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		<title>10 Reasons the UAE Terrorist Group List Rises Above the Rest</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2014 05:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/HH+Sheikh+Khalifa+Bin+Zayed+Al+Nahyan+UAE+president.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247979" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/HH+Sheikh+Khalifa+Bin+Zayed+Al+Nahyan+UAE+president.jpg" alt="HH+Sheikh+Khalifa+Bin+Zayed+Al+Nahyan,+UAE+president" width="306" height="205" /></a>In November 2014, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) took a bold and unprecedented step for a Muslim nation by designating 85 radical Islamic organizations as terrorist organizations. The UAE’s designation is the most audacious and significant classification of terrorist organizations worldwide, and is superior to the lists developed by the United States, the European Union, the Russian Federation and the United Nations. As to why it is unrivalled, here are a number of reasons:</p>
<p>First: The UAE addressed the roots of the problem, in the sense that terrorist ideology paves the way for terrorist acts; hence, the list included organizations which promote terrorist ideology or seek to secretly recruit Muslims, making them ready and available for organizations engaged in terrorist acts.</p>
<p>Second: The UAE is familiar with the double talk, dissimulation and outright lies that are typical of Islamists. As an Islamic State, the UAE has a good understanding of those deceitful practices. Therefore, it did not hesitate much about organizations that issue vague statements claiming to denounce terror, while their actions aim at stirring up discontent among Muslims to facilitate their recruitment into terrorist organizations. The US Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is a prominent case in point.</p>
<p>Third: It is the first time that Islamic organizations in the United States and Europe find themselves on the designated list of terrorist organizations. These organizations are mostly financed through Arab oil countries, under pretext of defending the rights of Muslims in the United States and Europe. In reality, they are part of the global <i>Jihad </i>network, and are focused on promoting radical ideologies and indoctrinating Muslims in the Western World, steering them to join the universal <i>Jihad</i> against the infidels. These organizations also actively work to isolate Muslims and prevent their integration into their new communities in the West. Furthermore, they have sown the seeds of hatred that many Muslims harbor towards their new home in the West, pushing the idea that loyalty to the new homeland contradicts their devotion to Islam and stands in the way of the battle against the infidels. Examples of organizations that fall under this category in the UAE’s list include CAIR in the United States, the Muslim American Society (MAS), the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe, the Islamic Associations in Italy, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Belgium, the Cordoba Foundation in Britain and the Islamic Society of Germany.</p>
<p>Fourth: The UAE’s list also included organizations that hide behind the façade of charity and humanitarian work, while playing a major role in financing terrorist groups such as Hamas and others. Among these organizations are the UK Islamic Relief and the International Islamic Relief organization affiliated with the international Muslim Brotherhood organization.</p>
<p>Fifth: The UAE’s designation also broke through the imaginary divide between moderate Islamic organizations and radical Islamic organizations. On the whole, political Islam organizations that seek power, interfere with politics, promote fundamental ideologies and indirectly support terrorism, deserve to be listed as dangerous terrorist organizations. To illustrate: The Islamic terrorist organization ISIS is in reality a grandchild of the Muslim Brotherhood, since Al-Qaida, which gave birth to ISIS, was itself born out of the Muslim Brotherhood movement. These strong ties explain the stance taken by Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef al-Qaradawi in defense of ISIS, his announcement that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood movement, and his disapproval of the international coalition’s strikes against ISIS.</p>
<p>Sixth: The inclusion of the “Association of Muslim Scholars” in the list of terrorist organizations was a bold choice on the UAE’s part. This union is essentially an international union of Muslim Brotherhood scholars and radical fundamentalists, which serve the Muslim Brotherhood and Qatar in their quest to manipulate and ultimately control Islamic affairs.</p>
<p>Seventh: By adopting this exceptional designation, the UAE made it evident that the countries which played a role in creating the problem can hardly be part of the solution. These terrorist organizations are the product of the so-called “Islamic awakening” which started in the seventies of last century. Countries that contributed to this awakening include Egypt (Sadat), Saudi Arabia (Faisal), Sudan (Numeri), Pakistan (Zia ul-Haq), Iran (Khomeini), the United States (Carter &amp; Brzezinski), Qatar (Hamad) in the last ten years, and Turkey (Erdogan) in the last five years. It is difficult for these countries, which brought about this Islamic terrorist awakening, to produce a terrorist group designation list on the scale of the UAE. I am confident that Egypt would never entertain the idea of issuing such a comprehensive designation. As for Saudi Arabia, it issued a meagre list that mostly included political dissidents who threaten Saudi rule. It is also surprising and somehow disturbing that the United States has rejected the designation of CAIR, the Muslim American Society and the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations.</p>
<p>Eighth: The UAE also dealt a strong blow to the skilful manipulation of the notion of &#8220;Islamophobia&#8221; in the West, given that the Islamic organizations designated in the UAE’s list, and which operate in the United States and Europe, have created and pushed the term “Islamophobia,” waiving its spectre around whenever it has suited their purposes. As a matter of fact, Muslims enjoy significantly more freedom and liberties in the West than they do in their Islamic homelands. If that remains in question, then pray tell why is it that Muslims who live in Islamic countries are so intent on fleeing the freedom, happiness, faith and virtue abundant in their homelands only to emigrate to the West where they supposedly fall victims to Islamophobia.</p>
