Note BuzzFeed’s predictably vicious coverage, beginning with the headline calling Act for America an “anti-Muslim group.” It is now taken for granted in the establishment media that to oppose jihad terror and Sharia oppression is to be “anti-Muslim.” The media maintains this even while insisting that jihad terror and Sharia oppression have nothing to do with Islam.
Note also that BuzzFeed “journalist” Talal Ansari repeats the SPLC’s smears against Act for America without ever providing the reader any information, other than Act’s rebuttal statement, about the SPLC’s own hard-Left biases. Nor does Ansari bother to inform readers that Muslim Advocates has received at least $1.8 million from George Soros, and has a long and consistent record of opposing counter-terror efforts.
This is yet another example of the phenomenon I have pointed out many times lately: the Left is closing in now, trying to shut off those it hates from all access to the means of communication and all platforms — even hotels to hold events. It is a quintessentially totalitarian imperative, and it is advancing.
“The World’s Largest Hotel Chain Is Under Pressure To Cancel An Anti-Muslim Group’s Event,” by Talal Ansari, BuzzFeed, September 21, 2017:
A leading Muslim-American legal advocacy group has asked the president and CEO of Marriott International to drop the annual conference for the country’s largest anti-Muslim group at a Virginia hotel in October.
On Sept. 11, Muslim Advocates, a national legal advocacy organization, sent a letter to Marriott International’s president and CEO Arne Sorenson, asking the world’s largest hotel chain to honor their stance on diversity and inclusion by canceling Act for America’s annual conference.
Scott Simpson, the group’s public advocacy director, told BuzzFeed News that Marriott International has confirmed receiving the letter but that no action has been taken since.
The conference, labeled “ACTCON2017,” is scheduled to be held at the Marriott Crystal Gateway in Arlington, Virginia, on Oct. 2 and 3. Expected speakers at the conference are former Trump campaign spokesperson Katrina Pierson, and Walid Phares, President Trump’s foreign policy adviser during the presidential campaign.
“Your past statements on behalf of LGBTQ equality, for humane immigration reform, and your recent comments that ‘symbolism is wrong’ on the Muslim ban show your understanding of how bigotry and discrimination are not only wrong, they are bad for business,” Simpson wrote. Speaking about the ban on a company conference call in February, Sorenson said “across much of the world” the travel ban “is a really big deal” and that the “that the symbolism is wrong.”
In the letter to Marriott, Simpson also noted the hotel chain’s 2010 decision to cancel an event by a white nationalist group.
“Declining to host ACT for America would help to ensure that Marriott International does not fall behind other companies and would be true to your company’s stated commitment to inclusivity,” Simpson concluded in his letter to Sorenson.
“We are a hospitality company that provides public accommodations and function space,” a spokesperson for Marriott International told BuzzFeed News. “Acceptance of business does not indicate support or endorsement of any group or individual,” they added.
Act, which has been labeled an extremist group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, claims to have over half a million members and over 1,000 chapters. Ret. Gen. Michael Flynn — who President Trump fired as national security adviser for lying about communicating with Russia — called Islam a “cancer” at an ACT meeting and is a member of the group’s board.
A spokesperson for Act for America said in an email to BuzzFeed News that the group has “a zero tolerance policy for hatred or bigotry of any kind.”
“The recent statement by Muslim Advocates in an attempt to suppress the speech of those holding opposing views from theirs is disappointing, since it is based on a series of outright fabrications,” the statement said.
“In recent months, however, purely political advocacies like Muslim Advocates and the Southern Poverty Law Center have deliberately attempted to redefine legitimate political differences as hate, in an effort to stop any public conversation about them,” the statement continued.
“By attempting to pressure the venue to cancel it through the distribution of outright lies, Muslim Advocates simply exposes itself as a dishonest political partisan on issues important to millions of Americans. We hope they reconsider their outrageous conduct,” the statement concluded….
Michael Copeland says
Muslim Advocates are indeed dishonest in asserting that criticism is “hate”.
Good for ACT for America for calling them out on this.
mortimer says
“He who wishes to understand why (Muslims) hate us so deeply; why Islam is a murderous, automatic, mechanical system of hatred against ‘the other’; why this venom is so thoroughly implanted in every Muslim from infancy — al-Wala’ wal-Bara’ doctrine is the source and the answer.”
– Prof. David Bukay, Professor of Middle East Studies at the University of Haifa
Jacqueleen says
@ Mortimer
The hate stems from its leader, Allah is Satan and his followers are his army…Hatred spurs the soldiers on to kill and maim all unbelievers.
The opposite of hate is love….TELL ME, “WHAT’S TO LOVE ABOUT THESE UNCIVILIZED MORONS?” Can you turn your back on one? Can you believe a word that they say? What good are they to a civilized society? They get due process but get off scot free because of fear….
AMERICANS NEED COURAGE TO BE “PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!”
David says
Buzzfeed: ISIS sympathizers and enablers
infidel numero uno says
Why have Muslim Advocates and the SPLC not yet been designated as terrorist organizations?
underbed cat says
The “outright hate” can also be described as “outright truth” about the seeds of terrorism that fall from the pages of a book that claims tolerance but only if does not speak about the facts of the commands or sura’s that are commands that are not tolerant of the “other” that are taught to all the people who find truth offensive.
