St. Louis Univ shills for Islamists, bans those who question Islam

While we are on the topic of campus jihad, UC-Irvine (here) and University of Wisconsin at Madison (here) in just the last week, an update to this previous post regarding sharia’s application at St. Louis University. Thanks to Bob McCarty for alerting us to his post at bobmccarty.com. (image separate)

Double-Standard at Saint Louis University?

This weekend, SLU’s Muslim Students’ Association hosted a three-day conference, “Saving Our Deen: Living a Muslim life in a not-so Muslim world,” at the school’s Busch Student Center. Part of the conference agenda — which included speakers from Chicago, Dallas, Maryland and Canada — was a 45-minute presentation entitled, “Recognizing Our Enemies,” by Shaykh Khalid Abdul Sattar of Maryland.

Three months ago, SLU officials blocked David Horowitz from coming to their campus to deliver a speech entitled, “An Evening with David Horowitz: Islamo-Fascism Awareness and Civil Rights.” They cited fears that his subject matter might include an attack on the Muslim faith.

Is there a difference between the two?  Without attending each presentation, I cannot say, so I decided to look deeper into the people and organizations behind each presentation.

In researching the background of the MSA, I learned that, according to this article, documents seized by the FBI and entered as evidence in a Texas court revealed that MSA is a legacy project of the Muslim Brotherhood.  In another article, this one by Douglas Farah, I learned the Muslim Brotherhood’s agenda includes “eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within.” Violence.

In researching Horowitz’s background, I found the organization that bears his name (David Horowitz Freedom Center) was established to institutionalize his campaigns against the Left and its anti-Americanism and that DHFC’s mission is to defend the principles of individual freedom, the rule of law, private property, and limited government.  Non-violence.

Clearly, a double-standard exists at SLU.

Despite the fact that officials at SLU promote “an academic environment that values and promotes free, active and original intellectual inquiry among its faculty and students,” it appears they don’t follow through on everything in their school’s mission statement.  As a result, they’ve created a double-standard based on faith and “tolerance” that is detrimental to freedom of speech as guaranteed in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

To voice your concern(s) about this double-standard, contact the SLU official listed below:

Lawrence Biondi, S.J. (President)
biondi@slu.edu
(314) 977-7777

Also read Horowitz’s own take on being banned again from St. Louis University.

More sharia at UC-Irvine, 12 arrested for disrupting Israeli ambassador (video)

Campus jihad continues. From the Orange County Register:

Twelve people were arrested this evening during a raucous lecture at UC Irvine where Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren came to talk about U.S.-Israel relations.

Oren was interrupted 10 times while trying to give his speech before 500 people at the UCI Student Center, where there was heavy security. Oren took a 20 minute break after the fourth protest, asked for hospitality and resumed his speech, only to be interrupted again by young men yelling at him every few minutes. Many members of the audience also applauded Oren.

After the 10th interruption, several dozens students who opposed Oren’s talk got up and walked out and staged a protest outside. It is not clear whether they were members of the UCI Muslim Student Union, which issued an email earlier in the day condemning Oren’s appearance on campus.

From a previous UCI intifada uprising:

“…Our weapon, our jihad, our way of struggling in this country [USA], is our tongue. We speak out, we deflate their [Americans and Jews] morale, and it’s the best we can do right now…and our brothers and sisters on the other side of the world are handling business in their own way.”

More on the Muslim Student Union here.

Army Warned about Jihadist Threat in 2008

By Bill Gertz at Newsmax – Army Warned about Jihadist Threat in ‘08.

Almost two years before the deadly Fort Hood shooting by a radicalized Muslim officer, the U.S. Army was explicitly warned that jihadism — Islamic holy war — was a serious problem and threat to personnel in the U.S., according to participants at a major Army-sponsored conference.

The annual Army anti-terrorism conference in Florida in February 2008 included presentations on the threat by counterterrorism specialists Patrick Poole, Army Lt. Col. Joseph Myers and Terri Wonder.

