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February 15th, 2008 — CAIR, censorware, cartoon censorship, Afghanistan, Ezra Levant, Hege Storhaug, Michael Savage, Sharia, Winds of Jihad, mobile web, Canada, military, Islam, blog censorship, Doctor Bulldog, Atlas Shrugs, censorship
Blogosphere Victory over Jihadist Mole
Hesham Islam, if you recall, is the Islamist mole who maneuvered his patron and mentor, Gordon England, into firing Steve Coughlin, the Pentagon’s only expert on Islamic law.
Hesham Islam’s ‘resume didn’t add up,’ official says
Thanx to Weasel Zippers
In a stunning turn of events, a high-level Muslim military aide blamed for costing an intelligence contractor his job will step down from his own Pentagon post, WND has learned.
Meanwhile, his rival, Maj. Stephen Coughlin, a leading authority on Islamic war doctrine, may stay in the Pentagon, moving from the office of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the office of the secretary of defense. However, sources say a former U.S. ambassador to Turkey is trying to block his new contract.
The top Pentagon aide, Egyptian-born Hesham H. Islam, came under a cloud of suspicion after reports raised doubt about his resume and contacts he had made with radical Muslims. He is expected to leave the government next month, officials say.
Islam and Coughlin recently quarreled over intelligence briefings Coughlin presented showing a close connection between the religion of Islam and terrorism. Coughlin’s contract with the Joint Chiefs, which ends in March, was not renewed.
The Power of the Bloggers:
But as a result of the ensuing firestorm that played out in the conservative press – led by Washington Times Pentagon reporter Bill Gertz – Islam was put under a microscope, and questions were raised regarding his background…
Hesham Islam has been in the new recently. Well, not really. He has been covered by conservative news sites like World Net Daily, NRO and The Washington Times but there’s been precious little MSM coverage outside of that. Bloggers have also covered the news.
I wrote about it here. You can catch other stories at 1389 Blog, Atlas Shrugs, The Jawa Report and elsewhere.
Hesham is a close friend, confidant and advisor to Gordon England. England is the #2 man at the Department of Defense. The problem is that Hesham is also something of a mystery. Despite a DoD published biographical profile which described his early life as akin to a Hollywood thriller, there was more to Islam than met the eye. It all came to light after Hesham Islam used his influence to punish Stephen Coughlin, possibly the best Islamic analyst at the Pentagon. Coughlin’s contract was not renewed after Islam described him as a “Christian zealot with a poison pen”. That statement came after Coughlin’s Pentagon reports became increasingly alarmist with respect to Islamic activity which precipitated an ideological conflict with Hesham Islam…
Blogosphere Victory for Ezra Levant
Ezra Levant has been prosecuted by the Alberta Human Rights Commission for having published the Muhammad cartoons.
Excellent! Chalk one up for freedom of speech. Also, Ezra Levant says he is going to sue Syed Soharwardy for the thousands of dollars in legal fees! Go get ‘em, Ezra!!!
Muslim leader drops Ezra Levant cartoon complaint
Western Standard publisher plans to launch a civil lawsuit
Graeme Morton, Canwest News Service February 12, 2008
National Post —CALGARY — Calgary Muslim leader Syed Soharwardy says he is withdrawing his Alberta Human Rights Commission complaint against former Western Standard publisher Ezra Levant.
The complaint was launched in February 2006, after the Western Standard and the Jewish Free Press reprinted cartoons from a Danish newspaper that many in the Muslim world felt insulted the prophet Muhammad. The cartoons sparked violent protests in a number of countries…
This guy is the greatest.
HUDNA! (hat tip Josef)
Today Syed Soharwardy told the Calgary Herald editorial board that he is withdrawing his human rights complaint against me that he filed two years ago when I published the Danish cartoons of Mohammed. (Seriously, if you haven’t done so, you’ve really got to look at his hand-scrawled complaint here. I know dyslexic ten-year-olds with ADD who are more coherent.)
If he’s really withdrawing the complaint, this is the first I’ve heard about it; and when I spoke with my lawyer this afternoon, the complaint was still proceeding against me.
It might be a lie — it wouldn’t be Soharwardy’s first, but then again, lying to an infidel newspaper isn’t immoral to someone like Soharwardy. It’s called taqqiyah.
But even if Soharwardy withdraws his complaint against me, an identical complaint filed by the Edmonton Muslim Council still proceeds.
So why would Soharwardy do this — and why now?
The answer lies in another Arabic word: hudna. A hudna isn’t a peace treaty. It’s a temporary truce called by a Muslim warrior who’s losing in battle. It’s pretty easy to understand how hudnas work by watching Israel fight Hamas and Hezbollah. Those two terrorist groups lob rockets and send suicide bombers into Israel for months; then, every once in a while, Israel deploys its military and flattens Hamas and Hezbollah, who then call for a hudna. The UN intervenes, saving Hamas and Hezbollah to fight another day. That’s a hudna: a tactical truce for a strategic advantage.
