Here's how they walk around in Lewiston, Maine:
Posted on 10/02/2006 7:48:45 PM PDT by xzins
US Muslims Gear up for Nov. Elections
DALLAS — American Muslims have set up voter registration booths in mosques across the United States to encourage fellow Muslim voters to sign up for the November mid-term elections.
"We have set up booths in 150 mosques across the country in the past two weeks," Mukit Hossain, a political consultant to the Muslim American Society which is championing the drive, told Reuters Saturday, September 30.
American Muslims have also established a website to enable Muslim voters to register online.
Hossain said about 10,000 were estimated to have been registered to date, expecting "tens of thousands" more to be signed up before the November mid-term elections.
There are over two million registered Muslim voters in the United States.
The November elections are crucial in deciding which of the Republicans or the Democrats would control Congress during President George W. Bush's final two years in office.
"We have looked and said do we have enough Muslims to impact this race," Hossain said.
"And secondly what are the issues, how important are they for the Muslim community and where do the candidates stand?"
Analysts expect Democrats to wrestle control of the House of Representatives and make significant gains in the Senate during the November 7 elections over public dissatisfaction with Bush's domestic policies and the Iraq war.
All 435 House seats, 34 of 100 Senate seats and 36 governorships are up for grasp in the November elections.
Crucial Votes
The US Muslim drive is also targeting areas where a few voters can determine the outcome of the November race.
"The Virginia Senate race is another one because you have 52,000 Muslim voters there and in a tight race they can make a difference," added Hossain, who is also president of the Muslim American Political Action Committee.
The Muslim move is believed to be echoing a tactic employed by evangelical Christians to support conservative Republican candidates.
But Hossain said American Muslims were not simply copying this strategy but felt compelled to take their political activism to the mosque in the wake of 9/11 attacks.
Politically motivated Christians have for the past three decades been using the pulpit as a platform to get voters to the polls to support conservative candidates.
A survey of Muslim voters last year showed the political issues that concerned them most were the perceived erosion of civil liberties since the 9/11 attacks, the hardening of immigration laws and US foreign policy in the Middle East, Hossain said.
The next priorities on their list are education and health care, which are the mainstream middle-class concerns.
Though there is no scientific count of Muslims in the US, the six to seven million is the most commonly cited figure.
Fears
Hossain also said Muslims in some areas fear that neo-conservative and right-wing candidates would beat moderate ones, counting on the anti-Muslim drive that gained momentum in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
In District 8 in Arizona, for instance, Muslims had concerns about the anti-immigration tone of Republican candidate Randy Graf, who is running to replace an outgoing moderate Republican in a closely watched House contest.
Muslims are also concerned about the record of Republican Sen. George Allen of Virginia on civil liberties, Hossain maintained.
In August, a USA Today/Gallup poll showed that 39 percent of Americans said they feel prejudiced toward Muslims.
In its annual report on the status of US Muslims, CAIR said earlier this month that discrimination and hate crimes against Muslims in the United States have surged by almost 30 percent in 2005.
You might get in trouble for putting out advocacy information, but you can put out voter registration application forms, and help folks fill them in, all you want. YMMV by state.
There's something really humorous about burka-covered Muslime women voting for Hitlery the poster girl for the tired, sagging feminist movement.
I thot at our church we could not even put out voter information
My dear sir, a m-o-s-q-u-e is not a church. It is a center of cultural diversity, dialogue, and enlightenment from the Middle East. One must encourage such meaningful exchange of ideas and expand ones mind to accept that which is unfamiliar. There. Now don't you feel better?
Why aren't Moslems conservative?
By our definition (family, abortion etc) they are. But they are also the rug traders a.k.a. negotiators of the world and they recognize a VERY important fact about the U.S. Namely, the Dems are the party of NO RELIGION; of complete secularism. The Muslims recognize that, at this stage of their plan, to place secularists in positions of power is an important step because people without ANY faith or beliefts are EASIER to convert to Islam. In fact, the secularists will simply say, "So what's the big deal? If it makes them happy I'll say I'm a Muslim. It doesn't matter anyway" In short, create a vacuum that you can later fill.
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"The Virginia Senate race is another one because you have 52,000 Muslim voters there and in a tight race they can make a difference," added Hossain, who is also president of the Muslim American Political Action Committee.
