This section of "New Age Citizen" will be dedicated to uncover various issues concerning the Middle-Eastern (ME) community in Dearborn, Dearborn Heights and the larger area of SE Michigan. It is also intended to educate the Non-ME community about the very real threats that radical Islamic groups, such as CAIR, pose to a free society.
While I personally believe that most ME's are upstanding citizens of this great republic, it is also obvious that there is a minority that is defrauding the system, is involved in organized crime and is pushing for the "Islamification" of the United States.
While I fully respect the practice of all religions I also believe that where ever there is a conflict between the Constitution and a religious tradition, the Constitution must ALWAYS prevail.
Unfortunately there are far to many examples where Islamists have demanded respect for their religion that is not available within the context of a enlightened and free society. The violence that erupted after the release of the "Mohammed with a Bomb on his Head" cartoon is a perfect example.
"Dearborn-istan" is also consistent with 2 of the planks of the "New Agenda for America":
Plank 2: A 20-year moratorium on all immigration into the United States. Plank 5: A strict enforcement on issues of Separation of Church and State.
As with the NAC homepage, we will be archiving the older articles and listing the new stuff at this page. Hopefully, this will lead to an integration of the ME community in a way that preserves the inalienable rights to free speech as enumerated in the US Constitution and Bill of Rights.
This edition of "Dearbornistan" grew out of an inquiry into the historic fiction novel "Jewel of Medina" by Sherry Jones. As a ardent believer in free speech this story caught my interest because Random House, the publisher, withdrew the book after Muslim extremists threatened to blow up the publishing company if they released the book I was so angry about this that I wrote to the Imam of the largest mosque in the United States -- Hassan Al-Qazwini, who heads the Islamic Center for America in Dearborn.
The question I asked of Hassan Al-Qazwini was both simple and direct:
Do you believe, that in a free society, such censorship should be tolerated? Secondly, can we count on you to denounce the threat of violence by Muslims over this, and other (e.g., the Mohammed Cartoon) expressions of free speech?
I was truly hoping that the Imam would have given me an affirmative and unambiguous response but he did not. Instead his reply was ambiguous and he further questioned my support of free speech:
Thank you for your e-mail. I believe in freedom of speech, only if you believe in it. In this free society, we have witnessed several cases in which freedom of speech has been denied. One main example is the US government's decision to ban al-Manar satellite TV that broadcasts from the Middle East. [click here for complete transcript of all letters]
But when I did some research on al-Manar satellite TV I discovered that it is banned throughout the free world because it advocates the overthrow of ALL non-Muslim governments. This bothered me greatly. At best, comparison between "The Jewel of Medina" and "al-Manar" is fallacious, as the book in no way promotes attacks on Muslims. At worst the Imam is implying that al-Manar satellite TV should be viewed through the satellite dishes of Muslims in Dearborn and Dearborn Heights. Now that is a very scary thought indeed.
As a result of this correspondence I decided to focus on the radicalization of mosques in Great Britain and the United States. The following link will take you to a series of videos that indisputably document how British Mosques are hiding their radical agenda, of World Islamic Domination, behind a thin veneer of political correctness:
I highly recommend that you watch all of the videos at this link (above) as I think it gives some clues as to the Saudi-sponsored radicalization that is also happening throughout mosques in the United States.
It turns out that this radicalization is being funded by one of George Bush's best friends Saudi Arabia. Next I turned my attention to mosques in the United States and found that Saudis have radicalized 80% of US mosques through the investment of billions of dollars into mosques and Muslim PACs such as CAIR.
More detail on this should be coming out soon when the group "Mapping Sharia" comes out with their report on the radicalization of US Mosques in October:
The Mapping Sharia project is an extensive mapping of all the mosques and Islamic day schools in the U.S. to determine which ones teach or preach Islamic law, or Sharia. Further, the mapping will scale the Sharia threat by identifying the level of Sharia adherence, the presence of literature and videos calling for violent Jihad, and whether imams and Islamic scholars advocate violent Jihad against non-believers. The project started in early 2007 and has now completed research on over 140 mosques across the United States. Dave Gaubatz, Director of Operations for the Mapping Sharia Project, is a former federal agent and counter-terrorism specialist, who has served in Iraq. The Mapping Sharia team is comprised of Muslim, Jewish and Christian researchers. For more information, visit http://www.mappingsharia.us .
I am confident that anyone that takes a few hours to read through these articles, and watch the accompanying videos, will come away with a deserved cynicism toward Islam as "the religion of peace." If you live in Dearborn or Dearborn Heights, I hope that you will encourage your fellow residents to also assimilate all of the articles on this page. And once you have been informed I am hopeful that you will join me in calling for a 20year moratorium on ALL immigration, into the United States, in order to defuse (pun intended) the rise of Islamic Extremism throughout the United States.
'If liberty means anything, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear'."George Orwell
The following quote summarizes why "Jewel of Medina" MUST be published and distributed irrespective of the fallout. It the United States is going to hold to it's mantle of "the land of the free, the home of the brave" there is not alternative:
"It is everybody's business to ensure that no one is deprived of their right to say what they wish, even if it is deemed by some to be offensive. In a plural society it is both inevitable and important that people offend others. Inevitable, because where different beliefs are deeply held clashes are unavoidable and these should be dealt with openly rather than suppressed. Important because any kind of social progress requires one to offend some deeply held sensibilities. 'If liberty means anything," as George Orwell put it, "it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear'." http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/5745
In the following account Martin Rynja, who agreed to publish the book after Random House caved in, had his home firebombed by Muslim extremists in London.
Author Sherry Jones explains why Random House Publishing cancelled The Jewel of Medina, her book on the prophet Muhammad's wife A'isha. Photograph: James Snook/ AP
Three men seized by armed anti-terrorist officers during an apparent arson attack on the London publisher of a novel featuring the prophet Muhammad were being questioned last night.
In a "pre-planned" operation, detectives arrested the suspects outside the home of Martin Rynja in Islington, north London, after a petrol bomb reportedly exploded. Neighbours described seeing smoke before firemen broke down the front door.
The attack was believed to be linked to the forthcoming publication of The Jewel of Medina, a fictionalised account of the relationship between Muhammad and his child bride A'isha.
The book, described by the independent publisher, Gibson Square, as a "historical novel of the love story", has been at the centre of a growing international dispute.
Due to have been published by Random House, it was dropped from its summer list for fear that it would anger Muslims. That decision was condemned by Sir Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses, as "censorship by fear".
Rynja, 44, who runs Gibson Square from his home, could not be contacted yesterday. He was reported to be under police guard.
Announcing his decision to publish the book earlier this year, he said: "In an open society there has to be open access to literary works, regardless of fear. As an independent publishing company, we feel strongly that we should not be afraid of the consequences of debate."
Sherry Jones, the American journalist who wrote The Jewel of Medina, has denied that her work would provoke a violent response.
"To claim that Muslims will answer my book with violence is pure nonsense," she told a German newspaper.
"Anyone who reads the book will see that it honours the prophet and his favourite wife." Much of the controversy has focused on the description of the relationship between the two.
Detectives are understood to have warned Rynja before the attack about possible threats.
Scotland Yard said: "[In the early hours of Saturday] officers from the counter-terrorism command arrested three men under the Terrorism Act 2000 in a pre-planned, intelligence-led operation.
"The men, aged 40, 22 and 30, were arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism. Two of the men were stopped by armed officers and arrested in the street outside a property in Lonsdale Square, and the third following an armed vehicle stop near Angel tube.
"A small fire was extinguished at a property in Lonsdale Square, which at this early stage is being linked to the arrests of the men." Officers were also searching four London addresses, two in Walthamstow, one in Ilford and another in Forest Gate, all in east London.
Unfortunately this cancer is not just being spread by Islamic Extremists. The awful truth is that the extremism is being financed and prompted by Saudi Arabia who we finance through the purchase of over 700 Billion in oil each and every year. So while we do need to fight jihadist censorship the ultimate solution is to wean ourselves from any further dependency on foreign oil or foreign investment. That is when the tables will surely turn. In the meantime we continue to allow Saudi Sovereign Wealth Funds to buy our banks and our businesses. We continue to allow them to grant large sums of money, and thus buy influence, in our Colleges and Universities. It is time that Americans woke up to the very real threat of Islam to our Constitution and the Separation between Church and State that it so wisely demands.
The following videos provide further insight into the attempted Islamic Censorship of "The Jewel of Medina" and other books and media that challenge the tenants of Islamic extremism.
Dearborn's Islamic community is having conniption fits over a brave group of Americans that are finally standing up to Muslim Extremism in Dearborn. That is because, on the 7th Anniversary of "911," they have decided to show a free screening of the the enlightening film "Obsession: Radial Islam's War Against the West." If you are interested in attending tonight's showing you can get free tickets through the following link:
If you or someone you know lives in Michigan (or the surrounding area) and are willing to stand in solidarity with us and come out for this FREE screening of "Obsession" this evening (6:00pm Eastern) then please join us at the AMC 21 - Fairlane (Star Theaters) located at 18900 Michigan Avenue in Dearborn. Again, for more information visit: http://www.myspace.com/obsessionmovie
I had to laugh when I read the Detroit Free Press this morning to hear their chief Islamic apologist, Niraj Warikoo, covering this brave event:
Local religious leaders said the timing -- on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks -- and locating it in Dearborn are part of a divisive publicity stunt.
Called "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West," the documentary focuses on Islamic extremism, but critics say it's biased. The film's producers and backers said through a spokesman they chose Dearborn and the Sept. 11 date for the screening because of its sizable Muslim population.
"There is a problem with an acceptance of radical Islam in Dearborn more so than anywhere else than I know of," said Joe Wierzbicki, a spokesman for a California-based public relations company hired to promote the film.
But some Dearborn residents and religious leaders say the film's backers are unfairly slandering the city and Muslims by screening it there on Sept. 11. They urge residents to ignore it.
"It's a clear agenda to spread hate," said Victor Begg, a Muslim activist who chairs the Council of Islamic Organizations of Michigan.
Brenda Rosenberg, a Jewish activist from Bloomfield Hills active in interfaith work with Christians and Muslims, also criticized the film and screening.
"We're feeding the fire by focusing on hate," she said. "We need to come together instead."
The screening is set for 6 p.m. at the AMC Star Fairlane 21 in Dearborn. A theater spokesperson did not respond to a call seeking comment. Contact NIRAJ WARIKOO at 248-351-2998 or warikoo@freepress.com.
Notice how "fair and balanced" the article is? And do you really think their main objection is the fact that it is being shown on the 7th Anniversary of "911?" The real reason for their objection, to the showing of this film, is because they are afraid that Americans will stop walking around with their "eyes shut" and demand an end to further immigration from Islamic countries. Now there's something that makes some real sense.
But don't expect any support from your elected representatives (e.g., Dingell, Levin, Conyers or Michigan's Governor Granholm). They've been "in bed" with the Middle Eastern Terrorists for years. I have witnessed, first hand, as Dingell, Levin and Conyers have actually welcomed the prospect of Middle Easterners to be allowed into this country to buy up our homes and businesses. The fact that they would sacrifice our security by actually encouraging such an economic assault is tantamount to treason. And our state governor is no better.
In fact, Governor Granholm may even be the worst of the lot. She has also encouraged the Middle Eastern "colonization" of Michigan by encouraging these terrorists to buy up our businesses and extend US citizenship to goodness knows how many Middle Eastern millionaires. Lets just consider some of the things she has done in the past couple of years:
* Consider the Middle Eastern Activist, Ismael Ahmed, founder of ACCESS. Though ICE had tried to deport him for years for terrorist involvement, Senator Carl Levin and Rep. David Bonior were more than happy to come to his aid. He had also been implicated in Medicaid fraud involving Middle Eastern women who had their babies in the US and then left the United States without paying. But this did not stop Gov. Jennifer Granholm from appointing Ismael Ahmed, (cofounder and executive director of the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services), to the position director of the Michigan Department of Human Services (08/14/2007). I mean talk about allowing the fox to gaurd teh chicken coup? And you just have to laugh when you hear what he said about his appointment:
"I think the larger question is poverty in Michigan," he said. "Right now there are tens of thousands of people in need. There's almost a million and a half people in the food supplement program, and almost as many on Medicaid. Then there is the whole child welfare system that has to be improved. All these things are important." [Detroit Free Press, August 14th, 2007].
So you can just be sure that he is going to make sure that all the Illegal Mid-Easterners in SE Michigan continue to get Medicaid when many were not born here and barely speak English. I'm still trying to figure out how that can be happening when so many American citizens are unable to receive ANY assistance.
* Consider the recent Kuwait-Dow deal that will allow hundreds of rich Kuwaiti's go move into Dearborn, further pushing the area toward an Islamic majority.
* Consider the thousands of Iraqi's that Granholm is allowing to relocate in Michigan over the next few years. Again, why is she allowing this move to a Islamic Majority in Michigan at a time when we cannot even house and employ our own legal American citizens?
Of course is goes much further that Michigan. And that is what bother me the most. I truly believe the the Department of Commerce and our elected representatives are allowing our country to be literally colonized by rich foreigners: many of which may have bad intentions toward the United States. The nature of these quid pro quo agreements is quite possibly "unknowable" at this time, but something is pushing our elected officials to sell out the American people. Just consider the recent buyouts of our banking institutions:
Arabs Buying Up Failing Western Banks 07-21-2008 Israel National News http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=10826
(IsraelNN.com) First it was Citibank. Now it's Barclay's and New York City's Chrysler Building skyscraper. Muslim Arabs are buying out collapsing Western banks and businesses and gaining growing international power, but some Arab investors are worried their investments may go down the drain with the American economy.
The current financial crisis in the United States has spread to other countries because of a massive debt that was not backed by enough real and liquid collateral. Banks and businesses gasping for financial breath are up for sale at basement prices, but no one is certain if the basement is the bottom.
"The possibility remains that more Arab white knights will be sought to rescue ailing financial institutions," wrote Dr. Mohammed Ramady, a former banker and Visiting Associate Professor at the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in the Financial Adviser magazine. He said he fears that Arab investors will end up chasing their investments with more money to keep them from going under.
The Abu Dhabi Investment Council of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates kingdom of Abu Dhabi last November announced it was bailing out the mammoth Citibank financial institution, formerly headed by Bank of Israel Governor Prof. Stanley Fischer, with $7.5 billion.
Next in line was Britain's Barclay's Bank, which raised $9 billion from investors in the oil-rich kingdom of Qatar and in Asian countries. The Abu Dhabi Investment Council last month forked out approximately $800 million for a 75 percent stake in New York City's 1,046-foot-tall Chrysler Building, which was the world's tallest building for a year until the Empire State Building surpassed it in the 1930's.
The purchase of American banks by foreigners has been blocked in the past by security and political considerations, but the barriers have come down, wrote Dr. Ramady. "How long this lasts is only a matter of guesswork, as once again, the specter of foreign takeovers of 'national' symbols will be hard to accept," he added.
The latest American symbol to go down the drain is the Anheuser-Busch beer brewer. The Times of London wrote, "The weak dollar and weak economy mean the United States is up for sale. Japs are conquering the car industry. Arabs just bought part of the Chrysler Building. Jeez, they even tried to buy the ports a while back. Whatever next? A hijab on the Statue of Liberty?"
In a more serious vein, The Australian editor-at-large Paul Kelly wrote earlier this month that the foreign investments, headed by Arabs, signal a major change in international power.
"The energy, financial and political woes that grip the U.S. signal a decisive shift in world power, mocking the liberal delusion that Barack Obama or John McCain can return American prestige and power to its pre-Bush year 2000 nirvana," he wrote. "There is no such nirvana. There is instead a new reality: the greatest transfer of income in human history [and] the rise of a new breed of wealthy autocracies that cripple U.S. hopes of dominating the global system and demands on the U.S. to make fresh compromises in a world where power is rapidly being diversified."
