Man, that is a lot of bike racks.
Posted on 09/24/2009 7:38:47 AM PDT by IrishMike
The event sounds like yet another Tea Party protest, or perhaps an encore of last weekend's Values Voter Summit: Devout believers joining together this Friday to pray on Capitol Hill for the soul of America.
Who could argue with that? Well, when the believers happen to be Muslims, and there could be as many as 50,000 of them kneeling to pray in Arabic, yes, you could see how there might be some blowback from the usual suspects.
Indeed, the online publication from David Horowitz, FrontPageMag.com, sounded the alarm in an article Monday titled "Taking Islamism to the Streets," and the title of the "9/12 Project" post is simply, "OUTRAGED!" The writers at "Bare Naked Islam" are calling the event "disgusting" and "treasonous" and warn that "50,000 Muslims, terrorists, and terrorist sympathizers" will turn the Capitol into "a giant outdoor mosque." And Charisma magazine, a mainstream Pentecostal publication, quoted Christians in its account saying things like, "It is warfare time."
The most organized pushback so far is from a new organization of a nativist bent called Stop Islamization of America, or SIOA. It describes itself as a group of "scholar warriors/ideological warriors in the cause of American freedom and Constitutional government"-- and defines Islam as against those things. SIOA is using Friday's event, "Islam on Capitol Hill," as a launchpad for the group and to stage a counterprotest.
But perhaps the most intriguing objections to this unprecedented event have come from within the American Muslim community itself. "The truth may not be welcome, but remains truth: thousands of Muslims lining up for silent prayer in unison, within sight of the center of American government, is going to be misconstrued as an intimidation rather than an outreach, and not just to the rabid Islamophobic fringe," wrote Aziz Poonawalla, a Muslim blogger at Beliefnet, in a post last Friday. "It really doesn't help that the official slogan for the event plastered all over the Web site is 'Our time has come.' Or that when you load the official homepage, you are blasted with audio of a thickly accented Islamic prayer."
"It's unwise to ignore the 'optics' of such an event upon the paranoid segment of the American public -- who were out in force at the Tea Party last week on the National Mall -- who will certainly see the event as a threatening gesture which only validates their racism and Islamophobia."
Writing at The American Muslim, Sheila Musaji titled her criticism of the Capitol Hill event "Not Well Thought Out." Musaji noted that a Washington Times item on the event carries the provocative title, "Muslim prayers to surround U.S. Capitol." The story refers to a "massive" turnout and warns, "This is not a joke." Writer Julia Duin does conclude with a touch of sarcasm: "So if Islamic muezzins will chant out the 'adhan,' the call to worship, to folks kneeling on prayer rugs on the west front lawn, does that make the Capitol dome a minaret?"
Musaji points out that other writers -- such as the one at the "Creeping Sharia" blog -- aren't laughing, and the comments attached to them evoke the many recent incidents of anti-Islamic rhetoric or actions.
For example, passions continue to churn in Florida over a Gainesville church that has been sending some of its children to area schools wearing shirts that say "Islam is of the Devil." The children were sent home for violating the schools' dress codes, but the church continues to stage protests and carry signs with slogans like "Islam Kills" and "Jesus is not a liberal."
And the anniversary of 9/11 coming just before the end of Ramadan, which was marked by a commemorative stamp and an iftar dinner at the White House, prompted numerous viral e-mails and blog postings critical of Muslims and Islam. (It doesn't help that many still think President Obama is a Muslim, and forget that it was George W. Bush who began hosting a Ramadan iftar, which is the meal that breaks the daily fast during the month-long observance.)
On the eve of 9/11, the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life released a survey showing that nearly six in 10 American adults believe Muslims face more discrimination than other religious groups. Thirty-five percent said it was Jews, while evangelical Christians, atheists and Mormons all came in around 25 percent. (Only gays and lesbians were seen as facing more discrimination than Muslims.)
But nearly 40 percent of Americans also agreed with the statement that Islam is "more likely to encourage violence than other faiths."
In light of those numbers and stories like the suspected al Qaeda-connected terror case stretching from Colorado to New York City, as well as the ongoing conflicts with the Taliban in Afghanistan and extremists in Iraq, it is easy to see why Musaji concludes that "it simply isn't the right time or the right place for such an event."
But organizers and supporters of "Islam on Capitol Hill" are having none of it.
"There is no turning back," Hassen Abdellah, president of the Dar-ul-Islam mosque in New Jersey and a main organizer of the event, told me on Wednesday.
Abdellah had just met with Capitol Hill police regarding security procedures and with sound technicians who will help broadcast the prayers. The organizers have a permit to gather at the West Front of the Capitol from 4 a.m. to 7 p.m. but the main event will run from 1-2 p.m., the time of the principle Friday prayer service for Muslims.
