EXCLUSIVE: Murfreesboro Mega-Mosque proselytizing in public school curriculum

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Eric Allen Bell has been peeling back the layers of the monster mosque in Murfreesboro ….. and, I might add, at great personal risk. He comes to this issue from a unique place. Bell is a documentary filmmaker and had been following the story early on for a pro-mosque film which painted mosque critics as racistislamophobicantimuslimbigots. He was a fixture at court hearings and protests over the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro in 2010. Here some background from Bell:

In the summer of 2010 I was invited to write an article for Michael Moore.  I was in production on a documentary. I was calling “Not Welcome” regarding the backlash against construction of a 53,000 square foot mega mosque in the middle of the American Bible Belt.  His endorsement gave me a huge boost with the Hollywood crowd.  Having worked in the entertainment industry for years, this was not my first film, but it was to be my first documentary.  So when I went on to write a few more articles for MichaelMoore.com the wheels were greased for me to get into a room with the right people, and secure the finishing funds I needed to complete post production.  And if there is one thing Hollywood loves (almost as much as congratulating itself), it’s the story of an innocent minority group being wrongly persecuted, preferably in the South, especially if the antagonist happens to be the Religious Right.  And as my editor and I assembled the first 25 minutes, of the 300 hours of footage shot, this film promised to deliver just that.  “Wow, I really wasn’t expecting this.  I would like to thank the members of the Academy, Michael Moore and the Prophet Mohammed for making all of this possible…” 

But then the winds changed direction.  It seems that fate had issued a Fatwa against my perfect plan.  The Arab Spring sprang into action and ruined everything, as it degenerated disappointingly into the Islamist Winter.  It was as if I had been slapped upside the head by reality, thus knocking off my blinders and causing me to ask a lot of inconvenient questions.  I was left wondering if there was perhaps more to the story of so-called “revolution” than what had been portrayed on Al Jazeera and “Democracy Now with Amy Goodman”.  You can read more about this in an article I wrote for Front Page Magazine here: “The High Price of Telling the Truth About Islam”.

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Eric Allen Bell came to see the mega-mosque in Murfreesboro for what it is, a rabat, and he has set about to warn us of its dangers. Bell has since exposed the criminal background of former Islamic Center spokeswoman Camie Ayash, a convicted felon who served prison time in Florida. Bell demonstrates that the mosque got special accommodation and consideration from county officials.

The Islamic supremacists would stop at nothing. Lema Sbenaty, a college student who works at a local pharmacy, may well have leaked confidential medical information about mosque opponents.

Bell was banned from blogging at the “Daily Kos” because he wrote three articles that no longer supported the Islamic supremacist mosque. Despite alienation and the obvious difficulties one encounters when taking on the leftist/Islamic alliance, Eric Allen Bell continues to fight.

Despite a court ruling to stop work, Islamic supremacists behind the Murfreesboro mega-mosque are defying American law and continue to build at a more furious pace, once again demonstrating their contempt for American jurisprudence and adherence to the sharia. This is an Islamic pattern. We saw this same contempt for American law when Islamic supremacists behind the Muslim Brotherhood rabat in Sheepshead Bay violated court orders to halt construction of the mega mosque on quiet, residential Voorhies Street. And just as in Brooklyn, Murfreesboro's dhimmi city officials refuse to enforce the law.

Former FBI agent John Guandolo provides this information about the Murfreesboro mosque:

  • the Murfreesboro Imam is a recognized leader and "jurist" in the Muslim Brotherhood worldwide. He taught "Dawah" in Europe, and was at the top of his class at Al Azhar University, Cairo (4 out of 200) – the most prestigious and authoritative school of Islamic Jurisprudence in the world, and the oldest.

  • –  The ICM Bylaws asserting primacy of Islamic law were copied from other "Islamic Centers." Muslim Brotherhood Bylaws and the El Barasse Explanatory Memorandum define “Islamic Centers” or mosques as beehives for activities and supplies for "battalions," and at some point the beginning and center of violence.

  • –  The ICM "reading list" of the Imam began with Yousef Qaradawi, who issued a "fatwah" calling for killing of U.S. troops and civilians in Iraq.

  • –  The Islamic Center of Murfreesboro is a "front" organization for the Muslim Brotherhood posing a security threat to Murfreesboro citizens, who are under- educated on the topic of the threat. Both they and the County Commission should have been informed of this threat to enable public participation in the ICM site plan approval meeting.

Bell files this latest report exclusive to Atlas. Every parent with a child in the public school system in America needs to read this article and pass it on.

Murfreesboro Mega Mosque Creeping into the Curriculum? By Eric Allen Bell 

my recent article for Atlas Shrugs, which exposed the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro for making demands on the School Board to have “Muslim Authorities” review all text books, I received a lot of emails.  One of them was from a spokesman for Middle Tennesseans For Religious Freedom and peace activist, Jase Short.  He said, “You are the definition of human waste. Have a good, sad, and lonely life you fucking creep.”

