Letters to Congress

Letter To Congress: Islamic Radicals? Or Fundamentalists?

(Published June 12, 2011 at Jihadwatch.org)

Office of the Honorable Peter King, United States Congressman, 3rd Congressional District (New York)

Fax: 202-226-2279

June 12, 2011

Re: Scheduled hearings on “Radicalization” of Muslims in America

Dear Congressman King,

On June 20th, 2010 a letter was written to Congress concerning the widely unpopular idea of constructing a mosque in the shadow

of the Ground Zero site in New York (a plan that thoughtful Muslims have also rejected). Contained in that letter were quotes from

several Islamic religious leaders (Imams) in America:

Imam Amir-Abdel Malik-Ali

Masjid Al Islam mosque, Oakland, CA

"We must implement Islam as a totality (in which) Allah controls every place... the home, the classroom, the science lab, the halls of

Congress."

Imam Abdul Alim Musa

Al Masjid mosque, Washington, D.C.

"If you don't give us justice. If you don't give us equality. If you don't give us our share of America. If you don't stay out of our

way and leave us alone, we're gonna burn America down."

Imam Muhammad Al-Asi

Former Imam at the Washington, D.C. Islamic Center

"Now, all our imams, our public speakers, should be concentrating on militarizing the Muslim public ... Only carrying arms will do this

task."

Imam Omar Shahin

Tucson, Arizona Islamic Center; President, North American Imams Federation; spokesman for the six 'Flying Imams'

"A Muslim must try his best to abide by the rulings of Sharia (Islamic law) whenever possible as much as he can. He should not allow

himself to be liable to those western laws that contradict the clear-cut Islamic rulings."

Imam Siraj Wahhaj

Masjid Al-Taqwa mosque. Brooklyn, N.Y

"In time, this so-called democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing. And the only thing left will be Islam."

Imam Zaid Shakir

Former Muslim Chaplain at Yale University

"Muslims cannot accept the legitimacy of the existing American order, since it is against the orders and ordainments of Allah."

Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf:

"I do not believe in religious dialogue."

Polls:

Mosque at Ground Zero polling:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20014737-503544.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2010/08/poll-nearly-70-of-americans-op.html

Further review of these statements show that they do not veer far at all from the following comments made by Islamic religious figures

overseas or from remarks made by other prominent Muslims operating in the United States:

Imam Anjem Choudary

British Muslim cleric:

"One day the flag of Islam will fly over the White House."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1358792/Anjem-Choudary-lead-White-House-protest-calling-Muslims-rise-up.html

Sheik Ibrahim Mudeiris

Sheikh 'Ijlin Mosque in Gaza

"We have ruled the world before, and by Allah, the day will come when we will rule the entire world again. The day will come when we

will rule America. The day will come when we will rule Britain."

2) "America will collapse ... we consider America to be our no. 1."

3) "Allah will drown the little Pharaoh, the dwarf, the Pharaoh of all times, of our time, the American president. Allah will drown America

in our seas, in our skies, in our land... America will be destroyed."

http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=8468

Abu Hamza al-Masri

Imam in Britain

"The real weapons of mass destruction are the desire for martyrdom… Half a million martyrdom shaheed is enough for Muslims to

control the whole of earth forever. In the end of the day, Islam must control earth, whether we like it or not."

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-10435138-bring-jihad-to-your-own-door.do

Abd Al-Rahman Al-Sudayyis

Imam at the Grand Mosque in Mecca

Jews: "The scum of the human race, the rats of the world, the violators of pacts and agreements, the murderers of the prophets,

and the offspring of apes and pigs."

