Action: Ask Metro Officials to Meet with Anti-Hate Coalition, Oppose Deceptive Islamic Supremacist Ad

(AFDI, Washington, D.C., 10/31/2012) — An
anti-hate coalition of Jewish, Christian, Hindu and secular pro-freedom
organizations is asking all people of conscience to contact the Washington Area
Metropolitan Transit Authority (WMATA) and ask that it help mitigate the
negative impact of deceptive Islamic supremacist advertisements now on display
in DC-area metro stations. The ads strongly mislead the public about jihad
terror and the Islamic supremacist threat. They are sponsored by the
Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations, a designated unindicted
co-conspirator in a terror funding case led by avowed Hamas supporter Nihad
Awad.

Last week, the coalition sent a
letter to WMATA Board Chair Catherine Hudgins asking to meet and discuss simple
steps to help mitigate the impact of the deceptive Islamic supremacist ad. To
date, the coalition has received no response from Hudgins or any other WMATA
representative.

In its letter, the coalition
requested that:

* WMATA work closely with
organizations representing people who have been victimized by jihad and Sharia
during all phases of the response and follow up to the CAIR ads.

* WMATA take a similar approach to
that of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) in response
to the CAIR ads by placing disclaimers that show that the deceptive speech
promulgated by such ads is not representative of the view of WMATA.

* WMATA provide free space for
counter ads, focused on promoting understanding of the nature and magnitude of
the jihad threat to the Greater Washington DC Metropolitan area, and awareness
of the harm caused by deceptive Islamic supremacist campaigns to demonize those
fighting for human rights against jihad and Sharia.

The Hamas-linked
CAIR ads severely mislead Americans about the nature of the jihad against free
nations by quoting a peaceful passage of the Qur'an that many Islamic scholars
believe has been abrogated by passages enjoining violence and hate. This masks
the organization's true intentions and leads to complacency, when in reality
CAIR operatives have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as
terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various
crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR's cofounder and longtime Board chairman
(Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made
Islamic supremacist statements. Its California chapter distributed posters
telling Muslims not to talk to the FBI.

Hamas-linked CAIR's
attempt to defame AFDI is consistent with its long record of pro-jihad duplicity,
deception and thuggery. One member of this unsavory gang has even previously
called for these ads to be defaced. Although it has received millions of
dollars in donations from foreign Islamic entities, it has not registered as a
foreign agent as required by the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA),
despite spreading Islamic supremacist propaganda within the United States.

Although it presents
itself as a civil rights group, CAIR actually has numerous links to hateful and
violent Islamic supremacist and jihad groups.

CAIR founders Omar
Ahmad and Niwad Awad (who still serves as CAIR's executive director) were
present at a Hamas planning meeting in Philadelphia in 1993 where they and
other Hamas operatives conspired to raise funds for Hamas and to promote jihad
in the Middle East. CAIR has steadfastly refused to denounce Hamas and
Hizballah as terrorist groups.

Several former CAIR
officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror:

— Ghassan Elashi,
founder of CAIR's Texas chapter, in 2009 received a 65-year prison sentence for
funneling over $12 million from the Islamic charity known as the Holy Land
Foundation to the jihad terrorist group Hamas, which is responsible for
murdering hundreds of Israeli civilians

— Mousa Abu Marzook,
a former CAIR official, was in 1995 designated by the U.S. government in 1995
as a "terrorist and Hamas leader." He now is a Hamas leader in Syria.

— Randall Royer,
CAIR's former civil rights coordinator, in 2004 began serving a 20-year prison
sentence for aiding al-Qaida and the Taliban against American troops in
Afghanistan and recruiting for Lashkar e-Taiba, the jihadist group responsible
for the 2008 Mumbai jihad massacres.

— Bassem Khafagi,
CAIR's former community relations director, was arrested for involvement with
the Islamic Assembly of North America, which was linked to al-Qaida. After
pleading guilty to visa and bank fraud charges, Khafagi was deported.

— Rabih Haddad, a
former CAIR fundraiser, was deported for his work with the Global Relief
Foundation (which he co-founded), a terror-financing organization.

In 1998 Omar Ahmad,
CAIR's co-founder and longtime Board Chairman, said: "Islam isn't in
America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran
should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted
religion on Earth."

After he received
unwelcome publicity as a result of this statement, Ahmad denied saying it,
several years after the fact. However, the original reporter, Lisa Gardiner of
the Fremont Argus, stands by her story.

CAIR's spokesman
Ibrahim Hooper once said: "I wouldn't want to create the impression that I
wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the
future."

The pro-freedom
coalition is led by the human rights organization the American Freedom Defense
Initiative (AFDI). Other members include Stop Islamization of America (SIOA);
Stop Islamization of Nations (SION); Stop Islamisation of Europe (SIOE); the
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA); Voice of the Copts; Former Muslims
United (FMU); Traditional Values Coalition (TVC), Virginia Anti-Shariah
Taskforce (VAST); Christian Seniors Association; Faith Freedom International,
an organization of former Muslims; Akhand Hindusthan Morcha (a part of Vishwa
Hindu Parishad), Sardar Kiranpal Singh Tyagi, President; Akhil Bhartiya Hindu
Mahasabha, Sardar Raviranjan Singh (Member High Power Steering Committee); Sant
Sipahi Vichar Manch, Sardar Hari Singh Matharu (Convener); Nanak Shahi Parivar,
Sardar Jaspal Singh Manchanda (Head of the Organization).

Individual members
include Lieutenant Alan T. DeVona (Retired), PAPD WTC 9/11/01 Patrol Sergeant;
Steven M. Goldberg, National Vice Chairman of the Zionist Organization of America;
Paul Schnee, President, Zionist Organization of America, Los Angeles Chapter;
Dr. Naftali Moses, PhD, whose son was murdered in the jihad attack at the
Mercaz HaRav library in Jerusalem in March 2008; Marine combat veteran Jesse
Nieto, whose son was killed in the 2000 jihad attack on the USS Cole; Iraq
ex-Muslim human rights activist Bushra Qader; and many others.

AFDI is
one of America’s most prominent human rights organizations. Its mission is to
defend the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience, and equality of rights
for all people – no special rights for special classes.

CONTACT:
Pamela Geller at [email protected];
phone (917) 310-4710.

SOURCE:
American Freedom Defense Initiative

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KKKK

11 years ago

“alliance of Christian, Jewihs, Hindu, pro-secualr Western groups” this is good! we need to form an alliance aganist jihad. together we stand. divided we fall.

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