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Jan 5 2013

Though Allen West, sadly, was gerrymandered  out of his House seat, 5 shining stars in the Republican Party continue to wage the war against Islam

The Left insists on calling them the Top 5 Islam-Bashing Republicans to Watch in 2013. But an overwhelming majority of Republican voters regard the West and Islam as being embroiled in “a fundamental conflict which only one side can win.” And left up to the Democrat dhimmis, God forbid, we know which side that would be.

1. Michele Bachmann

Last summer, Bachmann garnered national attention when she and other Republicans alleged that the Muslim Brotherhood, an Egyptian-based political movement that spread throughout the Middle East, had “penetrated” the U.S. government.

EGYPTIAN MAGAZINE AFFIRMS MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD INFILTRATION OF THE WHITE HOUSE The article names Arif Alikhan, assistant secretary of Homeland Security for policy development; Mohammed Elibiary, a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council; Rashad Hussain, the U.S. special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference; Salam al-Marayati, co-founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, or MPAC); Imam Mohamed Magid, president of the Islamic Society of North America, or ISNA; and Eboo Patel, a member of President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships.

Bachmann singled out a prominent Muslim-American aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton named Huma Abedin as being part of the conspiracy. The Minnesota congresswoman made the allegations in letters sent to U.S. government officials. The letter questioned whether there was “direct influence” on the intelligence community from “[Muslim] Brotherhood operatives.” And the letter also mentioned that Abedin has “family members” connected to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Her letter to U.S. government officials made clear that Bachmann got her ideas from Frank Gaffney, a former Reagan aide and prominent anti-Islam expert. Gaffney is a leading anti-Muslim activist in the U.S., and has produced a 10-part online series about the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence in the U.S. But the idea that the Muslim Brotherhood is plotting from within is a McCarthyite theory that casts aspersions on Muslim-Americans within the U.S. government. There is also no evidence to support the theory. (Except that there is. See article posted above)

In 2011, Bachmann stoked fear about sharia law–Islamic law–taking over U.S. courts.

2. Peter King

He may have lost his chairmanship of the Homeland Security committee due to party-imposed term-limits, but you can count on King stoking the flames of fear towards Islam next year. King, a Republican hailing from Long Island, used his post as chair of the House Homeland Security Committee to specifically target the problem of terrorism within the Muslim community. After serving for seven years, King is no longer the head of the committee, though he will remain a member.

King held a total of five separate hearings on Islam and terrorism in the United States,  to focus on the threat of “homegrown” terrorism from Muslims.

His first hearing sparked the most controversy. Titled “The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community’s Response,” it was based on King’s assumption that the Muslim community in the U.S. is prone to breeding extremists. In 2004, King claimed that “80%, 85% of the mosques in this country are controlled by Islamic fundamentalists.”

King courted even more controversy based on one of his star witnesses at the first hearing: Zuhdi Jasser, an activist who has become the right’s spokesMuslim. Jasser is the head of a group called the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, which is funded by anti-Muslim figures like the right-wing Christian Foster Friess. Many Muslim organizations say that Jasser has little following among American Muslims (What a surprise, he tells the truth about them). Jasser narrated an Islamorealistic film titled “The Third Jihad,” that was shown to New York Police Department officers as training and claims that Muslim extremists are plotting from within to take over the U.S. (Now banned from police training thanks to whining by the Islamofascists at CAIR)

Other statements in King’s past show that his motivation to root out Muslim extremism in the U.S. is based on his claim about mosques in the U.S. being run by radical extremists (many are) and has also claimed that “the Muslim community does not cooperate anywhere near to the extent that it should” on terrorism-related cases. (The poster below was distributed to the Muslim community by CAIR)

3. Mike McCaul

For the House Homeland Security Committee, McCaul, a Republican hailing from Texas, has dutifully served alongside King on the committee. And now, he’s getting his chance to run it on his own. Since King was forced out of the top spot due to party-imposed parameters, McCaul has been tapped to lead the Homeland Security Committee. McCaul’s history of exposing Muslim terrorism in the US shows why he will likely lead the committee similar to how King did.

