Video hat tip The Right Scoop. Tell Huckabee what you think. Go here. And if you missed the in-depth interview with Sean Hannity -- go here. More on the rally here. Posted by Pamela Geller on Sunday, May 16, 2010 at 05:23 AM | Permalink | Comments (3) ShareThis Reblog (0) | | Digg This | Save to del.icio.us | Tweet This! But oh no, the conflict with Iran has nothing to do with Islam. Note also Kharrazi's appropriation of the language of the Left -- "the global village of the oppressed." The Leftist/jihadist alliance is one that Islamic supremacists like Kharrazi -- and others as well -- are consciously fostering. "Iranian cleric wants creation of 'Greater Iran,'" by Ali Akbar Dareini for Associated Press, May 15 (thanks to Sr. Soph): Ayatollah Mohammad Bagher Kharrazi said the creation of what he calls an Islamic United States is a central aim of the political party he leads called Hezbollah, or Party of God, and that he hoped to make it a reality if they win the next presidential election.... Kharrazi's comments were published Saturday in his newspaper, Hezbollah. He said he envisioned a Greater Iran that would stretch from Afghanistan to Israel, bringing about the destruction of the Jewish state. He also said its formation would be a prelude to the reappearance of the Mahdi, a revered ninth-century saint known as the Hidden Imam, whom Muslims believe will reappear before judgment day to end tyranny and promote justice in the world. "The Islamic United States will be an introduction to the formation of the global village of the oppressed and that will be a prelude to the single global rule of the Mahdi," the Hezbollah newspaper quoted him as saying.... Posted by Pamela Geller on Sunday, May 16, 2010 at 04:30 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) ShareThis Reblog (0) | | Digg This | Save to del.icio.us | Tweet This! But you don't have to be Jewish to distinguish between justice and injustice, right and wrong. Bolton thanked Ateret Cohanim and the Jerusalem Reclamation Project for their support in building Jerusalem, which he referred to as the “heart and soul” of the Jewish State. I love that man. U.S. President Barack Obama recently treated Afghan president Hamid Kharzi to a gala lunch at the White House and showed the kind of respect that should be displayed to Israel, “our staunchest ally in the Middle East,” John Bolton told supporters of Ateret HaCohanim. Speaking at the Ateret Cohanim annual dinner in New York Thursday night, the former American ambassador to the United Nations sharply condemned President Obama’s adoption of Palestinian Authority demands to stop a Jewish presence in areas of Jerusalem. “People should be able to buy and sell property in Jerusalem, as in any other country and clearly peace in the region is not dependent on Israel making territorial concessions,” he maintained. Following Israel’s announcement two months ago of progress in plans for building more homes for Jews in the Ramat Shlomo Jewish neighborhood, President Obama gave Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu a chilly reception at the White House, and their discussions took place without the usual lunch or dinner for visiting dignitaries. Bolton also said that the Obama administration has all but ruled out the military option to deal with the potential of Iran to produce a nuclear weapon, which it apparently is accepting as a fact, leaving Israel to deal with it by itself. He said Iran is the “cradle of terrorism, [and] has been developing nuclear weapons for the last 20 years and neither diplomacy nor economic sanctions will be effective deterrents against them.” Unless the Iranian regime is toppled, it “cannot be contained or deterred,” according to Bolton. Regarding the Palestinian Authority, Bolton declared, “The Palestinians are being exploited by their own leaders and the United States should not force either proximity or direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians because there is no legitimate Palestinian entity to negotiate with. “The United States needs to stop digging the hole that they are in because undertaking this huge diplomatic task that will result in failed negotiations will leave [it] in a much weaker position.” Posted by Pamela Geller on Sunday, May 16, 2010 at 04:26 AM in BOLTON!, Obama: Lethal for Israel | Permalink | Comments (1) ShareThis Reblog (0) | | Digg This | Save to del.icio.us | Tweet This! Jihadwatch: This man is in serious denial. And note that Holder and Smith agree that there is a difference between "Islam" and "radical Islam" and that the latter is a misinterpretation of the former. On what grounds do they believe this? Where is this