Jumah At the DNC

"There is no thought of original intent or original meaning in the way the Democratic leaders are giving this nation away to those who would see its downfall..."

The Washington Times reported yesterday that as many as 20,000 participants could show up for what is being billed by the participants and the Democratic National Convention as 'Jumah at the DNC'. Jumah is Arabic for 'Friday', and is the biggest prayer event of the week.

"The DNC lists the assembly as an 'official function' and claims that the leaders of the program are typical of the DNC community. The group is hardly 'mainstream,' being represented by Siraj Wahhaj, who will be the 'Grand Imam' for the gathering....Wahhaj and the co-leader of the Charlotte event, Jibril Hough, are both heavily involved in the separatist American Islamist movement," said the Times.

It then goes on to explain how this Islamic gathering at the DNC will be a "prime example of taqiyya".  This will cover a protest by the participants directed at the Patriot Act, the NYPD, Islamophobia, and anti-sharia issues. Most of the participants, said the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, "will likely come from Hough and Wahhaj’s radical networks that have long been entrenched in the Charlotte area. Make no mistake they are part of the Islamist movement."

Bureau of Indigenous Muslim Affairs (BIMA), the national Muslim American non-profit that is coordinating the two days of events for leaders of the separatist, American Islamist movement, are receiving "a national stage and as much credibility as the DNC can muster," said beforeitsnews.com . 

There are many baffling and troubling concerns here. The first may be how any organization can be taken seriously when referring to "indigenous" Islamic Americans--but many must be doing so, including the DNC. 

Second, why is the DNC giving a religious platform to any group, let alone to those who in the past have advocated replacing the Constitution with sharia, as some of the participants have?

Third, why didn't the DNC vet the leaders better? Oh, wait--they did. Siraj Wahhaj's own website says lists his upcoming events as an Islamic Relief fundraiser, the funds of which will go to Iran and Myanmar, among other nations. It also lists a fundraiser for the Council on Islamic-American Relations, called radical and Islamicist by other American groups of Muslims.

CAIR was founded in 1994 by alumni of an older group, the Islamic Association for Palestine. The IAP, founded by senior Hamas figure Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook, calls for the destruction of Israel and the creation of an Islamic state under Islamic law in Israel's place. (In 1996, CAIR would condemn the U.S. government's decision to deport Marzook as an "anti-Islamic" act.)
CAIR's first executive director, Nihad Awad, publicly declared himself a supporter of Hamas at a 1994 forum at Barry University in Florida.
One of CAIR's original advisory board members, Siraj Wahhaj, served as a character witness for Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman. Rahman is the blind Egyptian cleric convicted in 1995 of conspiracy to bomb New York landmarks. CAIR described Rahman's conviction as a hate crime. source

"The FBI [severed] its once-close ties with the nation's largest Muslim advocacy group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, amid mounting evidence that it has links to a support network for Hamas." source

There is no thought of original intent or original meaning in the way the Democratic leaders are giving this nation away to those who would see its downfall, and who must have applauded on September 11, 2001. No patriotic Muslim American would need an 'official' jumah at the DNC.

'Like' Curtisedwardclark.com on Facebook  
© Curtis Edward Clark 2012

Obama's Practice of Taqiyya-style Lying

Islamicdictionary.com defines 'taqiyya' as "Dissimulation - to conceal, partially conceal or disguise one's true feelings, beliefs or information when there is threat of death or serious harm and when there is a threat of great evil." 

"In practical terms," says Islam Watch, "it is manifested as dissimulation, lying, deceiving, vexing and confounding with the intention of deflecting attention, foiling or pre-emptive blocking. It is currently employed in fending off and neutralising any criticism of Islam or Muslims"

From a description provided by a website about deception, lying is something practiced by many people in all cultures. "A sociopath is typically defined as someone who lies incessantly to get their way and does so with little concern for others. A sociopath is often goal-oriented (i.e., lying is focused - it is done to get one's way)."

The myth raised in 2007 that Obama was schooled in a radical madrassa does not change the fact that he did, in fact, go to an Islamic school. "[In] January 1968," said WorldNetWeekly, "Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta’s Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro...After attending the Assisi Primary School, Obama was enrolled – also as a Muslim, according to documents – in the Besuki Primary School, a public school in Jakarta..." And according to Obama's own autobiography, "the teacher wrote to tell mother I made faces during Quranic studies."

This is not an effort to dismiss Islam. It is to make a connection, that Obama was in contact with other Muslims who must regularly practice 'taqiyya' as part of their culture, and he would have at least learned what it was, and as a boy might naturally have tried it.

But why would the American President need or want to resort to this form of false-hood? He would do it for the purpose of fending off and neutralizing any criticism of what he--and we--know to be the most progressive policies ever advocated.

Do not for one minute deny, if you are on the left, if you are a liberal or progressive, or a democrat, that Obama's are not the most progressive ideas in American history to be implemented. You are doing him a disservice if you deny it. Give him credit for doing what you have always wanted in American politics.

But Mr. Obama knows of what he speaks, and because he knows, he must use the tactics of dissimulation that he must have heard over and over again living in Indonesia. His two Islamic fathers may have used the tactic in his presence.

So let's name one, specifically that pledge he made over and over again, that if the health care bill passed you would be able to keep your health care and your doctors. Given the ideas contained within the bill, many right wing and independent critics said it could not happen, that many people would lose their plans or their doctors or both.

In January of 2010--2010, mind you, the President said, "I think that some of the provisions that got snuck in might have violated that pledge." [emphasis added] Aside from the fact that nothing was snuck past us, but rather Speaker Pelosi said we had to pass it "to see what is in it," there were people who wrote things that made the President's pledge false, and the White House had to know it. The website Scared Monkeys asked, why the President was not more upset about it. "Wouldn’t one think the reaction would be outrage and that he would get to the bottom of this reprehensible action perpetrated on We the People?"

No, he would not be more upset, because making the pledge in the first place was a dissimulation tactic intended to make those who sat on the fence feel a little softer about having their health care messed with. If you were one of those who had no health care, you wouldn't necessarily care if others could keep their plans and doctors, so long as you got a plan and a doctor. 

What Mr. Obama sees as truly reprehensible is an axiom of progressive politics--that 'positive rights' (as opposed to negative rights) are natural human rights--has been allowed to go unfulfilled in the area of health care. Don't forget that Hillary Clinton also describes herself as progressive, and that President Bill Clinton's 1997 health care plan was dubbed 'Hillary care' because it was she who did all the behind-the-scenes work to put it together.

In 2010, Medicare said healthcare costs would nearly double to $4.5 trillion by 2019, accounting for 19.3 percent--almost a fifth--of our GDP. But by June, 2011, health care spending reached an all-time high of 18.2 percent. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that this percentage will double again over the next 25 years to 31% of GDP.

If you were a 'goal-oriented' President trying to endow government-sponsored 'rights' upon a nation, wouldn't you use a lot of deflecting, foiling or pre-emptive-blocking-taqiyya in your speeches?

And why wouldn't anyone try to demonstrate before nearly 4 years had passed, that you constantly used the art of dissimulation?

© Curtis Edward Clark 2011