JUST OVER A MONTH AGO, SHARON RELEASED TODAY’S HADERA HOMICIDE BOMBER, TO PLACATE ABBAS.
Israel Says Remove Iran
21:31 Oct 26, '05
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=91821
(IsraelNN.com) Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Gillerman was told Wednesday by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to demand Iranís removal from the world body.
The action came in response to remarks made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a Teheran conference on Wednesday that Israel should be wiped off the map. (see below)
Iranian Leader SAYS-Israel Will Be Destroyed
By Nasser Karimi
Associated Press
October 26, 2005
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAN_ISRAEL?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT © 2005 The Associated Press.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared Wednesday that Israel is a "disgraceful blot" that should be "wiped off the map" - fiery words that Washington said underscores its concern over Iran's nuclear program.
Ahmadinejad's speech to thousands of students at a "World without Zionism" conference set a hard-line foreign policy course sharply at odds with that of his moderate predecessor, echoing the sentiments of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of Iran's Islamic revolution.
The United States said Ahmadinejad's remarks show that Washington's fears about Iran's nuclear program are accurate.
"I think it reconfirms what we have been saying about the regime in Iran," White House press secretary Scott McClellan told reporters in Washington. "It underscores the concerns we have about Iran's nuclear intentions."
Ahmadinejad also condemned Iran's neighbors which seek to break new ground in their relations with Israel. "Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury," state-run television quoted him as saying.
Relations between Israel and several Persian Gulf states have been thawing amid Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in September.
Bahrain announced in September it was ending a decades-old law banning trade ties with Israel. In October, Qatar said it was donating $6 million to help build a soccer stadium for a mixed Arab-Jewish team, the first such financial assistance by an Arab state for any town inside Israel.
Israel has been at the forefront of nations calling for an end to Iran's nuclear program, which the United States and many others in the West say is aimed at acquiring weapons of mass destruction. Iran insists the program is for generating electricity.
Referring to Palestinian suicide bomb attacks in Israel, Ahmadinejad
said: "there is no doubt that the new wave in Palestine will soon wipe off this disgraceful blot from the face of the Islamic world."
Ahmadinejad's speech came hours before a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in the Israeli town of Hadera, killing five people.
Iran aids several militant Palestinian groups, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, with support and training through proxies among Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas.
"Ahmadinejad has clearly declared the doctrine of his government,"
said Mohammad Sadeq Hosseini, an expert on Middle Eastern affairs.
"He is returning Iran to the revolutionary goals it was pursuing in the 1980s."
Reacting to the Iranian president's speech, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said Ahmadinejad and Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar "speak openly about destroying the Jewish state ... and it appears the problem with these extremists is that they followed through on their violent declarations with violent actions."
Ebrahim Yazdi, a former Iranian foreign minister, said Ahmadinejad's remarks harmed Iran.
"Such comments provoke the international community against us. It's not to Iran's interests at all. It's harmful to Iran to make such a statement," he said.
Ahmadinejad became president in August after winning elections two months earlier. He replaced Mohammad Khatami, a reformist who advocated international dialogue and tried to improve relations with the West.
Iran announced earlier this year that it had fully developed solid fuel technology for missiles, a major breakthrough that increases their accuracy. The Shahab-3, with a range of 810 miles to more than 1,200 miles, is capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to Israel and U.S. forces in the Middle East.
In a Aug. 24, 2005 handout file photo released by the Iranian Students News Agency, backdropped by an anti-Israeli and anti-American painting, Iranian female paramilitary militias (Basiji), parade in front of supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, unseen, in Tehran, Iran. Iran's hard-line president President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, called for Israel to be 'wiped off the map' during a Tehran conference called 'The World without Zionism' and said a new wave of Palestinian attacks will destroy the Jewish state, state-run media reported Wednesday Oct. 26, 2005. (AP Photo/Mehdi Ghasemi,ISNA,
File)
Janet Lehr
IsraelLives
israellives@gmail.com
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Friday, October 21, 2005
Senate Judiciary Hearings on Hate Propaganda
OCTOBER 25th Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings On The Dissemination Of Saudi Arabian Hate Propaganda IN THE U.S.
