Hamas-linked group targets human rights activist for telling unwelcome truths. My latest at FrontPage:
Editor’s note: To learn more about Anni Cyrus, visit her site at LiveUpToFreedom.com.
The Massachusetts chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) sent out a press release last Friday, calling upon the American Legion Nonantum Post 440 in Newton, Massachusetts to cancel an event featuring Aynaz Anni Cyrus, an ex-Muslim from Iran. Cyrus’ crime? She knows too much about Islam, and particularly about the institutionalized mistreatment of women under Islamic law, and isn’t afraid to speak frankly about what she knows.
Said CAIR-MA Executive Director John Robbins: “While every American has the right to free speech – even the kind of bigoted and misinformed speech offered by Ms. Cyrus – credible organizations like the American Legion should not provide platforms that imply approval or offer credibility to hate-filled views.”
CAIR makes similar efforts to shut down any speaker who speaks unwelcome truths about Islam, jihad and Sharia wherever they’re given a mainstream platform, and always claims that these speakers are “bigoted and misinformed.” When applying these labels to Anni Cyrus, however, CAIR runs into a problem: Cyrus was born in Iran and grew up in the Islamic Republic. Not only was she a Muslim, but she experienced Islam in a nation whose government prides itself on its strict application of Sharia rules.
Thus if anyone knows Islam, it’s Anni Cyrus. Her views are just the opposite of “bigoted and misinformed”: they were shaped by her own bitter experience.
To be sure, the CAIR press release contains a list of “inaccurate, defamatory and inflammatory claims about Islam and Muslims” that Cyrus has supposedly made, including:
- “Rape is part of Islam.”
- “When there is a mosque built in any area. . .it’s a sign of conquest.”
- Mosques in America represent “1,200 areas lost to Sharia.”
- “Islam is definitely at war against humanity.”
- “The reason for the existence of a woman in Islam is that she’s the seducer.”
- “It would be a brilliant idea if we put an end to all Islamic teachings in our schools.”
- Titles to her online videos include “To Be Raped Under Islam,” “Islam’s Rape Game in Europe” and “The Solution to Stop Islam.”
It is unclear whether Anni Cyrus actually even made these statements, as CAIR provides no source documentation. And true to form, CAIR doesn’t bother to explain why these statements are “inaccurate, defamatory and inflammatory.” It relies on the general public’s ignorance of Islam, intending for uninformed people to see these statements as ridiculous on their face, as well as highly offensive.
Unfortunately for CAIR, however, rape is part of Islam. The Qur’an says that a Muslim man may have sex with his wives and also with “captives of the right hand” (4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6), who are the “spoils of war” (33:50). These are non-Muslim who have been captured and enslaved. Nothing is said about the slave having to consent to this sexual activity. And that means that it is rape, as is the stipulation in Islamic law that a wife is not permitted to refuse sex to her husband for any time at any reason (Ibn Majah 1854).
As for Islam being at war with humanity, the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, said it best. A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “I have been commanded to fight against people so long as they do not declare that there is no god but Allah, and he who professed it was guaranteed the protection of his property and life on my behalf except for the right affairs rest with Allah.” (Sahih Muslim 30) That means that if people don’t declare that there is no god but Allah, their lives and property are not guaranteed, and can be taken. Is that a war with humanity? It sure sounds like one.
Are mosques in America signs of conquest? A top Muslim Brotherhood operative in the U.S., Mohamed Akram, explained that the Muslim Brotherhood “must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”
Akram’s directive came in a Muslim Brotherhood memorandum from May 22, 1991 entitled “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America.” This memorandum explained that mosques should be used as centers for the proselytizing and eventual conversion and Islamization of local areas. Is every mosque actively working in this manner? Of course not. But it would be naïve in the extreme to assume that none are.
Keeping people naïve and ignorant about the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat is what CAIR is all about. CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR officials have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements about how Islamic law should be imposed in the U.S. (Ahmad denies this, but the original reporter stands by her story.) CAIR chapters frequently distribute pamphlets telling Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement. CAIR has opposed virtually every anti-terror measure that has been proposed or implemented and has been declared a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates. A CAIR operative recently called for the overthrow of the U.S. government.
Regardless of CAIR’S effort to silence Anni Cyrus, the event went as planned, on Sunday, March 11, thanks to the American Legion’s refusal to bow to an organization as unsavory as CAIR and allow it to dictate who it features as speakers. This is an important push-back against how confused and compromised the American public sphere has become. Anni Cyrus is a courageous and much-needed voice trying to dispel that confusion. She should be heard, without interference from the polite and sinister authoritarians of CAIR.
StellaSaidSo says
Three cheers for the American Legion for their refusal to bow to pressure from the Islamist thugs at CAIR!
