerbach ; Betty Nuxoll ; Daniel Nuxoll ; Vince Chimenti ; Christine Douglas
Cc: Tom Goodhue ; Jay Keller; beth lilach
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 2:18 PM
Subject: RE: Pam Geller to speak in Great Neck

Dear friends,
I have telephoned the Great Neck Synagogue (516-487-6100) and found no one who knew anything about this other than that it was scheduled by their Men's Club.  I left a message and asked that someone return my call.  I specifically said, "This is the equivalent of a church in the 1930s inviting a representative of the Nazi Party to speak.  Pam Geller has been labeled by both
the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center as a leader of a hate group."  I mentioned that I am a representative of The Interfaith Alliance of Long Island and a
member of The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Shelter Rock.
I suggest that, regardless of whatever else we do, each of us calls the Synagogue to protest their inviting a noted hate-monger to a house of worship. 

Bob Nuxoll

 

 

EMAIL #5

 

----- Original Message -----
From: Habeebudddin Ahmed
Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 10:10 pm
Subject: Re: Pam Geller to speak in Great Neck
To: robert nuxoll , Claire DeRoche , Richard Tibbets , Dolores Tibbets , "earthhomej@aol.com" , Elaine Peters , Faroque Khan , Hank Arond , "Dr. Isma H Chaudhry" , Mark Lukens , Marty Melkonian , Paul Auerbach , Betty Nuxoll , Daniel Nuxoll , Vince Chimenti , Christine Douglas
Cc: Tom Goodhue , Jay Keller , beth lilach

Hello All,
I think Bob has a wonderful suggestion for now. Let's start calling the Great Neck Synagogue at 516 487 6100 and tell them that it is not befitting a religious organization to invite a bigot and a known Islamophobe. Request that you would like to speak with the Rabbi and if he is not available then leave a message for him. Please do this tomorrow and pass on this message to your friends and family.

Habeeb U. Ahmed
First Vice President

Islamic Center of Long Island
835 Brush Hollow Rd
Westbury, NY 11590

Commissioner
Human Rights Commission
 Nassau County

516 581 5893
jifsha@yahoo.com

EMAIL #6

 

From: "tomgoodhue@optonline.net"
To: Habeebudddin Ahmed
Cc: robert nuxoll ; Claire DeRoche ; Richard Tibbets ; Dolores Tibbets ; "earthhomej@aol.com" ; Elaine Peters ; Faroque Khan ; Hank Arond ; Dr. Isma H Chaudhry ; Mark Lukens ; Marty Melkonian ; Paul Auerbach ; Betty Nuxoll ; Daniel Nuxoll ; Vince Chimenti ; Christine Douglas ; Jay Keller ; beth lilach
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 8:59 PM
Subject: Re: Pam Geller to speak in Great Neck

 

I called yesterday, introduced myself, and said that before I started organizing protests, I wanted to confirm if what I had heard was true, since it was hard to believe that a synagogue would host somebody who'd been condemned as a bigot and hate-monger by the Anti-Defamation League.

A somewhat perplexed secretary put me through to one of the rabbis yesterday, who said he knew nothing about her coming but apparently the men's club invited her. I told him that I hoped they would reconsider, since this was highly offensive to me and doubtless to many other folks, the equivalent of a church inviting a Nazi who claimed Jews were trying to take over America or a mosque inviting an anti-Semite who claimed that Jews were trying to impose kosher laws on the nation. I also allowed as how the men's club could have done this without his knowledge, telling him how when I worked at Riverside Church, the Men's Club regularly invited right wing fanatics to speak to their "class" on Sunday mornings. 

 

I think that calling is better at this stage than public protests, both because the synagogue's leaders may truly be surprised and embarrassed by what the men's group has done and because we should avoid giving Geller free publicity: I think she gets off on being so offensive that it draws attention to herself. 

