What began as a peaceful screening of the documentary, “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West”, Monday afternoon at Columbus (Ohio) State Community College turned to shouts and intimidation as Muslim students confronted students in attendance and Islamofascism Awareness Week event organizers. The video screening was part of Columbus State’s Islamofascism Awareness Week activities hosted by the campus chapter of the Terrorism Awareness Project (TAP), which runs through Wednesday.
According to TAP president Josiah Lanning, commotion began during the first screening of the documentary film and continued to escalate throughout the afternoon. According to Lanning, an individual who identified himself as an Iraqi Muslim began loudly arguing with audience members. After continuing to disrupt the discussion period following the screening, the individual complained that the group was allowed to show the film and warned Lanning not to show the film again.
Three screenings of the Fox News documentary, “Jihad USA: Homegrown Terror” are planned for today (Tuesday), and screenings of both “Obsession” and “Jihad USA” planned for Wednesday afternoon.
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Rancid Fanatic is Featured Campus Speaker for the Muslim Students Association
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
If an organization stood accused of supporting a fanatical religious movement that seeks to create a global empire wherein women are oppressed, homosexuals are executed, and all faiths other than Islam are expressly outlawed, would that group try to discredit such accusations by providing a public forum for an individual who proudly and vocally embraces precisely those ideals? Yes, if that organization was the Muslim Students Association (MSA), which recently commissioned a religious bigot and apologist for terror named Sheikh Khalid Yasin to speak on its behalf.
During the first week of April, the MSA invited Yasin to appear at five college campuses -- Minnesota State University, St. Cloud State University, Sinclair Community College, the University of Minnesota, and Washington State University -- to rebut charges about the organization’s countenance of religious bigotry and Islamic terror.
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GREENSBURG — Federal prosecutors say a Westmoreland County doctor charged with illegally selling painkiller prescriptions for cash hid $275,000 in a Lebanese bank while under bankruptcy protection. A federal grand jury has indicted 62-year-old Dr. Antoine Cawog, of Greensburg, on two counts of money laundering. They say he deposited $150,000 in the overseas bank in June 2004 and another $125,000 in July 2004 while he was in bankruptcy.
Records show the doctor had previously filed for Chapter 11 protection. It is illegal for people under bankruptcy protection to hide assets from the court. A woman who answered Cawog's home phone and identified herself as his wife says the charges are "lies" and that he won't comment. State prosecutors last month charged Cawog with selling prescriptions to patients without proper exams.
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Philippines film piracy 'funding' militants
5/21/08
Al-Qaeda linked Islamic militants are suspected to be behind rampant intellectual piracy in the Philippines. The Optical Media Board chairman Edu Manzano, says the Abu Sayyaf - blamed for the worst terrorist attacks in the South-East Asian country - are likely behind the illegal copying of movies onto DVDS, which are then peddled at Manila shops by migrant Muslim traders.
The government agency has been cracking down on the trade, but Mr Manzano said that this has not yet stemmed the tide of counterfeits. Mr Manzano said many armed groups around the world traffic in counterfeits to raise funds, and the Abu Sayyaf would be no exception. "In the same way that the Yakuza are behind them in Japan and the Hezbollah are involved in [counterfeiting] the Middle East, they [Abu Sayyaf] are suspected of this," he said. Although the Government lacks "documentary evidence" linking the Abu Sayyaf to the trade, Mr Manzano said recent raids on suspected intellectual pirates in Manila's Muslim communities have turned up counterfeit DVDs and fake luxury goods packaged with illegal drugs, grenades and even mercury.
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