Flynt Leverett, former director of Middle East Affairs on the National Security Council, thinks that "the international economic position of the United States has deteriorated substantially since the new millennium."
In the current issue of The American Interest, Gal Luft, from the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, warned that OPEC's Arab countries could potentially "buy the Bank of America with two months' worth of production and General Motors with six days' worth."
The growing Arab takeover of American businesses continues unhindered. The giant Dow Chemical company and a Kuwaiti company have agreed to set up world headquarters for their joint petrochemical venture in Dearborn, Michigan, which has a high concentration of American Arabs.
The Abu Dubai Investment Council years ago entered the international media business, buying a nine percent stake in Reuters News Agency, which usually reports with an open anti-Israeli bias.
However, Abu Dhabi's' director of international affairs, Yousef al Otaiba, has reassured American officials that its purchase of Citibank will not be used to exert political pressure on the U.S. He wrote the Treasury Department, "It is important to be absolutely clear that the Abu Dhabi government has never and will never use its investment organizations or individual investments as a foreign policy tool."
The American people must demand an answer to why we are being sold out. And the point is that Islamic Extremism is not just being wages by a minority of Muslims: it is being wages by a minority within our own government. Of course the "New Agenda for America would stop this in its tracks. Consider the 8th plank:
(8) No further ownership of US Assets (businesses, homes, ports, stock exchanges) by foreign governments or individuals!
I can only hope that the America people wake up before it is too late.
This edition of "Dearbornistan" grew out of an inquiry into the historic fiction novel "Jewel of Medina" by Sherry Jones. You can watch the two videos below to gather some additional background information on the issue.
The publishing of the book was halted after Muslim extremists anonymously threatened violence against Random House, the publisher of the book. For those of us that believe in the continuance of a free society such acts of violence and coercion cannot be allowed to prevail. I think Benjamin Franklin stated this most succinctly when he said the following:
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." Benjamin Franklin
Past editions of "Dearbornistan" have documented similar attempts, by various Islamic groups (e.g., CAIR), to thwart criticism of Islam through acts of violence. If you page through the archives you will see many examples:
* The Murder of Van Gogh * The outrageous demonstrations over a Cartoon of Mohammed * Attempts to stop the release of the film "Fitna"
If you want to learn more about these attempts to censor criticism of Islam, by Islamic extremists, I encourage you to read through the "Dearbornistan" archives where these incidents are covered in depth. You will find the "Archive" files in the rightmost column of this page towards the top.
There is also an exhaustive report of more subtle Islamic censorship that occurred in Dearborn a few years ago. I found this investigation, that I conducted, very interesting because it links Hispanic and Islamic ethno-centric groups with "New Detroit," a non-profit that is heavily backed by the international bank JP Morgan. I believe that this investigation actually illustrates how international banks are using ethno-centric organizations as proxies to destroy the American working class. As this investigation illustrates, they are doing it by silencing anyone that questions their agenda of bringing more legal and illegal immigrants into the United States in order to displace costlier older American workers specifically, and to reduce wages and benefits in general. I'm also quite certain that this is just the "tip of the iceberg." You can read this exhaustive 2-part report by opening up the following *.pdf files:
Well, here we go again. This time around we will be focusing on the "Jewel of Medina" by Sherry Jones. This historical work of fiction depicts Mohammed's marriage to a 6-year old girl at a time when he was in his late 40's. Apparently he waited to have sexual intercourse with her until she was the ripe young age of 9. Ouch! Such compassion, eh? Of course the reason the Muslim extremists threatened to blow up Random House was because they are concerned that people might think less of the "religion of peace" once they start understanding some of the undisputed history of Muhammad:
"So the leader of your "religion of peace," was a pedophile?"
Random House pulled the publication of this book after receiving death threats from anonymous Muslims who inferred attacks on both the writer, their employees and their headquarters. And as we have seen, many times before, the fear factor has already spread as Sherry's BlogSpot has been now been suspended:
And if past history is a guide, it was most likely her Internet Service Provider (ISP) that pulled her blog after receiving similar Islamic threats: similar to those sent to Random House.
As a "jihadist for freedom" I don't really give a damn whether this book is accurate, well written or insulting to Islam. If you believe in a free society then you must allow Sherry Jones her freedom to publish the damn book.
As a "jihadist for freedom" I don't really give a damn whether this book is accurate, well written or insulting to Islam. If you believe in a free society then you must allow Sherry Jones her freedom to publish the damn book. And if you don't think she should be allowed to publish such a book then you don't belong in the United States: something American Muslims ought to start thinking about. The backlash against Islam is definitely coming.
I think I've made this point enough times to be clear that we are, in fact witnessing a clash of civilizations. And with each passing day it also becomes clearer just how intolerant Islam is to alternative mythologies and freedom itself. If you believe in freedom then you must also know that this is a war that, for the sake of future generations, we cannot afford to loose. Hopefully it is a war that can be won by rational discourse alone. But once again, I'm not holding my breath.
Just consider the following threat that was made to Sherry's 14-year old daughter, in response to her letter defending her mother:
"I WILL PRAY TO ALMIGHTY ALLAH FROM NOW ONWARDS IN MY DAILY PRAYERS TO GIVE THIS BITCH THE LEAST PLACEIN HELL FIRE NOT TO BE FEARED BY TERRORIST ATTCKS. IF I FIND THIS BITCH ANYWHERE I WILL KILL HER ON MY VERY OWNSELF."
But rather than rant on and on about this I'm just going to provide a number of articles surrounding the suppression of the "Jewel of Medina" and let you draw your own conclusions. You will find these articles below.
A second, very disturbing development has stemmed from my correspondence with Imam Hassan Al-Qazwini who leads the largest mosque in America: the Islamic Center for America in Dearborn Michigan. It started with a simple letter to the Imam inquiring as to whether he thought the "Jewel of Medina" (by Sherry Jones) should have been allowed to be published: since we still live in a free country. Unfortunately it went downhill from there.
First his reply did not explicitly state that Sherry Jones book should be published. Next he tried to question my beliefs in free speech by asking if I would allow the broadcast of al-Manar television to the Muslims of Dearborn and Dearborn Heights. As it turns out al-Manar television is censored throughout the free world because it explicitly calls for the destruction of all Non-Muslim governments. I found it stunning that he could even think to compare the publishing of a book with the broadcast of a network that believes in the destruction of the United States. Finally, I visited the website, for his mosque, and found that they actually had a dinner for the Muslim extremist group CAIR.
I don't know about you, but this does not leave me with a warm and fuzzy feeling for Islam in America.
It truly leaves me to question whether Islam can really co-exist as a "religion of peace" or if what we are really witnessing is the establishment of a 5th column, of radical Islamists, within the cities of Dearborn, Dearborn Heights as well as other cities throughout the United States. You can read the complete annotated correspondence below, in this edition of "Dearbornistan."
I want to make it clear that this is not a blanket indictment of all Muslims living in America. The fact of the matter is that I have had discussions with Irshad Manji, and many other Muslims, who cringe at the extremist dogma emanating from some quarters of the Islamic community. But it has never been more important for these progressive Muslims to speak out publicly against Islamic extremism. And unfortunately, so far, the silence is deafening.
But I think the most important measure to stop the spread of Islamic extremist is the imposition of an immediate 20-year moratorium of all further immigration into the United States: both Legal and Illegal. This is just one of the 10 "planks" of my "New Agenda for America."
I believe that all immigration into the United States should come to an immediate halt for the primary purpose of maintaining sustainability. We are already running into serious depletion of our water supply with the 300 million already here. There is no way we can sustain an additional 100 million people, which is exactly what will occur, in the next 30 years, if we allow Obama or McCain to allow any further legal or illegal immigration. And let me be clear that this also means no further immigration by continuing to allow anchor babies or chain migration. If we are to survive as a free society, it must all stop immediately.
You can actually get the ball rolling right this minute by calling your representatives in Washington right now and tell them:
"If you expect to get re-elected then you must introduce and pass legislation to stop all further Legal and Illegal Immigration: preferably before the election. This includes an immediate halt to any further visas, anchor babies and chain migration. Our country is in crisis. Your re-election is dependant on implementing this within the next six months. And I will be tracking your actions on this issue until such legislation is passed."
No More Immigration -- Legal or Illegal. Just call the following number and leave a message with your Senator and your House representatives:
(202)-224-3121
And while this includes all ethnicities I think it will prod Islamic groups to realize they have no other choice other than to assimilate to a culture based on freedom of speech, religion and assembly. Most importantly it will force them to recognize, that if you want to live in this country, you will have to understand that we believe in a "air-tight" separation between Church and State. There will NEVER be an Islamic Caliphate, or the practice of Sharia, in the United States. And anyone that does not embrace that belief has no place in a country that believe in both "freedom of religion" as well as "freedom from religion."
It is my belief moratorium on immigration will effectively force Islam through the same Enlightenment and Reformation that tamed down the excesses of Roman Catholicism whose Inquisitions and Crusades remain as sad historic remnants of their religious hypocrisy. Perhaps I should write the Imam and ask him what he thinks of a Universal Moratorium on Immigration? I'm sure his associates within the Muslim Brotherhood will be tickled pink.
But I fear that, if we do not impose an immediate moratorium on all immigration we are soon going to have to deal with the same Muslim extremism that is now plaguing much of Western Europe. The following video illustrates just how serious a problem this is already becoming in Europe. And thankfully the solution is quite clear for both Europe and the United States: Stop All Immigration Now!
Unfortunately both Presidential candidates -- Obama and McCain -- support polices that would continue to allow more Legal and Illegal immigration into the United States. This only serves the interests of the Global Elite at the expense of every legal American citizen.
Unfortunately I am the only candidate that would put an immediate halt to ALL immigration. And unless millions of Americans begin right now, to circulate my "write-in" candidacy for President, the spread of Islamic Extremism will only grow when one of these two traitors is inaugurated in 2009.
But the modern day Merlin's have given us the greatest weapon in the history of mankind: the Internet. You now have roughly two months to post my "write-in" candidacy across the internet by posting the following graphic on your web pages (e.g., MySpace, FaceBook etc.)
So instead of selecting Obama or McCain you would just write-in "Bruce W. Cain." Just copy and paste this graphic on your webpage. Next you need to get on the mailing list by clicking on the following link:
I will begin sending out weekly mailings, beginning in mid-September, to update you on the progress. If we could get 35 million to sign up as "Freedom Loving Americans" for "Bruce W. Cain" we can immediately wrest control, of our future, from the grasp of the Global Elite, which both candidates sadly represent.
If not this list of "Freedom Loving Americans" will be the start of a movement that will force the next president to bow to the will of the American People: something we have not seen in nearly 50 years.
Let us make clear that the reason neither of the candidates ever mention the names of Washington, Franklin or Jefferson, is because they are both working for a Global Elite that is doing everything in their power to destroy the meaning and spirit of the US Constitution. Yet it is the US Constitution that represents the broadest range of liberties that has ever been implemented in the history of mankind. And the liberties enumerated in that document serves the interest of all: and that most certainly includes freedom loving Muslims. The time for a Second American Revolution is right now.
Mainstream US Muslim organizations are heavily influenced by Saudi-funded extremists, according to Yehudit Barsky, an expert on terrorism at the American Jewish Committee.
Worse still, Barsky told The Jerusalem Post last week, these "extremist organizations continue to claim the mantle of leadership" over American Islam.
The power of the extremist Wahhabi form of Islam in the United States was created with generous Saudi financing of American Muslim communities over the past few decades. Over 80 percent of the mosques in the United States "have been radicalized by Saudi money and influence," Barsky said.
Before the 1970s, she explained, "Muslim immigrants who came to the United States would build a store-front mosque somewhere. Then, since the 1970s, the Saudis have been approaching these mosques and telling them it wasn't proper for the glory of Islam to build such small mosques."
For many Muslims, it seemed the Saudis were offering a free mosque. However, Barsky believes for each mosque they invested in, the Saudis sent along their own imam (teacher-cleric).
"These [immigrants] were not interested in this [Wahhabi] ideology, and suddenly they have a Saudi imam coming in and telling them they're not praying properly and not practicing Shari'a [Islamic law] properly." This Saudi strategy was being carried out "all over the world, from America to Bangladesh," with the Saudis investing $70-80 billion in the endeavor over three decades.
Barsky, who heads the AJC's Division on Middle East and International Terrorism and is the executive editor of Counterterrorism Watch, said this means that "the people now in control of teaching religion [to American Muslims] are extremists. Who teaches the mainstream moderate non-Saudi Islam that people used to have? It's in the homes, but there's no infrastructure. Eighty percent of the infrastructure is controlled by these extremists."
The same is true, Barsky said, of many of the mainstream Muslim organizations in America. Many of them are "pro-Saudi and pro-Muslim Brotherhood organizations."
As examples, she listed three important groups: the Islamic Society of North America, which "supports the Muslim Brotherhood and the Saudi regime;" the Islamic Circle of North America, which "is composed of members of Jamaat e-Islami, a Pakistani Islamic radical organization similar to the Muslim Brotherhood that helped to establish the Taliban;" and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), "founded in the 1980s by pro-Hamas activists."
The problem is most acute when it comes to interfaith relations. When advising colleagues on interfaith work with their Muslim counterparts, Barsky tells them "to proceed with caution, [since] some of the [extremist] organizations have concluded that interfaith dialogue is a good way to spread the ideology."
Indeed, despite instructions given in Saudi embassy literature - and available in many mosques throughout the country - which blast Jewish and Christian "corruption and immorality" and teach Muslims that "the only way to survive is to have no contact with the infidel Christians and Jews," these organizations reach out to Jews and Christians.
Barsky explained that interfaith dialogue gives such organizations a public legitimacy that their ideology would deny them if they expressed it outright.
"So there's a problem," Barsky concluded, "with knowing who these people are, who is really moderate. [These organizations] come to the Jewish community to talk about interfaith, while they still teach anti-Western and anti-Christian doctrines to their followers. Some of the leaders have even condoned suicide bombings in Israel and against American armed forces."
Her advice to American Jewish organizations who want to take part in interfaith activities: "Take time to learn who they are and what they're saying. It's more complicated than just respecting each other."
As for finding true moderates in the American Muslim community, Barsky said such organizations "have quite a way to go before they will have the level of organization" displayed by the extremist organizations. "So there's a moderate voice that hasn't been heard. But it's starting to be heard, and that's because of the anger over [organizations such as] CAIR claiming the mantle of leadership."
For example, organizations such as the Arizona-based American Islamic Forum for Democracy and the Washington-based Center for Islamic Pluralism are both new and "have gathered under their umbrella a number of moderate organizations."
As for combatting Islamic radicals in America, Barsky thinks Americans need to change the way they think about Wahhabi Islam.
"The United States has a hard time understanding the extremists' ideology. Americans don't like to interfere in the religion of other people. But the reality is that this isn't religion, but a politicized radical ideology. It's very dangerous," she warned, adding that the people who are being taught this ideology are prime targets for recruitment by terror organizations.
"If we don't understand that [these groups] are dangerous," she concluded simply, "we're going to suffer the consequences."
I hate to say it but I truly believe that this is what is in store for Christians in the United States if we continue to allow Saudi money to continue to flow into cites like Dearborn (MI) or allow ANY further immigration of Muslims into the United States. The children in these Christian ghettos live in such poverty that rats literally feed on the ears of the children as they sleep.
The good news is that we still have time to stop this dead in its tracks and force American Muslims to assimilate to the post-Enlightenment culture of a United States that has, prominently within its Constitution, a strong mandate for the separation between Church and State. It is my view that Bush's "faith based" initiatives only further facilitate the spread of Islam in the United States and need to be eliminated immediately.
