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		<title>America&#8217;s Rape Hoax Epidemic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2014 05:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ann Coulter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why we must refuse to let the UVA rape hoax story be sent down the memory hole. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/uva-2-800.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247706" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/uva-2-800-450x337.jpg" alt="uva-2-800" width="346" height="259" /></a>In response to the total implosion of Rolling Stone&#8217;s preposterous story about a fraternity gang-rape at the University of Virginia, the media have reverted to their Soviet-style reporting. They&#8217;re not even saying: We&#8217;re choosing not to talk about UVA because it&#8217;s a side show. It&#8217;s more like: UVA? That&#8217;s a school?</p>
<p>Not only did the UVA gang rape turn out to be a hoax, but then President Obama&#8217;s own Department of Justice completed a six-year study on college rape, and it turns out that instead of 1-in-5 college coeds being raped, the figure is 0.03-in-5.</p>
<p>Less than 1 percent of college students are the victim of a sexual assault &#8212; 0.6 percent to be exact &#8212; not to be confused with the 20 percent, or &#8220;one in five,&#8221; claimed by feminists and President Obama.</p>
<p>But neither the DOJ report, nor the UVA rape hoax have dissuaded Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Claire McCaskill from pushing their idea that the nation is in the grip of a college rape epidemic.</p>
<p>This week, Gillibrand dismissed the UVA outrage, saying, &#8220;Clearly, we don&#8217;t know the facts of what did or did not happen in this case.&#8221;</p>
<p>Actually, we know quite well what happened in this case. A disturbed young woman invented a fake boyfriend and a fake gang-rape to get attention, and an incompetent journalist acted as her transcriber. It was a total hoax &#8212; just like the Duke lacrosse case, the Jamie Leigh Jones case, the Tawana Brawley case, and every other claim of white men committing gang-rape.</p>
<p>Gillibrand and McCaskill: Perhaps the accusations against Dreyfus were overblown, but that doesn&#8217;t mean there&#8217;s not an epidemic of Jews selling secrets to the Germans!</p>
<p>We are truly in the middle of a rape epidemic: an epidemic of women falsely claiming to have been raped.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s said that &#8220;women never lie about rape!&#8221; But the evidence shows that women lie about rape all the time -– for attention, for revenge and for an alibi. All serious studies of the matter suggest that at least 40 percent of rape claims are false.</p>
<p>The U.S. Air Force, for example, examined more than a thousand rape allegations on military bases over the course of four years and concluded that 46 percent were false. In 27 percent of the cases, the accuser recanted. A large study of rape allegations over nine years in a small Midwestern city, by Eugene J. Kanin of Purdue University, found that 41 percent of the rape claims were false.</p>
<p>To put it in terms Kirsten Gillibrand would understand, two in five women claiming to have been raped are lying.</p>
<p>So why are we always being hectored: Only 2 percent of rape allegations are false!</p>
<p>That oft-cited number comes from Susan Brownmiller&#8217;s 1975 book, &#8220;Against Our Will&#8221; &#8212; which sourced the claim to a mimeograph of a speech by a state court judge, who made a passing remark about a New York police precinct with an all-female rape squad. Nothing more is known about whether this was an actual study, and if so, what was examined, how the information was collected or the actual results. Nor can any trace of the speech, the precinct or the data be found.</p>
<p>In Women&#8217;s Studies classes, that figure is called a &#8220;home run.&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why the feminists are so anxious to move on from the UVA nonsense rape story. They want to move on now so they can come back to it later, when everyone&#8217;s forgotten, and start citing UVA as their No. 1 example of the fraternity gang-rape culture.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s crucial that we get a letter in the file that says, &#8220;This was total B.S.&#8221; Otherwise, the UVA hoax will remain in an open file, marked &#8220;unresolved.&#8221;</p>
<p>All we&#8217;re hearing now is, Enough! Enough! Don&#8217;t be a bad winner. All this coverage is putting Jackie in a precarious emotional state. If you were a gentleman, you would drop the subject.</p>
