[ April 19, 2024 ]
Habeeb Ahmed, chairman of the Islamic Center of Long Island in Westbury, said of Rep. Peter King’s hearings that they were “branding the whole community as if we are all suspects.” Really, why? Is Habeeb suggesting that Muslims support jihad
and the sharia, the most oppressive and brutal ideology on the face of
the earth — in direct contradiction to the idea that most Muslims are “moderate“?
Habeeb is currently currently under investigation for using his public office (in violation of the public trust) to strongarm the shul into canceling my remarks. What is outrageous that this Islamic supremacist should be telling a synagogue that a fellow Jew can’t speak.
Habeeb is the chairman of the Islamic Center of Long Island. Look who speaks at that hotbed of questionable activity. Jihadist Mauri Saalakhan has spoken at the Islamic Center of Long Island.
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Islamist Mauri Saalakhan made claims about a “Jewish, Zionist” conspiracy on the Iranian government’s English-language news service, this past Saturday. These comments match a series of other extremist speeches by the leader of “The Peace and Justice Foundation,” which have made him a prominent figure in Washington D.C.’s Islamist community.
“They [the Republicans] are going to say and do anything that they
feel will put them in favor with this very powerful lobby, Jewish
organizations, Jewish leaders, institutes, they bend over backwards to
please,” Saalakhan said on a cover story for Iran’s Press TV.
“Unfortunately most of our political leaders in the United States are
[sic] on both sides, in a sense unfortunately bipartisan, are slaves to
the Jewish, Zionist lobby and all of its constituent parts,” he added.
Saalakhan also claims that the Jews exercise this power as part of
“their aspirations for the presidency,” including controlling any debate
over Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.Saalakhan has stirred up controversy before, over his outspoken
support for Middle East terrorist organizations and anti-Semitic
comments. At a September 2009 rally in D.C., he told
attendees that “people are scared in this country to say wrong is wrong
because the Jewish lobby is powerful.” During a Friday sermon for the
Islamic Center of Long Island, he told
mosque attendees that Hamas was a “resistance organization – whose
armed resistance is legitimized by clearly established international
law!”
Another regular speaker at the Islamic Center of Long Islam is 911 truther Faiz Khan:
(Pictured Faiz Kahn above left — source Justice for 9/11)
Faiz Khan (here), conducts prayers at the Islamic Center of Long Island. Khan on the advisory board of the Muslims for 9/11 Truth. In an essay
on the Alliance’s website, he argued that “the prime factor for the
success of the criminal mission known as 9/11 did not come from the
quarter known as ‘militant Islam’ although the phenomenon known as
‘militant Islamic networks’ may have played a partial role, or even a
less than partial role – perhaps the role of patsy and scapegoat.”
In speeches, Khan says people in the Third World, where the “sleaze
of governance” is more of a given, few people question whether 9/11 was
an inside job.
And Habeeb deigns to tell a synagogue what righteous Jews can or cannot speak. Where does he think he is, Cordoba?
But he is not alone. The bloviating Rev. Thomas
Goodhue, executive director of the Long Island Council of Churches, said “I believe she presents a very bad
image of Judaism.” Now that’s chutzpah — this tool who has sold out his flock in his silence of the persecution of Christians in Muslim countries across the world thinks that I am a bad Jew? Goodhue is carryng water for the most brutal, radical and anti-Christian ideology on the face of the earth, and I am a bad Jew?
The only one lower than the less-than-Goodhue is the ADL’s joining with the enemy. The pathetic ADL director of community service, Etzion Neuer, said its “role was to call the
synagogue to make sure it was aware of Geller’s views.” I would like to know what views they are referring to. What exactly are they talking about? The ADL is so busy attacking Joan Rivers, Seth McFarlane, Glenn Beck — why don’t do their job and attack the real enemies of the Jewish people?
The ADL is more like the Defamation League. ADL was successfully sued for
over $10 million for defaming a Colorado couple accused of bigotry. A
judgment was confirmed by every court that reviewed it, and that judgment
was ultimately but grudgingly paid by the ADL The largest defamation
judgment in the history of the State of Colorado was paid for Anti-Defamation League. They smear and run. If I weren’t a “public persona,” I would sue, too.
