Big Peace.com
John Guandolo
February 23, 2011

If the President of the University of Central Florida (UCF), Dr. John Hitt, were arrested tomorrow for material support of terrorism, he might finally begin to understand the irresponsible and dangerous actions he continues to allow his university to take in giving terrorist supporters a platform.

We can begin this discussion with the UCF Muslim Students Association (MSA).  The MSA was created by the Muslim Brotherhood at the University of Illinois in 1963.  The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) is an international revolutionary organization whose objectives are (1) the re-establishment of the global Islamic state (Caliphate) and (2) the global implementation of Islamic Law.  The MB creed includes the phrase “…Jihad is our way, and martyrdom in the way of Allah is our highest aspiration.”  Every leader of the Muslim Brotherhood since its founding has reaffirmed the creed, and (until recently) their English website (www.ikhwanweb.com) contained the MB By-Laws which articulated their readiness to “fight the tyrants” in preparation for establishing the Islamic state.

The archives of the Muslim Brotherhood in North America were discovered in 2004 during an FBI raid at the Virginia home of a senior Hamas leader/member of the Board of Directors for the MB in the U.S.  The documents reveal the Brotherhood is waging a “grand jihad” against the United States, and that the Muslim Students Association is one of their entities.  Many of these documents were entered into evidence (and stipulated to by the defense) at the largest terrorism financing and Hamas trial in U.S. history (US v Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development or “HLF”, Dallas 2008).  The documents confirm MSA is an MB front group, as are many of the most prominent Muslim organizations in North America (ISNA, NAIT, IIIT, and others).

This brings us to November 4, 2010.  The UCF MSA hosted a program on campus at which terrorists were present.  Specifically, members of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) were in attendance to include one of the speakers, Jamal Badawi, who is a Board Member for CAIR.  CAIR is a Hamas entity created by the International Muslim Brotherhood in 1994.  Documents found at the aforementioned FBI raid listed CAIR founders Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmad as members of the Palestine Committee in the U.S. – ie members of Hamas.  Testimony, intercepted phone calls, recorded meetings, and a massive amount of documents, as well as prosecutorial memos, and DOJ correspondance has confirmed CAIR is a Hamas entity.  Hamas is a designated terrorist organization.

Jamal Badawi also happens to be one of the most senior/prominent Muslim Brothers living today.  He sits on the Fiqh Council of North America, has held several leadership positions at the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), and was one of the three founders of the Muslim American Society (MAS).  All three of these are known Muslim Brotherhood front organizations as revealed from the MB archives, and in U.S. federal court cases.

Jamal Badawi is also an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case – the largest Hamas case in U.S. history.

The other speaker at this event was Edina Lekovic from the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), yet another Muslim Brotherhood front group.

The embedded video above is a clip from the November event.

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JANUARY 19, 2011

By Barry Rubin

Something happened in Canada that's truly terrible, far more terrible than even the people who think it is terrible realize.

Here's the story from Canada's National Post, January 18:

"After receiving threats and two suspicious letters Tuesday, the National Archives of Canada cancelled the screening of a controversial documentary that critiques Iran's nuclear weapons program.... 

"Once we started to receive threats from the public and threats of public protest, we deemed the risk associated with the event was a little too high," she said...."

Can you tell me what is unique about this situation? No one has pointed it out yet. Yes, there has been frequent intimidation regarding materials about Islam when Muslims have complained and violence has been threatened. This in itself is an important issue involving free speech.

But that is not what's happening here. A film about a nuclear weapons program isn't a discussion of Muhammad, the founder of Islam. It's about a country.

So for the first time I'm aware of a state--a radical, aggressive, terrorist-promoting, genocidal regime at that--has blocked a public event including criticism of its policies in a Western democracy. This is a big extension of the existing problem. What's next, people scrambling to avoid being accused of Iranophobia?

Parallel things have happened before. For example, Saudi Arabia managed to block the showing of a film on British television about the execution of a princess and a British investigation into corruption in arms sales to Saudi Arabia. But that kind of thing, also increasing, was on a state-to-state level.

By the way, of course, in the Middle East the most extreme anti-Jewish, anti-American, and anti-Western material (it would be called hate crimes in the West) is churned out at high volume every day without Western complaint, much less threats.

This is part of the taming of Western democracy and the closing down of freedom of speech so prevalent today. Voltaire spoke of the torturable and untorturable classes in the eighteenth century. Now we have the criticizable and uncriticizable countries. 

Here's the truth: A huge amount of what masquerades as public discourse today is the result of propaganda campaigns. The Palestinian Authority, Hamas, and their allies run a huge anti-Israel slander machine that masquerades as human rights, news, non-governmental organizations, and so on. Professors and teachers conduct indoctrination brainwashing in the guise of education.