In fact, McCaul strongly supported the King-led hearings focusing on Muslim-Americans. McCaul praised King’s hearings as a way to “end the era of political correctness.” During the hearing itself, McCaul said:  “I am mystified by the controversy that has followed from this.” After King’s fifth set of hearings, McCaul said that the “U.S. should not overlook the correlation between Islam and national security.”

McCaul appeared on Frank Gaffney’s radio show last year–the same radio show where Gaffney has spread his well-documented theories about sharia law and the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S. And McCaul didn’t bat an eye, or mutter any response, when Gaffney carried on about the “Muslim Brotherhood’s operations in the United States.” (See article above) When he got a chance to speak, McCaul indulged in speculation about the “threat” of Hezbollah, the Lebanese armed group, in the Western Hemisphere

4. Louie Gohmert

This Texas Republican has been a leader in speaking out about the dangers of Islam before. Gohmert made headlines with remarks about Islam and President Barack Obama. He suggested that Obama’s allegiances were with Islamic states instead of the U.S. “I know the president made the mistake one day of saying he had visited all 57 states, and I’m well aware that there are not 57 states in this country, although there are 57 members of OIC, the Islamic states in the world,” Gohmert said on the House floor. “Perhaps there was some confusion whether he’d been to all 57 Islamic states as opposed to all 50 U.S. states. But nonetheless, we have an obligation to the 50 American states, not the 57 Muslim, Islamic states…This administration [has been]  complicit in helping people who wants [sic] to destroy our country.”

Gohmert’s speech played into the right-wing conspiracy theory that Obama was a secret Muslim in league with anti-American Islamists. In line with that theory, Gohmert has also suggested that Obama listens to advisers from the Muslim Brotherhood.

5. nt TreFranks

In recent years, Arizona Republican Trent Franks has taken to demonizing Muslim-Americans. In 2009, Franks was one of four Republicans to call for an investigation of the Muslim Brotherhood proxy Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), proven to have links to terrorist group Hamas. The GOP members claimed an investigation was needed into whether CAIR was “spying” on Congressional offices in order to influence policy.

The evidence for that charge was a 2007 CAIR memo that called for placing Muslim interns in key Congressional offices in order to influence policy on issues important to Muslim-Americans–something that every interest group does in Washington. 

Muslim Mafia, true story of Intern Chris Gaubatz who courageously gained the trust of CAIR’s inner sanctum, while working undercover as a devoted convert to Islam, blows the whistle on the entire factory fueling the wave of homegrown terrorism now plaguing America. His six-month penetration of the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations resulted in a collection of thousands of pages of smoking-gun documents from this terror-supporting front group for the dangerous, mob-like Muslim Brotherhood.

Franks’ anti-Muslim fear-mongering didn’t stop in 2009, though. The next year, he showed support for Frank Gaffney’s theory that sharia law was on the march in the U.S., led by Muslim-American organizations with links to the Muslim Brotherhood who were plotting from within.

Predictably, the latest iteration of Franks’ ‘Islamophobia’ was his signature on Bachmann’s McCarthyite letter about Muslim Brotherhood influence in the U.S. government and Clinton aide Huma Abedin.

SOURCE: Alternet

Rabid Israel-hater and huge Hamas-supporter, Rep. Keith Ellison (D- MN), says GOP is the party of bigots because it opposes sharia law

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Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim Congressman, who was sworn in on a Quran, and took money from a group (MAS) dedicated to destroying Western civilization from within, has decided to identify anyone who has a problem with Sharia law being implemented in the United States as a bigot. Interesting, coming from a member of the most bigoted group on earth – MUSLIMS!