UAC PRESS RELEASE
On October 25, 2005, the Senate Judiciary Committee will be
conducting hearings on the findings in Freedom House’s January
2005 report "Saudi Publications on Hate Ideology Fill American
Mosques", detailing the propagation of Wahhabi hate literature
by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the United States. These
publications, created and distributed by the Saudi government,
explicitly advocate violence, hostility and discrimination against
Christians, Jews, non-Wahhabi Muslims, apostates of Islam,
homosexuals and women, and condemn cordial, peaceful
interfaith relations, individual freedom, equal rights and pluralistic
democracy. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia does not have a right -
under the First Amendment or any other legal document - to
spread this ideology of violence, hatred and discrimination within
the United States. In fact, the propagation of these xenophobic
materials constitutes a continuing breach of the international
human rights law established in the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which the United States
government, as a state party to this covenant, has an obligation
to halt immediately. In accordance with this obligation, which was
approved by the United States Senate in April 1992 and then
signed and ratified by President George H. W. Bush on June 8,
1992, the United American Committee calls on the Government
of the United States of America to enforce Article 20, Part II of
the ICCPR, which declares:
"Any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that
constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence shall
be prohibited by law."
Consistent with this prohibition, the United American Committee
calls on the United States Government to:
1) Publicly condemn the government of the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia for violating the human rights of the American people.
2) Remove all Saudi Arabian publications from U.S. Islamic
institutions that constitute a human rights violation under the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights or any other
human rights treaty to which the United States is a state party.
3) Prohibit the distribution and possession of any and all Saudi
Arabian publications in the United States that constitute a human
rights violation under the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights or any other human rights treaty to which the
United States is a state party.
4) Prohibit the distribution and possession of official Saudi
Arabian religious publications until the government of the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia fully refrains from violating international
human rights laws regarding freedom of religion and the
incitement to religious violence, hostility and discrimination.
Furthermore, this prohibition should remain in effect as long as
official Saudi religious authorities and institutions continue to
incite Muslims to wage jihad (holy war) against American troops in
Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
The propagation of Saudi Arabian religious hatred in American
communities is a cause for major public concern. This
propaganda not only constitutes a flagrant violation of
international human rights law, it also poses a genuine threat to
the freedom and security of the American people. This is the
same genocidal, xenophobic and supremacistic ideology
propagated by Osama bin Laden, Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, Omar
Abdel Rahman, al-Qaeda, HAMAS and other militant jihadis who
are responsible for the deaths of thousands of American civilians
and soldiers. The troubling presence and expanding influence of
this incitement, and the breach of international human rights law
that it constitutes, demands an immediate and effective response
from the United States government. The United American
Committee welcomes the upcoming Senate hearings and
expresses its sincerest thanks to the Freedom House Center for
Religious Freedom for bringing this critical national security matter
before the attention of the American people.
Janet Lehr
israellives@gmail.com
UAC PRESS RELEASE
On October 25, 2005, the Senate Judiciary Committee will be
conducting hearings on the findings in Freedom House’s January
2005 report "Saudi Publications on Hate Ideology Fill American
Mosques", detailing the propagation of Wahhabi hate literature
by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the United States. These
publications, created and distributed by the Saudi government,
explicitly advocate violence, hostility and discrimination against
Christians, Jews, non-Wahhabi Muslims, apostates of Islam,
homosexuals and women, and condemn cordial, peaceful
interfaith relations, individual freedom, equal rights and pluralistic
democracy. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia does not have a right -
under the First Amendment or any other legal document - to
spread this ideology of violence, hatred and discrimination within
the United States. In fact, the propagation of these xenophobic
materials constitutes a continuing breach of the international
human rights law established in the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which the United States
government, as a state party to this covenant, has an obligation
to halt immediately. In accordance with this obligation, which was
approved by the United States Senate in April 1992 and then
signed and ratified by President George H. W. Bush on June 8,
1992, the United American Committee calls on the Government
of the United States of America to enforce Article 20, Part II of
the ICCPR, which declares:
"Any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that
constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence shall
be prohibited by law."
Consistent with this prohibition, the United American Committee
calls on the United States Government to:
1) Publicly condemn the government of the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia for violating the human rights of the American people.
