Posted on 05/29/2015 7:33:32 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Phoenix Police Chief Joe Yahner said he is personally involved in the high-level planning meetings taking place ahead of Friday's planned free speech rally in front of a Phoenix Islamic Community Center.
Event organizer John Ritzheimer claims threats are being made against him. Here is what he posted on Facebook Thursday night:
"Credible threats being made and now having to move my family into hiding. Real nice Islam. Thank you for showing your true colors. I have not made any threats nor do I condone any threats. I've been preaching peace this whole time and once again Islam shows its lack of tolerance for others freedom. I will say that I think this cartoon contest is completely stupid, but this is all to show what Islam is about. The only one threatening with violence and that has a track record of it is them. Rally going on as planned."
Yahner spoke about a couple hours after that post and said the police department has not received any threats.
"No we haven't. But we're still looking in that area," Yahner said. "We still have another day of planning. I just left a planning meeting. We've got another meeting tomorrow so there's a lot of things in the works. The intelligence related to the crowd is changing all the time."
The rally is scheduled for 6:15 p.m. outside the Phoenix Islamic Community Center, which is situated on the single lane-only southbound Interstate 17 frontage road, just north of Glendale Avenue.
It's already caused disruptions for business and schools around the mosque.
(Excerpt) Read more at kptv.com ...
At 6:15 PM, not held yet and is disrupting schools and businesses? Say what?
The rally is scheduled for 6:15 p.m. outside the Phoenix Islamic Community Center,
11 Hours til Blastoff!!
In fact, I just looked at Google maps and there don't appear to be any businesses right around the islamic center (7516 N Black Canyon Hwy, Phoenix, AZ). It appears to be mostly residential and next to a walled in freeway.
This is as much fun as Halloween.
Hey Joe, if you go to that link for the mosque, I think the map has the wrong building ID’d. The new community is the big building next door with the domes.
Importantly, this is also opening day for the Phoenix Comic Convention (ComicCon). Last year it had about 78,000 visitors. The Muslim center is about 6-7 miles due north of the convention center, on I-17.
Even as the urban kraals are burning, and the LaRaza crowd are beginning to get even uglier, we must never forget the most dangerous and voilent group of all...
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There is a 1st amendment freedom which sets us apart from the world. I wish these protestors in Phoenix great success. I think we need more expressions like this to preserve our freedom.
Maybe one will come dressed as mad mo with a midget in tow in a burka.
In any event, how would this demonstration be any more disruptive than the hundreds of similar protest rallies conducted by the extreme left winger, often violent, every single year.
While the U.S. media was quick to claim “solidarity” following the massacre at Charlie Hebdo, not one of the major media outlets were willing to show the Mohammed cartoon to demonstrate that solidarity. Political correctness trumped free speech.
How do you come up,with so many excellent graphics?
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Important to remember is this just isn’t any Mosque....a bit of history about this Muslim Group running this community center Mosque.
Both gunmen identified in the May 3 attack against the “Draw Muhammad” event at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, attended this Islamic Community Center of Phoenix...both were known to mosque leadership dating from 2006,......where this rally is now going to meet up.
The imam at the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix (ICCP) is’Sheikh Mahmoud Abdul-Aziz Ahmad Sulaiman’, one of the so-called “flying imams,” who filed suit in March 2007 against US Airways officials for allegedly showing discrimination in removing them from a flight after the imams’ suspicious behavior raised alarm among crew and passengers.......
..... That behavior included loud praying at the gate area prior to boarding, refusal to sit in assigned seats, requests for seat belt extensions that were unnecessary and unused, and travel on one-way tickets with no checked baggage.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations..filed the lawsuit on behalf of the six imams, including Imam Sulaiman.
On the Mosques donations page is listed paying the “zakat,” an obligatory annual tax for all Muslims that is one of the Five Pillars of Islam, and of which one-eighth must go to support jihad.
According to its website, the ICCP’s property is owned by the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT).... The trust is yet another ‘Muslim Brotherhood affiliate’, as confirmed in a 2009 ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas Dallas Division, which identified the trust as ‘a Hamas associate’.
Imam Sulaiman is a member of the Washington, D.C.-based North American Imams Federation, whose board of trustees include the Jordanian-born Imam Omar Shahin (another of the so-called “Flying Imams” and former imam of the Islamic Center of Tucson, Ariz.) and Imam Siraj Wahhaj, whose name appeared on a U.S. government list of unindicted co-conspirators for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
.... in April 2004, when Zuhdi Jasser, the founder and president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, organized a Muslim Rally Against Terrorism, Imam Sulaiman and other imam members of the Valley Council of Imams refused to lend their support because.... ‘they refused to condemn terrorism’ in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
The Islamic Community Center of Phoenix’s Facebook page has posted links to both the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Muslim American Society and the Islamic Community Center of Tempe (or Tempe Masjid). Although not an event linked by the ICCP, the Tempe Masjid’s Facebook page currently contains an announcement for a May 15-17 course titled “Dawn of Mercy: The Messenger in Mecca.” One of the featured speakers for that event is Siraj Wahhaj, whose name appeared on a U.S. government list of unindicted co-conspirators for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
sounds like they picked the right place to demonstrate free speech.
I’d imagine that there’s a good deal of upfront prep for this thing. Particularly from a security standpoint. Could involve closing streets, putting up barricades, trying to get nearby businesses to close early, schools to shut down evening activities, etc.
"Everybody has a right to be a bigot. Everybody has a right to be a racist. Everybody has a right to be an idiot," Shami said. He added that members of the mosque have been encouraged to attend prayer services Friday evening as scheduled.
"It will be the same as every Friday evening and we're going to tell our members what we've told them before: not to engage them," said Shami. "They're not looking for an intellectual conversation. They're looking to stir up controversy and we're not going to be a part of it."
http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/valley/2015/05/27/draw-muhammad-contest-phoenix-anti-islam/28029579/
....” they picked the right place to demonstrate free speech”....
Yep..that’s why I posted about this Mosque and the Iman running it....these are not what new agencies might be called “moderates”..not with their history.
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