WE ARE SUING MIAMI-DADE TRANSIT! HELP US FIGHT!
Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad as Muslim prophets -- not offensive to Jews and Christians!
Today I am proud to announce that Robert and I are going to file suit against Miami-Dade Transit for killing our "Leaving Islam" campaign. We will sue for breach of contract and violation of the first amendment.
I am deeply grateful that David Yerushalmi, P.C. (sharia legal expert) and The Thomas More Law center will handle this matter as fully pro bono. Baruch Hashem! But there are costs involved. I am asking Atlas readers, SIOA and FDI supporters to please donate to the legal fund. Please. Yerushalmi does not raise funds from the public like TMLC, so any funds I can raise to offset his costs allows him to do more of these.
We need to do this. People who want a tax deduction can send their checks to: Society of Americans for National Existence (or just SANE) P.O.B. 6358 Chandler Ariz 85246 Re: FDI Legal Defense Fund Attached is SANE’s IRS letter: Download 501c3IRSAcceptanceLtr
If you prefer to donate online: Paypal your donation to director@jihadwatch.org
In December 2008, the Miami Herald ran this piece on the dawah (invitation to Islam) bus ad campaign that ran in Miami-Dade and Broward counties. Buses ran for eight weeks, from early November to the end of December 2008, according to Phyllis Berry, spokeswoman for the Broward CountyTransportation Department.
BY LISA BOLIVAR Special to The Miami Herald December 2008
City buses in Broward and Miami-Dade counties have been advertising information on a religious topic that some people have found surprising -- Islam.
The advertisement reads ''Islam: Got Questions? Get answers,'' and gives this telephone phone number: . It is an effort to educate Americans about a faith that has been villainized in the media, said Dr. Sabeel Ahmed, a physician from Chicago who is director of the effort.
[...]MANY CALLS
Berry said she has fielded many calls from people who wanted to know why the county was promoting Islam.
''It's been very interesting. . . . We have received calls and e-mail from people who expressed concerns, but after explaining that we have a policy that does not allow anyone's religion to be demeaned and there is such a thing as the First Amendment, people still may not like it but they understand,'' Berry said.
She said that in the past, buses have carried advertising for churches, arranged by an independent company.
''It's freedom of expression, but my initial thought was it shouldn't be allowed,'' Berry said. ``But it's about fairness, it's about the law and it's about what it's like to live in America. We don't always like the law, but it's there for a reason.''
Berry said many of the complaints were prompted by the mention of Judaic prophets such as Abraham, Moses and Jesus in the same line with the prophet Mohammed. But ''they did not demean anyone's religion,'' she said. MANY QUESTIONS
Ahmed said many of the calls that came into his Chicago call center were about the four prophets.
``The common question is: How come we are including Jesus with other human beings because he is the son of God to them and we should not be including him with other human beings.
``So we politely respond to them the position of Jesus in Islam, that he is a prophet of God, he invited people to worship God, he worshiped God, and he was given a revelation, just like the prophets of the past.''
When Altaf Ali, director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Florida, learned of the Chicago project, he requested that it be extended to South Florida. He said CAIR embraces the goals of the campaign.
Friday, April 16, 2010
MIAMI TRANSIT PULLS SIOA "LEAVING ISLAM" ADS: LIVING UNDER SHARIA
Miami Transit has pulled our ads.
This is living under sharia (Islamic) law. They are pulling our SIOA ads off the buses in South Florida because they offend Muslims.
So Muslims can run bus ads all across America inviting the clueless to convert to Islam, but we cannot make information available to Muslims who want to leave Islam.
Still think this is a free country? At least three of the bus companies that ran the dawah (invitation to Islam) bus ads turned down our ad. And Miami tore the ads down in less than 48 hours.
It's wrong. Let Miami-Dade Transit know. Contact Karla Damian kdamian@miamidade.gov
Miami-Dade Transit says it will remove `offensive' bus ads JAWEED KALEEM, Miami HeraldMiami-Dade Transit is pulling advertisements from 10 buses that South Florida Muslims have said are offensive to Islam.
The ads, which went up Tuesday, said ``Fatwa on your head? Is your community or family threatening you?'' and directed Muslims to a website to encouraging them to leave Islam.
Robert Spencer, who heads New York-based Stop the Islamization of America, which purchased the ads for one-month as the first leg of a national campaign, said they were ``offered in defense of religious liberty.''
But on Thursday, Miami-Dade Transit spokeswoman Karla Damian said that after reviewing the ads, the department decided they ``may be offensive to Islam'' and would remove them before the buses ran on Friday.
