Posted on 01/05/2005 8:19:00 AM PST by johnqueuepublic
How Multiculturalism Kills And Why You Should CAIR, Part II - Patterns Of Deception
By William A. Mayer, Editor & Publisher - PipeLineNews.org
As we further explore the issue of America’s societal response to Islam and other non-indigenous philosophies, it must be noted that what is being passed off in many quarters as "interfaith outreach" is really just another facet of the multiculturalist/moral relativist agenda, which was explored at length in part I of this series. This movement is the lead weapon in the left's war on traditional culture, simply because on its face it sounds so reasonable.
One can hardly be unaware that much effort is being made across our institutions to “sell" the Muslim faith, representing it as no more threatening than main-stream Judaism or Christianity. Some - even in the Christian community - making the leap that Judaism, Christianity and Islam share an “Abrahamic tradition," - that the “Muslim nation" is comprised of the children of Abraham’s first son Ishmael whose mother, Hagar was Abraham’s Egyptian maidservant, and that as a result, the three faiths actually share the same familial heritage.
We will leave that dry argument to Biblical scholars and intellectual discourse beyond the scope of this piece.
In part one of this series we stated that in the real world, the burden of proof as to the nature of “modern" Islam must rightly fall upon those making the claims as well as the forthrightness of their representations.
That is of primary importance.
If the faith’s current group of spokesmen, in general, tells the truth and lead lives which are morally admirable, then that lends significant weight to their arguments. Conversely if it is seen that those who engage in the faith spreading Muslim doctrine called Da’wa, make conflicting statements in different venues and languages and if their personal probity is suspect then the strengths of their claims are necessarily undercut.
We revisit the case of Florida's Universal Heritage Foundation because it is so clearly demonstrates the chasm between words and actions in the multiculuralist universe.
Zulfiqar Ali Shah has for some time now been a proponent, in many varied settings, of presenting the Muslim faith as a moderate religion. Shah has held leadership roles in important Muslim organizations and as the director of the Universal Heritage Foundation in Kissimmee Florida, seeks to do that on an even grander scale.
Shah has been quoted in various venues as having made what could at best be called intemperate remarks regarding Jews, Christians and religious based terrorism, which, if true seem to place him in the camp of the Islamists. He has denied making such statements, making the usual objections - that he never said such things and/or that he has been either partially or totally misquoted etc.
Mr. Shah is marginally involved in a case that we have been exploring now for over a year; it involves a Florida based Muslim owned corporate conglomerate called Super Stop Petroleum. Among a withering array of holdings, Super Stop owns a 31 acre parcel of commercial property in Kissimmee. A portion of this property was leased to Lee Wasson’s Celebration Worship Christian School by the previous owners and Super Stop subsumed the lease in bankruptcy court.
At some point Super Stop allowed Shah and the UHF to act as its agent with regard to Wasson.
Immediately thereafter the power and utilities were cut off to Wasson’s Christian school, which obviously wreaked havoc with the schools enrollment of approximately 140 students. Deprived of power and sewer services, and combined with the supposition that the new landlords might very well be militant Muslims [UHF was at that time promoting large Islamic conferences featuring speakers whom many claimed were of the extremist Wahabi sect of Islam] as a result many of the student’s parents took what they thought was the prudent course and withdrew them, feeling them possibly in great physical jeopardy.
Suits and counter suits have been filed in this matter and we do not want to continue to revisit them here, for a fuller explication please visit:
For some reason instead of letting the matter proceed through the courts, Shah has taken to the Internet and there has attempted to present the case in a light favorable to UHF and Super Stop.
Shah understands that UHF is really on trial here. His organization suffered a huge loss in credibility when UHF’s inaugural conference was widely labeled – even in the main stream media – as a jihad-fest and he wants to make sure it does not happen again with these lawsuits.
On a series of electronic bulletin board systems Shah has made two claims.
1. That the dispute between Wasson and Super Stop is merely a landlord/tenant matter involving Wasson’s non-payment of rent.
2. That if the back rent were paid, then Super Stop would welcome Wasson back to the property and the facility which previously housed it.
It is odd that Shah and UHF are getting involved with this and apparently speaking for Super Stop since he is not one of the main antagonists, but it is extremely instructive to parse Shah’s claims and see how they hold up when compared to the facts because they directly bear on his claim of being a moderate.
Shah’s statements, made in these Internet forums take identical form:
“The Pastor had financial difficulties and had been unable to pay the rent. That is why the owner, Super stop Petroleum, sent him legal collection notices. They gave him the legal eviction notice through the court after being unable to collect the rent. The KCA left in February of 2004 on its own though the lease was to expire on July 15, 2004.
The space is still available and the owner gives the assurance that they are willing to lease the property to Kissimmee Christian Academy on the same old terms and conditions if the KCA is willing to pay the outstanding amounts and bills. This is a rent dispute and has absolutely nothing to do with the religion. I will strongly recommend and actually earnestly request Pastor Lee Wasson to stick to the true Christian spirit, pay the outstanding bills to the owner, and come back to the facility. For God’s sake, do not use faith to try to get cheap publicity or run away from financial responsibilities. Faith is higher than these petty material gains…[if the “back rent" is paid] The staff of Universal Heritage will be extremely happy to see Kissimmee Christian Academy come back to the facility and enjoy a good friendly relationship with them…" Comment by Zulfiqar A. Shah — November 22, 2004 @ 11:04 AM.
