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In Saudi Arabia the mutaween — more properly known as the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice — are the religious police. Their job is to keep an middle on the denizens and enforce the strict Wahhabist version of sharia that functions as the law of the land in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. One of their more than infamous deeds was to force a group of schoolgirls back inside their burning building because they were not properly veiled. Better to fire to death than to shamelessly expose their flesh!
At final weekend's Arab International Festival in Dearborn, Michigan, a combination of the Dearborn police force and private security cops acted equally the mutaween for the Arabs of Dearborn. It seems that four blasphemous Christians — Nabeel Qureshi, David Woods, Paul Rezkalla, and Negeen Mayel — had the effrontery to proclaim their religion on the public sidewalk outside the festival, and all iv were arrested for "breaching the peace" of Dearborn.
I heard about this disgraceful incident a calendar week ago. I've been waiting for the confiscated video footage to appear and so that I could post a full account of what happened, just the police have not every bit yet returned the cameras taken from the people they arrested. The video below — which shows the moments immediately prior to the arrest — was plain non among the confiscated materials:
It's important to realize that these cops were enforcing the law against defamation of Islam as prescribed by sharia. Anyone who proclaims a faith other than Islam to a Muslim is guilty of slander or defamation of Islam. However — and this is important — this law applies merely within Dar al-Islam, territory that is under the rule of Islam.
In other words, the Arabs of Dearborn have declared their sidewalks to be official Islamic territory, and the Dearborn police are the de facto enforcers of sharia police in that territory.
WorldNetDaily charted the course of events at the Arab Festival, beginning with an article on June 18, only prior to the arrests. A different Christian group was able to become judicial approving for its plans to hand out materials at the festival:
Court: Christian Tracts Allowed at Arab-FestUrban center law had threatened arrest for handing out information
An emergency motility has been granted by a federal appeals court in order for a Christian to hand out data most his faith at the annual Arab Festival in Dearborn, Mich., this weekend without being arrested.
A three-judge panel from the 6th Excursion Court of Appeals today granted the motion requested by the Thomas More Law Middle on behalf of Pastor George Saieg, a Sudanese Christian who has been trying to get permission to distribute literature and talk about his Christianity to Muslims at the festival.
The event is Friday through Lord's day in Dearborn, where an estimated 30,000 of the metropolis's 98,000 residents are Muslim.
According to the law center, Judge Paul Borman just a week ago had affirmed the city'southward ban on handing out Christian fabric near the festival. Information technology was last year when Dearborn police threatened Saieg with abort if he handed out data on Christianity well-nigh the festival.
Only the judges' ruling was of no avail to the "Dearborn Iv"; they were arrested anyway. As WND reported on June 21:
'Allahu Akbar!' Shouted every bit Christians CuffedFour Christians were arrested and thrown out of a public Arab festival in Michigan — and at to the lowest degree two people claim a crowd cheered "Allahu Akbar!" while the Christians were led away in handcuffs for doing nada more than engaging in peaceful dialogue and videotaping the event.
Nabeel Qureshi, David Wood, Paul Rezkalla and 18-year-old Negeen Mayel attended the 15th annual Dearborn Arab International Festival on June eighteen in Dearborn, Mich., where an estimated xxx,000 of the city's 98,000 residents are Muslim.
The American Arab Bedroom of Commerce announced the event was expected to draw "over 300,000 people from across the land, Canada and the Middle Eastward." The festival covers 14 blocks and is costless and open to the public.
Qureshi and Mayal are onetime Muslims who are at present Christians. Mayal's parents emigrated from Afghanistan. Wood is a erstwhile atheist. All are from a Christian group called Acts 17 Apologetics.
In the following video later on the arrest, Qureshi said his group took "extra precautions" to forestall disruptions by not handing out pamphlets and to speak merely to people "who first approached us":
"This was to limit accusations of instigation and disruption," he explained. "We knew people have a trend to accuse us of existence disruptive, of inciting and instigating. So we wanted to make sure we did absolutely nothing of the sort."
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Co-ordinate to his post, the video footage was confiscated by police. Versions posted online had been removed at the time of this report.
"[W]e will mail footage when the police give us back our cameras," he wrote.