04/05/13
Activist Pamela Geller says pressure to cancel her event has “seldom been this intense.”>UPDATE: More over at Haaretz.Shortly after it was announced that Pamela Geller, an outspoken critic
of radical Islam, would be appearing at Great Neck Synagogue April 14 to
discuss the “Imposition of Sharia in America,” an e-mail and phone
campaign sought to get the talk canceled.In response, a counter protest was launched to support her appearance
and that of Greg Buckley, Sr., whose 21-year-old son, Lance Cpl. Greg
Buckley of Oceanside, L.I., was killed last August by a policeman in
Afghanistan.The event, according to one e-mail, was planned to enable Buckley to
tell of his son’s murder and “to shine the spotlight on the plight of
our brave young soldiers and military families and their demand for
respect and justice from our government, which has so far been denied.”But those questioning the event have focused on Geller’s appearance.
“She is very much anti-Syrian and anti-Muslim and has said she would
use our holy book, the Koran, as a door stopper,” said Habeeb Ahmed, who
is one of 14 Nassau County Human Rights Commissioners and the first
vice president of the Islamic Center of Long Island.He said that when he learned of her scheduled appearance, he called the
synagogue and “left a message with the rabbi’s office saying it was not
appropriate for a house of worship to invite Ms. Geller, whom the ADL
and the Southern Poverty Law Center have said is a hate monger. … She
will be dividing the community. We have worked hard to bring Jews and
Muslims together in general and in Great Neck in particular, where for
more than 20 years we have had programs and a dialogue between American
Muslims and Jews.”
An e-mail in support of Geller was critical of Ahmed for “mobilizing a
lynch mob of local liberal activists and community organizations to
harass Rabbi [Dale] Polakoff from Great Neck Synagogue with 100’s of
phone calls, demanding he cancel the event or protests will ensue. … It
is an absolute disgrace that a man of public office should roll out a
campaign of intimidation and censorship because he objects to the
viewpoint of one of the speakers.”
As a result of Ahmed’s e-mails in which he identified himself as a
county Human Rights Commissioner, the Nassau County Attorney’s office
launched an investigation last week to determine whether Ahmed “misused
his title,” according to Brian Nevin, a senior policy adviser to Nassau
County Executive Edward Mangano.“They are looking to see if any rules in the county charter were
broken,” Nevin said. “It may be that there is no policy – and he has
apologized.”Nevin cited a statement issued by the county in which Ahmed wrote that
his “thoughts and opinions regarding the visit of Pamela Geller to
Nassau County reflect my personal opinion – not that of Nassau County or
the Human Rights Commission and not that of the Islamic Center of L.I.
The use of my designations in my e-mails is for identification purposes
ONLY. I regret if it was taken in any other way.”“I am aware of the First Amendment right to freedom of speech and I
respect it,” Ahmed added. “The hate mail that my interfaith colleagues
and I have been receiving is proof of that.”Also voicing his concern about Geller’s appearance is the Rev. Thomas
Goodhue, executive director of the Long Island Council of Churches.“I never intended to organize a massive protest [against her
appearance], but a lot of people are concerned,” he said. “A number of
rabbis I spoke to are concerned, and I believe she presents a very bad
image of Judaism.”He said that when he first heard of her planned appearance he called
the synagogue and spoke with one of the rabbis to verify it.“My call was meant to be in the form of a heads up – that there could
be problems,” Rev. Goodhue said. “She has the right to speak — and I am
certainly not going to go — but I have to question whether it is
appropriate for a house of worship to give her the microphone. … I tried
to convey to the rabbi that I would be deeply offended if a church
invited a hate monger to come.”Geller said in an e-mail interview that when she has spoken in the past
there was “pressure from leftists and Islamic supremacists to get me
canceled … but the pressure has seldom been this intense.”One reason, she suggested, is that “in general, leftists and Islamic
supremacists are growing increasingly desperate: they know that they are
perpetrating a Goebbels-like Big Lie, and so even though they have
immense influence in the media and in government, they are avid to
silence anyone who speaks the truth, because they fear how the truth,
even when spoken in a small venue, exposes them.”Asked if she ever said that she uses the Koran as a doorstop, Geller
replied: “The Hamas-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
gives out huge coffee-table size Korans to inquirers about Islam. The
commentary accompanying the text in this huge book is often deceptive,
downplaying and whitewashing the Koran’s texts exhorting to violence,
Jew-hatred, misogyny, etc. So when I was given one of these by a Muslim
whom I had debated, I went through it and wrote an article about how
even this whitewashed Koran’s text still contained numerous hateful
passages and ones inciting to violence … [I] said that with its great
size [it] was worthless for info about Islam but useful as a doorstop.
It was a joke, a rhetorical flourish.