<p>Then in three months, they&#8217;ll be bringing up the UVA gang rape as proof of a college rape epidemic. In six months, the case will show up in feminist textbooks.</p>
<p>Wait a minute! That was a hoax!</p>
<p>We didn&#8217;t agree it was a hoax. We conceded nothing.</p>
<p>The Duke lacrosse case proves that. In an unusual move, after that gang-rape turned out to be yet another hoax, the players refused to accept the case being dismissed for &#8220;insufficient evidence,&#8221; which is how prosecutors usually drop charges. They insisted on being declared &#8220;innocent.&#8221;</p>
<p>This, the attorney general did. He also denounced the prosecutor, Mike Nifong, and saw that he was disbarred.</p>
<p>A few years went by, and then, this year, some douchebag wrote a book that claims &#8220;something happened&#8221; in the Duke case between the players and the stripper (who has since been convicted of murder). The book got a rave review from The New York Times.</p>
<p>With feminists, either you lose or the game was rained out.</p>
<p>So before anyone moves on from UVA, we need to get it in writing that this case was a hoax. Jackie&#8217;s got to apologize to the fraternity; UVA&#8217;s president has to not only apologize, but pay restitution to the Greek system for shutting it down for an entire semester; and Rolling Stone authoress Sabrina Rubin Erdely has got to swear that she will never, ever write again.</p>
<p>She cannot be an &#8220;investigative journalist.&#8221; She cannot even write movie reviews. Remember, Sabrina: No means no.</p>
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		<title>To the Left, Lying About Rape Is Just Dandy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2014 05:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Lena Dunham and the Rolling Stone do harm to actual rape victims. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/720x405-AP811265161227.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247112" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/720x405-AP811265161227-389x350.jpg" alt="UVa Fraternity" width="319" height="287" /></a>This week, Rolling Stone printed an editor&#8217;s note retracting one of the most highly praised pieces of investigative journalism in its history. That piece, written by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, alleged that several members of the University of Virginia fraternity Phi Kappa Psi, had raped a 19-year-old student named Jackie, including with foreign objects, as she lay on a floor covered with broken glass. The article resulted in the university suspending the fraternity&#8217;s activities, and national outrage over the so-called &#8220;rape culture&#8221; on campus.</p>
<p>That rape culture supposedly leads to one in five women being sexually assaulted on campus — a faulty statistic from a poll that didn&#8217;t even ask women if they were raped or sexually assaulted, and instead defined sex while inebriated at any level as rape. With regard to reported rape, the federal government reports a rate of just 1.3 per 1,000 Americans. That is, of course, far too high. But it is not a rape culture by any plausible definition.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, the narrative of women as victims of brutish male society must be forwarded at all costs, for political purposes. If Americans are brutish sexists waiting to rape unsuspecting women, bigger government becomes a necessity. That&#8217;s why President Obama has cited that one-in-five statistic, and suggested that America experiences &#8220;quiet tolerance of sexual assault.&#8221;</p>
<p>In order to forward that narrative, all rape stories are treated as fact sans investigation of any kind. And so Jackie&#8217;s story of gang rape received plaudits across the media landscape.</p>
<p>Then it fell apart.</p>
<p>The Washington Post quickly debunked the story. According to the Post, the fraternity says there was no event the night Jackie was allegedly raped, Jackie&#8217;s friends &#8220;have not been able to verify key points in recent days,&#8221; and one of the men named in Jackie&#8217;s report stated that &#8220;he never met Jackie in person and never took her out on a date.&#8221;</p>
<p>As the Rolling Stone report collapsed, members of the left jumped to defend Jackie.</p>
<p>Sally Kohn of CNN.com tweeted that people should stop questioning Jackie&#8217;s story: &#8220;While aspects of UVA rape story now in question, still unsettles me that pouncing by skeptics mirrored sort of doubt rape victims often face.&#8221; Feminist Melissa McEwan wrote, &#8220;If Jackie&#8217;s story is partially or wholly untrue, it doesn&#8217;t validate the reasons for disbelieving her.&#8221;</p>