Described as CAIR and Hamas’ man in Congress, Congressman Ellison has been a regular presence at CAIR fundraisers and at pro-Hamas rallies in the United States. As a former member of Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam, Ellison has enough anti-semitic and Islamist credentials to satisfy anyone, and had expressed openly anti-semitic beliefs in the past. Since Ellison got his start with CAIR , his attempt to provide support for Hamas is completely unsurprising. Both Hamas and CAIR are projects of the Muslim Brotherhood, which also helped birth Al Queda.

SHOEBAT  But Ellison doesn’t mince words when asked about the Republican party’s formal proclamation that the United States is under assault from Islamic Shariah law . “It’s an expression of bigotry.” ”There has never been any legislation offered to establish Shariah law—not at the federal level, not at the state level.” (But it has been used in at least 23 cases in American courts, which is why so many states are proposing legislation against it)

ELLISON INSISTED ON BEING SWORN INTO CONGRESS ON A QURAN, THE BOOK THAT IS DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION

For Ellison, the anti-Shariah plank was part of a broader narrative of exclusion. “Why do they want to become the party of hate? They’re hating on immigrants who are from Latin America (Only the illegal ones). They’re demonstrating hatred toward Muslims (And rightly so). They’re demonstrating hostility toward women (Only abortion-loving  feminazis).

“I’m sad that they have decided to go into this dark ugly place where they see the whole world as their enemy,” Ellison continued. (No,  just the real enemies like Muslims) “And this is the thing: I don’t mind debating taxes and spending; we probably should. But they’re the party that is basically a bigoted party and they have now officially declared themselves against a whole segment of the American population, because if we said we were going to put a plank opposing Jewish law, or Catholic canon, it would be an outrage. (That’s because Jews and Catholics aren’t trying to replace the Constitution with sharia law)

ELLISON MEETS WITH HAMAS MEMBER IN GAZA ON A TRIP FUNDED BY U.S. TAXPAYERS

So why defend Sharia law, Mr. Ellison? Would you support its implementation if it were attempted? Have you been to Dearborn, MI? Are you aware of Christians being stoned by Muslims who are seeking furtherance of Islam and Sharia law? You see, Mr. Ellison won’t answer questions like that; he will only build straw men that he can beat with his imaginary stick.

In fact, Ellison has yet to respond to Rep. Michele Bachmann’s 16-page smack down of his 2-page response to questions raised by her and four other congressmen about Muslim Brotherhood infiltration. The ultimate irony is that Sharia law is bigoted against non-Muslims. Therefore, by not denouncing it fully, Ellison is the bigot.

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Billboard targeting cair in Tampa schools posted to sign on September 5, 2012