2) Remove all Saudi Arabian publications from U.S. Islamic
institutions that constitute a human rights violation under the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights or any other
human rights treaty to which the United States is a state party.
3) Prohibit the distribution and possession of any and all Saudi
Arabian publications in the United States that constitute a human
rights violation under the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights or any other human rights treaty to which the
United States is a state party.
4) Prohibit the distribution and possession of official Saudi
Arabian religious publications until the government of the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia fully refrains from violating international
human rights laws regarding freedom of religion and the
incitement to religious violence, hostility and discrimination.
Furthermore, this prohibition should remain in effect as long as
official Saudi religious authorities and institutions continue to
incite Muslims to wage jihad (holy war) against American troops in
Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
The propagation of Saudi Arabian religious hatred in American
communities is a cause for major public concern. This
propaganda not only constitutes a flagrant violation of
international human rights law, it also poses a genuine threat to
the freedom and security of the American people. This is the
same genocidal, xenophobic and supremacistic ideology
propagated by Osama bin Laden, Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, Omar
Abdel Rahman, al-Qaeda, HAMAS and other militant jihadis who
are responsible for the deaths of thousands of American civilians
and soldiers. The troubling presence and expanding influence of
this incitement, and the breach of international human rights law
that it constitutes, demands an immediate and effective response
from the United States government. The United American
Committee welcomes the upcoming Senate hearings and
expresses its sincerest thanks to the Freedom House Center for
Religious Freedom for bringing this critical national security matter
before the attention of the American people.
Janet Lehr
israellives@gmail.com
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
US Probes Afghan Charges
Re: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9755213/ U.S. probes Afghan body desecration charges
Do I care? No. Heck no. I don't care what psy-ops the armed forces need to use to defeat this enemy.
I don't care if some muslim somewhere gets his feelings hurt because 2 enemy bodies were burned, and were facing the wrong direction when they were burned.
I don't care if the bodies of the Taliban burn in Hell. Which, I'm fairly certain they will
I don't care if the entire islamic population of the world disappears, why? Because I'm sick to death of their agenda, their pity parties, their this, their that. I'm SICK of them.
I'll tell you the truth. Islam is a dangerous religion. Don't believe me? Then learn like I have what they are about.
Americans need to wake up to the fact that there is a political agenda in this country to take over, and make America an islamic state. I'd send you to the CAIR website to verify this, but they've shrewdly removed that content from their site recently.
We're losing our language. We're losing our culture, we're losing our borders. As we lose these things each in turn or all at once, we will lose our country. History has proved this time and again, yet we Americans refuse to see the reality of this situation.
I urge you, wake up!!!! Listen and learn. Fight like the devil, because the devil really is after you--and it's name is Islam.
GOD BLESS AMERICA
GOD BLESS ALL OUR TROOPS
Voice
Do I care? No. Heck no. I don't care what psy-ops the armed forces need to use to defeat this enemy.
I don't care if some muslim somewhere gets his feelings hurt because 2 enemy bodies were burned, and were facing the wrong direction when they were burned.
I don't care if the bodies of the Taliban burn in Hell. Which, I'm fairly certain they will
I don't care if the entire islamic population of the world disappears, why? Because I'm sick to death of their agenda, their pity parties, their this, their that. I'm SICK of them.
I'll tell you the truth. Islam is a dangerous religion. Don't believe me? Then learn like I have what they are about.
Americans need to wake up to the fact that there is a political agenda in this country to take over, and make America an islamic state. I'd send you to the CAIR website to verify this, but they've shrewdly removed that content from their site recently.
We're losing our language. We're losing our culture, we're losing our borders. As we lose these things each in turn or all at once, we will lose our country. History has proved this time and again, yet we Americans refuse to see the reality of this situation.
I urge you, wake up!!!! Listen and learn. Fight like the devil, because the devil really is after you--and it's name is Islam.
GOD BLESS AMERICA
GOD BLESS ALL OUR TROOPS
Voice
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
ACLU and CAIR ... Strange Bedfellows
The ACLU and CAIR.Strange Bedfellows,
By Arlene Peck
You know, for an intractable and barbaric group of people, who have made their dysfunctional 'religion' into an obsession we all have to take note of, Muslims have learned 'the system' pretty well. For a group of people, who say publicly that they disavow everything that 'we' stand for, they seem to be doing a good job of imitating us! Right down to using the system they hate to their own advantage.