Damian said the ads were able to initially go up because Miami-Dade Transit has an outside company sell ad space and does not routinely review ads before they run.
The South Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations had critiqued the ads as promoting ``bigotry'' and making false statements about Islam.
``Islam guarantees freedom to and freedom from religion. . . . [We] reject as un-Islamic any extremist interpretation that sanctions the killing of any individual because she decided to `leave Islam,'' said director Muhammed Malik.
Liar. Muhammad Malik is part of CAIR, the Hamas-tied un-indicted co-conspirator, Muslim Brotherhood terror-tied group. And if what Malik said were so, the ads would run. And what about the thousands of dead apostates, or Al Azhar University, the leading Islamic university in the world, that issued this fatwa -- a death warrant on apostates:
Here is the fatwa, proof that death "is a very normal part of Islamic law for apostasy and for every muslim its an honor to CLEAN the umma if Rifqa is dead."
Fatwa committee concerning the case of a man who converted to Christianity: "Since he left the Islam, he will be invited to express his regret. If he does not regret, he will be killed pertaining to rights and obligations of the Islamic law."
The bus campaigns that Muslim Brotherhood groups (CAIR, ICNA, ISNA) were sponsoring across the country inviting conversion to Islam (dawah) were deceptive and injurious. So I created this bus campaign especially after what I saw was done to Rifqa Bary.
Our pro-freedom campaign rolled out on Monday and was pulled today. Here are the ads that ran promoting conversion to Islam --
San Francisco
Twin
Cities
Miami
UPDATE: Robert Spencer writes here:
Submission. The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations can run bus ads all over the country calling Abraham, Moses and Jesus Muslim prophets, an assertion offensive to any Jew or Christian, but a human rights group cannot run bus ads defending religious liberty. Some groups that are "offended" get contempt and mockery if they express their feelings of offense. Others get immediate results, perhaps due to the thuggish nature of their coreligionists.
UPDATE: I want to thank readers who have sent me their letters to Ms. Damien, like this one.
Dear Ms. Damian:
I recently read of your department’s decision to pull the bus ads that provided information to individuals who desire to leave Islam. I understand that the department arrived at its decision because it was “offensive” to Muslims. Considering that the County uses public buses for advertising revenue and that by doing so it solicits the public to use such space for public speech, the department’s decision to pull an ad off a public bus because a minority group may perceive it as “offensive” is tantamount to governmental interference with free speech (See the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution, Section 4 of the Florida Constitution and Virginia v. Black, 538 U.S. 343 (2003)). Moreover, I have to wonder to what degree the advertising party’s contract rights have been interfered with. In any event, by pulling these bus ads, I presume that the department will be vigilant in monitoring ads in the future so that they not offend any “minority” (e.g., I have to imagine that ads for strip clubs, raunchy radio stations must be offensive to some minority population in the County). This is a very disappointing example of politically correct government, once again, kowtowing to the perceived offenses of a minority and establishes a precedent vis-Ã -vis bus advertising on public buses in Miami-Dade County. Every day it seems that any minority can yell that “so & so” uttered an opposing viewpoint and that such a viewpoint is “offensive, racist, hate speech, bigotry, etc.” (the ad in question was clearly not hate speech insofar as it did not communicate a serious expression of intent to commit an act of unlawful violence or an intent to intimidate) with the end result being that the minority’s perceptions override precepts of freedom of speech, debate and the free marketplace of ideas. To be clear, I have seen the ads promoting Islam on Miami-Dade County buses and I consider such advertising to be protected speech under the aforementioned cited authorities. However, your department’s decision in the instant matter is troubling and very disappointing. Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Jose Antonio Llerena, Esq.
We need a legal fund for a lawsuit.
UPDATE: Don't play the dhimmi, don't kowtow, don't accept Islamic supremacists' version of events
Its a shame things are so 1 sided. I wonder if Mrs. Geller toned it down to a level where Cair wouldnt be able to make an intollerance complaint but could still get the message out if this could be successful.
You're whistling in the dark. Everyone tones down what they say in order to placate the Muslims. Ultimately that is the road to Sharia and dhimmitude. What is offensive about our ad? What is wrong with its tone? Apostates are threatened and killed all over the world. We offered them help. What would you suggest we tone down? What would you suggest we not say in order to please them? Why must we always play this game, instead of speaking the truth without fear? There is nothing objectively wrong or offensive about our ad. You're falling into their trap, allowing them to define what is offensive and what isn't. I refuse to do so.
PAMELA GELLER, AMERICAN THINKER: GENOCIDE IN SOUTH AFRICA
Genocide In South Africa Pamela Geller, American Thinker
The genocide of white South Africans is heating up.
