Saturday, October 23, 2010
WAS NON-MUSLIM WOMAN TARGET OF CHEMICAL BOMB SET OFF BY MUSLIM TEEN OUTSIDE MOSQUE?
Back on September 23, I reported on a Muslim teen who set off a chemical bomb outside a Maine mosque. All of the islamic supremacist groups were ready to pounce on this "hate crime" until it was discovered, yet again, that it was a Muslim (most of these "attacks" on or near mosques are committed by Muslims). Then the story disappeared.
Had it been a non-Muslim playing with acid bombs outside a mosque, the American people would have been herded into Muslim Brotherhood CAIR camps. But because it was a Muslim boy, no harm, no foul.
Not so fast. Bombs, Muslims = jihad.
Creeping has this creepy update on police and FBI indifference or incompetence. Or is it submission? Via Taqiyya, She Wrote (hat tip Armaros)
Debbie’s story is rather interesting, since she was not only there when the bomb went off, but was possibly targeted.
Debbie is an employee at the Back Bay Grill. Debbie’s explanation is rather different from the news accounts and the D.A. to say the least,
“At about 7:45 I decided to go get my phone charger from my car. The Mosque (The Islamic Society of Portland) back door and parking lot is directly behind the Back Bay grill and it was filled with people and cars.”
“As I walked I saw a van loading up with women and children. The Kids ran in front of me in an obvious scurry and closed the vehicle door.”
Building on left-Islamic society of Portland, building on right-Back Bay Grill
Then she explains about the blast,
“I took several more steps and then the chemical bottle bomb exploded directly in front of me. It stopped me in my tracks. It was exceedingly loud. A child that sounded like it came from the van full of children shouted, in a proud- sort of accomplished way, “He did it! He did it!”
Debbie’s first reaction was to yell,
“Who did this, who did this?”
Then the Taqiyya began. Debbie heard the woman in the van respond,
“Not MY Children”.
As Debbie explains further, the Taqiyya continues,
“I then turned to my left and behind me and there was a Muslim man standing there, and I said, ‘Who did this? Who did this?’ And he said to me ‘Did what?’ I said, “Set off that explosion?” He said in complete denial “What explosion?”
Parking lot behind Islamic Society and Back Bay Grill
The Back Bay Grill Manager came out and she told him what happened. The manager went over and picked up what was left of the plastic bottle and looked it over.
The manager, who would later suffer from a burn on his face from the chemicals on his hands, told Debbie that while he was speaking with the men, they took the exploded bottle inside the mosque.
Debbie returned to the restaurant to calm down. She was, “scared, upset and angry.” When the manager returned he phoned the police at Debbie’s suggestion.
The manager then waited outside for the police to arrive.
The 9-11 operator was told that there was just an explosion outside the mosque. One would think that the police, fire department and ambulances would be there in a matter of minutes, right?
I have to enlighten everyone that this is not the safest part of town. It has its share of homeless people sleeping on the street, prostitutes and other characters. The main Portland Post Office is located only half a block away.
According to people I have spoken with, across the street from the Back Bay Grill is the Portland vehicle maintenance depot where all the police cars fill up at the start of their shifts. There are regularly police vehicles in this area at any given time.
15-20 minutes after the explosion the Portland Police finally arrived. That would be just the police, no fire, no EMS, no sirens, no emergency flashing lights, just the police.
When Debbie saw the police arrive she went outside. She explained,
“The police officers shouted “Walk around, walk around, there is another one” and found yet another undetonated chemical bottle bomb underneath a taxicab in the parking lot.”
She points out that one of the policemen even commented,
“How lucky everyone was to have at least one member on the bomb squad on duty this evening, otherwise we probably couldn’t do anything… The bomb squad officer used a BB gun and shot a hole in the device to relieve the pressure so it didn’t detonate.”
In a later conversation Debbie told me that the bomb squad member was actually the head of the Portland bomb squad.
Her conversation with the police and their reaction was strange as well,
“I told the police that the first bomb “had exploded about ten feet in front of me”
“The police stated that clearly this was “kids being kids” and from the start I felt as if the police were belittling the situation.”