peaceful, benign version of Islam that teaches peaceful coexistence with unbelievers as equals with believers in a secular society on an indefinite basis? No one has ever produced it. But everyone believes it exists. Posted by Pamela Geller on Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 04:37 PM | Permalink | Comments (10) ShareThis Reblog (0) | | Digg This | Save to del.icio.us | Tweet This! The only ones with dangerous ideas that could "harm America" are currently in power in the Executive and Legislative branch. So where does that leave free men? This cannot fly and this tool cannot be confirmed. From the Media Research Center: With the Leftist controlled media glossing over Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's lack of jucidial experience and miniscule public record, CNSNews.com reported some extrememly disturbing information regarding her position on free speech. The Media Research Center's own Matt Cover was on top of this, using Kagan's own words .. "If there is an 'overabundance' of an idea in the absence of direct governmental action - which there well might be when compared with some ideal state of public debate - then action disfavoring that idea might 'un-skew', rather than skew, public discourse." So, if talk radio suffers from an "overabundance" of conservative voices, government action to "un-skew" this particular public discourse is acceptable, according to Kagan. But wait ... there is more that the so-called "news" media aren't telling you about Kagan's legal philosophy. Kagan also asserts that government can restrict speech if it believes that speech might cause harm, either directly or by inciting others to do harm. So what does that mean to conservatives like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Mark Levin and TEA Partiers who have been attacked by the media and liberals for allegedly fanning the flames of hatred? Mark, it would certainly seem that Kagan would welcome a return of the "Un-Fairness" Doctrine to neutralize and even silence conservatives. That's why the MRC assembled the Free Speech Alliance - to serve as a strong coalition of conservatives who are taking a stand to protect and defend our free speech rights from government intrusion. Today 71 organizations and more than 500,000 citizens have taken action with us. If you haven't yet added your name to our growing petition, please click here. If you have signed it, please invite your friends to join you. At this time in our nation's history, it's crucial that conservatives stand up against attacks on our character, our religious beliefs and our freedoms. We can no longer be silent - not when we are at this dangerous tipping point! UPDATE: Kagan Was an Ivory Tower Bully -- May 14, 2010 Posted by Pamela Geller on Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 04:21 PM | Permalink | Comments (3) ShareThis Reblog (0) | | Digg This | Save to del.icio.us | Tweet This! A woman was charged with attempted murder today over the stabbing of a former Labour minister. Stephen Timms was stabbed twice in the stomach as he held a surgery for constituents yesterday afternoon. Scotland Yard said unemployed Roshonara Choudhary, 21, has now been charged. She will appear before Stratford Magistrates' Court on Monday. Mr Timms was attacked during his regular Friday afternoon surgery in his East London constituency. Choudhary, wearing what appeared to be Muslim dress, allegedly lunged at him and stabbed him twice before being restrained by a security guard and arrested. An aide to Mr Timms was hailed a hero after it was revealed he wrestled the knife out of the hands of his attacker. Andrew Bazeley, 22, bravely disarmed the woman, who had made an appointment to see Mr Timms at his surgery. Mr Bazeley was left covered in blood after he grabbed the knife and restrained her until a security guard arrived. Unmesh Desai, Mr Timms' election aide and a local councillor, said: 'Thank God Andrew had the presence of mind to get the knife. He was very brave to do what he did. 'He's a young guy and a very slim guy but he had the presence of mind to take the knife away. It's awful to think what could have happened if he hadn't been so brave.' Mr Timms, 54, had to have surgery last night and is still in hospital today but is recovering well. Witnesses to the stabbing screamed in terror as they saw the stabbing. One person who arrived moments later said she saw blood on his shirt and an Asian woman being restrained by security guards. Mr Timms - a senior Labour MP, one of the longest-surviving and least-controversial members of the former Labour Government - was taken to the Royal London Hospital and said to be in 'good spirits'. Mr Desai said Mr Timms was 'obviously shaken'. Sagal Ahmed,16, a student at Kingsford Community School, was in the community centre in Beckton when the stabbing happened. 