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Minnesota mosques, Muslim orgs complain about anti-terror program
Complete Fox News article Atlas Shrugs ^ | 5/1/2015 | Pamela Geller

Posted on 05/01/2015 8:17:16 PM PDT by markomalley

Muslim agitation, attrition, the litigation jihad accompanies all counter terror programs in these United States. We are constantly being told, scolded, admonished and clubbed with the now well worn meme that “only a tiny minority” “a radical few” Muslims engage in jihad. And yet we never see Muslim organizations supporting, encouraging cooperation and applauding any counter terror efforts.

Why is that? Based on everything we are constantly being told about moderate Muslims – this is an impossibility. And yet this impossibility is our constant companion.

Is it any wonder there is a stream of young Muslims from these communities and mosques flocking to the Middle East to slaughter alongside the Islamic State?

cair poster

Above: Hamas-tied CAIR poster

“Minnesota mosques, Muslim orgs complain about anti-terror program”, Jihad Watch, May 1, 2015

Have you ever — ever! — seen Muslim organizations anywhere in the U.S. express their unreserved support for any anti-terror program? Instead, again and again we get this complaining that such programs stigmatize and discriminate against them. One might almost get the impression that Hamas-linked CAIR and the other Muslim groups involved here don’t want anti-terror programs to succeed. Surely that couldn’t be so, now, could it?

“Minnesota mosques, Muslim orgs raise concerns with anti-terror recruitment pilot,” by Mike Durkin, KMSP, May 1, 2015:

Nearly 50 mosques, Muslim organizations and student groups have signed a statement that highlights concerns with a federal pilot program to combat radicalization and terror recruitment in Minnesota.

“While we support the right of all Americans to live in democratic communities free of violence, we cannot in good conscience condone or help refine programs that are fundamentally discriminatory and are likely to further subject our community members to additional civil rights abuses,” said the statement released by the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

The statement lists 44 Muslim organizations as undersigned supporters, as well as the National Lawyers Guild.

Alternative plan suggested

“It is our recommendation that the government stop investing in programs that will only stigmatize, divide and marginalize our communities further,” the statement said.

The groups instead suggest the following framework to combat extremism:

Support for a Minnesota Muslim community-based task force, which is currently under development to serve as an outreach resource for law enforcement agencies.

Funds for anti-radicalization programs should be separated from federal counter-terrorism and law enforcement agencies. Instead, funding should come from foundations, community organizations and state and local government.

The Department of Justice should protect groups and individuals who intervene with those they believe are vulnerable to recruitment into extremist groups. Those who intervene should not be penalized with prosecution, watch-listing or surveillance because of their association with a potential violent extremist.

The statement also calls on Congress to investigate the federal government’s “overbroad surveillance of mosques and American Muslims, absent evidence of criminal activity.”

Community Resiliency Program

This Justice Department pilot program is designed to combat the recruiting of young men and women for terror by getting at root causes, like unemployment and a lack of opportunity. Other programs were started in Los Angeles and Boston, but Minnesota is the program everyone is watching. That’s because as many as 40 people have left Minnesota since 2007 to fight for al-Shabaab in Somalia and ISIS in Syria.

“There is a very sophisticated and persuasive message coming from overseas, that you have a better life, a more meaningful life, fighting overseas for terrorists,” U.S. Attorney Andy Luger said.

Luger wants to combat that message in several ways.

– Youth and after school programs

– Job fairs and job training programs

– Eliminate ethnic profiling at the airport

– Get more Somalis in law enforcement careers

– Increase engagement between religious leaders and youth

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota is reviewing the statement released by CAIR regarding its pilot program.

Organizations listed on CAIR letter of concern
Read a complete copy of the letter at http://bit.ly/1I3DfD9
Council on American Islamic Relations CAIR MN
Global Somali Diaspora
Muslim Youth and Family Services
Islamic Relief & Social Services
African Family and Education Center
Abubakar As-Sidique Islamic Center
Tawfiq Islamic Center
Islamic Center of Twin Ports “ICTP”
mYouth
Brooklyn Park Islamic Center
Building Blocks of Islam
al-Mahmood Foundation
ICM-Muslim Youth of Minnesota
Dar Al-Farooq
Al Farooq Youth & Family Center
ICCMN/Al-Iman Center
Masjid Al-Ihsan
Islamic Center of Owatonna (Masjid Al Rahma)
Burnsville Mosque (Al Salaam)
Roshester Islamic Center
Irshad Islamic Center Eden Prairie
Masjid Al-Huda (ICCC)
Masjid Al Tawba/Eden Prairie Islamic Center (ICCC)
Ummatul Islam Center
Masjid Ash-Shafi
Masjid As-Sunnah (St Paul)
Minnesota Dawah Institute
Al Farooq Youth & Family Center
Dar-Alqalam Islamic Center
Abubakar As-Sidique Islamic Center-Faribault MN
Masjid Rowdah
Masjid Ni’mat ul-Islaam
Muslim student association SCSU
Mankato Islamic center
Islamic Center of Minnesota
Abukhadra Mosque
Al-Madinah Cultural Center
University of Minnesota Muslim Student Association
University of St Thomas Muslim Student Association
MCTC- Muslim Student Association
MNIA
MCC
Engage Minnesota Muslims
Global Deaf Muslim the Minnesota chapter◁◁