Besides the fact they endorsed Kerry in 04 (gee, I wonder why?), here's some background on MAPAC, Mukit Hossain, their associates and recruitment activities:
Source: Kingdom of the Illegals, FrontPageMagazine, By Paul Sperry. May 17, 2006
[Mukit Hossain's] not just any activist. Born in Bangladesh, Hossain also runs a shadowy Muslim charity in Herndon which recently had its accounts closed by Wachovia bank due to suspicious activity related to possible money-laundering. The Foundation for Appropriate and Immediate Temporary Help, or FAITH, received a $150,000 donation last year from a front group run by Saudi bagman M. Yacub Mirza, whose home and offices were raided by federal agents after 9/11. FAITH helped establish the Project Hope and Harmony.
Mirza, a native of al-Qaida hotbed Karachi, Pakistan, is said to act on behalf of Saudi millionaire and al-Qaida financier Yassin al-Qadi. He lives in Herndon in a two-story house on a wooded lot on a private drive (known as a "pipe stem") off a cul-de-sac called Safa Court in a small, secluded subdivision. His neighbors include fellow Islamists Jamal Barzinji and Taha Jaber al-Alwani. Federal law enforcement documents describe Barzinji as "not only closely associated with PIJ [Palestinian Islamic Jihad], but also with Hamas," both officially designated terrorist groups. He's also closely associated with convicted terrorist Abdurahman Alamoudi, one of al-Qaida's top fund-raisers in the U.S.
The other neighbor, al-Alwani, is an alleged unindicted co-conspirator in the Sami al-Arian terror case. He allegedly gave at least $50,000 in jihad money to convicted terrorist al-Arian's PIJ front group in Florida. Court records say the money was sent to al-Arian "to support suicide bombings."
The three men, none of whom have been charged with a crime, control some 40 Muslim businesses, charities and think tanks -- or more precisely, shells, fronts and cut-outs -- known collectively by law enforcement as the Saudi-backed "Safa group." Their offices are located primarily at 555 Grove St. in Herndon. The Muslim World League, a Saudi-based charity linked to al-Qaida, originally set up its U.S. branch at that address with the help of Mirza.
Additional Safa group offices are located directly across Grove Street in another raided building. That's where Hossain's FAITH keeps its office. In fact, it's upstairs on the second floor -- right next door to the U.S. headquarters of the notorious International Institute of Islamic Thought, a think tank which espouses Wahhabi dogma and has allegedly funneled money to terrorist groups. After 9/11, its offices were raided by the feds along with the tenants of the non-descript office building across the street. A former IIIT official, Tarik Hamdi, is said to have delivered a battery for a satellite phone used by Osama bin Laden to coordinate and order the African embassy bombings....
FAITH, which helps runs the Hispanic day-labor site, operates a Muslim thrift shop on the first floor of the same 500 Grove St. building....But recently, FAITH has become unusually interested in helping Hispanic illegal aliens.
In addition to running their hiring site, FAITH's Hossain has organized feasts for hundreds of illegals during Thanksgiving, rounding them up and feeding them an intentionally nontraditional Middle Eastern dinner of beef kebabs and rice (instead of turkey and dressing) at Zuhair's Cafe in Herndon. He and other FAITH workers also gave away a van full of new winter coats (price tag: $10,000) to the Hispanic workers and their families. They've also raised money to buy them work boots and bicycles.
ADAMS Center
....Hossain and other FAITH board members serve on the mosque's board as well. Besides feeding the Hispanic workers, ADAMS Center, as its known, even offered to provide a van to transport them to and from the hiring site. Many of the poor Hispanic immigrants have been invited to worship at the mosque, in what has become a full-court press-the-flesh involving hundreds of Muslim volunteers from ADAMS.
The ADAMS mosque is integrally connected to the Safa group. It was founded by Safa leaders and keeps offices on Grove Street. And the mosque has received the lion's share of its funding from Saudi-backed Safa. In 1997, for instance, investigators say Mirza, the Saudi bagman, wrote a check for $250,000 to ADAMS.
Until recently, IIIT official Ahmad Totonji chaired the mosque's board of trustees. Court records allege that Totonji, a Saudi native, personally signed a check for $10,000 to al-Arian's PIJ front after 9/11.