It cannot be argued that the Pastor, Lee Wasson, did not have severe “financial difficulties," Super Stop and Ali Shah caused them by having the utilities shut off and depriving Wasson’s students the use of their school.
Wasson operated under the aforementioned lease, with Super Stop as the landlord, for six months. For the first four of the six months involved, from July through October 2003 Wasson dutifully paid Super Stop $5,000 on time, each and every month. Super Stop did not hesitate to cash Wasson’s checks.
Given the nature of the landlord’s actions in terminating the utilities and the resultant swirling lawsuits, upon advice of his attorney’s Wasson remitted the November and December’s rent directly into a court appointed registry, an impound account established by the court specifically for this purpose. This is typical in such cases, whereupon the final determination of the lawsuit, the impounded funds will either be transferred to Super Stop if they are victorious, or if Wasson wins, the funds will revert back to him along with, one must assume, substantial damages.
We have access to all of Wasson’s cancelled rent checks made payable to Super Stop and are in possession a copy of the Osceola Courthouse Registry receipt [#028590] in the amount of $10,000, which comprises the final two months of Wasson’s obligation.
All of the documentary evidence supports Wasson’s claim that he was not in default of any rent and if Shah really means what he has stated regarding Wasson – “Universal Heritage will be extremely happy to see Kissimmee Christian Academy come back to the facility and enjoy a good friendly relationship with them" - then Wasson should be able to return to the property immediately.
One small problem however.
Wasson’s old space has already been promised to a real estate academy, Business Today, apparently being run by one Aamir Khan, a local real estate broker.
Mr. Khan makes reference to the new school on his website and lists Wasson’s old address - 233 Academy Dr. Kissimmee, FL 34744 – as the school’s location. A large sign has been placed just outside the property’s gate, also indicating the nature of the enterprise and its proprietor.
This is the entrance to 233 Academy Drive.
This is a close up of the sign.
One of our contacts emailed Mr. Khan regarding how long he had been at the Kissimmee location:
Mr. Khan:
Is your school open yet and if so what kind of programs do you offer?
I drove by and it looks like a wonderful campus, how long have you been there?
regards,
[name withheld]
Our contact received this reply on December 24:
Dear [name withheld]
How are you doing, I been open for little over two months now. Its going good. I am offering right now only sales associate class only.
Happy Holidays
Aamir Khan
From the email and other data that we have collected it seems that the Kissimmee property was never really available, and that regardless, it was certainly not available since probably mid-October, two months before Shah made his fraudulent claim. This is really not surprising at all because little of what Shah says even borders on the truth.
Not only was the space not available, but Mr. Khan seems to be only the public face for the real estate academy because Business One - a Limited Liability Corporation, which is owned by Super Stop’s principals, Denise and Mahammed A. Qureshi - also lists the real estate school's address - 233 Academy Dr. Kissimmee, FL 34744 - as its location in the State of Florida incorporation documents.
So we have a curious arrangement of facts here:
• Shah and UHF were given authority to act as Super Stop’s agents with regard to Wasson’s school.
• They used that authority to shut off the utilities and force Wasson out. The property upon which both UHF and Wasson’s school resided totals some 31 acres, certainly room enough to easily accommodate both enterprises.
• Mahammed A. Qureshi is Super Stop’s principal owner.
• Mahammed A. Qureshi also sits on the board of Shah’s UHF, we assume therefore that they are conversant in matters, such as this, affecting both.
• Shah’s claim that Wasson was arrears in rent at the time Wasson was constructively evicted [meaning that Wasson was illegally driven off the property] is an outright fabrication.
• Shah’s claim that Wasson is welcome back on the property is also a fabrication since the space has not only been committed for use by Mr. Khan’s real estate academy but the LLC controlling that business is owned by Qureshi himself.
This is lie upon lie, fabrication upon fabrication.
It is emblematic of the way that many of these so-called self-proclaimed Muslim moderates operate. In public venues they are the soul of accommodation - the Jews are their dear brothers, Jesus is a respected prophet and they share the same Abrahamic traditions. In private however the festering resentment seen on the streets of Falujah every day simmer and boil over with little provocation.
This is the face of disingenuous interfaith outreach, of phony Da’wa, it is merely a tool used by this nation’s enemies to lull the public into a state of acceptance, playing on America’s long tradition of religious tolerance and accommodation.
Unless the public shakes itself out of its reverie, one day it will wake up and behold that America more resembles a post Theo Van Gogh Holland than the pluralistic republic that it fancies itself currently.
And it is primarily our fault, although those who abuse our system to take advantage of us are certainly guilty also. It is our fault because far too many of us are so preoccupied with our own petty circumstances to really care if we are enabling the enemy.