At this point Debbie went back inside the restaurant. She told me,
“When the manager came back he said that the police were speaking with the adults from the mosque and that they had given the plastic bottle back to the police.”
One very interesting side note here, over the last year Debbie has seen the back door of the mosque go from one regular back door to three security doors. She explained to me,
“There used to be just one door, they have added on two more doors, so now, where you used to go inside the mosque through one, you now have a security type area that when you enter it leads to another door.”
Remember, the back door leads to the parking area and according to everyone I have spoken with, the back door is the one that is always used.
This is important because according to Debbie the manager told her,
“It was very important to the Muslims that the Police enter through the front door out of respect. The Muslims told the Police that they don’t let anyone use the back door.
He also told me that the Muslims brought a child forward that admitted to making the bombs and showed the police inside the mosque what he used to make the bombs.
He said it was some sort of toilet bowl cleaner. I asked what kind and he said he would go look because the police had thrown everything in the Back Bay Grill dumpster. He pulled out a large plastic bottle of toilet bowl cleaner. I thought it was weird that the police had thrown everything in our dumpster.”
[I must be watching too much CSI, I thought the police would gather all the evidence, not throw it away, silly me.] Debbie told me how she felt,
“My husband and I felt that people needed to know about this. The police had said many times that it was just kids being kids but I was there. I experienced the explosion and it was much more than kids being kids. I felt that the other people and children around knew something was going to happen. There were too many adults around for it to be kids being kids. They watched it happen and then denied it to my face. Only when police pressed the issue did the Muslims admit that an explosion had happened and move forward with admitting to what happened.”
Debbie later suffered physical pain,
“The next morning my teeth, skull, eye sockets and ears hurt. They ached, but different from a headache.”
As Debbie explained to me, it wasn’t until Friday of that week that the detective interviewed her:
“I began to explain to Detective Murphy what happened. He stopped me in mid-sentence and told me “In their eyes, as a woman, you are a speck of dirt.” That bothered me but I tried to brush it off. I proceeded to tell my story to the detective; I signed a statement that Murphy had written. He told me he’d be working with the Juvenile Prosecutor Christine Thibeault to decide what charges the child would face.”
It appeared to me that Debbie and I were getting the same runaround, as she told me,
“I called detective Murphy after two weeks had passed. He told me he was still investigating and to speak with Christine Thibeault. I called Thibeault and she told me that this is how the system works and these things take time. Both the detective and the Juvenile prosecutor told me they would call me when they knew something more. I never received any calls.”
Jessica Fletcher where are you when we need you?
It is interesting that during my research I found that three teenagers, two juveniles and an adult were charged with six counts each of criminal use of explosives, a Class C felony by the same District Attorney less than 5 months earlier for the exact same type of bombs.
As I explained in my second article,
“A bomb is a bomb and the law is the law. Yes, I can understand that they would want to know what the bomb was made of, but if the components were needed in order to charge someone most other cases would go un-charged. I can hear it now on the news. A bomb went off today, police know who did it, but since there is nothing left the perpetrator will not be charged. Yeah, right.”
So, once again political correctness, or as I like to call it “political incorrectness” has run amuck. The D.A. is obviously dragging their feet over the prayer rug that the police swept the evidence under.
Can what happened to Debbie not be classified as a “hate crime”? She was the only non-Muslim there and the one in closest proximity to the bomb. Remember, at one point during an interview Detective Murphy stated to her “In their eyes, as a woman, you are a speck of dirt.”
He understood this aspect of Islam and yet threw away the evidence or allowed it to be thrown away?
Debbie explained to me that she even contacted the local office of the FBI,
“The agent on the telephone refused to give me his name but kept saying “it sounds like a local matter and you should contact the D.A.”
What? I know Jessica Fletcher would disapprove, but can I say WTF?
The FBI doesn’t care about bombs going off? Forget that it occurred outside a mosque, forget that the main Post Office, a Federal building (the Post Office) is less than a block away, and forget that a Muslim admitted to it, it was a bomb!
