I wanted to take an opportunity today (and hopefully every subsequent day) to do a round-up of just a few of the interesting things our Vigilant Freedom/910 Group Blogroll is up to.

Civoc has his eye on the most recent violence in Thailand (and search his site for previous Islamic Fascism in Thailand news)

Rob from Red Alert has a disturbing video of the Mullahs’ Fashion Crackdown in Iran 

Beach Girl Talks about The Turkish Army’s Take Down of Islamists

Also, VF Blogroll headlines were down earlier today, but they are back up now, so please enjoy.

 

 

Last week I was considering posting something about Egyptian Sandmonkey Signing Off, but blogosphere-wise I simply don’t have the street cred for that. But Atlas Shrugs does. (H/T Wake Up America). I am familiar with the Egyptian blogosphere only through VF/910’s participation in efforts to Free Kareem, an Egyptian blogger in prison for defaming Islam, and President Mubarak, but from that one example, you can see immediately that unlike from where I sit, blogging in the Middle East truly is a revolutionary act. From our safe vantage point, we have a duty to support and stand united with these folks on the front line of the battle. And as Wake Up America highlights, creating even the smallest illusion of acceptance of these terrorist regimes has real consquences:

Atlas: Where (sic) you shocked when Hoyer met with the Muslim Brotherhood?

SANDMONKEY: Let me tell you something. I was in Turkey a couple of weeks ago and I met a couple of Syrian activists. They one thing they told me that was really funny about the Pelosi visit. After Pelosi came to Syria two things happened. People on Syrian TV were saying, “We forced the Americans to knock on the Damascus gate!” Sort of like an admission that we messed things up in Iraq so much that America had to come and beg for their help.

But the day after Pelosi’s visits there were immediate arrests of Syrian activists. That was the fruit she yielded. “Oh the Americans came over and they said they have a different foreign policy and they’re more interested in placating Bashar’s ego.” And he went out and got [arrested] everyone he wanted because he knew he had an ally in Washington that wouldn’t pressure him as much.

ATLAS: Isn’t that disgusting?

SANDMONKEY: Yeah, but what are you going to do?

ATLAS: We have to educate the American people. You think the American people know this?

SANDMONKEY: No, but do they even care at this point? I don’t think they are interested in the discussion any more. There are people that have made up their mind, they think we need to placate the dictators because America is wrong and everyone else is always right. That’s how they operate. (Emphasis in the original)

To quote one of the surrenderist’s favorite speakers, Gandhi:

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as cooperation with good.

It seems like the only quote they know of Gandhi’s is the one about an eye for an eye. But remember, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, and we have willfully blinded ourselves to the very real fact that the recognition of dictatorial states costs the freedom, and even lives of the very people we claim to support.  Recognition of these regimes undermines the very people who the defeatists say should be standing up and doing the heavy lifting of freedom themselves.

Think about that the next time you hear a politican say we need to “dialogue” with one of these states, and ask the question, “whose blood is paying for this photo-op?”

 

My brain hurts. I’ll admit to making it only 20 mintues into the long version of the audio from the ADAM’s center before I had to stop. I wonder sometimes if CAIR and their ilk have gotten away with this nonsense for so long simply because reasonable people can’t bear to listen to their non-factual rantings at length. It’s nothing but Chewbacca defense, ad nauseum.

 A show of hands, how many of you out there shriek at your TVs during primetime newscasts as you listen to the grievance-mongers like CAIR compare 6 provocative Imans to Rosa Parks, call Hamas “democratic”, or defend the right of muslim cabbies to refuse travel to blind people with seeing-eye dogs or transporting legally purchased alcohol? We bemoan the utter and apparent absurdity of it, but do nothing, because… c’mon everyone MUST have seen through such transparent nonsense… right?

 

“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over”

The above is of course Goebbels. The opposition’s arguments do not have to be rational (and how can they be as they oppose enlightenment values in support of a 7th century ideology), they only have to be repeated. Whether it’s a statement about a furry sci-fi character, or the idea that it is discrimination to force taxi drivers to pick up blind people, (or for people to call security when they see something out of the ordinary), each statement is like a tiny rock hammer to our collective cerebrum.

Don’t let the Islamist 5th Column lull you into a stupor just because at first glance their arguments are self evidently asinine. to Paraphrase:

 ”If you hear something (absurd)… Say Something!”

 

 

 

 

 

It’s all about the numbers in the victimhood bullying game.

And Nihad Awad, executive director of CAIR, has problems getting the numbers he needs to prove that Muslims are subject to unusual discrimination. This could be a real embarrassment for Awad, because if Muslims are actually doing well in the U.S., maybe they don’t need CAIR. And that could mean all that fine Saudi and UAE money is going to the wrong group. Or maybe that most American Muslims don’t want their kids to be part of the future Muslim Brotherhood Caliphate after all. What’s even worse - all those reports of discrimination cases against Jews (couldn’t be anti-semitism, must be better reporting….). So frustrating for Awad and his Royal backers!

Don’t take my word for it. Listen to Awad tell you about his problems with Muslims who just don’t understand how important those discrimination reports are to his career salary mission. We have the audio - Vigilant Freedom Center received a recording from the April 27, 2007 CAIR briefing on the 6 Imams, at the Muslim ADAMS Center in Virginia. CAIR advertised the meeting as “Cair Hosts Town Hall Meeting on Airport Profiling.” The speakers were Nihad Awad, CAIR Executive Director, Khadija Athman, CAIR Civil Rights Manager for CAIR, and Imam Magid from the ADAMS Center.
Nihad Awad gave two presentations: one in which he discusses his difficulties getting those discrimination reporting numbers up, and a second about CAIR’s story of the 6 Imams. The second speech also reveals some of CAIR’s tactical plans. Below, we provide a link to the audio in .wma format, and our best effort at transcription of excerpts. Garbled bits or guesses as to words are in brackets.
We have only had time to transcribe sections from the first presentation, and a small section from the Q&A section at the end of the second presentation. This means the bulk of the 6 Imams presentation is still just in audio. We’re posting all the audio here and any volunteers to assist in more transcription, please contact Christine@vigilantfreedom.com. More audio from our sources will come soon from other meetings, and we need volunteer transcribers. It’s not exciting work, but it is crucial for making audio evidence accessible to analysts.

If we get more transcripts, we’ll append them to this post.

1. First speech by Nihad Awad

Awad Presentation on Discrimination Reports (wma audio)

Some introductory remarks from another speaker, then after about 1 minute Awad starts speaking:

There were 196 cases reported by the Justice Department for Muslims in civil rights cases. There were over 1008 cases reported by the Jewish faith. We need to do a much better job not only in recognizing our civil rights but also in reporting it to the government. Which is very critical and very important.

And that is why, I think, this kind of program is important to the purpose of being able to inform the government official places …[garbled].

We will talk about the case, about the case of the imams, about the implications, about where the case is now…we’ll talk about the 6 imams case…Muslims who fly within the states, and also the lawsuit that we helped file, and the reaction, both in public, in the media and in Congress. What it means to civil rights and what it means to Muslims. This is very important. You will know that history is being made.

…It is very important for Muslims to understand the law, and it’s also very important for Muslims to exercise their legal rights in the country. And it’s also important that if these rights are violated, that Muslims recognize that these rights are violated. Many Muslims,they are discriminated against or mistreated, they overlook or ignore or they are afraid to say or challenge or report these mistreatments. Which means, more of the same will take place against the same person or persons or against Muslims. And when people stand up and say something and challenge them, then there will be change.

But the psyche of Muslims have to change. The laws are there, fortunately, but the laws are not utilized. They’re not understood and they’re not followed by the victimizers or the victims. So there’s a lot of ignorance about the law, and that’s why Muslims usually find themselves being mistreated or discriminated against. Reporting to an organization like CAIR is important, because it is empowering. It is empowering to the Muslims themselves who report, it is empowering to the organization, and it is important to the status of Muslims within the United States. Also it is a powerful tool and message to the government and the legislators, to those who make the laws in the country, to know that this phenomenon has to be dealt with, it has to be dealt with effectively, and results have to be seen….

The Department of Justice, in their annual report, don’t be surprised that if you feel Muslims are not treated well in the country, that the number of reports of incidents against Muslims or hate crimes is very low. Whereas the number of incidents and hate crime cases against the Jewish community is very very high. Maybe dozens of [incidents] against Muslims, but against Jews are in the thousands. But when you examine the situation you say, We really feel our community is more targeted. 54% - this is one of CAIR’s surveys - 54% of all Muslims surveyed said they had been subject to discrimination. 54% which if you put numbers down, we’re talking about tens of thousands of cases, not dozens, as is reported in the Justice Department’s annual report.