Soharwardy wants a hudna because he’s osing badly. Not financially: he hasn’t spent a penny to further the complaint against me — that has been done courtesy of Ed Stelmach’s government and the taxpayers of Alberta, to the tune of $500,000, I’d guess. Nor has Soharwardy had to spend hundreds of hours battling against me at the commission — Alberta government employees do that for him. It’s because over the past two years — and the past month in particular — Soharwardy has become known for what he is: an Islamofascist imam, who’s trying to bring Saudi values to Canada. Though I’m being pummelled in a kangaroo court, he’s being pummelled in the court of public opinion. He didn’t expect it, and he hates it.
He hates that hundreds of bloggers ridicule him. He hates that my video clips, in which I describe his illiberal nature, have been viewed almost 500,000 times. He hates that his own enemies within his mosque have taken advantage of this media coverage to shine a light of scrutiny on the way he runs his mosque - from his financial irregularities, to his abusive treatment of women.
There’s much more. Go!
What does the Afghan Constitution really say?
Does the new Constitution of Afghanistan actually mandate shari’a law - including the death penalty for blasphemy - or not?
By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com International Editor
February 11, 2008
(CNSNews.com) - The death penalty given to an Afghan journalist accused of insulting Islam has more to do with judges’ interpretation of the country’s laws than with a constitutional provision entrenching Islamic primacy, according to a leading scholar in Islamic law.
The Afghan government has reiterated its assurance that President Hamid Karzai will “find a just solution” to the case of Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh. A statement released by the Afghan Embassy in Washington said that this would be done “in accordance with Afghan law and our nation’s international obligations.”
A three-judge court in northern Afghanistan on January 22 sentenced the 23-year-old to death, after he was accused of distributing to students an online article questioning why Muslim men may have more than one spouse while women may not…
Broadcast Radio Talk Show Censorship
Silencing the truth tellers - run amok.
From my comrade Ron over at Rocket’s Brain:
Need I say more re the political hit and removal of the Mark Fuhrman Radio Show.
Mapleton LLC is the group that bought these stations from Citadel Broadcasting. A key factor in this sale was the termination of the Mark Fuhrman Show.
Not available on the Net yet but from the today’s S-R’s Business
Section:
S-R to broadcast on Mapleton Stations
The Spokesman-Review will begin producing radio news reports that will be broadcast over stations owned by Mapleton Communications LLC in
Spokane under an agreement announced Tuesday.
At least four daily
newscasts, plus a weekend talk show and a week-in-review program, will be broadcast from the Spokesman-Review building . . .
Isn’t it enough that it is estimated the Cowles Co control 80% of the local media in our market? As I write in a reply (draft form) to the new Spokesman-Review Ombudsman:
Because of the significant amount of property that the Cowles Co owns or controls in Downtown Spokane and along the Spokane River to the Idaho border, there inherently is a conflict of interest regarding its involvement in development projects and reporting by the S-R. A close analogy is the period genre movie Chinatown. River Park Square is only one of several projects where there is a similar pattern and practice in quasi public/private developments where the public was defrauded.
Friends of Mark Fuhrman Radio Show
The unofficial fan site of Mark Fuhrman Radio Show that was squelched in my opinion by the "usual suspects." This list is dedicated to pursuing among other things the River Park Square fraud et al in Spokane, WA and other related topics that you will never read about in the Spokesman-Review. Read regular updates from Fuhrman Show regulars, Larry Shook, Tim Conner, Cherie Rodgers, former Spokane Mayor John Talbott, Dick Adams, "Ron the Cop" and others.
nar9350@gmail.com
Recent posts at the blog Rockets Brain:
A complaint for the new S-R Ombudsman
To the Citizens of Spokane - Time to take a stand!
An Army of Davids Strikes - Spokane, WA
"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing"
As many of you now know the Mark Fuhrman Radio Show was axed by KGA1510 AM (Citadel Broadcasting) in Spokane, WA.
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I have information from a reliable source that the Fuhrman Show was in play from the very first contact by Mapleton representatives with Citadel about purchasing KGA. IMHO this was a "hit" plain and simple by a criminal enterprise to cover its ongoing robbery of the citizens of Spokane. This criminal enterprise has so thoroughly and systemically corrupted the political and governmental bodies in Spokane to a level I’ve never witnessed before in my entire thirty-five year law enforcement career. . .
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December 31st, 2007 — Boycott Islam, CAIR, Michael Savage, litigation jihad, Atlas Shrugs, Foehammer's Anvil, counterjihad, Islam, censorship
This is no ordinary lawsuit.
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You may recall that CAIR recently launched a boycott against companies that advertise on Michael Savage’s radio show.
CAIR’s aim was to force him off the air for having exposed jihadist activity in the US and elsewhere.
Some of us have organized a counter-boycott - against those companies that have caved to CAIR’s bullying demands by withdrawing their sponsorship from Savage’s show. Together with Foehammer’s Anvil and Atlas Shrugs, 1389 Blog has been publicizing this counter-boycott against CAIR.
