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		<title>10 Reasons the UAE Terrorist Group List Rises Above the Rest</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2014 05:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And puts the United States to shame. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/HH+Sheikh+Khalifa+Bin+Zayed+Al+Nahyan+UAE+president.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247979" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/HH+Sheikh+Khalifa+Bin+Zayed+Al+Nahyan+UAE+president.jpg" alt="HH+Sheikh+Khalifa+Bin+Zayed+Al+Nahyan,+UAE+president" width="306" height="205" /></a>In November 2014, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) took a bold and unprecedented step for a Muslim nation by designating 85 radical Islamic organizations as terrorist organizations. The UAE’s designation is the most audacious and significant classification of terrorist organizations worldwide, and is superior to the lists developed by the United States, the European Union, the Russian Federation and the United Nations. As to why it is unrivalled, here are a number of reasons:</p>
<p>First: The UAE addressed the roots of the problem, in the sense that terrorist ideology paves the way for terrorist acts; hence, the list included organizations which promote terrorist ideology or seek to secretly recruit Muslims, making them ready and available for organizations engaged in terrorist acts.</p>
<p>Second: The UAE is familiar with the double talk, dissimulation and outright lies that are typical of Islamists. As an Islamic State, the UAE has a good understanding of those deceitful practices. Therefore, it did not hesitate much about organizations that issue vague statements claiming to denounce terror, while their actions aim at stirring up discontent among Muslims to facilitate their recruitment into terrorist organizations. The US Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is a prominent case in point.</p>
<p>Third: It is the first time that Islamic organizations in the United States and Europe find themselves on the designated list of terrorist organizations. These organizations are mostly financed through Arab oil countries, under pretext of defending the rights of Muslims in the United States and Europe. In reality, they are part of the global <i>Jihad </i>network, and are focused on promoting radical ideologies and indoctrinating Muslims in the Western World, steering them to join the universal <i>Jihad</i> against the infidels. These organizations also actively work to isolate Muslims and prevent their integration into their new communities in the West. Furthermore, they have sown the seeds of hatred that many Muslims harbor towards their new home in the West, pushing the idea that loyalty to the new homeland contradicts their devotion to Islam and stands in the way of the battle against the infidels. Examples of organizations that fall under this category in the UAE’s list include CAIR in the United States, the Muslim American Society (MAS), the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe, the Islamic Associations in Italy, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Belgium, the Cordoba Foundation in Britain and the Islamic Society of Germany.</p>
<p>Fourth: The UAE’s list also included organizations that hide behind the façade of charity and humanitarian work, while playing a major role in financing terrorist groups such as Hamas and others. Among these organizations are the UK Islamic Relief and the International Islamic Relief organization affiliated with the international Muslim Brotherhood organization.</p>
<p>Fifth: The UAE’s designation also broke through the imaginary divide between moderate Islamic organizations and radical Islamic organizations. On the whole, political Islam organizations that seek power, interfere with politics, promote fundamental ideologies and indirectly support terrorism, deserve to be listed as dangerous terrorist organizations. To illustrate: The Islamic terrorist organization ISIS is in reality a grandchild of the Muslim Brotherhood, since Al-Qaida, which gave birth to ISIS, was itself born out of the Muslim Brotherhood movement. These strong ties explain the stance taken by Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef al-Qaradawi in defense of ISIS, his announcement that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood movement, and his disapproval of the international coalition’s strikes against ISIS.</p>
<p>Sixth: The inclusion of the “Association of Muslim Scholars” in the list of terrorist organizations was a bold choice on the UAE’s part. This union is essentially an international union of Muslim Brotherhood scholars and radical fundamentalists, which serve the Muslim Brotherhood and Qatar in their quest to manipulate and ultimately control Islamic affairs.</p>
<p>Seventh: By adopting this exceptional designation, the UAE made it evident that the countries which played a role in creating the problem can hardly be part of the solution. These terrorist organizations are the product of the so-called “Islamic awakening” which started in the seventies of last century. Countries that contributed to this awakening include Egypt (Sadat), Saudi Arabia (Faisal), Sudan (Numeri), Pakistan (Zia ul-Haq), Iran (Khomeini), the United States (Carter &amp; Brzezinski), Qatar (Hamad) in the last ten years, and Turkey (Erdogan) in the last five years. It is difficult for these countries, which brought about this Islamic terrorist awakening, to produce a terrorist group designation list on the scale of the UAE. I am confident that Egypt would never entertain the idea of issuing such a comprehensive designation. As for Saudi Arabia, it issued a meagre list that mostly included political dissidents who threaten Saudi rule. It is also surprising and somehow disturbing that the United States has rejected the designation of CAIR, the Muslim American Society and the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations.</p>
<p>Eighth: The UAE also dealt a strong blow to the skilful manipulation of the notion of &#8220;Islamophobia&#8221; in the West, given that the Islamic organizations designated in the UAE’s list, and which operate in the United States and Europe, have created and pushed the term “Islamophobia,” waiving its spectre around whenever it has suited their purposes. As a matter of fact, Muslims enjoy significantly more freedom and liberties in the West than they do in their Islamic homelands. If that remains in question, then pray tell why is it that Muslims who live in Islamic countries are so intent on fleeing the freedom, happiness, faith and virtue abundant in their homelands only to emigrate to the West where they supposedly fall victims to Islamophobia.</p>
<p>Ninth: Furthermore, the UAE exposed Islamic terrorist organizations that claim to be resistance movements or freedom fighters, such as the <i>Abu Sayyaf</i> group in the Philippines, “the Caucasus Emirate” of the Chechen Jihadists, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and Hezballah in Lebanon. These dangerous terrorist organizations have been receiving funds from oil countries and have garnered the sympathy of many Muslims, which has allowed them to recruit radical Muslims from all over the world. The UAE ought to be praised for exposing their true colors.</p>
<p>Finally, the UAE’s designation falls short in only one aspect, and that is the non-inclusion of fMuslim World League and Hamas in the list of terrorist organizations, even though it should be counted as one. This is likely due to the sensitive nature of the Palestinian cause and its impact on Arabic public opinion. That being said, Hamas was behind the creation of the terrorist organization “Supporters of Jerusalem” (<i>Ansar Bait al-Maqdis</i>) in Sinai. The name itself broadcasts a Hamas connection since none of the various Egyptian terrorist groups, as many as they are, ever took on Jerusalem “<i>Bait al-Maqdis</i>” as part of their names. But given that Hamas was majorly involved in establishing said terrorist organization, the reference to Jerusalem is a deliberate echo of Hamas’ philosophy. In addition, Hamas is receiving funds from several countries and from the International Muslim Brotherhood movement, and is actively engaged in recruiting, training and arming the Jerusalem supporters’ members.</p>
<p>The UAE came to the conclusion that the Islamic awakening, which produced those organizations, was not an innocent religious revival but rather a herald of ruin and destruction for the Middle East and the world. Consequently, it chose to unmask those organizations and reveal their true face to the entire world.</p>
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		<title>A Radical Muslim in the Navy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2014 05:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Kaufman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The high military offices that CAIR's reach may extend to -- thanks to one individual. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/282005_198389416888171_294440_n.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246478" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/282005_198389416888171_294440_n-450x340.jpg" alt="282005_198389416888171_294440_n" width="352" height="266" /></a>Those who serve in the United States military and take an oath to protect our nation are lauded for their service, and rightfully so. Yet, it is highly immoral, if not outright evil and traitorous, for someone who has served in the U.S. military to exploit their military connections whilst taking leadership roles within groups associated with terror. It appears that that is what Muslim convert Wilfredo Amr Ruiz has done and is doing with his work for Islamist groups CAIR and AMANA, and his actions deserve scrutiny, reprimand and repudiation.</p>
<p>Wilfredo Ruiz has served in the U.S. Navy in two capacities, once as a lawyer under the Navy’s Judge Advocate General (JAG), from the years 1993 through 1997, and once as a chaplain under the Navy’s Chaplain Candidate Officer’s Program, which he took on after he had begun religious studies, in 2005, at a seminary in Hartford, Connecticut.</p>
<p>Sometime in 2003, during the time between his two Naval exercises, he made the decision to convert to Islam. He came to the States via Puerto Rico, where he grew up practicing Catholicism.</p>
<p>Not only did he embrace his new religion, but right away he embraced the extremist ideology that is a part of it, leading him to actively pursue a course that is causing death and destruction worldwide. According to corporate filings, in September 2003, Ruiz was the Director of the Puerto Rico office for AMANA.</p>
<p>AMANA is the brainchild of Palestinian activist Sofian Abdelaziz Zakkout. Zakkout is the former Vice President of the now defunct Health Resource Center for Palestine (HRCP), a group associated with Hamas that operated out of Deerfield Beach, Florida.</p>
<p>This past July, as <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/08/13/Palestinian-Leader-in-Miami-Boasts-about-Conquering-American-Jews"><span style="color: #0433ff;">reported in Breitbart</span></a>, Zakkout posted on his Facebook page the following in Arabic: “Praise be to God, each day we conquer the American Jews like our conquests over the Jews of Israel. Your brother, Sofian”</p>
<p>While Zakkout is the main driving force behind AMANA, Ruiz is not a minor player. Ruiz plays a major role in promoting the group’s Islamist agenda.</p>
<p>Not only did he run the AMANA office in Puerto Rico, but he also opened another AMANA office in Hartford, Connecticut. In fact, the web address attached to the Hartford office was the same one used by the national office, al-amana.org.</p>
<p>In the time Ruiz has been involved with AMANA, the group’s website has included various material vilifying Jews, Christians and homosexuals; the website linked to al-Qaeda financing and recruitment sites; and the website prominently featured an anti-Semitic video of David Duke on it, which brought on a condemnation of AMANA by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).</p>
<p>In one article <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/ICBR_and_AMANA_Articles_About_Jews.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">previously found on Ruiz’s AMANA website</span></a>, it is stated, “Every believer [Muslim] should firmly believe that the Jews and Christians are kuffaar [infidels] and enemies of Allaah, His deen, the Prophet Muhammad, and the Believers… The efforts to gain the friendship of the Jews and Christians are useless, as they will never be pleased with the Muslims until the Muslims follow their religion.”</p>
<p>Ruiz additionally is the Executive Director of AMANA’s sister organization, American Muslims for Emergency and Relief (AMER). AMER uses the same Miami physical and mailing addresses as AMANA.</p>
<p>From 2005 till 2007, Ruiz attended the Hartford Seminary, where he worked on his Masters in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations. The entire time Ruiz was there, the professor of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations was a fellow Islamist convert named Ingrid Mattson.</p>
<p>When Ruiz started at the seminary, Mattson was the Vice President of the largest Muslim Brotherhood-related group in the United States, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). In the following year, 2006, she became President of ISNA.</p>
<p>Mattson founded the Islamic Chaplaincy program at Hartford Seminary. As mentioned, after beginning his education at the seminary, Ruiz worked to become a chaplain for the Navy, specifically a Muslim Chaplain.</p>
<p>According to Ruiz’s bio, he worked as a chaplain at the Immigration Service Processing Centers in Puerto Rico and in Miami. Question: Did Wifredo Amr Ruiz go to seminary and take up chaplaincy specifically to better serve the radical Islamic goals of his bigoted group AMANA.</p>
<p>Today, Ruiz acts as AMANA’s legal advisor. However, he also does legal work for another Islamist organization, CAIR. He is CAIR-Florida’s legal counsel.</p>
<p>CAIR was established as being part of the American Palestine Committee, an umbrella organization acting as a terrorist enterprise run by then-global Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook, who was based in the U.S. at the time and who now operates out of Egypt as a spokesman for Hamas. In 2007 and 2008, amidst two federal trials, the U.S. government named CAIR a co-conspirator in the raising of millions of dollars for Hamas.</p>
<p>No doubt, having Ruiz represent both CAIR and AMANA serves to bring the two groups together, helping them to exert more influence. Indeed, in 2012, 2013 and 2014, the groups joined to co-sponsor rallies to speak out about violence in Syria, Egypt and Gaza. The latter event took place in Downtown Miami on July 20, 2014.</p>
<p>The rally was supposed to be in support of Gaza, but it quickly turned into one that was instead pro-Hamas. A smiling Sofian Zakkout is seen on video, as coordinated chants of “Let’s go Hamas” and “We are Hamas” are shouted from the crowd. A reporter was also assaulted by rally goers, targeted for being Jewish (“Zionist”).</p>
<p>CAIR issued a statement saying that it had nothing to do with the rally, but a flyer for the event clearly shows the CAIR-Florida logo next to its AMANA logo counterpart. AMANA’s Zakkout organized the rally, and numerous pictures of the flyer are <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/AMANA_CAIR_Hamas_Rally_July_2014.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">still found on his Facebook site</span></a>. These flyers are not unlike the flyers that were made up for the other rallies involving CAIR and AMANA, containing CAIR and AMANA logos.</p>
<p>On November 15, Ruiz participated in the CAIR-South Florida annual banquet held at a hotel in Fort Lauderdale. He stood up on stage with the other CAIR-Florida leaders, including CAIR-South Florida Executive Director Nezar Hamze and CAIR-Tampa Executive Director Hassan Shibly, who has stated that he believes Hezbollah is not a terrorist organization.</p>
<p>Earlier in the day – the same day as the banquet – the government of United Arab Emirates (UAE) named CAIR a terrorist organization, along with violent groups such as al-Qaeda, Boco Haraam and ISIS.</p>
<p>Ruiz brought his family, including his wife and two underage kids, with him to the banquet. Given the radical Islamic nature of the groups sponsoring the event, one can argue that this was child abuse.</p>
<p>Outside the banquet was a peaceful protest, which this author attended and delivered a speech at. Ruiz came outside to intimidate and take photos of all the protesters.</p>
<p>Ruiz was <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/11/20/CAIR-Attorneys-Harass-Protesters"><span style="color: #0433ff;">caught on video having words with the protest organizer</span></a>. He asked the organizer if he had “ever served” [in the military]. He asked the organizer if he knew “who is a patriot,” and then stated emphatically “I’m a Naval officer, brother.”</p>
<p>Question: Can Ruiz operate under the guise of a patriot having served or currently serving in the U.S. military, while at the same time aiding and abetting organizations involved with Islamic terrorism?</p>
<p>In Ruiz’s case, the answer is clear. His involvement with CAIR and AMANA negates any pretense of patriotism, and instead open the door for questions about subversion.</p>
<p><i>Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.</i></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2014 05:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>The Muslim Brotherhood is now gaining a strong foothold in Omaha, Nebraska, having infiltrated &#8220;<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/joe-herring-and-dr-mark-christian/omahas-tri-faith-initiative-mirrors-pact-of-umar/">The Tri-Faith Initiative&#8221;</a> through its Islamist front groups that pose as Muslim &#8220;civil rights&#8221; organizations.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Islamic supremacist groups co-opt the riots as part of their own Jihad. ]]></description>
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<p>The Gang gathered to discuss <strong><a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/islamic-supremacist-groups-connect-their-jihad-to-ferguson-riots">Ferguson and Islamic Holy War Against America</a>, </strong>analyzing how <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/islamic-supremacist-groups-connect-their-jihad-to-ferguson-riots">Islamic supremacist groups are co-opting</a> the strife and riots as part of their own Jihad <strong>[starts at 10 minute mark]</strong>. The guests also focused on <em>Obama and the Ferguson Lynch Mob</em>, <em>Bye Bye Hagel</em>, <em>The Mullahs Inch toward the Bomb</em>, and much, much more.</p>
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		<title>Hamas-linked CAIR: A Terror Organization</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2014 05:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/CAIR-Visiting-Morocco-to-Discuss-Political-Reforms.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245709" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/CAIR-Visiting-Morocco-to-Discuss-Political-Reforms-450x344.jpg" alt="Council on American-Islamic Relation (CI" width="327" height="250" /></a>The United Arab Emirates last week approved a list of 86 “designated terrorist organisations and groups, including the usual suspects – the UAE Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic State – along with two surprises, both with ties to Hamas: the Muslim American Society and the Council on American-Islamic Relations.</p>
<p>This surprising listing probably stemmed from both groups’ links to the Muslim Brotherhood. UAE President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan doesn’t want to find himself overthrown by Islamic hardliners, and replaced by a Sharia government.</p>
<p>When the story first broke, I wrote at my website Jihad Watch: “If this is authentic, no doubt Hamas-linked CAIR’s Nihad Awad and Ibrahim ‘Honest Ibe’ Hooper are furiously working the phones today, calling on all their contacts in the U.S. government and elsewhere to get this reversed. What fun it would be to be a fly on the wall in Honest Ibe’s sumptuously appointed office today. Will the Obama administration’s Justice Department now denounce the UAE for ‘Islamophobia’?”</p>
<p>Close. It wasn’t Justice, it was State. U.S. State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke said Monday that the Obama Administration was “aware that two U.S.-based groups, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim American Society, were included on the list.” Rathke said that the government was “seeking to gain more information on why, and “engaging UAE authorities” in order to do so.</p>
<p>A reporter then asked Rathke: “The State Department works…with CAIR all the time, no? I mean, there’s all sorts of outreach programs between the government and CAIR, right?”</p>
<p>Rathke seemed taken aback by the question: “I don’t know offhand whether we have a particular…I don’t have that information at my fingertips. But at any rate, we’re engaging UAE officials. These are U.S.-based groups so of course our – we are not in the lead then for domestically-based groups generally.”</p>
<p>It’s perfectly clear why CAIR and MAS were listed as terror organizations: because of their links to the Muslim Brotherhood. But the Obama Administration cannot accept that, as it has itself done so much to aid the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and elsewhere. Hence their inquiries to Emirati officials, which are a fresh indication of the unwholesome influence these groups wield in Washington. But the UAE has the right idea, even if it reverses itself under pressure from State — and we can only hope for a restoration of sanity in Washington that will end these groups’ influence before they do more damage.</p>
<p>CAIR is not a terrorist organization, if one considers violent acts an essential part of what defines terrorism: it doesn’t blow things up or exhort others to do so. It is, however, an Islamic supremacist organization with the same goals as those of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State: the imposition of Islamic law wherever and whenever possible. And while CAIR is quite mainstream these days, this self-styled “civil rights group” was actually named an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case by the Justice Department. CAIR operatives have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements. Its California chapter distributed a poster telling Muslims not to talk to the FBI. CAIR has opposed every anti-terror measure that has ever been proposed or implemented.</p>
<p>CAIR’s dark side has been well known for years. Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) said that CAIR is “unusual in its extreme rhetoric and its associations with groups that are suspect.” Another United States Senator said of CAIR that “we know it has ties to terrorism,” and “intimate links with Hamas.” Those were the words of Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), and they have been proven correct.</p>
<p>Congressman Bill Shuster (R-PA) has said:  “Time and again the organization has shown itself to be nothing more than an apologist for groups bent on the destruction of Israel and Islamic domination over the West.”</p>
<p>In June 2007, Federal prosecutors named CAIR as a participant in what the New York Sun called “an alleged criminal conspiracy to support a Palestinian Arab terrorist group, Hamas.” This was when CAIR was first designated an unindicted co-conspirator for its support for the Holy Land Foundation. The federal prosecution document described CAIR as a present or past member of “the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee and/or its organizations.” The Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization of both Hamas and Al-Qaeda.</p>
<p>CAIR was founded in 1994 by Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmad. Awad had been the President of the Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP), and Ahmad its Public Relations Director. The IAP, which was shut down by the government in 2005 for funding terrorism, was founded in 1981 by a Hamas operative, Mousa Abu Marzook. Marzook currently heads Hamas’s “political bureau,” and is engaged in negotiations with Fatah in hopes of forming a Palestinian unity government. In the course of these negotiations, Hamas reaffirmed its refusal to accept Israel’s right to exist – which is tantamount to vowing its total destruction.</p>
<p>According to a report dated August 14, 2001, from the Immigration and Naturalization Services, the IAP was dedicated to “publishing and distributing HAMAS communiqués printed on IAP letterhead, as well as other written documentation to include the HAMAS charter and glory records, which are tributes to HAMAS’ violent ‘successes.’“ The same report also stated that IAP had received “approximately $490,000 from [Mousa Abu] Marzook during the period in which Marzook held his admitted role as a HAMAS leader.”</p>
<p>Randall Todd (“Ismail”) Royer was CAIR’s communications specialist and civil rights coordinator. He was part of the “Virginia jihad group,” which was indicted on forty-one counts of “conspiracy to train for and participate in a violent jihad overseas.” They were accused of association with Lashkar-e-Taiba, a jihad terrorist group.</p>
<p>Matthew Epstein of the Investigative Project has said that Royer helped recruit the other member of the group to the jihad while he was working for CAIR.</p>
<p>Royer was also among those charged in a separate indictment saying that they conspired to help Al-Qaeda and the Taliban fight against American troops in Afghanistan. And Royer admitted to a grand jury that he had already waged jihad warfare in Bosnia – with and that his commander took orders from Osama bin Laden.</p>
<p>According to Daniel Pipes, “Royer eventually pleaded guilty to lesser firearms-related charges, and the former CAIR staffer was sentenced to twenty years in prison.”</p>
<p>Then there was Ghassan Elashi, the founder of CAIR’s Texas chapter. He was charged in July 2004 with giving Hamas more than 12 million dollars while he was running the Holy Land Foundation. Elashi was convicted in November 2008 of providing material support to terrorism in connection with his role in the HLF. Earlier, Elashi was convicted in July 2004 of illegally shipping computers to two state-sponsors of terrorism, Libya and Syria. Then he was convicted in April 2005 of knowingly doing business with Mousa Abu Marzook, the senior Hamas leader who founded the IAP. Elashi was found guilty of conspiracy, money laundering, and dealing in the property of a designated terrorist.</p>
<p>Bassem Khafagi was CAIR’s community relations director. He pled guilty in September 2003 to lying on his visa application and passing bad checks, and he was deported. Before he worked for CAIR, he was president of the Islamic Assembly of North America (IANA) &#8212; which is under investigation by the Justice Department for terrorism-related activities. According to court documents, the IANA was devoted to spreading “radical Islamic ideology, the purpose of which was indoctrination, recruitment of members, and the instigation of acts of violence and terrorism.”</p>
<p>Rabih Haddad was a CAIR fundraiser who was arrested in December 2001 and deported. Again the charges were terror-related.</p>
<p>Maybe all these people had jihadist sentiments either before or after working for CAIR, but were completely moderate while working for it. Maybe. But this is just part of the picture. CAIR is, evidently, a moderate group has several onetime employees arrested on terror charges. It is a moderate group came out of another group that has been identified as the “primary voice in the U.S.” of a terror group. A moderate group that traffics in legal threats and intimidation against those of which it disapproves.</p>
<p>A moderate group?</p>
<p>No, the UAE was right: it’s a terrorist organization.</p>
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		<title>CAIR, 20 Years of Terror</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2014 05:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Kaufman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rooted in faith or rooted in Hamas?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/cair.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244934" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/cair-450x187.jpg" alt="cair" width="303" height="126" /></a>On the night of Saturday, November 8, the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of CAIR held its 20<sup>th</sup> Anniversary Banquet at the Santa Clara Convention Center. It was fitting that two out of three of the event’s featured speakers have been associated with terrorism, as 20 years ago CAIR was founded as a main component of a Palestinian terrorist enterprise inside the United States.</p>
<p>CAIR or the Council on American-Islamic Relations has been in existence for 20 years &#8212; since June 1994 &#8212; when it opened up its national headquarters in Washington, D.C. The group was established as being a part of the American Palestine Committee, an umbrella organization run by then-global Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook, who was based in the U.S. at the time and who now operates out of Egypt as a spokesman for Hamas.</p>
<p>The other members of the umbrella included a Hamas financing wing, Holy Land Foundation (HLF); a Hamas propaganda wing, Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP); and a Hamas command center, United Association for Studies and Research (UASR), which was then led by Ahmed Yousef, who later left the U.S. for Gaza to become Senior Political Adviser to Hamas leader Ismail Haniya.</p>
<p>The founding and current National Executive Director of CAIR is Nihad Awad. Just prior to co-founding CAIR, Awad held the position of Public Relations Director for the IAP. As the propaganda wing of Hamas, the IAP had been involved in distributing Hamas terrorist videos and publishing vehemently anti-Jewish and anti-Israel materials, including the Hamas charter in different languages.</p>
<p>Only months before the creation of CAIR, Awad announced his support for Hamas.</p>
<p>Under Awad’s leadership, CAIR has had a number of representatives cited for terrorist-related activity. CAIR officials have been convicted and imprisoned for terror-related crimes and/or deported from the United States. As well, during Awad’s tenure, CAIR has been cited <em>itself</em>. In 2007 and 2008, amidst two federal trials, the U.S. government named the group a co-conspirator in the raising of millions of dollars for Hamas. The individuals who had been indicted for the trials (CAIR was named an “unindicted co-conspirator”) were found guilty of all charges.</p>
<p>This past Saturday night, Awad was not at his home base in D.C. Instead, he was speaking at a banquet for CAIR’s San Francisco Bay Area (SFBA) chapter. San Francisco was the home of CAIR’s first regional U.S. chapter, established not long after CAIR National was established, hence the California group celebrating its <em>20<sup>th</sup> Anniversary</em>.</p>
<p>A second featured speaker at the Saturday banquet was Siraj Wahhaj, the imam of the At-Taqwa Mosque, located in the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn, New York. Wahhaj frequently speaks at CAIR sponsored events. Indeed, Wahhaj previously sat on CAIR’s National Board of Advisors.</p>
<p>Wahhaj has been associated with terrorism far beyond his involvement with CAIR.</p>
<p>In 1995, much like CAIR’s trials, Wahhaj was named an “unindicted co-conspirator” for the federal trial prosecuting those involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Wahhaj had been linked to the bombmaker of the attack, Clement Rodney Hampton-El, and during the trial he was a character witness for the spiritual leader of the attack &#8212; the “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdel Rahman &#8212; whom Wahhaj has openly praised.</p>
<p>Wahhaj has recently taken up the cause of speaking at functions for and doing fundraising for rabid anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan.</p>
<p>Also speaking at the banquet was Nihad Awad’s San Francisco counterpart, Executive Director of CAIR-SFBA Zahra Billoo. Billoo has made a number of extremist statements in the past. She has written that “one amazing reason to get married” is to “raise fighters” (children) to attack the nation of Israel. She wrote that to celebrate Columbus Day is “the same as having Jews celebrate Hitler and the Holocaust.” She refers to U.S. troops as “scum.”</p>
<p>Billoo proudly announced on her blog that her younger brother, Ahmed, was quoted in an article in the <em>Los Angeles Jewish Journal</em> &#8212; an article that discusses in length about how her brother supports suicide bombings. Billoo wrote that she, herself, had thoughts of committing suicide, after she viewed a pro-Israel advertisement on a San Francisco train.</p>
