Obama blamed for Islamisation of USA

Well, I guess the ONLY way you're going to see a headline like this from media is to have to look at it from a Pakistani news source, namely DAWN.  There ain't no way in Hell that any main stream media outlet in America would DARE run that headline.

The fact this it is true isn't important people.  It's all about protecting Islam in America.  It's all about keeping the kid gloves on when critiquing our Boy Wonder President.

Obama blamed for Islamisation of USA

WASHINGTON: As Americans celebrated Thanksgiving on Thursday, an anti-immigration group published names and addresses of Muslims and Muslim sympathisers in a Texas town, urging people to force them out.

On a day when Americans offer thanks for migrating here from the old world, anti-immigration groups blamed President Barack Obama for legalising an “Islamic invasion” of the United States.

Reports posted on various right wing websites claimed that the Obama administration issued 680,000 green cards to migrants from Muslim-majority countries between 2009 and 2013, as part of a conspiracy to “make America Islamic.”

The reports also claimed that since 1980, 1.5 million Muslims settled in the United States.

“To put this five-year tally – 680,000 – in context, it surpasses the total population of Washington, D.C., which is 660,000,” said one such post.

What it did not mention is that many who work in Washington live in its suburbs and that’s why the city has a small population.

The posts also failed to mention that between 2009 and 2013, India topped the list of the countries that sent immigrants to the US, followed by China, South Korea, Canada, Philippines, Mexico, Britain and Taiwan.

Last week, an anti-Islam group staged an armed protest outside the Dallas Islamic Centre, and now it has posted names and addresses of Muslims and “Muslim sympathisers” on its Facebook page. The group, which calls itself the Bureau of American Islamic Relations, said it was “protesting the Islamisation of America.”

And the mayor of a Dallas suburb, Irving, Beth Van Duyne, pledged not to allow area’s Muslims to set up “illegal Sharia courts.” She was referring to a mediation panel that helps local Muslims resolve family disputes.

So American Islamists Win Again

From Family Security Matters.

Brandeis Flap Marks Another Win for Islamist Intimidation


We're only 10 days into April, but 2014 already is shaping up to be a banner year for those who consider any criticism of Islam, radical or otherwise, to be something unfit for public consideration.

The decision by Brandeis University to withdraw its plans to bestow an honorary degree on Ayaan Hirsi Ali came after one day of protests from groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim Students Association. Both groups have documented roots in the Muslim Brotherhood, which seeks global Islamic dominance, a reality neither is willing to acknowledge.

Hirsi Ali, born and raised into a Muslim family, renounced her faith and chronicled her reasons why in two best-selling books. She has been targeted for death by radical Islamists, including in a note pinned onto the body of Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh after he was shot and stabbed to death on an Amsterdam street.

The two collaborated on a short film, "Submission," which was critical of the way women are treated in Islam. Hirsi Ali has made many statements critical of the religion, and her foundation works to protect women from physical abuse like honor violence, genital mutilation and forced marriage.

Such a life, such a dedication to improving women's lives, is deserving of an honor like the one Brandeis planned. But the school reneged, issuing a statement which said it could not fulfill its promise due to "certain of her past statements that are inconsistent with Brandeis University's core values."

The move comes on the heels of ABC Family's decision to scrub a new series about a teenage girl forced to live with extended family in Saudi Arabia. CAIR led the charge against "Alice in Arabia," saying it "may engage in stereotyping that can lead to things like bullying of Muslim students."

Never mind that something quite similar to the show's premise actually happened. And never mind the show creator Brooke Eikmeier's belief that "Alice in Arabia" could be "a step in the right direction for all cultures and all women, sparking greater tolerance, understanding and empathy." CAIR squawked and ABC yielded.

And just last week, screenings of the documentary "Honor Diaries" were scrubbed at two University of Michigan campuses and at the University of Illinois-Chicago after CAIR and other Islamist groups protested.

"With this act of censorship," wrote practicing Muslim physician Qanta Ahmed, a participant in the film, "the movie has become a metaphor for its message. Just like the women and girls it portrays, the movie has been silenced and its progenitors shamed."

Criticism from Islamists has focused on the film's producer and financers, not on its content. One Islamist critic, Linda Sarsour, honored as a White House "Champion of Change" in 2011, inadvertently made a point that shows the vacuous nature of the argument. If the finances were relevant, a Twitter poster suggested, perhaps the sources of CAIR operations warranted attention.

"CAIR," Sarsour responded, "is not making domestic violence documentaries saving women."

No one else is either. The one party who took up this legitimate issue has been pilloried for doing so.

In none of these cases has CAIR or other Islamist critics expressed willingness to debate the issue.

Instead, Brandeis is joined by a television network and two state universities in cutting off opportunities to challenge views on all sides of the issues involved. Isn't that the kind of intellectual pursuit universities are supposed to foster and embrace?

Muslim reformist Irshad Manji thought so, too, commenting on Twitter that, "At too many universities, 'respect me' has come to mean 'don't challenge me.'

So the Islamists are on a roll.

Blatant Hypocrisy

When radical speech comes from Muslims, however, the same voices claiming to defend the world against hate speech suddenly turn into spin doctors. Among the examples:

Sami Al-Arian remains a hero in Islamist circles despite being exposed as a board member for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and being taped saying Jews were "made into monkeys and pigs" by Allah and calling for "Death to Israel."

CAIR represented Imam Kifah Mustapha in failed litigation against the Illinois State Police. The agency dropped Mustapha as its first Muslim chaplain after the Investigative Project on Terrorism reported about his work as a paid fundraiser for a Hamas front, including performances "singing about Jihad and martyrdom" in a singing troupe which performed at fundraisers.