 

Tom Goodhue

EMAIL #7

 

Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:00:20 -0700
From: jifsha@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Pam Geller to speak in Great Neck
To: tomgoodhue@optonline.net
CC: bignux@msn.com; cderoche@uucsr.org; richard.tibbets@verizon.net; dolores.tibbets@verizon.net; earthhomej@aol.com; eljamka3@hotmail.com; faroquekhan@yahoo.com; hirho@aol.com; ismahc24@aol.com; revlu@optonline.net; ecomzm@hofstra.edu; auerbachp@aol.com; emn2109@columbia.edu; dan@rooftopfilms.com; vchimi@aol.com; clmdouglas@aol.com; jkeller@interfaithalliance.org; bethlilach@holocaust-nassau.org

Thanks Tom for making the call. I called today and they did not put me thru to the Rabbi. They just took message and hung up. Tom is right at this point lets all make calls and speak to the Rabbi. Let's tell our friends and family to do the same. Send this to all your email lists. We all can send email to the Rabbi.

Phone number of Great Neck Synagogue: 516 487 6100
Main Rabbi: Rabbi Dale Polakoff
Rabbi's email: rabbi@gns.org

Thanks
Habeeb.

 

 

Habeeb U. Ahmed
First Vice President
Islamic Center of Long Island
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The San Francisco Examiner headline is particularly egregious, as is the video here: both try to give the impression that our first ad "targeted Muslims," and our new ad "targets gays." In fact, we are calling attention the the violence that jihadists justify by pointing to the texts and teachings of Islam, and specifically showing how those jihadists target gays. But instead of standing with us and calling upon peaceful Muslims to do so as well, San Francisco authorities are targeting the messenger.

Pamela Geller has more here, here and here.

"San Francisco Muni buses getting more anti-Islamic ads, this time with anti-gay message," by Will Reisman for the San Francisco Examiner, March 19 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

More controversial anti-Islamic advertisements are scheduled to be coming to Muni buses, with the new messages quoting anti-gay rhetoric from Islamic leaders. The head of the initiative said local gay leaders’ criticism of previous ads led to the latest effort.

A number of city officials, religious figures and community activists held a news conference last week to condemn a set of ads paid for by the American Freedom Defense Initiative that expressed views widely seen as anti-Islamic.

The messages, containing phrases attributed to notorious figures such as Osama bin Laden, were the second set of Muni ads paid for by the organization.

"Attributed to"? Documentation available on request. Apparently it was not requested.

In both instances, Muni dedicated revenue from the campaigns to the San Francisco Human Rights Commission. The $3,000 in revenue for the next ads also likely will be donated.

With Muni unable to refuse the ads because of First Amendment conflicts, initiative leader Pamela Geller has created another campaign to run on six Muni buses starting in early April. The new ads quote Islamic leaders making inflammatory comments, this time about homosexuality.

One message quotes Yusuf al-Qaradawi of the Muslim Brotherhood saying, “The punishment of homosexuality is the death penalty.” Each ad ends with the same line as the previous campaign: “That’s His Jihad. What’s Yours?”

Geller said she decided to embark on the campaign after hearing gay leaders in San Francisco denounce her previous ads.

“The ads will increase awareness about the subjugation and oppression of gays under Shariah law,” said Geller. “The gay community should be standing with me, not against me.”

Theresa Sparks, head of the Human Rights Commission, said the ad campaigns are another example of Geller categorizing an entire religion as intolerant.

“She is posting these ads to suggest that all Muslims hate gays,” Sparks said. “Some cultures do discriminate, and that’s wrong. It all depends who you’re talking to. But she’s trying to generalize and cast this wide net around a diverse group of people.”

Sparks, who is transgender, said it’s actually easier to get insurance for sexual transition procedures in Iran than in America.

In a post Tuesday on Geller’s blog, Atlas Shrugs, she dedicated the latest campaign to Sparks....

Heh.

Anyway, Sparks is completely wrong: nowhere do the AFDI ads say that all Muslims think one way. And the reason that it is "easier to get insurance for sexual transition procedures in Iran than in America" is because often that is the only way gays are allowed to live at all: if they get gender reassignment surgery, whether they want it or not.