<p>On her Twitter account, Billoo boasted that her CAIR event was sold out, and the pictures taken at it do <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/SFBA_Nihad_Awad_11-8-2014.jpg">show a full house</a>. This is a frightening indication that many Muslims in America appear to support and approve of CAIR’s agenda. Certainly given the amount of information available about the speakers at the event, one would be hard pressed to believe that the attendees weren’t at least somewhat aware of CAIR’s terror-related background.</p>
<p>While CAIR has attempted to present itself as a Muslim civil rights organization, the individuals involved with CAIR reveal that the group is cynically exploiting this designation.</p>
<p>The title of CAIR’s weekend event was ‘<a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/SFBA_Rooted_in_Faith_11-8-2014.jpg">Rooted in Faith</a>,’ but one has to question what type of faith would have radical luminaries who are associated with terrorism representing it.</p>
<p><em>Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.</em></p>
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		<title>CAIR Demands Head of Houston Firefighter Over Facebook Post</title>
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<p>I wouldn&#8217;t even call this a post. He <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/09/30/Report-Houston-Firefighter-Suspended-for-Anti-Islam-Facebook-Posts">seemed to have set</a>, probably, someone else&#8217;s image as his profile picture on Facebook. But CAIR is out hunting for heads and politically correct politicians are only too happy to comply.</p>
<blockquote><p>HOUSTON (KTRK) &#8212; An HFD employee is under investigation and on administrative duty because of something he posted on his personal Facebook page.</p>
<p>The post is set to a backdrop of an American flag and reads, &#8220;Proud Infidel. F*** Islam and F*** Muslims.&#8221; It was posted to his timeline earlier this month, and at one point, it was even his profile picture.</p>
<p>When we brought it to the attention of the Houston Fire Department, Chief Terry Garrison responded with a statement, &#8220;As soon as I was made aware of the situation, I adopted a complaint on the matter, launching an internal investigation.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Your rights of freedom of speech and freedom of expression stop when you work for somebody, to the extent that there&#8217;s policies in place,&#8221; said KTRK Legal Analyst, Joel Androphy.</p></blockquote>
<p>If we took Joel at his word, then freedom of speech would not exist for anyone except freelancers. His way of putting is certainly unnecessarily creepy. Employers can indeed fire employees for any number of reasons, depending on local laws, etc&#8230; However government agencies firing employees for their private views opens up a whole other can of worms as Christie found out when a NJ state employee who tore up a Koran in New York was temporarily fired over it.</p>
<blockquote><p>Ruth Nasrullah, communications coordinator for the Houston office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the posting apparently occurred in the wake of early September&#8217;s ISIS beheading of journalist Steven Sotloff.</p>
<p>Houston CAIR Executive Director Mustafaa Carroll said his organization is &#8220;disgusted&#8221; by the post and called on Fire Chief Terry Garrison to order diversity training for firefighter and, possibly, for the entire 4,000-person department. Carroll also called on the firefighter to make a public apology to Muslims</p>
<p>&#8220;Violations of this policy should also be subject to further disciplinary action not to exclude probation, suspension and termination,&#8221; Carroll said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Our public servants don&#8217;t just protect one part of society. They protect all of us. They help all of us. They work for all of us. And it&#8217;s very important for us to all feel comfortable dealing with people that have some authority over us,&#8221; said Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Executive Director Mustafaa Carroll.</p></blockquote>
<p>Protecting us doesn&#8217;t mean that they have to like us. They can&#8217;t possibly like all of us.</p>
<p>This clip from Rescue Me sums up matters nicely. (Language warning.)</p>
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<blockquote><p>&#8220;Let me tell you somethin&#8217; the next time I run into a burning building and refuse to bring out anybody who&#8217;s not the same color as me, then that&#8217;s when you can bring my angry, pink, sober, Irish, ass back down here. Got it?&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The basis HPD is using for the investigation is far shakier than Joel would like us to think.</p>
<blockquote><p>City Attorney David Feldman said Tuesday that although the material &#8220;purportedly&#8221; appeared on a private Web page, the firefighter alluded to his city employment and included the fire department logo in his postings.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s a weak case. No one is under the impression that an individual firefighter speaks for the department or represents it on his private Facebook page.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ibrahim-hooper-mahdi-bray-nihad-awad-2009-12-10-10-10-18-300x199.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241770" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ibrahim-hooper-mahdi-bray-nihad-awad-2009-12-10-10-10-18-300x199.jpg" alt="ibrahim-hooper-mahdi-bray-nihad-awad-2009-12-10-10-10-18-300x199" width="276" height="183" /></a>The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Fiqh Council of North America <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #336699;" href="https://www.facebook.com/CAIRNational/posts/10152420219572695" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">held a press conference</span></a></span> in Washington today at which they declared that they had refuted the religious ideology of the Islamic State. They issued this lengthy “<span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #336699;" href="http://lettertobaghdadi.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Open Letter</span></a></span>” (not, interestingly enough, a fatwa) addressed to the Islamic State’s caliph Ibrahim, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, explaining how he was misunderstanding Islam. Is this an Islamic case against the Islamic State’s jihad terror that will move Islamic State fighters to lay down their arms? Or is it a deceptive piece designed to fool gullible non-Muslim Westerners into thinking that the case for “moderate Islam” has been made, but which will not change a single jihadi’s mind? Unfortunately, it is the latter.</span></p>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">To be sure, Hamas-linked CAIR and the Fiqh Council and all the signers of this Open Letter really do oppose the Islamic State. But they don’t oppose it because it is transgressing against the commands of what they believe to be a Religion of Peace. They oppose it because they want to establish a caliphate under the auspices of or led by the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Islamic State constitutes competition. This is clear from their sly endorsements in this document of jihad, the Sharia, and the concept of the caliphate.</span></p>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">It begins with an “Executive Summary” which is then filled out in greater detail. I will intersperse commentary below, first in general terms on the Executive Summary, and then taking up the arguments on each point in detail.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">Executive Summary</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 1- It is forbidden in Islam to issue fatwas without all the necessary learning requirements. Even then fatwas must follow Islamic legal theory as defined in the Classical texts. It is also forbidden to cite a portion of a verse from the Qur’an—or part of a verse—to derive a ruling without looking at everything that the Qur’an and Hadith teach related to that matter. In other words, there are strict subjective and objective prerequisites for fatwas, and one cannot ‘cherry- pick’ Qur’anic verses for legal arguments without considering the entire Qur’an and Hadith.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">This is a null argument designed to appeal to non-Muslims who don’t know what is in the Qur’an. For unless one quotes the entire Qur’an and Hadith, this argument can be leveled against anyone: anyone can be accused of leaving out important points and ignoring contradictory material. Whether or not one has actually done so, however, is another matter.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">2- It is forbidden in Islam to issue legal rulings about anything without mastery of the Arabic language.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Red herring. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the caliph of the Islamic State, is a native Arabic speaker with a Ph.D in Islamic Studies.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">3- It is forbidden in Islam to oversimplify Shari’ah matters and ignore established Islamic sciences.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Again, this is an empty charge, as it can be leveled against anyone.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">4- It is permissible in Islam [for scholars] to differ on any matter, except those fundamentals of religion that all Muslims must know.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">No doubt the caliph would agree with Hamas-linked CAIR and the Fiqh Council on this. He might differ with them on what exactly constitutes “fundamentals of religion that all Muslims must know.”</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">5- It is forbidden in Islam to ignore the reality of contemporary times when deriving legal rulings.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">This one is quite telling. It suggests that there is a certain accommodation Muslim believers must make to the times and to circumstance, without changing core principles — i.e., the problem with the Islamic State is not its beliefs, but their application, and the time may be right for the application of those beliefs at some other time, but not now.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">6- It is forbidden in Islam to kill the innocent.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Indeed, but who is innocent? The Islamic State jihadis don’t believe they are killing the innocent.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">7- It is forbidden in Islam to kill emissaries, ambassadors, and diplomats; hence it is forbidden to kill journalists and aid workers.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">None of these are blanket prohibitions; infidels considered to be at war with Islam can be killed and, according to Islamic law, must be killed.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">8- Jihad in Islam is defensive war. It is not permissible without the right cause, the right purpose and without the right rules of conduct.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Disingenuous. Islamic law holds that the caliph alone has the authority to wage offensive jihad. The Islamic State considers itself to be the caliphate, and thus considers its caliph to have that privilege and responsibility.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">9- It is forbidden in Islam to declare people non-Muslim unless he (or she) openly declares disbelief.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">What constitutes an open declaration of disbelief? The Sudanese government executed Mahmoud Mohammed Taha for heresy after he said that the Qur’an’s Meccan suras, which are more peaceful, should supersede the Medinan suras, which are more violent. He wasn’t expressing disbelief in Islam, but was nonetheless executed as someone who had departed from the faith of Islam.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">10- It is forbidden in Islam to harm or mistreat—in any way—Christians or any ‘People of the Scripture’.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">The Qur’an says to fight against and subjugate them (9:29). Once they submit, they should not be harmed or mistreated. But if they are considered to be in rebellion or war against the Muslims, they must be fought.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">11- It is obligatory to consider Yazidis as People of the Scripture.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Here again, in a hadith, Muhammad instructs Muslims to invite the unbelievers to Islam, and subjugate them or go to war with them if they refuse. If the Yazidis refused the invitation to convert, they could lawfully be fought.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">12- The re-introduction of slavery is forbidden in Islam. It was abolished by universal consensus.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">This is flatly false. Slavery is still widely practiced in North Africa, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere because it is sanctioned in Islam.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">13- It is forbidden in Islam to force people to convert.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">True, but the laws of dhimmitude are designed essentially to make life miserable for non-Muslims until they opt to convert as their only means to a better existence. Thus the boundaries of what constitutes coercion are somewhat blurred.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">14- It is forbidden in Islam to deny women their rights.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Indeed. But what are those rights?</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">15- It is forbidden in Islam to deny children their rights.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Indeed. But what are those rights?</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">16- It is forbidden in Islam to enact legal punishments (hudud) without following the correct procedures that ensure justice and mercy.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">This one is noteworthy, for by it Hamas-linked CAIR and the Fiqh Council and all these scholars affirm that hudud punishments — stoning for adultery, amputation for theft, death for leaving Islam, etc. — can be enacted as long as one is following the correct procedures.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">17- It is forbidden in Islam to torture people.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">At Khaybar, Muhammad ordered that a fire be lit upon Kinana’s chest until he told the Muslims where the Jews’ treasury was hidden. So what constitutes “torture” is, like so many things in Islam, subject to interpretation.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">18- It is forbidden in Islam to disfigure the dead.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">“When the prophet ordered that the corpses of the polytheists be dropped in to a well… He stood over the bodies of twenty-four leaders of Quraish, who had been thrown into one of the wells and started call them by name and by the names of their fathers…” (Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum, The Battle of Badr, p. 271)</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">19- It is forbidden in Islam to attribute evil acts to God.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Once again, a subjective and empty argument — no doubt the Islamic State would deny doing this.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">20- It is forbidden in Islam to destroy the graves and shrines of Prophets and Companions.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">“Ali ibn Abi Talib said to me: “Shall I not send you on the same mission as the Messenger of Allah sent me? Do not leave any statue without erasing it, and do not leave any raised grave without leveling it.” (Muslim 969).</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">21- Armed insurrection is forbidden in Islam for any reason other than clear disbelief by the ruler and not allowing people to pray.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">The Islamic State has stated that the rulers against whom they are fighting have expressed clear disbelief.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">22- It is forbidden in Islam to declare a caliphate without consensus from all Muslims.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">This is pure fiction. None of the historic caliphates were established by consensus from all Muslims. Even the first three “Rightly Guided” caliphs were chosen over bitter opposition from the party of Ali, the shiat Ali, which ultimately became the Shi’ites. Also, note that Hamas-linked CAIR, the Fiqh Council and the scholars take for granted that the concept of a caliphate is legitimate; they just don’t like this particular one.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">23- Loyalty to one’s nation is permissible in Islam.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">This one is rich in light of Hamas-linked CAIR’s opposition to all counter-terror measures. And you never hear them affirming this when it comes to “Palestinians” living in Israel.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">24- After the death of the Prophet, Islam does not require anyone to emigrate anywhere.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Not required. I.e., permissible.</span></p>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">And now to the fuller document:</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds,</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> Peace and Blessings be upon the Seal of the Prophets and Messengers</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> By the declining day, Lo! man is a state of loss, Save those who believe and do good works, and exhort one another to truth and exhort one another to endurance. (Al-‘Asr, 103: 1-3)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Open Letter</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">To Dr. Ibrahim Awwad Al-Badri, alias ‘Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi’, To the fighters and followers of the self-declared ‘Islamic State’, Peace and the mercy of God be upon you.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">During your sermon dated 6th of Ramadan 1435 AH (4th July 2014 CE), you said, paraphrasing Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq: ‘If you find what I say and do to be true, then assist me, and if you find what I say and do to be false, then advise me and set me straight.’ In what follows is a scholarly opinion via the media. The Prophet said: ‘Religion is [rectifying] advice [1].’ Everything said here below relies completely upon the statements and actions of followers of the ‘Islamic State’ as they themselves have promulgated in social media—or upon Muslim eyewitness accounts—and not upon other media. Every effort has been made to avoid fabrications and misunderstandings. Moreover, everything said here consists of synopses written in a simple style that reflect the opinions of the overwhelming majority of Sunni scholars over the course of Islamic history.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">In one of his speeches [2], Abu Muhammad Al-Adnani said: ‘God bless Prophet Muhammad who was sent with the sword as a mercy to all worlds.’[3] This statement comprises compounded confusions and a mistaken paradigm. Yet it is often repeated by followers of the ‘Islamic State’. Now God sent the Prophet Muhammad as a mercy to all worlds: ‘We did not send you, except as a mercy to all the worlds.’ (Al-Anbiya’, 22: 107). This is true for all time and place. The Prophet was sent as mercy to people, animals, plants, to the heavens and to subtle beings—no Muslims disagree about this. It is a general and unconditional statement taken from the Qur’an itself. However, the phrase, ‘sent with the sword’ is part of a Hadith that is specific to a certain time and place which have since expired. Thus it is forbidden to mix the Qur’an and Hadith in this way, as it is forbidden to mix the general and specific, and the conditional and unconditional.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> Moreover, God has prescribed mercy upon Himself: ‘… Your Lord has prescribed for Himself mercy …’ (Al-An’am, 6:54). God also states that His mercy encompasses all things: ‘… My mercy embraces all things …’ (Al-A’raf, 7:156). In an authentic Hadith, the Prophet said: ‘When God created Creation, He wrote in place above His throne, with Himself “Truly, My mercy is greater than My wrath [4].”’ Accordingly, it is forbidden to equate ‘the sword’—and thus wrath and severity—with ‘mercy’. Furthermore, it is forbidden to make the idea ‘mercy to all worlds’ subordinate to the phrase ‘sent with the sword’, because this would mean that mercy is dependent upon the sword, which is simply not true. Besides, how could ‘a sword’ affect realms where swords have no effect, such as the heavens, subtle beings and plants? The Prophet Muhammad’s being a mercy to all the worlds cannot possibly be conditional upon his having taken up the sword (at one point in time, for a particular reason and in a particular context). This point is not merely academic. Rather, it reveals the essence of much of what is to follow since it erroneously equates the sword and Divine mercy.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Muhammad is represented as having said, “Know that Paradise is under the shades of swords” (Bukhari 4.52.73). This is in Bukhari, the hadith collection considered most reliable by Muslim scholars. Hamas-linked CAIR, the Fiqh Council and the scholars say that “the phrase, ‘sent with the sword’ is part of a Hadith that is specific to a certain time and place which have since expired” and ask, “How could ‘a sword’ affect realms where swords have no effect, such as the heavens”? So was Paradise once under the shades of swords but is no longer? Or are the authors ignoring this inconvenient hadith because it doesn’t fit their argument? The problem with that is that the Islamic State jihadis read Bukhari.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">1. Legal theory (usul al-fiqh) and Qur’anic exegesis: With regards to Qur’anic exegesis, and the understanding of Hadith, and issue in legal theory in general, the methodology set forth by God in the Qur’an and the Prophet in the Hadith is as follows: to consider everything that has been revealed relating to a particular question in its entirety, without depending on only parts of it, and then to judge—if one is qualified—based on all available scriptural sources. God says: ‘… What, do you believe in part of the Book, and disbelieve in part? …’ (Al-Baqarah, 2:85); ‘… they pervert words from their contexts; and they have forgotten a portion of what they were reminded of…’ (Al-Ma’idah, 5:13); ‘… those who have reduced the Recitation, to parts’ (Al-Hijr, 15:91). Once all relevant scriptural passages have been gathered, the ‘general’ has to be distinguished from the ‘specific’, and the ‘conditional’ from the ‘unconditional’. Also, the ‘unequivocal’ passages have to be distinguished from the allegorical ones. Moreover, the reasons and circumstances for revelation (asbab al-nuzul) for all the passages and verses, in addition to all the other hermeneutical conditions that the classical imams have specified, must be understood. Therefore, it is not permissible to quote a verse, or part of a verse, without thoroughly considering and comprehending everything that the Qur’an and Hadith relate about that point. The reason behind this is that everything in the Qur’an is the Truth, and everything in authentic Hadith is Divinely inspired, so it is not permissible to ignore any part of it. Indeed it is imperative to reconcile all texts, as much as possible, or that there be a clear reason why one text should outweigh another. This is what Imam Shafi’i explains in his Al-Risalah, with a universal consensus among all usul scholars. Imam al-Haramayn, Al-Juwayni, says in Al- Burhan fi Usul Al-Fiqh: Regarding the qualities of a mufti and the disciplines that he must master: … it is imperative that the mufti must be a scholar of language, for the Shari’ah is [in] Arabic. … it is imperative that he be a scholar of syntax and parsing … it is imperative that he be a scholar of the Qur’an, for the Qur’an is the basis of all rulings … Knowledge of textual abrogation is indispensable; and the science of the fundamentals of jurisprudence (usul) is the cornerstone of the whole subject … He should also know the various degrees of proofs and arguments … as well as their histories. [He should also know] the science of Hadith so that he can distinguish the authentic from the weak; and the acceptable from the apocryphal … [He should also know] jurisprudence…. Moreover, having ‘legal intuition’ (fiqh al-nafs) is needed: it is the capital of anyone who derives legal rulings … scholars have summarized all this by saying that a mufti is ‘someone who independently knows all the texts and arguments for legal rulings’. ‘Texts’ refers to mastering language, Qura’nic exegesis and Hadith; while ‘arguments’ indicates mastering legal theory, analogical reasoning of the various kinds, as well as ‘legal intuition’ (fiqh al-nafs). Al-Ghazali has said similar things in Al-Mustasfa (Vol. 1, p.342), as did Al-Suyuti in Al- Itqan fi Ulum Al-Qur’an (Vol. 4, p.213).</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">A null argument unless they make the case that the Islamic State is really disbelieving in part of the book or ignoring inconvenient data. They don’t make this case.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">2. Language: As mentioned above, one of the most important pillars of legal theory is the mastery of the Arabic Language. This means mastering Arabic grammar, syntax, morphology, rhetoric, poetry, etymology and Qur’anic exegesis. Without mastery of these disciplines, error will be likely, indeed inevitable. Your declaration of what you have termed ‘the Caliphate’ was under the title ‘This is God’s Promise’. The person who phrased this declaration intended to allude to the verse: ‘God has promised those of you who believe and perform righteous deeds that He will surely make them successors in the earth, just as He made those who were before them successors, and He will surely establish for them their religion which He has approved for them, and that He will give them in exchange after their fear security. “They worship Me, without associating anything with Me”. And whoever is ungrateful after that, those, they are the immoral.’ (Al-Nur, 24: 55). But it is not permissible to invoke a specific verse from the Qur’an as applying to an event that has occurred 1400 years after the verse was revealed. How can Abu Muhammad Al-Adnani say that ‘God’s promise’ is this so-called Caliphate? Even if it were supposed that his claim is correct, he should have said: ‘this is of God’s promise’. Moreover, there is another linguistic error; wherein he has appropriated the word ‘istikhlaf’ (succession) to refer to the so-called caliphate. Proof that this is not the correct usage of the word can be seen in the following verse: ‘He said, “Perhaps your Lord will destroy your enemy and make you successors (yastakhlifakum) in the land, that He may observe how you shall act”.’ (Al-A’raf, 7:129). Succession (istikhlaf) means that they have settled on the land in place of another people. It does not mean that they are the rulers of a particular political system. According to Ibn Taymiyyah, there is no tautology in the Qur’an [5]. There is a difference between ‘khilafah’ and ‘istikhlaf’. Al-Tabari says in his exegesis (tafsir) of the Qur’an: ‘make you successors (yastakhlifakum): Meaning He will make you succeed them in their land after their destruction; do not fear them or any other people. [6]’ This proves that the meaning of ‘istikhlaf’ here is not rulership but, rather, dwelling on their land.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">“It is not permissible to invoke a specific verse from the Qur’an as applying to an event that has occurred 1400 years after the verse was revealed.” Doesn’t the Qur’an apply to all times, according to standard Islamic belief? And Islamic apologists see contemporary events in it all the time — scientific discoveries, the Moon landing, etc., and Hamas-linked CAIR never denounces them. And the whole argument about “istikhlaf” is ridiculous, for “khalifah” means “successor.” They bring up Qur’an 7:129, which uses a related word in a different context, as if it refuted the idea of the caliph as the successor of Muhammad. Yet this, too, is standard Islamic belief.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">3. Oversimplification: It is not permissible to constantly speak of ‘simplifying matters’, or to cherry-pick an extract from the Qur’an without understanding it within its full context. It is also not permissible to say: ‘Islam is simple, and the Prophet and his noble Companions were simple, why complicate Islam?’ This is precisely what Abu Al-Baraa’ Al-Hindi did in his online video in July 2014. In it he says: ‘Open the Qur’an and read the verses on jihad and everything will become clear … all the scholars tell me: “This is a legal obligation (fard), or that isn’t a legal obligation, and this is not the time for jihad” … forget everyone and read the Qur’an and you will know what jihad is.”’ People need to understand that the Prophet and his noble Companions made do with as little material means as possible, without complicated technology, but they were greater than all of us in understanding, jurisprudence and intellect, and yet only a small number of Companions were qualified to issue fatwas. God says in the Qur’an: ‘… Say: “Are those who know equal with those who do not know?”…’ (Al-Zumar, 39: 9). God also says: ‘… Ask the People of the Remembrance if you do not know.’ (Al-Anbiya’, 21: 7); and: ‘… If they had referred it to the Messenger and to those in authority among them; those among them who are able to think it out, would have known it from them …’ (Al-Nisa’, 4: 83). Thus, jurisprudence is no simple matter, and not just anyone can speak authoritatively on it or issue fatwas (religious edicts). God says in the Qur’an: ‘… But only people of cores remember.’ (Al-Ra’d, 13:19). And the Prophet Muhammad said: ‘Whoever speaks about the Qur’an without knowledge should await his seat in the Fire [7].’ It is also high time to stop blithely saying that ‘they are men, and we are men’; those who say this do not have the same understanding and discernment as the noble Companions and the imams of the Pious Forebears (al-Salaf al-Saleh) to whom they are referring.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">This is another subjective argument: the Qur’an says that it is a “clear book” (5:15), and that there are parts of it that are clear and parts that are not clear (3:7). The Islamic State spokesmen are asserting that the jihad passages are clear. Telling them that jurisprudence isn’t simple doesn’t exactly refute that.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">4. Difference of Opinion: In regards to difference of opinion, there are two kinds: blameworthy and praiseworthy. Regarding blameworthy difference of opinion, God says in the Qur’an: ‘And those who were given the Scripture did not become divided, except after the clear proof had come to them.’ (Al-Bayyinah, 98: 4). As for praiseworthy difference of opinion, God says: ‘… then God guided those who believed to the truth, regarding which they were at variance, by His leave…’ (Al-Baqarah, 2: 213). This is the opinion expressed by Al-Imam Al-Shafi’i in Al-Risalah, the other three imams and all the scholars for over a thousand years. When there is a difference of opinion among eminent scholars, the more merciful, i.e. the best, opinion should be chosen. Severity should be avoided, as should the idea that severity is the measure of piety. God says: ‘And follow the best of what has been revealed to you from your Lord …’ (Al-Zumar, 39: 55); and: ‘Indulge [people] with forgiveness, and enjoin kindness, and turn away from the ignorant.’ (Al-A’raf, 7: 199). God also says: ‘[Those] who listen to the words [of God] and follow the best [sense] of it. Those, they are the ones whom God has guided; and those, they are the people of pith.’ (Al-Zumar, 39: 18). In an authentic Hadith, it is related that the Lady Aisha said: ‘Whenever faced by more than once choice, the Prophet always chose the easiest one [8].’