“The idea that we cannot make quips of this kind about the Koran, when
people on mainstream television mock Judaism and Christianity on a
routine basis, already betrays an acceptance of Sharia blasphemy laws
forbidding criticism of Islam. I refuse to accept limitations on my
freedom of speech or anyone else’s.”In response to the countless phone calls and e-mails Great Neck
Synagogue received from both supporters and critics of the event, it
issued the following statement:“Great Neck Synagogue rejects the categorizing of any religious
majority based on the actions of a minority. It does though believe that
it is absolutely appropriate and with independence of free speech to
speak about the actions of such a minority and to evaluate their impact
on the perception of the majority of their co-religionists, and on the
community in general. It is within such a framework that the Men’s Club
has invited Pamela Geller to speak. She will be joined by Greg Buckley,
Sr. father of Marine Corporal Gregory Buckley Jr., who was murdered by
Jihadists.”Both sides in this issue are claiming that the other is using devious
tactics to galvanize support for their message. And just as Rev. Goodhue
said his organization is not calling for the event to be cancelled, so
too did the ADL deny rumors that it too wanted to see it called off.
Etzion Neuer, director of community service and policy for the ADL’s
New York region, said his organization’s only role was to call the
synagogue to make sure it was aware of Geller’s views.“We don’t tell a synagogue whether to host a speaker or not, and we’re
not telling audiences whether they should attend or not,” he said. “We
want them to make an informed decision, and the call to the synagogue
was because it was not clear whether the synagogue or the audiences
would really know what they are getting when they invite Pamela Geller.”Neuer said Geller is “seen as a pro-Israel advocate or part of a
movement to counter extremism. But when you scratch the surface, what
you get is less about making a legitimate case for Israel and more that
is anti-Islamic bigotry. Part of what makes her problematic is that
there are real legitimate concerns about radical interpretations of
Islam, which the ADL has spoken about forcefully. But Geller, under the
guise of fighting radical Islam, absolutely demonizes an entire
religion. In directing her rhetoric at the entire Islamic faith, she
fuels anti-Islamic bigotry.”“It’s deeply problematic for us,” he continued. “Geller doesn’t do us
any favors. She muddies the waters because she hands the platform to the
extremists in our midst. Instead of thoughtful, fact-based dialogue on
the issues, we get incendiary rhetoric and xenophobia.”Asked about the ADL’s assessment, Geller wrote: “It is a shame that the
ADL long ago abandoned its mission of defending Jews and now devotes
its time to attacking Jews who deviate from its leftist and
self-defeating political line. I have consistently invited peaceful
Muslims who sincerely reject the Koran’s exhortations to violence and
hatred to join in my efforts, and am doing them out of love for Muslims
and a desire that all people be freed from oppression.
“The claim that I have demonized an entire religion is based on nothing
more than an attempt to demonize me for calling attention to a problem
that the ADL has been criminally delinquent in speaking out about. Where
have I demonized the entire religion? Funny how none of these smear
merchants ever speak of the work we do helping to safety American
Muslims who want to lead more Western lives but fear their devout
families. My fight is for individual rights, equality for all before the
law and freedom.”An e-mail urging attendance at the event said supporters hoped to
“gather in force” at the synagogue April 14 before the 10 a.m. program.
“We need to assemble a big crowd inside as well as outside with flags
and signs: `We will not be silent against jihad,’ `Commissioner Ahmed
must resign!’ `We will not be censored!’ `Support Israel, Defeat Jihad,’
and `Justice for LCpl Buckley.’’The Truth Must be Told
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19 Comments11 years agoSome of my reactions to this post:
Habeeb Ahmed noted, “She [Pamela] is very much anti-Syrian and anti-Muslim“
How, Habeeb, is Pamela anti-Syrian? I’d really like to know. I have followed her utterances for a couple of years now, and have seen nothing “anti-Syrian”. Oh, she is outspokenly critical of some elements of the current civil war in Syria- that hardly makes her anti-Syrian.
As for being anti-Muslim, I don’t think so. Pamela has undertaken to provide a safe haven for young Muslim women and girls in the United States who face the very real prospect of honor killings at the hands of their Muslim families. Do you help these girls? Or do you carry water for those who would seek to murder them?
Rev. Thomas Goodhue stated, “but I have to question whether it is appropriate for a house of worship to give her the microphone. … I tried to convey to the rabbi that I would be deeply offended if a church invited a hate monger to come.”