"When Barack Obama ran for president everyone said that it wasn't a good time. So what's the difference?" Abdellah said. ("And no, President Obama is not coming," he added pointedly. "And he is not a Muslim.")
Abdellah argued that Muslims would be gathering to pray, not to protest -- and that the audience is also beyond the U.S. borders. "We will be there to promote America to the world, to show the world that we (American Muslims) are not oppressed...We think this is a free country and we want to show that."
Ibrahim Hooper, chief spokesman for the Council on Islamic-American Relations, or CAIR, a leading Muslim advocacy group, said he sees the Friday event as an extension of other Islamic celebrations that have been going on in Washington and elsewhere for years.
"What is significant about this event is that it is being seized upon by a cottage industry of Internet hatemongers who want to disenfranchise the American Muslim community," said Hooper, who cannot attend the event because he will be traveling. "People shouldn't stop doing things based on the hatred and bigotry of others. The civil rights movement did not stop moving forward just because racists didn't like it."
In his post at Beliefnet, Aziz Poonawalla raised concerns that the event is the brainchild of a few mosques in New Jersey, most notably Dar-ul-Islam, and that there was not enough vetting of speakers and organizers.
That concern may already be coming back to haunt organizers: opponents are noting that Abdellah, an attorney, represented Arab Muslims charged in the first World Trade Center attack in 1993 and was described by the New York Times as the "most aggressively combative of the lawyers" representing the defendants, who were eventually convicted.
In 2004 Abdellah also represented Numan Maflahi, a New Jersey Muslim tied to al-Qaeda fundraising. After Maflahi's conviction he told Judge Nina Gershon of Federal District Court in Brooklyn that the sentence she doled out would be a test of whether "this country could be fair to Arab-Americans."
“We must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, law-breaking, withholding and concealing truth,” said Vladimir Lenin.
To destroy the Republic will require tactical deceit.
To the collectivists, known truths must be distorted, redefined. Confuse, confound and overwhelm. Aggravate the system. No, aggravate everything.
Infiltrate respected organizations by serving your way in. Avoid controversy at the first, later create it, blend in, and when the time comes seize the seats of governing authority.
To gain the high-places tell the people what they want to hear. Lie, yes, and lie profoundly when necessary. When caught deny and lie again.
After all, truthfulness is irrelevant and fundamentally a Christian trait but not for the anti-Republic Marxist.
Hold the Christian and patriot alike to his word, pin him to his faults but never the Philistine radical. Hold the Christian’s God in contempt.
Further, consider not your accuser’s facts. When confronting truth with error simply smile. Americans, after all, are easily deceived by smiling faces and have forgotten that Shakespeare remarked “one may smile, and smile, and still be a villain.” Remember too, the more charismatic the deceiver the sharper his sword.
Published by Jonas Clark.
Anarchist burning Pittsburgh, Muslims praying in mass on the Mall in D.C........It is going to be a long weekend.
So if we divide that by 2,000,000 then we can say that if each one has 40 lbs of dynamite strapped to their body we will have the equivalent of 1 kiloton nuclear blast.
“The city has bought a thousand cannisters of tear gas. That’s something people are concerned about, like what to do if they’re gassed,” Noah Williams, a spokesman for the Pittsburgh G20 Resistance Project told AFP.
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Barack Hussein Obama has banned the National Day of Prayer from the White House, now get a load of THIS!!
ISLAM ON CAPITOL HILL 2009 - islamonca .
http://islamoncapitolhill.com/Home_Page.html
As many as 50,000 Muslims are expected to congregate at the Capitol with the blessings of the usuper.
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Read their plans for ‘Muslims on Capitol hill’!!
Alarming! Infuriating!!
Does THIS leave any doubt as to what we have sitting in the White House?
Be sure to read every page!
Every page ends with ‘OUR TIME HAS COME’!!
The Koran commands Muslims to fight non-Muslims until they exterminate all other religions and make Islam the only religion in the world:
And fight until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and worshipping of others along with Allah) and (all and every kind of) worship is for Allah (alone).
(Surat Al-Bagarah 2:193)
Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith but to become dominant, he said. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth
Omar M. Ahmad, founder of CAIR
From ‘The Audacity Of Hope, “I WILL STAND WITH THEM (MUSLIMS) SHOULD THE POLITICAL WINDS OF WAR SHIFT IN AN UGLY DIRECTION..”
Quote from Barack Obama’s book, Dreams from My Father:
“THE PERSON WHO MADE ME PROUDEST OF ALL, THOUGH, WAS MY [half brother], ROY..HE CONVERTED TO ISLAM”.
