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		<title>American Infidel</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How media can help us win the war against radical Islam.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/eric-allen-bell/american-infidel/first-amendment/" rel="attachment wp-att-162800"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-162800" title="First-Amendment" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/First-Amendment.gif" alt="" width="315" height="240" /></a>If you are an American Infidel, Political Islam wants to kill you, subjugate you or convert you to Islam.  Theses commands are as plain as day in the Islamic scriptures.  And carried out, as reflected in the 20,000-plus acts of Islamic terrorism, just since 9/11 alone.  Fortunately a great many American Muslims do not follow the Quran and they don’t understand it.  But then there are those who do.  As the late Christopher Hitchens once remarked, “If god truly did write the Quran, then clearly he must have been having a bad day.”</p>
<p>My grandfather, a member of the Flying Tigers, was shot down by enemy fire three times during WWII.  As a young man, he was shipped off to places he could barely pronounce, and he did so willingly because he knew his country needed him.  He did not stop to question whether or not he was becoming “too obsessed with negativity” or to consider how taking on this responsibility, to protect his country from tyranny, might inconvenience his lifestyle.</p>
<p>Tragically, such courage and clarity is uncommon among most Americans today.  And to compound matters even worse, most Americans <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1brf79VyF40">still do not realize</a> we are at war with Political Islam, and they don’t want to hear about it either.  For those of us who do know, it is our responsibility to help inform the rest of the country about what they cannot or will not see.  We can’t give up.</p>
<p>The bitterly ironic and tragic truth is that the charmed lives many of us have inherited from the sacrifices of those brave souls who went before us have made us weak as a nation.  Too many Americans have become cozy, cowardly consumers, deep in debt and mesmerized by the television set.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, some of the most lefty Left of Hollywood have gotten together to produce a mockumentary which will lampoon critics of Islam.  The picture is called “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1brf79VyF40">The Muslims Are Coming</a>” and you can watch the trailer <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1brf79VyF40">here</a>.</p>
<p>Anyway, I have not written this article in order to fixate on the problem, but rather to present some new ideas.  My eyes opened to the reality of Political Islam only recently. It was in the early part of this calendar year of 2012, in fact. I know that I am writing to an audience which includes those who know more about this threat than I do and have been fighting Political Islam for much longer than I have.  So it is with humility that I wish to provide another point of view.</p>
<p>As author <a href="http://www.politicalislam.com/">Dr. Bill Warner</a> points out at the beginning of nearly every one of his talks, how Muslims worship is their own business.  And he is also quick to point out that less than 20 percent of Islamic scripture concerns itself with religious matters at all.  In fact, Islam asserts itself to be a “complete way of life.”  And Islamic teachings concern themselves more, not with how to worship Allah, but rather how to obey the barbaric Islamic legal system known as the Sharia and with the affairs of the state.  In other words, Islam has religious overtones, but religion is not its primary focus.</p>
<p>Islam is peace.  Not really.  It means submission.  But we keep getting told that Islam means peace.  And the word “peace” in Islam has a very special meaning.  “Peace” is what can only occur once the entire world has finally been forced to submit to Islam.  Recently a “peace” loving follower of Islam tried to blow up the Federal Reserve building in New York.  Fortunately, in spite of extremely aggressive lobbying by Islamic groups such as CAIR to try to get the government to “stop spying on Muslims,” the plot was foiled.  Law enforcement in New York has stopped over a dozen attempted acts of major terrorism since 9/11.  I think it was <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/">Robert Spencer</a> who pointed out that “the problem with <em>Islamophobia</em> is that it gets in the way of jihad.”</p>
<p>By now, I probably haven’t told you anything new.  Yet for the vast majority of American Infidels, the truth remains unknown or ignored.  To find the courage required to go where the truth takes you is to risk having to question everything.  When one pulls at a single lose thread, the entire garment could come undone.  Every tightly held belief that makes up a person’s worldview gets called into question.  So it is no wonder that for most people such inquiry about the true nature of Islam will be avoided at all costs.</p>
<p>For me personally, such a process of inquiry only occurred when I was sort of mugged by the truth. As a former liberal blogger and a filmmaker, who had been somewhat immersed in Hollywood culture for a while, perhaps anything short of being mugged by the truth would not have gotten through to me.  I wrote about this in more detail in “<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/eric-allen-bell/the-high-price-of-telling-the-truth-about-islam/">The High Price of telling the Truth about Islam</a>.”  But there are other ways to convey to large amounts of people, all at once, the truth about Islam, how it threatens our liberty, and the duty that comes with being an American Infidel.</p>
<p>Liberty allows us to evolve into better versions of ourselves.  Islam, on the other hand, appeals mainly to the darker side of the human psyche.  Liberty is about life and Islam is about death.  When I finally realized that, I felt more than just a responsibility.  I felt something of a calling, to use every available resource at my disposal and to tell the truth about Islam to as many people as I can reach.  Perhaps some of you reading can relate first hand to that feeling.</p>
<p>So let’s talk strategy…</p>
<p>America has engaged in two foreign wars with Islamic countries, numerous drone attacks and the killing of Osama bin Laden.  Prominent counter-jihad organizations lobby on Capitol Hill and boast membership numbers in the hundreds of thousands.  Reports are made public from Washington think tanks publicizing startling data on increased Islamization in America, while remaining dedicated to changing policy as it pertains to our security.  A few brave elected representatives have called for investigations into the infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood in American politics – risking their political futures, naming names, and putting it all on the line.  Several very good books on the truth about Islam, and the threat it presents to human rights and liberty, have been written.  Some have even made it to the New York Times best-seller list.  There are several excellent blogs which expose the daily occurrence of jihad and Islamization in the world.  Many of the top counter-jihad bloggers and authors give talks and appear on major network news programs.  And yet, we are not winning this war.</p>
<p>The free world is still being infiltrated slowly, stealthily – death by a thousand cuts.  Under the guise of being “offended” and taking on the “victim” narrative, Islam inserts itself into every opening, every crack in our armor – the UN, European Sharia courts, American schools.  Like a thief in the night it slips in, slowly changing the character of America to suit its long-range objectives – to impose its designs on a civilization of distracted infidels.  And it’s working.</p>
<p>There have been consequences – measurable and identifiable &#8211; to us Infidels for ignoring the growing threat of Political Islam in America.  Most notably, co-conspirators in the largest FBI bust of an Islamic “charity” funneling millions of US dollars to Islamic terrorists are now the largest Islamic lobbying organization in America.  How did that happen?  They call themselves the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and are often granted unprecedented access to FBI files.  Clearly some of our so-called “leaders” have put the fox in charge of guarding the henhouse.</p>
<p>CAIR continues to dominate the narrative in the mainstream media.  And to make matters so much worse, Islamo-bullies, at the forefront of forming a new global Islamic caliphate, can count on the continued apologies and appeasement from our cowardly commander-in-chief.  The Taliban is inside the building.  And America is sound asleep.</p>
<p>So what will it take to win this war?</p>
<p>We cannot even begin to change policy until we have a solid foundation.  And that foundation is broad public awareness and support.  We need the support of the American public – and we do not yet have it.  To continue to build without a solid foundation of public awareness and support is to build in the mud.  What we build in the mud will collapse.  We must be realistic that a solid foundation is still being built, but is far from complete.   In fact, it seems at all too often, CAIR (Hamas in America) is there to remove a new brick as soon as we lay a brick down.  This pattern must come to an end.  We need to fight back and we need to fight back harder.</p>
<p>So what is the solution?  You are looking at it right now if you are reading these words off a screen.  From the beginnings of human civilization, people have looked at a flickering light and listened to stories.  This is a part of who we are.  It’s as if this is part of our DNA.</p>
<p>That the flickering light has evolved from a fireplace to televisions, movie screens, computers, phones, iPads and laptops is a minor detail.  One of the primary ways that human beings seek to make sense of the world we are in is by looking into the flickering light while we are told stories.  Today, the power of the image on screen is an incredibly powerful force.  It is often more effective than armies, laws and lectures at universities.</p>
<p>For better or for worse, media shape our collective reality.  They model our behavior.  Media have the power to embed thoughts into our unconscious mind – positing ideas that are hard to remove.  We are a media-driven society.  The collective consciousness of the American psyche can be seen in the flickering pixels of TV screens, and on the silver screen, on every type of screen across the country.  And although media are sometimes our Achilles&#8217; heel, they also have the potential to be America’s great hidden power.</p>
<p>So how specifically can media combat the growing threat of Political Islam?  It doesn’t really happen on C-SPAN.  Well, maybe a little bit, for those rare individuals who have a C-SPAN attention span.  Rather, media messages penetrate into the minds of the comfortable consumer, sitting passively with a tub of popcorn in his lap.  And our counter-jihad movement does not really have this base covered as well as we could – not even close.  Meanwhile, some of the most lefty Left have gotten together to produce an upcoming documentary which lampoons anyone who dares to criticize Islam.  “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1brf79VyF40">The Muslims Are Coming</a>” is in post-production now and will be out soon.</p>
<p>(And yes, the title “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1brf79VyF40">The Muslims Are Coming</a>” is the same as the slogan for Loonwatch.com – the terrorist spin-control network.)</p>
<p>Every filmmaker in Hollywood knows that they are actually in the emotional transportation business.  And to the extent that Hollywood has an agenda, those who make movies also are well aware that when a person is emotionally moved, they often change their views.  It often seems to me that most Americans think with their emotions, and we need to start “speaking into their listening.”</p>
<p>Remember, America used media to great effect during World War II.  Many people came to understand the threat, and what was being asked of them, through black and white news reels shown before movies.  These days, sociopathic elements within Hollywood use media to drag our entire culture down to the lowest common denominator every single day.  In fact some days I wonder if the entire country has become a never-ending episode of the Jerry Springer Show.  But I’m not going to go down that road right now.</p>
<p>Hamas-CAIR uses media effectively.  They have created a widely accepted but false narrative, which says that Islam is simply misunderstood.  CAIR has successfully distorted reality so badly that Islam in America is now seen as the victim and not for what it is – the victimizer.  Remember, Islam means “peace.”  But then again, the media can define that term <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1brf79VyF40">however it chooses</a>.</p>
<p>So, moving out of problem mode and into solution mode here is how I see it.   The fact that many readers will not make it to this part of the article, about 2,000 words in, demonstrates my point perfectly.  We must add to our arsenal emotionally-driven media that are very, very captivating, entertaining, sometimes sensational, always truthful, and hard to turn off, walk away from or forget.  In fact, they must change minds.  Minds are often changed in relation to emotion.  The media business is the business of emotional transportation.  Stories and emotions change minds.</p>
<p>There are a few Muhamamd bio pics in the development that I know about.  And there have already been a few good documentaries which expose Islam and its dirty little secrets.  But what I would like to produce is a personal, story-driven documentary, which tells the tale of how one person can have their entire worldview turned upside down – in essence <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/eric-allen-bell/the-high-price-of-telling-the-truth-about-islam/">the high price of telling the truth about Islam</a> – my story:  how a filmmaker sets out to make a documentary which exposes “Islamophobia” and ends up learning the real truth about Islam.</p>
<p>By the way, few people realize this, but a lot of liberals pick up a copy of the latest book by Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck just for a guilty pleasure.  Indulgence into a guilty pleasure on home video is nothing new and not going to go away.  The likelihood of someone watching a documentary at home just to see the raging “Islamophobe” as a guilty pleasure runs very high.  I’m not a raging “Islamophobe,” but they don’t know that yet.</p>
<p>For a book on Islam to hit the New York Times best-seller list, it only has to reach possibly a few hundred thousand people.  But a documentary that has only reached a million or two people is not considered a blockbuster.  Not even close.  And yet, it reaches millions of people.</p>
<p>The documentaries one sees on the top 10 lists of Netflix, Amazon and iTunes are a whole new kind of storytelling.  They are “infotainment” – personal stories which advance a specific point of view or ask a specific question.  This is why Michael Moore’s movies do so well, why “Exit Through the Gift Shop” was popular even among people who could care less about the art world, why “The Secret” was a home video blockbuster, even though most of what’s in it is complete bullshit.  Imagine the power of a story that is actually true and worth telling.</p>
<p>The public has an insatiable appetite for using the image on screen to make them feel angry, inspired, shocked, sad, surprised and so on.  There is a science to screenwriting in this fashion to yield these results.  And making a documentary is fairly inexpensive.  As of the time this article was written, “Obama 2016” is the number one documentary on iTunes.  Dinesh D’Souza is reaching millions of people, and he is not just preaching to the choir.</p>
<p>The people whom I’ve <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/author/eric-allen-bell/">exposed in some of my articles</a> might have helped several Pakistani newspapers, accidentally on purpose, name me as the filmmaker behind “The Innocence of Muslims,” the YouTube video that’s become such a riot – literally.  Someone is trying to shut me up.</p>
<p>I have had to take the same security measures as if I had made that movie, and that is how it occurred to me that I might as well go ahead and make one –  only much better and much more effective.  And when that movie gets released, if followers of Islam feel the need to riot, they will.  But they cannot riot all day, every day.  And after their childish tantrum is over, for offending their delicate sensibilities, my movie will still be available.  People will still be learning about Islam in America, the truth about CAIR, the truth about a few terror-tied mosques, the truth about the Muslim Brotherhood in America and so much more.  They might even learn something about themselves.</p>
<p>Truth is the enemy of Islamic supremacy.  And nothing angry Islamists will do can stop <a href="http://www.AmericanInfidelTheMovie.com/">the movie “American Infidel”</a> from being seen.  I already have 300+ hours of footage from the documentary I started making two years ago titled “Not Welcome.”  That I halted production and did an ideological about-face when it comes to so-called “Islamophobia” is a story unto itself.  And that is the story I wish to tell.</p>
<p>When the self-proclaimed “prophet” of Islam wrote the Quran (if he even existed at all) one thing he did not count on was the information age.  Why are the Taliban fighting so hard to stop girls from going to school?  The enemy of Islam is truth.</p>
<p>So I am building a movement.  So far this movement has 330 million members, only most of them don’t realize it yet.  They don’t know they’re members.  They don’t understand what it means to be an <a href="http://www.AmericanInfidelTheMovie.com/">American Infidel.</a>  I intend to change that.  I hope you will join me.  Check out the website for the movie <a href="http://www.AmericanInfidelTheMovie.com/">AmericanInfidelTheMovie.com</a> and let us continue to expand our effort in changing minds on a large scale, while we still can.  So much is at stake and we need to fight the battle against Islamization on every front possible.  We must fight against the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR, Hamas, ISNA, ICNA, the MSA and every other Islamic jihadist front group that tries to sink its hooks into the fabric of America.  Truth is the enemy of Islamic supremacy.  Use it.</p>
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		<title>Six Sure Signs Someone You Know Is an Islamophobe</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/eric-allen-bell/six-sure-signs-someone-you-know-is-an-islamophobe/picture-16-14/" rel="attachment wp-att-148011"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-148011" title="Picture-16" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Picture-16.gif" alt="" width="315" height="260" /></a><strong>Editor&#8217;s note: To get <strong>David Horowitz&#8217;s and Robert Spencer&#8217;s</strong>  pamphlet &#8220;Islamophobia: Thought Crime of the Totalitarian Future,&#8221; <a href="https://secure.donationreport.com/productlist.html?key=OGTAUUU8UWRC">click here</a>. </strong></p>
<p>The word “Islamophobia” was popularized by Hamas, an Islamic terrorist organization, operating under several different names in America – most effectively as the Council on American-Islamic Relations.  Hamas is part of the Muslim Brotherhood.  The Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization of, not only Hamas, but Al Qaeda and countless other Islamic terrorist groups.</p>
<p>The Holy Land Foundation trial was the result of the largest bust in FBI history of an Islamic “charity.” This organization was caught funneling about $12 million to Hamas.  These monies were to be used to enable Islamic jihadists to murder innocent civilians in the name of Islam.</p>
<p>During this FBI raid, a memo was unearthed.  This memo has become known as the “<a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/document/id/20">Explanatory Memorandum</a>.” In summary, the Muslim Brotherhood and a couple dozen of its front groups in America declared a “Civilization Jihad.”  In plain terms, the Muslim Brotherhood stated its intention to destroy the US from within, using our own culture, media, legal system, academia, law enforcement, you name it.  Unfortunately, most people cannot or will not look at this – and consequently, the plan is moving forward like clockwork.  As author <a href="http://www.politicalislam.com/">Dr. Bill Warner </a>reminded me recently, “<em>You can wake a man who is sleeping, but you cannot wake a man who is pretending to be asleep.</em>”</p>
<p>Now, as it turns out, not everyone believes in this concept called “Islamophobia.” In fact, there exists a rapidly growing number of Patriotic Americans who see this form of terrorist spin control for what it is. But unfortunately, one of the ways that the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas/CAIR has infiltrated our culture, is by using one of our greatest weaknesses, and that is the fear of not toeing the line when it comes to multiculturalism.  Those who do not drink the Kool Aid are called the “Islamophobes.”</p>
<p>You may already have an “Islamophobe” living in your community, or as a member of your family, an elected official, a member of your religious organization or even someone at work.  The “Islamophobes” are everywhere, and they are spreading.  Here are six ways to spot one:</p>
<p>1 – An “Islamophobe” loves liberty more than they love submission.  They know that the word &#8220;liberty&#8221; means “freedom” and that the word &#8220;Islam&#8221; literally means “submission.” And just like America’s Founding Fathers, the “Islamophobe” knows the value of liberty and knows it comes with a cost – a cost they are willing to pay, even when those around them neither understand nor appreciate this.</p>
<p>2 – An “Islamophobe” is more interested in the truth than the approval of their peers. They place their own moral intuition and the principles of the American Constitution above the group think of the times.  The “Islamophobe” is strong-willed, independent and exemplifies the American spirit.  They are unwilling to compromise the political self-determination that this great Republic was founded on, including and especially free speech.</p>
<p>3 – An “Islamophobe” resists passionately any attempt to impose Islamic law (Sharia) onto them.  Islamic law mandates the killing of those who leave Islam, the death penalty for homosexuals, second-class status for women, punishment for the crime of being raped (Islamic law calls this “adultery”), it forbids the questioning of Islamic doctrine, promotes slavery, forbids religious freedom and criminalizes free speech.  Although the “Islamophobes” are often smeared in the press as being irrational, the truth is that most actually realize that the more obvious forms of Sharia Law are not their most immediate concern.  Rather, it is understood among “Islamophobes” that it is “Creeping Sharia” or death by a thousand cuts that Americans have to watch out for and stand against.  The “Islamophobe” is always the first to notice when the political doctrine known as “Islam” is being given special treatment in schools, the courts and in the media.  The “Islamophobe” is often the first to realize that their own God-given right to free speech is being threatened by the slow and stealth implementation of Sharia Law into all levels of our society.</p>
<p>4 – An “Islamophobe” sees a pattern emerging before the rest of the population sees it, and they don’t hesitate to warn others, even when the social, professional and personal safety consequences come with a hefty price.  As David Horowitz pointed out recently, “80 percent of the American public was opposed to getting involved in WWII before we were attacked at Pearl Harbor.”  What was it that the other 20 percent were able to see?  What was the pattern they were able to identify?  An “Islamophobe” sees the writing on the walls and does not sit around passively waiting for our so-called “leaders” to get it.  An “Islamophobe” is very likely already a member of organizations such as “Act for America” because they are already taking action at the grassroots level.</p>
<p>5 – An “Islamophobe” is able to tell the difference between Islam, the totalitarian political ideology, and Muslims – who are human beings.  “Islamophobes” are not concerned with how Muslims worship.  Rather, it is Islamic Law that concerns them, specifically as it pertains to the treatment of the infidel, who is to be subjugated or killed.  Contrary to popular opinion, “Islamophobes” do not hate Muslims.  In fact the “Islamophobes” know better than most, that no one is more victimized by the brutality of Islam than Muslims.  “Islamophobes” look for ways to stop this pattern, so that all people can be free, have dignity and human rights.  An “Islamophobe” is often somebody with a big heart, such that they tend to care about people whom they don’t even personally know. The “Islamophobes,” however, do oppose a violent ideology which seeks to subjugate or kill the unbeliever, and they make no apologies for not tolerating such inhumanity.  Ironically, “Islamophobes” are often branded as bigots for simply being the ones willing to acknowledge the elephant in the room.  And making sure they are branded as such is the job of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Hamas front group.</p>
