To many, the word diversity means embracing the cultures and faiths of those who have made America its home. But in reality, these days diversity is the elimination and dismissal of Americas culture, which is now promoted as white supremacy, nationalism, and of course Islamophobic.
For 8 years, under the Obama administration, the words Merry Christmas were almost erased as Muslims found it offensive, and not inclusive. While President Trump has instilled the confidence to be able to say Merry Christmas without causing chaos, or guilt, Muslims are still determined to infect schools with their all-embracing rhetoric.
One Muslim group determined to bring Islam into your child’s classroom is the Islamic Network Group (ING) which is based in San Jose CA. Don’t get comfortable thinking because it is in California it doesn’t affect your school district, it does. Even in the Buckle of the Bible belt, Islam has invaded classrooms in Tennessee, as ING has a speaker’s bureau in Nashville.
Because Muslims believe their faith is superior, they demand inclusiveness under the guise of diversity. Now that the Christmas season is approaching, ING has sent out their suggestions to schools across the country, in hopes teachers will use them.
Despite there is no Muslim Holiday in December, Muslims still insist Islam and their holidays are discussed, as well as other days celebrated around the world.
From the ING Resource on Holidays
Some may argue making “non- Christian” students feel included in celebrations is important, but the underlying message isn’t about non Christians, its about Muslims. Why should Muslims have to be exposed to holidays other than their own. Do Muslims incorporate Christmas or Hanukkah into their month of Ramadan? No. Do Christians and Jews demand their holy days be included in Muslim Schools so that Muslim Children learn about other faiths and their celebrations? No they do not.
In America, in December specifically, there are Christian and Jewish Holidays. But that is a “dilemma” to many. This screenshot is from Teaching the Holidays: The December Dilemma.
You get the point. Once again, Islamists and their apologists demand inclusiveness by Christians and Jews, yet fail to demand the same from Muslims. It’s not “Happy Holidays”, it’s Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah. Period.
On August 28, 2019, a fundraiser for Zulfat Suara was held as she tries to win an at large seat on the Nashville Metro Council. So what? Yes fundraisers are all part of the campaign process, and certainly ones held in a power house realtor’s home is beneficial, but do those attending know who they are in fact supporting? And if so, do they too hold the same ideology regarding antisemitism, and anti American values? In Nashville, many of those in attendance supporting Ms. Suara, are considered heavy hitters in their industry, like Bert Mathews, a real estate investor and Blair Durham, of the law firm Bart Durham Injury Law.
While Ms. Suara seems to do and say all the right things, she also affiliates with individuals and organizations that are dangerous and hateful. Just last year, Ms. Suara was given an award for her work in public policy by the largest Muslim Brotherhood organization in the United States, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which falls under their parent group, the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT). According to federal court papers and the FBI, ISNA is the number one “friend” of the Brotherhoods front groups present in America.
Evidence in the Holy Land Foundation Trial, see entire document here. English follows the Arabic text.
According to FBI documents dating back as far as the late 80’s ISNA :
The FBI investigation concluded that the Muslim Brotherhood members who founded U.S.-based groups had risen to “leadership roles within NAIT and its related organizations,” including ISNA, “which means they are in a position to direct the activities and support of Muslims in the U.S. for the Islamic Revolution.” The FBI memo also said that:
Within the organizational structure of NAIT, there have been numerous groups and individuals identified as being a part of a covert network of revolutionaries who have clearly indicated there (sic) support for the Islamic Revolution as advocated by the AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI and his government as well as other fanatical Islamic Shiite fundamentalist leaders in the Middle East. This faction of Muslims have declared war on the United States, Israel and any other country they deem as an enemy of Islam. The common bond between these various organizations is both religious and political with the underlying common goal being to further the holy war (Islamic Jihad).
Accepting an award, and attending anything involving the Muslim Brotherhood is not good, as the stated goal by this group is the destruction of America and the West as we know it. This excerpt is from the “Explanatory Memorandum” which was submitted into evidence as part of the Holy Land Foundation Trial in 2008 in Dallas Texas. See entire document here, again English follows Arabic text
“The process of settlement is a “Civilization-Jihadist Process” with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim’s destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who chose to slack. But, would the slackers and the Mujahedeen be equal.”
Unfortunately, Ms.Sulfat’s choices of who she rubs elbows with doesn’t end with just the unsavory Muslim Brotherhood, but rather the openly anti Jewish, America haters in Congress Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar. Both who also support Muslim Brotherhood organizations, as well as Hezbollah and Hamas. Do those supporting Ms.Suara know she is “inspired” by Omar and Tlaib, despite their openly anti Semitic remarks, which both continue to stand by, and continue to spew?
Do her supporters also agree with her statement regarding women that hold different beliefs go to hell?