<p>Under this logic, Atticus Finch was the villain in &#8220;To Kill a Mockingbird.&#8221; After all, how dare he question the rape allegations of a victimized woman and defend Tom Robinson?</p>
<p>But for the left, it&#8217;s narrative first, facts second.</p>
<p>The same holds true regarding allegations made by HBO star Lena Dunham, who wrote of her own alleged rape at the hands of an Oberlin &#8220;college Republican&#8221; named Barry. When it turned out that Barry, a readily identifiable person from Dunham&#8217;s days at Oberlin, did not rape her, the media largely went silent; Dunham still has not spoken on the issue.</p>
<p>Narrative first. Facts second.</p>
<p>Here is the reality: All decent human beings believe that rape is evil. They also believe that false allegations of rape are wrong. These two positions are not mutually exclusive. They complement one another. False rape allegations do actual rape victims a tremendous disservice: to lump in false accusations of rape with true accusations of rape makes people more skeptical of rape victims generally, a horrible result. Rape should be taken seriously; rape accusations should be taken seriously. That means taking factual questions seriously, not merely throwing the word &#8220;rape&#8221; around casually, without evidence, and without regard for truth.</p>
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		<title>WaPo: Believe Rape Accusations Even If They’re False</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2014 05:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/uva-melting-down-after-explosive-rape-article-660x400.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246933" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/uva-melting-down-after-explosive-rape-article-660x400-450x343.jpg" alt="uva-melting-down-after-explosive-rape-article-660x400" width="367" height="280" /></a>As the shocking allegations of a fraternity party gang rape at the University of Virginia come unraveled, progressives whose cause is to condemn America for a so-called “rape culture” have chosen to double down in defense of the apparent falsehood. The <i>Washington Post</i> even ran an astoundingly un-American piece that suggests we should believe rape accusations, <i>regardless of whether they are true</i>.</p>
<p><i>Rolling Stone</i>, the music and politics magazine that can stay relevant only by sexualizing everyone (including terrorists – remember its <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/17/rolling-stone-features-boston-bombing-suspect-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-on-cover/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">dreamy cover photo</span></a> of Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev?), broke the lurid story only to have it fall apart thanks to <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2014/12/05/rolling-stones-botched-account-of-a-uva"><span style="color: #0433ff;">unconscionably sloppy journalism</span></a>. But progressives cannot let the truth get in the way of the agenda, so Zerlina Maxwell rushed to fill the breach with the aforementioned <i>WaPo </i>piece initially entitled “<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/06/no-matter-what-jackie-said-we-should-automatically-believe-rape-claims/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">No matter what Jackie said, we should automatically believe rape claims</span></a>” (“Jackie” is the victim’s pseudonym).</p>
<p>The thrust of Maxwell’s piece is that “the costs of wrongly disbelieving a survivor far outweigh the costs of calling someone a rapist.” She begins by saying that many people</p>
<blockquote><p>will be tempted to see [the collapse of the UofV gang-rape allegation] as a reminder that officials, reporters and the general public should hear both sides of the story and collect all the evidence before coming to a conclusion in rape cases. This is what we mean in America when we say someone is “innocent until proven guilty.” After all, look what happened to the Duke lacrosse players.</p></blockquote>
<p><i>Exactly</i> – look at what happened to them. But then she goes on to reject that reasonable restraint: “In important ways,” she wrote, “<i>this is wrong</i>. We should believe, as a matter of default, what an accuser says” [emphasis added] – after all, false accusations are “exceedingly rare,” she claims. But then she quotes an FBI statistic that 2-8% of allegations are false; that is not “exceedingly rare.”</p>