I also heard from Saleh Sbenaty, the spokesperson for the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, and member of the Religion of Peace.  He had this to say, “The lies you are spreading is a characteristic of a scumbag”.

But the quote that really sticks out in my mind is one I first heard from Pamela Geller, and that one is that “Truth is the new hate speech”.

Just to review, through my new site: www.MosqueConfidential.com I have been able to obtain numerous tips, stories and actual documents concerning suspicious and subversive behavior on the part of mosques. 

Eab2Pictured Above: Phase 1 of the 53,000 square foot mega mosque in Murfreesboro, TN

Recently, I released a document wherein I leaked a “Teacher’s Guide” which was put out by the Islamic Center of Murfreesbro, TN.  You can read and download the entire guide by clicking here, but here were a few of the finer points which I found particularly disconcerting:

Abdou Kattih of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro is ordering the taxpayer funded school conform to Islamic Law in the following ways:

Men and boys are always to be covered from the navel to the knee in public.

Muslim females are required to wear loose-fitting and non-revealing clothing which includes a head covering.

Some of the five prayers may fall within regular school hours. It takes less than 15 minutes to accomplish the prayer. It includes:

  • Washing: Before the prayer, Muslims perform a simple wash with clean water. This is normally performed in the restroom sink.
  • Prayer space and Time: During the prayer, the Muslim will stand, bow, and touch the forehead to the ground. This may be performed in any quite, clean room. Total privacy is not required.
  • Attention: During the prayer, Muslims are fully engaged and they may not respond to a conversation. Students and teachers should not take offense of the worshiper not answering their call. However, in case of an emergency, the Muslim will respond to an announcement by stopping the prayer immediately.

 - Fasting students may ask to use the library instead of the cafeteria during lunch. Also they may ask to be excused from strenuous physical activities during fasting.

Muslim boys and girls may not take same-sex communal after-sports showers without wearing appropriate covering on their bodies.

Close contact with local Islamic centers is essential to encourage input from the Muslim community.

In Islam, Friday is the day for the congregational worship, called Jumaha. It is an obligation that must be fulfilled, and it lasts about one hour.

Textbooks that contribute to religious prejudice are not suitable.

Qualified Muslim educators should participate in the textbook selection process, particularly for history, social studies and geography texts.

 I sent the leaked documents to Nashville AM radio morning talk show host, Michael DelGiorno of WTN, who felt rather strongly that this would be of interest to the parents of the 40,000 children who attend Rutherford County schools.  And to his credit, he read the entire “Teacher’s Guide” live, on the air and talked about it detail, with Bill Warner, author of “Sharia Law for Non-Muslims”.

Well as you might imagine this created quite a stir and the Rutherford County School Board was bombarded with calls and emails from some very pissed of parents who wanted answers.  And the answer they got?  The School Board denied knowing anything about it.

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It’s worth mentioning that I was once a strong vocal advocate for, what I thought were simply the “religious freedoms” of the Islamic Center.  You can read more about that in, “The High Price of Telling the Truth about Islam”.  Back then, when I reached out to the media with tales of how “Southern Evangelicals” were trying to stop a mosque, the media and I had something special. They all returned my calls and emails and one of them would just write what I told him to.  Such is not the case these days.

But when it was time to leak the next document, everyone got the same package – the Daily News Journal, the Tennessean Newspaper, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, local Channel 5, Michael Moore, all of my other former contacts.  I saw “former” because now that I speak the inconvenient truth about Islam, I have become too radioactive for any of them to touch.  Must be all that “hate speech”.

So everyone got the same package with my second document – that being the actual leaked email itself – from the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro.  The email was sent to School Board attorney Angel McCloud.  Notice that in the “Teacher’s Guide” the persistent Abdou Kattih references legal code, to get his point across that the School Board must conform to Islamic Law.  And of all the officials in the School Board, he sent it to legal. So, of all the officials he could have sent this to, he chose legal to impress upon them that he intended to enforce this legally if necessary.

Only 2 in the local media had the courage to expose this email, seen below.  Pete Doughtie, Publisher of the Rutherford Reader (the most read newspaper in the area of the 53,000 square foot mega mosque construction site) and once again the brave Michael DelGiorno, a Nashville talk radio host on WTN.  Here is that memo:

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And here is how the James Evans, spokesperson for Rutherford County Schools, attempted to downplay and put a spin on this most recent development:

From the Rutherford County Schools Website:

 “Statement concerning student religious activities”

Update June 28, 2012

“Eric Allen Bell has responded with an email he says was sent to staff attorney Angel McCloud … from the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro. The email contained an educational flyer about Muslim beliefs and practices as they pertain to Muslim students. However, the email does not contain a list of demands or mandates, which has been alleged.”