<p>Ninth: Furthermore, the UAE exposed Islamic terrorist organizations that claim to be resistance movements or freedom fighters, such as the <i>Abu Sayyaf</i> group in the Philippines, “the Caucasus Emirate” of the Chechen Jihadists, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and Hezballah in Lebanon. These dangerous terrorist organizations have been receiving funds from oil countries and have garnered the sympathy of many Muslims, which has allowed them to recruit radical Muslims from all over the world. The UAE ought to be praised for exposing their true colors.</p>
<p>Finally, the UAE’s designation falls short in only one aspect, and that is the non-inclusion of fMuslim World League and Hamas in the list of terrorist organizations, even though it should be counted as one. This is likely due to the sensitive nature of the Palestinian cause and its impact on Arabic public opinion. That being said, Hamas was behind the creation of the terrorist organization “Supporters of Jerusalem” (<i>Ansar Bait al-Maqdis</i>) in Sinai. The name itself broadcasts a Hamas connection since none of the various Egyptian terrorist groups, as many as they are, ever took on Jerusalem “<i>Bait al-Maqdis</i>” as part of their names. But given that Hamas was majorly involved in establishing said terrorist organization, the reference to Jerusalem is a deliberate echo of Hamas’ philosophy. In addition, Hamas is receiving funds from several countries and from the International Muslim Brotherhood movement, and is actively engaged in recruiting, training and arming the Jerusalem supporters’ members.</p>
<p>The UAE came to the conclusion that the Islamic awakening, which produced those organizations, was not an innocent religious revival but rather a herald of ruin and destruction for the Middle East and the world. Consequently, it chose to unmask those organizations and reveal their true face to the entire world.</p>
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		<title>NY Jets Player Spoke at Event Hosted by Designated Terrorist Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2014 05:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Kaufman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anti-Israel athlete regals the Muslim American Society after the group's banning from the UAE. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/unnamed.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246943" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/unnamed.jpg" alt="unnamed" width="319" height="247" /></a>The media, the NFL and the New York Jets organization can no longer overlook the problem that is Jets player Oday Aboushi. People can argue that he has the right to have pride in his family’s heritage or even that he has the right to voice his opinion against Israel, albeit in a town that has a huge Jewish population. But it is quite another thing for those to look the other way if Aboushi chooses to speak in front of a group labeled terrorist, which is exactly what he did earlier this year, when he delivered a speech to the Muslim American Society (MAS).</p>
<p>Since coming to the New York Jets as a fifth round draft pick in the 2013 NFL Draft, Oday Aboushi has been very public in his stance against the nation of Israel. On a number of occasions, he has used social media to demean and denounce the Jewish state.</p>
<p>His latest set of infractions happened this past July, when Israel’s military entered Gaza in response to thousands of rockets being fired into Israel by Hamas. Aboushi took the opportunity to bash Israel on Twitter. One of his messages could not have been clearer: “<a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Oday_Aboushi_Shame_On_You_Israel.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">#SHAMEONYOUISRAEL</span></a>.”</p>
<p>There are over two million Jews who live in New York and New Jersey, the locations of the majority of Jets fans. Yet, the NFL, the Jets and the media have all stood by Aboushi, whitewashing his actions as if he is merely exhibiting pride in his Palestinian heritage.</p>
<p>Indeed, when this author pointed out in a previous article that Aboushi had spoken at a conference sponsored by the El-Bireh Palestine Society, a group that does not recognize Israel’s right to exist, whose 2013 conference Facebook site contained numerous photos of Adolf Hitler and Hamas leaders, it was not Aboushi who was attacked by the media, but it was instead this author and anyone else who appeared to voice concerns based on my information.</p>
<p>When Jonathan Mael, then-new media coordinator for Major League Baseball’s official website, MLB.com, compared Aboushi to New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez, who had just been charged with murder, stating in a tweet that the Jets were “a disgrace of an organization,” there were calls for Mael’s firing. And those calls appear to have been successful.</p>
<p>Aboushi’s speaking in front of the bigoted El-Bireh Society, though, seems to have only been a prelude to his being featured at something far worse, as he has now spoken in front of a group that would soon be designated as a terrorist organization.</p>
<p>On the night of February 7, 2014, Oday Aboushi was the featured speaker at an <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Oday_Aboushi_Muslim_American_Society.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">event hosted by the Muslim American Society</span></a> (MAS), at the group’s youth center in Brooklyn, New York. The title of his speech was ‘The Easy Way vs the Right Way,’ and it was promoted by MAS on social media.</p>
<p>On November 15, it was widely reported that MAS was <a href="http://www.wam.ae/en/news/emirates-international/1395272478814.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">named a terrorist organization by United Arab Emirates</span></a> (UAE), on a list that included al-Qaeda, ISIS and Boko Haram. This was a fitting designation, as the links to terror from MAS are many and varied.</p>
<p>MAS was founded in 1993 by a group of individuals from the Muslim Brotherhood, which included the future global head of the Brotherhood (2004 &#8211; 2010), Mohammed Mahdi Akef.</p>
<p>In the recent past, MAS has used its official websites to praise Hamas and to call for violence upon and/or denigrate Jews, Christians, homosexuals and women.</p>