</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">The more severe opinion should not be considered more pious, religious or sincere to God. Indeed, in severity there is exaggeration and extremism; God says in the Qur’an: ‘… God desires ease for you, and desires not hardship for you …’ (Al-Baqarah, 2: 185). Moreover, the Prophet said: ‘Do not be severe with yourselves lest God be severe towards you. A people were severe with themselves and then God was severe towards them [9].’ There is delusion and vanity in severity, because severe people naturally say to themselves: ‘I am severe. Anyone less severe than me is deficient’; and thus: ‘I am superior to them.’ Herein lies an inherent attribution of ill-intention to God, as if God revealed the Qur’an to make people miserable. God says: ‘Tā hā. We have not revealed the Qur’an to you that you should be miserable’. (Ta Ha, 20: 1-2).</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">It is worth noting that most of the people who became Muslims throughout history, did so through gentle invitation (da’wah hasanah). God says: ‘Call to the way of your Lord with wisdom and fair exhortation, and dispute with them by way of that which is best. Truly your Lord knows best those who stray from His way and He knows best those who are guided.’ (Al-Nahl, 16: 125). The Prophet said: ‘Be gentle, and beware of violence and foul language [10].’ And while Islam spread politically from Central Asia (Khurasan) to North Africa due to Islamic conquests, the majority of the inhabitants of these lands remained Christian for hundreds of years until some of them gradually accepted Islam through gentle invitation, and not through severity and coercion. Indeed large countries and entire provinces became Muslim without conquest but through invitation (da’wah), such as: Indonesia; Malaysia; West and East Africa, and others. Hence, severity is neither a measure of piety nor a choice for the spread of Islam.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">This again is a subjective argument: who judges what is gentle and what is severe? The Islamic State is applying Islamic law, which they consider to be justice; how could that be too severe? And as for this: “And while Islam spread politically from Central Asia (Khurasan) to North Africa due to Islamic conquests, the majority of the inhabitants of these lands remained Christian for hundreds of years until some of them gradually accepted Islam through gentle invitation, and not through severity and coercion,” it is false. These people were subjected to the deprivations and humiliations of dhimmitude; they converted to Islam to be able to be free of all that and live a decent life.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">5. Practical Jurisprudence (fiqh al-waq’i): What is meant by ‘practical jurisprudence’ is the process of applying Shari’ah rulings and dealing with them according to the realities and circumstances that people are living under. This is achieved by having an insight into the realities under which people are living and identifying their problems, struggles, capabilities and what they are subjected to. Practical jurisprudence (fiqh al-waq’i) considers the texts that are applicable to peoples realities at a particular time, and the obligations that can be postponed until they are able to be met or delayed based on their capabilities. Imam Ghazali said: ‘As for practicalities that dictate necessities, it is not far-fetched that independent reasoning (ijtihad) may lead to them [practicalities], even if there is no specific origin for them [11].’ Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah said: ‘Indeed, [a jurist] must understand people’s propensity for plotting, deception and fraud, in addition to their customs and traditions. Religious edicts (fatwas) change with the change of time, place, customs and circumstances, and all of this is from the religion of God, as already elucidated. [12]’</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Again, the Islamic State clearly doesn’t consider itself to be misapplying Islamic law or straining people beyond their capabilities. This point isn’t going to make any of its adherents think twice.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">6. The Killing of Innocents: God says in the Qur’an: ‘And do not slay the soul [whose life] God has made inviolable, except with due cause …’ (Al-Isra’, 17: 33); and ‘Say: “Come, I will recite that which your Lord has made a sacred duty for you: that you associate nothing with Him, that you be dutiful to parents, and that you do not slay your children, because of poverty – We will provide for you and them – and that you do not draw near any acts of lewdness, whether it be manifest or concealed, and that you do not slay the life which God has made sacred, except rightfully. This is what He has charged you with that perhaps you will understand.”’ (Al-An’am, 6: 151). The slaying of a soul—any soul—is haraam (forbidden and inviolable under Islamic Law), it is also one of the most abominable sins (mubiqat). God says in the Qur’an: ‘Because of that, We decreed for the Children of Israel that whoever slays a soul for other than a soul, or for corruption in the land, it shall be as if he had slain mankind altogether; and whoever saves the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind. Our messengers have already come to them with clear proofs, but after that many of them still commit excesses in the land.’ (Al-Ma’idah, 5: 32). You have killed many innocents who were neither combatants nor armed, just because they disagree with your opinions [13].</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Outstandingly disingenuous. Qur’an 5:32 is followed by 5:33: “Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment,” The Islamic State is killing those whom it considers to be striving on earth to cause corruption. Telling them that they’re killing innocents, without explaining why its victims are innocent, will not convince them.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">7. Killing Emissaries: It is known that all religions forbid the killing of emissaries. What is meant by emissaries here are people who are sent from one group of people to another to perform a noble task such as reconciliation or the delivery of a message. Emissaries have a special inviolability. Ibn Masoud said: ‘The Sunnah continues that emissaries are never killed [14].’ Journalists—if they are honest and of course are not spies—are emissaries of truth, because their job is to expose the truth to people in general. You have mercilessly killed the journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, even after Sotloff’s mother pleaded with you and begged for mercy. Aid workers are also emissaries of mercy and kindness, yet you killed the aid worker David Haines. What you have done is unquestionably forbidden (haraam).</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">The problem with the verse I quoted regarding the previous point, Qur’an 5:33, is that “striving to cause corruption on the earth” is an extremely vague and elastic charge. It can give an Islamic justification for killing virtually anyone — including emissaries and journalists.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">8. Jihad: All Muslims see the great virtue in jihad. God says: ‘O you who believe, what is wrong with you that, when it is said to you, “Go forth in the way of God’, you sink down heavily to the ground”’ (Al-Tawbah, 9: 38); and: ‘And fight in the way of God with those who fight against you, but aggress not; God loves not the aggressors.’ (Al-Baqarah, 2: 190); and many other verses.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">These passages refer only to defensive jihad. There is also offensive jihad, which is the prerogative of the caliph to initiate: “The caliph makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians…until they become Muslim or else pay the non-Muslim poll tax (O: in accordance with the word of Allah Most High, ‘Fight those who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day and who forbid not what Allah and His messenger have forbidden-who do not practice the religion of truth, being of those who have been given the Book-until they pay the poll tax out of hand and are humbled’ (Koran 9.29)” (<em>‘Umdat al-Salik</em>, o9.8). The Islamic State considers itself to be a caliphate, and thus exercises that prerogative.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">Imam Shafi’i, the other three imams, and indeed all the scholars see that jihad is a communal obligation (fard kifayah) and not an individual obligation (fard ayn) because God says: ‘yet to each God has promised the goodly reward, and God has preferred those who struggle over the ones who sit at home with a great reward’ (Al-Nisa’, 4: 95).</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">The inclusion of this sentence seems to be to suggest that the Islamic State is wrong in exhorting everyone to wage jihad. But in Islamic law, while only the caliph can declare offensive jihad, all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence agree that when a non-Muslim force enters a Muslim land, defensive jihad becomes the individual obligation of every Muslim (fard ayn) rather than a collective obligation of the entire umma, and need not be declared by anyone. As the Islamic State is being warred against by the U.S., it considers both offensive and defensive jihad to be in order. <em>Bulghah al-Salik li-Aqrab al-Masalik fi madhhab al-Imam Malik</em> (“The Sufficiency of the Traveller on the Best Path in the School of Imam Malik,”) says this: “Jihad in the Path of Allah, to raise the word of Allah, is fard kifayah [obligatory on the community] once a year, so that if some perform it, the obligation falls from the rest. It becomes fard `ayn [obligatory on every Muslim individually], like salah and fasting, if the legitimate Muslim Imam declares it so, or if there is an attack by the enemy on an area of people.” The Hanafi, Maliki, and Shafi’i schools of Sunni jurisprudence further declare that jihad, once it is fard ‘ayn, is no different from prayer and fasting — in other words, to engage in warfare with non-Muslims in that case is a religious devotion that cannot lawfully be evaded. <em>Hashiyah Ibn `Abidin</em>, an authoritative text of the Hanafi school, says that jihad is “fard ‘ayn if the enemy has attacked part of the Islamic homeland. It thus becomes an obligation like salah [prayer] and fasting which cannot be abandoned.”</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">The word ‘jihad’ is an Islamic term that cannot be applied to armed conflict against any other Muslim; this much is a firmly established principle.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Indeed, Muslims are forbidden in the Qur’an (4:92) to kill other Muslims. But if they’re apostates or heretics, then they must be killed: “They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them and take not from among them any ally or helper.” (4:89)</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">Furthermore, all scholars agree that jihad is conditional upon the consent of one’s parents. The proof for this is that a man came to the Prophet asking him to permit him to perform jihad, upon which the Prophet asked him: ‘Are your parents alive?’ to which he replied: ‘Yes.’ And the Prophet told him: ‘Then perform jihad (struggle) through [serving] them. [15]’</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">But if defensive jihad becomes obligatory on every Muslim if an Islamic land is attacked, then parental consent is not needed: “If jihaad becomes fard ‘ayn, then it is not obligatory to seek permission, because in the case of things which are fard ‘ayn, there is no need to seek the permission of anyone.” (<span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #336699;" href="http://islamqa.info/en/5493" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid</span></a></span>)</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">Moreover, there are two kinds of jihad in Islam: the greater jihad, which is the jihad (struggle) against one’s ego; and the lesser jihad, the jihad (struggle) against the enemy. In regards to the greater jihad, the Prophet said: ‘We have returned from the greater jihad to the lesser jihad [16].’ If you say that this Hadith is weak or apocryphal,</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">It doesn’t appear in any of the <em>Sahih Sittah</em>, the six hadith collections that Islamic scholars consider to be most reliable.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">the answer is that evidence for this concept is in the Qur’an itself: ‘So do not obey the disbelievers, but struggle against them therewith with a great endeavour [lit. a great jihad].’ (Al-Furqan, 25:52). ‘Therewith’ in this verse refers to the Qur’an, which is ‘a healing for what is in the breasts’ (Yunus, 10: 57). This is clearly understood from the Hadith in which the Prophet said: “‘Shall I tell you about the best of all deeds, the best act of piety in the eyes of your Lord which will elevate your status in the Hereafter and is better for you than spending gold and paper and better than going up in arms against your enemy and striking their necks and their striking your necks?’ They said: “Yes.” The Prophet said: “Remembrance of God. [17]”’ Thus, the greater jihad is the jihad against the ego and its weapon is remembrance of God and purification of the soul. Furthermore, God has clarified the relationship between the two kinds of jihad in another verse: ‘O you who believe, when you meet a host, then stand firm and remember God much, that you may succeed.’ (Al-Anfal, 8: 45). Thus, standing firm is the lesser jihad and is dependent on the greater jihad which is the jihad against the ego through the remembrance of God and purification of the soul.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Even granting all this, the greater jihad does not preclude or cancel the lesser jihad.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">In any case, jihad is a means to peace, safety and security, and not an end in itself. This is clear from God’s words: ‘Fight them till there is no sedition, and the religion is for God; then if they desist, there shall be no enmity, save against evildoers.’ (Al-Baqarah, 2: 193). In your speech of July 4th, 2014, you said: ‘There is no life without jihad’. Perhaps this was based on Al-Qurtubi’s exegesis of the verse: ‘O you who believe, respond to God and the Messenger, when He calls you to that which will give you life …’ (Al-Anfal, 8: 24). True jihad enlivens the heart. However, there can be life without jihad, because Muslims may face circumstances where combat is not called for, or where jihad is not required, and Islamic history is replete with examples of this.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">This is quibbling over minutiae. Clearly the Islamic State is waging jihad in order to establish an Islamic state, within which jihad will no longer be waged. Jihad will continue, however, outside its borders. Note also Hamas-linked CAIR, the Fiqh Council and the scholars affirming that “jihad enlivens the heart.”</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">In truth, it is clear that you and your fighters are fearless and are ready to sacrifice in your intent for jihad. No truthful person following events—friend or foe—can deny this. However, jihad without legitimate cause, legitimate goals, legitimate purpose, legitimate methodology and legitimate intention is not jihad at all, but rather, warmongering and criminality.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">a. The Intention Behind Jihad: God says: ‘and that man shall have only what he [himself] strives for’ (Al-Najm, 53: 39). Prophetic Tradition relates that on the authority of Abu Musa Al- Ash’ari, a man came to the Prophet and said: ‘A man may fight out of zeal, out of bravery or out of pride. Which of these is in the path of God?’ The Prophet replied: ‘Whoever fights for the Word of God to be supreme is in the path of God [18].’ The Prophet also said: ‘The first to be judged on the Day of Resurrection is the man who died as a martyr. He will be brought forth and [God] will make His favours known to him, which he will recognize. He will be asked: “What did you do with them?” to which the man will reply: “I fought for your sake until I was killed.” He [i.e. God] will say: “You have lied. You fought so that it would be said that you are bold, and so it was said.” He will then be ordered to be dragged on his face and flung into the Fire …[19]’.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Another null argument, as the Islamic State clearly considers itself to be fighting for “the Word of God to be supreme.”</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">b. The Reason behind Jihad: The reason behind jihad for Muslims is to fight those who fight them, not to fight anyone who does not fight them, nor to transgress against anyone who has not transgressed against them. God’s words in permitting jihad are: ‘Permission is granted to those who fight because they have been wronged. And God is truly able to help them; those who were expelled from their homes without right, only because they said: “Our Lord is God”. Were it not for God’s causing some people to drive back others, destruction would have befallen the monasteries, and churches, and synagogues, and mosques in which God’s Name is mentioned greatly. Assuredly God will help those who help Him. God is truly Strong, Mighty.’ (Al-Hajj, 22: 39-40). Thus, jihad is tied to safety, freedom of religion, having been wronged, and eviction from one’s land. These two verses were revealed after the Prophet and his companions suffered torture, murder, and persecution for thirteen years at the hands of the idolaters. Hence, there is no such thing as offensive, aggressive jihad just because people have different religions or opinions. This is the position of Abu Hanifa, the Imams Malik and Ahmad and all other scholars including Ibn Taymiyyah, with the exception of some scholars of the Shafi’i school [20].</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">“Hence, there is no such thing as offensive, aggressive jihad just because people have different religions or opinions. This is the position of Abu Hanifa, the Imams Malik and Ahmad and all other scholars including Ibn Taymiyyah, with the exception of some scholars of the Shafi’i school.” The key phrase here is “with the exception of some scholars of the Shafi’i school.” If some Shafi’i scholars allow for “offensive, aggressive jihad just because people have different religions or opinions,” can it really be said to be un-Islamic? The Shafi’i school is one of the four great schools of Sunni jurisprudence. Is Hamas-linked CAIR pronouncing takfir on the Shafi’i school? Or just deceiving gullible non-Muslims? The answer is clear.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">c. The Goal of Jihad: Scholars are in agreement regarding the goal of jihad, because God says: ‘Fight them till there is no sedition, and the religion is for God; then if they desist, there shall be no enmity, save against evildoers.’ (Al-Baqarah, 2: 193). The Prophet further said: ‘I have been ordered to fight people until they say: “There is no god but God”, so whoever says: “There is no god but God” is safe in himself and his wealth except as permitted by law, and his reckoning is with God [21].’ This is the goal of jihad once war has been waged on Muslims.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Extraordinary that they would quote that, as it is a call for endless warfare against all who do not profess Islam, and a license for them to be plundered.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">These texts specify what victory looks like in the case that Muslims are victorious, and that the reason for jihad must not be confused with the goal of jihad; all scholars are in agreement on this matter. The Hadith above refers to an event that has already taken place and is conditional upon God’s words: ‘It is He Who has sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth, that He may make it prevail over all religion. And God suffices as witness.’ (Al-Fath, 48: 28). It took place in the Arabian Peninsula at the time of the Prophet, for God says: ‘… and that you may warn the Mother of Towns [Um al-Qura] and those around it …’ (Al-An’am, 6: 92); and: ‘O you who believe, fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you …’ (Al-Tawbah, 9: 123). The Prophet also said: ‘Evict the idolaters from the Arabian Peninsula.[22]’ How could this not have come to pass when God promises the Prophet: ‘It is He Who has sent His Messenger with the guidance and the religion of truth, that He may make it prevail over all [other] religions, though the disbelievers be averse.’ (Al-Saff, 61: 9). What is meant here must be the Arabian Peninsula since this is what happened during the life of the Prophet.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Yet Muhammad is the supreme example of behavior for Muslims (cf. Qur’an 33:21). Here the authors make the case that these verses apply to the expulsion of the non-Muslims from Arabia, which they clearly endorse, but do not make the case that they apply <em>only</em> to the expulsion of non-Muslims from Arabia. The Qur’an is supposed to apply to all times and places, and Islamic scholars going back to Ibn Ishaq, Muhammad’s first biographer, and including Ibn Qayyam, Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Taymiyya and many others, have that the Qur’anic verses mandating warfare against and subjugation of unbelievers are not just valid for the 7th century, but for all time. The Islamic State jihadis know this.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">In any case, if the commanders of jihad see that it is in the best interest of Muslims, it is permissible for them to cease combat, even if this goal has not been achieved, because God says: ‘… then if they desist, there shall be no enmity, save against evildoers.’ (Al-Baqarah, 2: 193). The circumstances and events of Sulh al-Hudaybiyah are proof of this.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">“Permissible.” I.e., not required.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">d. The Rules of Conduct of Jihad: The rules of conduct of jihad are summarized in the words of the Prophet Muhammad: ‘Wage war but do not be severe, do not be treacherous, do not mutilate or kill children …[23].’</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Mutilate: “‘Abdullah bin Masood found him on the verge of death breathing his las… Ibn Masood then cut off his head and took it to Allah’s Messenger who, on seeing it, began to entertain Allah’s praise: Allahu Akbar.’ (<em>Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum</em>, 267)</span></p>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Kill children: “It is reported on the authority of Sa’b b. Jaththama that the Prophet of Allah (may peace be upon him), when asked about the women and children of the polytheists being killed during the night raid, said: They are from them.” (Muslim 4321)</span></p>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">“Narrated Atiyyah al-Qurazi: I was among the captives of Banu Qurayza. They (the Companions) examined us, and those who had begun to grow hair (pubes) were killed, and those who had not were not killed. I was among those who had not grown hair. (Sunan Abu Dawood 38:4390) Pubescent boys were thus killed, whether they had been combatants or not.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">The Prophet also said on the day of the Conquest of Mecca: ‘Those retreating are not to be killed, nor are the injured to be harmed, and whoever shuts his door is safe [24].’ Similarly, when Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq prepared an army and sent it to the Levant, he said: ‘You will find people who have devoted themselves to monasteries, leave them to their devotions. You will also find others whose heads are seats for devils (i.e. armed deacons [25]), so strike their necks. However, do not kill the old and decrepit, women or children; do not destroy buildings; do not cut down trees or harm livestock without good cause; do not burn or drown palms; do not be treacherous; do not mutilate; do not be cowardly; and do not loot. And truly God will support those who support Him and His Messengers while not seeing Him. Truly, God is Strong, Mighty [26].’</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Again: “It is reported on the authority of Sa’b b. Jaththama that the Prophet of Allah (may peace be upon him), when asked about the women and children of the polytheists being killed during the night raid, said: They are from them.” (Muslim 4321)</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">As for killing prisoners, it is forbidden in Islamic Law. Yet you have killed many prisoners including the 1700 captives at Camp Speicher in Tikrit in June, 2014; the 200 captives at the Sha’er gas field in July, 2014; the 700 captives of the Sha’etat tribe in Deir el-Zor (600 of whom were unarmed civilians); the 250 captives at the Tabqah air base in Al-Raqqah in August, 2014; Kurdish and Lebanese soldiers, and many untold others whom God knows. These are heinous war crimes.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">“When an adult male is taken captive, the caliph considers the interests … (of Islam and the Muslims) and decides between the prisoner’s death, slavery, release without paying anything, or ransoming himself in exchange for money or for a Muslim captive held by the enemy.” (<em>‘Umdat al-Salik</em> o9.14)</span></p>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">“As for the captives, the amir has the choice of taking the most beneficial action of four possibilities: the first, to put them to death by cutting their necks; the second, to enslave them and apply the laws of slavery regarding their sale or manumission; the third, to ransom them in exchange for goods or prisoners; and fourth, to show favor to them and pardon them.” (<em>Al-Ahkam As-Sultaniyyah</em> (The Laws of Islamic Governance), 4.5)</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">If you claim that the Prophet killed some captives in some battles, then the answer is that he only ordered that two captives be killed at the Battle of Badr: Uqbah ibn Abi Mu’ayt and Nadr ibn Al-Harith. They were leaders of war and war criminals, and the execution of war criminals is permissible if the ruler orders it. This is also what Saladin did upon conquering Jerusalem, and what the Allies did during the Nuremberg trials after World War II. As for the tens of thousands of captives that fell under the jurisdiction of the Prophet over a span of ten years and 29 battles, he did not execute a single regular soldier; rather, he entrusted that they be treated with kindness [27]. The Divine Decree regarding captives and prisoners of war is in God’s words: ‘…Thereafter either [set them free] by grace or by ransom …’ (Muhammad, 47: 4). God commanded that captives and prisoners of war be treated with dignity and respect: ‘And they give food, despite [their] love of it to the needy, and the orphan, and the prisoner.’ (Al-Insan, 76: 8). Indeed, the true Sunnah of the Prophet regarding captives is pardon and amnesty, as was demonstrated during the Conquest of Mecca when the Prophet said: ‘I say as my brother Joseph said: “There shall be no reproach on you this day”. Go, for you are free! [28]’</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">As quoted above, Islamic law clearly allows for the killing of captives if the ruler deems it advantageous for the Muslims.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">Finally, one of the most important principles when it comes to the manner of jihad is that only combatants may be killed; their families and non-combatants may not be killed intentionally. If you ask about the instance when the Prophet was asked about bystanders and women being killed with idolaters and he said: ‘They are from them [29]’, this Hadith refers to the killing of innocents by accident and in no way indicates that the intentional killing of innocents—such as in bombings—is permitted. As for God’s words: ‘… and be harsh with them …’ (Al-Tawbah, 9: 73); and: ‘… and let them find harshness in you …’ (Al-Tawbah, 9: 123), this is during war, not after it.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">I quoted the “They are from them” hadith twice above. Look at it again. The Open Letter says: “this Hadith refers to the killing of innocents by accident and in no way indicates that the intentional killing of innocents—such as in bombings—is permitted.” But the hadith says that the women and children of the polytheists were being killed during the night raid. They were collateral damage of the raid, just as they today might be collateral damage of a bombing — and Muhammad allows for that. Hamas-linked CAIR, the Fiqh Council and the scholars are here obscuring the plain meaning of the passage.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">9. Declaring People Non-Muslim (takfir): Some misunderstandings about takfir are a result of the exaggeration of some Salafi scholars in matters of takfir (declaring people non-Muslim), and in their exceeding of what Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn Al-Qayyim have said in many important aspects. In brief, takfir can be summarised correctly as follows:</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> a. Quintessentially in Islam, anyone who says: ‘There is no god but God; Muhammad is the Messenger of God’ is a Muslim and cannot be declared a non-Muslim. God says: ‘O you who believe, when you are going forth in the way of God, be discriminating and do not say to him who offers you peace: ‘You are not a believer, desiring the transient goods of the life of this world. With God are plenteous spoils. So you were formerly, but God has been gracious to you. So be discriminating. Surely God is ever Aware of what you do.’ (Al-Nisa’, 4: 94). The meaning of ‘be discriminating’ in the above verse is to ask them: ‘Are you Muslims?’ The answer is to be taken at face-value without questioning or testing their faith. Moreover, the Prophet Muhammad  said: ‘Woe to you! Look! After I die, do no return to being non-believers, striking each other’s necks [30].’ The Prophet also said: ‘… so whoever says: “There is no god but God” saves himself and his wealth except as permitted by law, and his reckoning is with God. [31]’ Ibn Omar and the Lady Aisha also said: ‘Declaring the people of the Qiblah as non-Muslim is not permissible [32].’</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> b. This issue is of the utmost importance because it is used to justify the spilling of Muslim blood, violating their sanctity, and usurping their wealth and rights. God says: ‘And whoever slays a believer deliberately, his requital is Hell, abiding therein, and God is wroth with him and has cursed him, and has prepared for him a mighty chastisement.’ (Al-Nisa’, 4: 93). Moreover, the Prophet said: ‘Whoever says to his brother “O disbeliever”, it will certainly be true of one of them [33].’ God has warned, in the strongest terms, against killing anyone who verbally declares his Islam: ‘… And so if they stay away from you and do not fight you, and offer you peace, then God does not allow you any way against them.’ (Al-Nisa’, 4: 90). The Prophet warned against accusing people of polytheism and of taking up the sword against them; he said: ‘The person I fear for you the most is the man who has read the Qur’an … cast it off and thrown it behind him, and taken up the sword against his neighbour and accused him of polytheism [34].’</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Here Hamas-linked CAIR contradicts itself quite brazenly, for it has declared the Islamic State to be the anti-Islamic State, and yet the Muslims of the Islamic State say, “There is no god but God; Muhammad is the Messenger of God.”</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">It is not permissible to kill any Muslim, (nor indeed any human being), who is unarmed and a non-combatant. Usamah Ibn Zayd narrated that, after he killed a man who had said: ‘There is no god but God’, ‘the Prophet asked: “He said: ‘There is no god but God’ and you killed him?!” I replied: “O Messenger of God, he only said it out of fear of [our] arms.” He said: “Did you see inside his heart to know whether or not he meant it? [35]”’</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">This only establishes that unarmed Muslims must not be killed, and doesn’t supersede the Qur’an verse enjoining the death of someone who joins the Muslims and then leaves them (4:89, quoted above).</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">Recently, Shaker Wahib—who was affiliated with what was known at the time as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)—appeared in a YouTube video where he stopped unarmed civilians who said they were Muslims. He then proceeded to ask them the number of prostrations (rak’ahs) in specific prayers. When they answered incorrectly, he killed them [36]. This is absolutely forbidden under Islamic Law and is a heinous crime.