Posted on 07/27/2011 5:06:39 AM PDT by SJackson
On April 16, the United Muslim-Christian Forum (UMCF) held an interfaith event in Owego, New York, featuring Christian and Muslim speakers, including the mayor of the town. Its Web site proudly hosts a photo of Binghamton Mayor Matthew T. Ryan holding a UMCF sign. Far from the model of tolerance it casts itself as, the UMCF is a front for an anti-Semitic, Islamic extremist group named Muslims of the Americas (MOA), and the keynote speaker warned that Allah will destroy whoever supports Koran burnings, and possibly the entire country.
The MOA was exposed in the Christian Action Networks (CAN) 2009 film, Homegrown Jihad: Terrorist Camps Around the U.S., which shows that MOA villages (of which the group says there are 22) are used for guerilla warfare training. The Department of Homeland Security says that the MOA is linked to Jamaat ul-Fuqra, a Pakistani militant group. Both follow Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani, a radical cleric in Pakistan. In 1998, the State Department described ul-Fuqra as an Islamic sect that seeks to purify Islam through violence.
Shortly after the films release, I obtained an MOA videotape showing female members receiving paramilitary instruction at Islamberg in Hancock, NY. The group responded with a ridiculous rebuttal video in December 2009, followed by a four-part series in January 2010. Since then, CAN has acquired multiple recordings of gunfire coming from Holy Islamville in York County, SC.
The UMCF has been able to recruit some Christians as supporters, even though this information is readily available. Speakers at the April 16 event included Father Timothy Taugher of Blessed Sacrament Church in Johnson City; Prof. Diane OHeron of Broome Community College (and UMCF board member); and Mayor Edward Arrington, who is chairman of the Deacon Board of First Baptist Church in Owego.
The keynote speaker was Muhammad Ali Qadiri, the mayor of the MOA site in Red House, VA. He declared:
[Terry] Jones has started his shameful plan in order to bring about the clash between Muslims and Christians, to destroy both religions and to establish an evil empire. This man is obviously fulfilling somebody elses agenda which can cause irreparable damage to the peace and solidarity to the USA. We have been chosen by a divine mandate to declare that if any man is allowed to burn the Holy Quran the fate of him and his supporters will not be any different from those people who cut the tendons of the she-camel during the time of Prophet Salih (peace be upon him); although only nine people actually cut the tendons, the Almighty destroyed the entire nation. Thus we must pass a resolution to work together.
The Christian Action Network sent me to attend the event, and I heard Qadiri tell the audience that the U.S. government must be forced to end its wars overseas and the drone strikes in Pakistan. He did condemn suicide bombings and al-taqiyya, and said Wahhabists and Shiites are not really Muslims, despite the MOAs admiration for Iranian President Ahmadinejad.I was told that I could not film, even though it was a public event. Attendees and officials were polite, but tried to make me uncomfortable by constantly taking my picture, clearing the chairs in front of me for part of the time so I could be watched, and following my every step. I was followed into the bathroom, where someone stood right outside my stall. I was then followed back in, and back out to my vehicle.
Upon arrival, I was introduced to a spokesman, who explained to me that the group had let other people define us and this was an effort to show the true meaning of Islam. I was soon after brought out by one of their security personnel, who questioned me, and said I couldnt even take pictures because we are so much under the microscope.
After the event, I approached Qadiri. He told me that 30 to 40 percent of the audience were Christians, which was a gross exaggeration from what I saw. I showed him a print-out from the UMCF Web site where it suggests the 9/11 attacks were a Jewish conspiracy. I read him the part that says, This is Stage One of getting the Western World, on behalf of the Jews, to go to war with the Arab world.
We are trying not to get into the bashing business anymore. I mean some of this is trial and error when you go into it and the longer we do it, the more were finding that certain things are a little bit too offensive categorically we do not deny anything we said, Qadiri responded.
I then showed him a print-out of a writing by Sheikh Gilani, reading the part that says, Jews are an example of human Satans. After a long pause, he said, Thats my sheikh, followed by, it is what it is. I then brought up the recordings and videotape of gunfire coming from the MOA sites, to which he replied, What is wrong with shooting your gun in the United States of America? By this time, I had a small crowd watching, including one intimidating onlooker who kept coming closer to me, and one of the security personnel interrupted to bring the conversation to a close.
This is the organization being hailed by some elected officials as an example to be followed. It has at least 22 villages, some dozens of acres large, around the country where its members live in isolation. Yet, naïve Christians, government officials and reporters continue to embrace it. For too many, being known as a bridge-builder is more important than confronting extremism.
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Laughable, Allah is a false god, (little g), so how can a non-existant entity have any power to destroy anything?
Bloody animals!
I say we call his bluff and burn another one.
When that entity has the backing and endorsement of the President Of The United States.
Why on earth we are treating this satanic cult any differently than the KKK is beyond logical thinking.
Is-Slime is incompatible with Western Civilization or any civilized society. It oppresses women. It uses children as sub-human bombs. It is nothing but a 7th century throwback cult worshiping a pedophile.
Only very weak minds (and there sure are a lot of those) believe in MO-Ham-Mud and because of their weak minds they get so easily offended and lathered up anytime their pig god is depicted in the appropriate negative light.
They are the cockroaches of humans. Difficult to eradicate and unwelcome by the rest of the world.
They’re looking for a fight up there. Count on it.
A toothless excuse for a god if ever there was. That is why his followers must do the killing for him, he is impotent.
Vengeance is mine saith the LORD! I will repay!
I like it better when Samuel L Jackson says it.
...”The truth is,,, Your the weak, and I am the tyranny of evil men. But I’m trying Ringo,,, I’m trying rrrrreal hard to be the shepherd”...
Since Allah is not God who gives a rats butt, flame on..
we say if you don’t burn that garbage and stop following the pervert dork Mohamm, God will destroy you....
I say the same thing about my God, the God of Abraham, Issac, Noah, and so on. Our bible is HIS word yet they burn it. Those bible burners should quake in their shoes, or whatever they wear.
Well, all I have to say is my MOA is better than their MOA...
Uh-oh, it’s sounds like this dangerous cult has a violent anti-government militia. Can we recall Janet Reno to burn their mosque down with everybody inside?
Ha Ametycan peeg dog infeedel!
We haff gret beeg MOA, and you haff leetle teeny MOA!
Durka Durka Mohammed Jihad, and despair!
Its Web site proudly hosts a photo of Binghamton Mayor Matthew T. Ryan holding a UMCF sign. Far from the model of tolerance it casts itself as, the UMCF is a front for an anti-Semitic, Islamic extremist group named Muslims of the Americas (MOA), and the keynote speaker warned that Allah will destroy whoever supports Koran burnings, and possibly the entire country.
Scary times...
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