I have long been familiar with the expression 'strange bedfellows' and thought I knew what it was all about when Marilyn Monroe married Arthur Miller. Now I'm certain I know what "the enemy within" means, too. These days, when I look around for "the enemy within", I only have to observe the actions of both CAIR and the ACLU. I find it somehow ironic, that CAIR, seemingly and allegedly the "legal arm" of HAMAS, the Islamic terrorist movement, or perhaps more broadly stated, the US-based eyes and ears of the worldwide Islamic terrorist effort, has turned into a Muslim version of our ACLU. I might not even be allowed to say what I just did, anymore, so strong is their grip on the throat of free speech.
To my way of thinking, both organizations are out to destroy the American way of life. No doubt about it, the Muslim 'refugees' we opened our country to have learned to 'work the system' and they are proving to be highly adept at doing so, with the assistance of the ACLU, our government, our major corporations, a howling Katrina-wind of Muslim organizations and, not to overlook, the many sympathetic, politically correct followers every overturned rock exposes. Under the guise of 'freedom of speech' and the lack of attention by many, including Congress, the FBI and many companies, in our desperate need to be politically correct, this cancer is spreading. Would you believe that workers in the benefits department at Dudley Council, West Midlands, were told to remove or cover up all pig-related items, including toys, porcelain figures, calendars and even a tissue box featuring Winnie the Pooh and Piglet. While we are in England, did you know an Ice-cream lid is now offensive!? And banned! My Lord.. Winnie the Pooh!
The Council of American-Islamic Relations has had a troubled history. They use intimidation and fear; they go for the jugular of anyone who challenges their activities. Their organization is riddled with staff members who have been indicted on, and/or convicted of, a variety of serious charges, mostly dealing with support of terrorist activities; CAIR has even been named as a defendant in a class action lawsuit stemming from the 9/11 bombings. Yet businesses who have dared to challenge them, such as Fox TV, Denny's K-Mart and others, have found themselves in our courts because of suits brought against them by CAIR.
To date, Boeing, Bell, Disney (ABC), Doubletree Hotels, Los Angeles Times, MasterCard International, Burger King, Anheuser-Busch, Miller Brewing, and Seagram's, among others, have fallen into line by pulling ads found offensive by the Islamists. Two clothing businesses, Liz Claiborne and Warehouse One, withdrew or discontinued women's apparel that bore Arabic script. Nike had to build playgrounds for the Muslim community after an unintentional offence to their sensitivities. National Review had to defend itself because it ran an ad promoting a book on Mohamed; not that anything was untrue, but simply because CAIR sees parts of history as anti-Muslim rhetoric.
Why are so many corporations timid in the face of these outrageous demands and why do so many fall so easily?
They are image and reputation-conscious, unwilling to absorb a public relations episode which could make headlines; they seem convinced that they need to show their diversity to one and all - because they think YOU, the American public, approve of that cowardice. They don't want to be sued and possibly lose, any lawsuit award probably digging deep into their pockets. So, they take the path of least resistance, by finding a quick way to get out from under the problem, one easily done and easily documented. Then they can say, "See what we did. We work with them. Aren't we good boys and girls?"
A few months ago, I wrote about the politically correct suicide engaged in by Dell Computers. When an issue arose at their Nashville plant, Muslim employees walked off the job en masse. These Nashville Muslims, urged on by CAIR, demanded recognition of their religious prayer requirement to pray five times a day, and they wanted that time as well as being paid for it. Never granted previously to Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, NFL fans or anyone else, but by golly, it has to be given to the followers of the prophet! This was verified when I called and spoke to a Dell representative, David Frink.
I was curtly dismissed as an "argumentative reporter" and "not worth his time", because I dared question his company's reasons for buckling under pressure from CAIR. Mr. Frink was even less happy when I suggested to him that this issue was not actually about prayer but Dell being manipulated into setting a precedent, and that Dell was, apparently, bending over backwards in allowing CAIR to do it! Mr.. Frink's response was that Dell is "a company that allows many freedoms and even had a room set aside for nursing mothers." I do not think he took too kindly to my comment; that they ought to have a room set aside for the Chabad to lay Tefilah, and maybe next to the 'nursing mother's room."