CAIR lauded University of California, Irvine students charged with misdemeanors for orchestrating a series of disruptions aimed at silencing a 2010 speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren. CAIR's Los Angeles director called the students, whose stated goal was to silence someone else's speech, "true American heroes."

CAIR has defended Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi as a moderate despite his fatwas justifying suicide bombings in Israel and attacks on American soldiers in Iraq. CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad joined Qaradawi in 2012 to discuss a film project about the Muslim prophet Muhammad. This meeting occurred after Qaradawi expressed a wish to kill Jews before he dies.

When a radical Muslim website threatened the producers of "South Park" in 2010, CAIR's national spokesman dismissed the significance, wondering in the Los Angeles Times if "they were set up only to make Muslims look bad."

And now CAIR celebrates the Brandeis decision to back away from plans to honor Hirsi Ali, who, as mentioned, has lived with similar threats for a decade and seen how real they can be.

In a statement issued Tuesday, CAIR called on Brandeis to rescind the planned recognition, comparing it "to promoting the work of white supremacists and anti-Semites." By Wednesday afternoon, less than a day after Brandeis yielded, CAIR was trying to raise money off of the episode.

CAIR was joined by the Muslim Students Association in lobbying against Hirsi Ali's honor. "We see this decision as a personal attack on Brandeis' Muslim students, and as minorities at a predominately white, Jewish university, many of us feel isolated and unwelcomed," the Brandeis chapter's leaders wrote in a column for the student newspaper.

CAIR's spokesman smeared Hirsi Ali as "one of the worst of the worst of the Islam haters in America, not only in America but worldwide."

As writer Lori Lowenthal Marcus noted, Brandeis's newfound sensitivity toward the feelings of some was more difficult to find when it bestowed honorary degrees on playwright Tony Kushner, who called Israel's creation "a mistake," or on Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who "has compared Israel to Hitler, attacked the 'Jewish lobby' as too 'powerful' and 'scary' ... and he complained of the 'Jewish monopoly of the Holocaust.'"

If Brandeis had second thoughts, it could have organized programs for students and faculty to debate the issue of recognizing Hirsi Ali, but also about the issues she champions - the treatment of women in Muslim-majority societies.

It's not likely CAIR, the MSA or other Islamists would have accepted this free exchange.

In a statement Wednesday, Hirsi Ali said she was shocked by the university's decision, but not by the controversy generated by the original plan to honor her:

Yet my critics have long specialized in selective quotation - lines from interviews taken out of context - designed to misrepresent me and my work. It is scarcely credible that Brandeis did not know this when they initially offered me the degree.

What was initially intended as an honor has now devolved into a moment of shaming. Yet the slur on my reputation is not the worst aspect of this episode. More deplorable is that an institution set up on the basis of religious freedom should today so deeply betray its own founding principles. The "spirit of free expression" referred to in the Brandeis statement has been stifled here, as my critics have achieved their objective of preventing me from addressing the graduating Class of 2014. Neither Brandeis nor my critics knew or even inquired as to what I might say. They simply wanted me to be silenced. I regret that very much.

On Fox News Wednesday night, Hirsi Ali called Brandeis' explanation "a very feeble excuse." School officials may have feared the repercussions of proceeding with the honorary degree and letting her speak to students. It's a mistake, she said, because, "To become American is to accept the idea that you can have a robust debate. And there's no other place better to do that than on university campuses."

'Extraordinary Cowardice'

At Reason.com, where Hirsi Ali gave an interview in 2007 that was cited this week by her critics, editor Nick Gillespie wrote that he didn't agree with Hirsi Ali's "unqualified condemnation of Islam." But he also calls her "relentlessly interesting and provocative" and reserves far harsher judgment on Brandeis for claiming ignorance about her views and for caving in.

"There is something particularly appalling about an institution that is predicated upon the idea of free and open discourse throwing in the towel so quickly," Gillespie wrote. "Either the people running the school there are simply total ignoramuses or they are cowards who refuse to defend their choice. Of course, they could be both."

Writing in The Telegraph, author Toby Young similarly called Brandeis out for "an act of extraordinary cowardice."

"To accuse Hirsi Ali of 'hate speech, which is defined as 'any speech, gesture or conduct, writing, or display which... may incite violence or prejudicial action against... a protected individual or group', is almost comically ironic," Young wrote. "She was raised as a Muslim in Somalia, underwent circumcision at the age of five and was later forced into an arranged marriage with her cousin. She only escaped this fate by running away to Holland where she subsequently became a member of the Dutch Parliament."

The tactic of crying "Islamophobia" to silence ideas and people they don't like is nothing new for Islamists, especially those in CAIR. Our film, "The Grand Deception" devoted a segment to it. CAIR's Los Angeles director, having never seen the film, still wrote an op-ed in the Orange County Register saying it "serves to perpetuate that Islamophobic framework."

When IPT Executive Director Steven Emerson offered Hussam Ayloush a chance to meet in person to discuss specific aspects of the film, Ayloush went silent.

Anti-Islamist Muslim Zuhdi Jasser hears the same sound of silence when he challenges critics to debate. Jasser, a physician and Navy veteran, runs the American Islamic Forum for Democracy. He's proud of his faith, but sees it as a personal matter, not one meant to dominate society and politics. CAIR can't stand him. It opposed his appointment to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. That didn't work, so now the campaign has shifted to trying to get Jasser ousted.

