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“There Is Nothing to Fear in Islam,” Says DC Imam At Conference with Hamas-Linked CAIR Official

Feb 25, 2017 11:34 am By Andrew Harrod

“There is nothing to fear in Islam,” proclaimed Imam Talib M. Shareef during the February 9 “Tackling Islamophobia at Home” presentation at Washington, D.C.’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library. Before over 300 largely sympathetic listeners in the library’s Great Hall entrance atrium, the panel presented an airbrushed understanding of an Islam perfectly at home within a “Red-Green” alliance.

Shareef, imam at a Washington, DC, area mosque, defined Islam as “surrendering to peace” and thus conjoined the disputed translations of this Arabic word as “peace” or, more accurately, “submission.” Among Shareef’s questionable Quranic interpretations, he indirectly referenced Quran 5:82 to suggest an Islamic scriptural basis for affinity between Christians and Muslims. Like many Islam apologists, he ignored how this very verse plays a central role among numerous Islamic canons supporting the antisemitism that is rampant among modern Muslims. Such inconvenient truths undercut his ludicrous contention that “there is nothing in the Quran that says anything against Christians and Jews.”

Shafeer’s fellow panelist, St. Mary’s College of Maryland professor Sahar Shafqat, strained credulity even more with her simultaneous struggles against “Islamophobia,” “homophobia,” and “transphobia.” She leads the Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD), whose diversity does not include criticism of Islam, as shown by how she cited a Washington Blade article calling for restricting Islamic immigration: the politically incorrect references to Islam’s often lethal hostility to gays in Washington, DC’s leading LGBT newspaper prompted her to denounce the article’s “disgusting arguments and comments about how Islam is uniquely violent.”

Shafqat railed against President Donald Trump’s seven-nation temporary travel ban without any concern for national security. “There should not be a list, it just should not exist.” By contrast, she personally and MASGD as an organization have appealed to “reject Zionism by signing on to the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction campaign” (BDS) against Israel.

Also speaking was Corey Saylor from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Hamas-derived Islamist organization and unindicted terrorism financing co-conspirator. Saylor, who is the Director of CAIR’s Department to Monitor and Combat Islamophobia, dismissed any rationale behind Trump’s ban covering “seven countries from which exactly zero terror attacks on the United States have originated.” Saylor was ignoring the 72 individuals from these countries, which include the state terrorism sponsors of Iran, Sudan, and Syria, who have been convicted in recent years on terrorism-related offenses.

Saylor further criticized the travel ban as merely victimizing Muslims. He considered the ban’s preferences for minorities such as Christians who are targeted by jihadists an unconstitutional “favoring one group of people over another,” even though Soviet Jews received similar attention. The ban’s screening against support for phenomena such as honor killings or religious persecution, real enough dangers in Muslim countries, appeared to him as mere “code language that is used by the anti-Muslim network.”

Saylor worried that a “Muslim Ban Part II” would follow in an American designation of the jihadist Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, as several other countries have done. Given CAIR’s background, this designation would place it and other like-minded organizations under increased scrutiny for their past and present affiliations. Saylor cast this justified vigilance as a squelching of all-American diversity, claiming that “people who have a political outlet right now will suddenly be deprived of their voice.” He similarly reviled and mischaracterized laws that were designed to protect Constitutional rights against the encroachment of foreign law, falsely stating that “ten states in this country that have passed laws that were intended to vilify Islam.”

Like Shafqat, CAIR also supports BDS; Saylor has condemned the “Israeli apartheid lobby.” Before going to work for CAIR, he worked from 1998 to 2001 at American Muslims for Jerusalem (AMJ), a defunct radical organization once described as “crudely anti-Jewish.” AMJ events featured neo-Nazis and accolades for terrorist organizations like Hezbollah.