Qureshi recounted his experience:
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At one point, we came across a festival volunteer who seemed to take issue with us but being at the festival. We could tell he had a problem with us, and and then we asked "What are we doing wrong?" He said, "Put the photographic camera and microphone down, and I'll tell you." (By the way, in that location was more to this conversation, but when you see the footage, I think yous'll see I'g being fair in my summary.) So I obliged, handing the microphone to David and request him to non record the human being. I then approached him and said, "No camera, no mic, tell me what we're doing wrong." He said "Get away from me!" (or something to that effect). Again, I obliged, and walked away.Most 20 minutes later, to shouts and cheers of "Allahu Akbar!" we were all being led away from the festival in handcuffs. From the brief description nosotros were given past the police of why nosotros were beingness arrested, it sounds like the festival volunteer said we surrounded him and didn't give him an opportunity to get out, thereby "breaching the peace." This is as blatantly faux every bit an accusation can become.
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I witness named Steven Atkins, a resident of Toronto, Canada, said, "I never idea I would see this in America."
"When Dr. Quereshi was arrested I heard people clapping and applauding, and some said 'Allahu Akbar,'" he said. "It was an intense discussion, but information technology was not unruly. … There was no threat of violence."
Atkins added, "Information technology's becoming more restrictive hither than in Canada."
Dearborn Police Chief Ron Haddad, an officer who was recently appointed to serve on the Homeland Security Informational Council, told the Detroit Free Press the four Christians were arrested for disorderly conduct.
"We did make four arrests for disorderly conduct," Haddad said. "They did cause a stir."
Haddad told the paper he'due south not taking sides, only he said officers must keep the peace at the event that draws 300,000 people over three days.
"Everyone'southward space should exist respected," he said. "It'due south Father'due south Day weekend…. People are here to have a good time, and it'due south our chore to ensure security."
From the next day's follow-upward report:
America, 2010: Christians Hauled to Jail for Preaching Jesus'Apparently the Constitution carries footling weight in Dearborn'
One of the nation's top legal teams regarding civil and religious rights has stepped into a dispute stemming from last weekend's Arab Festival in Dearborn, Mich., where police are accused of enforcing Islamic constabulary.
"Officers arrested four Christian missionaries and illegally confiscated their video cameras which were recording the events surrounding their arrests," said a statement today from the Thomas More Police Center of Ann Arbor, Mich.
Officials in the police force department with the city of Dearborn declined to comment to WND.
Merely the law center announcement said the incident has been described equally "police enforcement of Shariah law." The organization said it would represent the Christians.
"These Christian missionaries were exercising their ramble rights to free speech and the free practice of faith, but apparently the Constitution carries little weight in Dearborn, where the Muslim population seems to dominate the political apparatus," said Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel of the Thomas More than Police Centre.
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The Arab event was June 18 in Dearborn, where an estimated 30,000 of the city'due south 98,000 residents are Muslim.
On June 24, the Christians themselves, who are members of a group called "Answering Muslims", posted their ain report on what happened at the Arab Festival:
Dearborn Police Chief Ronald Haddad Appointed to Homeland Security Advisory CouncilIn Dearborn, nosotros were arrested for having a peaceful dialogue with Muslims. The constabulary claimed we were being disruptive. We invited them to view the video footage, which would prove our innocence. They refused, preferring to take u.s.a. to jail when we had indisputable proof against the false charges. Police seized our cameras illegally, and take to this day refused to share the footage with u.s., footage that will completely exonerate us. Law Chief Ronald Haddad refuses to render our cameras, despite the fact that he knows we are innocent. He is responsible for the persecution and oppression of Christians in Dearborn.
So judge who should be appointed to the Homeland Security Advisory Council? You guessed information technology: Dearborn Police force Principal Ronald Haddad:
DEARBORN — Police Chief Ronald Haddad was recently appointed to serve on the Homeland Security Advisory Quango, which provides advice and recommendations to Homeland Security Secretarial assistant Janet Napolitano on matters related to homeland security.The council is comprised of leaders from state and local authorities, first responder communities, the private sector, and academia.
"It's an honor, a privilege and a tremendous responsibleness," said Haddad, who traveled to Washington, D.C. earlier this month to meet with his fellow council members.
The group's efforts, Haddad said, volition be focused on sharing data and improving communication on the national phase.
In improver to Haddad, the group currently has more than two-dozen individuals listed on its membership roster, including Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, Austin Police Master Art Acevedo, Community Engagement Officer Omar Alomari with Ohio Homeland Security, Acting Professor of Law Asli Bali of the UCLA School of Constabulary, President and CEO Richard Cohen of Southern Poverty Law Centre, Sheriff Doug Gillespie of the Las Vegas Police Department, Senior Analyst and Executive Manager Dalia Mogahed of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, Executive Manager Dan Rosenblatt of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and Director Nadia Roumani of the American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute. [emphasis added]
"Our task is to identify what type of grooming would arrange front line law enforcement, officers, and to improve their power to work more finer with community members to mitigate threats or actual criminal offense," Haddad said.
