Anti-Jihad League of America http://anti-jihad.org/ en Copyright 2008 Sat, 20 Dec 2008 08:02:49 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Congresswoman Sue Myrick and Congressman Frank Wolf's Letter to AIG Regarding Sharia Business - Updated


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]]> http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/12/myrick-wolf-aig-sharia/ http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/12/myrick-wolf-aig-sharia/ Sat, 20 Dec 2008 08:02:49 -0500 Congresswoman Sue Myrick and Congressman Frank Wolf's Letter to AIG Regarding AIG's Sharia Business Myrick_and_Wolf_AIG_Shariah_Letter_Dec_2008.pdf]]> http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/12/myrick-wolf-aig/ http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/12/myrick-wolf-aig/ Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:14:59 -0500 AIG Sharia Business - Updates and Lawsuit Against AIG http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/16/uncle-shariah/

(U.S.) Lawsuit Filed to Stop AIG's Sharia Businesses
--- Lawsuit Filed Against Treasury Dept: Stop AIG Bailout Financing Terrorism
http://www.thomasmore.org/qry/page.taf?id=19
--- SANE's David Yerushalmi joins Thomas More Law Center to sue USG for its support of Shariah
http://www.saneworks.us/SANEs-David-Yerushalmi-joins-Thomas-More-Law-Center-to-sue-USG-for-its-support-of-Shariah-newsblog-2346.htm
--- PDF of Legal Complain to Department of Treasury: Murray v Paulson et al 
http://www.thomasmore.org/downloads/sb_thomasmore/DepartmentoftheTreasury-Complaint.pdf
http://www.saneworks.us/uploads/news/applications/35.pdf

Related Reports:
Jeffrey Imm articles on Sharia Finance:
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/immscf.html
--- End U.S. Ownership of Sharia Business Now Petition - nearly 5,600 Signatures as of today!
http://www.petitiononline.com/stopaig/petition.html

December 4, 2008 - AIG Defies U.S. Taxpayers by Promoting Sharia in America
http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/12/aig-defies-us-taxpayers/
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/118.html
-- Source Documents
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/sources_aig_dec.html

]]> http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/12/aig-update-1216/ http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/12/aig-update-1216/ Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:08:12 -0500 Human Rights, Islamic Supremacism, and Our Responsibilities Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on December 10, 1948. While the inalienable human rights of equality and liberty were declared by the United States of America on July 4, 1776, this additional Universal Declaration of Human Rights was intended to gain acceptance of fundamental human rights by other nations in the world.

Similar to the United States declaration of such inalienable human rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes "the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family."

Among the clauses in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are key components of a global commitment to the inalienable human rights of equality and liberty:
-- "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood."
-- "Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status."
-- "Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance."
-- "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."

The declaration of such fundamental inalienable human rights was defied by those promoting totalitarian ideologies, then and now. One such totalitarian ideology remains the growing threat of Islamic supremacism.

]]> http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/12/human-rights/ http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/12/human-rights/ Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:00:00 -0500 AIG Defies U.S. Taxpayers by Promoting Sharia in America Sharia-compliant finance (SCF) products, which promote the Islamic supremacist, segregationist ideology of Sharia. For a company struggling with its financial survival, it remains astounding that AIG would want to incite its American taxpayer owners by promoting products that are based on an Islamic supremacist political ideology. In October 2008, I wrote how the U.S. government gave an $85 billion loan to AIG, without demanding divestment of its business ventures reselling Sharia mutual trusts and its AIG Takaful division selling Sharia-based insurance. In November 2008, I wrote about how the U.S. government purchased $40 billion in AIG stock, making you as a taxpayer, an owner of a company promoting Sharia through such businesses.
]]> http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/12/aig-defies-us-taxpayers/ http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/12/aig-defies-us-taxpayers/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:00:00 -0500 Holy Land Foundation defendants guilty on all counts
Holy Land Foundation defendants guilty on all counts
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/112508dnmetholylandverdicts.1e5022504.html
--- Defendants in the Holy Land trial
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/longterm/stories/101907dnmetholylanddefendants.1829f8674.html
--- Investigative Project on Terrorism: HLF Officials Convicted on All Counts
http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/865
--- Justice served: Holy Land Foundation defendants guilty on all counts
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023628.php
--- AFP: Jury finds US-based Muslim charity guilty of funding terrorism
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081124/wl_mideast_afp/usmideasthamastrial

--- Defendants in the Holy Land trial
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/longterm/stories/101907dnmetholylanddefendants.1829f8674.html
--- Muslim Charity, Leaders Convicted on Charges of Funding Terror
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,456904,00.html


The Verdicts:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/longterm/stories/101907dnmetholylanddefendants.1829f8674.html

--- Ghassan Elashi
---- Dallas Morning News: "The decision: Guilty on 35 charges, including support of Hamas, money laundering and tax fraud. He faces up to life in prison."

--- Shukri Abu Baker
---- Dallas Morning News: "The decision: Guilty on 34 charges, including support of Hamas, money laundering and tax fraud. He faces up to life in prison."