I implore you to watch the following series of videos so that you can see, first hand, the rapes and other forms of blatant human rights abuses that are perpetrated by Muslim upon the Christian population of Egypt. This could by your future if you don't act to stop this disease before it begins to metastasize in your communities.
No More Immigration -- Legal or Illegal. Just call the following number and leave a message with your Senator and your House representatives:
(202)-224-3121
I also recommend that you direct them to the "Dearbornistan" sub web so that your representatives can no longer claim ignorance about the real danger of Islam in America.
And while this includes all ethnicities I think it will prod Islamic groups to realize they have no other choice other than to assimilate to a culture based on freedom of speech, religion and assembly. Most importantly it will force them to recognize, that if you want to live in this country, you will have to understand that we believe in a "air-tight" separation between Church and State. There will NEVER be an Islamic Caliphate, or the practice of Sharia, in the United States. And anyone that does not embrace that belief has no place in a country that believe in both "freedom of religion" as well as "freedom from religion."
Comment: This article started with a simple letter to the Imam inquiring as to whether he thought the "Jewel of Medina" (by Sherry Jones) should have been allowed to be published: since we still live in a free country. Unfortunately it went downhill from their. It truly leaves me to question whether Islam can really co-exist as a "religion of peace" or if what we are really witnessing is the establishment of a 5th column, of radical Islamists, within the cities of Dearborn and Dearborn Heights.
Imam Hassan Al-Qazwini heads the largest Mosque in the United States, which is unsurprisingly located in Dearborn, Michigan: the largest Islamic population in the United States. If you would like to send him a similar letter here is his email address:
Imam Sayid Hassan Al-Qazwini met on Wednesday May 14, 2008 with Senator Barack Obama, the democratic presidential candidate. The private meeting between the two took place at Macomb Community College - Michigan. In this meeting Imam Qazwini and Senator Obama discussed the upcoming presidential election, the Arab-Israeli conflict in the Middle East and the War in Iraq.
Furthermore, in the end of the meeting Imam Qazwini offered a copy of his newly released book "American Crescent" to senator Obama. Imam Qazwini also invited Senator Obama to visit the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn.
I would also encourage my readers to visit the website for the Islamic Center for America in order to see how cozy they are with Islamic extremist groups such as CAIR. According the the website the Islamic Center for America just had a dinner for CAIR on April 5th, 2008.
I believe it is time we begin to foster a dialog with the Muslim community in order to better understand their positions in their own words. To this end I sent the Imam a letter and was elated that he responded. But I found his response indirect and hollow as he really didn't explicitly support the publishing of the book, "Jewel of Medina." So I sent a second letter to probe further and to receive further clarification on his position. When he did not respond to the second letter I sent a third.
While you may disagree I was definitely not trying to insult him, in any way, and was really interested in more clarification. By the third letter I was getting a bit exasperated. Unfortunately his silence may say more than anything that he may have written. It is now 10 days since the first letter and I have little faith that an honest reply is forthcoming.
Bruce W. Cain
This is the first letter I just sent to Imam Hassan Al-Qazwini:
Subject: Do you believe in Freedom of Speech? Date: Monday, August 18, 2008 11:15:46 AM
Imam Hassan Al-Qazwini:
As an American I am deeply disturbed by recent censorship of the historical novel "Jewel of Medina" by Sherry Jones. Though I would not be surprised that this book might upset those of the Muslim faith I see no excuse for it's censorship. Most disturbing to me is that a primary reason for "pulling the book" was due to the threat of Muslim violence against the publisher, should it actually find its way onto the book shelves of Borders and other book distributors.
My question to you is very simple. Do you believe, that in a free society, such censorship should be tolerated? Secondly, can we count on you to denounce the threat of violence by Muslims over this, and other (e.g., the Mohammed Cartoon) expressions of free speech?
Yours in Freedom,
Bruce W. Cain Editor, New Age Citizen
This is the reply I received from Imam Hassan Al-Qazwini:
Mr. Cain,
Thank you for your e-mail. I believe in freedom of speech, only if you believe in it. In this free society, we have witnessed several cases in which freedom of speech has been denied. One main example is the US government's decision to ban al-Manar satellite TV that broadcasts from the Middle East. In another "free society" such as Austria, a well known historian David Irving was sentenced to three years in prison for shedding doubts on the number of Holocaust victims. I think freedom of speech should be viewed as a two-way highway. It seems that when some individuals in the West are about to aim at discrediting and disrespecting Islam, they cite freedom of speech, however, when freedom of speech does not suit some governments in the West freedom of speech evaporates.
For the record, yes I do denounce any form of violence by Muslims or non-Muslims citing the publication of any book.
Yours in Freedom,
Imam Hassan Qazwini
Commentary on Imam Hassan Qazwini's first reply:
First note that I didn't do the following analysis until after my 3rd letter. Of course I am not familiar with David Irving and would not support his imprisonment over his free speech even though I DO believe 6 million were, in fact, murdered through genocide by the Nazis during World War II. I am also quite aware of the cozy relationship that was had between Nazis and Islamists during World War II. I'm also aware that there is a plaque in the archives of the Henry Ford Museum that was given to Henry Ford (I) by Hitler himself.
But I did find the following in the Wikipedia on David Irving:
David John Cawdell Irving (born March 24, 1938) is a British writer[1] specializing in the military history of World War II. His interpretations of the Third Reich have proved highly controversial due to allegations of undue sympathy for the Third Reich and anti-Semitism, and because of his involvement in the Holocaust Denial movement. He is the author of 30 books, including The Destruction of Dresden (1963), Hitler's War (1977), Uprising! (1981), Churchill's War (1987), and Goebbels — Mastermind of the Third Reich (1996).
Irving's reputation as a historian was widely discredited[2] after he brought an unsuccessful libel case against American historian Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books in 1998. During the trial, an English court found that Irving was an "active Holocaust denier," as well as an anti-Semite and racist, and that he "associates with right-wing extremists who promote neo-Nazism."[3] The judge also ruled that Irving had "for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence."[3][4]
On a visit to Austria, Irving was apprehended, tried and convicted of "glorifying and identifying with the German Nazi Party", which is a crime in Austria under section 3g of the Verbotsgesetz law. He served a prison sentence from February to December 2006 on the charges. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Irving
But al-Manar TV is not just banned in Dearborn: it is banned throughout the United States because they are widely believed to be a terrorist organization. In light of this I find it distressing that the Imam would be pushing for Muslims -- in Dearborn and Dearborn Heights -- to have access to such bull shit. And even if the Imam was merely trying to say that, both the publishing of "Jewel of Medina" and the broadcast of al-Manar are issues of free speech, the comparison is not equivocal. The publishing of the "Jewel of Medina" is not in any way promoting violence. The broadcasts of al-Manar are explicit calls for a violent jihad against the United States and ALL non-Muslim governments. Furthermore the indisputable reason that "Jewel of Medina" was halted stemmed from anonymous threats by Muslims to literally blow up Random House publishing.
You can make your own judgment regarding al-Manar by viewing some sample videos from the al-Manar TV Network:
Although I actually agree with al-Manar when they criticize Bush's intervention into Iraq I will be eternally opposed to any group that would attempt to foist their presumptuous religious beliefs on Non-Muslims, which is exactly what is occurring now in Lebanon and other Mid-Eastern countries.
Would the Imam have no problem with a television show that espouses the genocide of the Muslim population in the United States? Probably not, eh?
The fact that the Imam would even suggest that such programming in our area is extremely distressing. It is almost like a smoking gun which shows the Imam to be a supporter of terrorism, at least in my mind. Very disturbing, I must say.
My readers can learn more about Islamic Terrorist media by visiting the following website:
Here is my second letter to the Imam, which is a response to his first letter:
Subject: Re: Do you believe in Freedom of Speech? Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:50:04 +0000 From: bcainw@comcast.net To: sqazwini@yahoo.com
Imam Hassan Al-Qazwini:
Thanks for taking the time to respond to my email. First, let me assure you that there is probably no more ardent supporter of freedom of speech than myself. So, yep, I definitely believe in freedom of speech, freedom of expression and most certainly freedom of religion.
But I also must tell you that I put little stock in what anyone says and much stock in judging the actions of both individuals and groups.
While I don't pretend to be an Islamic scholar I have done more research on the subject than most. I have had personal discussions with many local Muslims and have also discussed the topic with people such as Irshad Manji. And I think it important to clarify what I'm about to say because I could imagine you believing that I'm just picking on Islam.
I believe, through much study, that ALL literalist religions are basically rotten to the core: and that includes both Islam as well as Christianity (especially Roman Catholicism and the Vatican). I define literalist religions as any organized group that truly believe that they can act as an intermediary between the flock and God. Basically, all such entities represent an elite within their respective jurisdictions. This does not mean that I think all Muslims and/or Christian are corrupt. Consider this view more of a broad synthesis of my understanding of history going much further back than the 3 tribes of Abraham.
In light of the "Dead Sea Scrolls" it is pretty clear that Jesus was actually vehemently opposed to all literalist religions. It turns out he was most likely both a Gnostic and an Essene. And, as I'm quite sure you are aware, Gnostics only believe what they can understand through direct knowledge. Jesus made this pretty clear when he said that you would find the "kingdom of God" within yourself. This aphorism is antithical to all literalist traditions that believe they have a legitimate role as an intermediary between God and the individual. This, by the way, is just my perspective on things.
The problem with literalist traditions, in my mind, is that they nearly always interpret "reality" in a way that consistently benefits the interests of the elite, whether it be Saudi Sheiks or the Vatican.
My only point in this is to make clear that I'm not just picking on Islam.
Now I could go on and on about specifics of Islam that trouble me: polygamy, intolerance of gays and bisexuals, intolerance of the users of Marijuana and other entheogenic sacraments, Barbaric Sharia Laws etc. But my two main problems with Islam are the insistence on the establishment of a global caliphate and the insistence on theocratic forms of government.
Frankly, I believe that anyone who believes in dissolving our constitutional mandate, for a separation between church and state, should be deported immediately. It is not just the fact that the US Constitution mandates such a separation. It is because every government, throughout history, that has embraced theocratic forms of government, have used it as a tool of coercion against those that don't embrace the presumptuous beliefs of the majority religion. And in practice such theocracies go against everything that we have gained by dragging Christianity through both the Reformation and the Enlightenment.
It is almost as if Islam is stuck where Christianity was stuck before it was "exposed" to both the Reformation and the Enlightenment. As Irshad Manji believes, so do I: Islam needs to be dragged through its own Reformation and Enlightenment.
Now onto more contemporary topics and issues:
You say that you believe in freedom of speech, yet you hosted a dinner for CAIR as recently as April. I find this extremely troubling. CAIR believes in the ultimate establishment of a global Islamic Caliphate and more than a handful of its members are currently in prison for supporting Islamic Terrorist charities. I include a link to an article that covers that in significant detail. I suppose my problem is that I don't see how you can say you believe in the US Constitution, yet also believe in the ultimate subversion of the very same Constitution.
Certainly the most important aspect of the US Constitution is that it was the first "charter" to insist on a separation between church and state. This, to me, is one of the most important gifts toward the establishment of more humanitarian societies.
I'm also concerned that Saudi Arabia is intentionally attempting to establish Dearborn/Dearborn Heights as a "beach head" for Islamic extremism in this country. I have lived in this area for over 50 years and my eyes have always been wide open on this topic. 30 years ago the Mosques in SE Dearborn only conducted their services in English and actually frowned on the wearing of the hijab (and even burkas) in public. Over the last 20 years it is apparent that vast amounts of money are flowing into the mosques from Saudi Wahhabist sources into SE Michigan and other areas of this country. As a result we see more and more Muslim women wearing the hijab publicly.
And you would be absolutely within bounds to point out that these women have a right to wear the hijab. But it also telegraphs a distancing and rejection of American culture. Frankly if that was the only problem I wouldn’t waste the time pointing it out. But there are many other troubling examples of Muslims seeking special consideration within our country that need to be resisted:
Let me point out a few for you:
(1) The Muslim “footbaths” at UofM Dearborn. This is a violation against the separation between church and state.
(2) Halal meat in the Dearborn/Dearborn Heights public schools. This is also a violation against the separation between church and state.
(3) Attempts by Mid-Eastern families to stop the recitation of the “Pledge of Allegiance” at Kinloch Elementary School. Now I don’t think anyone should be “forced” to recite this but it is very important for encapsulating the “perennial philosophy” (see Aldous Huxley) in the minds of all children.
I pledge allegiance to the flag Of the United States of America And to the Republic, for which it stands One nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
[Note: you could get rid of the “under god” as it adds nothing and was only introduced in 1954 amidst a Communist scare (e.g., the McCarthy era)]
(4) I have knowledge of many Muslims that are on Medicaid, yet can barely speak English. This is obviously not the fault of Muslims but rather the fault of US entities that are engaging in “quid pro quo” arrangements with Saudi wealth. But when American citizens are similarly denied Medicaid, it becomes a major point of contention.
(5) We are seeing a conspicuous stream of extremely wealthy Mid-Easterners coming into the cities of Dearborn and Dearborn Heights in the last few years. At a time when American workers are loosing their jobs and homes, this is only going to cause a backlash against all Mid-Easterners. I use the term Mid-Easterner here because some are Chaldean, Albanian (European looking Muslims and Christians also) and other non-Muslim Mid-Eastern sects.
Finally, let us consider how the “rubber meets the road” when it comes to the practice of Islam. I have watched numerous videos of honor killings, clitoral mutilations, polygamy and other inhumanities practiced by people that consider themselves Muslim. Then I read accounts of Saudi Royalty doing heroin in Egypt, only to come back home and literally behead commoners that are doing the same thing. And I have read many recent accounts of Coptic Egyptians being reduced to dhimmis as Islamic extremism gains a larger foothold in that country.
And my own government is equally complicit. A perfect example is found in the globalist Brezenski who destroyed Afghan culture, with Muslim extremists, in order to thwart Russian hegemony in Afghanistan. It is quite possible that the global resurgence in Islamic extremism can be traced back to this terrible, terrible policy decision. And now we all suffer from the "blowback." And this most certainly includes progressive Muslims that want no part of Islamic extremism.
These are some of the things that leave me wondering about the sincerity of all Muslims, as well as American globalists, in this country. And, frankly, I wish it were not so because I do have friends and neighbors that happen to be Muslim. But I cannot, and will not ignore reality no matter how it currently manifests itself.
In terms of constructive criticism I would suggest that Muslims need to take some pro-active measures:
(1) Self police against Medicaid, Mortgage and other frauds being perpetrated by minorities within the Muslim community.
(2) Insist on a moratorium on all immigration into the United States so we don’t feel as if you are trying to displace us: especially in Dearborn and Dearborn Heights. And of course this would also mean no more people of Scottish descent. (I happen to be a very distant descendant of Robert the Bruce who in turn was a descendant of Alexander the Second).
(3) Make numerous public pronouncements against past and future attempts, by Muslims, to subvert absolute freedom of speech (e.g., Muslim Cartoons, the murder of Van Gogh etc.).
In this light you could insist that the "Jewel of Medina" is published and distributed. Such a move would probably get you on the front page of every newspaper in America.
I hate to end the letter this way but I recently had to agree with former drug czar, William Benett, when he said “Islam is as Islam does.” This is probably the only time I will find myself in agreement with this scumbag, by the way. But in this instance I think he is "point on." You can talk forever about Islam, as a “religion of peace.” But no one is going to believe you as long as so many things done, in the name of Islam, appear to be acts of treachery, inhumanity and deceit. I suppose that is just the Gnostic in me.
