Republican-Muslim "humiliated and degraded" by ACT message

Many North Texas Muslims and some Republican Party officials have expressed offense towards a program that's drawing crowds at some Republican clubs.

Traveling across the country, the program warns of a stealth Jihad within the United States. While some consider the message prudent, others say it's just about hate.

Muslims packed a mosque in south Arlington for Friday prayers. Inside, the imam switches back and forth from Arabic to English. But, a Republican precinct judge, Dorrie O'Brien, is crisscrossing Tarrant County to spread a message that he believes something more might be more [sic] going on than prayer.

At a meeting at a Fort Worth restaurant, O'Brien warned North Texans to beware of stealth Mujahidee manipulating the media, infiltrating the military and running for public office.

Jamal Qaddura, a Republican precinct chair, shot [a] video of O'Brien's speech.

"[The] Quran demands believers wage Jihad against the infidel, again, everybody who isn't Muslim," O'Brien is captured telling the north Tarrant County Republican club. "... A grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the western civilization from within."

O'Brien is a local representative for a Florida-based group called "Act for America," which warns that Muslims want to undermine the United States government.

In his message, he said he believes there is "a stealth Jihad in the United States guided by the Muslim Brotherhood." The Muslim Brotherhood is a large international organization based in Egypt that supports creating Islamic states.

"I'm not aware of anybody in the United States here who is with the Muslim Brotherhood," said Qaddura, who enlisted Tarrant County Medical Examiner Nizam Peerwani to give a rebuttal.

"I was humiliated and degraded," he said of O'Brien's message.

Qaddura said he was shocked to hear O'Brien's message, which included warnings that "Islam permits the killing of innocent people."

"And this is what the ultimate goal is is to replace the United States' flag and the United States' government with the half moon and the star," O'Brien said.

Qaddura said the messages prey on fears, which have a way of spreading and doing a lot of harm.
"This is a good community," he said. "We are Texans, and Texans don't put up with that stuff."

ACT is a great organization. They are watching the muslims in this country and reporting what they hear.

Jihadis mobilizing in small American towns

The Dept. of Justice reports that there are "more than 35 suspected communes and more than 30,000 members spread across the US, all in support of one goal: the purification of Islam through violence."

WASHINGTON: In the 1980s when small towns in FATA were turning into recruitment centers for the Afghan war, seeds of jihad took hold and bloomed in some unexpected places – in two small towns in the United States, where two groups formed by Sheikh Mubarik Gilani –arrested in connection with Daniel Pearl's murder in 2002 – are suspected of violent extremism.

The towns of Red House, Virginia and Islamberg, New York are home to a small number of African-American converts to Islam who have withdrawn from the outside world to live by a set of strict religious codes. The two communities, which have formed a sect calling themselves the Muslims of the Americas, are said to be the followers of Sheikh Gilani. Gilani began preaching at a mosque in Brooklyn, New York seeking recruits for the Afghan jihad in 1980. It was then that he formed the group Jamat al Fuqra and later the Muslims of the Americas.

The Muslims of the Americas, a group exempt from tax, operates communes of primarily black, American-born Muslims in many states in the US. In addition to the compounds in Virginia and New York, these groups, which some have characterized as a cult, has compounds in Badger, California; Red House, Virginia; Binghamton, New York; and York, South Carolina. The cult houses between 100 and 200 people, many of them women and children in about 20 huge trailers.

A 2005 Department of Homeland Security report, titled the "Integrated Planning Guidance Report", warned that "other predicted possible sponsors of attacks (against North America) include Jamat al Fuqra (JF) that has been linked to Muslims of the Americas".Federal government officials told Daily Times that in 2006, the Department of Justice reported that the JF "has more than 35 suspected communes and more than 30,000 members spread across the US, all in support of one goal: the purification of Islam through violence."...

They are tax exempt? Why? And if we know that these places exist, why are we not going in and monitoring them?

Pakistan: Swat jihadists hiding, fleeing among civilians

Many militants were joining hundreds of thousands of residents fleeing the troubled northwestern Swat valley as the military eased a curfew late on Monday, informed sources told Adnkronos International (AKI). It was the last chance for the local population to leave their homes and head for safer areas ahead of an expected escalation of military operations against the Taliban, the sources said.

“Most of the militants are on the run. Those left are heavily under siege by the security forces but they are hiding in the population and that’s why security forces relaxed the curfew hours from 6 pm to 10 pm," a senior security officer told AKI, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"So that people would evacuate the areas and shift their families to the safer places so that military would carry out its operations without the fear of any collateral damage,” the source added.

In Peshawar, the commissioner for the Afghan refugee camp Syed Jamaluddin Shah told the reporters that three new camps would be established in Noshera and Charsada in the surrounding North West Frontier Province region which would have the capacity to provide shelter to at least 4,000 displaced families.

The military says it killed 200 militants in and near the Swat valley over the weekend. The army has deployed up to 15,000 troops to route [sic] some 500 militants fighting for the imposition of Islamic law in the Swat valley and neighbouring districts....

If the Taliban is faring as poorly as Pakistan reports, can offers of a "truce" and "negotiations" be far behind? At that point, we'll see if they learned anything in Islamabad since the initial truce in 2006.

They have not learned anything. The taliban is going to ask for a truce and will promise to behave and not kill people. Sure.