--- Mufid Abdulqader
---- Dallas Morning News: "The decision: Guilty on three charges, including conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization; conspiracy to provide funds, goods and services to a specially designated terrorist; and conspiracy to commit money laundering. He could get a total of 55 years in prison."

--- Abdulrahman Odeh
---- Dallas Morning News: "The decision: Guilty on three charges, including conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization; conspiracy to provide funds, goods and services to a specially designated terrorist; and conspiracy to commit money laundering. He could get a total of 55 years in prison."

--- Mohammad El-Mezain
---- Dallas Morning News: "The decision: Guilty of providing support to Hamas, having been acquitted on 31 other charges last year. He faces up to 15 years in prison." ]]> http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/11/hlf-guilty/ http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/11/hlf-guilty/ Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:42:17 -0500 Phares: Al Qaeda's Message: We Will Not Stop Waging Jihad With Obama in the White House Written by Walid Phares


While observers waited for the release of the "official" Al Qaeda position on the election of Barack Obama as the next President of the United States, seasoned experts on the Jihadist movement had little doubt about the substance of the main message. As I have outlined in my appearances on Arabic television channels since November 4, Usama bin Laden or his second in command, was expected to declare that their "Jihad" will continue despite the election of an African-American president and despite Obama's intention to withdraw from Iraq.  Ayman al-Zawahiri lived up to expectations on Wednesday in his latest message to his supporters and his enemies. His message? Even if the war ends in Iraq, the global war will continue everywhere.

The tape was expected to appear a couple weeks after the election because that's how the terror group does things. First, Al Qaeda monitors the reaction from of the international community, both from the Arab and Muslim world and also from other Islamist authorities. The Bin Laden-Zawahiri style is to give the "last word," like a Caliph would. The points raised in the tape were almost all predicted by experts familiar with the Jihadi-combat mind set: Although a new president was elected -- one who would reverse some of Bush's policies, the new president will also devise new strategies to defeat Al Qaeda.

Zawahiri isn't buying the version proposed by other anti-American critics of Washington's War on Terror. Most of Europe's left, the Arab authoritarian regimes, and the Islamist fundamentalist establishment have all welcomed the news of an Obama victory and are tailoring new proposals for the region's future (of course to their advantage). But not Al Qaeda. That's why this Zawahiri message is important. It is telling the world and allies that there will be no respite in the conflict.

Al Qaeda's number two had to address the election of a black president of the United States because of the two massive changes this choice has brought to the Jihadist agenda:  On the one hand, public opinion of Obama is very high internationally; on the other hand the president-elect is planning to withdraw  from Iraq and forge ahead in Afghanistan.  All this changes Al Qaeda's game. Zawahiri's tape had to address these "challenges" as pressure was mounting among Jihadists to deal with this election. Hence, the main points presented by the audio message are as follows:

]]> http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/11/phares-zawahiri-oboma/ http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/11/phares-zawahiri-oboma/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:00:00 -0500 Oil, U.S. Auto Industry, Jihad, and Islamic Supremacism seeks funds from the U.S. government, Americans need to ask if this industry understands that Islamic supremacists are at war with America, and how the automobile industry is going to change its product lines to recognize the need to reduce petrodollars to our Islamic supremacist enemies.

After the 9/11 attacks, I looked in the mirror and asked myself that, if I was going to do to challenge others on Jihad and Islamic supremacism, what was I going to immediately change in my own life. I had to be able to walk the walk - personally. Among other answers, the easiest one for me was to commit to driving out Jihadists by using a fuel-efficient vehicle or other non-oil based transportation as much as possible. I am not suggesting that this is all it takes for America's energy independence crisis, nor is this a solution that will work for everyone. But we have to be able to show willingness to change and sacrifice as individuals in the larger and longer human rights war against Islamic supremacism.

Of the 19 suspected 9/11 hijackers, 13 came from Saudi Arabia. What does Saudi Arabia export other than oil and Islamic supremacism? Sand? After 9/11, it did not require a political science degree to figure out that a key focus in our economic war against Islamic supremacism had to include a focus on America's energy and oil independence from Saudi Arabia, other Islamic supremacist nations, and other foreign nations. ]]> http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/11/auto/ http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/11/auto/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:34:51 -0500 America Must Not Own a Sharia-Based Financial Business decided that they were going to use American taxpayer money to buy ownership in something against America's values of equality and liberty -- by purchasing ownership in a company with a Sharia-Compliant Finance (SCF) based business.

As an American taxpayer, you are now a part owner in a business that promotes the Islamic supremacist Sharia ideology - whether you like it or not. Your tax dollars today are now being used for own part of a company with a Sharia-based business. This is the same Sharia ideology that was used by the Taliban in Pakistan today to murder a woman for adultery, the same Sharia ideology that was used to murder a 13 year old girl last week who was raped in Somalia, and the same Sharia ideology supported by the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and Islamic supremacists around the world. It is an ideology that is against the inalienable human rights of equality and liberty. It is an ideology that even the British courts have called "discriminatory."

But on November 10, 2008, the Federal Reserve announced that "it will purchase $40 billion of newly issued AIG preferred shares," which, as AP reports, will give "taxpayers an ownership stake in the company."