So there’s a huge gap between where we are as a community and underreporting what goes on, and how we are perceived. So we go to Congress, and testify before Congress, our claim and our statement is weak, because a fair-minded Congressman will ask the question, “How many cases are we talking about?” Well, we’re talking about a few hundred cases. You give the specifics, and here’s an annual report by CAIR. How many cases are we talking about, well maybe 2000 cases. How many Muslims do we have in the United States? Well, we have 6 million. So if you divide 2000 over 7 million [sic], that’s very very small percentage.

Which means Muslims are in good shape. Muslims are not treated badly. But if you ask (garbled) most Muslims nationwide, they will tell you an experience with discrimination. My interaction with Muslims nationwide tells me that most Muslims I know have encountered an incident or an experience with discrimination or mistreatment, whether subtlely or directly. But when we ask, have you contacted a civil rights organization like CAIR, the answer is “No.” Why? This is very interesting. They will say, “Well, what can you do?”

We can do a lot. At least, we have to report it. If there’s a merit to the case, we can intervene. And if we intervene, we can [tell] the party that discriminated against you that it is unlawful and there might be a legal course of action. And second, you empower yourself when you speak up. And when people speak up about their experience, they get support. Socially, psychologically, it feels good when people talk about their experiences, especially to a trusted party… It would feel [be?} even better if there is an institution that intervenes on behalf of these people and helps. It also feels much better if we know that there is a law that some people struggled for that’s there to be used. And I think it makes even better sense if the Muslim community is known and identified as a community that stands up for itself. So this whole process of identifying the violation, to understanding it …and then getting results and resolution, it’s very empowering.

This is the experience of African Americans, Jewish Americans, Catholics, all these minorities the non-majority whites in this country, all without exception have gone through what we are going through. The only thing is, the Muslim American experience is much better than theirs. Why? Because we are the last community. The last community benefits from the struggle of all previous communities.

So we are in better shape because there are laws on the books, there’s a system and people have showed us the way how to do it, and we just have to wake up and smell the coffee and so, it does not take a lot. Except in some cases, every decade there are new laws. Some of these laws are unconstitutional. They violate the civil rights. And they need some institution, some people to challenge the law, all the way up to the Supreme Court. Now the Supreme Court many times will tell the government, “You’re wrong. This is unconstitutional. ” So the system works, but it needs someone to use it.”

2. Second speech by Nihad Awad on 6 Imams - media and legal approaches

Short version (mostly Awad) (wma audio)

No transcription

Longer version (Awad and Khadija Athman) (wma audio)

No transcription

Q&A at the end (wma audio)

Excerpt from Awad’s answer to question on Defamation suits:

“There are two levels. Imams are going after those who caused this for them, the particular incident. The imams also have the right to sue the media if the media misrepresented them and that misrepresentation caused them harm. So this is almost like first draft. There could be second and third draft. There’s a statute of limitation for Defamation of one year. So until November 20, 2007 they have the right to sue any party who misrepresented them or defamed them.

But the laws of defamation in the United States are much more difficult. The most difficult laws. You can say almost whatever you want in this country. Unlike Europe and Canada, where there are strict, tough defamation laws. If you accuse someone, if you say something about some people, you can be sued, you can go to jail or you can be fined. In the United States, people use free speech, the First Amendment, to justify a lot of what they say. But there’s a limit.And I think there are many lawyers who are looking into this. But the main focus on the imams now is to have legal recourse against those who caused them [immediate] harm, they were rejected, they were mistreated, they were [arrested] and they were denied service.”

Just a couple comments.

The reason most Muslims don’t cooperate with CAIR’s trawling for stories of mistreatment and discrimination is that they are, to quote Awad, in good shape and not being treated badly. According to government data compiled by the Washington Post:

Americans of Middle Eastern descent are richer and better educated than most Americans, a demographic portrait at odds with recent images in the news of young, single, unsettled immigrants.

This population — a diverse group of Muslims and Christians that traces its ancestry to a swath extending from Afghanistan to North Africa — has found a comfortable niche in the United States.

Samia El-Badry writes of Arab-Americans, “They are very much like other Americans, except younger, more educated, more affluent and more likely to own a business.”

Lobbyists like Awad make a living from portraying the very diverse American Muslim population as a single entity, and by comparing them (endlessly - just listen for it) to the disenfranchised, segregated American Black community in the 1950s and 1960s. This is political parasitism and fabrication of the worst sort, and it’s time the Black community protested the cynical exploitation of their historic struggle for equality by the Islamist Lobby, funded by Royalist petrobillionaires in human-trafficking undemocratic states like Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

As for Awad’s complaints about “the most difficult laws” like the First Amendment, CAIR writes supports Democrat Party legislation that would decimate freedom of speech and give us “strict, tough” limits on what we can say - like those emerging dhimmitude paragons of Canada and Europe. Let’s see what happens if those bills get passed and challenged up to the Roberts Supreme Court. Bring it on.
Remember, CAIR bills itself as “America’s largest Islamic civil liberties group” - but their membership numbers were estimated at a mere 4,761 for 2004. Roughly equivalent to the membership of the Greater Milwaukee Association of Realtors, but significantly less than the American Quilting Society, both of whom do a lot more good in the world.

Expose CAIR. Challenge CAIR. Have a laugh at CAIR’s expense.

They’re a desert mirage.

Danish MP and moderate muslim Naser Khader, (who you would see on the PBS special Islam Vs. Islamists if the Corporation for Public Broadcasting would release it) has been attracting attention lately. Blogger Exile took note of a speech in which Khader called for the need for a  Muhammad cartoon incident in America. GOV, who always has the pulse of all things Danish, also has noted Khader’s message and its importance.

What struck me was Mr. Khader’s statement that it was the cartoon controversy which spurred Danish democratic muslims to action. In absurdity lies truth, I suppose. Time and again we have seen that the islamists will always, without fail, over-react. If the incident might call for a polite discussion between neighbors, its a lawsuit. If a well written op-ed would suffice, its the threat (or practice) of decapitation.

This is of course why the political correctness crowd in general, and the grievance industry, in particular, is a massive threat to the counter-jihad movement. A simple search reveals the number of times the word “offensive” appears on the Council of American-Islamic Relations Website. The word “Hate Crime” is even more common.

This reminds me of an incident in Tennessee, which was related to me by Christine this afternooon, which occurred a while ago, and which she blogged about here. Bacon is not, cannot, be a hate crime. Neither can cartoons, or the use of ACTUAL Koran quotes. Free speech, and its consquences, are our very best weapon. The Islamists know this, and are coming for it.

The wider the gulf between a rational response to a provocation, and the Islamist response to a provocation, the more people awake to the simple fact, that a large number of people out there subscribe to a violent, intolerant and anachronistic ideology. And, perhaps as Mr. Khader suggests, such provocations can also awaken a large number of otherwise passive muslim immigrants to point out that it is time for a real “islamic revolution.” As Exile says of Khader:

Could it be that this relatively quiet man, in his modest way, can start the revolution that Islam is so seriously in need of? Someone has to. If it should be him, then I can only applaud him and continue to support him.

Anyone else would recieve my blessing too.

To that I would add not only “Anyone” else, but ”Everyone” else.

 

my enemy’s enemy. Sharon Chadha has an interesting post up today about some inter-Jihadi squabbling between a radical cleric from Kuwait named Sheikh Hamid al-Ali, and the Al Qaeda in Iraq. (I’ve always questioned why we bother to add the “in Iraq” part. Isn’t Al Qaeda simply Al Qaeda? The Mcdonald’s down on the corner has a franchise owner, but its still a Mcdonald’s.) It’s here, and I suggest you take a read.

 Jihadist cleric says the Islamic State in Iraq is illegitimate

Sharon includes a bit from MEMRI where at least one of the Sheikh’s followers isn’t too happy about the red on red targeting, expressing concern about appearances. Says Sharon:

 I, for one, hope he’s right about this - that the media will exult about this “fitna” (dissent) in the jihadist corps - but I won’t hold my breath. I sometimes get the impression the mainstream media is almost as invested in the Americans losing as al Qaeda is.

Well I wouldn’t hold my breath either. It is interesting to know for certain, after we have always suspected, that the islamists are highly sensitive as to their appearance in the press, particularly as regards any show of dissent or disunity. Still, as The Freedom Fighter’s Journal points out, counting on red or red jihadi disagreement to save us from islamo-fascism and the global caliphate (or to make ourselves feel better about surrender on the battlefield in places like Iraq) is a hope in vain. 

