Posted on 02/05/2008 4:14:04 AM PST by SJackson
Radical Muslims for Obama |
With its similarity to popular online sites such as Facebook and MySpace and its links to a network of grassroots blogs, Barack Obamas campaign website has been hailed as a testament to the candidates transformative politics. But at least part of the senators online outreach, Muslim Americans for Obama 08, proposes installing Muslim prayer areas in public places and giving Muslims time off for prayer and has denounced Obamas colleagues in the U.S. Senate who happen to be Jewish. This segment of Obama's online outreach also has ties to unindicted co-conspirators in terror trials and has recruited Obama supporters from among the ranks of fundamentalist Muslim extremists.
While the Muslim Americans for Obama 08 blog is hosted by Obamas website, it is actually part of another site that goes by the same name, located at muslimsforobama08.com. The registered agent for the site is Zakiyah Omar, a womens costume designer from Jacksonville, Florida. Omar has been involved in the Obama campaign since December 2006 (She has had the site since February 07). She too has her own blog hosted by the official Obama website.
On the Muslim Americans for Obama 08 site, one will find a list of upcoming events, issues and solutions, details on how to join, a links section to sites of interest, and of course, a link to the blog. Theres even a toll-free number to call for more information.
Within the events section, a number of the listings pertain to conferences and conventions being sponsored by organizations that have a number of troubling ties. One is the 44th Annual ISNA National Convention, held in Rosemont, Illinois.
ISNA or the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) was recently named an Unindicted Co-conspirator for a Dallas trial that dealt with the funding of millions of dollars to Hamas. Beginning in December 2003, ISNA was the subject of a Senate investigation into the financing of terror groups overseas. The group currently uses its website to propagate violent hatred against Jews and Christians.
Another of the events listed is the 32nd ICNA-MAS Convention, held in Hartford, Connecticut. ICNA or the Islamic Circle of North America, in August 2006, was the top donor to a Pakistani charity that, at the time, had given $99,000 to the head of Hamas, Khaled Mashaal. Four people associated with the ICNA-related Houston Taliban were arrested and charged with jihad training with firearms, for the purpose of joining the Taliban to attack Americans overseas.
MAS or the Muslim American Society, like ISNA, uses the web to spread violent hatred against non-Muslims. In April 2004, MASs Communications Director, Randall Todd Ismail Royer, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his activities within the Virginia Jihad Network, a group that was conspiring with Laskar-e-Taiba (LeT) to attack Americans and Indians abroad.
Yet another event listing is the 2007 MANA National Convention, held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. MANA or the Muslim Alliance in North America was founded in May of 2000, in response to the arrest of cop killer H. Rap Brown, a.k.a. Jamil Al-Amin. The President (Amir) of the organization is Siraj Wahhaj, an individual that was named by the U.S. government an Unindicted Co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
According to Muslim Americans for Obama 08, it took part in VOTER REGISTRATION/INFORMATION BOOTHS, at each of the above venues. Taking that into consideration, since Muslim Americans for Obama 08 is officially part of the Barack Obama for President team or as the campaign puts it, Community one can conclude that Senator Obama and/or his campaign had sanctioned its attendance at these events.
Further troubling are the following Issues & Solutions on the site:
Found on the right side of the websites homepage are a series of links, most of which deal with information about Senator Obama and the campaign. One of them, though, is a link to Aswat Al-Islam, a radical Islamic multimedia outlet. Muslim Americans for Obama 08 lists it as Quran (Audio) English Translation.
Aswat Al-Islam features the works of such Islamist luminaries as: Uninidicted Co-conspirators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Siraj Wahhaj and Bilal Philips; anti-Christian bigot, Ahmed Deedat; pro-wife beating author, Jamal Badawi; suicide bombing supporter, Yusuf Al-Qaradawi; and the chief cleric of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, who has called for the murders of Jews, Christians and Americans and has described Jews as the scum of the human race, the rats of the world, the killers of prophets, and the grandsons of monkeys and pigs, Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais.
According to Muslim Americans for Obama 08, Senator Barack Obama is the BEST candidate for the job in 2008. But being the best candidate should have as a requisite keeping company that is worthy of respect. Recently, Obama has been cited for having a racist and anti-Israel pastor, Jeremiah Wright, and a campaign advisor that has expressed sympathy for Hamas and Hezbollah, Robert Malley.
On the blog, which is attached to BarackObama.com, viewers can read about the Senate pro-Israeli zionist hawk Joe Lieberman, as well as criticism aimed at Obama himself for getting too cozy with the Israeli lobby. As stated on the blog, that last part was derived from information found on Electronic Intifada (EI), a terror apologist website based in Chicago, Illinois, Obamas hometown. According to the sites co-founder, Ali Abunimah, Senator Obama once told him, regarding Abunimahs anti-American and anti-Israel writings, to Keep up the good work!
If Sen. Obama truly is worthy of the presidency of the United States, he should publicly distance himself from these extremist groups and individuals. And if he does not want his campaign to be seen as hospitable to radical voices, he should sever his ties with the blog that provides credible evidence for this charge.
obabama save face by denouncing them, as if he never knew.
a one-man civil war.
long over due! This country is long over due for some “cultural” cleansing.
be careful what you wish for.
None of this has anything whatsoever to do with my “wishes”; it’s simply a fact of life and this article points to the ultimate truth; that the enemy has, thanks to the combined efforts of both parties, managed to become the enemy within. That being the case, the outcome of this election is, in the long view of history, meaningless in that it really only offers two choices, one the long twisty road to the ultimate conclusion as pursued by the Republicans, or the shorter, swifter straight line to the very same ultimate conclusion as profered by the Democrats. The paradox is that theultimate conclusion will be the undoing of both parties as they are currently configured and the undoing of the Republic they have bastardized and ultimately betrayed in the pursuit of their own ends.
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