Friday, August 11, 2006
I think I'm going to inaugurate a new occasional feature here -- MAS Watch, MAS being the Muslim American Society. Often portrayed in the MSM as a moderate organization, some of us find that behind the facade is actually a more radical agenda that some have even called the face of the Muslim Brotherhood in America, though they deny the connection. Regardless, I think the record shows that the MAS has an agenda that most Americans, and non-radical Muslims, would find off-putting if they knew the truth of it. I'll highlight small things like revealing postings on their email lists as well as any related articles that appear that I find fit the category.
Today I wanted to bring out this recent entry from their moderated email list, posted by the same person who thought that posting a Fatwa by Omar Bakri Muhammad was a useful thing to do. With a link to this interview with George Galloway:
I wish we all ( " Leaders" or not )be on point like this man.
Ah, George Galloway, wishing success for Hizballah and "resistance fighters" everywhere...on point.
Good job, Sol, The local MAS "Freedom Foundation" supports a lot of radical Islamic causes. They need more light shed on their activities. A recent MAS FF newsletter claimed that the U.S. funnels tax dollars to "bomb Muslims." MAS also hosted the Muslim Advocacy Day at the Boston State House on May 22nd this year. Just imagine a Evangelical or Jewish Advocacy Day at the State House - the ACLU would shut that down so fast!).
From their own website:
"Muslims must continue to build a grassroots movement that supports an all-encompassing approach of total integration into American Society for the express purpose of fulfilling the mandate of Allah." No question they seek to make this a Muslim society.
http://www.masboston.org
George Galloway and Jacques Chirac are the two biggest dhimmi-lovers in the West.
The MAS website also has an "Ask the Imam" page,
http://www.masnet.org/askimam.asp
to help women who want to know if they can leave the house without their husband's permission (nope), and a man who wants to know if he needs to marry a virgin before he marries a divorced woman that is his real love (not necessary!).
Right, not sure where the "American" is in the MAS.....
Actually, there is a Jewish Community Advocacy Day every year at the State House. Here's the page for this year's event, held on March 30. I've participated in this in the past, and there's certainly nothing sinister about it.
Well I stand corrected, then. I don't find a Muslim Advocacy Day "sinister" in itself, although it strikes me as possibly crossing the line a bit between church and state. Yes, people of all religions seek to make political changes in line with their beliefs. But it seems that many Muslim activities like this aren't subject to questioning or critique (lest we offend).
I'm surprised there's a Jewish Advocacy Day, I'd never heard of it. I still think that an Evangelical or Catholic Advocacy Day would be widely criticized, and the Boston Globe would publish editorials against it. But maybe not! Maybe I'm wrong and the Catholics already have one too!
Here's a newsletter promoting 2005 Catholic Schools Advocacy Day, which took place at the State House on March 15, 2005. I don't know if they had one this year.
An advocacy day for Catholic schools is not the same thing as a Catholic Advocacy Day. It's one limited issue, education. The Muslim Advocacy Day, on the other hand, included in its list of lobbying inititatives "dawah to Massachusetts leaders." Which is bringing the message and truth of Allah to our state legislators. That's the part I find creepy and objectionable.
http://www.masboston.org/index.php?action=view&id=64&date_id=1367&module=calendarmodule&src=%40random4198072c7e088
I'll stop after this one, but here's a page for Episcopal Lobby Day at the State House.
It looks to me like the Muslims are simply walking down a path already well-trodden by other religions and other special-interest lobbies of all kinds. "Total integration into American society" is something to be welcomed, not feared.
But Ron, the Episcopals aren't there to convert the legislators to Islam, that is Miss Kelly's point. That's weird.
Also, it's a bit patronizing just to say it's good to bring these groups into American society...they'll have no trouble with that. I'm concerned with the substance of what they're about, and the fact is that every major Muslim group (I leave out perhaps the Free Muslim Coalition which is basically a non-entity though I wish them luck) is an enemy of Israel, an enemy of non-dhimmi Jews, an enemy of American foreign policy (not just this administration's), an enemy of democratization for the Middle East, an apologist for terror, and an excuse maker for groups like Hamas and Hizballah...to say nothing of their apparent wish to "Muslimize" America (hello Abe Foxman) and the fact that they all routinely ally with anti-American groups like ANSWER and the fact that they represent constituencies with deep roots in a region where anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism are like the air you breath. So let's not be naive or superficial here, let's instead see just what it is that we're supposed to be encouraging into the mainstream of American political life. I think it's pretty disturbing, hence this regular feature...but ymmv.