During my last conversation with D.A. Anderson she told me,
“The 13 year old is changing his story, now he says that he was cleaning inside the mosque the bottle started to bubble and he threw it out the window.”
Hmmm. So where did this second bottle that the police had to disable come from? The one that she said was disposed of that we later found out was thrown away by the Portland Police?
I relayed this conversation to Debbie and she laughed saying,
“That is physically impossible since there are no windows in the mosque that look out in to the parking lot.”
There is much more, read it all here.
MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD CONGRESSMAN KEITH ELLISON SMEARS JUAN WILLIAMS AS "UN-AMERICAN"
The Muslim Brotherhood's man in Congress is calling a black American a "bigot" and "un-American," twisting the very definition of "American" to some perverted idea of sharia. This from an organization whose stated aim is "eliminating and destroying Western Civilization from within."
America, pay attention! The traitors who walk among us are removing their masks. See who conspires against us. See who sides with our mortal enemies.
Considering the notorious Islamic history of Muslims keeping blacks as slaves (abid) -- to this very day in North Africa -- it is the height of black humor (no pun intended) that this Islamic supremacist would call an honorable African American a "bigot."
Keith Ellison's trip to the haj was financed by the Muslim Brotherhood. Keith Ellison has attended pro-Hamas, anti-semitic hatefests. And it was Hamas-supporting Muslim Brotherhood CAIR that got Williams fired. Why isn't the media discussing how these extremists, like Ellison, are destroying this country?
To Williams' point, we have an entire government agency, the TSA (Transportation Security Administration), dedicated to protecting us from terrorists who are largely Muslim. We have torturous security procedures at every stage of air travel. We bear unfathomable costs in taxpayer dollars, but worse, in the surrender of privacy and individual rights because of Islamic jihad: because of the 911 Muslim terrorists, and the up to 18 British Muslims who planned to blow up seven planes and kill 4,000 Americans and/or British people in the name of Islam in 2006, and because of Richard Reid, the Muslim with the exploding shoes, and the Christmas day bomber, the Muslim with the exploding crotch.
Ellison is an extremist and should be on the terrorist watch list.
Representative Keith Ellison; Juan Williams is Un-American
“It’s just an ugly, bigoted statement… In exchange for his bigotry was able to get a $2 million contract… He should apologize profusely… I think it’s un-American what Juan Williams said.”
"Juan Williams contributes to profiling and harassing Americans," Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) said.
NPR is "well within its rights" to fire him from their "good news service."
Friday, October 22, 2010
DUSTING OFF AN OPEN THREAD
"ISLAM WEEK OF DIALOGUE": PAMELA GELLER, "THERE HAS NOT BEEN ONE INSTANCE THAT THEY RECONSIDERED GROUND ZERO MOSQUE. I DON'T THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE NEED AN EDUCATION. I THINK THAT THE ISLAMIC SUPREMACISTS NEED SOME SENSITIVITY TRAINING."
How to battle fear and hatred of Islam? For dozens of mosques around the U.S. this week, one strategy has been to host open houses for non-Muslims that also aim at building religious relationships.[...]For many, the visit has been their first time at a mosque, Uddin said, and "some are shocked to know that a Muslim could not be a Muslim until he/she believes in Jesus, Moses and Jacob."
No, I think their shock is more about the fact that Muslims are taught that Jesus, Moses, and Jacob were Muslims. But MSNBC doesn't report that. This is a news story dripping with this Islamic dawah and supremacist propaganda.
Q&A about Islam Check out MSNBC here.
Msnbc.com invited Shakeel Syed, executive director of the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, to take reader questions about the Islamic faith. This chat is moderated and will begin at noon ET. As many questions as possible will be answered within the time allotted.
Extremist television. Broadcast news dawah. Check the above link: there is a "cover it live" dialogue box, I kid you not. A coalition of extremist Muslim groups called for "interfaith dialogue" to show their support for the right to build a mega-mosque at Ground Zero. They called for a "week of dialogue" on the weekend of Oct. 22-24. And the media is all over like white on rice.