<p>The current National Executive Director of MAS is Mazen Mokhtar. From 1992 through 1996, Mokhtar made numerous statements on the internet in support of Hamas and suicide bombings. Prior to the September 11 attacks, Mokhtar served as a web designer for what was then the main website raising funds and recruiting fighters for al-Qaeda and the Taliban, Qoqaz.net. The site was a project of Azzam Publications, an organization named for Osama bin Laden’s mentor, Abdullah Azzam. In April 2007, Mokhtar was arrested for tax fraud.</p>
<p>The fact that Aboushi made his speech at a “youth center” does not lessen the harmful nature of his event, as MAS Youth facilities have been and remain havens for extremist activity. One must note that, prior to becoming the National Executive Director of MAS, Mazen Mokhtar served as the Youth Director of MAS-New Jersey and has been a featured speaker at a number of MAS Youth camps and children’s retreats.</p>
<p>The Youth Coordinator at MAS Youth Center, where Aboushi spoke, is Amal Hussain. According to Facebook, Hussain was an attendee at Aboushi’s speech.</p>
<p>The very first posting on Hussain’s personal Facebook page was an <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Amal_Hussain_Siraj_Wahhaj.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">announcement for a speech that was to be given by Siraj Wahhaj</span></a>, the imam of the radical At-Taqwa Mosque, located in the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn. Hussain used the announcement as her Facebook cover photo.</p>
<p>In 1995, Wahhaj was named an “unindicted co-conspirator” for the federal trial prosecuting those involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Wahhaj had been linked to the bombmaker of the attack, Clement Rodney Hampton-El, and during the trial Wahhaj was a character witness for the spiritual leader of the attack – the “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdel Rahman – whom Wahhaj has openly praised.</p>
<p>On November 30, Amal Hussain posted a <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Amal_Hussain_Mohamed_Soltan.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">photo of Egyptian prisoner Mohamed Soltan on her Facebook site</span></a>, along with the following statement above it: “[Hosni] Mubarak walks away freely while Soltan is still ‘unjustly’ detained.” Soltan is awaiting trial for charges of funding a terrorist organization and conspiracy to commit violent acts. Soltan’s father, Salah Soltan, is a high-ranking official in the Muslim Brotherhood. Mohamed’s father is also a former leader of MAS.</p>
<p>Salah Soltan is the founder and former President of the MAS-run Islamic American University (IAU), which is based in Southfield, Michigan. The former Chairman of IAU is the current spiritual leader of the international Muslim Brotherthood, Yusuf al-Qaradawi. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) refers to al-Qaradawi as “Theologian of Terror,” and about Salah Soltan, the ADL states that, in June 2013, Salah delivered a sermon labeling Jews “the enemies of God… the cursed ones.”</p>
<p>Prior to going to jail, Mohamed Soltan tweeted a photo of himself <a href="https://causingfitna.wordpress.com/there-is-no-muslim-brotherhood-in-the-united-states-ummm-correction/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">together with his father and al-Qaradawi</span></a>, at what he claimed was al-Qaradawi’s house. He also tweeted support for Hamas.</p>
<p>The day after his speech to MAS, Oday Aboushi tweeted a <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Oday_Aboushi_Muslim_American_Society_2.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">thank-you note to the group</span></a>. He stated, “Thank you @MASYouthCenter for having me last night. Being available for our youth is the biggest hand we can lend in times of need.”</p>
<p>Question: Just how far is Oday Aboushi willing to go to lend a hand to a designated terrorist organization? And how far does he have to go before the NFL, the Jets and the media end their relationship with and their support for him?</p>
<p>As a professional football player, Oday Aboushi is considered by many to be a role model for kids, but what kind of role model legitimizes bigotry and terror?</p>
<p><i>Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.</i></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2014 05:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/CAIR-Visiting-Morocco-to-Discuss-Political-Reforms.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245709" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/CAIR-Visiting-Morocco-to-Discuss-Political-Reforms-450x344.jpg" alt="Council on American-Islamic Relation (CI" width="327" height="250" /></a>The United Arab Emirates last week approved a list of 86 “designated terrorist organisations and groups, including the usual suspects – the UAE Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic State – along with two surprises, both with ties to Hamas: the Muslim American Society and the Council on American-Islamic Relations.</p>
<p>This surprising listing probably stemmed from both groups’ links to the Muslim Brotherhood. UAE President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan doesn’t want to find himself overthrown by Islamic hardliners, and replaced by a Sharia government.</p>
<p>When the story first broke, I wrote at my website Jihad Watch: “If this is authentic, no doubt Hamas-linked CAIR’s Nihad Awad and Ibrahim ‘Honest Ibe’ Hooper are furiously working the phones today, calling on all their contacts in the U.S. government and elsewhere to get this reversed. What fun it would be to be a fly on the wall in Honest Ibe’s sumptuously appointed office today. Will the Obama administration’s Justice Department now denounce the UAE for ‘Islamophobia’?”</p>
<p>Close. It wasn’t Justice, it was State. U.S. State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke said Monday that the Obama Administration was “aware that two U.S.-based groups, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim American Society, were included on the list.” Rathke said that the government was “seeking to gain more information on why, and “engaging UAE authorities” in order to do so.</p>
<p>A reporter then asked Rathke: “The State Department works…with CAIR all the time, no? I mean, there’s all sorts of outreach programs between the government and CAIR, right?”</p>
<p>Rathke seemed taken aback by the question: “I don’t know offhand whether we have a particular…I don’t have that information at my fingertips. But at any rate, we’re engaging UAE officials. These are U.S.-based groups so of course our – we are not in the lead then for domestically-based groups generally.”</p>
