THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PETITION ACT! FOR AMERICA HAS EVER LAUNCHED!!! I AM APPEALING TO EVERY ACT! FOR AMERICA MEMBER TO JOIN ME TODAY IN SIGNING THIS PETITION!

“Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.”

For years there has been plenty of smoke around CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. In the past twelve months that smoke has thickened.

First, CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorist financing trial. Then, the FBI severed official ties with CAIR due to its connections to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization.

Now, the curtain has been completely thrown back with the release of the must-read blockbuster book, Muslim Mafia. Thanks to a daring undercover operation, Muslim Mafia contains many stunning allegations, including (these are quotes from the front flap of the book):

In the very near future we will begin the launch of our 2009 “Stop Shariah Now” campaign. This will be an integrated grassroots, lobbying and public relations effort designed to raise public awareness and push for public policies that expose Shariah law and its infiltration into the United States.

Shariah Islamic law is infiltrating America through vehicles such as Shariah compliant finance products offered by major financial institutions, including UBS, AIG, Citibank and HSBC. It has been reported to us that members of the Muslim Students Association in southern California have been seen chanting their demands for Shariah law during public demonstrations. We have also seen reports that estimate between 50,000 and 100,000 Muslims in America are practicing polygamy, a practice allowed under Shariah law.

Recently, a report surfaced on the internet that Lisa Ashton, a flight attendant with British Midland Airways, was fired for refusing to wear a traditional Islamic robe and walk behind male colleagues while in public in Saudi Arabia. This is the consequence of Shariah law in a society and a Western nation’s effort to bend over backwards to accommodate it.

The next time you hear someone claim that Islam affords equal rights and protections to women, pull out the “Top 10” list below. You might want to add that in one of the hadith (the sayings and traditions of Mohammed), Mohammed claimed he was given a look into hell and saw that it was filled mostly with women because they were ungrateful to their husbands (Sahih Bukhari 2,18,61).

                                       
ACT for America
P.O. Box 12765
Pensacola, FL 32591
www.actforamerica.org

Dear Mr. President,

You face difficult challenges in matters such as achieving peace in the Middle East and protecting America from the threat of radical Islam and terrorism. These are challenges that have vexed past presidents, going as far back as our second president, John Adams. I have no doubt you appreciate both the gravity of these challenges and the enormous obstacles that exist to solving them.

I also have no doubt that you and your staff understood that, no matter what you said in your speech last Thursday in Cairo, there would be those who would take issue with you. That is always the case when attempting to solve problems that are as deep and emotionally-laden as these challenges are.

I am assuming it is your sincere hope that the approach you have chosen to take, as evidenced by what I’m sure was a carefully crafted speech, will ultimately prove successful. However, it pains me to say this sir, but, while you said in your speech that you are a “student of history,” it is abundantly clear that, in these matters, you do not know history and thus, as Santayana noted, you are doomed to repeat it. In doing so your efforts, however well-intentioned they may be, will not produce what you profess to hope they will produce.

A wise man once said that if you start with the wrong assumptions, no matter how logical your reasoning is, you will end up with the wrong conclusion. With all due respect Mr. President, you are starting with certain assumptions that are unsupported by history and an objective study of the ideology of political Islam.

You began in your speech by asserting that “tensions” exist between the United States and Muslims around the world, which, of course, is correct. Unfortunately, you then proceeded, incorrectly, to lay virtually all the blame for these tensions at the feet of America and the West. You blamed western colonialism, the Cold War, and even modernity and globalism.

A student of American history, who is not trying to reconstruct it to fit a modern politically correct narrative, would state that tensions between America and Muslims began with the unprovoked, four-decades long assault by the Muslim Barbary pirates against American shipping in the late 18^th and early 19^th centuries. I find it telling that you mentioned the Treaty of Tripoli in your speech but ignored the circumstances that led to it. That treaty was but one of numerous attempts by the United States to achieve peace with the jihadists of the Barbary Coast who were attacking our shipping and killing and enslaving our citizens and our soldiers – and who by their own admission were doing so to fulfill the call to jihad.

These jihadists were not acting to protest American foreign policy, which was decidedly isolationist, and there was no state of Israel to scapegoat. They were doing what countless Islamic jihadists have done throughout history – acting upon the hundreds of passages in the Qur’an and the Hadith that call upon faithful Muslims to kill, conquer or subjugate the infidel.

A student of world history would know that, for all the acknowledged evils of Western colonialism, these evils pale in comparison to the nearly 14 centuries of Islamic colonialism that began in Arabia under the leadership of Mohammed. The student of history would know that Islamic forces eradicated all Jewish and Christian presence from Arabia after Mohammed’s death, and then succeeded in conquering all of North Africa, most of the Middle East, much of Asia Minor, and significant portions of Europe and India – eventually creating an empire larger than Rome’s was at its peak.

