KABUL, Afghanistan — As Marine Corps forces roll into southern Afghanistan, they face an enemy familiar to US officials — Mullah Zakir, a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who now leads a reconstituted Taliban.
Abdul Qayum Zakir, also known as Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, is from Helmand Province and has taken a circuitous route to become head of the radical Islamic group.
Zakir was a senior fighter during the Taliban regime in the 1990s. In a memorandum prepared for his administrative review board at Guantanamo, Zakir apparently “felt it would be fine to wage jihad against Americans, Jews, or Israelis if they were invading his country.”
And he acknowledged that he was “called to fight jihad in approximately 1997,” when he joined the Taliban.
In 2001, he surrendered to US and Afghan forces in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif as the regime was collapsing. He spent the next several years in custody, was transferred to Guantanamo around 2006, then to Afghanistan government custody in late 2007, and was eventually released around May 2008. American officials won’t say why he was let go and have not released a photograph of him.
Zakir wasted little time rekindling his relationship with the Taliban, especially its inner shura, or leadership council, based in Pakistan. According to some accounts, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar appointed Zakir as a senior military commander in mid-2008. He quickly developed a reputation as a charismatic leader.
Going into the belly of the beast where Islamists from CAIR and ISNA were waiting with a pre-meditated plan to prevent him from exposing jihadist material and speakers at their big ‘Pursuit of Life, Liberty, and Happiness’ event. Pursuit of exposing the Islamist agenda and of Muslims preaching and selling jihad material at the ISNA conference is apparently not allowed however.
This on the heels of two recent and disturbing videos where non-Muslims were denied their rights in court and on the streets of Dearborn where they were harassed by Hizbollah security gaurds; and a gang of Muslims assaulting a gay man on the streets of Minnesota. As was stated at the ISNA conference, “Islam will be very different in this country thirty years from now.” Indeed it will – if Americans don’t wake up, our children and grandchildren will be further subject to sharia and Islamist thugs.
From WorldNetDaily -Islam investigator ejected from D.C. Muslim conference
WASHINGTON – With a high-profile Christian keynote speaker, Rick Warren, the Islamic Society of North America billed its July 4 national convention here as a major outreach to non-Muslims, but it chose to eject by force an American investigating Islamist radicalism in the U.S.
Dave Gaubatz, a former Air Force special agent who has traveled the country investigating radical Islamist mosques and attempts at imposing Shariah law in the U.S., was forcibly removed from the conference after paying the $100 attendance fee.
Gaubatz made news last November by slapping officials of the Council of American Islamic Relations with subpoenas at the group’s national conference.
“It was apparent I was ‘flagged,’” he told WND. “Eight or nine ISNA and other men surrounded me. They refused to tell me who they were or why they wanted me to leave. One then said CAIR wants you out. They began crowding me. I was professional and told them to step away from me, tell me who they are, and why was I being illegally detained. I told them this could have been avoided if ISNA would have emailed me a cancellation. I told them I want my $100 back. Meanwhile I was asking them some tough questions they could not answer.”
After ISNA officials let Gaubatz out of the Washington Convention Center, he was quickly surrounded by Washington police.
“I was on the street and noticed at least three D.C. patrol cars,” he said. “I took pictures. Then I started walking toward my parked car. One patrol car was following me slowly. I stopped, took a few pictures of him. Then walked to my car. I got in my car. Three patrol cars surrounded me and surrounded my vehicle. I was told to get out. I asked what was the problem. Finally one officer showed me pictures CAIR had given them and told them I was a threat. There were four pictures – three were with me in Iraq with my M-16 and 9mm, and in two I was holding AK-47s in Iraq. CAIR had photocopied the picture of me helping a sick Iraqi child from the picture. Then CAIR had cropped my head shot onto a Nazi uniform, which was obvious.”
The police said members of CAIR had given them the pictures, saying he was a threat.
“I told them about the pictures, my background in Iraq, and who I was,” Gaubatz said. “They knew nothing of this. CAIR and ISNA had essentially tried to get me killed. The officer reminded me they just had the Holocaust Museum shooting. CAIR intentionally misled the officers to make them believe I was just someone who carries guns. CAIR failed to tell them these were pictures from Iraq when I was serving my country.”