From ‘Dreams from my Father’, “IN INDONESIA, I SPEND TWO YEARS AT A MUSLIM SCHOOL” “..I STUDIED THE KORAN..”
From ‘Audacity of Hope: “LOLO (Obama’s step father) FOLLOWED ISLAM....”I LOOKED TO LOLO FOR GUIDANCE”.
From The Audacity Of Hope, “WE ARE NO LONGER JUST A CHRISTIAN NATION, we are also a Jewish nation, a MUSLIM NATION, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.”
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http://www.examiner.com/a-536474~_Trapped_between_two_worlds_.html
http://www.examiner.com/a-534540~Can_a_past_of_Islam_change_the_path_to_president_for_Obama_.html?cid=dc-article-obama
“My Muslim faith..” Barack Hussein Obama
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Man, that is a lot of bike racks.
They’re coming, America:
As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films, stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness:
Nation % Muslim
United States 1.0%
Australia 1.5%
Italy 1.5%
Norway 1.8%
Canada 1.9%
China 2.0%
At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs:
Nation % Muslim
Denmark 2.0%
United Kingdom 2.7%
Germany 3.7%
Spain 4.0%
Thailand 4.6%
From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. They will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves — along with threats for failure to comply. (United States).
Nation % Muslim
Switzerland 4.3%
Philippines 5.0%
Sweden 5.0%
The Netherlands 5.5%
Trinida and Tabago 5.8%
France 8.0%
At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law over the entire world.
When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions (Paris –car-burnings). Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats (Amsterdam - Mohammed cartoons).
Nation % Muslim
Guyana 10.0%
India 13.4%
Israel 16.0%
Kenya 10.0%
Russia 15.0%
After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning:
Nation % Muslim
Ethiopia 32.8%
At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare:
Nation % Muslim
Bosnia 40.0%
Chad 50.1%
Lebanon 59.7%
From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels:
Nation % Muslim
Albania 70.0%
Malaysia 60.4%
Qatar 77.5%
Sudan 70.0%
After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide:
Nation % Muslim
Bangladesh 83.0%
Egypt 90.0%
Gaza 98.7%
Indonesia 86.1%
Iran 98.0%
Iraq 97.0%
Jordan 92.0%
Morocco 98.7%
Pakistan 97.0%
Syria 90.0%
Tajikistan 90.0%
Turkey 99.8%
United Arab Emirates 96.0%
100% will usher in the peace of ‘Dar-es-Salaam’ — the Islamic House of Peace — there’s supposed to be peace because everybody is a Muslim: Nation % Muslim
Yemen 99.9%
Afghanistan 100.0%
Saudi Arabia 100.0%
Somalia 100.0%
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Twenty-Year Plan: Islam Targets America
by Dr. Anis Shorrosh
When we immigrated from Jerusalem, Jordan* in January, 1967, little did I imagine that Islam would become center-stage in world news. As my sincere interest in the growth of Islam in America intensified, I began to discuss, dialogue, and then debate Muslim leaders throughout the world from an Arab Christian’s view of Islam.
So far, I have had the privilege of participating in over 20 debates and discussions on every continent plus T.V. and radio. “Islam Revealed” was released in 1988 and is now in its 8th printing.
The True Furqan is now in its third printing in the three years it has been published. It is the only book which challenges the Quran in substance, style, language and contents.
“The True Furqan” can be located on http://www.answers-to-islam.net/ or http://www.islam-exposed.org/.
This is my analysis of the Islamic invasion of America, the agenda of Islamists and visible methods to take over America by the year 2020!
Will Americans continue to sleep through this invasion as they did when we were attacked on 9/11?
1. Terminate America’s freedom of speech by replacing it with hate crime bills state-wide and nation-wide.
2. Wage a war of words using black leaders like Louis Farrakhan, Rev. Jesse Jackson and other visible religious personalities to promote Islam as the original African-American’s religion while Christianity is for the whites! Strange enough, no one tells the African-Americans that it was the Arab Muslims who captured them and sold them as slaves, neither the fact that in Arabic the word for black and slave is the same, “Abed.”
3. Engage the American public in dialogues, discussions, debates in colleges, universities, public libraries, radio, TV, churches and mosques on the virtues of Islam. Proclaim how it is historically another religion like Judaism and Christianity with the same monotheistic faith.
4. Nominate Muslim sympathizers to political office for favorable legislation to Islam and support potential sympathizers by block voting.
5. Take control of as much of Hollywood, the press, TV, radio and the internet by buying the corporations or a controlling stock.
6. Yield to the fear of imminent shut-off of the lifeblood of America - the black gold. America’s economy depends on oil, (1000 products are derived from oil), so does its personal and industrial transportation and manufacturing -41% comes from the Middle East.