This isn’t about Ms. Suara being black, or Muslim. This is about her affiliations that are no different than someone running for political office that would be accepting an award from the KKK, or other hate group. Can you imagine any other political candidate attending a conference loaded with KKK leaders and members, being inspired by and honored by them?
By supporting Zulfat Suara financially or physically, are her supporters like Bert Mathews of the Mathews Group, or Blair Durham, from Bart Durham Injury Law sending a signal that this is the ideology they too believe in?
Supporting a candidate for any political office takes a process of researching and asking questions. It appears either those listed as supporting Zulfat Suara either didn’t do their homework or they too agree with her philosophy.
Remember the old saying… if you lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
“Now, I’ve been happy lately Thinkin’ about the good things to come And I believe it could be Something good has begun. Oh, I’ve been smilin’ lately Dreamin’ about the world as one And I believe it could be Some day it’s going to come ‘Cause out on the edge of darkness There rides a peace train. Oh, peace train take this country. Come take me home again.”
“Peace Train” was released in 1971, by Cat Stevens who converted to Islam six years later, taking the name Yusuf Islam.
Taking that “peace train” message to heart, Bill Lee held multiple meetings with Tennessee’s Islamists, the second one just days before his inauguration.
Now shoeless Lamar broke bread with them at the Islamic Center of Nashville (ICN) mosque headquarters. Kinda reminds you of Obama’s pandering “bend over and take it” in Saudi Arabia.
Shoeless Lamar
The question we have for Lamar and his cracker-jack team, is the same one we posed for the newly-minted Lee administration – do they know what we know about this mosque, its leadership and the people they are pandering to? And if they don’t know, why not? And if they do know, why are they giving a veneer of legitimacy to the taqiyya of these Islamist leaders?
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The ICN purchased its property in 1982, on what is now 12th Avenue South, with help of a generous donation from Muslim convert Cat Stevens. Some of the mosque’s founding members from Egypt were attending Vanderbilt University.
In 1995, ICN began an open and formal relationship with the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).
ISNA is one of the 29 organizations specifically named in the 1991 Muslim Brotherhood Explanatory Memorandum detailing the plan of “…dismantling American institutions and turning the U.S. into a Muslim nation.”
ISNA was later named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing prosecution, the single largest case of its kind in which several individuals were successfully prosecuted for helping to funnel millions to HAMAS, a U.S. designated terrorist organization.
The ICN located at 2515 12th Ave. South, shares the same address with ISNA as listed on taxexemptworld.com
On other documents, the ICN shares a P.O. Box 120953 with ISNA.
The warranty deeds for two of ICN’s four properties – its private Islamic school The Nashville International Academy and the other which appears to be a cemetery, list the P.O. Box 120953 in place of the scratched out of the mosque’s 2515 12th Ave. South address.
The same P.O. Box number was listed on the ICN’s listing on the Tennessee Secretary of State website in 2009.
The same P.O. Box number is also listed on a bank direct deposit form previously posted on the ICN website.
The ICN has also linked itself to ISNA through Nashville community activities. For example, in February 2010, ICN, along with other Nashville mosques, partnered with ISNA for a two day conference titled “Awakening the Leader Within”.
One of the featured ISNA speakers was Louay Safi, Director of Communications and Leadership Development, who has his own “interesting” pedigree. In February 2010, Safi who had been contracted by the DoD to lecture troops at Fort Hood on Islam, was suspended from this work after his association with organizations involved in funding terrorism were documented.
Another notorious individual associated with the ICN is the Little Rock jihadi Carlos Bledsoe from Memphis. When he converted to Islam, he took the name of the former Imam of the ICN, Abdulhakim Mohamed, who is believed to have been his mentor. This Yemeni Imam served as at the ICN from 1999 until 2007.
Abdulhakim Mohamed served the radical Brooklyn Al Farooq mosque for three years until coming to Nashville. His Brooklyn mosque was called the “al-Qaeda mosque” because in the 1980’s and 90’s it was a conduit for al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and had a documented history of raising money for terrorists. It is also the same mosque attended by the “blind sheik” who was convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
This Imam is featured in the “Losing Our Sons” documentary about the radicalization of his mentee, jihadi Carlos Bledsoe who executed Pvt. Andrew Long at the Little Rock Army Recruiting Center. If you haven’t watched it, you should and it can be viewed in its entirety on youtube.
Regarding the U.S. in the film the Imam says, “This country will not be the richest country on earth because it is the worst country on earth.”
Regarding Christians he says, “Christians have lost much of their basics and tenets of faith. The truth of Christianity was lost at its earliest stages.” …Tomorrow they’ll celebrate Christmas assuming that Christ is a god or son of god. There is no greater lie than this. The greatest lie of all time.”