The Federal Reserve Board and the Treasury Department apparently believe that American taxpayers owning part of company with a business that promotes an Islamic supremacist ideology that is against equality, against liberty, and in support of discrimination, is a good thing for the American taxpayer.

Do you want to own a Sharia-based financial business promoting Islamic supremacism? ]]> http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/11/stopsharianow/ http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/11/stopsharianow/ Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:00:00 -0500 Washington DC: Coalition to Stop Shariah Press Conference Coalition to Stop Shariah held a press conference at the National Press Club to oppose actions by the U.S. Treasury Department today to hold a course titled "Islamic Finance 101" to "train" government employees on Sharia-Compliant Finance (SCF).  The coalition, consisting of diverse groups with a shared interest in fighting Islamic supremacism, called for the U.S. Treasury Department to either cancel the training course this afternoon or to provide education on the full Islamic supremacist nature of Sharia.

Representative speakers for the coalition at the press conference included Frank Gaffney - Center for Security Policy, Robert Spencer - JihadWatch.org, Dan Pollak - Zionist Organization of America, Wendy Wright - Concerned Women for America, Faith J.H. McDonnell - The Institute on Research and Democracy, Kyle Scheindler of the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET), Jim Boulet of English First, and Warren Mendelson of the Unity Coalition for Israel. 

[NOTE: Online video is available of the remarks of Frank Gaffney and of Robert Spencer.] 

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Coalition Speakers at Press Conference
 (from left to right: Faith J.H. McDonnell, Dan Pollak, Robert Spencer, Frank Gaffney, Wendy Wright, Jim Boulet)

Frank Gaffney described the Coalition to Stop Shariah as a group, assembled in just the past several days in reaction to the Treasury SCF training and other events, as an "interfaith, non-partisan group of individuals and organizations that have decided that this is the time to begin contesting seriously a seditious program that authoritative Islam describes as Sharia.  We have come together to call attention to and to counter the insinuation of Sharia into our society and those of other freedom loving people through various means, both stealthy and nonviolent and through the use or threat of the use of force."

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Frank Gaffney at Press Conference
Online Video of His Remarks

Frank Gaffney described the efforts to expand Sharia-Compliant Finance as a threat "aimed at the very heart of the American economy."  He noted as efforts to combat Sharia have gained ground that the proponents of Sharia have renamed Sharia-Compliant Finance as "Islamic finance," "ethical finance," or "structured finance."  Mr. Gaffney pointed to the efforts by the Center for Security Policy in studying Sharia-Compliant Finance that has resulted in a legal memorandum by David Yerushalmi titled "Shari'ah's Black Box: Civil Liability and Criminal: Exposure Surrounding Shari'ah-Compliant Finance."   Senator Jon Kyl reviewed David Yerushalmi's report and Senator Kyl wrote SEC Chairman Chris Cox, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, and Attorney General Michael Mukasey asking them to respond to this report. 

To date, only SEC Chairman Cox and Fed Chairman Bernanke have responded, but Frank Gaffney stated that "it is instructive that neither Chairman Cox nor Chairman Bernanke has addressed the fundamental question which is what is Sharia and why is it a problem that we have people who are promoting Sharia which is a seditious conspiracy to bring about the overthrow of the United States government and for that matter those of other secular democracies around the world in favor of a global theocracy under Sharia."

Mr. Gaffney also recommended a publication distributed at the press conference entitled "Shariah, Law and 'Financial Jihad': How Should America Respond?" that was co-sponsored by The McCormick Foundation and The Center for Security Policy.

Regarding the U.S. Treasury Sharia-Compliant Finance training course, Frank Gaffney stated that "its purpose seems unmistakable in the complexion of the speakers all of whom it appears support Sharia-Compliant Finance, none of whom it appears is prepared to talk to these government official about what Sharia is and what constitutes as a result - the problems with a financial program designed to advance this seditious conspiracy."   Mr. Gaffney also referenced comments by the United Kingdom's Archbishop of Canterbury stating that Sharia would need to be tolerated in the UK, which were based on existing support for Sharia-Compliant Finance in the UK.

Mr. Gaffney stated that "we are determined not to let that happen here, and we are challenging the Treasury Department in its efforts to promote Sharia and Sharia-Compliant Finance."  He also noted that the Treasury trainers include advocates of Sharia-Compliant Finance and are benefiting from that industry.   He called for the Department of Treasury to have another course on Sharia "where people are allowed to talk about what Sharia is, why it is seditious, and why its manifestations in the form of Sharia-Compliant Finance must be opposed, not supported, not abetted, not implemented, especially as seems entirely possible the purpose of the Treasury Department is to use its new found leverage in the financial markets to do that kind of promotion inside our financial industry which is now owned by the Federal Government or is being influenced by the $700 billion being dangled in front of the industry."