JIhad is warfare against all non believers…suppressing the facts won’t stop it suppressing the doctrine would….so it has to be redefined so as to not be able to confuse many as it hides or disguises itself so it can be protected as freedom of religion when it is conceived from a book that will honor those who slay to install sharia. So the protests are to protect hide the motivations and silence the facts from being given light.
mortimer says
“He who wishes to understand why they hate us so deeply; why Islam is a murderous, automatic, mechanical system of hatred against ‘the other’; why this venom is so thoroughly implanted in every Muslim from infancy — al-Wala’ wal-Bara’ doctrine is the source and the answer.”
– Prof. David Bukay, Professor of Middle East Studies at the University of Haifa
Linde Barrera says
Hi to my fellow JihadWatch.org readers, I just did the following and suggest you do it also:
1) Call 301-380-3000, the corporate office of Marriott in Bethesda, MD. 2) Ask to leave a polite brief message for President Arne Sorensen. 3) Speak to the Marriott employee and say that you support Act For America’s right to assemble at the Marriott Hotel for their upcoming event in early October. Mention that this is the USA and we have free speech in this country as long as no one threatens to kill someone.
4) I am a member of the Marriott Rewards program and it might help if you were too!
Don’t be shy when speaking out for the right to assemble peacefully, and for our other God given rights, which so many want to take away from us so they have more control over us for their sickening agendas and programs.
Good luck!
gravenimage says
Thank you, Linde!
My Opinion says
What this moron is advocating is diversity and inclusion as long as it doesn’t present islam in a negative light. By virtue of his own words, calling on the cancelling of the ACT event is contradictory to his calling on the Marriott to abide by their diversity and inclusion. Not only is he a moron, he’s a hypocrite as well.
John A. Marre says
This is how they silence anyone who dares tell the world that Islam is a plan to convert the world to Islam, by killing anyone who won’t become Muslim.
boakai ngombu says
being less that trustworthy, because the advocacy group are slaves to the allah god of islam (unknowable; the best of all deceivers), just can’t stop thinking there was something implied in the letter … like future troublesome actions to enforce the concern
it’s the SHARIA culture (vengeful, deceitful, murderous) that these advocates tout as being superior; all slaves ready to destroy
More Ham Ed says
“if you disagree you have a ‘phobia’ of some kind, or you’re ‘hatin’ or you’re a big__ something”
(the leftist thought process).
Mike says
Look at the last names of the people behind groups like SPLC, Buzzfeed, etc. Very telling. Am I anti- muslim? Hell yes! and proud of it. I’m vehemently against any group that advocates my death, female genital mutilation, women as property, and any one who can be so brain (dead) washed/mind controlled to believe in what that “religion” advocates. Get them the hell out of western culrures…stick them back where they came from and in several generations they will have killed each other. Good riddens.
Sandy Dawson says
I totally agree!
dsinc says
There must be no room for islamic hatred of infidels.
Lydia says
Then they shouldn’t host the jihadi group’s event.
Or are they saying that this would be acceptable?!
Jihad ‘hate’ is okay?
mortimer says
NO ROOM FOR HATE?
Question: DO MUSLIMS BELIEVE THE ISLAMIC HATE DOCTRINE AL WALAA WAL BARAA?
ISLAM HAS A DOCTRINE OF HATE: ‘AL BARAA’ = Islamic Apartheid, Shunning
Al Bughoud = Hatred of Kafirs ‘for the sake of Allah’ or Al Mu’adaat (hatred) is the opposite of Al Muwalaat (love of Muslims), it is:
– To Hate
– To keep distance from
– To be enemy to
– To desert
– To decline to help
– To disrespect
– To put down
– Not to ally with
– Not to support
Allah ordered Muslims to have Baraa (to be cleansed) from the kufaar and from kufr and shirk.
-Imam Abdul-Latif ibn Abdur-Rahman Rahimullah said, “It is not possible for someone to realize Tawheed and act upon it, and yet not be HOSTILE against the mushrikeen. So anyone who isn’t HOSTILE against the mushrikeen, then it cannot be said that he acts upon Tawheed nor that he realizes it.” [ad-Durar as-Saniyyah 8/167]
-“The doctrine of al Walaa wal Baraa is the REAL IMAGE for the actual practice of this faith.” – source “Al Walaa wal Baraa According to the Aqeedah of the Salaf”, by Sheikh Muhammad Saeed al Qatani, authoritative Saudi Sharia lawyer and imam at the Abu Bakr and Al Furqan Mosques in Mecca. – https://islamfuture.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/al-wala-wal-bara-according-to-the-aqeedah-of-the-salaf-parts-123/
-Shaykh Ahmad ibn ‘Atiq, rahimahu Allah, said:
“There isn’t in the Book of Allah the Exalted – after the issue concerning the obligation of tawheed and the forbiddance of its opposite – any issue which has as so many proofs, nor so clearly explained, than the issue of al-walaa’ and al-baraa’.”