Here is the list of companies and products
(updates are in progress).
Savage also filed suit against CAIR for copyright violation.
But now, Michael Savage is taking the battle further into enemy territory.
Michael Savage deserves a medal.
While big, ginormous media talking heads like Bill O’Reilly and CNN et al continue to give CAIR respect and a platform to spout their treasonous garbage in attempt to spread the death cult of Islam, Savage is fighting the enemy in our midst and revealing them to be what they truly are - he Islamic enemy within.
And I don’t care if you like Savage or not, on this we are one and must all get behind it. He is righteous in this and deserves our full support.
CAIR uses the legal system to beat truth tellers into submission. We must respond in kind. Let’s use the discovery phase to get to the bottom of CAIR’s nefarious dealings. This is an opportunity. It is time we lifted up the rock ….SAVAGE!
Michael Savage lawsuit links CAIR to 9/11 plot - (WND hat tip wolf)
Talker amends lawsuit against organizer of Muslim boycott to include RICO charges
WASHINGTON – It’s no longer just a charge of copyright violation in the case of Michael Savage v. Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Now the radio talk star is going for the legal jugular in his battle with the group that bills itself as a Muslim civil rights organization.
The San Francisco-based talker has amended his lawsuit against CAIR for misusing audio clips of his show as part of a boycott campaign against his three-hour daily program to include charges the group "has consistently sought to silence opponents of violent terror through economic blackmail, frivolous but costly lawsuits, threats of lawsuits and abuses of the legal system."
The amended lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Northern California, also charges CAIR with using extortion, threats, abuse of the court system, and obtaining money via interstate commerce under false and fraudulent circumstances – calling it a "political vehicle of international terrorism" and even linking the group with support of al-Qaida.
The federal government recently named CAIR, based in Washington, D.C., as an unindicted co-conspirator in an alleged scheme to funnel $12 million to the terrorist group Hamas.
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December 21st, 2007 — CAIR, activism, counterjihad, Foehammer's Anvil, Florida
This just in:
Florida United American Committee (FLUAC) Set to Protest Outside Islamist Campout
Terrorist supporters CAIR and the ICNA are sponsoring an Islamist camping event in Florida which no one is allowed to attend unless they are Muslim. The Orlando chapter of the United American Committee will be holding a protest during the event on December 29th from 12:00 noon to 3:00 PM at the entrance area in front of of Wekiwa Springs State Park, 1800 Wekiwa Circle Apopka, Florida. For more information on the protest see the press release below or please contact the Florida UAC at florida@unitedamericancommittee.org.
For Immediate Release
GROUPS WITH TIES TO TERRORISTS SPONSOR MUSLIM YOUTH CAMPOUT. FLUAC SET TO PROTEST
Yaya Abous of ICNA said, “Non-Muslim children are put on an indefinite waiting list and discouraged from attending”. Florida United American Committee will protest against what they deem is a discriminatory camping event on December 29th from 12:00 noon to 3:00 PM at the entrance area in front of of Wekiwa Springs State Park, 1800 Wekiwa Circle Apopka, Florida.
(Orlando, FL) The Central Florida Branch of the United American Committee (UAC) has uncovered information the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) and Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) have irrefutable ties to terrorist and terrorist supporting organizations. ICNA and CAIR will be sponsoring a Muslim Youth Camp at Wekiwa State Park on December 29-31, 2007 funded partially by your tax dollars via Doc Stamp revenue.
ICNA currently has deep ties with the Terrorist Group called The Muslim Brotherhood of Pakistan, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI). ICNA was the top donor to a JI charity that, just one year ago, provided $99,000 to the head of Hamas, Khaled Mashaal.
CAIR national spokesperson Ibrahim Hooper said, “I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future. But I’m not going to do anything violent to promote that. I’m going to do it through education.” (Statement by Ibrahim Hooper, Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 4, 1993)
Randall Todd “Ismail” Royer, a former communications & civil rights specialist for CAIR, according to AP “Royer…admitted helping members of the conspiracy join the militant Pakistani group Lashkar-e-Taiba in the days after the Sept. 11 attacks. He pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting use of a firearm in a crime of violence and aiding and abetting the carrying of an explosive during commission of a felony. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison.” When ICNA, CAIR, and Young Muslims congregate at Wekiwa Springs State Park, Apopka, FL, they will be doing so under the guise of moderate, mainstream Muslim organizations, when in fact they are nothing more than support networks for terrorists domestically and overseas.
The FLUAC plan on making their voice heard at this event. Please join the United American Committee in protesting ICNA, CAIR, and their ties to international terrorism.
A big stein hoist and a very merry Christmas to Foehammer!
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December 10th, 2007 — music, CAIR, Michael Savage, Gramfan (author), political correctness, censorship, Australia, Islam, Christianity
By Gramfan
Many readers may not be old enough to have heard of Joni Mitchell
She had a brief “resurrection” in the movie “Love Actually”, listed as a personal favourite of the character played by Emma Thompson. More information here, if you’re a music buff. And here.