Robert Spencer, author of Stealth Jihad and leader of JihadWatch.org, told the press conference that there has been a history of those who have sought to integrate Sharia into America's political policies. He provided the example of Harvard University's Noah Feldman as "one of the leading proponents of Sharia finance and of the spread of Sharia norms in framing of the Iraqi constitution as well as the spread of the idea of the acceptability of Sharia in the west."  Mr. Spencer pointed to Feldman's New York Times magazine column on Sharia, which has been widely distributed and reprinted around the world.  Mr. Spencer points out that Noah Feldman never addresses how Sharia "treats women and non-Muslims and that is getting to the heart of what is problematic about it and indeed seditious about it in many ways." 

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Robert Spencer at Press Conference
Online Video of His Remarks

Robert Spencer pointed out "the accommodation to the norms of Islamic law that goes under the name of Sharia cannot be separated from the accommodation of Islamic law in general.  Sharia financial provisions are not in any sense within Islam juridically or in any other sense separate from or separable from the larger aggregate of Islamic laws."  He continued "according to authoritative Islamic jurisprudence, the entirety of the provisions of Sharia that have been dictated by the Islamic holy book (the Qur'an), and Islamic traditions (the Sunna) and agreed upon by the principal scholars of all of the principal schools of Islamic law are all considered the laws of God himself, are not negotiable, are not subject to compromise or to mitigation."  "Therefore in accepting the principle that Islamic law must be the subject of special accommodation in the financial sector, the Treasury Department has set a precedent that will allow for the assertion and the acceptance of the principle that Islamic law must be the subject of special accommodation in other sectors of American society as well.  This is an extremely dangerous precedent to set for a large number of reasons.  In its classic and authoritative formulations, formulations that have never been seriously challenged by modernist reforms and are extremely unlikely to be so challenged given the nature of their authority within Islamic theology and law, Sharia is at variance with numerous core principles of American society, including the principles of freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the equality of rights of all people before the law.  Sharia institutionalizes discrimination against women and non-Muslims.  It denies the right of the human person to make the choice to hear to what he has come to believe in good conscience is the truth. It muzzles its own critics and the critics of the Islamic religion and even forbids dispassionate analysis of how Islamic texts and teachings are being used by Islamic Jihadists to justify violence and Islamic supremacism, and to gain recruits for violent and supremacist Islamic groups."

Robert Spencer then referenced 20th century Sharia activist and writer Sayyid Abul A'la Maududi (aka Mawdudi), whose writings have been collected in "Jihad in Islam".  Mr. Spencer then quoted Maududi's comments that:

"Islam wishes to destroy all States and Governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and programme of Islam regardless of the country or the Nation which rules it. The purpose of Islam is to set up a State on the basis of its own ideology and programme, regardless of which Nation assumes the role of the standard bearer of Islam or the rule of which nation is undermined in the process of the establishment of an ideological Islamic State."

"Islam does not intend to confine this revolution to a single State or a few countries; the aim of Islam is to bring about a universal revolution."
Robert Spencer indicated that such Sharia revolutionary thinking "strikes directly and explicitly, and not apologetically, against secular government or the idea of government where there is not establishment of a religion."  He further addressed Sharia activist Maududi's commentary on the Qur'an that called for subjugation of Jews and Christians under Islamic law, and added that Maududi demanded that non-Muslims have absolutely no right to wield "the reins of power in any part of God's earth," and if they do then according to Maududi, "the believers" are responsible for dislodging them from such power using any means possible. 

Robert Spencer stated that "this revolution has also come to the United States and is advancing here."  He referenced the objective of International Muslim Brotherhood in undermining the United States, as has been previously stated in a Muslim Brotherhood memorandum, admitted in evidence during the first Holy Land Foundation terror finance trial, where the Muslim Brotherhood calls for "eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah's religion is made victorious over all other religions."  Robert Spencer also pointed out that this same Muslim Brotherhood memorandum also lists numerous Islamic groups, many of which are active in America today and viewed by many as "moderate," were to be involved in such infiltration of America.  Many of these groups also support Sharia finance.

As an example of the challenge to America with such Islamic supremacist thinking, Robert Spencer also referenced ISNA Board member Ihsan Bagby who has stated: "we [Muslims] can never be full citizens of this country... because there is no way we can be fully committed to the institutions and ideologies of this country."  Mr. Spencer stated that this type of thinking will only continue to grow with the accommodation to Sharia finance and Sharia norms.  He views this as "the assumption that Islamic law is superior to American law and must one day supplant it."  Mr. Spencer views that the U.S. Treasury Department's Sharia finance training, without providing the ideological background on what Sharia is and the threat it poses to human rights, will only "provide support for this kind of assumption."  He stated that "Americans, both Muslim and non-Muslim, deserve better," and referenced that many Muslims came to America to escape the same Sharia that it now is finding once again America.  He concluded that "Americans, Muslims and non-Muslims, who saw our nation brutally and gratuitously attacked on September 11, 2001 by adherence of the idea that Islamic law must be imposed over the entire world, they deserve better. Women deserve better. All free people deserve better."  Mr. Spencer also called for the U.S Treasury to open an investigation into what Sharia means and intends to do, to provide full understanding to those being trained regarding Sharia Compliant-Finance.  He also called for the U.S. Treasury to curb the spread of Sharia Compliant-Finance in our nation's financial institutions.