Too often, claims of "Islamophobia" are parroted without challenge by the news media. None of the reports this week pressed Hirsi Ali's critics about the context of her statements or about the overall tenor of their attacks. None pointed out that internal documents discovered during an investigation into a Muslim Brotherhood support network place CAIR on the group's "Palestine Committee." The committee was tasked with helping Hamas politically and financially.

Until that situation changes, the Islamist winning streak of bullying others into silencing their foes is likely to continue.

Christians Increasingly Duped into Interfaith Ties With Islamists

From The Clarion Project.

Christians Increasingly Duped into Interfaith Ties With Islamists


Rev. Devorah Lindsay has become an interfaith video star, but her chief outreach partner is a Muslim Brotherhood-tied mosque.


Reverend Deborah Lindsay, Minister of Spiritual Care at First Community Church in Ohio, is a YouTube viral video star because of her call on Christians to avoid anti-Muslim sentiment. Unfortunately, her chief outreach partner is a Muslim Brotherhood-tied mosque named the Noor Islamic Cultural Center.

A video of her sermon, uploaded in September 2010, has been viewed over one million times. Her outreach to Muslims was also the subject of an article in the Columbus Dispatch. In it, she is quoted as comparing jihad to Lent.

“When we think jihad, we think holy war. And that may be what it means to fanatics and terrorists, but what the vast majority of Muslims understand jihad to be is ‘struggling in the way of God…The way of God being goodness, justice, mercy and compassion. It is a personal, spiritual endeavor,” she said.

An example of jihad, she says, would be making friends or being appreciative of what you have.

That type of misunderstanding is promoted by the MyJihad campaign led by a chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity whose leadership has privately discussed how to use deceptive semantics. The campaign distracts from examination of the Islamist ideology by redefining jihad so vaguely that it becomes a meaningless term.

The audience, especially non-Muslims like Rev. Lindsay, is led to believe that this vague “spiritual” struggle is an alternative interpretation of jihad. Actually, these interpretations are complimentary and are not in competition.

Look at the official ruling of the Reliance of the Traveler, an authoritative book on Sharia endorsed by Al-Azhar University, the highest school of Sunni learning. Section o.9.0 states:

“Jihad means to war against non-Muslims, and is etymologically derived from the word mujahada, signifying warfare to establish the religion. And it is the lesser jihad. As for the greater jihad, it is spiritual warfare against the lower self (nafs), which is why the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said he was returning from jihad.”

The dual nature of jihad is best exemplified by the fact that the MyJihad website hosted a videotaped sermon from Imam Zaid Shakir about jihad and terrorism. Shakir justified Hezbollah’s bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon, saying it did not qualify as an act of terrorism.

Shakir, co-founder and senior faculty member of Zaytuna College, has his own record of extremism and approval of violent jihad. The MyJihad campaign’s own sources acknowledge the two forms of jihad but the campaign only talks about the spiritual form, giving the false impression that a new, replacement interpretation is being offered.

While it is true that most Muslims do not favor waging the subversive and often violent “lesser” jihad, we must be aware of the tricks played by those who do.

In her sermon, Rev. Lindsay praises the Islamic Circle of North America as a moderate organization that is spreading “peace” and “hope” by giving away tens of thousands of the copies of the Koran. She is under the impression that ICNA’s interpretation of jihad is at odds with the subversive one.

Actually, ICNA is named in a 1991 U.S. Muslim Brotherhood memo as one of “our organizations and the organizations of our friends.”

The stated goal of the network ICNA belongs to is to wage 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.” The document explicitly states that the network is to “possess a mastery of the art of ‘coalitions’” and use “their hands” (those of the non-Muslim Americans) for its objectives.

ICNA is a derivative of the radical Jamaat-e-Islami group of Pakistan. It is currently pressuring the White House to defend its leaders in Bangladesh from prosecution. A senior ICNA official named Ashrafuzzaman Khan was sentenced to death in absentia for his involvement in horrific war crimes in 1971.

The Clarion Project recently published jaw-dropping excerpts from an ICNA teaching guide for members. It explicitly calls for supporting violent jihad, secret operations, resurrecting the Caliphate and implementing Sharia governance, even in the U.S.

Rev. Lindsay’s main outreach partner is the Noor Islamic Cultural Center, a radical mosque that has her as a guest speaker. If the name sounds familiar, it may be from the case of Rifqa Bary, a teenage girl who converted to Christianity from Islam and ran away from her family. Her father, who she fears may kill her for becoming an apostate, is a member of the mosque.

Noor Islamic Cultural Center founder and chairman, Dr. Hany Saqr, was identified by an Egyptian newspaper as a Muslim Brotherhood operative. A 1992 U.S. Muslim Brotherhood phone book lists him as a member. Saqr was identified as a leader of the East Region for the Brotherhood, a member of its Executive Office and a member of its Board of Directors. The phone records of Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzouk, then a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood official, show he was in communication with Saqr in 1992.

According to a court filing by Bary’s lawyer, an FBI document identified one of Sarq’s subordinates as “providing $735,000 to Hamas while under Dr. Saqr’s direction.” It also states that Saqr used to be an imam for another mosque and “the largest known Al-Qaeda cell in the U.S. since 9/11 was operating out of the mosque.”

Salah Sultan used to be the Noor Islamic Cultural Center’s scholar in residence and a religious director at a local Islamic elementary school named the Sunrise Academy. Unfortunately for Sultan, counter-terrorism expert Patrick Poole lived only about a mile away and turned Salah into a stunning example of Islamist operations inside the U.S.