At any rate I have watched a number of your videos and have perused the website for your Mosque. You, personally, seem to be a likeable person. And no matter how this letter makes you feel, know that I am only sending it in an attempt to be constructive. But I do have concerns. And I would rather see them worked out peacefully and constructively, rather than see such negative trends continue to the point of conflict. And given, the unprecedented negative economic climate in SE Michigan, we should all be more concerned about the possibility of such a conflagration.
An open hearing of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs bore witness to an unusually candid discussion about the Muslim Brotherhood's network in the United States. It was unusual in the respect that it was discussed at all. The fact that many major American Muslim organizations are derived from the Muslim Brotherhood is rarely addressed on Capitol Hill. And the Islamic PAC, CAIR -- that the Imam had hosted a dinner for in early 2008 -- is most definitely tied to the Muslim Brotherhood. ====================
Here is the third letter I sent to the Imam after he had failed to respond to my second letter:
Subject:FW: Re: Do you believe in Freedom of Speech? Date:Tuesday, August 26, 2008 9:40:01 AM From:bcainw@comcast.net To:sqazwini@yahoo.com CC:writedebbie@gmail.com
Imam Hassan Al-Qazwini:
I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised that you didn't respond to my second letter. But I assure you that my intent was not to insult you but rather to seek clarification about your role as a proponent of Islam.
Let me try a different approach by asking three questions.
(1) Do you support the complete separation between church and state as stated in the US Constitution?
(2) Do you understand that Sharia laws are completely antithetical to the US Constitution?
(3) Are you completely opposed to any initiative that would attempt to implement Sharia laws within the United States?
Consider this a form of litmus test. Because for me, and millions of other Americans, the only acceptable answer to these 3 questions would be an unambiguous "yes." Anything less than that would leave me suspicious of your intent in promoting the anti-liberty agenda of Islamism in my country. And if you don't respond to this letter I will have to assume that you don't feel comfortable answering, in the affirmative, to all 3 questions. And that would also leave me questioning your sincerity toward our Constitution. It would leave me feeling as if your sincerity towards our inalienable right to freedom of religion, speech etc. to be disingenuous and hollow.
The same thing could be said should I find that any of your actions, speeches or pronouncements contradicts an affirmative answer to these 3 questions.
My concerns are further reflected in the following letter by a German psychiatrist, Dr. Emanuel Tanary (below). I would also let you know that I am amenable to discussing this publicly as long as the discussion can be video taped and distributed so that others can hear your full and unedited answers to these and similar questions. But I do think Irshad Manji, a lesbian Muslim, has it right when she proclaims that Islam need to undergo the same enlightenment and reformation that stripped Christianity of some of its more repugnant attributes (e.g., Crusades, Witch Burnings, Inquisitions etc.).
Again, I cannot over emphasize that your silence in these matters can only leave, those that truly believe in individual liberties, with a significant sense of unease with the further tolerance of Islam within the confines of the United States of America and the broader context of the free world. In short I will not tolerate any form of Islamic fanaticism within the borders of my country. It would simply be antithetical to everything that I believe.
This is the fourth and most likely the last letter that I will be sending the Imam. I want my readers to know that I have also copied this letter to Mayor O'Reilly (Dearborn), Mayor Paletko (Dearborn) and the Dearborn Press and Guide.
Subject:Why I have concerns about Imam IHassan Al-Qazwini Date:Thursday, August 28, 2008 2:58:40 PM From:bcainw@comcast.net To:sqazwini@yahoo.com
Imam Hassan Al-Qazwini:
After you had ignored my 2nd and 3rd letters there will be little point of going beyond the sending of this 4th letter.
First note that I didn't do the following analysis until after I had sent you my 3rd letter. Let me remind you that you only responded to the first in this series of letters.
Of course I am not familiar with David Irving and would not support his imprisonment over his free speech even though I DO believe 6 million were, in fact, murdered through genocide by the Nazis during World War II. I am also quite aware of the cozy relationship that was had between Nazis and Islamists during World War II. I'm also aware that there is a plaque in the archives of the Henry Ford Museum that was given to Henry Ford (I) by Hitler himself.
But al-Manar TV is banned throughout the United States because they are widely believed to be a t errorist organization. To be honest I was absolutely horrified when I read the following link concerning al-Manar TV:
In light of this I find it distressing that you would be pushing for Muslims -- in Dearborn and Dearborn Heights -- to have access to such inflammatory programming which is, by the way, banned throughout the United States. Not just in Dearbornistan.
Would the Imam have no problem with a television show that espouses the genocide of the Muslim population in the United States? Probably not, eh?
The fact that the Imam would want such programming in our area is extremely distressing. It is almost like a smoking gun which shows that you are a supporter of terrorism, at least in my mind. Very disturbing, I must say.
When I first wrote you it was merely to open a dialog over whether you believed that freedom of speech should allow the publishing of the historical fiction novel, "Jewel of Medina" by Sherry Jones. But while you did agree that Muslims should not have threatened to blow up the publishing company you never explicitly agreed that the book should have ever been published.
Frankly, I did not think much of this until I looked into your apparent wish to have al-Manar TV viewed by American Muslims in Dearborn and Dearborn Heights. In light of this it is very difficult to believe you could possibly embrace the US Constitution, or American values in general. It saddens me to reach such a conclusion, however, I think I have been thorough in reaching this conclusion.
You are always welcome to write me. But I'm no longer holding my breath that you will. As it stands I have written you 4 times. You have only written once.
In addition you should know that I have shared this correspondence with the FBI, mayors and other interested parties. I am quickly loosing my faith that there is truly an Islamic "religion of peace" operating within my community of Dearborn and Dearborn Heights.
Yours in Freedom,
Bruce W. Cain
In conclusion I have to ponder whether an Imam, that wants to bring in terrorist television programming to the largest Islamic population in the United States, is not someone we should be worried about. It also makes you wonder what he talked to Barrack Obama about, off camera, in March of 2008. Could we soon be seeing the same Isalmification, that has already invaded Europe, coming home to Dearborn. The following video underlines my concerns:
Comment: This article gives a good overview of how immigration and the infusion of money from Islamic countries is resulting in the Islamic radicalization of both Dearborn and Dearborn Heights. Dearborn, which was once predominantly composed of white Europeans is now nearly 40% Middle Eastern and the majority of those are Muslim. Though the infusion of Saudi money is not addressed I am quite certain that bucket-loads are flowing in from both legitimate and illigetimat sources. It is something that needs to be stopped immediately.
In the Way of the Prophet Ideologies and Institutions in Dearborn, Michigan, America's Muslim Capitol By Patrick Belton
Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Rahim: on Fridays in America’s Muslim capital of Dearborn, Michigan, the ancient Islamic sentence of invocation wafts over the blighted streets of greater Detroit, drifting out from residents gathering for prayer.
The blighted streets lined with hourly-rental motels that lead from Detroit into the suburb of Dearborn gradually give way to busy avenues dotted with mosques and thriving small businesses. Arabic signs advertise attorneys and physicians, passers-by speak Levantine and Gulf dialects of Arabic, and on the sidewalks women wear the colorful headscarves of hijab.
Dearborn is a microcosm of the Middle East planted in the Midwestern United States. The roughly 40,000 of Dearborn’s 100,000 residents that are Arab American defy the myth many Americans hold of a unified Muslim world, filled with parading masses bearing the likeness of Ayatollah Khomenei. While there are some radical Islamists, Dearborn’s growing Muslim population runs the gamut from international traders to educated professionals to local business owners. Every Arab nationality and religious sect is found here, from Yemeni traditionalism to secular modernity.
Dearborn was founded as the first overnight stop on the stagecoach route linking Detroit to Chicago. Its streets are named for the German Catholics who have since given way to Polish and Italian Americans, whom Arab immigrants and their descendents, in turn, are replacing. Southfield Freeway separates the city’s Western and Eastern worlds, roughly demarcating three neighborhoods: Southend is now mostly populated by Yemenis; East Dearborn is a bustling Lebanese community of Arab restaurants, bakeries, and halal butchers; and West Dearborn’s residential streets remain populated by Italian and Polish ethnics.
The Muslim presence in metropolitan Detroit dates to the last decade of the 19th century, when men from the Lebanese Biqa Valley, working as peddlers and traders, followed a larger number of Lebanese Christian emigrees to the U.S. When Henry Ford began to offer generous five-dollar daily wages for workers at his Highland Park assembly line in 1913, Detroit became the predominant destination for Lebanese immigrants. Immigration accelerated when Lebanon’s economy fell apart in the wake of the Ottoman Empire’s collapse at the end of World War I. The restrictive National Origins Act of 1924 reduced Lebanese immigration to a trickle, but over the next twenty years, wives and dependent children, whom the Act still allowed to immigrate, gradually reunited with their husbands and fathers. In 1927, Ford shifted operations to the Rouge River plant in his native Dearborn, and a Muslim neighborhood soon followed.
By the close of World War II, the Dearborn population numbered about 200 families. Most subsequent immigrants–Palestinian, Lebanese, and Iraqi–arrived in Dearborn as political refugees, with only Yemenis coming to Dearborn in this period primarily for economic opportunity (see sidebar). Collectively, the communities in Dearborn represent the second largest concentration of both Arabs and Muslims outside the Middle East, behind only Paris.
East and West in Dearborn Mosques The evolution of Dearborn mosques reflects the ongoing debate since the late 1960s between conservative and liberal elements of American Muslim society. Conservative movements, including Islamic revivalism, can be traced to Middle Eastern influences such as the Iranian Revolution, which parts of Dearborn embraced when the spiritual guide of Hizbollah, Sheikh Mohammed Fadlallah, spoke to an enthusiastic audience of Shi’a refugees in neighboring Southfield’s Bonnie Brook Country Club. More religious than political in appeal, Islamic revivalism tries to stem the tide of integration into non-Islamic American society. Liberal movements descend both from the secular pan-Arabic movement pioneered by former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel-Nasser–Nasserism–and from American influences such as the Civil Rights Movement. Liberals work to construct a distinct Arab American identity and incorporate it into mainstream American life.
Dearborn Mosque–the second mosque ever built in the nation–was gradually raised on Southend’s Dix Road between the 1930s and 1950s. In 1976, it saw the conflict between Americanizing and Arabizing ideologies come to a head when Palestinian-born Hajj Fawzi, leading a group of Yemeni and Palestinian immigrants called the musalee’een, broke into the mosque one Friday when it was closed for prayer and occupied it. Later, they wrested legal control of the mosque, through board elections and litigation, and invited to the imamate a young Yemeni sheikh of the conservative Wahhabist tradition. The new imam banned a women’s group from the mosque when they protested his prohibition of weddings and fundraising events from the mosque’s basement. And he required women who wished to attend the mosque to enter through a side door, don hijab, and keep to certain areas of the mosque.
The sheikh’s tenure was short–he was forced to resign and return to Yemen after molesting a twelve-year old girl–but the Yemeni and conservative takeover of the mosque was complete. With time it has come to reflect the Yemeni Zaydi sect of Sunni Islam and has become known as the Yemeni Zaydi Dearborn Mosque. Only Arabic has been spoken there in the past twenty years. In the early 1980s, the musalee’een began to broadcast the daily calls to prayer over loudspeakers, to the annoyance of some Southend residents. The city of Dearborn attempted to end the broadcasts but was prevented when the courts ruled that the broadcasts constituted the Muslim equivalent of church bells.
More liberal observers of Islam founded their own places of worship. In the 1960s, the most significant of Dearborn’s–and the nation’s–mosques was founded by the highly educated, English-speaking Lebanese Imam Mohamed Chirri. Invited by a group of Dearborn Muslims to serve as the imam of a new place of worship, Chirri began fundraising for a mosque on Joy Road, several blocks across the Detroit border from East Dearborn. Imam Chirri, having befriended one of Nasser’s acquaintances in Lebanon, raised $44,000 from Nasser himself, $7,000 from Jordan, and sizable amounts from the local community.
Imam Chirri’s support for the Americanization of the Islamic community was so pronounced in the 1950s and ‘60s that the imam often appeared in public wearing a business suit and no turban. At the mosque he founded, the Islamic Center for America, or the Jami’, English and Arabic were used equally, and Sunday services for a time became the principal services of the week, drawing whole families as well as men.
The Balance of Left and Right Imam Chirri sought to construct the Jami’, as an ideologically broad church, and served well as statesman both in responding to pressures from his more conservative constituencies as well as in casting a favorable public image of his religion in America. He was always grateful to Nasser for financial support, defending him publicly when Nasserism had waned as a popular Arab ideology. Initially distancing himself from the Palestinian cause–early on, he counseled Palestinian activists to resign themselves to the reality of Israeli’s statehood and the need for a two-state solution–as his mosque filled with Lebanese refugees, Chirri became publicly opposed to Israel.
In response to the conservative desires of recent immigrants, some changes have taken place–hijab is now common practice, where it had not been before, and the use of the Center for wedding dances and other communal celebrations, common until the 1960s, has ceased. Some Americanized Muslims in Dearborn feel that the arrival of more conservative immigrants has diverted the earlier project of creating an Islamic community that was at once truly Islamic and American.
Imam Chirri died in 1994 and was succeeded by Imam Sayed Hassan Qazwini. Both attained positions of national prominence as the day’s most visible imam during their tenures; Qazwini occasionally serves as an informal consultant to the White House on American Muslim issues. And on a more local level, Qazwini has undertaken projects of unprecedented scale in the community, including a new $15 million complex near the two college campuses on Ford Road and a Muslim American Youth Academy with 170 day students, from kindergarten through sixth grade.
Chirri’s project to balance the left and right of Dearborn’s Muslim populace did not go uncontested. Rejecting the centrism and Americanization of the Islamic Center, several more conservative mosques were founded in Dearborn in the 1980s. Most recently, the Karbalaa Islamic Educational Center opened in 1993 as a community center for Iraqi Shi’a refugees. The center lies in a 6,000 square-foot hall on Warren Avenue that had earlier housed a nightclub–Club Gay Haven.
Grown From a Backroom Places of worship have not been the sole forum for the conversation regarding the role of religion in the lives of Dearborn’s Muslim community. The debate has extended into non-sectarian Arab organizations, and even into municipal government. Secular Arab organizations, such as the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS), founded by Donnie Unis in 1967 and presently led by Ishmael Ahmed, have struggled to find a niche for themselves in a diverse community. ACCESS emerged when a group of young, second-generation Arab Americans, influenced by the war in Vietnam and by contact with the Black Panthers, came together to become more politically involved with the local Arab community. Local mosques initially disparaged the organization as an institutional competitor run by radicals and atheists. On two occasions, ACCESS’s first building was victim to arson.
The first years of ACCESS’s history were characterized by great idealism but little institutional development. According to its current vice president, Hassan Jaber, ACCESS’s founders were “more used to discussing political theory than delivering services.” Later, as refugees from southern Lebanon arrived in greater numbers, the group’s leaders commissioned a University of Michigan professor to conduct a study of the immigrant population and found among the city’s Arabs a number of troubling vulnerabilities–possibly the highest infant mortality rate in the nation, an unemployment rate of 30 percent, a population whose majority could not speak English, a 30 percent illiteracy rate in Arabic, and alarming incidences of post-traumatic and other emotional syndromes.
On a volunteer basis, Unis and others tried to correct some of these ills by providing immigrants with English lessons, assistance navigating welfare and social security bureaucracies, and the like. With the hiring of a grant writer and considerable dedication by its leaders, ACCESS grew from the backroom of a Southend store into a building on Salina Street, and now resides in two new buildings on Schaeffer Street devoted to health care and employment counseling. Privatization of social services due to Michigan’s welfare reform process has greatly increased ACCESS’s importance. In the ‘60s and ‘70s, ACCESS met with resistance from the Muslim community; today, according to Lebanese-born Abed Hammoud, a Wayne County assistant prosecutor, “Nobody says ACCESS is doing too much. The question is how to get involved, not should we get involved.”