Meanwhile, back in reality…

In order to get a better understanding of the “Teacher’s Guide” sent out by the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, I reached out to an established authority.  I contacted an expert in Islam who advises the US Government and the US Military, as I believe this expert is well qualified to explain to what it is that we are looking at, with this document.  You the reader can decide – who is more qualified to evaluate the meaning, threat and intention of this mosque sponsored “Teacher’s Guide” – a School Board spokesperson, or this man…

Timothy R. Furnish holds a PhD in Islamic, African and World history, which he obtained after serving in the US Army as an Arabic linguist.  He is a nationally and internationally recognized expert on Islamic history, Islamic sects and transnational Islamic movements.  Dr. Furnish works as a lecturer, analyst and consultant to the US government and military on those very topics.  He is the author of one book “Holiest Wars: Islamic Mahdis, their Jihads and Osama bin Laden” as well as numerous articles in both popular and scholarly venues.   Briefly, here is Dr. Furnish’s expert analysis of the ICM “Teacher’s Guide”

I think that what we have here, with Abdou Kattih's attempt to get the Rutherford County school system to, in essence, Islamize itself, is not jihad per se but the "soft" power version of Islamization–known as da`wah.

Da`wah literally means "call," "invitation" or "summons" to Islam (or to a particular sectarian version thereof–most prominently, in Islamic history, to the Sevener Shi`i version of that faith known as Isma'ilism).  As the august Encyclopedia of Islam  notes, da`wah "can often be translated as mission or propaganda" but also "has the sense of doctrine, religion, community, sect…."  As such, it is perhaps best viewed as a "kinder, gentler"–that is, non-"kinetic"/non-violent–version of Jihad.  

But it aims for the same goal: an Islamized society and system where, in the final analysis, Islamic norms and, eventually, rule of law (shari`ah) predominate. 

Take a look at this chart, p. 36, from a Dutch study, From Dawa to Jihad: The Various Threats from Radical Islam to the Democratic Legal Order (2004); it shows the relationship of jihad to da`wah quite well.

 What is going on in Murfreesboro is, I think, clearly an example of "Covert Dawa," #3 in that chart: "These organizations often operate 'with a hidden agenda and under false pretences', with a focus on secretly propagating and financing exclusivism and parallelism. To the outside world, these…present

themselves as legitimate humanitarian organizations and discussion partners for the government, but in fact they advocate and propagate a highly intolerant exclusivism and parallelism (hidden from the government's and the public's view). The realization of this pursuit can be characterized as a threat, all the more so because the methods to achieve it are characterized by secrecy" (p. 39). Indeed, the Murfreesboro mosque and its propagandists may already be shading into the next level, #4, which is just one stop removed from "covert jihad:" "These forms of radical Islam try to undermine the structures of the democratic legal order via covert Dawa. At an international level there have been indications that in particular the radical branches of the Muslim Brotherhood employ covert Dawa strategies. Rather than confronting the state power with direct violence, this strategy seeks to gradually undermine it by infiltrating and eventually taking over the civil service, the judicature, schools, local administrations, et cetera" (p. 40)

It's certainly exclusivistic and undermining of the public school system, to insist that Muslims be allowed to pray during school (as well as do their rather high-profile ablutions), to be excused from PT during Ramadan fasting, to be allowed out of school on Fridays for Muslim services.  And it's moving beyond mere equal treatment under the law for Muslims to demand that they be allowed to vet history, social studies and geography textbooks (are maps somehow different in the Islamic view?!) and to be allowed to determine, subjectively, what defines "religious prejudice."  One can safely assume that any historical discussion of, say, jihad – a staple of Islamic history and expansion, going back to Islam's founder Muhammad, for 1433 years – would be deemed "prejudicial" by Abdou Kattih.  I seriously doubt that Hindus or Sikhs, much less Christians, are allowed to vet textbooks thusly.  Why should Muslims be given special treatment in this regard?

Whether Kattih and his supporters in (and outside) Murfreesboro are consciously engaged as an outpost of the Muslim Brotherhood's "Civilization Jihadist" [sic] (Muslim Brotherhood's "Explanatory Memorandum On the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America," May 22, 1991, p. 5 of the English version) is almost beside the point–for they are certainly de facto operating as such.  

And this is what the current administration (including the intelligence and law enforcement agencies), American media and far too many in our society as a whole fail to grasp (whether intentionally or not) that the Islamic imperative to engage in da`wah, ingrained into every Muslim who seriously practices that faith, is almost reflexively acted upon UNLESS it is made abundantly clear that it will not be tolerated.  That is not to say that Muslims cannot practice their religion – of course they can. They can even try to convert folks.  BUT unless Muslims are convinced that they will not be granted a special status in non-Muslim lands, they will continue to insist on being given a mile whenever they are granted an inch.  

 Da`wah is slow-motion jihad, if you will; and the longer it is allowed to gain momentum, it will only gather more and more steam and speed–until it becomes, if not unstoppable, certainly very problematic for non-Muslims and very hard to derail.

  Catholics, the largest single religious body (almost 70 million of the US' 220+ million Christians), have never demanded that schools or employers adhere to canon law.  On the other end of the demographic spectrum, Hindus (0.4% of the population) are not coming to the US and demanding the practice of Dharma in American public schools and workplaces.  Muslims, while perhaps the fastest-growing religion in the US, still comprise no more than 1% of Americans – and while they may have been inculcated with the idea that Islamizing the West's major nation is their duty as Muslims (see Shavit, "Should Muslims Integrate into the West?," MEQ, Fall 2007), and reinforced in that belief by the American liberal tendency to treat them as "victims" (especially, paradoxically, post-9/11), our secular republic does not have to sacrifice its hallowed traditions and practices on an altar of political correctness and misguided Islamophilia.