When Poole first brought attention to Sultan’s extremism, the Noor Islamic Cultural Center’s media and the Interfaith Association of Central Ohio slandered Poole, with one columnist calling him a “Muslim basher.” The documentation about Sultan was firm then and is overwhelming now.

There are photos of him with Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal and Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. He is on the board of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, led by the terrorism-linked Sheikh Yousef al-Qaradawi who is the spiritual leader of the Brotherhood and Hamas. In Egypt, Sultan frequently appeared alongside Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood when he was running for president.

At one Morsi rally, Sultan referenced the Islamic hadith that appears in the Hamas charter that reads, “The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!”

Sultan has urged the murdering of the Israeli ambassador to Egypt. In one television appearance, he endorsed a Brotherhood fatwa that says “every Zionist who enters Egypt—tourist or not—should be killed.” At one event, he led a crowd in chanting, “To Jerusalem, we are going as martyrs in millions.”

He was scheduled to lead a hajj to Mecca in 2002 with Anwar al-Awlaki, who would soon become a senior Al-Qaeda operative and a Hamas-linked cleric named Imam Muhammad al-Hanooti. When Osama Bin Laden was killed, Sultan praised him because he “had raised the banner of jihad for the sake of Allah and had served a lofty goal” and American “terrorism” is worse than his.

Sultan preaches that 9/11 was a U.S. government conspiracy to oppress Muslims. The attacks on Christians in Egypt are covert “acts of Jews,” according to Sultan, as was the assassination of President Kennedy. He supports democratic participation by Muslims in the U.S., but only in order to move the country towards the standards of Sharia.

The aforementioned court filing also alleges that the Noor Center has extremist speakers like Imam Siraj Wahhaj, Muzammil Siddiqi, Raeed Tayeh, Eric Erfan Vickers, Shaker ElSayed, Wagdi Ghoneim and a preacher linked to efforts by Al-Shabaab, Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Somalia, to recruit Somali youth. In 2013, two mosque members were indicted for money-laundering.

This mistaken embrace of Islamists is part of a broader issue. Rev. Lindsay’s church is affiliated with the United Church of Christ and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Both are members of the Shoulder-to-Shoulder Coalition, an interfaith bloc allied with the Islamic Society of North America, another U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity. The coalition is deployed by American Islamists when they came under criticism.

The two groups cited by Rev. Lindsay, ICNA and the Noor Islamic Cultural Center, do believe in the non-threatening “greater” spiritual jihad—but that’s not the whole story. They also advocate the “lesser” subversive and violent jihad. They are just intelligent enough to know which one is better to magnify publicly.

Rev. Deborah Lindsay did not respond to my email with information about the Noor Islamic Cultural Center.

Muslims of Syracuse, NY To Remove the Crosses of Christ

From Family Security Matters.

Islamic Group gets OK to Strip New York Catholic Church of its Crosses


A Muslim group received approval on Thursday from Syracuse city officials to remove six crosses from a century-old Catholic church that is being turned into a mosque.

Syracuse's Landmark Preservation Board approved the North Side Learning Center's request to make changes to the architecture of the former Holy Trinity Catholic Church - but not before it drew the ire of several residents.

More than 200 people signed an online petition asking the board to stop the group from taking down the Christian symbols and installing a 6-foot chain-link fence, citing the building's history.

Donald Law, whose great-great-grandfather helped build the church after immigrating from Germany, was upset about the decision.

"When you come into the north side of Syracuse, it's the first thing you see. I don't see how destroying a church will help the neighborhood," Law told CNY Central.

But the building has been sitting empty for quite some time. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse closed the church in 2010 and merged the parish with St. John the Baptist because of a declining congregation as population shifted from the city to suburbs.

The North Side Learning Center bought the vacant building, along with the adjacent rectory and school, for about $150,000 in December.

The non-profit group provides literacy education to the neighborhood’s growing population of refugees from Burma, Bhutan and Somalia.

They plan to move the school onto the Trinity campus. They also want to rent the church out as a mosque. In order to do that, they would need to remove the crosses. The center’s director, Yusuf Soule, explained to Syracuse.com that Islam doesn’t allow its followers to worship idols or symbols.

The Landmark Preservation Board agreed that it was the religious rights of the new owners to remove the crosses.

Neighbor Steve Angelaro is disappointed.

"This is a betrayal by the board,” he said. “I don't have a problem with any religious group being allowed to freely worship. This is a historic landmark, and the craftsmanship, character and design of the building are irreplaceable."

Reaching Out To Muslims in America

From Henry Bowman.....(via email)

The current administration wants us to learn more about Muslims and accept their culture.
So, I'm making a sincere effort to learn to communicate with our Muslim friends.
I am learning to write Arabic in the name of 'cultural diversity.'

This is my first attempt at it:

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Minnesota Sheriff Bows Down To Islam, Surrenders To Terrorists At CAIR

 Hennepin County Sheriff Richard W. Stanek, left, and Major J.R. Storms spoke about the addition of a policy regarding religious head coverings for inmates.




Minnesota's Hennepin County (Minneapolis) Sheriff Rich Stanek can officially change his middle name to "Dhimmi" as he has announced a new program where Muslim inmates at the county jail now can wear their head coverings - a new policy that came about for two reasons:


a)  Stanek curled up into a ball and cowered at the threats from the terrorists at CAIR-MN
b)  Stanek is scared to death of pissing off the growing and violent population of Somali Muslims in Hennepin County

Look at this quote from the article from one of the Muslim advocates in Hennepin County:

“This addresses the most fundamental of civil rights,” said Fartun Weli, executive director of Isuroon, a Somali women’s advocacy group. “It’s part of our identity.”