Last week, South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) finally told its members to stop singing the song "Kill the Boer" -- that is, murder white South Africans. (Boer is Afrikaans for "farmer," but colloquially is a disparaging term for any white South African.) This came after ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema defied a court ruling and kept singing the song (he still refuses to stop), and after Eugene Terreblanche, leader of the noxious and hateful neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB), was found savagely bludgeoned to death at his farm in South Africa's North West province.The international media focused on Terreblanche's white supremacism, showing his followers giving the Nazi salute at his funeral. No account of his murder or funeral spoke about Malema, "Kill the Boer," or black supremacism -- yet that is the really important story in South Africa today.Whites in South Africa are keenly aware of the plans to kill them. They expect mass killings to begin very soon after the death of Mandela, but to tell this to the world is a waste of energy. More than 3,000 white farmers have already been murdered, and Genocide Watch lists the Boer farmers in South Africa as victims of genocide -- but the media couldn't care less. Malema has praised Zimbabwe's murderous seizure of white-owned farms as "courageous and militant." White South Africans know what's coming.Malema keeps singing the apartheid-era song "Kill the Boer" even though South Africa's highest court ruled that the song was hate speech (a decision the ANC is appealing, although they've asked their followers to stop singing it in the meantime; they've emphasized that they have not banned the song).Under ANC rule, the government has stopped reporting the race of murder victims and the race of the murderer. This is because the international community (mainly GenocideWatch.org) was starting to notice the disproportionate number of whites being murdered in South Africa. The ANC stopped reporting the race of the victims of murder so there would be no way to track the number of black-on-white murders. Problem solved.A Jewish journalist in Johannesburg wrote me last week to shed light on the Malema situation, and on the chaos and deteriorating conditions in that country. About Malema he lamented: "Why isn't anyone standing up to this moron, not even the president?" He noted another South African journalist's observation: "The problem surrounding Malema is that he is basically a ‘dumb orator with popular support.' Like Hitler."Another AtlasShrugs.com reader in South Africa wrote this to me:Have you searched facebook "Julius Malema" I see they have closed down his account, but a new one has already opened with over 2000 fans already.
The remarks there were really horrible.
They have threatened to "Rape all the white whore bitches and burn all their children"
....makes me sleep with one eye open.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
SO ...ISLAM ON CAPITOL HILL IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL, RIGHT?
I pray that this grotesque display of Islamic supremacism is banned along with this insane ruling. If someone hasn't initiated a lawsuit to ban this abomination on Capitol Hill, I will.
Federal judge rules Day of Prayer unconstitutional Yahoo news
MADISON, Wis. – A federal judge in Wisconsin ruled the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional Thursday, saying the government cannot call for religious action.
Congress established the day in 1952 and in 1988 set the first Thursday in May as the day for presidents to issue proclamations asking Americans to pray. The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Madison-based group of atheists and agnostics, filed a lawsuit against the federal government in 2008 arguing the day violated the separation of church and state.
President Barack Obama's administration has countered that the statute simply acknowledges the role of religion in the United States. Obama issued a proclamation last year but did not hold public events with religious leaders as former President George W. Bush had done.
Government involvement in prayer is constitutional only as long as it does not call for religious action, which the prayer day does, U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb wrote in her ruling.
"It goes beyond mere 'acknowledgment' of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function in this context," Crabb wrote. "In this instance, the government has taken sides on a matter that must be left to individual conscience."
SCENES FROM JIHAD: BULGARIA 1876
But let me tell you what we saw at Batak ... The number of children killed in these massacres is something enormous. They were often spitted on bayonets, and we have several stories from eye-witnesses who saw the little babes carried about the streets, both here and at Olluk-Kni, on the points of bayonets. The reason is simple. When a Mohammedan has killed a certain number of infidels he is sure of Paradise, no matter what his sins may be ... It was a heap of skulls, intermingled with bones from all parts of the human body, skeletons nearly entire and rotting, clothing, human hair and putrid flesh lying there in one foul heap, around which the grass was growing luxuriantly. It emitted a sickening odor, like that of a dead horse, and it was here that the dogs had been seeking a hasty repast when our untimely approach interrupted them ... The ground is covered here with skeletons, to which are clinging articles of clothing and bits of putrid flesh. The air was heavy, with a faint, sickening odor, that grows stronger as we advance. It is beginning to be horrible.
—Eyewitness account of J. A. MacGahan on Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria, in a letter to the London Daily News of August 22, 1876 (hat tip Michael)
More horror here.