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">He killed them because their wrong answers revealed them to be Shi’ites, whom Sunnis consider heretics, or non-observant Muslims, i.e., apostates. Both heretics and apostates are to be killed according to Islamic law.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">c. Peoples’ deeds are tied to the intent behind those deeds. The Prophet said: ‘Actions are but by intention, and every person will have what they intended …[37].’ Furthermore, God says: ‘When the hypocrites come to you they say: ‘We bear witness that you are indeed the Messenger of God’. And God knows that you are indeed His Messenger, and God bears witness that the hypocrites truly are liars.’ (Al-Munafiqun, 63: 1). God thus describes the words of the hypocrites regarding the Prophet’s message—an indisputable fact—as lies, because their intention when saying it was to lie even though it is true in itself. It is a lie because they uttered with their tongues a truth that God knows their hearts reject. This means that disbelief requires the intention of disbelief, and not just absentminded words or deeds. It is not permissible to accuse anyone of disbelief without proof of the intention of disbelief. Nor is it permissible to accuse anyone of being a non- Muslim without ascertaining that intention. It is, after all, possible that the person was coerced, ignorant, insane or did not mean it. It is also possible that he misunderstood a particular issue. God says: ‘Whoever disbelieves in God after [having affirmed] his faith—except for him who is compelled, while his heart is at rest in faith—but he who opens up his breast to unbelief, upon such shall be wrath from God, and there is a great chastisement for them.’ (Al-Nahl, 16: 106).</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Hamas-linked CAIR again contradicts itself: it has called the Islamic State un-Islamic, thus essentially calling its leaders unbelievers, and yet it does not know their hearts or have proof of the intention of disbelief.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">It is forbidden to interpret the implications of a person’s deeds; only the person himself or herself may interpret their own deeds—particularly when there is a difference of opinion among Muslims regarding that particular deed. It is also forbidden to declare others non-Muslim (takfir) based on any matter in which there is a difference of opinion among Muslim scholars.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #336699;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/hamas-linked-cairs-nihad-awad-calling-the-islamic-state-the-islamic-state-tarnishes-the-image-of-islam" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Hamas-linked CAIR is guilty of that</span></a></span>.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">It is forbidden to declare an entire group of people non-Muslim. Disbelief applies only to individuals depending on their deeds and intentions. God says: ‘No laden soul will bear another’s load.’ (Al-Zumar, 39: 7). Finally, it is forbidden to declare people who do not doubt the disbelief of others, or refuse to declare them non-Muslim, as non-Muslim.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">The reason this point has been discussed in such detail is because you distributed the books of Muhammad bin Abdel-Wahhab as soon as you reached Mosul and Aleppo. In any case, scholars— including Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn Al-Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah—distinguish between the actions of a disbeliever (kafir) and declaring people non-Muslim (takfir). Even if a person performs a deed that has elements of disbelief, this does not necessitate that that person be judged as a disbeliever for the reasons presented earlier. Al-Dhahabi [38] related that his teacher, Ibn Taymiyyah, used to say near the end of his life: ‘I do not declare any member of the ummah non-Muslim … The Prophet said: “Anyone who maintains his ablution is a believer”, so whoever observes the prescribed prayers with ablution is a Muslim.’</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">This is a crucial point; the Prophet said: ‘Subtle shirk [i.e. associating partners with God] is when a man stands to pray and embellishes his prayer for an onlooker [39].’ He thereby described ostentation in prayer as ‘subtle shirk’, which is minor shirk. This minor shirk, which some worshippers fall into, is not considered major shirk and cannot lead to takfir or to being cast out of the fold of Islam. For other than prophets and messengers, everyone else worships God according to their capacity, and not as God deserves. God says: ‘They measured not God with His true measure …’ (Al-An’am, 6: 91); and: ‘And they will question you concerning the Spirit. Say: “The Spirit is of the command of my Lord. And of knowledge you have not been given except a little”.’ (Al-Isra’, 17: 85). Nevertheless, God accepts such worship. And people are not able to conceive of God, because: ‘…There is nothing like Him …’ (Al-Shura, 42: 11); and: ‘Vision cannot attain Him, but He attains [all] vision …’ (Al-An’am, 6:103). Nothing is known of Him except for what He has revealed through revelation (al-wahy) or He imparted to the Prophet Muhammad: ‘… He casts the Spirit of His command upon whomever He will of His servants …’ (Ghafir, 40: 15). So how can anyone take up a sword against others just because he or she believes that they do not worship God as He deserves? No one worships God as He deserves except by His permission. More fundamentally, the issue of shirk among the Arabs is moot, as the Prophet said: ‘The Devil has lost hope that those who pray in the Arabian Peninsula will worship him, but [aims] to sow discord among them [40].’</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">“If we want to stop ISIS, we must deny it any claim to represent Islam…” — <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #336699;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/hamas-linked-cairs-nihad-awad-calling-the-islamic-state-the-islamic-state-tarnishes-the-image-of-islam" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Hamas-linked CAIR’s Nihad Awad</span></a></span>. In this, he essentially accuses Islamic State jihadis of apostasy and heresy, which is just what the authors here are saying is so wrong.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">10. People of the Scripture: Regarding Arab Christians, you gave them three choices: jizyah (poll tax), the sword, or conversion to Islam. You painted their homes red, destroyed their churches, and in some cases, looted their homes and property. You killed some of them and caused many others to flee their homes with nothing but their lives and the clothes on their backs. These Christians are not combatants against Islam or transgressors against it, indeed they are friends, neighbours and co- citizens. From the legal perspective of Shari’ah they all fall under ancient agreements that are around 1400 years old, and the rulings of jihad do not apply to them. Some of their ancestors fought alongside the Prophet’s army against the Byzantines; and thus have been citizens of the State of Medina since that time. Others are under agreements that were guaranteed to them by Omar ibn Al- Khattab, Khalid ibn Al-Walid, the Umayyads, the Abbasids, the Ottomans and their respective states. In short, they are not strangers to these lands, but rather, of the native peoples of these lands from pre-Islamic times; they are not enemies but friends. For the past 1400 years they have defended their countries against the Crusaders, colonialists, Israel and other wars, how, then, can you treat them as enemies? God says in the Qur’an: ‘God does not forbid you in regard to those who did not wage war against you on account of religion and did not expel you from your homes, that you should treat them kindly and deal with them justly. Assuredly God loves the just.’ (Al- Mumtahanah, 60: 8).</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">As for jizyah, there are two types of jizyah in Shari’ah (Islamic Law). The first type is that which is levied while the subjects are ‘readily being subdued’. This applies to those who fought Islam, as is understood from God’s words: ‘Fight those who do not believe in God, nor in the Last Day, and who do not forbid what God and His Messenger have forbidden, nor do they practise the religion of truth, from among of those who have been given the Scripture, until they pay the jizya tribute, readily being subdued.’ (Al-Tawbah, 9: 29). As is clarified by a preceding verse in this Surah (chapter of the Qur’an), those intended by this verse are parties who pre- emptively attacked Muslims: ‘Will you not fight a people who broke their oaths and intended to expel the Messenger – initiating against you first? Are you afraid of them? God is more worthy of your fear if you are believers.’ (Al-Tawbah, 9:13) [41]. The second type of jizyah is levied on those who do not wage war against Islam; it is levied on them instead of zakat (which only Muslims pay and which is higher in percentage than the jizyah) through a covenant and without harshness. Omar ibn Al-Khattab agreed to call it ‘charity’ (sadaqah). The jizyah is then deposited to the state treasury and is distributed among citizens, including needy Christian citizens as Omar did during his caliphate [42].</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">This point is self-contradictory. First it says that the Arab Christians are friends of the Muslims, they “did not wage war against you” and thus should not have been subjugated as dhimmis. Then in the next paragraph it says that “the second type of jizyah is levied on those who do not wage war against Islam.” Thus how is the Islamic State transgressing against Islam by levying the jizya on those who did not wage war against Islam. In this the authors also contradict their earlier claim that jihad is only defensive; now “those who do not wage war against Islam” are to be made to pay the jizya, which results from Muslims fighting the People of the Book: ““Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” (Qur’an 9:29)</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">11. Yazidis: You fought the Yazidis under the banner of jihad but they neither fought you nor Muslims. You considered them satanists and gave them the choice to either be killed or be forced into Islam. You killed hundreds of them and buried them in mass graves. You caused the death and suffering of hundreds of others. Had it not been for American and Kurdish intervention, tens of thousands of their men, women, children and elderly would have been killed. These are all abominable crimes. From the legal perspective of Shari’ah they are Magians, because the Prophet said: ‘Treat them as you treat People of the Scripture [43].’ Thus they are People of the Scripture. God says: ‘Truly those who believe, and those of Jewry, and the Sabaeans, and the Christians, and the Magians and the polytheists – God will indeed judge between them on the Day of Resurrection. Assuredly God, over all things, is Witness.’ (Al-Hajj, 22: 17). Even if you doubt that they are People of the Scripture, from the legal perspective of Shari’ah, many scholars of the Pious Forebears considered them to be commensurate with Magians based on the aforementioned Hadith. The Umayyads even considered Hindus and Buddhists to be dhimmis. Al-Qurtubi said: ‘Al-Awza’i said: “Jizyah is levied on those who worship idols and fire, as well as on unbelievers and agnostics.” This is also the Maliki position, for Imam Malik’s opinion was that jizyah is levied on all idol worshippers and unbelievers, be they Arab or non-Arabs … except for apostates [44].’</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">So these “moderates” are saying that the Yazidis should have been subjugated as dhimmis instead of killed. How wonderfully moderate! And if they are not People of the Book, “The caliph fights all other peoples until they become Muslim” — that is, or are killed (<em>‘Umdat al-Salik 09.9).</em></span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">12. Slavery: No scholar of Islam disputes that one of Islam’s aims is to abolish slavery. God says: ‘And what will show you what the obstacle is?, the freeing of a slave, or to give food on a day of hunger’ (Al-Balad, 90: 12-14); and: ‘… then [the penalty for them is] the setting free of a slave before they touch one another …’ (Al-Mujadilah, 58: 3). The Prophet Muhammad’s Sunnah is that he freed all male and female slaves who were in his possession or whom had been given to him [45]. For over a century, Muslims, and indeed the entire world, have been united in the prohibition and criminalization of slavery, which was a milestone in human history when it was finally achieved.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">This is absolutely false. <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #336699;" href="http://islamqa.info/en/94840" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Neither the Qur’an nor Muhammad ever say that all slaves must be freed</span></a></span>. And this statement, “For over a century, Muslims, and indeed the entire world, have been united in the prohibition and criminalization of slavery,” is a howler. Saudi Arabia only abolished slavery in 1962. Yemen and Oman both ended legal slavery in 1970. Mauritania only abolished it in 1981 and made it a crime in 2012, but it is still widespread there — because it has Islamic sanction. Niger only abolished it in 2004. In Niger, the ban is widely ignored, and according to a Nigerian study, <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #336699;" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4250709.stm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">as many as one million people remain in bondage there</span></a></span>.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">The Prophet said regarding the pre-Islamic ‘League of the Virtuous’ (hilf al- fudul) during the time of Jahiliyyah: ‘Had I been asked to fulfil it in Islam, I would oblige [46].’ After a century of Muslim consensus on the prohibition of slavery, you have violated this; you have taken women as concubines and thus revived strife and sedition (fitnah), and corruption and lewdness on the earth. You have resuscitated something that the Shari’ah has worked tirelessly to undo and has been considered forbidden by consensus for over a century. Indeed all the Muslim countries in the world are signatories of anti-slavery conventions. God says: ‘… And fulfil the covenant. Indeed the covenant will be enquired into.’ (Al-Isra’, 17: 34) You bear the responsibility of this great crime and all the reactions which this may lead to against all Muslims.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">“After a century of Muslim consensus on the prohibition of slavery…” As shown above, this consensus does not exist, and has never existed.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">13. Coercion and Compulsion: God says: ‘you are not a taskmaster over them’ (Al-Ghashiyah, 88: 22); and: ‘There is no compulsion in religion. Rectitude has become clear from error …’ (Al- Baqarah, 2: 256); and: ‘And if your Lord willed, all who are in the earth would have believed together. Would you then compel people until they are believers?’ (Yunus, 10: 99); and: ‘And say, “The truth [that comes] from your Lord; so whoever will, let him believe, and whoever will, let him disbelieve”.’ (Al-Kahf, 18: 29); and: ‘You have your religion and I have my religion’ (Al- Kafirun, 109: 6).</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">It is known that the verse: ‘There is no compulsion in religion’ was revealed after the Conquest of Mecca, hence, no one can claim that it was abrogated. You have coerced people to convert to Islam just as you have coerced Muslims to accept your views. You also coerce everyone living under your control in every matter, great or small, even in matters which are between the individual and God. In Al-Raqqa, Deir el-Zor and other areas under your control, armed groups who call themselves ‘al-hisbah’ make their rounds, taking people to task as though they were assigned by God to execute His commandments. Yet, not a single one of the Companions did this. This is not enjoining the right and honourable and forbidding the wrong; rather, it is coercion, assault, and constant, random intimidation. If God wanted this, He would have obliged them over the minutest details of His religion. God says: ‘… Have they not realised, those who believe, that had God willed, He could have guided all mankind? …’ (Al-Ra’d, 13: 31); and: ‘If We will We will send down to them a sign from the heaven before which their necks will remain bowed in humility.’ (Al-Shu’ara’, 26: 4).</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Coercion, like so many things in Islam, is a matter of subjective judgment. A belief system that mandates systematic discrimination against unbelievers but promises the lifting of that discrimination for those who convert is already practicing coercion, but this would not be judged coercion by Islamic jurists. So likewise it is unlikely that the Islamic State considers itself to be practicing un-Islamic coercion. Also, contrary to the claim that 2:256 was never abrogated, according to an early Muslim scholar, Mujahid ibn Jabr, it was actually abrogated by Quran 9:29, which commands Muslims to fight the People of the Book. Others, however, according to the Islamic historian Tabari, agree that 2:256 was never abrogated, but was revealed precisely in reference to the People of the Book. They are not to be forced to accept Islam, but may practice their religions as long as they pay the jizya (poll-tax) and “feel themselves subdued” (9:29).</span></p>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">As a side note, Islamic apologists routinely claim that the principle of abrogation cannot be applied to Qur’an verses at all. Yet here, the authors take for granted that it can.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">14. Women: In simple terms, you treat women like detainees and prisoners; they dress according to your whims; they are not allowed to leave their homes and they are not allowed to go to school. Despite the fact that the Prophet said: ‘The pursuit of knowledge is obligatory upon every Muslim [47]’, and despite the fact that the first word revealed of the Qur’an was: ‘Read’. Nor are they allowed to work or earn a living; nor allowed to move about freely and they are forced to marry your fighters. God says: ‘O people, fear your Lord, Who created you of a single soul, and from it created its mate, and from the pair of them scattered many men and women; and fear God by whom you claim [your rights] from one another and kinship ties. Surely God has been watchful over you.’ (Al-Nisa’, 4: 1). And the Prophet said: ‘Treat women well [48].’</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">“They dress according to your whims”: “A majority of scholars (n: with the exception of some Hanafis…) have been recorded as holding that it is unlawful for women to leave the house with faces unveiled, whether or not there is likelihood of temptation.” (<em>‘Umdat al-Salik</em> m2.3)</span></p>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">“Not allowed to leave their homes”: “A husband may permit his wife to leave the house for a lesson in Sacred Law, for invocation of Allah (dhikr), to see her female friends, or to go to any place in the town. A woman may not leave the city without her husband or a member of her unmarriageable kin … accompanying her, unless the journey is obligatory, like the hajj. It is unlawful for her to travel otherwise, and unlawful for her husband to allow her to….The husband may forbid his wife to leave the home (O: because of the hadith related by Bayhaqi that the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said. ‘It is not permissible for a woman who believes in Allah and the Last Day to allow someone into her husband’s house if he is opposed, or to go out if he is averse’).” (<em>‘Umdat al-Salik</em> m2.3-4) If women can be forbidden to leave the house, obviously they can be forbidden to go to school or work.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">15. Children: You have made children engage in war and killing. Some are taking up arms and others are playing with the severed heads of your victims. Some children have been thrown into the fray of combat and are killing and being killed. In your schools some children are tortured and coerced into doing your bidding and others are being executed. These are crimes against innocents who are so young they are not even morally accountable. God says: ‘What is wrong with you, that you do not fight in the way of God, and for the oppressed men, women, and children who say, “Our Lord, bring us forth from this town whose people are evildoers and appoint for us a protector from You, and appoint for us from You a helper”.’ (Al-Nisa’, 4: 75).</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">The Qur’an verse doesn’t establish what they claim it establishes. The Islamic State obviously does not think that its training of children to be jihadis constitutes “oppression.”</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">16. Hudud (Punishment): Hudud punishments are fixed in the Qur’an and Hadith and are unquestionably obligatory in Islamic Law. However, they are not to be applied without clarification, warning, exhortation, and meeting the burden of proof; and they are not to be applied in a cruel manner. For example, the Prophet avoided hudud in some circumstances, and as is widely known, Omar ibn Al-Khattab suspended the hudud during a famine. In all schools of jurisprudence, hudud punishments have clear procedures that need to be implemented with mercy, and their conditions render it difficult to actually implement them. Moreover, suspicions or doubts avert hudud; i.e. if there is any doubt whatsoever, the hudud punishment cannot be implemented. The hudud punishments are also not applied to those who are in need or deprived or destitute; there are no hudud for the theft of fruits and vegetables or for stealing under a certain amount. You have rushed to enact the hudud while, in reality, conscientious religious fervour makes implementing hudud punishments something of the utmost difficulty with the highest burden of proof.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">“Hudud punishments are fixed in the Qur’an and Hadith and are unquestionably obligatory in Islamic Law.” This is a telling admission, since usually Islamic apologists in the West deny that these punishments — stoning amputation, etc. — are really part of Islam or Sharia at all. Hamas-linked CAIR has led campaigns against anti-Sharia laws that depend in large part on the claim that these punishments are not part of Sharia. Now Hamas-linked CAIR has admitted otherwise. The claim that the Islamic State has not implemented them properly is just a judgment call, not a refutation of the Islamic State’s practices.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">17. Torture: Your captives and some of those who were under your control have said that you tortured and terrorized them through beatings; murder and various other forms of torture, including burying people alive. You have decapitated people with knives, which is one of the cruellest forms of torture and is forbidden in Islamic Law (Shari’ah).</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4)</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">In the mass killings you have committed— which are forbidden under Islamic Law—your fighters mock those they are about to kill by telling them that they will be killed like sheep, bleating and then indeed butchering them like sheep. Your fighters are not satisfied with mere killing, they add humiliation, debasement and mockery to it. God says: ‘O you who believe, do not let any people deride another people: who may be better than they are …’ (Al-Hujurat, 49: 11).</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Humiliation is promised by Allah to the unbelievers: “They have been put under humiliation wherever they are…” (Qur’an 3:112)</span></p>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">And Muhammad indulged in obscene mockery: “Ubayy b. Ka’b told that he heard God’s messenger say, ‘If anyone proudly asserts his descent in the manner of the pre-Islamic people, tell him to bite his father’s penis, and do not use a euphemism.’ It is transmitted in Sarah [sic] as-sunna.” (<em>Mishkat Al Masabih</em>, English Translation With Explanatory Notes By Dr. James Robson [Sh. Muhammad Ashraf Publishers, Booksellers &amp; Exporters, Lahore, Pakistan, Reprinted 1994], Volume II, Book XXIV — General Behaviour, Chapter XIII. Boasting and Party-Spirit, p. 1021) And: “Then ‘Urwah said: “Muhammad, tell me: if you extirpate your tribesmen, have you ever heard of any of the Arabs who destroyed his own race before you? And if the contrary comes to pass, by God I see both prominent people and rabble who are likely to flee and leave you.” Abu Bakr said, “Go suck the clitoris of al-Lat!” — al-Lat was the idol of Thaqif, which they used to worship — “Would we flee and leave him?” “ (<em>The History of al-Tabari — The Victory of Islam</em>, translated by Michael Fishbein [State University of New York Press (SUNY), Albany 1997], Volume VIII (8), p. 76)</span></p>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">“And in the words of Abu Bakr As-Sideeq to ‘Urwah: ‘Suck Al-Lat’s clitoris!’ — there is a permissibility of speaking plainly the name of the private parts if there is some benefit to be gained thereby, just as he permitted a plain response to the one who made the claims of the Jahiliyyah (i.e. claims of tribal superiority), by saying: ‘Bite your father’s penis!’ And for every situation there is a (fitting) saying.” (<em>Provisions for the Hereafter (Mukhtasar Zad Al-Ma’ad)</em>, by Imam Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah, summarized by Imam Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab At-Tamimi [Darussalam Publishers &amp; Distributors, First Edition: September 2003]</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">18. Mutilation: Not only have you mutilated corpses, you have stuck the decapitated heads of your victims on spikes and rods and kicked their severed heads around like balls and broadcast it to the world during the World Cup—a sport that is permissible in principle in Islam and which allows people to relieve stress and forget their problems. You jeered at corpses and severed heads and broadcast these acts from the military bases you overran in Syria. You have provided ample ammunition for all those who want to call Islam barbaric with your broadcasting of barbaric acts which you pretend are for the sake of Islam. You have given the world a stick with which to beat Islam whereas in reality Islam is completely innocent of these acts and prohibits them.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Note that no Islamic authority is quoted to back this up. The authors are just arguing that the Islamic State has made Islam look bad: “You have provided ample ammunition for all those who want to call Islam barbaric…”</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">19. Attributing crimes to God in the name of humility: After tying Syrian soldiers of the 17th Division in North-eastern Syria to barbed wire, you cut off their heads with knives and posted a video of this on the internet. In the video you said: ‘We are your brothers, the soldiers of the Islamic State. God has favoured us with His grace and victory by conquering the 17th Division; a victory and favour through God. We seek refuge in God from our might and power. We seek refuge in God from our weapons and our readiness.’ You thus attributed this heinous crime to God, and made as if this were an act of humility to God, by saying that He did it and not you. But God says: ‘And when they commit any indecency they say, “We found our fathers practising it, and God has enjoined it on us”. Say, “God does not enjoin indecency. Do you say concerning God that which you do not know?”’ (Al-A’raf, 7: 28).</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Yet another null argument, as the Islamic State would argue that this is not indecency.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">20. Destruction of the graves and shrines of Prophets and Companions. You have blown up and destroyed the graves of Prophets and Companions. Scholars disagree on the subject of graves. Nevertheless, it is not permissible to blow up the graves of Prophets and Companions and disinter their remains, just as it is not permissible to burn grapes under the pretext that some people use them to make wine. God says: ‘… Those who prevailed regarding their affair, “We will verily set up over them, a place of worship”.’ (Al-Kahf, 18:21); and: ‘… Take to yourselves Abraham’s station for a place of prayer …’ (Al-Baqarah, 2: 125). The Prophet said: ‘I had previously prohibited you from visiting graves. Permission has been granted for Muhammad to visit his mother’s grave, so visit them [i.e. graves] for they remind [one] of death and the Hereafter [49].’ Visiting graves reminds people of death and the Hereafter; God says in the Qur’an: ‘Rivalry [in worldly things] distracts you until you visit the graves.’ (Al-Takathur, 102: 1-2).</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Your former leader, Abu Omar Al-Baghdadi said: ‘In our opinion, it is obligatory to destroy and remove all manifestations of shirk (idolatry) and to prohibit all means that lead to it because of Muslim’s narration in his Sahih: on the authority of Abu Al-Hiyaj Al-Asadi, ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib said: “Should I not tell you what he [i.e. the Prophet] sent me to do: not to leave a statue without obliterating it nor a raised grave without levelling it.”’ However, even if what he said were true, it does not apply to the graves of Prophets or Companions, as the Companions were in consensus regarding burying the Prophet and his two Companions, Abu Bakr and Omar, in a building that was contiguous to the Prophet’s Mosque.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">“Scholars disagree on the subject of graves.” Indeed, and the Islamic State can point to Islamic authorities who justify the destruction of graves and shrines. The graves of prophets are destroyed as being temptations to idolatry.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">21. Rebelling against the leader. It is impermissible to rebel against the leader who is not guilty of declared and candid disbelief (al-kufr al-bawwah); i.e. disbelief that he himself admits to openly and where all Muslims are in consensus regarding such a person being a non-Muslim—or by his prohibiting the establishment of prayers. The evidence of this is in God’s words: ‘O you who believe, obey God, and obey the Messenger and those in authority among you …’ (Al-Nisa’, 4: 59). The Prophet also said: ‘Listen and obey even if an Abyssinian whose head is like a raisin is given authority over you [50].’ The Prophet also said: ‘The best of your rulers are those whom you love and who love you, who invoke God’s blessings upon you and you invoke His blessings upon them. And the worst of your rulers are those whom you hate and who hate you and whom you curse and who curse you. It was asked (by those present): “Shouldn’t we overthrow them by the sword?” He said: “No, as long as they establish prayer among you. If you then find anything detestable in them, you should hate their administration, but do not withdraw yourselves from their obedience [51].”’ As for a ruler who is a reprobate or corrupt, he is to be removed by those qualified to elect or dispose a caliph on behalf of the Ummah (nation) (ahl al-hall wal- ‘aqd)—if possible— without sedition (fitnah), armed rebellion or bloodshed. However, he is not rebelled against. It is forbidden to rebel against a leader even if he does not implement the Shari’ah or a portion of it, for God says: ‘… Whoever does not judge according to what God has revealed – such are the disbelievers.’ (Al-Ma’idah, 5: 44); and: ‘… Whoever does not judge according to what God has revealed, those are the evildoers.’ (Al-Ma’idah, 5: 45); and: ‘… Whoever does not judge according to what God has revealed – those are the wicked.’ (Al-Ma’idah, 5: 47). So, there are three levels of those who do not implement the Shari’ah: disbelief (kufr), evildoing (fusuq) and wickedness (dhulm). Whoever prevents the Shari’ah from being practiced at all in a Muslim country is a disbeliever, but one who does not implement part of it or only implements its higher purposes is merely an evildoer or wicked. In some countries, the implementation of Shari’ah is restricted due to matters of sovereignty on which national security depends, and this is permissible. In summary, Ibn Abbas52 says that whoever does not implement Shari’ah is a wicked evildoer, but he is not a disbeliever and rebelling against him is forbidden. Ibn Abbas said that ruling by other than God’s commandments is ‘disbelief short of disbelief.’ He also said: ‘It is not the disbelief that they mean; it is not a disbelief that casts one from the fold of religion.’</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">“It is impermissible to rebel against the leader who is not guilty of declared and candid disbelief” — but the Islamic State asserts this about those leaders against whom they are fighting.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">22. The Caliphate: There is agreement (ittifaq) among scholars that a caliphate is an obligation upon the Ummah.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">A notable and extremely important admission.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">The Ummah has lacked a caliphate since 1924 CE. However, a new caliphate requires consensus from Muslims and not just from those in some small corner of the world. Omar ibn Al-Khattab said: ‘Whosoever pledges allegiance to a man without due consultation with Muslims has fooled himself; and neither he nor the man to whom he pledged allegiance should be followed for he has risked both their lives [53].’Announcing a caliphate without consensus is sedition (fitnah) because it renders the majority of Muslims who do not approve it outside of the caliphate. It will also lead to many rival caliphates emerging, thereby sowing sedition and discord (fitnah) among Muslims. The beginnings of this discord reared its head when the Sunni imams of Mosul did not pledge allegiance to you and you killed them.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Throughout Islamic history, no caliphate has ever been established by universal consensus, and there have been rival caliphates. The Abbasids, for example, defeated the Umayyads at the Battle of the Zab in 750 and supplanted them not by universal consensus, but by force.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">In your speech you quoted the Companion Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq: ‘I have been given authority over you, and I am not the best of you.’ This begs the question: who gave you authority over the ummah? Was it your group? If this is the case, then a group of no more than several thousand has appointed itself the ruler of over a billion and a half Muslims. This attitude is based upon a corrupt circular logic that says: ‘Only we are Muslims, and we decide who the caliph is, we have chosen one and so whoever does not accept our caliph is not a Muslim.’ In this case, a caliph is nothing more than the leader of a certain group that declares more than 99% of Muslims non- Muslim. On the other hand, if you recognize the billion and a half people who consider themselves Muslims, how can you not consult (shura) them regarding your so-called caliphate? Thus, you face one of two conclusions: either you concur that they are Muslims and they did not appoint you caliph over them—in which case you are not the caliph—or, the other conclusion is that you do not accept them as Muslims, in which case Muslims are a small group not in need of a caliph, so why use the word ‘caliph’ at all? In truth, the caliphate must emerge from a consensus of Muslim countries, organizations of Islamic scholars and Muslims across the globe.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">The Islamic State is appealing to so many young Muslims in the West because of its claim to reconstitute the caliphate. Caliphates are established and sustained on the principle of Might Makes Right. If the Islamic State sustains itself and survives, more and more Muslims will pledge allegiance to it.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">23. National affiliations: In one of your speeches you said: ‘Syria is not for Syrians and Iraq is not for Iraqis54.’ In the same speech, you called on Muslims from across the globe to immigrate to lands under the control of the ‘Islamic State’ in Iraq and the Levant. By doing so, you take the rights and resources of these countries and distribute them among people who are strangers to those lands, even though they are of the same religion. This is exactly what Israel did when it invited Jewish settlers abroad to immigrate to Palestine, evict the Palestinians and usurp their ancestral rights and lands. Where is the justice in this?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Simply, patriotism and loving one’s country does not contradict Islam’s teachings, rather, loving one’s country stems from faith, being both instinctual and a Sunnah. The Prophet said, addressing Mecca: ‘How goodly a land you are, and how beloved you are to me. Were it not that my people forced me to leave, I would not have lived anywhere else [55].’ Patriotism and love for one’s country have many proofs from the Qur’an and Sunnah. God says in the Qur’an: ‘And had We prescribed for them: “Slay yourselves” or “Leave your habitations”, they would not have done it, save a few of them …’ (Al-Nisa’, 4: 66). Fakhr Al-Din Al-Razi commented: ‘Leaving one’s land is equal to slaying oneself [56].’And on the authority of Anas Ibn Malik, the Prophet ‘would, upon seeing the walls of Medina when returning from travel, hasten the pace of his she-camel. If he was riding a mount, he would move it out of love for [Medina] [57] .’ Ibn Hajar said: ‘This Hadith is proof of the virtue of Medina, and of the legal validity of loving one’s country and longing for it [58].’</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">The authors are on extremely shaky ground here, for according to Islamic tradition, Muhammad wasn’t from Medina. He was from Mecca. He moved to Medina and called on Muslims to immigrate there. The Islamic State is imitating him.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">24. Emigration. You invited Muslims from across the globe to immigrate to lands under the control of the ‘Islamic State’ in Iraq and the Levant. [59] Abu Muslim Al-Canadi, a soldier of the ‘Islamic State’, said: ‘Come and join us [in Syria] before the doors close [60].’ It suffices to repeat the words of the Prophet Muhammed who said: ‘There is no emigration after the Conquest [of Mecca], but jihad and [its] intention [remain]. And when you are called to war, march forward [61].’</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">As they so often accuse others of doing, Hamas-linked CAIR is taking this out of contect. It actually refers to the emigration to Medina: “It has been reported on the authority of Mujashi’ b. Mas’ud as-Sulami who said: I came to the Prophet to offer him my pledge of migration. He said: The period of migration has expired (and those who were to get the reward for this great act of devotion have got it). You may now give your pledge to serve the cause of Islam, to strive in the way of Allaah and to follow the path of virtue.” (Muslim 4594). Emigration elsewhere, especially to further the cause of Islam, is not forbidden.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">Conclusion</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">In conclusion, God has described Himself as the ‘Most Merciful of the merciful’. He created man from His mercy. God says in the Qur’an: ‘The Compassionate One has taught the Qur’an. He created man’ (Al-Rahman, 55: 1-3). And God created man for His mercy: ‘Had your Lord willed, He would have made mankind one community, but they continue to differ, except those on whom your Lord has mercy; and that is why He created them …’ (Hud, 11: 118- 119). Linguistically, ‘that’ refers back to the closest noun, which is ‘mercy’, not ‘differ’. This is the opinion of Ibn Abbas, who said: ‘He created them for mercy [62].’</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">The soundest way to attain this mercy is the worship of God. God says: ‘And I did not create the jinn and mankind except that they may worship Me.’ (Al-Dhariyat, 51: 56). Worshipping God is not a favour that one bestows upon God, but rather, sustenance from Him: ‘I do not desire from them any provision, nor do I desire that they should feed Me. Indeed it is God Who is the Provider, the Lord of Strength, the Firm.’ (Al-Dhariyat, 51: 57-58). Furthermore, God revealed the Qur’an as a mercy from Him: ‘And We reveal of the Qur’an that which is a cure, and a mercy for believers …’ (Al-Isra’, 17:82). Islam is mercy and its attributes are merciful. The Prophet, who was sent as a mercy for all the worlds, summarized a Muslim’s dealings with others by saying: ‘He who shows no mercy, will not be shown mercy [63]’; and: ‘Have mercy and you will be shown mercy [64].’ But, as can be seen from everything mentioned, you have misinterpreted Islam into a religion of harshness, brutality, torture and murder. As elucidated, this is a great wrong and an offence to Islam, to Muslims and to the entire world.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Harshness? “O you who have believed, fight those adjacent to you of the disbelievers and let them find in you harshness.” (Qur’an 9:123) The Open Letter quotes this twice above, and never quite manages to show why the Islamic State should not behave this way.</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">Reconsider all your actions; desist from them; repent from them; cease harming others and return to the religion of mercy. God  says in the Qur’an: ‘Say [that God declares]: “O My servants who have been prodigal against their own souls, do not despair of God’s mercy. Truly God forgives all sins. Truly He is the Forgiving, the Merciful.”’ (Al-Zumar, 39:53).</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">And God knows best.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 24th Dhul-Qi’da 1435 AH / 19th September 2014 CE</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">The Saying of Ali bin Abi Talib (k.)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Nu’aym ibn Hammad narrates in Al-Fitan, that the 4th Caliph, Ali ibn Abi Talib said:</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> When you see the black flags, remain where you are and do not move your hands or your feet. Thereafter there shall appear a feeble insignificant folk. Their hearts will be like fragments of iron. They will have the state. They will fulfil neither covenant nor agreement. They will call to the truth, but they will not be people of the truth. Their names will be parental attributions, and their aliases will be derived from towns. Their hair will be free-flowing like that of women. This situation will remain until they differ among themselves. Thereafter, God will bring forth the Truth through whomever He wills65 .</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">People are asking: does this narration by Ali bin Abi Talib (k.)—that is related by Al- Bukhari’s teacher (Nu’aym bin Hamad) over one thousand two hundred years ago in his book Al- Fitan—refer to the ‘Islamic State’?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Is it possible to understand the narration as follows?</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> ‘When you see the black flags’: The flags of the ‘Islamic State’ are black.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> ‘Remain where you are’: i.e., stay where you are, O Muslims, and do not join them.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> ‘And do not move your hands or your feet’: i.e. do not help them financially or with equipment. ‘Thereafter there shall appear a feeble insignificant folk’: i.e. ‘weak’ and ‘insignificant’ in terms of understanding of religion, morality and religious practice.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> ‘Their hearts will be like fragments of iron’: i.e. they will ruthlessly kill prisoners of war and cruelly torture people.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> ‘They will have the state’: For almost a century, no one has claimed to be an Islamic Caliphate other than the current ‘Islamic State’ in Iraq and the Levant.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> ‘They will fulfil neither covenant nor agreement’: The ‘Islamic State’ did not fulfil its agreement with the Sha’etat tribe after the tribe pledged allegiance to them; indeed the ‘Islamic State’ slaughtered them by the hundreds. They also killed journalists.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> ‘They will call to the truth’: The ‘Islamic State’ calls to Islam.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> ‘But they will not be people of the truth’: The people of the truth are merciful. The Prophet Muhammad  said: ‘Have mercy and you will be shown mercy.’</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> ‘Their names will be parental attributions’: Like: ‘Abu Muthanna’, ‘Abu Muhammad’, ‘Abu Muslim’ and so on.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> ‘And their aliases will be derived from towns’: Like: ‘Al-Baghdadi’, ‘al-Zarqawi’, ‘al-Tunisi’ and so on.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> ‘Their hair will be free-flowing like that of women’: ‘Islamic State’ fighters have hair precisely like this.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> ‘Until they differ among themselves’: Like the differences between the ‘Islamic State’ and its parent, the al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda in Syria). The fighting between these two has led to around ten thousand deaths in a single year.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> ‘Thereafter, God will bring forth the truth through whomever He wills’: through a clear and correct Islamic proclamation (like this open letter).</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> The sage Luqman says in the Qur’an:</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> ‘O my son! Even if it should be the weight of a grain of mustard- seed, and [even if] it be in a rock, or in the heavens, or in the earth, God will bring it forth. Truly God is Subtle, Aware.’ (Luqman, 31: 16)</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Disingenuous. They quote a weak (if not forged) hadith of Ali about the group with black flags but ignore the other sahih (reliable) hadiths that say that the group with black flags should be joined, not shunned,<a style="color: #336699;" href="http://www.amara.org/en/videos/BW5Ejat8GdE0/url/195228/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000000;">such as this</span></a>: “The black banners will come from the east, with hearts like iron bars. So whoever hears of them, let him go to them and give them bay’ah, even if he must crawl over ice.”</span></p>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Then there are the signers, which includes:</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> Prof. Mustafa Abu Sway, The Integral Professorial Chair for the Study of Imam Ghazali’s Work, Jerusalem — and a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #336699;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2004/01/hamas-in-the-florida-classroom" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Hamas activist</span></a></span>; Nihad Awad of Hamas-linked CAIR; Dr. Jamal Badawi, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror funding case; Prof. Mustafa Ceric, Former Grand Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, who has <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #336699;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/08/bosnias-muslim-spiritual-leader-calls-for-incorporation-of-sharia-into-bosnian-constitution" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">called for Sharia in Bosnia</span></a></span>; Prof. Caner Dagli, Professor of Islamic Studies, USA, a venomously hateful Islamic apologist at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts, who <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #336699;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/01/why-cant-muslims-debate-again" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">traffics in Nazi imagery about “unclean” unbelievers</span></a></span>; Sheikh Dr. Ali Gomaa, Former Grand Mufti of Egypt, who <a style="color: #336699;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/07/egypts-top-cleric-denies-saying-that-muslims-could-leave-islam-without-punishment" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">endorses wife-beating, Hizballah, and the punishment of apostates from</span> <span style="color: #0000ff;">Islam</span></span></a>; Sheikh Hamza Yusuf Hanson, Founder and Director of Zaytuna College, USA, who<span style="color: #0000ff;"> <a style="color: #336699;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/12/hamza-yusuf-muhammad-teddy-bear-madness-was-our-fault" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">blamed the West for Muslim riots over a teddy bear named Muhammad</span></a></span>; Ed Husain, Senior Fellow in Middle Eastern Studies, (CFR), UK, who <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #336699;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/uk-moderate-muslim-ed-husain-seizing-jihadis-passports-would-only-increase-jihad-threat" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">recently claimed</span></a></span> that seizing British jihadis’ passports so that they couldn’t return to the UK from the Islamic State would only create more jihadis; Dr. Muhammad Tahir Al-Qadri, Founder of Minhaj-ul-Qur’an International, Pakistan, who drafted Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy law and <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #336699;" href="http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/12/24/the-hypocrisy-of-the-fatwa-against-terrorism/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">issued his own disingenuous and hypocritical Fatwa Against Terrorism</span></a></span>; and Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi, Chairman of the Fiqh Council of North America, USA, and former head of the Hamas-linked Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).</span></p>
<p style="color: #003b0c;"><span style="color: #000000;">Hardly a group that inspires confidence in their “moderation.”</span></p>
<blockquote style="color: #003b0c;"><p><span style="color: #000000;">Notes</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 1 Narrated by Muslim in Kitab al-Iman, no. 55.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 2 Published by SawarimMedia on YouTube on April 3rd, 2014.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 3 Ibn Taymiyyah says in Majmu’ Al-Fatawa (Vol. 28, p. 270), ‘The Prophet said, “I was sent with the sword as a sign of the Final Hour so that none would be worshipped save God, alone, with no partner. My sustenance has been placed under the shadow of my spear. Lowliness and humiliation will come to those who disobey my teachings. Whosoever imitates people is one of them.” Ahmad narrates this hadith in his Musnad [Vol. 2, p.50] on the authority of Ibn Umar, and Bukhari cites it.’ However, the Hadith has a weak chain of narrators.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 4 Narrated by Bukhari in Kitab al-Tawhid, no. 7422, and by Muslim in Kitab al-Tawbah, no. 2751.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 5 Ibn Taymiyyah says in Majmu’ Al-Fatawa (Vol. 13, p. 341), ‘Tautology in [the Arabic] language is rare and in the Qur’an, it is even rarer or nonexistent.’ Al-Raghib Al-Asfahani says in Mufradat Al-Qur’an (p. 55), ‘This book is followed … by a book that informs the use of synonyms and their subtle differences. By doing so, the uniqueness of every expression is distinguishable from its synonyms.’</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 6 Tafsir Al-Tabari (Vol. 9, p. 28).</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 7 Narrated by Al-Tirmidhi in Tafsir Al-Qur’an, no. 2950.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 8 Narrated by Bukhari in Kitab al-Hudud, no. 6786, and by Muslim in Kitab al-Fada’il, no. 2327.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 9 Narrated by Abu Dawood in Kitab Al-Adab, no. 4904.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 10 Narrated by Al-Bukhari in Kitab al-Adab, no. 6030.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 11 Al-Ghazali, Al-Mustasfa fi Usul Al-Fiqh, (Vol. 1, p. 420).</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 12 Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah, I’lam Al-Muqi’een ‘an Rabbil-‘Alamin, (Vol. 4, p. 157).</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 13 The Prophet did not kill the hypocrites who disagreed with him, nor did he permit that they be killed. Indeed the Prophet said: ‘So that people do not say that Muhammad killed his companions.’ Narrated by Bukhari in Kitab Tafsir al-Qur’an, no. 4907, and by Muslim in Kitab al-Birr wal-Silah, no. 2584.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 14 Narrated by Imam Ahmad in his Musnad, (Vol. 6, p. 306).</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 15 Narrated by Al-Bukhari in Kitab al-Jihad, no. 3004.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 16 Narrated by Al-Bayhaqi in Kitab al-Zuhd, (Vol. 2, p. 165), and by Al-Khatib Al-Baghdadi in Tarikh Baghdad, (Vol. 3, p. 523).</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 17 Narrated by Imam Malik in Al-Muwatta’; Kitab al-Nida’ Lissalah, no. 490, also narrated by Al-Tirmidhi in Kitab al- Da’awat, and by Ibn Majah in Kitab al-Adab, no. 3790, and corrected by Al-Hakim in Al-Mustadrak (Vol. 1, p. 673).</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 18 Narrated by Al-Bukhari in Kitab al-Tawhid, no. 7458, and by Muslim in Kitab al-Imarah, no. 1904.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 19 Narrated by Muslim in Kitab Al-Imarah, no. 1905.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 20 Cf. Wahbi Al-Zuhayli’s Ahkam al-Harb fil-Islam.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 21 Narrated by Al-Bukhari in Kitab al-Jihad, no. 2946.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 22 Narrated by Bukhari in his Sahih, Kitab al-Jihad, no. 3053, and by Muslim in Kitab al-Wasiyyah, no.1637.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 23 Narrated by Muslim in Kitab al-Jihad, no. 1731, and by Al-Tirmidhi in Kitab al-Diyyat, no. 1408.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 24 Narrated by Ibn Abi Shayba in Al-Musannaf (Vol. 6, p. 498).</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 25 The deacons were armed, combatant priests.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 26 Narrated by Al-Bayhaqi in Al-Sunan Al-Kubra, (Vol. 9, p. 90), and by Al-Marwazi in Musnad Abi Bakr, no. 21.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 27 Narrated by Ibn Abdullah in Al-Isti’ab (Vol. 2, p. 812), and by Al-Qurtubi in his Tafsir (Vol. 19, p. 129): ‘Qatada said: “God ordered that prisoners be treated well.”’</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 28 Narrated by Al-Bayhaqi in Al-Sunan Al-Kubra, (Vol. 9, p. 118); Cf Fayd Al-Qadeer Sharh al-Jami’ al-Sagheer, (Vol. 5, p. 171).</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 29 Narrated by Muslim in Kitab al-Jihad, no. 1745.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 30 Narrated by Al-Bukhari in Kitab al-Maghazi, no. 4403, and by Muslim in Kitab al-Iman, no. 66.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 31 Narrated by Al-Bukhari in Kitab al-Jihad, no. 2946.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 32 As related in Al-Hafiz Al-Haythami’s Majma’ Al-Zawa’id, (Vol. 1, p. 106).</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 33 Narrated by Al-Bukhari in Kitab al-Adab, no. 6104.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 34 Narrated by Ibn Habban in his Sahih, (Vol. 1, p. 282).</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 35 Narrated by Muslim in Kitab al-Iman, no. 96. Another narration reads: ‘“Did you kill him after he said: ‘There is no god but God”. I said: “He was trying to save himself”. [The Prophet] kept repeating his words …’. Narrated by Al- Bukhari in Kitab al-Maghazi, no. 4369.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 36 YouTube video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yrVPE_-f9I , June, 2014.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 37 Narrated by Al-Bukhari in Kitab Bad’ al-Wahy, no. 1; also narrated by Muslim in Kitab al-Imarah, no. 1907. 38 Al-Dhahabi’s Siyar A’lam Al-Nubala’, (Vol. 11, p. 393).</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 39 Narrated by Ibn Majah, Kitab al-Zuhd, no. 4204.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 40 Narrated by Muslim in Kitab Sifat al-Qiyamah wal-Jannah wal-Nar, no. 2812.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 41 Al-Tabari says in his Tafsir (Vol. 6, p. 157): ‘In God’s  words: “Fight those who do not believe in God, nor in the Last Day …” there is no negation of the meanings of pardon and amnesty … If they agree to being subdued and pay the jizyah after combat, it is permissible to order that they be pardoned for intended treachery or oaths they planned to break as long as they do not wage war without paying the jizyah or refuse to follow laws that apply to them.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 42 Jurists permitted the lifting of the jizyah if some of them joined the Muslim army, as happened in the time of Omar bin Al-Khattab.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 43 Narrated by Al-Imam Malik in al-Muwatta’, in Kitab al-Zakat, no. 617, and by Al-Shafi’i in his Musnad, no. 1008.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 44 Al-Qurtubi’s Tafsir, (Vol. 8, p. 110).</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 45 Cf Ibn Kathir’s Al-Bidayah wal-Nihayah (Vol. 5, p. 284) in which he says: ‘The Prophet  freed male and</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> female slaves … and after the Prophet  died, there were absolutely no slaves of his to be inherited.’</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 46 Ma’rifat as-Sunan wa Al-Athar, Bayhaqi (Vol. 11, p. 135); As-Sunan Al-Kubra, Bayhaqi (Vol. 6, p. 596); Sirah Ibn Hisham (Vol. 1, p. 266).</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 47 Narrated by Ibn Majah, no. 224, and by Al-Tabarani in al-Mu’jam al-Kabir (10/195).</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 48 Narrated by Al-Bukhari in Kitab al-Nikah, no. 5186; and by Muslim in Kitab al-Rida’, no. 1468.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 49 Narrated by Muslim in his Sahih, no. 977, and by Al-Tirmidhi, no. 1054 and by others.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 50 Narrated by Al-Bukhari in Ktab al-Adhan, no. 693.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 51 Narrated by Muslim in Kitab al-Imarah, no. 1855.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 52 Narrated by Al-Hakim in Al-Mustadrak ‘ala as-Sahihayn, (Vol. 2, p. 342).</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 53 Narrated by Al-Bukhari in Kitab al-Hudud, no. 6830.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 54 BBC news online, 1st July 2014.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 55 Narrated by Al-Tirmidhi in Kitab al-Manaqib, no. 3926; and in Sahih Ibn Hibban (Vol. 9, p. 23).</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 56 Mafatih Al-Ghayb, Al-Razi (Vol. 15, p. 515) in the exegesis of Al-Anfal, 8:75.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 57 Narrated by Al-Bukhari in Kitab al-Hajj, no. 1886.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 58 Fath Al-Bari, Ibn Hajar (Vol. 3, p. 621).</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 59 BBC news online, on 1st July 2014.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 60 He appeared in a recruitment video produced by Hayat Media Center, August, 2014.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 61 Narrated by Al-Bukhari in Kitab al-Jihad, no. 2783.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 62 Cf Mafatih Al-Ghayb, Al-Razi (Vol. 18, p. 412).</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 63 Narrated by Bukhari in Kitab al-Adab, no. 5997, and by Musim in Kitab al-Fada’il, no. 2318.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 64 Narrated by Ahmad in his Musnad (Vol. 2, p. 160).</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;"> 65 Narrated by Nu’aym ibn Hammad in Kitab Al-Fitan, Hadith no. 573.</span></p></blockquote>
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<p><strong>Reprinted from <a href="http://www.wnd.com/">WND.com</a>.</strong></p>
<p>Much has been reported about Latin Americans sneaking across the U.S. southern border, but there may be a greater danger looming in America’s heartland in the form of nearly 2 million Muslims who have made their way to the U.S. since 1992.</p>
<p>And, unlike the surge at the southern border, most of those coming from the Middle East have done so legally, with the full support of the U.S. federal government.</p>
<p>Scholars such as Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller and Daniel Pipes have warned for years of the Muslim Brotherhood’s doctrine of immigration, or “al-hijra,” as the long-term strategy to transform America into a different type of society – one that subjugates all other religions under Islam.</p>
<p>Now, another man has stepped up to sound the alarm. And his credentials make him hard to ignore.</p>
<p>Dr. Mark Christian, an obstetrician and former Egyptian Muslim with direct family ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, is talking a lot these days about “stealth jihad.” He says it’s the Brotherhood’s way of exploiting liberal immigration policies while working relentlessly through various Islamic front groups to pressure government, education and religious institutions to make concessions to Islam.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/gf.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-241701 " src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/gf-327x350.jpg" alt="gf" width="239" height="256" /></a>“Their plan here is to use the influence of the U.S. to further their own agenda. It has been going on for quite some time,” said Christian, who broke with the Islamic faith in 2003, converted to Christianity and came to America two years later. He changed his name and settled in Nebraska, only to be threatened and harassed by Muslims, including some from his own family.</p>
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<p>“The Muslim Brotherhood is so big right now and so influential and so wealthy that they can do things on their own,” he said. “The only thing that is missing is the power of the U.S. military to be on their side.”</p>
<p>He explained that the Brotherhood’s goal is “to restart the Islamic empire.”</p>
<p>“And they think if they can restart it again, they can reconquer the whole earth.”</p>
<p>That plan starts with immigration.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Watch Mark Christian discuss his confrontation with t</strong><span id="eow-title" class="watch-title long-title " dir="ltr" title="The Glazov Gang-Confronting the Muslim Brotherhood in the American Heartland"><strong>he Muslim Brotherhood in the American Heartland:</strong> </span></p>
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<p> <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/u-n-to-dump-flood-of-muslim-refugees-on-u-s/">WND reported earlier this week</a> the U.S. State Department plans to accept at least 75,000 Syrian refugees, hand-selected by the United Nations, for resettlement in American cities over the next five years. Meanwhile, the influx of refugees from other Muslim countries such as Somalia and Iraq continues at a rate of more than 25,000 per year.</p>
<p>But a look at the overall immigration picture shows the U.S. government has gradually increased the religious “diversity” of new immigrants coming into selected American cities. More than 1.7 million Muslim immigrants have come to the United States between 1992 and 2010, according to <a href="http://www.pewforum.org/2011/01/27/the-future-of-the-global-muslim-population/">a study by Pew Research Center</a>, which has conducted one of the few studies on the religious affiliations of immigrants.  The State Department says it does not ask the religious affiliation of refugees.</p>
<p><strong>Immigration by the numbers</strong></p>
<p>Prior to 1990, fewer than 5 percent of foreigners who took up residence in the U.S. came from Muslim countries, according to Pew. Most of them came on temporary student visas and returned to their homelands after receiving their education.</p>
<p>Not anymore. The trend in recent years is to allow permanent status through an array of programs, including the U.N. refugee program, the annual diversity visa lottery and special programs for foreign religious leaders. Still others are able to remain past the original date on their visas through a program that allows “temporary protective status” for 18 months at a time.</p>
