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		<title>Ten Ways the Mafia and Islam Are Similar</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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<p>During <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/other-matters/ben-affleck-portrait-of-islams-clueless-apologetics/">a debate on HBO’s <em>Real Time</em></a> last October, host Bill Maher declared that Islam is “the only religion that acts like the mafia, that will f***ing kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture, or write the wrong book.”</p>
<p>Maher was apparently referring to Islam’s “blasphemy” laws, which ban on pain of death any “insult”—as found in a statement, a picture, a book—to Islam and especially its prophet, Muhammad.</p>
<p>While Maher has been criticized for his “Islamophobic” assertion, he and others may be surprised to learn that the similarities between Islam and the mafia far exceed punishing those who say, draw, or write “the wrong thing.”</p>
<p>In what follows, we will examine a number of these similarities.</p>
<p>We will begin by looking at the relationship between Allah, his messenger Muhammad, and the Muslims, and note several parallels with the relationship between the godfather, his underboss, and the mafia.</p>
<p>Next, we will examine the clannish nature of the mafia and compare it to Islam’s tribalism, especially in the context of the Islamic doctrine “Loyalty and Enmity.” For example, in both Islam and the mafia, members who wish to break away, to “apostatize,” are killed.</p>
<p>We will consider how the mafia and Islam have both historically profited from the “protection” racket: Islam has demanded <em>jizya</em> from non-Muslims under its authority/territory and the mafia has demanded <em>pizzo</em> from people that fall under its jurisdiction.</p>
<p>Finally, we will consider what accounts for these many similarities between Islam and the mafia, including from an historical perspective.</p>
<p><strong>1. Allah and Muhammad/Godfather and Underboss </strong></p>
<p>The <em>padrino</em> of larger mafia organizations and families—literally, the “godfather” or “boss of bosses”—has absolute control over his subordinates and is often greatly feared by them for his ruthlessness. He has an “underboss,” a right-hand man who issues his orders and enforces his will. The godfather himself is often inaccessible; mafia members need to go through the underboss or other high ranking associates.</p>
<p>Compare this with the relationship between Allah and his “messenger” Muhammad (in Arabic, Muhammad is most commonly referred to as <em>al-rasul</em>, “the messenger”). Unlike the Judeo-Christian God—a personal God, a Father, that according to Christ is to be communed with directly (Matt 6:9)—Islam’s god, Allah, is unreachable, unknowable, untouchable. Like the godfather, he is inaccessible.   His orders are revealed by his messenger, Muhammad.</p>
<p>If the Judeo-Christian God calls on the faithful to “come now, let us reason together” (Isaiah 1:18), Allah says “Do not ask questions about things that, if made known to you, would only pain you” (Koran 5:101). Just follow orders.</p>
<p><strong>2. A “Piece of the Action” </strong></p>
<p>The godfather and his underboss always get a “piece of the action”—a “cut”—of all spoils acquired by their subordinates.</p>
<p>So do Allah and his messenger, Muhammad. Koran 8:41 informs Muslims that “one-fifth of all war-booty you acquire goes to Allah and the messenger” (followed by Muhammad’s family and finally the needy).</p>
<p><strong>3. Assassinations </strong></p>
<p>The godfather, through his underboss, regularly sends mafia men to make “hits”—to assassinate—those deemed enemies of the family.</p>
<p>So did Allah and his messenger. One <a href="http://www.sahih-bukhari.com/Pages/Bukhari_5_59.php">example</a>:  A non-Muslim poet, <a href="http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Islam_Undressed:_Muhammad%E2%80%99s_Actions,_Speaking_Louder_than_Words#The_Murder_of_Kab_Ashraf">Ka‘b ibn Ashraf</a>, insulted Muhammad, prompting the latter to exclaim, “Who will kill this man who has hurt Allah and his messenger?” A young Muslim named Ibn Maslama volunteered on condition that to get close enough to assassinate Ka‘b he be allowed to lie to the poet.</p>
<p>Allah’s messenger <a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/bukhari/bh4/bh4_274.htm">agreed</a>. Ibn Maslama traveled to Ka‘b and began to denigrate Islam and Muhammad until his disaffection became so convincing that the poet took him into his confidence. Soon thereafter, Ibn Maslama appeared with another Muslim and, while Ka‘b’s guard was down, slaughtered the poet, bringing his head to Muhammad to the usual triumphant cries of “Allahu Akbar!”</p>
<p><strong>4. Circumstance is Everything</strong></p>
<p>While the mafia adheres to a general code of conduct, the godfather issues more fluid orders according to circumstances.</p>
<p>This is reminiscent of the entire “revelation” of the Koran, where later verses/commands contradict earlier verses/commands, depending on circumstances (known in Islamic jurisprudence as <em>al-nāsikh wal-mansūkh</em>, or the <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/islamic-jihad-and-the-doctrine-of-abrogation/">doctrine of abrogation</a>).</p>
<p>Thus, whereas Allah supposedly told the prophet that “there is no compulsion in religion” (Koran 2:256), <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/how-circumstance-dictates-islamic-behavior/">once the messenger grew strong enough</a>, Allah issued new revelations calling for all-out war/jihad till Islam became supreme (Koran 8:39, 9:5, 9:29, etc.).</p>
<p>While other religions and scriptures may have contradictions, only Islam rationalizes them through abrogation—that is, by giving prominence to later verses which are seen as the “latest” decision of the deity.</p>
<p><strong>5. Clan Loyalty </strong></p>
<p>Loyalty is fundamental in the mafia. Following elaborate rituals of blood oaths, mafia members are expected to maintain absolute loyalty to the family, on pain of death.</p>
<p>Similarly, mafia members are expected always to be available for the family—“<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7086716.stm">even if your wife is about to give birth</a>,” as one of the mafia’s “ten commandments” puts it—and to defend the godfather and his honor, even if it costs their lives.</p>
<p>Compare this to the widespread violence and upheavals that occur whenever Allah or his prophet is offended—whenever non-Muslim “infidels” blaspheme them. Or, as Bill Maher put it: “Its’ the only religion that acts like the mafia, that will f***ing kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture, or write the wrong book.”</p>
<p>Islam’s “Loyalty and Enmity” doctrine (<a href="http://quranicverse99.tripod.com/islamicways/id15.html"><em>al-wala’ wa’l bara’</em></a>)—which calls on Muslims to be loyal to one another even if they dislike each other—is especially illustrative. Koran 9:71 declares that “The believing [Muslim] men and believing [Muslim] women are allies of one another” (see also 8:72-75). And according to <a href="http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/hadith/muslim/032.smt.html#032.6219">Muhammad</a>, “A Muslim is the brother of a Muslim. He neither oppresses him nor humiliates him nor looks down upon him…. All things of a Muslim are inviolable for his brother in faith: his blood, his wealth, and his honor”—precisely those three things that mafia members respect among each other.   This is why Muslims like U.S. Army Major Nidal Hassan, whose “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/nidal-hasan-and-fort-hood/">worst nightmare</a>” was to be deployed to fight fellow Muslims, often lash out.)</p>
<p><strong>6. Death to Traitors </strong></p>
<p>Once a fledging mafia member takes the oath of loyalty to the mafia—including the Omertà code of silence and secrecy—trying to leave the “family” is seen as a betrayal and punishable by death.   Any family member, great or small, is given authority to kill the traitor, the “turncoat.”</p>
<p>Compare this to Islam. To be born to a Muslim father immediately makes the newborn a Muslim—there are no oaths to be taken, much less any choice in the matter.   And, according to Islamic law, if born Muslims at any point in their lives choose to leave Islam, they are deemed “apostates”—traitors—and punished including by death.   Any zealous Muslim, not just the authorities, is justified in killing the apostate (hence why Muslim families that kill apostate children are rarely if ever prosecuted).</p>
<p>In the <a href="http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/hadith/bukhari/084-sbt.php">words</a> of Muhammad—the messenger (“underboss”) of Allah (“godfather”): “Whoever leaves his Islamic faith, kill him.”</p>
<p><strong>7. Distrust and Dislike of “Outsiders”</strong></p>
<p>Aside from loyalty to the family, mafia members are also expected not to befriend or freely associate with “outsiders”—who by nature are not to be trusted, as they are not of the “family”—unless such a “friendship” helps advance the family’s position.</p>
<p>Similarly, the second half of the doctrine of Loyalty and Enmity—the enmity (<em>al-bara’</em>)—calls on Muslims to maintain distance from and bear enmity for all non-Muslims, or “infidels.”</p>
<p>Thus Koran 5:51 warns Muslims against “taking the Jews and Christians as friends and allies … whoever among you takes them for friends and allies, he is surely one of them.” According to the mainstream Islamic exegesis of al-Tabari, Koran 5:51 means that the Muslim who “allies with them [non-Muslims] and enables them against the believers, that same one is a member of their faith and community,” that is, a defector, an apostate, an enemy.</p>
<p>Similar scriptures include Koran 4:89, 5:54, 6:40, 9:23, and 58:22; the latter simply states that true Muslims do not befriend non-Muslims—“even if they be their fathers, sons, brothers, or kin.” Koran 60:1 declares, “O you who believe! Do not take my enemy and your enemy [non-believers] for friends: would you offer them love while they deny what has come to you of the truth [i.e., while they deny Islam]?” And Koran 4:144 declares “O you who believe! Do not take the infidels as allies instead of the believers. Do you wish to give Allah [“godfather”] a clear case against yourselves?”</p>
<p><strong>8. Deception and Dissimulation </strong></p>
<p>As mentioned, close relations to non-mafia individuals that prove advantageous to the family (for example, collaboration with a “crooked cop”) are permissible—as long as the mafia keeps a safe distance, keeps the outsider at arm’s length.</p>
<p>Compare this to Koran 3:28 which commands “believers not to take infidels for friends and allies instead of believers… unless you but guard yourselves against them, taking precautions.” According to the standard Koran commentary of Tabari, “taking precautions” means:</p>
<blockquote><p>If you [Muslims] are under their [non-Muslims’] authority, fearing for yourselves, behave loyally to them with your tongue while harboring inner animosity for them … [but know that] Allah has forbidden believers from being friendly or on intimate terms with the infidels rather than other believers—except when infidels are above them [in authority]. Should that be the case, let them <em>act friendly</em> towards them while preserving their religion.</p></blockquote>
<p>After interpreting Koran 3:28 as meaning that Muslims may “protect” themselves “through outward show” when under non-Muslim authority, Ibn Kathir, perhaps Islam’s most celebrated exegete, quotes Islam’s prophet (“underboss”) saying: “Truly, we smile to the faces of some people, while our hearts curse them.”</p>
<p>Similarly, a few years ago, Sheikh Muhammad Hassan—a leading Salafi cleric in Egypt—<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/sharias-sinister-smiles/">asserted on live television</a> that, while Muslims should never smile to the faces of non-Muslims, they should smile, however insincerely, if so doing helps empower Islam, especially in the context of <em>da‘wa</em>.</p>
<p>The idea of hating “outsiders” is apparently so ingrained in Islam that another leading Salafi cleric, Dr. Yasser al-Burhami, insists that, while Muslim men may marry Christian and Jewish women, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/the-ultimate-source-of-islamic-hate-for-infidels/">they must hate them in their heart</a>—and show them that they hate them in the hopes that they convert to the “family” of Islam.</p>
<p>(For more on the doctrine of “Loyalty and Enmity,” including references to the exegetical sources quoted above, see al-Qaeda leader Dr. Ayman Zawahiri’s comprehensive treatise by that name in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Qaeda-Reader-Essential-Organization/dp/076792262X/ref=rec_dp_0"><em>The Al Qaeda Reader</em></a>, pgs. 63-115.)</p>
<p><strong>9. “An Offer You Can’t Refuse”</strong></p>