The Center for American Progress is the extraordinarily well-funded and anti-Semitic hard-Left organization that published a highly deceptive and misleading report on the Muslim Brotherhood concept "Islamophobia," defaming numerous people who are trying to defend freedom and Constitutional principles. And now the New York Times' Useful Idiot Thomas Friedman joins them to attribute the "Arab Spring" Islamic supremacist uprisings to "the long-term trends in precipitation, agriculture, food prices, and migration." Jihad doctrine and the ideology of Islamic supremacism? Pah! What could that have had to do with it? And what about the Crusades?

"ADVISORY: Tom Friedman and Anne-Marie Slaughter on Climate Change and the Arab Spring," from the Center for American Progress, February 22 (thanks to Jerk Chicken):

Washington, D.C. — Please join the Center for American Progress, the Center for Climate & Security, and the Stimson Center on Thursday, February 28, for the release of a new volume on “Climate Change and the Arab Spring.” Panelists Tom Friedman, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Michael Werz will parse out these complex interactions and discuss the implications for U.S. foreign and development policy.

The volume outlines the complex pressures exerted by the effects of climate change on the convulsions which swept through the Middle East in 2010 and 2011, exploring the long-term trends in precipitation, agriculture, food prices, and migration which contributed to the social instability and violence which has transformed the region, and offering solutions for progress.
WHO:

Introduction:
Neera Tanden, President of the Center for American Progress
Caitlin E. Werrell and Francesco Femia, Founding Directors, Center for Climate & Security

Panelists:
Tom Friedman, New York Times columnist, bestselling author of From Beirut to Jerusalem and The World Is Flat, and winner of three Pulitzer Prizes
Anne-Marie Slaughter, Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, former Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. Department of State

Moderator:
Michael Werz, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

WHEN:
February 28, 2013
10:00am ET – 11:30am ET

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Location
Center for American Progress
1333 H St. NW, 10th Floor
Washington, DC20005

"According to the affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint, on November 30, 2012, Llaneza met with a man who led him to believe he was connected with the Taliban and the mujahidin in Afghanistan. In reality, this man was an undercover FBI agent." Watch for the claims of "entrapment" to start forthwith.

Llaneza, at least from the information here, appears to have been a Leftist hoping to advance the destruction of the U.S. by portraying his as a "right-wing" attack, thereby (he hoped) triggering a civil war.

Anyway, guys like this should get a clue. That beguiling fourteen-year-old who wants to meet them, as well as that Taliban mujahid traipsing around Oakland looking for U.S. targets, is probably going to turn out to an FBI agent.

"Federal Agents Arrest Man After He Attempts to Bomb Bank in Oakland," from the FBI, February 8 (thanks to Gravenimage):

OAKLAND, CA—Federal agents arrested Matthew Aaron Llaneza, age 28, of San Jose, California, this morning after he allegedly attempted to detonate a vehicle-borne explosive device at a bank branch in Oakland.

Llaneza’s arrest was the culmination of an undercover operation during which he was closely monitored by the FBI’s South Bay Joint Terrorism Task Force. Unbeknownst to Llaneza, the explosive device that he allegedly attempted to use had been rendered inoperable by law enforcement and posed no threat to the public. Llaneza was charged this morning by criminal complaint with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction against property used in an activity that affects interstate or foreign commerce.

The arrest was announced by Melinda Haag, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California; Lisa Monaco, Assistant Attorney General for National Security; and FBI Special Agent in Charge, San Francisco Field Office, David J. Johnson.

According to the affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint, on November 30, 2012, Llaneza met with a man who led him to believe he was connected with the Taliban and the mujahidin in Afghanistan. In reality, this man was an undercover FBI agent. At this initial meeting, Llaneza proposed conducting a car-bomb attack against a bank in the San Francisco Bay Area. He proposed structuring the attack to make it appear that the responsible party was an umbrella organization for a loose collection of anti-government militias and their sympathizers. Llaneza’s stated goal was to trigger a governmental crackdown, which he expected would trigger a right-wing counter-response against the government followed by, he hoped, civil war.