<p>“So there are many programs by which Muslims can come in, but in many ways the U.N. refugee program is the most outrageous because they qualify immediately for government welfare benefits whereas many of the other programs they must have been here for five years,” said Ann Corcoran, who monitors the refugee population across the 50 states and writes a blog for <a href="http://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/">Refugee Resettlement Watch</a>.</p>
<p>Most of the U.N. refugees from Muslim countries lack education and skills that would allow them to find well-paying jobs in America. Those who do work often end up toiling in meat-packing plants or other factories that pay minimum wage. They supplement their paychecks with food stamps, Medicaid and government-subsidized housing.</p>
<p>But most troubling to some critics of these programs is their potential impact on the nation’s demographics and culture. They say refugees from war-torn Middle Eastern countries don’t assimilate and don’t understand or necessarily respect American values of individual liberty and responsibility.</p>
<p><strong>Look at Europe</strong></p>
<p>For a hint of what might be in store, one need only look toward the cultural and demographic shift occurring in Europe. Muslim enclaves have sprung up in cities across France, Germany, Belgium and the United Kingdom where it has become unsafe for Jews and Christians to enter and where civil laws gradually bow to elements of Islamic law, or Shariah.</p>
<p>Once they arrive on U.S. soil, the evidence suggests Muslim immigrants in cities such as Minneapolis; Lewiston, Maine; Cleveland; Columbus, Ohio; and Shelbyville, Tennessee, have done a poor job of assimilating into American culture.</p>
<p>American Muslims are more often Sunni as opposed to Shiite, and roughly 80 percent of American mosques built since the 1970s have been at least partially funded with money from Saudi Arabia, the headquarters for a particularly virulent strain of Sunni Islam known as Wahhabism, as explained in <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2002/04/13621/">a WND report in 2002</a>.</p>
<p>According to the Pew Research study on the religious affiliation of immigrants, the number of Muslims entering the U.S. as a percentage of the total immigrant population has doubled over a recent 20-year period, going from 5 percent in 1992 to 10 percent in 2010.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wnd1.png"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-241702" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wnd1-387x350.png" alt="wnd1" width="387" height="350" /></a>While America’s overall Muslim population is only 0.8 percent according to Pew, 0.6 percent according to the CIA World Factbook, and up to 2 percent according to other sources, the European experience shows that Islam does not need anywhere near a majority of the population to begin influencing a country’s laws and culture.</p>
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<p>The largest Muslim population in Europe resides in France, where the CIA World Factbook estimates 5 to 10 percent of that country’s overall population claims faith in Allah. Pew Research puts the figure just under 6 percent and projects that it will continually balloon to 7 percent by 2020, to 8.5 percent by 2030, and that by 2050, nearly a third of the nation’s people will identify as Muslim.</p>
<p>And the picture is not much different in other European countries. Germany’s Muslim population, mostly from Turkey, is estimated at 5 percent, Belgium 6 percent, Austria 5.7 percent, the Netherlands 5.5 percent, Sweden 4.9 percent and the U.K. 4.6 percent. Almost all of these countries will have Muslim populations of 10 percent or more within 20 years, based on current birthrates.</p>
<p><strong>More than personal rules</strong></p>
<p>If Islam were just another religion, the rise in Muslim immigration might not pose a problem.</p>
<p>But many conservative scholars who have studied Islam for years say there is more to Islam than its daily call to prayer and its dietary rules against pork and alcohol.</p>
<p>Islam has a decidedly political aspect that few in the halls of the U.S. State Department seem to understand, contends Robert Spencer, author of several books on Islam, including “Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs.”</p>
<p>“Just in terms of population, you’re talking about people with a much higher birthrate than the native peoples. You’re talking about a religion that sanctions polygamy, so this means the Muslim community is going to expand exponentially compared to other communities,” said Spencer, who also authors the blog <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/">Jihad Watch</a> for the David Horowitz Freedom Center. “But this is not about numbers, it’s about a religion that has intentions to take over the state.”</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wnd21.png"><img class="alignleft size-large wp-image-241704" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wnd21-353x1024.png" alt="wnd2" width="353" height="1024" /></a>He said the connections between the major American Islamic societies and the international Muslim Brotherhood have been well documented, but almost nobody in Congress or the executive branch seems interested in connecting the dots.</p>
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<p>Spencer noted that when Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., in 2012 asked for an investigation into possible Muslim Brotherhood infiltration in the government, she was ridiculed and derided.</p>
<p>So, as Spencer explains,  it’s not just a matter of the Muslim community advancing in Europe and America, it’s that all of the possible neutralizing factors are in retreat, hiding behind well-intentioned fantasies of multiculturalism, diversity and tolerance.</p>
<p>Spencer is not the only Western scholar who is worried.</p>
<p>“Some 5 percent  of the EU, or nearly 20 million persons, presently identify themselves as Muslims,” wrote historian Daniel Pipes in an <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/1796/muslim-europe">article for the New York Sun</a>. “Should current trends continue, that number will reach 10 percent by 2020. If non-Muslims flee the new Islamic order, as seems likely, the continent could be majority-Muslim within decades.</p>
<p>“When that happens, grand cathedrals will appear as vestiges of a prior civilization – at least until a Saudi-style regime transforms them into mosques or a Taliban-like regime blows them up. The great national cultures – Italian, French, English and others – will likely wither, replaced by a new transnational Muslim identity that merges North African, Turkish, subcontinental and other elements.”</p>
<p>In the U.S., Spencer and others believe the Muslim Brotherhood works through organizations such as the Council on American Islamic Relations, or CAIR, and the Islamic Society of North America, or ISNA. Their power far outweighs that which might be expected for a religion that still claims only a tiny percentage of the American population as adherents.</p>
<p>“The connections these groups have are such that you only need a few people, much like the Bolsheviks did in Russia, because they had the vision and the ruthlessness and no other group had the will to stop them,” Spencer told WND. “We already see from the captured Muslim Brotherhood documents their intent to infiltrate and destroy the U.S. from within, and so I can’t see why they wouldn’t be successful, since no one is allowed to even discuss these plans in a public dialogue.”</p>
<p><strong>A different kind of jihad</strong></p>
<p>Mark Christian is one man who is intimately familiar with the Muslim Brotherhood strategies. He left Egypt for good in 2005, when he came to the U.S. at the age of 33. That was two years after he converted to Christianity and was disowned by his family.</p>
<p>His great-uncle was one of the co-founders of the Muslim Brotherhood, he said, and shared an Egyptian jail cell in the 1960s with Sayyid Qutb, whom many, including Osama bin Laden, have revered as the doctrinal godfather of the Brotherhood. Christian says his father is still an influential member of the organization.</p>
<p>After spending some time in England, he and his wife settled in Omaha, Nebraska, which he thought would be a safe haven.</p>
<p>“I chose Nebraska because it’s not that popular and nobody knows about Nebraska in the Middle East, because I had a very bad experience with the Muslims in England,” he said. “I was new in my faith and trying to learn more about Christianity. After I moved to Omaha, some of the guys learned about me converting and going to church, and they started threatening and harassing me, calling my wife.”</p>
<p>Americans should not be deceived by the fact that, despite increasing immigration, the Muslim population is estimated at only 1 to 2 percent, Christian said.</p>
<p>He told WND that the Muslim Brotherhood strategy from 1966 forward has been to avoid confrontations with American power. Instead, he says, the Brotherhood attempts to coax the U.S. into using its power for the Brotherhood’s own benefit.</p>
<p>The Brotherhood’s strategy is three-pronged, he said. It uses its front group CAIR to influence the government and military life, while ISNA works to foster “interfaith” dialogue with major Christian denominations and Jewish organizations. A third front group, the Muslim Student Association, or MSA, focuses on influencing K-12 and university education.</p>
<p>It is through these three groups that the Brotherhood wages “cultural jihad,” or what Christian calls “stealth jihad.”</p>
<p>“They want to influence the whole United States,” Christian said. “They see the U.S. as three things – it’s a government, it’s a religious institution and it is colleges and education; so we have three organizations and all are designated to each one of those things.”</p>
<p>ISNA concentrates mostly on outreach to Christian and Jewish religious groups.</p>
<p>“They say they are building bridges, but in reality they are building death tracks for these churches, watering down their theology, trying to influence the Christian teachings of the Bible and find common ground with Islamic teachings,” Christian said. “Basically they are trying to find common ground so they can kill it.”</p>
<p>He cites the Shoulder-to-Shoulder movement as one of ISNA’s crowning achievements.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.shouldertoshouldercampaign.org/page/About.html">Shoulder-to-Shoulder</a> is a coalition of 20 religious groups that includes many of the major Christian denominations. Members include the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, the United Church of Christ, the Episcopal Church in the USA, the Presbyterian Church (USA), the Reform Judaism movement and left-wing organizations such as Sojourners magazine.</p>
<p>Their stated goal is to fight “anti-Muslim bigotry,” but that’s just the window dressing, Christian says.</p>
<p>When a similar interfaith movement started in his own community of Omaha, Christian began working through an organization he formed, the <a href="http://globalfaithinstitute.org/">Global Faith Institute,</a> to help get accurate information about Islam to the churches.</p>
<div class="copy-paste-block">Christian’s organization is trying to stop the Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the “Tri-Faith Initiative,”  which calls for the construction of a Jewish synagogue, Christian church and Muslim mosque on the same campus in Omaha, as <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/muslim-asked-if-islam-demands-massacre-of-christians/">reported last month by WND</a>.</div>
<p>Christian said the Brotherhood front groups prefer to work with the large denominations and rarely pay attention to small churches.</p>
<p>“They say, ‘Oh we all worship the same God and we need to find common ground,’” Christian said. “It’s all about ‘respecting women, Islam is great,’ and it’s all a bunch of lies. Whenever you find those kinds of movements within the church, you always find a watered down, very liberal theology that is anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist. But there is money involved and influence involved.”</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Watch Frontpage Editor Jamie Glazov confront Taqiyya over the Tri-Faith Initiative:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Working the military and universities</strong></p>
<p>Meanwhile, CAIR is working with the military and law enforcement agencies to make sure Muslims are granted certain privileges, whether it be in the way police are allowed to investigate Muslim suspects or concessions for Muslim members of the military.</p>
<p>In 2011, the FBI, at the insistence of CAIR, scrubbed all of its training manuals of all references to Islam that were deemed offensive to Muslims. Christian also points to the deadly Fort Hood, Texas, attack by Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, who in 2009 gunned down 13 of his fellow soldiers. The crime, however, was not investigated as an act of terrorism but as “work-place violence” by the Obama administration.</p>
<p>“We cannot fight ISIS without cleaning house in our own military,” Christian said. “There is no chance.”</p>
<p>On the education front, MSA has a chapter in almost every American college and university, no matter how small, Christian said.</p>
<p>“They try to change the mindset of the kids and college students and they’re very active,” Christian said. “Their job is to degrade America, degrade Israel, and then degrade Christianity.”</p>
<p>Christian said Muslim Brotherhood front organizations like MSA have also worked to influence the content of American school textbooks, increasing the favorable references to Islam and its prophet, Muhammad.</p>
<p>“They talk about him like he’s a Robin Hood character” in many of the textbooks, Christian said. “He’s this amazing guy whose message was spread around the world, and he wanted to take from the rich and give to the poor. No mention of any conquests and no mention of the sword, the beheadings, nothing.”</p>
<p>So while America has less than 3 million Muslims, comprising less than 2 percent of its population, Christian says “that 2 percent is working tirelessly and they have unlimited resources coming from Saudi Arabia and Qatar and elsewhere.</p>
<p>“Their influence is huge.”</p>
<p><strong>Lessons from Europe</strong></p>
<p>Christian believes America may only be 10 to 15 years behind Europe in the creation of a parallel Islamic culture.</p>
<p>In January, the German city-state of Bremen signed a treaty with city’s 40,000-strong Muslim community. The agreement “guarantees the protection of Muslim community properties, the approval of the construction of mosques with minarets and domes, the allotment of land for Muslim cemeteries, the supplying of halal food at prisons and hospitals, the recognition of three Muslim holidays, Muslim representation in state institutions and several other rights and privileges,” reports <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4130/islamization-germany">the Gatestone Institute</a>.</p>
<p>According to Erol Pürlü, the spokesman of the Muslim Coordination Council, a Turkish-Muslim umbrella group, the treaty with Bremen “sends a clear signal that Islam belongs to Germany.”</p>
<p>Bremen is the second German state to sign a treaty with local Muslim communities. Hamburg, the second-largest city in Germany, concluded a “historic treaty” with the city’s 200,000-strong Muslim community in November 2012.</p>
<p>All across Europe, major cities are experiencing growing Muslim quarters that are increasingly hostile to non-Muslims.</p>
<p>“Especially in the big cities they have control of certain neighborhoods, not the whole city,” Christian said. “I love traveling, and when I was in Europe my wife and I used to drive from one country to another, so you talk about London, Paris and all over Europe now, when the population gets bigger they call it a ‘no-go zone’ where the police can’t come in and they set their own rules. And they have access from the Middle East, so they can go in and get asylum, in many cases even if they’ve been rejected by their own government for being terrorists. England has been opening its doors for years to the Brotherhood’s leaders, after Margaret Thatcher had shut them out.”</p>
<p>Spencer is equally pessimistic that America will avoid the path taken by Europe, where elected leaders increasingly cater to Islam.</p>
<p>“I think in America we will see the same thing that’s happening in Europe happening here,” he said. “There will be growing enclaves with Muslims living in close proximity, such as Dearborn, Michigan, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, and less and less respect for civil law and more and more for Islamic law.</p>
<p>“We see it now in Antwerp (Belgium), parts of London and in Malmo, Sweden.”</p>
<p>Spencer said he has personally been banned from Britain, as has the co-author of one of his books, Pamela Geller. Anyone who speaks out publicly about what they see as the dangers of Islam can expect the same fate, he said.</p>
<p><strong>Similar but different strategies</strong></p>
<p>Christian sees similarities in what has happened in Europe and the situation in America. But the Muslim Brotherhood strategies for the two continents are not exactly the same, he said.</p>
<p>“There is something different over here. What they are doing in Europe is different than what they are trying to accomplish in the states,” Christian said. “They need to gain the U.S. government’s trust through the Muslim Brotherhood front groups, so over there they are trying to make it more scary.”</p>
<p>Most of the leaders in Congress, those in the executive branch and those running the major U.S. media corporations are, psychologically, right where the Brotherhood wants them, Christian said.</p>
<p>“When you see ISIS you can’t in five months change your minds about the peaceful Muslims. So when you see them slaughtering people’s heads you would say ‘these other guys from the Muslim Brotherhood are political, they are not slaughtering heads in front of the cameras like ISIS,’” he said. “‘So while I know he’s a bad guy at least I have conversation with him, unlike that guy over there slaughtering heads.’ So it’s good cop, bad cop. When, essentially, they’re the same. The majority of the government and media in America would say, ‘You know, I would rather work with the Muslim Brotherhood than with ISIS.’”</p>
<p>Christian said the Muslim Brotherhood plan to prepare the world for Islamic law and Islamic supremacy goes back to the early 1970s, after its leaders were released from prison in Egypt.</p>
<p>“That is when they decided not to be local anymore, but to be more international. I have lived in interesting times,” he said. “And I have been in meetings, even as a kid, where it sounded ridiculous to me, but lo and behold it seems to be coming together all the way they wanted it. I understand it very well.</p>
<p>“It is coming together even better I think than they planned.”</p>
<p>In fact, the strategy of stealth jihad is working so well in America that Christian does not foresee any major terrorist attacks being planned anytime soon.</p>
<p>“They have their foot soldiers here from Somalia and Sudan and other places. But there will be no attacks for at least two years,” Christian said. “Not because the FBI is so great in stopping them, but because they are having so much success under Obama. And it will be the same under Hillary (Clinton) if she is the next president. No attacks on American soil are needed. But as soon as that is not effective enough, they will launch attacks, and they have the means to do that right away. For now they are terrorizing people enough in Europe and Africa and the Middle East, but they are having so much success over here using a different strategy of stealth jihad.”</p>
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		<title>The Buckley Program Stands Up for Free Speech</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/6a00d83451c36069e20168eb9dbef6970c.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240943" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/6a00d83451c36069e20168eb9dbef6970c.jpg" alt="6a00d83451c36069e20168eb9dbef6970c" width="314" height="259" /></a>The William F. Buckley Program at Yale University lately showed bravery unusual for an academic institution. It has refused to be bullied by the Muslim Students Association and its demand that the Buckley Program rescind an invitation to Ayaan Hirsi Ali to speak on campus September 15. Hirsi Ali is the vocal Somalian critic of Islamic doctrine whose life has been endangered for condemning the theologically sanctioned oppression of women in Islamic culture. Unlike Brandeis University, which recently rescinded an honorary degree to be given to Hirsi Ali after complaints from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Buckley Program rejected both the MSA’s initial demand, and a follow up one that Hirsi Ali share the stage with one of her critics.</p>
<p>The Buckley Program is a rare instance of an academic organization staying true to the ideals of free speech, academic freedom, and the “free play of the mind on all subjects,” as Matthew Arnold defined liberal education. Most of our best universities have sacrificed these ideals on the altar of political correctness and identity politics. Anything that displeases or discomforts campus special interest groups––mainly those predicated on being the alleged victims of American oppression–– must be proscribed as “slurs” or “hateful,” even if what’s said is factually true. No matter that these groups are ideologically driven and use their power to silence critics and limit speech to their own self-serving and duplicitous views, the modus operandi of every illiberal totalitarian regime in history. The spineless university caves in to their demands, incoherently camouflaging their craven betrayal of the First Amendment and academic freedom as “tolerance” and “respect for diversity.”</p>
<p>In the case of Islam, however, this betrayal is particularly dangerous. For we are confronting across the world a jihadist movement that grounds its violence in traditional Islamic theology, jurisprudence, and history. Ignoring those motives and their sanction by Islamic doctrine compromises our strategy and tactics in defeating the jihadists, for we cripple ourselves in the war of ideas. Worse yet, Islamic triumphalism and chauvinism–– embodied in the Koranic verse that calls Muslims “the best of nations raised up for the benefit of men” because they “enjoin the right and forbid the wrong and believe in Allah”–– is confirmed and strengthened by the way our elite institutions like universities and the federal government quickly capitulate to special interest groups who demand that we endorse only their sanitized and often false picture of Islam. Such surrender confirms the jihadist estimation of the West as the “weak horse,” as bin Laden said, a civilization with “foundations of straw” whose wealth and military power are undermined by a collective failure of nerve and loss of morale.</p>
<p>This process of exploiting the moral degeneration of the West has been going on now for 25 years. It begins, as does the rise of modern jihadism, with the Ayatollah Khomeini and the Iranian Islamic revolution. The key event took place in February 1989, when Khomeini issued a fatwa, based on Koran 9.61, against Indian novelist Salman Rushdie for his novel <i>The Satanic Verses</i>, which was deemed “against Islam, the Prophet, and the Koran,” as Khomeini said. Across the world enraged Muslims rioted and bombed bookstores, leaving over 20 people dead. More significant in the long run was the despicable reaction of many in the West to this outrage against freedom of speech and the rule of law, perpetrated by the most important and revered political and religious leader of a major Islamic nation.</p>
<p>Abandoning their principles, bookstores refused to stock the novel, and publishers delayed or canceled editions. Muslims in Western countries publicly burned copies of Rushdie’s novel and encouraged his murder with impunity. Eminent British historian Hugh Trevor-Roper suggested Rushdie deserved such treatment. Thirteen British Muslim barristers filed a formal complaint against the author. In their initial reactions, Western government officials were hesitant and timorous. The U.S. embassy in Pakistan eagerly assured Muslims that “the U.S. government in no way supports or associates itself with any activity that is in any sense offensive or insulting to Islam.&#8221;</p>
<p>Khomeini’s fatwa and the subsequent violent reaction created what Daniel Pipes calls the “Rushdie rules,” a speech code that privileges Islam over revered Western traditions of free speech that still are operative in the case of all other religions. Muslims now will determine what counts as an “insult” or a “slur,” and their displeasure, threats, and violence will police those definitions and punish offenders. Even reporting simple facts of history or Islamic doctrine can be deemed an offense and bring down retribution on violators. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, for example, earned the wrath of Muslims in part for her contribution to Theo van Gogh’s film <i>Submission</i>, which projected Koranic verses regarding women on the bodies of abused women. Van Gogh, of course, was brutally murdered in the streets of Amsterdam. And this is the most important dimension of the “Rushdie rules”: violence will follow any violation of whatever some Muslims deem to be “insulting” to Islam, even facts. In effect, Western law has been trumped by the shari’a ban on blaspheming Islam, a crime punishable by death.</p>
<p>The result is the sorry spectacle of groveling and apology we see almost daily from our government, the entertainment industry, and worse yet, universities. Trivial slights and offenses that civilized nations leave to the market place of ideas to sort out are elevated into “slurs” and “hate speech” if some Muslim organization deems them so. A reflexive self-censorship has arisen in American society, one based on fear of violent retribution or bad publicity harmful to profits and careers.</p>
<p>Thus the government officially proscribes words like “jihad” or “Muslim terrorist” from its documents and training materials in order to avoid offending Muslims. Similarly the Muslim terrorist, a fixture in recent history since the PLO started highjacking airliners in the 60s, has nearly disappeared from television and movies, replaced by Russians, white supremacists, and brainwashed Americans. And when a Muslim terrorist does appear, his motivations and violence are rationalized as the understandable response to the grievous offenses against his faith and people committed by the U.S. and Israel. Islam is airbrushed from the plot, as in the recent series <i>Tyrant</i>, a dramatization of a fictional Arab Muslim state that somehow manages to ignore Islam as a political force. More seriously, universities disinvite speakers at the faintest hint of protest from Muslim organizations, even as they accept Gulf-state petrodollars to create “Middle East Studies” programs that frequently function as apologists and enablers of terrorist violence.</p>
<p>“Free men have free tongues,” as the Athenian tragedian Sophocles said. One of the pillars of political freedom is free speech. When the ability to speak freely in the public square is extended beyond an elite to a large variety of people with clashing views and ideals, speech necessarily becomes rough and uncivil. Feelings get hurt, passions are aroused, and language becomes coarse and abusive. That’s the price we pay for letting a lot of people speak their minds, and for creating a process in which truth and good ideas can emerge from all this rambunctious, divisive conversation. But when we carve out a special niche for one group, provide it with its own rules, and protect it even from statements of uncomfortable facts, then we compromise that foundational right to have our say without any retribution other than a counterargument. So three cheers for the Buckley Program. It has stood up against intimidation and defended one of our most important and precious freedoms.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/cair.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-239714" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/cair.png" alt="cair" width="250" height="311" /></a>Frontpage Interview&#8217;s guest today is Deborah Weiss, an attorney, writer, public speaker, and a 9/11 survivor of the WTC attacks in NYC. She formerly served as a counsel for the Committee on House Oversight in Congress and for the Office of the Corporation Counsel under Mayor Giuliani. She currently works for Vigilance, Inc. and is considered an expert on OIC UN resolutions. She is the primary writer and researcher for a recently released book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Council-American-Islamic-Relations-Lawfare-Intimidation/dp/0615857051">Council on American-Islamic Relations: Its Use of Lawfare and Intimidation</a>, published by CFNS.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Deborah Weiss, welcome to Frontpage Interview.</p>
<p><strong>DW:</strong> Thank you for inviting me.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Tell us a little bit about CAIR and its background.</p>
<p><strong>DW:</strong> CAIR holds itself out as a Muslim Civil Rights organization, but in fact it’s an Islamist supremacist organization whose ultimate goal is the implementation of Sharia law. It has a network of chapters that are separately incorporated, but have similar goals, tactics and often overlapping or interchanging directors and staff. It’s based in America and Canada.</p>
<p>CAIR’s roots spawn out of Hamas and the Islamic Association of Palestine, both of which are State-designated terrorist organizations. It adheres to the same interpretation of Islam as the Muslim Brotherhood and serves as the propaganda wing of the so-called “Islamic Resistance Movement” in the West.</p>
<p>It has some funding from its membership, but also receives large contributions from donors in Saudi Arabia, Iran, the UAE and Kuwait.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> What are CAIR’s goals in the United States?</p>
<p><strong>DW:</strong> CAIR appears to have three main goals. One is to silence all criticism of anything related to Islam including Islamic terrorism. Second, it seeks to Islamize the workplace, and third, it works actively to hamper American national security.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Can you give us some examples of how CAIR engages in each of these activities?</p>
<p><strong>DW:</strong> Sure. CAIR often files frivolous lawsuits against anyone who blows the whistle on CAIR in order to silence their speech. It also tries to smear reputations and shut down speakers, authors, and politicians who seek to inform the public about the dangers of Islamism, whether it’s regarding Islamic terrorism, Islamic persecution of religious minorities or human rights violations committed in the name of Islam. But it also tries to shut down individuals or companies that make jokes, cartoons or films that shed Islam or Muslims in a negative light.</p>
<p>Additionally, CAIR engages in strong-arm tactics to pressure corporations to comply with what amounts to Islamic blasphemy codes. For example, years ago Nike launched a sneaker, called “Nike Air.” Someone complained that the logo for the word “air” looked similar to the word “Allah” in Arabic. CAIR went on a campaign to force Nike to recall the product on a world-wide scale and change the logo design. Unfortunately, it was successful. It also demanded that Nike make a public apology to all Muslims, that it change its design procedures and consult with CAIR in the future, and donate tens of thousands of dollars to Islamic schools and playgrounds. CAIR also threatened a global boycott, not just of Nike Air sneakers but of all Nike products. Nike resisted at first but eventually capitulated, in part, because it has a large audience in the Middle East that buys its products, and it feared a boycott would put the company out of business in that region.</p>
<p>This is just one example of the numerous companies that have been pressured and subsequently caved into CAIR’s demands. Some of the others include Liz Claiborne, Burger King, Heinz, Disney, Bank of America, and more.  The list is rather long and spans a comprehensive range of types of organizations from greeting card companies to banks to publishing houses to food organizations to clothing designers to film producers and broadcast stations.</p>