<p>6 – “Islamophobes” tend to define themselves by what they are for &#8211; and not by what they are against.  An “Islamophobe” stands for liberty, stands for human rights and cares about our national defense.  They are less concerned about complaining about the problems and are more likely to actually do something about it.  “Islamophobes” are people of action.  “Islamophobes” take the time to read the Islamic scriptures (Koran, Hadith and Sira) and to understand what we are up against.  They study the works of Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Wafa Sultan, Sam Harris, Nonie Darwish, Bill Warner, Brigitte Gabriel and so many others.  An “Islamophobe” takes the time to understand the ruthless and barbaric Islamic Law (Sharia), which is committed to taking away our fundamental rights.  Consequently, many “Islamophobes” have the tools to speak to others, including their elected officials, spiritual leaders, friends and family and even the media, to affect positive social change – and preserve our American way of life.</p>
<p>Do you know someone who might exhibit these traits?  Is someone you know an “Islamophobe”?  Well now there is something you can do about it.  Join them!</p>
<p>If you love liberty more than the approval of your peers – you may already be an “Islamophobe.”</p>
<p>The word “Islamophobia” literally means an irrational fear of the ideology known as Islam.  It is misapplied, as this is in fact the intention of the word. Someone with an irrational fear of Islam would more likely make a statement such as, “The future must not belong to those who would slander the prophet of Islam.”  And really, what kind of a spineless coward would say something so utterly ridiculous? (Barack Hussein Obama, addressing the United Nations, October 2012.)</p>
<p>Those who are called the “Islamophobes” are generally anything but. However, they are strong enough not to allow cheap name calling to stop them from honoring their moral convictions.  The “Islamophobes” are our best and our brightest.  These are the people who can see around corners, connect the dots, spot a pattern, and are true to their moral intuition – even when it is inconvenient.</p>
<p>The so-called “Islamophobes” have the courage to speak out.  It has been said that “liberty is paid for in installments, one generation at a time.”  If you feel in your heart that you are ready to make your payment, to continue the legacy of freedom and liberty that has been paid for dearly by those brave men and women who have gone before us, then now is your time.  Now is our time.  Be willing to be branded an “Islamophobe.”  And if you are already a semi-active “Islamophobe” may I suggest becoming a “Raging Islamophobe.”  A word of caution: This could result in some people not liking you.  But if that is all that is being asked of us, for now, to stand up for liberty, to champion the cause of freedom &#8212; then being labeled an “Islamophobe” is a small price to pay.  In fact, to be an “Islamophobe” is an honor.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[A counter-jihadist discusses how he went from being a liberal documentary filmmaker to a warrior against Political Islam. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/islamophobia-rally1.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-147138" title="islamophobia-rally" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/islamophobia-rally1.gif" alt="" width="375" height="263" /></a><strong>Editor’s note: To read and order David Horowitz’ and Robert Spencer’s pamphlet,  <span style="font-family: mceinline;">&#8220;</span><em>Islamophobia: Thought Crime of the Totalitarian Futur</em>e,&#8221; <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/david-horowitz-and-robert-spencer/islamophobia-thought-crime-of-the-totalitarian-future-4/">click here</a>.</strong></p>
<p>In the video below, Eric Allen Bell (<a href="http://www.EricAllenBell.com" target="_blank">EricAllenBell.com)</a> discusses his conversion from Liberal documentary filmmaker, out to &#8220;expose Islamophobia&#8221; to committed Counter Jihadist, fighting Political Islam. Find out what happened, why the media doesn&#8217;t get it and how to talk about the threat of Political Islam with others:</p>
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<p><strong>STATUS UPDATE FROM ERIC:</strong> I have been moved to a safe house while FBI Counter Terrorism investigates numerous death threats against me. Four Pakistani newspapers wrongfully published that I was &#8220;the filmmaker&#8221; behind &#8220;The Innocence of Muslims.&#8221; An Islamic terrorist organization has ordered my death and a bounty has been placed on my head. I believe this rumor, associating me with the film, was intentionally planted by those who wish to silence me, after I published several articles, naming names and making connections between The Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas &#8211; as well as naming Loonwatch.com as a &#8220;terrorist spin-control network.&#8221; PLEASE SUPPORT ME AS I&#8217;VE GONE UNDERGROUND: <a href="http://www.EricAllenBell.com" target="_blank">EricAllenBell.com</a>.</p>
<p>I will not be silenced. I may have physically gone underground, but I will continue to write these articles, use radio, and any and all media to expose the truth about Political Islam and those who try to advance this brand of tyranny in America.  Islamists have taken away my freedom &#8211; for now, but they will not take away my freedom of speech!</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/statue-of-liberty-crying.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-145642 alignleft" title="statue-of-liberty-crying" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/statue-of-liberty-crying.jpg" alt="" width="320" height="330" /></a>First of all I just want to give a big shout out to the savage sadists, who <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/10-million-rupee-reward-placed-on-eric-allen-bells-head/"><strong>put a bounty on my head</strong></a> for insulting their precious little “prophet.”  You’re going to be hearing a lot more from me in these days.  So, get used to it, because my free speech and I are not going anywhere and you fascist fanatic freaks will be hunted down and prosecuted, Insha’Allah.</p>
<p>Now then, with all of the <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/eric-allen-bell/islamists-seek-to-settle-score-by-framing-filmmaker/"><strong>death threats directed at me</strong></a> and others, who are simply <a href="http://www.globalinfidel.tv/"><strong>telling the truth</strong></a> about Islam, one has to wonder, what are the leaders in Islam trying to hide?  It’s a belief system and we should be allowed to question it, criticize it, to question it and even mock it.  In fact, come to think of it, we are allowed to do all of those things.  This is America, land of the free and home of the brave – also home of the First Amendment, a freedom which keeps the rest of the free world free.  And free is how we intend to remain, no matter what the cost.</p>
<p>But if America is a free country then why is a New Jersey Islamic cleric, Mohammad Qatanani, leader of the Islamic Center of Passaic County (<a href="http://icpc.com/" target="_blank"><strong>ICPC</strong></a>) <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/free-speech-that-mocks-islam-is-national-security-threat-for-u-s-prominent-nj-imam-tells-theblaze/"><strong>saying this</strong></a>? “Americans, have to put limits on freedom of speech,” and “Americans may <em>have</em> the freedom to speak their mind, ultimately, they have no <em>right</em> to talk about Muslim holy issues” and things of that nature.  Has he forgotten where he is?  Or is he in America to try to change things for the benefit of Islam?</p>
<p>Moronic Muslim messages such as this one, here in America, are in no short supply.  In fact lately, Islamist leaders and many so-called “moderate Muslims” seem to be <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/eric-allen-bell/islamists-seek-to-settle-score-by-framing-filmmaker/"><strong>feeling somewhat emboldened</strong></a> by the recent wave of global fascist fist shaking and <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/eric-allen-bell/islamists-seek-to-settle-score-by-framing-filmmaker/"><strong>showing their true colors</strong></a>, at last.</p>
<p>It’s probably worth mentioning that the Department of Homeland Security charges that this enemy of free speech, Imam Mohammad Qatanani, in applying for a green card, failed to disclose that in 1993 he was arrested in Israel and<a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=31225"><strong> convicted of aiding Hamas</strong></a>.  Qatani also has admitted to being a <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=31225"><strong>member of the Muslim Brotherhood</strong></a> which is the parent organization of Hamas.  How Islamophobic of me really though to even bring this up.  There must be some kind of a misunderstanding actually because <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/09/chris-christies-friend-new-jersey-imam-mohammed-qatanani-wants-sharia-blasphemy-laws-criminalizing-c.html"><strong>New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie</strong></a> keeps calling this terrorist-tied enemy of the American Constitution his “friend”.</p>
<p>Speaking of people and organizations that are here to change America to accommodate Islam &#8211; I could not help but notice that CAIR, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_American-Islamic_Relations#Criticism"><strong>Council on American Islamic Relations</strong></a>, was using social media in a rather irresponsible way.  Recently, “<a href="http://www.facebook.com/CAIRNational"><strong>CAIR National</strong></a>” a Hamas front group, decided to distribute an article, which tries to connect me to the making of a film that I clearly did not make:</p>
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<p>This <a href="http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/eric-allen-bell1/0019374"><strong>article</strong></a> also seems to imply that the threats are probably made up, and even if they are real, <a href="http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/eric-allen-bell1/0019374"><strong>I probably have it coming, given what I wrote on this last 9/11</strong></a> day of remembrance.  The continuous advancement, of <a href="http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/a-curious-connection/0019357"><strong>this concocted rumor</strong></a>, has resulted in a <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/10-million-rupee-reward-placed-on-eric-allen-bells-head/"><strong>bounty of 10 million Rupees being placed on my head</strong></a> by Islamic terrorists.  Someone seems to have a lot invested in fanning the flames and keeping this “misunderstanding” alive in the Pakistani press and the online Islamo-blogosphere – also known as the “Islamosphere” or “<em>the place where so-called Islamophobia researchers signal to Jihadists whom they should target for death threats and/or assassination</em>”.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/eric1_edited-1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-145636 aligncenter" title="eric1_edited-1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/eric1_edited-1.jpg" alt="" width="357" height="403" /></a><em>Pictured Above: An Islamic bounty on my head of 10 million Rupees.<br />
Does the head shot on the right make me look fat?</em></p>
<p>Anyway, I’ll cycle back to the issue of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jaan-qurban-sipah-e-sahaba-dera-ismail-khan/189445077783153"><strong>Islamic terrorists calling for my assassination</strong></a> in a moment. But first I want to expose, once and for all, the followers of Jesus Christ.</p>
<p>“Jesus Christ” is a recurring character on Fox’s hit comedy series, “Family Guy”.  In the now legendary episode called, “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Dream_of_Jesus#Reception"><strong>I Dream of Jesus</strong></a>” Peter discovers Jesus working at a record store and tries to help him make a comeback, by booking Jesus on the Jay Leno Show.  The character of Jesus then skyrockets to fame, goes on tour, blinged out in gold chains and designer sunglasses, while backed by a band of bikini-clad back-up singers.  He calls his act “Jesus Christ and the Pussy Cat Dolls”.</p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/4-Family-Guy-I-Dream-of-Jes.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-145637" title="4-Family-Guy-I-Dream-of-Jes" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/4-Family-Guy-I-Dream-of-Jes.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="301" /></a><em>Pictured Above: The most-watched episode of “Family Guy” in America called “I Dream of Jesus”</em></p>
<p>Strangely however, I don’t see followers of Jesus Christ storming embassies, burning flags, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/mark-tapson/the-sexual-pathology-of-the-libyan-attackers/"><strong>gang raping an Ambassador</strong></a>, rioting in the streets chanting “death to America!” or putting a bounty on anybody’s head.  I’m not a follower of Jesus Christ personally, but I did grow up in a family that was a big part of his fan club.  And I do recall from years of Sunday school that Jesus did teach something about forgiveness and loving your neighbor.  Come to think of it, he set bar pretty high, because he said to love your neighbor as yourself.  And unlike the illiterate, blood-thirsty savage Muhammad, he never said to “<a href="http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Quran/023-violence.htm"><strong>strike terror into the hearts of the unbelievers</strong></a>”.  And what holy man would utter such belligerent nonsense unless he was riddled with insecurities and scared to death of being found out for being a con artist, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisha#Age_at_marriage"><strong>child rapist</strong></a> and a thief?</p>
<p>So why are the followers of Muhammad so touchy?  Do they suffer from the same insecurities that Muhammad did?  Why do their fragile feelings get hurt so easily?  Why do so many of Muhammad’s deeply delusional followers demand we respect their imaginary “prophet” or else face death threats, rioting, violence and destruction?  Why are we expected to pretend that this self-proclaimed “prophet” is beyond criticism and to roll over when his followers attack our First Amendment right to free speech?</p>
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<p>What is it about Islam that makes it so opposed to free speech, and why do its leaders keep telling us that Islamic Law (also known as Sharia Law) is compatible with our Constitution?  If <a href="http://www.globalinfidel.tv/profiles/blogs/the-threat-of-sharia-and-the-leadership-of-america-s-two-parties-"><strong>Sharia Law</strong></a> denies the right to free speech, then clearly it is not compatible with the Constitution. Why all <a href="http://ca.cair.com/losangeles/event/banquet"><strong>the lies</strong></a> and double standards?</p>
<p>Could it be that <a href="http://www.vexen.co.uk/religion/islam_unbelievers.html"><strong>Islam commands that it is superior</strong></a>?  It’s hard to believe that a severely indoctrinated culture, suffering from such insufferable insecurity could expect us to believe something so absurd, but actually they do.  In the muddied minds of the Muslim masses this is not a double standard at all.  In fact this is central to the belief system of Islam – that Islam is superior and that the whole world must submit to the laws of Islam.</p>
<p>In the best-selling fictional thriller, “The Hoy Quran,” poorly ghost-written by an illiterate desert filthy old man, using the pen name “Allah,” the character “Muhammad” arrogantly gives everyone who does not follow his delusional ideology three options: either you convert, subjugate or be killed.  Furthermore, the Islamic scriptures command that Mohammad is the highest moral example in Islam – the man to be followed and imitated.  <a href="http://www.politicalislam.com/blog/mohammed/"><strong>According to Islamic Scholar and author, Dr. Bill Warner</strong></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“The importance of studying Muhammad is found in the Koran itself. Over 30 times the Koran says that every human being is supposed to do everything in their life patterned after Muhammad. Then it turns around and says over 40 times that if you don&#8217;t do everything like Mohammed did it, you will go to hell. Everything has to be done the way Muhammad did. Muhammad is the perfect pattern of life for all peoples for all time.”</em></p></blockquote>
<p>1,400 years of following the horrific example of “The Prophet” has created a culture of fear, violence, Jew hatred, women hatred, homicide of homosexuals, prohibition of critical thinking and endless wars, tyranny and an absolute intolerance for free speech.  It grows like a giant wicked beast, which reaches out its poisonous tentacles into numerous climate regions of the planet and brainwashes the minds of the most frightened, least educated, poorest people, the ones who are most vulnerable, promising them paradise and scaring them into submission with the threat of hell, making them all the “slaves of Allah”.  Its tyranny must end.  But other than that, Islam is peace.</p>
<p>At least, that is what we are told by our Petroleum-compromised past President, our Islamist appeasing current Commander and Chief, Mullahs, Muftis, clerics and Imams around the world and the Council on American Islamic Relations.</p>
<p>So, if Islam is peace, then why did an Islamic cleric place a Fatwa on Salman Rushdie to be assassinated after the publication of the award-winning novel, “The Satanic Verses”?  Why did the Danish Cartoonist, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Westergaard#2010_attack"><strong>Kurt Westergaard wake up to a Somali Muslim, armed</strong></a> with an axe and a knife, who had broken into his home to murder him for drawing “the prophet” Muhammad?  Why is it that the filmmaker of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submission_(2004_film)"><strong>the 11 minute film “Submission”</strong></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_van_Gogh_(film_director)"><strong>Theo van Gogh</strong></a>, was shot several times in broad daylight, and then had a sword rammed into his heart with a note to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali"><strong>his co-filmmaker</strong></a> (causing her to go into hiding), denouncing the “mocking of the prophet”?</p>
<p>What do these artists and many others like them have in common?  They have used the arts to lampoon Muhammad.  So, given that Muhammad is the “highest moral example” to his followers, what would Mohammed have done?  According to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C4%ABra"><strong>Islamic scriptures</strong></a>, Mohammed did find out about some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_%27Afak#Ibn_Sa.27d.27s_account"><strong>poets who were lampooning him</strong></a> and he had all of them murdered for it.  Those who seek the death of artists who lampoon Muhammad are simply being devout Muslims, by following the numerous commands which state that Muhammad is the highest moral example in Islam.  The word Islam literally means “submission” and those violent deranged individuals who carry out violence in the name of Allah (Jihad) are merely submitting to Islam.  Islam is a mental illness, it’s contagious and its only remedy is truth.</p>
<p>As I mentioned earlier, I was recently accused of being the filmmaker behind the hit YouTube Islamo-Comedy “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmodVun16Q4"><strong>The Innocence of Muslims.</strong></a>” I haven’t seen a movie this bad since, “He’s Just Not that Into You.”  However, <strong>I did not make “The Innocence of Muslims”.  I had nothing to do with the making of “The Innocence of Muslims”.  I am not the filmmaker</strong>.  Here, I’ll print it in Arabic:</p>
<p align="right"><strong>لم</strong><strong> </strong><strong>أكن</strong><strong> </strong><strong>جعل</strong><strong> </strong><strong>فيلم</strong><strong> &#8220;</strong><strong>براءة</strong><strong> </strong><strong>المسلمين</strong><strong>&#8220;. </strong><strong>لم</strong><strong> </strong><strong>يكن</strong><strong> </strong><strong>لدي</strong><strong> </strong><strong>أي</strong><strong> </strong><strong>علاقة</strong><strong> </strong><strong>مع</strong><strong> </strong><strong>هذا</strong><strong> </strong><strong>الفيلم</strong><strong>. </strong><strong>لم</strong><strong> </strong><strong>يكن</strong><strong> </strong><strong>لدي</strong><strong> </strong><strong>أي</strong><strong> </strong><strong>اتصال</strong><strong> </strong><strong>لهذا</strong><strong> </strong><strong>الفيلم</strong><strong>.</strong></p>
<p>Unfortunately, an estimated 2/3 of Musims cannot read.  And as for those who can, so far 3 Pakistani newspapers name me as “the filmmaker” (<a href="http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2012/Sep/18/sikh-body-condemns-anti-islam-film-51.asp"><strong>here</strong></a> and <a href="http://kashmirmonitor.org/09182012-ND-sikhs-condemn-blasphemous-film-33818.aspx"><strong>here</strong></a> and <a href="http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/13909/enemies-of-pakistan-now-on-facebook/"><strong>here</strong></a>).</p>
<p>And now a Pakistani government official <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/09/22/Pakistan-minister-offers-bounty-for-anti-Islam-film-maker" target="_self"><strong>put a bounty on the head of “the filmmaker</strong></a>” without naming anyone in particular.  Soon after, a <a href="http://tribune.com.pk/story/437494/anti-islam-film-amid-protests-rs10-million-bounty-offered-for-filmmaker/"><strong>Pakistani Islamic cleric put a bounty of “10 million Rupees</strong></a>” (where have I heard that before?) on “the filmmaker” without naming anyone by name.   It’s as if this were to insure that there be no future filmmakers who create YouTube videos which “mock the prophet”.</p>
<p>Someone <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/eric-allen-bell/islamists-seek-to-settle-score-by-framing-filmmaker/"><strong>purposefully planted the false story that I made the film</strong></a>, even though the real filmmaker has clearly been identified.  Again, if I ever do make a film which “mocks the prophet” I will stand behind it.  Whoever is behind this plot, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/eric-allen-bell/islamists-seek-to-settle-score-by-framing-filmmaker/"><strong>planting this story</strong></a> and trying to fan the flames to get me assassinated, is trying to exact revenge, to silence me.  Given the number of Islamists I have exposed, for their terrorist ties, in my articles online, figuring out “who done it” is like something right out of an Agatha Christie novel, if Agatha Christie was wearing a burka and the property of some Muslim man.  So why is that?  Have I hit a nerve?  Who would have the resources, the connections and the drive to keep this false rumor alive?</p>
<p>Whoever is behind this plot to silence or kill me, it doesn’t matter.  Because I will not be silenced.  I will not submit – and neither should you.  I will continue to share information which exposes Muhammad for the vile, disgusting, pedophile, rapist, homicidal sadistic maniac, blood thirsty tyrant, hiding a desperately fragile ego – and so should you.</p>
<p>Islam’s dirty little secret regarding the truth about Muhammad must be exposed consistently.  Now is not the time to recoil, dazed in a state of shock, paralyzed with fear, just because you see savages rioting on your TV screen.  I speak to the FBI several times a day, from the confines of a safe house, where I have been advised not to walk next to any windows.  And I am not afraid.  And neither should you be afraid.  For Islam is just a scared little man &#8211; a scared little man whom we can and must defeat.</p>
<p>This is our time.  The time is now.  The time has come.  Islam is making a major move, a power grab – not as a sign of confidence, but because in fact Islam is a dying idea, desperately clawing at anything to survive.  But it cannot.  Islam cannot survive the information age.  Islam cannot stand up to critical thought, to reason, to factual analysis, to being outnumbered by rational sane and civilized people willing to speak up.  If you are suffering from the delusion that you are a Muslim, seek psychiatric attention from a trained professional immediately.  But if you are a lover of liberty than now is the time – now more than ever – this is your time and my time and our time to stand up and say ENOUGH.  Truth is the enemy of Islamic brutality.  Spread it.  Spread it like Napalm.</p>
<p>Peace,</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/EricAllenBell" target="_blank"><strong>Eric Allen Bell</strong></a></p>
