• Hadith: Justice

• Video: NY Islamic Center Opponent's Bigotry Exposed

• Backgrounder: Who's Behind NY's Anti-Islam Campaign?

• Video: CAIR Director Defends NY Islamic Center Proposal (Fox)

• Video: CAIR Rep Debates Religious Freedom with Rabbi

• Video: CAIR-NY Rep Discusses Islamic Center Proposal

• CAIR Video: Hate Flyers Target Kentucky Mosque Plans

• Mosque Riles Politicians in Tennessee

• Fla. Mayor Calls 'Burn the Quran' Church an 'Embarrassment'

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HADITH OF THE DAY: JUSTICE - TOP
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "He who has been a ruler over (even)
ten people will be brought shackled on the Day of Resurrection, until the justice (by
which he ruled) loosens his chains or (his) tyranny brings him to destruction."
Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 1037
The Prophet also said: "(Those who dispense) justice will be seated on pulpits of light
beside God. . .(They are) those who do justice in their rulings, in matters relating to their
families, and in all that they undertake to do."
Sahih Muslim, Hadith 844
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VIDEO: TV HOST EXPOSES NY ISLAMIC CENTER OPPONENT'S BIGOTRY -
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Pamela Geller: 'Hitler Inspired by Islam'
The Alyona Show, 8/3/10
Pamela Geller from "Stop Islamization" says it's not religious tolerance to build a mosque
overlooking Ground Zero. NYC gave final approval for building the so called "Ground
Zero" Mosque two blocks from the site of the September 11th terrorist attack on the
World Trade Center. Geller claims these issues aren't about Muslims and Islam. Lauren
questions statements made on her blog. Geller claims Hitler was inspired by Islam.
Lauren also calls out Geller for a cartoon picture of the Prophet Muhammad previously
posted on her website, which she claims is freedom of speech. View the video.
NOTE: Geller claims she did not post an item on her site claiming Muslims have sex with
goats. To view a screen shot of that posting, go to: http://tinyurl.com/3xzvylw
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BACKGROUNDER: WHO'S BEHIND NY'S ANTI-ISLAM CAMPAIGN? - TOP
The anti-Islam New York bus ad campaign and the campaign to block construction of an
Islamic community center in New York are both headed by an extremist Muslim-basher
who claims that "Hitler and the Nazis were inspired by Islam."
Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA), the anti-Islam hate group behind both efforts,
is led by Pamela Geller.
[NOTE: The United States Patent and Trademark Office recently refused to grant SIOA a
trademark because: "The applied-for mark refers to Muslims in a disparaging manner
because by definition it implies that conversion or conformity to Islam is something that
needs to be stopped or caused to cease."]
Geller recently posted images on her blog purporting to depict Islam's Prophet
Muhammad. Several of those images show the prophet as a pig. Another image,
headlined "Piss Be Upon Him," shows one of the controversial Danish cartoons of the
prophet covered in urine. ("Piss Be Upon Him" is designed to mock the traditional phrase
"Peace Be Upon Him" that Muslims use when mentioning any prophet of God.)
She has in the past referred to President Obama as a "ball s**ker" and posted a
photoshopped image of him urinating on an American flag.
On her personal blog, Geller has written of President Obama: "[O]ne thing is for sure:
Hussein is a muhammadan [sic]." Geller also wrote: "[I]t is well known that Obama
allegedly was involved with a crack whore in his youth."
Geller has been vocal in her criticism of the black population in South Africa and
seemingly supportive of the slain South African apartheid leader Eugene Terre'blanche.
Following Terre'blanche's recent murder, Geller wrote: "All I see in South Africa is Black
supremacism. Terreblanche [sic] may have been a white supremacist, but he's the dead
one." She has also offered rhetorical support to accused Serbian war criminal Radovan
Karadzic.
In one blog entry, Geller posted a video claiming that Muslims engage in bestiality.
SIOA is an outgrowth of a similar group in Europe that seeks to block the construction of
mosques. That group, Stop the Islamization of Europe, "considers Islamophobia to be the
height of common sense."
SEE: SIOA is an Anti-Muslim Hate Group
Fox Opens Its Airwaves to Anti-Muslim Activist Geller
Her blog has in the past featured categories such as "Advancing Islamic Lies" and "Islam
2008: Religion of Barbarism." She was recently involved in a Florida conference that
invited extremist anti-Islam Dutch politician Geert Wilders to speak.
In one 2009 blog post, Geller wrote in reference to Islam's Prophet Muhammad: "And
frankly I find the whole new 'Abrahamic' narrative really galling. 1,400 years ago some
maniaic [sic] decided to spin the origin of a 5,767 year old religion to advance their own
evil end and said it was Ishmael that Abraham was to kill and now it's taken as.....gospel?
Puhleeeze."
She also claims Muslim groups "control information and how it is processed at senior