<p>On the employment front, CAIR often files EEOC claims on behalf of its clients and makes demands to companies to provide special preferences to Muslims which are not afforded to employees of other religions. These include demands for prayer breaks, on-site prayer rooms, exemptions from company uniforms, and separate rules for Muslim employees which exempt them from various company policies. Often the EEOC claims do not proceed to trial. Yet, CAIR frequently issues press releases falsely implying that the EEOC found the company in question to be discriminatory, when the EEOC merely issued a ruling giving CAIR permission to file a lawsuit so that a jury may determine the facts. CAIR misleads the public to believe that a positive ruling from the EEOC concludes there is discrimination, when it often it just means there’s a question of fact which warrants a trial. However, the negative press can hurt a corporation and the cost of litigation is high. Most companies don’t want the PR headache caused by these threats, so they enter a pre-trial settlement to get CAIR off their backs. Needless to say, CAIR usually flaunts the settlement as a win and falsely indicates that it’s an admission of “anti-Islam” bias.</p>
<p>Regarding national security, CAIR is engaged in a number of activities. CAIR tries to silence speech regarding Islamic terrorism, ensuring that counter-terrorism experts, law enforcement and national security professionals won’t get the training needed to identify Islamic terrorist threats in their early stages. Partly because of CAIR, a few years ago the Obama Administration rewrote all the training material for federal national security agencies, purging them of all mention of anything to do with Islamist ideology. This was true even if the word had a qualifier like “radical Islam” or “radical Muslims” because CAIR is on a mission to disassociate any interpretation of Islam with terrorism. It is not telling terrorist organizations that Islam doesn’t support their terrorist activities. Instead, CAIR cries “Islamophobia” or “bigotry” whenever national security professionals, the public, the media, or anyone else makes an accurate observation about this connection, teaches this fact or reports on the terrorists’ self-proclaimed Islamic beliefs.</p>
<p>The agencies that have changed their training programs include DHS, the FBI, the National Counterterrorism Center, the State Department and the Department of Justice. Under Mayor DeBlasio in NYC, CAIR has also been successful in getting the NYPD’s terrific counterterrorism program partially dismantled. It is eliminating content regarding Islamist ideology in training, and reducing its surveillance programs. The NYPD had one of the best counterterrorism programs in the country. It is a totally false accusation by CAIR and other Islamist organizations that the NYPD surveilled the Muslim community simply for “practicing its faith”. The NYPD, like any credible counterterrorism organization, merely followed its leads and focused on the source of the threats. If it happened to focus on certain mosques, CAIR leadership or Muslim business owners, it’s because it had reason to believe these posed a national security threat. It was not because these organizations refused to recognize Jesus as Lord and Savior! That is the type of religious persecution that occurs in Islamist countries, where religious minorities are oppressed and denied the right to practice their faith. In America, so long as one follows the laws, he can pray and worship as his heart desires.</p>
<p>The other thing CAIR does is make numerous FOIA requests and other types of document requests. It also often demands “investigations” of national security investigators, including those who are investigating CAIR leadership. This serves two purposes. One, it informs CAIR of whom in its ranks has to watch their backs. And two, it ties up government resources. Instead of using money and personnel to investigate bad guys, the government is wasting time meeting CAIR’s bogus demands.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Does CAIR leadership have terrorist ties? How does CAIR evade prosecution for its activities?</p>
<p><strong>DW:</strong> Yes, Jamie. In additional to having its roots in Hamas, the IAP, and the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR was also an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial, the largest terror-financing trial in the history of the United States. There were other unindicted co-conspirators as well. Many people think that CAIR and the other co-conspirators should be prosecuted, and it’s unclear why they haven’t been.</p>
<p>Additionally, many of CAIR’s current and former leadership has terrorist ties. CAIR’s founding members, Nihad Awad, and Omar Ahmad, and Rafeeq Jabur originally worked with the IAP as did Ibrihim Hooper, CAIR’s spokesperson. Abdurahman Alamoudi, a former CAIR Board member is sitting in jail as I speak, serving a 23 years sentence for terrorist-related activities. Randall “Ismail” Royer was indicted for conspiring with a foreign terrorist group and pled guilty. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison for assisting Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and other terrorist organizations. Ghassan Elashi, a founding member of CAIR-Texas was convicted along with his brothers, for funneling money to Hamas and doing business with State-sponsors of terrorism. The list goes on and on. Virtually all the leadership openly supports Hamas, and is virulently anti-Israel. Though they sometimes claim that “one bad apple” doesn’t represent the whole organization, it’s quite evident that this is more than one bad apple. It’s a pattern that runs throughout the organization.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> What are some of the other tactics CAIR employs in order to accomplish its goals?</p>
<p><strong>DW:</strong> CAIR has a wide range of intimidation and strong-arm tactics that it utilizes to pressure individuals, corporations and government agencies to capitulate to its demands. As I mentioned, it files frivolous lawsuits. It also demands that employers fire any employee that “defames Islam”; it engages in company-wide boycotts (rather than just boycotting the product in question), false name-calling such as “Islamophobe” or “bigot”, calls on its membership to flood companies with phone calls, emails and letters, amounting to harassment so companies cannot get work done, embarks on public campaigns maligning companies and individuals, lobbies in Congress against any legislation that would protect America from Islamic terrorism, and infiltrates governmental agencies, societal institutions, and school boards in order to advance its Islamist agenda. It provides disinformation, misinformation, and intentionally deceives the public about its true nature, its agenda, and the Islamist threat generally.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, its efforts have been rather successful, yet under-recognized and under-reported. It has succeeded in getting products off the market, getting companies to change their internal production procedures, getting national security training programs gutted, obtaining preferential treatment of Muslims in some circumstances, and in getting the cancellation of numerous speakers denying them a voice so that the public can form its own opinion on the issues. CAIR has also been excellent at training its members in marketing messages, perception management, and controlling the narrative regarding Islam-related issues in the main stream media and in academia. It also encourages its members to become politically active.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> What can people do to fight against CAIR and its Islamist anti-freedom, anti-American influence?</p>
<p><strong>DW:</strong> I’m so glad you asked, Jamie. I would hate to end this interview on a depressing note. There are a lot of things that the average citizen can do to help defeat CAIR and its agenda. First, educate yourselves on the issues and try to raise the awareness of your friends, neighbors and family members. If you can only forward one article a week to people you know, it’s a start. Second, make sure that your church or synagogue does not engage in bogus “interfaith dialogues” that give CAIR a platform to spew forth its disinformation campaign under cover of legitimacy. Try to educate your pastor or rabbi on what CAIR really is. If they don’t listen, send a letter to your congregation members.</p>
<p>I’ve heard of at least one church which got its members together and threatened to move to a different church. That should make the pastor listen. Third, know what is in your children’s school books. Frighteningly, Islamist groups are influencing textbooks and virtually rewriting history to have a pro-Islam, anti-American and anti-Israel bias. If you can, become active and run for a seat on your local school board or in your local legislature. If you can’t do that, then hold those who do run accountable. Educate elected officials and make sure they know what CAIR is and that they won’t work with them or cave in to them. Ask politicians if they believe there’s such a thing as Islamic terrorism and if they believe in free speech. If they say no or are unclear, that’s your cue that perhaps you don’t want them as your representative. Become involved. There are groups that work on these issues and it’s helpful to find those who are like-minded and join forces.</p>
<p>Above all, make sure you don’t become complacent. America was originally an experiment in freedom. It ought not be taken for granted. If you want to pass on the freedoms you enjoy to future generations, become active. You must be vigilant to keep America free.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Deborah Weiss, thank you for joining Frontpage Interview.</p>
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		<title>Jamie Glazov Exposes Muslim Brotherhood Charade in the American Heartland</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2014 04:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hjkl1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239605" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hjkl1-450x250.jpg" alt="hjkl" width="285" height="159" /></a><strong><span class="userContent">[To help <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/frontpagemag-com/confronting-the-muslim-brotherhood-in-the-american-heartland-on-the-glazov-gang/">Mark Christian</a> of &#8220;<a href="http://globalfaithinstitute.org/">Global Faith</a>&#8221; in his fight against the Brotherhood&#8217;s charade within the &#8220;<a href="http://globalfaithinstitute.org/downloads/Tri-Faith_FactSheet.pdf">Tri-Faith Initiative</a>,&#8221; contact him at: mark@globalfaithinstitute.org].</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Reprinted from <a href="http://www.wnd.com/">WND.com</a>.</strong></p>
<p>A prominent Muslim has been challenged to explain whether or not Islam demands the slaughter of Christians and, if not, why American Muslims aren’t vocally condemning atrocities in the Middle East.</p>
<p>In a panel discussion held in Omaha, Nebraska, by the <span class="userContent"><a href="http://globalfaithinstitute.org/">Global Faith Institute</a></span>, Muslim panel member Naser Z. Alsharif, head of the Middle East Cultural and Educational Services, was <a href="http://wnd.com/?p=1025515">challenged by FrontPage Magazine Editor Jamie Glazov</a>.</p>
<p>“Frankly … it’s so sickening how you snicker so condescendingly on this stage while Christians are being massacred by your co-religionists,” Glazov said.</p>
<blockquote><p>“You should be up here apologizing that there is an Islamic theology that you’re a party of that your co-religionists are quoting while they’re massacring Christians and kidnapping Nigerian Christian girls.”</p>
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<p>The panel was put together by <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/frontpagemag-com/confronting-the-muslim-brotherhood-in-the-american-heartland-on-the-glazov-gang/">Mark Christian,</a> the president of <a href="http://globalfaithinstitute.org/">Global Faith,</a> a group that is trying to stop the Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the <a href="http://globalfaithinstitute.org/downloads/Tri-Faith_FactSheet.pdf"> “Tri-Faith Initiative”</a> in Omaha, an effort where planners want to build a Jewish synagogue, Christian church and Muslim mosque on the same campus.</p>
<p>Glazov, author of <a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/Search?search=glazov">“United in Hate” and “Showdown with Evil,”</a> recently was criticized by a guest <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/06/islam-expert-people-afraid-to-tell-truth/">on Sean Hannity’s Fox News Channel program</a> as “a disgusting person” for claiming people who contend Islam has nothing to do with terrorism are complicit in acts of violence carried out by Muslims.</p>
<p>A Muslim proponent of the Omaha interfaith project responded to criticism that it is joining forces with groups such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Islamic Society of North America. Defenders argue the groups are allowed to do business with the federal government.</p>
<p>But Glazov pointed out the two Islamic groups were named unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism-funding trial, the largest of its kind in U.S. history.</p>
<p>Further, he said, CAIR and ISNA were founded by members of the Muslim Brotherhood, which has declared its objective in America is to destroy society from within.</p>
<p>In an interview with WND, Glazov explained what America would look like under Islam.</p>
<p>“Killing of apostates, church and synagogue burnings, genocide against religious minorities, slavery, stoning of adulterers and other monstrosities would be codified into the law. In other words, a nightmare,” he said.</p>
<p>Glazov said “our totalitarian and terrorist enemies manipulate and exploit ‘dialogue’ with us as a weapon to weaken and destroy us – a tactic which is found in Muslim Brotherhood documents.”</p>
<p>He said the political left, “which controls our culture,” tries to</p>
<blockquote><p>“appease our enemy, a desire which is based on the Stockholm Syndrome assumption that we can change our enemies’ intentions toward us by us doing something for them or changing something in our own behavior.”</p></blockquote>
<p>He made it clear that ISIS, whose reported atrocities across Iraq include beheading Christian children and crucifying their parents, is “the true Islam.”</p>
<p>“Anything we see in the West which looks ‘moderate’ appears that way because Muslims who are lucky enough to be separated from Shariah by Western influences, laws and environments, can practice ‘selective’ Islam,” he explained. “They will not have that privilege when Islam becomes the ruler of the land.”</p>
<p>Since its founding, Islam has had rules for Christian minorities under Muslim domination. Among the restrictions: Christians cannot build or repair a church without permission, display a cross, proselytize or “congregate in the open.”</p>
<p>ISIS is applying those restrictions and others in Iraq and Syria.</p>
<p>Glazov noted that a memorandum of understanding under which the three religious buildings would be constructed in Omaha stipulates that there be “no outward indications of the Jewish faith” and “no exterior display of the cross.”</p>
<p>The planned mosque, however, “features a very prominent crescent and star, an internationally known symbol of Islam.”</p>
<p><a href="http://wnd.com/?p=1025515">On the Hannity program,</a> Glazov said, “So many people are afraid to come forward because they’re called ‘dangerous’ people. They’re called ‘racists, Islamophobes.’ But we’re the ones on the side of the victims, including Muslims.”</p>
<p><em>Video of the exchange on “Hannity,&#8221; Glazov speaks at the <strong>11:45</strong> and <strong>32:00</strong> minute marks:</em></p>
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<p>In an interview on his own “The Glazov Gang” Web program with Ann-Marie Murrell, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/author/amurrell/">a WND columnist</a> and author of the upcoming book, <a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/books/What-Women-Really-Want-AutographedHardcover">“What Women (Really) Want,</a>” Glazov contended the left is winning the culture war, in part, because of its effective strategy of “demonizing” those who tell the truth about Islam:</p>
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<p>“What I’m so tired of hearing and what I was saying on the show is how the left has constructed the boundaries of debate,” he said.</p>
<blockquote><p>“[We're] standing up for the victims of jihad and Islamic gender apartheid, and this means we’re also standing up for many Muslim victims, for many Muslim people. Do you think we’re ‘Islamophobes’ and ‘racists’ because we spend so much of our time trying to save and protect the victims? … Those are Muslim women, those are Muslim girls.”</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Why Is the Islamic State Behaving This Way?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2014 04:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/390510-456a0a56-fa56-11e3-9463-539ac6ca705b.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238919" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/390510-456a0a56-fa56-11e3-9463-539ac6ca705b-450x314.jpg" alt="390510-456a0a56-fa56-11e3-9463-539ac6ca705b" width="292" height="204" /></a>The Islamic State is turning into a huge public relations problem for groups like the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its allies. For years they have insisted that Islam is a religion of peace that has nothing whatsoever to do with the terrorism committed with alarming regularity in its name, and that the people responsible for linking Islam with terrorism were not Islamic jihad terrorists, but “Islamophobic” opponents of jihad terror. But then comes along a group calling itself The Islamic State, committing unimaginable atrocities and presenting each one as an authentic embodiment of Islamic texts and teachings, and the deception campaign at which CAIR officials have labored so assiduously for so many years, and with such great success, is in danger of crashing around their uneasy necks.</p>
<p>Take, for example, the recent revelation that, according to the <a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=48477"><span style="color: #0433ff;">UN News Centre</span></a>, “some 1,500 Yazidi and Christian persons may have been forced into sexual slavery.” A similar kidnapping by Islamic jihadists in Nigeria recently horrified the world, but much overlooked was the fact that such behavior is sanctioned by the Qur’an. According to Islamic law, Muslim men can take “captives of the right hand” (Qur’an 4:3, 4:24, 33:50). The Qur’an says: “O Prophet! Lo! We have made lawful unto thee thy wives unto whom thou hast paid their dowries, and those whom thy right hand possesseth of those whom Allah hath given thee as spoils of war” (33:50). 4:3 and 4:24 extend this privilege to Muslim men in general, as does this passage. “Certainly will the believers have succeeded: They who are during their prayer humbly submissive, and they who turn away from ill speech, and they who are observant of zakah, and they who guard their private parts except from their wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they will not be blamed” (Qur’an 23:1-6).</p>
<p>These passages have not gone unnoticed. The Egyptian Sheikh Abu-Ishaq al-Huwayni <a href="http://www.translatingjihad.com/2011/05/egyptian-shaykh-jihad-is-solution-to.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">declared</span></a> in May 2011 that “we are in the era of jihad,” and that meant Muslims would take slaves. In a subsequent interview he elaborated:</p>
<blockquote><p>Jihad is only between Muslims and infidels. Spoils, slaves, and prisoners are only to be taken in war between Muslims and infidels. Muslims in the past conquered, invaded, and took over countries. This is agreed to by all scholars—there is no disagreement on this from any of them, from the smallest to the largest, on the issue of taking spoils and prisoners. The prisoners and spoils are distributed among the fighters, which includes men, women, children, wealth, and so on.</p>
<p>When a slave market is erected, which is a market in which are sold slaves and sex-slaves, which are called in the Qur’an by the name <i>milk al-yamin</i>, “that which your right hands possess” [Koran 4:24]. This is a verse from the Qur’an which is still in force, and has not been abrogated. The <i>milk al-yamin</i> are the sex-slaves. You go to the market, look at the sex-slave, and buy her. She becomes like your wife, (but) she doesn’t need a (marriage) contract or a divorce like a free woman, nor does she need a <i>wali</i>. All scholars agree on this point—there is no disagreement from any of them. [...] When I want a sex slave, I just go to the market and choose the woman I like and purchase her.</p></blockquote>
<p>Around the same time, on May 25, 2011, a female Kuwaiti politician, Salwa al-Mutairi, also <a href="http://www.translatingjihad.com/2011/06/video-kuwaiti-activist-i-hope-that.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">spoke out</span></a> in favor of the Islamic practice of sexual slavery of non-Muslim women, emphasizing that the practice accorded with Islamic law and the parameters of Islamic morality.</p>
<blockquote><p>A merchant told me that he would like to have a sex slave. He said he would not be negligent with her, and that Islam permitted this sort of thing. He was speaking the truth. I brought up [this man’s] situation to the muftis in Mecca. I told them that I had a question, since they were men who specialized in what was halal, and what was good, and who loved women. I said, “What is the law of sex slaves?”</p>
<p>The mufti said, “With the law of sex slaves, there must be a Muslim nation at war with a Christian nation, or a nation which is not of the religion, not of the religion of Islam. And there must be prisoners of war.”</p>
<p>“Is this forbidden by Islam?” I asked.</p>
<p>“Absolutely not. Sex slaves are not forbidden by Islam. On the contrary, sex slaves are under a different law than the free woman. The free woman must be completely covered except for her face and hands. But the sex slave can be naked from the waist up. She differs a lot from the free woman. While the free woman requires a marriage contract, the sex slave does not—she only needs to be purchased by her husband, and that’s it. Therefore the sex slave is different than the free woman.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The Islamic State acts on these beliefs, which are Qur’an-based. The kidnappings, meanwhile, have taken place amid a backdrop of unimaginable slaughter. The victims were those who refused the Islamic State’s demand that they convert to Islam to save their lives: <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/iraq-were-fleeing-because-jihadists-told-us--convert-to-islam-or-we-slaughter-you-9668760.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">a Yazidi woman</span></a> explained last week why thousands of Yazidis had fled the area of Iraq controlled by the Islamic State: “We came here because the terrorists said, ‘Either you convert to Islam or we slaughter you.’”</p>
<p>The Quran says “there is no compulsion in religion” (2:256) – a verse much beloved of Western non-Muslim multiculturalists, but it also says that Muslims must fight unbelievers until “religion is all for Allah” (8:39). And it insists that Muslims should “slay them” wherever they’re found (cf. 2:191; 4:89; 9:5).</p>
<p>It also says that Muslims must fight against the “People of the Book” – Jews, Christians, and others who are considered to have received previous revelations from Allah – until they “pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued” (9:29). That option of submission and subjugation, however, is not open to groups that have no written revelation that could qualify them for “People of the Book” status. Hence for the Yazidis, to convert or die are the only Qur’anic options open for them.</p>
<p>The Islamic State’s actions are an open book, and that book is the Qur’an. American Muslim spokesmen would do well to explain how they are misinterpreting the Islamic holy books, but claims to that effect have been vague and short of references to problematic passages. As long as that refusal to confront the problem continues, so will the killing.</p>
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		<title>&#8216;Freedom X&#8217; Takes on CAIR</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2014 04:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Truth-tellers about Sharia refuse to stand down. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/fg.gif"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238323" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/fg-450x314.gif" alt="fg" width="222" height="155" /></a>A lawsuit has been filed in Tennessee by <a href="http://freedomxlaw.com/faith-freedom/">Freedom X</a>, a nonprofit law firm that specializes in First Amendment issues. <em><a href="http://freedomxlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/01-main.pdf">John Peach vs. Knox County Schools</a></em> alleges that Knox County School officials and Superintendent Jim McIntyre <a href="http://www.knoxnews.com/news/local-news/group-opposing-sharia-law-sues-knox-county-schools-for-event-cancellation_58827612">canceled</a> an April after-hours presentation at Farragut High School that was to center around Sharia Law and its increasing acceptance in the United States due to complaints from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). “Public officials, and that includes public school officials, violate the free speech clause of the First Amendment whenever they censor speech merely because it offends someone,” said William J. Becker, Jr., Freedom X’s president and general counsel. “Unfortunately, we are seeing this trend grow as Muslim activists play the victim card.”</p>
<p>The lawsuit was filed on behalf of John Peach, director of the Knoxville chapter of <a href="http://www.actforamerica.org/index.php/learn/about-act-for-america">ACT! for America</a>, a group founded by Lebanese immigrant Brigitte Gabriel. Act! for America describes itself as a &#8220;non-partisan, non-sectarian organization whose mission is to give Americans concerned about national security and terrorism a powerful, organized, informed and mobilized voice.”</p>
<p>Apparently giving Americans that voice doesn’t sit well with CAIR. Prior to the event, CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper sent a <a href="https://www.cair.com/press-center/press-releases/12446-cair-welcomes-cancellation-of-anti-muslim-event-in-tenn-school.html">letter</a> to Farragut High School Principal Michael Reynolds insisting that the scheduled speakers— Dr. Bill French, aka Bill Warner, an expert on Islam and the Koran, and Matt Bonner, Knoxville chapter director of the Crescent Project, a Christian group that engages in Muslim evangelization—were “bigots.” Hooper further claimed that the event itself</p>
<blockquote><p>will be viewed as having the endorsement of school officials and has the potential to promote bullying and to create a hostile learning environment for Muslim students. It may also serve to create a negative impression of Islam and Muslims in the minds of students of all faiths.</p></blockquote>
<p>Hooper then claimed he supported the First Amendment right to free speech,</p>
<blockquote><p>even the kind of hate speech used by these speakers—but believe, because of the need for a safe and inclusive learning environment, that a school is not the proper setting for such an event. I therefore respectfully request that you review district policies to determine whether you (sic) high school is an appropriate venue for a potentially hate-filled program.</p></blockquote>
<p>After receiving Hooper’s letter, a school official told CAIR that &#8220;Farragut High School does not support this event, nor do we share the presenters’ views.” Soon after, the invitation was rescinded.</p>
<p>Knox County Superintendent Jim McIntyre explained the decision. “The primary purpose of our school facilities is to provide a safe, healthy and comfortable learning environment for our students,“ he <a href="http://counterjihadreport.com/2014/04/">said</a> in a statement. &#8220;When other uses of the facility begin to impinge on or interfere with the administration’s ability to provide a suitable education atmosphere, it is necessary for us to reconsider that use.”</p>
<p>That CAIR has any political traction whatsoever is a testament to what Freedom X describes as “creeping Sharia.” In a June 2009 <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/1425.pdf">ruling</a> arising from the 2008 trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), during which five HLF official were convicted of 108 counts of abetting terrorist organizations, Judge Jorge Solis revealed that CAIR had ties to Hamas. &#8220;The government has produced ample evidence to establish the associations of CAIR, ISNA, NAIT, with NAIT, the Islamic Association for Palestine, and with Hamas,” it stated. Solis agreed with CAIR that his ruling should have remained sealed based on Fifth Amendment protections, but he refused to remove references to CAIR from the trial record. &#8220;CAIR&#8217;s status as a co-conspirator is a matter of public record,” he explained.</p>
<p>In an unfortunate twist in the story, the Internet media group <a href="http://lp.prweb.com/ps/g/brand-se?cid=70180000000pIvN&amp;prwcampaigncode=psg_brand_2013&amp;ps_campaign=prweb-brand-search&amp;ps_adgroup=prweb&amp;pkw=prweb&amp;mkwid=shaonqxeZ&amp;pcrid=44541689095&amp;pmt=e&amp;gclid=CMKL7uzQgcACFcZQ7AodKFEA1Q">PRWeb</a>, an organization that boasts of having a network of 30,000 journalists and the ability to get stories featured on “major local and national news sites,” has attempted to suppress this information about CAIR. When Becker sought to get the story of Freedom X’s lawsuit disseminated to a wider audience, and included the published references of CAIR’s ties to Hamas in his press release, PRWeb refused to run it.</p>
<p>Emails from August 4  and 5 provided to Frontpage by Becker reveal that PRWeb informed Freedom X that their press release had been &#8220;put on hold” because the website&#8217;s editors had determined that it &#8220;appears to be intended to exact personal revenge or harm a person or group” and that CAIR’s association with Hamas “did not contain attribution.” On August 5, another email from PRWeb indicated that Becker had in fact provided attribution, however, PRWeb nonetheless informed Becker that the press release had to be revised to remove &#8220;potentially harmful material:”</p>
<blockquote><p>Please strike the following from your press release:</p>
<p>&#8220;CAIR, which is affiliated with Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization (see Order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas in United States v. Holy Land Foundation (04-CR-0240) <a href="http://www.%20investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/1425.pdf ">found here</a> and published on 07/01/09. Since 10/8/1997 Hamas has been classified by the U.S. State Department as a Foreign Terrorist Organization), has a practice of complaining about events critical to Islam in order to silence speakers, something the complaint alleges the organization didi (sic) in this case,&#8221; Becker said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Speaking with Frontpage, Becker noted the irony of an organization dedicated to disseminating information demanding the same “sanitization” that CAIR demands. &#8220;Playing directly into the hands of the censors” prevents the public from being properly informed, Becker noted.</p>
<p>To add insult to injury, PRWeb elected to publish a press release from CAIR that denounced the ACT! For America Knoxville chapter and vilified scheduled speaker Bill French. This leaves little question that PRWeb&#8217;s censorship was not done to avoid &#8220;potential harm&#8221; but out of an animus toward Freedom X and its client.</p>
<p>As the case filing explains, Becker seeks to “protect and vindicate fundamental Constitutional rights,” because the defendants have “adopted and enforced an unconstitutional policy that restricts protected speech in a public forum.” It also seeks a “permanent injunction enjoining the enforcement of Defendants’ Speech Restriction.” Becker also wants “nominal damages,” attorney fees and expenses.</p>
<p>The lawsuit was timed to coincide with the beginning of the new school year. “We have a lesson to teach the teachers,” Becker explained.</p>