The trauma of an arrest can move a suspect to “seek spiritual relief, but they also have to deal with the shame of not being able to wear a head covering,” Weli said. “This is a big deal to us, but we aren’t saying somebody should receive special treatment because of their religion.”

See?  These clowns, these Somali "refugees" cannot and WILL NOT assimilate into any aspect of American society....hell, they won't even assimilate into a prison's rules!

Look at the quote above again - you know, if you are so desperately in need of your "spirituality" when you land your ass in a jail cell, THEN DON'T DO THE FUCKING CRIME, HAJI !

Great job, Sheriff Stanek.  You have just officially lost all sense of control over the most violent group of people in Minnesota.  I hope you are ready to put a foot bath in every one of Hennepin County's jail cells.

The story comes from The Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Hennepin County sheriff's office announces new policy for religious head coverings for inmates


Inmates at the Hennepin County jail will be allowed to wear religious head coverings, the Sheriff’s Office said Thursday, making it the first law enforcement agency in Minnesota to adopt such a policy.

Just a few hours after Sheriff Rich Stanek announced the change, the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office said it will roll out a similar policy this week.

The new policies were warmly welcomed by representatives of religious and cultural groups.

“This addresses the most fundamental of civil rights,” said Fartun Weli, executive director of Isuroon, a Somali women’s advocacy group. “It’s part of our identity.”

The trauma of an arrest can move a suspect to “seek spiritual relief, but they also have to deal with the shame of not being able to wear a head covering,” Weli said. “This is a big deal to us, but we aren’t saying somebody should receive special treatment because of their religion.”

Although both sheriff’s offices had been considering the changes for nearly a year, a compelling letter from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to Stanek last fall drove home the importance of allowing religious garb in jail, the sheriff said.

In Hennepin County, at least a couple of dozen inmates each year will be affected. When individuals wearing a head covering such as yarmulke, hijab or kufi are booked into jail, they will be taken to a private area where the clothing item will be searched and inventoried. For security reasons, the jail then will provide a replacement.

Procedures are also in place for inmates who didn’t arrive wearing a religious head covering, but want to request one.

One caveat: An inmate can receive a head covering only if he or she isn’t deemed a safety or security threat, Stanek said. If the covering is altered or used for anything other than its intended purpose, it will be taken away.

The new policy also includes booking photos. In Hennepin County, a female inmate wearing a hijab will be allowed to keep it on, but push it back off her face for the photo. In Ramsey County, a nonpublic photo without the covering will be taken for police use and another photo with the covering will be available for public use.

The policy’s genesis

The new policy, which adheres to the constitutional and federal requirements of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, followed discussions with CAIR and experts on religion and corrections, Stanek said. His office also reviewed similar policies in California and Illinois.

Before the new policy, the Sheriff’s Office considered head covering requests from inmates case-by-case. The jail currently accommodates inmates with specific religious needs such as adhering to dietary requirements, providing religious literature and organizing religious leaders from a variety of faiths who volunteer in the jail.

Each year, more than 38,000 people are booked into Hennepin County jail and 20,000 into the Ramsey County facility. Inmates usually are struggling with a variety of issues when they land in jail, and not being able to wear a head covering can add to their problems, Weli said.

Weli has seen a jail-issued hijab, which is dark brown and made with a stretchy material. She said she was pleased with it, and that it compared well to one she might buy at a local Somali shopping mall.

Lori Saroya, executive director of CAIR, agreed, then joked she was glad they weren’t the bright orange color typically associated with jail attire.

An influential letter

Saroya said her office has heard complaints of insensitivity over head coverings at jails throughout the state.

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The New Force in American Politics? Muslim Americans

Just great.  Just what America needs is a coalition, another special interest group and this time one that is hellbent on destroying our Constitution and changing the very way that Americans live.

G_d help us all.


The story comes from Family Security Matters.

Newly Formed Muslim Coalition Seeks Greater Clout in U.S. Elections


(CNSNews.com) - Ten U.S. Islamic organizations have come together to form a new umbrella group to serve as a "representative voice" for American Muslims, and one of their first tasks will be to carry out a census of the community.

Other focus areas for the new U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), according to speakers at the body's launch in Washington on Wednesday, include enhancing Muslim political engagement and participation in forthcoming elections, civil rights issues, combating "Islamophobia" and having an impact on U.S. foreign and domestic policy.

Participating organizations include high-profile groups that have been dogged by controversy, such as the Muslim American Society (MAS), founded by Muslim Brotherhood members, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which was named by the Justice Department in 2007 as "unindicted co-conspirators" in its case against the Holy Land Foundation in Texas, subsequently found guilty of raising money for Hamas.

"The new national council's first priority will be to build on Muslim citizenship rights by conducting a census of American Muslims to create a database that will be used to enhance civic and political participation in upcoming elections," USCMO said in a statement.

CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad, a participant at the launch, said that Muslim organizations in 2011 had come up with a "guesstimate" of seven to eight million Muslims in the United States.

“Opponents of the Muslim community shot down the number for political reasons, to two-and-a-half, two million, and sometimes people even said half a million,” he said.

The aim of the census project would be to determine a clear idea of the number and distribution of American Muslims, by 2016.

“Muslim voters can be swing voters in key elections, especially in 2016, and we are aiming at that election to bring a more visible participation from the Muslim community,” Awad said.

Another participant, Osama Abu Irshaid of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), said Muslims “are a growing demographic, numbering in the millions, and it is time to organize ourselves so that we can fully participate productively and efficiently in the political process.”

Abu Irshaid said American Muslims’ purchasing power exceeds $170 billion, “but we want to be more than consumers in this country.”