7. Yell, “foul, out-of-context, personal interpretation, hate crime, Zionist, un- American, inaccurate interpretation of the Quran” anytime Islam is criticized or the Quran is analyzed in the public arena.
8. Encourage Muslims to penetrate the White House, specifically with Islamists who can articulate a marvelous and peaceful picture of Islam. Acquire government positions, get membership in local school boards. Train Muslims as medical doctors to dominate the medical field, research and pharmaceutical companies. Take over the computer industry. Establish Middle Eastern restaurants throughout the U.S. to connect planners of Islamization in a discreet way. Ever notice how numerous Muslim doctors in America are, when their countries need them more desperately than America?
9. Accelerate Islamic demographic growth via:
a. Massive immigration (100,000 annually since 1961)
b. No birth control whatsoever - every baby of Muslim parents is automatically a Muslim and cannot choose another religion later.
c. Muslim men must marry American women and Islamize them (10,000 annually). Then divorce them and remarry every five years - since one cannot have the Muslim legal permission to marry four at one time. This is a legal solution in America.
d. Convert angry, alienated black inmates and turn them into militants (so far 2000 released inmates have joined Al Qaida world-wide). Only a few have been captured in Afghanistan and on American soil. So far - sleeping cells!
10. Reading, writing, arithmetic and research through the American educational system, mosques and student centers (now 1500) should be sprinkled with dislike of Jews, evangelical Christians and democracy. There are 300 exclusively Muslim schools with loyalty to the Quran, not the U.S. Constitution.
11. Provide very sizeable monetary Muslim grants to colleges and universities in America to establish “Centers for Islamic studies” with Muslim directors to promote Islam in higher education institutions.
12. Let the entire world know through propaganda, speeches, seminars, local and national media that terrorists have hijacked Islam, not the truth, which is Islam hijacked the terrorists. Furthermore in January of 2002, Saudi Arabia’s Embassy in Washington mailed 4500 packets of the Quran, videos, promoting Islam to America’s high schools—free. They would never allow us to reciprocate.
13. Appeal to the historically compassionate and sensitive Americans for sympathy and tolerance towards the Muslims in America who are portrayed as mainly immigrants from oppressed countries.
14. Nullify America’s sense of security by manipulating the intelligence community with misinformation. Periodically terrorize Americans of impending attacks on bridges, tunnels, water supplies, airports, apartment buildings and malls. (We have experienced this too often since 9-11.)
15. Form riots and demonstrations in the prison system demanding Islamic Sharia as the way of life, not American’s justice system.
16. Open numerous charities throughout the U.S. but use the funds to support Islamic terrorism with American dollars.
17. Raise interest in Islam on America’s campuses by insisting that freshman take at least one course on Islam. Be sure that the writer is a bonafide American, Christian, scholarly and able to cover up the violence in the Quran and express the peaceful, spiritual and religious aspect only.
18. Unify the numerous Muslim lobbies in Washington, mosques, Islamic student centers, educational organizations, magazines and papers by internet and an annual convention to coordinate plans, propagate the faith and engender news in the media of their visibility.
19. Send intimidating messages and messengers to the outspoken individuals who are critical of Islam and seek to eliminate them by hook or crook.
20. Applaud Muslims as loyal citizens of the US by spotlighting their voting record as the highest percentage of all minority and ethic groups in America.
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Muslims in New York City desecrate the U.S. flag.
‘You see this flag, it’s going on the ground and we crush it beneath our feet...our loyalty is only to Allah’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO74GwUTZj4
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Muslims in Michigan fighting U.S. citizens
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--Omar Ahmed, Chairman of the Board of CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations), San Ramon Valley Herald, July 1998
It’s hard to express how much Muslims really want the freedom that America offers.
But within Islam there’s no way for them to exercise it. It’s a tyrannical system run by a very few ruthless people that intimidate and terrorize their own (like the left).
No one suffers more from Islam than Muslims do.
I pray the event is peaceful and there are no negative actions.
"On this occasion, we celebrate the holy month of Ramadan and we also celebrate how much Muslims have enriched America and its culture in ways both large and small." Barack Hussein Obama. .
What have we wrought!
Infidels allowed to gather & pray to a false god in our nation's capital!!!!!!!
No doubt it will get major coverage....a HUGE slap to our face!
Thank you for posting that.
Did you see the article about the recent event in Chicago where Muslims are advocating defeat of Capitalism and Sharia law?
Link to story
I'm betting the legacy media will report attendance at hundreds of thousands. Who knows? Maybe they'll even call it the Million Muslim March.
Oh, don't worry about that. Let them be shown all over the news, all day long. Most Americans will think it's creepy.
I know, I know. I was going to say "4 words" but stumblefingered.
Me, for one.
Oh yeah. I keep up with the muzzies.
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