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. Billboard campaign with web site counters their propaganda.  Six of seven Hillsborough County School Board Members made it clear during several meetings earlier this year that they will allow Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR Tampa) officials to inform students about their abridged version of Sharia law and Islamic “human rights.” The Florida Family Association billboard campaign will counter that propaganda. Regardless of whether another CAIR official addresses public school students again or not Florida Family Association’s web site Welcometotampafl.org posted on the billboard will reach far more people with the unabridged facts regarding Islam and Sharia law.   One hundred four thousand (104,000) cars will see this billboard every weekday. Florida Family Association sent out an email alert on August 21, 2012 which announced:  Florida Family Association hopes to raise $4,072 for a billboard aimed at the only school district in Florida and perhaps the nation that knowingly permits CAIR officials to instruct students about Islam and Sharia.  To read the full history click here.  Clear Channel Outdoor, Inc. posted the billboard on the morning of September 5, 2012 on Dale Mabry Highway, .4 miles south of West Lutz Lake Fern Road.  This location was chosen because: Steinbrenner High School, where CAIR officials addressed students over 3 school years, is located approximately 4.5 miles west of Dale Mabry Highway at 5575 West Lutz Lake Fern Road, Lutz, FL. There are no major billboards located on West Lutz Lake Fern Road between the school and Dale Mabry Highway. Other reasons specified in the August 21, 2012 email posted below. The portion of the Clear Channel Outdoor, Inc. proposal which provides the demographics for this billboard is posted below.  Here is the final version of the billboard.  The Hillsborough County School Board in Tampa Florida appears to be the only school district in Florida and perhaps the nation which will knowingly allow Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR) officials to instruct students regarding Islam and Sharia law. Tragically, board members have no problem with CAIR officials giving their biased version of “Sharia”, “Human Rights and Islam” and “Women and Islam in different countries” to hundreds of students at Steinbrenner High School funded by taxpayer dollars.  A condensed history of this issue is posted at the end of this article. Florida Family Association, whose public records request provided the credibility to first break the story, billboard campaign will: Be seen by 104,000 vehicles daily according to DOT traffic counts. Be hard to miss since it is the only major billboard for miles. Be located on the primary route to Steinbrenner High School. Significantly increase the likelihood that Florida Family Association will learn if and when teachers invite CAIR officials to address students. Educate thousands of people who visit WelcometoTampaFL.org regarding this issue, the Sharia threat to America public policy and the Islamization taking place in Tampa. Hopefully significantly decrease the likelihood of pro-Sharia groups having access to students. If Florida Family Association learns and verifies that a teacher has invited a CAIR official or other Muslim Brotherhood front organization official to address students on taxpayer funded property Florida Family Association will: Organize a peaceful, educationally based protest in front of the school. Hand out educational fliers to parents dropping off their children for class. Rent the school auditorium for a special event to educate the community regarding the truth about Islam being mostly a political movement with a religious flavor. Thanks to the generosity of many supporters approximately $6,820 has been donated toward the cost of the billboard campaign which includes $4,072 for the billboard and $3,000 for the reward.  Click here to see contract with Clear Channel Outdoor, Inc. CAIR is using bullying tactics across the United States to intimidate patriotic minded people out of their First Amendment right to oppose Islamization of America.  We need to counter that intimidation. Florida Family Association is planning more campaigns like this one.  If the reward is not collected we will post rewards for other situations regarding Islamization in America. ISSUE HISTORY The Tampa Bay Times reported on January 10, 2012 “Florida Family Association's David Caton protests Muslim speaker's visits to Hillsborough school.” Florida Family Association’s public records request which the school district complied with on December 14, 2011 (the beginning of Christmas break) produced the proof that CAIR officials made presentations to students at Steinbrenner High School in Tampa. Since that time Florida Family Association sent out three email alerts and posted an online article which reported that Hillsborough County School Board members were allowing CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations) officials to indoctrinate school children with propaganda including their version of Sharia law. Each school board member and the district superintendent received approximately 10,000 emails opposing CAIR officials from addressing students.  That number does not include emails these officials have received from individuals and other groups apart from Florida Family Association.  Florida Family Association continues to this day to submit public records requests regarding this issue. Several organizations including local Tea Party leaders challenged the Hillsborough County School Board on February 14, 2012 to stop local CAIR officials from addressing students. The Tampa Bay Times reported in part “The issue arose late last year when conservative activist David Caton called attention to a visit to Steinbrenner High by Hassan Shibly, executive director of the Tampa-based Islamic group.”  Click here to read report in The Tampa Bay Times. Floridafamily.org Unsubscribe me from this list       Email:  ffa@floridafamily.org Florida Family Association, Inc. P.O. 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islamic council: Record Number of maahslimes Delegates at DNC

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A record number of Muslim delegates are attending this year’s Democratic National Convention, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

An estimated 100 Muslim delegates from 20 different states are in Charlotte, the group said in a press release, which pointed out that only a “handful” of delegates attended the Republican National Convention last week in Tampa, “during which the RNC adopted a platform plank targeting the religious practices of Muslims,” the group’s press release said.

There were 43 Muslim and Arab-American delegates at the DNC in 2008 and 25 in 2004, according to CAIR.

