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Muslims 'draw line in the sand' in D.C.
2003 WorldNetDaily.com ^ | May 17, 2003 | Art Moore

Posted on 05/17/2003 4:59:28 AM PDT by joesnuffy

Muslims 'draw line in the sand' in D.C. Civil rights rally touted as largest Islamic gathering in capital

Posted: May 17, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Art Moore © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

U.S. Islamic activists are uniting with a leading anti-war group to hold a civil rights march and rally they tout as the largest gathering of Muslims ever in the nation's capital.

Participants in the May 24 event "will demand an end to the mounting attack on the civil rights of Muslims in America" since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to the organizer, the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation.

"The time has come where we must draw a line in the sand, stand up for ourselves, and demand an immediate and unconditional halt to the Bush administration's profiling, harassment, and abuse of our community," said Mahdi Bray, the foundation's executive director, in a statement.

Bray, who has called the U.S. war on terrorism a "war against Islam," joined several other Muslims in October 2001 to pray in front of the State Department and denounce U.S. military action in Afghanistan.

One of the rally's featured speakers is Brian Becker of the International A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition, an umbrella group tied to the World Workers Party, a Marxist organization that supports authoritarian regimes and communist dictatorships.

Muslims in the U.S. must reexamine their methods of activism, said Bray.

"We met with Clinton and Bush, we had tea with Hillary, but what have we brought back to the Muslim community other than pictures and press releases?" he said.

Bray added, "We must be willing to trust in Allah, intensify our dawah, make our voices heard in the streets, the ballot boxes, the cash registers and the courts, and only then will federal government officials be willing to sit down and deal with us in a serious manner. Short of that, the American Muslim leadership is fooling itself and the community."

"Dawah" is commonly understood by Muslims as inviting others to Islam, or missionary work.

The Muslim American Society's Sherifah Rafiq told WND that Bray was not referring to Muslim proselytizing but to the task of "not being afraid to explain who you are" to non-Muslims.

Rafiq, the group's national outreach coordinator, said Muslim leaders at the Memorial Day weekend event will "give the Muslim community a chance to display sensitive logical speakers who represent the majority of us."

Along with Bray, those speakers include Dr. Jamal Badawi, professor at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and Siraj Wahhaj, imam of Masjid Al-Taqwa in Brookyn, New York.

Wahhaj is an advisory board member of the controversial Council on American-Islamic Relations. He was named by U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White in 1995, as one of the "unindicted persons who may be alleged as co-conspirators in the attempt to blow up New York City monuments," including the World Trade Center in 1993. Wahhaj, who has called for the U.S. government to be replaced with a Muslim caliphate, testified on behalf of Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman, who was convicted in the World Trade Center case.

Bray listed a number of grievances he says Muslims have against the Bush administration, including "the INS registration program for Muslim males and the mass arrests of those legally in the country, racial profiling by law enforcement agencies, the unreasonable closings of Islamic charities, the secret detention of hundreds of individuals, and the Bush administration's courting of anti-Muslim extremists like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell."

Along with A.N.S.W.E.R., Bray said the NAACP, AFL-CIO, and ACLU have pledged support for the event, and entertainers Harry Belafonte and Danny Glover will be at the demonstration.

Belafonte and Glover criticized the U.S. during a trip to Havana, Cuba, in December. Belafonte said the Sept. 11 attacks enabled the U.S. "to extend its imperialist, economic and political domination all over the planet."

Other speakers are the Rev. Al Sharpton, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., and Ibrahim Ramey, director of the Peace and Disarmament Program at the Fellowship of Reconciliation, a pacifist organization based in Nyack, N.Y.

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To: dennisw
>>What a shock.... The commies, the Muzzies and their stooges making common cause.<<

Haha! You word it well. And it IS a hilarious mix.

risa


41 posted on 05/17/2003 6:47:06 AM PDT by Risa
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To: joesnuffy
Action Plan: 1) assemble fleet of troop transport vessels in port cities; 2) move, via bus and train all US dwelling Muslims to said ports; 3) load muslims onto ships, return to middle east; 4) bulldoze all mosques in US; 5) Pop a Bud and grin
PS, add to ship passenger list any leftwing that complain.
42 posted on 05/17/2003 6:47:09 AM PDT by Imagine
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To: joesnuffy
Heard a really good line the other night, listening to Peter Hammond of Front Line Fellowship (African guns-and gospel missionary, takes the Gospel to soldiers): "If Islam is the religion of peace, then what exactly are the Mennonites and the Quakers? Islam is the religion of the sword and of death."

Hammond went on to relate how 9-11 triggered Muslim attacks on Christians in Nigeria, with over 130 churches being burned down in two days -- until the Christians picked up guns and defended themselves.

His words have embolded me to frankly discuss Islam's violent intent with casual Muslim acquaitences at the bus stop - and they're petrified by this line of inquiry. Especially effective seems to be "if Islam is the religion of peace, then why did you're family immigrate to the US in order to find a stable place to study and work and make a better life for your family? Is there not one Islamic state you could have done that in? Can you name one peaceful, free, and economically thriving Islamic nation?"

I think we'll have to launch into Africa next, and clean out Sudan, Nigeria, and other places where Islamists are clearly out to establish "religion of peace" dominence over kahfirs.

43 posted on 05/17/2003 6:52:02 AM PDT by ReaganCowboy
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To: joesnuffy
Heard a really good line the other night, listening to Peter Hammond of Front Line Fellowship (African guns-and gospel missionary, takes the Gospel to soldiers): "If Islam is the religion of peace, then what exactly are the Mennonites and the Quakers? Islam is the religion of the sword and of death."