And for the courageous Anni Cyrus for her continued efforts to inform us all of the danger represented by the vile ideology of Islam.
revereridesagain says
Thank you for exposing CAIR’s efforts to shut down Anni Cyrus’ event at the American Legion in Newton, MA, last Sunday night. I was privileged to attend that discussion. As always Ms. Cyrus impressed the attendees with her knowledge and her courage, first for having survived and escaped the abuse she endured in the Islamic Republic of Iran and now for speaking out in the face of threats and attempts to silence her. A true heroine!
sally says
it is too bad CAIR wasn’t indicted in the bombing case – it surely would have been worth it. They have enjoyed a free pass ever since.`
J D S says
How have “WE” in America, that is “we the people” allowed CAIR and so many other un- American Islamic organizations to flourish in the home of the brave, i’ll never understand..I will venture a guess though…because we are the land of the free and they believe they are “free” to do anything they please…so guess we need to establish more Christian organizations to outdo them. Poor maybe our so called leaders should do more to curb un-American Islamic activities as they did communist activities. Am I racist, islamophobic or un-American or all the above…..SAVE AMERICA!
Linnte says
Because Islam has absolutely no tolerance for any other religions or cultures, we cannot tolerate them, even if we have freedom of religion and free speech. The KEY to removing the rights of organisations like CAIR, ISNA AND MSA, is for our Government to recognise Islam is NOT just a religion, but a Governmental System commanded to covertly subvert our own government. Dr. Bill Warner has done the math, and says that Islam is 20% religion, and 80% Government. NO SUBVERSIVE Government can have rights here because that is treason! It’s like letting Russian citizens create a country WITHIN our country, denying our Constitution and governing it’s own people within our borders.
For the life of me, I don’t understand WHY our Government doesn’t ACT in this simple principal, and BAN Islam. Are they afraid of Civil Unrest? Well, they are going to get Civil War instead.
Michael Copeland says
“We are at war, and I am a soldier” – 7/7 bomber.
https://libertygb.org.uk/news/we-are-war
LeftisruiningCanada says
CAIR being it’s usual domineering, lie spewing, self.
At least the Legio might be able to rustle up a few good men to watch the door.
Jack Diamond says
Mosques as a sign of conquest…
Muhammad is the model of conduct for Muslims. Every mosque is modeled after the first mosque Muhammad established in Medina. Every Hijra (Muslim migration-for-conquest) is modeled upon the
first Hijra of Muhammad from Mecca to Yathrib/Medina. There was no mosque in Mecca. But Muhammad built a mosque in Medina before he built himself a house. It was the center of the Hijra and
the headquarters of the Islamic State. Jihad was proclaimed there and planned there and armies were launched from there to conquer non-Muslims. No one should be surprised when mosques live up to their original purpose. The establishment of a mosque in Dar al-Harb is the first injection of poison, the first introduction of the parasite which will eat its host from the inside out. If allowed to fulfill its original purpose.
“Allah has promised those who have believed among you and done righteous deeds that He will surely grant them succession [to authority] upon the earth” s. 24:55
{Tafsir Ibn Kathir: “This is a promise from Allah to His Messenger that He would cause his Ummah to become successors on earth, i.e., they would become the leaders and rulers of mankind, through whom He would reform the world and to whom people would submit, so that they would have in exchange a safe security after their fear…(Allah showed me the earth and I looked at the east and the west. The dominion of my Ummah will reach everywhere I was shown)” }
“Muhammad said that the earth had been declared to him a mosque and pure (ceremonial purity); in another report it has been stated that the earth had been declared to him purged, purified and a mosque. Bukhari and Muslim, both renowned Hadith scholars and revered authorities, report this saying of Muhammad {Haidth 31901, Kanz al Umal}
—Sam Solomon & E. Alamaqdisi “The Mosque Exposed”
A mosque is NOT a place of personal and private worship.
More from Sam Solomon, ex-Muslim professor of Islamic Law for fifteen years:
“In the Islamic world a mosque is in the House of Islam, where generally Islam is regarded as the religion of the State and the Shari’ah is the main source of all legislation…However, while in the West, they are in the House of War, and thus on a war footing as their religion does not rule overall, but is regarded as more of a personal and private matter.
“Muslim scholars have tried to soften the impact of this doctrine by saying that if Muslims are given their rights and not persecuted it would be called Dar a’ Suth–the House of Reconciliation. However, due to the clash of ideology, Islam being a totalitarian system within a free society, the Western system is increasingly viewed as anti-islamic and thus, a House of War. Being on war footing means a suspension of all normal Islamic rules and regulations. It also legitimizes special jurisprudence promulgated for such circumstances.
from “Modern Day Trojan Horse, The Islamic Doctrine of Immigration” Sam Solomon & e Al Maqdisi:
“Sheikh M. Mansoor {Al-Azhar} says that Qur’anically speaking Hijra is always preceded by faith, and followed by jihad in the cause of Allah. Sheikh Hussein Shahata, a well-known Islamic thinker, says that the Hijra from Mecca to Medina was for the sake of the religion of Allah and the establishment of an Islamic state, and to spread it all over the world as an example and a model. The Hijra from Mecca to Medina is considered to be a jihad for the sake of religion. In other words, the Hijra of Muhammad was not just a human activity but it was ordained; and he did it for establishing the religion of Allah. For with the Hijra came the establishment of the new Muslim community and with the community came the need for new legislation, then the ushering in of the Islamic state, followed by the principles of war and peace, courts, taxation, and treaties with the non-Muslims, the conduct of Muslims, and the legislation of how to run their daily lives.