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		<title>Islamists Seek to Settle Score by Framing Filmmaker</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Allen Bell]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My punishment for exposing the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro for having ties to terrorist organizations. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ericthreat.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-144756 alignleft" title="ericthreat" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ericthreat.jpg" alt="" width="282" height="229" /></a>What if there was one historical figure that just simply could not be lampooned?  I’m not talking about a George Orwell book now.  I’m talking about reality.  What if people in the free world, who had the right to free speech, would not dare lampoon this figure, because so many people on the planet had become brainwashed into thinking he was a “prophet”?  Maybe this seems just too mind-numblingly absurd to even entertain, but what if &#8211; what if the fear that these people would be offended, and then hurt you, or kill you, kept everyone silent – kept everyone afraid to poke fun at the imaginary holy man and to shudder in fear at the thought of exercising their right to free speech?</p>
<p>Is there even a word for something so absurd, so incredibly ridiculous?  In fact there is.  It is called being “Sharia-compliant.”</p>
<p><strong>TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2012:</strong> “<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/frontpagemag-com/photo-album-of-jamie-glazovs-town-hall-on-sharia-islamic-law-and-the-u-s-constitution-in-mission-viejo-ca/">Sharia and the Constitution</a>” was the name of the panel I was speaking on the night before, in Orange County, California.  I spent the night at a motel and got on to the freeway for a long drive home, after the traffic had let up.</p>
<p>A friend called and we started to discuss how the event had gone the night before.  &#8220;It had gone well, but we should be speaking to much bigger audiences,&#8221; I said.  “What’s it going to take?” she asked. “Seriously, what’s it going to take for people in America to realize that we aren’t all paranoid nutcases for pointing out that political Islam is at war with us and on the rise?”</p>
<p>Good question.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I thought about this and answered:</p>
<blockquote>
<p style="text-align: left;">Hate to say it, but probably another 9/11.  And come to think of it, Egypt has about enough rope to hang itself with, having elected a terrorist organization – The <a href="http://www.muslimbrotherhoodinamerica.com/">Muslim Brotherhood</a> &#8211; to run their country.  Sooner or later, the other shoe is going to drop, and when it does, perhaps people will rise from their slumber.  It’s just a matter of time before the Islamists in Egypt go off their meds and start demanding the usual death to America kind of stuff.</p>
</blockquote>
<p style="text-align: left;">There was an uneasy moment of laughter, followed by a mutual realization that this was probably indeed true.</p>
<p>When I got off at my exit in Los Angeles, I said goodbye and we hung up.  I turned on a talk radio program and listened, when I heard someone say that Islamic protesters were storming the embassy in Egypt.  Muslim men had scaled the sides of the embassy and broken in.  Crowds shook their fists yelling, “Death to America!”  There was rioting.  I turned up the volume.  This was turning into one of those days where it just sucks to be right.  Everything I had been saying was going to happen as the result of the “Arab Spring” was beginning to happen.  Then things took an even worse turn, as the radio voice said, “… protesting an anti-Islam filmmaker in Los Angeles…”   Uh-oh.</p>
<p>I am the only filmmaker I know of in Southern California who is known for expressing views which are critical of Islamic law.  Maybe there were other filmmakers who were opposed to political Islam as well, but I was the only one writing articles about it, going onto the radio, television and speaking out at public events.  This could not be good.</p>
<p>When I got home, I sat down in front of the computer to try to find out more about what was going on.  The media was claiming that a YouTube video called “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAiOEV0v2RM">The Innocence of Muslims</a>” had sparked all of this rage.</p>
<p>So I found the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAiOEV0v2RM">video on YouTube</a>.  It didn’t (yet) have that many views.  The production quality was dismally awful.  The storyline was incoherent and it promised to be a “trailer” for an upcoming Hollywood film.  There is a saying in Hollywood that showbiz is about 90 percent delusion.  Still, there is no way any Hollywood studio would be connected to something like this.</p>
<p>The news went on to say the “film” was made either by an Israeli-American or a Coptic Christian.  This was about the time my bullshit detector went off.  How convenient, I thought, for the Islamists in Egypt – especially given that this cheesy video had been up on YouTube already for several weeks, at least.  Clearly, this “film mocking the prophet” was being used as a false pretext for a newly emboldened Islamist movement to strike at an American target at an appointed time – the anniversary of 9/11.</p>
<p>And then Libya was hit, and the rest is history – history still very much in the making.</p>
<p>The real filmmaker was soon identified as a man calling himself “Sam Bacile.” I received phone calls from members of the press asking me if I was Sam Bacile.  I said no.  They asked if I had heard of him.  I had not.  And no one in the Western media printed anything about me as being in any way connected to this project.  By now, most reporters I’ve spoken to know that when it comes to speaking out against political Islam, I don’t hold back.  And if I had made a movie that was critical of Mohammed, I’d have said so.  I’m not opposed to “mocking the prophet.” I’m opposed to making bad movies.</p>
<p>Since I first called out the blog <a href="http://www.globalinfidel.tv/video/loonwatch-and-hamas">LoonWatch.com as being a “terrorist spin-control network”</a> I have made a few enemies.  I also <a href="http://www.globalinfidel.tv/page/abdou-kattih">exposed the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro</a> for their many lies and terrorist ties.  Websites have gone up that list my personal information, smear my character, give out my home address and declare that I am the enemy of Islam.  It took me nine weeks to get one of these removed from Facebook, and the rest came down by legal action.  Many of my articles target the <a href="http://www.globalinfidel.tv/">Muslim Brotherhood in America</a>.  So I can’t say I was all that surprised when this photo surfaced on Facebook:</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ericthreat1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-144758" title="ericthreat" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ericthreat1.jpg" alt="" width="403" height="327" /></a></p>
<p>I have received death threats from Muslims before.  I even published a handful of them in my last article, “<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/eric-allen-bell/the-true-face-of-facebook/">The True Face of Facebook</a>.”  But nothing could have prepared me for what was about to come.</p>
<p>I was suddenly being hit with wave after wave of death threats from members of the Religion of Peace.  I’ve taken the liberty to publish a few of them for you below, complete with the name of each person who is threatening me and a link to their Facebook account.</p>
<p>As of the time that this article was published, Facebook continues to receive countless complaints about the death threats, but refuses to take any action whatsoever.  After all, that might be offensive to Muslims.  Instead, Facebook once again locked me out of <a href="http://www.facebook.com/EricAllenBell">my own account</a>.</p>
<p>Now this could just be a coincidence, that this publicly traded company has blocked my account the very moment an international newspaper, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/16/americas-counter-jihadis-middle-east?newsfeed=true">The Guardian UK</a> (hard-Left turn ahead), <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/16/americas-counter-jihadis-middle-east?newsfeed=true">released an article</a>, smearing the entire counter-jihad movement as paranoid lunatics.  This article did of course point out that I was reaching hundreds of thousands of people per week on Facebook with criticisms of political Islam.</p>
<p>So, I submit for your review, some of the love letters I have recently received from the Religion of Peace:</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">WARNING:  VERY GRAPHIC CONTENT</span></strong></p>
<p><em>PLEASE NOTE: I left in all of the typos.  These death threats are shown to you here exactly as they were sent to me…</em></p>
<p>*</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/habibur.r.habib.9"><strong>Habib Cutler</strong></a></p>
<p>&#8221; You are playing with Muslim&#8217;s emotion you pig! You will go to HELL after your death. You are a real evil for Muslims&#8230; You such a looser&#8230;. You don&#8217;t know anything about Prophet Muhammah (PEACE BE UPON HIM). You are saying about Muhammad (PBUH) unknowingly. You are a enemy of Islam. We should kill you bastard. You will die in Muslim&#8217;s hands.. Wait for dieing you bastard..&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/habibur.r.habib.9" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/habibur.r.habib.9</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/abdul.moueed.397"><strong>Abdul Moueed</strong></a></p>
<p>&#8220;HEY YOU BLOODY BASTERED.. ALLAH THROW YOU IN THE HELL INSHALLAH&#8230; HOW YOU DARE FOR MAKING BLODDY FILM ABOUT MY GREAT MUHAMMAD ( PEACE BE UPON HIM)???? IF YOU ARE IN FRONT OF ME I KILL YOU WITH KNIFE BADLY&#8230;. YOU BLODDY BASTERD&#8230;.&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/abdul.moueed.397" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/abdul.moueed.397</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/Saado.mazhar"><strong>Saad Mazhar</strong></a></p>
<p>&#8220;u dun even knw what iz going to happen to you&#8230;.&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/Saado.mazhar" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/Saado.mazhar</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/limsa.slim"><strong>Limsa Slim</strong></a></p>
<p>&#8220;Are you mad????? Am giving you 2days,. Its either u kill yourself o you will see a nice movie been acted on you bitch&#8230;. May GOD destroy your body n your wealth with your crayzii bitch Obama with all your small pigs and dogs who suppots ur film&#8230; &#8220;Eric Pig Shit&#8221;&#8230; Dats your new name..&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/limsa.slim" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/limsa.slim</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/syedahmed.raza.16"><strong>Syed Ahmed Raza</strong></a></p>
<p>&#8220;U ALL SON of Bitch Having Grand dirt in ur minds whoever think to do any act against ISLAM and OUR BELOVED AQA (s.a.w.w). U don&#8217;t even know wt ll happen wen the Muslims star crushing ur heads and burnt them in filthy land.<br />
IN SHAA ALLAH&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/syedahmed.raza.16" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/syedahmed.raza.16</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/shoeb.nazeer.3"><strong>Shoeb Nazeer</strong></a></p>
<p>&#8220;A Bitch Son Come &amp; Meet Us We Will Show You Your Respect&#8230;<br />
You Will Die Soon With A Dangerous Accident..&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/shoeb.nazeer.3" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/shoeb.nazeer.3</a></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.facebook.com/madiha.nk.9">Madiha Nk</a></strong></p>
<p>&#8221; i wish this eric burns in hell and on earth n dies the most tortured death.. So thats it is an example to those who degrade Islam and our beloved prophet&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/madiha.nk.9" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/madiha.nk.9</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/maqsood.khan.3511"><strong>Maqsood Khan</strong></a></p>
<p>&#8220;mOther fUcker yUh make a fiLm against iSlam One day God Givez yUh yur fiLm reward in hell.. inShallah we all MUslim will meet yUh and make yUr face Black like shoez Polish!&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/maqsood.khan.3511" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/maqsood.khan.3511</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/ahmad.nauman004"><strong>Ahmad Nauman</strong></a></p>
<p>&#8220;I just wanna say, stay tuned. I just put you into the Hell&#8230; Son of a Bitch, Motherfucker&#8230;<br />
Wait and see&#8230;&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/ahmad.nauman004" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/ahmad.nauman004</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/waseemgura"><strong>Khanyari Sangbaaz</strong></a></p>
<p>&#8220;U MOTHERFUCKER WE KILL U ND UR JEWS&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/waseemgura" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/waseemgura</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/aabid7861"><strong>Abid LiyAni</strong></a></p>
<p>&#8220;Hey listen this earth belongs to Allah. America, Europe, Pakistan, etc all the land belongs to Allah and it must be ruled by Allah&#8217;s command. What ever you do Islam will win finally and we will invade the lands where kuffar live and implement Islam. You can follow what ever religion you want but rule is of Islam. And regarding this blasphemy you carry out against out our religion you will pay a heavy price you are fighting a nation of well over 1.5 billion who see martyrdom as the greatest honour.&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/abid.bhat.3363" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/abid.bhat.3363</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/imad.zangi"><strong>Imad Ud Din Zangi</strong></a></p>
<p>&#8220;wanna cut u into pieces with nail cutter&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/imad.zangi" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/imad.zangi</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/zahid.fazil"><strong>Zahid Fazil</strong></a></p>
<p>&#8220;eric u dont knw wht u have done we will destroy u &amp; ur country for this aftr tht u wll regret we wll destry ur famly &amp; fuck thm also israel u mother fuker&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/zahid.fazil" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/zahid.fazil</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/Xubi.naxeer"><strong>Xû Hå Îß</strong></a></p>
<p>&#8220;bloody asshole&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;fuck ya&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;eu&#8217;ll die a pig&#8217;z death<br />
bloody shit&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/Xubi.naxeer" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/Xubi.naxeer</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/mohsings"><strong>Mohsin Gul Shah</strong></a></p>
<p>&#8220;u pig u asswhole if infront of me i will cut you into pieces and i sewer upon allah .&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/mohsings" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/mohsings</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/mauib.anees"><strong>Anees Bhatt</strong></a></p>
<p>&#8220;wll burn u alive.&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/mauib.anees" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/mauib.anees</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/shaheen.khuroo"><strong>Shaheen Irshad</strong></a></p>
<p>&#8220;Mother fucker u will die soon.&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/shaheen.khuroo" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/shaheen.khuroo</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/aamir.7543"><strong>Sameer Khanna</strong></a></p>
<p>&#8220;i want to kill you..you mother fucker..go into hiding bastard the moment i see you..i am going to tear you to peices&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/aamir.7543" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/aamir.7543</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/nadeem.sufi01"><strong>Nadeem Sufi</strong></a></p>
<p>&#8220;My dreams z to kill.u&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/nadeem.sufi01" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/nadeem.sufi01</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/alone.ady"><strong>Rockstar Suiez</strong></a></p>
<p>&#8220;I would be the first man on mission to kill u infact burn u alive&#8230; Remember thats my word&#8230;&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/alone.ady" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/alone.ady</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/danish.pathan.7796"><strong>Danish Pathan</strong></a></p>
<p>&#8220;Eric is a son Of pig busted you will die Soon Inshallah&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/danish.pathan.7796" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/danish.pathan.7796</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/Nabeelionare"><strong>Nabeel Abdulkareem Adam Vohra</strong></a></p>
<p>&#8220;when i get you i will cut your throat wide open and stick your head next to your butt coz thats where its supposed to be you goon.  Fuck you and your entire family, Boy i just cant wait to slay your fucking head off you son of a bitch!&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/Nabeelionare" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/Nabeelionare</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/mudasirdarmalikpora"><strong>Mudasir Dar</strong></a></p>
<p>&#8220;Dog i wll kill u fuck u daugther idoit&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/mudasirdarmalikpora" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/mudasirdarmalikpora</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/dawood.rafiq.9"><strong>Dawood Rafiq</strong></a></p>
<p>&#8220;soon u will be dead&#8230;.and u know it&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/dawood.rafiq.9" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/dawood.rafiq.9</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/khadra.daahir"><strong>Aswaan Ali Mohamed</strong></a></p>
<p>&#8220;if we see u we kill u and we will kill every amarican person, I know u are afraid today and u will die 2morow and u will meet Allah`s punishment insha alllah&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/khadra.daahir">http://www.facebook.com/khadra.daahir</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/silverstone206"><strong>Χουραμ Σαχζαντ</strong></a></p>
<p>&#8221; You scum bag<br />
be ready to die&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/silverstone206">http://www.facebook.com/silverstone206</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/lone.xahid"><strong>Éxtrêmë Êñìgmâ Xâhïdz</strong></a></p>
<p>&#8220;i&#8217;ll fuck ur whole family u bustard.i&#8217;ll kill u&#8221;<a href="http://www.facebook.com/lone.xahid"></p>
<p>http://www.facebook.com/lone.xahid</a></p>
<p>*</p>
<p>Given the incredible amount of media attention given to the real filmmaker, a rumor such as this one does not have legs on its own.  That said, as I mentioned earlier, <a href="http://www.globalinfidel.tv/profiles/blogs/murfreesboro-mosque-abdou-kattih-muslim-brotherhood-nait">I have consistently exposed the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro</a> for having ties to terrorist organizations.  You remember them – the <a href="http://www.globalinfidel.tv/profiles/blogs/murfreesboro-mosque-abdou-kattih-muslim-brotherhood-nait">Muslim Brotherhood aligned Islamists</a> who are building a 53,000 square-foot meg-mosque in the heart of the Bible Belt with money from unknown sources.  One of their board members, <a href="http://www.globalinfidel.tv/profiles/blogs/murfreesboro-mosque-hamas">Mosaad Rawash, was caught promoting Hamas</a> online.  Yeah, those guys.  I may be reading too much into their spokesman, Saleh Sbenaty, calling me a “scumbag” but I don’t think they like me.</p>
<p>Anyway, someone has to come up with this strategy of coming after me using digital media, and work at fanning the flames.  Someone has to want to shut me up pretty badly.  And of course, what better way for Islamists to silence one of their critics than to put your name out on the street, saying you have “mocked the prophet” (punishable under Islamic law by death)?  And what better time than now?</p>
<p>Sheila Masaji, of <a href="http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the-distancing-begins/0019363">TheAmericanMuslim.org,</a> has used this opportunity to put my name out on the street, to jihadists here in America. Now let&#8217;s keep this in mind: according to Islam, “jihad” is a word with essentially two meanings.  One refers to an inward spiritual struggle.  The other is fighting against the enemies of Islam, by way of the sword.  Jihad is the duty of all Muslims, as commanded by Allah.  So by running an article on a blog called “The American Muslim,” <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/04/the-american-muslim-lies-about-me-again-retraction-requested.html">Sheila Masaji,</a> and the terrorists she defends, are clearly stepping up their game. Could it be that they are trying to shoot the messenger?</p>
<p>Since I posted many of the death threats from Muslims on my Facebook wall, as a sign that I am not scared, the Islamists added a new dimension to their venture against me.  The articles written for American Muslims <strong><em>name me</em></strong> as part of a <em>conspiracy</em> to make this sloppy film, “The Innocence of Muslims” – thus forcing Islamists to have no choice but to riot, rape and kill.</p>
<p>Sheila Masaji must know I had nothing to do with the film.  Her articles in the past are usually sourced with links, not to factual sources, but to more of her own articles.  This devout Muslim is a professional liar for Islam.  And Islam does not just allow lying for Allah’s cause, it demands it.  The practice is known as “taqiyya.”  Naturally, LoonWatch.com loves her.</p>
<p>Here are two articles Sheila Masaji has put up so far, attempting to link me and some of my friends (and some people whom I don’t know) to the making of the “film”:</p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><a href="http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/a-curious-connection/0019357">Who are the real players behind anti-Muslim film? &#8211; updated 9/18<br />
By Sheila Musaji</a></p>
<p>And…</p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><a href="http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the-distancing-begins/0019363">The “Innocence” of the Islamophobes and the Film No One Wants to Be&#8230;</a><a href="http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the-distancing-begins/0019363"><br />
By Sheila Musaji</a></p>
<p>Not surprisingly, many of the hard <a href="http://www.alternet.org/speakeasy/brucewilson/pamela-gellers-blog-solicited-funds-anti-muhammad-film?page=0%2C3">Left-blogs</a> are <a href="http://www.guardianexpressla.com/did-nakoula-steal-alan-roberts-identity-to-produce-innocence-of-muslimsmedia-for-christ-denies-involvement/">singing backup</a>.</p>
<p>The death threats that have come from American Muslims since the publishing of those articles, I will not publish at this time.  The threat to my life has been deemed serious.  So naturally the police department lost the report I filed.  After what felt like an eternity, as the FBI tried to locate that report, and then begin the long process of filing their own report, I decided to go ahead and publish this article, complete with many of the death threats, should something happen to me while the federal government is fumbling with paperwork. I have been relocated to a safe house and am in dialogue with the FBI.  I would like to report that the proper authorities have issued the appropriate warrants and are taking steps to identify and attempt to capture the numerous Muslims who are threatening to kill me for &#8220;mocking the prophet.&#8221;  But something tells me that Eric Holder is not going to let that happen.  As of this moment, there is paperwork and dialogue.  And nothing stands up to Islamic terrorism like paperwork and dialogue.  Eric Holder&#8217;s incompetence and fetish for appeasing radical Islamists who seek to infiltrate American society have become a national embarrassment.  But I&#8217;m open to being pleasantly surprised.  In the meantime, I&#8217;m filing my report with the media.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, <a href="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120914080022AAEZrW4">the narrative</a> overseas has narrowed even more.  Someone has been very busy, planting stories.  Several Muslim newspapers and blogs are now reporting that I alone am the filmmaker who “mocked the prophet.”  And it is perhaps no coincidence that they are all more or less using variations of the exact same wording – calling for me to be punished.  Under Islamic law (Sharia) that means death.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/18/world/film-protests/index.html?hpt=hp_c1">EGYPT:</a> “Prosecutors said they will ask the international police agency, Interpol, to add the names to its wanted lists. U.S. authorities would also be contacted, according to prosecutors.”</p>
<p>Never mind the fact that I did not make the film, was not involved in the making of the film, do not live in an Islamic country under Islamic law, enjoy the First Amendment right to free speech and, did I mention that I did not make the film?</p>