<p>Although the novel-turned-movie, <em>The Godfather</em>, is fictitious, it also captures much of the mafia’s modus operandi. Consider, for example, that most famous of lines—“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeldwfOwuL8&amp;spfreload=10">I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse</a>”—spoken by the Godfather to one of his “godsons,” an aspiring actor and singer. After being turned down by a studio director for a role that he desperately wanted, the godson turned to his Godfather for aid.</p>
<p>As the movie progresses, it becomes clear that the offer that can’t be refused consists of nothing less than violence and death threats: after the Godfather’s messenger to the director asking that the actor be given the role is again rejected, the director awakens the next morning to find the bloodied and decapitated head of his favorite stallion in bed with him. The godson subsequently gets the movie role.</p>
<p>Throughout the context of the entire <em>Godfather</em> trilogy (which captures well the mafia’s approach to business) making someone “an offer they can’t refuse” means “do as I say or suffer the consequences,” possibly death.</p>
<p>Compare this to Islam’s threefold choice. On Muhammad’s <a href="http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/hadith/bukhari/002-sbt.php#001.002.025">orders</a>, whenever Muslims conquer a territory in the name of Islam, its non-Muslim inhabitants are given three choices: 1) convert to Islam (“join the family”), 2) keep your religious identity but pay tribute (<em>jizya</em>, see below) and live as an “outsider,” a subjugated <em>dhimmi</em> or 3) execution.</p>
<p>Throughout history, converting to Islam has been an “offer” that countless non-Muslims could not refuse. In fact, this “offer” is responsible for transforming much of the Middle East and North Africa, which were Christian-majority in the 7<sup>th</sup> century when the jihad burst forth from Arabia, into the “Muslim world.”</p>
<p>And this <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/western-ignorance-of-the-conditions-of-omar/">offer is still alive and well today</a>. For example, several older and disabled Christians who were not able to join the exodus out of Islamic State controlled territories <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/world-ignores-christian-exodus-from-islamic-world/">opted to convert to Islam rather than die</a>.</p>
<p>Like the mafia, then, Islam’s offer to conquered non-Muslims (“outsiders”) is basically “join our ‘family,’ help us and we will help you; refuse and we hurt you.”</p>
<p><strong>10. The “Protection” Racket</strong></p>
<p>Once the mafia takes over a territory, one of the primary ways it profits is by collecting “protection money” from its inhabitants. While the protection racket has several aspects, one in particular is akin to an Islamic practice: coercing people in the mafia’s territory to pay money for “protection,” ostensibly against outside elements; in fact, the protection bought is from the mafia itself—that is, extortion money, or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzo_(extortion)"><em>pizzo</em></a>.   Potential “clients” who refuse to pay for the mafia’s “protection” often have their property vandalized and are routinely threatened and harassed.</p>
<p>Compare the collection of <em>pizzo</em> with the Islamic concept of <em>jizya</em>: The word <em>jizya</em> appears in Koran 9:29: “Fight those among the People of the Book [Christians and Jews] who do not believe in Allah nor the Last Day, nor forbid what Allah and his Messenger have forbidden, nor embrace the religion of truth, <em>until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued</em> (emphasis added).”</p>
<p>In the <a href="http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/hadith/muslim/019-smt.php#019.4294">hadith</a>, the Messenger of Allah, Muhammad—in our analogy, the “underboss”—regularly calls on Muslims to demand <em>jizya</em> from non-Muslims:  “If they refuse to accept Islam,” said the prophet, “demand from them the <em>jizya</em>. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay <em>jizya</em>, seek Allah’s help and fight them.”</p>
<p>The root meaning of the Arabic word “jizya” is simply to “repay” or “recompense,” basically to “compensate” for something.  According to the <em>Hans Wehr Dictionary</em>, the standard Arabic-English dictionary, <em>jizya</em> is something that “takes the place” of something else, or “serves instead.”</p>
<p>Simply put, conquered non-Muslims were to <em>purchase their lives</em><em>,</em> which were otherwise forfeit to their Muslim conquerors, with money.  As one medieval jurist succinctly puts it, “their lives and their possessions are only protected by reason of payment of <em>jizya</em>” (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621570258/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1621570258&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=uhurnetw-20"><em>Crucified Again</em></a>, p. 22).</p>
<p>And to top it off, just as the mafia rationalizes its collection of “protection money” by portraying it as money that buys mafia protection against “outsiders”—when, as mentioned, the money/tribute serves only to protect the client from the mafia itself—so too do <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/islamic-jizya-protection-from-whom/">Islam’s apologists portray the collection of jizya</a> as money meant to buy Muslim protection from outsiders, when in fact the money/jizya buys protection from Muslims themselves.</p>
<p><strong>Conclusion: Mafia—What’s In a Word?</strong></p>
<p>What accounts for all these similarities between Islam and the mafia? One clue is found in the fact that the very word “mafia,”which means “hostility to the law, boldness,” is derived from an Arabic word, <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mafia?s=t"><em>mahya</em></a>, which in translation means “bragging, boasting, bravado, and swaggering.”</p>
<p>This etymology is a reminder that Sicily, birthplace of the mafia, was under Arab/Islamic domination for over 200 years. Aside from a borrowed etymology, could some of the mafia’s modus operandi also have been borrowed from Islam? Isolated on their island, could native Sicilians have co-opted the techniques of social controls that they had lived under and learned from their former overlords—albeit without their Islamic veneer?</p>
<p>The mafia is not the only historical example of a non-Muslim criminal organization to be influenced by Islam. For example, the Thuggees — whence we get the word “thug” — were a brotherhood of allied bandits and assassins who waylaid and savagely murdered travelers in India, often by first feigning friendship. Although they were later associated with the Hindu cult of Kali, the original Thuggees were all Muslim. As late as the 19<sup>th</sup> century, a large number of Thuggees captured and convicted by the British were Muslim.</p>
<p>The similarities are clear: Along with assassinating his opponents, including, as seen, through treachery, Muhammad also personally engaged in banditry, ransacking the caravans of enemy tribes.</p>
<p>And if the words “mafia” and “thug” have Arabic/Islamic etymologies, the words “assassinate” and “assassin” are derived from a Medieval Islamic sect: the <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/islamic-assassination-silencing-freedom-fighters/"><em>Hashashin</em></a>, who pioneered the use of political assassination—with <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/was-marco-polo-an-islamophobe/">promises of a hedonistic paradise</a> for the assassin who almost certainly died—in the name of Islam.</p>
<p>At any rate, when HBO personality Bill Maher recently proclaimed that Islam is “the only religion that acts like the mafia, that will f***ing kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture, or write the wrong book,” he was barely touching on the similarities between the mafia and other criminal organizations, and Islam.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/mgf.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243928" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/mgf-450x253.jpg" alt="mgf" width="270" height="152" /></a><em>Editor’s note: The following is Part Three a three-part series examining the many parallels between Islam and the mafia following Bill Maher’s recent exclamation </em><em>that Islam is “the only religion that acts like the mafia, that will f***ing kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture, or write the wrong book.” </em><em>Click the following for </em><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/raymond-ibrahim/islam-more-like-the-mafia-than-bill-maher-knows/"><em>Part One</em></a><em> and </em><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/raymond-ibrahim/loyalty-and-enmity-parallels-between-islam-and-the-mafia/"><em>Part Two</em></a><em>.</em></p>
<p><strong>Coercion and Death Threats</strong></p>
<p>Although the novel turned movie, <em>The Godfather</em>, is fictitious, it also captures much of the mafia’s modus operandi. Consider, for example, that most famous of lines—“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeldwfOwuL8&amp;spfreload=10">I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse</a>”—spoken by the Godfather to one of his “godsons,” an aspiring actor and singer, who, after being turned down by a studio director for a role that he desperately wanted, turns to his Godfather for aid.</p>
<p>As the movie progresses, we discover that the offer that the director can’t refuse is nothing less than violence and the threat of death: after the Godfather’s messenger to the director asking that the actor be given the role is again rejected, the studio head awakes to find the bloodied and decapitated head of his favorite stallion in bed with him. The godson subsequently gets the movie role.</p>
<p>Throughout the context of the entire <em>Godfather</em> trilogy—and indeed, in the context of the mafia—making someone “an offer they can’t refuse”—comes to mean “do as I say or suffer the consequences,” possibly death.</p>
<p>Compare this to Islam’s threefold choice. On Muhammad’s orders, whenever Islamic jihadis conquer a territory, they are to give the non-Muslim inhabitants three choices: 1) convert to Islam, 2) maintain your own religion (an option technically only available to Christians and Jews) but pay tribute and live as a subdued third-class citizen, a “dhimmi,” or 3) die.</p>
<p>Not only do the primary historical texts written by authoritative Muslims record this aspect of Islam, but to this very day, Islam’s threefold choice is making headlines, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/western-ignorance-of-the-conditions-of-omar/">most recently at the hands of the Islamic State</a>.</p>
<p><strong>The ‘Protection Racket’</strong></p>
<p>Once the mafia gains a “territory,” one of the primary ways it profits is by collecting “protection money” from the inhabitants. While the protection racket has several faces, one in particular is akin to an Islamic institution: the idea of coercing people in the mafia’s territory to pay money for “protection,” ostensibly from outside forces, when in fact the protection bought is from the mafia itself—that is, extortion money, or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzo_(extortion)"><em>pizzo</em></a>. Potential “clients” who refuse the mafia’s “protection” often have their property vandalized and are routinely threatened and harassed.</p>
<p>Compare <em>pizzo</em> with the Islamic concept of jizya: The word jizya appears in Koran 9:29: “Fight those among the People of the Book [Christians and Jews] who do not believe in Allah nor the Last Day, nor forbid what Allah and his Messenger have forbidden, nor embrace the religion of truth, <em>until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued</em> (emphasis added).”</p>
<p>In the <a href="http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/hadith/muslim/019-smt.php#019.4294">hadith</a>, the Messenger of Allah, Muhammad—in our analogy, the “underboss”—regularly calls on Muslims to demand jizya of non-Muslims:  “If they refuse to accept Islam,” said the Islamic prophet, “demand from them the jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay jizya, seek Allah’s help and fight them.”</p>
<p>The root meaning of the Arabic word “jizya” is simply to “repay” or “recompense,” basically to “compensate” for something.  According to the <em>Hans Wehr Dictionary</em>, the standard Arabic-English dictionary, jizya is something that “takes the place” of something else, or “serves instead.”</p>
<p>Simply put, conquered non-Muslims were to <em>purchase their lives</em>, which were otherwise forfeit to their Muslim conquerors, with money. Instead of taking their lives, they took their money.  As one medieval jurist succinctly puts it, “their lives and their possessions are only protected by reason of payment of jizya” (<em>Crucified Again</em>, p. 22).</p>
<p>Interestingly, just as the mafia rationalizes its collection of “protection money” by portraying it as money paid to buy mafia protection against “outsiders”—when, as mentioned, the money/tribute serves only to protect the client from the mafia itself—so too do <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/islamic-jizya-protection-from-whom/">Islam’s apologists portray the collection of jizya</a> as money meant to buy Muslim protection from outsiders, when in fact the money/jizya buys protection from Muslims themselves.</p>