<p>It’s perfectly clear why CAIR and MAS were listed as terror organizations: because of their links to the Muslim Brotherhood. But the Obama Administration cannot accept that, as it has itself done so much to aid the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and elsewhere. Hence their inquiries to Emirati officials, which are a fresh indication of the unwholesome influence these groups wield in Washington. But the UAE has the right idea, even if it reverses itself under pressure from State — and we can only hope for a restoration of sanity in Washington that will end these groups’ influence before they do more damage.</p>
<p>CAIR is not a terrorist organization, if one considers violent acts an essential part of what defines terrorism: it doesn’t blow things up or exhort others to do so. It is, however, an Islamic supremacist organization with the same goals as those of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State: the imposition of Islamic law wherever and whenever possible. And while CAIR is quite mainstream these days, this self-styled “civil rights group” was actually named an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case by the Justice Department. CAIR operatives have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements. Its California chapter distributed a poster telling Muslims not to talk to the FBI. CAIR has opposed every anti-terror measure that has ever been proposed or implemented.</p>
<p>CAIR’s dark side has been well known for years. Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) said that CAIR is “unusual in its extreme rhetoric and its associations with groups that are suspect.” Another United States Senator said of CAIR that “we know it has ties to terrorism,” and “intimate links with Hamas.” Those were the words of Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), and they have been proven correct.</p>
<p>Congressman Bill Shuster (R-PA) has said:  “Time and again the organization has shown itself to be nothing more than an apologist for groups bent on the destruction of Israel and Islamic domination over the West.”</p>
<p>In June 2007, Federal prosecutors named CAIR as a participant in what the New York Sun called “an alleged criminal conspiracy to support a Palestinian Arab terrorist group, Hamas.” This was when CAIR was first designated an unindicted co-conspirator for its support for the Holy Land Foundation. The federal prosecution document described CAIR as a present or past member of “the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee and/or its organizations.” The Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization of both Hamas and Al-Qaeda.</p>
<p>CAIR was founded in 1994 by Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmad. Awad had been the President of the Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP), and Ahmad its Public Relations Director. The IAP, which was shut down by the government in 2005 for funding terrorism, was founded in 1981 by a Hamas operative, Mousa Abu Marzook. Marzook currently heads Hamas’s “political bureau,” and is engaged in negotiations with Fatah in hopes of forming a Palestinian unity government. In the course of these negotiations, Hamas reaffirmed its refusal to accept Israel’s right to exist – which is tantamount to vowing its total destruction.</p>
<p>According to a report dated August 14, 2001, from the Immigration and Naturalization Services, the IAP was dedicated to “publishing and distributing HAMAS communiqués printed on IAP letterhead, as well as other written documentation to include the HAMAS charter and glory records, which are tributes to HAMAS’ violent ‘successes.’“ The same report also stated that IAP had received “approximately $490,000 from [Mousa Abu] Marzook during the period in which Marzook held his admitted role as a HAMAS leader.”</p>
<p>Randall Todd (“Ismail”) Royer was CAIR’s communications specialist and civil rights coordinator. He was part of the “Virginia jihad group,” which was indicted on forty-one counts of “conspiracy to train for and participate in a violent jihad overseas.” They were accused of association with Lashkar-e-Taiba, a jihad terrorist group.</p>
<p>Matthew Epstein of the Investigative Project has said that Royer helped recruit the other member of the group to the jihad while he was working for CAIR.</p>
<p>Royer was also among those charged in a separate indictment saying that they conspired to help Al-Qaeda and the Taliban fight against American troops in Afghanistan. And Royer admitted to a grand jury that he had already waged jihad warfare in Bosnia – with and that his commander took orders from Osama bin Laden.</p>
<p>According to Daniel Pipes, “Royer eventually pleaded guilty to lesser firearms-related charges, and the former CAIR staffer was sentenced to twenty years in prison.”</p>
<p>Then there was Ghassan Elashi, the founder of CAIR’s Texas chapter. He was charged in July 2004 with giving Hamas more than 12 million dollars while he was running the Holy Land Foundation. Elashi was convicted in November 2008 of providing material support to terrorism in connection with his role in the HLF. Earlier, Elashi was convicted in July 2004 of illegally shipping computers to two state-sponsors of terrorism, Libya and Syria. Then he was convicted in April 2005 of knowingly doing business with Mousa Abu Marzook, the senior Hamas leader who founded the IAP. Elashi was found guilty of conspiracy, money laundering, and dealing in the property of a designated terrorist.</p>
<p>Bassem Khafagi was CAIR’s community relations director. He pled guilty in September 2003 to lying on his visa application and passing bad checks, and he was deported. Before he worked for CAIR, he was president of the Islamic Assembly of North America (IANA) &#8212; which is under investigation by the Justice Department for terrorism-related activities. According to court documents, the IANA was devoted to spreading “radical Islamic ideology, the purpose of which was indoctrination, recruitment of members, and the instigation of acts of violence and terrorism.”</p>
<p>Rabih Haddad was a CAIR fundraiser who was arrested in December 2001 and deported. Again the charges were terror-related.</p>
<p>Maybe all these people had jihadist sentiments either before or after working for CAIR, but were completely moderate while working for it. Maybe. But this is just part of the picture. CAIR is, evidently, a moderate group has several onetime employees arrested on terror charges. It is a moderate group came out of another group that has been identified as the “primary voice in the U.S.” of a terror group. A moderate group that traffics in legal threats and intimidation against those of which it disapproves.</p>