"The more than doubling of Muslim delegates at this year's Democratic National Convention is a direct result of their hard work and grassroots organizing within the Democratic Party," CAIR Government Affairs Coordinator Robert McCaw said in the press release. "It is also a sign of the American Muslim community's growing civic engagement and acceptance in the Democratic Party."

CAIR is America's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization.

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Oh, NOES! CNN (‘Crescent’ News Network) is worried about the rising tide of anti-Islamic sentiment that is flaring up all around America

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Sep 6 2012

Left Wing Media and Muslim hate groups like CAIR seem to have no idea why Americans of all races, religions, and ethnicities, have so much loathing for all things Islam and everything it represents.

CNN  When the nation pauses to remember 9/11 next week, a group of Tennesseans will gather at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Franklin for a commemoration. But it will be more than that. On the program, called “The Threat in Our Backyard,” is a lecture on Islam in public schools and a short film on Sharia finance.
It’s a program organized by people who feel the American way of life is threatened by Islam – in particular, Sharia, or Islamic law. Sharia would bring ruin to America, says Greg Johnson, vice president of the 9/12 Project Tennessee, a sponsor of the event that advocates for shifting government back to the intent of the Constitution’s authors.
Sharia, he believes, would mean that practicing homosexuals would be put to death, women would not be educated and would be married off to men chosen by their fathers, and non-Muslims would become kafirs – nonbelievers – relegated to second-class citizenship. ”And I don’t want that coming to America,” Johnson says. He’s not alone in his fears.
A tide of anti-Islam sentiment has been swelling across America in recent months, strong enough to prompt one imam to wish for the days immediately after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks when President George W. Bush declared that Muslims were not our enemies; that the war on terror was against a select few who acted upon their hate for America. (And that was the biggest mistake of his presidency)
“In the 11 years since, we have retreated,” says Abdullah Antepli, the Muslim chaplain at Duke University who likes to call himself the Blue Devil Imam. Muslims make up less than 1% of the U.S. population. Yet, say Muslim advocates, they are a community besieged. (According to CAIR, it’s at least 3%)
Hate crimes against Muslims spiked 50% in 2010, the last year for which FBI statistics are available. (Yet, the FBI reports that the number of  Muslim hate crimes is still five times less than hate crimes against Jews) That was in a year marked by Muslim-bashing speech over the Ground Zero Victory Mosque in Manhattan and Florida Pastor Terry Jones’ threats to burn Qurans.

This year’s holy month of Ramadan, which ended August 19, was marred by a spate of violence (mainly  petty vandalism that was largely cosmetic)  at U.S. Islamic centers that included one fire (perhaps set by Muslims), a homemade bomb (actually a bottle of acid on the lawn, 3 pig legs , paintballs on a mosque door, drive-by fruiting – lemons on the lawn, and  - gasp – a broken sign. ”The incidents were unprecedented in scale and scope,” whine the Drama Queens from the Council on ANTI-American Islamic Relations, on an obsessive-compulsive Islamophobia which hunt.

SCARY PAINT BALL ATTACK

Antepli likens the current climate to McCarthyism. Left unchecked, he says, anti-Muslim fervor, like racism and anti-Semitism, has the potential to evolve into  something dangerous. (Few Muslims have been physically attacked, other than having a hijab/headbag pulled once in awhile)

Particularly visible on the anti-Muslim radar has been the state of Tennessee, where a mosque opened during Ramadan after two years of controversy. The new Islamic center in Murfreesboro opened a few weeks ago after delays caused by legal wrangling, community protests and vandalism. (Nothing like opening a mosque in a neighborhood where there are few Muslims, but lots of  Saudi money for building mega-mosques)

Also in Tennessee, incumbent congresswoman Diane Black found herself publicly opposing Sharia after her opponent Lou Ann Zelenik made it a campaign issue. State senatorial candidate Woody Degan’s website also mentions Sharia:

“VOTE CONSERVATIVE! VOTE Anti-Sharia, VOTE Against Internet Taxes, Vote FOR Gun Carry Rights! VOTE for your PERSONAL RIGHTS!”