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Dan Pollak at Press Conference

Dan Pollak of the Zionist Organization of America stated that his organization joins the coalition "to oppose the imposition of Sharia-Compliant financing on the American financial system."   He stated that Sharia scholars "who determine where investments can be made in Sharia financing" have been united in condemning Israel and "all interactions with Israelis and Jews."  Mr. Pollak pointed out that the U.S. Treasury Department should speak to the U.S. Department of Justice as it is "against U.S. law for any company to participate in the Arab-sponsored boycott of Israel."  He further stated that the "division of a world where only Sharia is the guiding principle is actually the root of Arab-Israeli conflict," condemning the "intolerance of Sharia and the hatred it breeds."

Mr. Pollak implored that "our Constitutional guarantee of freedom of religion does not and should not allow for imposing Sharia on the U.S. financial system... the American people must become aware of the strategies of our enemies as well as their tactics."  He further stated that "they mean to fundamentally change the paradigm of the West as a tolerant and liberal place to observe any religion without compulsion."

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Faith McDonnell at Press Conference
(Photo by Lee Cohen, Center for Security Policy)

Faith McDonnell of The Institute on Religion & Democracy (IRD) also spoke out against Sharia-Compliant Finance.  Within her organization, Ms. McDonnell is the Director, Religious Liberty Program and Church Alliance for a New Sudan. Faith McDonnell stated that "the Center for Security Policy has defined Shariah as 'authoritative Islam's theo-political-religious program for establishing a global theocracy.'"  She indicated concerns that "such a theocracy does not come about through the use violent jihad alone.  Islamists also use the less obvious forms of jihad, such as the economic jihad of Shariah-Compliant Finance." 

From her organization's experience as advocates for religious liberty around the world, she stated that "the IRD has seen the devastating effects of Shariah on Muslims and non-Muslims alike.  Particularly egregious has been the imposition of Shariah as well as the brutal backlash against those who resist, on Christians in Sudan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Egypt, Iraq, Somalia, and elsewhere.   And we have seen the use of stealth jihad in these nations, as well."  Ms. McDonnell stated that "we fear that Shariah-Compliant Finance is only an entry level course in a much broader program of Shariah, the end goal of which is to supplant modern constitutionalism with archaic and undemocratic Islamic theocracy."

Regarding her experience in the challenges in Sudan, Mr. McDonnell pointed to Sharia finance representing a new form of Jihad against freedom. 

She stated that:
"The Islamist government in Sudan was finally forced into a peace agreement in 2005 that stopped its genocidal jihad against the Christians, followers of traditional religions, and Muslims who resisted Shariah.  Immediately they began a financial jihad, backed by the same Arab governments who backed the genocide.  They are currently seducing Southern Sudanese desperate for education, healthcare, employment, and infrastructure with Islamic-financed schools, hospitals, roads, and mosques.  Those who have been paying with their lives to resist the jihad of bombs and bullets are in danger of succumbing to the jihad of money." 
She called for "those responsible within the United States government to examine the evidence that if they submit to Shariah-Compliant Finance at any level, they are putting the United States in far greater danger than an economic crisis."

P1011842.JPGKyle Scheindler of the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET) also spoke against Sharia-Compliant Finance, opposing "this act of dhimmitude by the U.S. Treasury Department that is represented by the Islamic Finance 101 meeting," and due to the recent bailouts and acquisitions, "the U.S. Treasury has a responsibility to U.S. taxpayers greater than it has possessed at any time prior to Alexander Hamilton."

He stated that "it is supremely ironic that the Treasury Department government agency responsible for prosecuting charities which fund Islamic terrorism is now considering a financial system which will mandate banks and investment products donate to those charities. Those donations will be directed by Sharia advisory boards brimming with individuals who belong to organizations that are unindicted co-conspirators" in the Holy Land Foundation terror finance retrial.

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Jim Boulet at Press Conference

Jim Boulet of English First also joined in the condemnation of Shariah-Compliant Finance, issuing a written statement that read "in multicultural America, no one wishes to draw lines between reasoned dissent and what is effectively an effort to overthrow the American way of life."   He referenced the "The Basics of the Political System in Islam" as stating that "Islam is a 'total way of life.'"  Mr. Boulet stated that this ideology recognized "no separation of church and state," and "once America's financial systems is intertwined with the Islamic system of finance, other demands can be expected, demands which will transform American society."  He also challenged those supporting Sharia Compliant-Finance to consider the impacts on single women seeking to have financial independence.

Wendy Wright of Concerned Women for America also shared her concerns regarding Sharia-Compliant Finance.   She stated that Sharia law's "intention is to control society," and expressed concerns that "accommodating Sharia through our financial system legitimizes a world view and life style that promotes the subjugation of women, the killing of infidels, the denial of human dignity, and the imposition of cruel and inhumane practices." 

She challenged the representatives of the U.S. Treasury Department sponsoring the Sharia finance training to clarify what aspects of Sharia they seek to encourage in America society: "that husbands can use physical force against their wives, the early forced marriage of a girl as young as nine, that men can have multiple marriages and multiple wives, that men can have the right of custody of children and mothers have no rights of custody, that homosexuals should be stoned to death, that women accused of bringing dishonor to male relatives should be killed." 