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1 posted on 05/01/2015 8:17:16 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

I hear the bank robbers, shoplifters, burglars and rapists don’t like the police department’s “anti-crime” program.


2 posted on 05/01/2015 8:21:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: markomalley

Well, folks, while we are wasting our resources trying to intervene in the Sunni vs Shia fights in the Middle East, we have invited the enemy to come on in to our country. It doesn’t matter what we do there as long as we have Muslims here.

Ban Islam in civilized countries, deport Muslims, bring troops home and put them on our borders, and institute a “pet the pig” requirement to enter the US or board a plane. Problem largely solved.

Yeah, I know it won’t happen, but sending more of our good people and our money to fight for any Muslim in the Middle East is absurd. There are no good guys there.


3 posted on 05/01/2015 8:21:38 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: markomalley

Go home!


4 posted on 05/01/2015 8:21:48 PM PDT by doc1019 (Blue lives matter)
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To: markomalley

See also...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3285429/posts


5 posted on 05/01/2015 8:22:09 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Learn to search. Ask me how.)
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To: Pining_4_TX
we have invited the enemy to come on in to our country

Camels nose under the tent.

6 posted on 05/01/2015 8:24:29 PM PDT by doc1019 (Blue lives matter)
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To: doc1019

And it started in the early 1960’s with an Arab migration from Yemen to Dearborn, Michigan.


7 posted on 05/01/2015 8:28:14 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: Maine Mariner

Unfortunately, the camels nose fable goes a step further ... once the camels nose is under the tent you can’t keep the camel out.

For all intents and purposes, the camel is in the tent.


8 posted on 05/01/2015 8:31:58 PM PDT by doc1019 (Blue lives matter)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Its almost as if our government wants us cowering in our homes.


9 posted on 05/01/2015 8:48:12 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: markomalley

Islam was and remains a serial murderer of entire peoples and cultures. It is an anti-human abomination worthy only of extinction.


10 posted on 05/01/2015 8:50:05 PM PDT by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: Pining_4_TX
"institute a “pet the pig” requirement"

I like that! Nice.

11 posted on 05/01/2015 8:58:45 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: markomalley

Muslim advocate and leader from IslamNet, Fahad Ullah Qureshi, speaks truth to the lie that the main stream media and liberals like Ben Affleck are trying to propagate. Namely, that there is no such thing as “moderate” Islam.

Read more at http://eaglerising.com/9554/muslim-leader-says-thing-moderate-islam/#ukmjqqjj8D5EebpF.99


12 posted on 05/01/2015 9:01:17 PM PDT by hapnHal (hapnHal)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Amen to that! You need to run for a political office.


13 posted on 05/01/2015 9:02:08 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: markomalley

It’s funny how all the “moderate” muslims are the ones that howl about how terrorists are treated by the government and society. Don’t they believe 0bama when he says that jihadis aren’t real muslims?


14 posted on 05/01/2015 9:08:06 PM PDT by TigersEye (STONE COLD ZOMBIE SCOURGE)
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To: Pining_4_TX
"institute a “pet the pig” requirement"

Will I still get frequent flier miles if I'm just along as an escort?

15 posted on 05/01/2015 9:15:57 PM PDT by TigersEye (STONE COLD ZOMBIE SCOURGE)
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To: markomalley

Deportation! Go to the muslim world and live. see how it really is.


16 posted on 05/01/2015 10:30:24 PM PDT by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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To: markomalley

...At the behest of their enemy islamist CIC.


17 posted on 05/01/2015 10:46:17 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: TigersEye

+1 for Maxwell.


18 posted on 05/01/2015 11:13:13 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: hapnHal; TigersEye

There may be moderate Muslims/Moslems, but Islam is not moderate. . .


19 posted on 05/01/2015 11:27:21 PM PDT by USARightSide (S U P P O R T I N G OUR T R O O P S)
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To: USARightSide

It’s hard for a psycho death cult to be moderate.


20 posted on 05/01/2015 11:39:42 PM PDT by TigersEye (STONE COLD ZOMBIE SCOURGE)
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