Local Insurgents: ‘Islamic Thinkers’ Menace Gay N.Y.

On the evening of July 11, 2004, Kristine Withers walked down 37th Avenue, a main drag in Jackson Heights, Queens, and passed what had become a familiar sight: a group of tables set up on the sidewalk by the Islamic Thinkers Society, a local group of militant Islamists. On the tables, copies of the Koran and books espousing the group’s strict religious beliefs shared space with tracts on Zionism, pamphlets on the dangers of homosexuality, and signs bearing messages like "Your Terrorists Are Our Heroes."

Excellent article, thanks.

"To me, it’s synonymous with the Nazis recruiting on 42nd Street during World War II," she said of her antagonists.
In this conflict, gays have become canaries in the ideological coal mine. Western liberals have tended to cut Muslim groups slack…

Thank you for your kind words. But the problem still exists, they are still out there. I have heard a lot of people do nothing but talk, I cant do that. I remember 9/11, I have a son (yes I am Bi), relatives out in Iraq and other places with the military. The only thing that I feel bad about this whole incident was the feeling that I was alone. I saw plenty of people, American people, who turned away as a got beaten. Then when the cops said "after 9/11 we have to watch out for them", that was even weirder. Why? Why do we have to be sensitive to their religion or culture, especially when their culture and religion advocate the overthrow of ours? I am an Historian, so I tend to look back to history to see purpose. Lets face it, Islam has declared war on the western (I.E Judeo-Christian) world, because it believes in the superiority of Islam. The last time they invaded the West was in the 16th century, at the battle of Vienna. What makes one think that now they have weapons to help further their ultimate goal of world domination, they wont use it. They are a lot like Hitler in the sense that he told his of his plans, in Mein Kampf, they have made no secret of theirs. Their ideology is just has dangerous and despotic as the Fascist and Communist. The West has to fight back just as hard on our new foes, has hard as we fought our old ones. Dont be afraid, dont be quiet, this is still America. Kristine Withers

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