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.
They'll run out of flags before I run out of Korans.
Hell, no! We need to get together and have big fat Koran burning and send that video out.
I'll bet they don't appreciate the irony in their organization's name...
I agree.
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After the next MAJOR terrorist attack, you ain't gonna need to worry about it.
Uhn-uhn. Their allah is gonna be a sortee, not The Sorter!
"You're with the Muslims or with the Infidels"
INFIDEL HERE!
Suppose a group of the German SS did the same thing in 1942. What do you think the reaction of the American people would have been. I suspect that none of those creatures would have left that corner alive.
First, they say over and over that they don't believe in anything that our flag stands for.
Then, towards the end of the video, they say , "Don't be afraid muslims. In this counrty we have the freedom of expression to do this."!
It would be funny if it weren't for the fact that, it isn't.
Yea, but can you tell me why?
I did not post on that thread but you can surely count me in that group.
The words used by these 'boys' in the video, on the other hand, well, if they are inciting a riot, the folks standing around should have given them their riot. (if you know what I mean)
se·di·tion ( P ) Pronunciation Key (s-dshn)
n.
Conduct or language inciting rebellion against the authority of a state.
I'd say you are spot on.
We ought to start a gasoline brigade - for every time an American Flag burning starts, throw Gasoline on the perpetrators - they'll have to quit burning flags or burn, baby, burn! DISCO INFERNO!
I was thinking the same thing. Pass by with a squirt bottle. Shoot a stream straight through the fire and onto the idiot.
I know freedom of speech is part of what makes America great but it makes me sick when I see our flag being burned. And, my freedom of speech allows me to say that anyone who burns our flag and hates America is a low life and should leave our great country. And, God bless, Congressman King...who, btw, gave a great talk at FR's March for Justice at the Capitol in DC. But, I was so surprised to hear Freepers defending flag burning ...guess, technically, they are correct but it still makes me sick.
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