Teaching The Soldiers About Islam At Fort Hood
Via a piece by Andy McCarthy at NRO, they've picked as their "all about Islam" teacher Syrian-born author Louay Jafi, from ISNA, a group cited by the Justice Department as an unindicted co-conspirator in the terrorism financing conspiracy. He's a prominent figure in the group writes Rowan Scarborough at Human Events, in a piece titled "FBI Partners With Terrorist Groups":
Safi is a Syrian-born author who advocates Muslim American rights through his directorship of ISNA's Leadership Development Center. He advocates direct talks between Washington and Iran's leaders. He has spoken out against various law enforcement raids on Islamic centers.In a 2003 publication, "Peace and the Limits of War," Safi wrote, "The war against the apostates [non-believers of Islam] is carried out not to force them to accept Islam, but to enforce the Islamic law and maintain order."
He also wrote, "It is up to the Muslim leadership to assess the situation and weigh the circumstances as well as the capacity of the Muslim community before deciding the appropriate type of jihad. At one stage, Muslims may find that jihad, through persuasion or peaceful resistance, is the best and most effective method to achieve just peace." [ACM: Implicitly, this concedes there is a time for violent jihad, too.]
At ISNA's annual convention in Washington in July, one speaker, Imam Warith Deen Umar, criticized Obama for having two Jewish people -- Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod -- in the White House. "Why do this small number of people have control of the world?" he said, according to a IPT transcript. He said the Holocast was punishment for Jews "because they were serially disobedient to Allah."
[Steven] Emerson's group [the Investigative Project on Terrorism] collected literature at the convention approved for distribution by ISNA. It said the pamphlets and books featured "numerous attempts to portray U.S. prosecution of terrorists and terror supporters as anti-Muslim bigotry; dramatic revisionist history that denied attacks by Arab nations and Palestinian terrorists against Israel; anti-Semitic tracts and hyperbolic rants about a genocide and holocaust of Palestinians."
Asked if the FBI should sever ties with ISNA, Emerson said, "ISNA is an unindicted co-conspirator. It's a Muslim Brotherhood group. I think in terms of legitimacy there should be certain expectations of what the group says publicly. If it continues to espouse jihad and anti-Semitism, I think it nullifies it right to have the FBI recognize it."
Here's a little something from a Muslim Brotherhood memo Scarborough quotes from:
"Understanding the role of the Muslim Brother in North America: The process of settlement is a "Civilization-Jihadist Process" with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in 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 God's religion is made victorious over all other religions."
Thanks, Suki!
This really is infuriating. The stupid, clueless people we have running things.
kishke at December 31, 2009 8:24 AM
Thank you Amy! Linked back to you in the blog too.
To be fair, the instructor hiring people might not have known his background that well or the blogs might have details a little off.
Suki at December 31, 2009 9:09 AM
Apostasy is the abandoning of a particular religion. A war against apostates would be a war against those who have converted from Islam.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy
Check out the "By Country" part and notice how many of the countries in which this particular "crime" merits the death penalty are Muslim.
Conan the Grammarian at December 31, 2009 9:15 AM
"This really is infuriating. The stupid, clueless people we have running things."
Clueless? If you want to totally discredit a position, you have someone totally discreditable come in and present it.
Anyone putting any of this shit out to a roomfull of people who have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan numerous times is going to need armed guards to get out of the room. These people are not Ma and Pa Clueless-Civilian.
Jim at December 31, 2009 3:31 PM
Thank you, Conan. I was annoyed at the misuse of "apostate" myself. Different religions seem to have differing definitions of the term. Jehovah's Witnesses, for instance, reserve the term not for former Witnesses, but for former Witnesses who work against their former religion.
But as Al Franken likes to say, "You're entitled to your own opinion, but you're not entitled to your own facts."
That aside, the Muslim-Americans have to right to assimilate themselves into the culture, and I don't give a good God-damn what special concessions they want. Muslims want rights? I'll read them their rights...
1. Your wives and daughters have the same rights you do, including voting, free speech, to keep their faces exposed barring severely cold weather, and to marry whom they choose, not whom you choose for them. They are under no obligation to stay married to you if they no longer wish to be. And you only get one wife in this country.
2. Thou shalt not honor kill. For thou that dost honor kill wilt be charged with murder, against which "honor kill" is no defense.
3. Thou shalt not circumcise your daughters. They're allowed to enjoy sex, and anyone that dost circumcise their daughter wilt be charged with malicious wounding and child abuse.
4. Thou shalt tolerate the presence of other religions, including Judaism, Christianity, etc. You are under no obligation to befriend them, or even speak to them. However, thou wilt coexist peacefully with them.
5. Thou shalt not stone adulterers or homosexuals or anyone else. Regardless of thine feelings concerning homosexuals or adulterers, they are not guilty of capital crimes. And we have a justice system in place that is tasked with punishing transgressions of our laws, and thou art not on it.
6. The pig in this country is considered food. No one will force you to eat it, of course, but bear in mind you will find it impossible to avoid people who do eat pork, and have no idiotic notions about the supposed sinfulness of touching it or eating it.
7. Dogs in this country are considered pets, and as such, are allowed in houses. You are not required to have one, of course, but your rules do not apply to anyone else.
8. Thou shalt learn English. English is the national language, and that's how thou wilt communicate.
9. Thou shalt hold a job. This is not a welfare state. You work for what you need.
10. If you object to any of these rules, you're free to haul your sorry ass the barbaric, living in the middle ages shithole you came from. Your wives and adult children, however, are under no obligation whatsoever to leave with you. If they like this country, they're free to stay in it.
Patrick at December 31, 2009 4:04 PM
Amy,
Typo alert. The man's name is Safi, not Jafi.
Suki at January 1, 2010 3:44 AM
Sorry Jim, I'm not sure I'm understanding your point. You're saying the army brass is deliberately bringing this guy in b/c he's so off the wall that he will inevitably discredit his own position?
kishke at January 1, 2010 7:37 AM
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