I for one deny your premise: Pamela Geller is not a hate monger. She speaks about very hateful people. I don’t doubt that your counterparts of the 1930’s would have called Winston Churchill a hate monger for his warnings of the danger posed by the Nazis. As it was, Churchill was prevented from using broadcast media to shake his nation out if its slumber.
Moreover, I do not believe Pamela was invited to lead a worship service. It is so generous of a Christian pastor to instruct Jews on what is appropriate for them to consider. It just so happens that Pamela addresses serious threats facing our civilization that I suspect you chose to ignore. Understandable sir: the quislings, cowards, and hypocrites- those to seek to accommodate evil- will come after you with long knives if you dare to address these serious issues in public. Goodhue, you give me Bad Vibes.
Etzion Neuer claimed, “there are real legitimate concerns about radical interpretations of Islam, which the ADL has spoken about forcefully.“
Well guess what, Etzion? There are real legitimate concerns about canonical interpretations of Islam too.
Etzion also stated, “We want them to make an informed decision, and the call to the synagogue was because it was not clear whether the synagogue or the audiences would really know what they are getting when they invite Pamela Geller.”
Understandable, Etzion. I’ve always found it so difficult to get an intelligent discussion going among a synagogue’s congregants- Jews generally being so reticent to speak and usually ignorant of the world. Surely the men’s group at a New York area synagogue would have thought that Pamela would come to speak about rice pilaf recipes. Sheesh, what patronizing dreck!11 years ago“branding the whole community as if we are all suspects.”
Well heck yeah, you are a suspect!!! You got so bigheaded by surrounding yourself with the dhimmi tools and used your position as public official asshole!!!Who the heck you think you are? Now you are under INVESTIGATION for FEAR of losing employment!!! And then you twist it like you are the victim. WHAAAAA! As always like in the battlefield; islamists hide behind women and children!!! But in this case, you hide behind the dhimmis tools you recruit and the media who panders to you. You are the provocateur!!! You and the 1.3 billion of you who profess to follow the moon idol of YOUR choice. You follow a pedophile hophead who started it and your religion is false! Just because their are 1.5 billion of you means that there are 1.5 billion REALLY, REALLY oppressed and stupid people to include their followers.
I vote to decommission the commish!!! And the taxpayer paid positions of this useless human rights council!11 years ago“Part of what makes her problematic is that there are real legitimate concerns about radical interpretations of Islam”– wow, you don’t say, Neuer.
If only Neuer wasn’t so ignorant and got his head around the fact that Islam doesn’t allow ‘interpretations’, but needs to be taken straight up, undiluted.
Anyway, well countered, Pamela. Nothing more to add.11 years ago@ Larry S – well said!
11 years agoYeah Etzion, we KNOW what we’re getting when we hear from Pamela, THE TRUTH!!! Pamela, thank you for all you do to fight for freedom. May G-D bless.
11 years agoI know we did a couple of rounds a while back about what is a Moderate Muslim and can Islam be reformed? I came to the conclusion that while I can’t be anti- all Muslims in general it is hard to decipher who is absolutely trustworthy and who would go along with a sharia state if one could be established here. We’ve seen studies of American mosques (who are sponsored by huge amounts of Saudi money and Wahabist sects) which found that the majority of mosques carry literature which promotes violence.
However I believe that the majority of American Muslims don’t attend mosques regularly. Still the traditional culture is still strongly followed. Irshad Manji recently sponsored a discussion on her Facebook page moderated by a young Muslima about “love and arranged marriages.” I initially thought the conversation was based in Pakistan but discovered that even in Chicago there is tremendous pressure to accept arranged marriages.
It’s a tough argument to prove that you are not at the least urging caution towards Muslims and Islamic doctrine and opposed to liberal minded efforts to give Muslims special rights and accommodations in the workplace and schools.
Like the Great Neck Rabbi suggested it is worth examining the extremists in the Muslim community, as well as the impact they have on the Muslim community in general and our perception of it. We can’t live in the dark forever because that exposure makes some Muslims uncomfortable.11 years agoIn the 1980s I was a computer programmer for the now defunct Manufacturers Hanover Bank. A project assigned to another coworker was to design international client loan service screens for terminals in both Arab countries and Israel where the bank’s customers could look up outstanding loans and probably further access them for more detailed information. Since the Arab countries wanted to believe the fiction that Manufacturers Hanover was complying with the Arab boycott of Israel, the screen images that appeared in Arab country computer terminals showed none of the business loan activity with Israel.