Saylor’s background should serve as a caveat when considering his call for interfaith understanding via community service projects, such as those that CAIR chapters and other Islamist organizations have undertaken with Habitat for Humanity. People from different faiths “both say the same kind of foul language when we hit our thumb with a hammer,” he stated, as if only these statements, and not what people say about totalitarian jihadist movements, mattered. He also urged participation in radical leftist organizations such as the Southern Poverty Leadership Council (SPLC), and praised as “awesome” the Women’s March on Washington led by his fellow Islamist radical Linda Sarsour.

Despite such disturbing biases, the panel received no critique from Jewish moderator Julie Zauzmer, a sympathetic Washington Post religion writer who rejected any suggestion that “Islam is a political ideology, not a religion.” Instead, Saylor dismissed critics of political Islam as bigots while calling upon his audience to form a kind of thought police and “not tolerate bias statements in conversations that you are taking part in.” Yet Islam’s role in a dangerous world deserves far more scrutiny than the monotone offered at the panel by establishment media, Islamic apologists or supremacists, or Washington, D.C. safe spaces.

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  1. duh swami says

    Feb 25, 2017 at 11:38 am

    Nothing to ear…the article next door about Paris confirms this…

    • Lia Wissing says

      Feb 26, 2017 at 3:20 am

      Nothing to fear, unless one is a woman or a child or wishes to change one’s religion …

  2. Buford says

    Feb 25, 2017 at 11:44 am

    Baloney they still live according to Muhammads teachings which is pro slavery hating all non muslims, deception, world domination, be-headings Rape, Child Marriage, & they have no intention of assimilating into Western Culture.

  3. Steve Klein says

    Feb 25, 2017 at 11:46 am

    Linda Sarsour ‏@lsarsour 21m21 minutes ago

    If the @DNC wants a second chance at life, @keithellison is what you need. #DNCChair

  4. D-spot says

    Feb 25, 2017 at 11:46 am

    We’re being sidetracked by the rhetoric. Simply put, supporting the importation of a culture that condones the hatred and violent expression against any number of ‘haram’ practices in the west, from their view, is tantamount to our own cultural suicide!
    Do the people who hold the signs welcoming migrants realise they condone the practices of jew hatred, gay hatred, wife, beating, etc.etc do I need to go on….what is wrong with these people? Does it need to be personal before the signs chamge?

  5. Angemon says

    Feb 25, 2017 at 11:47 am

    She leads the Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity

    Lol! Makes as much sense as a Nazi Alliance for People of Colour and Homosexuals.

    the panel received no critique from Jewish moderator Julie Zauzmer, a sympathetic Washington Post religion writer who rejected any suggestion that “Islam is a political ideology, not a religion.”

    Reminds me of a joke about a football (soccer for you Americans) match between Heaven and Hell. The Devil bet with God that’d win. God was surprised at such a prospect and asked him “why do you think you’ll win when we have some of the best players in History on our team?” and the Devil replied “yeah, but my side has all the referees”.

  6. Somebody says

    Feb 25, 2017 at 12:18 pm

    ISIS member Mr EBU HANZALA will give a conference in ANKARA on the 26th of February on “benefits of burning infidels”. The conference is supported by ER-DOG-AN a unique friend of USA.

    Everybody is invited to this cool organisation.

    http://odatv.com/insan-yakmak-caizdir-diyen-isid-sanigi-ankarada-konferans-verecek-2502171200.html

    We are preparing for the ENGLISH language invitations. EVERYBODY is WELCOME.

    There is going to be live human burning show (christian or jew pick one get one free)

    • Somebody says

      Feb 25, 2017 at 12:43 pm

      About Israel he is telling a muslim hadith ;

      • billybob says

        Feb 26, 2017 at 7:38 am

        This is an Islamic sermon? What a silly story! It is about some rude man who would not honour his mother. Instead, he repeatedly ignored her in order to practise his satanic rituals.
        There is a complete lack of any moral lesson here.

        • Somebody says

          Feb 26, 2017 at 8:25 am

          Agreed, due to high opposition to his conference it is cancelled, small victory for us against Turkish ISIS and Erdogan.