The community’s constellation of organizations is rounded out by a highly active American Arab Chamber of Commerce, founded in 1992, a newspaper, the Arab American News (or Al-Watan), published since 1984 by Osama Siblani, and Muslim and Arabic-language programming on public-access cable channel 15. Two of the larger village communities have formal institutions: the Bint Jbeil Cultural Center and the older, larger American Federation of Ramallah, Palestine. As Hammoud says, “There’s not one Arab organization that the entire Arab American community embraces.”
Starting with the School Board In February of 2001, Dearborn Public Schools began accepting proposals from halal food distributors to provide food to its 28 public schools. “The whole point is to give foods they can eat, so they’re nourished and can function in the classroom,” Bob Cipriano, the district’s business manager, told the New York Times. Eight years earlier, Dearborn schools banned pork from their lunches to accommodate Muslim dietary guidelines.
Pressure from the city’s school board, organized groups of parents, and the federal and state governments has resulted in further accommodations to Muslim students in Dearborn’s public schools. Parental advocacy forced the separation of gym classes by gender in one Southend school. And the federal Office of Civil Rights has been responsible for several expansions of bilingual instruction for Arab-speaking students.
As the governmental body to which Muslims and Arabs first won election of municipal positions, Dearborn’s school board has played in important role in both school and community affairs. A recent bond issue led to the emergence on the board of a cohesive, energetic pro-Arab bloc marked by its idealism and tactical skill. A coalition of neighborhood activists defeated bond proposals of $50 million in 1999 and 2000 that would have allocated insufficient funding to heavily overcrowded Arab schools. Two of those activists, Mary Lane and Aimee Blackburn, subsequently won election to the school board, from there devising a $150 million bond to construct three new elementary schools and 26 new high school classrooms in Arab neighborhoods. The remainder of the board acquiesced in the proposal, certain that it, like the others, would fail. With the assistance of Abed Hammoud, this last bond proposal carried with 900 votes. The campaign’s success markedly raised the local political profile of Dearborn’s Arab and Muslim communities, as well as that of the Arab American Political Action Committee founded by Hammoud (himself a former mayoral candidate) and now led by Osama Siblani.
Muslims and the Broader Community Despite the successes, Arab exclusion from municipal administration and the police force is nearly total, and the city is led by a mayor, Michael Guido, who first won office in 1985 running against “our Arab problem.” He has since moderated his public stand toward the community, but still makes periodic political recourse to anti-Arab sentiment to solidify support among his graying, white ethnic base. According to Hammoud, “What the mayor does is he makes sure that he doesn’t mention anything positive about the Arab American community. He says things like diversity is great, but he never says that the Arab American community is contributing to Dearborn.”
Politically engaged Muslims say that greater Muslim and Arab influence in local governance is a demographic inevitability. They criticize the present mayor for failing to knit together the growing Arab, the declining Italian American, and other white ethnic communities. They have no organizations in common–civic, religious, or otherwise. Consequently, unspoken suspicion combined with outspoken protests of any governmental support tends to be the watchword from white ethnic leaders.
White elected officials, with the exception of the school board officials already noted, boast of their “good ties” to the Arab community while complaining off the record of its growing influence within the city. While Dearborn’s white residents brag about how well their city weathered the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Arabs are quicker to remember the broken storefront windows, the threatening 2 a.m. telephone calls, and insulting highway graffiti. They also remember Abed Hammoud’s sudden setback on September 11, the day of Dearborn’s mayoral primary. Arab Americans feared leaving their homes to go to the polls while whites made an abrupt decision to vote for Dearborn’s Italian American candidate.
Yet Hammoud also worries about the inevitable ramifications that will ensue the election of an Arab mayor. Unprepared for this eventuality and without a groundwork of cross-communal understanding, the white community will flee the city to further removed white enclaves–a new brand of white flight for the 21st century. Ideally white society will grow to incorporate the growing Muslim community in their midst, just as most of Dearborn’s Muslims continue to shift focus from their countries of birth towards a distinctly Arab, but very much American, civil society in their new home–an assimilated political stance directed not towards Lebanon but to Dearborn city hall, Lansing, and Washington.
SIDEBAR: Arab Muslim Immigration to Dearborn since World War II Palestine
Following the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, a second wave of Muslim immigration began. The Refugee Relief Act allowed Palestinians to immigrate to the United States. Dearborn attracted Sunni Muslims from the villages of Beit Hanina and Bireh, while Christians from Ramallah moved to adjoining western Wayne County. The 1967 war, the Intifada, and regional economic stagnation from 1988 resulted in additional waves of Palestinian immigration to Dearborn. Palestinian immigrants changed Arab Dearborn from a principally Christian and working-class neighborhood to one that was increasingly Muslim and professional.
Lebanon
Beginning in 1975 and continuing until 1991, a period in which one third of Lebanon’s population emigrated, Lebanese Shi’a displaced by their country’s civil war arrived in Dearborn. Particularly large numbers arrived from the Biqa Valley and Tibnin, Bint Jubayl, and Nabiteyeh in the south. These emigrants settled in large numbers both in the Southend area and in East Dearborn, around Warren Street. Christian refugees from this period tended, like the Palestinian Christians, to settle to the west, in Farmington Hills, Westland, and Livonia.
Yemen
Unaccompanied Yemeni males had been migrating to Dearborn since the beginning of Arab immigration, but in the mid-1970s they began to arrive in larger numbers. Less educated and less fluent in English than other Muslim immigrants, they hold unskilled positions in Dearborn and send remittances to their families in Yemen. Rather than bring their families to Dearborn, they themselves return to Yemen–frequently and, with time, permanently. More strictly religious than many of the other groups, the Yemenis shun what they regard as the corruptive influence of American society. They concentrate in Southend with other Yemenis, with the result that the neighborhood now shows the influence of the Yemeni countryside in dress, its absence of women from public spaces, and the centering of male social life around the neighborhood’s coffeehouses. From the mid-1980s on, an increasing proportion–rising from a tenth to a quarter–of Yemenis have immigrated as intact families rather than solitary males.
Iraq
More recently, the southern Shi’a Iraqis came to Dearborn fleeing Saddam Hussein in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War and the failed Shi’a rebellion. Coming chiefly from Basra, Al Nasiriyya, and the Al Amarah and Hawr al Hammar marshes by way of the Rafgha refugee camp in Saudi Arabia, nearly ten thousand of them were granted asylum in the United States. Nearly all of them migrated to Dearborn as soon as they were able and there have formed a very tightly knit community located along Dearborn’s northern border with Detroit.
Comment: We badly need to have a similar conference in Dearborn. Leave me a message if you might be interested in attending such a conference by sending an email to newagecitizen@comcast.net
Submitted by Sahil Nagpal on Thu, 09/04/2008 - 12:54. Germany Iran World Tehran/Berlin - The Iranian Foreign Ministry called in the French charge d'affaires in Tehran Wednesday to demand that the European Union (EU) prevent the holding of an "anti-Islam congress" planned for the German city of Cologne later this month.
The Foreign Ministry voiced concern about what it called the "growing anti-Islam trend" in Europe, appealing to the current French presidency of the EU to act, the official news agency IRNA reported.
IRNA reported that the French diplomat had condemned all forms of racism, pledging that the Iranian request would be followed up and Tehran would be kept informed about the congress.
The congress has been called by the right-wing, Cologne-based, activist group Pro-Cologne, which last month failed in its attempts to halt the building of a large mosque in the western German city.
Pro-Cologne has called a three-day anti-Islam congress for September 19-21, drawing support from the right-wing Freedom Party of Austria (FPOe) and the Belgian-Flemish right-wing Vlaams Belang Party, as well as prominent French right-winger Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the Front National (FN).
"The time has come to draw the line: Europe and Germany say 'no' to Islamification and immigrant invasion," the organization proclaims in German, French, Italian and English in advertising the congress on its website.
The congress, which culminates in a mass rally on Cologne's Haymarket square on September 20, is aimed at promoting "Western values and Christian traditions." Le Pen is expected to speak.
Pro-Cologne uses as its logo a mosque with a red line drawn through it in the shape of a traffic sign.
Left-wing groups have called counter-demonstrations to coincide with the rally.
The Interior Ministry of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, within which Cologne falls, said it had looked into banning the congress, but had come to the conclusion that there were insufficient grounds to do so.
The German constitution gave strong protection to freedom of assembly, Interior Ministry spokeswoman Carola Holzberg said.
Holzberg said pro-Köln had informed police they were expecting around 1,000 supporters to attend the September 20 rally.
Police are expecting up to 40,000 to protest against the congress.
On August 28, the Cologne City Council gave the go-ahead for a controversial mosque with a dome 37 metres high and two minarets rising to 55 metres to be built in the suburb of Ehrenfeld. (dpa)
Here is my response to Kaleem Kawaja’s letter titled “Why Hindus are angry at Muslims in India,” published in the India Tribune of August 2, 2008.
Hindus have not just one but one million reasons to be angry at Muslims in India. Let me list only a few of them for Mr. Kawaja’s kind-hearted understanding, even though I believe Mr. Kawaja is deliberately acting to be ignorant of the reasons behind this Hindu mindset and the history – past and present. So, I will try to make it as simple and as clear for him as possible… and, for all those ‘secularists’ and Leftists who pretend to be naive just like Mr. Kawaja.
1. First of all, Hindus hold Muslims responsible for the vivisection of their country that they consider as their MOTHER. Hindus adorably call it Bharat-Mata, Matru-Bhoomi, Puniya-Bhoomi, Dharma-Bhoomi, Swarag-Bhoomi, etc.
2. Hindus cannot understand why the Muslims are still living in India. It is a well-known fact that in 1946 elections, more than 90% of the Muslims voted for the breakup of the greater India and the creation of a Muslim land called Pakistan. Despite getting their Muslim land – believe it or not – only 15% Muslims left for the Pakistan and 85% of them stayed put in India. Hindus really want all these Muslims living in India to leave Hindus alone in their country.
3. Hindus are upset that Muslims are having a cake and want to eat it too. Thus, Hindus can see that Muslims have opened a separate bank account for Muslims in Pakistan and Bangladesh, while they are operating a joint bank account with Hindus in India. This is not right and absolutely unfair. Hindus do not want to share the India with Muslims.
4. Again, at the time of Partition of India in 1947, there were 20% Hindus and Sikhs in Pakistan. Now there are only 1% or so. In 1947 there were more than 30% Hindus in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), at this time there are only 8% Hindus there. Hindus want Muslims to explain what happened to all those Hindus. Hindus are absolutely unhappy about the ethnic cleansing of Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh.
5. Conversely, during the same period the Muslim population in India has been rising with leaps and bounds. Muslim numbers in India have risen from 9% in 1951 to 15% now. Hindus abhor this. In the unprecedented rise of Muslim population in India, Hindus clearly see a mortal threat to their very existence as Hindus. They see this as a conspiracy to breakup and divide their country all over again.
6. Hindus simply will never be able to forget the massive scale of rapes, murders, loot and mayhem let lose by Muslims on the peaceful Hindus in Kashmir and the vicious ethnic cleansing in their own country.
7. How can Hindus forget massacre of our 35 Sikh brothers at Chattisinghpora in the State of Jammu and Kashmir in year 2000, an attack on Jammu and Kashmir State Legislature in October, 2001, another attack on the India’s National Parliament in December 2001, yet another attack on the American Cultural Center in January 2002, the roasting alive of 56 women and children in February 2002 at Godhra Railway Station in Gujarat State, the killing of more than 30 members of families of Army personnel in May 2002, serial bomb attacks on passenger trains and public places in the country’s financial capital Mumbai on August 2005 that killed 46 people and injured 160, another devilish attack on the Hindu religious place, the Akshardham Temple in September 2002 – 29 individuals including 16 women and four children killed, the butchering of Hindus in Mau in State of Uttar Pradesh, the Delhi bomb blasts in October 2005 – 70 people killed, massacre of Gujjars in Doda and Udhampur, in State of Jammu and Kashmir in May 2006, a second series of Mumbai train bomb blasts in July 2006 – 200 people dead, a separate series of bomb blasts in Lucknow, Varanasi, Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Bangluru – hundreds killed.
8. While Hindus in Jammu agitating for the legitimate rights of Hindu pilgrims in Amernath raise the slogan of Bharat Mata ki Jai, the Muslims in Srinagar, to the great mortification and chagrin of Hindus, wave green flags of Pakistan and openly raise the slogans of Pakistan Zindabad (long live Pakistan)! This treacherous behavior of Muslims is unacceptable and outrageous to Hindus and causes a serious heartburn to them.
9. Recently, in a shocking disclosure, India’s National Security Advisor, M.K. Narayanan while talking to newsmen in Singapore disclosed that 800 terrorist cells are operating in the country. These home grown terrorists are none other than the Indian Muslims who provide shelter, guidance, financial assistance and other infrastructure facilities to the terrorists to kill more and more Hindus and destabilize Indian economy. Hindus have every reason to express their indignation and angst at this blatant anti-national activity.
10. All Kashmiri Muslims are doing roaring business all over India. There are Haj Houses all over the country. But the Muslim leaders are openly and repeatedly declaring that they would not give “an inch of land” in Hindu India to Shri Amarnath Shrine Board. What an act of ingratitude!
11. Hindus simply cannot erase from their memory the Great Killings of Calcutta on August 16-17, 1946 in which more than 5,000 Hindus were butchered by Muslim fanatics supported by the Muslim Chief Minister of Bengal. Hindus also vividly recall the genocide of 5,000 unarmed Hindus in Noakhali in Bengal State around the same time. Hindus simply cannot forget the beastly brutalities perpetrated by the West Pakistani Muslim military establishment on the East Pakistan Hindus during the Bangladesh uprising in 1971. Events like these are unparalleled in the history of humanity.
12. Describing the unimaginable capacity of the Muslim mind to conduct the dance of devil, Mr. A. Ghosh, the celebrated author of book “Kafir and Quran,” writes: “In many cases a whole community (of Hindus in East Pakistan) was encircled. Mothers and daughters were raped on a mass scale, in presence of brothers or fathers. Breasts of elderly ladies were chopped off. Pregnant women were disemboweled; infants’ heads were smashed on the floor. Then followed the chopping off of genitals, gouging out of eyes, and on and on and on. As a grand finale, everybody was put in a house and the house was set on fire.”
13. Hindus also remember very well as to how the Sikh Guru Arjun Dev was made to sit on a hot plate over the raging fire and the hot sand was poured over his body… until he died. Hindus and Sikhs will never be able to forget as to how another Sikh Guru, Teg Bahadur Saheb, was murdered in cold blood by the Muslims because he refused to convert to Islam. Hindus remember the two young sons of the last Sikh Guru, Gobind Singh, who were bricked alive by the Muslim ruler, as they refused to embrace the Islam.
14. For the information of Mr. Kawaja, listed here are only a few of the Muslim militant organizations that preach hatred and violence against the Kafirs… principally the Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists… and are working overtime to establish Nizame-Mustafa (the Islamic domination) in India: (1) Muslim Volunteer Force, (2) Islamic Revolutionary Front, (3) Islamic Liberation Army of Assam, (4) Jamait-e-Islami, (4) Hurriyat Conference, (5) Jamit-al-Quran Hadis, (6) Tamilnadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam, (7) Al Ummah, (8) Islamic Movement of India, (8) Student Islamic Movement of India (the notorious SIMI), (9) Islamic Youth Center, (10) Jihad Committee, (11) Muslim United Liberation Tigers of Assam, (12) Muslim Liberation Front of Assam, (13) Al Huda, (14) Jehad, (15) Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen, (16) National Democratic Front, (17) Mili Parliament, (18) Indian Muslim Mohammadi Mujahideen, and (19) Indian Mujaheden. The principal aim of all the above groups is the annihilation of Hindus.
