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American Muslims for Palestine lectured on how to skirt terror laws

Dec 5, 2014 11:58 am By Robert Spencer

american-muslims-for-palestine-ad-metro-northThey were told how to “navigate the fine line between legal activism and material support for terrorism.” This was necessary because, you see, the U.S. has “criminalize[d] the support of the Palestinian people,” i.e., AMP can’t support Hamas outright, so here are some workarounds. “Pro-Palestinian Group Lectured On Skirting Terror Laws,” by Shane Harris, Daily Beast, December 5, 2014:

The U.S. has “criminalize[d] the support of the Palestinian people,” argues a top activist, making it tricky to avoid helping ”so-called terrorist organizations.”

A prominent Palestinian-American rights group that ordinarily advocates nonviolent protests held a conference in Chicago last month that included a lecture on how to “navigate the fine line between legal activism and material support for terrorism.”

At the event, sponsored by American Muslims for Palestine, a Milwaukee attorney and board member of the group accused U.S. policymakers of working to “criminalize the support of the Palestinian people.” The American government was doing this at “the behest of the Israeli government, its lobby,” added American Muslims for Palestine Vice President Munjed Ahmad, by forbidding charitable assistance to groups that are designated as foreign terrorist organizations and their supporters.

“We have to ensure that whatever we do, we’re not providing assistance to these so-called terrorist organizations,” Ahmad continued, seeming to question the legal justification for labeling them as such. A transcript and an audio recording of his remarks were obtained by The Daily Beast.

Ahmad added, “What’s very sad to me when we talk about terrorist organizations is that the state of Israel is not considered a terrorist organization. Uh, with our government, but it truly is the largest terrorist of all. Truly,” Ahmad said as his audience applauded.

The conference was attended by a number of prominent activists, academics, and others who represent the mainstream of the pro-Palestinian movement in the United States. Ahmad encouraged attendees to “continue to assist and advocate for Palestinians morally and even financially,” while being careful to steer clear of terrorism financing laws.

On the one hand, that sounds like good legal advice. But it was unclear why the conference sponsor—which is outwardly committed to legal forms of protest, including boycotts, and sanctions, and rallies on college campuses—felt the need to provide advice on how to provide financial assistance without running afoul of well-established anti-terrorism laws.

Among the conference sponsors was the Mosque Foundation. Two of its leaders were unindicted co-conspirators in a U.S. criminal trial against the Holy Land Foundation, which the Treasury Department accused of supporting Hamas….

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  1. Jacksonl03 says

    Dec 5, 2014 at 12:31 pm

    ” . . . it was unclear why the conference sponsor . . . felt the need to provide advice on how to provide financial assistance without running afoul of well-established anti-terrorism laws.”

    Because the sponsor wishes to support “so-called” terrorist groups in spite of “well-established anti terrorism laws”, doncha know.

    • mortimer says

      Dec 6, 2014 at 10:26 pm

      How do you solicit genocide without soliciting genocide?

  2. Wellington says

    Dec 5, 2014 at 12:58 pm

    Israel “truly is the largest terrorist of all. Truly.” Anyone believing this should never be trusted on matters related to freedom and free societies. Well, for that matter, they probably shouldn’t be trusted on anything.

    • Champ says

      Dec 5, 2014 at 1:12 pm

      Bravo, Wellington! ..I completely agree.

      • mortimer says

        Dec 5, 2014 at 1:35 pm

        Whoever believes it is a jihadist. Whoever repeats it is a Leftist jihad-enabler.

  3. Morty Moooze says

    Dec 5, 2014 at 1:15 pm

    American Muslims for Israel is a new support group forming,

    This group has been started by Arabs who live in Israel, enjoy Israeli citizenship, passports, and a high standard of living which they do not want to lose under any “peace’ agreement.

    More info soon.

    • Kim myers says

      Dec 6, 2014 at 7:11 am

      I just found out that the Palestine ppl rely on the Israel’s Drs and hospitals for its needs. Egypt and Iran turn them away. Untied States also send in a lot of aid. How about we make the ppl who promote that the Untied states and Israel be destroyed support their own ppl or stop the terror attacks on our ppl? Just stave and let them die for their cause.

  4. mortimer says

    Dec 5, 2014 at 1:29 pm

    HAMAS by any other name would smell like hot, pungent, steaming piles of TAQIYYA.

  5. mortimer says

    Dec 5, 2014 at 1:34 pm

    “The U.S. has “criminalize[d] the support of the Palestinian people,” argues a top activist…”

    He’s admitting that he’s in a terrorist organization. The US banned inciting terrorism.

  6. Salah says

    Dec 5, 2014 at 2:00 pm

    Keep posting your garbage, I’ll keep humiliating your “prophet”…from your “holy” books.

    Narrated Ibn Abbas: “I saw the Prophet (pbuh) putting Hussein’s thighs apart and kissing his (little) penis.”
    Talkhis al-Habir, Ibn Hajar تلخيص الحبير لابن حجر # 61

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2012/03/grandpa-muhammad.html

  7. Salah says

    Dec 5, 2014 at 2:02 pm

    Some good news for a change:

    The international police agency INTERPOL has apparently issued a “Red Notice” for Youssef Qaradawi which states that the Global Muslim Brotherhood leader is “wanted by the judicial authorities of Egypt for prosecution / to serve a sentence.”

    http://www.globalmbwatch.com/2014/12/05/featured-interpol-issues-red-notice-youssef-qaradawi-notice-considered-countries-provisional-arrest-warrant/

    • Myxlplik says

      Dec 5, 2014 at 2:24 pm

      Can they put Obama and his MB thugs on the INTERPOL list to serve sentences in Egypt as well?