Regarding Jews he says, “Jews believe that everyone created on the face of the earth was only created for their service. They became as vicious as the Pharoah throughout history til today. The true evil today is the existence of one state [Israel].” “Aren’t we this near for a mass battle and war against the Jews? Aren’t they gathering themselves in Palestine?”
This same Imam spent approximately eight years at the University of Madinah in Saudi Arabia, then returned to Yemen to work managing Islamic schools and other educational programs. He was the Imam that helped the ICN launch its private Islamic school called the Nashville International Academy. This school will be eligible to accept state funded school vouchers under Governor Bill Lee’s new program.
ICN lay leaders
The ICN’s spokesman during Imam Abdulhakim Mohamed’s tenure, was Awadh Binhazim whose dawa (proselytizing) organization called “Olive Tree Education,” promoted online writings by Anwar Al Awlaki, a top propagandist and recruiter for al-Qaeda.
Three of the founding members of the American Muslims Advisory Council (AMAC) collaborated with Binhazim; Kamel Daouk was the Olive Tree treasurer, Daoud Abudiab, proselytized with Binhazim, and Rashed Fakhruddin served with Binhazim on the ICN Shura Council. The Shura Council is a group of men considered of high standing in the community who act essentially as an informal “court” to carry out Sharia law.
Now serving as ICN’s president, Fakhruddin has put the ICN dawa on steroids.
Daoud Abudiab went on to chair the board of TIRRC and establish his own dawa-style organization called the Faith and Culture Center.
Binhazim also served as the volunteer Muslim chaplain at Vanderbilt. During a Vanderbilt Muslim Student Association (MSA) program he confirmed that Islamic law mandates capital punishment for homosexuality. When he was asked whether he accepted or rejected the Islamic punishment for homosexuality, Binhazim also confirmed, that “as a Muslim he does not have a choice of whether to accept or reject what Islam teaches.”
Binhazim was president of a CAIR chapter in Texas before coming to Nashville. He and Imam Abdulhakim Mohamed later collaborated in launching a website called muslimnama.org
The next two Imams were trained to push sharia as a complete way of life – for everyone.
Imam Ahmed Mohammed was ICN’s next Imam. He graduated from Al-Ahzar University in Cairo, the institution which stands for the propagation of Islam and Sharia as a complete way of life.
Al-Ahzar is closely tied to the Muslim Brotherhood and is credited with starting the Islamist movement with training from Islamic radicals.
In the spring of 2011, this ICN Imam gave a lecture in Nashville in which he defended the Egyptian police forced virginity tests reportedly performed on female protesters in Tahrir Square that year. He also talked about honor killings and confirmed that they do occur throughout the Muslim world.
In its ongoing mission to radicalize Muslims young and old in Tennessee, during Imam Ahmed Mohammed’s tenure, the ICN sponsored an event at Vanderbilt featuring two American converts to Islam (or as they prefer to call them, “reverts”), Zaid Shakir and Shaykh Hamza Yusuf. They co-founded Zaytuna College, an unaccredited Islamic postsecondary school in the U.S.
True to form, Shakir who says no Muslim can be a terrorist, is a popular speaker with U.S. Muslim Brotherhood organizations such as CAIR, ISNA and the Muslim Students Association.
He professes to the same end goal of the Muslim Brotherhood – to see the “day in which America is a Muslim country ruled by Islamic law.” And consistent with the Muslim Brotherhood’s plan as laid out in its 1991 Explanatory Memorandum, he sees organizing Muslims in this country as the way to accomplish this objective.
Shakir understands the political leverage gained by remaining separate and apart from American society by claiming a religious-based moral superiority. He reinforces this by asserting that “American society ‘is sinful and constitutes open rebellion against Allah.’”
He also tells the college crowds that in the perfect sharia-based society “the kafir won’t be equal with the Muslim. The Christian or the Jew will be a dhimmi [second-class citizen]. They won’t be equal with the Muslim.”
ICN’s current Imam
The current Imam Ossama Bahloul moved from the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro (ICM) where he started in 2008. He is also a graduate of Al-Azhar and has a degree in dawa; his thesis was the establishment of a dawah curriculum aimed at secularists, atheists, Christians, Jews, and Muslims.
Lamar, Fakhruddin, Bahloul and ???
Al-Azhar being the preeminent teaching center of sharia law, authenticated the English translation of sharia law called “The Reliance of the Traveller, A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law.”
It used to be a simple matter of finding the complete volume of “Reliance of the Traveller”(ROT) on-line to read and download but once the kafir public became aware of the book and its contents, a deliberate effort was made by Islamists (?) to eliminate access to what sharia law experts agree sharia law says on all aspects of a Muslim’s life.
A full copy is available under the tab up top “Education Material” on the Dailyrollcall website.