<p>In any case, it wouldn’t matter if the figure were only 1% &#8211; in this country we don’t suspend the presumption of innocence just “to offer our hand of support to survivors.” Maxwell disagrees: “The time we spend picking apart a traumatized survivor’s narration on the hunt for discrepancies is time that should be spent punishing serial rapists.”</p>
<p>It should go without saying, especially to someone with a law degree like Maxwell, that we shouldn’t be “punishing serial rapists” if they haven’t yet been proven to <i>be</i> serial rapists. She has created a false choice between believing and disbelieving the accused. It is not the job of law enforcement to believe or disbelieve a victim’s story; it is their job to determine if a crime has been committed, to investigate it, to examine the evidence, and then to act accordingly. Maxwell wants to reverse that process; too bad if the accusation falls apart under later scrutiny.</p>
<p>And what of the man she’s willing to falsely if temporarily accuse of the ugly crime of rape? Well, he would have “a rough period” for the duration of the investigation, Maxwell generously concedes. For example, he might lose some Facebook friends – yes, she actually wrote that. But when his name is cleared everything will return to normal. Certainly no one would suggest that a real rape victim’s trauma is not significant, but Maxwell is willfully ignoring the damage done to a man falsely smeared as a sexual predator.</p>
<p>Her op-ed was so stunningly and self-evidently wrong that it <a href="http://soopermexican.com/2014/12/06/why-wapo-changed-headline-to-zerlina-maxwells-insane-rape-allegation-opinion-article/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">incurred a wave of Twitter wrath</span></a> and negative comments, resulting in either Maxwell or the <i>WaPo</i> editors backing off and replacing “automatically” in the headline with “generally,” which is little improvement.</p>
<p>“Democratic strategist” Maxwell is of the school of thought, and I use that word loosely, that we live in a rape culture and if only we taught men not to rape, then women would be relieved of the burden of having to protect themselves from it (“strategist,” by the way, is the title given to someone has no official authority or function except to serve as a media mouthpiece for talking points).</p>
<p>Rape culture is the theory that sexual assault becomes normalized when a culture condones the objectification and trivialization of women. Radical feminists have managed to push the term to the forefront of our conversations about the sexes today, promoting the ugly notion that all men are literal or latent rapists who need to be deprogrammed out of their acculturated misogyny.</p>
<p>As <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/mark-tapson/miss-usas-self-defense-empowerment/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">I’ve written before for FrontPage</span></a>, America doesn’t have a rape culture any more than we have a murder culture. We have a culture that considers both to be heinous violent crimes. We have a culture so unforgiving of rape that even <i>false</i> accusations of it ruin men’s lives. We don’t “teach” men to rape, and the vast majority of American males would never even consider such a depraved act.</p>
<p>According to 2013 Bureau of Justice <a href="http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&amp;iid=4594"><span style="color: #0433ff;">statistics</span></a>, the estimated annual rate of female rape or sexual assault victimizations in this country declined 58% from 1995 to 2010. To cite this is absolutely not to trivialize the terrible violation that is rape; it is not to suggest that anything more than zero sexual assaults is acceptable; and it is not to encourage complacency. It is only to emphasize that not only are we not enmeshed in a rape culture, but things seem to be improving significantly.</p>
<p>However, there are violent deviants who will and do rape, and the world will never rid itself of that evil minority. That’s just reality, but it’s not the utopian reality that progressives insist upon. To believe that we can simply teach that rape is unconscionable – which we already do – and that the crime will then disappear is a childish and useless utopian fantasy.</p>
<p>When a pregnant teenager in the Sudan <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/18/sudan-pregnant-alleged-rape-victim-charged-adultery"><span style="color: #0433ff;">faces death</span></a> by stoning for being gang-raped, <i>that</i> is a rape culture. But a privileged Western woman like Zerlina Maxwell is insanely focused on smearing innocent men in order to peddle the myth that American culture is little better.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Army soldier stationed at Fort Hood gets involved with radical Muslim groups.]]></description>