First, no matter what happens inside Iraq, any US decision to withdraw will be celebrated as a victory by al Qaeda. Whatever way the spin doctors in Washington dress it up, bin Laden is certain to portray the pullout as another example of what he once described as the “low spiritual morale of the American fighters.” Al Qaeda, in other words, will be emboldened—even if it fails to set up a permanent safe haven or establish an Islamic theocracy. Most worryingly, the foreign fighters—now experienced and battle-hardened veterans of the “global jihad”—will soon turn up and cause trouble in other places, such as Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Afghanistan.

 FFJ is correct here as well. The continued, foolish belief, that the enemies of our enemies are our friends seems to be a hallmark of the West, at least in the 20th and 21st centuries.  Particularly in regards to the threat from Islamists, many of the rationalist, policy-making types, have presumed again and again that Sunnis can be played against Shiites, and the radicals can be played against the even more radical, when to all of those involved in the jihad the main target will always remain western civilization as a whole, from the Great Satan to the smallest european state.

 Update: Silly me. This post talking about efforts to split and undermine the Islamist movement, is the perfect opportunity to mention yet again, the vital importance of the “Islam against the Islamist” film, which is being censored and blacklisted. As Christine reported here a screening of the video was shown to congress members and their staff this week, as part of the effort to force the corporation for public broadcasting to either show the video, or release the rights for the film back to its producers, so that the film can be shown somewhere. Remember this film was produced with a PBS grant, which essentially means its US tax-payer property. The film screening was Wednesday, but there is still time to contact your representative or senator and tell them that you want this film released.

 http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/

 

 

 

Intrepid Florida blogger Tampa Pirate attended the Department of Justice “First Freedom” presentation held April 25 in Tampa, Florida. Also at the seminar: Ahmed Bedier, the Communication Director for CAIR - Florida . Tampa Pirate just filed an in-depth report:

The DOJ held a Religious Freedom Seminar today here in Tampa and I was lucky to be able to attend. It was also attended by lawyers, pastors, concerned citizens, CAIR-FL and a representative from the Islamic Society of Tampa. The topics discussed were:

Religious Discrimination in Education

Religious Discrimination in Employment

Religious Discrimination of Institutionalized Persons

Religious Discrimination in Land Use, Housing and Equal Credit Opportunity

Criminal Statutes Protecting Individuals From Religious Hate Crimes and Interference With Religious Exercise.

Reporting of Hate Crimes

The speakers were excellent, and went along way towards explaining some of the ambiquous statutes that are out there. After the first four topics there was a Q&A held with the presenters for each catagory and Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert A. Mosakowski, Chief, Tampa Division, Middle District of Florida. The two main representatives from CAIR were Ahmed Bedier, the Communication Director for CAIR - Florida and Ramsay Kilic also from CAIR-FL. There was also a female with them, but I didn’t get her name. Mr. Bedier’s question was addressing some statement made by John Ashcroft when he was Attorney General about Muslims, and statements by President Bush where he described our enemies as Islamo-Fascist. Concerning the statements by Mr. Ashcroft he did not say which one exactly, but I believe it is the one he made while being interviewed by Cal Thomas in which he said,

“Islam is a religion in which Allah demands you send your son to die for him; Christianity is the faith in which God sent his son to die for you”

You can see why Mr. Bedier did this, to try and establish a Muslim bias in the government. Mr. Mosakowski however pointed out that the comment made by Mr. Ashcroft was taken out of context as is apparent by Mr. Ashcroft’s standing orders to all U.S. Attorneys to be diligent in their handling of crimes against Muslims. Mr. Mosakowski also pointed out that current Attorney General, as well as Mr. Mosakowski’s, boss has also demanded the same. No further question was asked.

After the Q&A and a short break we started the last two section. The presenter was Mark Kappelhoff, Chief Criminal Section USDOJ Civil Rights Division, who has dealt with some very difficult cases of civil rights vioilations. However during the presentation he cited a few cases of civil rights violations and those were white skinhead on Jew and whites on Muslims. He also spent a lot of time discussing the sensitivity in the DOJ to Muslims and retaliation against Muslims post 9/11.

During the Q&A after the final two sections I pointed out to Mr. Kapplehoff that since 9/11, 31 non-Muslims have been killed and 25 injured by Muslims on U.S. soil. The victims were mainly Christians and a couple of Jews and they were killed by Muslim snipers primarily yet none of these cases gets any media attention with the exception of the Virginia sniper attacks. I cited numerous cases, and pointed out that many times crimes against white Christians are not viewed as hate crimes. He confirmed that hate crimes can be committed against any race and any religion.

Mr. Bedier brought up the problem with hate crimes against Muslims and inflammatory comments against Muslims and Islam, and what can be done about them. Mr. Knapplehoff replied that hate crimes are viewed as serious to the DOJ, but that statements made may be offensive to some, but do not constitute hate crimes. A few minutes later Mr. Kilic asked a follow up question concerning hate speech, and he spoke about local area blogs and in particular Right-Wing Howler’s site that was shutdown after CAIR went after HostGator because of a tongue-in-cheek comment that was a repost made on the site. You can read about the story HERE.

Mr. Kapplehoff explained that he was familiar with the case, and this does not fall under hate speech or hate crimes statutes. In order for a comment to be defined as hate speech it has to pass the following litmus test:

A) The threat has to be directed at an individual or a corporation, and must be truly ominous in nature.
B) It has to be a true threat, not just a veiled threat.

He gave as an example of a real crime as this, “If someone sent an e-mail stating they were heading to that persons house to kill them.”

He also went on to say that discourse is what makes the U.S. the greatest country on Earth and it is part of our fabric. He also said that he has no intention to become the “thought police.”

After the event ended I had the opportunity to spend 5 or so minutes with Ramsey and the female who was with him. We started talking about the Right Wing Howler situation, and that the intent of the post was to be tongue in cheek. I also told him that, like Mr. Kapplehoff said, discourse is part of the fabric of our country and if a person wants to be a part of it, than they have to understand and change their thought process. He seemed to disagree by saying that speech like that can cause extremist to carry out those actions, and I compared those to what is said in Mosques every Friday.

On the other hand the female who was with them brought up the horrible incident here in Tampa where a Islamic learning center in the Town-n-Country area was firebombed. I said that I agreed that was a horrible incident. She said she was impressed at the outpouring support from the neighbors in the area and the local Christian churches. I explained that this is how this is supposed to work. If both sides can put the differences behind us we can all learn to co-exist. She agreed, and we all parted ways.

Unlike many at CAIR, I know that there are good people and bad people. Guys like Mr. Bedier have a history of saying and doing bad things. He supported Sami Al-Arian, and he has said organizations like PIJ (Palestinian Islamic Jihad) were moral organizations prior to 1996 (even though they carried out terrorist attacks on innocent people). These were just two examples. He is also always preaching that Christians and others need to learn tolerance for Islam, yet he does not require the same of his own people. If he did he would be spending time trying to get the Jihadist webiste removed because that is where many Americans get their biased views. If he wants to clean-up my backyard, he needs to clean his front yard up first.

One other gentleman I met there was Dr. Mohammad Sultan who is the local Imam at the Islamic Society of Tampa Bay. He is an older gentleman who speaks very softly, but in his voice you can hear his sincerity. He has worked very hard at trying to bridge the religious divide in the Tampa Bay area. I will be talking to him further about some issues and will keep all informed.

When I meet people like that female and Dr. Sultan it helps remind me that not all Muslims are bad. They want to change the world for the better, but until the Bedier’s of the world are no longer in positions of power we will never fully be united.

URGENT ACTION NEEDED -

Please contact your Senator or Representative and ask them to attend a special showing Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 6:30 pm in Room 2247 Rayburn House Office building of the documentary “Islam vs the Islamists,” about the struggle by moderate Muslims against Islamist extremists. This is the documentary that PBS has blacklisted and that liberals and CAIR are trying to keep from EVER being shown on any network.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has not released distribution rights to the producers, and they are under great pressure from Islamist groups to ban the documentary from ever being shown. The producers are able to do small showings such as this one tomorrow in Congress, and if you can convince your representatives or their staff to attend, CPB may release distribution rights so this excellent documentary can be seen around the world.