I spoke with Lauren Green of FOX News (below) on this latest propaganda attack on the American people by extremist Muslim groups. This relentless re-education/dawah (proselytizing to Islam) practiced on the American psyche is outrageous. Using our broadcast media to proselytize for Islam. Why do non-believers have to be subjected to this constant dawah and Islamic propaganda whitewashing of the most radical, intolerant ideology on earth? Did you ever see this for Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddism, Scientology? And those religions/ideologies have not engaged in a relentless, brutal war against the West, the world, and their own moderates.
The American people are sick of being deceived and misled. Stop talking, start acting. Let's see Muslim supremacist groups lay down their arms against those of us who are exposing and reporting on jihad, and instead take up the fight against the jihadist "fringe" that is at war with the West. Why is Geller or Spencer their target? Why aren't the Muslim "extremists" their target?
This is all about the Ground Zero victory mosque. Notice how they all close ranks and make it about "Islamophobia," when everyone knows it is a deeply offensive, deliberately provocative act. Opposition to the mosque is not "Islamophobia," it's "Islamorealism" (hat tip to Spencer, who coined that term years ago).
The Ground Zero islamic supremacist mosque is a horrible idea. But the pain experienced by non-Muslims and Muslims of conscience is treated with contempt by these Muslim extremist groups. The 70% of Americans are looked down upon with disdain by these Islamic supremacists. The Cordoba House is a 16-story middle finger to the America. And yet they dig in their heels and no one goes off the reservation -- exactly the same modus operandi of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, the 57-government bloc of Islamic nations.
Get your teeth out of our neck.
Mosques Open Their Doors to Neighbors in Effort to Win Over Skeptics FOX NEWS Lauren GreenThe prayers, the Koran and the people. They're the three things Muslims would like Americans to know about.
Really? Says who?
To counter negative stereotypes, Muslim leaders nationwide are flinging open the doors to their mosques, hoping to present a positive image of Islam.
"The main thing is to open the doors and to share with people, to clarify who we are so people have no fears, so we can develop stronger relationships overall," says Imam Al-Amin Abdul Latif of the Islamic Leadership Council of New York.
Non-believers are not allowed to pray in mosques. The only time non-Muslims are invited into mosques is for prosylytizing, "inviting people to islam, aka conversion."
Christine Earls of Islip, N.Y., came to an open house at the Muslim Center of Long Island. "I was always interested in the mosque and I wanted to be more educated about it," she said.
That's exactly the type of response Muslims are looking for -- people who are seekers, curious about their Muslim neighbors.
The neighborly hospitality is certainly part of the effort, but its fundamental impetus is to combat widespread opposition to building an Islamic cultural center and mosque two blocks from Ground Zero. And it's a hard task, indeed. A Fox News Opinion Dynamics Poll shows 61 percent – other polls put the figure as high as 70 percent -- oppose building a mosque so close to the site of the worst terror attack on U.S. soil, an attack that was perpetrated by Muslim extremists.
Dr. Hafiz Rehman, who hosted the Long Island event, says, "On 9/11 the planes were hijacked and the religion was hijacked. We want to build close to there so people know Muslims are mainstream Americans also."
It will be an uphill battle.
Pamela Geller, head of Stop Islamization of America, sees a sinister purpose behind the open-house PR campaign: "Dawa, proselytizing to Islam, bringing people to Islam to convert," she says.
"This is not about sensitivity. There has not been one instance that they reconsidered Ground Zero Mosque…. I don't think the American people need an education. I think that the Islamic supremacists need some sensitivity training."
But Latif maintains that this is about more than the Ground Zero Mosque. It's about conflicts over mosques across the country.
According to the Pew Forum, there have been 35 proposed mosques or Islamic centers that have encountered community opposition in the last two years, including mosques in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Portland, Maine, and Green Bay, Wis. Some people in those communities object to what seems to them like a sudden tide of new Islamic houses of worship. And that may not be too far from fact: the Pew Forum numbers show that in the last decade, there's been a more than 50 percent increase in the number of mosques in the U.S. -- from 1,209 in 2000, to 1,897 in 2010.