'We just heard this big commotion so we ran in to the room,' she said. 'The security guard had grabbed this Asian woman. She was wearing a long black outfit like what Muslims wear and an orangey headscarf. I think she was a Muslim. 'She wasn't saying anything. They were just grabbing her to keep her still. She was really shaking. The Muslim woman seem shocked and distressed. It was the most shocking thing I've ever seen. Posted by Pamela Geller on Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 03:34 PM in Global Jihad 2010 | Permalink | Comments (13) ShareThis Reblog (0) | | Digg This | Save to del.icio.us | Tweet This! They've create one devoted to the topic "I hate Jews." (hat tip Laura) Posted by Pamela Geller on Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 02:49 PM | Permalink | Comments (15) ShareThis Reblog (0) | | Digg This | Save to del.icio.us | Tweet This! WND has an excellent piece on our legal battle with the US government over their illegal enforcement of sharia law and its most important tenet, do not insult Islam. Here's the SIOA story in full. Government protects Islam, rejects trademark WND Political correctness 'is everywhere, folks, in every aspect of our lives' A federal agency has rejected a request for a trademark by the organization "Stop Islamization of America" because its name may "disparage" Muslims. The group launched by Atlas Shrugs blogger Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch has drawn national attention for its bus-sign campaign offering support for Muslims who want to leave Islam. SIOA currently is organizing opposition to plans for an Islamic mosque at Ground Zero in New York City. Now the group reports the U.S. government has refused its request for a trademark designation for its name. The government response, posted on the site, states, "The applied-for mark refers to Muslims in a disparaging manner because by definition it implies that conversion or conformity to Islam is something that needs to be stopped or caused to cease. The proposed mark further disparages Muslims because, taking into account the nature of the services ('providing information regarding understanding and preventing terrorism'), it implies that Islam is associated with violence and threats," the government agency said. "The trademark examining attorney refers to the excerpted articles from the LEXISNEXIS® computerized database referencing how many Muslims view terrorists as illegitimate adherents of Islam. … Therefore, the suggestion that Islam equates terrorism would be disparaging to a substantial group of Muslims," it said. Geller commented in a report on the group's site "It is everywhere, folks, in every aspect of our lives from the big stuff (Major Hasan cover-up) to the minutia (trademark registration)," she said. "Take a look at this. Robert and I registered the name Stop Islamization of American for trademark. It was refused." A link to a 20-page summary from the government's office of trademark applications listed definitions for Islam and terror. "Accordingly, the applied-for mark is refused under Section 2(a) because it consists of matter which may disparage or bring into contempt or disrepute Muslims and the Islamic religion," the government report said. A participant in the website's forum page weighed in. "'It implies that Islam is associated with violence and threats.' IMPLIES?? … It is associated with violence and threats," "Islam is a terror group as defined by their own Quran [a]nd imams." Posted by Pamela Geller on Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 02:25 PM in SIOA: Stop the Islamization of America | Permalink | Comments (5) ShareThis Reblog (0) | | Digg This | Save to del.icio.us | Tweet This! A McLean Virginia couple was kicked out of a nice restaurant by its Muslim managers Ahmed Ahmed and Fathy Morse (pronounced mor • say). Muhammad said all dogs should be killed except the ones used for hunting. So it makes sense that a Muslim couple would throw out a disabled person and their dog, right? Muslim sensitivity and pluralism. Both the deafness blog and the news story neglect the motive. Imagine being deaf-blind and out for dinner at a nice restaurant with your partner. A service dog comes into the restaurant with you. Right after you order your drinks and get ready to enjoy your meal, the restaurant manager asks you to leave. You try explaining the ADA and the fact that under the ADA your service dog is allowed, but the restaurant still insists that you leave. This