The number of dead and enslaved during these many centuries of Islamic imperial conquest and colonialism have been estimated to total more than 300 million. What’s more, the wealth of many of the conquered nations and cultures was plundered by the Islamic conquerors, and millions of millions of non-Muslims who did survive were forced to pay onerous taxes, such as the “jizya,” a humiliation tax to the Islamic caliphs. Indeed, in some areas Christians and Jews were made to wear a receipt for the jizya around their neck as a mark of their dishonor.

These facts have not been invented by Christian or Jewish historical revisionists, but were chronicled by Muslim eyewitnesses throughout the past 14 centuries and are available to be researched by any person seeking an objective understanding of how Islam spread throughout the world.

You say in your speech that we must squarely face the tensions that exist between America and the Muslim world. That is a laudable notion with which I agree, but by casting Islam as the historical victim and the West (and by implication, America) as the aggressor, you do not face these tensions squarely, but alleviate the Muslim world from coming to grips with the jihadist ideology embedded in its holy books and acted upon for 1,400 years.

Even worse, you empower and embolden militant Islamists who regard your gestures as signs of weakness and capitulation.

The issue is not that all Muslims are terrorists or radicals or extremists. We all know that the majority of Muslims are not. We also know that many peace-loving Muslims are victims of Islamist violence.

The issue is this: what drives hundreds of millions of Muslims worldwide to call for the death of Jews?

What drives millions of Muslims to riot, destroy property, and take innocent lives in reaction to the Danish cartoons?

What drives tens of thousands of Muslims to demand the execution of a British teacher whose only “crime” was allowing her students to name their teddy bears “Mohammed”?

What drives countless Muslims worldwide to actively participate in, or fund, or provide nurture to, terrorist organizations?

What drives Muslims in mosques in America to proclaim and distribute materials that call for hatred of and the destruction of infidels?

What drives entire Islamic countries to prohibit the building of a Christian church or synagogue?

To assume, as you apparently do, that what drives these actions is not an ideology embedded in the holy books of Islam, but rather other “root causes,” most of which you lay at the feet of America and the West, is at best naïve and at worst dangerous.

Lastly, I must address your statement that “Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.” Unfortunately, the examples you gave are the exception rather than the rule.

Historically speaking, I seriously doubt the Egyptian Copts, the Lebanese Maronites, the Christians in Bethlehem, the Assyrians, the Hindus, the Jews, and many others who have been persecuted by Islamic violence and supremacism, would agree with your assertion.

For instance, Christians and Jews became “Dhimmis,” a second class group under Islam. Dhimmis were forced to wear distinctive clothing; it was Baghdad’s Caliph Al-Mutawakkil, in the ninth century, who designated a yellow badge for Jews under Islam, which Hitler copied and duplicated in Nazi Germany nearly a thousand years later.

I witnessed first-hand the “tolerance” of Islam when Islamists ravaged my country of birth, Lebanon, in the 1970’s, leaving widespread death and destruction in their wake. I saw how they re-paid the tolerance that Lebanese Christians extended toward them. My experience is not an isolated one. When you make an unfounded assertion about the “proud tradition” of tolerance in Islam, you do a great disservice to the hundreds of millions of non-Muslims who have been killed, maimed, enslaved, conquered, subjugated or displaced – in the cause of Islamic jihad.

Mr. President, those of us like me who are ringing the alarm in America about the threat of radical Islam would like nothing better than to peacefully co-exist with the Muslim world. Most Americans would like nothing better than to peacefully co-exist with the Muslim world. The obstacle to achieving this does not lie with us in America and the West. It lies with the hundreds of millions of Muslims worldwide, including many of their spiritual leaders, who take seriously the repeated calls to jihad in the Qur’an and the Hadith. Who regard “infidels” as inferior and worthy of conquering, subjugating and forcibly converting. Who support “cultural jihad” as a means to subvert non-Muslim societies from within. Who take seriously the admonitions throughout the Qur’an and the Hadith to convert the world to Islam – by force if necessary – and bring it under the rule of Allah.

Unless you are willing to courageously and honestly accept this, your aspirations for worldwide comity and peace in the Middle East are doomed to fail.

Sincerely,



Brigitte Gabriel


Brigitte Gabriel is the New York Times bestselling author of They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It. She is the founder and president of ACT! for America, www.ActforAmerica.org.

    Brigitte Gabriel, a victim of Islamic terror in her native Lebanon (as she indelibly recounted in her bestselling book Because They Hate) has fearlessly faced down critics, death threats, and political correctness to become one of the most sought-after terrorism experts in the world. They Must Be Stopped is her clarion call to action.

    In this eye-opening book, Gabriel fearlessly challenges our western and politically correct notions about Islam. She demonstrates why today's jihad is so deadly and how we can halt its progress. She also addresses in riveting fashion the historical and religious basis of the global Islamic jihad movement, details its frightening encroachment into societies around the world, and lays bare its abuses of democracy in the name of religion.