And Gov. Bill Haslam recently came under fire for hiring lawyer Samar Ali, a Muslim woman from Tennessee (with suspected ties to radical Muslims), to work in the international division of the state’s economic development department. Ali’s critics called her Sharia-compliant and a website called Bill H(Islam) attacked the governor for pursuing “a policy that promotes the interest of Islamists and their radical ideology.”

The website links to another that discusses, among other things, Islamic infiltration of public schools. ”I cannot stress enough the seriousness of their push to spread their religion to all non-Muslims throughout our country,” says website author Cathy Hinners, another speaker at next Tuesday’s 9/11 event in Franklin.
Why do Muslims pray five times daily? ”Why? Why are Muslims so adamant that we accept their religion? The answer is simple. The answer is in black and white. The answer is in the Muslim brotherhoods “Strategic Goal for North America.” It’s called a global caliphate. One religion, one government, one law… called Sharia.”

In November 2010, more than 70% of voters in Oklahoma approved a ballot initiative to amend the state’s constitution that banned courts from looking at “legal precepts of other nations or cultures. Specifically, the courts shall not consider international law or Sharia law.” The amendment died after a left wing federal court ruled it discriminatory.
“That was very explicitly anti-Islamic,” says Glenn Hendrix, an Atlanta lawyer who specializes in international law. “It specifically referenced Sharia.” (And you don’t consider Sharia law unconstitutional? Your law license should be revoked)
This year, 33 anti-Sharia or international law bills were introduced in 20 states, making it a key issue. Six states – Louisiana, South Dakota, Kansas, Arizona, Louisiana and Tennessee – adopted such laws prior to 2012. Two Tennessee lawmakers attempted to pass a bill this year that would have made it a felony to practice Sharia, but it failed. (Try, try, again)

The HAMAS-linked Council on ANTI-American Islamic Relations says the anti-Sharia bills are based on draft legislation promoted by David Yerushalmi, an anti-Islamic lawyer from New York. (An American hero)
Yerushalmi founded the Society of Americans for National Existence, an organization devoted to promoting his theory that Islam is inherently seditious and Sharia is a “criminal conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. government,” according to the Communist Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate pro-America groups. ”Ideally,” says the center, “he would outlaw Islam and deport its adherents altogether.” (YES!)
Hendrix says anti-Sharia legislation is not necessary since U.S. courts ultimately are beholden to U.S. law. (But at least 23 American courts have used sharia law. Why haven’t the judges been fired?)

ONE OF 23 CASES WHERE SHARIA LAW WAS USED IN THE DECISION

But it sends a strong message to the Muslim community. (One would hope so)
The American Bar Association, which opposes federal or state laws that impose blanket prohibitions on foreign laws, says such legislative initiatives stigmatize an entire religious community and “are inconsistent with some of the core principles and ideals of American jurisprudence.” Valarie Kaur, a legal advocate and hate crimes specialist, says proponents of anti-Sharia bills are battling an imaginary threat.
“There is no push to install Sharia law in the U.S.,” she says. “Anti-Sharia bills target the religious principles of Muslim Americans and fuel anti-Muslim rhetoric and bias. As a Sikh American whose community has too often become the target of hate, I believe it’s time to stand against all forms of racism and religious bigotry.” (Then why are the CAIR litigation jihadists  fighting every anti-sharia bill in every state?)

For Muslims, Sharia – which means “path to the watering hole” in Arabic – is the divine law revealed centuries ago in the Quran that governs all aspects of life. More often than not, it’s the most sensational parts of Sharia – like cutting off a thief’s hand – that garner the most publicity.
A trial court in New Jersey, for instance, ruled that a husband, who was Muslim, lacked the criminal intent to commit sexual assault on his wife because Sharia permits a man to have sex with his wife whenever he wants. That’s the kind of ruling that fuels anti-Sharia activists.

