Missourian via JihadWatch

Since Sept. 11, 2001, an ongoing debate has been waging about the role of Muslims in the U.S. A prominent voice in this debate has been Arsalan Iftikhar, the legal director of the Council of American Islamic Relations, the largest Muslim advocacy group in the country.

Iftikhar spoke to a group of about 30 people in MU’s Ellis Auditorium on Friday afternoon about the future of Muslims in the West.

The 8 million Muslims in the U.S. faced a new duality after Sept. 11,” Iftikhar said. “Not only was our country attacked, but our faith, our way of life and our standing in the U.S. were also attacked.”

 

Note: The number of Muslims in the U.S. is under dispute, varying from 2 to 6 million. Even IF the number is 8 million, the total population is 300 million and growing through natural increase and immigration. Do the math. The political footprint of Muslims is larger than it should be because of lobbying and propaganda, such as that produced in this news article.

According to an FBI report released in 2002, hate crimes against Muslims in 2001 increased by 1,600 percent from the previous year. Muslims, Iftikhar said, have been under “a cloud of suspicion.”

Note: A "hate" crime as defined by CAIR could be anything from a dirty look on the street, to the "defacing of a Koran," which are not crimes in the United States, to mail, graffiti, and arson, which are crimes. However, all these "crimes" are reported to the FBI. The amount of time which the FBI is forced spend on these piddling little "crimes," some which aren't is ridiculous.

The passing of the Patriot Act on Sept. 15, 2001, only helped to foster a presumption of guilt toward the Muslim community, Iftikhar said.

“There is definitely a personal feeling of paranoia or being watched by the government,” said Nabihah Maqbool, an MU student who attended the speech. “You can’t feel comfortable to practice free speech.”

The Patriot Act, which was renewed in 2006, eases restrictions on law enforcement’s usage of surveillance and allows agencies to obtain financial records, library records and e-mails of private citizens without a grand jury subpoena. It also broadens the definition of domestic terrorism.

 

Certainly the Patriot Act targets anyone with suspicious behavior. Once in a while a non-Muslim is found to be committing a crime identified by the FBI as suspicious or as terrorism. The bulk of those indentified by the Act and later indicted and prosecuted are Muslim. This isn't rocket science.

“These policies have a residual effect on all Americans,” Iftikhar said. “The U.S.A. Patriot Act doesn’t just affect brown people, it affects all of us.”

Lynsea Garrison, an MU student who attended the lecture, said she agrees.

“The Patriot Act is an invasion of First Amendment rights,” Garrison said. “It is an intrusive tool that normalizes and excuses racial profiling.”

 

Sorry, Muslim is not a race. Thus, thus the Patriot Act does not "normalize and excuse racial profiling." Islam is a world view that supposes that eventually all of the world's people must and will live under the stifling yoke of Islam. The Patriot Act helps Americans to root out those that are bent on using violence to achieve that goal.

However, Islam is not spread by violence alone. Rather, Muslims and their enablers and useful fools use peaceful means: education, commerce, outreach, and other means. The Patriot Act does not go far enough as it does not address these vehicles of invasion and transformation.

Iftikhar referenced a USA Today/Gallup poll of 1,007 Americans that found 58 percent of those surveyed had never met a Muslim and if they had, they did not know it. It also found that 22 percent of those surveyed did not want Muslims as neighbors.

One does not have to personally know a Muslim to understand the danger which we all face: One only has to examine Islamic doctrine and the application by Muslim followers as depicted in the community at home an abroad. Personal relations with individual Muslims will give further insight into veracity of the knowledge that Islam is dangerous to the West.

“The integral issue is further integrating Muslims in their respective societies,” Iftikhar said, “On a local level, people need to demystify Muslims and Islam.”

Exactly! Demystifying Islam is essential. The danger is that the process will present a white-washed version and will not discuss how Islam affects the freedoms and liberties of non-Muslims.

 

Liberty and freedom, when applied to Islam and Muslims, mean those freedoms allowed Islam and the liberty to exercise Islam. Anyone who has studied Islam knows that Islam represses the rights of non-Muslims which look nothing like the freedoms that are outlined in the U.S. Constitution or in the common practice of Europeans which has evolved over centuries. The claim that Islam is compatible with European and Muslim values is disingenuous and hypocritical.

The issues Muslims are facing now, Iftikhar said, are “the next page of a long chapter of civil rights movements our country has gone through.”

Another false claim. All citizens are allowed to vote regardless of color, ethnic background, or religious creed. The "civil rights" he speaks about is the "free exercise of religion" regardless of how such an exercise will impinge upon the free exercise of the rights of non-Muslims. As mentioned above, Islam denies rights to non-Muslims. The reason is that "Allah must legislate" and non-Muslims have no right to interfere in the affairs of man, and definitely no right to have authority over Muslims. These are the "civil rights" to which Iftikhar is referring.

On a local level, Iftikhar said he encourages people to inform themselves on the issues and get involved.

“It’s a struggle and people need to work hard to promote this dialogue,” said Omar Waheed, the President of MU’s Muslim Student Organization.

“The future of America is intertwined with everyone in it.”

 

Exactly! Our entire future is dependent on whether or not we can stop the Fabian-style graudalized transformation of America to an Islamized society. To understand what that will be like, one only has to view what is happening in Europe. The final outcome can be seen in the Muslim tribes and clans of the Balkans and the long-term societies found on the Arabian Peninsula and points south and east, including parts of India,Pakistan, Bangladesh, parts of Africa, East Asia, and parts of Pacifica which have been over run and bullied into accepting Islam.

Every part of the earth that has received a Muslim footfall has lost liberty and freedom.

Garrison said she feels the problem often is that people are apathetic and don’t take the time to educate themselves.

“People don’t care and that fosters misunderstanding and racism,” she said. “Soon America will have another target group, and so my hope from this is that we rise above acts of blatant prejudice so when that happens again another minority demographic doesn’t fall victim to this cycle.”

 

People are not apathetic. They are tired of Muslims trying to impose themselves, attempting to run roughshod over the Constitution. They expect that Muslims do the same as have every other immigrant or migrant group: conform to America, rather than the other way round.

If Muslims are unable to do so, they should leave for a more appropriate cultural setting.

 

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