“…This reminded me of a trip my husband and I made to Saudi Arabia last year. While driving in from the airport we passed a gigantic statue of a gold sword.
I asked our guide what the inscription said, and he told me that it was from the Koran and translated to, “Sometimes the sword is better than words.â€
Gulp.”
“Last week, Judge Lawrence P. Zatkoff, a federal district court judge in Michigan, dismissed a constitutional challenge to the U.S. Government’s bailout of AIG, which used over a hundred million dollars in federal tax money to support Islamic religious indoctrination through the funding and promotion of Sharia-compliant financing (SCF). SCF is financing that follows the dictates of Islamic law.
Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of TMLC, commented: “Judge Zatkoff’s ruling allows for oil–rich Muslim countries to plant the flag of Islam on American soil. His ruling ignored the uncontested opinions of several Sharia experts and AIG’s own website, which trumpeted Sharia-compliant financing as promoting the law of the Prophet Mohammed and as an ‘ethical product,’ and a ‘new way of life.’
This is the same law championed by Osama bin Laden and the Taliban; it is the same law that prompted the 9/11 Islamic terrorist attacks; and it is the same law that is responsible for the murder of thousands of Christians throughout the world. The Law Center will do everything it can to stop Sharia law from rearing its ugly head in America.†– Richard Thompson
http://www.thomasmore.org/qry/page.taf?id=119&_function=detail&sbtblct_uid1=877&month=01&year=2011
by Kirsten Powers
“When the protests first began in Egypt, I was in constant contact with an Egyptian relative who is a successful businessman, university professor and astute student of world politics.
As my husband and I panicked for our family’s safety, this relative was calm, assuring me that Hosni Mubarak would appoint an interim government and that there would likely be an important role for Omar Suileman, who is a well respected leader in Egypt. Both these things quickly came true.
Day after day he assured me that everything would be fine. He was sure that the Muslim Brotherhood—which he regards as a radical Islamist group – was not organized enough to gain any significant power.
Today, he was not so calm.
Our family in Egypt is shocked and alarmed by what they are hearing from Western voices and even the apparent leading opposition candidate Mohamed ElBaradei—who has partnered with the Muslim Brotherhood — who claim that the Brotherhood is a moderate group that should not be feared.
As Coptic Christians—native Egyptians who comprise the largest religious minority in the Middle East—they are especially attuned to the double-speak of Islamist groups trying to attain power.”
I also do not support theocracies—Muslim, Christian or otherwise even if they aren’t fundamentalist.
It’s hard to imagine them being so unconcerned about a Christian political group with the stated mission of establishing a Christian theocracy gaining power in a new government.”
– Kirsten Powers
“Islamists know the right things to say in order to gain power. They are sophisticated. They are especially astute at telling Westerners what they want to hear.
I saw this also when I was in Saudi Arabia. Our guide told us repeatedly that Saudi Arabia was reforming and that it was becoming a more open society.
This was the story he sold us day after day.
Never mind that women can’t drive or that restaurants are segregated or that the religious police hit women with a baton if they think they aren’t appropriately covered. They are known to cut men’s hair right on the street if they deem it too long.
My husband had his passport taken away in the airport for wearing shorts, and the authorities wouldn’t give it back to him until he changed.
If a Muslim converts to any other religion, the punishment is the death penalty.
Open society indeed.”
– Kirsten Powers
– Kirsten Powers
by Kirsten Powers
I spent much of yesterday interviewing American experts on the region—including two Brookings Institution scholars who are experts on the Muslim Brotherhood—and was reassured over and over that the organization has reformed and does not seek to establish a fundamentalist state. One claimed that Brotherhood officials have said they view Copts as equal citizens.
My relative laughed at this. He says when Brotherhood members have been asked about how they would treat Christians they are vague. When asked about whether they would nationalize the banks, they are vague.
Even one of the Brookings scholars told me that the Brotherhood would probably segregate the sexes.
“A critical hearing on the Ground Zero Mosque is scheduled for March 15th. The ACLJ will be delivering oral arguments to stop the building of this Islamic victory mosque in the New York State Supreme Court. This hearing marks the first stop in a lengthy legal process, and we need your voice to be heard with ours.
Please join our Committee now, and stand with the ACLJ in the courtroom to defend the memory of the victims of 9/11 and stop this disturbing project.
We are deeply disturbed by the decision to build an Islamic mosque at Ground Zero — the sacred site where Islamic terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center and claimed the lives of thousands of innocent Americans.
Equally as troubling is that the mosque is financially backed by groups with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, a radical Islamic group that promotes acts of terrorism across the globe. New York City, and the people of this nation, should not permit the construction of a mosque to spread Islamic extremism at the sacred ground of the 9/11 attacks.
I predict you will be seeing many more articles like this, trying to divert attention from the investigation of the threat radical Islam poses in the US.
The article is not really about a militia group, it’s an attempt to say, “Those violent Christians, they need to be watched too!” and to minimize, downplay the threat posed by Islam.
This is not to excuse any violent plot of any kind. But do not fall for the ploy of “all groups have their violent extremists so we can’t just look at Islam.”
The fact is that Islamists have a much longer, much more violent record of not only killing but suppressing anyone who does not believe as they do – once they have the numbers to force their will on a culture.
Here’s the basics of the militia story, pay particular attention to that last paragraph – it’s what the whole article is about, trying to pull the heat off of Muslim Americans.
“According to the criminal complaint, the militia was supposed to “respond to attempts to arrest or kill [Cox] by responding against state court or law enforcement targets with twice the force and consequences as happened to him or his family. If he was arrested, two state targets would be ‘arrested’ (kidnapped). If he was killed, two state targets would be killed. If his house was taken, two state target houses would be burned.”
The arrests come almost exactly a year after the arrests of a Michigan-based Christian militia group, which also intended to target law-enforcement officials.
And yet House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King (R-N.Y.) refused to expand his investigation of domestic radicals to include anyone other than Muslim Americans.”
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/516511/militia%27s_violent_plot_disrupted_in_alaska/
This is similar to the tactic of “Islam is just another religion” – except that no other religion teaches what Islam teaches and advocates that level of suppression and violence.
It’s like the difference between throwing a bullet and shooting it out of a gun.