Geller's organization has become the biggest thorn in the side of Muslim groups like Latif's. She's helped stage protests against the Ground Zero Mosque and has taken out ads on buses and taxis that blast Islam.
"We're trying to thwart and stymie their influence," Latif says. "We don't control the media, so we figure we'll open up the mosques."
The effort, at least for now, may be working. Anthony Quintal of Bay Shore, L.I., came away saying only positive things about his visit to an area mosque.
"Contrary to what some people may think, they are just like any other faith or religion," he said. "There is good and bad in all types of people."
But they do control the media -- ask Juan Williams.
But they do control the media -- if Spencer and I instituted a "Counter-Jihad Awareness Week," do you think the media would swarm to cover it like they do this insulting dawah and whitewash?
"This might indeed be another teachable moment for America," said Mahdi Bray, executive director of a Washington, D.C.-based group called Muslim American Society Freedom. (here)
Mahdi Bray is a notorious radical representing the public face of the Muslim Brotherhood in America. This is who is "teaching" us?
Thursday, October 21, 2010
SILLY BILLY
O'Reilly has no clue what he is dealing with.
Bill O'Reilly Will Help Build Ground Zero Mosque If Imam Rauf Condemns 9/11 and 'The Jihad' (VIDEO)
Bill O'Reilly had Deepak Chopra on 'The O'Reilly Factor' (weekdays, 8PM ET) Tuesday, and during a discussion about O'Reilly's role in the Ground Zero Mosque controversy, Chopra revealed that he knew Daisy Khan, wife of Ground Zero mosque Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf.
O'Reilly had message for Chopra to deliver to Rauf through Khan:
"You tell him this. All Imam Rauf and his crew have to do is say 'we're going to dedicate this mosque -- community center -- to peace. And we are going to condemn what happened here on 9/11,"' O'Reilly stipulated. "(Then) I'll get a hammer and help them down there."
"I'm telling you, they're prepared to do that," Chopra responded.
As it stands, O'Reilly has tasked Chopra with bringing Imam Rauf onto 'The Factor,' where Rauf will presumably do his condemning, and then O'Reilly will presumably make plans to do his building.
Will this happen? Who knows. But there is no doubt O'Reilly is milking the whole Ground Zero Mosque thing for every last drop.
He doesn't know Rauf has done it already.
Now he will have to help build the mosque.
I can see the happy press conference where Bill takes a spade and does the groundbreaking, and makes a speech praising Rauf and moderate Islam..........
Uh....wait. Not so fast.
The Imam's response? Another giant middle finger .............
Irony: Mosque Imam Thinks O'Reilly Is 'Offensive' FOX Nation
Just when we thought the Bill O'Reilly-View dust-up might be dying down comes a statement from Feisal Rauf, imam of the Cordoba House at Park51, site of the proposed mosque two blocks away from Ground Zero in New York.
"Bill O'Reilly's remarks about Islam on The View were not helpful to the cause of mutual trust and understanding and only served to further fuel an irrational fear of Islam," says Rauf. "We all have a right to express our opinions. But we also have a responsibility to do so in a civil and respectful fashion."
He adds, "If future generations are to live in a safe and peaceful world, we must break the cycle of misunderstanding and mistrust that encourages extremism here and around the world. Mr. O'Reilly's uninformed comments were offensive, not only to his interviewers, but also to millions of American Muslims."
"ISLAM WEEK OF DIALOGUE": PAMELA GELLER, "THERE HAS NOT BEEN ONE INSTANCE THAT THEY RECONSIDERED GROUND ZERO MOSQUE. I DON'T THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE NEED AN EDUCATION. I THINK THAT THE ISLAMIC SUPREMACISTS NEED SOME SENSITIVITY TRAINING."
How to battle fear and hatred of Islam? For dozens of mosques around the U.S. this week, one strategy has been to host open houses for non-Muslims that also aim at building religious relationships.[...]For many, the visit has been their first time at a mosque, Uddin said, and "some are shocked to know that a Muslim could not be a Muslim until he/she believes in Jesus, Moses and Jacob."