Wendy Wright stated that the "intellectuals at the Treasury Department need a shot of common sense. You can't play with fire and not get burned, and you can't accommodate Sharia without affecting society with its inhumane practices."

Warren Mendelson of the Unity Coalition for Israel also spoke to indicate his organization's support for the Coalition to Stop Shariah.  He indicated that America's financial challenges leaves it vulnerable to "schemes being advanced to put our financial house in order with SCF which has the potential for far-reaching consequences more dangerous than we face today.  We would make a grave mistake to adopt SCF. It is incumbent on all of us to gain a clear understanding of exactly what Sharia law means and how it will impact not only financial state of affairs but also the consequences that conflict with our Constitutional rights."

He further stated that Sharia "requries non-Muslims to live as dhimmis, second-class citizens... and be treated in a brutal and demeaning way... it mandates discrimination against women and non-Muslims, demands the murder of homosexuals, adulterers, and apostates, and requires violent jihad against all infidels, including Christians, Jews, Buddhists, and others."  He continued that "Sharia law is seditious because it calls for the violent overthrow of governments like the United States and the replacement of democratic Constitutional law with its own bureaucratic code."   He indicated that the nations practicing Sharia law today are "some of the most oppressive regimes in the world."

He pointed out that Sharia Compliant-Finance works by "returns on investments from companies that must be purified partially by donating a portion of their profits to charity.  Charities that receive these donations are selected by Sharia experts who are members of an oversight board. There are allegations that some of the profits support major Muslim organizations suspected of having ties to terrorism."  He further referenced the ongoing Holy Land Foundation retrial, as well as the Benevolence International Foundation "was closed in 2001 for allegedly supporting Islamic terrorism."  He indicated that "some analysts are concerned that Islamic banking will open Western financial institutions to help further the broader Islamic agenda.. and pour in the billions and billions of petrodollars into the financial systems of the Western world."
 
Frank Gaffney also read a statement from coalition partner, Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy. 

This statement included the following comments:
"Make no mistake, Sharia-Compliant Finance is neither about religion nor about God. It is about Islamist control and collectivization of Muslims against the West and free markets. SCF systems are nothing more than a ruse to give transnational Islamist movements and their controlling Muslim theocrats an economic power base.  Attempts to appease requests by Islamists to provide so-called SCF are misguided. SCF provides sanction of a dangerous separatist economic system which incubates Islamist ideology among Muslims and keeps them apart from the general population.  Islamist theocrats exploit Western deference to religious freedom in order to lay the foundations of a system which feigns religion in order to control the economic decisions of Muslims and non-Muslims alike.  SCF allows governments and banks to empower Islamist theocrats who really only want to control Muslim economics rather than actually stimulate the open economic freedom of Muslims.  This is the difference between theocracy and liberty, instead of lay citizens controlling their own economic transactions, the invisible hand becomes the hand of the Islamist cleric."

The Coalition to Stop Shariah also provided an expanded list of organizations that support their cause, which to date includes leaders of 25 organizations:
   1. ACT for America - Brigitte Gabriel, President
   2. American Center for Democracy - Rachel Ehrenfeld, President
   3. American Islamic Forum for Democracy - Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, President
   4. Center for Security Policy - Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., President
   5. Christian Solidarity International - Father Keith Rodderick, Washington Representative
   6. Committee on the Present Danger - Chet Nagle
   7. Concerned Women for America - Wendy Wright, President
   8. Endowment for Middle East Truth - Sarah Stern, President
   9. English First - Jim Boulet, Jr. Executive Director
  10. Family Security Matters - Carol Taber, founder
  11. Florida Security Council - Tom Trento, President
  12. Geostrategic Analysis - Peter Huessy
  13. High Frontier - Hank Cooper, Chairman
  14. Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity - Patrick Sookhdeo, Director and Marshall Sana, Director of Communications
  15. Institute on Religion & Democracy, Religious Liberty Program - Faith J. H. McDonnell, Director
  16. Jewish Action Alliance
  17. Jihadwatch.org, a project of the David Horowitz Freedom Center - Robert Spencer, renowned author and expert on Shariah law, Director
  18. Let Freedom Ring - Colin Hanna, President
  19. Society of Americans for National Existence - David Yerushalmi, President
  20. Tradition, Property and Family - C. Preston Noelle III
  21. Traditional Values Coalition - Andrea Lafferty, Executive Director
  22. United American Committee
  23. Unity Coalition for Israel - Esther Levens, President
  24. Women United - Beth Gilinsky, President
  25. Zionist Organization of America - Morton Klein, National President

In addition, the Anti-Jihad League of America supports the cause of this group in fighting Sharia and Islamic supremacism.

Fear No Evil.