The council, he said, was formed in the wake of a growing number of attacks on American soil, including the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day in 2009 and the arrest of the Hutaree militia group charged with plotting to levy state of war against the U.South.
"When you wait at those things, information technology's articulate that we can ill beget to work in a vacuum," Haddad said. "We need to reach out to members of the community and open up up the lines of advice."
The urban center of Dearborn and its police department has already established several similar advisory committees to facilitate communication between different cultural and religious groups, likewise as various groups and organizations throughout the city.
"We're engaging the community in a way that's never been done before," Haddad said…
Well, Christians have been persecuted by Muslims for centuries, and so Haddad's not actually engaging the customs in a new way. Maybe he means that he'due south engaging the American community in a new mode, e.g. by taking away the Ramble rights of Christians. But he needs to exist clear about that. People might go the thought that he believes in American values.If anyone would like to contact the Homeland Security Advisory Council, you can accomplish them hither.
So what about the Homeland Security Informational Quango? What kind of organization is information technology?
Its job is to provide communication and recommendations to Homeland Security Secretarial assistant Janet Napolitano on matters related to homeland security. In other words, it sounds like ane of those benign-but-meaningless federal adjunct groups that provide patronage jobs to political cronies and suck upward our tax dollars. However, a cursory glance at its personnel immediately reveals the tentacles of ISNA, and thus the Muslim Alliance.
I of the first things you'll find is a prominent connection with the Southern Poverty Police force Eye, a far-left NGO with a notorious fondness for people affiliated with Islamic terrorism. To give yous an idea of the SPLC'due south reliability, it is a preferred source of information for Charles Johnson when he focuses his attention on "right-fly extremists" and "racists".
Many thanks to Dymphna for doing the enquiry into the roster of names from the Homeland Security Advisory Council. Allow'south take a closer look at some of the worthies who have been deputized by Ms. Napolitano to make sure that Americans sleep safely in their beds at night:
President and CEO Richard Cohen of Southern Poverty Constabulary Center
According to the Middle for Clearing Studies:
Immigration and the SPLC: How the Southern Poverty Police force Center Invented a Smear, Served La Raza, Manipulated the Press, and Duped its DonorsBy Jerry Kammer
March 2010Introduction
This report examines the efforts by the Southern Poverty Law Eye (SPLC) to smear the Federation for American Immigration Reform (Off-white) and, by extension, the Eye for Immigration Studies (CIS) and NumbersUSA.
With no serious assay, the SPLC in late 2007 unilaterally labeled Off-white a "hate group." That poisonous designation became the centerpiece of a "Stop the Hate" campaign launched by the National Quango of La Raza (NCLR), too known as La Raza, to telephone call on Congress and the media to exclude Fair from the national contend on clearing.
The entrada gathered strength as newspapers across the country reported that Fair had been "designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Constabulary Center." While the news stories more often than not included Off-white'south deprival of the charge, thereby providing a semblance of balance, the designation's taint lingered. The SPLC, presenting itself as a non-partisan, public-interest watchdog, never acknowledged — and no reporter e'er disclosed — that the center was an active ally of the NCLR in the campaign.
The bear witness presented here demonstrates that the SPLC became a propaganda arm of the NCLR. The SPLC'south decision to smear Off-white was the work of a kangaroo court, one convened to reach a pre-determined verdict by inventing or distorting testify. The "End the Detest" campaign would more accurately be labeled every bit a campaign to "Stop the Debate."
As this study notes, FAIR, CIS, and NumbersUSA have raised questions most the social, economical, and fiscal costs of the "comprehensive clearing reform" sought by La Raza and such allies as the National Clearing Forum and America's Voice. Rather than engage in a debate, La Raza and its allies have waged a campaign to have the other side shunned by the press, civil society, and elected officials. It is an attempt to destroy the reputations of its targets. Information technology besides seeks to intimidate and coerce others into silence. Information technology undermines basic principles of civil society and democratic discussion.
We examine the SPLC's work in the campaign against the groundwork of the constabulary eye'due south history, acknowledging that the SPLC has done admirable work in attacking the Ku Klux Klan and in representing immigrant workers who take been exploited by employers.
Merely we also review two decades of piece of work by investigative reporters that has exposed SPLC hate-mongering and charade of the donors on whom it depends. Indeed, the SPLC'due south hometown paper, the Montgomery Advertiser, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for its nine-day exposé of the SPLC and its founder, Morris Dees, in 1994. The electric current attack on FAIR is consistent with the duplicity documented by that series and past other journalists who take investigated the SPLC.