ROT includes just about everything you can think of, for example:
ROT o8.2 “Apostasy from Islam. In such a case, it is obligatory for the caliph to ask him to repent and to return to Islam. If he does, it is accepted from him, but if he refuses, he is immediately killed.”
ROT L10.3 A son and daughter who are siblings “of the same generation as her and of the same strength (N: i.e. both are full or half siblings)… the male receives the portion of two females.”
ROT o17.4 “A husband is entitled to discipline his wife for not giving him his rights (def: m5.1).” ROT m5.1 “It is obligatory for a woman to let her husband have sex with her immediately when: (a) he asks her; (b) at home (c) and she can physically endure it. (d) another condition that should be added is that her marriage payment has been received or deferred to a term not yet expired. As for when sex with her is not possible, such that having it would entail manifest harm to her, then she is not obliged to comply. If she asks him to wait, she is awaited to a maximum of three days.”
ROT m13.3 “It is offensive to send one’s children to a day-care center run by non-Muslims. It is unlawful to send Muslim children to Christian schools, or those which are designedly atheist, though it is not unlawful to send them to public schools in which religion is not mentioned (N: in a way that threatens the students’ belief in Islam).”
Lamar gets same disinformation that is provided to Metro school students
From the pictures it looks like the same person, Dina Sirois, operations director of the ICN, gave Lamar the same talk about the “beliefs and practices in Islam” that she gave to Nashville Meigs Middle School students in October 2018.
An audio recording of Sirois’ October 2018, slide presentation is posted on the The Tennessee Star website.
The ICN has been especially aggressive in its proselytizing of Islam to public school students, Vanderbilt athletic teams, other religious groups and now, politicians. Rashed Fakhruddin, the president of the ICN is also a founding member of the AMAC whose members were specially trained by an organization collaborating with the Muslim Brotherhood plan to proselytize in public schools.
Former ICN Youth director, Sabina Mohyuddin, a founding member of AMAC who now serves as its program manager, attended the meal with Lamar. Per her own presentation in 2013, Mohyuddin cited to several “organizations that help American Muslims stay true to their religious values while being uniquely American.”
Mohyuddin’s choices? The Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA) and the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA).
Along with Al-Ahzar, the FCNA authenticated the English translation of the “Reliance of the Traveller, the Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law” cited above. Any number of FCNA members have been arrested, deported and named as unindicted co-conspirators in connection with terrorist activities. All are connected in some manner to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Her other choice, ICNA, was also named in the 1991 Muslim Brotherhood plan for North America and is known for its aggressive dawa in public schools.
AMAC continues to perpetuate the lie of the “anti-sharia” bill to justify its proselytizing of Islam, its aggressive political activity and its efforts to censor and stop all critical speech as “Islamophobic.”
What they call the “anti-sharia bill” was actually a material support bill based on the jihad perpetrated by Carlos Bledsoe. The bill language specifically was addressed to individuals supporting the commission of a terrorist act and specifically said that it did not apply to “the peaceful practice of any religion.” The bill defined the term “sharia,” precisely the way jihadist terrorists define it because the bill was directed at criminalizing support for terrorist acts.
We can only guess that the real reason AMAC didn’t like the bill is because there’s only one definition of sharia used by both violent jihadis and political jihadis. So who is hijacking whose religion?
It is a shame elected officials in the “Buckle of the Bible
Belt”, State of Tennessee are failing to view Islam as the threat it poses.
Because votes and being popular are more important than saving our Republic
from an enemy that states over and over they are coming from within to destroy
and dismantle everything we believe in, and our founding fathers built upon.
The latest disaster about to be implemented is the possible
inclusion of Islamic schools in the ESA, voucher program, as our leaders
continue the belief “all” children should be educated, regardless of their
status or beliefs. In years gone by, perhaps that would have been a noble thing
to do, however, in todays world, the patient enemy continues to use our own
resources and Constitution against us.
For those unfamiliar with Islamic Madrasas, or Islamic
schools, understand this. In Islam, children are used as tools of war. From
using them to deploy bombs, to raising them as jihadis, with the specific goal
of making the world an Islamic State ( the Caliphate). This has not yet
occurred in the United States, but does, on a daily basis throughout the world.
Yes, I see the rolling eyes already.
Islamic schools are entirely different than what most
perceive. Yes, Muslim children are surrounded by the religious beliefs their
parents wish to instill in them, just as Catholic, Hebrew and Christians schools
do. But there are some major differences, which are not appropriate, or in line
with American values.
Did you know the very first prayer every Muslim must recite 5 times a day, including children, is filled with a plea to not make them like the Jews and Christians? The Al- Fatiah states:
Jews are considered those who went down the wrong path, and Christians who have gone astray.