happened to a couple from Northern Virginia. Notice nothing is said about Islam: it was covered up by WJLA in DC; using the ADA as a fig leaf instead. MCLEAN, Va. - A McLean couple says they were denied service at a Virginia restaurant because of their service dog. Even after the police were called the couple says they were turned away. Last Saturday, the Calabreses say they sat down in the restaurant along with Christine's service dog, Koji. The Calabreses went outside and called police, who also called the Health Department to confirm that service dogs are allowed under state and federal law. Posted by Pamela Geller on Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 02:16 PM in Cultural Jihad | Permalink | Comments (16) ShareThis Reblog (0) | | Digg This | Save to del.icio.us | Tweet This! Posted by Pamela Geller on Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 01:52 PM in Mosque at Ground Zero: Takbir! | Permalink | Comments (6) ShareThis Reblog (0) | | Digg This | Save to del.icio.us | Tweet This! The protest at ground zero against the mega mosque is morphing into a global event. In addition to the 911 families, the tea parties in and around the New York area have joined SIOA in support of the protest of the monster mosque. In addition to the tea parties, our international partners will be joining us. SIOE (Europe) and SIOE (Bulgaria) will be flying in for the rally, as well as SIOE representatives from each country in the EU. I am also coordinating solidarity rallies in other states on June 6th that are too far away to attend the NYC rally (although many many people are coming from far and wide). The enormous masterpiece "Atrocity 911" (above) by Marc Rubin will be hung at stageside. "Its blunt imagery depicts the tragedy and the perpetrators of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attack on the WTC. Liberty ’s Lamp held high as she cries for her children while the sword of Islamic Jihad stabs her book of Law. The souls of the victims ascend from the inferno of destruction." Posted by Pamela Geller on Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 11:47 AM in Mosque at Ground Zero: Takbir! | Permalink | Comments (7) ShareThis Reblog (0) | | Digg This | Save to del.icio.us | Tweet This! Tolerance and plurality, right? A shrine to jihad on the hallowed ground of the World Trade Center. We are accomplices in Muslim expansionism. This arson attempt is fresh on the heels of the attack on Lars Vilks: Artist Attacked by Muslims During Free Speech Lecture UPDATE: VIDEO ALLAHU AKBAR! And this is not merely merely a "Danish" jihad, this is global. You must remember that the now Last night attackers tried to burn Muhammad cartoonist's house down COPENHAGEN May 15 2010 By Uwe Max Jensen, Sappho.dk During the night of May 15 unknown perpetrators smashed a window in Lars Vilks' house in Scania, Sweden, poured gasoline into the bouilding and proceeded to set fire to it. By coincidence the artist spent the night with his girlfriend and escaped with his life. After being alerted by the Swedish police, Vilks has returned to his house, where Sappho.dk contacted him at noon today. "The place is swarming with police and I can talk no further right now," Vilks told Sappho's reporter. In the background one can hear policemen talking to each other. Sappho is following the case and will soon have a man on the spot in Scania. Lars Vilks' blog is up and running again after being hacked following Islamicist attacks on him at Uppsala University last Tuesday. In a comment to this latest attempt on Vilks' life, the President of the Free Press Society Lars Hedegaard expresses his astonishment. "How was possible for these murderers to gain access to Vilks' house only a few days after a mob assaulted him at Uppsala University? What are the Swedish police and political class up to? As far as I know not a single Swedish politician has had a word to say about the attack in Uppsala. Is the truth that Swedish power-holders prefer to see Vilks killed in order to send a message to other critics of the Swedish multicultural idyll?" “Now is the time to demonstrate practical solidarity. We can all do that by purchasing the drawing his would-be murderers are so angry about," says Lars Hedegaard. Posted by Pamela Geller on Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 10:49 AM in DENMARK: Danish cartoons, Europe frontline | Permalink | Comments (4) ShareThis Reblog (0) | | Digg This | Save to del.icio.us | Tweet This! The date of the Islamic monument of conquest is set to open - September 11, 2010. More background the Imam behind the planned shrine to Islam at Ground Zero, Imam Rauf. Alyssa Lappin over at PJM: The