15. Hindus in India and the Indian subcontinent have witnessed an unprecedented continued chain of barbarism by Muslims in the last 1400 years. In 712 A.D., the then Governor of Iraq sitting two thousand miles away from the Indian capital Delhi, ordered the Iraqi Muslim ruler in India to bring about the destruction on unbeliever Hindus (unbeliever: the Hindus that do not believe in Islam) if they did not accept Islam. The historical chronicles tell us that in the merciless slaughter that ensued, 26,000 Hindu men were murdered and 20,000 young Hindu girls were enslaved and dispatched to Khalifa in Baghdad.
16. Akbar was the slaughterer of Hindus. Jahangir, in his autobiography "Tarikh-i-Salim Shahi" wrote that under Akbar and Jahangir "five to six hundred thousand (over half a million) Hindus were killed." (Tarikh-i-Salim: Translated By Price, pp. 225-6). In Akbar’s military conquest of Chittor in the State of Rajasthan, Abul Fazl recorded that "on Akbar’s orders, eight thousand Rajput warriors were first disarmed and then slain; along with them forty thousand peasants also were slain." (The Islamic treatment of PoW, Surah 8, Ayat 67, the Quran) (Akbarnama by Abul Fazl translated into English by H. Beveridge)
We can go on and on and on… with the never-ending saga of Muslim misdeeds against the Hindus. Hindus may not have readily available with them the specific details of the each one of the above acts of extreme Muslim brutality. The Hindu ‘secular’ leadership also takes extreme pains to ensure that the endless tails of Muslim atrocities… against the Hindus… do not get recalled, remembered, written, memorialized, entered in history books, or spoken from the public platforms.
But the naked truth is that the painful wounds of Muslim savagery, treachery, betrayal, deceit, dishonesty, disloyalty, duplicity… on the naïve Hindu psyche… are too numerous to count and too deep to heal.
These painful sores of history – the distant past and still ongoing – have traumatized the Hindus so much and for so long that they just cannot be healed, nor can their memory be completely erased from the Hindu subconscious mind. Hindu mind will continue to be haunted and tortured at the slightest glimpse of the classic pattern of Muslim dishonesty and betrayal.
Does Mr. Kawaja need any more reasons, any more examples, to explain why Hindus don’t trust Muslims and why they appear to be angry at Muslims?
Thank you for taking the time to read this. It has taken many years for me to gain the courage to leave Islam. Being an intelligent person I have believed deep to my soul since childhood that Islam is not a religion, but rather false stories created by mankind. I have always wanted to escape the horror of these lies. But I was threatened and scared and forced into Islam. I am very proud and happy to announce that finally I have left Islam.
I should mention that my experience has been with Shia Islam. I was raised a Shia Muslim. Therefore my reasons for leaving Islam are based on my years of struggle with the sect of Shia’ism. However, I do believe that all Muslims will be able to find reason, like I have, and with courage and self confidence leave this so called religion, so that they can be free and at peace with life.
Let me outline my reasons, point by point, on why I left Islam.
1) ISLAM WAS CREATED BY MAN
Muslim books and scholars want you to believe that this is a divine Religion brought down to the Earth by God himself. This is a lie. What actually happened is as follows:
1400 years ago, around 600 AD human beings on this planet had found ways to control their societies. For example, the white race had developed a set of rules founded in Christianity, that was used to lead their race down the right path. To teach their people to do good.
Similarly other races on this planet had used their own respective rules or religions to do the same. To teach right, to guide, to help their societies, to control the ones who were headed astray. At this time, in Arabia, there were Arabs. These were without a doubt the worst humans on the planet. They were totally and absolutely out of control. It was a disastrous environment.
So the scholars of the time in Arabia decided that they needed a very strict and harsh method of restraining these uncivilized Arab men.
That is when all their rules and regulations on how to live were laid down in a book (that we now call the Quran). If you look at these original rules of the religion of Islam: praying 5 times a day, fasting 40 days a year, no alcohol, etc, you can clearly see how strict it is. Yes, it is for a reason, to control the uncivilized Arabs.
But I certainly, here in the year 2003, living in the west in a civilized society, do not need to pray five times a day, in a language I do not understand (Arabic). I certainly do not (and won’t ever) starve myself 40 days out of the year to prove something that I already know about myself.
Muslims insist that Islam is a "way of life." Yes, but it is the "way of life" for a bunch of savage desert dwellers of the 7th century.
My dear Muslim friend, use your judgment and intelligence. Do not simply follow false beliefs blindly.
2) CONCEPT OF PURDAH
a) “Purdah” Part One
Purdah is a component in Islam in which Women and Men are separated at religious functions by a curtain or a wall. Men sit on one side and women sit on the other side. This occurs not only at religious functions but also at weddings and other social functions.
What is the purpose of this? Do you feel that sitting with your family (which includes your mother and sister) at a religious function is sin? Do Muslims feel that other Muslim men will be aroused if they see women at a religious function?
If so, then this is ridiculous. Muslim men see women all the time. Anytime you step outside your house you see women, at the mall, at the grocery store, at your job, at your school, everywhere. Surely you are not ‘jumping’ on every woman you see.
Isolating young men from women has very detrimental effects. What it does is, it places a ‘fear’ of women in these young men. Since they are never allowed to speak to, look at, or associate with other Muslim females. This leads to a tremendous lack of self-confidence, depression and feelings of self-pity. The simple truth is that men need interaction with women. To cut this off is like cutting off blood supply or removing oxygen from the atmosphere.
The irony is that our Muslim parents want us to marry other Muslims. But with this purdah system, there is hardly any interaction between Muslim girls and boys.
These are backward, archaic traditions. Muslims do not have the logic or courage to change or eliminate them. They are more comfortable doing something that is wrong, than changing and doing something that is right.
b) “Purdah” Part Two
Purdah also applies to the scarf that many Muslim women wear on their head to cover their hair. This is an Islamic tradition that many hold. They believe that women should not let their hair to be seen because it entices or attracts men.
This is not only ridiculous but completely untrue. The most striking feature of a woman is not her hair. It is her face. Some may even suggest that it is her body. But nevertheless, it is not her hair. I feel so sorry for these Muslim women who are forced into this Purdah. Deep down inside they hate it, and they know it is wrong. But they are blamed and made to feel ashamed if they ever try to take off the “Hijab”
They are brain washed into wearing it and I must admit that the brainwashers do a very good job of putting fear into these unfortunate women.
3) TRAGEDY OF WOMEN
Women in Islam are forced by their parents to marry who the parents feel is appropriate. Many parents who live in the west may deny this. But the truth is that the parents place a very strong hold on this tradition. The worst part is that once the marriage has occurred the women cannot leave under any circumstance. Here are the reasons Muslim women have been forced to stay in horrific marriages with Muslim men:
a) Fear of being alone.
They fear that they will not find anyone else to marry. Muslim women who divorce are looked at as tainted and Muslim men hardly accept such women for marriage.
b) Fear of being shunned by the community
Muslim communities ridicule and make fun of divorced women. You are more well liked if you 'put up and shut up' with your abusive husband. Women who break free are considered 'trouble makers' and indecent in this backward community of Muslims. Very religious women, feel that divorce is the worst thing that can happen to them. This is due to the religious teachings they hold so dear. So they have no choice but to stay in a terrible marriage.
c) Cannot break the hold their husbands have on them
Muslim men know their wives’ weak points. They know how to control their wives. They know how to effectively lie to their wives. Muslim men believe that their wives are their 'property'.
d) Financial restrictions
Because many Muslim women are married young, they may not be well educated (due to the culture and it's double standards against women). Therefore they are financially dependent on their husbands, for life.
e) Afraid that a divorce may tarnish her family name
Many Muslim women feel that a divorce will tarnish the family name and may even lead to lack of proposals for their daughters. So they stay for this reason also.
f) Lack of self-confidence
This is due to the repeated abuse, young age at marriage and lack of freedom given to women in this religion. Also they would not have the self-confidence to meet or find someone else to marry. It is very difficult or sometimes impossible to bring sense into them. They refuse to take action because of the above listed reasons.
4) ISLAM TEACHES HATE
This is a known fact. I could write about 30 pages on this. But I will limit this point to a few paragraphs.
a) Quran
It is well known that the holy book of Islam - the Quran has several verses, which teach Muslims anyone who is not a Muslim is a ‘Kafir’ who will go to hell for eternity. It is also written that Christians and Jews are among the non-believers and that Muslims must not associate with them.
My dear Muslim friends. Do you honestly believe in these things? Do you honestly believe that your Christian teacher, or Christian boss, or Jewish neighbor or your Jewish doctor is going to hell for simply because he or she is not a Muslim?
I think I have been very lucky in that I have had the opportunity to meet and make friends with many people from all walks of life and religions. This has allowed me to open up my mind and realize that all humans are equal. What separates us is not the religion we are born into, but rather our actions and how we treat others.
b) India vs Pakistan
Pakistan is a country that was founded by Muslim extremists in 1947 because of their hate for Hindu’s in India. When the Muslim founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinah was secretly organizing terrorist activities against Hindu villages, the Hindu ‘father’ of India Mahatma Gandhi was fasting and holding peace marches in an attempt to end violence and blood shed.
Gandhi preached non-violence all his life. Yet he was put into prison by the Brits, many times. In contrast Jinha, who killed, robbed, destroyed and terrorized millions of Hindu’s did not spend a single day in jail in his entire life.
I could go on and on but the biggest tragedy is that Pakistani’s living in the west, are still being so brainwashed, that they feel that Muslims from India are not as worthy as they are. When in fact it was the Muslims in India who stayed in their country and supported unity!
As a result of all this turmoil, Pakistani Muslims are taught to hate Indian Muslims and Indian Muslims are supposed to hate Pakistani Muslims. But when they all come and live in the west they become friends out of necessity, because God forbid, they can’t associate with Christians or Jews!
For an accurate depiction of what Pakistani Muslim Men are like, watch Ayub Khan, Din’s magnificent film called “East is East”.
c) Hypocrisy and Lack of Logic or Reason
The truth is that Muslims don’t care about each other. They don’t. Muslims only care about proving that they are better than everyone else.
The driving force of the religion is to denounce other religions and to show that Islam is the better. Therefore Muslims, have placed themselves on a false pedestal of superiority.
My friends, consider this:
Muslims insist that Muslims should enjoy all human rights and make infinite number of mosques in western countries but ban Kafirs (non-Muslims) from Mecca and Medina.
Muslims insist on the evils of the Western culture and the virtues of Islam but at the same time do everything possible to immigrate to the West in order to escape oppression of the Islamic countries.
Muslims insist that Islam is a logical religion and everyone with pure motives will become a Muslim while forgetting that their own ancestors were forced to accept Islam and many were killed for resisting.
5) THE SHIA – SUNNI FEUD
I was born into a Shia Muslim family. Never once in my life did I have any feeling of hatred or animosity toward any Sunni Muslim for any reason. But I am supposed to!
Yes, this is correct. Shia’s are taught from an early age that to be a true Shia Muslim you must hate Sunni Muslims. We are taught that Sunni Muslims killed our sects founders and therefore we are not allowed to marry them under any circumstance. How ridiculous!
It is extremely common for Shia’s and Sunni’s to make friends with each other, to come over to each other’s houses, talk on the phone etc. But as soon as the holy month of Moharrum arrives, Shia’s preach hatred toward Sunni’s daily at their religious functions. But when Moharrum is completed they go right back to ‘hanging out’ with their Sunni friends.
Someone really needs to explain to these Muslims that they are not only confused but also very sad and disturbed.
6) SYED vs Non-SYED
This is an obscure point that I myself was very surprised to hear about. Basically ‘Syed’ means that one can trace his/her ancestors all the way back the Prophet Muhammad (founder of Islam).
‘Non-Syed’ is someone who became a Shia Muslim somewhere along the way (in the last 1400 years). Who cares!
What kind of religion places a lower rank to members who cannot prove that they are related to the founder of the religion? Does common sense ever enter the minds of these Muslims? I don’t think so.
CONCLUSION
I think that anyone who is financially independent, and who is not afraid, can leave Islam.
The only people who stay in this so called Religion are those who are too trapped or too brainwashed.
I feel the only way we can make this world a better place is to get to the root of evil. This root is the false teachings of Islam. Freedom and true happiness and the right way to live, can be achieved. My friends, you know what is right; you only have one life, do it now!
I wish the very best to all Muslims and I hope they will not perpetuate these false teachings of Islam to their children.
Thank you and hope that you are always happy, healthy and safe.
Asif Raza
Why I want to leave Islam by Anonymous 20 Aug, 2008 http://www.islam-watch.org/ExMuslims/Why-I-want-to-leave-Islam.htm
That my religion's founder called women, "a toy" (Tuffaha, Ahmad Zaky, Al-Mar'ah wal-Islam, Dar al-Kitab al-Lubnani, Beirut, first edition, 1985, p. 180) That my religion forces my sister and mother to wear a burka, long sleeved shirt (and maybe even a jacket to which I have seen women have to wear!) even in 120 degree weather That even if my sister and mother do wear this crap, they still are groped, pinched, harassed and even raped! That my dad can beat my mother and not even be asked about it (Ibn-Kathir, "a man must not be asked why he beat his wife." -sura 4:34) That my dad can force my mother to be in her room as long as he wants: That my sister's and mother's testimony automatically means one half a man's testimony just because they are women! (sura 2:11) That my own clerics defend the rape of non-muslim women by muslim men CALLING IT THE FAULT OF THE WOMEN! That my own leaders will SAY THEY ARE FOR PEACE BUT WHEN THEY GET BACK TO THEIR OWN COUNTRY, THEY WILL PROMOTE BLOODSHED AGAINST NON-MUSLIMS: That my god was the pagan moon-god of the Arabians That my founder married a 6 year old girl That whenever truth is brought out about my founder, my own people will threaten to kill those who are bringing out the truth That my fellow-believer (who are restaurant and pastry owners) are putting crap in their food when they sell it to non-muslims That my fellow-believers can throw gasoline upon a woman (even if she steps outside the house and talks to a man!) set her ablaze AND CALL IT AN "HONOR KILLING!": That many of my clerics around the world are calling for bloodshed against the non-Muslim That my own holy book condones war against the non-muslim That those who deny my holy book condones war against the non-muslim are "watering down" my holy book just to make it say something they want it or not want it to say That those who "water down" my holy book matters well do that to the whole koran That my holy book says god "leads those who he will" and "misleads those who he will." That Saudi textbooks call Christians "swine" and Jews "condemnable" AFTER MY OWN LEADERS TRY TO APPEASE THEM TO THEIR FACES HAVING A DOUBLE-STANDARD! That my leaders will keep blaming Israel and the US for it's own troubles! That sexual intercourse is ONLY for the man, and not the woman (contemporary Muslim commentator) That my mom has to please my dad at all times in order for her to enter paradise (Hadith no. ii, 60) That although women outnumber men in hell, she MAY be able to slip into paradise ONLY if she is totally obedient, and TOTALLY pleasing to her husband at the time of her death. That it is said, "When a woman comes she comes in the form of a devil." (Hadith no. 3240). That it is said, "The support of the woman (nafaaqa) is obligatory on the man in return for the woman being locked up in the man's house, and for being exclusively his." ('Abd ar-Rahman al-Gaziri, al-Fiqh 'ala al-Mazahibib al-Arba'a, Dar al-Kutub al-'EElmeyah, 1990, vol. 4, pg. 495.) THAT A MAN HAS THE RIGHT TO PREVENT HIS WIFE FROM CARING FOR HER CHILD FROM A PREVIOUS MARRIAGE ("The husband has the right to prevent his wife form looking after and breast feeding her baby, from her previous husband, (if she was living in the husband's house), because that will make her too busy to attend to the husband, and it will affect her beauty and cleanliness, all these are the rights of the husband alone." (Hanafites.--'Abd ar-Rahman al-Gaziri, 1990, vol. 4., p. 488.) That when Islamists complain about how "they are treated" in other countries, in their own countries they burn churches, kidnap non-Muslim women, persecute them and even kill them if they convert from Islam calling it "honor killing" (like, the guy in Saudi Arabia--never prosecuted for cutting out his daughter's tongue and brutally killing her. That "Honor killings" are not prosecuted even if it's a Muslim daughter or wife.