The meeting was organized by the Army’s provost marshal general and included more than 350 force protection and anti-terrorism professionals who came from major Army installations and commands from around the world, according to participants.

Mr. Poole, a counterterrorism specialist and adviser to government and law-enforcement agencies, said his presentation and that of the other two counterterrorism experts “attempted to instruct these anti-terrorism and force protection professionals not just in the indicators of Islamic jihadism, but also the strategic deficiencies in the military comprehension of the overall jihadist threat.”

The shooting at a recruiting center in Little Rock, Ark., in June and the November shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, that killed 13 people have exposed the problem of the Army’s deficiencies in understanding the nature of the domestic Islamic terrorist threat, Mr. Poole said.

The incidents have raised questions about whether the Army made any effort to “operationalize” the threat warnings from the 2008 conference and develop policies to counter the threats. “The answer quite clearly is no,” Mr. Poole said.

Col. Myers said in an interview that he was a key speaker at the annual conference and spoke there based on his role as a force protection instructor-trainer.

He also had conducted an organizational review of the Pentagon’s Anti-Terrorism Operations Intelligence Cell, a group that provides strategic threat warnings to the Army.

“I noted that because of our lack of understanding of Islamic doctrines, Islamic Jihad and my view that our counterintelligence function is broken, outdated and being usurped in some cases by public affairs and equal opportunity officials, we were going to get soldiers killed in America, on our own bases for that professional ignorance,” he said, adding that his comments were his personal views and not those of the service.

Col. Myers said he told the conference that senior military and defense officials were involved in outreach programs to “organizations affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and snapping pictures with its foundational leaders in our country.”

Mr. Poole said the Pentagon’s outreach program to some Muslim groups, including photographs of senior defense officials associating with questionable domestic Muslim leaders and groups, gave “legitimacy” to some of the organizations promoting the ideology embraced by Maj. Nidal Hasan, the suspect in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood that killed 13 people.

“These embarrassing photo-ops occur because the military is not well-schooled on the jihadist threat in America, and because fundamentally the national security establishment does not have a fully elaborated threat model for the global and domestic jihad,” Mr. Poole said. “In many instances, relationships and events with terror-tied Islamic groups and leaders are organized by public affairs flacks and never vetted by counterintelligence agencies.”

Generation Jihad: UK Muslims unrepentant on jihadi views (video)

If you are in the UK, the BBC is running a 3-part series titled “Generation Jihad.” The interviews suggest prison won’t help but limiting immigration and deporting Muslims convicted of terrorism offenses might. Meanwhile, British leaders still cling to the “twisted ideology’ theory.

Two young British Muslims who have served short prison sentences for terrorism offences have spoken frankly about their views to a new BBC documentary investigation into the extent of the radicalisation of Muslims in the UK.

Ditta claims: “You can go to any [Muslim] youth on the street and say, ‘Do you believe in Jihad?’ and he’ll say ‘Yes’. ‘Do you believe that al-Qaeda is a terrorist movement?’ He’ll say, ‘No’.”

More via BBC News – Young British Muslim ex-prisoners unrepentant on views. If the full version goes viral and is not pure propaganda, we’ll post it. Until then, watch it on BBC2.

Note: One reviewer, who is clearly no fan of the BBC, got a similar impression about Part I being sympathetic to the jihad.

…this episode strove to convince us that Islamist extremism wasn’t the real Islam, but as chalk to ‘moderate’ Islam’s cheese.
I was horrified to see him perpetuating the discredited tale of the Al Durah shooting at the hands of the Israelis, when the veracity of that has been exposed, at the very least, as dubious.

If Peter Taylor is sufficiently ignorant about the controversy surrounding that case to use it to illustrate justification for Jihad how does that make the rest of his programme look?