  8. mariam rove says

    Dec 5, 2014 at 2:31 pm

    Where are you getting your hashish from? I like to get some too. m

    • Champ says

      Dec 5, 2014 at 2:43 pm

      “christy” is stoned on islam and addicted to lies, and in-love with liars and murderers: moohamhead (perdition be upon him).

  9. Jaladhi says

    Dec 5, 2014 at 2:58 pm

    Muslims are never to be trusted!! The greatest deceiver Mo/allah has taught Muslims to i\lie and they have become perfect liars and hence never ever to be trusted!!

    • Ivan Bogdanov says

      Dec 6, 2014 at 7:32 am

      “Muslims are never to be trusted!! The greatest deceiver Mo/allah has taught Muslims to i\lie and they have become perfect liars and hence never ever to be trusted!!”

      The 2nd (second) greatest deceiver in HISTORY may very well be Barry Soetoro (current occupant of the WH). I can only analyse mahound’s record of accomplishment from recorded history. I have observed Barry since his coming out party in 2008. I knew several pathological, narcissistic, drug-addled liars from adolescence through mid-adulthood and the behavioral similarities are startling.

      The blokes I knew were natively intelligent and tried to ride this quality, combined with significant charm, through life. They all eventually collapsed as people and employers began to recognize the persistent, malignant evil that was at their core. Barry is visibly collapsing but unfortunately, due to the nature of our political and judicial systems, it is difficult in extremis to legally rid society of the lying thug ‘elected’ to the most important and powerful position in the world.

      Barry’s final election; in due time as history adjusts itself, will be to the Hall of Shame and Evil, currently occupied by notables such as mahound, tamerlane, stalin, hitler, pol pot, the kim jong troika and mao tse tung.

      More Later….

  10. Wellington says

    Dec 5, 2014 at 4:33 pm

    I prefer facts to fiction, Christy, when dealing with the past. You almost completely lost me with your opening sentence, “Islam saved Jewry.” And then the completion became complete with the statement in your fifth sentence that by the late sixth century, “…the Jews and Judaism were on the way to oblivion.”

    BTW, in so-called tolerant medieval Islamic Spain, Jews were forced to wear identifying badges, something the Nazis copied. And Maimonides himself said he would far prefer to live in Christendom than in Muslim controlled lands. Here’s a piece of advice: Trade fiction for facts. But, of course, I realize that this is a virtual impossibility for Muslims. After all, if one can believe that a psychopathic, narcissistic, pedophiliac, illiterate bandit is the last and greatest of the prophets, the Model Man (I’ve got to tell you that the character of Mohammed really disgusts me), then living in a fantasy world really isn’t hard at all. As you do.

    • Arthur says

      Dec 5, 2014 at 9:38 pm

      Wellington,
      Thanks for letting visitors know Christy’s argument is irrational and based on pure fiction. We wouldn’t want this “spam bot” to go unchallenged. We are not to be worn down!

    • mortimer says

      Dec 6, 2014 at 11:08 pm

      Maimonides’ own words debunk the utopian view of the Islamic treatment of Jews:

      “… on account of our sins God has cast us into the midst of this people, the nation of Ishmael [that is, Muslims], who PERSECUTE US SEVERELY, and who DEVISE WAYS TO HARM US and to DEBASE US…. No nation has ever done MORE HARM to Israel. NONE HAS MATCHED IT in debasing and humiliating us. None has been able to reduce us as they have…. We have borne their imposed degradation, their lies, their absurdities, which are beyond human power to bear…. We have done as our sages of blessed memory have instructed us, bearing the lies and ABSURDITIES of Ishmael…. In spite of all this, we are not spared from the ferocity of their WICKEDNESS and their outbursts at any time. On the contrary, the more we suffer and choose to conciliate them, the more they choose to act belligerently toward us…’ Maimonides lived it.

      Christy, your words are absurd and humiliating to yourself if you are simple-minded enough to think you are convincing anyone with egregious oversimplifications. We read big books here.

  11. cassandra says

    Dec 5, 2014 at 6:35 pm

    I just read the first 2 lines before realising you have never read the koran suras, or hadiths. In fact you know nothing about what Mohammed did to the Jews when they refused to adopt his sick and perverted cult of garbage, looting, rape and murder.

    Message to JihadWatch: please could you block this sack full of insulting garbage please. Thanks.

    • Champ says

      Dec 5, 2014 at 7:00 pm

      “Message to JihadWatch: please could you block this sack full of insulting garbage please. Thanks.”

      Thumbs-up on that request!

  12. mortimer says

    Dec 6, 2014 at 10:30 pm

    Hot, steaming piles of pungent taqiyya.

  13. Jerry says

    Dec 6, 2014 at 10:53 pm

    What a load of Taqyya drivel from a Muslim using a name with bogus Christian appearance.

    Islam “saved” Jewry like in the genocidal treacherous and unprovoked assault on the Khaybar and the slaughter and beheading of unarmed Jews in Medina.

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