The up-shot? Dell caved in to Muslim demands and gave their disgruntled employees a 'gold card' full of employee benefits, complete with 'undisclosed settlements', to make their 'hurt feelings' go away, not just to "keep them happy" but to stop them from destroying the company!
As a Dell stock holder I resented it when CAIR got into the picture and Dell gave those employees "undisclosed settlements" so as not to hurt their feelings by being so politically incorrect as to want to run their company in a business-like manner. As an American, I'm even angrier.
Not long after this cowardly and stupid act of appeasement, ABC Disney, and several other companies, caved in to more CAIR demands. Disney backed down to CAIR threats, firing, without pay, a conservative talk-show host, Michael Graham, over statements regarding Islam and terrorism. Not content with firing Graham, they also reined in another respected journalist, Paul Harvey. Amazing how free speech only works when it's not saying anything the Council for American-Islamic Relations might consider unflattering, regarding terrorism and Islam.
In the Disney case, Graham was fired because CAIR, who monitor our speech, have issued a "fatwa"... Isn't it cute folks, how we now talk in terms of 'fatwa's and beheadings? Anyway, when Graham linked the current theology and structure of Islam to the repeated acts of terror done in its name, CAIR had him sacked. Personally, I couldn't agree more with Graham's opinion: "Because of the mix of Islamic theology that --- rightly or wrongly --- is interpreted to promote violence, added to an organizational structure that allows violent radicals to operate openly in Islam's name with impunity, Islam has, sadly, become a terrorist organization. It pains me to say it. But the good news is it doesn't have to stay this way, if the vast majority of Muslims who don't support terror will step forward and re-claim their religion."
And it doesn't stop there. The Muslim employees at Tyson Fresh Meats plants have agreed not to strike pending negotiations of "alleged religious discrimination by management." Now, in a display that should sicken all Americans, the Tyson people are planning to prostrate themselves in order to accommodate the demands of TEN Muslim employees.
A company spokesperson, Mr. Mickelson, stated that the plant provided a prayer room for Muslims and pointed out that "plant officials are consistently trying to work with the religious leaders to accommodate prayer time". Wow! Wouldn't it be nice if they also set aside milk and cookie time? He continued, "However, because we're a manufacturing operation, we're not able to let everyone leave the production line at the same time without shutting down entire sections of our operations." Mickelson said, "Since we have more than 200 Muslims working our second shift, this has sometimes been a point of contention and misunderstanding."
Excuse me? No offence to meat workers, but. these people gut hogs! This is not National Security, its heartland America. Since when did sausage makers, halal or not, have the right to alter a nations behavior? I urge you all to read the "Statement of Intent" on Tyson's homepage. Here is a group of people who are so totally committed to "doing the right thing" that they have been targeted by CAIR, an organization who are intent on forcing us to "do the right thing"... by Islam.
But this is, actually, nothing new, just more of the same old same old. I remember, over twenty years ago, when the Israeli pavilion in the Epcot Centre was removed, because Arabs complained they didn't want it there!
My fears back then were all about on the gradual take-over being perpetrated by this culture - now, I see it everywhere. It's happening in the boardrooms of companies like Dell, and on shop floors of companies like Tyson; the same way our prisons have been turned into hotbeds of Islamic Fundamentalism. I felt then, as I do today, that the work place is supposed to be a place of work and not a refuge for Muslims to wage ideological warfare, no matter how nice they are!
CAIR has been given no reason to doubt that - if we can do it once, why not again? It works, and they work it; they are getting better at the game and, with each precedent ruling, their tentacles are more widespread. Their rights under our system grow, despite my sense that no other religion has taken such steps before.
Gawd, do you see what is happening here, in so many corners of our country? CAIR is using our system with all of its technicalities and generosity, to make determined inroads to topple it. The ACLU has been doing that for years and has made tremendous strides toward the erosion of our values. Just what we need, huh? An Islamic arm of the worst oppressors of American freedom. I think the ACLU is doing just fine, destroying much that is good about America. Do they really need Arabist assistance?
