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.
Bump to find later.
Sedition is illegal, the Feds and NYPD should haul the in.
I thought the Sedition Act had been ruled uncostitutional by the SCOTUS shortly after WWII ended or was it after Korea Got started, anyways that's why we couldn't use the sedition act aginst the Nam Peace-Niks and Fondue Funnies.
Contradiction for sure. It says in the Koran that it is a sin to think, so these guys are damned to wherever they go.
However, I viewed part of the video (as much as I could get to play) and those in the group were openly making seditious statements.
Perhaps NYPD could haul them in for disturbing the peace, failing to heed an order from the police to disperse, terroristic threatening, resisting arrest and littering. Mugshots, fingerprints and ID checks....the whole nine yards!
No hard to do. YOU could call one of them an effing mooselimb raghead and the ACLU would have YOU arrested for a hate crime. THEY, however, can do whatever they want. Special rules.
If you burned a koran on that same street corner you would probably be arrested.
I thought these slime had a permit for all of this? I also thought they didn't recognize the authority of the governement. Oh, only when it protects them from getting their 4$$ thrown in jail.
" Hi! I'm Muhammed Al Hol. I'd like a permit to demonstrate downtown with my cell, so we can desecrate the US flag and preach sedition."
US flag $8
Permit $25
Freedom Priceless!
I wonder what would happen if somebody were to make a video of burning the Koran and roasting pork over it, or maybe tear one up and flush it on camera? I bet that would garner a lot more attention, but we're supposed to ignore it when they do it to our sacred symbols.
The muslims in question aren't burning to protest the lack of an ideal. They're burning to show complete disdain for America.
It's the context of the situation.
For sure. . . Liberalism's 'political correctness' is the great. . .and deliberate destroyer.
Perhaps if they just shredded a 'Gay Pride' flag; the Lib/Left would get the bigger picture. . .
Anymore, it seems beyond even the question, 'why ask why' . . .. .
Arlington, VA— A town hall-style meeting, meant to open dialogue between al-Qaida....
Great post---priceless! Thank you.
Not just another Jihadi face :The Islamic Thinkers Society - Al Muhajiroun's identical twin in NYC
http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/530
London's bombers...?
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