Finally, we examine the SPLC set on on John Tanton, the Michigan ecology activist who founded Fair in 1979. We document repeated distortion and exaggeration and show that many of Tanton's concerns about immigration, though cited by the SPLC every bit proof of discrimination and intolerance, also take been raised past respected scholars and journalists.
But we also discuss how Tanton has undermined the movement past adhering to a large-tent philosophy that embraces some figures who practise not play a constructive part in the immigration argue.
In a civil gild, proven racists, bigots, and detest mongers deserve rejection. This report shows that the SPLC, while claiming to agree high the imprint of tolerance, failed to observe basic standards of responsible judgment, honest reporting, and simple human being decency. It preferred to appoint in character bump-off.
The SPLC is entitled to its opinion. But information technology cannot pose equally a non-partisan watchdog when it fabricates and distorts evidence to delegitimize one side of the immigration debate while information technology is actually working as an ally of the opposing side. Claiming to act in the proper noun of tolerance, the SPLC has tried to destroy it.
Tom Barry, director of the TransBorder Project at the liberal Center for International Policy in Washington, DC, noted that the SPLC'due south "hate group" designation of FAIR "provided highly explosive ammunition for the grapheme assassination campaign."
Barry, who supports "comprehensive" reform, offered this cess of the "Stop the Detest" campaign: "Trying to stick a label of 'extremist' on institutes that accept massive memberships, expert relations with the media, and practiced continuing on the Loma is a measure of how desperate and isolated the pro-immigration forces that take embraced this strategy actually are."
I. Anatomy of a Smear
The Southern Poverty Law Heart's December 2007 proclamation that information technology had decided to designate the Federation for American Clearing Reform equally a "detest grouping"i was a dramatic move by the Alabama-based system, which claims to be "dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry."2
The designation placed Fair, i of the most prominent organizations that favor reduced clearing and oppose a sweeping legalization of illegal immigrants, on an SPLC list occupied by notoriously bigoted groups of racist skinheads, neo-Nazis, and the Ku Klux Klan.
What prompted the movement? Afterwards all, the SPLC had been writing critically about Off-white for years without taking the extreme measure out of branding it equally a hate grouping.
Surely, the SPLC, which presents itself as an advocate of tolerance and which touts its dream of "peace, respect, and agreement,"3 would not take such a step without damning new evidence.
But that is what it did.
The SPLC'southward movement was non an act of conscience. Nor was it the bark of a public-involvement watchdog. Information technology was a publicity stunt in the service of the National Council of La Raza, which was about to launch a campaign intended to drive Off-white from the arena of public debate on national immigration policy.
The police middle, while challenge to exist non-partisan, served as a propaganda arm of La Raza's endeavor to shape immigration policy. The NCLR has been grateful for the assistance. The website of its "End the Detest" entrada lists the SPLC every bit i of its six centrolineal organizations.4
The campaign'due south strategy was to portray FAIR as an extremist organization, then tainted by hatred and racism that it should be excluded from the public discussion of clearing. La Raza president and CEO Janet Murguia personally led the attack. Appearing on the Lou Dobbs bear witness in early 2008, she cited the SPLC's designation and declared, "Fair is a known, documented hate group."5
Some other NCLR ally in the campaign was a new organization called America's Phonation, whose work to influence public stance on clearing policy is being funded by a $6 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation, a philanthropic foundation. America's Voice is directed by Frank Sharry, who for 17 years was executive managing director of the National Clearing Forum, which bills itself as "the nation'southward premier immigrant rights organization."6 Its board of directors includes representatives from the U.South. Sleeping room of Commerce, United Food and Commercial Workers Union, the National Clearing Police Eye, and the American Nursery & Mural Clan.
Every bit reported in the Carnegie Corporation's magazine, America's Vocalism was launched as a "communications effort designed to more than directly challenge those who oppose immigration reform."7 The organization sponsored total-page ads that touted the SPLC'due south "detest grouping" annunciation in Politician and Roll Telephone call, Capitol Hill newspapers that are widely read by congressional staff and other members of the Washington political establishment.8
"The Federation for American Immigration Reform (Off-white) is Designated a HATE GROUP by the Southern Poverty Police Eye," said the ad, using red capital messages to highlight "Off-white" and "HATE GROUP." It added, "Extremist groups, like Off-white, shouldn't write immigration policy."9
Highlighting the gravity of the charge, and the disgrace it intended to inflict, the America'southward Vocalism website noted: "Other SPLC 'hate groups' include: the Ku Klux Klan, the American Nazi Political party, and the Aryan Nations."x Information technology urged supporters: "Tell Congress, Don't Meet with Fair!"