Also, to the younger audience who may have seen the movie Laurel Canon, the character played by Frances McDormand was loosely, or maybe not so loosely, based on Joni Mitchell.
One of her best known songs is “Big Yellow Taxi” (lyrics here). These words appeal:
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone.
Right now, they have probably taken on a different meaning; certainly to me.
Right now, I am concerned about our freedoms, and in particular, our freedom of speech.
I am sure people have written books about this topic alone. I won’t attempt that here now. People get Nobel Peace prizes for peace. and good charitable and humanitarian works which often lead to more freedom, but not always.
However, this song, “Independence Day,” with these lyrics, “…Let Freedom Ring….” sung by Martina McBride, struck a chord, no pun intended, and I am not even a US citizen!
Now I know that, after the Holocaust, this may seem like a really good idea. However, like all “good things,” there is always a catch. In this case it was “Catch the Fire” ministries. The laws were used to punish and silence two pastors simply for telling the truth.
“Australian Council of Civil Liberties president Terry O’Gorman criticized the ruling, saying it would interfere with a person’s fundamental right of freedom of speech. ‘No matter how stupid and misguided Toben’s views are, freedom of speech means the right to be stupid,’ Mr O’Gorman said.”
Free speech is something we have to hold on to defiantly. As Joni Mitchell says :
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone.
One would immediately like a law like this without knowing the consequences fully. I admit I didn’t know them till something came up.
I am referring to what is now called the case of “the Two Dannys”
I wasn’t there. I can’t say for sure what happened. It was reported that the “Two Dannys,” Danny Nalliah and Danny Scot, gave a seminar on Islam for the benefit of their parishioners so that they could be better educated on Islam.
As far as I know they were merely explaining Islam.
As far as I know they were not inciting hatred and violence, as we often see coming from Muslim countries after Friday prayers - the latest example being the infamous “teddy bear” incident. Hugh Fitzgerald, as always, has a great piece on that.
Then came a British writer of children’s literature who changed the name of one of the characters in his book just after the bear incident: Writer renames Mohammed the Mole.
Remember that the woman in the first story was a British citizen in Sudan.
But the second story is about a British citizen living in Britain!!! Alarm bells???
Here’s where I fear we are heading. I fear we are losing free speech in the entire west. A teacher threatened with lashes because of a bear, a writer of children’s literature changes the name of a character out of fear of a fatwah, and before all this, two pastors get sued for teaching comparative religion. (And let’s not forget the Mohammed cartoons: an attempt to tell us what we can publish in our own papers.)
So what did the “despicable Dannys” do, actually?
They were entrapped by a Muslim lobby group who sought to turn the vilification law to their own advantage.
According to journalist Andrew Bolt:
And why? Because they quoted the Koran to their congregation. Because in that congregation were Muslim activists, sent by a discrimination commissar hired from a Muslim lobby group.
How preposterous, how sinister, has been this saga.
In fact, right from the passing of the Government’s vilification laws, we’ve seen politicians and bureaucrats acting like hysterics on a hunt for witches the rest of us cannot see.
If the law were applied equitably, I suppose it would be okay - but what safeguards could possibly guarantee that?
So far I can’t recall any other similar case; certainly not a high profile case.
I am suggesting one should make oneself very aware of this kind of legislation, no matter where one lives. I believe it will get a lot worse in the entire west. Just a few days ago we heard of the woes of Michael Savage counter-suing CAIR.
Hate speech isn’t nice. Racial vilification isn’t nice either. But why is there an imbalance as to who is allowed to vilify whom - when, where and why? It’s hard not to get this impression.
Back to the two Dannys.
Entrapped, then convicted of trivial infractions
According to Bolt:
The Pastors Burned
The pastors were at long last tried at VCAT before Justice Michael Higgins.
Most of the case over the weeks that followed dealt with the lecture given by Scot, and some curious things soon became clear.
First, even one of the converts had to admit that Scot, who’d been born in Pakistan and got degrees there in theology and applied mathematics, actually understood the Koran far better than did the people complaining he’d misquoted it.
Second, as I wrote at the time, many of the complaints accused Scot of no more than quoting the Koran accurately. Yes, the Koran did tell men they could beat their wives. Yes, it did have verses calling on Muslims to fight infidels until they submitted.
The verdict was also odd.
The pastors were found guilty of vilifying Muslims even though the judge identified only one thing Scot had said that was factually wrong: he’d given the wrong birthrate for Muslims here. And, the judge, added, he’d failed to quote a verse that showed Allah was merciful.
(Home page: http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/)
The pastors won the appeal, although they are now saddled with debts. Read more here.
Please take note that the comment ‘Muslims are demons, etc’ in The Australian are not factual. This erroneous statement and others reported by media have been proven by the Supreme Court of Victoria to have never been made by Catch the Fire Ministries and were therefore rejected!
The Australian - Breaking News
This story is from our news.com.au network Source: AAP
Church and Islamic council bury hatchet
• By Jeff Turnbull • June 25, 2007
MEDIATION and handshakes have ended a five year racial vilification battle between an evangelical Christian group and a Victorian Muslim body.