 There it is, from the perspective of a highly sought after expert in this field.  If you have children in the Rutherford County School system, the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro is making their move on the educational system, and making their move on your children’s minds.

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But what’s so bad about that anyway?  Maybe the youngsters will learn a little culture?  Perhaps they will be taught about the loving side of the Prophet Mohammed, how he waited until his 6 year old bride Aisha was 9 years old before he had intercourse with her.  Or, the touching story of how he courted his Jewish wife, Safia.  The Prophet Mohammed executed Safia’s husband, her father, her brother and well, basically all of the men in her tribe.  And as his Islamic soldiers were rounding up all of the women as sex slaves (still allowed in Islam), he spotted her and wanted her for himself.  It was love at first sight, and the rest is (dark, hidden, suppressed and denied) history.

But don’t worry.  That’s not really what Murfreesboro kids are being taught.  In an upcoming article, I might detail exactly how and when the students of Murfreesboro were to be taught the “Five Pillars of Islam” by visiting Islamic Scholars, with the help of one Ms. Paula Barnes, of Rutherford County Schools.  But that’s another story, for another time 😉

As the construction of this 53,000 square foot mega mosque continues to expand, so too does our knowledge of the subversive activities, of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, thanks to all of you who have sent in tips and documents through www.MosqueConfidential.com .  Remember – information is the enemy of Islamic conquest.  Let us continue to spread it!

Finally, what is a mosque really? 

 A mosque is place where the Sharia is taught. Sharia is brutal and sadistic and runs counter to human rights. A mosque is a place where sedition and treason are taught, and this runs counter to the preservation of American values and ideals. A mosque is a place where superstition is taught, and this runs counter to reason and rational thinking. A mosque is a place where Islam, meaning "submission" is taught. And submission runs counter to Liberty. Liberty means that you own you. Liberty is one of the founding principles upon which America stands. Islam and Liberty cannot coexist.

 Islam is anti-human rights, anti-reason, anti-liberty and anti-American. Islam is the most intolerant belief system in the world! Nothing is more xenophobic than Islam. And we will stop its conquest of America, using our laws, our culture, our media and our extraordinary American innovation.

 The Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, Tennessee may have some of the people here fooled for now, but it won't last. With so many red flags popping up, it's just a matter of time. Without the use of violence, hate speech, or violating anyone's civil rights – I and so many others are committed to exposing the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, in their attempt to destroy our civilization from within.  We will not fail.

 I recently had the pleasure of meeting Bill Warner for the first time.  He is a lecturer and author of several books, including “Sharia Law for Non-Muslims”.  And Bill told me about a quote I had never heard before.  It goes something like this, “You can wake a person who is sleeping, but you cannot wake a person who is pretending to be asleep”.

 Eric Allen Bell

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Eric Allen Bell is the author of “The High Price of Telling the Truth about Islam”. He is also the Director of Global Infidel TV and Mosque Confidential – a whistle blowing site for former and existing Muslims, as well as concerned citizens, to come forward with material that will expose the Muslim Brotherhood in America or other subversive Islamic activity.

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HCQ
HCQ
11 years ago

I went ahead and retweeted this. People can make up their own minds after reading it. The Libertarians and Democrats argue it’s an overreaction and misunderstanding and are more interested in demonizing Christianity. The Bolshevists have been trying to take down Christianity in the west for a long time now. They’ve feminized and faggotized our men, destroyed the family unit, dumbed down & corrupted the populace. Orgies and drugs in the name of freedom will be the new order of the day. Christians will be expected to be silent while they continue the cultural assault on our children and our society, in general. I know we cannot continue on financially the way we have been with our foreign policy. I do not trust the international bankers and oligarchs. Something has to give.

Clarence Feinour
Clarence Feinour
11 years ago

This needs to be passed along to all the citizens of Tennessee as well as America. We can not continue to allow Muslims to force by Da’wah their evil ideology upon our children and in our public schools. Where is the ACLU on this matter. If a christian or jew wanted to make demands for their religions, the ACLU would be all over it. Its clear the ACLU is a co-conspirator with CAIR and Islam. Our constitution and our freedoms are being slowly taken away. Islam does not allow freedom of speech. This is what CAIR and even Muslim Obama is pushing to deny us. We cannot let this happen.

Larissa
Larissa
11 years ago

Also,circulate this around to home schooling parents. They may have removed their children from public school as a result of the very things Eric is attempting to expose. Also, they won’t fear retribution.