A few years ago, it was discovered the Annoor Academy of Knoxville, and Nashville were using a textbook called “What Islam Is All About ” authored by Yahiya Emerick. The contents of this book, used to instruct Muslim children, is filled with anti-Jewish and anti-Christian rhetoric, often poking fun at those religions.
It also encourages Muslim students not to take non-Muslims as friends
This claims If a Jew or Christian learns about Islam. but fails to accept it, they will be in the fire, and all other religions are man-made.
This is only 3 excerpts from a textbook used in Islamic schools, the same schools our taxes could be funding if they are included in the ESA/ Voucher program? Clearly, the lessons being taught to Muslim students is not one of tolerance, acceptance and love, as Muslims profess publicly. Is this acceptable in the Buckle of the Bible Belt?
On a side note, the majority of Islamic schools in the country, but also right here in TN, are owned and run by..the Muslim Brotherhood front group called the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT). Annoor Academy In Knoxville is no exception.
Because NAIT controls the purse strings of these many properties, it can exercise ultimate authority over what they teach and what activities they conduct. Specifically, the Trust seeks to ensure that the institutions under its financial influence promote the principles of Sharia Law and Wahhabism ( the strict, radical form of Islam)
In 1988, a declassified FBI memo, identified NAIT as one of many “Ikhwan organizations”—( Muslim Brotherhood fronts)—that “are involved in organizing political support” for a long-term plan seeking “to institute the Islamic Revolution in the United States” and “establish political control of all non-Islamic governments in the world.”
It is time for our elected officials to bear the responsibility of no longer legitimizing Islamic organizations, and schools, and to stop embracing Muslims to be politically correct. Muslims in America ( Tennessee included) have no intention of assimilating in our culture, but rather to insinuate theirs.
It is incumbent on every constituent to remind our officials we put into office, it is us that matters, not illegals, Muslims, or anyone else here to dismantle and destroy America.
What occurred in Christchurch New Zealand, was a horrific, heinous act against humanity. The response that immediately followed, by scores of left leaning media outlets and organizations was the new trend..to harshly criticize those offering thoughts and prayers, and labeling it Islamophobia rather than what is was, murder. Murder is against the law, Islamophobia is not..yet.
The aftermath of crime is the focus of this article, not the event itself.
Crimes of every nature occur every second in America, to every type of person, regardless of their race, religion, or sexual orientation. It seems though, any crime that has happened to a Muslim, is based on Islamophobia only. Islamophobia has become a weapon used by Muslims to attempt to silence any and all types of criticism, and exposure. Islamophobia, when first coined, was meant to be a “fear of Islam”.
Since that definition didn’t have the desired impact or outcome, the term was redefined to mean Islamophobia is rooted in racism, and is caused by hatred and discrimination. Changing the meaning now encompasses more than criticism or being exposed, it means anything that occurs to a Muslim, or is negatively spoken about Islam is Islamophobia . They want you to believe Islamophobia equates with killing.
By promoting the false narrative that exposing or speaking out against Islam leads to violence, or death, Muslims are hopeful pressure by those that embrace and support them will eventually lead to laws similar to those in Middle Eastern countries.
In Egypt, Counter-terrorism and Protest laws are used as aguise to arrest those using the internet to criticize their government, but Blasphemy or apostasy laws are applicable if one dares to denounce Islam or Sharia law.
While it is difficult for many to wrap their head around Muslims believe Islam is superior and meant to dominate, just as many understand the end goal, which is the return of the global caliphate, where in fact, Islam is dominate.
With the incident occurring in New Zealand, supposedly at the hands of an anti-Muslim deranged man, Islamic groups here in America did not waste time urging Americans to fight against Islamophobia. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR aka Hamas) pointed to research showing a rise in anti-Muslim sentiment since President Trump was elected. CAIR National Executive Director Nihad said President Trump needs to assure Muslims that they are protected and that he will not tolerate violence against their community.
Of course, this statement is not true, since many reports of violence or harassment against Muslims have been proven to be bogus, with Muslims often committing the actual crime themselves to intentionally up the statistics on crime against Muslims. President Trump is working to protect all Americans.
Besides the false reports (this is only a few), the FBI’s statistics from 2017 shows Jews the most victimized, not Muslims.
Another group always seeking attention, is the American Muslim Advisory Council (AMAC) based in Nashville TN. Their statement regarding the New Zealand mosque shooting blamed President Trump, and the Islamophobia “200 million dollar industry”. A side note about AMAC..its current chairwoman, Zulfat Suara, a Nigerian, who just spent time in her homeland, has failed to condemn and call for the end of violence Nigerian Muslims just committed against Nigerian Christians by slaughtering them in their places of worship over the last few days.
Zulfat Suara on the left
The obvious attempt to promote the false story only Muslims are vilified and massacred just shows the intentional deceitfulness of their message. It’s a disgrace hundreds of real pious people are being killed and the media and Muslims only find their story worth time.