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<p>Army Specialist Zachari Klawonn is upset. He claims that there is a campaign of hate aimed at him coming from his fellow soldiers. He says that he is especially upset at them referring to him as “terrorist.” Yet, if this truly upsets him as much as he contends it does, how can he then reconcile his turning to groups <em>associated with terrorism,</em> specifically CAIR and its Florida political front, UVA?</p>
<p>Klawonn has a disturbing duality about him. While he dons Army green camos adorned by the Stars and Stripes, prior to relocating from his Fort  Hood digs, in his barracks prominently hung a black and white checkered keffiyeh, a symbol of anti-Western violence.</p>
<p>It is this duality that currently rules his life.</p>
<p>Klawonn, a 20-year-old Muslim, is intensely proud of his heritage. He flaunts his Islamic roots to a point which some could consider provocative. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2010/03/23/GA2010032304398.html">On his wall, next to his keffiyeh</a>, was placed a 5’ x 3’ Moroccan flag. As well, his room contained a Qur’an (draped by his ‘dog tags’) and prayer rug, visible to all.</p>
<p>For Klawonn, his strong attachment to his religion was both a blessing and a curse – a curse because, according to him, others target him for it, calling him horribly offensive names. This was especially the case, following the massacre that took place at Fort  Hood perpetrated by fellow Muslim soldier Nidal Malik Hasan.</p>
<p>On November 5, 2009, Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, opened fire at a soldier processing center (Soldier Readiness Facility), murdering 13 and injuring over 30 others. The victims of the attack were getting ready to be deployed overseas. At the time, Hasan, himself, was soon to be deployed to Afghanistan.</p>
<p>Hasan was shot four times and apprehended. Two other suspects were taken into custody and later released.</p>
<p>According to the <em>Washington Post,</em> in an <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/23/AR2010032303766.html">article about Klawonn’s alleged troubles</a>, Klawonn was heading to the scene of the shooting, when the shooting commenced. It states, “Klawonn was there, too… His unit had just returned from Korea and was headed to the site of the shootings, a soldier processing center, when the killing began.”</p>
<p>According to the piece, Klawonn was “pressed” to explain the “brutal act and extremist philosophy” of Hasan. Klawonn said that, while he did not “sympathize” with Hassan, he “secretly felt an understanding of at least some of the pressures Hasan faced.” According to reports, Hasan faced a similar type of treatment Klawonn is alleging himself.</p>
<p>Klawonn stated, “[W]hen I read about the discrimination he experienced, I have to say, I can believe it. It doesn&#8217;t excuse what he did, but it explains maybe a tiny part of it. He was a high-ranking officer. A major. At that level, you demand respect…”</p>
<p>Since he enlisted, Klawonn has personally filed a number of complaints with his commanders about what he perceives as intolerant acts against him. He says that one of the toughest things he has had to endure is his fellow soldiers referring to him as “terrorist.” This is dubious, however, as Klawonn has begun to associate himself with groups connected to terrorism.</p>
<p>One of these groups is CAIR or the Council on American-Islamic Relations.</p>
<p>CAIR was founded by Hamas operatives in June 1994, and from 2007 through 2008, CAIR was named by the U.S. Justice Department a party to the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas.</p>
<p>Klawonn solicited CAIR to write a letter on his behalf to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, complaining of the Army’s treatment of him.</p>
<p>Another group Klawonn has gotten involved with is United Voices for America (UVA), an organization headed by the former Executive Director of CAIR-Tampa and former “unofficial spokesman” for convicted terrorist Sami al-Arian, Ahmed Bedier.</p>
<p>Klawonn, at the behest of his mother, Mina, attended one of UVA’s events this past March 11th. His mom had “collapsed in tears,” when she found out that he had joined the U.S. millitary, and his friends and mosque associates were more than concerned that he was “going to kill fellow Muslims,” so it was probably important to all of them for Klawonn to get involved in a radical Muslim group like UVA.</p>