    Gabriel explains that the issue of Islamic attacks on innocent civilians, and radical Islamic encroachment into Western societies, is not an issue that belongs solely to the Right or the Left. It is an issue of the defense of Western civilization, and a problem affecting the entire world. That's why They Must Be Stopped is so important: it illuminates a problem that continues to be obscured by political correctness, and provides solid steps for how the jihadists, as formidable as they are today, can be definitively beaten.

• How global Islamic forces are poised to destroy us -- and history is moving in their favor

   

• The Koran: the main driving force behind all Islamic terrorism

   

• How the religious perspective of the Islamic jihadists is rooted in 7th-century teachings that are fundamentally opposed to democracy and equality

   

• The caliphate: what it is, and why Muslims around the world are working so hard to make it a reality

   

• The pivotal events in early Islamic history that transformed Islam from a peaceful religion to one of violence and conquest

   

• Islam's oppressive treatment of women: rooted in the Koran and Muhammad’s example

   

• Islamic jihadists: their utter contempt for all "infidels" (that is, any and all non-Muslims) -- and why they regard them as enemies worthy of death

   

• Madrassas in America: they're increasing in number -- and they're just one part of a growing Islamic jihad army on US soil

   

• How Islamic groups with ties to terrorism are sowing dangerous misinformation about Islam in American public school textbooks

   

• How Muslims resent the Judeo-Christian freedoms that made the West great -- and try to destroy the West rather than adapting and reforming Islam

   

• The jihadist idea that no government has any right to exist unless it obeys Islamic law -- and that Muslims must wage war against those that do not (even if those governments are ruled by Muslims)

   

• How Islamic jihadists and their allies and dupes exploit the American legal system and America’s protection of religion to spread hatred for Western values

   

• How, by unleashing Islamic jihad movements, Muslim tyrants transform their masses into enraged mobs thirsting for the blood of the outsider

   

• Why Islam is growing so quickly in the American prison system

   

• Jimmy Carter: how his naivete and ignorance of the global Islamic agenda led him to underestimate the threat posed by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini

   

• Why the Islamic world is today rising up from 300 years of slumber and decline to avenge its ancient glory -- using its historic formula for success, in which Islam rules by the sword and imposes Islamic law upon non- Muslims

   

• An overview of Islamic jihad groups worldwide: where they are, what they're doing, and who is backing them

   

• The Muslim Brotherhood's secretive and non-violent jihad of subversion within the United States

   

• Why American propagandists for Islam have no other choice but to make every effort to shut down debate and silence criticism

   

• How Muslim organizations around the world are trying to apply Islamic religious criteria to non-Muslims

   

• How America must organize a unified voice that says "enough" to political correctness -- and demands that government officials and elected representatives do whatever is necessary to protect us

   

• A comprehensive and workable program for American citizens to combat the Islamic jihad

Review by:  http://www.conservativebookclub.com/

....and we thank you!!

Links & Resources       
MEDIA MONITORING SITES
Camera: http://www.camera.org/
Monitoring of Western media, backgrounders, press releases

Honest reporting: http://www.honestreporting.com/
Monitoring of Western media

MEMRI: http://www.memri.org/
Monitoring of Arab newspapers, speeches of Arab leaders, in-depth studies of related issues

World Net Daily: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/
Great source for up to date news and information

ARAB NEWS SOURCES
Al-Ahram (Egypt): http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/
Islamic Republic News Agency: http://www.irna.com/
Jordan Times: http://www.jordantimes.com/
Lebanon Star: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Palestinian Authority: http://www.pna.net/
Tehran times: http://www.tehrantimes.com/
Syria Times: http://www.teshreen.com/

THINK TANKS / RESEARCH INSTITUTES / BLOGS
BESA Center for Strategic Studies: http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa
International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT): http://www.ict.org.il/
Washington Institute for Near East Policy: http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/
Harry Truman Institute for Peace: http://truman.huji.ac.il/ ~ http://www.debka.com/
Middle East Information: http://middle-east-info.org/
American Islamic Forum for Democracy
*Anti-CAIR*
Arabs for Israel
Center for Security Policy
Center For The Study Of Political Islam
Central Ohioans Against Terrorism
Christians United for Israel
Counterterrorism Blog
Daniel Pipes
Dhimmis and Dhimmitude
Family Security Matters
Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Horowitz Freedom Center
Islam Watch
Israpundit
Jihad Watch
Kenneth Timmerman's Website
Pajamas Media
The American Board for Certification in Homeland Security
The American Center for Democracy
The Intelligence Summit Blog
The Investigative Project on Terrorism
Terrorism Awareness Project
United American Committee
Walid Phares Blog
Walid Shoebat
FrontPage Magazine
Stand Up America
Proclaiming Justice To The Nations

ISRAELI NEWS SOURCES
Jerusalem Post: http://www.jpost.com/
Israel Broadcast Authority: http://mabat.iba.org.il/ Real player viewing of daily English television broadcast.

* The Web sites are not necessarily endorsed by ACT! For America and are listed for information only. This is not a comprehensive listing of available resources, but a selection of popular web sites.