No, I think their shock is more about the fact that Muslims are taught that Jesus, Moses, and Jacob were Muslims. But MSNBC doesn't report that. This is a news story dripping with this Islamic dawah and supremacist propaganda.
Q&A about Islam Check out MSNBC here.
Msnbc.com invited Shakeel Syed, executive director of the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, to take reader questions about the Islamic faith. This chat is moderated and will begin at noon ET. As many questions as possible will be answered within the time allotted.
Extremist television. Broadcast news dawah. Check the above link: there is a "cover it live" dialogue box, I kid you not. A coalition of extremist Muslim groups called for "interfaith dialogue" to show their support for the right to build a mega-mosque at Ground Zero. They called for a "week of dialogue" on the weekend of Oct. 22-24. And the media is all over like white on rice.
I spoke with Lauren Green of FOX News (below) on this latest propaganda attack on the American people by extremist Muslim groups. This relentless re-education/dawah (proselytizing to Islam) practiced on the American psyche is outrageous. Using our broadcast media to proselytize for Islam. Why do non-believers have to be subjected to this constant dawah and Islamic propaganda whitewashing of the most radical, intolerant ideology on earth? Did you ever see this for Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddism, Scientology? And those religions/ideologies have not engaged in a relentless, brutal war against the West, the world, and their own moderates.
The American people are sick of being deceived and misled. Stop talking, start acting. Let's see Muslim supremacist groups lay down their arms against those of us who are exposing and reporting on jihad, and instead take up the fight against the jihadist "fringe" that is at war with the West. Why is Geller or Spencer their target? Why aren't the Muslim "extremists" their target?
This is all about the Ground Zero victory mosque. Notice how they all close ranks and make it about "Islamophobia," when everyone knows it is a deeply offensive, deliberately provocative act. Opposition to the mosque is not "Islamophobia," it's "Islamorealism" (hat tip to Spencer, who coined that term years ago).
The Ground Zero islamic supremacist mosque is a horrible idea. But the pain experienced by non-Muslims and Muslims of conscience is treated with contempt by these Muslim extremist groups. The 70% of Americans are looked down upon with disdain by these Islamic supremacists. The Cordoba House is a 16-story middle finger to the America. And yet they dig in their heels and no one goes off the reservation -- exactly the same modus operandi of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, the 57-government bloc of Islamic nations.
Get your teeth out of our neck.
Mosques Open Their Doors to Neighbors in Effort to Win Over Skeptics FOX NEWS Lauren GreenThe prayers, the Koran and the people. They're the three things Muslims would like Americans to know about.
Really? Says who?
To counter negative stereotypes, Muslim leaders nationwide are flinging open the doors to their mosques, hoping to present a positive image of Islam.
"The main thing is to open the doors and to share with people, to clarify who we are so people have no fears, so we can develop stronger relationships overall," says Imam Al-Amin Abdul Latif of the Islamic Leadership Council of New York.
Non-believers are not allowed to pray in mosques. The only time non-Muslims are invited into mosques is for prosylytizing, "inviting people to islam, aka conversion."
Christine Earls of Islip, N.Y., came to an open house at the Muslim Center of Long Island. "I was always interested in the mosque and I wanted to be more educated about it," she said.
That's exactly the type of response Muslims are looking for -- people who are seekers, curious about their Muslim neighbors.
The neighborly hospitality is certainly part of the effort, but its fundamental impetus is to combat widespread opposition to building an Islamic cultural center and mosque two blocks from Ground Zero. And it's a hard task, indeed. A Fox News Opinion Dynamics Poll shows 61 percent – other polls put the figure as high as 70 percent -- oppose building a mosque so close to the site of the worst terror attack on U.S. soil, an attack that was perpetrated by Muslim extremists.
Dr. Hafiz Rehman, who hosted the Long Island event, says, "On 9/11 the planes were hijacked and the religion was hijacked. We want to build close to there so people know Muslims are mainstream Americans also."
It will be an uphill battle.