<p><strong>Conclusion: Mafia—What’s In a Word?</strong></p>
<p>What accounts for all these similarities between Islam and the mafia? It is further telling that the word mafia itself,which means “hostility to the law, boldness,” is believed to be derived from the Arabic slang word, <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mafia?s=t"><em>mahya</em></a>, which in translation means “bragging, boasting, bravado, and swaggering.”</p>
<p>This etymology is a reminder that Sicily, birthplace of the mafia, was under Arab/Islamic domination for over 200 years. Aside from a borrowed etymology, could much of the mafia’s modus operandi also have been borrowed from Islam? Could native Sicilians, over the centuries, have co-opted the techniques of social controls that they had lived under and learned from their former overlords—albeit free from its Islamic trappings?</p>
<p>Either way, when HBO personality Bill Maher recently proclaimed that Islam is “the only religion that acts like the mafia, that will f***ing kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture, or write the wrong book”—he was barely touching the tip of the iceberg of similarities between Islam and the mafia.</p>
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		<title>Loyalty and Enmity: Parallels between Islam and the Mafia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2014 04:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The deadly price of betrayal. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><i><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/5339316755_050f27b80b.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243443" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/5339316755_050f27b80b.jpg" alt="5339316755_050f27b80b" width="333" height="250" /></a>Editor’s note</i></b><i>: The following is Part Two of a three-part series examining the many parallels between Islam and the mafia following Bill Maher’s recent exclamation that Islam is “the only religion that acts like the mafia, that will f***ing kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture, or write the wrong book.”  Click the following for </i><em><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/raymond-ibrahim/islam-more-like-the-mafia-than-bill-maher-knows/">Part One</a></span> and <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/raymond-ibrahim/islam-and-the-mafia-making-an-offer-you-cant-refuse/">Part Three</a>.</em></p>
<p><b>Death to Traitors (AKA “Apostates”)</b></p>
<p>Once a Mafioso takes the oath of loyalty to the mafia—including the Omertà code of silence and secrecy—trying to leave the “family” is instantaneously seen as a betrayal and therefore punishable by death.  Any family member, great or small, is given authority to kill the traitor, the “turncoat.”</p>
<p>Compare this to Islam.  To be born to a Muslim father immediately makes the newborn a Muslim—there are no oaths to be taken, much less an option in the matter.   And, according to Islamic law, if born Muslims at any point in their lives choose to leave Islam, they are deemed “apostates”—traitors—and punished including by death.   Any zealous Muslim, not just the authorities, is justified in killing the apostate (hence why Muslim families that kill apostate children are rarely if ever prosecuted).</p>
<p>In the <a href="http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/hadith/bukhari/084-sbt.php"><span style="color: #0433ff;">words</span></a> of Muhammad—the messenger (underboss) of Allah (godfather):  “Whoever leaves his Islamic faith, kill him.”</p>
<p>The charge of “traitor” is especially applicable when the Muslim converts to another religion—most frequently Islam’s historic competitor, Christianity—as opposed to simply losing faith in their hearts.  Put differently, the very recent plight of Meriam Ibrahim—a Sudanese Christian wife and mother who, while pregnant, was imprisoned and sentenced to death for “apostasy”—is the <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/sudan-mothers-case-tip-of-the-iceberg-on-islamic-persecution/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">tip of the iceberg of the plight of apostates under Islam</span></a>.</p>
<p><b>Loyalty and Enmity</b></p>
<p>Loyalty is an absolute prerequisite of the mafia.  Following elaborate rituals of blood oaths, mafia members are expected to maintain absolute loyalty to the family, on pain of death.</p>
<p>Compare this with Islam’s “Loyalty and Enmity” doctrine, which calls on Muslims to be loyal to each other and their appointed emirs, even if they dislike them.</p>
<p>For example, Koran 9:71 declares that “The believing [Muslim] men and believing [Muslim] women are allies of one another” (see also 8:72-75). And according to <a href="https://docs.zoho.com/writer/ropen.do?rid=dw6cy47129bc1931b4316a01ad6ded5a45ff0#bookmark=http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/hadith/muslim/032.smt.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Muhammad</span></a>, “A Muslim is the brother of a Muslim. He neither oppresses him nor humiliates him nor looks down upon him…. All things of a Muslim are inviolable for his brother in faith: his blood, his wealth, and his honor”—precisely those three things of a Mafioso that are inviolable for his mafia “brother.”  (This is why Muslims like U.S. Army Major Nidal Hassan, whose “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/nidal-hasan-and-fort-hood/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">worst nightmare</span></a>” was to be deployed to fight fellow Muslims, often lash out.)</p>
<p>Aside from loyalty to the family, mafia members are also expected not to befriend or associate with too many “outsiders”—who by nature are not to be trusted, as they are not of the “family”—unless such a “friendship” helps advance the family’s position.</p>
<p>Similarly, the second half of the doctrine of Loyalty and Enmity—the enmity—calls on Muslims to maintain distance from and have hate for all non-Muslim “infidels.”</p>
<p>Thus Koran 5:51 warns Muslims against “taking the Jews and Christians as friends and allies … whoever among you takes them for friends and allies, he is surely one of them.” According to the mainstream Islamic exegesis of al-Tabari, Koran 5:51 means that the Muslim who “allies with them [non-Muslims] and enables them against the believers, that same one is a member of their faith and community,” that is, an outsider and enemy.</p>
<p>Similar scriptures include Koran 4:89, 4:144, 5:54, 6:40, 9:23, and 58:22; the latter simply states that true Muslims do not befriend non-Muslims—“even if they be their fathers, sons, brothers, or kin.” Koran 60:1 declares, “O you who believe! Do not take my enemy and your enemy [non-believers] for friends: would you offer them love while they deny what has come to you of the truth [i.e., while they deny Islam]?”</p>
<p><b>Two-Facedness</b></p>
<p>As mentioned, close relations to non-mafia individuals that prove advantageous to the mafia (for example, collaboration with a “crooked cop”) are permissible—as long as the mafia keeps a safe distance, keeps the outsider at arm’s length.</p>
<p>Compare this to Koran 3:28 which commands “believers not to take infidels for friends and allies instead of believers… unless you but guard yourselves against them, taking precautions.” According to the standard Koran commentary of Tabari, “taking precautions” means:</p>
<blockquote><p>If you [Muslims] are under their [non-Muslims'] authority, fearing for yourselves, behave loyally to them with your tongue while harboring inner animosity for them … [but know that] Allah has forbidden believers from being friendly or on intimate terms with the infidels rather than other believers—except when infidels are above them [in authority]. Should that be the case, let them <i>act friendly</i> towards them while preserving their religion.</p></blockquote>
<p>After interpreting Quran 3:28 as meaning that Muslims may “protect” themselves “through outward show” when under non-Muslim authority, Ibn Kathir, perhaps Islam’s most celebrated exegete, quotes Muhammad saying: “Truly, we smile to the faces of some people, while our hearts curse them.”</p>
<p>And just a few years ago, Sheikh Muhammad Hassan—a leading Salafi cleric in Egypt—<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/sharias-sinister-smiles/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">asserted on live television</span></a> that, while Muslims should never smile to the faces of non-Muslims, they should smile, however insincerely, if by so doing they help empower Islam, especially in the context of <i>da‘wa</i>.</p>
<p>The idea of hating “outsiders” is so ingrained in Islam that another leading Salafi cleric insists that, although Muslim men may marry Christian and Jewish women, they must hate them in their heart—and show them that they hate them in the hopes that they convert to the “family” of Islam.</p>
<p>(For more on the doctrine of “Loyalty and Enmity,” see al-Qaeda leader Dr. Ayman Zawahiri’s comprehensive treatise by that name in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Qaeda-Reader-Essential-Organization/dp/076792262X/ref=rec_dp_0"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>The Al Qaeda Reader</i></span></a>, pgs. 63-115)<i>.</i></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2014 04:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/la-ol-bill-maher-ben-affleck-islam-20141008.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243247" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/la-ol-bill-maher-ben-affleck-islam-20141008-450x310.jpg" alt="APphoto_Real Time With Bill Maher" width="302" height="208" /></a><strong>Editor&#8217;s note: The following is Part One of a three-part series examining the many parallels between Islam and the mafia. Click the following for <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/raymond-ibrahim/loyalty-and-enmity-parallels-between-islam-and-the-mafia/">Part Two</a> and <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/raymond-ibrahim/islam-and-the-mafia-making-an-offer-you-cant-refuse/">Part Three</a>. </strong></p>
<p>During a <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/other-matters/ben-affleck-portrait-of-islams-clueless-apologetics/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">recent debate on HBO’s <i>Real Time</i></span></a>, host Bill Maher declared that Islam is “the only religion that acts like the mafia, that will f***ing kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture, or write the wrong book.”</p>
<p>Maher was apparently referring to Islam’s “blasphemy” laws, which ban on pain of death any “insult”—as found in a statement, a picture, a book, etc.—to Islam and especially its prophet, Muhammad.</p>
<p>While Maher has been criticized for his “Islamophobic” assertion, he and others may be surprised to learn that the similarities between Islam and the mafia far exceed punishing those who say, draw, or write “the wrong thing.”</p>
<p>In the following three part article, we will examine a number of these similarities.</p>
<p>In this article, Part One, we will look at the relationship between Allah, his messenger Muhammad, and the Muslims, and note several parallels with the relationship between the godfather, his underboss, and the mafia.</p>
<p>In Part Two (forthcoming), we will examine the clannish nature of the mafia and compare it to Islam’s concept of “Loyalty and Enmity”—including how in both Islam and the mafia, those members who wish to break away, to “apostatize,” are killed.</p>
<p>In Part Three (forthcoming), we will examine how both the mafia and Islam have historically both profited from the “protection” racket.</p>
<p><b>Allah as Godfather; Muhammad as Underboss</b></p>
<p>The <i>padrino</i> of larger mafia organizations and families—literally, the godfather or “boss of bosses”—has absolute control over his subordinates and is often greatly feared by them for his ruthlessness.  He has an “underboss,” a right-hand man who issues his orders and enforces his will.  The godfather himself is often inaccessible; mafia members need to go through the underboss or other high ranking associates.</p>
<p>Compare this with the relationship between Allah and his “messenger” Muhammad (in Arabic, Muhammad is most commonly referred to as <i>al-rasul</i>, “the messenger”). Unlike the Judeo-Christian God—a personal God, a Father, that according to Christ is to be communed with directly (Matt 6:9)—Islam’s god, Allah, is unreachable, unknowable, untouchable.  Like the godfather, he is inaccessible.   His will is enforced by his messenger, Muhammad.</p>
<p>If the Judeo-Christian God calls on the faithful to “come now, let us reason together” (Isaiah 1:18), Allah says “Do not ask questions about things that, if made known to you, would only pain you” (Koran 5:101).  Just follow orders.</p>
<p>Though largely invisible and operating behind the scenes, the godfather and his underboss get a “piece of the action”—a “cut”—of all spoils acquired by their subordinates, the mafia.</p>