Despite it claims of being moderate and progressive, ADAMS is a hard-line Wahhabi mosque controlled by the Saudis, investigators say. A Saudi pamphlet, called "Religious Edicts for the Immigrant Muslim," was recently found at the mosque. It states that "it is forbidden for a Muslim to become a citizen of a country (such as the United States) governed by infidels." Not surprisingly, even some of the mosque's more prominent members, such as Ibrahim Hooper of CAIR, have not hidden their wish to turn America into an Islamic state.
Hossain serves as a member of the mosque's board of trustees when he's not working for FAITH and catering to Hispanic illegals. He's also a founder of the Muslim American Political Action Committee, or MAPAC, which he set up to recruit Muslim candidates to run for federal office and work for the "empowerment of Muslim Americans."
What's more, Hossain is active in the Muslim American Society, which investigators say is the U.S. front for the Muslim Brotherhood, a worldwide jihad movement that gave rise to Hamas, PIJ and al-Qaida. Al-Awani is also active in MAS, which keeps a small, unmarked office in a non-descript building at the other end of the Wahhabi corridor in Alexandria, Va....
Holy mackeral!
I can't recall booths setup in churches before
Here's how they walk around in Lewiston, Maine:
It would be a real shame if we won the War on Terror only to have these people take us over through the poll booths.
I honestly don't know why we allow our enemies to have a say in our political process. It very much would have been like allowing German immigrants with declared Nazi loyalties have a say in our government in the midst of World War II.
WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF A WAR AGAINST AN ENEMY THAT WANTS TO KILL US! When will people wake up to this fact and stop protecting these people?
Well, more precisely, they will all be voting for whomever their Imam tells them to vote for. Kind of like the urban black churches, but without the pork loin BBQ...
Why we must monitor mosques
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/011961.php
In "Mosque Matters: Maybe we’d tackle the tough issues if we got that we’re at war,"
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ODhkNGI1YjZhM2MzNTIyMGIxNWZkOTdhZDg3ZDlkYzM=
Michael Ledeen at National Review argues for what I have been arguing for for years: that we must monitor American mosques.It’s interesting that British jihadis came to Queens to recruit Americans — and no doubt some of them, fully trained in slaughter, have returned to these shores — but the important thing is the mosque. Because there’s always a mosque, as my Italian friend Magdi Allam has been repeating for several years. Not all mosques are jihadi, but all jihadis come from a mosque. Posted by Robert at 08:45 PM | Comments (40)
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/011961.php#comments
The news keeps getting worse!
The terms "conservative" and "liberal" are only meaningful when used in a social context.
The ideals that we on Free Republic have today would be considered very "liberal" in Europe in 1776. Since we want to conserve those ideals we are therefore "conservatives" in the 21st Century America but not necessarilly so in another time and/or place.
The ideals that the America-hating Muslims have today and want to "conserve" are straight out of 9th Century Arabia. Those ideals have nothing to do with the ideals that we want to conserve.
The America-hating Muslims will vote Democrat because they are voting for the enemy of their enemy.
The greatest obstacle that America has in the War on Terror has been and will continue to be the way that the Democrat demagogues demoralize the America Home Front for political gain.
The America-hating Muslims gladly ally themselves with the Democrat sheep they despise in order to weaken America and, when the time is right, they the slit the throat of the American sheep. That has been the pattern in the past and that will continue to be the pattern in the future.
can a true muslim swear allegiance to the constitution without committing perjury?
It took the Spaniards 700+ years to evict their Mohammadans.
I share your concerns. I also think it is likely that Democrats will either control Congress or the presidency by 2008. I don't think they will get both. Dems have a tendancy to self destruct, and a tendancy to select the weakest candidate to represent them. This will work in our favor.
As for the presidential candidates, I agree we have a problem. I too was hoping that Allen would be the nominee. I am not so sure anymore. The allegations don't worry me as much as the way he has handled them. I am not very impressed.
Based on Allen's sad performance, and the personal problems of other candidates, I have already determined that I will have to suck it up for 2006 and 2008 and support a candidate that I probably wouldn't support under other circumstances. It may be the lesser of two evils, but it is still lesser.
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