Tom Barry, managing director of the TransBorder Projection at the liberal Center for International Policy, questioned not simply the wisdom of the entrada, but likewise its integrity.
"Is seeking to undermine the influence of these groups in the media and on Capitol Hill by throwing (them) in the same lot as the Ku Klux Klan and National Socialist Aryan Society [something that can] really be considered an effective and principled political strategy?" he asked in his Edge Lines blog in late 2008. "Will smearing the restrictionist policy institutes and their leaders in campaigns of character assassination eternalize the possibilities of passing a liberal immigration reform nib?"xi
It would too be reasonable to inquire how such a campaign fits the mission of the Carnegie Corporation, whose $6 million grant to America's Voice helped finance the inflammatory ads. Its mission statement says its work "honors Andrew Carnegie'south passion for … the health of our democracy."12
La Raza is also lavishly funded, primarily by foundations and corporate donors. Its annual report for 2008 listed 38 donors who had contributed at to the lowest degree $200,000 that year. They included the Bank of America, Citi, ConAgra Foods, Freddie Mac, Full general Motors, and Wal-Mart, equally well as the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and the Pecker & Melinda Gates Foundation. Its grants for 2008 totaled $28.3 meg, including $5.ane million from the federal government.13
Crossing the Rubicon, SPLC Mode
An organization that claims to offering expertise in the business organization of identifying hate groups, equally the SPLC does, might be expected to work with precise, rigorous criteria. The SPLC has no such standards.
Heidi Beirich, the police heart's director of research and special projects and a frequent correspondent to its Hatewatch web log, acknowledged in an e-postal service that "we do not take a formal written criteria." When a radio host asked her in late 2007 how an organization qualifies for the label, Beirich offered this explanation. "You qualify equally a detest group if you treat an entire grouping of people for their internal characteristics, or their inherent characteristics, every bit less, or you demean them in some fashion."14
A definition this flexible and imprecise could summon the SPLC Hate Patrol to the door of near whatever group of football fans, political activists, or Apple computer enthusiasts. It is an invitation to just the sort of mischief that gives the SPLC'south designation of FAIR the odor of a fabricated-to-order, politically expedient smear. It was delivered in Dec 2007, the month before La Raza launched its "Cease the Hate" campaign. The SPLC showed all the precision and care of gang members spraying obscenities on a warehouse wall.15
In his roll-out of the "hate group" designation, the SPLC's Marker Potok acknowledged that his pecker of particulars against Off-white consisted near entirely of information that had been known for years. So to make the timing of the announcement seem plausible, Potok needed something new and powerful. Indeed, he claimed to have constitute proof that Fair had crossed "the Rubicon of detest" in an act of cocky-revelation so stark and shameless as to require the SPLC to take activity.16
Their Rubicon-crossing evidence was a sham.
Potok pointed to a Fair coming together with Belgian elected officials who belonged to a right-wing political party whose predecessor had been banned by a Belgian court. This charge, elaborated in Hatewatch blog posts near an obscure and insignificant meeting, would be laughed out of any credible forum of public opinion. But for the SPLC'due south kangaroo court — where Potok and Beirich were prosecutors, judge, and jury — it was skilful enough.
Potok hyped his example past erroneously reporting that Off-white "officials" had met with the Belgians. Beirich erroneously added that "a senior FAIR official sought advice" from the Belgians.17
In fact, the FAIR official who met the Belgians was Jack Martin, a retired State Department diplomat who regularly meets with the Spanish-linguistic communication press considering of his fluency in Castilian. Martin said he met with the Belgians because they had asked for a briefing on how Off-white sought to influence U.Southward. policy on illegal clearing.
"I've met with visitors from dozens of strange countries who are traveling here," said Martin. "The fact that I met with them does not mean that I concord with their politics. I've met with officials from Communist China, and that doesn't hateful I'1000 a communist."18 Martin calls the SPLC "members of the flaky left who have a tendency to engage in McCarthyite techniques" of guilt by association.
Hither is how Stephen Pollard, a respected British journalist writing in The Times of London, described the Belgian party that sent a delegation to Washington:
The banned party is VlaamsBlok (VB). The Court of Appeal in Ghent — notorious for its left-liberal bias — deemed it to be an "undemocratic and racist" arrangement because of its policy that immigrants should be given simply ii choices: "to digest or to return home."
Maybe such a policy is indeed racist; maybe it isn't. … But in a republic, surely, that is a decision which voters should make, not judges.