<p>So do Allah and his messenger Muhammad.  Koran 8:41 informs Muslims that “one-fifth [a “cut”] of all plunder you acquire goes to Allah and the messenger” (followed by Muhammad’s family and finally the needy).</p>
<p>The godfather, through his underboss, regularly sends his followers to make “hits”—to assassinate—those deemed enemies of the family.</p>
<p>So did Allah and his messenger.  One example:  A non-Muslim poet, Ka‘b ibn Ashraf, insulted Muhammad, prompting the latter once to exclaim, “Who will kill this man who has hurt Allah and his messenger?” A young Muslim named Muhammad ibn Maslama volunteered on condition that to get close enough to assassinate Ka‘b he be allowed to lie to the poet.</p>
<p>Muhammad <a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/bukhari/bh4/bh4_274.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">agreed</span></a>. Ibn Maslama traveled to Ka‘b and began to denigrate Islam and Muhammad until his disaffection became so convincing that Ka‘b took him into his confidence. Soon thereafter, Ibn Maslama appeared with another Muslim and, while Ka‘b’s guard was down, slaughtered the poet, bringing his head to Muhammad to the usual triumphant cries of “Allahu Akbar!” (“Allah is greater”).</p>
<p>Similarly, mafia members are expected always to be available for the family, “<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7086716.stm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">even if your wife is about to give birth</span></a>,” and to defend the godfather and his honor—even if it requires their lives.</p>
<p>Compare this to the widespread violence and upheavals that occur whenever Allah or his prophet are offended—whenever non-Muslim “infidels” blaspheme them.  Or, as Bill Maher put it: “Its’ the only religion that acts like the mafia, that will f***ing kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture, or write the wrong book.”</p>
<p>Finally, while the family adheres to a general set of rules, the godfather also issues more fluid orders to address situations as they evolve.</p>
<p>This is reminiscent of the entire “revelation” of the Koran, where later verses/commands contradict earlier verses/commands, depending on circumstances (known in Islamic jurisprudence as <i>al-nāsikh wal-mansūkh</i>, or the doctrine of abrogation).</p>
<p>Thus, whereas Allah supposedly told the prophet that “there is no compulsion in religion” (Koran 2:256), once the messenger grew strong enough, Allah issued new revelations calling for all-out war/jihad on the entire world till Islam became supreme (Koran 8:39, 9:5, 9:29, etc.).</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 04:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>One might think that leading opinion makers in Western civilization, journalists, authors, academics, clergy and pundits would stand aghast and in deep condemnation of any society or organization that acted like<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/world/middleeast/beirut-bank-seen-as-a-hub-of-hezbollahs-financing.html?_r=1&amp;hp=&amp;pagewanted=print"> “the Gambinos on steroids;”</a> but somehow, when it comes to Hezbollah, one would be wrong.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/world/middleeast/beirut-bank-seen-as-a-hub-of-hezbollahs-financing.html?_r=1&amp;hp=&amp;pagewanted=print">A New York Times article of December 13</a> revealed, for the first time in US mainstream media, Hezbollah’s complex involvement, deep cooperation, and in some cases partnership, with international crime cartels, Columbian drug smuggling organizations, international gem smuggling, and Mexican street gangs.  Hezbollah’s motivation for involvement in these illegal endeavors, despite its name “Party of God” and despite its stated goal of creating a society on earth that carries out the will of Allah, is its need for clean money.</p>
<p>Hezbollah’s main sugar daddy, Iran, is in financial turmoil.  Syria, its secondary sponsor, is in political and economic collapse.  Hezbollah needs money, so it has expanded and innovated in its global web of criminal activities in order to finance its terrorism and its preparation for war.  But it needs clean money.  Hezbollah’s global money laundering schemes take drug money and auto theft profits and turn them into clean, usable cash to pay salaries, buy what Hezbollah needs to support its charitable endeavors, and underwrite the purchase of weapons and of militarily strategic property in Lebanon, especially from Christians.</p>
<p>The New York Times is neither a Jewish nor a Zionist newspaper.  In fact, its owners in bygone years openly expressed their antipathy to Zionism, an antipathy so strong that they stood silent, in passive collusion, as Nazi Germany annihilated Europe’s Jewry, lest the Times’ exposure of Nazi crimes before and during World War II might lend support to Zionist calls for a Jewish state (see Laurel Leff&#8221;s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Buried-Times-Holocaust-Important-Newspaper/dp/0521812879"><em>Buried in the Times: The Holocaust and America’s Most important Newspaper</em></a>, summarized <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buried_by_the_Times">here</a>).  One can thus be confident that its exposé<br />
of Hezbollah is accurate and not merely Zionist propaganda.</p>
<p>So the Times’ revelation of such a list of illicit gains, criminal activity and partnership with criminal gangs ought to make Western supporters cringe and announce the withdrawal of any support they may have given, reverse any supportive words they may have said.  But so far neither <a href="http://www.chomsky.info/">Noam Chomsky</a> nor <a href="http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/">Norman Finkelstein</a>, both outspoken lionizers of Hezbollah, has done so, nor have any of the academics on public record for expressing support for Hezbollah and describing them as brave and noble “freedom fighters.” <a href="http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_report_detail.aspx?id=62315">Muslims are divided today about the legitimacy of funds to Hezbollah</a>, but world-wide <a href="http://www.amuslimvoice.org/html/body_hezbollah-dilemma.html">many still continue</a> to contribute to <a href="http://www.steveemerson.com/4281/blood-money-hezbollahs-revenue-stream-flows">charities that may be, or have been, operating as fronts for Hezbollah</a>.</p>
<p>But in addition to the mafia-like activities, including but not limited to the drug dealing, gun running, auto and gem theft, and money laundering mentioned above (and see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funding_of_Hezbollah">here</a>, <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article2715120.ece">here</a>, <a href="http://www.insightcrime.org/criminal-activities/drug-trafficking/item/1974-us-alleges-zetas-hezbollah-funding-link">here</a>, and <a href="http://reportergary.com/2011/12/cocaine-funneled-through-mexican-cartel-funding-hezbollah/">here</a> for other exposés of Hezbollah’s criminal activity), Hezbollah is known to have kidnapped, tortured, and <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&amp;x_outlet=118&amp;x_article=1148">murdered American officials in Lebanon</a> and elsewhere since 1982; used terrorist attacks for assassinations that involved the mass murder of innocent Arabs<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=vHrQGZ8lUgIC&amp;pg=PA43&amp;lpg=PA43&amp;dq=hezbollah+robbery&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=KO-FHWdIE-&amp;sig=xpfPzxXUCtO466EM1jy5uMJpx0o&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=my_6TsqRLIXe0QH91_WUAg&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CCUQ6AEwAg">; engaged in armed robbery</a>; launched <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=I_jh4VBi_HYC&amp;pg=PA639&amp;dq=hezbollah+terror+attacks+USA&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=XjD6Tp3QC8rx0gHZgoyIAg&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CEQQ6AEwAw">terror attacks on American and other European soldiers</a> stationed in Lebanon at the request of the Lebanese government; used <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=x0MZOnnu8qcC&amp;pg=PA78&amp;dq=hezbollah+assassination&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=fjH6TpX-BcXb0QGiv6yUAg&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CDwQ6AEwAg">assassinations and intimidation and threats of violence and terrorism to undermine the government of Lebanon</a>; and become a <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=S1PhUbtoSrwC&amp;pg=PA115&amp;dq=hezbollah+dominates+lebanon&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=EjL6Ts8q6d3RAcOrhKEI&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA">dominant terrorist state within the state</a> of Lebanon and <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=YWgysOSJLPsC&amp;pg=PA72&amp;dq=hezbollah+dominates+lebanon&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=EjL6Ts8q6d3RAcOrhKEI&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CDsQ6AEwAg">now dominates Lebanon</a>.</p>
<p>So even God-fearing Muslims who understand Islam to be a religion of peace and tolerance should blanch at Hezbollah’s long list of criminal and terrorist activities, many of which harm Muslims, and deny them any support or sympathy.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Don’t miss FrontPage’s other Union Gangsters profiles featuring </em><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/23/union-gangsters-craig-becker/"><em>Craig Becker</em></a><em>, </em><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/30/union-gangsters-richard-trumka/"><em>Richard Trumka</em></a><em>, </em><em><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/10/union-gangsters-stephen-lerner/">Stephen Lerner</a>, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/21/union-gangsters-andy-stern/">Andy Stern</a></em><em> and </em><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/07/big-labors-leninist-founding-father/"><em>Daniel De Leon</em></a><em>.</em></p>
<p>Few union gangsters have the exquisitely barbaric pedigree of International Brotherhood of Teamsters president James P. Hoffa.</p>
<p>And few labor unions can match the Teamsters, the million-plus member union of truckers and blue-collar workers, for its legendary connections to organized crime, <a href="http://www.unionfacts.com/union/Teamsters">corruption</a>, and <a href="http://www.unionfacts.com/ulp/Teamsters/Violence--Assaults">violence</a>. For decades the word <em>Teamster</em> was essentially a synonym for <em>gangster</em>.</p>
<p>Hoffa is the son of James R. Hoffa, the relentlessly corrupt, larger-than-life Teamsters president who worked closely with figures from the crime underworld. In July 1975 the elder Hoffa disappeared mysteriously outside a suburban Detroit restaurant at which he was planning to meet with two mobsters. His body has never been found.</p>
<p>Historian Thaddeus Russell likened the elder Hoffa to General George S. Patton. “He exalted bravery and despised frailty, and presented himself as the toughest, strongest, and most ruthless fighter in the union,” Russell wrote. Hoffa also once proudly proclaimed his potential to be “the meanest bastard that God ever created.”</p>
<p>Like his foul-mouthed, publicity-loving father, the younger Hoffa doesn’t mince words.</p>
<p>Like most union leaders, Hoffa blames “Wall Street’s greed, stupidity and fraud” for the nation’s economic problems, ignoring the role that Big Government meddling in the economy played in inflating the mortgage market bubble. He supports Occupy Wall Street and acknowledges that Teamsters “all over the country are participating in Occupy Wall Street events.”</p>
<p>When introducing President Obama at a Labor Day rally this year, Hoffa launched an attack, bellowing, “We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers. And you see it everywhere, it is the Tea Party.”</p>
<p>Well-practiced in the art of Saul Alinsky-style vilification, Hoffa told the crowd, “Let’s take these son [sic] of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong.” Not surprisingly, President Obama, who encourages his supporters to find opponents and “argue with them and get in their face,” never distanced himself from Hoffa’s demonization of a large chunk of the U.S. population.</p>
<p>After the event, Hoffa invoked the Mother of All Leftist Cliches, telling ABC News that conservatives “want to roll the clock back to about 1900.”</p>
<p>When Wisconsin voters gave their Republican governor Scott Walker a clear mandate to cut state spending, Hoffa lashed out. In February he called Walker’s extremely modest proposal that state workers shoulder a small percentage of the costs for their health care plans and pensions “union-busting” and “a vindictive attack” that was part of a “one-sided class war.”</p>
<p>Jimmy Hoffa Jr., a lawyer by training, has had a radical streak for a long time.</p>
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<p>I said it at the Geert Wilders event at CPAC 2009, and it is still an accurate observation: we live in such a cheap and tawdry age that all one needs to do to be a hero is tell the truth &#8212; and yet there are so few heroes.</p>
