Posted on 12/05/2004 9:50:04 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The first nationwide American Muslim TV network has begun operations: on Tuesday, Bridges TV began broadcasting on the GlobeCast World TV satellite system. The network's launch is the fruit of over three years of work that began not long after 9/11, when the wife of Bridges TV founder and Chief Executive Muzzammil Hassan heard a radio discussion of Islamic radicalism. "Some derogatory comments were being made about Muslims that offended her," said Hassan. "She was seven months pregnant, and she thought she didn't want her kids growing up in this environment."
Hassan decided to present a more positive view of Islam: Bridges TV declares that its intention is to "fuse American culture with the values of Islam in a healthy, family-oriented way." According to the network's media kit, Hassan "wants Bridges TV to tell the countless stories of Muslim tolerance, progress, diversity, service and excellence to a nationwide audience." Boxing legend Muhammad Ali exults: "Bridges TV gives American Muslims a voice of their own on the airways for Americans of all races and religions to hear."
But what kind of voice? Will this channel do something truly positive, such as tell the truth about the elements of Islam that give rise to violence, and discuss the hard choices Muslims must face in order to prevent the continued growth of jihad radicalism and terrorism among them? It's impossible to tell so early in the network's life, but in the meantime, the Bridges TV website asks inquirers to "check the legitimacy of Bridges TV" with, among others, Nihad Awad, Executive Director of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR); Aleem Rahman, President & CEO of IslamiCity.com, which it identifies as "the largest Muslim Web site in North America"; and Alex Kronemer, who created and produced the PBS documentary Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet.
Questions about CAIR's true commitment to moderation have swirled for years, unanswered by Awad and other CAIR officials. Awad himself helped found CAIR after working at the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), where he was public relations director. A former FBI counterterrorism official, Oliver "Buck" Revell, has called the IAP "a front organization for Hamas that engages in propaganda for Islamic militants." Terrorism expert Steve Emerson testified before a Senate committee on terrorism in 1998 that "the IAP has issued Hamas communiques calling for the killing of Jews, produced training videos for Hamas operatives, and actually recruited for Hamas in the United States." In 1994 Awad declared: "I am in support of the Hamas movement." This was well after numerous murderous Hamas attacks on civilians, which were duly celebrated on Hamas's website until some more PR-minded person took it all down some time ago.
Aleem Rahman's IslamiCity.com, meanwhile, sells auto pioneer Henry Ford's notorious hate screed The International Jew, which draws abundantly from other classics of hatred and incitement such as the forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The edition IslamiCity.com carries contains the Protocols as well. Nor is this farrago of lies and forgery presented as a historical artifact; the IslamiCity ad copy asserts that "in the so called 'democratic, pluralist' America this book has been systematically suppressed. The International Jew is a magnifying glass applied to the hidden sources of immorality, vile degeneracy, and subversion. … By reopening this debate this book exposes the inherent danger of unchecked Zionism."
Also readily available at IslamiCity.com is Sayyid Qutb's Milestones and other incitements to violent jihad. Milestones, we are told, "outlines various stages in the establishment of a true Islamic life." In it, Qutb (the leading theorist of the Muslim Brotherhood, the first modern Islamic terrorist group) tells Muslims that they must not only preach Islam, but also "strike hard at all those political powers which force people to bow before them and which rule over them, unmindful of the commandments of God." In other words, wage violent jihad to establish Islamic law over the earth.
Will Bridges TV serialize The International Jew or Milestones? Much more likely is that it will produce disingenuous propaganda pieces like Kronemer's Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet, which studiously avoided any mention of the more unsavory elements of the Prophet of Islam's enduring example. The net effect will only be to befuddle the ignorant and protect the guilty. For a network that is trying to project a positive image of moderate Islam, the associations with Awad, Rahman and Kronemer are troubling -- and make it unlikely that the network will really contribute anything positive or useful to current public debates about jihad terrorism.
Mr. Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and the author of Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West (Regnery Publishing -- a HUMAN EVENTS sister company) and Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World's Fastest Growing Faith (Encounter Books).
Muslim TV PING!
Muslim Monday night football: Running back takes the handoff, runs into the line and explodes killing most of his teammates.
Muslim design on a dime: Couple remodels home. At end of show Shaheed son comes home and explodes destroying the new home.
Muslim Fear Factor: Contestants go to a supermarket in Israel. Terrorist in the studio audience explodes.
Muslim Meet the Press: Arab chief of state talks with Tim Russert who explodes.
Anyone else want to join in?
Muslim NASCAR: Green flag goes down after the warm-up lap. All cars explode.
...from toehold to foothold the brainwashing of the dumbed downed masses continues.
Q: What is a moderate Muslim?
A: One who's run out of ammo.
I'm not sure I want her kids growing up here, either. Maybe she should move to, or back to, a Muslim hellhole to raise them.
. . .to tell the countless stories of Muslim tolerance, progress, diversity, service and excellence to a nationwide audience.
Zero is countless, too. You can't count it. It's too small. 
Here's some answers for you:
"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."
"One of the challenges is understanding the totality of Islam. Don't come up with an opinion and find out the things that support it in Islam. Everything we need to know is in the Koran. We don't need to look somewhere else." Omar M. Ahmad, chairman of the board of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), San Ramon Valley Herald July 4, 1998
Since 9-11, CAIR, a spin-off of the Islamic Association For Palestine, has seen three of its former employees indicted on federal terrorism charges.
Randall Todd "Ismail" Royer was sentenced to 20 years in prison on charges he trained in Virginia for holy war against the United States and sent several members to Pakistan to join Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Kashmiri terrorist group with reported ties to al-Qaida.
In a plea bargain, Royer claimed he never intended to hurt anyone but admitted he organized the holy warriors after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S.
After his arrest, Royer sought legal counsel from Hamas lawyer Stanley Cohen, who said after 9-11 he would consider serving as a defense lawyer for Osama bin Laden if the al-Qaida leader were captured.
Another CAIR figure, Bassem Khafagi, was arrested in January 2003 while serving as the group's director of community relations. The previous December, Ghassan Elashi, the founder of CAIR's Texas chapter, was indicted for financial ties to Hamas leader Musa Abu Marzook.
Current CAIR leaders also have made statements in support of Hamas and the domination of the U.S. by Islam.
And so it begins!
"Anyone else want to join in?"
Muslim Star Trek: Captain Kirk travels to far off mystery planet and green Islamofascist chicks board the Enterprise and blow themselves up.
Muslim Family Feud: Muslim families compete for prizes. Losing family performs honor killings of daughters that gave wrong answers.
Muslim Apprentice: Muslims compete to see who will blow himself up in the waterfall lobby of Trump Tower.
Muslim Seinfeld: Yadda, yadda, yadda, BOOM!
They'll spend a lot of time interviewing Joe Biden.
By their fruits you shall know them. They can appear as nice as they like on the tube. They are still a bunch of psychopathic murderers who need to be deported from the United States.
LOL! Good ones!
Impossible.
LOL!!!!
Islam is great if you want to kill someone or kill yourself.Besides that its pretty useless.
Whats that song Chakah laka Boom,Boom,maybe could make music outof Bomb noises now thats talet.
Oh wait, how bout a female hooker getting ready to do it,
taking her clothes off and (((BOOM))).
Upon further thought, this may actually be a good thing. Such an enterprise will open up Islamic ideology and history for scrutiny without being tagged with labels of intolerance and racism. They are practically giving their opposition a free reign in exposing the negative aspects of Islam. Think about the possibilities of shining the light of truth on this oppressive cult.
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