But the VB'due south racism was simply an excuse. The existent reason why the Belgian authorities have been bent on banning the VB for years has nothing to practice with racism and the rights of immigrants. Information technology is that the political party advocates secession from Kingdom of belgium and the establishment of a Republic of Flemish region. Worse nevertheless, every bit Kingdom of belgium'south but bourgeois party it upsets the country's cosy political applecart. The Belgian Establishment has responded non past defeating it in statement but by banning it.19
Lacking the authority to blackball FAIR, the SPLC set up out to delegitimize information technology, setting the stage for allies who would telephone call on the press and elected officials to banish FAIR from the national immigration debate. Equally the SPLC's Mark Potok rolled out the "hate group" designation, he said the constabulary center had "decided to take another look at Fair" after the meeting with the Belgians. Said Potok, "When our work was done, it was obvious that FAIR qualified as a hate group."20
The claim that an inconsequential meeting would jolt the SPLC into a reevaluation of an system it had been denigrating for years is implausible. But for La Raza'south "Cease the Hate" entrada, the timing was perfect. The campaign was launched the following month. Beirich said in an email that the "hate group" proclamation "was our decision alone and had cypher to do with NCLR." She did not reply when asked whether the SPLC knew at the time of the announcement that planning for the entrada was in an advanced stage. The SPLC's work was a central part of that campaign.
Acting Professor of Law Asli Bali of the UCLA School of Law
Last yr, when she was an associate research scholar at Yale Law, this was the blurb for her at a UCLA event:
Asli U. Bali is an Associate Inquiry Scholar in Law at Yale Law Schoolhouse. She has lectured on Comparative Political Systems of the Eye East at Princeton University and served as an Acquaintance at the firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York and Paris. She engaged in extensive pro bono piece of work relating to immigration, ceremonious liberties, and international human being rights. Bâli's research interests focus on issues of non-proliferation, human rights, terrorism and the Middle Due east. Recent piece of work includes Interventionism and its Discontents in the Middle East (co-authored working paper with Aziz Rana); From Subjects to Citizens? The Shifting Paradigm of Balloter Authoritarianism in the Middle East (forthcoming in the Journal of Middle Eastward Law and Governance). Ms. Bali received a B.A. summa cum laude from Williams Higher, a Thousand.A. from the Woodrow Wilson Schoolhouse at Princeton Academy, and her J.D. from Yale Law Schoolhouse. J.D., Yale, 1999. Her Ph.D from Princeton University will be conferred afterwards this year.
The Progressive Bourgeois mentions her participation in the UCLA event:
FULL STORY: A conference at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on April 16, 2010, offered "Critical Perspectives on the Criminalization of Islamic Philanthropy in the State of war on Terror." Co-sponsored past the UCLA International Institute, the Disquisitional Race Studies Programme, and the UCLA Periodical of Islamic and Almost Eastern Constabulary — and including speakers from UCLA's Center for Most Eastern Studies (CNES) — the briefing proffered the usual apologist fare.It was too an echo sleeping room. Of the approximately 30 people in attendance, 20 of them were academics. Several students showed up, in addition to the usual assortment of crumbling Leftist revolutionaries.
The thrust of the conference was simple: The war on terror has led to a crackdown on Muslim charities, which has had a chilling effect on Muslims by rendering them unable to engage in Zakat (charity), one of the five pillars of Islam.
Unmentioned throughout this eight-hour infomercial was that the majority of the charities that have been investigated for financially aiding terrorism were plant guilty and that decent Muslims are capable of giving to charities that do not foment bombings and beheadings.
Asli Bali, Acting Professor of Law at UCLA, organized the conference and acted as one of the main moderators. She responded to challenging questions from the audition past stating: "Nosotros will take three questions from presenters; others will have to await."
She is also listed as an endorser for Code Pink:
Asli Bali, Lath Fellow member, American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Observe the Networks has a summary of this "Committee", which is anti-Israel:
ADC is notable not only for its programs and campaigns, just besides for its open up expressions of support for some controversial figures. For instance, in 1987 the Commission honored filmmaker Michael Moore for his "courageous efforts in journalism." A decade and a half later, when Academy of Southward Florida professor Sami-Al Arian was indicted on terrorism-related charges, ADC's Hussein Ibish depicted FBI investigations of Al-Arian "a political witch hunt, a vendetta, and a kind of very, very ugly mail service-9/11 McCarthyism."
Omar Alomari
From Steve Emerson's site, March 16 2010:
Witness Omar Alomari is the Ohio Department of Public Safe's Department of Homeland Security multicultural relations officeholder. Since taking the job in 2006, he wrote a 40-page Culture Guide related to Arabic and Islamic Civilization. In this document, Alomari divers jihad as the benign pursuit of personal betterment. Information technology may be applied to physical conflict for Muslims, simply just in the arena of Muslims defending themselves when attacked or when attempting to overthrow oppression and occupation.