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JihadWatch's Robert Spencer and
Anti-Jihad League of America's Jeffrey Imm
at the November 6, 2008 Stop Sharia press conference








]]> http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/11/coalition-conference/ http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/11/coalition-conference/ Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:00:00 -0500 Courage and the Long War against Islamic Supremacism and Jihad Summary: In the long war against Islamic supremacism ahead, human rights leaders fighting against this ideology must refocus the challenge as a struggle between the inherent human rights of equality and liberty versus Islamic supremacism - not extremism, radicalism, militancy, fascism, or even Islamism. To gain widespread American public understanding and support, it is essential that the supremacist nature of Islamic supremacism be communicated and compared to America's history of confrontation against white supremacism in the war of ideas. It must be conveyed that the ideology of Islamic supremacism itself is a threat, regardless of whether its adherents use "political" or Jihadist tactics. In addition to Islamic supremacism being the basis for Jihadist tactics, it must be clarified that the ideology of Islamic supremacism is used to repress and crush those seeking equality and liberty in America and around the world.

We must overcome short-term political events and efforts by those who would "engage" and "reconcile" with Islamic supremacists. We must recognize that ultimately the inalienable human rights of equality and liberty will prevail over Islamic supremacism. We must embrace our challenging, but historical, role in continuing the efforts of America's founding fathers in defending the inalienable human rights of equality and liberty, and the uncompromising belief that "All Men Are Created Equal."

To fight Islamic supremacism in the long war ahead, we need to: (a) refocus the debate on Islamic supremacism, (b) develop a national and collaborative human rights network to challenge Islamic supremacism, (c) dedicate political action groups to support candidates for office willing to challenge Islamic supremacism, with a focus on the 2010 Congressional elections, (d) expand and coordinate activist and information resources, with increased outreach to youth activists, (e) work with other coalitions in challenging Islamic supremacism, including coalition partners involved in women's rights, academic freedom, religious freedom, freedom of speech and press, energy independence, and economic independence, and (f) conduct hundreds of public rallies and events to reach those in the American public and media that do not understand the need to confront Islamic supremacism.

We need to clarify to the American public that it is an American obligation to confront the Islamic supremacist ideology that opposes equality and liberty. We need to dispel the confusion and misconception that a "minority" supremacist group in America is not a threat to American liberties, and demonstrate the impact of Islamic supremacism in the lives of innocents today in America and around the world. We must clarify that America's freedom of religion must not be perverted to protect "freedom of supremacism," and reference the history of white supremacist groups who similarly claimed to be "victims" when confronted with demands for the human rights of equality and liberty. American human rights activists against Islamic supremacism reject all supremacist ideologies, because in America's declaration of its identity, we recognized that equality and liberty are inalienable human rights. In promoting such a human rights campaign of hope, those fighting against Islamic supremacism must show pity to those who would reject a campaign of hope, equality, and liberty - and offer a hand out to those who change their views to recognize that the hope of freedom is a noble pursuit for humanity. Those challenging Islamic supremacism must be understood as fighting for a campaign of hope. While we reject the atrocities, suppression, injustice, and evil done by Islamic supremacists, our efforts are to keep hope alive for those threatened and suppressed by Islamic supremacism in America and around the world.

I have divided this battle plan for the campaign ahead into the following major topics:
I. A Single Focused Message for the Campaign Ahead
II. Why We Will Win the War against Islamic Supremacism
III. A Daring Agenda for Equality and Liberty
III.A. Focusing the Debate on Islamic Supremacism versus Equality and Liberty
III.B. National Human Rights Campaign Network to Challenge Islamic Supremacism
III.C. Political Action to Fight against Islamic Supremacism
III.D. Expanded and Coordinated Resources
III.E. Coalitions for Equality, Liberty, Freedom, and Independence
III.F. Mobilizing America - One Town Hall at a Time
IV. A Shared Understanding on Why All Americans Must Oppose Islamic Supremacism
V. We Reject All Supremacism Because We Are Americans
VI. The Courage of Understanding and Compassion
VII. A Campaign of Hope, Not Hate
Sources

]]> http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/11/courage/ http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/11/courage/ Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:00:00 -0500 Jihad and the Strategic Awareness of the Threat to America authorized the use of military force against those responsible the 9/11 attacks and nations that harbored such terrorists. A year later, Congress again authorized the use of military force, this time to address perceived threats by Iraq.  America's Homeland Security Department assessed potential terrorist targets and offered recommendations as to appropriate areas and types of threats that were the most likely and most vulnerable for "targeted" use homeland security funding and resources.
]]> http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/10/awareness/ http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/10/awareness/ Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:00:00 -0500 IPT News: Muslim Student Association (MSA) Chapter Official: Don't Vote; Destroy IPT News: Muslim Student Association (MSA) Chapter Official: Don't Vote; Destroy
http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/797
-- Mesa College Muslim Student Association posting
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/209.pdf
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cali_mesa_msa/message/367
--- MSA's Farhad Akbari: "Those who do not govern according to to the (law) which Allah has revealed [Shari'ah law], verily, they are the kaafiroon..."
--- MSA's Farhad Akbari: "Democracy, like all other systems fabricated by the minds of men are untenable in Islam. It is an un-Islamic system... [and] there is absolutely no basis anywhere in the Qur'aan for western democracy and its parliamentary system. A government of democracy is a government appointed by Juhhaal (ignoramuses). Ignoramuses, fussaaq and fujjaar have no share in appointing a government in Islam. The Islamic system is Khilaafat..."