<p>The event was titled Muslim Capitol Day, and it took place in Tallahassee,  Florida. According to UVA, the purpose of it was to lobby the state legislature on such universal issues as education reform and stimulation of the economy, but overshadowing those alleged objectives were two separate <a href="../2010/03/24/assault-at-muslim-capitol-day-2/">assaults that were carried out during Muslim Capitol Day</a> by one of UVA’s members, Bassem Alhalabi.</p>
<p>Alhalabi, who had previously been found guilty of shipping U.S. military equipment to Syria, was charged with one count of battery. A warrant was issued for Alhalabi’s arrest on March 19th, and on March 22nd, he was taken into custody by the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.</p>
<p>Ironically, just as in the case of Klawonn being on his way to the soldier processing center when the Hasan massacre began, <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/Zachari_Klawonn_and_Bassem_Alhalabi.html">Klawonn was photographed next to Alhalabi</a> at a UVA luncheon held shortly before <em>Alhalabi’s attacks</em> took place.</p>
<p>Of course, these things might be nothing more than mere coincidences – cases of being at the wrong place at the wrong time – but his recent experiences in high school were nothing of the sort.</p>
<p>In 2008, Klawonn wrote and performed rap songs with a group of teens from his hometown, Bradenton,  Florida, which, according to a district spokesperson, <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080606/NEWS/806060407?Title=No-grad-stage-for-racy-rapper">“threatened bodily harm”</a> and contained “mention of weapons.” One of the lyrics discussed “taking a knife” to a school administrator. Disciplinary action was taken against many of the participants.</p>
<p>Klawonn’s friends who were involved in making these songs were from Braden  River  High School, the school that Klawonn was expelled from one year earlier, after police discovered a gun in the car he was driving on campus.</p>
<p>All of this is a concern, as, according to the <em>Washington Post,</em> Klawonn is “at the top [of his unit] in weapons qualifications and is the only one in his battalion to be invited to try out for the Special Forces.” Furthermore, Klawonn suffers from bouts of depression and has had to see a psychiatrist at least six times since enlisting.</p>
<p>No doubt, all of this must give his superiors pause. Indeed, his Fort  Hood commanders have stated that he fits a “similar mold” to terrorist Nidal Hasan.</p>
<p>Now, Klawonn says that he will devote the remaining two years he has committed to the Army to fight for the rights of Muslims in the military. That seems like a dangerous proposition, given his activity with pro-terror organizations. In the very least, CAIR and UVA will use him as a pawn to do lasting harm to the military.</p>
<p>Of course, no one wishes to discuss the worst case scenario…</p>
<p><em>Joe Kaufman is the Chairman of Americans Against Hate, the founder of </em><em>CAIR</em><em> Watch, and the spokesman for Young Zionists.</em></p>
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<p><em>Beila Rabinowitz is the Director of Militant Islam Monitor.</em></p>
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		<title>Assault at Muslim Capitol Day</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A member of a “mainstream” Muslim group physically attacks me.]]></description>
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<p>If Ahmed Bedier’s United Voices for America (UVA) was a peaceful organization, with the series of events which occurred earlier this month, you wouldn’t have known it. On the day termed by the group “Muslim Capitol Day,” one of UVA’s members, Bassem Alhalabi, attacked two individuals, this author included. A warrant was issued in his name, culminating in his arrest. This, among other things, leaves into question the true intentions of the UVA.</p>
<p>United Voices for America – United Voices for short – was the brainchild of the former Executive Director of the Tampa chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Tampa), Ahmed Bedier. According to Bedier, UVA was created to lobby Florida’s legislature on such issues as education reform, health care reform, and stimulation of the economy. Given Bedier’s long history of extremist activity, though, one would need to be skeptical about such motives.</p>
<p>Bedier began working for CAIR in February 2003, the same month that Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) leader Sami al-Arian was arrested by the FBI. This was no mere coincidence. Bedier was just coming off a stint as Outreach Director of a radical mosque, the <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=6125">Islamic Society of Pinellas County</a> (ISPC), and CAIR needed someone in the Tampa Bay area to defend al-Arian, one of the founders of CAIR’s parent organization, the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP). Bedier fit the bill.</p>