<p>Perhaps in an attempt to stop Muslims from once again coming after them (Muslims have a long history of slaughtering Sikhs), some of <a href="http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2012/Sep/18/sikh-body-condemns-anti-islam-film-51.asp">the Sikhs at GreaterKashmir.com</a> are willfully submitting to Islam, by singing its tune in an article entitled, “<a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=70&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CHQQFjAJODw&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fkashmirmonitor.org%2F09182012-ND-sikhs-condemn-blasphemous-film-33818.aspx&amp;ei=cXBZULGmHaH6iwLDvYGwBg&amp;usg=AFQjCNFqA78N2yQOnEj_cy-0yqq5FZFheA&amp;sig2=ESJZ2zvGrtKbLnTxZCTXOw">Sikhs condemn Blasphemous Film</a>”:</p>
<blockquote><p>Eric Allen Bell, the director of the film, should be tried by the judicial authorities for such a demeaning act. We cannot tolerate disrespect to any religion and if we promote such unethical behavior through media then, instead of peace we will only have bloodshed on roads, which we are witnessing even today.</p></blockquote>
<p>Newspapers such as “<a href="http://www.risingkashmir.in/news/apscc-jksc-condemn-blasphemous-film-33335.aspx">The Daily Rising Kashmir</a>” and others like it, also call for me to be punished for blasphemy.  Because, even though I did not make the film, whoever did is clearly at fault for just making the Islamists riot, rape and murder in the name of Allah.  Who needs accountability anymore if all you have to do is to say you are offended? This rationale of course will only work if you are a member of the Religion of Peace.</p>
<p>The Organization of Islamic Cooperation, or the OIC, a group of about 57 Islamic countries, is demanding an international law which forbids the “mocking” of any religion or prophet.  And believe it or not, this ridiculous demand is being taken seriously, as discussions are taking place between the OIC and their most powerful friend, the Obama administration.</p>
<p>Interestingly enough, <a href="http://www.globalinfidel.tv/page/abdou-kattih">Abdou Kattih, the VP of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro</a>, whom I have exposed for being aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood in America, has also <a href="http://api.ning.com/files/qpXlDz5oxltEK8jYHWE4HfL0xv5AXi2Oamsp-NHOKVk9Gi0zuB0nbz*siawVMDHj4XQ7bR-i6HZY8VC0r0BqdGJADMGBTk6g/ICMAbdouKattihNAITredacted.pdf">stated publicly:</a></p>
<blockquote><p>“<em>As Muslims, we ask for a clear international law, sponsored by the United Nations, that prevents mocking religions or prophets.”</em></p></blockquote>
<p>And yet to most Americans still, the term “Creeping Sharia” sounds paranoid.  And things like evidence are mostly dismissed as “hate speech.”  Meanwhile, Iranian Muslim leaders are complaining that, had they just followed through with their death fatwa against Salman Rushdie for writing “The Satanic Verses,” none of this “mocking of the prophet” would be going on now.  An example would have been made of him, and the world would submit to Sharia law and no longer mock the prophet.</p>
<p>So why am I in a safe house, needing protection from the FBI?  Is it because it was recently announced that “<a href="http://www.firstpost.com/world/iran-will-track-down-those-who-made-anti-islam-film-458790.html#.UFcNE_okeKs.twitter">Iran will track down those who made anti-Islam film</a>”?  Psychotic suggestions such as these come <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/iran/120913/iranian-supreme-leader-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-demands-">right from the Supreme Leader</a> himself, in the Islamic Republic of Iran.  Am I in hiding because <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/egyptian-leaders-demand-u-s-action-against-anti-islam-filmmaker">Egyptian Muslim leaders are demanding the deaths</a> of the filmmakers?  Is it the attempt to inflame Muslims around the world, using malicious and deceptive reporting in Muslim blogs, to want to kill me?  Is it the fact that I receive at least one death threat from a Muslim every hour?  Or has LoonWatch.com got it right, that I’m just really starved for attention and Islam is peace?</p>
<p>It is stated in the Islamic scripture over 90 times that Mohammed is the example by which all Muslims are to follow and imitate.  In those same Islamic scriptures, Mohammed says things often like, “I have been made victorious through terror” and “terrorize the unbelievers.”  Examples such as these are in no short supply, and anyone <a href="https://www.google.com/#hl=en&amp;sclient=psy-ab&amp;q=prophet+muhammad+orders+terrorism&amp;oq=prophet+muhammad+orders+terrorism&amp;gs_l=serp.3...53665.63092.2.63314.42.33.4.5.6.0.616.4675.8j23j1j5-1.33.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.Yw_ggKGLtbY&amp;psj=1&amp;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&amp;fp=a1280f3311a2bdd5&amp;biw=1517&amp;bih=705">doing a simple Google search</a> can find such passages, supported by chapter and verse.</p>
<p>Clearly the demands are being made, loud and clear, that someone be punished for “mocking the prophet.”  Never mind that in America we enjoy the right to free speech.  Never mind that the First Amendment is designed, not to protect popular speech which needs no protection, but to protect unpopular speech.  Nonetheless, Islam demands that someone be punished.   “Look what you made us do” the Religion of Peace seems to be saying, as they storm embassies and riot in at least 20 countries so far.  Look at what your free speech made us do.</p>
<p>Facebook has taken down the page “Sharia War on Women” but left up the page “Death to Israel.”  This willing submission to Islamic Law is the result of fear, fear of the consequences of offending Muslims.  By design, Facebook has placed its 900 million members into a “sharia-compliant” state.  THIS is what is meant by the term “Creeping Sharia.”  Or maybe there is a perfectly logical explanation to Facebook’s inability to locate their spine which has nothing to do with being scared to death of having Muslims storm their offices overseas.</p>
<p>How much longer will our “leaders” and unprincipled reporters become paralyzed by fear, every time some bully tells them to shut up and do as they are told.  Submit is what they are told to do.  And submission is what we see them doing.  By the way, the meaning of the word “Islam” is “submission.”  And on that note, here is a statement which was just issued from Al Qaeda.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/18/world/film-protests/index.html?hpt=hp_c1"><strong>Call to kill Americans</strong></a>:</strong> &#8220;We encourage all Muslims to continue to demonstrate and escalate their protests &#8230; and to kill their (American) ambassadors and representatives or to expel them to cleanse our land from their wickedness,&#8221; said the statement from al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.</p>
<p>So what does it mean to be Sharia-compliant?  Sharia demands that Islam be first.  Islam should receive special treatment.  For instance, does Facebook know that they have made 900,000,000 of their members Sharia-compliant?  Perhaps not.  But when the Obama administration apologizes repeatedly for our First Amendment, they are indeed very much being Sharia-compliant.</p>
<p>Is it possible that a man who spent his early years growing up in a Muslim country, indoctrinated while attending Muslims schools, raised in his early years as a Muslim by Muslims – is it possible that such a man would not know that he is being Sharia-compliant?  You decide.</p>
<p>As for me, I may be in hiding as the Religion of Peace attempts to take my life – for now &#8211; but I will not be silenced.  Sharia law forbids free speech.  I demand it.  And I will not back down.</p>
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		<title>The True Face of Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 04:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Allen Bell]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/fb1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-144079" title="fb1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/fb1.jpg" alt="" width="280" height="277" /></a>On September 11, 2012, I wrote a status update <a href="http://www.facebook.com/EricAllenBell">on my Facebook wall</a>.  I wanted to remember those innocent souls, who had lost their lives on 9/11 and to say a few words about the ideology that killed them.  Given that that my Facebook account is a fan page, I am provided with weekly stats on how many people I am reaching.  The numbers generally range from about 160k to 450k, week after week.  And the topic is always Counter Jihad.  Here is the <a href="http://www.globalinfidel.tv/forum/topics/eric-allen-bell-facebook-status-9-11-2012">message that I posted</a> on 9/11/2012:</p>
<p><em>ON 9/11 LET US REMEMBER THAT Islam is War.</em><em> It has been at war, overtly or covertly since its founder, the &#8220;prophet&#8221; Mohammed, spread his &#8220;religion&#8221; through warfare, and became the head of state. Islam is about control, conquest and domination. Islam is war. And what is the first casualty in war? The first casualty in war is the truth. Islam is deception. Even a huge percentage of the followers of </em><em>Islam are deceived as to what it really is. We have a word for such people and that word is, &#8220;Moderate Muslims&#8221;.</em></p>
<p><em>And according to Islam, Muslims are not only allowed to deceive for the sake of Islam, they are commanded to do so. In Islam there is no right and wrong &#8211; only that which is commanded and that which is forbidden. Islam has no golden rule, no conscience. The very word itself, Islam, means submission. If this belief system were a human being, it would have the mind of a rapist. Islam gets off on making you submit. You don&#8217;t have to like it. You don&#8217;t have to convert. You just have to submit.</em></p>
<p><em>A non-Muslim is a second-class citizen called a Kafir. You and I are Kafirs. Much of the Koran concerns itself with the Kafir &#8211; how to control us, to subjugate us and to kill us. Islam has the mind of a psychopathic rapist and because its founder, the &#8220;prophet&#8221; Mohammed was in fact a psychopathic rapist himself. Islam was spread through rape. Women were raped by Muslims when a town was seized by Islam. Mohammed ordered this and participated in this. Islam was spread by rapists. Mohammed even raped a child who was only 9 years old.</em></p>
<p><em>The Islamic scripture mentions, over 90 times, that Mohammed is the highest moral example. Mohammed personally tortured other human beings, he was a thief, a pedophile, a man who annihilated Jews for Allah, a man who ordered the stoning of women, the beheading of his critics, a man who beat his wives and who forced a woman to marry him, after killing her husband, father, brothers and her entire tribe.</em></p>
<p><em>Islam is a criminal enterprise, using lies about hell and Paradise to manipulate its masses. Islam is terrorism. The &#8220;prophet&#8221; Mohammed said, &#8220;Strike terror into the hearts of the unbelievers&#8221; and &#8220;I have become victorious through terror&#8221;. Islam is terrorism. The civilized people on planet Earth seek to evolve. It&#8217;s what we have done over time, and it&#8217;s what we seek to continue to do. Civilized people evolve. But Islam forbids critical thinking. Instead, Islam demands that we all follow Islamic Law &#8211; the Sharia. You have one freedom under Sharia and that is the freedom to follow the Sharia.</em></p>
<p><em>Islam seeks to take away your freedoms and mine. It is a 1,400 year old human rights nightmare which must not continue. Today, as I remember all of those innocent souls who lost their lives on 9/11, because of Islam, I reaffirm my commitment to fight Islam until it is destroyed and it is destroyed completely.</em></p>
<p><em>Islam and human rights cannot coexist. Islam and Liberty cannot coexist. Islam and America cannot coexist. We must end Sharia in our time. And if we are to evolve and to survive, as a species on this planet, we must wipe out Islam entirely. We must destroy Islam completely. The slightest trace of this Cancer called Islam will try to grow back. The civilized world, which is superior to Islam in every way, simply cannot afford that.</em></p>
<p><em>Muslims are human beings, capable of changing their minds.  Muslims, as an entire group of people, are not necessarily our enemy.  Arguably the majority of Muslims in America have a higher sense of morality than Islam itself.  Islam however is a belief system. It is a savage and sadistic belief system, one which we cannot “coexist” with any longer.</em></p>
<p><em>In fact, we must crush Islam and destroy it completely. Islam must die in order for all that is good in this world to continue. If you are Muslim, seek help for this mental illness. If you are a person of conscience, know that Islam has one enemy which has the power to destroy it completely and that is TRUTH. The enemy of Islamic supremacy is information. Spread it like napalm. </em></p>
<p><em>Peace, as we remember all those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001.</em></p>
<p>- Eric Allen Bell</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/EricAllenBell"><strong><em>www.Facebook.com/EricAllenBell</em></strong></a><em></em></p>
<p>The above message was shared by <a href="http://www.Facebook.com/EricAllenBell">thousands of Facebook members</a>, all around the world.  Who knew that simultaneously, a “filmmaker in California” was to become the latest excuse for a rash of international Islamic violence, directed at infidels for making a film which “mocks the prophet”?  The movie, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSEHoU7yQR0">The Innocence of Muslims</a>” by the way is awful.  Not because of its subject matter, as I’m all for making a movie which will finally expose the truth about Mohammed, but because it looks like it was shot against a green screen in someone’s garage, over the weekend, with performances equal to those seen in a school play – an elementary school.</p>
<p>I’d be proud to make a film called “The Pedophile Prophet: How a Psychopath created a Religion of Peace which Terrorized the World”.  And if I ever do, it will have higher production values, and I will send out press releases to the media and be sure to invite Cat Stevens and John Stewart to the premiere.  But something tells me this film would literally “bomb” in the movie theaters.</p>
<p>Anyway, recently my Facebook inbox was flooded with the usual threats from Muslims, telling me that I should be killed for “mocking the prophet” and lefties who refuse to tolerate my intolerance.  Here are just 5 real examples, of messages I receive regularly, for daring to criticize the religion of peace:</p>
<p><em>1) </em><em>&#8220;You are a racist pig who needs to be silenced. I hope someone ends your life slowly and painfully. Why don’t you go find a freeway overpass and throw yourself off of it, or borrow a gun and just blow your own fucking brains out so that we don&#8217;t have to listen to your uninformed, racist, bigoted, right wing, bull shit anymore.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>2) “Eric Allen Bell u will die death of a pig.  And every man and women who talk bad about muslim prophet and ALLAH will die as same.”</em></p>
<p><em>3) </em><em>“Why u people want to die so early?”</em></p>
<p><em>4) </em><em>“</em><em>Eric your backward counting has started now.  inshaAllah you will not live more now.</em><em> wait for your death and that dead will set an example for all the persons which had the same ideology like You.”</em><em></em></p>
<p><em>5) </em><em>“</em><em>I will kill u bastard.”</em><em></em></p>
<p>And so on.  Naturally, I report these violations to Facebook and they do absolutely nothing about them.  The FB member remains active, often to only come back and threaten me again and again.  When a Muslim man in New York once sent me the message, “I will cut off your d-ck and shove it down your throat and end your life and then put you out of your misery” or something like that, Facebook could not have been less interested.  This was back when I first started receiving threats, for <a href="http://www.globalinfidel.tv">my articles</a> about the human rights abuses under Political Islam.  (I’m something of <a href="http://www.globalinfidel.tv/profiles/blogs/high-price-of-telling-the-truth-about-islam">an apostate from the Left</a>, having once set out to make a documentary exposing “Islamophobia”).  So I sent Facebook a screenshot and a letter and everything.  It this was like trying to communicate with a brick wall.</p>
<p>A day before the new Sharia Spring got into full swing, with news of “offended” frenzied Islamo-lunatics, scaling walls of US embassies, burning flags, burning buildings to the ground, and sodomizing and killing American diplomats, I had found this Facebook group and I reported it to Facebook:</p>
<p>The Name of the Group is “<a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/174645715934019/">I Love Allah: I Want to Kill all those Peoplez who make Groups Against ISLAM on Facebook</a>”.</p>
<p>There are over 1,080 members, last time I checked.  And I did receive an email back from Facebook, after making my report regarding a “Credible Threat of Violence”.  According to Facebook, although this group does clearly call for the death of people – people like me for example, it oddly does not violate Facebook’s policies in any way.  Sometimes it just sucks being a white guy.</p>
<p>Sure, there is also a Facebook page called “<a href="http://www.facebook.com/Death.to.israel1">Death to Israel</a>” and many others like it, but this next one hits pretty close to home, as it targets a few courageous human rights warriors in America, whose work I tend to respect greatly:</p>
<p>The Facebook group called “<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pamela-Geller-is-a-terrorist/228612967176833">Pamela Geller is a Terrorist</a>” shows a <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=332757343429061&amp;set=a.228624117175718.65222.228612967176833&amp;type=1&amp;theater">photograph of an execution table</a>, with the words, “<em>Pamela Geller. Robert Spencer. Brigitte Gabriel</em>” typed above it.  This makes me furious – not climb a wall, rip up a flag, sodomize a diplomat and beat my chest furious.  More like, write an article and make it go viral furious.  The internet is a potential game-changer, after 1,400 years of Islamic cruelty.  In fact, I maintain that the biggest threat to Islamic brutality is truth, information – and that we should spread it like Napalm.</p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/fb2.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-144081" title="fb2" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/fb2.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="273" /></a><strong>Picture taken from a Muslim FB page which hates Jews and Counter Jihadists</strong></p>
<p>And naturally this, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pamela-Geller-is-a-terrorist/228612967176833">anti-Jewish, pro-Muslim group</a> also instructs its members to falsely <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=444276908943770&amp;set=a.228624117175718.65222.228612967176833&amp;type=1&amp;theater">report my page to Facebook</a>:</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/fb3.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-144082" title="fb3" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/fb3.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="239" /></a>I and hundreds of my friends have reported this page and this image to Facebook.  And we all received similar automated emails back, telling us that the material did not violate any Facebook rules.  Funny, by the time this article gets published online, I won’t be able to post it on my own Facebook wall, because I have been suspended for material that is offensive towards Muslims.  Anyone else starting to see a pattern here?</p>
<p>The “<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Palestine-Action-Committee/113182608735221">Palestine Action Committee</a>” on Facebook, has similarly targeted me, but I’m not holding my breath to see if the folks at Facebook are able to locate their spine.  And after all, Facebook has to consider the fragile feelings of all of their members:</p>
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<p>A few nights ago, (9/12/2012), the latest news reports were breaking, of yet even more offended Muslims, crawling up the walls of US embassies in Cairo and Yemen and other Sharia Spring countries.  There were reports of offended Muslims throwing Molotov cocktails to avenge the “mocking” of their “prophet” while the Obama Administration issued its usual apologies for our First Amendment – because nothing stands up to Fascism like appeasement.</p>
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		<title>The Threat of Sharia and the Leadership of America’s Two Parties</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 04:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Allen Bell]]></dc:creator>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Imagine you were a teenage girl in Pakistan, and your parents married you off very young.   The marriage is a disaster but you have no rights.   You flee with your daughter to the U.S., you hide out for two years until the detective he hires finds you. In Pakistan, under the Islamic law there, the means of obtaining a divorce is only available to a man, but never of course to a woman.  He demands full custody of your daughter.  Oh, and he’s accused you of adultery.</p>
<p>You consider flying to Pakistan, to contest the divorce, but adultery is a crime under Islamic Law in Pakistan, a crime which is punishable by death.  You will literally be arrested the moment you de-board the plane, in Karachi.   You could face prison time, or even be stoned to death.  And in Pakistan, your testimony under Islamic law is worth only half that of a man’s.  Then you remember, you’re in America now and you have rights.</p>
<p>So, you petition the American courts, filing for a real divorce.  But unfortunately, your husband has a Pakistani judge as an expert witness who he flies in to testify in the Maryland court – and the judge accepts his view of Shariah’s “best interests of the child” as the same as Maryland’s “best interests of the child. You and your daughter are simply outgunned.</p>
<p>And to your surprise, you find out that the American courts have been convinced to bow to Islamic Law (the Sharia), and you are now without any money, you have lost your home, and you have even lost your daughter.</p>
<p>Does this sound just too crazy to be true – like something that just could not happen in America?  In fact, this kind of reckless disregard for American law, in American courts, is actually more common than one might think.  This scenario resembles what happened to one woman in <a href="http://theshariahwaronwomen.org/a-mother-loses-her-child-in-maryland/">Maryland</a>, and it’s happening all over the country.</p>
<p>In the case of <a href="http://theshariahwaronwomen.org/a-mother-loses-her-child-in-maryland/">Joohi Hosain of Maryland</a>, the court shockingly abandoned American standards, in making their ruling.  The court ruling stated that the best interests of the child should be determined not by American law, but by <a href="http://theshariahwaronwomen.org/a-mother-loses-her-child-in-maryland/">applying Pakistani customs and an adherence to Islamic standards</a>.</p>
<p>But sadly, the story gets even worse.  The radical Islamist website, <a href="http://shariainamerica.com/">ShariaInAmerica.com</a>, is celebrating this and other cases like it, as <a href="http://shariainamerica.com/mission/">victories for Sharia Law in America</a>.  As part of a larger initiative to bring America more into alignment with Islamic Law, they rejoice over the court’s ruling, and <a href="http://www.abedawad.com/experts.htm">provide resources</a> for others who support the advancement of Political Islam in America, as to how they can prevail by <a href="http://counterjihadreport.com/2012/04/03/icnas-shariah-for-america-campaign-hides-extremist-beliefs-and-associations/">imposing Sharia Law onto our American legal system</a>.  And, it is working!</p>
<p>While the <a href="http://www.redstate.com/breeanneh/2012/08/21/radical-islam-joins-the-dnc/">Left is bending over backwards, to appease radical Islamist interests</a>, and much of the Right is too cowardly to take a stand, cases like these continue to grow.  The <a href="http://shariahinamericancourts.com/?page_id=305">Center for Security Policy has identified at least 50</a> cases.  But the  Islamist site, <a href="http://www.ShariaInAmerica.com">ShariaInAmerica.com</a> lists having over <a href="http://shariainamerica.com/by-state/">72 victories for Sharia Law</a>, and counting, and boasts that many have triumphed over our American law.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2011/02/cpac-former-cia-director-tells-of-sharia-threat/">JudicialWatch.org</a> cites former Central Intelligence Agency Director Jim Woolsey, a foreign policy specialist who has worked for both Democratic and Republican administrations, <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2011/02/cpac-former-cia-director-tells-of-sharia-threat/">as saying</a> that the United States is, not only at war with terrorists such as Al Qaeda and Hezbollah, but also with those who, over the long run, want to impose Sharia law.  The former CIA Director indicated that Sharia is a theocratic dictatorship, extremely opposed to democracy and a movement to eliminate and <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/case/65">destroy western civilization</a>.  He has also pointed out that the radical Islamic group, the <a href="http://shariahthethreat.org/">Muslim Brotherhood, is largely behind the effort to bring Sharia</a> to the United States.</p>