prospective developer of a $100 million, 13-story mosque 600 feet from Ground Zero presents himself as a Muslim moderate (1). Yet Kuwait-born Faisal Abdul Rauf also boasts of his issue from an “Egyptian family steeped in religious scholarship” (2). Indeed, Feisal Rauf’s Muslim Brotherhood provenance, radical by definition, is as authentic as it gets. Rauf’s father, Dr. Muhammad Abdul Rauf (1917-2004) — an Egyptian contemporary of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna — conveyed to Feisal his family’s long tradition of radicalism, which he acquired at Islam’s closest equivalent to the Vatican, Al-Azhar University. The elder Dr. Rauf studied and taught there before fleeing Egypt in 1948. That year, Feisal Abdul Rauf was born in Kuwait. Feisal Rauf has planned for some time to further develop his father’s U.S. Islamic expansionism. In 1990, Rauf opened the tiny al-Farah Mosque at 245 West Broadway in lower Manhattan. Area residents did not even notice the mosque until 2006, when the New York State Liquor Authority (SLA) refused to license a new bar on the same block and started yanking others’ liquor licenses (3). Rauf attended grammar school and high school in the UK and Malaysia, according to his biography. He probably first lived in America only in 1965, at age 17, when his father moved from Malaysia to New York to plan and head the Islamic Cultural Center (not built until themid-1980s) (4). Rauf then obtained a BS in physics at Columbia University (5). In 1971, the family moved to Washington, D.C., where Rauf’s father headed the Islamic Center on Massachusetts Ave (6). His father, buried in Suitland, MD, at the for-profit WashingtonNational Cemetery, also founded three Malaysian Islamic studies programs, including the International Islamic University of Malaysia(7). Rauf’s early UK education and familiarization with American popular culture and values made him an acutely adept practitioner of Islamictaqiyya — deceptive speech and action to advance the interests and supremacy of Islam (8). To further that Islamic advancement, Rauf in 1997 established the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA). His Kashmir-born wife Daisy Kahn, an interior designer by profession, has run the organization since 2005 (9). Rauf then began cultivating new spheres of influence. In about summer 2002, Rauf started lecturing on Islam at the 750-acre southwestern New York campus of Chautauqua Institution, a 136-year-old non-profit where religion director Joan Brown Campbell took Rauf under her wing. Under the rubric of the “Abrahamic” faiths, a convenient cover for Rauf’s Islamic activities, Campbell subsequently named him the prospective head of a Muslim house now planned on campus by another Rauf brainchild — the 501(3)c organization Muslim Friends of Chautauqua. Rauf also befriended Karen Armstrong, the former British nun and devotee of Islam. In summer 2002, as a “theologian in residence,” Armstrong advocated for the Muslim Brotherhood — as if the father of all Islamic terrorist organizations was a progressive charity: [The MB] set up a wonderful welfare program before it was suppressed. … Factories where Muslims could work, had time for prayers, had vacation time, insurance, [learned] labor laws, [provided] clinics, they taught people how to treat sewage, drainage, and it was always the religions response to try to help modernity to give to the ordinary people the benefits of modernity in an Islamic setting that made sense to them and made things more balanced (10). In 2003, Rauf befriended leaders of Denver’s Aspen Institute, including former executive director and four-term Aspen mayor John S. Bennet. In 2004, under ASMA auspices, Rauf organized a meeting of 125 young Muslims and formed Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow. With Bennet’s help, he co-founded the Cordoba Initiative in Aspen, purportedly to “improve” Muslim-West relations (11). Rauf getsfunding from a variety of other liberal organizations, including, for example, Gloria Steinem’s Ms. Foundation. However, Rauf directly contradicted his conciliatory behavior with a firebrand interview with the Sydney Morning Herald. Terrorism, he stated, will end only when the West acknowledges the harm it has done to Muslims: The West’s role during World War II was strictly defensive, and in no way religious. Moreover, Rauf’s statements — which Daisy Kahnglossed over in a December 2009 Fox News interview with Laura Ingraham — ignored Islam’s continuous attacks, from the 7th to 16th centuries, on non-Muslim peoples throughout the Mideast, Africa, Europe, central Asia, and India (12). Rauf further reflected his antagonistic sentiments in the 