The complaint further alleges that Llaneza subsequently selected the Bank of America branch at 303 Hegenberger Road in Oakland as the target for the attack. Llaneza ultimately specified a spot next to a support column of the bank building as a good location for the bomb, expressed a desire for the bomb to bring down the entire bank building, and offered to drive the car bomb to the bank at the time of the attack.

According to the complaint, in January and February 2013, Llaneza and the undercover agent constructed the purported explosive device inside a sport utility vehicle (SUV) parked inside a storage facility in Hayward, California. As part of the process of assembling the device, Llaneza purchased two cell phones to be used in creating and operating the trigger device for the car bomb. One of these cell phones was incorporated into the trigger device itself. The other was reserved for use on the night of the attack.

The criminal complaint alleges that on the evening of February 7, 2013, Llaneza drove the SUV containing the purported explosive device to the target bank branch in Oakland. He parked the SUV beneath an overhang of the bank building where he armed the trigger device. He then proceeded on foot to a nearby location a safe distance from the bank building, where he met the undercover agent. Once there, Llaneza attempted to detonate the bomb by using the second cell phone he had purchased to place two calls to the trigger device attached to the car bomb. Federal agents then arrested him.

Don’t miss this episode of the internet's premier gabfest, the Glazov Gang: it features Mike Finch, the Chief Operating Officer at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and Dwight Schultz, a Hollywood actor who played Murdock on NBC’s The-A-Team. They discuss how Hillary became the first Obama Administration official to admit that jihad exists.

The discussion, which occurred in Part I above, focuses on how the Secretary of State contradicted four years of the administration’s jihad denial in her recent Benghazi testimony. And yet there has not been one word from the media about Hillary letting the jihadist cat out of the bag. Read my take on this development here. In Part II, the Gang unravels why Leftists are waging war on the heroic truth-teller, Rep. Michele Bachmann.

I'll be on The Jamie Glazov Show tonight at 8-9 pm Pacific (11-12 pm EST) to discuss the Freedom Center’s new petition: Stop the Witch Hunt Against Rep. Bachmann. Details in my article here.

To listen to the program, click here.

Or go to: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2013/01/23/the-jamie-glazov-show.

The call-in # is: (347) 857-1380.

On my ABN Jihad Watch show Wednesday night.

Tuesday night on ABN I discussed the Huffington Post's ridiculous comparison of George Washington to Muhammad, which Pamela Geller skewers here, with Pastor Joseph and...George Washington himself.

In FrontPage this morning I explain why People for the American Way's attack on Michele Bachmann is so ironic coming now:

The Leftist advocacy group People for the American Way (PFAW) has launched an all-out war against Representative Michele Bachmann (R-MN). On Monday it plans to present House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) with a petition bearing 178,000 signatures, demanding that Bachmann not be reappointed to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

Michael Keegan, president of PFAW, explained Bachmann’s crime: “Michele Bachmann has used her position on the Intelligence Committee to spread baseless conspiracy theories and smear the reputations of honorable public servants. Speaker Boehner himself called her actions ‘dangerous.’ It’s mysterious, then, why he has chosen to reward her reckless extremism with continued access to sensitive national security information and a powerful platform for her agenda.”

Since Boehner has indeed previously thrown Bachmann under the bus, he may be susceptible to this appeal; if he is at all fair-minded, however, he will recognize not only that Bachmann deserves her place on the Intelligence committee, but that she may be more deserving than any of her colleagues of such a place.

For while Bachmann was widely criticized and ridiculed for daring to suggest that Muslim Brotherhood elements had infiltrated the U.S. government, corroboration of her allegations has recently come from an unlikely quarter: Egypt’s Rose El-Youssef magazine, which asserted in a December article that six highly-placed Muslim Brotherhood infiltrators within the Obama Administration had transformed the United States “from a position hostile to Islamic groups and organizations in the world to the largest and most important supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood.” (A translation of the article is available from the Investigative Project here.)