CAIR LAWFARE ARMY: OPENING FRONTS IN THE WAR NATIONWIDE -- ATTENTION MUSLIM SHOPPERS ......
This is how you build an army in the stealth jihad against America.
I hope CAIR is advising the Muslimas that porn pics on the side won't help their "modesty" case. (hat tip Patti)
CRESCENT LOON WATCH
Check out this scan from page 9, NY Post, April 14.
Good to see that big media (NY Post) is actually printing the obvious. Whether O is a crypto-Muslim is irrelevant. Because even if he were, what would he be doing differently? لا شيء
NOW HE'S A CRESCENT LOON NY Post
The first time I saw the swirling logo for the Nuclear Security Summit, it looked familiar. I soon figured out what it reminded me of: a crescent moon.
The kind of crescent moon you see on the flags of Muslim countries (from left: Turkey, Algeria, Tunisia and Pakistan).
Indeed, the crescent, often with a single or multiple stars, is the main symbol of Islam. So now there is something like it at an official presidential event, prominently displayed in photographs being beamed around the world.
No, I am not suggesting President Obama is a secret Muslim. But I am certain the crescent-like design of the logo is not a coincidence, especially at an event where Iran's nuclear ambition and al Qaeda's search for a bomb are prime topics.
Obama has been open about his aim to improve America's relations with Muslims. His bowing and apologies are nauseating, but they are consistent with his goal.
And so is having a crescent-like logo at an event attended by Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani (above), among others. The Washington Conference Center is plastered with the design, which includes a solid white circle above the arc, all superimposed on a world map.
FORT HOOD IMPLEMENTATION MEMO IS GROUNDS FOR FIRING: WHAT ABOUT THE THREAT DOCTRINE?
The Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, issued his "interim recommendation of the Fort Hood Follow-on Review." It is a stunning indictment of Gates gross negligence and grounds for dismissal.
Gates' implementation memo, as well as a detailed description of the actions to be taken on each of the 26 recommendations, can be found here.
I cannot for one second imagine Donald Rumsfeld issuing such an idiotic dhimmi report addressing everything that's nothing and nothing that's everything and avoiding the impetus for the massacre at Fort Hood -- jihad. Gates can circle jerk all he wants, but there is nothing in this report that will alter the outcome of the next jihad on the military.
It is dangerously incompetent and fatal -- to our troops.
Below is the power point presentation given by Major Muslim Hasan on grand rounds. He is, in effect, announcing his jihad. It is such a good and succinct primer to Islam that I use when making presentations on jihad.
Classmates who participated in a 2007-2008 master’s program at a military college said they had complained to superiors about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s anti-American views, which included his giving a presentation that justified suicide bombing and telling classmates that Islamic law trumped the U.S. Constitution. (more here)
Juxta that with the "recommendations of goody Gates:
1) Pilot program to report suspicious activity? Is devout Islam suspicious? Is Islamic fundamentalism suspicious, or would that be defaming islam, islamophobic and "racist"?
2) Law Enforcement Data exchange. Is jihad considered criminal activity? If so, where in this document does it say that?
3) More inter-departmental crap.
The report dictates that the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and America's Security Affairs as the DoD lead for the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force program.
4) Incorporate Department of Homeland Security's best practices? Like what -- targeting vets and tea partiers?
Further, the report lists some near-term actions to be taken to remedy the intelligence failures, including 26 of the 79 recommendations made by a panel charged with reviewing the shooting.
Like what? More sharing of "health care assessments." Are they saying Islam is a mental illness. or will they use mental health issues to persecute and court martial patriots?
The irony in all this is that the best recommendation to address jihad in the military came from Major Hassan's own power point presentation.
"Department of Defense should allow Muslim soldiers the option of being released ......"to increase troop morale and decrease adverse events."
PAY UP, SLAVE!
It's tax day. 50% of American households don't pay federal tax. So pay up, slave!
An Inconvenient Tax
Today is Tax Day -- and it is also the premiere of An Inconvenient Tax, a new documentary about one of our messiest problems: a fundamentally broken tax code that affects every aspect of our lives. With over 16,000 changes to the tax code in the last two decades alone, many Americans want something better -- but few know where to start. This feature-length documentary film describes the complex evolution of the tax code through U.S. history and reveals the many ways Congress uses the tax code to achieve political goals that have nothing to do with raising revenue.
Tonight, John Stossel will devote an episode of his new Fox Business Network show to the issue of tax reform. An Inconvenient Tax filmmakers Vincent Vittorio and Chris Marshall will appear as special guests. Stossel airs at 8 p.m. and 12 midnight EST.
