Many of our readers will be familiar with the First Freedom Project, a series of seminars around the United States in which Department of Justice representatives discuss the view of their office in regards to religious discrimination, which the CVF has been following since its first seminar in Kansas City back in March. We’ve documented efforts by Islamist organizations to dominate the discussion, and we’re urging anyone and everyone who can make it to attend and balance the discussion. The goal of the Islamists have continued to pursue is one where every aspect of Islamic law will be constitutionally protected. Discriminating against non-Muslims, mosques free to ignore any concept of zoning laws or restrictions which a community may set, forcing Islamic dietary restrictions on all attendees of a public school and many other examples we are already beginning to see, will have the force of law behind them. And speaking out against such practices will be a crime.
Ironically, our concerns are shared by the New York Times, (H/T a GOV Reader) although it focuses primarily on the concern that attention spent on religious discrimination may mean the DOJ isn’t focusing on racial politics where it belongs. The CAIRs out there are clear as to their objective. You can hear it directly from Nihad Awad on the Flying Imams case in audio we acquired earlier this year:

There were 196 cases reported to 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 recognizing our civil rights, but also reporting it to the government.

According to folks like Awad, there is discrimination out there, and they won’t stop until they find it. With the help of Federal bureaucrats in the Department of Justice (the same organization which lists CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator mind you) they may pull it off.

So if you can be in Brooklyn, Thursday July 26^th, please follow the link here and RSVP your attendance. In addition, if you have a digital audio recorder available, we would be pleased to transcribe it for you, and post the transcription either here, or provide it to you for your own blog or website if you have one.  I’ll point out that there isn’t any reason to suspect that seminar MUST go down the road of Islamist apologia only that it CAN go in that direction, if people aren’t present to represent concerns that perhaps the religious practices contained in writings like Sura 9:5* are not constitutionally protected.

* But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, an seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war); but if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practise regular charity, then open the way for them: for Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful. (9:5)