Gleaner1
Gleaner1
11 years ago

This piece illustrates the mental contortions you Americans are forcing yourselves through. It says” no one is saying they {muslims} cannot practice their religion, of course they can”. Don’t you see, when they demand special treatment over book choice, exercise, dress codes, diet, prayer times and duration for prayers – they ARE practising their religion, their forcing islamic conformity on American non muslims BECAUSE your American and non muslim.
If, in the face of ALL the evidence, America insists on treating Islam and muslims as harmless religious people just like ANY other immigrant group, ALL of you will be HUNG culturally by your OWN constitution, WHICH was not drawn up with the intention of frustating an agressive political terror/faith based problem like Islam.
This situation should force America to face the truth about islam and it’s use of your OWN history and culture to DESTROY America, slowly, from underneath and within.
Show those parents of the 40,000 other children, “How Islam is taking over the world – Islamification explained”, unless there is something better, but it’s late and you must face the weaknesses in your own founding beliefs in regard to this dangerous situation.

Petnurser
Petnurser
11 years ago

I don’t think this would go through at all in the school I work at. Of course, it hasn’t been tested yet,

Ally and Friend
Ally and Friend
11 years ago

Great article Ms Geller and “bravo” to Eric Bell for telling the truth about islam and what they are trying to do in Tennessee and to the United States Constitution!

Cole
Cole
11 years ago

Please just insert the word Jewish, Jew and Judaism for every instance of Islamic, Muslim, and Islam, and the word Torah for every instance of Koran. That will give you a more precise understanding of who and what YOU are.

Kufar Dawg
Kufar Dawg
11 years ago

@Cole
I’m sure in the islamofascist states of the world that is the lie that is told as the truth and MEMRI certainly provides ample evidence of the rabid, delusional antisemitism that is the hallmark of islam today and has been ever since muhamMAD slaughtered or enslaved or expelled all the Jewish tribes that had lived in peace in the Saudi peninsula for centuries.

the story of Ruth
the story of Ruth
11 years ago

To Cole.Jews are not trying to impose their religion on the world nor are they supremacists.Their book does not call for the killing of nonbelievers as a directive as does the koran.They are happy to live with their neighbors in peace love and joint prosperity. You are an ignoramus.

hogrider
hogrider
11 years ago

It is time for America to stand up and stop being so tolerant to this intolerant civilization. The Islamic civilization is not here to assimilate into our culture, they are here to take over our culture. Just ask Omar Ahmad, one of the founders of CAIR, who said, “Islam is not in America to be equal to, but to be dominant”. We need to stand up to this violent, totalitarian ideology which wants to take over our civilization. Western civilization is much better than Islamic civilization.
How much longer are we going to see back and watch them islamisize our freedoms and liberties.

JacksonPearson
JacksonPearson
11 years ago

Kudos to Eric Bell for seeing the light, and of course for recognising the evil of what Islam misrepresents to be. Problem with most that cheer for Mohammed is, that they’re totally uneducated and/or schooled on Islam/Qur’an/Hadiths/Surrahs, and simply falls on it’s own arguments. Reading this unholy book reveals, that Mohammed was Allah, and Allah was Mohammed. God doesn’t make mistakes, but Mohammed/Allah sure did within the Qur’an.
Mohammed was a lying fraud in 610AD, of which Islam was based on over 20 years of his concocted wet dreams, that has spawned nothing evil, death, and destruction onto civilization. Nothing since on Islam have changed.
Clearly, Islamic screamers are using our Constitution against the very foundations that it was built upon. Their are no Jewish Synagogues, or Christian Churches being allowed to exist in Saudi Arabia.

Jay
Jay
11 years ago

EAB, that you do not go into political partisanship is commendable. Too many in the counter jihad movement do. This ends up alienating people of other political beliefs and hinders the awareness of it from reaching a broad audience. Already the right has the reputation of being intolerant of people who are different so when any of them say anything about Islam and especially when they mix it in with partisan positions people outside their circle think there they go again and pay less attention. That only ends up benefiting jihadists. Keep it factual and keep it non-partisan, and keep up the good investigative work.

Jack White
Jack White
11 years ago

I bet this guy also thinks they’re taking god out of our schools, supports our troops killing “those damn towel-heads”, and votes republican.
This guy is a bigot by definition.
Bigotry is the state of mind of a “bigot”, a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices, especially one who exhibits intolerance or animosity toward members of a group.[1] Bigotry may be based on real or perceived characteristics, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, ethnicity, nationality, region, language, religious or spiritual belief, personal habits, political alignment, age, economic status or disability. Bigotry is sometimes developed into an ideology or world view.
I’m not a bigot, I hate all religions equally.
Even I think they should be able to build a mosque

Tom Billesley
Tom Billesley
11 years ago

@Jack White
EAB is no bigot, just a dupe who wised up.
There’s a difference between a mosque built in the middle of an established muslim community to serve the needs of that community and with finance raised within the community, and a deliberately in-your-face megamosque that is out of all proportion with the devotional requirements of the local muslim population, is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood front groups and probably financed mostly with money from foreign Salafists. It is the Islamic edifice known as a “Rabat”, with similar characteristics to the Cordoba House/Park 51/ICC monstrosity proposed for Ground Zero.
Description of a RABAT by Amir Taheri in the NY Post.