<p>So, is it really true, that this spike in verifiable cases, where American law is eclipsed by Islamic law, is part of a larger and more sinister objective, on the part of Islamists?  Can we really go the way of Turkey, Lebanon, Bangladesh, Kosovo, Indonesia and so many other nations – nations who, over time, have fallen to Political Islam through the advancement of Sharia Law?  It goes without saying, of course, that every nation which has allowed the advancement of Sharia into its culture is a nation where citizens do not enjoy the human rights that we enjoy today, under the law, in America.</p>
<p>Some might argue that such a scenario for America would be a bit extreme.  Perhaps a more likely scenario would be radicalized enclaves (like the Jamaat ul Fuqra enclaves that are already established across America), that result from Islamic birth rates and immigration continuing to expand and more and more demands being made for special accommodation – such as what is brewing in much of Europe.  Others have asserted that we may face a challenge not unlike the Cold War, where an enormous amount of our focus and resources are used up in order to protect our sovereignty and our liberty.</p>
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		<title>Islamic Center Must Violate Our Laws in Order to Have Religious Freedom</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 04:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><strong>Friday morning, 4:10 am, Los Angeles, CA:</strong>  I am being wired for sound.  There are <a id="_GPLITA_2" title="Powered by Text-Enhance" href="http://www.globalinfidel.tv/profiles/blogs/islamic-center-must-violate-our-laws#">big</a> hot lights pointed in my eyes, a screen depicting the Los Angeles skyline behind me, and a camera pointed at my face.  In a few minutes I will be addressing a live audience of millions of viewers, about what I believe to be the defining issue of our time, the Islamization of the West.</p>
<p>I have reviewed all of the facts available to me, concerning recent Federal Government lobbying on behalf of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro.  I’ve <a id="_GPLITA_3" title="Powered by Text-Enhance" href="http://www.globalinfidel.tv/profiles/blogs/islamic-center-must-violate-our-laws#">read</a> every news report on the subject I could find.  I have consulted attorneys and experts, and sent over all of my notes to this major news network, to be vetted.  And I have memorized all of the facts and condensed them into a few short sound bytes, in preparation for the moment that I am introduced, any minute now.</p>
<p>“Eric, shall we introduce you as a former Liberal documentary filmmaker?” a voice asks in my earpiece.  “Sure, that sounds about right.”  I <a id="_GPLITA_5" title="Powered by Text-Enhance" href="http://www.globalinfidel.tv/profiles/blogs/islamic-center-must-violate-our-laws#">answer</a>, “Just either you mention or I’ll mention that the film was supposed to expose what I thought was Islamophobia, until <a href="http://www.globalinfidel.tv/profiles/blogs/high-price-of-telling-the-truth-about-islam">I learned the truth about Islam</a>.”  Silence for a moment, and then, “Okay, please stand by”.  I sit up on my seat and review the bullet points in my head one last time:</p>
<p>-          The Islamic Center of Murfreesboro is building a 53,000 square foot mega mosque, in defiance of a <a id="_GPLITA_0" title="Powered by Text-Enhance" href="http://www.globalinfidel.tv/profiles/blogs/islamic-center-must-violate-our-laws#">court</a> order, having obtained their permits illegally.  The foreign born, Muslim Brotherhood-aligned Islamic leaders were court-ordered to stop, but have continued to build.</p>
<p>-          Additionally, the Islamic Center had indicated publicly that, in spite of being denied an Occupancy Permit, they still intended to occupy their new compound in time for Ramadan.  It seems to me that loyalty to Islam comes first, before anything, including respect for the law in America.  And I see this trend happening all over the country right now and in Europe as well.</p>
<p>-          I personally  have no objection to any group worshipping in peace, but I do take issue when that group refuses to abide by our laws</p>
<p>-          Judge Corlew, of Rutherford County, had ruled the permits void due to a violation of the open meetings act.  The Mayor had been exposed, lying on the witness stand in court, about having financial dealings for many decades with a Board Member of the Islamic Center.  He had first said he had never heard of this Egyptian Muslim leader, Essam Fathy, but only minutes later it was proven that Dr. Fathy was an important part of the Mayor’s substantial personal income.</p>
<p>-          On Wednesday of this week, there were two discreet “Emergency” lawsuits filed, at the same time.  One was filed by Ossama Bahoul, the Egyptian Cleric of this massive Islamic compound.  But what I found especially bizarre was that the other was actually filed by the Federal Government – using our <a id="_GPLITA_4" title="Powered by Text-Enhance" href="http://www.globalinfidel.tv/profiles/blogs/islamic-center-must-violate-our-laws#">tax</a> dollars.  This had to have taken quite a bit of planning, timing and calculation.  The alliance here is disconcerting and raises a lot of questions.</p>
<p>-          Both lawsuits were heard immediately, and a ruling was made the same day, by a Federal Judge in Nashville, saying that the Islamic Center would be granted an emergency restraining order against Corlew’s ruling, so that the Islamic Center could celebrate Ramadan in their new compound, instead of at their existing facility.  This unexpected move had all of the appearances of a backroom deal.  The people of the affected community already had their day in court and won – but their lawyers were not informed of this hearing until after the fact.  So I question why the Federal Government is circumventing the will of the people, and lobbying on behalf of an Islamic group – especially one with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>I had gone over my sound bytes one more time in my head, “So it seems that the Federal government is not only lobbying on behalf of an Islamic group.  But the message here appears to be this – that not to allow the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro to violate our laws &#8211; is somehow a violation of their <em>religious freedom</em>”.</p>
<p>Show time:  Another voice comes over the ear piece and says, “Eric, I’m so sorry but your segment has been preempted.  There’s been a shooting at a movie theater in Colorado and we have to go to that right away.  Can you come back tomorrow?”</p>
<p>In the car, on the way home, I listened as the morning news radio covered the tragedy.   A young man entered a movie theater, shooting and killing many in attendance.  It was premeditated.  He has psychological problems.  And experts predict that this might hurt how the latest “Batman” sequel will do in the box office.   Every media outlet out there was covering this event and new details came to light, because if they did not, you might change the channel.</p>
<p>Horrible as this tragedy was, something like this happens every few years here in America.  Meanwhile, brutality on this level is the norm in the Islamic world.   However, in Islam a violent action such as this one is commanded in the Koran, as the person carrying it out is only following the example of the highest moral authority in Islam – the man to be imitated – Mohammed, who had said in Koran: 3:150 &#8220;We shall strike terror into the hearts of the Infidels.”</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 04:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><strong>Why is it such a big deal that a Muslim community is simply trying to build a house of worship?</strong></p>
<p>Let’s start with a little math.  Murfreesboro, TN has just over 100,000 residents.  According to <a href="http://api.ning.com/files/jVWVJIEiov2q3HvHKFr7hZ6VAnV-YpoDL6dZ60SyTxDbHdI5pr5EEmXV4uIejp0n6uHod2RvIM0wHQQPRta*x48k1ZvSlkww/ICMAnnualReport2009.doc">estimates provided by the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro</a>, there are 200 to 300 Muslim families living in the area.  When they announced their plans to build a 53,000 square foot mega mosque, a lot of questions came up.  One subject of concern was why they needed such a huge compound for so few families.  What is particularly disconcerting is that, according to their own documents (<a href="http://api.ning.com/files/jVWVJIEiov2q3HvHKFr7hZ6VAnV-YpoDL6dZ60SyTxDbHdI5pr5EEmXV4uIejp0n6uHod2RvIM0wHQQPRta*x48k1ZvSlkww/ICMAnnualReport2009.doc">attached 2009 annual report</a>) the ICM only has 45 active paying member families.  Naturally this begs another question – who is paying for this massive compound?</p>
<p>And, what will it really cost to build something that looks like this, per square foot, at 53,000 square feet, when the project is completed?  How many millions of dollars will these “<a href="http://api.ning.com/files/jVWVJIEiov2q3HvHKFr7hZ6VAnV-YpoDL6dZ60SyTxDbHdI5pr5EEmXV4uIejp0n6uHod2RvIM0wHQQPRta*x48k1ZvSlkww/ICMAnnualReport2009.doc">45 active members</a>” be coming up with – and where is all this money coming from?</p>
<p>Now the question of who is paying for this Islamic compound and why is it so big, begs another question:</p>
<p><strong>Why is it that after 9/11, mosque construction in America has nearly doubled?  </strong></p>
<p>It’s not as if the population of Muslims in America suddenly spiked – not even close.  Muslims make up less than 1 percent of the United States population.  So is there any logical explanation for the rapid expansion of new mosque construction?</p>
<p>One need only look to the history of 1,400 years of Islamic conquest to understand that <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/the_hijra.html">according to the Hijra, the Islamic doctrine of cultural invasion</a>, Muslims are required to build mosques following a successful attack.</p>
<p><strong>But shouldn’t the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro have the right to build anyway?  Is this not a right, given to all religions and protected under the First Amendment?</strong></p>
<p>In order to understand what Islam is and is not, it is important to note a few basic facts.  Well under 20 percent of Islamic scripture talks about religion in any way.  The rest concerns itself with fighting the infidel, conquest, spreading the tyrannical Islamic political system and enforcing brutal Islamic Law (Sharia) on the non-believers.</p>
<p>Another glaring detail that our last few Presidents left out, when telling us that “Islam is peace” is that Islam is sort of obsessed with hating the Jews.  In fact, the Prophet Mohammed had an entire Jewish tribe murdered.  Here is a bit of Islamic scripture that I find to be very revealing, when it comes to “the religion of peace”:</p>
<p><strong><em>“The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him.” (Sahih Muslim, 41:6985; see also 41:6981-84 and Sahih Bukhari, 4:52:176,177 and 4:56:791)</em></strong></p>
<p>So actually, Islam is a political and legal system with a thin veil of religious doctrine, thus giving it just enough cover to be protected by our laws, provided no one shine the light of truth and thus exposes to Americans what Islam actually is.</p>
<p>And the glaring fact that the Islamic scripture is a hate manifesto with a blueprint for worldwide domination of the infidel, well, who wants to confront the elephant in the room and be labeled “intolerant”?  That said, until someone successfully challenges this in court, Islam has been deemed a religion in the United States, and when that premise is questioned in a court of law, Eric Holder sends officials from the Department of Justice to intervene on behalf of Islam.</p>
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		<title>Is Hamas Building a 53,000 Square Foot Facility in America?</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/5-Yassin-founder-of-Hamas-Murfreesboro-mosque.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-134618" title="5  Yassin founder of Hamas Murfreesboro mosque" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/5-Yassin-founder-of-Hamas-Murfreesboro-mosque.jpg" alt="" width="350" height="525" /></a><em>Editor&#8217;s note: The compilation of materials used in this article are the result of a collaboration between </em><a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/"><em>Steve Emerson, of the Investigative Project on Terrorism</em></a><em>, Elizabeth Coker, a retired journalist and stay-at-home-mom, </em><a href="http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/73312/sec_id/73312"><em>Jerry Gordon, former Army Intelligence officer and Editor for New English Review</em></a><em>, and Eric Allen Bell, Filmmaker and writer.  This article was written by </em><a href="http://www.globalinfidel.TV"><em>Eric Allen Bell</em></a><em> who was at one time a staunch pro-mosque supporter, who had a complete change in perspective after the Arab Spring. Bell was banned as a writer from the Daily Kos after he published 3 stories critical of Islam, which ran afoul of the mindset there.  For more on that, read “</em><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/02/07/the-high-price-of-telling-the-truth-about-islam/"><em>The High Price of Telling the Truth About Islam</em></a><em>.”</em></p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/1-Hamas-Pledge-Murfreesboro.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-134605" title="1-Hamas-Pledge-Murfreesboro" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/1-Hamas-Pledge-Murfreesboro.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Pictured Above: A <a href="http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_display.cfm/blog_id/28355">Hamas Terrorism Pledge</a>, posted online by a trusted Board Member of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, TN.</strong></p>
<p>Hamas, also known as the “Islamic Resistance Movement,” is an organization that has engaged in countless suicide bombings, against unarmed civilians.  50% of their funding comes from the Saudis through “Islamic charity organizations.”  The acts of Islamic terrorism by Hamas have been aimed primarily at killing Jews.  The US State Department, Canada, Japan, Israel and the entire European Union have named Hamas as an Islamic terrorist organization.</p>
<p>The Hamas Charter, identified Hamas as the <a title="Muslim Brotherhood" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood">Muslim Brotherhood</a> in Palestine and declares its members to be Muslims who “raise the banner of Jihad.&#8221; The Hamas charter states that &#8220;our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious&#8221; and calls for the obliteration of the Jewish State.</p>
<p>To put the Islamic preoccupation with killing the Jews into its proper context, here is a piece of scripture from the Muslim holy book called the Hadith:</p>
<blockquote><p>The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him. (Sahih Muslim, 41:6985; see also 41:6981-84 and Sahih Bukhari, 4:52:176,177 and 4:56:791)</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center">The Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, TN recently defied court orders to cease construction of a 53,000 square foot mega mosque.  At the time of this article <a href="http://www.icmtn.org">the ICM</a> are building defiantly, as fast as they can. Once completed, this massive structure, we are expected to believe, is designed to accommodate only a couple hundred Muslim families, with millions of dollars in questionable financing.   To say that something is a little fishy here would be an understatement.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/2-Islamic-Center-of-Murfree.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-134606" title="2-Islamic-Center-of-Murfree" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/2-Islamic-Center-of-Murfree.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="342" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><strong>Pictured Above: Construction of the 53,000 square foot Islamic facility.</strong></p>
<p>On the board of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, TN is a man named Mosaad Rowash.  The purpose of this article is to ask one question and one question only:  Why is a senior leader of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, posting pictures which express his overwhelmingly allegiance, loyalty, and a love for Hamas?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><strong>WHO IS MOSAAD ROWASH?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/3-Mosaad-Rowash-Hamas-Membe.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-134607" title="3-Mosaad-Rowash-Hamas-Membe" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/3-Mosaad-Rowash-Hamas-Membe.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="376" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><strong>Pictured Above:  Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, Board Member Mosaad Rowash in the middle with a camera around his neck, at a Muslim American Society (MAS) Camp.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center">Interesting fact about the MAS (Muslim American Society) is that <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=6263"><strong>it is a front group for the Muslim Brotherhood</strong></a>, whom we will be looking at more closely in just a moment.  First, let’s look at some of the images that Mosaad Rowash posted online to his large network of friends throughout the Islamic world.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><strong>ARABIC TO ENGLISH TRANSLATION: “With happiness we meet”</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/4-Hamas-Founders-glorified-.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-134608" title="4-Hamas-Founders-glorified-" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/4-Hamas-Founders-glorified-.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="482" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Pictured Above:</strong> <strong>An image honoring Hamas leaders </strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Yassin"><strong>Ahmed Yassin</strong></a><strong>,  a founder of Hamas, and a co-founder  </strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdel_Aziz_al-Rantissi"><strong>Abdul Aziz al-Rantissi</strong></a><strong> </strong><strong> over a crowd of armed Hamas militants.</strong></p>
<p>Here’s a revealing passage taken from <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jihad-Jew-hatred-Islamism-Nazism-Roots/dp/0914386360/">a Hamas leaflet</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>O all the people, men and women. O our children: the Jews &#8211; brothers of the apes, assassins of the prophets, bloodsuckers, warmongers &#8211; are murdering you, depriving you of life after having plundered your homeland and your homes. Only Islam can break the Jews and destroy their dream.</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center">In wondering why anyone would be all warm and fuzzy about Hamas, it should also be noted that in all Hamas-controlled regions, the brutal Islamic law (the Sharia) is enforced.  This includes gender apartheid, the stoning of women as punishment for being raped, the execution of homosexuals, death for leaving Islam, forced amputations and other unthinkable human rights abuses.<strong></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center">Why would a leader of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, proudly post a picture of this Islamic terrorist to everyone in his MySpace network?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/5-Yassin-founder-of-Hamas-.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-134609" title="5--Yassin-founder-of-Hamas-" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/5-Yassin-founder-of-Hamas-.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="750" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><strong>Pictured Above: Islamic Terrorist, Sheik Yassin,  Former leader of Hamas, assassinated by the IDF</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center">According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Yassin#Involvement_in_terrorist_attacks">Wikipedia</a>:</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;" align="center">Sheik Yassin was the dominant authority of the <a title="Hamas" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas"><strong>Hamas</strong></a> leadership, which was directly involved in planning, orchestrating and launching terror attacks carried out by the organization. In this capacity, Yassin personally gave his approval for the launching of <strong><a title="Qassam rockets" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qassam_rockets">Qassam rockets</a></strong> against Israeli cities, as well as for the numerous Hamas terrorist bombings and suicide operations. In his public appearances and interviews, Yassin called repeatedly for a continuation of the &#8216;armed struggle&#8217; against Israel, and for an intensification of the terrorist campaign against its citizens.</p>
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<p><strong>Yet another picture of an Islamic terrorist, former Hamas Leader, Dr. Rantisis.</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/6-Rantis-Hamas-leader-Murfr.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-134610" title="6-Rantis-Hamas-leader-Murfr" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/6-Rantis-Hamas-leader-Murfr.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="622" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Interesting fact – Islamic terrorist, Dr. Rantisi was also a major </strong><strong>Holocaust denier</strong><strong>:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdel_Aziz_al-Rantissi#Holocaust_Denial"><strong>According to Wikipedia</strong></a>: In August 2003, Al-Rantisi wrote in the Hamas newspaper <a title="Al-Risala" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Risala"><strong><em>Al-Risala</em></strong></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>It is no longer a secret that the Zionists were behind the Nazis’ murder of many Jews, and agreed to it, with the aim of intimidating them and forcing them to immigrate to Palestine.</p></blockquote>
<p>Why did this Mosque Board Member post the logo for the Muslim Brotherhood, the forefather of Hamas and Al Qaeda?</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/7-Muslim-Brotherhood-Murfre.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-134611" title="7-Muslim-Brotherhood-Murfre" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/7-Muslim-Brotherhood-Murfre.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="500" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=6386"><strong>Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna said</strong></a>, &#8220;It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated; to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>An Inconvenient Truth about the Muslim Brotherhood:</strong></p>
<p>The Muslim Brotherhood is the largest Islamic organization in the world.  Its most famous slogan, used worldwide, is &#8220;Islam is the solution.&#8221;  As Islamic scholar, <a href="http://www.JihadWatch.com"><strong>Robert Spencer</strong></a> points out repeatedly, in many of his public talks and books, the Muslim Brotherhood is the direct forefather of both Hamas and Al Qaeda.  This organization does not go by “The Muslim Brotherhood” in America.  But perhaps you may have heard of some of its front groups:  <a href="http://www.facebook.com/MTSUMSA"><strong>Muslim Student Association</strong></a>, Muslim American Society, Islamic Society of North America, Islamic Circle of North America, North American Islamic Trust, International Institute of Islamic Thought, and several others.  And they were all listed in this Muslim Brotherhood “<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1235"><strong>Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood of North America,” which states</strong></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The process of settlement is a &#8220;Civilization-Jihadist Process&#8221;. The Muslim Brotherhood must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and &#8220;sabotaging&#8221; its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.</p></blockquote>
<p>Here is the original memo in Arabic:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/20.pdf">http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/20.pdf</a></p>
<p><strong>Another Photo, Mosque Board Member Mosaad Rowash, Posted Online:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/8-Mufreesboro-Mosque-discov.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-134612" title="8-Mufreesboro-Mosque-discov" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/8-Mufreesboro-Mosque-discov.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="166" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center">I don’t know why this senior Mosque official posted that, or these:</p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/9-Islamic-Center-of-Murfree.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-134613" title="9-Islamic-Center-of-Murfree" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/9-Islamic-Center-of-Murfree.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="464" /></a></p>