If you don't know this is going on then we are all in serious trouble. And we are aware of only a small portion of what is happening.

Here's an example. By accident, I run into a family that lives in a small town in Maryland. The daughter who is in high school mentions to me that two Palestinian girls came into the classrooms and gave a presentation on how horrible and evil Israel is. You can imagine. I ask, "Was this part of some series or program with people coming from various countries?" 

"No," she replies. It just happened. It is the only such session they've had this year. 

So on the one hand there is a relentless onslaught of misinformation on behalf of anti-democratic movements and regimes; on the other hand a relentless onslaught of anti-democratic manipulation and intimidation to block the other side. 

By the way, the group sponsoring the film showing in Canada is called the Free Thinking Society. Apparently, that is out of fashion.

This article was originally published here. 

Canada’s National Post reports:

After receiving threats and two suspicious letters Tuesday, the National Archives of Canada canceled the screening of a controversial documentary that critiques Iran’s nuclear weapons program, a move that has organizers questioning the national library’s autonomy.

The Free Thinking Film Society’s showing of Iranium prompted so many complaints — some of them from the Iranian Embassy — that staff thought it necessary to close the entire building at 396 Wellington St. in Ottawa, just steps from the Supreme Court of Canada and Parliament Hill at 4:45 p.m., said archives spokeswoman Pauline Portelance.

“Once we started to receive threats from the public and threats of public protest, we deemed the risk associated with the event was a little too high,” she said.

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By Robert Spencer
12/14/2010

It was only a matter of time before jihad suicide bombers started operating in Europe. And now they have begun – in yet another salvo in the war against the freedom of speech that the West has barely noticed.

“Now the Islamic state has been created. We now exist here in Europe and in Sweden. We are a reality.” So said an audio file in Arabic and Swedish sent to TT, the Swedish news agency, about 10 minutes before a jihadist suicide bomber killed himself in one of two explosions in central Stockholm Saturday, wounding two people.

Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt in a message on Twitter Saturday termed it a “most worrying attempt at terrorist attack in crowded part of central Stockholm.” He noted that it “failed -- but could have been truly catastrophic.”

That was certainly the intent. “Now your children, your daughters and your sisters will die as our brothers, our sisters and our children are dying,” said the message to TT. But why try to unleash catastrophic death and destruction on the genteel streets of Stockholm? “Our acts will speak for themselves,” said the message, “as long as you do not end your war against Islam and humiliation of the Prophet and your stupid support for the pig Vilks.”

“The pig Vilks” is Lars Vilks, a Swedish cartoonist who, in response to the threats and murder that ensued after a Danish newspaper published cartoons of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, published his own cartoon of Muhammad as a dog with a human head. Islamic supremacists, predictably, have targeted Vilks for death. Last spring, he was attacked while giving a talk, and jihadists also tried to burn his house down.

And so we see yet again, with this new escalation in the jihad against the West, that the freedom of speech is one of the foremost battlegrounds of this war. Jihadists like Taimour Abdulwahab Al-Abdaly, the suicide bomber who killed himself in Stockholm on Saturday, want to punish Western countries -- even relaxed, multicultural Sweden -- for daring to allow the freedom of expression to the extent of permitting depictions of their prophet that they find insulting. Meanwhile, the Islamic supremacists of the 57-government Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), is working at the United Nations for the same end: to compel befuddled Western governments that no longer remember why they ever protected the freedom of speech in the first place, or why that freedom is so valuable as a bulwark against tyranny, to give up that freedom in order to avoid offending Islam.

This two-pronged assault, if successful, would extinguish any honest discussion of the ways in which Islamic jihadists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and supremacism. And that may be part of the point. For without such discussion, the West would be mute and hence defenseless in the face of the advancing jihad.  

That’s why it is more imperative than ever for Western officials -- in Sweden, the United States and elsewhere -- to speak out strongly in defense of free speech, and to take firm steps to ensure the safety of people like Lars Vilks and Molly Norris, the Seattle cartoonist forced into hiding after originating the whimsical “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day,” which was designed to poke fun at the murderous thugs who would kill over a cartoon. It was all in fun, that is, until those thugs set their sights on Norris herself, who lost her career, her home and her very identity – while the world yawned.

The jihad bomb in Stockholm shows the price of yawning indifference to the jihad against free speech. The message called upon “all Mujahadeen in Europe and Sweden” to act: “Now is the time to strike, don’t wait any longer. Step up with whatever you have, even if it is a knife, and I know you have more than a knife. Fear no one, fear not prison, fear not death.”

Would that we would be as fearless in the defense of life and liberty against this monstrous evil.

Mr. Spencer is director of Jihad Watch and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), The Truth About Muhammad (both from Regnery—a Human Events sister company) and most recently coauthor of Pamela Geller’s The Post-American Presidency (Simon & Schuster).

This article was originally posted here.