In fact, the proposed structure is known in Islamic history as a rabat — literally a connector. The first rabat appeared at the time of the Prophet (sic).
The Prophet imposed his rule on parts of Arabia through a series of ghazvas, or razzias (the origin of the English word “raid”). The ghazva was designed to terrorize the infidels, convince them that their civilization was doomed and force them to submit to Islamic rule. Those who participated in the ghazva were known as the ghazis, or raiders.
After each ghazva, the Prophet ordered the creation of a rabat — or a point of contact at the heart of the infidel territory raided. The rabat consisted of an area for prayer, a section for the raiders to eat and rest and facilities to train and prepare for future razzias. Later Muslim rulers used the tactic of ghazva to conquer territory in the Persian and Byzantine empires. After each raid, they built a rabat to prepare for the next razzia.
It is no coincidence that Islamists routinely use the term ghazva to describe the 9/11 attacks against New York and Washington. The terrorists who carried out the attack are referred to as ghazis or shahids (martyrs).

Eric Allen Bell
Eric Allen Bell
11 years ago

Jay –
I don’t normally comment on my blogs so much – but just for you I thoguht I’d mention that I do not belong to any religion or political party. This about human rights, liberty and national security for me.
Your stereotype of anyone who opposes any Islamic compound is testament to your ignorance and intellectual laziness when it comes to discovering for yourself the facts about Islam.

Beagle
Beagle
11 years ago

So the opposition responds with an idiotic tu quoque post and a blanket claim of bigotry based on nothing. Meanwhile, not a single substantive response to any of the facts in the article. Things don’t change much.

Geoarrge
Geoarrge
11 years ago

“Rabat” may translate literally to “connector”, but its meaning is better conveyed by “beachhead.”

Richard
Richard
11 years ago

Eric, I believe you meant to respond to Jack White. Screen name goes after the comment. Jay actually said nice things about you.
And keep up the good work.

Liz
Liz
11 years ago

The glaring difference between the Muslim Americans who presented the Teachers Guide to the school board and other Americans is that other Americans, specifically parents concerned about their children’s religious needs during public school hours, would simply go to the schools on their own and speak with their childrens’ teachers. Instead, Mr. Kittah presumes to speak for ALL Muslim parents and children. Even the ones who don’t intend to force these “principles” into the classroom. Kittah’s action immediately sets up a group dynamic: us vs. them. Adversarial.
When I was in grade school in the sixties, my Catholic schoolmates used to leave school early, once a week, to go to Catechism. So there is some precedent for accommodating religious instruction. Nevertheless, it’s clear Kittah’s goal is dictating the enculturation of Islam by an American public school district.

halthouse1
halthouse1
11 years ago

Hi Pamela:
Fantastic work as always! I linked to this article at The Political Commentator here: http://bit.ly/LOjQUE
Mike Haltman

Joseph G Whitson
Joseph G Whitson
11 years ago

Great report on the Murph. Tn. mosque. They can’t tolerate the Truth!!
Keep digging– you’ve just scratched the surface. This goes all the way
to The White House.
Joseph Whitson

Jay
Jay
11 years ago

Hi Eric Allen Bell,
This is Jay. As someone else mentioned you probably meant to write to Jack White. He called you a bigot not me. My post is actually right above saying you were commendable for being non-partisan and sticking to facts. The name goes after the post.
I don’t know if you have read Sam Harris before, or have seen the you tubes of Pat Condell. Both are atheists. Harris also came to the same conclusion as you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YDKv7xudLE
Their videos and writings may be of interest to you.

Kufar Dawg
Kufar Dawg
11 years ago

@Liz
I remember fish Friday myself in the public school system here in California in the 1970’s. Supposedly it was because Catholics weren’t supposed to eat meat on Fridays. Whatever the reason was, that is GONE now. I know of no accommodations made for any religion except islam in the public school system now — at least in California.
More disturbing is the fact that a false history of islam is being presented in public school textbooks across the nation now. A history that paints islam as being a peaceful faith that is superior to all others while whitewashing the ideology (in particular the rabid antisemitism).
I’d like to add that the false history of islam being taught has even reached into our university system. I personally took a class, from a Turkish professor at UCLA
that covered Turkey’s role in WW1. A history in which the Armenian genocide was not only denied by the professor but completely absent in the historical textbooks given as assigned reading. I’m betting the whitewashing of historic islamic atrocities doesn’t end there either.