Last fall, when CAIR held its 14th Annual Banquet at the Marriott Crystal Gateway Hotel to raise funds and honor its supporters, Gaubatz led an effort to serve several top officials of the Muslim lobby group with summonses and complaints for various civil and criminal offenses.
Gaubatz also managed to capture the events on video, which was shared with WND. He personally served CAIR Director Nihad Awad at the banquet while Democratic North Carolina state Sen. Larry Shaw, a CAIR national board member, was addressing the festivities.
More details on previous posts (story) on the Arab / Muslim festival in Dearborn, Michigan. Where apparently Hizbollah terrorists and/or supporters were hired for security (watch videos).This update from FrontPage Magazine.
Under well-established law, a street or a park is considered to be a “traditional public forum.” These are places, which, according to the U.S. Supreme Court, “by long tradition or by government fiat have been devoted to assembly and debate” and where “the rights of the state to limit expressive activity are sharply circumscribed.”
Streets and parks, according to our high court, have always been “held in trust for the use of the public, and, time out of mind, have been used for purposes of assembly, communicating thoughts between citizens, and discussing public questions.” In these “quintessential public forums,” the public’s speech rights are expected to be resolutely protected. A government regulation can limit it only to serve a compelling state interest, and it must be drafted narrowly to achieve that end. Government may also enforce regulations of the time, place, and manner of expression so long as they are “content-neutral,” are narrowly tailored to serve a significant government interest, and leave open ample alternative channels of communication.
These requirements would seem to substantially cramp government’s power to muzzle those wishing to enjoy the freedom of expression and assembly guaranteed by the First Amendment in public streets and parks. But in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, a judge agreed with the city that the constraints placed on ACP were reasonable time, place and manner restrictions. The group of some 90 volunteers, traveling from every corner of the nation, would be ordered to stay away from the open street and public sidewalks of the festival but allowed to distribute their material around the corners, far from the event. In other words, everyone but ACP was welcome at the festival, and since the city did not seek to curb the activities of any other individual or group, only ACP’s speech rights were affected by the court’s ruling.
The testimony at the TRO hearing provided by the police chief verified that ACP had not been responsible for causing public disturbances in prior visits. And no other security or safety issues were mentioned at the TRO hearing.
The festival offered to allow ACP to set up a booth, but insisted that its members remain at the booth and not distribute their material at any other location. This was a shrewd move by the festival organizers. At first, their offer seemed like a reasonable “alternative channel of communication” in which ACP could reach just as many, if not more, festival gatherers.
But after being offered two locations to pitch their tent, ACP was moved from its first choice in the center of the Festival near the police tent to a distant outpost, where the group handed out little more than a few hundred packets of material.
Elsewhere at the festival, and unknown to the Dearborn Police Department, were other Christians peddling their own material. Pat Rojas was one of them. Hounded by the festival’s private security patrol, he and another evangelical Christian were taken from the sidewalk to the security tent, where they were detained and harassed before being physically ejected from the festival, driven out in a security vehicle, and ordered not to return. According to Rojas, “Hezbollah” was tattooed on their arms.
“One security guard tried to initiate a fight with us by saying all Christian Americans are losers, that our credit cards are all charged up, that our wives have left us, that our children hate us, and that we are all financially broke,” a frustrated Rojas told me. “Another guard took my ID and refused to return it. My life was threatened.”
The lawsuit filed by my firm and Rob Muise of the Thomas More Law Center will shine a light on the grave injustice ACP, Rojas and others experienced in Dearborn. It asks whether Dearborn is a city of tolerant people and fair-minded public officials, or Dearbornistan, a center of dhimmitude where Christians are unwelcome.
This police crackdown, on behalf of the U.S. Muslim minority, poses a serious challenge to our constitutional freedom. More than 250 years ago, James Madison, the father of the First Amendment, witnessed an imprisoned Baptist minister preaching from his jailhouse window. Just 23-years-old at the time, he noted that approximately “5 or 6 well meaning men” were in jail in a nearby county “for publishing their religious sentiments which in the main are very orthodox.”