-from Sufi scholar Ahmad Sirhindi (1564-1624): “The honour of Islam lies in INSULTING kufr and kafirs. One who respects the kafirs dishonours the Muslims… The real purpose of levying jiziya on them is to HUMILIATE them to such an extent that they may not be able to dress well and to live in grandeur. They should constantly remain TERRIFIED and TREMBLING. It is intended to hold them under CONTEMPT and to uphold the honour and might of Islam.”
-from ibn Taymiyya, “Book of Emaan”: “… true believers show ANIMOSITY and HATRED towards disbelievers and NEVER support them.”
-from Umar Sulayman ‘Abd-Allaah al-Ashqar, “Belief in Allah”: “The Muslim should regard the Kuffaar as ENEMIES and HATE them because of their kufr, just as he hates their kufr (disbelief) itself.”
-from [Chap.iv] “The Islaamic Concept of al-Walaa’ wal-Baraa’” by Khalid El-Gharib: “… to SHOW ENMITY to those who show enmity to Allaah and His Messenger”.
(Note: Muslims are to visibly demonstrate their ENMITY or HATRED towards the kufaar)
-from a lecture given by Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal (H.A.): “The implication of al-Baraa is that one HATES for the sake of Allah (SWT)…Al-Baraa means to recognize who your enemies are and to HATE them and EXTERMINATE them in their Endeavour to get rid of your Deen, al-Islam…Al-Baraa is to HATE the people who propagate Baatil (falsehood)—the Muslim should HATE them and (at least desire to) KILL them when the time comes.”
mortimer says
Gen. Flynn understands Islam to a point, but he doesn’t understand how much Western leaders are compromised by the Muslim Brotherhood. The vast amount of Arab oil money has permitted substantial bribery of Western politicians who sell us out. Bribery is HUGELY IMPORTANT to jihad.
When describing Islam, it is best to make a legal case against it by quoting Islam’s source texts and avoiding metaphors such as ‘cancer’.
Mind you, any criticism of Islam, Allah or Mohammed is a death sentence under Sharia law and so there is not even a SINGLE CRITICISM of Islam that is permitted under Sharia. Vigilantes are authorized by Sharia law to kill critics with impunity.
Islam is not so much a ‘cancer’ as it is a TOTALITARIAN, SUPREMACIST POLITICAL IDEOLOGY.
IT’S THE IDEOLOGY, STUPID!
gravenimage says
I don’t think bribery has much to do with this. It is more about “political correctness” and willful denial than anything else.
Certainly, the average clueless dhimmi is not being bribed by Muslims.
RAB says
I still can’t understand the difference between being anti-Islam and anti-Muslim. We are always being told that not all Muslims want to subjugate or kill all non-Muslims. But a Muslim, presumably, is one who supports Islam.which is the source of the problem. We are also told that there are “moderate” Muslims who don’t want to kill infidels but I have yet to hear many “Muslims” condemning the hate-speech in the Koran or admitting the truth about Mohammed as clearly told in the Sira and the Hadith. The Islamic sources themselves clearly describe Mohammed as a robber, a mass murderer, a rapist, and a pedophile – at least from the western point of view. How can you be anti-Islam and not anti-Muslim?
UNCLE VLADDI says
Since rational people get angry with criminals for their predatory choices, and criminals insist they have no choices because we’re all equally victims who should therefore tolerate the diverse differences between the kind of victim who attacks innocent others first, and those who don’t, they insist pity is always good and anger is always bad.
Since criminals expect that all is generally allowed unless and until it is very specifically disallowed in advance, the only real crime is trying to prevent them from doing whatever they want to do, to whomever they want to do it to, and whenever they want to do it. Such attempts are always seen by them as “mean!” or more recently, “HATEFUL!”
But as Robert Spencer noted:
Incitement to violence is easy to spot – but incitement to “hostility” is in the eye of the beholder; so all anti-free-speech initiatives conflate (anti-crime) free speech and even (what they call “hateful”) feelings with actual violent crimes; for instance trying to criminalize speech against a religion or race (say, against someone for their simply noticing that islam isn’t really a race or a religion, but is only a global crime-gang).
The whole notion of “hate-speech” and “hate-crimes” IS a crime! Having “hate” isn’t a criminal act, it’s EITHER the perfectly natural and neutral human response to ongoing injustices, OR it’s a victim-blaming slanderous HABIT; but either way, it’s only an effect, and not a cause of anything. I hate crimes & the criminals who commit them; so what?
“Hate crimes” are really only *thought*-crimes, which is a victim-blaming slanderous assertion made by criminals to deflect everyone’s attention away from their own crimes (since criminals are psycho-paths who hate thinking, of course to them) by asserting that anyone merely considering or feeling that one should dislike something bad – aka crime and criminals – should be accused of committing the only “illegal crime” in itself: “Hate!”
Robert_k says
Banning an event for a counter jihad group means promoting “Inclusivity”,
So that means excluding (groups from speaking) means including.
Another step forward for Orwellian doublespeak.
gravenimage says
Muslim group demands that Marriott cancel counter-jihad group’s event
…………………….
Yes–because opposing the rape of children and the mass slaughter of innocent people is “hate”…
What suicidal insanity.