Alan
Alan
11 years ago

I have downloaded and read the “teacher’s guide”, and see nothing to be concerned about. Given the level of fear, rhetoric, and ignorance of Americans to other cultures and religions, the quest to defeat ignorance seems a reasonable and laudable goal. This is not an edict, has no authority under the law, and distills a complex religion to a few pages so that even the ignorant might understand- if they wanted to that is.
Christians and self-proclaimed “patriots” love to say they are for religious freedom. Well, here’s your chance to prove it. Allow Muslims to decide for themselves how to express their faith, as you DEMAND the right to decide how to express your own. My expectation is what I’ve witnessed my whole life- Christians (not all, but the most vocal) want a double standard that favors them at the expense of others.
Growing up as a Jew in America, I see this as no different than the fact that every agenda in schools when I grew up was set by Christians. Throughout my school years, Christians got to pray in school during official all sanctioned events, and perhaps more to the point, they want everyone to be forcibly exposed to it. Even today, Christian groups constantly lobby school boards to rewrite agendas, choose textbooks they approve of, and a rewrite of history to suit their agenda of dominance and ignorance. Muslims ask to be excused to pray in private, imposing on no one. Christians don’t like the idea of losing absolute control of the information and operations of society, that’s what this is about. Since they can’t just stand up against the concept of freedom of religion they love to toss up in everyone’s face all the time, they use fear to substantiate why it’s OK to deny that freedom to others.
This is precisely what I’ve come to expect from Gellar, her site, and her followers. Muslims are but the latest in a long line of groups Christians have found an excuse to hate and deride in direct contradiction to the teachings they claim are sacred. I find it ironic for a Jew to take up the cause of rhetorical hatred (with real-world physical consequences), given that it is the same methodology used by Nazis to convince Germans to persecute and ultimately slaughter Jews in WW2.
Even today, as my life connects me with people of every faith and culture, the only people who impose upon me, ever, are Christians, while the Muslims I know remain modest, respectful, and good natured. Given all the shit they have to endure from the likes of Gellar, her fans, and the bulk of mantra-repeating automatons and ideologues who like to call themselves followers of Christ (Christians? perhaps, followers of Christ? That’s a joke!), I’d say Muslims deserve better treatment.
If someone has committed a crime, then you have my support to prosecute them for that crime, Muslims included. But to brand an entire religion, (and a damned big one at that), made up of dozens of different cultures, colors, and denominations, as evil simply for practicing Islam, is every bit as specious as saying the Jews were the cause of all things wrong in 1930″s Germany. Like Nazi Germany, the only way to achieve the goals spewed forth by the anti-Muslim movement, is a mass eradication of billions of people. Save for that, in a nation that is supposed to and claims to embrace freedom of religion, nothing can be done to stop Muslims in the same way nothing can be done to stop Christians. That is what freedom is.