Red Cross chapter hires ex-fundraiser for radical groups

Infiltration in places you wouldn’t normally expect. Islamists have another willing partner in a major organization. via Rio Hondo chapter of American Red Cross hires new executive director – Whittier Daily News.

WHITTIER – Eltevina De La Torre, the new executive director of the Rio Hondo chapter of the American Red Cross, has spent most of her professional life raising money for nonprofit organizations.

And that’s what De La Torre, 38, of Cerritos, has been hired to do in her new job.

“The first and most important goal is to increase funding for the organization,” she said. “The other goal is to get out in the community and build relationships.”

Before coming to the Rio Hondo chapter that serves Whittier and eight other nearby cities, De La Torre in the past has worked as director of development handling fundraising for the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Loyola Marymount University.

She also has done fundraising for the Muslim Public Affairs Council.

More on the Muslim group De La Torre raised money for here, and this from DTN:

• Los Angeles-based Muslim organization whose leadership defends extremist violence
• Opposes the shutdown of Muslim charities suspected of supporting terrorism
• Opposes the Patriot Act

MALDEF are no angels either:

• The most influential Hispanic advocacy group in the United States
• A creation of the Ford Foundation, from which is has received more than $25 million
• Advocates open borders, free college tuition for illegal immigrants, lowered educational standards to accommodate Hispanics, and voting rights for criminals

MALDEF has its own connections to racist sentiments and groups. MALDEF’s Founder, Mario Obledo, said in 1998: “California is going to be a Hispanic state and anyone who doesn’t like it should leave. They should go back to Europe.”

Additionally, MALDEF has long partnered with Latino organizations like the National Council of La Raza (“the Race”)…

Creeping Sharia blog turns 2 years old today!

Thank you to everyone who reads us, links to us, send us tips, and leaves comments here! Keep spreading the word, linking to us, and contact your elected officials when you read about issues in your area.

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US military suspends Muslim trainer with ties to terror suspects; criminal inquiry pending

The second bit of good news in recent days. After learning that CAIR’s state senator Larry Shaw would not seek re-election in North Carolina, Brooks Egerton in the Dallas Morning News reports that the U.S. military has finally awoken and started to smell the infiltration. Will they address the military Muslim chaplain program next?

Fort Hood fallout: Military suspends trainer with ties to terror suspects; criminal inquiry pending

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan wasn’t the only guy with extremist ties counseling soldiers at Fort Hood last year, as my story in Sunday’s Dallas Morning News shows.

There was at least one more: Louay Safi (shown at right). A month after the worst military-base massacre in U.S. history, he taught Islam to officers who were deploying to Afghanistan. He’d been doing this work on bases around the country, as a military subcontractor, since 2005.

That same year, federal prosecutors named Safi an unindicted co-conspirator in the terrorism-support trial of his old buddy Sami al-Arian. The reason: a wiretapped phone call in which the two men mocked a U.S. order banning dealings with foreign terrorist groups and agreed that Jews controlled the White House.

Al-Arian has since been convicted. But he still faces criminal contempt charges for refusing to testify before a grand jury about the International Institute of Islamic Thought — a northern Virginia think tank that counterterrorism agents raided in 2002, when Safi was its research director.

Safi now faces a criminal inquiry by the military but has never been criminally charged. He denies wrongdoing. He also has described post-9/11 counterterrorism crackdowns as a “campaign against Islam.”

Read it all for more background on Safi. We were one of the first to report that terror-linked ISNA was raising money for Ft. Hood, here, when we urged readers to contact Ft. Hood AUSA – who later accepted the blood money from Safi on behalf of ISNA, here.

Update: A longer, more detailed piece from Eggerton in the Dallas Morning News – U.S. torn over whether some Islamists offer insight or pose threat. A few excerpts that explain why we are in the current situation:

Thirteen members of Congress, all conservative Republicans, wrote to Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Dec. 17 asking him to halt military base lectures by anyone affiliated with ISNA. Gates did not respond, said Rep. Sue Myrick of North Carolina.

