6 imams, Aviation Security, CAIR

Protect ‘John Does’: NYC mayoral candidate

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In today’s New York Sun:

Recently, only one Democratic member of the New York City congressional delegation voted in favor of a measure approved in the House to protect people who report suspicious behavior relating to transportation security from the threat of lawsuits.

Rep. Anthony Weiner, who represents Brooklyn and Queens and is already running for mayor, backed the “John Doe” amendment, a reference to the unnamed defendants who told officials on a US Airways flight in Minneapolis last November that a group of imams was acting suspiciously. The imams sued the airline, airport officials, and the passengers who made the report.

An advertisement urging the [United States] Senate to pass the measure is appearing in the latest issue of City Hall, a free monthly publication. Another ad is expected to appear in the New York Post today or later this week, mayoral hopeful John Catsimatidis, who is paying for the ads, said. He is chairman and CEO of Red Apple Group and Gristedes.

[New York City] Council Member Hiram Monserrate of Queens plans to introduce a resolution that would have the council press the Senate to approve the amendment, introduced by Rep. Peter King of Long Island. “We congratulate Congressman Peter King for working hard to protect New Yorkers,” Mr. Catsimatidis, a Republican turned Democrat turned Republican, said. “If people get scared of turning in people, then I think it’s going to compromise New York security. And what I’m concerned about is New Yorkers.”

Mr. Catsimatidis said he took out the ads because he wants to put the issue “on the table” and hold elected officials accountable for their vote. He said Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Jerrold Nadler, Democrats of New York who voted against the amendment, are good friends of his and that he thinks the ad will let them know “maybe they should have looked at it twice.”
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City Hall already has ties to the case that prompted the amendment. An attorney for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Omar Mohammedi, serves as a Bloomberg administration appointee on the city’s Commission on Human Rights and is representing the six imams. In the House, 105 Democrats voted in favor of the John Doe amendment and 121 voted against it. It passed March 27 on a vote of 304 to 121.

The amendment was added to the Rail and Public Transportation Security Act in the House. Mr. King said he or someone else would introduce the amendment to the Senate’s bill if the two sides of Congress as expected hold a conference on the legislation.
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Mr. Monserrate said it is important for the council to take a position on the amendment.

“The city of New York, more than any place on this planet, was affected by terrorism the most on September 11,” he said. “It is an issue that is going to be debated, and rightfully so.”

Islamofascists

Glimpses of radical Islam from around the world

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Iran Exonerates Six Who Killed in Islam’s Name
Tehran, Iran, April 18, 2007 (news)

The Iranian Supreme Court has overturned the murder convictions of six members of a prestigious state militia who killed five people they considered “morally corrupt.” The reversal, in an infamous five-year-old case from Kerman, in central Iran, has produced anger and controversy, with lawyers calling it corrupt and newspapers giving it prominence… Three lower court rulings found all the men guilty of murder. Their cases had been appealed to the Supreme Court, which overturned the guilty verdicts. The latest decision, made public this week, reaffirms that reversal.
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Iran’s Islamic penal code, which is a parallel system to its civic code, says murder charges can be dropped if the accused can prove the killing was carried out because the victim was morally corrupt. This is true even if the killer identified the victim mistakenly as corrupt. In that case, the law requires “blood money” to be paid to the family. Every year in Iran, a senior cleric determines the amount of blood money required in such cases. This year it is $40,000 if the victim is a Muslim man, and half that for a Muslim woman or a non-Muslim.

“All Women Should Wear A Veil”
Brussels, Belgium, April 15, 2007 (interview and commentary)

According to Mostafa Chendid of the Danish Islamic Society (Islamisk Trossamfund), not only Muslim women but other women too should wear a veil. Why? Because five up to ten percent of all men cannot control themselves when they see a woman without a veil. Mostafa Chendid is considered to be the successor of Ahmad Abu Laban, one of the imams who was involved in the affair around the notorious Danish cartoons. Ahmad Abu Laban was one of the leaders of the delegation that traveled around the Middle East and that had added three drawings to the original cartoons in its report to “give a clearer picture of the climate against Muslims in Denmark…”
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According to him the veil also serves as a signal: women with a veil are ‘not for sale’. Moreover, the veil protects against rapes, he says: in the US for example, every half minute a woman is raped, and according to him that is because women continuously tempt men by going onto the streets without a veil. Maybe not all men have a problem to control themselves when they see a woman without a veil, and perhaps there is only a problem with five to ten per cent of the men, but he says that is nevertheless enough for all women to wear the veil.

Raped ‘for reading Holy Bible’
Sydney, Australia April 17, 2007 (news)

AN Iraqi Muslim man allegedly raped a Muslim woman as “punishment” for her reading the Bible. Campbelltown District Court in Sydney’s west yesterday heard Abdul Reda Al Shawany twice sexually assaulted the woman, a practising Muslim, and then said to her: “Let your Jesus help you.” Al Shawany, 52, has plead not guilty to two counts of having sexual intercourse without consent between September 1 and 27, 2002, at a unit in Warwick Farm.
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“The complainant was born a Muslim and raised a Muslim and was a Muslim all her life,” Mr O’Brien said. He said when the woman came to Australia from the Middle East she began listening to Christian teachers and reading the Bible. He said the woman – who wears the Muslim hijab – had received threats from members of her faith for reading the Bible but had not converted to Christianity… Al Shawany allegedly raped the woman and later allegedly said: “Let your Jesus help you.”

Salafist Islam spawns Islamic terrorism
Beirut (AsiaNews), April 12, 2007 (commentary by Samir Khalil Samir)

The Islamist current basis itself on the Salafist interpretation of Islam and it radicalizes it, turning it into a concrete application, through intense propaganda and presenting it as authentic Islam. It renders Salafism extreme, by prescribing precise rules applied to the actions of daily living… Islamist thought forms people who have renounced their right to think or make personal judgements, to blindly follow teachings of those who indoctrinate them. It reduces the believer to the state of a docile follower, incapable of critical thought. In the end this docile follower can easily become a terrorist: he only needs to be convinced that what he is about to do is a religious duty, which pleases God and will save the Islamic community (ummah).

It is important not to confuse or identify Islam with Islamism, but is also necessary that we push Muslims to reject Islamism as an alteration of authentic Islam and to fight against this spreading tendency. Western society must defend Muslims from Islamism. For this reason, giving even minimal credence to the demands of the Islamists is a regression which only serves to open new terrorist fronts.