Eric Allen Bell
Eric Allen Bell
11 years ago

@ Jay –
Sorry about that.
Eric

Eric Allen Bell
Eric Allen Bell
11 years ago

@Alan –
So this does not raise any red flags for you then?
“In order to get a better understanding of the “Teacher’s Guide” sent out by the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, I reached out to an established authority. I contacted an expert in Islam who advises the US Government and the US Military, as I believe this expert is well qualified to explain to what it is that we are looking at, with this document. You the reader can decide – who is more qualified to evaluate the meaning, threat and intention of this mosque sponsored “Teacher’s Guide” – a School Board spokesperson, or this man…
Timothy R. Furnish holds a PhD in Islamic, African and World history, which he obtained after serving in the US Army as an Arabic linguist. He is a nationally and internationally recognized expert on Islamic history, Islamic sects and transnational Islamic movements. Dr. Furnish works as a lecturer, analyst and consultant to the US government and military on those very topics. He is the author of one book “Holiest Wars: Islamic Mahdis, their Jihads and Osama bin Laden” as well as numerous articles in both popular and scholarly venues. Briefly, here is Dr. Furnish’s expert analysis of the ICM “Teacher’s Guide”
I think that what we have here, with Abdou Kattih’s attempt to get the Rutherford County school system to, in essence, Islamize itself, is not jihad per se but the “soft” power version of Islamization–known as da`wah.
Da`wah literally means “call,” “invitation” or “summons” to Islam (or to a particular sectarian version thereof–most prominently, in Islamic history, to the Sevener Shi`i version of that faith known as Isma’ilism). As the august Encyclopedia of Islam notes, da`wah “can often be translated as mission or propaganda” but also “has the sense of doctrine, religion, community, sect….” As such, it is perhaps best viewed as a “kinder, gentler”–that is, non-“kinetic”/non-violent–version of Jihad.
But it aims for the same goal: an Islamized society and system where, in the final analysis, Islamic norms and, eventually, rule of law (shari`ah) predominate.
Take a look at this chart, p. 36, from a Dutch study, From Dawa to Jihad: The Various Threats from Radical Islam to the Democratic Legal Order (2004); it shows the relationship of jihad to da`wah quite well.
What is going on in Murfreesboro is, I think, clearly an example of “Covert Dawa,” #3 in that chart: “These organizations often operate ‘with a hidden agenda and under false pretences’, with a focus on secretly propagating and financing exclusivism and parallelism. To the outside world, these…present
themselves as legitimate humanitarian organizations and discussion partners for the government, but in fact they advocate and propagate a highly intolerant exclusivism and parallelism (hidden from the government’s and the public’s view). The realization of this pursuit can be characterized as a threat, all the more so because the methods to achieve it are characterized by secrecy” (p. 39). Indeed, the Murfreesboro mosque and its propagandists may already be shading into the next level, #4, which is just one stop removed from “covert jihad:” “These forms of radical Islam try to undermine the structures of the democratic legal order via covert Dawa. At an international level there have been indications that in particular the radical branches of the Muslim Brotherhood employ covert Dawa strategies. Rather than confronting the state power with direct violence, this strategy seeks to gradually undermine it by infiltrating and eventually taking over the civil service, the judicature, schools, local administrations, et cetera” (p. 40)
It’s certainly exclusivistic and undermining of the public school system, to insist that Muslims be allowed to pray during school (as well as do their rather high-profile ablutions), to be excused from PT during Ramadan fasting, to be allowed out of school on Fridays for Muslim services. And it’s moving beyond mere equal treatment under the law for Muslims to demand that they be allowed to vet history, social studies and geography textbooks (are maps somehow different in the Islamic view?!) and to be allowed to determine, subjectively, what defines “religious prejudice.” One can safely assume that any historical discussion of, say, jihad – a staple of Islamic history and expansion, going back to Islam’s founder Muhammad, for 1433 years – would be deemed “prejudicial” by Abdou Kattih. I seriously doubt that Hindus or Sikhs, much less Christians, are allowed to vet textbooks thusly. Why should Muslims be given special treatment in this regard?
Whether Kattih and his supporters in (and outside) Murfreesboro are consciously engaged as an outpost of the Muslim Brotherhood’s “Civilization Jihadist” [sic] (Muslim Brotherhood’s “Explanatory Memorandum On the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America,” May 22, 1991, p. 5 of the English version) is almost beside the point–for they are certainly de facto operating as such.
And this is what the current administration (including the intelligence and law enforcement agencies), American media and far too many in our society as a whole fail to grasp (whether intentionally or not) that the Islamic imperative to engage in da`wah, ingrained into every Muslim who seriously practices that faith, is almost reflexively acted upon UNLESS it is made abundantly clear that it will not be tolerated. That is not to say that Muslims cannot practice their religion – of course they can. They can even try to convert folks. BUT unless Muslims are convinced that they will not be granted a special status in non-Muslim lands, they will continue to insist on being given a mile whenever they are granted an inch.
Da`wah is slow-motion jihad, if you will; and the longer it is allowed to gain momentum, it will only gather more and more steam and speed–until it becomes, if not unstoppable, certainly very problematic for non-Muslims and very hard to derail.
Catholics, the largest single religious body (almost 70 million of the US’ 220+ million Christians), have never demanded that schools or employers adhere to canon law. On the other end of the demographic spectrum, Hindus (0.4% of the population) are not coming to the US and demanding the practice of Dharma in American public schools and workplaces. Muslims, while perhaps the fastest-growing religion in the US, still comprise no more than 1% of Americans – and while they may have been inculcated with the idea that Islamizing the West’s major nation is their duty as Muslims (see Shavit, “Should Muslims Integrate into the West?,” MEQ, Fall 2007), and reinforced in that belief by the American liberal tendency to treat them as “victims” (especially, paradoxically, post-9/11), our secular republic does not have to sacrifice its hallowed traditions and practices on an altar of political correctness and misguided Islamophilia.”

Joseph e.
Joseph e.
11 years ago

@ Alan:
I can assure Alan that while what you say is logically correct it is based on the premise that toleration is reciprocated. Unfortunately Islam poses a serious problem here. Islam has no room for such and this occurs only where basic human compassion triumphs over religious fervor which few and far between where Islam dominates.
The Muslims you talk about are not unusual, in fact, wherever Islam is not dominant Muslims tend to be rather docile but the problem then comes when they begin (not even acquire but begin) to be a sizeable population in an area. If you are really interested, even though I have not been to Dearborn, but I can assure that a stay there for a few weeks, if not a few days, will certainly end up being somewhat eye-opening. I live in Jos,Nigeria, and if you have been following the news I’m sure that you may been informed of the conflicts that have erupted between Muslims and every other peoples in the area. The press may have painted particular pictures but they don’t nearly describe what really is going on. Experience, I assure you, is way more superior to theory which is what you bank on for now.
It is unfortunate that you have not realised, especially as a Jew, the freedoms and rights your people have enjoyed through the ages in whatever forms particularly from Christian community, in Europe and elsewhere. You may not also realize this but Mohammed had a special but developed hatred for Jews which eventually led to his massacre of whole Jewish communities most notably and nostalgically remembered by Muslims – that of Kaybar. This hatred of Jews has been passed down through the ages by the faith of Islam, but as I said earlier, wait for a sizeable community to develop around you then you will realise that even those you thought were your tolerant friends are really your worst enemies.
Thank you.

Simon
Simon
11 years ago

@Alan, indeed there seems to be a big difference between the grotesque agenda that underlies radical islamm and the minor annoyances that a Jew -living in a predominantly Christian society – would experience. I believe that to be the reason why this “slippery slope” of stealth islamization should be averted while there is still time.

Steam Shower
Steam Shower
11 years ago

It is no surprise to anyone that our public school system is gravely failing our children. Students aren’t learning the basic skills needed in adulthood nor are they retaining the majority of the knowledge that they are given.

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