Department of Offense

We Muslims know the Ground Zero mosque is meant to be a deliberate provocation.
By Raheel Raza and Tarek Fatah, Citizen Special August 9, 2010

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and city council speaker Christine Quinn announce this week’s decision to deny landmark status to the site of a planned Muslim centre near the World Trade Center site.
Photograph by: Michael Nagle, Getty Images
Last week, a journalist who writes for the North Country Times, a small newspaper in Southern California, sent us an e-mail titled “Help.” He couldn’t understand why an Islamic Centre in an area where Adam Gadahn, Osama bin Laden’s American spokesman came from, and that was home to three of the 911 terrorists, was looking to expand.

The man has a very valid point, which leads to the ongoing debate about building a Mosque at Ground Zero in New York. When we try to understand the reasoning behind building a mosque at the epicentre of the worst-ever attack on the U.S., we wonder why its proponents don’t build a monument to those who died in the attack?

New York currently boasts at least 30 mosques so it’s not as if there is pressing need to find space for worshippers. The fact we Muslims know the idea behind the Ground Zero mosque is meant to be a deliberate provocation to thumb our noses at the infidel. The proposal has been made in bad faith and in Islamic parlance, such an act is referred to as “Fitna,” meaning “mischief-making” that is clearly forbidden in the Koran.

The Koran commands Muslims to, “Be considerate when you debate with the People of the Book” — i.e., Jews and Christians. Building an exclusive place of worship for Muslims at the place where Muslims killed thousands of New Yorkers is not being considerate or sensitive, it is undoubtedly an act of “fitna”

So what gives Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf of the “Cordoba Initiative” and his cohorts the misplaced idea that they will increase tolerance for Muslims by brazenly displaying their own intolerance in this case?

Do they not understand that building a mosque at Ground Zero is equivalent to permitting a Serbian Orthodox church near the killing fields of Srebrenica where 8,000 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered?

There are many questions that we would like to ask. Questions about where the funding is coming from? If this mosque is being funded by Saudi sources, then it is an even bigger slap in the face of Americans, as nine of the jihadis in the Twin Tower calamity were Saudis.

If Rauf is serious about building bridges, then he could have dedicated space in this so-called community centre to a church and synagogue, but he did not. We passed on this message to him through a mutual Saudi friend, but received no answer. He could have proposed a memorial to the 9/11 dead with a denouncement of the doctrine of armed jihad, but he chose not to.

It’s a repugnant thought that $100 million would be brought into the United States rather than be directed at dying and needy Muslims in Darfur or Pakistan.

Let’s not forget that a mosque is an exclusive place of worship for Muslims and not an inviting community centre. Most Americans are wary of mosques due to the hard core rhetoric that is used in pulpits. And rightly so. As Muslims we are dismayed that our co-religionists have such little consideration for their fellow citizens and wish to rub salt in their wounds and pretend they are applying a balm to sooth the pain.

The Koran implores Muslims to speak the truth, even if it hurts the one who utters the truth. Today we speak the truth, knowing very well Muslims have forgotten this crucial injunction from Allah..

If this mosque does get built, it will forever be a lightning rod for those who have little room for Muslims or Islam in the U.S. We simply cannot understand why on Earth the traditional leadership of America’s Muslims would not realize their folly and back out in an act of goodwill.

As for those teary-eyed, bleeding-heart liberals such as New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and much of the media, who are blind to the Islamist agenda in North America, we understand their goodwill.

Unfortunately for us, their stand is based on ignorance and guilt, and they will never in their lives have to face the tyranny of Islamism that targets, kills and maims Muslims worldwide, and is using liberalism itself to destroy liberal secular democratic societies from within.

Raheel Raza is author of Their Jihad … Not my Jihad, and Tarek Fatah is author of The Jew is Not My Enemy (McClelland & Stewart), to be launched in October. Both sit on the board of the Muslim Canadian Congress.

Come Meet Brigitte!!
Brigitte Gabriel to Speak in De Land, Florida
It’s my privilege to invite you to a special ACT! for America event featuring Brigitte Gabriel, ACT! for America President. This event will be held in De Land, Florida (north of Orlando) and is free and open to the public!

Here are the details:

Date: August 26, 2010
Time: 7:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M.

The events of the past few months have been a sobering wake-up call to America. Without question, the threats radical Islam poses to America have increased.

Brigitte will discuss these threats to our safety and security, such as…

But even more important than this, Brigitte will spell out the strategies and tactics ACT! for America is employing to effectively fight back against these threats.

Brigitte’s message will be illuminating, at times disturbing and even shocking—but ultimately inspiring, empowering, and filled with hope!

You will hear first-hand how we can successfully roll back the tide of radical Islam…how we don’t have to live in fear or resign ourselves to the inevitability of the threats arrayed against us…and how we will prevail.

We will also be showing our high-quality production ACT! for America promotional video. This 13 minute video tells the story behind ACT! for America, how ACT! for America has become the largest national security grassroots organization in America, and how ACT! for America is rolling back the rising tide of radical Islam.

I also encourage you to email this to people you know who might be interested in attending. In 2008 we did an event like this in Indiana and one of our members in Oregon found out about it and emailed a friend in Indiana—who then brought 21 people to the event!!

We’re sending this email to all our members in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama, because we know, from prior experience, that many people are willing to travel to hear Brigitte speak and they forward announcements like these to people they know who live in the area.

I know those of you who have heard Brigitte will agree—you don’t want to miss this! It will be an event people will be talking about for a long time to come!

Invite your friends and come join us in De Land, Florida. We look forward to seeing you on August 26^th.

Yours for the America we love,

Guy Rodgers
Executive Director

Harry Reid launched a sneak attack late Friday night to ram through the speech-killing “Disclose Act.” The key vote to end debate and vote on the “Disclose Act” will belate today or early Tuesday.

“Freedom of Speech is Under Attack”, the House voted on and passed their version of a controversial bill (HR5175) that would ban certain government contractors, corporations, and nonprofit organizations from engaging in any political speech. The vote of 219 – 206, opened the door for a full Senate vote.

The real purpose of the “DISCLOSE” Act (which is an acronym for Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections) is to impose restrictions on speech by corporations, nonprofit groups and others who express themselves through political campaign advertising.

Of course UNIONS would be exempt from most of the provisions of the bill since unions support Democrats almost exclusively.

This is an emergency, so please call and/or email your U.S. Senators IMMEDIATELY and insist they vote for free speech and AGAINST the “Disclose Act” (S. 3295). We can’t let this legislation slip through our fingers again! It is just another way for government to deny Americans their freedom of speech.