<p>As “unofficial spokesman” for al-Arian, Bedier held press conferences for al-Arian; he spoke at rallies for al-Arian; he organized the showing of a puff film belittling the government’s case against al-Arian; he defended al-Arian in the media; and he allowed the radio show he co-hosts, <em>True Talk,</em> to be used as a forum for al-Arian’s Islamic Jihad colleagues to speak and spew their hatred for Israel and the United States.</p>
<p>Besides shilling for al-Arian’s cohorts, Bedier has also <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=34026">used his radio show to promote Hezbollah</a>. In July 2006, during Israel’s war in Lebanon, all three of Bedier’s radio show guests lauded Hezbollah, describing the terrorist group with such terms as “heroic.”</p>
<p>In May 2008, one year after the U.S. Justice Department named Bedier’s group, CAIR, a co-conspirator in the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas, he announced on his radio show that he was leaving CAIR and starting a new group. That group was UVA.</p>
<p>On Thursday, March 11, 2010, Bedier took his “lobby” group to Tallahassee for its 2nd Annual Florida Muslim Capitol Day. But while the group claimed that it was in town to discuss issues of importance to all Floridians, the event was overshadowed by two assaults that were perpetrated by one of UVA’s members, the first of which was an attack on this author.</p>
<p>I flew up to Tallahassee to join a group of concerned leaders, who were speaking out about Bedier and UVA. Over the years, I had written extensively about Bedier and his terrorist ties, so it was important for me to attend. While I was there, I had the pleasure of giving a PowerPoint presentation about Bedier at a government briefing held in the city’s IMAX Theater.</p>
<p>Following a meeting with a government official, our group found itself in the Rotunda (lobby) of the Capitol Building. While there, I thought I had recognized someone I had written about in the past, Bassem Abdo Alhalabi.</p>
<p>Alhalabi is an Associate Professor at the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Florida Atlantic University (FAU). He arrived at FAU in August 1996.</p>
<p>Prior to that, he had been an <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=32348">assistant to Sami al-Arian at the University of South Florida</a> (USF), at a time when al-Arian was creating a Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist network within the Tampa suburb of Temple Terrace. Alhalabi co-authored materials with al-Arian and used al-Arian as a reference, when he later applied for a position at FAU.</p>
<p>Apart from being a university professor, Alhalabi is also a director and co-founder of the Islamic Center of Boca Raton (ICBR), a radical mosque that has ties to several terrorist-related individuals.</p>
<p>One of the co-founders of the mosque, Syed Khawer Ahmad, at the time an FAU student, was the creator of and webmaster for the official website of the Islamic Association, a.k.a. Islamic Society, the social services apparatus of Hamas in Gaza. The <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=2637">former imam of the mosque</a>, Ibrahim Dremali, was placed on the federal no-fly list. And a member of the mosque, Rafiq Sabir, was convicted in May 2007 of providing material support to al-Qaeda.</p>
<p>The man who appeared to be Alhalabi was speaking to another individual, and so I got closer to take a picture with my camera. Evidentially, I was correct about his identity, as Alhalabi recognized me as well, and he soon made his way over to me.</p>
<p>Alhalabi put his finger in my face and asked me if I knew who he was. “Do you know who I am?” When I answered in the affirmative, he forcefully grabbed my arm, stated “I need to talk to you,” and began pulling me towards the hallway of the Rotunda. I said to him “Let go of me,” but he refused. Alhalabi just kept asking me loudly, “Why do you keep writing about me?”</p>
<p>I began shouting for Mark Campbell, the cameraman who I was with just minutes before all of this took place. I wanted him to get evidence of the assault on film. Mark came, but Alhalabi released me before Mark could get the camera rolling. Thankfully, another individual got a photo of Alhalabi grabbing my arm.</p>
<p>When it looked like things were getting too heated and Alhalabi could do something beyond the aggression he had already exhibited, his UVA colleague jumped in and ushered Alhalabi away.</p>