Hammond went on to relate how 9-11 triggered Muslim attacks on Christians in Nigeria, with over 130 churches being burned down in two days -- until the Christians picked up guns and defended themselves.

His words have embolded me to frankly discuss Islam's violent intent with casual Muslim acquaitences at the bus stop - and they're petrified by this line of inquiry. Especially effective seems to be "if Islam is the religion of peace, then why did you're family immigrate to the US in order to find a stable place to study and work and make a better life for your family? Is there not one Islamic state you could have done that in? Can you name one peaceful, free, and economically thriving Islamic nation?"

I think we'll have to launch into Africa next, and clean out Sudan, Nigeria, and other places where Islamists are clearly out to establish "religion of peace" dominence over kahfirs.

44 posted on 05/17/2003 6:55:02 AM PDT by ReaganCowboy
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To: GirlShortstop
The real leaders on on to the FBI or others taking snapshots...
I think they will send out the least of their flocks...while they bag it at home ...
pretty much what they all do...incendiary rhetoric whip up the idiots send them out...
while the mullahs hang back at the crib eating pizza drinking beer and scoping out the tube
45 posted on 05/17/2003 6:55:22 AM PDT by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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To: joesnuffy
"Participants in the May 24 event "will demand an end to the mounting attack on the civil rights of Muslims in America" since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to the organizer, the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation."

Islam was declared essentially illegal in the U.S. in a New York State Supreme Court ruling along about 1892-1893.

The ruling stated that followers of any imposter, such as "Mohammett," were not to be included in the First Ammendment's protection, but, rather, "..are to be harassed."

This has never been rescinded, retracted nor overturned.

46 posted on 05/17/2003 7:01:30 AM PDT by nightdriver
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To: joesnuffy
Aww, the poor downtrodden Muslims aren't happy here in the United Sates. What ever could be the solution to their unhappiness?

I know! They could move out and go to some other country that doesn't give a rip about 9/11 and the fact that MUSLIMS slaughtered thousands in NYC, DC, and Penn.

47 posted on 05/17/2003 7:04:39 AM PDT by savedbygrace
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To: Imagine
>>4) bulldoze all mosques in US;<<

As well as the Muslim schools in the U.S.

regards,
risa
48 posted on 05/17/2003 7:04:58 AM PDT by Risa
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To: joesnuffy
Why do I keep getting this feeling that there is only one group in this country that is too wussified to draw the line?
White, Anglo-saxon protestant males?
50 posted on 05/17/2003 7:07:46 AM PDT by djf
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To: nightdriver
>>Islam was declared essentially illegal in the U.S. in a New York State Supreme Court ruling along about 1892-1893.<<

Whoever made that law was a much smarter statesman than our elected officials. The underpinnings of American culture and values are Judeo-Christian. Muslims will not mix; they are a menace in our country--a trojan horse.

regards,
risa
52 posted on 05/17/2003 7:09:28 AM PDT by Risa
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To: djf
>>Why do I keep getting this feeling that there is only one group in this country that is too wussified to draw the line? White, Anglo-saxon protestant males?<<

They are wussified in the sense that whenever they begin to protest, the diversity crowd accuses them of racism and bigotry, and they back right down. They seem not to have the courage to believe in themselves and withstand these meaningless criticisms. (they KNOW inside they are not racists for wanting to protect their American culture and values)

I wish American white males, Christian and Jewish, would band together and fight like a Muslim (I don't mean terrorism) for their culture and values. They've been more marginalized and discriminated against than any other group out there today.

risa


53 posted on 05/17/2003 7:38:15 AM PDT by Risa
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To: joesnuffy
Good. Get all the traitors, commie'rats, and muslim terror supporters in one place, then bring in the buses and load them up.
54 posted on 05/17/2003 7:40:49 AM PDT by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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To: djf
Those males that you speak of are too busy keeping this country successful. They actually work, and raise their families.

The Red states will rise up, if they see the Islamic death cults making inroads in this country.

Because unlike the Blue states, the Red states still have the American spirit.
55 posted on 05/17/2003 7:48:41 AM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: Imagine
BTW, most Moslems in the United States are of African-American descent, and they were born here. There is no Middle-East to "ship them back to", so rephrase that as "ship them to".
56 posted on 05/17/2003 8:28:54 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
Not to challenge your comment "most of...are african-americans" but, do you have real numbers as to immigrant vs home grown???
57 posted on 05/17/2003 8:53:24 AM PDT by Imagine
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To: muawiyah
>>BTW, most Moslems in the United States are of African-American descent, and they were born here. There is no Middle-East to "ship them back to", so rephrase that as "ship them to".<<

Why do you say this? According to the AMA's own Web text:

"During the past three decades large numbers of Muslims have immigrated to the United States. They have come from
the Middle East, North Africa, the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. "

http://www.oz.net/~msarram/mission.html


regards,
risa
58 posted on 05/17/2003 8:57:05 AM PDT by Risa
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To: roses of sharon
Red states will rise up

one more attack in the US and the government will no longer be able to protect muslims

59 posted on 05/17/2003 9:04:19 AM PDT by alrea
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To: Risa
I have visions of a very large ungovernable population of these people, if we do not cease importing them here.

One need not merely envision this. Just take a look at France if you want to see what the future holds for America!

60 posted on 05/17/2003 9:13:52 AM PDT by Gritty
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