Myrick, who founded the congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus, co-signed a similar letter during the Bush administration, asking the Justice Department not to co-sponsor an ISNA event. There was no response then, either.

“We never get an explanation for the strategy,” she said. “They just ignore us.”

Paul Pillar, a retired CIA expert on terrorism and the Middle East, said The News’ findings illustrate “how hard it is to come up with some person or organization that is Muslim in North America that does not have some kind of associations or links that when we looked into them we’d say, ‘Oops, that gives us pause.’ “

Not everyone with such associations is “unsavory,” Pillar stressed. He said he was unfamiliar with Safi and ISNA.

CIA expert on terrorism, albeit retired, “was unfamiliar with Safi and ISNA.” How many active in the CIA have never heard of Safi and ISNA? Much, much more. Read it all, because in Safi’s own words:

“Nobody understands these things in America.”

UK: Teacher claims ‘forced out’ after reporting Muslim pupils praising 9/11 hijackers

Nine-year olds waging jihad with the tongue. How many of these stories go unreported?

A Christian teacher told today how he lost his job after complaining that Muslim pupils as young as eight hailed the September 11 hijackers as ‘heroes’.

Nicholas Kafouris said he was forced from his £30,000-a-year post because he would not tolerate the ‘racist’ and ‘anti-Semitic’ behaviour of children.

He said the predominantly Muslim youngsters openly praised Islamic extremists in class, and hailed the terrorists of the 2001 atrocities as ‘martyrs’.

Mr Kafouris, 40, told how one pupil said to him, ‘Don’t touch me, you’re a Christian’, when the teacher accidentally brushed against him with his arm.

Others said, ‘We want to be Islamic bombers when we grow up‘, and ‘the Christians and Jews are our enemies, you too because you’re a Christian’, he added.

Mr Kafouris, who had taught at Bigland Green Primary School, in Tower Hamlets, East London, for 12 years, said there was a change in attitude of pupils at the school – where the majority of pupils are Muslim – after the World Trade Center attacks.

According to the most recent Ofsted report ‘almost all’ the 465 pupils at the school are from ethnic minorities and a vast proportion do not have English as their first language.

Mr Kafouris, a Greek Cypriot, said pupils told him, ‘We hate the Christians’ and, ‘We hate the Jews’, despite his attempts to stop them.

The teacher is now suing his former school, the headteacher, and the assistant head for racial discrimination after they failed to take action about the comments made by pupils to him.

He had filled out a ‘Racist Incident Reporting Sheet’ but claimed the headteacher Jill Hankey dismissed his concerns.

In a statement submitted to the Central London Employment Tribunal he said: ‘Miss Hankey proceeded to excuse and justify the pupil’s behaviour, conduct and remarks to me as if I had no right to be offended by the child’s remarks and conduct.

Amongst Miss Hankey’s justifications for the child’s remarks, she said: ‘If the child was older, say 15, I might take it more seriously, he’s only nine, he’s only doing it to wind you up.’

Sweden: Muslim man refuses to shake woman’s hand, wins discrimination lawsuit

Dhimmitude in Sweden.

STOCKHOLM — Sweden’s unemployment agency has been found guilty of discrimination for expelling a Muslim man from a job training program because he refused to shake hands with a woman.

A Stockholm court Monday ordered the Public Employment Service to pay 50,000 kronor ($6,700) in damages to an immigrant from Bosnia who lost his jobless benefits when he was kicked out of the program.

Citing his faith, the man had refused to shake hands with a woman when he was interviewing for an internship. The agency said his behavior was part of the reason he didn’t get the position, and decided to exclude him from the program.

The court ruled that the man was discriminated against because of his religion. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the ruling would be appealed.

via Muslim man wins handshake case in Sweden – washingtonpost.com.