“We want to fully participate and engage in the civic process. We also want to ward off the evils of bigotry and Islamophobia and begin to define ourselves instead of allowing others – who don’t understand us, who fear us and even hate us – tell us how we should live and worship in this country.”

Abu Irshaid said bringing American Muslims into the political process “can only enrich American foreign policy and enrich our domestic policy as well.”

One prominent anti-Islamist Muslim described the move as “a circling of the wagons” by the nation’s top Islamist organizations.

“If they were going to start an American Islamist political party those would be the founders,” the president of the non-profit American Islamic Forum for Democracy, M. Zuhdi Jasser, said early Thursday.

The USCMO launch was a sign that Islamists were “feeling the heat,” Jasser said.

“America is both getting tuned in to their anti-American agenda as well as also realizing that far more diverse anti-Islamist American Muslim groups – like our American Islamic Leadership Coalition – can provide alternative and authentic Muslim voices beyond the Islamists.”

Although a woman emceed the event, no women were visible among the leaders of the organizations at the launch. USCMO Secretary-General Oussama Jammal said the new body’s stated priorities include “empowering women by developing and supporting their leadership skills, seeking appointment of Muslim women to leadership positions, and also involving women at all levels of our community organizations and expressions.”

The founding members of the new umbrella group are The Mosque Cares, Muslim American Society, American Muslims for Palestine, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Islamic Circle of North America, Muslim Legal Fund of America, Muslim Alliance in North America, Muslim Ummah of North America, American Muslim Alliance and the Mosque Foundation of Chicago.

How many Muslims?

The size of the Muslim American community has been a point of contention. The U.S. Census Bureau does not collect religious data, but the 2008 American Religious Identification Survey, conducted by scholars at Trinity College, found the number of American adults self-identifying as Muslims to be 1.35 million, up from 1.1 million in 2001.

In 2010, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life put the number of Muslims in the U.S. at 2.77 million.

In his “address to the Muslim world” in Cairo the previous year, however, President Obama made reference to “nearly seven million American Muslims in our country” – drawing applause for doing so from an American Muslim leader at the time.

The seven million figure has been attributed to a CAIR-sponsored 2001 survey of leaders from a representative sample of mosques, which concluded that two million Muslims were associated with a mosque (with “association” defined as at least attending Eid, the major Islamic holiday at the end of Ramadan).

Based on that number, the survey authors concluded that “estimates of a total Muslim population of 6-7 million in America seem reasonable.”

The Islamic Society of North America states that there are “close to seven million Muslims” in the U.S.

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About ISNA But Were Afraid to Ask

 Chairman of ISNA's Fiqh COuncil Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi

From The Clarion Project.

ISNA: Largest U.S. Muslim Org, Dominated by Islamists


ISNA shouldn't be judged by its pleasant media interviews. Its documented history is where the truth can be found.

The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) always denies its Brotherhood connections and says it is “moderate.” Some ISNA officials downplay its origins, insisting that it has charted its own course independent of the Brotherhood. ISNA’s Fiqh Council, its body of scholars, says otherwise.

In 2004, the Chicago Tribune reported that ISNA officials say “Brotherhood members helped form those groups but that their overall influence has been limited.” When ISNA is unable to escape the facts, it downplays them.

The same Islamists that birthed ISNA as a Muslim Brotherhood front lead the organization. A 2009 Hudson Institute study concluded, “All but one of the individuals listed on the ISNA founding documents remain active either in ISNA or one of its affiliated organizations.” The Brotherhood lobby members “continue to exist in their original form.”

To understand ISNA, you must understand that its Islamist orientation requires it to adhere to sharia, or Islamic law. Another word interchangeable with sharia is fiqh. The website, OnIslam.net, explains that “fiqh is our understanding and knowledge of Allah's Shari`ah.”

When making decisions, ISNA and other groups look to authoritative scholars of fiqh or sharia. It is these scholars that stand behind the moderate “faces” of ISNA like President Mohamed Magid. If you want to know the true nature of ISNA, you must look at its Fiqh Council of North America.

Of the 17 Fiqh Council officials, 14 have strong Islamist records. That is all but one member of the Executive Council and all but two of the Council members. The remaining members are not necessarily moderate. In fact, their inclusion should be considered a strike against their credentials as “moderates.”

The Executive Council has seven officials. The one without an obviously Islamist track record is Vice Chairman Dr. Zainab Alwani. However, she still has been published by the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Association of Muslim Social Scientists, two U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entities.

The six members of the Fiqh Council are:



Chairman Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi

Siddiqi is a founder of ISNA and was its President from 1997 to 2000. He preaches that Muslims must institute sharia using a strategy of gradualism. In 1996, he said:

“[Muslims] should participate in the [U.S. political] system to safeguard our interest and try to bring gradual change for the right cause … We must not forget that Allah’s rules have to be established in all lands, and all our efforts should lead to that direction.”

Siddiqi was more specific in a 2001 speech, where he said that sharia’s penal system must also be eventually established:

“The criminal law of the sharia is not practiced here and it is not even required for Muslims to practice the criminal law in a non-Islamic state … Once more people accept Islam, insha’allah, this will lead to the implementation of sharia in all areas.”



Executive Director Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Shah

Shah is a former President of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), another U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity with origins in the Pakistani Islamist group, Jamaat-e-Islami. ICNA’s 2010 official handbook laid out a gradualist strategy towards creating a sharia state.