Jihad as a holy war is a European invention, spread in the West, he wrote.
Alomari as well authored a two-page brochure called "Agents of Radicalization" for the Ohio Department of Homeland Security. In information technology, he lists several grievances driving terrorism in the Muslim globe, including Israel'southward occupation and oppression of the Palestinians, U.South. support for State of israel, the U.S. invasion and occupation of Muslim lands and back up for repressive regimes. Alomari goes on to explain that such terrorism also stems from the expected societal reaction of the one time proud and thriving Arab/Muslim culture, at present in reject and disharmonize considering of the stronger and ambitious West.
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The material Alomari'due south agency is putting out is "classic Islamist propaganda" which suggests that "these thugs who kill people in restaurants and shopping malls will stop if we solve the Arab-Israeli conflict," Jasser said. "In fact, they'll find another grievance in a year or 2."
Alomari acknowledges that some Muslim communities exercise, in fact, provide back up for the radical jihadists, who he labels "the opposition." He besides describes Islam as a "politicized religion" in terms of terrorism and how "it's easier for extremists in Islam to convince youngsters to bring together in their extremist organizations."
But the brochure ends with a list of 7 Muslim organizations the Ohio agency works with. All the groups accept ties to the Muslim Alliance or take their ain history of extremist rhetoric.
The Jawa Report discovered that Mr. Alomari liked to sleep with his students, and was fired for doing so:
June fourteen, 2010Ohio Homeland Security official Omar Alomari under investigation later Jawa Report investigation
The wheels of justice grind slowly, as the maxim goes. Just they (along with the institution media) are finally communicable up with the Jawa Report.
Exhibit A is a front page article in the Columbus Dispatch on Saturday concerning a story we broke here back in April concerning the various follies within Ohio Homeland Security; specifically, our reports nearly their multicultural diplomacy/community engagement director Omar Alomari beingness previously fired from a state college for sleeping with one of his students — whom he later sued (unsuccessfully) for defamation after she reported him to the school; and another top official, Olen Martin, who padded his resume with not ane, but two imitation college degrees.
Land official under scrutiny for job history
An Ohio Homeland Security official is being investigated for declining to disclose his one-time employment at Columbus Land Community College, where he was fired subsequently an improper consensual sexual affair with one of his students.
Omar Alomari, the section's customs engagement director, did non list his tenure at Columbus Country from 1990 to 1996 when he practical to piece of work for the state and submitted background-bank check materials in tardily 2006.
Section of Public Safety officials began an administrative investigation into the accuracy of Alomari'south paperwork terminal month after a terrorism-related website began excavation into his background.
Alomari, 59, a native of Jordan, was a total-time humanities teacher at Columbus State. He disputed his dismissal, filing a national-origin discrimination complaint with the Ohio Ceremonious Rights Commission. He also sued the woman with whom he had an matter, accusing her of slander and seeking damages.
The civil-rights commission found no probable crusade of discrimination and dismissed Alomari's complaint. The lawsuit against his sometime student as well was dismissed.
Senior Analyst and Executive Director Dalia Mogahed of the Gallup Heart for Muslim Studies
This is from Steve Emerson's site:
Dalia Mogahed: A Muslim George Gallup or Islamist Ideologue?IPT News
April 15, 2010
Few American Islamists receive the kind of glowing media coverage given to Dalia Mogahed, executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, who is sometimes described as the "about influential person" shaping the Obama Assistants'due south Middle East message.
Mogahed, who claims to have played an important role in the drafting of President Obama'southward historic Cairo speech to the Muslim world, was appointed to serve on the President's Quango on Religion-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. The council released its concluding recommendations terminal month.
When European Islamist Tariq Ramadan kicked off his U.Due south. bout last week at Cooper Union in New York Metropolis, Mogahed and two journalists joined him for a panel discussion. Her remarks emphasized polling data showing that Muslim Americans are more than affluent and socially content than their European counterparts.
Muslim Americans are no more probable to support political violence than the rest of the nation, Mogahed said. The minority of Muslim Americans who do support attacks on civilians base this position on politics, not organized religion.
It's a bulletin that Mogahed attempts to drive home at every opportunity.
She routinely is depicted as a scholarly analyst monitoring public stance on subjects like anti-Muslim prejudice in the The states or global Muslim attitudes toward America. On other occasions, she is treated equally a pioneering Muslim celebrity or portrayed as a victim of anti-Muslim "smears."