The Catch The Fire Ministries sparked a row with the Islamic Council of Victoria (ICV) in 2002 when it claimed in a newsletter that Muslims were demons training to make Australia an Islamic state, that the Koran promoted violence and killing and that Muslims derived money from drugs.
Catch the Fire pastor Daniel Nalliah said he was relieved the long-running case, which was settled in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) after a hearing in the Victorian Court of Appeal, was now over.
“No-one expected it to be so prolonged,” Pastor Nalliah said.
Are you seeing where this is going, even though it happened a while ago?
I suspect our new Federal government will strengthen this law, but I stress “suspect”. I suspect similar laws in the west will become harsher as more Muslims get into power and/or become more important as a voting block. (Is that still possible in “Londonistan?” See Melanie Phillips.)
Joni Mitchell says,
Late last night
I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi
Took away my old man
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till its gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot.
We don’t have any big yellow taxis to take us away from this “parking lot.”
November 18th, 2007 — Secure Computing SmartFilter, Surf Control, Jim Sutter, censorware, CAIR, SonicWALL, activism, sex offenses, Foehammer's Anvil, Gates of Vienna, blog censorship, censorship
The Religion of Peace Needs Our Help!
No, not that ‘Religion of Peace.’
An individual that I refuse to name here again (but many of my regular readers will know of and who’s name may be found quoted below) has targeted the gentle folks at The Religion of Peace in an effort to shut down the site just as he attempted to shut down the Anvil and Jihad Watch and others. The results of this phony reverend’s actions provoked a number of internet companies to incorrectly categorize The Religion of Peace. These incorrect categories have caused the site to be listed as a hate site, and consequently blocked by some servers. I know that the accusations made by Sutter, and the various companies are patently false. The Religion of Peace provides accurate facts about Islam - not lies. The site is not racist. Islam is not a race but a political and cultist ideology. The Religion of Peace speaks out against all violence that is directed towards non-Muslims and Muslims alike.
From the editor at TheReligionofPeace.com:
Anyone who has a blog that attempts to defend the west from radical Islam or Marxists knows that they are constantly at risk of being labeled racist, and shut down by individuals and organizations who do not want the truth to be known. The efforts to silence our voices will increase. We are all in this fight together. Therefore, it would be greatly appreciated if all of you would post a notice on your blogs, urging your readers to support The Religion of Peace by sending protest e-mails to the offending companies. Islam and the thought police are coming after all of us. Free speech is in jeopardy. We need to pull together into a strong and united force to combat those who intend to crush us.
I have permission to make this appeal on their behalf and I am happy to do so.
Please write to the email addresses listed below and state clearly that The Religion of Peace -
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com
(include the url in the e-mails) is against violence, not racist and should be categorized appropriately under labels such as General News, Politics and Religion.
Here is in-depth analysis of the situation and the problem:
Case Study: TheReligionofPeace.com
How did Jim Sutter manage to get an anti-violence and anti-hate website by an anti-racialist owner classified as “violent,” “obscene,” “hateful,” and “racist?” Here is the story from the preferably anonymous editor of TROP.
About TheReligionofPeace.com
From the Editor of TheReligionofPeace.com:
TROP was originally started in 2002 to help Muslims understand that there are more important things going on in the world than a woman being asked to remove her veil in front of a judge, or a Muslim man getting his feelings hurt at an airline security gate.
In an effort to spark moral perspective on the part of organizations like CAIR, we document acts of deadly violence committed in the name of Islamic supremacy, similar to the way other sites compile data on victims of all supremacist ideologies, whether racial, ethnic or nationalist.
In addition to maintaining a database of terrorist attacks, TROP presents news and articles from the Muslim world, as well as open reference information for anyone beginning research into Islam. We do not promote a particular religion and we try to stay non-partisan.
Although we obviously oppose the doctrinal elements of Islam that inspire violence or are in contradiction to liberal values, TROP has always taken a strong, documented stand against judging individuals by their group identity. In many places on our site we openly denounce harming, harassing or stereotyping any Muslim based on his or her religion.
Our site also has a record of acknowledging and condemning rare acts of violence against Muslims by American criminals, either in the U.S. or overseas. We publicly oppose desecrating the Qur’an and do not even use the term ‘Islamofascism” in our writings. Since we only want to publish truthful information, we welcome dialogue and post any corrections that are proven necessary to us.
We focus on the moral failings of Islam and its incompatibilities with Western values, including women’s rights, democratic freedoms, religious tolerance, and (ironically) freedom of expression among others. Nevertheless, we try to be balanced and accurate in our writing and to avoid using absolutes. We also make a documented effort to discourage bigoted thinking.
Although our site has nothing to do with race, we have let it be known that we are anti-racialist. Over the years, we have championed the cause of Africans, Arabs, Hindus, Buddhists and anyone else victimized in the name of Islam. We have received praise from liberals, conservatives, Jews, Christians, Hindus, atheists, gays and even a few disenchanted Muslims.