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/06/blogging-the-quran-sura-2-the-cow-verses-40-75.html

Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed

Syrian-born British Muslim cleric

"We don't make a distinction between civilians and non-civilians… Only between Muslims and unbelievers. And the life of an unbeliever

has no value."

http://ussneverdock.blogspot.com/2005/07/britain-terror-warning-2-months.html

Ahmad Nawfal

Jordanian who has spoken at rallies held on American soil

"If fundamentalist Muslims stand up, it will be very easy for us to preside over this world once again."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/569037/posts

Abu Bakr

Australian Muslim Cleric

"I am telling you that my religion doesn't tolerate other religion. It doesn't tolerate. The only one law which needs to spread, it can be

here or anywhere else, has to be Islam."

http://articles.cnn.com/2005-11-07/world/australia.terror.bakr_1_anti-terrorism-raids-jihad-abc-radio?_s=PM:WORLDtp://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=8468

Mohamed Elmasry

President of the Canadian Islamic Congress

"Any Israeli over age 18 is a legitimate target for suicide bombers because adult Israelis were required to do military service. They are

part of the Israeli army, even if they have civilian clothes."

http://sheikyermami.com/2008/09/07/appeasing-canada%E2%80%99s-islamists/

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Omar Ahmad

Council on American Islamic Relations

"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be

the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth..."

http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=19439

Ihsan Bagby

Council on American Islamic Relations

"Ultimately, we (Muslims) can never be full citizens of this country ... because there is no way we can be fully committed to the

institutions and ideologies of this country..."

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2170

Nihad Awad

Council on American Islamic Relations

"I am in support of the Hamas movement"

http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=19439

Dr. Esam Omeish

Muslim American Society

"You have learned the way, that you have known that the jihad way is the way to liberate your land."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298278,00.html

Shukri Abu Baker (Convicted of funding Islamic terrorism)

Holy Land Foundation

"I swear by Allah that war is deception... We are fighting our enemy with a kind heart... Deceive, camouflage, pretend you are

leaving while you're walking that way. Deceive your enemy."

http://www.anti-cair-net.org/FBItiesCAIRHamas

Edina Lekovic

Muslim Public Affairs Council

From the July 1999 edition of Al-Talib, the Muslim News magazine at UCLA, when Lekovic was one of the managing editors:

"When we hear someone refer to the great mujahid Osama bin Laden as a 'terrorist', we should defend our brother and

refer to him as a freedom fighter..."

http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2007/05/video_steve_eme.php

Sami Al Arian (Pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide services to Islamic terrorists)

Former Professor, University of South Florida

"Let us continue the protests. Let us damn America. Let us damn Israel. Let us damn their allies until death. Mohammad is leader.

The Qur'an is our constitution. Jihad is our path..."

http://www.investigativeproject.org/220/al-arian-victory-to-islam-death-to-israel

Hatem Bazian

University of California at Berkeley Lecturer

"Well, we've been watching intifada in Palestine, we've been watching an uprising in Iraq, and the question is that what are we

doing? How come we don't have an intifada in this country?"

http://www.meforum.org/1871/the-arab-israeli-conflict-debate

Ibrahim Hooper

Council on American Islamic Relations

"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..."

http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=19439

Julio Assad Pino

Associate professor of history at Kent State University in Ohio

Pino considers homicide bombers martyrs, the U.S. Armed Forces butchers, and is or was at one time part of an Internet blog

that urges readers to join the Islamic resistance. Also in a Columbus Dispatch piece, Pino described himself as the "most

dangerous Muslim in America."

http://www.dispatch.com/live/contentbe/dispatch/2006/

While this issue is addressed, the dangerous and witless practice of political correctness should be switched off. Unconditionally,

the American people have a right to know when any type of threat to their way of life presents itself so that they can prepare

to defend it.

Is it a "tiny minority" of "radicals" who have "perverted a great world religion" that all of these leaders in the Islamic communities

here and abroad represent, or are they representative of Islamic fundamentalists who are simply adhering to their ideology as it

has been prescribed?

As a free society we are a tolerant people. Like everything else, tolerance has its limits, so should rigid, racist, sexist supremacist

ideologues with a history of committing violent acts against innocent human beings when they don’t get their way qualify?

If the United States Congress genuinely seeks unfiltered information regarding the issue at hand, it would greatly benefit itself and

the nation by shunning the overbearing nonsense dispensed by organizations like the Council on American Islamic Relations, and

trading in the crocodile tears shed by the Congressman from Minnesota for the testimony of the individuals listed below, who are

capable of answering any lingering questions regarding Islamic scripture, Shari’ah law, and documented historical facts:

Nonie Darwish

Brigette Gabriel

Robert Spencer

Steven Emerson

Wafa Sultan

Daniel Pipes

Walid Shoebat

Aayan Hirsi Ali

In closing, if the opportunity presents itself, please reiterate to your colleagues that this situation should not be viewed as a chance

to score cheap political points, and that political affiliation aside, this is an American issue that impacts anyone who appreciates the

freedoms offered here.