We all ask why the voices of moderate Muslims are silenced by the extremists, and this documentary answers that question. We cannot permit far left bureaucrats in PBS and the Islamist Lobby groups in Washington DC to silence all voices. Below is some sample language for an email, fax or phone call to your representative. You can find your Congressional representatives’ contact information here: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/

Dear Congressman/Senator:
I want to bring your attention to an important event on April 25, at 6:30 pm for you and your staff.
The documentary “Islam vs the Islamists,” banned by PBS, will be shown Wednesday, April 25, 2007 in Room 2247 Rayburn House Office Building at 6:30 p.m. This taxpayer-financed documentary, on the struggles by moderate Muslims against Islamist extremism, was dropped for left-wing political reasons from a television series that aired last week on more than 300 PBS stations nationwide.
Please do not permit PBS to blacklist this documentary on moderate Muslims in the U.S. and overseas. Moderate Muslims are the very people we are trying to protect and encourage. The film itself has been viewed by numerous film professionals and their reviews are uniformly extremely positive. Based on what I’ve read and heard about the documentary, I hope that you and your staff will find it educational and eye-opening.

The producers of the film, ABG Films, are trying to obtain distribution rights from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Please direct CPB to release the distribution rights. As a U.S. taxpayer who helped fund this documentary, I would like to be able to see it and to let others worldwide see it. Please do not let PBS stand in the way of freedom of speech and journalistic integrity.

Event: Showing of CPB-funded, PBS-banned documentary: “Islam vs. the Islamists”

Time: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 – 6:30 pm

Place: 2247 Rayburn House Office Building

Regards,

Your Name
Congressional District
Contact info

[Please consider also contacting the Corporation for Public Broadcasting directly to request that they release distribution rights for “Islam vs. the Islamists” to ABG Films, the producers of the documentary. Contact info is below]:

Ombudsmen
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
401 Ninth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20004

http://www.cpb.org/ombudsmen/

Patricia Harrison, President and CEO
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Comments Line:
Main Phone Number:
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
401 Ninth Street, NW
Washington, DC
http://www.cpb.org/contact/contact.html

What It Means To Be Muslim in America’ was an April 18, 2007 symposium co-sponsored by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University and On Faith, the global interactive conversation on religion moderated by Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham and Sally Quinn of The Washington Post.

Audio for the entire symposium is here [large file, unedited, wma file format].

The UK and Scandinavia Counterjihad Summit gathered last Saturday under tight security on an unusually warm spring day in Copenhagen. We met first at the Workers’ Museum (red flags and a statue of Lenin!) so that SIAD security could check everybody out. When all the participants were assembled, we followed Anders Gravers and the SIAD contingent to the meeting place a few blocks away.There were at least twenty Danes present, several Swedes and Norwegians, with two British representatives and two American representatives of Vigilant Freedom. Paul Belien was originally scheduled to attend, but a wildcat air strike in Ostend the previous day had left him stranded in Brussels. His presence was sorely missed.

A later head count showed that fewer than half of the participants were bloggers — a significant departure from business as usual, with action-oriented people outnumbering pajama-clad gabsters like me.

After an informal mixer of chat and adult beverages, we sat down to a dinner of roast pork with red cabbage, and potatoes (flæskesteg, rødkål, and kartofler). When dinner was over, Exile — a British expatriate blogger living in Denmark who served as the coordinator for the event — gave a brief talk. Afterwards he called on the rest of the speakers.

I was first up. I had cue cards for my prepared speech, but by the time I stood up to give it, I had met and talked to everyone in the room. Also on my mind were the previous three days’ worth of discussions that had gone on at Steen’s apartment. So I was filled with new ideas, and although I started out using my cue cards, I soon abandoned them and said what was on my mind instead. Steen videotaped the whole thing, so it may be that my off-the-cuff jabber will be available at some point.

Next up was Anders Gravers, the leader of SIAD (Stop the Islamification of Denmark). Anders was nervous — he said this was the first time he had ever given a speech in English. But he did a good job, and had some important and inspiring things to say about SIAD. Here are some excerpts:

A group of people from Den Danske Forening, The Danish Society, gathered in June 2005 with a wish of creating a department of the Danish Society, Region North. But rather quickly we experienced that The Danish Society didn’t want to act in any way. All they wanted was only to talk internally about the Islam problems and publish a well-informed magazine four times a year.

But our group up north in Jutland were aware that we had to do something now if we would have any chance to save Denmark from the Islamic invasion. We knew that it was five minutes to twelve.

Therefore we decided to start an organisation whose aim was to wake up the Danes through actions and provocations, of course within the limits of the law. All in all to put the government in the devil’s dilemma, which means, no matter what they did, SIAD would have a win-and-win situation.

If they allowed our demonstrations, there would be serious trouble, and if they wouldn’t allow us to demonstrate, SIAD had proved that the freedom of speech and the right to gather in public was suppressed and eliminated.

The first demonstration took place during the Muhammad crisis, in support of the newspaper Jyllands Posten, who as you know printed the Muhammad cartoons and in support for the freedom of speech. We were 98 participants and the police showed up with around 100 persons.

SIAD decided that the following demonstrations were named “The genocider Hamas out of Scandinavia”. The title was because Hamas was recently elected as a legal government in Palestine and their main goal is to chase the Jews out of Israel and to kill the Jews all over the world. We cannot allow to shelter these kind of people in Denmark.

We held the first demonstration with this title in Århus, the second biggest town, in the ghetto Gellerup just outside the town, where we were met by 800 illegal and violent agitators, who attacked police and journalists with chrysanthemum bombs and rockets fired horizontally! The police were not able to control the mass and ordered our small demonstration, 18 peacefully, mostly elderly people waving the Danish flag, out of the area, despite that We were the legal demonstrators!

At this demonstration we showed the Danes for the first time, that there are areas in Denmark which are no longer in control, no longer Danish, areas where the freedom of speech and the right to gather in public, are eliminated. Here rules the Muslim law.

[…]

Another devil’s dilemma we have put on the government are the charges against the Koran of contradicting the Danish constitutions, paragraphs 67 and 69. We have demanded that the imams should not be allowed to read and teach the parts of the Koran which contradict the Danish constitution. That means all the passages of clean/unclean, of believers/non-believers, and all the parts who distinguish between women and men and of course their violent agitation. However we got an answer in 14 days, perhaps because the Danish ambassador in Turkey had to explain again and again that the demand of a prohibition of certain parts of the Koran had nothing to do with the Danish government, and it only came from a small rather unknown party!

I contacted the Minister of Justice and asked the attorney, how she could answer so quickly? She must have known the Koran in advance? She answered, very honestly, that she had never read the Koran. I asked if she based her answer on the Hadith, the life and living of Muhammad. She answered: What is the Hadith?? Of course we have repeated the charges against the Koran!

We know that because Denmark is such a small homogeneous country, where the effects are felt quickly, much quicker than in bigger countries. Because of that we believe that Denmark is the perfect place to practice the anti-jihad actions and thereby affect the population, because we get a response right away. Then we can discover which actions will have the greatest affect on the people, and which actions can be copied to other places, USA, Canada, Australia and the rest of Europe.

After Anders was Michael Jensen, who is known as “the philosopher of SIAD.” Anders is from Jutland, and Michael is from Copenhagen, so the two of them serve to give SIAD a broad reach within Denmark.His speech ranged over the philosophical and theoretical aspects of what SIAD and related groups are doing. He was passionate about what he said, and very articulate. Some excerpts:

I am a philosopher, a descendent of an old philosophical family. My family’s school of thought is a mix of protestant Christendom, Hellenic philosophy and Nordic mythology — started by the Danish philosopher Grundtvig.

It is a tradition in my family to stand up for Denmark if Denmark is in danger. As did my great-great-grandfather, and my great-grandmother. And now I suppose it is my turn.

[…]

10-15% of the Muslim population are the young, prosperous and intelligent, educated at university. They are actually the most dangerous Islamists, because they think, plan ahead and are devising intelligent plans.

50% of the Muslim population prefer Sharia Laws to Roman Law. (Surveys done in England) Here you find the foot soldiers, easy to provoke, and pretty stupid. This is actually the weak point of the Islamists, most of them do not think that much, and get easily provoked. When SIAD held its first rally in Gellerup, around 800 Jihad warriors appeared in a very short notice — firing Chrysanthemum bombs, throwing rocks and trying to get to the demonstrators of SIAD.

This was only one part of Denmark. All in all we think that there are around 30,000 jihad warriors in Denmark. And they can be rallied in a very short notice with modern telecommunication equipment.

Fortunately for us, they are willing to fight, and that will show the people and the media where they are, and how many. TV loves it, it gives a lot of very good pictures.

So to rattle the Islamists’ cage, show up and demonstrate for freedom, against the totalitarian Islamism.

[…]

We have the right to think what we want to think, how we want to think it — this is a basic premise of our faith, and we will not give up. Never.