<p>A moderate group?</p>
<p>No, the UAE was right: it’s a terrorist organization.</p>
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		<title>Dubai Police Chief Declares Qatar Part of UAE</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2014 13:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[General Dahi Khalfan demanded his country “reclaim” Qatar.]]></description>
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<p>I would say this is an interesting development if Khalfan weren&#8217;t a notorious clown. You might remember him as the guy constantly on television &#8220;investigating&#8221; the supposed Israeli assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.</p>
<p>Since then Khalfan has been aggressively challenging the Muslim Brotherhood and its Qatari backers, but this might be a step too far. Not that it would be a bad thing, but <a href="http://www.thetower.org/0094-leading-dubai-official-calls-qatar-part-of-the-uae/">I have trouble taking the idea seriously</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Tensions among members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have been further aggravated, when a top Dubai security official, General Dahi Khalfan stated that Qatar was the “eighth emirate” of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).</p>
<p>Last month Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE withdrew their ambassadors from Qatar for “for interfering in other countries’ internal affairs.”</p>
<p>Qatar is an integral part of the UAE,” the outspoken Khalfan, a longtime critic of the Doha-backed Muslim Brotherhood, wrote on Twitter on Monday, demanding his country “reclaim” Qatar.</p>
<p>“We must put up signs on our borders with Qatar stating: ‘You are now entering the UAE’s eighth emirate,’” said Khalfan.</p></blockquote>
<p>Even Khalfan isn&#8217;t really talking about doing anything, but laying a meaningless territorial claim. Still it does show how much Qatar has infuriated its neighborhoods with its embrace of the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>The concluding unreported Tweet from Khalfan is that “Qatar should not be ‘a safe haven’ to the so-called ‘Muslim’ Brotherhood.”</p>
<p>Then, feeling bored, <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/10574-dubai-police-chief-accuses-kuwait-of-destroying-iraq">Khalfan decided to get into a Twitter</a> fight with Kuwait.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Dubai Chief of Police, Dhahi Khalfan, has accused the Gulf States, and especially Kuwait, of destroying Iraq, saying Kuwait&#8217;s unprecedented retaliation against former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein&#8217;s invasion of Kuwait left nearly a million Iraqi orphans.</p>
<p>On his personal Twitter account, Khalfan praised Hussein, saying: &#8220;Saddam, son of Iraq, stood in front of the gallows as a man who defeated all his opponents and showed respectable courage.&#8221;</p>
<p>This is Khalfan&#8217;s second verbal attack against Kuwait within a month. Previously, he had accused the state of funding the Muslim Brotherhood, leading some liberals to accuse him of McCarthyism, or making accusations of treason without proper regard for evidence.</p></blockquote>
<p>So Middle Eastern politics as usual.</p>
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		<title>Muslim Country Hosts Chess Tournament, Islamizes the Chess Pieces</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As usual, Islam made things worse.]]></description>
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<p>The left politicizes everything. <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/12/world-youth-chess-championships-in-uae-using-islamized-chess-sets.html">Islam Islamizes everything</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Traditional chess kings have a cross on the top (a design that has been in use for centuries). But this year in the UAE, they&#8217;ve removed the cross and replaced it with an Islamic crescent. A veteran chess player tells me: &#8220;In my entire life playing chess I have never seen such a thing.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>There&#8217;s a basic undercurrent of intolerance to the obsessive need to remake everything in your own image and destroy what is not yours in a fit of xenophobia.</p>
<p>The same impulse that led the Taliban to blow up the statues in Afghanistan led the UAE, whose people have sent plenty of money to the Taliban and Al Qaeda, to try and Islamize the chess set.</p>
<p>Installing a crescent on top is a minor thing.</p>
<p>When Muslims first hijacked the Indian game of Chaturanga, which became the Persian game of Shatranj, they destroyed all the chess pieces because they considered the figures to be blasphemous.</p>
<p>Chess as we know it had to be recreated in Europe once the dark shadow of Islam fell over the chessboard. This is what proper Islamic chess pieces looked like.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hb_1971.193a-ff.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-213991" alt="hb_1971.193a-ff" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hb_1971.193a-ff-450x306.jpg" width="450" height="306" /></a></p>
<p>Compare that to the Indian originals</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/afrasiab-chess.gif"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-213992" alt="afrasiab-chess" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/afrasiab-chess.gif" width="380" height="280" /></a></p>
<p>As usual, Islam made things worse.</p>
<p>Islam erases culture and identity. It eliminates character and personality. It exchanges creativity for a totalitarian facelessness. The sterility of the Islamic chess set is also the sterility of any society that falls under the shadow of Islam.</p>
<p>Islam relentlessly Islamizes everything, robbing it of its identity, and replacing it with the crudity of its totalitarian Sharia restrictions.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The court heard details of the group’s finances, including stocks, property and commercial companies. The accused owned educational centres for children and adults and had attempted to infiltrate institutions of the state including schools, universities and ministries.]]></description>