<p align="center">AND PERHAPS NOT SURPRISINGLY, THIS MOSQUE BOARD MEMBER POSTED THIS IMAGE AS WELL:</p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/10-Islamists-in-Murfreesboro-deny-911.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-134614" title="10 Islamists in Murfreesboro deny 911" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/10-Islamists-in-Murfreesboro-deny-911.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="664" /></a></p>
<p align="center">Good thing the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro has a spokesman.  Let’s take a look at him next…<strong></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><strong>Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, TN – Spokesman, Dr. Saleh Sbenaty</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/11-Saleh-Sbenaty-possible-M.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-134615" title="11-Saleh-Sbenaty-possible-M" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/11-Saleh-Sbenaty-possible-M.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="697" /></a></p>
<p>By now, you probably have some questions about the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro.  You can reach their spokesperson at: <a href="http://www.icmtn.org/contact.html"><strong>http://www.icmtn.org/contact.html</strong></a>.  It seems that perhaps he has a lot to answer for.</p>
<p>Spokesman (unless they change it again) <strong><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/saleh-sbenaty/11/27/566">Dr. Selah M. Sbetany</a> </strong>is one of the original founders of the mosque.  Dr. Sbetany heads up the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies at MTSU.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/spencer-geller.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-124168" title="spencer-geller" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/spencer-geller.gif" alt="" width="400" height="312" /></a><em><em>[Editor&#8217;s note: The article below is written by Eric Allen Bell, a filmmaker who was recently banned from <em>blogging at  the “Daily Kos” because he wrote three articles that ran afoul of the mindset there, specifically naming “Loonwatch.com” as a “terrorist spin control network.” This article first appeared in our <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/03/01/what-is-right-about-pamela-geller-and-robert-spencer/">Feb 29th issue</a> and we have decided to rerun it due to the massive interest and reaction it has received. To see the original article and all the comments it attracted, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/03/01/what-is-right-about-pamela-geller-and-robert-spencer/">click here</a>. Don&#8217;t miss Eric Bell on Frontpage&#8217;s television program,<a href="../2012/02/13/eric-allen-bell-nonie-darwish-and-mark-tapson-join-the-glazov-gang/"> The Glazov Gang.</a></em></em></em> <em>Visit his Facebook page: </em><a href="http://www.facebook.com/EricAllenBell" target="_blank"><em>http://www.Facebook.com/</em><wbr><em>EricAllenBell</em>.]</wbr></a></p>
<p>I write this mainly for the benefit of so many of my Liberal friends.  I know you have good hearts, but have been badly deceived by your peers and leaders when it comes to the threat of Jihad, and the character of those few brave individuals, who have had the courage to risk everything, to stand up for liberty and human rights…<strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>BACKGROUND:</strong></p>
<p>In the summer of 2010 I was invited to write an article for Michael Moore.  I was in production on a documentary I was calling “<a href="http://www.notwelcomedocumentary.com/">Not Welcome</a>” regarding the backlash against construction of a 53,000 square foot mega mosque in the middle of the American Bible Belt.  His endorsement gave me a huge boost with the Hollywood crowd.  Having worked in the entertainment industry for years, this was not my first film, but it was to be my first documentary.  So when I went on to write a few more articles for MichaelMoore.com the wheels were greased for me to get into a room with the right people, and secure the finishing funds I needed to complete post production.  And if there is one thing Hollywood loves (almost as much as congratulating itself), it’s the story of an innocent minority group being wrongly persecuted, preferably in the South, especially if the antagonist happens to be the Religious Right.  And as my editor and I assembled the first 25 minutes, of the 300 hours of footage shot, this film promised to deliver just that<em>.  “Wow, I really wasn’t expecting this.  I would like to thank the members of the Academy, Michael Moore and the Prophet Mohammed for making all of this possible…”  </em></p>
<p>But then the winds changed direction.  It seems that fate had issued a Fatwa against my perfect plan.  The Arab Spring sprang into action and ruined everything, as it degenerated disappointingly into the Islamist Winter.  It was as if I had been slapped upside the head by reality, thus knocking off my blinders and causing me to ask a lot of inconvenient questions.  I was left wondering if there was perhaps more to the story of so-called “revolution” than what had been portrayed on Al Jazeera and “Democracy Now with Amy Goodman”.  You can read more about this in an article I wrote for Front Page Magazine here: “<a href="../2012/02/10/the-high-price-of-telling-the-truth-about-islam-1/">The High Price of Telling the Truth About Islam</a>”.</p>
<p>I took a second and more critical look inside Islamic scripture, comparing and contrasting the countless acts of Islamic terrorism, with specific commands to carry out these violent and barbaric attacks on innocent infidels as ordered in the Koran, the Hadith, and the Sunnah.  And after much difficult soul searching I had realized I was making more than just a documentary.  I was making a terrible mistake.   So I went back to my backers and told them how I had changed the outline of the documentary, to include a critical examination of the violent dimension that informed so much of the Islamic world today, and throughout history, and how desperately this story needed to be told, and I consequently lost the backing to my film.</p>
<p>As a writer who had written over a hundred articles for The Daily Kos, a liberal blog which receives about a million visitors a day, I wrote 3 articles outlining what I had learned about Islam, it’s execution of homosexuals and how hundreds of millions of women around the world were living under Islamic gender apartheid.  I called attention to this as a human rights issue, human rights being in theory a big concern among Liberal audiences.  The warm reception that followed included being labeled a “bigot” a “right winger” and an “Islamophobe” in the hundreds of subsequent reader comments, demanding that my “hate speech” be banned.  And after that the Islamophobia watchdog site, Loonwatch.com created a link for readers to write directly to the editors of DKOS, demanding my voice be silenced.  And I was immediately banned from ever writing for The Daily Kos.</p>
<p>In the weeks that passed I received many “goodbye” texts and emails from friends letting me know that we were no longer friends.  I saw my name get smeared in print – lies, misquotes, distortions, character assassination.  Loonwatch.com named me the “Loon At Large”</p>
<p><strong>(UPDATE: Since appearing on the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kr-7i1MqVE">Michael Coren show</a> and telling my story about how Loonwatch put my name out on the street in the Islamic world, Loonwatch has since pulled that article from their site.  Thank you very much Michael Coren!).</strong></p>
<p>My friend count on Facebook took a hit.  My blog, which has had over 23 million visitors and  usually receives at least a million visitors per month, got hacked over and over for weeks before my traffic rebounded.   And, many of my subscribers left the site, telling me that I was “spreading intolerance and ignorance”.  On donations and ad revenue I took a massive financial hit.  For so many who had known me for so long, I had become nothing more than an “intolerant hate monger”</p>
<p><strong>PAMELA GELLER:</strong></p>
<p>In the process of defending myself from all of these accusations, in a desperate attempt to distance myself from those names that had become synonymous with “Islamophobia” at least in my circle, I made critical remarks about Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller – comments meant to distinguish myself from the real “hate mongers” but comments that turned out to be uninformed and just simply just not true.  I thought they were true at the time.  But having only recently sipped from the well of knowledge, I had not yet flushed all of the Kool Aid out of my system.</p>
<p>For example, in a Daily Kos piece (before my excommunication for blasphemy) I wrongly lumped Pamela Geller in with Pastor Terry Jones, a religious zealot who preaches burning the Koran.  A simple YouTube search will yield no shortage of remarks made by Geller, stating she opposes the burning of books, all books, and that furthermore she is not anti-Muslim, does not advocate persecution or hatred of Muslims, and even goes so far as to point out that it is in fact Muslims themselves, who are the biggest victims of Islamic violence.  The number of times she has spoken out for the hundreds of millions of Muslim women, who suffer under gender apartheid alone, is evidence that Pamela Geller is not a hate monger, but rather a fearless advocate for human rights – including the rights of Muslims.</p>
<p>It is amazing, the human capacity for seeing only what we want to see.  And it is especially humbling, I can tell you, when one identifies that unattractive quality within oneself.  But the freedom that comes with trading in your cozy conclusions for difficult questions is well worth the cost.  Everything is up for grabs.  You evolve.</p>
<p>In taking the time to really get to know who Pamela Geller is and what she has done to earn this sensational media status, as some sort of evil hate monger, this intolerant fanatic who opposes religious freedom, I finally did some long overdue research of my own.  And soon after simply scratching the surface, it was immediately clear that the bold stance Pamela Geller took publicly against the Ground Zero Mosque was absolutely right.  Spot on, in fact damned near clairvoyant.</p>
<p>This shameless shrine, this 13 story Islamic gloating tower was to be financed with $100 million from the “Cordoba Initiative” an organization with very questionable ties to Jihadi interests – to be ran by Imam Raouf and promoted by his wife Daisy Khan (pronounced “Con”).</p>
<p>Cordoba, by the way was at one time the capital of an Islamic Caliphate and the city where Muslims had converted a Cordoba church into the third largest mosque in the world – an inconvenient truth that those of us in the Liberal world were told was simply misunderstood.  But when the spin doctors at CAIR failed to convince the skeptics, this mysterious $100 million Islamic fund rebranded the name of the victory mosque, to simply “Park 51”.  It kind of sounds like an exclusive night club from the seventies, except without the liquor or cocaine, and where the women must throw a sheet over their heads and keep their mouths shut.</p>
<p>No matter how the Cordoba Initiative tried to spin this story, Pamela Geller kept on insisting this was a mosque.  According to press releases parroted by left leaning media outlets, “Park 51” was more like a YMCA, where old people could play bingo or shuffle board or whatever they do.  There would be Mommy and Me classes and the center just happened to have a prayer room on the top two floors for Muslims to pray.  (also known as a mosque).  Never mind that this mosque would overlook the site of the collapsed World Trade Center, where thousands of innocent people lost their lives after Islamic terrorists struck on 9/11.  And never mind that construction of a mosque this close to Ground Zero was perfectly consistent with 1,400 years of Islamic conquest.  This was to be a victory mosque the whole family could enjoy.  And if you don’t like it, then you’re a racist and a bigot and a right wing Islamophobe.  Did I mention that the new facility was designed to “bring the whole community together”?</p>
<p>As an advocate for cultural sensitivity for the American people (we could use more of those), Pamela Geller gave numerous television interviews.  She was hammered and grilled mercilessly as an intolerant fanatic by a highly biased media, but she did not back down.  She kept her cool and she stuck to the facts.  For instance, fragments of a hijacked airliner had reportedly landed on the Burlington Coat Factory (the piece of Ground Zero real estate which was swooped up using questionable sources, to become the Victory Mosque).  She asserted that the proposed site was in fact sacred ground, a war memorial, and not at all an appropriate place to build a $100 million “shrine to the very ideology that inspired the attacks of 9/11”.</p>
<p>I used to think that this was too broad a statement to make.  I used to think that connecting Islam to 9/11 was somehow unfair.  I used to not think, and think that I was thinking.  And it seems for many of us Gen X’ers “educated” in government run schools, this type of not thinking was how we were taught to think.  And the institutions of “education” told us that this type of not thinking was called “tolerance”.  Applied evenly, one could learn to tolerate Communism, Nazism or even the President of Iran.   See Oliver Stone’s son and recent convert to Shia Islam as Exhibit “A”.</p>
<p>So why did Pamela Geller call Islam an “Ideology” and not a religion?  Perhaps this was because Islam is only a small part religion.  In large part Islam is a tyrannical political system, and very much a barbaric legal system (the Sharia) practiced by hundreds of millions of Muslims in Islamic countries around the world and growing.  And all three components go together to form what is known as “Islam” the so-called “religion of peace”.   And yet so many in the mainstream media twisted Ms. Geller’s words to make it sound as if she were a crackpot, who actually thought that a mosque was going to be built on the site of the actual Twin Towers, while ignoring her valid points, or else cutting her off before she could finish making a valid point.  And this is what so many of us wanted to believe, what we needed to believe – because the alternative meant that maybe she was right, and this went against a culture that raised us to believe all belief systems are of equal value and must be respected equally because anything less was unfair.</p>
<p>A huge portion of American culture is dominated by a naïve and usually well-intentioned view &#8211; that one must always side with the perceived victim in any conflict.  And terrorist-linked organizations such as the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) have done a masterful job of manipulating this predisposition in painting a picture of Islam in America as the victim.  Never mind the fact that Islam itself is perhaps the greatest victimizer in the world today.  The perception that Islam is the underdog in America has allowed CAIR to bully and infiltrate the media, either by calling them out whenever they feel that Islam has been slighted or, more recently, creating an atmosphere where media outlets such as the New York Times are voluntarily censoring themselves.</p>
<p>For a religion that is so easily offended by the simplest slight, such as drawing a cartoon or burning a book, one would hope that a Muslim cleric with a hundred million dollars behind him could find another location – one that does not offend millions of Americans.  And this was a point that Pamela Geller never backed down from, even though she knew that she could be risking her life.</p>
<p><strong>ROBERT SPENCER:</strong></p>
<p>There were two defining incidents that caused me to eventually do a full 180 on my views concerning Islam as a mostly peaceful religion with a few bad apples.  The first one I have already mentioned in “<a href="../2012/02/10/the-high-price-of-telling-the-truth-about-islam-1/">The High Cost of Telling the Truth About Islam</a>”.  Briefly:</p>
<p><em>“I flew back to Nashville to shoot a conference on whether or not Islam was conducive with Democratic Values and on the way to my hotel room I learned that my cab driver was from Egypt.  I asked him how he felt about the fall of Mubarak, a dictator worth over $70 billion dollars while so much of his country was living in poverty and he told me he was concerned.  Concerned?  Wasn’t this good news?  The cab driver was a Coptic Christian and he told me that he feared for his family back home.  “If the Muslims take control, and they will, it will be very dangerous for my parents and my sisters.  I’m scared for them right now”.  After that conversation, I started to pay more attention to the news coming from the Islamic world in the Middle East. Over the coming months I watched as the Muslim Brotherhood gained political power in Egypt.  I saw that cab driver’s worst fears come true as Coptic Christians were attacked by Islamic mobs.  I saw Tunisia institute Sharia, the brutal Islamic Law.  After Libya fell, the Transitional Council also instituted Islamic Law.  The nuclear armed Islamic government of Pakistan arrested and punished those who cooperated with the United States in killing Osama Bin Laden.  A woman under the Islamic government of Afghanistan faced execution for the crime of being raped.  Similar news stories emerged from Iran.  A man who typed “there is no god” as his Facebook status in Indonesia, the largest Islamic country in the world, was arrested for blasphemy.” </em></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/spencer-geller.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-124168" title="spencer-geller" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/spencer-geller.gif" alt="" width="400" height="312" /></a><em>[Editor&#8217;s note: The article below is written by Eric Allen Bell, a filmmaker who was recently banned from <em>blogging at  the “Daily Kos” because he wrote three articles that ran afoul of the mindset there, specifically naming “Loonwatch.com” as a “terrorist spin control network.” Don&#8217;t miss Eric Bell on Frontpage&#8217;s television program,<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/03/01/scott-ritter-underage-girls-and-iraq-on-the-glazov-gang-2/"> The Glazov Gang. </a></em></em>V<em>isit his Facebook page: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/EricAllenBell" target="_blank">http://www.Facebook.com/<wbr>EricAllenBell.]</wbr></a></em></p>
<p>I write this mainly for the benefit of so many of my Liberal friends.  I know you have good hearts, but have been badly deceived by your peers and leaders when it comes to the threat of Jihad, and the character of those few brave individuals, who have had the courage to risk everything, to stand up for liberty and human rights…<strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>BACKGROUND:</strong></p>
<p>In the summer of 2010 I was invited to write an article for Michael Moore.  I was in production on a documentary I was calling “<a href="http://www.notwelcomedocumentary.com/">Not Welcome</a>” regarding the backlash against construction of a 53,000 square foot mega mosque in the middle of the American Bible Belt.  His endorsement gave me a huge boost with the Hollywood crowd.  Having worked in the entertainment industry for years, this was not my first film, but it was to be my first documentary.  So when I went on to write a few more articles for MichaelMoore.com the wheels were greased for me to get into a room with the right people, and secure the finishing funds I needed to complete post production.  And if there is one thing Hollywood loves (almost as much as congratulating itself), it’s the story of an innocent minority group being wrongly persecuted, preferably in the South, especially if the antagonist happens to be the Religious Right.  And as my editor and I assembled the first 25 minutes, of the 300 hours of footage shot, this film promised to deliver just that<em>.  “Wow, I really wasn’t expecting this.  I would like to thank the members of the Academy, Michael Moore and the Prophet Mohammed for making all of this possible…”  </em></p>
<p>But then the winds changed direction.  It seems that fate had issued a Fatwa against my perfect plan.  The Arab Spring sprang into action and ruined everything, as it degenerated disappointingly into the Islamist Winter.  It was as if I had been slapped upside the head by reality, thus knocking off my blinders and causing me to ask a lot of inconvenient questions.  I was left wondering if there was perhaps more to the story of so-called “revolution” than what had been portrayed on Al Jazeera and “Democracy Now with Amy Goodman”.  You can read more about this in an article I wrote for Front Page Magazine here: “<a href="../2012/02/10/the-high-price-of-telling-the-truth-about-islam-1/">The High Price of Telling the Truth About Islam</a>”.</p>
<p>I took a second and more critical look inside Islamic scripture, comparing and contrasting the countless acts of Islamic terrorism, with specific commands to carry out these violent and barbaric attacks on innocent infidels as ordered in the Koran, the Hadith, and the Sunnah.  And after much difficult soul searching I had realized I was making more than just a documentary.  I was making a terrible mistake.   So I went back to my backers and told them how I had changed the outline of the documentary, to include a critical examination of the violent dimension that informed so much of the Islamic world today, and throughout history, and how desperately this story needed to be told, and I consequently lost the backing to my film.</p>
<p>As a writer who had written over a hundred articles for The Daily Kos, a liberal blog which receives about a million visitors a day, I wrote 3 articles outlining what I had learned about Islam, it’s execution of homosexuals and how hundreds of millions of women around the world were living under Islamic gender apartheid.  I called attention to this as a human rights issue, human rights being in theory a big concern among Liberal audiences.  The warm reception that followed included being labeled a “bigot” a “right winger” and an “Islamophobe” in the hundreds of subsequent reader comments, demanding that my “hate speech” be banned.  And after that the Islamophobia watchdog site, Loonwatch.com created a link for readers to write directly to the editors of DKOS, demanding my voice be silenced.  And I was immediately banned from ever writing for The Daily Kos.</p>
<p>In the weeks that passed I received many “goodbye” texts and emails from friends letting me know that we were no longer friends.  I saw my name get smeared in print – lies, misquotes, distortions, character assassination.  Loonwatch.com named me the “Loon At Large”</p>
<p><strong>(UPDATE: Since appearing on the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kr-7i1MqVE">Michael Coren show</a> and telling my story about how Loonwatch put my name out on the street in the Islamic world, Loonwatch has since pulled that article from their site.  Thank you very much Michael Coren!).</strong></p>
<p>My friend count on Facebook took a hit.  My blog, which has had over 23 million visitors and  usually receives at least a million visitors per month, got hacked over and over for weeks before my traffic rebounded.   And, many of my subscribers left the site, telling me that I was “spreading intolerance and ignorance”.  On donations and ad revenue I took a massive financial hit.  For so many who had known me for so long, I had become nothing more than an “intolerant hate monger”</p>
<p><strong>PAMELA GELLER:</strong></p>
<p>In the process of defending myself from all of these accusations, in a desperate attempt to distance myself from those names that had become synonymous with “Islamophobia” at least in my circle, I made critical remarks about Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller – comments meant to distinguish myself from the real “hate mongers” but comments that turned out to be uninformed and just simply just not true.  I thought they were true at the time.  But having only recently sipped from the well of knowledge, I had not yet flushed all of the Kool Aid out of my system.</p>
<p>For example, in a Daily Kos piece (before my excommunication for blasphemy) I wrongly lumped Pamela Geller in with Pastor Terry Jones, a religious zealot who preaches burning the Koran.  A simple YouTube search will yield no shortage of remarks made by Geller, stating she opposes the burning of books, all books, and that furthermore she is not anti-Muslim, does not advocate persecution or hatred of Muslims, and even goes so far as to point out that it is in fact Muslims themselves, who are the biggest victims of Islamic violence.  The number of times she has spoken out for the hundreds of millions of Muslim women, who suffer under gender apartheid alone, is evidence that Pamela Geller is not a hate monger, but rather a fearless advocate for human rights – including the rights of Muslims.</p>
<p>It is amazing, the human capacity for seeing only what we want to see.  And it is especially humbling, I can tell you, when one identifies that unattractive quality within oneself.  But the freedom that comes with trading in your cozy conclusions for difficult questions is well worth the cost.  Everything is up for grabs.  You evolve.</p>