Respectfully,

D.C. Watson, United States

Letter to Congress: Defend 9/11's sacred ground

(Published June 22, 2010 at Jihadwatch.org)

Office of the Honorable John Boehner

United States Congressman, 8th Congressional District (Ohio)

Office of the Honorable Mitch McConnell, United States Senator, Kentucky

June 21, 2010

Dear Congressman Boehner and Senator McConnell,

Thank you in advance for your time. I would like to ask if you will review and share with your congressional colleagues the following

information which includes, but is not limited to, a collection of quotes and documented activities pertaining to a number of Islamic

preachers (Imams) in America.

It is important to know that for them, being truthful to Americans would place their agenda in jeopardy; and when confronted, their

strategy is to maintain that their words have been "taken out of context," to dismiss critics as fringe groups who irrationally fear Islam,

and to throw out accusations of "anti-Muslim bigotry" and "intolerance".

They falsely play victim and have no legitimate defense; for it is their prejudices, religious intolerance, and ideological dogma that can

threaten safety and civil society.

When the audience is the American public, these particular ideologists will speak of peace, dialogue and inclusiveness. When they are

in front of their co-religionists, the conversation changes.

Imam Amir-Abdel Malik-Ali: Masjid Al Islam mosque, Oakland, CA

"We must implement Islam as a totality (in which) Allah controls every place... the home, the classroom, the science lab, the halls of

Congress."

Imam Fawaz Damra: Former Imam in the Cleveland, Ohio area

(Convicted of lying about his ties to Islamic terrorism, and ordered deported)

"The first principle is that terrorism, and terrorism alone, is the path to liberation. The second principle is that "settlement is decided by

the sword."

Imam Abdul Alim Musa: Al Masjid mosque, Washington, D.C.

"If you don't give us justice. If you don't give us equality. If you don't give us our share of America. If you don't stay out of our way

and leave us alone, we're gonna burn America down."

Imam Muzammil Siddiqi: Islamic Society of North America

"We must not forget that Allah's rules have to be established in all lands..."

Imam Fouad ElBayly: Johnstown (PA) Islamic Center

On Dutch author Ayaan Hirsi Ali: "She has been identified as one who has defamed the faith (Islam). If you come into the faith, you

must abide by the laws. And when you decide to defame it deliberately, the sentence is death."

Imam Mahdi Bray: Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation

Coordinated and led a Washington rally where he played the tambourine as one of the speakers sang, and the crowd repeated,

"Let's all go into jihad, and throw stones at the face of the Jews."

Imam Muhammad Al-Asi: Former Imam at the Washington, D.C. Islamic Center

"Now, all our imams, our public speakers, should be concentrating on militarizing the Muslim public ... Only carrying arms will do this

task."

Imam Husham Al-Husainy: Karbalaa Islamic Education Center. Dearborn, MI

On U.S. soil, has held rallies in support of the terrorist organization, Hezbollah.

Imam Omar Shahin: Tucson, Arizona Islamic Center; President, North American Imams Federation; spokesman for the six

'Flying Imams'

"A Muslim must try his best to abide by the rulings of Sharia (Islamic law) whenever possible as much as he can. He should not

allow himself to be liable to those western laws that contradict the clear-cut Islamic rulings."

Imam Siraj Wahhaj: Masjid Al-Taqwa mosque. Brooklyn, N.Y

"In time, this so-called democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing. And the only thing left will be Islam." On stoning women:

"If Allah says stone them to death ... then you stone them to death, because it's the obedience of Allah and his messenger ...

nothing personal."

Imam Hassan Mohamud: Islamic Da'wah Center, St. Paul, Minnesota

In a video produced to raise money for the center, Mohamud stated that, "This is a project that can save you from the hell of

living in America."

Imam Zaid Shakir: Former Muslim Chaplain at Yale University

"Muslims cannot accept the legitimacy of the existing American order, since it is against the orders and ordainments of Allah."