2006 Copenhagen gathering he organized for the Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow. To enhance his moderate cloak, Rauf invited such liberal Muslims as Irshad Manji and Mona Eltahawy. However Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow also includes radicals like Yasir Qadhi, a favorite speaker at conferences of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), and Dhaba “Debbie” Almontasser, who works closely with Hamas’ U.S. arm — the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), itself an unindicted co-conspirator in terror financing. The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians. … It was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets (12). Rauf further revealed his antagonistic sentiments in the 2006 Copenhagen gathering he organized for the Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow. To enhance his moderate cloak, Rauf invited such liberal Muslims as Irshad Manji and Mona Eltahawy. But he also hosted radicals like Yasir Qadhi — a favorite speaker at conferences of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), among others. Perhaps Rauf founded the Cordoba Initiative in 2004 intending to build a mosque in downtown Manhattan directly across from Ground Zero. However, Rauf tipped his hand to authorities only in April 2009, when he incorporated the Cordoba Initiative in New York (13). Within months, in July 2009, he bought a future mosque site at 45 Park Place for $4.58 million in cash from the heirs to New York’s Pomerantz family. As Islamic attacks on September 11, 2001, destroyed the World Trade Center towers, falling jet debris simultaneously crushed the five-story 1923 structure some 600 feet away that until that morning housed a robust Burlington Coat Factory store (14). Over the ruin of the former retail outlet, Rauf now plans to build a 13-story, $100 million mosque. Rauf says the Cordoba Initiative bought the former retail building to prove to the world that Islam is not a violent faith (14). Imam Rauf says that New York Muslims provided nearly $5 million in cash to buy the Park Place building (16). Yet in fiscal 2009, Rauf’s ASMA received large international donations. In the year ended June 30, 2009 — days before Feisal closed the purchase — ASMA received at least $1.3 million. The largest donation, $576,312, came from Qatar (17). That Persian Gulf nation has long harbored terror financiers, and even the government stands accused of funding international terrorism. Qatar also has, for decades, hosted Muslim Brotherhood spiritual chief Yusuf al-Qaradawi. The elderly sheikh, a large and founding shareholder in the terror-financing al-Taqwa Bank, champions sharia law, wife beating, and suicide bombing. ASMA also received $481,942 from Holland’s Millennial Development Goals Fund (MDG3), $144,752 from New York’s Carnegie Corporation, $53,664 from the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA), plus donations from the Rockefeller Brothers and Hunt Alternatives funds, among others (18). The Ground Zero mosque plan is more than a little reminiscent of a program initiated by Rauf’s late father in 1965. That year, Muhammad R. Abdul Rauf moved to New York to plan and head a huge Islamic Cultural Center that took decades to realize (19). He bought prime Manhattan real estate at 96th St. and 3rd Ave — roughly two thirds of a city block — apparently with $1.3 million in funding from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Libya. The late Rauf long retained some of that land in a personal trust (19). But when construction started on the $17 million mosque in 1984, it had received funding from 46 Islamic nations. By 2010, the enormous Islamic complex had added another two buildings. Since 1984, its founders-envisioned apartment unit has been restricted to Muslims alone (20). Whenever Feisal first considered building a mosque across from Ground Zero, he had the idea firmly in mind by 2004, when he wrote What’s Right with Islam. The book was translated into many languages. In Indonesia’s Bahasa, its title translates as “The Call from the WTC Rubble.” Rauf promoted the book in December 2007 at a Kuala Lumpur gathering of Hizb ut Tahrir (20) — an organization banned in Germany since 2003, and also outlawed in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia, among other places — and ideologically akin to the MB. Both seek to replace the U.S. Constitution with Islamic law (sharia), and eventually impose Islam and sharia law worldwide. Most North American MB organizations avoid widely publicizing that aim. The HT however, at a July 2009 Khalifah conference at a suburban Chicago Hilton, openly promised to