By Arlene Peck
You know, for an intractable and barbaric group of people, who have made their dysfunctional 'religion' into an obsession we all have to take note of, Muslims have learned 'the system' pretty well. For a group of people, who say publicly that they disavow everything that 'we' stand for, they seem to be doing a good job of imitating us! Right down to using the system they hate to their own advantage.
I have long been familiar with the expression 'strange bedfellows' and thought I knew what it was all about when Marilyn Monroe married Arthur Miller. Now I'm certain I know what "the enemy within" means, too. These days, when I look around for "the enemy within", I only have to observe the actions of both CAIR and the ACLU. I find it somehow ironic, that CAIR, seemingly and allegedly the "legal arm" of HAMAS, the Islamic terrorist movement, or perhaps more broadly stated, the US-based eyes and ears of the worldwide Islamic terrorist effort, has turned into a Muslim version of our ACLU. I might not even be allowed to say what I just did, anymore, so strong is their grip on the throat of free speech.
To my way of thinking, both organizations are out to destroy the American way of life. No doubt about it, the Muslim 'refugees' we opened our country to have learned to 'work the system' and they are proving to be highly adept at doing so, with the assistance of the ACLU, our government, our major corporations, a howling Katrina-wind of Muslim organizations and, not to overlook, the many sympathetic, politically correct followers every overturned rock exposes. Under the guise of 'freedom of speech' and the lack of attention by many, including Congress, the FBI and many companies, in our desperate need to be politically correct, this cancer is spreading. Would you believe that workers in the benefits department at Dudley Council, West Midlands, were told to remove or cover up all pig-related items, including toys, porcelain figures, calendars and even a tissue box featuring Winnie the Pooh and Piglet. While we are in England, did you know an Ice-cream lid is now offensive!? And banned! My Lord.. Winnie the Pooh!
The Council of American-Islamic Relations has had a troubled history. They use intimidation and fear; they go for the jugular of anyone who challenges their activities. Their organization is riddled with staff members who have been indicted on, and/or convicted of, a variety of serious charges, mostly dealing with support of terrorist activities; CAIR has even been named as a defendant in a class action lawsuit stemming from the 9/11 bombings. Yet businesses who have dared to challenge them, such as Fox TV, Denny's K-Mart and others, have found themselves in our courts because of suits brought against them by CAIR.
To date, Boeing, Bell, Disney (ABC), Doubletree Hotels, Los Angeles Times, MasterCard International, Burger King, Anheuser-Busch, Miller Brewing, and Seagram's, among others, have fallen into line by pulling ads found offensive by the Islamists. Two clothing businesses, Liz Claiborne and Warehouse One, withdrew or discontinued women's apparel that bore Arabic script. Nike had to build playgrounds for the Muslim community after an unintentional offence to their sensitivities. National Review had to defend itself because it ran an ad promoting a book on Mohamed; not that anything was untrue, but simply because CAIR sees parts of history as anti-Muslim rhetoric.
Why are so many corporations timid in the face of these outrageous demands and why do so many fall so easily?
They are image and reputation-conscious, unwilling to absorb a public relations episode which could make headlines; they seem convinced that they need to show their diversity to one and all - because they think YOU, the American public, approve of that cowardice. They don't want to be sued and possibly lose, any lawsuit award probably digging deep into their pockets. So, they take the path of least resistance, by finding a quick way to get out from under the problem, one easily done and easily documented. Then they can say, "See what we did. We work with them. Aren't we good boys and girls?"
A few months ago, I wrote about the politically correct suicide engaged in by Dell Computers. When an issue arose at their Nashville plant, Muslim employees walked off the job en masse. These Nashville Muslims, urged on by CAIR, demanded recognition of their religious prayer requirement to pray five times a day, and they wanted that time as well as being paid for it. Never granted previously to Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, NFL fans or anyone else, but by golly, it has to be given to the followers of the prophet! This was verified when I called and spoke to a Dell representative, David Frink.
I was curtly dismissed as an "argumentative reporter" and "not worth his time", because I dared question his company's reasons for buckling under pressure from CAIR. Mr. Frink was even less happy when I suggested to him that this issue was not actually about prayer but Dell being manipulated into setting a precedent, and that Dell was, apparently, bending over backwards in allowing CAIR to do it! Mr.. Frink's response was that Dell is "a company that allows many freedoms and even had a room set aside for nursing mothers." I do not think he took too kindly to my comment; that they ought to have a room set aside for the Chabad to lay Tefilah, and maybe next to the 'nursing mother's room."