Nashville health-care investor Andrew Miller says there’s no room for democracy within Islamic ideology. All you have to do is look to any Islamic state, he says. ”If you wanted to pray to a large rock and that was your God, I could care less,” he says. “But the minute you want to put a gun to my head and say you will pray to this large rock and your family will or you will pay the price, that’s when I see a bully. I see an overbearing ideology that wants to force and coerce people. ”That’s antithetical to the freedoms that we value, the liberty we value,” he says.
The message that Islam is evil has been repeated so many times – sometimes directly, sometimes in a more subtle fashion – that it has sunk in as reality in the hearts and minds of many Americans, says Antepli, the Duke chaplain.

But another part of it is orchestrated, he says, referring to “well-organized and polished” anti-Islam websites that have sprouted in recent years. Marry that with ignorance and the end result is lethal, Antepli says. The Center for American Progress, a George Soros-funded research and advocacy organization, published a report last year that attributed the rise of Islamophobia to a “small, tightly-networked group of misinformation experts truth tellers.”
The report called “Fear, Inc.” lists seven foundations that gave $42.6 million to think tanks to promote anti-Islamic thought. (So, where’s MY check?) It describes “deeply intertwined individuals and organizations” that “manufacture and exaggerate threats of ‘creeping Sharia,’ Islamic domination of the West, and purported obligatory calls to violence against all non-Muslims by the Quran.” The issue of Sharia, say some Muslims, has become a political hot potato in an election year.

GOP candidates Newt Gingrich and Michele Bachmann mentioned Sharia in their campaign speeches. This year’s Republican Party platform makes mention of foreign laws:
“Subjecting American citizens to foreign laws is inimical to the spirit of the Constitution. It is one reason we oppose U.S. participation in the International Criminal Court. There must be no use of foreign law by U.S. courts in interpreting our Constitution and laws. Nor should foreign sources of law be used in State courts’ adjudication of criminal or civil matters.”
That’s the message Miller hopes people will take away from next week’s 9/11 meeting; that the tenets of Islam go against the constitution of the United States. It’s diametrically opposed to what people like Antepli and Kaur will be saying as America remembers the horror of terrorism. Hateful sentiment, they say, is not the answer.

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DO POLITICS DEFINE 'DOMESTIC TERRORISTS'?

Press, government don't apply same labels to Muslim violence

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It only took hours following the shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin by a white male for authorities to announce the event could possibly be domestic terrorism, in sharp contrast to attacks by Muslims where the government quickly put great distance from such labels.

The shooting, which killed six, was at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., an hour before services were scheduled to begin last weekend. The alleged shooter, Wade Michael Page, who himself died, was a 40-year-old Army veteran and suspected white supremacist.

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Less than 24 hours after the shooting, Oak Creek police chief John Edwards said authorities were treating the attack as a domestic terrorist incident.

While the incident appears to fall under the definition of domestic terrorism, which is partly defined by the Patriot Act as a dangerous action intended to intimidate a ‘civilian population,” an expert on Islam says the speed by which the designation was made stands in sharp contrast to when Muslims have carried out similar attacks.

“This is part of a pattern by the Obama administration where they are anxious to label violent attacks by non-Muslims as domestic terrorism while whitewashing similar acts when they are committed by Muslims,” Robert Spencer, founder of Jihad Watch said.

“By being quick to say it was politically motivated it is designed to downplay the reality of jihad terrorist while exaggerating non-Muslim terrorist acts.”

Spencer has received death threats himself from Muslims after recently publishing his book “Did Muhammad Exist?”

When Nidal Hassan opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, killing 13, while allegedly shouting “Allahu Akbar,” officials including President Obama immediately came out saying people should not jump to conclusions about the incident. Authorities later said there was no evidence domestic terrorism was involved, but rather the event was a simple case of workplace violence.

A similar thing happened after a gunman opened fire at the ticket counter of El Al Airlines at the Los Angeles International airport. While authorities eventually ruled the incident a terrorist act, in the immediate aftermath Los Angeles Mayor Jim Hahn told the public “We have no information that indicates that this incident is connected to any terrorist attack or anything else.”