At a 2001 ICNA conference, Shah led the audience in declaring support for overseas Islamist fighters, chanting in Arabic, “Our way, our way, is jihad, jihad.” He mentioned Palestine and Kashmir as specific areas where Muslims must assist fighters:

“Whether they are brothers in Palestine or Kashmir, they belong to the Muslim ummah and we are united with them in their struggle. We stand for them and we are for their support and for the victory in Muslim [sic—Islam] … [praise] our mujahideen brothers and sisters in Kashmir.”



Dr. Mohamad A. El-Sheikh

El-Sheikh was a member of the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood from 1973 to 1977 and is a founder of the Muslim American Society, which federal prosecutors say was “founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America.”

From August 2003 to May 2005, he was the imam of the radical Darl al-Hijrah Islamic Center that has a history of links to Al Qaeda, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. He also was a regional director for the Islamic American Relief Agency. The U.S. government froze its assets in 2004 because of its links to Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Hamas and Al-Ittihad Al-Islamiya.

In 2004, El-Sheikh said that Palestinian suicide bombings are justified because, “if certain Muslims are to be cornered where they cannot defend themselves, except through these kinds of means, and their local religious leaders issued fatwas to permit that, then it becomes acceptable as an exceptional rule, but should not be taken as a principle."



Dr. Jamal Badawi

He used to be listed by ISNA as a member of the Board of Directors. He was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism-financing trial in U.S. history because he fundraised for the Holy Land Foundation, a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity that was convicted of funding Hamas.

A 1992 U.S. Muslim Brotherhood phone book identifies Badawi as one of its officials. He is also a close associate of Sheikh Yousef al-Qaradawi, the terrorism-supporting spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.

He has consistently supported Palestinian suicide bombers and terrorists. For example, in 2009, he preached that Islamist terrorists in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip are justified in killing Israelis, and he condemned Muslims who stand against them. Again in 2010, he said that the Palestinian “combative jihad” is justified.

Badawi has also taught that husbands can strike their wives as punishment if “a wife persists in bad habits and show[s] contempt of her husband and disregard for her marital obligations.”



Shaikh Abdur Rahman Khan

He is the chairman of the Islamic Circle of North America’s Shari’ah Council. He used to be a scholar for the Islamic Foundation but was apparently fired, based on an online petition demanding his reinstatement.



Shaikh Muhammad Nur Abdullah

He was the President of ISNA from 2001 to 2005. He is reportedly a fatwa advisor for a website belonging to Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yousef al-Qaradawi.



The regular Council has 10 members, eight of whom have strong Islamist records. The remaining two are Dr. Deina Abdelkader and Dr. Ali Solaiman Ali. As stated before, this does not clear them. Their presence on this body is evidence itself of extremism.

The eight members are:



Dr. Munar Fareed

He was a Secretary-General of ISNA and is now in South Africa.



Shaikh Muhammad Hanooti

Hanooti has been an ISNA official since at least 1978 and has led multiple Islamist organizations and mosques linked to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. A 1988 U.S. Muslim Brotherhood document shows that he led one of its secret committees.

From 1984 to 1986, he led the Islamic Association for Palestine, a pro-Hamas Muslim Brotherhood front. He has been an imam for the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center, Islamic Center of Passaic County and Islamic Center of Jersey City. He attended a secret Brotherhood/Hamas meeting in 1993 where participants discussed how to use deception to advance the cause.

A 2001 FBI memo states that confidential informants revealed that Hanooti is a “big supporter” of Hamas and was “purportedly holding fund-raising activities, as well as supporting visitors to the United States from Israel and Jordan, to speak on behalf of HAMAS.” Another informant confirmed that Hanooti raised over $6 million in the U.S. for Hamas in 1993.



Imam Yahya Hendi

Hendi testified on behalf of Sami al-Arian in 2003. Al-Arian was arrested and later convicted for being a secret Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader and admitted to having been a Muslim Brotherhood operative. During the questioning, Hendi said that Islamic law justifies suicide bombings.



Dr. Yusuf Z. Kavakci

Kavakci is a Shura member of ISNA and was the imam of Dallas Central Mosque. A 1999 article said his mosque “is considered to be one of the most active centers of Hamas activity in the United States and hosts … the primary conduits for Hamas activity and fundraising in the United States.”



Dr. Muhammad Qatanani

Qaranani is the imam of the Hamas-linked Islamic Center of Passaic County. He was arrested and convicted by Israel in 1993 for being a member of Hamas and the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood.

The Department of Homeland Security seeks his deportation because of his terrorist links and the fact that he did not disclose his conviction on his Green Card application.

“It is certainly suspicious when a person who has been convicted of being a member of, and providing services, to Hamas, who has personal ties to a Hamas militant leader, and a Hamas fundraiser also sends undisclosed cash to the West Bank,” a 2008 court filing by Homeland Security explains about Qantanani

In Arabic lectures between 2007 and 2009, Qantanani prayed for the defeat of “occupation and oppression” in Iraq, Palestine and Chechnya, referring respectively to the U.S., Israel and Russia. He also said it is permissible for Muslims to donate to the families of suicide bombers and that Muslims should not criticize Yousef al-Qaradawi, the pro-terrorism spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Qatanani has also said that the U.S. needs to limit its free speech to stop “hate” speech towards Islam.



Imam Hassan Qazwini

Qawini leads the Islamic Center of America in Michigan. The mosque has had Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam as a guest speaker. Qazwini boasted that Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, a spiritual leader of Hezbollah, “considered me his son” and the two met whenever he traveled to Lebanon. Qazwini’s mosque held a memorial service for Fadlallah when he died in 2010.