Londonistan: Muslim bus driver stops bus for five minute prayer, passengers do nothing

Passengers “looked on in stunned silence?” That pretty much sums up the Western response to Islamic jihad and imperialism. Complain to some higher-ups that refuse to do anything. hat tip @dominionpundit

Muslim bus driver locks passengers aboard as he stops to pray

The driver pulled over without warning and rolled out a high-visibility jacket as a makeshift prayer mat before removing his shoes, turning to face Mecca and starting to chant in Arabic.

Passengers said they looked on in stunned silence, fearing the driver may be preparing for a terrorist attack on the bus. No one was able to get on or off the vehicle during the five-minute prayer session.

Gayle Griffiths, 33, complained to Transport for London (TfL) about the incident on the number 24 bus in Gospel Oak, north London, last week.

The mother-of-one from Camden, north west London, who had boarded the bus minutes earlier on her way home from work, said: “Everyone was looking round in a mix of shock and amazement.

“When he had finished, he just got back up and set off again – all without any explanation or apology. It was truly bizarre, ludicrous and aggravating.”

“We are delayed often enough as it is in London. We live in a multicultural society but there is a time and a place for prayer and the middle of a journey with a busload of passengers is not it.”

The NHS administrator added: “It even went through my mind that this might be some sort of terrorist attack with the bus blown up because I had heard that suicide bombers prayed before attacks.”

TfL has apologised to all the passengers for the delay to their journey and the driver has been reprimanded.

A spokesman said: “A route 24 bus was delayed following a decision by the driver to stop the bus to pray.

“The bus company – London General – has had a word with the driver as this is not something that should be happening.”

Muslim drivers have been reminded that they should pray during rest periods between journeys to avoid delays, TfL said.

South Africa submitting to Islamic sharia law

“A slow and tortuous process.” That same suicidal process is underway in the U.S. as we posted on in, Intro to Islamic Family Law in US Courts.

Muslim Marriages Bill allows two systems to act in parallel Published in: Legalbrief Today
Date: Mon 08 February 2010
Category: Legislation
Issue No: 2495

The Muslim Marriages Bill seeks to find a way of accommodating – within the framework of the rationalist and humanist Constitution of SA – a worldview that is rooted in unquestioning submission to the dictates of religious faith, says a Weekend Argus report.

The solution the SA Law Reform Commission – in drafting the Bill – has constructed is to allow the two systems to function in parallel. There is no attempt to regulate the operation of Sharia in the South African context. Instead, what the Bill proposes is that married couples enter into a set of agreements with the secular authority of the state in a contract separate from, and not overlapping with, that of the Islamic marriage itself. This secondary contract – a registration of the marriage for the purposes of the law of the land – would then guarantee all the rights of citizenship that civil law has failed to provide in the past for those married by Muslim rites. The report notes that this is how the Bill is structured. But it also goes further in its accommodation of Sharia: in the case of disputes arising out of the marriage – divorce settlements and the like – it specifies a procedure beginning with mediation; then, if matters end up in court, judges would be assisted by two assessors trained in Sharia. The report says that all of this only kicks in if the parties to the marriage choose to register the marriage in terms of the legislation.
Full Weekend Argus report (subscription needed)
Draft Muslim Marriages Bill
Rationale behind the draft Bill on Islamic marriages

Integrating Muslim family law into the South African cannon has been a slow and tortuous process, says another Weekend Argus report. But though the problems remain challenging, with the new legislative process SA stands at the forefront of countries with minority Muslim populations in moving to entrench religious rights within the framework of civil law, says UCT’s Waheeda Amien, a researcher into the intricacies of Muslim family law and human rights. The root of the difficulty lies in fact that Sharia is a comprehensive body of law and observance that seeks to regulate every aspect of life and society for adherents. Sharia makes no distinction between religious observance and civil authority, and provides in itself codes of law and the enforcement of law, which frequently are at odds with those of secular authority in contexts where Sharia is not the law of the land.
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