“I have neither patience to hear, talk, or think of anything relative to this matter,” he wrote a friend, “for I have squabbled and scolded, abused and ridiculed, so long about it to little purpose, that I am without common patience. So I must beg you to pity me, and pray for liberty of conscience to all.”
The disturbing situation in Dearborn is a vivid reminder of Madison’s frustration and the need to preserve the protections for religious groups especially. After all, the First Amendment was specifically adopted for their protection, and only incidentally protects street performers.
If you aren’t following Dave Gaubatz yet, you might want to start. Remember our interview with him a few weeks back. He’s also exposed Siraj Wahhaj on tape, recently challenged CAIR’s law firm, and below, he lays out how the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) spends their Fourth of July holiday. Also recall, it has been reported that the FBI selected ISNA as its exclusive Muslim partner in crime (figure of speech) – dumping its previous partner in crime, CAIR (again figure of speech).
The ISNA conference will draw tens of thousands of Muslims to D.C. during the Fourth of July weekend. Notorious Notable guest speakers at the event will include jihad-preaching imam Siraj Wahhaj; Congressmen Keith Ellison and Andre Carson; Esam Omeish (Virginia’s jihad candidate); Rick Warren; various CAIR execs; James Zogby; Ingrid Mattson; and many others – including Cat Stevens. There are dozens of individuals who could each be profiled.
American Muslims gather by the tens of thousands in our nation’s capital this weekend, as our nation celebrates its birthday.
They will be filling the Washington DC Convention Center for the 46th Annual ISNA National Conference. http://www.isna.net/home.aspx Muslims from all across America will be at the event to do their part in helping to celebrate the success of ISNA.
Did the leadership of ISNA randomly pick our nation’s Independence Day to hold their event? Islamic scholars openly lecture to not follow man-made holidays created by the Jews and Christians such as Christmas, Easter, Independence Day, etc. In addition, ISNA informs American educators that Muslim children are not encouraged to any allegiance to America, which also includes wearing lapel pins or standing for the pledge of allegiance.
Last year I attended the ISNA Conference in Ohio. There were an estimated 30,000 plus Muslims who attended the conference, including Congressman Keith Ellison/D-MN and several other U.S elected officials. (Ellison refused to use the Bible during his official searing in ceremony and instead was allowed to use a Quran.)
There were hundreds of vendors, and since the conference was being held only a couple of months before the 2008 Presidential Election, there was an enormous outpouring of support for Barack Obama. Non profit organizations are not supposed to favor any certain political candidate, of course.
In 2008 ISNA had several booths with anti-American slogans on shirts, along with pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian, and anti-Israel garments. In addition Barack Hussein Obama material was in abundance. I researched the hundreds of vendors and saw no material for Presidential candidate John McCain.
It was easy to find DVDs, books, manuals, and pamphlets calling America a terrorist organization and for the destruction of our country and Israel. It was very easy to find material calling for killing innocent men, women, and children in American who did not belief in an Islamic Ummah (Nation) worldwide and under Sharia law. There were material calling for polygamy and encouraging child marriages. If you wanted Muslim Brotherhood material, this was the location to obtain the intelligence you desired. These type materials were in abundance.
ISNA will say they do not endorse the vendors selected for the event or the services and/or products they provide, but in actuality they do. The following is from their 2009 Vendor Contract:
“Products or services sold or displayed/demonstrated in actual, kind or in printed or audio-visual matter must meet Islamic standards that ISNA wishes to observe. The determination of Islamic standards shall be in the sole and absolute discretion of ISNA, and ISNA shall have the authority to require the removal of any and all goods, displays, or other materials not meeting this standard. The refusal to remove shall immediately terminate this contract, and the exhibitor shall be immediately removed from the exhibit area and the exhibitor shall not be issued a refund of any fees or cost.
“Any literature (fundraising or otherwise) is restricted to the assigned booth and must be pre-approved in writing by ISNA, in ISNA’s sole and absolute discretion. Book selling vendors must complete enclosed form providing inventory of the literature to be sold at ISNA”.