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<p>While Qatar has become the Brotherhood&#8217;s sugar sheiks, the UAE has chosen to crack down hard on the Muslim Brotherhood. And while these days the odds of the legal system here being used to expose the Brotherhood are slim, the UAE trial is already beginning to expose and reaffirm much of what we knew about <a href="http://www.arabianbusiness.com/uae-trial-of-94-accused-of-islamist-plot-begins-493670.html">how the Muslim Brotherhood operates</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Investigators told the State Security Court in Abu Dhabi on Monday that they overheard the group during secret meetings planning to seize power as the Arab Spring began in 2011, according to reporters present at the trial.</p>
<p>The court heard details of the group’s finances, including stocks, property and commercial companies. The accused owned educational centres for children and adults and had attempted to infiltrate institutions of the state including schools, universities and ministries.</p>
<p>Each of the accused had invested money from Brotherhood membership fees and charity funds to set up commercial enterprises and real estate investments held in their own names to conceal their activities from the state, it was alleged.</p></blockquote>
<p>This isn&#8217;t all that groundbreaking, but it does remind us of how the Brotherhood operates. It launders money through legitimate businesses and sets up Islamic institutions that don&#8217;t bear its name, but are run by its operatives. Its members go into business and build political influence that way with the Brotherhood acting like a mafia. Each achievement sets the stage for the next step, from religious organizations to economic organizations and onward into the government.</p>
<p>And finally the Brotherhood uses that infrastructure to take down the country and then take over. The Brotherhood operates covertly, but its strategies never truly change.</p>
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		<title>UAE Foreign Minister Calls for Campaign Against Muslim Brotherhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Shaikh Abdullah said he thinks the world will not accept any such organisations which consider themselves as supreme to others and adopt the only doctrine they believe is appropriate for the entire world."]]></description>
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<blockquote><p>UAE Foreign Minister Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Monday denounced the Muslim Brotherhood as “an organisation which encroaches upon sovereignty and integrity of nations”.</p>
<p>Shaikh Abdullah said he thinks the UAE, Ukraine and any other country of the world will not accept any such organisations which consider themselves as supreme to others and adopt the only doctrine they believe is appropriate for the entire world.</p></blockquote>
<p>Oh the irony. The irony.</p>
<p>You might expect to hear talk like that from American Conservatives, but this time it&#8217;s coming from the UAE. The <a href="http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/government/shaikh-abdullah-slams-muslim-brotherhood-1.1086809">strange phenomenon here is that the UAE</a> is denouncing the Brotherhood, while Qatar has played a vital role in empowering its takeovers.</p>
<p>The UAE Foreign Minister is fairly blatant about spelling out his objections to the Brotherhood. “The Muslim Brotherhood’s thinking does not recognise borders or sovereignty of nations. So, it is not unusual that the international Brotherhood organisation works to make inroads upon sovereignty and laws of countries,”</p>
<p>The Brotherhood indeed does not recognize nations, which is why its commitment is not to a Palestinian State, but to the old dream of dumping the Greater Syria region into one Islamic state. The national sovereignty that Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan speaks of is rather arbitrary, and unlike the Brotherhood&#8217;s conception, is not particularly Islamic.</p>
<p>The UAE like the rest of the region&#8217;s kingdoms and nations, is composed of arbitrary entities without any real meaning or history. The Muslim Brotherhood can topple them, which is why it&#8217;s peculiar that only the UAE seems at all concerned about the situation. While the UAE is cracking down on its domestic Brotherhood, the rest of the GCC has helped turn it into the 800 pound gorilla in the region.</p>
<blockquote><p>President Mohamed Mursi, propelled to power by the Brotherhood, says there is no plan to “export the revolution”.</p></blockquote>
<p>I believe that is what the Soviet Union said.</p>
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		<title>Abu Dhabi Media&#8217;s Hollywood Propaganda</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Promised Land, the troubled piece of lefty Hollywood agitprop aimed at the domestic oil industry is actually financed by the international oil industry]]></description>
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<p>As <a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2012/09/28/matt-damons-anti-fracking-movie-financed-by-oil-rich-arab-nation/">Heritage has pointed out</a>, The Promised Land, the troubled piece of lefty Hollywood agitprop aimed at the domestic oil industry is actually financed by the international oil industry. (Something it has in common with B.O.)</p>
<blockquote><p>A new film starring Matt Damon presents American oil and natural gas producers as money-grubbing villains purportedly poisoning rural American towns. It is therefore of particular note that it is financed in part by the royal family of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates.</p></blockquote>
<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time that the UAE have dabbled in Anti-American Hollywood propaganda. While Imagenation Abu Dhabi does produce legitimate movies like Men in Black 3 (if that&#8217;s your idea of legitimate) and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (okay they&#8217;re just burying America in crap), they have been known to push propaganda before.</p>
<p>Imagenation <a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2010/11/unfair-game.html">backed Unfair Game</a>, a movie trying to blow up the Valerie Plame scam into a blockbuster flick. That movie failed, but The Promised Land may not, and considering the UAE&#8217;s Holocaust denial thing, it probably won&#8217;t be long before they push a Holocaust denial movie too.</p>
<p>The good news here is that Imagenation Abu Dhabi is pretty terrible at the Hollywood game. Their track record includes Furry Vengeance, Gibson&#8217;s redemption movie, The Beaver, Shorts and The Double. If those movies are only ringing faint bells in your head, it&#8217;s because they all failed.</p>
