Bee's Note: Just before leaving for my vacation, I had linked an article from Red State about Radical Islam Joins the DNC. My first thoughts were about Obama's apology tours to Islam these past 4 years have finally come full circle and now Americans will see his "first" love is to Islam - not America. However, there appears to be a last minute change and here it is explained by Bare Naked Islam (BNI):
BARE NAKED ISLAM - SEPTEMBER 1, 2012
Earlier this week, BNI posted an article about the DNC sponsoring, as an ‘official event,’ an Islamic JUMAH at the DNC. But suddenly, in the past day or so, the DNC has scrubbed all reference to the Official Muslim Event from its website.
ORIGINAL STORY: MUSLIM JUMAH AT THE DNC
Gerard Direct Florida Family Association sent out an email alert on August 29, 2012 which reported the following two sub headlines: “DNC approves Jumah for 20,000 Muslims.” “RNC adopts anti-Sharia plank at convention.”
The email alert and Floridafamily.org website provided a link to the DNC web site calendar of events which at that time and up until yesterday afternoon included the Juma event, which the original DNC website listed as an “official function.”
However, since then, the Jumah event was removed from the DNC web site calendar, and there is no reference at all to the event. A supporter noted in an e-mail, “It was still there 5.30 PM on 8/30/2012 and at 6.30 PM it was gone! I looked everywhere but it’s not listed anymore.”
Not only has all trace of the Jumah been deleted from the DNC website, the Jumah was slated to be held today, far from the DNC, at a location seven miles from the Convention Center.
One can only speculate on the kind of pressure that was exerted on the DNC to disassociate itself from the Jumah. The group sponsoring the assembly is far from the mainstream Muslm community. The Grand Imam for the Jumah will be Siraj Wahhaj, Imam of the al Taqwa Mosque in Brooklyn, who was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the World Trade center bombings. He is well known for his ability to be considered ‘moderate’ by much of the media, on the one hand, and for his inflammatory statements, such as the one he once gave in a speech, when he said that it was his “duty and our duty as Muslims to replace the U.S. Constitution with the Quran.”
Both Wahhaj and Jibril Hough, who is associated with the “Bureau of Indigenous Muslim Affairs” and a co-leader of the event, are heavily involved in the separatist American Islamist movement.
According to FactCheck:
Jibril Hough, a Muslim activist and BIMA spokesman, told the Charlotte Observer that BIMA also wanted to hold political parties accountable for issues that affect Muslim-Americans. Those issues include the Patriot Act, a law that expanded anti-terrorism surveillance, and the New York Police Department’s wiretapping program to monitor Muslims.
Hough told the newspaper that he expected 20,000 Muslims to attend the prayer service as well as other BIMA-sponsored events scheduled in the days before the convention, including an Islamic issues conference and banquet, and a cultural festival.
Charlotte in 2012 sent us the following statement regarding its removal of BIMA’s event listing:
“This event, like many others on the page, was user generated. Upon further review, and because speakers for the event and statements and positions from event organizers were not appropriate and relevant to the Host Committee, Charlotte in 2012 has decided to remove the event from our events calendar.”
Bee's note:
Here are our friends from the Infidel Task Force about BNI's report:
