Posted on 06/08/2005 12:44:31 PM PDT by andyk
A group of American Muslims produced a video that shows its members on a city street corner declaring Islam's dominance over America as they tred on a U.S. flag and then rip it apart.
In the video, released by the New York-based Islamic Thinkers Society, one of the Muslims is shown placing a sign on the flag that says, "Oh Muslims! Do you know your enemy? Isn't it obvious?"
Author and researcher Robert Spencer, who posted the video on his weblog Jihad Watch, commented that Muslim lobby groups such as the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations have helped foster an environment that discourages criticism of such actions.
"... [I]f we even ask how many Muslims in America think this way, CAIR will bellow about discrimination and Islamophobia," Spencer writes. "So attention is diverted from activities such as what is shown in this video, and they can continue unheeded."
The Islamic Thinkers Society is an off-shoot of Al-Muhajiroun, a British jihadist group that publicly raised funds for Hamas and has been suspected of facilitating transportation of British Muslims to fight U.S. troops overseas.
Al-Muhajiroun spiritual leader Sheik Omar Bakri Muhammad has called on the British Muslim community to join Hamas.
Under pressure from UK authorities, Al-Muhajiroun claimed it disbanded in October, but security sources say leaders still are active in London and the U.S.
As WorldNetDaily reported, Al-Muhajiroun openly maintains a branch in Queens that claims to be involved in "only peaceful activities." The group holds closed-door meetings and study sessions at a mosque in Jackson Heights, Queens, led by an older cleric identified as Sheikh Choudray.
The Queens branch youth leader, Abu Yousuf, a U.S. citizen who says he attended a "camp" in Sudan and takes computer courses at the City University of New York, speaks at university events throughout New York City usually sponsored by the Muslim Student Association.
At one Al-Muhajiroun event at Queensborough Community College sponsored by the MSA and attended by WND, a Muhajiroun speaker working with Yousuf said, "We reject the U.N., reject America, reject all law and order. Don't lobby Congress or protest because we don't recognize Congress! The only relationship you should have with America is to topple it!"
The speaker continued, "The so-called terrorists are the only people who truly fear Allah. ... They are the only worthy causes, and the mighty superpower only fears them."
In a private interview with WND, a Queens based Al-Muhajiroun leader said he would be "absolutely honored" to give up his life in a "martyr operation" against American civilians. The leader warned that "a jihad is coming to America because of the moves of the Bush administration."
Last year, Al-Muhajiroun planned a convention in London titled, "The Choice is in Your Hands: Either You're with the Muslims or with the Infidels," to mark the third anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
In 2003, the group had planned a similar anniversary event called "The Magnificent 19 [Suicide Attackers]," but canceled it at the last minute.
"Oh Muslims! Do you know your enemy? Isn't it obvious?"
Pretty much sums it up.
Sounds just like the "Young Democrats" did at my old college.
Al-Muhajiroun has now been banned by the Brits.
When are we going to do the same?
"Nine, we will proscribe Hizb-ut-Tahira and the successor organisation of Al Mujahiroun. We will also examine the grounds for proscription to widen them and put forward proposals in the new legislation."
http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page8041.asp
We need more publication of photos, names and location posted on Websites, posters etc. Let people see who is doing what, what ever happens, happens. Hopefully the authorities will do something first.
Is Cindy Sheehan there supporting them? As anti-American as she is, she should be.
not picking on any body here just trying to make point.
This is a perfect example that gets to the heart of the real problems in our country and the lower forms of life who caused them.
The burning of the American Flag is not now, never was, and never will be speech.
Speech is exactly what it is,the spoken word period!
A flag is a piece of cloth does not have vocal chords and none of them in the past,present or future will ever utter the spoken word.
In other words the fact that it is law does not keep it from being a law based on what is a totally supremely obvious lie.
I was in service when this completely idiotic, product of a deranged mind, ruling was handed down.
This is another in the long line of fabricated out of thin air destructive non existent rights that these activists black-robed judicial tyrants if not strung up outside the court building,at least should have been impeached for, .
The majority of the people in the nation at that time thought it was the most ridiculous interpretation they had ever heard.
Just because some judges wanted to push their own personal ant-war, anti U.S. agenda and others wanted to support him they perverted the written word of the Constitution and so distorted the literal meaning of the words speech and flag as to leave them with no meaning at all.
After this so obvious act of of twisting our Constitution and the English language some of us knew that they could look at any law they wanted to, call it Constitutional or Unconstitutional and completely ignore the document on which our nation was founded and our laws based.
In other words they would say what is law and what is not and it all would depend on their mood or agenda at the time and that's what they have been doing ever since.
Now the sad part is people accept that burning the flag is speech without questioning the validity of it just because some dictator in a black robe said so.
Burning the flag is no more free speech than burning the Washington Monument, the Statue of Liberty, the Supreme Court Building or flying a plane into any of them.
It's just the offensive act of a little minds who are trying to get their way and they know that in real debate they would lose. What they really seek is not honest open debate but to throw a childish tantrum to get attention.
We don't need a law to protect the flag we need this ruling overturned and any judge who supports it removed from the bench.
To be worthwhile, we need a law to outlaw flag-burning here and overseas. The Middle East would be a smouldering crater.
GONE!
Every
last
one
of
them!
And I really don't give a damn how!
Islam, the religion of the broken record, the religion of constant anger, and the religion of perpetual jihad. They come here, take advantage of our opportunities, and spit on the flag of the country that offered those opportunities! But Heaven forbid someone even sneezes the wrong way around a Koran or is alleged to have misued the Koran! Maybe we should start burning Saudi and "palestinain" flags all over the USA! Ah, but that would be "offensive" and "insensitive" wouldn't it?!? (sarcasm) We must be "tolerant" of ungrateful heathens acting out and showing their ***! (more sarcasm) They'd behead us if we were in their countries and burned their flags!
Cluster rinds..
Yeah, hope it won't happen though.
Old Glory bites back.
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