Federalizing the New Mafioso

Ladies and Gentlemen, Fellow Americans, we have to put a stop to these Muslim pressure groups. They have tasted blood and power and have gone into full lusting for all of it.

This week, we published articles on 6th Column Against Jihad on their actions and their fifth columnist supporter tell why they are making progress so easy and fast (see Islamic Organizations Use Public Television to Market Sharia Law to American Youth,
Playing Us Like a Wurlitzer, 2005: While It's Still America, and Busted! The Not-So “Grand Illusion”). Today, Jihad Watch publishes a new scandal from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR Calls the Truth About Islam "Hate Literature").

The fifth column supporting these groups is made up of some of the "good guys" as well as the "bad guys." Sadly, the finger of blame must point to the Bush Administration along with others.

AIM Column - Federal Money Goes to Controversial Muslim Group - March 15, 2005, by Sherrie Gossett, March 15, 2005, has much valuable information, including how courageous investigative journalists are being threatened by some of these Muslim pressure groups.

While the major media have portrayed the president's faith based initiative as a pay-off to conservative Christians, a controversial Muslim group accused of having an association with an extreme form of Islam has also been getting federal funds. The group, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), considers itself moderate and mainstream but has sponsored conferences in the past that included speakers known for violent anti-Jewish rhetoric.

Mary Jacoby and Graham Brink, writing in the St. Petersburg Times, describe ISNA as "subsidized by the Saudi government" and the "main clearinghouse for Wahhabism in the U.S." The New York Times has described ISNA as the umbrella organization for 300 Muslim groups and about one-third of the mosques in the United States.

Sayyid M. Syeed, Secretary General of ISNA, told AIM in a phone interview on March 10 that "For four or five years we've been invited to White House events. We believe all religions have to play a major role in the fight against poverty. Spirituality itself qualifies people to be more compassionate."

Syeed himself appeared at the inaugural conference of the Islamic Universal Heritage Foundation in Kissimmee Florida in December 2003, which I attended. That conference ran into controversy when it was discovered the headliner was to be Sheikh Abdul Rahman al-Sudais, who, in April 2003, while addressing 2 million followers at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, prayed to God to "terminate" the Jews. He called them "the scum of humanity, the rats of the world, prophet killers ... pigs and monkeys," according to reports by the Associated Press and Reuters.

Syeed told me, "You will be hurt, you will be pained by this if you continue to write such things." He closed the conversation with this comment, "I am sorry if I sound harsh. But I stand by every word I said."

While Syeed terms AIM's coverage of Islamic radicalism "scandalous" and "criminal," it is the failure of many in the media to report such issues truthfully that is the real problem. Reporters should not be intimidated from reporting the facts.

Syeed emphasized that ISNA is a mainstream organization and he invited AIM to meet with them at their headquarters and to get involved. "We would be very pleased to host you," he said, indicating individuals from various organizations have offered workshops at their conferences. "We are only getting bigger," he said, "You have to work with us."

The White House already does.

It is more than time to get mobilized to stand up to these "school-yard bullies." They meet crumbling resistance from courts and government. Corporations fold and run. Journalists by and large join the fifth column against us. And academia is hopelessly fifth column.

It may become a job that we in the RED STATES take on and win. Let's get going before these Muslim pressure groups become the new mafia.