<p>That is indeed the case, and it means that Chris Gaubatz is something much greater than a hero. In our day when cowardice positively defines our political and media elites, Chris Gaubatz put his life on the line for the defense of free people and free societies against the global jihad and Islamic supremacism. As detailed in the breathtaking book <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935071106?ie=UTF8&amp;seller=AFYG8QLDDI5CM&amp;sn=kate_ramsay87">Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that’s Conspiring to Islamize America</a></em>, Chris assumed the identity of a convert to Islam. Posing as a new convert to Islam named David “Dawud” Marshall, he secured a position as an intern in the Washington, DC, office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Hamas-linked pressure group that uses legal intimidation and a marionette mainstream media to dominate the discourse about Islam in the U.S., manipulate clueless government and law enforcement officials, obfuscate the role of Islamic doctrine in recruiting and motivating jihad terrorists, and resist anti-terror efforts.</p>
<p>Chris was in extreme danger. If he had been caught, there is no telling what might have happened &#8212; and as the book detailed, he had some extremely close calls, such as when CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper, “Honest Ibe” himself, told him to watch out for&#8230;Chris Gaubatz!</p>
<p><em>Muslim Mafia,</em> by Chris’s father Dave Gaubatz and Paul Sperry, shows the fruits of Chris’s risky labors. He was able to carry out of CAIR headquarters 12,000 pages of documents and even audiotapes of CAIR officials. These showed the group’s unsavory associations, connections to corrupt politicians (see the list of top recipients of Muslim cash on page 195), and more.</p>
<p>All this made CAIR so nervous that the group went to court to get the documents back. When <em>Muslim Mafia</em> hit bookstore shelves, CAIR did not deny any of its allegations, resorting instead to its tried-and-true tactic of shooting the messenger, defaming the Gaubatzes and Sperry as “hatemongers” and suing to recover the documents, claiming that the material had been stolen and even that Chris Gaubatz had trespassed on CAIR property.</p>
<p>A court ruled in CAIR’s favor, but just as CAIR was about to regain control of the documents, the FBI stepped in with a subpoena, taking the documents for its own hitherto unknown investigation of CAIR.</p>
<p>There had been no public indication that CAIR was under investigation at all until December, when the controversy over the <em>Muslim Mafia</em> documents precipitated the revelation. But now it has been revealed that the FBI is indeed finally investigating CAIR, after years of working with the organization and ignoring its ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>For <em>Muslim Mafia</em> confirms what veteran CAIR-watchers have long suspected: that CAIR is an integral part of the Muslim Brotherhood’s apparatus in the U.S. The Brotherhood is an international Islamic organization, the parent group of both Hamas and Al-Qaeda, that is in its own words dedicated in America to “a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house.” In line with this, <em>Muslim Mafia </em>contains details of how CAIR has tried to block anti-terror investigations &#8212; and has meanwhile insinuated itself into the highest levels of power in Washington.</p>
<p>As a result of the revelations in <em>Muslim Mafia</em>, last fall Representatives Sue Myrick (R-NC) Trent Franks (R-AZ) Paul Broun (R-GA) and John Shadegg (R-AZ) wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder, requesting that he “provide each Member of Congress a summary of the evidence and findings by the DOJ and FBI which led them to name CAIR an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism trial.” To date, Holder has not publicly complied, but CAIR is by no means out of the woods yet.</p>
<p>Buttressed with never-before-seen documentation, <em>Muslim Mafia</em> lays out the whole truth about the thugs and Islamic supremacists of CAIR, detailing how it has obstructed anti-terror efforts under the rubric of cooperating with authorities, co-opted Congressmen with cash, enabled the infiltration of Muslim Brotherhood operatives into high levels of government, and much more. It should be essential reading for every FBI agent and anti-terror analyst in the United States &#8212; and the fact that it isn’t only shows again how successful CAIR and its ilk have been in blunting the force of our defense against the global jihad.</p>
<p>Free citizens owe Chris Gaubatz an immense debt of gratitude. If we get through all this, he will stand as one of the heroes of the age &#8212; and as much more than a hero.</p>
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<p>Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Dave Gaubatz, the first U.S. civilian (1811) Federal Agent deployed to Iraq in 2003. He is the owner of <a href="http://www.daveg.us./">DG Counter-terrorism Publishing</a>. He is currently conducting a 50 State Counter-terrorism Research Tour (CTRT). He is the co-author (with Paul Sperry) of the new book, <a href="http://www.muslimmafia.com/">Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that’s Conspiring to Islamize America.</a> He can be contacted at <a href="mailto:davegaubatz@gmail.com">davegaubatz@gmail.com</a>. Visit his new site <a href="http://www.muslimmafiainternational.com/">MuslimMafiaInternational.com</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>FP:</strong> Dave Gaubatz, welcome to Frontpage Interview.</p>
<p>Let’s talk about the recent botched terror attempt on Flight 253 and whether it has been a wake up call for Americans and the Obama administration.</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> I wish I could tell you that it has been a wake-up call but unfortunately that is not the case.</p>
<p>Let me begin by saying this: I believe if you ask the same left-wing politicians (who wittingly and unwittingly are supporters of Islamic-based terror groups) if America should again start using the correct terminology of “The War on Terrorism,” there would be no change in their attitude or way of thinking in regards to Islamic terror groups. Most politicians and news organizations still have more allegiance to Saudi Arabia than they do America and our children.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Can you explain further what you mean by this?</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> Well, Jamie, our book, <em>Muslim Mafia</em>, reveals the strong ties the Saudi government has in influencing the shape of America in regards to instilling more violent aspects of Islamic Sharia law into our system.  Our security actually comes down to money. The more money we allow Saudi Arabia to pump into our country, the more control and influence they have over every aspect of our lives.  Why we allow a country that advocates the destruction of our country to dictate what news journalist’ provide to the public is a good question for Americans to ask.</p>
<p>In 2007, during my first-hand research at Islamic centers across America, I was continually coming across a booklet being distributed by CAIR (Muslim Brotherhood). The booklet cover seemed innocent enough, but when I began reviewing the editors and authors of this book, it was apparent they were Wahhabi and had Saudi-backing. Some were convicted terrorist serving life prison sentences in America.</p>
<p>I personally coordinated with the Saudi Embassy in Washington DC to determine if they (the Saudi Govt.) were responsible for distributing materials to innocent children written by convicted terrorists trying to destroy America.  I asked the Saudi Embassy to send me their best example of Islam. A few weeks later, the Saudi Embassy sent me a book by Ali Al Timimi. Timimi and others had been plotting to commit terrorism against innocent men, women, and children in America.  The Saudi Government said Timimi was their best example of Islam.  Readers should note they did not send me the Qur;an; they sent convicted terrorist material.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> You have the evidence?</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> Yes. I have my recorded conversation with the Saudi Embassy and the original manual and package that the Embassy sent the material in.</p>
<p>Keep in mind Jamie that the Saudi government and CAIR also put this manual in our schools and public libraries.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> This is crazy. What can be done about this?</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> While in high school and college I was very interested in history.  Numerous times I asked myself how did the world allow leaders such as Adolf Hitler and his supporters to exterminate over six million Jews (men, women, and children)?</p>
<p>Now in January 2010, I am asking myself: How can the world allow innocent people and countries to be so terrorized by Islamic based terrorist groups when we know their intentions are to destroy the world and kill millions of people in order to meet their objectives of an Islamic Ummah (Nation) under Sharia law?</p>
<p>Well, part of the answer is that today our country has a man as our President who is more interested in apologizing for America to foreign dictators than to show allegiance to his country and fight for its security. The media, meanwhile, refuses to expose OBama’s negligence; instead giving groups like CAIR airtime to propagandize their violent ideologies. They give CAIR more airtime than they do a U.S. military veteran like me.</p>
<p>CAIR presents no evidence, only rhetoric that time after time is proven to be full of lies.</p>
<p>And why? Because many journalists are fearful of the Saudi influence. Many politicians gain financially from their dealings with the Saudis. Many media businessmen have more allegiance to the Saudis than they do our own country.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> In your book, you mention the U.S. military has been infiltrated by Islamic terror supporters. Can you be more specific?</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> Over the years, specifically since returning from Iraq in 2003, it still amazes me that people find it difficult to believe terrorists would infiltrate the world’s best equipped and well-trained military. It amazes me even more how our nation’s leaders do not even address this national security matter.</p>
<p>People need to ask themselves: Why would Islamic terrorists not join the U.S. armed forces?  Where else can they receive better military training and collect intelligence on their enemy? This is fundamental 101 in the intelligence field.  My team and I did not rely on 2nd or 3rd hand intelligence in regards to determining if the Muslim Brotherhood was active in America. We went inside. The best source of intelligence is always ‘inside’. This is why CAIR pushes for more Muslims in political positions. They can control America from inside. The documents in <em>Muslim Mafia</em> support this and thousands other documents we obtained provide more details.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Let me ask you about your knowledge concerning “Friendly Fire” incidents in Iraq and Afghanistan.</p>
<p>During your research at Islamic Centers you came across information in 2007 about these incidents that reveal that some of them may not have been so “friendly.”</p>
<p>Tell us what you have learned.</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> In regards to ‘Friendly Fire’ incidents in Iraq and Afghanistan, if I were the son, daughter, mother, father of some of the soldiers who were killed in these countries by alleged friendly fire, I would be demanding full investigations.</p>
<p>On Dec. 14, 2007, I went to an Islamic Center in Knoxville, TN. (yes recorded and evidence obtained). I had an extensive conversation with a long-time member of this mosque. He was also a former Nation of Islam member. This man described to me in detail how some U.S. Muslim soldiers are killing their own troops because, per his words, U.S. Muslims do not want to kill their brothers (the Islamic terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan).</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Did you provide this information to law enforcement?</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> I provided the intelligence to the organization that paid for the research and strongly encouraged this intelligence to be provided to law enforcement immediately.  During the Mapping Sharia research project we uncovered numerous pieces of intelligence similar to this.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> What’s next?</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> First-hand intelligence is always the best evidence. I have developed a web site to provide concerned people copies of Muslim Brotherhood material my team and I have collected during the last few years from Islamic Centers in America.  I will have thousands of audio lectures, Islamic terrorist manuals, books, videos, Islamic School manuals (advocating violence), and other related materials for people to use as education, research, and evidence to demand their elected leaders and law enforcement to take legal action against Islamic leaders advocating treason and sedition against our country. The site is <a href="http://www.muslimmafiainternational.com/">Muslim Mafia International</a>. All funding received from this project will go directly into conducting more first-hand research.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Dave Gaubatz, thank you for joining us.</p>