Readers should take note of who will again be only a few feet apart and sharing the same customers coming through the convention. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) last year (2008) had a booth near CAIR, and was recruiting for federal agents and other sensitive classified positions regarding our national security. The DHS booth was also next door to a vendor calling for the destruction of America and Israel, and encouraging older men to marry girls as young as 8! Of course CAIR executives and their security personnel/volunteers were assigned a large booth with propaganda against prominent U.S. citizens such as Michael Savage; CAIR’s spokesperson Ibrahim Hooper and Corey Saylor (Government Affairs) were often vocal of their criticism of anyone or any organization that did not share their views. Read the rest of this entry »
Yet another video of Muslims harassing non-Muslims. Watch this video carefully, and listen. The majority of people in this video are kids – young kids. Also notice some of these kids try to turn it into a racial incident. Who is the coward now Attorney General Eric Holder? Will you hunt down each of these punks? Should be pretty easy to find if you’re not too busy freeing terrorists.
My friend and I were leaving the Gay Pride Festival in Minneapolis, MN (6/27/09) and came across a group of kids who asked my friend if he was gay. When he answered “yes”, they proceeded to harass him and me with verbal threats and even throwing rocks at my friend at one point. Sad…
***NOTE*** The Minneapolis Police Department has contacted me to let me know that the two guys in the video who look like police officers are NOT police officers and were in fact private security for the apartment building we were walking next to.
Great, did the Minn. police say anything about capturing the perpetrators? Or, like in Ft. Lauderdale, NYC, and elsewhere, do Muslims have freedom to harass and verbally assault anyone they choose while Americans can’t say boo about Islam without a pending lawsuit or DOJ investigation? CAIR? Where are you? ISNA? ICNA? MAS? MSA? Where are all the ‘moderate’ Muslims? Holding breath…
Remember, in several Muslim countries, homosexuality is a capital offense.
From the MPAC website where you can view his testimony to Congress:
During a Capitol Hill briefing hosted by the Muslim Public Affairs Council on Monday, independent Palestinian legislator and human rights activist Dr. Mustafa Barghouti called on President Obama to reinvigorate the stalled Middle East peace process.
Dr. Barghouti was a candidate for the presidency of the Palestinian National Authority in 2005, finishing second to Mahmoud Abbas. In January 2006, Dr. Barghouti was elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council, and served as Minister of Information in the short-lived Palestinian unity government in spring 2007.
Why is Congress listening to Mustafa Barghouti, whose cousin founded the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades – the military wing of Fatah?
MPAC has enjoyed access to the highest levels of the U.S. government despite its continued support of terrorist group Hizbollah and refusal by its co-founder to consider Hamas a terrorist group.
They’re back. This time at the Hilton Oak Lawn. Want to express your opinion? Call Hilton and ask why they are hosting a meeting by Hizb ut-Tahrir, a group an Islamic school wouldn’t even host: (708) 425-7800.
Back stories and video here and at CounterTerrorismBlog whereMadeleine Gruen is all over this on-again, off-again event.A few weeks to register your concerns with Hilton or if you are in the area – clear your schedule and attend.
Oil is thicker than blood. Despite evidence implicating the Saudi’s, family members denied justice as Obama defends Saudi’s.
The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear an appeal from family members of victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks seeking damages from members of the Saudi royal family, whom the lawsuit accused of financing al Qaeda.
Family members and commercial insurers joined in the lawsuit targeting four Saudi princes who they say are responsible for financing the terrorist network through a series of Muslim charities. Several lower courts had ruled that the princes, as part of a foreign government, cannot be sued in U.S. courts.
The Obama administration angered family members last month when Solicitor General Elena Kagan filed a brief urging the court not to hear the case.
The Supreme Court’s decision upholds a lower court ruling that the princes enjoy sovereign immunity from prosecution.
“It seemed to me to be a message to the court that said: ‘We don’t want to open this can of worms,’ ” said Debra Burlingame, co-founder of 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong America.