Pamela Geller, head of Stop Islamization of America, sees a sinister purpose behind the open-house PR campaign: "Dawa, proselytizing to Islam, bringing people to Islam to convert," she says.
"This is not about sensitivity. There has not been one instance that they reconsidered Ground Zero Mosque…. I don't think the American people need an education. I think that the Islamic supremacists need some sensitivity training."
But Latif maintains that this is about more than the Ground Zero Mosque. It's about conflicts over mosques across the country.
According to the Pew Forum, there have been 35 proposed mosques or Islamic centers that have encountered community opposition in the last two years, including mosques in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Portland, Maine, and Green Bay, Wis. Some people in those communities object to what seems to them like a sudden tide of new Islamic houses of worship. And that may not be too far from fact: the Pew Forum numbers show that in the last decade, there's been a more than 50 percent increase in the number of mosques in the U.S. -- from 1,209 in 2000, to 1,897 in 2010.
Geller's organization has become the biggest thorn in the side of Muslim groups like Latif's. She's helped stage protests against the Ground Zero Mosque and has taken out ads on buses and taxis that blast Islam.
"We're trying to thwart and stymie their influence," Latif says. "We don't control the media, so we figure we'll open up the mosques."
The effort, at least for now, may be working. Anthony Quintal of Bay Shore, L.I., came away saying only positive things about his visit to an area mosque.
"Contrary to what some people may think, they are just like any other faith or religion," he said. "There is good and bad in all types of people."
But they do control the media -- ask Juan Williams.
But they do control the media -- if Spencer and I instituted a "Counter-Jihad Awareness Week," do you think the media would swarm to cover it like they do this insulting dawah and whitewash?
"This might indeed be another teachable moment for America," said Mahdi Bray, executive director of a Washington, D.C.-based group called Muslim American Society Freedom. (here)
Mahdi Bray is a notorious radical representing the public face of the Muslim Brotherhood in America. This is who is "teaching" us?
Thursday, October 21, 2010
GROUND ZERO MOSQUE IMAM/SLUMLORD RAUF'S ARMANI SUITS, HOT ROD SPORTSCARS AND DAWAH
While Imam Rauf's slum tenants live in squalor.............
Imam Rauf waxes poetic on his favorite 'crafts": over at Forbes Designer clothes (hat tip Gulchgirl)
"I love clothing that exemplifies the philosophy of design. When you buy clothes of this high quality, they transcend their certain normal functions and are capable of simplifying one's life. For example, a well-cut suit fits better and a cashmere sweater is thin but keeps you warm. I am a man who takes great pleasure in wearing fine fabrics. I love Armani suits because Armani always uses the best fabrics. Also, of course, Brioni, the famous Italian designer, makes world-class suits with exquisite craftsmanship. My wife, Daisy, grew up in Kashmir, where you can find the world's finest cashmere scarves."
© Awad Awad /AFP/Getty ImagesRAUF: "Is there anything more alluring than a nicely engineered automobile? I currently drive a Lexus GS400 but am looking into the 2010 Mercedes E550. I like things of beauty--beauty in thought, beauty in spirit, beauty in creativity--and beauty in engineering is one of those things. I like a car that is beautiful, but also one that is functional, so I can use it all the time. I drive very often between our Manhattan apartment and our home in New Jersey. But if I could drive a car just on sunny, crisp Sunday afternoons, I would drive a Mercedes roadster."
RAUF: "Food preparation is about the art of quality. I agree with Julia Child who says, "You wouldn't cook a $30 lamb roast in a $15 dollar pan would you?" No, you wouldn't. A steak prepared to perfection has the ability to levitate a man, but a steak can also be cooked to taste like rubber."
All this while proselytizing to the clueless infidel readers:
RAUF: "....the difference between praying on a beautifully handcrafted Persian run and praying on an ordinary rug is like driving a Lexus vs. driving a dinky Ford. When it comes to rugs, like most works of art, it's a measure of quality that I look for. I own about 15 rugs, mostly prayer rugs, between my New York and New Jersey homes and about 15 more at my home in Malaysia. I love walking barefoot across a nice silk carpet because you can barely feel it. My favorite antique carpet is by Haji Jalili, one of the great carpet artists of the 19th century."