Dr. Muddassir H. Siddiqui

Siddiqui learned Islamic law in Saudi Arabia and worked for the Saudi government for 20 years. From 1990 to 2002, he was the legal advisor for the Saudi embassy in the U.S. The Saudi government is the leading promoter of Salafism, a radical strain of Islam.

Today, he advises companies on how to implement sharia-compliant finance.



Dr. Ihsan Bagby

Bagby is the executive director of the Kentucky chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), another U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity. He was also a national board member for CAIR from 1995 to 2013 and the General-Secretary of the radical Muslim Alliance in North America.

A 1991 publication quoted him as saying, “Ultimately, we [Muslims] can never be full citizens of this country…because there is no way we can be fully committed to the institutions and ideologies of this country.”



Conclusion

The Islamic Society of North America is the largest Muslim organization in the United States. As such, it is courted by the highest levels of the U.S. government. The U.S. military has even restarted hiring the chaplains that it endorses.

People in positions of influence should not judge ISNA by its press releases and pleasant media interviews. Its documented history and the make-up of its Fiqh Council of North America is where the truth can be found.

U.S. Court Orders Google to Remove Anti-Islam Video

 Screenshot from the video 'Innocence of Muslims'

From The Clarion Project.

U.S. Court Orders Google to Remove Anti-Islam Video


In a 2-1 vote, a U.S. Court of Appeals struck down a lower court’s decision and told Google, Inc. it must take down the “Innocence of Muslims” video from its website “YouTube.”

Google will take the case to a higher court. “We strongly disagree with this ruling and will fight it,” the internet giant said in a statement.

The company was taken to court by Cindy Lee Garcia, one of the actresses that appeared in the film. Garcia requested that the video be taken down after seeing that it included a clip she had made for a completely different film. The clip was partially dubbed and had Garcia asking, "Is your Mohammed a child molester?"

The video (which was billed as a trailer to an upcoming film) generated an onslaught of anti-America protests across the Muslim world in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. The Obama administration originally tried to blame the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the American consulate in Benghazi by Islamists on the video, although it was later proven that the attack was premeditated.

Although Google blocked the video in Egypt and Libya as well as a number of other countries, it refused to remove the video in the U.S. despite pressure from the White House.

Google argued to the court that Garcia only appeared in the video for five seconds. Although Google acknowledged that she had a potential a case against the director, they argued that posting the video did not violate copyright laws. Further, Google argued that removal of the video would be a violation of free speech protected by the U.S. Constitution. In addition, Google argued that the video had become an important part of public debate and hence, should not be removed.

"Our laws permit even the vilest criticisms of governments, political leaders, and religious figures as legitimate exercises in free speech," Google wrote.

The judge, Alex Kozinski, ruled that the video must be taken down since it was likely that Garcia would win her copyright claims. Without an injunction to remove the video, the judge said that Garcia faced irreparable harm, especially since she had already faced “serious threats against her life.

"It's disappointing, though perhaps not surprising, that Garcia needed to sue in order to protect herself and her rights," the judge wrote.

District Court Judge In New Jersey Bitch Slaps Muslim Activist Groups, Sides With NYPD On Surveillance

Good to see there's still at least one judge in the district court system that has a set of balls.

The story comes from Family Security Matters.

Judge Rules Against Muslim Activist Groups in Favor of NYPD


On Thursday February 20th Federal Justice William J. Martini of the United States District Court in New Jersey dismissed a lawsuit brought by several Islamic activist organizations, including the Muslim Students Association and the Muslim Foundation, against the New York City Police Department. The plaintiffs accused the NYPD of violating their civil rights through a program which including surveillance and intelligence gathering of the Muslim community in New Jersey.

The groups along with several individuals stated that the actions had

"caused a series of spiritual, stigmatic, and pecuniary losses."

to them both as individuals and collectively. They also stated that because of the actions of the NYPD they could no longer pray in public or speak in public regarding religion or politics. They accused the NYPD of singling them out solely on the basis of their religion. The judge found otherwise.

The NYPD surveillance and intelligence gathering program was one of the department's counter terrorism programs. It began in early 2002, after the attacks of 9-11 by Islamic terrorists, and with the appointment of David Cohen, former Deputy Director of the CIA, as the Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence for NYPD.

The specifics of the program were brought to the public to the public's attention in the Summer of 2011 when two reporters of the Associated Press wrote an article regarding the NYPD's counter terrorism program. The reporters had obtained un-redacted and confidential documents from several former and current NYPD employees that outlined a program designed to see if their was any terrorist activity within the Muslim community in the greater New York City region including New Jersey. The article failed to articulate that two major terrorist attacks against the United States and New York City specifically were perpetrated by radical Islamists who had ties to the Muslim Community in the geographical area in question.

The Court in this case did understand the logic of the NYPD intelligence program by saying;

"The police could not have monitored New Jersey for Muslim terrorist activities without monitoring the Muslim community itself."

In ruling in favor the NYPD Justice Martini also stated that there was no injury suffered by the plaintiffs by the actions of the NYPD. He went on to say that even if they had suffered an injury it would have been caused not by the actions of the Police Department but in fact by the actions of the Associated Press reporters. He stated that the reporters had

"released unredacted, confidential NYPD documents and articles expressing its own interpretation of those documents."

That was stunning. One could only wonder if the reporters in question would have to return the Pulitzer Prize awarded them for their inaccurate and harmful piece of journalism.

As expected the Muslim activists groups' response to the verdict was predictable.

They decried the ruling as a miscarriage of justice and vowed to appeal.

However in this case the scales of justice have tipped in favor of sound reason and logic when it comes to combating terrorism.