According to the Investigative Project, “the six named people include: Arif Alikhan, assistant secretary of Homeland Security for policy development; Mohammed Elibiary, a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council; Rashad Hussain, the U.S. special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference; Salam al-Marayati, co-founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC); Imam Mohamed Magid, president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA); and Eboo Patel, a member of President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships.”

These represent many of the individuals and groups about whom Bachmann had raised concerns. For example, Bachmann’s letter last summer to the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security stated that Elibiary had “extensive ties to the Muslim Brotherhood” and “sympathy for Islamist causes,” and accused him of “gain(ing) access to classified documents.”

And indeed, in 2011 investigative journalist Patrick Poole reported that “Elibiary may have been given access to a sensitive database of state and local intelligence reports, and then allegedly shopped some of those materials to a media outlet.” According to Poole, Elibiary approached “a left-leaning media outlet” with reports marked For Official Use Only that he said demonstrated rampant “Islamophobia” in the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS).  The media outlet declined to do a story, but what was Elibiary doing shopping the Official Use Only documents in the first place?

Poole checked with Steve McCraw, director of the Texas DPS, who “confirmed that Elibiary has access to the Homeland Security State and Local Intelligence Community of Interest (HS SLIC) database, which contains hundreds of thousands of intelligence reports and products that are intended for intelligence sharing between law enforcement agencies.”  Said McCraw of Elibiary:  “We know that he has accessed DPS documents and downloaded them.”

There have been questions about Elibiary’s true allegiances for years. He was one of the speakers at a December 2004 conference in Dallas titled “A Tribute to the Great Islamic Visionary.” The visionary in question was none other than the founding father of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Ayatollah Khomeini.

When I questioned him about his appearance at such a conference, Elibiary claimed that he hadn’t known what kind of conference it was going to be, although he didn’t explain why he went ahead and appeared there anyway once he found out.  Among those who found this explanation wanting was journalist Rod Dreher of the Dallas Morning News, whose skepticism angered Elibiary. The great moderate subsequently threatened Dreher, telling him:  “Expect someone to put a banana in your exhaust pipe.”

There is more.

Suicide of the West Update. "Sudbury man convicted on terrorism charges receives award," by Sara Mulkeen for The MetroWest Daily News, January 6 (thanks to Mackie):

BOSTON — Former Sudbury resident Tarek Mehanna was granted the 36th annual Sacco & Vanzetti Social Justice Award Sunday from the Community Church of Boston for his struggle as a seeker of justice.

Following discussions on America’s history of oppressed people, Mehanna’s father, mother, brother and sister-in-law accepted the award on his behalf.

Mehanna is serving a 17-1/2 –year sentence at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Ind. He was convicted in 2011 on various terrorism-related charges after federal prosecutors said he traveled to Yemen to seek training in a terrorist camp in order to fight U.S. soldiers in Iraq and translated texts for terror groups.

The crowd of about 60 people at the Sunday morning service listened to a recording of Mehanna’s sentencing statement, in which he maintained his innocence, saying that although he advocates for Muslim’s right to self defense, he did not conspire to kill Americans.

Meanwhile, his family and supporters retailed some of the lurid fantasies so favored among Islamic supremacists, of a a viciously "Islamophobic" FBI and a bigoted, rogue judge desperate to railroad a man who refused to play their hateful game:

Mehanna’s father, Ahmed Mehanna, said he wrote a three-page letter to US District Judge George A. O’Toole, who handed down the sentence in Mehanna’s case.

"The judge was from the get go … had the mind to convict him," Ahmed said.

Members of the Tarek Mehanna Support Committee rallied on behalf of Mehanna, who they said is a "political prisoner and target of FBI persecution."

Congressional Director Linda Jenkins called the evidence against Mehanna "laughable" and suggested the real reason for his arrest was that he was a politically outspoken Muslim who refused to collude with the FBI....