Rauf says,
"Something is fundamentally wrong right now," he says. "We are experiencing a crisis of commercial globalization, and we need one of spiritual globalization if we are going to heal."
A world living under Islam -- dar al islam. There are two worlds in Islam -- dar al Islam (house of Islam) and the rest, dar al harb (house of war). Spiritual globalization -- think about it.
And this from Daisy "the era of extremism is over" Khan:
"We enjoy our work so much," says Daisy, "That at any point in time we'd rather be working than anything else. We are having so much fun trying to heal the world."
Any more of their "healing" and we'll all need serious triage.
In a piece in Forbes late last year, (right before the Ground Zero Mosque was announced), Imam and slumlord Rauf extols the riches of fine living. Couture! Sports cars! Cuisine! And the world's finest prayer rugs (of course). This should solve the riddle of where our two million in taxpayer dollars were going, along with the million from the Dutch government, and his funding from Osama Bin Laden/AlQaeda-linked Saudi corporation XENEL, not to mention our funding his Middle East junkets.
While the tenants in Ground Zero mosque imam's slums in New Jersey suffer, Imam Rauf enjoys the finest offerings money can buy. Just last week, Rauf was summoned back to court (he didn't show, of course) as he was cited with more than 200 housing and health code violations over the past two months. A couple of months ago Union City filed suit against Rauf here.
The suit identified Rauf as the sole officer of Sage Development LLC, a company based at his home address in North Bergen and listed as the owner of the two buildings. The suit also alleges that Sage’s corporate status was revoked by the state in March 2005, for its failure to file annual reports.
The buildings occupy the same lot at 226 Central Ave., one containing 32 apartments and the other 16. The larger building has been vacant since Feb. 8, 2008, when a fire broke out there, one year after the city says it issued 12 separate fire code violations that Rauf ignored.
Rather than addressing the violations after the fire, the city says Rauf boarded up the building, barring residents from their apartments. A spokesman for Mayor Brian Stack said he could not immediately say what had become of the displaced families.
"He’s a terrible landlord who’s unresponsive to the residents who live in his building," said the spokesman, Mark Albiez.
Sewer pipes have not been not capped; also, an abandoned hot water heater in the basement could lead to a buildup of carbon monoxide in the building.
At buildings in Union City and Palisades Park, where Rauf reportedly got tax dollars to renovate low-income apartments, tenants said their gripes about their lousy housing conditions have been ignored.
"Why doesn't he help the tenants he has before he builds a new place, claiming he wants to help people?" said a disgusted Jamie Barillas, who lives in a Rauf-owned apartment at 2206 Central Ave. in Union City."Nothing gets done. We have to go through City Hall to get things done. . . . He doesn't care about his tenants," she said.
Barillas said that bedbugs plague the building -- but that when she tried to get building managers to respond, they claimed they didn't have the money to hire an exterminator.
Tenant Vilma Then chided Rauf as greedy.
"All he likes is money," she said. "Nothing ever gets fixed. I complain to the super, and all he says is that he has the same problem."
She also complained that Rauf's wife, Daisy Khan -- who has been the imam's spokesperson while he is touring overseas -- "listens to what you have to say and writes things down and leaves -- and nothing gets done."
"She gives nothing but false promises," the resident said.
CAFE OWNER ORDERED TO REMOVE EXTRACTOR FAN BECAUSE NEIGHBOR CLAIMED 'SMELL OF FRYING BACON OFFENDS MUSLIMS'
Really nuts. The world is descending into madness, accommodating the most radical, intolerant ideology in the world. Go figure.
Cafe owner ordered to remove extractor fan because neighbour claimed 'smell of frying bacon offends Muslims' Daily Mail Online (hat tip WR)
A hard-working cafe owner has been ordered to tear down an extractor fan - because the smell of her frying bacon 'offends' Muslims. Planning bosses acted against Beverley Akciecek, 49, after being told her next-door neighbour's Muslim friends had felt 'physically sick' due to the 'foul odour'.
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