I’m not sure what the Israeli clients saw on their screens, but I recall a test demonstration of the project where programmer in charge put little home made national flags on a different computer terminals to show what information was sent to each country. This was as serious as it was laughable. It was something straight out of Alice in Wonderland. By the way, the computer programmer in charge of this project to give the Muslims the screen image fantasy they wanted was…a Jewish woman!
Now the Muslim bigots want to go further and actually want to double check that their efforts to Jewish participation in the activities of the world and American soldiers’ families participation in the activities of free speech are actually enforced under sharia in the U.S.A. Now that they are proceeding beyond fantasy into a harsher reality, another Jewish woman, Pamela Geller, stands up to them. Brava, brava.11 years agoFirst – the ADL is irrelevant. The greatest threat that American Jewry has ever known is metastasizing before our eyes. And the ADL is silent.
Second – Why isn’t Habeeb and his truly evil ‘mosque’ listed by the SPLC as a hate group. If the Left is so concerned about Hate, what are they doing to fight the most hateful ideology in the world today – Mohammedanism? And what is this oh-so-peaceful interfaith pastor doing if he has absolutely no relationship with the orthodox Jewish community, on the one hand, but is friends with this cretin Habeeb, on the other?11 years ago“If the Left is so concerned about Hate, what are they doing to fight the most hateful ideology in the world today – Mohammedanism?” – Just because leftists are and always were the carriers of ideology of hatred. Believe me: I was born in the USSR and I was 34 when in crushed. I know what I say.
Some 70-80 years ago islam was not dead, but almost fully impotent. The leftists’ of all kinds efforts resurrected this violent ideology. One of soviet poets, Vladimir Mayakovsky wrote: “Lenin and party are the twin brothers.” That’s what should be said about leftists and islam.11 years agoislam demonizes itself, it’s unavoidable when the truth is applied to it. You’re remarkable Pamela.
11 years agoSpeaking of “politically correct” synagogues,here’s an example from yesterday.
A friend of mine attended a Bar Mitzvah yesterday at a suburban Chicago synagogue.
When one considers WHAT the Rabbi’s Sermon could have been,such as MOBILIZING his congregation to DEFEND ISRAEL , the ENDLESS WAR on THE JEWS,including the attempted Cyber-Attack on Israel on “Holocaust Memorial Day”,IRAN’s NUCLEAR PROGRAM,and the COURAGE of the Great Neck synagogue in INVITING Pamela and HOLDING TOUGH NOT TO CANCEL UNDER PRESSURE,here is WHAT it was:
Whether it’s permisable to Eat Rice on Passover as Sephardic Jews do or whether it’s “forbidden” as the Ashkenazic believe.
WOW!
Passover is over for this year,so RICE IS CERTAINLY NO “URGENCY”11 years agoWhy do they have to shut down Pamela and Robert Spencer? What do they have to fear? After all, what kind of ideologies feel the need to suppress one’s right to express an opinion?
11 years agoPamela, the intensity in the attacks means you are really worrying them, Please take extra care, and increase your security. These savages have a lot invested in their ultimate goal, and will stop at nothing to achieve it.
I admire and pray for you to our God, the One and Only: the God of the Jews and the God of the Christians.11 years agoMr. Ahmed may disavow the role of his institutional designations in the “personal” opinions he expressed by email and telephone conversation, but the time and hardware costs of his communications were probably paid for by his employer(s) who presumably are liable for them because they thought thought they were paying for his professional opinions and actions.
If his devious actions and defamatory “opinions” about Pamela were expressed on both the public dime and time, his dismissal from the Human Rights Commission should be sought. He clearly misunderstands the neutrality that Commissioners are supposed to have.11 years agoDump the dirtbag… That would be the sign they should be displaying..
11 years agoEventually, they will get violent, really violent. Its islam. At some point Americans are going to get fed up and clean this mess called CAIR out.
Problem is, knowing muslims are armed as according to the plan, Zero has not managed to disarm America for them, yet. But each of these school shootings is helping. The politically corrects have managed to keep the targets, I mean schools disarmed to enable this.
Watch closely. Legislation by executive order is prepared and waiting for the next opportunity shooting. Sad We could prevent these shootings by armed security on site, but the politically corrects would rather children die,than have them protected.
Their agenda is more important than young lives.
Then the perps would rob cars.11 years agoThe so-called ‘rights’ of an ideology should never supercede the rights of individuals.
Especially when these idividuals associate with the ideology.11 years agoSTAND STRONG
11 years agoI think these muslim sympathizing truthers are trying to hide and cover up the fact that islam was 100% responsible for 911 attacks.