It’s time to see “Islamophobia” for what it is. Non-existent and a lie.
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Ten days before his inauguration as Tennessee’s 50th governor, Bill Lee prioritized meeting with the Tennessee American Muslim Advisory Council (AMAC) while denying other requests for meetings with non-Muslim groups.
The following day, AMAC posted the photo of Bill Lee embracing members of the organization. Oh, the fundraising possibilities!
The photo also includes Samar Ali which is a little strange since she has not been known to publicly affiliate with the AMAC. Perhaps Haslam’s super-short term political appointee was the one who helped arrange the meeting between Lee and AMAC.
In addition to Samar’s expertise in sharia finance, she is also a devotee of former president Jimmy Carter, author of the biased book Palestine:Peace Not Apartheid a title which helps prop up the anti-Israel propaganda of the Boycott, Sanctions & Divestment (BDS) campaign against Israel.Carter’s persistence in casting the terrorist PLO’s leader Yasser Arafat in a positive light, tells you all you need to know about Carter’s own anti-Israel biases.
Gee, think he forgot that in 1997, the U.S. designated Hamas as a foreign terrorist organization?
Regardless, Samar traveled with Carter and his team to witness the Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi being elected president in Egypt.
According to the Vanderbilt Law School website, Samar’s mother immigrated to the U.S. from Syria and her father is from the West Bank town of Ramallah. Both her parents are listed as large dollar donors of the Carter Center.
Another interesting note about Samar and her training in sharia finance relates to her position as an intern in Amman, Jordan, for the International Arab Bank during the time that a lawsuit had been filed against the bank alleging that the bank was managing the funding of payments to the families of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) martyrs.
Add to this that since 2005, Samar’s father Subhi Ali, has led the board of the D.C.-based Jerusalem Fund, an organization devoted to destroying Israel. The founder of Subhi Ali’s Jerusalem Fund, a guy named Hisham Sharabi, was also a board member of the World and Islam Studies Enterprise (WISE) which was funding the PIJ allegedly through the Arab Bank where Samar was interning.
Back to the Lee-AMAC meeting
Some Lee supporters have defended his meeting with AMAC going so far as to say, “he had to,” while others who have followed AMAC and their member’s activities, expressed concern about the meeting.
People are right to be troubled by Lee’s eagerness to connect with the group.
For starters, AMAC has fully adopted the radical left’s “intersectionality” ideology and along with it, Islamist Linda Sarsour, one of the country’s leading Jew-haters.
“Intersectionality” claims that all self-described oppressed groups are united through their alleged oppression.
Linda Sarsour was born in New York to parents who are Palestinian immigrants. She uses her version of intersectionality to try and camouflage her rabid Jew-hatred as humanitarian concern for Palestinians. For example, it was Linda Sarsour’s “Muslims for Ferguson” that injected Jew-hatred into the riots that occurred after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, by reviving the anti-Semitic “Zionism is racism” libel with banners reading: Occupation is a crime Ferguson to Palestine. Resist U.S. racism. Boycott Israel.
AMAC board member Drost Kokoye has been equally overt in her Ferguson-incited anti-Semitism.
During her first year attending UT Knoxville, Kokoye tried to emulate Sarsour by using the “Muslim victimhood” narrative to build a coalition of those who see themselves oppressed by the two big, Satans, ie, Israel and the U.S.. Kokoye’s tweets during the anti-police Ferguson protest at UTK she led included this message:
Even before Sarsour co-founded the, 2017 The Women’s March, she was a featured speaker at AMAC’s 2016 event called “Unity at All Intersections.” Speaking alongside Sarsour was AMAC’s resident anti-Semite, Drost Kokoye. They were joined by the Muslim Brotherhood Islamic Society of North America’s (ISNA) fundraiser Faheed Tasleem.
Sarsour uses intersectionality to justify pushing the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) attack against Israel in every venue in which she is involved.
In fact, it was Sarsour who instigated bringing BDS to The Women’s March. Granted, it wasn’t too difficult given that she and her co-leader, Tamika Mallory are supporters of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, a notorious anti-Semite who has praised Hitler and described Jews as “satanic.”
BDS is fueled by anti-Semitic rhetoric from agitators who openly attack Zionism, the movement that helped exiled Jews return to their ancestral homeland and establish the State of Israel. BDS’ers deceptively embed their purported objectives in language about social justice and human rights, but at the same time, call for a genocide of the Jewish people. Rallying around their mantra “Palestine will be free, from the river to the sea” BDS’ers want no Israel or Jews to exist between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Ocean.
The goal of BDS is simple – it is to end Israel as a Jewish state by any means possible.
Like Sarsour, AMAC’s Kokoye uses her Twitter account to attack Zionism.