We will not cease our freedom.

Freedom of speech is not just some idea; it is the basic principle of our faith.

Michael spoke at length about the ancient democracy of the Vikings in Iceland as described in the Icelandic Sagas. Known as the Alþing, Viking democracy was rooted in a system of local moots, each of which was called a þing. The local gatherings served as marketplaces and assemblies to discuss issues and sort out matters of law and governance. The Alþing was a larger gathering which functioned as a consensual government for all of Iceland. In many ways Iceland resembled the democracy of ancient Athens, and was the first democratic system to arise in Northern Europe, predating all the other versions by at least several hundred years.Michael concluded with his assessment of what the Counterjihad is facing in Europe:

Basically the fight we are fighting is contest of will — it is us against the Islamists. And the ones with the strongest will, will prevail. We have the resources, the organisation, but we lack the will — if we regain the incentive to fight for our own fine culture, the fight will be over in a very short time, without much bloodshed. If we do not fight, it will come to civil war.

Our success will be defined by two things: courage and actions. The only one in this room that does not hide himself behind a funny name is Anders. And I think one of the secrets of SIAD’s success — is the courage of Anders to stand up in the open and defy the Islamists in his own name.

That works.

This is a very dangerous fight, some of us in this room will die — but that is a price we should be willing to pay, because it is better to lose your life than to lose your freedom.

But if we have the will and the courage, we will win.

After Michael finished there was some general discussion and friendly argument about the points he made. Ted, one of the Swedish participants, pointed out that democracy alone was not the answer, and that a Muslim majority was quite capable of removing the rights and freedoms of Swedes by democratic means.Lively conversation continued for another couple of hours, with various groups of people collecting to argue and discuss the issues over glasses of excellent Danish beer, which was in plentiful supply.

The most urgent issue concerned plans for the upcoming demonstration in Brussels on September 11th. The new group that has formed in anticipation of this event, SIOE (Stop the Islamification of Europe), will be a clearinghouse for planning, and participants in our meeting were eager to set up additional meetings to formulate strategy for Brussels.

An important topic was Vigilant Freedom’s new initiative, known as the Islamification Index. This is a system designed to quantify the degree of Islamification in each country and assess the risk of encroaching sharia. Later stages of the Index process will involve planning for action designed to push back Islamification and the illiberal Multicultural system which allows it to flourish.

When the number of Vigilant Freedom members in a country is large enough to form a working group, members will construct an Islamification Index based on local conditions. Besides the United States, the current focus is on Denmark, Sweden, and Britain. Denmark’s risk level is assumed to be lower than Sweden and the UK, and it will serve as a model for action in countries which are in crisis.

Just before the meeting ended, I asked all those who were willing to have their pictures posted on the web to gather for a group photo.

 

Left to right: Mist (USA), Ted (Sweden), Anders Gravers (Denmark), Exile (Denmark), Skjoldungen (Denmark), Phanarath (Denmark), and Zonka (Denmark). Click the photo to see a larger version.
The meeting broke up and adjourned to the sidewalk outside, and most of the group proceeded to a bar to continue their discussions. I had to go back to Steen’s apartment to meet with him and Fjordman, so I missed the later festivities.You’ll have to check in with some of the other bloggers for an account of went on during the wee hours. Assuming they remember, that is…

I’m saving my pennies, because I can’t wait to go back. You gotta love those Danes.

Today from 4:00 - 5:30 pm at Georgetown University’s Copley Hall Formal Lounge, the Washington Post and the Saudi-funded Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding are sponsoring a propaganda exercise to divert our attention from the Saudi and other extremists’ actual work against US interests abroad and at home. As Caroline Glick noted April 12 in The Long Road to Victory:

The fruits of America’s disorientation were revealed in last month’s three Saudi summits: the Hamas-Fatah summit, the King Abdullah-Ahmadinejad summit and the Arab League-Iranian summit…First there was the Hamas-Fatah summit in Mecca where Abdullah undermined the US by promising to pay Hamas terrorists a billion dollars in exchange for their agreement to let Fatah terrorists be their junior partners in government.

If that wasn’t sufficient proof that Abdullah is not a friend, there was his warm and fuzzy love-fest with Ahmadinejad.

Their meeting shocked Israeli, American and British intelligence services, who perceived it as the culmination of a progressive Saudi estrangement from the US. It was preceded by a massive expansion of Saudi ties with China and Russia.

So who is speaking at this Symposium? Representatives of the Islamist ideology of imposing sharia law in the US, as a separate but unequal system of Islamist supremacy first, and then as the constitutional system for all. I don’t doubt the seriousness or scholarly background of any participants; but I seriously doubt that they want to use that background to protect the US constitution. Instead, these folks are all committed in either their publications, associations or funding to the spread of sharia law over constitutional law:

1. Imam Yahya Hendi, the Muslim chaplain at Georgetown University, the Imam of the Islamic Society of Frederick, and the Muslim Chaplain at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda. From his official biography at a U.S. Embassy website:

Imam Hendi serves as a member and the Spokesman of the Islamic Jurisprudence Council of North America. He also directs the PEACE office of the Muslim American Society [generally thought to be associated with the Muslim Brotherhood]. PEACE is the Public Education and Assistance Conference….

2. Sherman A. Jackson, professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies and a professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Dr. Sherman Jackson is a cofounder of the American Learning Institute for Muslims (ALIM). He used to be a member of the Fiqh Council of North America.

[Jackson] is extensively published within the academia. He is a noted expert of the constitutional jurisprudence of Shihab al-Din-al-Qarafi, whose works revolve around the concepts of constitution, tyranny, and power within Islamic law - topics very relevant today as Muslim countries strive to follow the classical Islamic legal traditions. He has written a book centered around this figure, entitled Islamic Law and the State: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi (1996). Recent published articles center around Mutazilite objectivism, Islamic Law and the sociopolitical reality in the United States, among others. He is a sought after speaker at various law schools throughout the country, and is well-known for his oratory skills. He has been teaching the Seerah, Usul al-Fiqh, and ‘History of Islamic Law’ courses within American Learning Institute for Muslims since its inception.

3. Ingrid Mattson, President of Islamic Society of North America, Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations and, Director of the Islamic Chaplaincy Program at Hartford Seminary in Connecticut . As Stephen Brown at Frontpage Magazine notes:

ISNA’s status as a charity itself caused it to be investigated by the Senate Committee on Finance in 2003 for terrorism links along with 24 other Islamic organizations. As well, the WTHR report stated ISNA has also allowed Islamic charities, later found connected with terrorism, to set up booths at its conventions and has even helped raise money for them, including for the now prohibited Holy Land Foundation. Moreover, the same report also said Hamas leader, Mousa Marzook, deported form America in 1997, also thanked ISNA in a letter for supporting his defense fund. Marzook’s name can be found on the State Department’s terrorist list, a distinction ISNA can certainly take pride in.

4. Hadia Mubarak, a senior researcher at Georgetown’s Center for Muslim Christian Understanding and the first woman and first native-born American to be elected to lead the National Muslim Student Association since the 500-chapter organization was established in 1963. Far from being mainstream, the MSA has long been associated as an organization, and through individual leaders, with extremist ideologies and groups:

An influential member of International ANSWER’s steering committee, MSA maintains a large presence at ANSWER-sponsored demonstrations. By supporting ANSWER, MSA tacitly endorses the agendas of the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party which dominates ANSWER. At a March 15, 2003 anti-war rally in San Francisco, MSA representatives manned several booths where they displayed and distributed anti-Israel publications, banners, and placards. Many of these items contained the word “Israel” with the “s” replaced by a swastika; others likened a swastika to the Star of David.

Here’s the bottom line: these groups, selected by John Esposito’s Saudi-funded, Wahhabist center at Georgetown University, have NOTHING to do with “What is means to be Muslim in America.” But they have everything to do with forcing an extreme ideology pf Islamist Imperialism on Muslims and non-Muslims, through disinformation campaigns worthy of the worst years of the old Soviet propaganda mills.

Hat Tip to Ann Corcoran, Sylvia Pryor and other Vigilant Freedom/910 group members who contributed research!

In yet another Saudi propaganda event (carefully coordinated with the PBS series Crossroads), the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University and Washington Post Magazine are co-sponsoring “What it Means to be Muslim in America.” This is unabashed propaganda.