“From the Islamic jurisprudence view, the immigration of the Muslims to the West is to be regarded as the most important step on the ladder for the establishment of an Islamic state in the West. This is the primary objective of the Islamic mission in the West.
“This is what Sheikh Abdel Khaliq states in his book “The Primaries of the Islamic Mission to the West”…he suggests the consolidation of the Muslim communities and their loyalties and allegiance to the international Islamic Ummah, and not to the system of unbelief where the community finds itself; meaning neither accomodating the host society not consenting to any of its values…
“They must go ahead with the establishment of mosques everywhere—staffed with sound Imams. He puts a lot of emphasis on public prayers to be conducted regularly as a visible display of the Islamic community and its presence…He continues by quoting the fatwa of Sheikh Abu Bakr Jabir Al Jazeeri that high on the agenda must be to seek to obtain the nationality of the host country…(to) stand for elections, to defend the causes of the Muslim community. He concludes that the immigration of the Muslims to non-Muslim countries, and especially to the West, is to empower and consolidate Islam as a preamble to jihad. All of this is legally binding on all Muslims.”
LeftisruiningCanada says
+1
Very useful, thanks.
J D S says
It is interesting……but of course it Is the same fake musings that came from the same unfounded source that’s been kicked around lo these many centuries and any form that it is delivered in it still smells of Islamic excrement.
It was kept at bay for a while and mostly in its own Area of the world..a few times it reared its ugly head and moved forward for bit of time then was stymied and held there……but now through many mistakes by those who were supposed to keep us safe and those do gooders who neither knew what they were getting us and themselves into or didn’t care, have brought us to the place where we either succumb to this unGodly scrounge or we DON’T. Now the “DON’T” creates some huge problems.
Western governments have leaders and. complacent people’s, in place at just the right time in history, to let Islam and it’s adherents grasp a piece of history….
Now back to the “DON’T” mentioned above….If we are the people’s, that deep down I believe us to be…..we are not going to take it anymore…I really can’t speak for Europe but I do believe they will come out of their deep sleep very soon and we here in America are only snoozing and will readily snap out of it soon…Now our leaders are going go have to be pushed and awakened abruptly and we and we alone will have to do this. So get on their backs. Park on their doorsteps, make them hear…or replace them with those with your like-mindedness. Believe me none of this will be easy..but what is the alternative?..God help us! One may say…Why has God abandoned us…He hasn’t….but we may have abandoned Him. Don’t be afraid to call upon Him for help.
Ray Jarman says
Jack,
If I may add: “Are mosques in America signs of conquest? A top Muslim Brotherhood operative in the U.S., Mohamed Akram, explained that the Muslim Brotherhood “must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.” Is this nota a clear statement of sedition? I just don’t understand that statements such as this is not regarded as a declaration of war against all decent human beings not part of the pernicious cult.
Jack Diamond says
The statement is that but it is also dismissed as an isolated “deviation” if it is even accepted as authentic. David Shipler in the New Yorker, for example:
“Virtually all the alarm over the coming Islamic takeover and the spread of Sharia law can be traced back to an old document of questionable authority and relevance, “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America.” Dated May 22, 1991, it was found in 2004 by the F.B.I., buried in one of a large number of boxes uncovered during a search of a house in northern Virginia. (I reported on the discovery and the use of the document for my book “Freedom of Speech: Mightier than the Sword.”) It is cited on numerous Web sites, and in articles, videos, and training materials, which quote one another in circular arguments. Its illusion of importance was enhanced by federal prosecutors, who included it in a trove of documents introduced into evidence in the 2007 trial of the Holy Land Foundation, a charitable organization ultimately convicted of sending money to Hamas.
The memo, however, is far from probative. It was never subjected to an adversarial test of its authenticity or significance. Examined closely, it does not stand up as an authoritative prescription for action. Rather, it appears to have been written as a plea to the Muslim Brotherhood leadership for action, by an author we know little about, Mohamed Akram. He is listed elsewhere as a secretary in the Brotherhood, but he writes in the tone of an underling.”
Akram (Mohammed Akram Adlouni) was with the Executive Office of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood and member of the Shura Council, hardly an “underling.” He went on to become General Sec. of the Al Quds International Foundation (a designated Global Terrorist Entity), a “prestige”project of Hamas.
Of course, the Muslim Brotherhood has been seditious from its inception. It can’t be anything else. But we’re still far from banning them and their affiliates in this country.
However, Muslims can’t so easily deflect from Muhammad himself, can they? From the origins of the mosque, of the Hijra, of the Islamic State and the Islamic mission. Those actually do “stand up as an authoritative prescription for action.”
Linnte says
Thanks Jack. This is useful and useable information. (And doggonit if I could just copy/paste on my Nexus device, it would be awesome.)