Kokoye has her own inventory of Jew-hating tweets, including the “river to the sea” core genocidal message of Jew hatred. It just so happens that this is the same language used in the Hamas 2017 revised charter and not much different in intent than the language of the original charter – “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.”
Kokoye is a founding board member of AMAC who continues to serve on the board and fills the Sarsour role for the AMAC organization. Kokoye has led pro-Hamas, anti-Israel demonstrations in Tennessee, complete with signs carrying the same BDS genocidal message of “from the river to the sea Palestine will be free.”
Kokoye is a member of the UT Knoxville MSA (Muslim Students Association) and being an avid supporter of the the BDS campaign, aligned herself with the UT Knoxville Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) when it was active. SJP is the primary driver of the BDS campaign on college campuses across the country. No surprise then that SJP campus groups are heard calling for Israel’s destruction chanting “from the river to the sea Palestine will be free.”
AMAC board members Zulfat Suara, Kasar Abdulla, Mohamed Shukri Hassan, Rashed Fakhruddin, Danish Siddiqui and Sabina Mohyuddin, who were on the ground floor with Kokoye launching their organization and are pictured with Bill Lee, have never disavowed board member Kokoye’s Jew hatred.
Nor have AMAC board members ever disavowed Kokoye’s public mocking of gays.
A photo of Jihan Abdulla (Kasar’s sister) and Kokoye pretending to be a gay couple getting engaged was tweeted out with the message, “Who said we don’t support marriage equality. She finally proposed!!!!!”
The tweet was posted by Nashville Islamist Remziya Suleyman who organized and ran the American Center for Outreach (ACO) and also helped organize AMAC. At the time of the mocking tweet, AMAC members Mohamed Shukri Hassan, Danish Siddiqui and Kasar Abdulla, were all part of ACO; Shukri was an ACO fellow, Siddiqui was Chairman of the board and Kasar Abdulla, a long-time collaborator and running buddy of Suleyman’s was a board director.
Kasar’s sister Jihan in the photo was working as for ACO as director Suleyman’s assistant.
Suleyman was a leading force behind the ACO and AMAC organizing. She was also the first one to get CAIR involved in Tennessee. She was also the first one to connect with Linda Sarsour, ironically, at a CAIR event in 2012.
And while Suleyman was never explicit in vocalizing her anti-Israelness, she made it a point of surrounding herself with other Islamists who did and continue to do so.
To no one’s great surprise, Suleyman, mesmerized by Jew-hater Louis Farrakhan, tweeted out her admiration for his work with the Nation of Islam:
Suleyman was also the lead organizer that help set the FALSE and FACTUALLY INACCURATE narrative about the 2011 anti-terrorism material support bill. Suleyman and Bob Smietana at The Tennessean claimed that the bill made following sharia law a felony.
In fact, the bill’s language was very specific in that it only applied to individuals deliberately supporting the commission of a terrorist act and that it did not apply to, “the peaceful practice of any religion. Rather, this part only prohibits the knowing provision of material support or resources … to designated terrorist entities, with the intent of furthering prohibited behavior.”
Ironically, the bill defined the term “sharia,” precisely the way jihadist terrorists defined it because this was a bill to prevent terrorist acts by cutting off sources of support. The bill, now a state law, prohibits using religious justification as a defense. This is the very same argument made by those who allege they are peaceful followers of Islam, to wit, that terrorist acts committed by ISIS jihadists or others in the name of their religion, does not represent Islam and that these terrorists are not true followers of the religion.
Regardless, AMAC members and their allies continue to peddle what they know is not true.
In his inaugural speech, Governor Lee said we should follow the commandment “to love your neighbor as yourself” and “walk in that spirit” of unity.
Now that Governor Lee has embarked on creating a relationship with AMAC, he would be wise to pay heed to this country’s most respected and powerful black American civil rights leader and his insights about Jew-haters. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. put it succinctly:
When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism.
Be on the lookout for Part 2 which will tell you more about AMAC’s leader Zulfat Suara.
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This is the statement released by an organization who in public, professes to be bridge builders, and interfaith leaders, yet their board member choices speak volumes.
The American Muslim Advisory Council (AMAC) is not at all whom they say they are, in fact Antisemitism runs through the veins of some of their board, including their recently departed director, Paul Iesa Galloway.
Galloway, who now resides in Colorado, was the founder and executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) Houston’s branch. CAIR is widely known to be an arm of Hamas, who has been at war with Israel for decades. CAIR formerly known as the Islamic Association of Palestine, (IAP) was Hamas’ primary voice in the United States. Galloway molded AMAC into the social justice, Muslim Brotherhood supporting group they privately are today.