Speakers include well-known and well-paid Saudi shill John L. Esposito (Founding Director of the Prince Al etc. Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding), Salman Ahmad, Pakistani born rock musician, Imam Yahya Hendi, the Muslim chaplain at Georgetown University, Sherman A. Jackson, professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Michigan, Ingrid Mattson, President of Islamic Society of North America, and Hadia Mubarak, head of the Muslim Student Association. According to their website and the full page advertisement in Sunday’s Washington Post (your petrodollars at work), “This diverse panel will look at four distinct and potentially competing definitions of Muslim identity: Islam as a moral compass, a political agenda, a spiritual journey and a culture apart.”

This is what it feels like to have our media, government and academic institutions occupied by a foreign power. You can be sure that the left, the Islamists and the media will pack this event. It has been assigned as homework to students at Georgetown University. Please attend if you can, and ask questions if possible.

You can submit a question in advance here: http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/georgetown/

As always, be polite but firm – and focused on the background of the speakers’ organizations, their foreign funding or their political agendas.

Time: 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Place: Copley Hall Formal Lounge, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
For more information: http://www14.georgetown.edu/explore/calendars/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=106&EventID=49881

Here’s an excerpt from the question I submitted:

Here’s my question: The conference, “What it means to be Muslim in America” poses an important question for Americans: why is so much Saudi funding going to a conference that is one sided, and therefore denies the presence of Saudi-funded Islamist extremism in America? Your conference is co-sponsored with the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim Christian Understanding, funded by the Saudi prince of the same name. One of your major speakers is from the Islamic Society of North America, associated with the promotion of more fundamentalist, even extremist, forms of Islam with Saudi Arabian funding, according to Matthew Levitt, “Subversion from Within: Saudi Funding of Islamic Extremist Groups Undermining U.S. Interests and the War on Terror from Within the United States,” Testimony before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, September 10, 2003.

Saudi Arabia is a human trafficker, engages in gender apartheid, and funds Wahhabist mosques and organizations to aggressively radicalize moderate Muslim groups worldwide – not just in the U.S., but in Europe, Indonesia, Eastern Europe and the Asian subcontinent. Would you have had South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s sponsor a conference on “What it means to be Black in America?” and thought you weren’t being used as a propaganda front? Would you have had King George III fund a conference in 1775 on “What it means to be American in the Colonies?” and thought you weren’t being used as a propaganda front? Why have you particularly selected groups at your conference – and your conference co-sponsor at Georgetown University – who are funded by a country whose policies consistently violate all international norms for human rights and rule of law?

Most Muslims in America are assimilated, excelling in careers, business and education, and not the subject of discrimination….The Muslim experience in the U.S. is largely one of success, prosperity and achievement, like that of most other immigrant groups. Most U.S. citizens’ experiences with Muslims are also largely successful and completely ordinary. However, a few organizations – CAIR, MAS, ISNA, MSA, ADC and others – make an excellent living within the Beltway playing the victimhood scam, funded by Saudi foundations, banks and private funds.

You’re enjoying having a conference today funded by Saudi Arabia, and no doubt applauding your tolerance and religious sensitivity for addressing the alleged problems of Muslim victimhood raised by MSA and ISNA. At least have the decency to read of the real victims of the Saudi government, victims whose cries you seem determined to silence:

1. In March, According to the Saudi al-Watan newspaper, A 20 year old Saudi woman received 60 lashes for leaving an abusive home environment (http://www.indiaenews.com/middle-east/20070325/44709.htm ).

2. Human Rights Watch begged the Saudi government to halt all executions after the torture and slaughter of four Sri Lankans in February 2007. “Saudi Arabia considers armed robbery to be an offense against God with prescribed, unalterable punishment if proven, based on the Koranic verse 5:33 that criminalizes waging war against God and His Messenger and spreading corruption on earth, and prescribes either “execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land” as a punishment.” http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/02/21/saudia15377.htm

3. “In interviews with roughly 100 Saudi women academics, educators and medical professionals, Human Rights Watch documented how male guardianship of adult women denies women the right to employment, education, health, and freedom of movement. Government policy often explicitly requires male consent for a range of everyday activities. This system, premised on the idea that women have limited or no legal capacity to act on their own behalf, affects all Saudi women across economic or social divides. While guardianship is construed as a form of protection for women, in fact, it fails to protect some of their most basic rights.”

Foreign workers in Saudi Arabia confront a precarious legal situation. They can only obtain visas through their Saudi employers, who have the power to repatriate them at any time, or to prevent their return home by holding their passports and refusing to sign exit visas. Women migrant domestic workers are particularly at risk of abuse, as they are excluded from the protections of the Labor Code and redress through labor courts. Many employers place tight restrictions on their communication. The Ministry of Labor said that it is developing additional provisions covering domestic workers.

Labor abuses are pervasive in Saudi Arabia. These abuses include nonpayment of wages for months or years, long working hours with no days off, and confinement to the workplace. Human Rights Watch also documented several cases of physical abuse, sexual abuse, forced labor, and trafficking of persons. Foreign workers have little bargaining power in the labor courts because they lack financial resources and expertise for lengthy legal battles. The police and the Ministry of Social Affairs sometimes assist domestic workers to recover their wages.

Saudi authorities routinely detain children suspected of even minor offenses, including vague charges of transgressing “morals,” and such children may face solitary confinement and corporal punishment. Detained children are at risk of abuse by other inmates in the Riyadh reformatories because staff do not adequately categorize, separate, and monitor children, especially in large, poorly supervised dormitories. While children are not tried in adult courts, they may face adult sentences if a judge determines they are considered “grown-ups” (baligh), and such children, even as young as 13, have been sentenced to death.”

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/02/17/saudia15353.htm

4. “Saudi Arabia should immediately end its discrimination against its 100,000 Chadian residents, most of whom were born in the kingdom but are increasingly denied the rights to basic education and emergency healthcare, Human Rights Watch said today. Saudi Arabia’s decision to target Chadian children for expulsion from school is arbitrary and discriminatory.”

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/09/06/saudia14128.htm

5. “In September the mabahith detained women’s rights activist Wajeha al-Huwaider, forcing her to pledge to refrain from speaking to the media and to cease her human rights advocacy as a condition for release. Saudi non-judicial authorities often extract such pledges from regime critics.”

6. “Many of the estimated 8.8 million foreign workers face exploitative working conditions, including 16-hour workdays, no breaks or food and drink, and being locked in dormitories during their time off. The government promised to publish in November 2006 a special annex to the new labor law that regulates domestic migrant workers’ rights. Women domestic workers, whom the labor law currently does not protect, are often at risk of serious abuse in private homes.”

http://cdhrap.net/text/english/reports/human/human/2007.htm

7. “In March, a 19-year-old Saudi woman who was kidnapped, beaten and gang raped by seven men who then took photos of their victim and threatened to kill her, was sentenced under the country’s Islamic-based law to 90 lashes for the “crime” of being alone with a man not related to her.

http://www.wunrn.com/news/2007/03_07/03_12_07/031707_saudi.htm

8. “Since 1992 there are more than 360 cases of Christian expatriates being arrested for participating in private worship. Despite this, the Defense Minister, Prince Sultan, told reporters in March 2003 that Christians are free to worship privately, but reiterated that no church buildings will be allowed. He said, “We are not against religions at all … but there are no churches - not in the past, the present or future.” With the death of King Fahd, persecution of believers has not improved, but has been on the rise under the new King Abdullah. Typically the Saudi government deports expatriate Christians caught conducting worship meetings in their homes or privately owned villas, forcing their employers to terminate their work contracts, Christian observers say.”

http://www.persecution.net/country/saudi.htm

9. “Under the kingdom’s strict interpretation of Islamic law, public non-Muslim worship is prohibited, although members of the royal family insist that Christians are free to worship within their own homes. Last year five East Africans were detained for a month for leading a private Christian worship service in Riyadh as part of a major crackdown on foreign Christians.”

http://www.worthynews.com/christian/saudi-arabia-detains-east-africa-christians/

Christine Brim
Vigilant Freedom Center

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US, UK and Scandinavian Counter-Jihad Summit

Fairfax, Virginia, USA: April 18, 2007: A US, UK, and Scandinavian Counter-Jihad Summit was held in Copenhagen on April 14. Representatives from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the UK and US met for several hours at Preben Møller Hansens inn “Den Danske Kro,” and also in separate meetings the next day. The participants shared concerns for each of their nations about the loss of constitutional liberties, individual rights and the rule of law due to Islamist groups who impose sharia laws and jihadist terrorism and criminality.