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		<title>Much Ado About CAIR &#8211; by Deborah Weiss</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new book exposes the dirt on the notorious “civil-rights” Muslim organization.]]></description>
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<p>Is it a mainstream Muslim civil rights organization, an illegal lobbying firm, a terrorist front group or all of the above?</p>
<p>In the eye-opening new book titled <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Muslim-Mafia-Underworld-Conspiring-Islamize/dp/1935071106">Muslim Mafia</a>, former federal investigator Dave Gaubatz and Paul Sperry (author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Infiltration-Muslim-Subversives-Penetrated-Washington/dp/1595550038">Infiltration:  How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington</a>) provide an inside look into the controversial tax-exempt organization known as Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).</p>
<p>In a brazen display of courage, Dave’s son, Chris, feigned conversion to Islam and loyalty to its radical tenets.  After winning over the trust of CAIR’s top leaders and inner circles, Chris Gaubatz aka David Marshall became privy to the private meetings and secret documents of this notorious organization.  <em>Muslim Mafia</em> tells the story of what Chris and his cohorts discover when they infiltrate the infiltrators.</p>
<p>During a six month sting operation, during which time he earned an award from CAIR, Chris was tasked with shredding confidential documents.  But instead, he brought them home for examination.  He taped conversations, researched court documents, and investigated the organization’s finances, goals, strategies and key players.  What he found is both fascinating and frightening.</p>
<p><em>Muslim Mafia</em> portrays CAIR as nothing less than America’s fifth column.  It is part of a network of organizations including ISNA, NAIT, MSA, and others which front for the Muslim Brotherhood and conspire to incrementally Islamize the west.  The Muslim Brotherhood’s goal is to sabotage the United States from within, and its main weapon is deceit.</p>
<p>The book demonstrates that CAIR is anything but a true civil rights organization.  Rather, it constitutes a turnstile for terrorist-supporters and victimizes mainstream Muslims who seek its aid.  It has penetrated major US institutions, derailed counterterrorism training programs, placed moles in law enforcement agencies, and advised mosque-goers to remain silent in the face of FBI investigations.</p>
<p>Sadly, political correctness in collusion with Islamic radicalism has weakened America’s national security.  Indeed, some in the FBI notified CAIR in advance of its raids, rendering the raids useless.  And until recently, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies employed CAIR to provide “sensitivity training” to their agents, teaching them how to refrain from offending terrorist suspects held in custody.  Field agents complained that higher ups seemed more concerned about appeasing organizations with terrorist ties than actually investigating them.</p>
<p>Recently, in the largest terrorism trial in the US, where several defendants were convicted and sent to jail, CAIR and ISNA were named unindicted co-conspirators.  Despite this, aspects of law enforcement persist in “Muslim outreach” to these same organizations.</p>
<p>Political correctness is also causing America to lose control of framing the issues for the war on terror.  And generally, those who frame the debate win it.  Yet, succumbing to Islamist propaganda, the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, and the National Counterterrorism Center have distributed memos to their employees dissuading them from using a host of words and phrases ranging from “jihad” to “Islamic terrorism”.  If America can’t name her enemies and discuss them, neither can she produce a strategy to defeat them.</p>
<p>It is progress that the FBI finally cut ties with CAIR subsequent to the Holy Land Foundation trial.  It is also encouraging that some Congressmen are calling for an investigation of CAIR.  However, much work remains.  Muslim Brotherhood fronts are still infiltrating other areas of society including corporations, banks, courts, academia and media.  Their persuasion tactics range from political donations and carefully crafted public relations messages to lies, propaganda, economic boycotts, name-calling, bogus lawsuits and veiled threats.</p>
<p>For example, CAIR affiliates have managed to obtain congressional staff positions.  CAIR still works closely with some congressional offices, drafting legislation and otherwise targeting key committees to influence policy.  Among its goals are to strip America of her counterterrorism tools, eliminate immigration restrictions from high risk Muslim countries, outlaw profiling, criminalize criticism of Islam, abolish aid to Israel, and withdraw US troops from both Iraq and Afghanistan. Some politicians share CAIR’s anti-freedom and anti-national security sentiments.  Others have been the recipients of purposeful disinformation campaigns by various Muslim Brotherhood front groups that pose as mainstream.</p>
<p>The Pentagon’s Muslim Chaplain program exemplifies another Muslim Brotherhood success story.  It was started by Alamoudi, then-head of the Muslim American Society, while he simultaneously raised money for Al-Qaeda.  The program provided the Pentagon’s stamp of approval to radical imams.  Though Alamoudi now sits in jail, the program he started remains in place.</p>
<p>The Treasury Department and Wall Street are the next targets for Islamists.  They are pushing for sharia-compliant financing, the instruments of which are precluded from dealing with alcohol, pork, and any business with Israel.  Dispute resolution must be handled by sheiks who are expert in sharia law, rather than by the SEC.  The goal is to create a parallel financial system at odds with American values and lacking government accountability.  Worse, a portion of the earnings from sharia-compliant financing goes to “Islamic charities” many of which are questionable at best.  Never-the-less, the Treasury Department offered its first course titled “Islamic Banking 101” earlier this year.</p>
<p>Allowing Muslims and others of all faiths to immigrate to America and enjoy her way of life is the American way.  But America cannot allow her freedom of religion to be turned on its head and used against her.  She ought not accommodate radicals who demand respect for the intolerant, attempt to reduce national security, restrict freedom of speech or ultimately seek the merging of mosque and state.</p>
<p>America must do more than merely defend herself from her enemies.  She must be pro-active.  America cannot wait for another 9/11 or until CAIR and other Muslim Brotherhood front groups achieve their objectives before learning their true motivations.   She must act now before it is too late.</p>
<p><em>Muslim Mafia</em> is a fascinating read which, at a minimum, raises critical issues that demand to be asked and answered.  To support its claims, it details copious citations from court records, declassified FBI documents, interviews with government officials, counterterrorism expertise, and internal CAIR memos.  Get the book and become informed.  America’s freedom and national security depend on it.</p>
<p><strong>To order Muslim Mafia, <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Muslim-Mafia-Underworld-Conspiring-Islamize/dp/1935071106">click here</a>.</strong></p>
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		<title>CAIR’s Call for Jihad &#8211; by Jamie Glazov</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the Muslim “civil rights” group promotes young Muslims to engage in physical jihad at home and abroad.]]></description>
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<p>Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Dave Gaubatz, the first U.S. civilian (1811) Federal Agent deployed to Iraq in 2003. He is the owner of <a href="http://www.daveg.us./">DG Counter-terrorism Publishing</a>. He is currently conducting a 50 State Counter-terrorism Research Tour (CTRT). He is the co-author (with Paul Sperry) of the new book, <a href="http://www.muslimmafia.com/">Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that’s Conspiring to Islamize America.</a> He can be contacted at <a href="mailto:davegaubatz@gmail.com">davegaubatz@gmail.com</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>FP:</strong> Dave Gaubatz, welcome to Frontpage Interview.</p>
<p>Congrats on your new book <em><a href="../2009/11/06/2009/11/03/cair-we-have-a-problem-by-jamie-glazov/">Muslim Mafia</a></em>.</p>
<p>Five missing American Muslim men have been arrested in Pakistan suspected of terrorist activity. <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/10/pakistan-detains-5-virginians-on-terror-suspicion/">CAIR claims that it assisted the FBI</a> in this case. Your thoughts?</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> Jamie, thank you.</p>
<p>I will get right to the point on this one. This is like Ismail Royer and Ali Al Timimi (both had strong relationships, and still do, with CAIR and are serving prison time for advocating terrorism against America) telling authorities they will help them prosecute Major Hasan from Ft. Hood.</p>
<p>I have been informing the public and law enforcement for years that the way to stop young Muslims in America from running away to fight Jihad against assumed ‘oppressors’ and enemies (to include America and Israel) is, for one, to stop groups like CAIR from promoting jihadist activity. We need to prosecute groups like this when they do things that are illegal. And let&#8217;s be honest about the materials that they distribute.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> And these materials are?</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> These are materials Islamic leaders are providing to their worshippers. They come directly from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Iran.  They are current and are distributed in 2009 as a reference to how young Muslims should carry out their obligatory duties in regards to physical Jihad. Young Muslims are told exactly the manner and tactics to use during attacks, what to attack, and the type of weapons to use.</p>
<p>For instance, I have previously written about the manuals that call for having the exact weapons the alleged enemies of Islam have, must be manufactured and/or purchased in America for their use. Such weapons as chemicals, high-powered weapons, biological, and nuclear.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Ok just a second. Are you stating that CAIR and other such groups promote and advocate young men to leave America and engage in physical Jihad?</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> Yes Jamie. And I am not the one saying it. The materials that these groups distribute to young Muslims are saying it. I am just reporting on what I see. And not only are these materials telling young Muslims in America to leave America to fight enemies overseas; CAIR and their supporters <em>advocate doing so in America as well</em>.</p>
<p>CAIR has the same violent materials in their National HQ, and various chapters that the young men are using for references in their mosques.  The ADAMS Center and Dar Al Hijrah (both Northern  VA) are prime examples of violent material being provided to the worshippers (to include children). They literally have hundreds of manuals/books/DVDs, audio lectures informing the young Muslims to ignore the U.S. Constitution and our laws, and only obey Sharia law. These Islamic scholars encourage the youth to change America, even using violent force when required.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Can you give us an example of what is in some material?</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> One such manual I had obtained was distributed across America. It is one that goes into very direct detail on how the young Muslims (Soldiers of Allah) can take America down. I’ll quote from it:</p>
<p>“It is imperative therefore that war be waged both specifically and against the larger totality before victory is possible.  Archive systems, individual terminals, national debt-all these must be targeted. It is already well known what the reneging of one country on its massive debt would do to the total market stability. No one has yet contemplated the impact of one destroyed Stock Exchange or Central Bank Archive.”</p>