Comment: Though this description of his book seems rather tame it still troubles me deeply that Imam Hassan Qazwini would support the viewing of a terrorist television station right in the middle of Dearborn, where he heads the largest mosque in American. Dearborn is home to the largest Islamic population in America and his support of this terrorist television station is very disconcerting.
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In this inspiring narrative, one of this country’s most important Muslim leaders reveals the story of his life and his faith, and why Islam is good for America. As the religious leader of the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan, Imam Hassan Qazwini serves the largest Muslim congregation in the United States. His dramatic journey to these shores began in 1971, when his father’s anti-Baathist views forced his family to flee from Saddam’s Iraq to Kuwait and then to war-torn Iran. Then, in 1992, with his father’s blessing, he left for the United States, a place where young Muslims were seeking spiritual guidance and where his children could grow up in the peace Qazwini had been denied.
First in California and then in Michigan, Qazwini saw a shocking new world in which leaders were openly mocked, women’s bodies were on display in public, and Christian symbols were disparaged without consequence. He also saw a land in which the lack of a common faith necessitated a great effort to create a shared community. By counseling American Muslims–and sharing his religion with those of other beliefs–he came to feel at home in the country he already loved, and he became a trusted advisor to local and national politicians.
Then, after 9/11, Osama bin Laden gave him “a new full-time job.” American Crescent vividly describes Qazwini’s efforts to show Americans how those who destroyed the World Trade Center had hijacked Islam as well, and that most Muslims were appalled by their actions. Yet he also takes the Bush administration to task for championing the prejudicial Patriot Act (after Muslims supported George W. Bush in the 2000 election) and deplores its conduct in the Iraq War.
Throughout American Crescent, Qazwini offers a revelatory look at the tenets and history of Islam, defending it as a faith of peace and diversity, and challenging stereotypes and misconceptions promulgated by the media. Iran, he points out, has a higher percentage of women in its parliament than the United States does in both houses of Congress. “If you want to learn about Islam,” he writes, “turn off the TV.”
At once a fascinating personal story and a heartfelt plea to integrate Islamic teachings into the tolerant traditions of America, this book is an important contribution to our understanding of all those who live among us, at a time when it matters most.
About the Author Imam Hassan Qazwini is descended from seven generations of prestigious Islamic scholars. He was born in Karbala, Iraq, in 1964 and moved to the United States in 1992. He serves as the spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan, regularly meets with presidents and other politicians, and has appeared on CNN, NPR, and the BBC and in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, the Detroit Free Press, The Detroit News, and a wide range of other media outlets.
Brad Crawford, the co-author of American Crescent, is the author of Compass American Guides: Ohio and the co-author of My Sister Is Missing: Bringing a Killer to Justice. A graduate of the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism, he freelances full-time from Cincinnati, Ohio. His website is www.bradcrawford.net.
The most excellent jihad is the uttering of truth in the presence of an unjust ruler.1 —The Prophet Muhammad ONE NIGHT IN early 1971, my father came home at nine o’clock to find an urgent message from the governor of Iraq’s Karbala province, Shabib al-Maliki. He returned the call, and their conversation was brief, which made it either more ominous or less, I’m not sure. Governor Maliki wanted to see him right away. Nine o’clock was late for Karbala; in the Middle East lunch, not dinner, is the main meal of the day, and the first call to prayer comes at dawn. My father’s experiences over the previous ten years, and especially in the two and a half years since the Baath party had come to power, had taught us that a request for a late-night meeting could signal nothing positive. Two days earlier, a close friend of my father’s, Ayatollah Mohammad Shirazi, had fled the country after learning of a plot to assassinate him. Ayatollah Shirazi was one of Iraq’s most learned and trusted scholars of Islamic jurisprudence, a mujtahid, and he unflinchingly criticized the Baathists, a dangerous practice under an anti-Shia regime whose ideology and rule were based on consensus through fear. Baathist assaults frequently targeted the outspoken and the charismatic. The more influential the critic, the more savage the government’s response. It might start with legal harassment and escalate to overt threats. Then anonymous agents of the Mukhabarat, the secret police known as the “visitors of the dawn,” would knock on your door in the pre-waking hours when witnesses were few and the element of surprise high. If you were lucky, they administered a beating. If you were not, they took you to headquarters for interrogation, torture, or execution, depending on whether you told them what they wanted to hear. Detainees at Abu Ghraib, the British-built sixties-era facility where the Baathists held many of their political prisoners, experienced cruelty of the most imaginatively ghoulish varieties: scalding with boiling water in their most sensitive areas, branding, crucifixion, blinding with insecticides, feet-first insertion into an industrial grinder. They were dissolved in acid baths while their wives were forced to watch. Some simply vanished. Upon learning of his impending fate, Ayatollah Shirazi made the sensible decision to avoid torture or death and instead struck out for Kuwait under cover of darkness. He told no one of his plan. At the governor’s office soon after receiving the message, my father joined a secretary and Governor Maliki himself, who didn’t waste any time in revealing his agenda: Where is your friend Shirazi? Why did he leave? My father could take some comfort in the fact that Governor Maliki had seemingly called this meeting to discuss Ayatollah Shirazi and not his own criticisms of the regime, which were frequent. I don’t know where he went, my father said—and it was true; he did not—but I can tell you that Ayatollah Shirazi left because he feared for his life. Two years earlier, Ayatollah Hassan Shirazi, Mohammad’s brother, had written poems mocking the regime and openly denounced those in power as thugs and gangsters. He was arrested, tortured, and nearly executed. Only widespread public outrage at his treatment saved him. (He fled to Lebanon, where one of Saddam Hussein’s agents assassinated him in 1980.) Governor Maliki pretended for my father’s benefit that Ayatollah Mohammad Shirazi had overreacted. Shirazi was very safe in Karbala, he said. He had no reason to worry. You’re right, my father said, and the best proof of what you say is the two sheikhs, Ayatollah Shirazi’s associates, who were arrested at the doorstep of Imam Husayn’s shrine yesterday. (The shrine dated to Karbala’s very origins and powerfully symbolized the struggles for justice of all Shia Muslims.) Governor Maliki retorted that the Iranian sheikhs, who were Shia clerics, had been deported for lack of proper documentation. My father had known the governor, a Shia lawyer, for years before the Baathists came to power, and he knew he could not win this argument. Though not a Baathist himself, Maliki was accountable to them, and the future awaiting a governor who defied the regime would be dark, and short. The secretary left the room, and Governor Maliki fell silent. When he spoke again, his officious tone had disappeared. Sayed Mortadha, he said, I love you, and I don’t want you to get hurt. He shook his head. I should not give you this advice. My position requires that I not give you this advice . . . You will be next. If Shirazi had stayed, he would not be alive right now. You should go. The next morning my mother woke us up at four o’clock instead of the usual seven and told us there would be no school that day. We were going on a trip to Basra. I was six years old and so happy about not going to school that I didn’t think to question why we had to rise so early. We took only what we would need for a few days: a change of clothes and some snacks for the car. Everything else, including my father’s extensive library, stayed behind. Before we left, my grandfather Ayatollah Mohammad Sadiq Qazwini stopped by the house, and my father knelt to kiss his hand. As they embraced, I sensed that it would be a long time before they saw each other again. A Mercedes-Benz cab pulled up after morning prayers and all seven of us squeezed inside: my father, my mother, my three older brothers, my one older sister, and me. A ten-hour drive away, Basra was the largest city in southern Iraq, a somewhat ragged old port town once known as the Venice of the Middle East for its extensive canal system. Founded as a garrison a few years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, it seemed to be continually caught in the middle of conflict, probably because of its strategic position on the Shatt al-Arab, the union of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, near the Persian Gulf. All of Iraq’s oil exports passed this way, and the borders of both Iran and Kuwait were less than thirty miles away. Later the city would be hit hard in the eight-year Iran-Iraq War, the Gulf War, and the Iraq War. The tone in the car was not at all somber. For my siblings and me, this was a field trip. My father, however, remained quiet throughout the drive, looking serious and preoccupied. Occasionally he paged through a Qur’an he held on his lap and whispered a few prayers. We stopped only for bathroom breaks, and those weren’t frequent enough. North of Basra, the road forks; one road leads downtown, and the other, the route we took, leads southwest to Safwan, a village near the Kuwaiti border. We all noted the change in plans, but none of us was brave enough to ask why we weren’t, in fact, going to Basra. The closer we came to the border, the quieter my father got. Iraq and Kuwait have a historically uneasy relationship. In the days when the Ottoman empire controlled southeastern Europe, most of the Middle East, and the Mediterranean coast of Africa, the two lands were one, though for centuries Kuwait had a semiautonomous sheikhdom. Iraq surrendered its claim to Kuwait when the former escaped British rule in 1932 but was unaware at that time of its neighbor’s vast petroleum reserves. When Kuwait shed its status as a British protectorate in 1961, Iraq’s prime minister, Abdul Karim Qasim, disputed the claim of independence and mobilized troops on the border. War appeared imminent. The British dispatched their military, backed by Arab countries, to defuse the situation, and Prime Minister Qasim backed off. As a well-known preacher and authority on Islamic principles, my father had traveled to at least half a dozen countries to speak; those engagements accounted for most of our household income. He refused to accept a salary for teaching at the seminary, believing that work to be one of his fundamental religious obligations. In a fortunate quirk of timing, he was already scheduled to speak in Kuwait in two weeks, so the idea that we were crossing as a family in advance of his lecture might have seemed plausible to officers manning the checkpoints. At the border, my father warned us to keep quiet and stay in the car. He strode to the office and got his passport stamped. We passed through a second checkpoint, then a third. Border guards would ask a few routine questions, compare faces with passports, and wave us through. Perhaps having a private driver lent the journey an air of legitimacy. Whatever the reason, we entered Kuwait without incident, without the rest of us even appreciating the risk involved. Later, at my uncle’s house in Kuwait City, I overheard my uncle telling my father, “You were right. You did the right thing, and you got out safely.” But if one of Saddam’s spies had observed our flight and called ahead to the border checkpoint . . . Governor Maliki, certainly an intelligent man, must have calculated that the government would attribute our disappearance to fear in the wake of Ayatollah Shirazi’s preemptive exile. Not only did the governor never face punishment for his tip to my father, he also became the minister of justice a decade later, when the name of that ministry held even fewer promises for those at odds with the regime. The border guards discovered too late that we were not supposed to leave the country, but what punishment they suffered for their oversight, I cannot say. BIRTH OF THE SHIA Whenever he deemed it useful, Saddam would kill Muslims, Christians, Communists, and anyone else without regard for their beliefs. In the 1950s he was so notorious as a hot-tempered gangster on the streets of Sunni-dominated Tikrit, a rough-and-tumble city to begin with, that the Baath party recruited him as an enforcer while he was still in his teens. A few years later, they chose him to lead the assassination of Prime Minister Qasim, who had gained power through a coup himself the year before. Saddam failed (and took a bullet in the process), but not...
The Coalition Against Terrorist Media today called on Indonesia Telkom to cease its broadcasts of al-Manar, Hezbollah’s television station, widely known for its glorification of suicide bombings and incitement to violence.
“Indonesia is widely regarded as a role model for its commitment to democratic principles and for the recognition that democracy can be consistent with Islam. Indonesia Telkom, whose largest shareholder is the government of Indonesia, should follow the lead of other major satellite companies and cease its ties to Hezbollah’s propaganda arm.”
Mark Dubowitz, Manager of the Coalition, said, “The Jakarta government should not be enabling the broadcast of al-Manar because it uses the Quran to justify terrorism and violence. Surely, that does not promote the kind of Islam for which Indonesian society is known.”
Dubowitz continued, “Nor do democracies permit speech that incites and encourages terrorism. Indonesia is a growing democracy, one that the world looks to for the way it has preserved and respected Islam while strengthening democratic institutions.”
Al-Manar was the first media organization to be designated a terrorist entity by the United States. In addition to openly broadcasting incitement to violence and recruiting terrorists, al-Manar was found to provide “operational surveillance” to Hezbollah. In designating al-Manar a Specially Designated Terrorist entity, the United States government understood that terrorist organizations masquerading as legitimate media outlets should be recognized for what they are.
Al-Manar has been found to be in breach of the European Television Without Frontiers Directive (TWFD). According to Article 22a, “Member States shall ensure that broadcasts do not contain any incitement to hatred on grounds of race, sex, religion or nationality.”
When al-Manar was launched, its website stated its purpose: to wage “psychological warfare” against its enemies, including the United States. That goal remains the same today. In an interview, an al-Manar official said its programming is meant to “help people on the way to committing what you call in the West a suicide mission.” Implementing its goal, many of al-Manar’s videos aim to recruit terrorists. Al-Manar uses music videos and programs aimed at children glorifying suicide bombers and encouraging children to engage in terrorist activity.
In urging Indonesia Telkom to cease its relationship with al-Manar, Dubowitz said, “Indonesia Telkom’s relationship with al-Manar cannot be seen merely as a business transaction. In today’s world, corporations have global responsibilities besides earning a few extra dollars for its shareholders. Moreover, transacting commerce with terrorist entities can’t help shareholder value.”
Asiasat, Eutelsat, Globecast, NSS, Intelsat, Hispasat, Amazonas, TARBS and most recently Thaicom are some of the satellite companies that have ceased broadcasting al-Manar.
CATM, a coalition of Muslim, Christian, Jewish and secular organizations and individuals in Europe, the Middle East and the United States, works to educate the public, the satellite industry and governments about media outlets that are owned or funded by terrorist organizations and those who advocate or incite violence.
A man whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism.
"Very few people were true Nazis "he said," but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, we had lost control and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories."
We are told again and again by "experts" and "talking heads" that Islam is the religion of peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectre of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam. The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history.
It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor killers. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. The hard quantifiable fact is that the "peaceful majority", the "silent majority", is cowed and extraneous.
Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China 's huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.
The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet. And, who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery? Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were "peace loving"?
History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points: Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence.
Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up, because, like my friend from Germany, they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them and the end of their world will have begun.
Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghanis, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late.
As for us who watch it all unfold; we must pay attention to the only group that counts; the fanatics who threaten our way of life.
A report is pending from www.mappingsharia.us that should shed even more light as to the Islamic extremism being taught in America's mosques.
I was told in early 2008 that the initial report would be coming out in "soon" in early 2008. But when you go to the site it becomes obvious that new content stopped around the end of 2007. I've got to wonder what is going on with this project (e.g., has it somehow been silenced). At any rate I sent them an email on 08/28/2008 and they sent the following reply:
"We’re working on the data analysis and write up now. Probably a month away."
In previous conversations with this group I was told that there is at least one mosque in the Dearborn area that was surveyed and analyzed for the forthcoming report. In the meantime you can check out their website or listen to an interview that radio host Michael Savage did with one of the authors of the report:
Of course Islamic extremist is not just confined to some of the Islamic mosques, it is also growing across our University campuses. The following video will expose the infiltration of Islamic groups upon our colleges and universities:
I want to qualify this video by saying there are a few things I don't agree with: (1) I also don't support most of the Patriot Act and (2) I DO believe US government complicity in 911 (with the help of Islamic Fanatics).