Groups attending the Counter-Jihad Summit included Stop Islamiseringen Af Denmark (SIAD), Stop the Islamisation of Europe (SIOE), Vigilant Freedom/910 Group, and FOMI. Other groups and political parties were represented by individual members. The international group of citizen activists, politicians, journalists and bloggers discussed how to track Islamist efforts to impose sharia laws in their countries and to undermine constitutional liberties and the rule of law. Participants also began coordinating among groups to resist Islamisation across Europe, the UK, and the US, starting with the Brussels Rally to Stop the Islamisation of Europe on September 11, 2007. Similar rallies are planned in the U.S. and other countries. Below are links to the English texts of three speeches presented at the Counter-Jihad Summit :

• The UK-Scandinavian Counter-Jihad Summit - “Baron Bodissey” Center for Vigilant Freedom/910Group/Gates of Vienna Blog (USA)
• Denmark: Five Minutes to Twelve – Anders Gravers, SIAD (Denmark)
• What are we fighting against? What are we fighting for? – “Michael Jensen” SIAD (Denmark)

The Summit discussions focused on the challenges of resisting Islamisation:

• Restore the legal equality of all religions: no special treatment of Islam in the law.
• Restore constitutional liberties: prevent further restrictions of freedom of speech, religion, press and sexual orientation, and work to restore all of these freedoms.
• Restore social and cultural equality of all religions, and separation of secular and religious institutions: no more special treatment or accommodations of Islam in society as a whole, or efforts to prevent assimilation rather than separate cultures (special prayer rooms, segregated facilities for women, etc.)
• Implement existing laws: enforce laws especially Islamist incitements to violence, violation of constitutional laws, discrimination against women and other races and religions, and jihadist terrorism and criminality.
• Focus political debate: force politicians to think again on changing our laws to suit Islam or the Islamic way of life, rather than expecting Islam to assimilate within the constitutional laws and social norms of each nation.
• Resolve contradictions between national constitutions and the Koran: passages in the Koran advocate discrimination against non-Muslims and women, and call for actions that contravene national constitutions. SIAD has called for Muslims living in Denmark to delete these passages if they are to live under national laws. Other nations face the same dilemma.

According to rally organizers, “The September 11 Brussels rally to Stop the Islamisation of Europe (SIOE) reflects the attitude of most people in Europe - that Islam is being favored above indigenous European cultures, and that Muslims are being selectively protected by politicians and lawyers at the expense of non-Muslims who often find themselves unprotected…… SIOE also challenges the funding by Saudi Arabia for the building of mosques and other Islamic institutions in Europe and elsewhere around the world, when that country itself outlaws any religion other than Islam, any politics other than Islam, and any jurisprudence other than Islam. Such asymmetric funding must be stopped. No more mosques until we see churches in Mecca.”

Several blog posts by participants give personal accounts of the summit:

• Beer & Sandwiches: UK and Scandinavia Counter Jihad Summit
• Exile on the Wing: UK and Scandinavia Counterjihad Summit
• Gates of Vienna: A Few Reports Trickle in…
• Snaphanen: En Baron Vågner (A baron awakens) with pictures
• SIAD Blog: UK and Scandinavia Counterjihad Summit. (Including Anders Gravers’ Speech)
• Mitt Sverige: The US, UK and Scandinavian Counterjihad Summit (In Swedish)
• SIOE: The UK and Scandinavia Counterjihad Summit

The Center for Vigilant Freedom provides resources for citizen efforts to preserve human rights, religious freedoms, and political freedoms from attacks by extremist groups. Our mission is to protect liberty, counter sharia laws that oppose human rights, and defeat terrorist and extremist ideologies.

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Three speeches were presented at the 4/14 Copenhagen Counter-Jihad Summit, with representatives of groups from the US, UK, Sweden, Denmark and Norway. This is the speech by Anders Gravers, a leader of SIAD (Stop the Islamisation of Denmark). See also The US, UK and Scandinavian Counter-Jihad Summit, by “Baron Bodissey” of Vigilant Freedom/910Group/Gates of Vienna, and What are we fighting against? What are we fighting for? by “Michael Jensen” of SIAD.

SIAD – Five Minutes to Twelve in Denmark

Anders Gravers, SIAD (Denmark)

I will begin by telling about SIAD and how we started.

A group of people from Den Danske Forening, The Danish Society, gathered in June 2005 with a wish of creating a department of the Danish Society, Region North. But rather quickly we experienced that The Danish Society didn’t want to act in any way. All they wanted was only to talk internally about the Islam problems and publish a well informed magazine four times a year.

But our group up north in Jutland were aware that we had to do something now if we would have any chance to save Denmark from the Islamic invasion. We knew that it was five minutes to twelve.

Therefore we decided to start an organisation whose aim was to wake up the Danes through actions and provocations, of course within the limits of the law. All in all to put the government in the devils dilemma, which means, no matter what they did, SIAD would have a win-and-win situation.

If they allowed our demonstrations, there would be serious trouble, and if they wouldn’t allow us to demonstrate, SIAD had proved that the freedom of speech and the right to gather in public was suppressed and eliminated.

The first demonstration took place during the Muhammad crisis, in support of the newspaper Jyllands Posten, who as you know printed the Muhammad cartoons and in support for the freedom of speech. We were 98 participants and the police showed up with around 100 persons.

SIAD decided that the following demonstrations were named “The genocider Hamas out of Scandinavia”. The title was because Hamas was recently elected as a legal government in Palestine and their main goal is to chase the Jews out of Israel and to kill the Jews all over the world. We cannot allow to shelter these kind of people in Denmark.

We held the first demonstration with this title in Århus, the second biggest town, in the ghetto Gellerup just outside the town, where we were met by 800 illegal and violent agitators, who attacked police and journalists with chrysanthemum bombs and rockets fired horizontally! The police were not able to control the mass and ordered our small demonstration, 18 peacefully, mostly elderly people waving the Danish flag, out of the area, despite that WE were the legal demonstrators!

At this demonstration we showed the Danes for the first time, that there are areas in Denmark which are no longer in control, no longer Danish, areas where the freedom of speech and the right to gather in public, are eliminated. Here rules the Muslim law.

We wanted to discover if there were other ghettoes in the country where the situation was the same. And the result is three other places in Denmark where the Danish law is out of order. Three places, Vollsmose – Odense, Gellerup – Århus, Nørrebro – Copenhagen, where SIAD illegally has been denied our right to demonstrate by the police, simply because of the violent immigrant masses.

Three areas today where the Danish constitution is suppressed.

In 2 years, in 5 years, in 10 years, in 20 years, will we have any places to be Danes, to express our constitutional rights??

We have accomplished this: our Minister of Justice, Lene Espersen, has admitted to two politicians from Dansk Folkeparti, (The Danish peoples Party), Peter Skaarup and Søren Espersen, that the police have NO RIGHT to deny our demonstrations, simply because the danger comes from the illegal, violent demonstrators, and NOT from SIAD. So in order to prevent SIAD from demonstrating, she has declared Nødret. In English, Nødret is a constitutional law of emergency towards SIAD. However, she neglected to explain to SIAD and the Danish population several key questions: What exactly is this constitutional law of emergency?, how long will it last?, which groups does it affect? Is it only SIAD? Søren Krarup from The Danish peoples Party will now raise the question in the parliament. So here we are now.

Another devils dilemma we have put on the government are the charges against the Koran of contradicting the Danish constitutions, paragraphs 67 and 69. We have demanded that the imams should not be allowed to read and teach the parts of the Koran which contradict the Danish constitution. That means all the passages of clean/unclean, of believers/non-believers, and all the parts who distinguish between women and men and of course their violent agitation. However we got an answer in 14 days, perhaps because the Danish ambassador in Turkey had to explain again and again that the demand of a prohibition of certain parts of the Koran had nothing to do with the Danish government, and it only came from a small rather unknown party!

I contacted the Minister of Justice and asked the attorney, how she could answer so quickly? She must have known the Koran in advance? She answered, very honestly, that she had never read theKoran. I asked if she based her answer on the Hadith, the life and living of Muhammad. She answered: What is the Hadith?? Of course we have repeated the charges against the Koran!

We know that because Denmark is such a small homogeneous country, where the effects are felt quickly, much quicker than in bigger countries. Because of that we believe that Denmark is the perfect place to practice the anti-jihad actions and thereby affect the population, because we get a response right away. Then we can discover which actions will have the greatest affect on the people, and which actions can be copied to other places, USA, Canada, Australia and the rest of Europe.

I want to thank Baron Bodissey and also the Vigilant Freedom/910 group, first of all for mentioning SIAD on their blogs and for your great support! But also for your encouraging your readers to send mail to our Minister of Justice. We have found out that we have almost the same ideas as the 910 group, so we match very well!