If it means career advancement then we speak to and make nice with assemblies of suited thugs underwritten by Saudi Wahabist money and we ignore evidence such as what we have presenting here in the matter of Lee Wasson.
The factual documentation in this case was available to all the major media covering the case. It was rejected - "spiked" in journalistic jargon - by that same media - for example it never appeared in the articles written by Willoughby Mariano of the Orlando Sentinel [rendered even harder to fathom given the Sentinel’s original breaking of the controversy surrounding UHF’s first conference], nor did it air on local broadcast television news.
The reason is that newsrooms reject such prickly information because the theory of multiculturalism and non-judgmentalism - which they subscribe to - absolutely demands it. That is the higher authority to which they answer.
What we find particularly ironic in this case is having a supercilious fraud like Shah, actually quoting Matthew 7, 16-17 in Web forums, with a straight face – “Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bring forth evil fruit," on an Internet forum as if he were the second coming of Christ himself as he scurried about, trying to position himself to best effect.
To have the sacred abused by an Islamist fake should be beyond comprehension, but alas it is not - there is nothing the radicals will refrain from doing to advance their agenda – even disingenuously quoting passages from a religion they clearly detest.
Super Stop, UHF and Zulfiqar Ali Shah had their chance to prove - once and for all - their bona fides as moderates. If Wasson had been welcomed on Super Stop's property and allowed to prosper it would have been the corner piece of a truthful and positive demonstration of interfaith good-will and legitimate Muslim-Christian brotherhood.
In reality, due to a seething hate of the West and its Judeo-Christian traditions, it was impossible for these people to constrain themselves. Blinded by hate, they were incapable of fully carrying out such a sham. Instead, they reverted to the feeble, transparent charade in which Shah now engages.
As we began this piece we made reference to how it was important to evaluate just how Islam’s apologists conducted themselves in their efforts to package Islam in the current super heated environment; that if they did so in a fair an honest manner that would be a net positive but if on the other hand these efforts were discovered to be less than honest that would seriously degrade their case.
What we have seen in the relatively short time observing this scene is unsettling.
We see the renegade Bridgeview Mosque in Chicago - which has institutional ties to those committing acts of terror [the Holy Land Foundation, The Islamic Association of Palestine and the Quranic Literacy Institute were an integral part of Bridgeview's culture and were recently found guilty of funding international terror and consequently subject to a $156 million dollar judgment] offered up by Catholic academics - with full administrative support - as appropriate representatives of inter-faith dialogue.
We see one of these same Catholic academics, filing statements in court, attempting to explain shockingly bigoted statements by Islamist Imams who have been found guilty of terror related charges and are on the verge of deportation.
In the present case we see a party touring the country preaching moderation in public but on a personal level - in private - doing everything he can to drive a small defenseless Christian school into near oblivion.
These are not anomalies, they are not isolated instances.
They establish a pattern of deception which casts these people as what they are, Islamists with no interest whatsoever in ever embracing the culture which uncritically welcomed them. They will continue to use whatever means possible to ultimately install Sharia law and turn America into a simpering mirror image of what is taking place now in old Europe.
Long article, but it gets to the problem, if the people pushing moderate islam are liars then?????????
A cynical but in my way of thinking, accurate description.
What is frightening and what this article and the previous one only sets the table for is how groups like CAIR [council of american islamic relations] are being welcomed right into the public schools to help facilitate this multicultural BS.
That will be the subject of the third part in this series, stay tuned.
If any of you doubt this merely call up Ibrahim Hooper, CAIRS nat'l spokesman and ask him about the intifada and if he rejects the idea of killing Jewish kids over a blood grudge several thousands of years old.
Go ahead, I guarantee he will simply hang up once the question is broached, he will gladly say "Oh we Muslims detest terrorism" but when you get down to specifics they feel that Muslims are totally mistreated in the US and that there is absolutely no reason for any Muslim to be looked at any differently than, lets say white, 70 year old nuns in wheelchairs, they simply reject the connection between terror and their religion. Again if you raise that connection you will be listening to a dial tone.
Does anyone have the link to Part 1?
read later
The tactics and morals of the leftist/Democrats and the Islamists are identical. I suppose the left supports them on the basis of the enemy of my enemy is my friend. However, one or the other will have a rude awakening if each advances because each is exclusionary and will not tolerate the other once power is gained. Of course if that happens we conservatives will be dead or in slave labor camps. The only things they have in common are their hatrid of us and the willingness to do anything to gain and keep power.
MNR
I agree, what the left wants to do and is doing is weaken traditional culture here, that throws things open to their socialist engineering and autocratic edicts coming from packed courts of lefty stooges........
I have yet to meet a so-called 'moderate' that isn't a liar.
Remember, it is OK for a muslim to lie to an 'infidel'
In fact, islam seems to demand it.
I remember a professor of mine that says a muslim will tolerate a Christian or Jew as long as they can get something out of them---but no longer than absolutely necessary
I saw Ibrahim Hooper on Fox several times. He is a big time racist and bigot.
Yep, only problem is that no one ever calls him that to his face, in many setting he gets more respect from the taling heads than the president does.
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