Jim Sutter Targets TheReligionofPeace.com
In July of 2007, I was contacted by a man eventually calling himself “Reverend Jim Sutter” regarding my website, TheReligionofPeace.com (TROP).
Sutter at first played the “Bad Cop” under an alias, claiming that ours site is a “hate site:”
“I will make it my business and consider it a solemn duty to condemn and expose the site called thereligionofpeace. IMO it is no different in any discernable way than a site run by Al Qaeda, the KKK, or the Nazi party.”
I replied politely to Sutter, pointing out that he was going to need to do more than just state an opinion, and I challenged him to support what he was saying. I told him that I was open-minded and would make any corrections that he could prove needed to be made. I also directed him to a page on our site in which we plainly separate ourselves from the insidious organizations to which he associated us.
In his reply, Sutter made it rather evident that he did not read the page to which we had directed him:
“You invite me to read “what to do about” which is just another bigoted exhortation to hate & violence. Wow. Then we have you writing this “this makes me suspicious”. That figures too, since paranoia usually accompanies bigotry.”
I then spelled out out for him what he was unwilling to read for himself - that TROP openly and unambiguously denounces all forms of violence and bigotry. The writings that we post which are critical of Islam are solidly supported by the Qur’an, Hadith, Sira (biography of Muhammad) and the historical record.
Sutter then contacted us the next day under his real name, pretending to have seen the site for the first time and clearly wearing the “Good Cop” hat. He complimented us on TROP, but suggested the changes that we needed to make in order to meet with his approval. I generously ignored his earlier correspondence and entered into a lengthy dialogue of about 20 e-mail messages, in which I challenged him to prove that his requested modifications were necessary.
(It is important to note that Sutter never once accused TROP of being either a “hate” site or a “racist” site once he began using his real name. I suspect that he told the URL search engines something entirely different in order to punish me for not backing down to his demands.)
Over the next week or so, I noticed a pattern with Sutter:
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He would say things that weren’t true. A good example:
“The FBI states that hate crimes against Muslims currently number higher than against any other group. Those hate crimes include murder, arson, rape, and kidnapping.”
This is blatantly false, of course. No Muslims have been raped or kidnapped in America because of their religion, and 70% of the targets of religious hate crime are Jewish. (source)
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When caught, Sutter would always ignore any lies, no matter how freshly told. This happened when I sent him the above link and asked three times where he got his erroneous information. I got no reply. It became obvious that he was making things up, but there was not the slightest bit of shame or even an attempt to divert blame. It was as if he felt entitled to say anything he pleased - all while making his usual claims of “fact, logic and evidence.”
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Sutter would play games in his replies. Sometimes he would plagiarize entire sections of text from other sources and pretend that they were his own words. Often times he would ignore an argument that wasn’t going his way, and simply not quote it in his reply. Sometimes he would be intentionally naive, and pretend not to understand ideas that were made quite obvious.
When I realized that Sutter was not taking the conversation seriously, I let him know that there was no basis for our continuing the discussion. (I dialogue with sincere objectors, but I simply don’t have time to get into food fights with disingenuous hacks).
It was only about a week later that I began hearing from military families and ordinary Internet users who were unable to get to our site. Despite being unable to make his case against us in open debate, Sutter decided to make good on his original threats to us:
“I’m contacting the proprietors of several databases of internet hate-sites to report thereligionofpeace, this will have the effect of blocking your site from being referenced, linked or quoted on the many discussion forums that bar those listed hate-sites, such as democratic underground.”
After operating for five years without any sort of problems, Secure Computing, SurfControl and SonicWall had TROP blocked overnight by wrongfully classifying our site according to Jim Sutter’s demands… all because we would not adopt his political and theological positions!
The correspondence with Internet censors concerning our site is not public information, but it is obtainable through a court order, since these are public corporations. Only then will I know whether Sutter used his real name, an alias, or had one of his gullible groupies do the dirty work for him. I do know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that he is behind the censorship and miscategorizing of our site as well as the many other anti-Jihad sites across the Internet that have suffered recent problems.
Sutter is very good at sounding important. He often recites a small handful of court cases in order to embellish his correspondence with the Internet’s largest censors (although even a small dose of legal research will find that these are not what they appear). Still, there is something terribly wrong with the system when one small bully is allowed to dictate personal ideological standards to large corporations and thus millions of Internet users.
Aftermath
The damage that Jim Sutter and others, including SonicWall, Secure Computing and SurfControl, have done is going to take months, perhaps years to rectify. For my site to be labeled as hate speech, “obscene” or “extreme” merely because we object to the extremist elements of the Islamic religion is anti-intellectual and smacks of McCarthyism.
How is it that a website primarily concerned with ending violence against people just because they worship a different god is labeled extreme and obscene? Have we really reached such a low point in America when one is not free to criticize violence and religious totalitarianism?