<p>Jamie over the last few years I have conducted first-hand research in Islamic centers north, south, east, and west in our country.  The message to attack our country, Israel, and other countries/people that support us is being advocated on a daily basis. The orders have been given to the young Muslims to hate Christians and Jews and to take every opportunity to conduct such attacks as Major Hasan did at Ft.  Hood.</p>
<p>The senior leadership of the Muslim Mafia (Muslim Brotherhood) is full of hypocrites. They will tell naïve politicians, media, and many Americans they are assisting the FBI, but in reality, as Paul Sperry and I have proven in our book, they are lying. Organizations such as CAIR, ISNA, MANA, must be legally closed down. There is already ample evidence to show they are involved in treason and sedition against America. Islamic scholars such as Siraj Wahhaj, Bilal Phillips, Ahmad Sakr, Yusef Estes, Shaykir Elsayed, Zaid Shakir, and dozens of others are encouraging acts of violence against innocent people of all races, religions, and colors who oppose the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> What could be done immediately to reduce America’s chance of another attack?</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> With the documents pertained in our book, <em>Muslim Mafia</em>, the 12,000 other docs, and hours of video, along with information already known to the FBI and other law enforcement/intelligence agencies, a Congressional Hearing should be called and then Grand Jury Criminal Investigations pertaining to the organizations and people I mentioned above.</p>
<p>Have Nihad Awad and Ibrahim Hooper go before a Grand jury and swear under oath that they are not aware of any material in their faculties or in any Islamic center/mosque that calls for the overthrow of America by violent means. Have them swear under oath that they are not aware of any worshippers who have informed them they are prepared to commit violence against our law enforcement officers. A Muslim within the last year did write Nihad the right within Islam to use violence against U.S. Govt. officials. This information was not provided to law enforcement by Nihad Awad. I have always informed readers anything I have ever said or written can or already has been provided in a sworn statement.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Additional crimes CAIR may be involved in?</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> There are numerous, but it will take the FBI time and resources to go through all the evidence. The dots can be connected.  CAIR has intentionally lied and has known some of their clients have lied to the FBI during investigations. For this reason alone they could be prosecuted and should be.  The FBI knows where these documents are and they can possibly prevent another attack if they begin reviewing them immediately. I have faith in our ‘street level’ FBI agents. They know what needs to be done. Of course they will encounter ‘political red tape’ from their superiors, but I have confidence they will win this battle.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Why do you think street level FBI agents can win a political battle with their superiors, many of whom have supported CAIR previously?</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> Because I know the quality and professionalism of these agents. They have families, children, and love our country. They are at the stage that they are no longer going to allow politics, and political correctness, to cause the possible innocent deaths of our children, which they know could include theirs. The Muslim Brotherhood has only one allegiance: “To Allah”.  The Muslim Brotherhood does not care about our country, our families, and will attack even innocent children when the need arises to advance their cause.</p>
<p>Right now our politicians and law enforcement need to act. A failure to do so will result in more innocent deaths.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Dave Gaubatz, thank you for joining us.</p>
<p><em><strong>To order Muslim Mafia,<a href="http://www.muslimmafia.com/"> click here</a>.</strong></em></p>
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		<title>CAIR’s Strategy of Deception &#8211; by Jamie Glazov</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the Muslim Brotherhood in America pulls the wool over the eyes of our law enforcement and public officials.]]></description>
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<p>Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Dave Gaubatz, the first U.S. civilian (1811) Federal Agent deployed to Iraq in 2003. He is the owner of <a href="http://www.daveg.us./">DG Counter-terrorism Publishing</a>. He is currently conducting a 50 State Counter-terrorism Research Tour (CTRT). He is the co-author (with Paul Sperry) of the new book, <a href="http://www.muslimmafia.com/">Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that’s Conspiring to Islamize America.</a> He can be contacted at <a href="mailto:davegaubatz@gmail.com">davegaubatz@gmail.com</a>.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> David Gaubatz, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Congrats on your book, <em>Muslim Mafia</em>.</p>
<p>I would like to talk to you today about how CAIR and other Islamic organizations deceive the public.</p>
<p>But first, give us some updates on your work and what is going on.</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> Thank you Jamie. I owe thanks to the WND staff at all levels, to Paul Sperry (co-author), and to all of the researchers who worked on this CAIR project.  Without them, the book would not exist.</p>
<p>On Dec. 1, 2009, I was asked to speak at the National Security Roundtable, hosted by Ronni Shalit, in NY.  The trip to NY was a pleasure and it was an honor to speak to such a well informed group of people.  The group consisted of people from many professions, including law enforcement, attorneys, bankers, and many more.  What I am beginning to see is that Americans are becoming more informed of national security issues and they are no longer simply sitting back and expecting our elected officials to insure our nation is secured.  Americans are beginning to insist that our nation be secured.</p>
<p>We have a very, very valuable commodity in our country, as does every country: our children.  It is apparent Americans are no longer going to rely on elected officials (many who wittingly and some unwittingly) who support the interests of Islamic based terrorist organizations more than they do our troops and our country.  The message to politicians who support terrorist groups either from being uninformed, naïve, incompetent, or intentionally (like Congressman Keith Ellison (MN) and Senator Larry Shaw (NC) is either do your job (protect our children from Islamic based terrorism) or leave office.  You are no longer wanted.</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> What do you think, is the state of New York better protected than before Sept. 11,  2001?</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> For a few months after the murder of thousands of people by Islamic terrorists, the people of NY came together. Unfortunately it did not take long before many forgot what happened in their city, what is happening to our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, and what has been happening (terrorist attacks) to the people of Israel for many years.  Many have again fallen into the trap of a false sense of security.  Anytime a city or state allows people to openly declare they are seeking the destruction of our country and are calling for violence against innocent Christians and Jews in their theological texts, no location is safe.</p>
<p>I am not an attorney, but as an American I do not believe our U.S. Constitution was designed for allowing treason, sedition, and calling for killing our citizens.  Our Constitution was designed to protect our country.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> How can our law enforcement effectively and timely protect our country from future attacks?</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> We have a long educational process of our law enforcement and politicians ahead of us. This has to happen before we can truly realize any steps forward in protecting our country.  Few understand Sharia law (Islamic law) and they can’t rely on organizations such as CAIR, ISNA, MSA, and the host of other terror supporters to explain to them what Sharia law actually means in regards to the protection of our country.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> So tell us a bit about Sharia law.</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> Sharia law covers every minute of every day of a person’s life in Islam.  Of course there are many peaceful aspects of Sharia, but as the 17 year old Rifqa Bary and many others have tried to inform people, Sharia law also has many violent aspects which can no longer be ignored.  Sharia law is an all or nothing. A Muslim can’t decide (and be in conformance with Islamic law) that they want to abide by some aspects and ignore other aspects such as death for apostasy or calling for hatred and violence against Christians and Jews.</p>
<p>Islamic scholars and many Imams will be the first to tell you (and they do so in their materials/lectures) that even if one does not have the ability to perform an aspect of Sharia; they must at least have it in their heart and a desire to comply with mandatory Sharia obligations. Of course there are millions of Muslims who do not want violence or hatred, but according to such Islamic leaders as Imam Siraj Wahhaj, Zaid Shakir, Ahmad Sakr, and many more operating in the U.S., these Muslims are ‘non-practicing’ Muslims.  CAIR and ISNA executives endorse these scholars as well.  Many people do not realize that numerous Islamic centers and mosques in America will not allow CAIR to advocate its ideology at their centers.</p>
<p>People should begin to understand that CAIR has approximately 5100 members out of 1.5 to 8 million Muslims in America.  CAIR is strong because it utilizes its manpower of foreign funding wisely.  CAIR does not truly help the Muslim people who actually need its assistance, CAIR represents the Muslim Brotherhood and therefore utilize their resources to intimidate, threaten, extort, and blackmail U.S. corporations and people to conform to their ideology. CAIR further spends hundreds of thousands operating a media PR machine to influence our law enforcement and politicians.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Ok, let&#8217;s focus in on some specifics of how the Muslim Brotherhood (CAIR, ISNA, MANA, etc,) intentionally deceives law enforcement and public officials.</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> Two quick examples. Both pertain to prayers. One was the ‘Flying Imam case’ in which several Imams began praying loudly at an airport and then caused disruptions on a plane.  This was merely a ‘hoax’ in order for the Imams to instill fear into the public, and by later suing the airlines and threatening the innocent people who reported their suspicious activities. This tactic by Islamic leaders and CAIR (Muslim Brotherhood) in regards to terrorism is called a ‘conditioning process’. One is simply ‘softening’ their enemy to conform to later demands.</p>
<p>CAIR officials know that within Islam there is no requirement for a loud prayer which causes disturbances when in the ‘mode’ of traveling.  Performing prayers while traveling is mentioned numerous times in Islamic articles, manuals, and essentially means when a Muslim is in the mode of traveling they can shorten their prayers, conduct them in silence, and/or perform them later (more convenient time). <a href="http://www.islamonline.com/">www.IslamOnline.com</a> , Fiqh Us Sunnah, Tafsir Ibn Kathir, and numerous other references are available to provide more clarification.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Do you believe the ‘Flying Imam Suit’ crossed any boundaries into criminal activity?</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> Of course. These Imams were well trained. They all knew they had no obligation to pray in the airport or on the aircraft. They were in the mode of travel.  The imams and CAIR should be prosecuted for their actions. This is another form of setting up and again conditioning not only the public, but aircrew personnel, and even law enforcement to ignore such obvious disruptions in the future. Again CAIR, the Imams, and anyone who provided support during this conspiracy to disrupt airline travel (safety) should be prosecuted.</p>
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<p><strong>FP:</strong> Give us some more examples of “conditioning” tactics used by CAIR and other Islamic leaders to deceive the public.</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> Well, there’s the current CAIR hoax being played in Maine pertaining to a young girl in school who CAIR and others say must be given a separate room to pray.</p>
<p>First, there are no obligations for a female or male child to perform anything other than a silent prayer while away from their home or mosque.  There are numerous clear discussions by Islamic scholars on this issue and from ones endorsed by CAIR and the ISNA.</p>