In cooperation with No Sharia in England, we agreed to try to expand the ideas of SIAD to the rest of Europe through the umbrella organisation Stop the Islamisation of Europe - SIOE. I would very much like to share SIOE with Vigilant Freedom/910 group, but we will get into these things later tonight.

SIAD believes that we CAN win this battle against Islamisation with the help from the democracy, that means without the need of real battles and the costs of lives. The democracy has the defence in it self, it is just our governments who haven’t exploited the possibilities of democracy. And therefore we can conclude that today we haven’t got real democracy in our countries. I know that one of our members of board, our philosopher [Michael Jensen], will tell more about the ideas of real democracy. I will pass on the word to him.

Three speeches were given at the April 14, 2007 Counter-Jihad Summit held in Copenhagen by representatives from US, UK, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. See also The UK and Scandinavia Counter-Jihad Summit, presented by Baron Bodissey from Gates of Vienna, and Denmark: Five minutes to Twelve by Anders Gravers.

What are we fighting against? What are we fighting for?

Speech by “Michael Jensen” SIAD (Denmark)

Good evening, it is very nice to be here.

I am a philosopher, a descendent of an old philosophical family. My family’s school of thought is a mix of protestant Christendom, Hellenic philosophy and Nordic mythology – started by the Danish philosopher Grundtvig.

It is a tradition in my family to stand up for Denmark if Denmark is in danger. As did my great great grandfather, my great grandmother. And now I suppose it is my turn.

Agenda:

1. What are we fighting against
2. What are we fighting for
3. How should we fight

What are we fighting against?

According to Daniel Pipes, the Muslim population can be illustrated a bit like a snake:

Leaders

10 – 15 % of the Muslim population are the young, prosperous and intelligent, educated at university. They are actually the most dangerous Islamists, because they think, plan ahead and are devising intelligent plans.

Followers

50 % of the Muslim population prefer Sharia Laws to Roman Law. (Surveys done in England) Here you find the foot soldiers, easy to provoke, and pretty stupid. This is actually the weak point of the Islamists, most of them do not think that much, and get easily provoked. When SIAD held its first rally in Gellerup, around 800 Jihad warriors appeared in a very short notice – firing Chrysanthemum bombs, throwing rocks and trying to get to the demonstrators of SIAD.

This was only one part of Denmark. All in all we think that there are around 30,000 jihad warriors in Denmark. And they can be rallied in a very short notice with modern telecommunication equipment.

Fortunately for us, they are willing to fight, and that will show the people and the media where they are, and how many. TV loves it, it gives a lot of very good pictures.

So to rattle the Islamists cage, show up and demonstrate for freedom, against the totalitarian Islamism.

The rest

Around 35% of the Muslim population do not really care about religion, and a few of them are truly democratic. In Denmark we even have democratic Muslim movements that we support a lot. They are however very few in numbers.

Muslim states

According to Pipes you can define 3 types of Muslim states:

1. Old fashioned, like Saudi Arabia. Basically a Kalifate state, with Sharia laws
2. Progressive states, trying to find a way to modernize within an Islamic frame. These are states like Egypt, Pakistan
3. Secular states, that have adopted Roman Law and Democracy in all aspects with no regard to Islam. States like Turkey

These are only rudimentary sketches, it is hard to get exact picture as to what we are fighting against. But this is what we know on the basis of the most recent research.

What are we fighting for?

Basically we are fighting for the core elements of western civilization:

- Democracy

- Roman Law

The founding principle of democracy is freedom of speech. Let me give it to you with the words of Socrates.

Imagine yourselves in a courtyard; 2500 years ago, Socrates is put to trial, because he is unwilling to shut his mouth. This is his defending speech:

“Anytos told you, that you would have to put me to death, now when you have charged me – otherwise it would have been better if you had not accused me, because, as he said, if Socrates is found not guilty, all your sons will come to study with him, and be ruined.

You might not listen to him, and then tell me:

“This time, Socrates, we will reject Anytos and set you free, on the condition that you will cease your “quest for truth” and stop the inquiries you have just spoken about; and If we catch you questing for truth again, you will die” – If you said so, my answer would be like this:

“Dear citizens, in spite of due respect and regard for you, I will obey the command of God not yours, and as long as I can breathe and am capable of that, I will not cease my quest for truth; and I will continue my admonishment, and my reprimand,

and when I meet one of you, I will talk to you in the way I am used to, something like: Listen, my dear friend, you are from Athens, the greatest city, famed for its riches and power, don’t you think it is a little degrading that for you to only think about money and respect and honour, and only think about the amount of riches you have, but do not care at all about justice and truth, and care for the excellence of your soul. – And if the person I speak to - tells me that he really does care, I will not go away, and let him be, no I will question him repeatedly, and if I have the feeling, that he does not posses the qualities that he says he has, I will shame him and I will tell him that he disregards the things really valuable and regards the things of no value.

This I will do to all I meet, both young and old, citizens and noncitizens, but preferably to citizens; because you are closest to me. And you must know, that in this I follow the command of God, and I think that my work in the service of God will bring happiness to our city.”

Now some people have said: We should show respect to the religion Islam. I say they should show respect to the basic principle of our freedom of speech. And I say, respect is not killing people, raping and pillaging – respect is to listen to what other people has to say in a democratic discussion. We might not agree, but that does not allow you to kill and threaten.

Freedom of speech is a principle we will not yield, ever!

So how does this comply with Christianity:

Gospel of Markus:

“So Jesus re-entered the Synagogue. There he found a man with a withered hand. And they (the Pharisees) were watching him, to see if Jesus would heal on the Sabbath – so that they could accuse him. And he told the man with the withered hand: “Arise! And enter the center! – and then he told them: “Is it allowed to do something good or do something evil on Sabbath? To save lives or to kill? But they were silent,. So he looked at them with anger, and saddened by the coldness of their hearts he told the man: “Extend your arm! He extended his arm and the hand was healed. Immediately hereafter, the Pharisees went out and together with the Herodians, and they planned to kill him.”

The essence of Christianity as well as democracy is the same: It is not about the rules; it is about finding the action you as a person think is the right to do – to follow your conscience.

Now this is not possible if someone wants to tell you what is right and wrong, be it Pharisees, communists, fascists, Nazis, or Islamists.

We have the right to think what we want to think, how we want to think it – this is a basic premise of our faith, and we will not give up. Never.

We will not cease our freedom

Freedom of speech is not just some idea; it is the basic principle of our faith

Law

Now Roman law is another part of our civilization. These are the words written down 800 years ago, when Denmark got its first Law system from Bologne:

Jyske Lov:

“If it wasn’t for law, the one who had the most, would be able to take the most. Therefore law should be made to serve all, so that lawful and peaceful people can enjoy peace, and the unlawful and evil can be scared for what is written in the law, and are therefore scared to do the evil, that they were thinking about.”

The discussions about Law in have recently concerned revenge and the “feeling of Law”. Well, I say this is absolutely ridiculous. Law is about giving justice, by rooting out evil and rewarding good.

The Freestate

Anders and I have been working on a new way to see democracy. Anders has kept nagging me, to come up with a new idea that we could all fight for. My own idea was to copy the Switzerland direct democracy, but it wasn’t really good enough.

This is what we concluded together: 1000 years ago in the beginning of the Icelandic state – the Vikings there founded what they called a Freestate. There were no kings, tyrants, presidents, or dictators to rule the Icelandic people, they ruled themselves. Every year they went to Altinget in the valley of TingValla, there they met at the Lawstone and made law. It represents the original democratic system of the Vikings – now we want that back. And with modern internet technology, it should be possible to make.

It would be the natural result of modern internet and mobile technology.

The specific details on the modern Freestate is all written down in a book, that will be published in Denmark soon. And hopefully, with the help of the bloggers, in the rest of the world.

How should we fight?

It has often been said, that democracy is not able to defend itself. We have seen that with the Nazi takeover in Germany, in the fall of the Roman republic, and other times. Well that is not true, democracy was developed in Athens, and actually worked there for several hundred years. The Athenians encountered the same problems as we do today with immigration, and so on. And they of course had a solution to the problem we could use today.

What they did, was to define Athenians as Citizens. Citizenship was an institution, and according to Aristotle, citizenship is defined by two factors in a democratic state:

1. The ability to participate in democracy
2. The ability to participate in law judgements

So we could reuse the ideas of the Athenians, and judge immigrants on the above.

If you look specifically at the Islamists ability to participate in Democracy and Roman Law, you come to the conclusion, that they are not able to participate in either.

- The Kalifat rules out democracy

- The Sharia rules out Roman Law

- And the Koran have so many demands for violence, that freedom of speech is impossible