The association of TROP by SonicWall and the others with “racist” and “hate” sites is particularly slanderous to me, since I have a strong and provable record of actively opposing bigotry and racism, both professionally and personally. Anti-racialism and the utter ridiculousness of even categorizing people by race is one of the major themes of the novel that I wrote several years ago, for example. I also have a family member, who published a book about her childhood experience in a Nazi concentration camp, and who would be quite surprised by these public slurs.
For Jim Sutter to punish people like me for petty personal grudges is one thing. For companies like Sonic Wall, Secure Computing and SurfControl to go along with it is absolutely unconscionable.
Exhibits
How do the censors rate TROP against sites that are pro-Jihad or blatantly anti-Christian?
Let’s use answering-christianity.com and JihadUnspun.com as examples.
“Answering-Christianity” is a Muslim site that is dedicated to promoting Islam and trashing Christianity using distortion and misinformation. The author once started to create a list of “Christian Terrorist Attacks” that he promised would be “5,000 times worse” than our list. He quit after only a few dozen entries that included such gems as terror attacks by Columbian drug lords and a 40-year-old church bombing by the Klan.
The editors of Jihad Unspun are blatant apologists for Islamic terrorism. They proudly make the connection between Islam and terrorism a lot more forcefully than does TROP, and they even criticize other Muslims for not joining. Recently, they posted a flattering review of Osama Bin Laden’s videotaped address, complimenting the man who massacred thousands of Americans for inviting the survivors to embrace Islam.
Like TROP, Jihad Unspun reports Islamic terrorism. They report suicide bombings as ‘martyrdom attacks’ and provide justification for other ‘Mujahideen’ violence. They also inflate casualties from attack by several factors and even make up attacks that never happened.
So, how do Secure Computing, SurfControl and SonicWall feel about this?
Secure Computing
Secure Computing says that TROP is “Extreme, Violent, Obscene and Mature.” However, it merely categorizes “Answering Christianity” as “Religion and Ideology.” (Secure Computing and Answering Christianity).
Secure Computing also rates “Jihad Unspun” as “General News, Politics and Religion” (Secure Computing and Jihad Unspun)
SurfControl
SurfControl says that TROP is “Violent,” however, the pro-Jihad and consistently unreliable “Jihad Unspun” is categorized as “News.” (SurfControl) One also wonders why the list of terror attacks on TROP counts as violence, but not the list of attacks on IraqBodyCount.net (which is categorized as “Politics”) nor that of Antiwar.com (”News”).
SonicWall
SonicWall is particularly shameful. They say that TROP is “Violence/Hate/Racism” even though we are actually opposed to all three of these. But the company actually ranks the anti-Christian site, “Answering Christianity,” as “Religion” and the pro-terror “Jihad Unspun” site as “News and Media.” (SonicWall and TROP, SonicWall and Answering Christianity, SonicWall and Jihad Unspun).
PhonyRev.com
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November 17th, 2007 — Boycott Islam, CAIR, Michael Savage, Atlas Shrugs, Islam, Foehammer's Anvil, counterjihad, censorship
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Boycotts work both ways, bozos!
The radical Islamist pressure group CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) has been organizing a boycott of the sponsors of radio talk show host Michael Savage because of his fine work in making everyone aware of the dangers of expansionist Islam. Sometimes he spoke a bit roughly with the more obnoxious and deluded callers who plague every radio host.
But keep this in mind, and remember it well: even at his harshest, Michael Savage goes far easier on his talk show callers than do Islamists when they talk about non-Muslims, all over the world, every single day.
Once again, CAIR is playing the poor, pitiful victim card, branding Savage as the bad guy here, as they always do.
We’re making a list, we’re checking it twice…
We can fight back by making it clear that we will NOT buy from any company that has pulled its advertising from Michael Savage’s show, or from any other medium, in response to pressure by CAIR.
Details here!
- Atlas Shrugs: Boycott OfficeMax: Submits to CAIR
If CAIR can pressure companies, why can’t we? According to day’s CAIR alert, Scandal ridden Officemax succumbed to CAIR thuggery. What p–s! Never again will I shop there ……….. Contact their management and let them know what you think.
OFFICEMAX DROPS MICHAEL SAVAGE ADS OVER ANTI-ISLAM BIAS
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 11/15/2007) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today announced that OfficeMax, a leading office products retailer, has joined a growing list of companies that have stopped advertising on Michael Savage’s nationally-syndicated radio program because of the host’s anti-Muslim views…
Now they are trying to bully JC Penney. Write JC Penney and let them know how you feel. NOW
- Internet Haganah: Jihadists notice Michael Savage
We suppose congratulations are in order.
- AdWeek: Citrix Pulls Spots From ‘Savage Nation’
NEW YORK Software maker Citrix Systems has pulled its ad support for syndicated radio talk show Savage Nation, the advertiser has confirmed.
- Foehammer’s Anvil: Boycott Islam!
A wealth of information is available here at this category link.