<p>Imagenation Abu Dhabi did have one major success. The Help.</p>
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<p>The morning of September 11, 2001 dawned clear and crisp over New York City, as tens of thousands of commuters made their way to work. Around mid-morning, this mundane scene was marred by the unbelievable sight of a huge airliner flying into one of the World Trade Center towers, followed shortly thereafter by another airliner flying into the second tower. The wrenching scenes that followed &#8212; of people jumping out of the burning buildings to their deaths a thousand feet below, of a huge smoke cloud obscuring the World Trade Center, of the twin towers burning and collapsing in pancake fashion to the ground &#8212; will never leave us.</p>
<p>Many terrorist attacks on the U.S. have been attempted since 9/11; nearly all have been thwarted. Yet less than 9 years later, less than 600 feet from where 19 radical Islamists flew two airliners into the World Trade Center, killing 3,000 innocent Americans, the Islamic assault on America is being ratcheted up. The American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA), and its sister organization, The Cordoba Initiative, purchased the old Burlington Coat Factory building at Park Place and Broadway last December for $4.85 million. ASMA was founded, and is led by, New York City <a href="http://www.hudsonny.org/2010/05/mosque-at-ground-zero-muslim-view.php">Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf.</a> The Cordoba Initiave was founded by Rauf and former Aspen, Colorado Mayor and Aspen Institute CEO, John S. Bennet. Their goal is to raze the building, replace it with a 15 story mosque to look down on the site of Ground Zero and to hold the grand opening on September 11, 2011, 9/11&#8242;s 10th anniversary.</p>
<p>ASMA and the Cordoba Initiative presented the strangely named Cordoba House Project (after the supposed Golden Age in medieval Cordoba, Spain where Jews and Christians allegedly lived harmoniously with their oppressive Muslim rulers) on May 5th at a public meeting to the Community Board of Lower Manhattan (CB1) whose 12 members unanimously approved it. Committee Chairman Ro Sheffe<a href="http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.6177/pub_detail.asp"> </a>summed up the bizarre thinking of CB1&#8242;s members stating, &#8220;I think [the Cordoba House] will be a wonderful asset to the community.&#8221; Even more troubling, it was <a href="http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.6177/pub_detail.asp">reported</a> that &#8220;not one person from the community [who] came to the meeting was in opposition&#8230;.&#8221;  Daisy Khan, Cordoba Initiative board member and Rauf&#8217;s wife, has stated that the project has received little opposition. The project is expected to cost about $100 million. [1]</p>
<p>However, support for the Cordoba House goes well beyond CB1, right to the office of New York <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/05/why_the_ground_zero_mosque_mus_1.html">Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg</a>. Strangely, the Mayor&#8217;s Office of Immigrant Affairs supports the project. What&#8217;s the connection between &#8220;Immigrant Affairs&#8221; and the project? It&#8217;s also been reported that there have already been numerous illegal construction complaints at the site which have been ignored. Nevertheless, the site already serves as a mosque; every Friday afternoon, an Imam leads prayers in the building. Should the project be completed, between 1,000 and 2,000 Muslims are expected for prayer every Friday. [2]</p>
<p>The funding for the project is the key element in the mystery. Where is the money to construct a $100 million mosque going to come from? On the ASMA web site, under &#8220;Financial statements&#8211;Year Ending 06/30/09,&#8221; under the category &#8220;Temporarily Restricted Net Assets,&#8221; various organizational donors are listed. They are: the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) &#8212; $53,664, Millennium Development Goals (MDG3) &#8211;$481,942, Hunt Alternatives Fund &#8212; $15,000, Carnegie Corp. of New York &#8212; $122,000, Rockefeller Brothers Fund &#8212; $50,000 and Qatar Government Fund &#8212; $576,312 for total donations of $1,298,918. On <a href="http://www.minbuza.nl/en/Key_Topics/Millennium_Development_Goals_MDGs">the MGD3 Fund website</a>, it states, &#8220;The MGD3 Fund invests in equality and in improving rights and opportunities for women and girls&#8221; and &#8220;on property and inheritance rights for women; gender equality in employment and equal opportunities on the labour market; participation and representation of women in national parliaments and political bodies; and combating violence against women.&#8221; Given these goals, why is the MGD3 Fund supporting a project designed to strengthen a religion that offers very few rights to women?</p>
<p>In addition, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund is listed as supporting the project to the tune of $50,000. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund was begun in 1940, by David, Winthrop, Nelson, Laurance, and John D. Rockefeller III, and it has a long history of supporting the leftist agenda. At the beginning of WWII, Nelson Rockefeller leased naval fueling stations in Venezuela to the Nazis; in 1942 his actions were described as treasonous by Senator Harry Truman.</p>
<p>However, the funding listed above is only about 1.3% of the project&#8217;s total cost. Where is the remaining $98-$99 million going to come from? Neither ASMA nor the Cordoba Initiative has divulged this information. Nevertheless, &#8220;&#8230;a significant percentage of the mosques built in the USA in the past two decades are receiving a disproportionate amount of their funds not only from the Saudis, but from the UAE, Qatar, and Iran.&#8221; The Qatar Government Fund is listed above as a contributor, and its likely that Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Malaysia (with a large Muslim population where a Cordoba Initiative office is located) are contributing substantial amounts. [3]</p>
<p>The driving force behind the project is Feisal Abdul Rauf. In a calm and reassuring voice, Rauf has stated that all religions are welcome at Cordoba House, and that interfaith understanding and tolerance are, and will be fostered. Don&#8217;t believe it.</p>