replace capitalism with Islam and sharia law (21). Feisal Rauf supports sharia law, too. Described in one Asian report as an Egyptian citizen living in the U.S., he has repeatedly stated, and writes in his 2004 book, that the U.S. Constitution is sharia-complaint. The “American Constitution and system of governance uphold the core principles of Islamic law,” Rauf wrote in his book. The “American political structure is Shariah-complaint,” he contends, since Muslim jurists over the centuries have “defined five areas of life” to be protected by Islamic law — life, mind, religion, property, and family. Only two further actions could render the U.S. more Islamic than it is already, Rauf contends: [Inviting] voices of all religions to join the dialogue in shaping the nation’s practical life, [and allowing] religious communities more leeway to judge among themselves according to their own laws (22). These assertions, however, merely fulfill the Muslim Brotherhood doctrine of flexibility — adapting to each and every environment in which the brothers eventually hope to force Islamic law upon the masses. Rauf’s claims starkly represent taqiyya, the Islamic practice of deception, to further theocratic and essentially fascist Islamic advances (23). And the additional “leeway” Rauf seeks for intra-community religious-law enforcement is a thinly veiled attempt to impose shariah more widely in the U.S., in direct contravention of the U.S. Constitution. President Obama’s June 2009 speech in Cairo challenged Muslims, as Rauf wrote in a June 5, 2009 Washington Post column (24): “Live up to the tenets of our religion, embrace Shariah law as conceived by the Prophet, and see what happens.” But sharia inhibits all kinds of freedoms, especially those of women and non-Muslims. Islamic law protects only the lives, minds, religion, property, and families of Muslims — not all peoples of all faiths, as Rauf would have us believe (25). Since at least 2006, Rauf’s Cordoba Initiative has partnered with the Gallup Organization and “a team of Sunni and Shi’a scholars from Morocco to Indonesia” to create “an Islamic legal benchmark for measuring ‘Islamicity’ of a state” for use by the public, pundits, “and state officials in both the Muslim and Western worlds.” If the U.S. is so sharia-complaint, and Rauf so strongly supports Western democracy and separation of mosque and state, why has his U.S.-based institution initiated such a project? Funded by Malaysia and many other Muslim nations in the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), no less? Rauf has often directly contradicted his seemingly tolerant and peace-loving pronouncements with harsh, antagonistic assessments of the U.S. In his May 7 Khutbah (Muslim sabbath sermon), delivered at 1:00 p.m. at 45 Park Place in Manhattan, Rauf implied that Muslims did not perpetrate 9/11 at all, according to writer Madeline Brooks, who attended (26): “Some people say it was Muslims who attacked on 9/11 … ” he stated, before trailing off into another topic. He also expressed this view in an interview with 60 Minutes aired on Sept. 30, 2001 as well (27): The attacks were “a reaction against the U.S. government politically, where we espouse principles of democracy and human rights, [yet] … ally ourselves with oppressive regimes in many of these countries. … [U.S.] policies were an accessory to the crime that happened. Not the crimes Muslims committed: “the crime that happened.” He continued: In … the most direct sense, Osama bin Laden was made in the USA (28). Rauf explained the Islamic disdain for life, as well: In the Islamic belief system, the next life is the primary life. The next life is more real, more intense, and more vivid. In short, Islam reveres death. Indeed, Islam orders its adherents to conduct jihad warfare, and promises paradise and 72 virgins to those who die in the service of Allah (29). Even Cordoba Institute’s name telegraphs the organization’s deceptiveness. Cordoba (also the name for Chautauqua’s proposed new Muslim house) was the seat of the Islamic Caliphate that ruled most of Spain from Tariq ibn Zayid’s 711 invasion through 1248, and controlled parts of Spain until its full liberation in 1492. However, neither the Umayyads (who ruled monolithically until about 1031), nor the particularly vicious Almoravids (who swept over the Atlas mountains and, in 1080, into Spain) ruled non-Muslims kindly. While Islamic harshness varied, it remained unquestionably ever-present. Rauf is not alone in his blatant whitewash of Islam’s brutal history in Spain. Many others purvey the same historical falsehood. Yet Muslim rule in Spain never remotely approached the mythic level of beneficence