An update to this Creeping Sharia post and an absolute must watch video. Take a seat as your heart rate will surely climb. Sharia in full effect in the United States – enforced by Muslims on public streets, aided and abetted by U.S. courts and Dearborn police. Astonishing video. Watch it all.
Read a detailed explanation of the events at the Answering Muslims blog.
We ask you, is it a coincidence that the city with the highest percentage of Muslims in the United States is the city where Christianity is not allowed to be represented (let alone preached) on a public sidewalk? Is it coincidence that in this city, people will say “No way!” when we say “This is the United States of America”?
Is this what will happen when Islam takes over the United States?
No. No. Yes. Unfortunately the new president is busy bending over backwards for those who assaulted you.
There is a series of video reports from the festival in Dearborn – watch them all and read the reports at the link above. Including this bit of Jew hatred being sold at the Dearborn Arab Festival.
A federal grand jury has indicted a group of Somali-Americans on terror-related charges after more than 20 young men from the Minneapolis area were recruited to join an Al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia, according to two law enforcement sources.
The indictments have yet to be unsealed, but an announcement is expected in the next few weeks. One law enforcement source told FOX News the grand jury already has handed up indictments against at least three people.
Among those charged is a man from Minneapolis who went to war-torn Somalia and then, about four months ago, relocated to Seattle, according to the two sources and a leader in the Minneapolis Somali community. The man was then arrested in a Seattle airport and transferred to a jail in Minneapolis, where he is currently being detained, according to the law enforcement sources.
The law enforcement sources said the man, described as in his 20s, has been charged with providing material support to a terrorist group, in this case al-Shabaab, which has been warring with the moderate Somali government since 2006.
Many of the men recruited to join al-Shabaab attended the Abubakar mosque, and several mosque officials, including director Farhan Hurre, could face indictment, one source said.
In addition, a youth volunteer at the mosque, Abia Ali, recently testified before the grand jury, and she is now worried that she could face indictment, according to Ahmed, who said he talked to someone close to Ali. Ahmed said he was told that Ali had been planning to visit family in Africa sometime in the next few weeks, but after testifying to the grand jury authorities told her not to leave the country.
“Like his peers, [my nephew] was never interested in Somali politics,” Ahmed said during a Senate hearing on the issue in March. “These kids have no perception of Somalia except the one that was formed in their mind by their teachers at the Abubakar Center. We believe that these children did not travel to Somalia by themselves. There must be others who made them understand that going to Somalia and participating the fighting is the right thing to do.”
Not all of those who went to Somalia have returned to the United States. Some are still fighting alongside al-Shabaab, and others have died there.
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – NBC News has scheduled its controversial to-catch-a-terrorist investigative program, in which an elite team hunts war criminals.
“The Wanted” will premiere Monday, July 20, at 10 p.m. with specialists in counterterrorism, foreign intelligence, war crimes and investigative journalism profiling suspected international terrorists.
“We hope this program sheds light on an overlooked story,” said David Corvo, executive producer at NBC News. “It is surprising how many people with serious accusations against them are living openly and avoiding any sort of judicial process.”
The project drew criticism when it was first made public in February, with government officials saying the effort could interfere with ongoing criminal investigations, and human rights advocates concerned about the program making false accusations. Lingering distaste from the news division’s similarly law-enforcement-trumping “To Catch a Predator” segments on “Dateline,” which went after accused sex crimes perpetrators, has also led to worries about the new program.
“‘The Wanted’ is about seeking justice for the many victims of terrorism and atrocity around the world,” said David Crane, a former U.S. intelligence official. “It will start a national conversation, an important dialogue about war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and international terrorism, as well as the indifference and political cynicism that hampers international criminal law and the quest for justice.”
The premiere will follow Mullah Krekar, the leader of an internationally designated terrorist organization who has been living in Norway. The second episode is set in Germany, where purported Al-Qaeda supporter Mamoun Darkazanli remains free.
“It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen on TV before,” promised executive producers Charlie Ebersol and Adam Ciralsky in a statement. “The pairing of rigorous investigative journalism with high-end production values has resulted in a fast-paced show which we hope will leave viewers wanting more.”
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