Imam Warith Deen Umar: Former Muslim Chaplain, New York Prisons

"The 9/11 hijackers should be honored as martyrs." The "U.S. risks further terrorism attacks because it oppresses Muslims around

the world." And "without justice, there will be warfare, and it can come to this country, too."

Imam Jamil Al-Amin: Former Imam, Atlanta Community mosque (GA) (Incarcerated)

Al-Amin shot and killed Fulton County Deputy Ricky Kinchen as he was serving a warrant after Al-Amin refused to appear for his

court date to answer charges of possessing a stolen car and impersonating a police officer.

Imam Zul-Qarnain Shahid: Muslim chaplain for the New York City Department of Corrections (and convicted murderer)

Smuggling box cutters into a Manhattan jail. Previously, Shahid was hired by the Department of Corrections as a chaplain in

2007 despite having served 14 years of a 15-years-to-life sentence for a December 1976 murder and robbery in Harlem.

Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah (Deceased): Masjid Al-Haqq mosque, Detroit, MI

According to the official criminal complaint against him, Luqman Abdullah was a "highly placed leader of a radical fundamentalist Sunni

group", whose mission was to "establish a separate, sovereign Islamic state within the United States, governed by Shari'ah law."

Additionally, Abdullah, in the complaint (p.2 of the Affidavit), "called his followers to an offensive jihad, rather than a defensive jihad."

The tune seems to change when Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf of the planned 'Cordoba House' mosque at Ground Zero speaks, yet

the underlying theme remains the same:

"We've approached the community because we want this to be an example of how we are cooperating with the members of the

community, not only to provide services but also to build a discourse on how Muslims and non-Muslims can cooperate together to

push back against the voice of extremism." Conversely, in Egypt on March 24, 2010, he said, "I do not believe in religious dialogue."

Imam Rauf asserts, "The Prophet Muhammad has been known as the first feminist. Gender equality is an intrinsic part of Islamic belief."

Yet that runs contrary to the predominant practices in Islamic nations and Shari'ah courts where typically a man's testimony equals

that of two women, and where Muslim women are prohibited from marrying non-Muslims but Muslim men are permitted to marry

Christians and Jews, as well as Muslims. (Sura 4:34 in the Qur'an details Islam's prescribed treatment of females.)

Imam Rauf has stated, "Muslim charities have been subject to undue scrutiny since 9/11."

In fact: The Holy Land Foundation, Global Relief Foundation, and the Benevolence International Foundation all identified themselves

as "charities".

Imam Rauf has stated, "Islamic law and American democratic principles have many things in common", and that America is "Shari'ah

compliant."

In fact, Islamic law (Shari'ah) is a supremacist, sexist, barbaric human rights violation that has no place in modern societies or in their

court systems:

Punishments include imprisonment, flogging, amputation, and execution by beheading, public stoning, hanging, or firing squad.

Thievery is punishable by amputation of the right hand. Multiple amputations are carried out for the crime of highway robbery.

For persons convicted of less serious crimes, such as alcohol related offenses or being alone in the company of an unrelated person

of the opposite sex, the offenders are caned.

Adultery is punishable by public stoning.

Crimes against Muslims receive harsher penalties than crimes against non-Muslims.

Those who do not embrace Islam and wish to convert to another religion have, according to Islamic law, forfeited their life and are to

be put to death by the state.

There is not a radical and non-radical Islam. There is one Islam, and a matter of whether or not a Muslim takes at face value the verses

of war and intolerance contained in the Qur'an (ex. 9:5, 9:29, 8:12, 5:51, 4:34). Fundamentalists, like the ones outlined above, also consider tolerant and non-aggressive Muslims to be "infidels."

With the facts out in front of them, there is nothing that Americans cannot accomplish, or repel. Yet our mainstream, lazy, useful idiot

media has failed as a free press by refusing to properly provide vital information on this matter.

Robert Spencer, Daniel Pipes, Nonie Darwish, Brigitte Gabriel, Steven Emerson and others can fill in the many blanks left by imams and

Islamic "civil rights" groups over the years. They are a valuable resource. It would benefit the nation if members of Congress were to

move in their direction for the purpose of obtaining a deeper awareness of the existential threat posed by fundamental Islamic doctrine

which, until undergoing some measure of reform, will continue to mar society after society by way of both violent and political jihad.