<blockquote><p>“The First Amendment protects speech some might not want to hear but school officials are sworn to uphold the Constitution and to allow it. They were tricked into censoring American citizens wanting to exercise the freedom of speech that distinguishes America from Muslim nations.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Becker deserves credit for giving the defendants the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps a better term than “tricked” might be “capitulated,” much in the same manner as that of Brandeis University president Frederick Lawrence who shamefully rescinded an honorary degree that was offered to Somali-born women’s rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. CAIR was part of the mob who pursued that recision, with CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad <a href="https://www.cair.com/press-center/press-releases/12444-cair-welcomes-brandeis-universitys-withdrawal-of-honor-for-islamophobe-ayaan-hirsi-ali.html">referring</a> to Ali as an &#8220;anti-Muslim bigot” with &#8220;hate-filled and extremist views.”</p>
<p>Becker sees the bigger picture. “Muslims in America led by CAIR, which is affiliated with Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization, are exploiting our laws to erode everyone else’s freedom of speech,” he warned. “It’s part and parcel of a greater plan to eventually make us into an Islamic caliphate.”</p>
<p>Courageous truth tellers like Freedom X and John Peach are determined to prevent that from happening &#8212; opposition from public school educators and the mainstream media notwithstanding.</p>
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		<title>Glenn Greenwald Enraged that Muslims with Terror Ties Under Surveillance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2014 04:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Screen-Shot-2014-07-09-at-1.03.34-PM.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235958" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Screen-Shot-2014-07-09-at-1.03.34-PM-448x350.png" alt="Screen Shot 2014-07-09 at 1.03.34 PM" width="284" height="222" /></a>Glenn Greenwald and his fellow jihad-enabling “journalist” Murtaza Hussain on Wednesday published <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/07/09/under-surveillance/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">a major exposé</span></a>, “Under Surveillance: Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On,” about Muslim leaders who are being spied upon by the FBI and the NSA. The thrust of the article is that each one is as pure as the day is long, with the one sin of opposing U.S. government policies.</p>
<p>The idea, of course, that opposing U.S. government policies from the Left will get you placed under surveillance these days is beyond ridiculous: Obama’s IRS is targeting conservative groups, not Leftists, and claiming that “right-wing extremists” are a terror threat, with nary a word about genuinely violent Left-wing extremist groups such as the Occupy movement and others.</p>
<p>And so it is no surprise that Greenwald and Hussain make their case by glossing over the genuine reasons why the FBI and NSA have placed these men under surveillance — surveillance which, if it is still going on at this point, is sure to end now as a result of this article. The article highlights these five men, glossing over the very real reasons why surveillance is justified:</p>
<p>• Faisal Gill, a longtime Republican Party operative and one-time candidate for public office who held a top-secret security clearance and served in the Department of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush;</p>
<p>• Asim Ghafoor, a prominent attorney who has represented clients in terrorism-related cases;</p>
<p>• Hooshang Amirahmadi, an Iranian-American professor of international relations at Rutgers University;</p>
<p>• Agha Saeed, a former political science professor at California State University who champions Muslim civil liberties and Palestinian rights;</p>
<p>• Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the country….</p>
<p>Regarding Faisal Gill, Greenwald and Hussain write:</p>
<blockquote><p>…After leaving the Navy, Gill worked as a consultant for the American Muslim Council, which was founded by the political activist Abdul Rahman al-Amoudi to encourage participation by American Muslims in the political process. A Republican since high school, Gill joined the Bush Administration in the aftermath of 9/11, eventually moving to the White House Office of Homeland Security, where he briefly worked with Richard Clarke and obtained a top-secret security clearance. After roughly a year, he joined the Department of Homeland Security as a senior policy adviser, where he was cleared to access sensitive compartmented information, a classification level reserved for some of the nation’s most closely held secrets.</p>
<p>In 2003, al-Amoudi was arrested for participating in a Libyan plot to assassinate Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah and for illegal financial transactions with the Libyan government, crimes for which he eventually pleaded guilty. Because Gill’s name had turned up in al-Amoudi’s papers, he was investigated by DHS security officials and asked not to report to work pending the outcome. He told investigators that he had met al-Amoudi only three or four times and didn’t work closely with him during his time at the American Muslim Council. After passing a polygraph test, Gill says, he was told by DHS that he was “good to go” and returned to work.</p></blockquote>
<p>Greenwald and Hussain here establish the pattern of their entire piece: they leave out crucial details of the background of each of their supposed innocent victims of surveillance, thereby obscuring why they were put under surveillance in the first place. Faisal Gill worked as a consultant for the American Muslim Council. He says that he only met Alamoudi a few times and didn’t work closely with him.</p>
<p>Very well. But Greenwald and Hussain don’t mention that, according to <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1311"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Discover the Networks</span></a>, the plot to assassinate Abdullah involved “two U.K.-based <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6211"><span style="color: #0433ff;">al Qaeda</span></a> operatives,” and that he “ultimately pled guilty to, and was <a href="http://bigpeace.com/teamb/2010/10/27/muslim-brotherhood-penetration-of-the-us-government-a-case-study/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">convicted</span></a> of, being a senior al Qaeda financier who had funneled at least $1 million into the coffers of that terrorist organization.”</p>
<p>So here is Faisal Gill, who was a consultant for a group founded and headed by a confessed senior al Qaeda financier. He hardly knew him — fine. He was cleared of any wrongdoing — fine. But is it not possible that Alamoudi or someone connected to him might try to contact Faisal Gill, and win this upstanding American patriot over to their side, or try to use him in some way? Is there not, then, a case for placing Faisal Gill under surveillance, given his association with a senior jihad terror financier?</p>
<p>Also, would Greenwald and Hussain be enraged if the FBI and NSA placed under surveillance someone who had worked as a consultant for a group headed by a senior Ku Klux Klan financier, even if the consultant had been cleared of any wrongdoing? I doubt it. Nor should they be.</p>
<p>Likewise with Asim Ghafoor:</p>
<blockquote><p>In 2003, the Al Haramain Islamic Foundation, a Saudi charity, hired Ghafoor after its U.S. assets were frozen by the Treasury Department over claims that it funded terrorist operations. The government alleged that there were “direct links” between the U.S. branch of the charity and Osama bin Laden. Al Haramain had previously been represented by some of the biggest and most prestigious American law firms, including the D.C. powerhouse Akin Gump. Ghafoor’s work with Al Haramain led him to other controversial clients, including Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, a brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden who was the subject of FBI and CIA surveillance for years, as well as the government of Sudan.</p></blockquote>
<p>This would seem to be enough in itself to keep Ghafoor under surveillance, in case one of his jihad terrorist clients gave out information that could stop a jihad terror attack. But there is more. <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=896"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Discover the Networks</span></a> notes that “Asim Ghafoor was a political consultant, spokesman, and public relations director for the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6355"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Global Relief Foundation</span></a> (GRF), which the U.S. government shut down in December 2001 because of the organization’s ties to terrorism….GRF is not the only organization with ties to terrorism with which Ghafoor has been involved. While he was with GRF, Ghafoor was also the spokesman for Care International. The December 6, 2002 <i>Wall Street Journal </i>reports: ‘Records indicate close ties between [Care International] and the Boston branch of Al Kifah Refugee Center, the Brooklyn branch of which was named by prosecutors as the locus of the 1993 conspiracy to bomb the World Trade Center.”</p>
<p>Greenwald and Hussain don’t mention any of that, of course. And their inclusion of Hooshang Amirahmadi is just bizarre. Greenwald and Hussain note that he “does not self-identify as a Muslim and describes himself as an atheist.” So why is he included in a piece entitled “Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On”? Apparently Greenwald and Hussain couldn’t find enough Muslim leaders whom they could even with the remotest plausibility portray as innocent victims of unwarranted surveillance, so they figured an Iranian atheist was close enough.</p>
<p>If a foe of jihad terror were that careless of the facts, Greenwald and Hussain would be among the first to pounce.</p>
<p>Unlike in the other cases, with Agha Saeed, all the information needed to see why surveillance was deemed warranted is in the Greenwald/Hussain piece:</p>
<blockquote><p>The only notable public controversy involving Saeed occurred in 2000, two days after the American Muslim Alliance announced its endorsement of Bush. <i>The New York Daily News </i><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/israel-foes-give-hil-50g-muslim-group-backs-palestinian-force-article-1.881893"><span style="color: #0433ff;">attempted to demonize a $50,000 donation</span></a> the group made to Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaign by highlighting Saeed’s support for the right of Palestinians to armed resistance against occupation if peaceful means fail—a right affirmed in a series of resolutions by the United Nations General Assembly.</p>
<p>Yielding to pressure, Clinton quickly condemned the remarks and announced that she was returning the donation. Her GOP opponent, Rick Lazio, attacked her for receiving “blood money” and criticized her and her husband for having invited Muslim-Americans who opposed the Middle East peace process to the White House.</p></blockquote>
<p>“Saeed’s support for the right of Palestinians to armed resistance against occupation if peaceful means fail—a right affirmed in a series of resolutions by the United Nations General Assembly.” The fact that the UN endorsed the “Palestinian” jihad is hardly a ringing affirmation of its moral rectitude, and in any case, the groups that pursue “armed resistance against occupation” are jihad terror groups such as Hamas, Hizballah, and Islamic Jihad. Saeed supports this “armed resistance,” so he may be in contact with some of the leaders or members of such groups, and surveillance could reveal something that could be used to stop their jihad terror attacks against civilians. So here again, surveillance is warranted.</p>
<p>Turning to Nihad Awad, Greenwald and Hussain write:</p>
<blockquote><p>…“I’m outraged as an American citizen that my government, after decades of civil rights struggle, still spies on political activists and civil right activists and leaders,” says Awad. “I’m really angry that despite all the work that we have been doing in our communities to serve the nation, we are treated with suspicion.”</p>
<p>The bulk of CAIR’s work is devoted to protecting the civil liberties of Muslim-Americans. (Full disclosure: <b>Glenn Greenwald, a co-author of this story, has given paid speeches before CAIR’s regional affiliates</b>.) The group frequently provides legal counsel to those who believe their rights have been infringed, and litigates constitutional challenges to state and federal laws. Awad says he is particularly incensed about the surveillance given the close cooperation that CAIR has provided the U.S. government in <a href="http://fl.cair.com/page/antiterrorism"><span style="color: #0433ff;">denouncing violent extremism</span></a>. “The government knows very well that I am not a foreign agent,” he says.</p>
<p>Despite its political moderation and relationship to federal law enforcement agencies, CAIR became a primary target of hardline neoconservatives after 9/11. In 2007, the Justice Department named the group as one of more than 300 “unindicted co-conspirators” in its controversial prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation, then the largest Muslim charity in the U.S., which was eventually convicted of providing material support to Hamas. The Justice Department later attempted to justify its inclusion of CAIR by referring to wiretap evidence showing that in 1993, a Palestinian advocacy group that prosecutors believed was linked to Hamas met in a Philadelphia hotel and talked about founding CAIR. In 1994, Awad voiced public support for Hamas—before the group’s campaign of suicide attacks against civilians and subsequent placement on the State Department’s terrorist list in 1997.</p>
<p>“I do not support Hamas,” Awad says today, pointing out that the group was not involved in terrorist activities at the time he made the statement. “It was not on the list of organizations that sponsor or conduct terrorism by the State Department. And when the organization took those acts, CAIR has condemned it, repeatedly.”…</p></blockquote>
<p>Very well. So Awad supported Hamas in 1994, but in 1997, when it was placed on the State Department’s terrorist list, he stopped supporting it. <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/hamas.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Here</span></a> is part of the old Hamas website’s “glory record” of attacks against Israelis – the terrorist organization’s own record of its murderous actions. Here are some of Hamas’ self-described exploits from before 1994, when Awad made his statement about supporting Hamas:</p>
<blockquote><p>3. Boureen Operation: The militant Hamdan Hussein Al:najar, a member of Hamas, killed the Israeli settler Ya’coub Berey using a big rock as his weapon. The militant was shot down as a martyr after he had ambushed an Israeli patrol using the dead settler’s weapon….</p>
<p>6. Bus No. 405 Operation: Militant Ahmed Hussein Shukry, a member of Hamas, was able to lead an Israeli soldier to a secluded place in Tel Aviv where the militant hit the soldier with a chisel and killed him on 8 September 1989. The following day, the militant got on bus No. 405 and stabbed the driver to take over the bus; however, the passengers were able to stop the militant….</p>
<p>12. Keryat Youval Operation: The militant Mohammed Mustafa Abu Jalala stabbed four Israelis and injured another at a bus station in Keryat Youval in Jerusalem before he was arrested by the Israeli forces.</p>
<p>13. Askalan Road Operation: While driving a taxi, the militant Jameel Ismail Al:baz, a member of Hamas, ran over a group of Israelis waiting on this road on 19 July 1991….</p>
<p>15. Shailou Operation: A military group belonging to Al Qassam Brigades attacked an Israeli bus carrying some settlers on their way to Tel Aviv to participate in demonstrations organized by the extremist party Likud against the peace process. The bus was completely destroyed; two Israelis were killed and five more were injured….</p>
<p>17. Eid Al-maskhara Operation: The militant Ra’ed Al:reefy attacked an Israeli crowd in Jaffa on 17 March 1992. He was able to kill 2 and injure 21 Israelis who gathered to celebrate Eid Al:maskhara, also known as Al:boureem.</p>
<p>18. Beit Lahya Operation: On the third anniversary of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin’s arrest, a group belonging to Al Qassam Brigades attacked an Israeli settler at Beit Lahya and shot him down then withdrew safely….</p>
<p>21. Carlo Factory Operation: Four militants belonging to Al Qassam Brigades broke into a citrus packing factory (Carlo) near Nahal Oaz at 2:30 p.m. on 25 June 1992. Three militants stabbed two Israelis while the other was guarding….</p></blockquote>
<p>So Greenwald and Hussain claim that Awad only supported Hamas “before the group’s campaign of suicide attacks against civilians” began. Yet on Hamas’s own website at the time Awad expressed his support for the group was a celebration of the murders of civilian Ya’coub Berey; the civilians on the bus to Tel Aviv; the civilians in the crowd in Jaffa; and the civilian at Beit Lahya; as well as the stabbings of the driver of bus No. 405, the Israelis at the bus station in Keryat Youval, and the citrus packers, as well as the victims of cabbie Jameel Ismail al-Baz.</p>
<p>Also, when Awad says that he and CAIR do not support Hamas today, it should be recalled that in March 2004, when Hamas leader Sheikh Yassin was killed by Israel, CAIR condemned his killing — without ever mentioning that Yassin was the mastermind and director of suicide killings for Hamas: “We condemn this violation of international law as an act of state terrorism by Ariel Sharon’s out-of-control government. Israel’s extra-judicial killing of an Islamic religious leader can only serve to perpetuate the cycle of violence throughout the region. The international community must now take concrete steps to help protect the Palestinian people against such wanton Israeli violence.”</p>
<p>The way they deal with Awad is typical of the dishonesty of the entire Greenwald/Hussain piece. But it will no doubt accomplish its purpose: the ending of surveillance of these and other Muslim leaders, the further weakening of counter-terror operations in general, and the increased endangering of Americans.</p>
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		<title>Meet CAIR&#8217;s Fake Jewish Protesters in Burkas Against Islamohophobia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2014 15:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>When Muslim groups decided to protest the 9/11 Museum for its Islamophobia, they did it the traditional way, with anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>There was the Imam who resigned from the museum&#8217;s advisory board accusing it of Islamophobia, and<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/imam-who-claimed-911-museum-defames-muslims-says-jews-are-a-cancer-control-all-the-money/"> claimed that Jews are a &#8220;cancer&#8221;</a>. CAIR and other Muslim groups held a press conference <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/cair-complains-about-911-museums-islamophobia-accuses-jews-of-killing-jesus/">at the Interchurch Center at which one of</a> their speakers accused Jews of killing Jesus.</p>
<p>Finally the whole thing was topped with a protest by Muslims protesters against the 9/11 Museum who claimed to be Jews.</p>
<p>Going by CAIR&#8217;s photos,<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/todd-fine-vocal-opponent-of-911-museum-linked-to-country-that-aided-911-mastermind/"> I had noted that there</a> weren&#8217;t too many Jews, but a whole lot of women in Burkas, but <a href="http://thesilentmajority.wordpress.com/2014/05/26/jews-say-no-protest-violates-sanctity-of-911-museum-vids-pics/">as intrepid videographer Pamela Hall has documented, it was actually much worse than that</a>.</p>
<p>The &#8220;Jews Against Islamophobia&#8221; protest, aside from the usual handful of elderly Trotskyists associated with radical anti-Israel groups, the protesters were Muslim women in Burkas and Hijabs holding up signs claiming to be Jews.</p>
<p>And the media not only did not report on it, but allowed them to get away with it. There&#8217;s no other group that would have been allowed to pull a blatant fraud like this with no one to say a word.</p>
<div id="attachment_234088" style="width: 328px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14074665788_d6a9d93c2e.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-234088" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14074665788_d6a9d93c2e-318x350.jpg" alt="photo credit: Pamela Hall" width="318" height="350" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">photo credit: Pamela Hall</p></div>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14281479313_026d6c167f.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-234089" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14281479313_026d6c167f-291x350.jpg" alt="photo credit: Pamela Hall" width="291" height="350" /></a></p>
<p>photo credit: Pamela Hall</p>
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<p>There are more <a href="http://thesilentmajority.wordpress.com/2014/05/26/jews-say-no-protest-violates-sanctity-of-911-museum-vids-pics/">photos and video at The Silent Majority blog</a>.</p>
<p>Burkas are obviously a sign that we are dealing with a hard line Islamic group. The Hijabs on very young girls are even worse.</p>
<p>Not only were the protesters Muslims, but they were likely gathered from an extremely intolerant mosque.</p>
<p>CAIR and the Muslim groups behind this ugliness owe the Jewish community an apology. But their record of bigotry and support for terrorism against Jews makes that highly unlikely.</p>
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		<title>CAIR Harassing 9/11 Museum for Not Providing Arabic Booklets</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2014 00:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p><a href="http://weaselzippers.us/188047-911-museum-excludes-arabic-from-brochure-translation-cair-outraged/">This just never ends</a>. Does it. You would think that killing 3,000 people would be enough. Must <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/1854/doj-cairs-unindicted-co-conspirator-status-legit">unindicted terrorist co-conspirator groups</a> like CAIR continue this contrast harassment of the place that commemorates their brutal murders?</p>
<p>The latest whinefare is a CAIR tweet of an editorial claiming that &#8220;Sept. 11 memorial insults Arabic speakers by excluding Arabic from brochure translations&#8221;.</p>
<p>Also the memorial excludes Hebrew, Polish, Korean, Swahili and 90 percent of the languages on earth because it can only accommodate a handful of major languages.</p>
<p>Muslim entitlement really knows no limits. It&#8217;s like a German tourist visiting a Holocaust museum and complaining that there isn&#8217;t enough German language material. Or a Japanese tourist complaining about a lack of Katakana at Pearl Harbor.</p>
<p>And this entitled Muslim <a href="http://nypost.com/2013/09/14/muslim-activists-want-911-memorial-to-provide-tourist-brochures-in-arabic/">whining has been going on for a while</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The memorial said, “Nine languages are spoken by over 97 percent of our visitors: English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Mandarin, Italian, Japanese and Russian.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The 9/11 Memorial provides booklets for 9 non-English languages that are commonly spoken by locals or tourists. They include Spanish (1.8 million New Yorkers), Chinese (418,000 New Yorkers) and Russian (186,000 New Yorkers).</p>
<p>Also on the list are languages spoken by some of the most common tourist visitors such as Portuguese (Brazil 806,000), French (France 667,000) and German (Germany 605,000).</p>
<p>Eventually the number of languages may be expanded.</p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t a conspiracy against Muslims. The Metropolitan Museum of Art<a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/now-at-the-met/from-the-director/2012/audio-tour"> provides an audio tour in nine languages</a>. They&#8217;re mostly the same ones and Arabic isn&#8217;t on the list. The Frick <a href="http://www.frick.org/visit/museum/audio">has an audio tour in six</a> languages, again most of the same ones.</p>
<p>Museums know who their likely visitors are and their non-English materials usually accommodate European and Asian tourists.</p>
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		<title>CAIR Commemorated Memorial Day by Attacking American Soldiers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2014 02:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Unlike their fellow Muslim Brotherhood Al Qaeda members abroad however <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/cair-officials-memorial-day-do-us-troops-merit-honor">they confined it to verbal attacks</a>. So you can see they&#8217;re a &#8220;moderate&#8221; Islamic group, as Ryan Mauro reveals.</p>
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<p>The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a group labeled by the Justice Department as a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity and unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism-financing trial, disingenuously claims that it is a moderate organization.</p>
<blockquote><p>Zahra Billoo, the radical executive-director of CAIR’s San Francisco Bay Area chapter, tweeted that she “struggles with Memorial Day each year” about whether to honor American soldiers who died in wars:</p>
<p>She also quoted another CAIR official, Dawud Walid, the executive-director of CAIR’s Michigan chapter, as questioning whether they should honor American soldiers that died in “unjust” wars and occupations.</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;m sure she &#8220;struggles&#8221; almost as much with it as whether to convert to Buddhism and take up hugging random people.</p>
<blockquote><p>The tweets outraged the American-Islamic Forum on Democracy (AIFD), a Muslim group opposed to Islamist extremism. Its leader, Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, served in the U.S. Navy.</p>
<p>“It is plain to see, however, that they [the CAIR officials] have nothing but disdain for our armed forces. We do hope that Muslim members of the U.S. military realize that CAIR sees you as ‘occupiers,’ not patriots protecting the freest nation on earth,” the AIFD said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Well how else would they see it? The Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s spiritual guide,<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printindividualProfile.asp?indid=822"> Yusuf Al-Qaradawi</a> supported terrorist attacks on Americans, soldiers and civilians, in Iraq. He called America an enemy of Islam. (It would be more accurate the other way around.)</p>
<p>CAIR&#8217;s co-founder endorsed terrorists. Its co-founder <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=6176">Omar Ahmad</a> told a Fremont, California audience in July 1998: &#8220;Islam isn&#8217;t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran … should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.&#8221;</p>
<p>The difference between CAIR and Al Qaeda is that the latter Muslim Brotherhood front group is honest about what it does.</p>
<p>I would no more expect CAIR&#8217;s officials to honestly honor US troops than I would expect Osama bin Laden to don a flag pin, rise from the dead and attend Fleet Week&#8230; unless he got caught in a propeller.</p>
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		<title>CAIR Complains About 9/11 Museum&#8217;s Islamophobia, Accuses Jews of Killing Jesus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2014 15:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Islamic critics of the 9/11 Museum keep that it refuses to lie about the Al Qaeda hijackers and their Islamic motives which were rooted in the Koran.</p>
<p>And they also keep hurting their own case <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/4387/9-11-museum-film-critic-says-jews-killed-jesus">by making anti-Semitic statements</a>. (via <a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/muslim-woman-during-cairs-press.html">Blazing Cat Fur</a>)</p>
<blockquote><p>Mustafa Elazabawy, an imam at Masjid Manhattan who wrote one of the first letters of protest to the museum, cast Jews as controlling money and the world during a 2008 sermon still available on the mosque&#8217;s website. He called them a &#8220;cancer &#8230; in every generation as they get in power.&#8221; And, like Hamdani, he said Jews &#8220;killed the Prophets and the messengers.&#8221;</p>
<p>Elazabawy claimed that the film, as it exists, &#8220;would greatly offend our local Muslim believers as well as any foreign Muslim visitor to the museum.&#8221; It might leave &#8220;[u]nsophisticated visitors who do not understand the difference between Al Qaeda and Muslims &#8230; with a prejudiced view of Islam, leading to antagonism and even confrontation toward Muslim believers near the site.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Then CAIR held a press conference at the New York Interchurch Center and kept it going.</p>
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<blockquote><p>&#8220;Who crucified Jesus?&#8221; Talat Hamdani said. &#8220;Do we ever question that? Bring in the fact that not only the Romans but there were Jews who crucified Jesus?&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>What a bracingly new idea. Islamophobia is wrong. Let&#8217;s pivot to anti-Semitism.</p>
<blockquote><p>Speakers included New York City Councilman Robert Jackson, Rev. Chloe Breyer, daughter of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, and Zead Ramadan of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) New York chapter.</p></blockquote>
<p>None of them condemned Talat Hamadani&#8217;s hate.</p>
<p>After hosting and promoting CAIR&#8217;s latest spectacle of hate, the Jewish Community Relations Council  and New York Board of Rabbis should end its relationship with the New York Interchurch Center.</p>
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		<title>Muslim Brotherhood Front Group Demands Private Emails of American Mosque Opponents</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CAIR is targeting seven Michigan residents ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/National-Executive-Director-of-Council-on-American_Islamic-RelationsCAIR-Nihad-Awad-holds-a-translated-copy-of-the-Quran-as-he-speaks-news-conference-at-the-headquarters-of-CAIR.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-224185" alt="The Council on American-Islamic Relations Announces Educational Initiative" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/National-Executive-Director-of-Council-on-American_Islamic-RelationsCAIR-Nihad-Awad-holds-a-translated-copy-of-the-Quran-as-he-speaks-news-conference-at-the-headquarters-of-CAIR-450x317.jpg" width="450" height="317" /></a></p>
<p>For now it&#8217;s only CAIR.<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/islamists-demanding-private-emails-documents/"> Wait till it&#8217;s Eric Holder demanding them</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>A Muslim organization is targeting seven Michigan residents who opposed plans for a major Islamic construction project in their neighborhood, and a legal team defending them alleges that the goal is to intimidate the project opponents and send a message to others.</p>
<p>CAIR touts itself as a Muslim civil rights group, but federal prosecutors in 2007 named the Washington, D.C.-based group an unindicted co-conspirator in a plot to fund the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas, and more than a dozen CAIR leaders have been charged or convicted of terrorism-related crimes.</p>
<p>The case was prompted by a plan by the Muslim Community Association of Ann Arbor in 2012 to build an Islamic school and community center.</p>
<p>It needed the town to rezone the property. But the request was denied because of infrastructure and traffic concerns.</p>
<p>CAIR filed a federal civil rights action against the township on behalf of MCA, claiming the denial of the rezoning application violated the Muslims’ rights.</p>
<p>AFLC explained that the township residents were concerned about the traffic congestion that would be caused by the construction of a school and community center in their neighborhood. They circulated and submitted to township officials a petition expressing their opposition to the rezoning, and several of them spoke out at public hearings.</p>
<p>“As a result, CAIR served harassing subpoenas on a number of these citizens, demanding that they produce private emails and other documents, and in some cases, appear for a deposition,” AFLC said.</p></blockquote>
<p>As usual, Muslim civil rights require the systematic violation of the civil rights of others.</p>
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