levels of the CIA, the FBI, the Pentagon, and the various branches of the military."
Geller once called for the destruction of Islam's Dome of Rock in Jerusalem. She wrote:
"The dome has got to go. It is sitting atop the great Jewish temple. The dome has got to
go."
Recently, Geller and the deputy head of SIOA, anti-Islam blogger Robert Spencer,
offered support for a call to wipe the nation of Pakistan off the map using India's nuclear
weapons. They both used their blogs to promote a video urging the mass killing of all
Pakistanis.
Geller wrote of the girl featured in that video making the call to genocide: "Perhaps with
an online Colb. (collaboration) we can run her for president in '16. She gets it."
Spencer wrote: "The girl is right: do not fear. Fight back against the jihad. Fear hands the
jihadis a weapon."
SEE: Pamela Geller: The Looniest Blogger Ever
Geller has even been criticized by other Islamophobes for her extremism and for
supporting far-right fascist groups in Europe. In fact, SIOA is an outgrowth of a similar
group in Europe that seeks to block the construction of mosques on that continent. That
group, Stop the Islamization of Europe, also "considers Islamophobia to be the height of
common sense" and, like Geller, claims that Islam "considers lying to be not only
acceptable, but obligatory."
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VIDEO: CAIR DIRECTOR DEFENDS NY ISLAMIC CENTER PROPOSAL ON
O'REILLY FACTOR - TOP
Fox News, 8/3/10
View the video.
CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad discusses the recent developments in the
New York Islamic community center proposal.
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VIDEO: CAIR REP DEBATES RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ON FOX - TOP
CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper debates the New York City
Islamic community center controversy and its impact on religious freedom with Rabbi
Shmuley Boteach and Robert Boston of Americans United for Separation of Church and
State.
View the video.
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VIDEO: CAIR-NY REP DISCUSSES ISLAMIC CENTER PROPOSAL - TOP
Watch the video.
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CAIR VIDEO: HATE FLYERS TARGET KENTUCKY MOSQUE PLANS - TOP
Fox 19, 8/4/10
View the video.
Plans to build a mosque in Kentucky are coming up against resistance and the Council on
American-Islamic Relations is speaking up.
The proposed site is on Cayton Rd., between Mall Rd. and Hopeful Church Rd., right in
the heart of the city. Anonymous flyers are being circulated throughout the city
vehemently opposing the mosque. These flyers include quotes like, "Americans need to
have this stopped" and "We are the United States of America not an Islamic nation."
Karen Dabdoub, the President of CAIR, is outraged.
"What we are is a pluralistic nation both ethnically and religiously and every religious
group has a right to have their own space to worship," says Dabdoub...
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MOSQUE RILES POLITICIANS IN TENNESSEE - TOP
By Hillary May, The Washington Times, 8/3/10
Mosques aren't roiling just New York. Plans to build a Muslim worship center in
Murfreesboro, Tenn., have taken a front seat in two major political races that Tennessee
voters will decide Thursday.
The Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, Tenn., intends to build a $5 million mosque on a 15-
acre plot it purchased last winter, which has sparked intense debates between candidates
in the Republican primaries for governor and one of the state's U.S. House seats.
Lou Ann Zelenik, who seeks the nomination in the Republican-leaning 6th District,
strongly opposes the plans and has garnered national attention for calling it an "Islamic
training center" and highlighting its links to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
"Religious toleration is the bedrock of our freedom, but no nation is required to extend
toleration to religions that preach against public order and safety," she said. "The two
professional politicians in this race are either completely out of touch with our
community or too worried about [political] correctness to care." (More)
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FLA. MAYOR CALLS 'BURN THE QURAN' CHURCH AN 'EMBARRASSMENT' -
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With mounting news coverage about a Gainesville church's plan to hold a Quran burning
on Sept. 11, Mayor Craig Lowe released a statement Monday condemning the church,
dismissing it as a "tiny fringe group and an embarrassment to our community."
"They are opposed (to) Gainesville's true character as a place that values every person,"
Lowe said in a news release. "We may be of different religions, sexual orientations,
races, genders, national origins, or ages, but all are welcome here in our efforts to build a
better community both locally and globally."
In an interview, the mayor said he issued the statement to respond to the amount of
attention Dove World Outreach Center's "International Burn a Koran Day" has gotten.
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