Radical Muslims for Obama

[Rich]

Radical Muslims for Obama

By Joe Kaufman
FrontPageMagazine.com | 2/5/2008

With its similarity to popular online sites such as Facebook and MySpace and its links to a network of grassroots blogs, Barack Obama?s campaign website has been hailed as a testament to the candidate?s transformative politics. But at least part of the senator?s 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 Obama?s 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.

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, Obama?s hometown. According to the site?s co-founder, Ali Abunimah, Senator Obama once told him, regarding Abunimah?s anti-American and anti-Israel writings, to ?Keep up the good work!?


While the Muslim Americans for Obama ?08 blog is hosted by Obama?s 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 women?s 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. There?s 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, MAS?s 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:


Institute a Law to allow Muslim Employees to take an hour off from work for Friday Jummah Prayer.
Make the 2 Eid?s recognized National Holidays on Calendars with days off from work.
Provide prayer areas suitable for Salah and Jummah, in public and private facilities. (i.e. Malls, Airports, Universities and government buildings.)

Found on the right side of the website?s 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.

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.


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Joe Kaufman is the Chairman of Americans Against Hate, the founder of CAIR Watch, and the spokesman for Terror-Free Oil Initiative.

[Michael Tee]

<<But at least part of the senator?s online outreach, ?Muslim Americans for Obama ?08,? proposes installing Muslim prayer areas in public places and giving Muslims time off for prayer . . . >>

B . . .b . . . but that breaks down the wall of separation between church and state, doesn't it?  And I thought all conservatives WANTED to break down that wall.  Is Barak Obama then a conservative??
But that would be AWFUL!!  How could any self-respecting murderous sub-human Muslim "terrorist" vote for him??

The rest of this highly boring and endlessly repetitive tirade bears such gems as: four people training for jihad were "associated with" the "Houston Jihad" which was "related to" the ICNA, whose events were "listed in" the Muslims for Obama 08 blog, which was "attached to" Obama's website.  WELL??  WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR??  ARREST THE TREASONOUS MUSLIM BASTARD!!  SEND HIM TO GUANTANAMO.



Numerous other examples, equally torturous, of the smear followed.  Some of the more heinous accusations lodged against organizations related to organizations whose events were listed on the websites of organizations which carried blogs of organizations that  . . .  well, somehow, some guy at the end of one of these chains had had the audacity to attack Lieberman.    LIEBERMAN, the American God-King, vicously attacked by some guy as close as 14 links to Obama.  Is there no decency?  Sir, at long last, have they no decency?

The desperation and sense of panic in these articles is palpable.  If Obama wins, perhaps finally the U.S. government, on behalf of its people, can start reclaiming its foreign policy and its legislature from the hands of the Zionist lobby.  Some of the more frightening links, and just three or four links away from The Man himself, turned up people who (gasp!!) gave money to Hamas.  Well, you can just see the writing on the wall.  Maybe in an Osama administration, the U.S. Congress will no longer act as the enforcement arm of Israeli National Security and might even stop criminalizing Hamas, which certainly has the intention of driving Jews off Arab land but not the intention of driving Americans off of American land.

That linking stuff was pretty funny, though - - I found that with just TWO intermediary links, I was "troublingly" linked directly to Adolf Hitler and with just one intermediary link to both King George VI and to JFK.  Do a closer King and President cancel out a more distant Nazi dictator or am I still in trouble as a potential war criminal?