<p>In taking the time to really get to know who Pamela Geller is and what she has done to earn this sensational media status, as some sort of evil hate monger, this intolerant fanatic who opposes religious freedom, I finally did some long overdue research of my own.  And soon after simply scratching the surface, it was immediately clear that the bold stance Pamela Geller took publicly against the Ground Zero Mosque was absolutely right.  Spot on, in fact damned near clairvoyant.</p>
<p>This shameless shrine, this 13 story Islamic gloating tower was to be financed with $100 million from the “Cordoba Initiative” an organization with very questionable ties to Jihadi interests – to be ran by Imam Raouf and promoted by his wife Daisy Khan (pronounced “Con”).</p>
<p>Cordoba, by the way was at one time the capital of an Islamic Caliphate and the city where Muslims had converted a Cordoba church into the third largest mosque in the world – an inconvenient truth that those of us in the Liberal world were told was simply misunderstood.  But when the spin doctors at CAIR failed to convince the skeptics, this mysterious $100 million Islamic fund rebranded the name of the victory mosque, to simply “Park 51”.  It kind of sounds like an exclusive night club from the seventies, except without the liquor or cocaine, and where the women must throw a sheet over their heads and keep their mouths shut.</p>
<p>No matter how the Cordoba Initiative tried to spin this story, Pamela Geller kept on insisting this was a mosque.  According to press releases parroted by left leaning media outlets, “Park 51” was more like a YMCA, where old people could play bingo or shuffle board or whatever they do.  There would be Mommy and Me classes and the center just happened to have a prayer room on the top two floors for Muslims to pray.  (also known as a mosque).  Never mind that this mosque would overlook the site of the collapsed World Trade Center, where thousands of innocent people lost their lives after Islamic terrorists struck on 9/11.  And never mind that construction of a mosque this close to Ground Zero was perfectly consistent with 1,400 years of Islamic conquest.  This was to be a victory mosque the whole family could enjoy.  And if you don’t like it, then you’re a racist and a bigot and a right wing Islamophobe.  Did I mention that the new facility was designed to “bring the whole community together”?</p>
<p>As an advocate for cultural sensitivity for the American people (we could use more of those), Pamela Geller gave numerous television interviews.  She was hammered and grilled mercilessly as an intolerant fanatic by a highly biased media, but she did not back down.  She kept her cool and she stuck to the facts.  For instance, fragments of a hijacked airliner had reportedly landed on the Burlington Coat Factory (the piece of Ground Zero real estate which was swooped up using questionable sources, to become the Victory Mosque).  She asserted that the proposed site was in fact sacred ground, a war memorial, and not at all an appropriate place to build a $100 million “shrine to the very ideology that inspired the attacks of 9/11”.</p>
<p>I used to think that this was too broad a statement to make.  I used to think that connecting Islam to 9/11 was somehow unfair.  I used to not think, and think that I was thinking.  And it seems for many of us Gen X’ers “educated” in government run schools, this type of not thinking was how we were taught to think.  And the institutions of “education” told us that this type of not thinking was called “tolerance”.  Applied evenly, one could learn to tolerate Communism, Nazism or even the President of Iran.   See Oliver Stone’s son and recent convert to Shia Islam as Exhibit “A”.</p>
<p>So why did Pamela Geller call Islam an “Ideology” and not a religion?  Perhaps this was because Islam is only a small part religion.  In large part Islam is a tyrannical political system, and very much a barbaric legal system (the Sharia) practiced by hundreds of millions of Muslims in Islamic countries around the world and growing.  And all three components go together to form what is known as “Islam” the so-called “religion of peace”.   And yet so many in the mainstream media twisted Ms. Geller’s words to make it sound as if she were a crackpot, who actually thought that a mosque was going to be built on the site of the actual Twin Towers, while ignoring her valid points, or else cutting her off before she could finish making a valid point.  And this is what so many of us wanted to believe, what we needed to believe – because the alternative meant that maybe she was right, and this went against a culture that raised us to believe all belief systems are of equal value and must be respected equally because anything less was unfair.</p>
<p>A huge portion of American culture is dominated by a naïve and usually well-intentioned view &#8211; that one must always side with the perceived victim in any conflict.  And terrorist-linked organizations such as the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) have done a masterful job of manipulating this predisposition in painting a picture of Islam in America as the victim.  Never mind the fact that Islam itself is perhaps the greatest victimizer in the world today.  The perception that Islam is the underdog in America has allowed CAIR to bully and infiltrate the media, either by calling them out whenever they feel that Islam has been slighted or, more recently, creating an atmosphere where media outlets such as the New York Times are voluntarily censoring themselves.</p>
<p>For a religion that is so easily offended by the simplest slight, such as drawing a cartoon or burning a book, one would hope that a Muslim cleric with a hundred million dollars behind him could find another location – one that does not offend millions of Americans.  And this was a point that Pamela Geller never backed down from, even though she knew that she could be risking her life.</p>
<p><strong>ROBERT SPENCER:</strong></p>
<p>There were two defining incidents that caused me to eventually do a full 180 on my views concerning Islam as a mostly peaceful religion with a few bad apples.  The first one I have already mentioned in “<a href="../2012/02/10/the-high-price-of-telling-the-truth-about-islam-1/">The High Cost of Telling the Truth About Islam</a>”.  Briefly:</p>
<p><em>“I flew back to Nashville to shoot a conference on whether or not Islam was conducive with Democratic Values and on the way to my hotel room I learned that my cab driver was from Egypt.  I asked him how he felt about the fall of Mubarak, a dictator worth over $70 billion dollars while so much of his country was living in poverty and he told me he was concerned.  Concerned?  Wasn’t this good news?  The cab driver was a Coptic Christian and he told me that he feared for his family back home.  “If the Muslims take control, and they will, it will be very dangerous for my parents and my sisters.  I’m scared for them right now”.  After that conversation, I started to pay more attention to the news coming from the Islamic world in the Middle East. Over the coming months I watched as the Muslim Brotherhood gained political power in Egypt.  I saw that cab driver’s worst fears come true as Coptic Christians were attacked by Islamic mobs.  I saw Tunisia institute Sharia, the brutal Islamic Law.  After Libya fell, the Transitional Council also instituted Islamic Law.  The nuclear armed Islamic government of Pakistan arrested and punished those who cooperated with the United States in killing Osama Bin Laden.  A woman under the Islamic government of Afghanistan faced execution for the crime of being raped.  Similar news stories emerged from Iran.  A man who typed “there is no god” as his Facebook status in Indonesia, the largest Islamic country in the world, was arrested for blasphemy.” </em></p>
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<p><em>[Editor&#8217;s note: The article below is written by Eric Allen Bell, a filmmaker who was recently banned from <em>blogging at  the “Daily Kos” because he wrote three articles that ran afoul of the mindset there, specifically naming “Loonwatch.com” as a “terrorist spin control network.” He has told his story in his Frontpage article, which went viral around the world, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/02/10/the-high-price-of-telling-the-truth-about-islam-1/">The High Price of Telling the Truth About Islam</a>. Don&#8217;t miss Eric Bell on Frontpage&#8217;s television program,<a href="../2012/02/13/eric-allen-bell-nonie-darwish-and-mark-tapson-join-the-glazov-gang/"> The Glazov Gang.]</a></em></em></p>
<p>It was like something out of a zombie movie.  The protagonist finds himself surrounded by lifeless, mindless monsters in a catatonic trance state, unstoppable, charging at him from every angle.  And no matter how many times he fires at them with his super powerful automatic machine gun, they just keep coming at him, over the hills, through the windows, bursting through the floorboards – waves and waves of lifeless zombies for as far as the eye can see.</p>
<p>Such was the case last October when, after having written numerous blogs for The Daily Kos, a liberal blog with an estimated readership of over 1 million visitors per day, they came for me – the dreaded “Kossacks” those registered Daily Kos readers who log on to offer “constructive criticism” of the blogs.</p>
<p>To learn more about my eventual exile from the liberal blogosphere and how I turned to the dark side, please read <em>“</em><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/02/10/the-high-price-of-telling-the-truth-about-islam-1/2/"><em>The High Cost of Telling the Truth About Islam</em></a><em>”. </em> They say a Conservative is a Liberal who got mugged.  But what do you call a Liberal who was tarred and feathered, then publicly stoned (I’m pretty sure a privately stoned Liberal is now simply called a “Ron Paul supporter”), sent before a firing squad of Taqiyya trained Islamofacists who fire rounds of deceptive chapter and verse – quoted from the psychotic ramblings of some ancient desert psychopath, then pounded by the meat grinder of his own conscience and finally sent to a Halal butcher to be slaughtered by <em>Islamophobia</em> watchdog sites such as Loonwach.com and CAIR?  Well, whatever that is, that’s me.  So glad we have this time together.</p>
<p>But I digress.  The piece I posted on the Daily Kos that fateful October morning was a bit of social commentary I had authored and entitled “Manifesto for a World Gone Off its Meds”.  I thought it was a pretty snappy title myself, complete with a short video I had produced illustrating that the way we were living in America was a life out of balance, consumed by consumerism, addicted to entertainment, politically divided, distracted and confused and brainwashed by the media.  I remember thinking to myself, “You’ve really hit it out of the ballpark this time, Bell”.  But sadly, not a single comment that day or in the days that followed had anything at all to do with my actual piece.  I don’t know if anyone even read the article or watched the video.  Instead I was about to face a sudden stampede of Liberal Lemmings, a sort of social tsunami &#8211; I was about to experience firsthand the tyranny of mob rule.</p>
<p>I was met with a chorus of outrage over my word choice in naming the piece.  That’s right, the title.  The Kossacks were deeply offended at the use of the phrase “off its meds” given that this might offend someone else who actually is on their meds or perhaps had gone off their meds.  Most of the time I don’t respond to comments on articles I write, but this time I made the fatal mistake of trying to defend myself.  This turned out to be a really bad idea, kind of like trying to put out a fire using the nearest can of gasoline.</p>
<p>The countless Kossacks comments multiplied from dozens, to a hundred to north of a hundred of what might  be termed, had it become a cause on Kos, “PETA: People for the Ethical Treatment of those on Antidepressants”.  There was a furious chorus of consensus that my article should be banned as it was clearly “hate speech” directed at those unfortunate people who have to take psychiatric meds and/or have gone off their meds.  The Kossack comrads stood in solidarity, incensed at my level of insensitivity as they kept demanding that a moderator come in and take the article down.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[How making a film to defend Muslims’ right to build a mosque in America changed my world view.]]></description>
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<p><em>[Editor&#8217;s note: The article below is written by Eric Allen Bell, a filmmaker who was recently banned from <em>blogging at  the “Daily Kos” because he wrote three articles that ran afoul of the mindset there, specifically naming “Loonwatch.com” as a “terrorist spin control network.” This article first appeared in our Feb 7 issue and we have decided to rerun it due to the massive interest and reaction it received. Don&#8217;t miss Eric Bell on Frontpage&#8217;s television program,<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/02/13/eric-allen-bell-nonie-darwish-and-mark-tapson-join-the-glazov-gang/"> The Glazov Gang.]</a></em></em></p>
<p>A strange thing happened to me the other day when I was driving past the Federal Building in Los Angeles.  There were a crowd of people assembled there with signs which said that Israel is an aggressive force in the Middle East and that Iran is being picked on.  As I stopped at a red light I heard a man with a mega phone lead the protesters in a chant charging Obama with genocide.  I saw many young people and several Muslim women with their heads covered.  It was an anti-war demonstration that probably a year ago I would have supported.  But although I am not in favor of military action, I know that Iran is not another Iraq, and that in fact there is more going on here than the overly-simplified picture that the protestors were painting, as cars drove by honking in support.  As the light turned green another sign caught my eye – a picture of the Twin Towers burning which read “911 Was an Inside Job”.  As I looked at a sea of Palestinian flags and college kids banging on drums I felt a certain frustration – frustration based on a series of events that have changed my world view.</p>
<p>In the Summer of 2010, having recently escaped Hollywood, CA to take a much needed break from my profession as a film maker, I was driving in my car listening to a story on NPR.  It seems the people in my new home of Murfreesboro, TN were up in arms over the proposed construction of a 53,000 square foot mega mosque, to be built in their small town in the middle of the American Bible Belt.</p>
<p>I listened carefully, to the sound bytes, of those who had shown up to a town hall meeting to voice their opposition and, as someone who was rather new to the South, I was surprised by what I was hearing.   “America is a Christian nation and there is only one God and his name is not Allah and his son is Jesus Christ” and “America is a Christian Nation” and “These Muslims do not share my values and I don’t want them in my backyard”.  Growing up in Southern California, I had never heard anything like this before in my life.  And I started to follow the story with great interest.</p>
<p>On the outer edge of town, off a small country road, there was a large parcel of land, right next door to a Baptist church, with a big sign that read, “Future Home of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro”.  Over the past 6 months that sign had been defaced twice.  Once it was broken in half and another time the words “Not Welcome” were spray painted over it.</p>
<p>Rutherford County, which includes Murfreesboro, only has a little over 100,000 residents and yet the area boasts nearly 200 Christian churches.  Having not been much of a fan of Islam or Christianity or religion in general (and that’s putting it mildly) I saw this as something of a David vs. Goliath story – with fanatical Evangelicals bullying a peaceful Muslim population, which had been in the community for over 30 years without there ever being any trouble.  And, after learning that in July there was to be a big parade down Main Street to the town square, protesting the construction of this new mosque, I decided someone really needed to make a documentary about this.  And even though I had gone to Murfreesboro to escape the film world for a while, it seemed pretty clear that if I did not document this in a movie, no one else would.  I wanted to show the world what I was seeing.  So I put together a small film crew and began production on a documentary I would title, “Not Welcome”.</p>
<p>I had never seen more American flags assembled together in one place than I had on that hot July morning as the anti-mosque crowd gathered at the base camp to prepare for the parade.  Many of the marchers showed up wearing red, white and blue.  I had 4 cameras covering the event with one crew embedded with the Liberal activists who were going to counter-demonstrate and the rest of the cameras with me, embedded with those who were to march against the mosque.  I conducted several interviews in the school parking lot where locals and those who had driven for hours gathered, prepared to march against what they perceived to be not only a threat to their way of life, but also something of an insult given the events of September 11, 2001.  Two Congressional candidates, both promising to “stop the Islamic training camp” showed up and used this opportunity to campaign, one of whom even gave a speech through a mega phone reminding folks to vote for him if they wanted to stop Sharia Law from coming to Murfreesboro.  The pastor of Baptist church gathered everyone together in prayer, and the parade took off down Main Street with signs that read “Google the Koran” and “Stop Homegrown Terrorism” and someone in the crowd handed out hundreds of small Israeli flags as several hundred Southerners marched against the mosque.</p>
<p>About six months later I had accumulated over 300 hours of footage, interviewing the parade organizer, both Congressional candidates, the Mayor, the Imam at the mosque and several of its board members, numerous concerned residents on both sides of the issue, Muslim residents, city council members, a Christian Zionist lobbyist who was organizing the opposition to the mosque &#8211; and I had even filmed weeks of court proceedings, as a local group had filed suit against the County to stop them from issuing any construction permits to the Islamic Center.  The court proceedings were truly a circus with a country lawyer in loud suit with a bow tie argued that Islam is not a religion and that he was prepared to take this matter to the Supreme Court if necessary.  That legal action had failed and failed miserably.  And although many of the townspeople did in fact have a number of very valid concerns, I felt that those whom they had chosen to represent them were not their best foot forward.  In many ways, for the people of Murfreesboro, TN this turned out to be an international embarrassment – given the level of interest from the press.</p>
<p>Also, someone tried to set fire to some construction equipment at the site of the new mosque and the student activist group, calling themselves “Middle Tennesseans for Religious Freedom” put together a candle light vigil where hundreds of townspeople showed up in support of tolerance.  A few young men showed up in a pickup truck and honked their horn repeatedly throughout the vigil.  Their clothes seemed to indicate they had spent the work day hanging drywall.  And when they put up a huge sign in the back of their truck which read “No Mosque” while misspelling the word mosque, I did not hesitate to film them but to also sort of taunt them, in order to provoke a good response on camera.  And I got it.  One of them said we should suspend the Constitution and went on to say that “All them Mooslums should be shipped home” even the ones who were born here.</p>
<p>Adding more fuel to that fire was an incident that took place when I attempted to interview Kevin Fisher at a Tea Party event on the town square.  It was my opinion that in order to avoid accusations of being bigoted, the money interests (a Christian Zionist organization called Proclaiming Justice to the Nations) chose the only person of color, already involved in this issue, to lead the parade and to be a plaintiff in the lawsuit.  Kevin Fisher was an African American college dropout, who worked as a prison guard and became a passionate opponent of the new mosque, after his wife divorced him and became, you guessed it, a Muslim convert.  When I approached him on the square with a crew that included 4 cameras, saying only “Hi, Kevin” he dialed his cell phone and called 9-1-1 saying that he was being “racially harassed”.  This not only made the headlines of the local paper but the incident, including audio from the 9-1-1 call was played over and over that night on the local evening news.  This became something of a running joke, when I was recognized at the grocery store in Murfreesboro for instance, people would often point at me and say, “Hey, stop racially harassing me” and then we would all have a big laugh.  And Islamic blogs such as <a href="http://loonwatch.com/" target="_blank">Loonwatch.com</a> were only too happy to run an article about how an opponent of the mosque was “playing the race card” against a filmmaker who was just trying to ask questions.</p>
<p>CNN breezed through town and produced a quick hit piece painting all of the mosque opponents as uneducated rednecks and the Islamic community as everyday people who were being wrongly persecuted.  Soledad O’Brien’s producer offered to buy some of my footage from me with the explicit promise that their piece was going to be called “Islam: In America” and would not focus more than a few minutes on Murfreesboro.  After an inside tip that this producer was lying to me, I confronted him and got some rather vague answers.  So I declined to license him any of my material.  And sure enough, the CNN documentary did in fact focus exclusively on Mufreesboro and was called “Unwelcome: The Muslims Next Door”.  Somehow Hollywood, with its usual backstabbing tricks, had managed to find me hiding out in Tennessee.</p>
<p>I had accumulated a lot of good quality footage.  That, combined with the increasing number of physical threats to me personally while filming in large crowds, and death threats that had arrived via email (causing me to look over my shoulder everywhere I went and making it necessary to spend a small fortune on private security) told me it was time.  The writing was on the wall.  It was time for me to leave Murfreesboro, hire a professional Editor and get to work on assembling my footage to create a feature length documentary for theatrical distribution.</p>
<p>Before I go any further, I should mention that, while all of this was happening, I had become involved in the story itself.  I took sides.  I sided with the Islamic community in their legal right to build a house of worship and when I was interviewed by the local papers (it’s not every day that a small town like this has someone shooting a documentary there) when I was asked where I stood on the issue I never hesitated to give my point of view.  And after a time my point of view was sought out by larger newspapers and several local and syndicated radio programs – mostly Conservative and mostly taking issue with my stance.  And I was also invited to write several pieces for Michael Moore’s blog as well.</p>
<p>Although I had left town to edit, there continued to be letters to the editor on a few of the local papers saying that I should leave TN and go back to where I came from.  I could not believe the cartoonish way in which those who opposed the mosque were making their case.  I felt like I was on the right side of this thing – absolutely certain.  But in fact, I was wrong.</p>
<p>Everything I have told you up until now &#8211; this version of my story &#8211; is exactly how I was seeing things up until something changed.  I went home to Los Angeles, showed my 25 minute short version of the documentary to some distributors and backers, and did the usual dog and pony show that had worked so well to raise funds, for other motion picture projects I had been involved with in the past.  And sure enough someone said they would back the completion of the movie.  It was decided that the focus would be on “the enemy at home” that being what we were calling “Apocalyptic Christianity” (as there was concern about using the word “Zionism” in “Christian Zionism”).  The Murfreesboro issue was to be used as something of a jumping off point to take a look at the expanding influence of the End Times Evangelical lobby in the United States and how they use their influence to manufacture consent for the bombing of oil rich Islamic countries and to influence policy on social issues.  The theme would focus on the problems we have in America, with our own religious lunatic fringe, rather than on a peaceful group of non-Christians who just wanted to build a place of worship.</p>
<p>After writing a few articles for Michael Moore, I also wrote for a liberal blog called Common Dreams and I wrote over a hundred articles for the Daily Kos, a liberal blog so popular that they receive over one million visitors a day.  I felt I was protecting the underdog, going after the bullies.  I really believed that I was on the right side of this thing.</p>