Current board member Drost Kokoye, a refugee from Kurdistan, is the extreme, anti-Jewish, outspoken member of the board. Along with her membership to the Muslim Student Association,(MSA) she supports the radical, boldy anti-Semitic Students for justice in Palestine at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) where she attends school.
Drost Kokoye right with gold hijab
Ms.Kokoye also protested Israel and held a sign calling for all aid to Israel to be frozen.
Since pictures speak louder than words, here are some of Drost Kokoyes social media posts on Israel and Jews.
Other members and their Muslim Brotherhood associations
In Sept 2018, The American Muslim Advisory Council’s (AMAC) Chair of the board, Zulfat Suara, proudly accepted an award from ISNA.
In 2008, ISNA’s website contained a library of books they promoted as recommended reading, but also Hadiths (traditions and words of the prophet Muhammad) and rulings by Islamic scholars.
The library portion of ISNA’s website was deleted and scrubbed after these Hadiths were exposed.
Board member Saleh Sbenaty, a refugee from Damascus Syria, is a professor at the Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), where he is also the facilitator and mentor to the Muslim Student Association (MSA). The MSA is the Muslim Brotherhoods second largest front group, whose purpose is for its members to use Dawa ( the proselytizing of Islam) to spread the word of Islam on college campuses. The MSA has aligned with the Students for Justice in Palestine, an anti-Semitic group, to promote the Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS) movement.
Saleh Sbenaty 2nd from right, standing next to Nihad Awad,(middle) national director of CAIR, and a self proclaimed supporter of Hamas. Awad has visited the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro on several occasions.
Program manager, Sabina Mohyuddin doesn’t have a large presence on social media. but when she does post, it is anti Israel.
The American Muslim Advisory Council in Tennessee has the audacity to release a statement condemning violence, when several of its board members are in fact, just as anti-Semitic as the ideology held by the shooter. Just as tasteless, and offensive is the added narrative that they too are victims, politicizing this incident to inform readers other groups are marginalized.
The Truth of the matter is Jews in the United States are the number one victim of violence, harassment and discrimination, not Muslims, blacks, or LGBTQ persons.
According to the ADL
In 2017, there were 1,015 instances of harassment, an increase of 41% over the 721 incidents reported in 2016. One hundred sixty-three of the harassment cases were part of the spree of bomb threats made against Jewish institutions in the first quarter of 2017. If those bomb threats were not included in the total number of harassment cases, the total would be 852, an increase of 18% over the 2016 figure.
The American Muslim Advisory Council (AMAC) is allowed to train our law enforcement, participate in the farce known as interfaith events, and claims to build bridges. It is time they are recognized as nothing more than a social justice organization who uses religion as a guise to garner support and sympathy for their own cause.
On Friday Aug 3 2018, in a remote area of Taos County New Mexico, a raid was conducted by the Sheriffs office after receiving information a missing child was on what is described as a “training” compound. An Islamist extremest compound, similar to others throughout the county know as Islamville, or Islamburg. The compound, which was situated on 10 acres of land, was set up to be a Waco style camp, where 11 children were found starving, living in third world country conditions, and being trained to conduct mass school shootings. Authorities believe the remains of a small child’s body found was the disabled son of Siraj Ibn Wahhaj. In Dec of last year, the childs mother reported him missing, stating the father, Sirhaj Ibn Wahhaj, believed his sons disability was demonic, and was going to perform an exorcism on him.The two men arrested on the property were Sirhaj Ibn Wahhaj, and Lucas Morten, who were heavily armed with an ,AR-15 rifle, four loaded pistols and five loaded 30-round magazines.
If the name Sirhaj Wahhaj sounds familiar, it should. The leader of the NM compounds father, Sirhaj Wahhajj is a well known radical imam from Brooklyn NY, who was named an un-indicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Wahhaj senior heads the Masjid At-Taqwa in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a mosque known for radical ties to terrorism. But that didn’t stop Tennessean Muslims from praising him.
In 2016, Wahhaj visited Nashvilles Islamic Center of Tennessee, where he was invited to give the Friday prayers Khutbah, or sermon. Then acting director of the American Muslim Advisory Council (AMAC), Paul “Iesa” Galloway was thrilled.
Drost Kokoye, another Muslim activist who often states her disdain for America, and its law enforcement was also excited to her the terrorist speak.
2016 wasn’t the first or last time Wahhaj came to Tennessee. In 2013 the same mosque hosted him to deliver a sermon, which they labeled a fund raiser. Wahhaj participated in many discussion with Memphis Imam Yasir Qadhi as well.
One of the most interesting relationships is with media darling, Muslim activist Linda Sarsour, who claims Wahhaj is her mentor and is “legendary”.
Islamists in America want you to believe they are pious, righteous Muslims who only want to coexist, while their relationships with Muslim thugs tells otherwise. The hate for America seems to run in the family, and other Muslims don’t seem to mind.