<p>Rauf&#8217;s father, Dr. Muhammad Adbul Rauf, was a contemporary of <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-ground-zero-mosque-developer-muslim-brotherhood-roots-radical-dreams/">Muslim Brotherhood founder</a> Hassan al-Banna and was a radical Islamist. He became the head of the Islamic Cultural Center in Washington DC and founded three Malaysian Islamic Studies programs, including the International Islamic University of Malaysia. Feisal has followed his father&#8217;s plan for Islamic expansion in the United States. He is currently the Imam at Masjid Al-Farah Mosque at 245 W. Broadway, New York City, a scant 12 blocks from Ground Zero. Masjid Al-Farah is <a href="http://pibillwarner.wordpress.com/2010/05/08/imam-feisal-abdul-rauf-of-masjid-al-farah-nyc-laughs-about-building-mosque-near-world-trade-center-on-hizbut-tahir-ht-website-the-u-s-constitution-under-shariah/">located between two bars</a>. Why? Recently, the New York State Liquor Authority has notified three businesses on W. Broadway that it will revoke their liquor licenses based on the state&#8217;s alcohol beverage control law. After local residents told the State Liquor Authority of the existence of Masjid Al-Farah last May, the SLA began investigating local bars. One bar owner&#8217;s bid for a liquor license has been denied and he has claimed a loss of $13,000 per month as a result. Rauf is also the Imam of the Islamic Center of Long Island in Westbury, New York which includes the Crescent School at 835 Brush Hollow Road. Anti-Christian and anti-Semitic textbooks were used at the school. When pressured about their hateful content, Rauf stated that the use of the books would be discontinued. As of 2007, the books were still in use.  [4]</p>
<p>Presently, Rauf has written a slick, disingenuous book, <em>What&#8217;s Right with Islam: A New Vision of Muslims and the West</em>, in which he blames the West for the Islamic assault on America and has also stated that the West must act to end jihad. He tries to equate the freedom that Americans have in the United States with life under Sharia law. For example, he calls America &#8220;a Sharia compliant state,&#8221; and says that &#8220;the American Constitution and system of governance uphold the core principles of Islamic law&#8221; and that &#8220;for America to score even higher on the &#8216;Shariah Compliance&#8221; scale, America would need to&#8230;allow religious communities more leeway to judge among themselves according to their own laws.&#8221; [5]</p>
<p>However, America is in no way &#8220;a Shariah compliant state.&#8221; Sharia law has always denied the rights of women and non-Muslim minorities, while non-believers are given a choice of death or conversion and Jews and Christians are treated as dhimmis &#8212; second classs citizens. In the so-called &#8220;Golden Age&#8221; of Muslim-ruled Spain, Jews and Christians were required to pay <em>jizya </em>&#8211; a poll tax &#8212; often collected in a humiliating manner for the right to live and worship behind closed doors. In stark contrast, in 1790, George Washington told the congregation of the Touro Synagogue in Newport, RI that every man and woman in America has the right to worship under their own &#8220;vine and fig tree&#8221; free from the fear of persecution. America ended slavery in 1865; Islam still allows it. In addition, Rauf conveniently fails to mention that in 1805, President Thomas Jefferson sent an American Naval squadron to the Mediterranean to protect American merchant ships from Muslim pirates sailing from North Africa.</p>
<p>Under Sharia law, individuals are not at liberty to think for themselves. Women are inferior to men to the point of being counted as half a man in matters of evidence and inheritance. As dhimmis, non-Muslims &#8220;must wear distinctive clothing, and must mark their houses, which must not be built higher than those of the Muslims&#8230;they must yield the way to Muslims; they must not scandalize the Muslims by openly performing their worship or their distinctive customs, such as drinking wine; they must not build new churches, synagogues, and hermitages, they must pay the poll tax under humiliating conditions&#8230;.&#8221; [6]</p>
<p>In <em>What&#8217;s Right with Islam</em>, Rauf doesn&#8217;t acknowledge the cruel conditions Islam imposes on dhimmis and further states, &#8220;Core Islamic values overlap with core American values.&#8221; No, they don&#8217;t. He also criticizes America for not always living up to its ideals. Okay, America isn&#8217;t perfect &#8212; but when has Islam ever changed?</p>
<p>Rauf further betrays his hostile intentions towards America when he states, as quoted above, &#8220;America would need&#8230;to allow religious communities more leeway to judge among themselves according to their own laws.&#8221; Is Rauf implying that American Muslims be allowed to change U.S. law to suit themselves or be allowed to ignore it entirely? Thoughtful readers will conclude that he is.</p>
<p>Building a mosque close to Ground Zero is entirely in keeping with the Islamic ideals of conquest, domination, and humiliation. It is also entirely unacceptable and unnecessary. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg needs to withdraw his support for the project, and respect those who were murdered, those who lost loved ones, and all those who suffered and sacrificed at Ground Zero on 9/11. Not surprisingly, some 9/11 families are offended by the proposed mosque. As Rosemary Cain of Massapequa, Long Island, whose son, firefighter George Cain, was killed on 9/11, stated, &#8220;I think its despicable. That&#8217;s sacred ground. How could anyone give them permission to build a mosque there? It tarnishes the area.&#8221; [7]</p>
<p><strong>Footnotes </strong></p>
<p>1. Jackson, Joe &amp; Hutchinson, Bill. &#8220;Plan for mosque near World Trade Center site moves ahead.&#8221; <a href="www.nydailynews.com">New York Daily News</a>. May 6, 2010.</p>
<p>2. Ibid.</p>
<p>3. &#8220;Pittsburgh&#8217;s Key Role in Israel&#8217;s Birth,&#8221; article by author, <em>Jewish Chronicle</em>, April 30, 1998; &#8220;Exclusive: Spitting in the Face of Everyone Murdered on 9/11,&#8221; by Gadi Adelman</p>
<p>4. Rauf, Feisal Abdul. &#8220;What&#8217;s Right with Islam: A New Vision of Muslims and the West.&#8221; Harper Collins, 2004.</p>
<p>5. Schacht, Joseph. &#8220;An Introduction to Islamic Law.&#8221; Oxford University Press, 1983.<br />
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<p>6. Wariq, Ibn. &#8220;Why I am Not a Muslim.&#8221; Prometheus Books, 2003.</p>
<p>7. Jackson, Joe &amp; Hutchinson, Bill. &#8220;Plan for mosque near World Trade Center site moves ahead.&#8221; <a href="www.nydailynews.com">New York Daily News</a>. May 6, 2010.</p>
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