Sherry Jones, the journalist whose debut novel, The Jewel of Medina, about the prophet Muhammed and his lady friend A'isha, got canceled when Random House, her publisher, got scared of getting terrorist-attacked, has posted a brief but fierce missive that her 14-year-old daughter Mariah wrote in response to one Jonathan Moeller, who'd been critical of her mom's book on his blog.
Mariah posted her note as a comment on Mr. Moeller's blog last night at 11:17pm:
Hello, I am Sherry Jones's daughter, Mariah. I'm fourteen, and for a teenager, I see that this article is disgraceful. My mother's book (which I have actually read), is anything but 'Trashy'. How could anyone, who has not had the opportunity to read this book, judge it without concern. Denise Spellberg, ruined my mother's dreams and hard work. She may not have realized to consequences of doing so, but being a member of the Jones family, I do. When you give criticism, it should be constructive criticism. Not a letter proclaiming that there would be terrorist attacks, and that Spellberg "feared" for her life. This, is just unfair. My mother, is a respectable person. She would never purposefully put down someone's religion, regardless of what some people may think. Her book is full of passion, and life. Not of trashy scenes. When you say "T.M.I.", my guess is that you mean "Too Much Information", when obviously, you don't have enough.
Ms. Jones reproduced her daughter's note on her blog about an hour later, after she came home from dancing. "Ah, that's my girl," Ms. Jones wrote. "A chick off the old block."
Mr. Moeller responded the following morning:
Mariah:
I’m not entirely certain if you’re disagreeing with me or the Wall Street Journal article. I’ll assume both.
You’ll notice that I strongly disagreed with Random House’s decision to pull the book, and expressed hope that Ms. Jones would find another publisher and sell “a gazillion” copies. I also noted that it was something of a double standard for Prof. Spellberg to denounce “Jewel” while supporting “The Last Temptation of Christ”. As for “TMI”, well - I do not care for romance novels in general, since they seem to be a genre devoted entirely to “TMI”. That is of course a personal taste, and people are free to disagree with me.
This leads me to the altogether peculiar position of supporting the publication of a book I probably would never have read otherwise.
Anyway, I hope things work out for you and Ms. Jones. Considering the substantial publicity the cancellation has already generated, I’d say there’s a good chance of that happening. The biggest hurdle for any fiction writer is to get people interested in the book, since they’ll never buy it otherwise. Obviously, having the contract canceled is probably not the best way to go about it, but it seems to be working for “Jewel”.
Mariah hit right back after lunch with a semi-conciliatory response, saying, among other things, "I know, that there are people, who will judge her book without even reading it, and this is what pisses me off. How dare you (Not you Johnathan, the people who are too narrow minded to accept something new.), pass judgement on something more beautiful and literate then you could ever hope to be."
You Still Can't Write About Muhammad By ASRA Q. NOMANI August 6, 2008; Page A15 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121797979078815073.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries
Starting in 2002, Spokane, Wash., journalist Sherry Jones toiled weekends on a racy historical novel about Aisha, the young wife of the prophet Muhammad. Ms. Jones learned Arabic, studied scholarly works about Aisha's life, and came to admire her protagonist as a woman of courage. When Random House bought her novel last year in a $100,000, two-book deal, she was ecstatic. This past spring, she began plans for an eight-city book tour after the Aug. 12 publication date of "The Jewel of Medina" -- a tale of lust, love and intrigue in the prophet's harem.
Corbis It's not going to happen: In May, Random House abruptly called off publication of the book. The series of events that torpedoed this novel are a window into how quickly fear stunts intelligent discourse about the Muslim world.
Random House feared the book would become a new "Satanic Verses," the Salman Rushdie novel of 1988 that led to death threats, riots and the murder of the book's Japanese translator, among other horrors. In an interview about Ms. Jones's novel, Thomas Perry, deputy publisher at Random House Publishing Group, said that it "disturbs us that we feel we cannot publish it right now." He said that after sending out advance copies of the novel, the company received "from credible and unrelated sources, cautionary advice not only that the publication of this book might be offensive to some in the Muslim community, but also that it could incite acts of violence by a small, radical segment."
After consulting security experts and Islam scholars, Mr. Perry said the company decided "to postpone publication for the safety of the author, employees of Random House, booksellers and anyone else who would be involved in distribution and sale of the novel."
This saga upsets me as a Muslim -- and as a writer who believes that fiction can bring Islamic history to life in a uniquely captivating and humanizing way. "I'm devastated," Ms. Jones told me after the book got spiked, adding, "I wanted to honor Aisha and all the wives of Muhammad by giving voice to them, remarkable women whose crucial roles in the shaping of Islam have so often been ignored -- silenced -- by historians." Last month, Ms. Jones signed a termination agreement with Random House, so her literary agent could shop the book to other publishers.
This time, the instigator of the trouble wasn't a radical Muslim cleric, but an American academic. In April, looking for endorsements, Random House sent galleys to writers and scholars, including Denise Spellberg, an associate professor of Islamic history at the University of Texas in Austin. Ms. Jones put her on the list because she read Ms. Spellberg's book, "Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of 'A'isha Bint Abi Bakr."
But Ms. Spellberg wasn't a fan of Ms. Jones's book. On April 30, Shahed Amanullah, a guest lecturer in Ms. Spellberg's classes and the editor of a popular Muslim Web site, got a frantic call from her. "She was upset," Mr. Amanullah recalls. He says Ms. Spellberg told him the novel "made fun of Muslims and their history," and asked him to warn Muslims.
In an interview, Ms. Spellberg told me the novel is a "very ugly, stupid piece of work." The novel, for example, includes a scene on the night when Muhammad consummated his marriage with Aisha: "the pain of consummation soon melted away. Muhammad was so gentle. I hardly felt the scorpion's sting. To be in his arms, skin to skin, was the bliss I had longed for all my life." Says Ms. Spellberg: "I walked through a metal detector to see 'Last Temptation of Christ,'" the controversial 1980s film adaptation of a novel that depicted a relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene. "I don't have a problem with historical fiction. I do have a problem with the deliberate misinterpretation of history. You can't play with a sacred history and turn it into soft core pornography."
After he got the call from Ms. Spellberg, Mr. Amanullah dashed off an email to a listserv of Middle East and Islamic studies graduate students, acknowledging he didn't "know anything about it [the book]," but telling them, "Just got a frantic call from a professor who got an advance copy of the forthcoming novel, 'Jewel of Medina' -- she said she found it incredibly offensive." He added a write-up about the book from the Publishers Marketplace, an industry publication.
The next day, a blogger known as Shahid Pradhan posted Mr. Amanullah's email on a Web site for Shiite Muslims -- "Hussaini Youth" -- under a headline, "upcoming book, 'Jewel of Medina': A new attempt to slander the Prophet of Islam." Two hours and 28 minutes after that, another person by the name of Ali Hemani proposed a seven-point strategy to ensure "the writer withdraws this book from the stores and apologise all the muslims across the world."
Meanwhile back in New York City, Jane Garrett, an editor at Random House's Knopf imprint, dispatched an email on May 1 to Knopf executives, telling them she got a phone call the evening before from Ms. Spellberg (who happens to be under contract with Knopf to write "Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an.")
"She thinks there is a very real possibility of major danger for the building and staff and widespread violence," Ms. Garrett wrote. "Denise says it is 'a declaration of war . . . explosive stuff . . . a national security issue.' Thinks it will be far more controversial than the satanic verses and the Danish cartoons. Does not know if the author and Ballantine folks are clueless or calculating, but thinks the book should be withdrawn ASAP." ("The Jewel of Medina" was to be published by Random House's Ballantine Books.) That day, the email spread like wildfire through Random House, which also received a letter from Ms. Spellberg and her attorney, saying she would sue the publisher if her name was associated with the novel. On May 2, a Ballantine editor told Ms. Jones's agent the company decided to possibly postpone publication of the book.
On a May 21 conference call, Random House executive Elizabeth McGuire told the author and her agent that the publishing house had decided to indefinitely postpone publication of the novel for "fear of a possible terrorist threat from extremist Muslims" and concern for "the safety and security of the Random House building and employees."
All this saddens me. Literature moves civilizations forward, and Islam is no exception. There is in fact a tradition of historical fiction in Islam, including such works as "The Adventures of Amir Hamza," an epic on the life of Muhammad's uncle. Last year a 948-page English translation was published, ironically, by Random House. And, for all those who believe the life of the prophet Muhammad can't include stories of lust, anger and doubt, we need only read the Quran (18:110) where, it's said, God instructed Muhammad to tell others: "I am only a mortal like you."
Ms. Nomani, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, is the author of "Standing Alone: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam" (HarperOne, 2006).
You just got to check out the stuff on this website. The more you listen to this crap the more you have to wonder when they got lobotomized. One of my favorite links is a audio discussion of polygamy in Islam. This Black male Muslim is continuously questioned by a black women who keeps saying that basically black women are not buying this crap. It is really funny stuff, until you consider what a threat Islam is to our Constitution and the freedoms of all humankind.
Of course polygamy is, and has always been, strictly reserved for the elite. I mean, how many poor men are likely to have multiple wives. Islamic polygamy belies the bullshit about "a religion of peace." It may be peaceful for the Muslim elite, however, the masses just serve as their dhimmi's, kafirs and slaves. Wake up an smell the ganja brothers and sisters, before you find yourselves back in shackles and chains again -- as Muslim slaves.
And you really have to wonder if these Black Muslims have a clue as to how Muslims forced millions of Black females into sexual slavery and castrated so many Black males who were also forced into labor slavery. I have a feeling that if every Black Muslim would just watch the following video . . . there would be no more Black Muslims, period. And that is exactly why I hope millions of Black Muslims take the time to watch this video:
The purpose of this article is to show how the barbaric nature of Islam manifests itself in the cruel treatment of women.
1. Lets start with the "great" Mohammed himself, the founder of this "fabulous" faith. Mohammed was married to Khadija Bibi, his employer and 15 years his senior. At that time Mohammed was 25 years old. He was Khadija Bibi's third husband. Khadija Bibi was a widow when she married Mohammed. For the first time in his life, Mohammed enjoyed a luxurious life.
This shows the parasitic nature of Mohammed who married his employer so that he can live a rich life without putting in a single day's work.
2. Khadija Bibi died when Mohammed was 49 years old. Between the ages of 49 and 63 the "great prophet" married at least 11 times.
This shows how he treated the institution of marriage. For him, women were nothing but objects for sexual fulfillment. Marrying at least 11 women in 14 years throws light on his insatiable sexual appetite.
Read on about the "greatness" of this prophet.
3. Mohammed's favorite wife was Ayesha Bibi who was 6 years old when she was married to him.
Marrying a 6 year old baby clearly shows that Mohammed was not only a womanizer but also a child molester.
4. Mohammed's adopted son Zayed was married to Zainab, daughter of Jahsh. But one day the prophet "beheld in a loose undress, the beauty of Zainab, and burst forth into an ejaculation of devotion and desire. The servile, or greatful, freeman (Zayed) understood the hint and yielded without hesitation to the love of the benefactor."
Mohammed was not satisfied with his own overflowing harem and had to marry his son's wife. His son being a devoted follower of the "great" prophet was more than happy to divorce his wife. What a great father-in-law Mohammed was, a model for all Islamic father-in-laws!
Pat Condell is from England and provides a glimpse of the plans Islamic Fundamentalists have for the United States. He has a dry, cutting sense of humor which is good for a laugh. But he truly gives perspective to the unease between Muslims/Non-Muslims in Europe and makes an incredibly good argument for stopping the further immigration, of people from Muslim countries, into the United States. Having said that I want to make clear that New Age Citizen does not discriminate on this issue: we want no more immigration, Legal/Illegal, of any ethnicity into the United States, until American workers are economically secure once again. We feel such a moratorium should last a minimum of 20 years. See the "New Agenda for America" for more information on our political planks and positions.
A word to Islamofascists
Letter to Pat Condell:
Pat Condell: [pat@patcondell.net]
I live in Dearborn, Michigan . . . the most concentrated population of Muslims in the United States. I've recently started a section titled "Dearbornistan" where I am showing some of your videos:
http://www.newagecitizen.com/Dearbornistan.htm
Hope you don't mind. But frankly, I wouldn't care if you did. [picked that humor up from you, hee, hee]
Anyway, onto more serious stuff:
* You said the witch was executed recently. Which witch? Was that the female that caused the Saudi to become impudent? I see no articles verifying her death as of yet.
* Any opinion on what is going on in Kosovo? I am mystified as to why the US is supporting an Islamic state so close to Europe. Well, not really. See the following link for more perspective:
* Also wondering what you thoughts are on the attempted censorship of Wilders "Fitna" film; your opinion of him etc. See the current "Dearbornistan" page for more information.
* Finally, if you have any perspectives as to how Middle Easterners are buying up our city I'd sure love to hear your perspectives. I don't think they raised the money working a second job. Just today an Iraqi was charge in a Iraqi "oil for food" scandal (through the UN) where he was given 3 million barrels of oil. Not sure how that works out but at even $30/barrel that grosses to 90 million dollars. You could sure buy a lot of gas stations with that allowance.
Metro Iraqi is charged in spy case BY NIRAJ WARIKOO • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • March 27, 2008
At any rate I appreciate your brave "stand ups" on the issue of Islamic Fundamentalism. You might also be interested in viewing the video "What the West Needs to Know" . . . aslo at the current "Dearbornistan" page.
That's all for now.
Yours in Freedom,
Bruce W. Cain Editor, New Age Citizen www.newagecitizen.com
I don't intend to spend a lot of time on this section because there is really no reason to invent the wheel here. Over the years I have found the Debbie Schlussel's website is probably the best single source of "alternative" information on the Mid-Eastern (ME) Community. If you live in SE Michigan and want an alternative view of the ME community this is a site that you should visit regularly. I think what you read here will both educate and infuriate you. And sometimes that is a good thing. I don't necessarily endorse everything that Debbie says, as is the case with any person or article that I might make reference to. But I do think you will find this information source to be particularly revelatory.
These are just a few links that will give you an alternative view of Islam that you aren't going to read about in the Detroit Free Press, the Detroit News, or any other corporately controlled media source.
Central Ohioans Against Terrorism http://ohioagainstterror.blogspot.com/
Christian Solidarity Worldwide http://dynamic.csw.org.uk /* This site is included because it documents the persecution of Christians by Muslims, Chinese that other groups */
This is an extremely disturbing video and not for those with weak stomachs. But I present it here because I think it shows a side of Islamofacism that is largely "covered up" in the global media. This video underlines my argument against further immigration into the United States by any group. But in the wake of 911 I think it prudent that we specifically and immediately stem the flow of immigrants from all Muslim countries.
In this inspiring narrative, one of this country’s most important Muslim leaders reveals the story of his life and his faith, and why Islam is good for America. As the religious leader of the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan, Imam Hassan Qazwini serves the largest Muslim congregation in the United States. His dramatic journey to these shores began in 1971, when his father’s anti-Baathist views forced his family to flee from Saddam’s Iraq to Kuwait and then to war-torn Iran. Then, in 1992, with his father’s blessing, he left for the United States, a place where young Muslims were seeking spiritual guidance and where his children could grow up in the peace Qazwini had been denied. 
Sherry Jones, the journalist whose debut novel, The Jewel of Medina, about the prophet Muhammed and his lady friend A'isha, got canceled when Random House, her publisher, got scared of getting terrorist-attacked, has posted a brief but fierce missive that her 14-year-old daughter Mariah wrote in response to one Jonathan Moeller, who'd been critical of her mom's book on his blog. 
You just got to check out the stuff on this website. The more you listen to this crap the more you have to wonder when they got lobotomized. One of my favorite links is a audio discussion of polygamy in Islam. This Black male Muslim is continuously questioned by a black women who keeps saying that basically black women are not buying this crap. It is really funny stuff, until you consider what a threat Islam is to our Constitution and the freedoms of all humankind.