<p>But something kept nagging at me on a gut level.  Something about all of this didn’t quite feel right.  The Arab Spring, which I supported, started to degenerate into the Islamist Winter, and I grew more and more concerned.  I flew back to Nashville to shoot a conference on whether or not Islam was conducive with Democratic Values and on the way to my hotel room I learned that my cab driver was from Egypt.  I asked him how he felt about the fall of Mubarak, a dictator worth over $70 billion dollars while so much of his country was living in poverty and he told me he was concerned.  Concerned?  Wasn’t this good news?  The cab driver was a Coptic Christian and he told me that he feared for his family back home.  “If the Muslims take control, and they will, it will be very dangerous for my parents and my sisters.  I’m scared for them right now”.  After that conversation, I started to pay more attention to the news coming from the Islamic world in the Middle East.</p>
<p>Over the coming months I watched as the Muslim Brotherhood gained political power in Egypt.  I saw that cab driver’s worst fears come true as Coptic Christians were attacked by Islamic mobs.  I saw Tunisia institute Sharia, the brutal Islamic Law.  After Libya fell, the Transitional Council also instituted Islamic Law.  The nuclear armed Islamic government of Pakistan arrested and punished those who cooperated with the United States in killing Osama Bin Laden.  A woman under the Islamic government of Afghanistan faced execution for the crime of being raped.  Similar news stories emerged from Iran.  A man who typed “there is no god” as his Facebook status in Indonesia, the largest Islamic country in the world, was arrested for blasphemy.</p>
<p>Several Muslim men in England were arrested for handing out leaflets to Londoners demanding that homosexuals be executed by hanging for violating Islamic Law with their lifestyle.</p>
<p>And it struck me.  Even though these angry townspeople in Mufreesboro, TN had not articulated their concerns very well, they were only half wrong.  I remember meeting Frank Gaffney and interviewing him in front of the courthouse and asking him if he really thought that the peaceful Muslims here actually presented a real threat to America and he said no.  That caught me off guard so I asked if he really thought it was a credible threat that a community that makes up about one percent of the United States population was just going to suddenly rise up one day and try to take over the country and force Sharia Law onto all of us.  Again he said no.  Then he told me I was asking the wrong questions.  He suggested that I was only looking for answers that would support the conclusions I had already arrived at.  He said he had, after much research, arrived at a different set of conclusions and he challenged me to look a little deeper.  He gave me a report to look at and many, many months later I did look at his report.</p>
<p>It was at this time that I went to my backers and told them that we were not making an honest documentary.  I felt that everything I had put into the 25 minute short version (the one I used to raise the completion funds) was true, but only half true.  It was critical that we also show the very real threats that exist within Islam.  We needed to show that what is happening to these small communities of peaceful Muslims in America are the exception to the rule.  I wanted to show what happens to countries when they gain a Muslim majority, how women are treated, that homosexuals were executed, that free speech did not exist, that the forced Islamic Law was not consistent with Democratic Values – anything and everything I could think of that ought to strike a chord with the Liberal mindset.  And the response I received was, “Eric you are starting to sound like an Islamophobe.  We don’t want to make a movie that promotes fear.  Let’s just stick with the existing plan, okay?”</p>
<p>I fought and I fought.  I showed them a book called “The Truth About Mohammed” but was struck down since the author was a man named Robert Spencer and my backers pointed out that the Southern Poverty Law Center named his “Jihad Watch” site as part of a hate group.  I asked them to watch a documentary called “Islam: What the West Needs to Know” and pointed out that I had researched independently and verified the truth of what was being presented there, but they would not even watch this documentary as they were sure in advance that it was “hate speech” and “propaganda designed to spread fear”.  It probably goes without saying that by now I was very frustrated.  I showed my new backers several verses from the Koran that call for the killing of infidels and was told that these verses were probably being taken out of context.  I showed them a video clip from MEMRI TV of a young Egyptian child reciting a Hadith that calls for the killing of Jews and was told that “you can’t trust MEMRI because they have an agenda”.</p>
<p>I mentioned the popular Islamophobia watchdog site “Loonwatch” and how I had noticed a pattern of deflection all criticisms of radical and violent Islam by calling anyone who publicly raises these concerns a “Loon” and how I felt this was an intentional effort to provide a smoke screen for the terrorists.  I also noted that everything Loonwatch said was in lockstep with the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and now CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation – the largest Islamic charity at one time, which was found to be funneling monies to Islamic terrorist organizations.  I also noted that CAIR had ties to both Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood and that Al Qeada had come out of the Muslim Brotherhood.  I expressed my concerns that the Egyptian Imam of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro might have ties to the MB, something I had failed to properly investigate.  But since CAIR had the support of Glenn Greenwald and Amy Goodman’s show, Democracy Now, I was told that I had my facts all wrong.  It was also pointed out to me that if CAIR was allegedly some kind of terrorist front then why do they still have a special tax status and why are they still around?  When I said I do not know but it was possible that the government might prefer to watch them out in the open rather than risk them going underground I was told that my judgment was sounding less and less clear and that maybe I needed to take a step back from the project for a while.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[How making a film to defend Muslims’ right to build a mosque in America changed my world view.]]></description>
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<p><em>[Editor&#8217;s note: The article below is written by Eric Allen Bell, a filmmaker who was recently banned from <em>blogging at  the “Daily Kos” because he wrote three articles that ran afoul of the mindset there, specifically naming “Loonwatch.com” as a “terrorist spin control network.” Frontpage invited him to tell his story, which he does below.]</em></em></p>
<p>A strange thing happened to me the other day when I was driving past the Federal Building in Los Angeles.  There were a crowd of people assembled there with signs which said that Israel is an aggressive force in the Middle East and that Iran is being picked on.  As I stopped at a red light I heard a man with a mega phone lead the protesters in a chant charging Obama with genocide.  I saw many young people and several Muslim women with their heads covered.  It was an anti-war demonstration that probably a year ago I would have supported.  But although I am not in favor of military action, I know that Iran is not another Iraq, and that in fact there is more going on here than the overly-simplified picture that the protestors were painting, as cars drove by honking in support.  As the light turned green another sign caught my eye – a picture of the Twin Towers burning which read “911 Was an Inside Job”.  As I looked at a sea of Palestinian flags and college kids banging on drums I felt a certain frustration – frustration based on a series of events that have changed my world view.</p>
<p>In the Summer of 2010, having recently escaped Hollywood, CA to take a much needed break from my profession as a film maker, I was driving in my car listening to a story on NPR.  It seems the people in my new home of Murfreesboro, TN were up in arms over the proposed construction of a 53,000 square foot mega mosque, to be built in their small town in the middle of the American Bible Belt.</p>
<p>I listened carefully, to the sound bytes, of those who had shown up to a town hall meeting to voice their opposition and, as someone who was rather new to the South, I was surprised by what I was hearing.   “America is a Christian nation and there is only one God and his name is not Allah and his son is Jesus Christ” and “America is a Christian Nation” and “These Muslims do not share my values and I don’t want them in my backyard”.  Growing up in Southern California, I had never heard anything like this before in my life.  And I started to follow the story with great interest.</p>
<p>On the outer edge of town, off a small country road, there was a large parcel of land, right next door to a Baptist church, with a big sign that read, “Future Home of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro”.  Over the past 6 months that sign had been defaced twice.  Once it was broken in half and another time the words “Not Welcome” were spray painted over it.</p>
<p>Rutherford County, which includes Murfreesboro, only has a little over 100,000 residents and yet the area boasts nearly 200 Christian churches.  Having not been much of a fan of Islam or Christianity or religion in general (and that’s putting it mildly) I saw this as something of a David vs. Goliath story – with fanatical Evangelicals bullying a peaceful Muslim population, which had been in the community for over 30 years without there ever being any trouble.  And, after learning that in July there was to be a big parade down Main Street to the town square, protesting the construction of this new mosque, I decided someone really needed to make a documentary about this.  And even though I had gone to Murfreesboro to escape the film world for a while, it seemed pretty clear that if I did not document this in a movie, no one else would.  I wanted to show the world what I was seeing.  So I put together a small film crew and began production on a documentary I would title, “Not Welcome”.</p>
<p>I had never seen more American flags assembled together in one place than I had on that hot July morning as the anti-mosque crowd gathered at the base camp to prepare for the parade.  Many of the marchers showed up wearing red, white and blue.  I had 4 cameras covering the event with one crew embedded with the Liberal activists who were going to counter-demonstrate and the rest of the cameras with me, embedded with those who were to march against the mosque.  I conducted several interviews in the school parking lot where locals and those who had driven for hours gathered, prepared to march against what they perceived to be not only a threat to their way of life, but also something of an insult given the events of September 11, 2001.  Two Congressional candidates, both promising to “stop the Islamic training camp” showed up and used this opportunity to campaign, one of whom even gave a speech through a mega phone reminding folks to vote for him if they wanted to stop Sharia Law from coming to Murfreesboro.  The pastor of Baptist church gathered everyone together in prayer, and the parade took off down Main Street with signs that read “Google the Koran” and “Stop Homegrown Terrorism” and someone in the crowd handed out hundreds of small Israeli flags as several hundred Southerners marched against the mosque.</p>
<p>About six months later I had accumulated over 300 hours of footage, interviewing the parade organizer, both Congressional candidates, the Mayor, the Imam at the mosque and several of its board members, numerous concerned residents on both sides of the issue, Muslim residents, city council members, a Christian Zionist lobbyist who was organizing the opposition to the mosque &#8211; and I had even filmed weeks of court proceedings, as a local group had filed suit against the County to stop them from issuing any construction permits to the Islamic Center.  The court proceedings were truly a circus with a country lawyer in loud suit with a bow tie argued that Islam is not a religion and that he was prepared to take this matter to the Supreme Court if necessary.  That legal action had failed and failed miserably.  And although many of the townspeople did in fact have a number of very valid concerns, I felt that those whom they had chosen to represent them were not their best foot forward.  In many ways, for the people of Murfreesboro, TN this turned out to be an international embarrassment – given the level of interest from the press.</p>
<p>Also, someone tried to set fire to some construction equipment at the site of the new mosque and the student activist group, calling themselves “Middle Tennesseans for Religious Freedom” put together a candle light vigil where hundreds of townspeople showed up in support of tolerance.  A few young men showed up in a pickup truck and honked their horn repeatedly throughout the vigil.  Their clothes seemed to indicate they had spent the work day hanging drywall.  And when they put up a huge sign in the back of their truck which read “No Mosque” while misspelling the word mosque, I did not hesitate to film them but to also sort of taunt them, in order to provoke a good response on camera.  And I got it.  One of them said we should suspend the Constitution and went on to say that “All them Mooslums should be shipped home” even the ones who were born here.</p>
<p>Adding more fuel to that fire was an incident that took place when I attempted to interview Kevin Fisher at a Tea Party event on the town square.  It was my opinion that in order to avoid accusations of being bigoted, the money interests (a Christian Zionist organization called Proclaiming Justice to the Nations) chose the only person of color, already involved in this issue, to lead the parade and to be a plaintiff in the lawsuit.  Kevin Fisher was an African American college dropout, who worked as a prison guard and became a passionate opponent of the new mosque, after his wife divorced him and became, you guessed it, a Muslim convert.  When I approached him on the square with a crew that included 4 cameras, saying only “Hi, Kevin” he dialed his cell phone and called 9-1-1 saying that he was being “racially harassed”.  This not only made the headlines of the local paper but the incident, including audio from the 9-1-1 call was played over and over that night on the local evening news.  This became something of a running joke, when I was recognized at the grocery store in Murfreesboro for instance, people would often point at me and say, “Hey, stop racially harassing me” and then we would all have a big laugh.  And Islamic blogs such as <a href="http://loonwatch.com/" target="_blank">Loonwatch.com</a> were only too happy to run an article about how an opponent of the mosque was “playing the race card” against a filmmaker who was just trying to ask questions.</p>
<p>CNN breezed through town and produced a quick hit piece painting all of the mosque opponents as uneducated rednecks and the Islamic community as everyday people who were being wrongly persecuted.  Soledad O’Brien’s producer offered to buy some of my footage from me with the explicit promise that their piece was going to be called “Islam: In America” and would not focus more than a few minutes on Murfreesboro.  After an inside tip that this producer was lying to me, I confronted him and got some rather vague answers.  So I declined to license him any of my material.  And sure enough, the CNN documentary did in fact focus exclusively on Mufreesboro and was called “Unwelcome: The Muslims Next Door”.  Somehow Hollywood, with its usual backstabbing tricks, had managed to find me hiding out in Tennessee.</p>
<p>I had accumulated a lot of good quality footage.  That, combined with the increasing number of physical threats to me personally while filming in large crowds, and death threats that had arrived via email (causing me to look over my shoulder everywhere I went and making it necessary to spend a small fortune on private security) told me it was time.  The writing was on the wall.  It was time for me to leave Murfreesboro, hire a professional Editor and get to work on assembling my footage to create a feature length documentary for theatrical distribution.</p>
<p>Before I go any further, I should mention that, while all of this was happening, I had become involved in the story itself.  I took sides.  I sided with the Islamic community in their legal right to build a house of worship and when I was interviewed by the local papers (it’s not every day that a small town like this has someone shooting a documentary there) when I was asked where I stood on the issue I never hesitated to give my point of view.  And after a time my point of view was sought out by larger newspapers and several local and syndicated radio programs – mostly Conservative and mostly taking issue with my stance.  And I was also invited to write several pieces for Michael Moore’s blog as well.</p>
<p>Although I had left town to edit, there continued to be letters to the editor on a few of the local papers saying that I should leave TN and go back to where I came from.  I could not believe the cartoonish way in which those who opposed the mosque were making their case.  I felt like I was on the right side of this thing – absolutely certain.  But in fact, I was wrong.</p>
<p>Everything I have told you up until now &#8211; this version of my story &#8211; is exactly how I was seeing things up until something changed.  I went home to Los Angeles, showed my 25 minute short version of the documentary to some distributors and backers, and did the usual dog and pony show that had worked so well to raise funds, for other motion picture projects I had been involved with in the past.  And sure enough someone said they would back the completion of the movie.  It was decided that the focus would be on “the enemy at home” that being what we were calling “Apocalyptic Christianity” (as there was concern about using the word “Zionism” in “Christian Zionism”).  The Murfreesboro issue was to be used as something of a jumping off point to take a look at the expanding influence of the End Times Evangelical lobby in the United States and how they use their influence to manufacture consent for the bombing of oil rich Islamic countries and to influence policy on social issues.  The theme would focus on the problems we have in America, with our own religious lunatic fringe, rather than on a peaceful group of non-Christians who just wanted to build a place of worship.</p>
<p>After writing a few articles for Michael Moore, I also wrote for a liberal blog called Common Dreams and I wrote over a hundred articles for the Daily Kos, a liberal blog so popular that they receive over one million visitors a day.  I felt I was protecting the underdog, going after the bullies.  I really believed that I was on the right side of this thing.</p>
<p>But something kept nagging at me on a gut level.  Something about all of this didn’t quite feel right.  The Arab Spring, which I supported, started to degenerate into the Islamist Winter, and I grew more and more concerned.  I flew back to Nashville to shoot a conference on whether or not Islam was conducive with Democratic Values and on the way to my hotel room I learned that my cab driver was from Egypt.  I asked him how he felt about the fall of Mubarak, a dictator worth over $70 billion dollars while so much of his country was living in poverty and he told me he was concerned.  Concerned?  Wasn’t this good news?  The cab driver was a Coptic Christian and he told me that he feared for his family back home.  “If the Muslims take control, and they will, it will be very dangerous for my parents and my sisters.  I’m scared for them right now”.  After that conversation, I started to pay more attention to the news coming from the Islamic world in the Middle East.</p>
<p>Over the coming months I watched as the Muslim Brotherhood gained political power in Egypt.  I saw that cab driver’s worst fears come true as Coptic Christians were attacked by Islamic mobs.  I saw Tunisia institute Sharia, the brutal Islamic Law.  After Libya fell, the Transitional Council also instituted Islamic Law.  The nuclear armed Islamic government of Pakistan arrested and punished those who cooperated with the United States in killing Osama Bin Laden.  A woman under the Islamic government of Afghanistan faced execution for the crime of being raped.  Similar news stories emerged from Iran.  A man who typed “there is no god” as his Facebook status in Indonesia, the largest Islamic country in the world, was arrested for blasphemy.</p>
<p>Several Muslim men in England were arrested for handing out leaflets to Londoners demanding that homosexuals be executed by hanging for violating Islamic Law with their lifestyle.</p>
<p>And it struck me.  Even though these angry townspeople in Mufreesboro, TN had not articulated their concerns very well, they were only half wrong.  I remember meeting Frank Gaffney and interviewing him in front of the courthouse and asking him if he really thought that the peaceful Muslims here actually presented a real threat to America and he said no.  That caught me off guard so I asked if he really thought it was a credible threat that a community that makes up about one percent of the United States population was just going to suddenly rise up one day and try to take over the country and force Sharia Law onto all of us.  Again he said no.  Then he told me I was asking the wrong questions.  He suggested that I was only looking for answers that would support the conclusions I had already arrived at.  He said he had, after much research, arrived at a different set of conclusions and he challenged me to look a little deeper.  He gave me a report to look at and many, many months later I did look at his report.</p>
<p>It was at this time that I went to my backers and told them that we were not making an honest documentary.  I felt that everything I had put into the 25 minute short version (the one I used to raise the completion funds) was true, but only half true.  It was critical that we also show the very real threats that exist within Islam.  We needed to show that what is happening to these small communities of peaceful Muslims in America are the exception to the rule.  I wanted to show what happens to countries when they gain a Muslim majority, how women are treated, that homosexuals were executed, that free speech did not exist, that the forced Islamic Law was not consistent with Democratic Values – anything and everything I could think of that ought to strike a chord with the Liberal mindset.  And the response I received was, “Eric you are starting to sound like an Islamophobe.  We don’t want to make a movie that promotes fear.  Let’s just stick with the existing plan, okay?”</p>
<p>I fought and I fought.  I showed them a book called “The Truth About Mohammed” but was struck down since the author was a man named Robert Spencer and my backers pointed out that the Southern Poverty Law Center named his “Jihad Watch” site as part of a hate group.  I asked them to watch a documentary called “Islam: What the West Needs to Know” and pointed out that I had researched independently and verified the truth of what was being presented there, but they would not even watch this documentary as they were sure in advance that it was “hate speech” and “propaganda designed to spread fear”.  It probably goes without saying that by now I was very frustrated.  I showed my new backers several verses from the Koran that call for the killing of infidels and was told that these verses were probably being taken out of context.  I showed them a video clip from MEMRI TV of a young Egyptian child reciting a Hadith that calls for the killing of Jews and was told that “you can’t trust MEMRI because they have an agenda”.</p>
<p>I mentioned the popular Islamophobia watchdog site “Loonwatch” and how I had noticed a pattern of deflection all criticisms of radical and violent Islam by calling anyone who publicly raises these concerns a “Loon” and how I felt this was an intentional effort to provide a smoke screen for the terrorists.  I also noted that everything Loonwatch said was in lockstep with the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and now CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation – the largest Islamic charity at one time, which was found to be funneling monies to Islamic terrorist organizations.  I also noted that CAIR had ties to both Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood and that Al Qeada had come out of the Muslim Brotherhood.  I expressed my concerns that the Egyptian Imam of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro might have ties to the MB, something I had failed to properly investigate.  But since CAIR had the support of Glenn Greenwald and Amy Goodman’s show, Democracy Now, I was told that I had my facts all wrong.  It was also pointed out to me that if CAIR was allegedly some kind of terrorist front then why do they still have a special tax status and why are they still around?  When I said I do not know but it was possible that the government might prefer to watch them out in the open rather than risk them going underground I was told that my judgment was sounding less and less clear and that maybe I needed to take a step back from the project for a while.</p>
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