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Islamic attacks on Savage target advertisers
Added 11/28/07:
Talk show trend-setter continues highlighting Muslim agenda
Nationally syndicated radio talk-show host Michael Savage, whose program originates in San Francisco even though the city’s board of supervisors condemned his opinions, apparently is remaining largely unaffected by a campaign to put pressure on his advertisers.
And Savage, author of “The Savage Nation” and several other books, now is getting some support in his face-off with the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
- ACT! For America!
Added 12/1/07: This site fights back against the CAIR boycott of Savage’s advertisers.
- Speaking of CAIR, they target Savage - Savage sues
Added 12/3/07: Stop by Gulf Coast Pundit Forums and say hello!
- Atlas Shrugs: UNIVERSAL DROPS SAVAGE: BOYCOTT UNIVERSAL ORLANDO
Added 12/4/07: Add Universal Studios to your boycott list!
- CVF: Counter-boycott against Officemax, Walmart, Sears, JC Penny, ATT,
Auto Zone, Universal Orlando Resorts
Added 12/10/07: Updated boycott list.
- 1389 Blog articles about Michael Savage
Added 1/22/08: Follow our coverage.
October 31st, 2007 — activism, litigation jihad, CAIR, blog censorship, smiley, counterjihad, Islam, censorship
Litigation Jihad is a real threat.
It’s time to fight back! 
Frivolous litigation is an abuse of our legal system. Islamists are using it as a tool to shut down opposition. Even if the defendant eventually wins, the cost of legal defense can become overwhelming. The threat of legal action is enough to deter many people from exercising their freedoms of speech and of the press.
This could happen to any of us.
But the consequences of failing to confront jihadism would be even worse!
“How can I fight back?
By contributing to the legal defense fund for bloggers and activists who are being attacked!
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Front Page Magazine: Sued for Terror Watching
Tefft: The trial is, of course, frivolous — “legal jihad.” It is an effort to shut me up and then shut me down. This is cloaked as an employment issue (which if it was truly, I would not be joined with the NYPD in the law suit since I was neither an employee of NYPD nor an employer of the Muslim. We have a motion to dismiss pending, but if that is rejected then we go to trial on a First Amendment basis.
Jamie, I need all of the help I can get. I have an excellent lawyer but he’s not cheap. Friends have set up a Legal Defense fund for me here — or checks can be made out to the Bruce Tefft Legal Defense Fund and sent to:
Bruce Tefft Legal Defense Fund
Jerry Goldman, Atty
Two Penn Center Plaza
1500 J.F.K. Blvd. Suite 1411
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Bruce Tefft’s Legal Defense Fund Page (click here)
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From CAIR website: TX Muslims Sue FL Islamophobe for Defamation
Islamic organizations in North Texas are seeking libel damages in a lawsuit against Joe Kaufman, leader of the Florida-based Americans Against Hate.
Kaufman visited Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington on Oct. 14 to lead a protest against Muslim Family Day, an event celebrating the end of Ramadan, a period of holy days on the Islamic calendar marked by fasts and prayer.
The lawsuit, filed Oct. 12, asked a judge to prohibit Kaufman from threatening, harming or inciting violence against anyone associated with the outing, in addition to libel damages, according to court records.
Donate to Americans Against Hate (click here)
Contact information:
Americans Against Hate:
1440 Coral Ridge Drive
Suite 404
Coral Springs, FL 33071-5433
info@americansagainsthate.org
http://www.americansagainsthate.org
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We’ve updated our resource page!
The FAQ on our Stop Blog Censorship! Resource Page has just been updated with information about dealing with Litigation Jihad and Takedown Requests. Please visit the link and join our blogroll to show your support!
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October 29th, 2007 — enemy propaganda, Jihad Watch, SonicWALL, leftist-jihadist convergence, crime, CAIR, litigation jihad, censorware, blog censorship, U.S. Constitution, Foehammer's Anvil, culture wars, wikis, counterjihad, cyberwars, smiley, e-jihadis, censorship
SonicWALL finally unblocks Jihad Watch!
This calls for a PARTY!
Other bloggers who have been wrongfully blocked by SonicWALL or other censorware providers should read this article carefully. Also, please read the comments that follow. If necessary, do as Robert Spencer did and consult an attorney!
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Blogger WiredPig faces a takedown request 
WiredPig is a retired sheriff who is a prominent Twitter user and a web design/mobile computing expert. He recently got a takedown request that he believes may be bogus. He’s currently trying to determine the legitimacy of the request.
If you get a takedown request on your blog, please make an effort to verify that the request is legitimate and is not coming from a prankster!
Lawsuit Jihad
This could happen to any of us.
That said, the consequences of failing to confront jihadism would be even worse!
For what you can do to help, see:
Litigation Jihad Update 10/31/07 - Let’s DO something about it NOW!
Attempted Murder: The Ultimate Censorship
We have to keep going nonetheless. After all, they can’t kill us all!
Italian Government Caves 
Wiki page for reformist Irshad Manji vandalized, then reverted
Posted on 1389 Blog - Antijihadist Tech and on Fort Hard Knox
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