Our very way of life is under attack from within: from global-minded politicians currently holding seats in our own government

(who equate being a public servant to being royalty), to those crossing into our country illegally and their supporters, to front

groups posing as advocates, to the situation brought forth in this letter.

Does the United States Congress care enough about this country and the memory of the 9/11 victims, and have the courage to

protect the World Trade Center site, the Pentagon, and the hijacked airliner crash site near Shanksville, Pennsylvania by making

these sacred grounds off limits to any and all callous, egregious degradation? Please gather every true patriot within the people's

halls and answer that question with a resounding "Yes".

Respectfully,

D.C. Watson, United States

cc:

9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America

Office of the Honorable Peter King, United States Congressman, 3rd Congressional District (New York)

Office of the Honorable Eric Cantor, United States Congressman, 7th Congressional District (Virginia)

Office of the Honorable Patrick J. Tiberi, United States Congressman, 12th Congressional District (Ohio)

Office of the Honorable Paul Ryan, United States Congressman, 1st Congressional District (Wisconsin)

Office of the Honorable Mike Pence, United States Congressman, 6th Congressional District (Indiana)

Office of the Honorable Frank Wolf, United States Congressman, 10th Congressional District (Virginia)

Office of the Honorable Bill Shuster, United States Congressman, 9th Congressional District (Pennsylvania)

Office of the Honorable Jim DeMint, United States Senator, South Carolina

Office of the Honorable Jeff Sessions, United States Senator, Alabama

Office of the Honorable James Inhofe, United States Senator, Oklahoma

Articles

May 14, 2010: "Mega-Mosque to Open At Ground Zero… On 9/11/11"

The American Pundit

May 19, 2010: Gabriel: "Stand With the Victims of 9/11"

Act For America

May 19, 2010: Sultan: "A Mosque at Ground Zero Equals Victory"

Jihad Watch

May 24, 2010: Spencer: "Why There Should Be No Mosques at Ground Zero"

Human Events

May 27, 2010: Shoebat: "Ground Zero Imam: "I Don't Believe in Religious Dialogue"

Pajamas Media

June 22, 2010: Watson: Letter to Congress: "Defend 9/11's sacred ground"

Jihad Watch, 911 Families For America

July 12, 2010: "N.Y. Congressman calls for inquiry into funding of mosque near Ground Zero"

Jihad Watch

July 22, 2010: Gaffney: "Ground Zero Mosque Goes Radioactive"

News Real Blog

August 7, 2010: Bolourchi (Muslim victim of 9/11): "Build your mosque somewhere else"

American Thinker

August 14, 2010: Burlingame: "9/11 Families Stunned by President's Support of Mosque

at Ground Zero"

911 Families For America

August 29, 2010: "The mosque developers are tax deadbeats," to the tune of $224,270.77"

New York Post

September 1, 2010: "Questions Raised About Rauf's Nonexistent Mosque"

Investigative Project

September 15, 2010: "Builders plan to boycott construction of mosque"

World Net Daily

September 15, 2010: "Developer of Ground Zero mega-mosque is being evicted from his office

for racking up $39,000 in back rent"

NY Daily News

October 17, 2010: "Valley National Bank sues Ground Zero mosque developer for unpaid loan"

Jihad Watch

November 22, 2010: "Ground Zero mosque developers want $5 million in federal money"

Jihad Watch

December 3, 2010: "Citibank sues Ground Zero mosque developer for $100G"

Jihad Watch

January 14, 2011: "Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf out as leader of planned mosque near Ground Zero"

NY Daily News

February 4, 2011: "2nd Imam is out at Islamic center near WTC site"

Free Republic

August 22, 2011: "Money man" for Ground Zero mega-mosque accused of $5 million in

insurance fraud

Jihad Watch

September 7, 2011: Ground Zero mosque developers' request for federal tax dollars is denied

Dick Morris

September 23, 2011: "The Incredible Shrinking Ground Zero Mega Mosque"

Apollo Speaks/Townhall

September 26, 2011: "Mosque falls short"

New York Post