  7. eagle says

    Feb 25, 2017 at 12:33 pm

    Imam Talib M. Shareef apparently has a different version of the Quran than everyone else. Imam Talib M. Shareef is talking to infidels, there is no truth in what he has to say. Imam Talib M. Shareef must think he is a good Muslim. Will the American people feel comfortable having this growing Muslim population in our country, knowing that their ultimate goal is to cleanse the earth of all nonbelievers? Are we okay allowing them to take over our local, state and eventually federal governments? The chief danger with Muslim leaders was that “ultimately they will try to implement Sharia Law.” Muslim Keith Ellison should want the same thing for the American people. Every state in America should be implementing safe guards to prevent the implementation of the Sharia Law throughout America. Sharia Law is anti-American, anti-constitutional, anti-human rights, anti-LGBT, ant-Christian and anti-Jewish. There is nothing the Muslim theocracy has in common with the core beliefs of America. The American people tolerate their presents because the Muslim theocracy hides behind the guise of what the Muslims call a religion. The Muslim theocracy is abuse of humanity and cannot co-exist with the Constitution of the United States.

  8. davej says

    Feb 25, 2017 at 1:02 pm

    “Air brushed” for sure, a clear effort at whitewashing. “Surrendering to Peace”?

    Peace is strictly defined by Islam to their advantage and the operative word is still “surrender”.

    The effort to weld gay, transgender and feminist causes to their political ideology would be laughable were it not for the idiots who go along with that particular deception.

  9. somehistory says

    Feb 25, 2017 at 1:06 pm

    Several years ago, the stories on the news frequently included ones about the ever-increasing piles of garbage in landfills, on barges plying the waterways looking for a place to bury it.
    Those stories with their video could turn the stomach.

    These accounts of moslims carrying on their lies…loads and loads of garbage, seeking new places to unload on humans unaware of how nasty, how stinky, and how absolutely evil islam is and how moslims lie through their teeth in order to take over and subjugate every human on earth to satan’s beast ,are as numerous as those in former days regarding the refuse of modern life.

    It is so turning to the heart, mind, soul and spirit and getting harder and harder to stomach. May the Holy God of the Universe, and His Holy Son, Jesus Christ, put an eternal end to it soon. Soon!

    • Somebody says

      Feb 25, 2017 at 1:18 pm

      Imams are official spies of muslim governments. For example all of Turkish imams and embassy officers are islamic spies. The sad part is US already know this but acting as if she doesn’t know. It is called real politics. So do not trust any government! including yours.

      http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/02/turkey-europe-new-crisis-spying-imams.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

      • somehistory says

        Feb 25, 2017 at 3:40 pm

        I take my advice from the Psalms: “Do not put your trust in nobles or the son of earthling man to whom no salvation belongs.”

        I trust no government as they are all made up of imperfect humans making imperfect decisions and many of them for the power and money it gives. I don’t trust anyone connected to the beast of islam, no matter what he is called.

        • Somebody says

          Feb 25, 2017 at 4:03 pm

          Thank you. Good choice. I am also trying, but in my country it is difficult, but I will manage.

        • Aloha Akbar says

          Feb 25, 2017 at 8:28 pm

          Well said. Waiting for Gods Kingdom to Crush & put an end to all these govts. Daniel 2:44

        • somehistory says

          Feb 25, 2017 at 9:35 pm

          Me too. It will come true as Daniel was inspired to tell us.

  10. Voytek Gagalka says

    Feb 25, 2017 at 1:29 pm

    Sure that “there is nothing to fear” providing that you totally SUBMIT to their absolute and unquestioned rule. So, as usual with everything Mohammedans say, it is an example of a half-truth at best, taqiyya at worst.