Just the reality is much more complicated. Mogahed is not some apolitical social scientist chronicling political trends in the manner of George Gallup, founder of the parent organization for her polling eye. While Gallup strived to maintain his objectivity, Mogahed has followed a very different course. As we will explain in more detail below, she works behind the scenes with radical Islamist groups to heighten their standing in the presidential council'south activities.
Mogahed is a protégé of John Esposito, executive manager of the Prince Alwaleed Bin-Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown Academy and a longstanding apologist for the Muslim Brotherhood. The pair take worked together at the Gallup Center, and co-authored the book Who Speaks for Islam? What A Billion Muslims Really Call back in 2007, which was subsequently turned into a flick. Read the State Section website's coverage of the picture premiere hither.
Mogahed has been a tenacious defender of groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Lodge of Due north America (ISNA), both of which are tied to the Muslim Brotherhood. During a September 2008 appearance at the Religion Newswriters Clan Almanac Conference in Washington, D.C., she was asked about links between the two organizations and Islamic radicals. Mogahed replied that it would exist unfair to have those groups "disenfranchised" considering of "misinformation." Without offer evidence, she claimed "in that location is a concerted effort to silence, y'all know, institution edifice among Muslims. And the fashion to practice it is [to] malign these groups. And it'southward kind of a witch hunt."
Manager Nadia Roumani of the American Muslim Civic Leadership Establish.
This is her bio from the speakers at the 46th Annual ISNA Convention (pdf):
Nadia Roumani is the Director of the American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute, a religion-based leadership training and civic date plan that strengthens young leaders in the Muslim community who are working towards the full participation of Muslims in American public life. AMCLI is housed at the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture, and works in partnership with Georgetown's Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim- Christian Agreement.
In improver to her piece of work with AMCLI, Nadia is the consultant programme officer for the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art'due south Building Bridges Plan, and the Principal of Roumani Consulting LLC. Nadia consults regularly for several international organizations, foundations, and nonprofit organizations. Among others, she has consulted for the World Bank, UNDP, UN Alliance of Civilizations, the Brookings Institution, the Four Freedoms Fund, the Carnegie Corporation, the Rothschild Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
Nadia was the interim managing director for the Women Leaders Intercultural Forum, and a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, where she co-founded the Global Policy Innovations Program. Between 2000 and 2004, Nadia was the Assistant Director of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, a project directed by Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, and a inferior associate in Stiglitz's office at the World Banking company from 1999-2000.
Nadia is the President of the Lath of Directors of the Muslim Public Service Network; a Member of the Pacific Council on International Policy; and a Term Fellow member of the Council on Strange Relations. Nadia received her primary's degree from Columbia University'southward School of International and Public Affairs, and her bachelor'southward caste in economics and international relations from Stanford University.
It'due south difficult for almost Americans to realize how thoroughly the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan al-Muslimeen) has penetrated the organs of federal, country, and local authorities. The Pentagon and the national security establishment regularly employ Muslim "advisors" whose connections with the Muslim Brotherhood are easily discovered.
In Nov 2008 the directors of the Holy Land Foundation were bedevilled on one hundred and eight charges of terrorism financing. Ane of the HLF documents made public during the trial had this to say about the goals of the Muslim Brotherhood in America:
The procedure of settlement is a "Civilization-Jihadist Process" with all the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western culture from within and "sabotaging" its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers then that it is eliminated and Allah'south religion is fabricated victorious over all other religions. […] It is a Muslim'southward destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is […]
The HLF document also named a list of its affiliates in North America, which include:
- The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)
- The Muslim Educatee Clan (MSA)
- The Due north American Islamic Trust (NAIT) (which holds the title to a large number of mosques, financed by Saudi Arabia)
- The Fiqh Council of North America (in 1991 the ISNA Fiqh Committee; under its new name it is still a subordinate chemical element of ISNA)
- CAIR
- The Islamic Circumvolve of North America (ICNA)
- The International Institute for Islamic Idea (IIIT)
These are the very aforementioned organizations that supply advisors and sensitivity trainers and liaison officials to piece of work closely with the federal government — including the Section of Homeland Security — at all levels.
These groups were officially named by the federal government as unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation trial, yet the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon and the FBI hire them as helpers and advisors in the "War on Terror". These are the people our ain authorities has chosen to provide data to our elected and appointed leaders and assistance them grade their core ideas about the "Religion of Peace".
"Businesswoman," you might well ask, "how could we get whatsoever more screwed than this?"
Well, we could always elect a Muslim equally our President…
Source: https://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2010/06/
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