--- Background on Muslim American Society (MAS) --  founded by the Muslim Brotherhood whose motto is "Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope," the  Investigative Project on Terrorism reports that "MAS was founded as the United States chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood, the international Islamist, anti-Western organization whose goal is the 'introduction of the Islamic Shari'ah as the basis controlling the affairs of state and society'
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/44.pdf
--- The MAS Freedom organization has attempted to infiltrate American mainstream political parties as well, and U.S. presidential candidates have held one-on-one meetings with the MAS Freedom group
http://www.masnet.org/freedomfoundation.asp
http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/585

--- September 24, 2008: U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project Calls for Engagement with Muslim Brotherhood
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/engagement_with_mb.html
http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/09/engagement-with-mb/

]]> http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/10/ipt-news-msa/ http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/10/ipt-news-msa/ Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:00:00 -0500 Jihad and the Relativist Enemy Within In Washington DC, when you go to the main city subway station (Metro Center), you will be surrounded by numerous advertisements showing images of Washington DC destroyed by a nuclear holocaust. The source of these images is the same source as images promoted on Jihadist web sites in May 2008. On May 29, 2008, the Daily Mail and other media reported that "SITE also released a computer-generated image, showing Washington DC in the aftermath of a nuclear attack, which reportedly appeared on an Islamist forum."

In both the DC subway advertisements and the Jihadist web sites, the images come from a "game" being promoted by the DC-area based Bethesda Softworks entitled "Fallout 3." Bethesda Softworks is located in Rockville, Maryland, a mere 18 miles from the White House in Washington, DC. Bethesda Softworks' new software "game" Fallout 3 portrays "the Capitol Wasteland in and around Washington, DC," which the government-funded Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) has agreed to advertise in the DC subway system used by over 800,000 government workers and individuals every day. This is the same "game" that Jihadists have obtained an image from to post on their websites of a destroyed, crushed America.  (Note: while the DC's Metro Center ads are not the exact same Fallout 3 image referenced in reports about Jihad websites, they are very similar Fallout 3 images of a destroyed Capitol building and other DC landmarks.  The Fallout 3 image of the destroyed Capitol building on Jihad websites is promoted as free "computer wallpaper" on the Bethesda Softworks website.)

Jihadists don't have to go to their websites to see their dream images of a destroyed Washington DC, Bethesda Softworks will sell them a game with loops of such images to inspire them. Or Jihadists only need to visit the Washington DC subway for such "inspirational" images. At a minimum, one would think that such horrific images assaulting national capital subway riders would at least have been viewed as in poor taste and judgment, even without knowledge of the promotion of "Fallout 3" images on Jihadist web sites. But such common sense, like our values, is now "relative." This disgusting spectacle in the DC subway system is just the latest warning flag of out-of-control relativism among some of our public and our leaders.

Such "relativism" is the real problem. Relativism takes nothing seriously, no enemy, no threats, no ideology, no values. After all, any such threat, any such enemy is merely "relative." There is no end to those reports that will earnestly claim that our threat of an automobile accident is greater than a Jihadist terrorist attack, which ends up in the logical pretzel that our efforts at preventing Jihad are an unnecessary overreaction. Nor is there any end to those questioning why we are "demonizing" Islamic supremacist groups like the Taliban.

]]> http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/10/relativism/ http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2008/10/relativism/ Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:49:17 -0500 Jihad and Congressional Elections - You Decide
What priority will Congressional representatives' position on Jihad be when they make such decisions? For those Americans who oppose Jihad and the ideology of Islamic supremacism, this provides a unique opportunity for their voice to be heard and for them to be able to personally impact future legislation on this issue. This is their chance to make a significant difference in how America will act on the war of ideas against Jihad and Islamic supremacism.

On July 16, 2008, an amendment to House Resolution 5959 was presented to the full Congress to vote on whether or not Congress was willing to honestly confront Jihad and its Islamic supremacist ideology in the war of ideas.   There is a documented voting record on H.R. 5959 (see Section 507 "Jihadists") showing which Congressional representatives were willing to stand up and confront Jihad, and which Congressional representatives were afraid to confront Jihad.

The amendment to H.R. 5959 called for Congress to modify the 2009 intelligence funding bill to stop the efforts by some government agencies who have been creating a "terror lexicon" to instruct government employees not to discuss Jihad or ideologies such as Islamic supremacism (aka "Islamism"), when identifying the enemy. This Congressional effort passed by the margin of 249-180.  (See my July 22, 2008 article for more details on H.R. 5959.)

There were 180 Congressional representatives who voted against this amendment to H.R. 5959 to confront Jihad, and there were 10 who "abstained" from taking a vote and a stand against Jihad.  The Congressional representatives who voted against or abstained on this measure claim to be representing Americans in: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, DC, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, American Samoa, Vermont, Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington state, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.  

Do they truly represent the views of Americans in these states? Do they represent you?

Their voting record is public information.

On November 4, 2008, you decide.

HTML clipboard[Postscript - see also Sources documents for additional reading and background information.]
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