that Rauf pretends (30). The surviving victims of 9/11 and families of the deceased should not be alone in opposing Rauf’s proposed 13-story mosque, 600 feet from the World Trade Center site. Traditionally, Muslims have destroyed houses of worship built by virtually every other faith under the sun. Worldwide, Islam has plundered tens of thousands (if not more) of Christian churches, Jewish synagogues and holy archaeological sites, plus Hindu, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, Sikh, and other temples and monasteries. Then, in the interest of jihad, Islam has claimed all these religious places of others as their own “mosques,” forever Muslim. To allow a mosque at a place a Muslim gang destroyed on 9/11 would amount to formally blessing Islam’s 1,400-year-old tradition of exclusivity and suppression of all persons of all other faiths. It would be a 100% victory of Islam and sharia law over the U.S. Constitution and America’s time-honored democracy and pluralism. UPDATE: The wunderkin at Hill Buzz have a great idea. Personally, me thinks we ought to start a collection to build a shrine near ground zero dedicated to the millions who have died over "a millennium of jihad wars, land expropriations, enslavements, and humiliations of the conquered non-Muslim populations on three continents." working towards expunging the koran and hadiths of the violent portions that compel jihad. Posted by Pamela Geller on Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 09:04 AM in Mosque at Ground Zero: Takbir! | Permalink | Comments (4) ShareThis Reblog (0) | | Digg This | Save to del.icio.us | Tweet This!HUCKABEE VIDEO: PAMELA GELLER ON 911 MOSQUE AT GROUND ZERO
Sunday, May 16, 2010
"THE ISLAMIC UNITED STATES WILL BE AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FORMATION OF THE GLOBAL VILLAGE OF THE OPPRESSED AND THAT WILL BE A PRELUDE TO THE SINGLE GLOBAL RULE OF THE MAHDI"
TEHRAN, Iran - A radical cleric called Saturday for the creation of a "Greater Iran" that would rule over the entire Middle East and Central Asia, in an event that he said would herald the coming of Islam's expected messiah.
BOLTON: OBAMA RESPECTS AFGHAN PRESIDENT MORE THAN NETANYAHU
Bolton: Obama Respects Afghani President More than Netanyahu Fern Sidman
Saturday, May 15, 2010
HOLDER'S STEALTH JIHAD
OBAMA'S ATTACK ON FREE SPEECH: SCOTUS
MUSLIM WOMAN STABS LABOUR MP STEPHEN TIMMS
"Choudhary, wearing what appeared to be Muslim dress, allegedly lunged at him and stabbed him twice before being restrained by a security guard and arrested."
Woman charged with attempted murder over stabbing of Labour MP Stephen Timms
Daily MailDOES FACEBOOK "HATE JEWS"?
Facebook has a new feature -- new "Community Pages" a new way to hate Jews.GOVERNMENT DHIMMITUDE REJECTS SIOA TRADEMARK
MUSLIM COUPLE THROWS OUT DEAF COUPLE AND THEIR POOCH
Service Dog and Humans Kicked Out of Restaurant (hat tip Dan)
Forty-seven-year-old Christine Calabrese is legally blind, hearing impaired and suffers from severe balance problems. She needs her service dog for help walking in addition to seeing and hearing. But on a trip through southern Virginia the Calabreses were told the dog was not welcome at an area restaurant.
In a letter that John and Christine Calabrese are sending to the Justice Department, they claim that Napolis Italian Restaurant in Altavista, Virginia violated Christine's human rights
"They took our order for drinks. So I thought everything was fine," said Christine Calabrese.
But they were soon asked to leave by the managers, Ahmed Ahmed and Fathy Morse. John Calabrese says he repeatedly explained the Americans with Disabilities Act, but without success.
"He leaned over and said to me 'I know my business. That dog is not allowed,'" said Calabrese.
"And advised them what the consequences would be and they still refused to allow the lady with the dog into the restaurant," said Deputy Chief Kenneth Walsh with the Altavista Police Department.
The couple and their dog were still turned away.
Manager Fathy Morsy says he didn't know about the Americans with Disabilities Act and he says the Calabreses were being rude.
"I say 'just leave it outside,' because the people were complaining...they tell me 'no,'" said Fathy Morsy. "And he was talking with me, you know, it was not in a good way, you know."
Rude or not, Christine says hopes no other people with disabilities are treated the same way.
"I would like to prevent this from happening again, that's my ultimate goal," said Christine Calabrese. "I always try to make things better for the next disabled person to come along." PAMELA GELLER ON HUCKABEE TONIGHT
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