An Inconvenient Tax will be screening today in over forty locations nationwide, including theaters in Georgia, Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, and Wisconsin. The film will also show at Harvard, M.I.T, University of Florida, New York University, Gonzaga University, Syracuse University, University of Michigan, University of Georgia, Chapman University, Arizona State University, Berkeley, University of Baltimore, University of Miami, Temple University, and more. An Inconvenient Tax will even screen internationally in Australia and Israel! Visit the film's official website to watch the trailer and to get showtimes, ticket info, and locations.
And the Morning Bell: How Tax Day Became Payday
For just over half of all Americans today is Tax Day. But for the other half it is just another day on the calendar. That’s because they pay no federal income taxes. The old saying goes “you can’t get something for nothing.” But these “non-payers” receive government services and benefits without chipping in.
If more taxpayers continue to drop off the tax rolls, we will soon pass the dangerous tipping point
The explosion of tax credits in recent years is the main reason that more than half of all taxpayers could soon pay no federal income taxes. Both political parties are fond of credits because they can use them to target benefits at politically valuable groups – think credits for buying hybrid cars or improving the energy efficiency of your home, for instance.
To make matters worse, most non-payers not only pay no income taxes, they actually collect cash payments through the tax code. For these recipients of government redistribution, Tax Day has become pay day. They get this cash because of refundable tax credits. Refundable credits can not only wipe out all of a taxpayer’s income tax liability, but also send them cash for any remaining credit value. President Barack Obama once promised to simplify the tax code, but his agenda has actually made this problem much worse.
The President's failed $862 billion stimulus plan created the Making Work Pay refundable tax credit which redistributes up to $800 to filers earning less than $190,000 per year. The stimulus also: expanded the Hope Scholarship credit (renamed the American Opportunity Education credit) and made it refundable; expanded the child tax credit; and expanded the earned income tax credit (EITC). In 2010, the three largest refundable credits (the earned income tax credit, the Making Work Pay credit and the child tax credit) will redistribute over $114 billion from payers to non-payers.
To fund these giveaways, President Obama campaigned on a plan to raise the top two income tax rates for those earning more than $250,000 per year ($200,000 for single filers). Already the top 10% of income earners pay 71% of all federal income tax revenue. This may seem like a great deal for non-payers, but ultimately there is no such thing as a free lunch. Redistributing wealth through the tax code only stifles innovation and job creation. Small-businesses employ just over half of U.S. workers and a recent study by the Kaufman Foundationfound that small businesses have led America out of its last seven recessions, generating about two of every three new jobs during a recovery. But since most small businesses are unincorporated, so business income is treated as personal income, high income taxes hit small businesses the hardest. So while non-payers may enjoy a once a year pay day from the federal government thanks to all their tax credits, they are also the eventual victims of the resulting small-business-job-killing higher income taxes rates.
The income tax code is supposed raise revenue for necessary government functions while distorting economic behavior as little as possible. Congress should do three things immediately to stop the tax code from being used as a vehicle for social engineering and wealth redistribution:
(1) Stop creating new credits, especially refundable ones. This would stop knocking more taxpayers off the income tax rolls and slow the growth of cash payments through the tax code.
(2) Allow the Making Work Pay Credit to expire. Under current law, the Making Work Pay Credit expires in 2013. Congress should let it expire since it removes many taxpayers from the tax rolls and – because it’s refundable - makes more families dependent on the tax code for income.
(3) Extend the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for all taxpayers. President Obama has long wanted to raise taxes on those making more than $250,000 a year. Doing so would increase the share of income taxes paid by top-earners and facilitate the move to push the tax code faster to the point where a majority of taxpayers pays no income tax. Extending the tax cuts for all taxpayers would prevent that acceleration.
Fundamental tax reform is the only way to ensure that all Americans have a stake in controlling the size of government. Reversing the rapid expansion of dependency that is being facilitated by the tax code will not be easy. Many tax filers have grown accustomed to not paying taxes and receiving cash payments through the tax code. That is why we’re conducting a Tax Day Money Bomb today to send our elected officials a message that their reckless spending ways must end. Our goal is to raise $150,000 — money that, unlike your tax dollars, won’t be wasted.
...where more than half of taxpayers are non-payers. The individual income tax is the main revenue raiser for federal government. Passing the point where less than half of taxpayers pay it would mean a majority of voters could vote themselves more and more government benefits without incurring any of the costs. In this unstable situation, politicians would have no incentive to restrain government spending since they could garner more votes by increasing it. That is a deadly recipe for never-ending increases in government spending that will inevitably lead to fiscal implosion when there are no longer enough productive taxpayers to foot the bill for the expanding state.
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