The up-shot? Dell caved in to Muslim demands and gave their disgruntled employees a 'gold card' full of employee benefits, complete with 'undisclosed settlements', to make their 'hurt feelings' go away, not just to "keep them happy" but to stop them from destroying the company!
As a Dell stock holder I resented it when CAIR got into the picture and Dell gave those employees "undisclosed settlements" so as not to hurt their feelings by being so politically incorrect as to want to run their company in a business-like manner. As an American, I'm even angrier.
Not long after this cowardly and stupid act of appeasement, ABC Disney, and several other companies, caved in to more CAIR demands. Disney backed down to CAIR threats, firing, without pay, a conservative talk-show host, Michael Graham, over statements regarding Islam and terrorism. Not content with firing Graham, they also reined in another respected journalist, Paul Harvey. Amazing how free speech only works when it's not saying anything the Council for American-Islamic Relations might consider unflattering, regarding terrorism and Islam.
In the Disney case, Graham was fired because CAIR, who monitor our speech, have issued a "fatwa"... Isn't it cute folks, how we now talk in terms of 'fatwa's and beheadings? Anyway, when Graham linked the current theology and structure of Islam to the repeated acts of terror done in its name, CAIR had him sacked. Personally, I couldn't agree more with Graham's opinion: "Because of the mix of Islamic theology that --- rightly or wrongly --- is interpreted to promote violence, added to an organizational structure that allows violent radicals to operate openly in Islam's name with impunity, Islam has, sadly, become a terrorist organization. It pains me to say it. But the good news is it doesn't have to stay this way, if the vast majority of Muslims who don't support terror will step forward and re-claim their religion."
And it doesn't stop there. The Muslim employees at Tyson Fresh Meats plants have agreed not to strike pending negotiations of "alleged religious discrimination by management." Now, in a display that should sicken all Americans, the Tyson people are planning to prostrate themselves in order to accommodate the demands of TEN Muslim employees.
A company spokesperson, Mr. Mickelson, stated that the plant provided a prayer room for Muslims and pointed out that "plant officials are consistently trying to work with the religious leaders to accommodate prayer time". Wow! Wouldn't it be nice if they also set aside milk and cookie time? He continued, "However, because we're a manufacturing operation, we're not able to let everyone leave the production line at the same time without shutting down entire sections of our operations." Mickelson said, "Since we have more than 200 Muslims working our second shift, this has sometimes been a point of contention and misunderstanding."
Excuse me? No offence to meat workers, but. these people gut hogs! This is not National Security, its heartland America. Since when did sausage makers, halal or not, have the right to alter a nations behavior? I urge you all to read the "Statement of Intent" on Tyson's homepage. Here is a group of people who are so totally committed to "doing the right thing" that they have been targeted by CAIR, an organization who are intent on forcing us to "do the right thing"... by Islam.
But this is, actually, nothing new, just more of the same old same old. I remember, over twenty years ago, when the Israeli pavilion in the Epcot Centre was removed, because Arabs complained they didn't want it there!
My fears back then were all about on the gradual take-over being perpetrated by this culture - now, I see it everywhere. It's happening in the boardrooms of companies like Dell, and on shop floors of companies like Tyson; the same way our prisons have been turned into hotbeds of Islamic Fundamentalism. I felt then, as I do today, that the work place is supposed to be a place of work and not a refuge for Muslims to wage ideological warfare, no matter how nice they are!
CAIR has been given no reason to doubt that - if we can do it once, why not again? It works, and they work it; they are getting better at the game and, with each precedent ruling, their tentacles are more widespread. Their rights under our system grow, despite my sense that no other religion has taken such steps before.
Gawd, do you see what is happening here, in so many corners of our country? CAIR is using our system with all of its technicalities and generosity, to make determined inroads to topple it. The ACLU has been doing that for years and has made tremendous strides toward the erosion of our values. Just what we need, huh? An Islamic arm of the worst oppressors of American freedom. I think the ACLU is doing just fine, destroying much that is good about America. Do they really need Arabist assistance?
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