<p>I filed a police report and stated my wishes to press charges. Accompanying me were the witness with the photograph and the cameraman.</p>
<p>One of the officers, who had questioned Alhalabi, said that Alhalabi stated he had not touched anyone. It was a lie, as the photo (and potential Rotunda surveillance footage) proved, and later he would be charged by the Capitol police with battery.</p>
<p>Campbell left to get ready to attend UVA’s next event.</p>
<p>When we arrived in Tallahassee, our group had been told that we were allowed to be present at UVA’s events and we were, as well, allowed to videotape them. We were even told we could ask questions, as long as we acted in a respectful manner and did not make any attempt to disrupt anything.</p>
<p>I balked at going, as I felt I had already <em>had</em> <em>enough excitement for one day.</em></p>
<p>It was about an hour following the attack on me, and Campbell was inside UVA’s event. With the camera running, he caught Alhalabi walking by. Alhalabi spotted him out of the corner of his eye and did a ‘double take,’ realizing that Campbell had been the individual accompanying me earlier.</p>
<p>Alhalabi then quickly moved to the side of Campbell and put a blue UVA folder filled with papers in front of the camera lens to stop Campbell from taping. A few moments later, Alhalabi violently lunged for and grabbed Campbell’s camera, jerking it, whilst startling a young Muslima standing next to him. The police seized Alhalabi, just as he appeared to be motioning to hit Campbell with his folder.</p>
<p>The entire scene was caught on tape.</p>
<p>Campbell, as I had done earlier, filed a police report and stated his intention to press charges. And once again, the police charged Alhalabi with battery – his second charge in one day – in one hour.</p>
<p>On Friday, March 19th, a <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/press_releases/PR-Bassem_Alhalabi_2.php">warrant was issued in Alhalabi’s name</a> for his attack on me. The charge concerning the attack on Campbell is still pending.</p>
<p>According to an official from the Leon County State Attorney’s office, Alhalabi was given the choice of either turning himself in or being subject to arrest. Alhalabi chose the latter, and was <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/Bassem_Alhalabi_Battery.html">apprehended in Boca Raton on Monday, March 22nd</a>, by the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s office. He spent the day behind bars and was released on March 23rd, at 2:15 in the morning, after paying the bond that was set at $500.</p>
<p>This was not the first time Alhalabi found himself on the other side of the law. In June 2003, he was found guilty of illegally shipping a $13,000 military-grade thermal imaging device to Syria, a state sponsor of terrorism.</p>
<p>Alhalabi’s violent actions and sinister pursuits show that he, no doubt, is a threat to society. Indeed, these things are indicative of the organization he has come to represent, UVA, a group that has as its leader, Bedier, someone who has a similar terrorist-related past, someone who proclaimed at UVA’s 2009 Tallahassee event, <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=34474">“We want the government to fear us.”</a></p>
<p>UVA uses political lobbying as a cover for bullying and intimidation, and in the case of myself and Mr. Campbell, violence. It claims to be a peaceful group with concerns about such important issues as education and health care, but the reality is that it is nothing but a dangerous ruse – a radical Islamic front – dressed in an innocuous name, using innocuous language.</p>
<p>While United Voices for America has met with some of Florida’s Representatives, the vast majority have thankfully kept away, in part as a result of information provided to them by people such as this author. With emissaries like Bassem Alhalabi and Ahmed Bedier, it is not hard to understand why the group would be shunned.</p>
<p><em>Joe Kaufman is the Chairman of </em><a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/"><em>Americans Against Hate</em></a><em>, the founder of </em><a href="http://www.cairwatch.org/"><em>CAIR Watch</em></a><em>, and the spokesman for </em><a href="http://www.youngzionists.org/"><em>Young Zionists</em></a><em>.</em></p>
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<p><em>Beila Rabinowitz, the Director of </em><a href="http://www.militantislammonitor.org/"><em>Militant Islam Monitor</em></a><em>, contributed to this report.</em></p>
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