  11. Pastor C says

    Feb 25, 2017 at 1:30 pm

    One word suffices here, pertaining to the patently-specious claims these Islamic subversives are making, ‘Taquiya’ (lying, made permissible by their god Allah, for the purpose of promoting the cause of Islam)!

    No other explanation of what these Islamic terrorists have done, here, is necessary.

    They should, all, be immediately arrested and tried for sedition and treasonous activities against the United States of America.

    Sadly, however, it will never happen.

    Civilizational jihad and the Ostrich Complex have so desensitized the American psyche to the truth about Islam, I greatly suspect, it may be too late!

  12. Guy Macher says

    Feb 25, 2017 at 2:00 pm

    Didn’t Hitler say the same thing? None of these apologists ever cites the Koran. Let them explain all the hateful verses. Let them explain that fact that there is no Golden Rule to be found in the Koran. Let them explain why Allah, aka Satan, hates Jews. And so on.

    • berserker says

      Feb 25, 2017 at 2:24 pm

      Forget the Koran because these people can easily confuse anyone who has not studied it. Simply examine the life of Muhammad. That should be enough.

      • Guy Macher says

        Feb 25, 2017 at 5:47 pm

        Yes, the study of Mohamed’s perverted, violent life should be part of every school curriculum.

  13. Diane Harvey says

    Feb 25, 2017 at 2:05 pm

    No matter when in time,

    No matter where in the world,

    Islam and Muslims are to be feared.

    • berserker says

      Feb 25, 2017 at 2:22 pm

      It now seems that there is no place free of the followers of this vile ideology. What is worse is the response of people in the West to this cancer.

  14. jd says

    Feb 25, 2017 at 2:32 pm

    Read this article for another angle on topic…
    http://m.huffpost.com/ca/entry/2344566

  15. steve brown says

    Feb 25, 2017 at 5:08 pm

    The lying monster , Talib M. Shareef reminds me of the Twilight episode’s book , ” To serve man”. It was a

    cookbook … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIufLRpJYnI

  16. steve brown says

    Feb 25, 2017 at 5:10 pm

    The lying monster , Talib M. Shareef reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode , ” To serve man”. It was a

    cookbook … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIufLRpJYnI

    • Arthur says

      Feb 25, 2017 at 5:53 pm

      … for me it’s a reminder of a movie called Mars Attacks!

      “We come in peace.”

  17. No Fear says

    Feb 25, 2017 at 10:30 pm

    During 1939-1945 Europeans had nothing to fear as long as they submitted to Nazism.

  18. Native jo says

    Feb 26, 2017 at 3:34 am

    It’s a mistake to confuse fear with dislike. I dislike the Muslims that have come here these days. I dislike them because they are too much bother. They are the reason no one wants them around. They cause trouble. They ask for too much. They let their boys th wild and don’t teach them how to act. They hit girls. They blame everyone else for the shot they do. The take credit for shit that didn’t do. They lie. There is just so many reasons that they have a bad reputation. They are just not worth the trouble. Fuck them.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Feb 27, 2017 at 7:37 am

      Native jo

      just out of curiosity – your moniker made me wonder – are you American or Canadian First Nations person, perhaps?

      If so: it’s good to know that *some* of you are *not* being fooled by Mohammedan nonsense-and-lies but, rather, see exactly what the invading mohammedans are all about.

  19. More Ham Ed says

    Feb 26, 2017 at 6:51 am

    Shafeer and his fellow panelists are not interested in ‘tackling’ islamorealism:

    30376 deadly documented ISLAMIC terror attacks since 9/11.

    http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

  20. Catherine says

    Feb 26, 2017 at 12:45 pm

    CAIR & what is propounds is a glaring example of the use of our free society & free speech to infiltrate, while inoculating the sheeple against resisting Islam and the way it is antagonistic to Judeo-Christianity, Western civilization & our US Constitution.

    With the endgame of taking over.

    I hope & pray enough of us don’t fall for it. “Be as cunning as serpents but guileless as doves”, said St. Paul.

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