<p>CAIR knows that there is no expectation of an employer or public school administrator to set aside space or time for prayer.  The prayers, if conducted, can be combined with an earlier or later prayer after school/work, or if they are considered to be in travel mode they are authorized to shorten the prayer or not conduct one at all.  CAIR has intimidated many employers to allow time for worshippers during Friday’s Jummah prayer, but there are no requirements on children to even attend the mosque (specifically females).</p>
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<p><strong>FP:</strong> Could you provide us with some evidence of how CAIR officials are intentionally deceiving school administrators and even law enforcement in these areas?</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> Yes. CAIR’s Muslim Brotherhood mouthpiece Ibrahim Hooper explained this to our researchers on more than one occasion during the research project.  Hooper himself often used the ‘traveling’ rule to ignore conducting prayers when he was with my researchers.  Islamic terrorists and their supporters do not recognize weakness. Now is a prime opportunity for law enforcement and prosecutors to charge the Imams, CAIR, and others who have conspired to disrupt air travel (federal) and the safety of innocent people.  In addition, school administrators should refuse to comply with CAIR in regards to prayers (other than silent) at public schools, and in no case authorize separate praying rooms.  The old saying ‘give an inch and they will take a mile’ is applicable here.  We have to deny terrorists more opportunities to later attack innocent people.  We need to stop their actions now or we will suffer later.</p>
<p>During my research of many Islamic Centers, the Imams and others would often refer me to one of their 3500 plus websites (many designed and ran by a respected Islamic Scholar Yusef Estes and his assistants). <a href="http://www.islamonline.com/">IslamOnline.com</a> is one such site he and other Islamic readers refer Muslims to for guidance on Islamic rulings.  A Muslim student asked a question about prayer at school and this is what the scholar and ISNA advised: One will notice only adult males are required to even attend Jummah prayer:</p>
<p><em>“Dear questioner, thank you very much for having confidence in us, and we hope our efforts, which are purely for Allah’s Sake, meet your expectations.</em></p>
<p><em>Friday prayer is mandatory on every Muslim male who is adult, healthy and free. Every Muslim should strive hard to perform it on time unless something beyond his capacity disrupts that. Muslim students in the West can modulate their schedule in order to be able to perform Friday prayer in its appointed time. They can gather together, even in the campus and perform the Friday prayer, which demonstrate unity and co-operation.”</em></p>
<p>In his response to the question, Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi, former president of the Islamic Society of North America, states the following:</p>
<p><em>“Friday prayer is obligatory on every Muslim man who is adult, healthy and free. It should not be missed unless there is a real excuse. Allah Almighty says in the Qur&#8217;an: <strong>“</strong>O you who believe when the call for Friday prayer is given then hurry to the remembrance of Allah and leave all business. This is better for you, if you know. (Al-Jumu&#8217;ah: 9)</em></p>
<p><em>The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, is reported to have said, <strong>‘</strong>Those who neglect three Friday prayers without any excuse may have their hearts sealed with hypocrisy.’”</em></p>
<p><em>The time for Friday prayer is the same as the time for Dhur prayer, that is from </em><em>noon</em><em> until the mid-afternoon (i.e. the time for &#8216;</em><em>Asr</em><em> prayer)</em><em>.</em></p>
<p><em>According to Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal, Friday prayer can also be prayed before </em><em>noon</em><em>. The minimum of worshippers required to hold Friday prayer is only three. So if there are three Muslims at some place and they find it difficult to join a larger Jama&#8217;ah for Friday they can have their own prayer. I have mentioned these points to emphasize the importance of Friday prayer and the flexibility in performing it.</em></p>
<p><em>Muslim students in high schools, colleges and universities can organize their own prayers according to the convenience of their class schedule. Also, if your school does not have three or more Muslim students to hold your own Friday prayer at your school, then try to change your class schedule from the beginning of the school year. I have seen some students take early classes in one period in order to be able to attend Friday prayer at the Masjid. Make an effort to perform this prayer. There is a great reward and blessings from Allah in this prayer, you will feel the blessings throughout your week.</em></p>
<p><em>If for some reasons you are unable to perform Friday prayer, then pray Dhur instead. But this should not be done on a regular basis. It is an option for necessity only. May Allah bless you and help you to remember Him and make your prayers on time.&#8221;</em><em> </em></p>
<p><em> </em><strong>FP:</strong> David Gaubatz, thank you for taking the time out to speak with us.</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> Thanks Jamie.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the United States, television psychics are merely mocked. In Saudi Arabia, they are executed. The Saudi Arabian government is planning to execute Lebanese television psychic Ali Sibat. Sibat was found guilty of witchcraft by a Saudi court in November, a crime which carries the death sentence. It appears that Sibat was targeted for arrest [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the United States, television psychics are merely mocked. In Saudi Arabia, they are executed.</p>
<p>The Saudi Arabian government is planning to execute Lebanese television psychic Ali Sibat. Sibat was found guilty of witchcraft by a Saudi court in November, a crime which carries the death sentence.</p>
<p>It appears that Sibat was targeted for arrest and trial while visiting Saudi Arabia for the Hajj. Saudi Arabia’s special religious police, the Mutaween, grabbed him out of his hotel room and placed the host in custody. Sibat was then tried on charges related to his satellite television show:</p>
<p>via <a href="http://trueslant.com/nealungerleider/2009/12/04/saudi-arabia-to-execute-tv-psychic/">Saudi Arabia to execute TV psychic &#8211; Neal Ungerleider &#8211; Falafel Mafia &#8211; True/Slant</a>.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new book takes us inside the secret underworld that's conspiring to Islamize America.]]></description>
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<p>The Muslim Brotherhood, an Egyptian based Islamic terrorist organization appears to be alive and well and cloaking itself in legitimacy in our nation&#8217;s capitol under the guise of a front group say intrepid undercover agents P. David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry in their new book, <strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Muslim-Mafia-Underworld-Conspiring-Islamize/dp/1935071106/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1259719070&amp;sr=1-1">Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That&#8217;s Conspiring to Islamize America</a></strong> (World Net Daily Books 2009). Investigative journalism reaches new levels in doughtiness and concludes with a shocking crescendo in this tome, as Gaubatz, his son Chris and Paul Sperry infiltrate the shady Washington, DC based organization known as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR); the nation&#8217;s largest and purportedly mainstream Muslim-American &#8220;civil rights&#8221; advocacy agency. The frightening facts published in this book are supported by more than 12,000 pages of confidential CAIR documents and hundreds of hours of video captured in this unprecedented undercover operation.</p>
<p>Through painstaking and nuanced research of internal memos and documents the authors establish the fact that CAIR is the ideological cousin of the notorious Muslim Brotherhood and their leadership is inextricably tied to the promulgation of an explosively violent &#8220;jihadist&#8221; agenda.  Utilizing double speak and a wide variety of cleverly devised subterfuges, CAIR manages to ostensibly present itself as a law abiding, pro-American organization, however the authors expose their unbridled mendacity in its most egregious form.</p>
<p>Mr. Gaubatz served for twelve years as a former agent with the US Air Force Office of Special Investigations and is a career military counterterrorism specialist as well as a US State Department trained Arabic linguist. Joining him on this six month long covert foray into the nefarious machinations of CAIR and it&#8217;s overt ties to Muslim terrorists of all stripes are his son Chris who worked undercover as a convert to Islam and Paul Sperry, a veteran investigative journalist and author of &#8220;Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington.&#8221;</p>
<p>This book could effortlessly take it&#8217;s rightful place among classic hair raising espionage thrillers if it&#8217;s tragic geo-political realities weren&#8217;t so terrifying. The authors scrupulously document CAIR&#8217;s foreign fundraising sources including exceedingly large donations from the Wahabi dominated Saudi Arabian government that gave birth to the 9/11 hijackers. Not to be outdone, CAIR also assumes the role of benefactor, as the recipients of their financial largesse include such heinous terror organizations as Hamas.</p>
<p>Moreover, the authors offer shocking revelations about CAIR&#8217;s infiltration of key US law enforcement agencies including local police departments, the FBI, the CIA and the State Department as well as their heavy handed influence operations against members of homeland security committess on Capitol Hill and their insertion of Islamic spies in congressional offices.  According to the authors, FBI wiretaps reveal that, &#8220;During a secret Muslim Brotherhood meeting he organized last decade, CAIR founder and former chair Omar Ahmad expressed the need to strengthen &#8220;the influence with Congress.&#8221; He argued for using Muslims as an &#8220;entry point&#8221; to &#8220;pressure Congress and the decision makers in America&#8221; to change US foreign policy in the Middle East and other policies.&#8221;</p>
<p>CAIR&#8217;s far reaching tentacles have even permeated corporate America, say the authors, as they and their sister organization, the Islamic Society of North America blackmail Wall Street firms who do not comply with Islamic financing principles. The authors also spotlight CAIR&#8217;s use of intimidation tactics in silencing their political opponents as evidenced in their efforts to unleash a vitriolic campaign to blacklist such media personalities as Bill O&#8217;Reilly, Dr. Laura Schlesinger, Glenn Beck and Michael Savage while pressuring the National Review to acquiesce to their demands.</p>
<p>While elected officials from both sides of the aisle, including former president George W. Bush, have legitimized the dubious organization with governmental recognition and ceremonial gravitas, CAIR&#8217;s underlying credo remains seditious and rabidly anti-American until this very day. The authors remind us that in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, President Bush appeared alongside officials from CAIR and other outwardly benign Muslim groups that weren&#8217;t properly vetted at the Islamic Center of Washington in a display of &#8220;unity&#8221;. The unsuspecting former president announced, &#8220;It is my honor to be meeting with leaders who feel just the same way as I do. They&#8217;re outraged, they&#8217;re sad. They love America just as much as I do.&#8221;</p>
<p>These words would come back to haunt the president as facts concerning CAIR&#8217;s zealous legal representation of Muslim Americans charged with terrorist activities came to the fore and as history would record, certain members of CAIR&#8217;s own leadership would turn out to be unindicted co-conspirators in helping to finance terrorist organizations.</p>
<p>As the burgeoning and pernicious scourge of global radical Islam continues to proliferate in an unfettered manner, it is clear that within our borders the threat to our cherished democratic values and principles are all too real. The release of this book of paramount importance by authors Gaubatz and Sperry hasn&#8217;t come a moment too soon. To say that the information published in these pages is a real eye opener is an understatement of monumental proportions. It is a must read for anyone, the world over, who still clings to the hope of freedom, peace and liberty that Western civilization represents.</p>
<p><strong>To order <em>Muslim Mafia</em>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Muslim-Mafia-Underworld-Conspiring-Islamize/dp/1935071106/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1259719070&amp;sr=1-1">click here</a>.</strong></p>
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