Following the shooting outside of an Arkansas recruiting center in 2009 which killed one soldier while wounding another, Abdulhakim Muhammad was not charged with domestic terrorism. Prosecutors said it was a drive-by shooting committed by a thug with a gun.

Former Congressman Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., noted the media was undoubtedly thrilled to finally get a white male right wing terrorist.

“The media was quick to label the Aurora, Colo., shooter a tea party member. It must have sent a collective tingle up the leg of every member of the media that the shooter was a white male. This is what they have been praying and hoping for, that a shooter would turn out to be a right-wing kook.

“This is typical for the media and authorities to quickly label these events as right wing terrorism while ignoring other acts of terrorism,” he said. “Look at Maj. Hassan, the Fort Hood shooter, they still don’t want to call it an act of domestic terrorism. They call it workplace violence.”

Following the Wisconsin shooting the Council on American Islamic Relations issued a statement saying, they “stand with their Sikh brothers and sisters.” However, they then suggested the shooting was intended to be an attack on Muslims.

In an e-mail Sunday, CAIR said, “Sikh men who wear beards and turbans as part of their faith are often targeted by bigots who mistake them for Muslims.”

It then went on to call on mosques to review security procedures.

Spencer said it was interesting how CAIR was attempting to suggest that Muslims were the real victims in the attack.

“CAIR was quick to suggest that this attack on the Sikhs was an anti-Muslim attack. In actuality Muslims have… persecuted Sikhs around the world,” he said.

There have been a number of indicators from the federal government regarding its perspective of domestic terror, such as a recent study from National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, or START, at the University of Maryland, which was funded by the DHS.

The study, “Hot Spots of Terrorism and Other Crimes in the United States, 1970-2008,” noted that nearly one-third of all terrorist attacks from 1970 to 2008 occurred in five metropolitan counties run by Democrats.

The counties were Manhattan, Los Angeles, Miami-Dade, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. The report went on to list groups by ideology such as right-wing, left-wing, religious and single issue.

Interestingly, key data regarding Islamic terrorism was missing from the report.

On Page 22, Table 4 lists “hot spots” for religious terrorism by decade. For the 1990s, it shows there was no religious terrorism in New York or Los Angeles and only two terrorist attacks during the 2000s.

Patrick Poole, writing in PJ Media, noted that the report apparently does not consider the 1993 World Trade Center bombing to be terrorism. Also omitted was a 1994 shooting by Rashid Baz, who killed 16-year-old Jewish student Ari Halberstam and attempted to murder dozens more in a van on the Brooklyn Bridge.

The report also ignores the 2002 shooting at the El Al ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport. Following the attack, which killed two and wounded four others, the FBI and Justice Department concluded that the shooter, Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, was an Egyptian terrorist who wanted to be a Muslim martyr.

Also, by cutting the report off at 2007, it was able to omit events such as the Fort Hood massacre by Hasan, who killed 13 people and wounded 29 others, and the Little Rock Army recruiting center, where a Muslim convert shot soldiers in front of a recruiting office.

Examples of what START considered to be “right wing” include “groups that believe that one’s personal and/or national ‘way of life’ is under attack and is either already lost or that the threat is imminent.” The report also goes on to describe right-wing “terrorists” as those who are reverent of individual liberty and suspicious of centralized federal authority.

Under such a definition, the Founding Fathers might have been considered right-wing terrorists.

WND has reported the DHS issued another report listing returning veterans and Christians who believed in end-time prophesies as potentially dangerous right-wing extremists.

A report issued by the Missouri Information Analysis Center warned law enforcement agencies to watch for individuals with bumper stickers for third-party political candidates such as Bob Barr and Chuck Baldwin. It also identified opponents of illegal immigration, abortion and federal taxes as possibly harboring radical ideologies.

http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/do-politics-define-domestic-terrorists/