More “Political Islam”: Iowa Wasn’t The Only One

Posted by johnsblogs42 in February 4th, 2008

Back on Jan. 25th, American Congress for Truth sent out a disturbing e-letter about the “Cultural Jihad” that’s running rampant and unchecked here in America. The e-letter was regarding the Iowa state legislature’s opening prayer by imam Mohammed Khan, and his four minute prayer.

Janet Levy in the FrontPage Magazine site on Feb. 1, had quite a bit to say about this, as she provided considerable details about the incident, as well as similar incidents around the country. You can see her article HERE, and some of the remarks in this post.

Levy spoke of Khan’s prayer, mentioning it included such phrases as pleas for “victory over those who disbelieve” and “protection from the Great Satan.” WAIT A MINUTE! WE, are supposed to be the great satan, aren’t we? And this is what the Iowa legislature finds appealing enough to allow? Apparently not, as the comments did tend to twist a few peoples britches. Pastor Steve Smith of the Evangelical Free Church in Albert City, and Iowa State Representative Gary Worthan have made known their displeasure. Worthan plans to protest the prayer to the Speaker of the House.

But Iowa isn’t the only state succumbing to this. Texas and Washington states also have their problems. As reported by Levy;

In April 2007, Imam Yusuf Kavakci of the Dallas Central Mosque, who has served the Dallas area for 20 years and claims to be a “moderate,” was hosted by Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst and Senator Florence Shapiro. Kavakci was asked to open the Texas Senate with its first Islamic prayer. This event was attended by members of the Baptist General Convention of Texas Christian Life Commission, the Texas Conference of Churches, Texas Impact, and the Texas Islamic Council. It was promoted by the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization terrorism expert Steven Emerson characterizes as “a radical fundamental front group for Hamas.”

At the invocation, Dr. Kavakci, a board member of the Wahhabist Islamic Society of North America, read from the opening chapter of the Koran, Al-Fatehah. The text included: “All praise is for Allah, our lord, the lord of the worlds, the compassionate, the merciful, master of the day of judgments. Oh, God, Allah, you alone we worship, and you alone we call on for help. Oh, Allah, guide us to the straight path, the path of those whom you have favored, not of those who have earned your wrath or of those who have lost the way….”

And the incident in Washington that Levy writes;

During the 2003 “Muslim week,” two lawmakers in the State of Washington made news by refusing to participate during a prayer offered by Imam Mohamed Joban of the Olympia Islamic Center. Yet Joban had made statements defending Muslim chaplain Captain James Yee, who was arrested that same year. Yee, a Chinese-American Muslim convert since 1991 who served as a chaplain at Guantanamo Bay detention camp, was charged with espionage. He pleaded guilty to transporting classified documents and lying to military investigators. To protect national security, charges against Yee were reduced to mishandling classified information and later dropped. According to a list obtained from terrorism expert Steven Emerson, Yee had ordered $26,000 worth of Arabic and English books, many of which espoused a radical Islamic ideology, for detainee use during his assignment to Gitmo. Yee’s friend, Air Force translator and Syrian-born Muslim Ahmad al-Halabi pleaded guilty to transporting classified documents and lying to military investigators. Yee has led prayers and substituted for Joban at the Olympia Islamic Center.

Representatives Lois McMahan and Cary Condotta left the floor of the State Assembly during the prayer. McMahan was condemned for her actions and criticized for demonstrating a “lack of respect” for the Imam and exhibiting “Islamophobic hate.” She was chastised for causing divisiveness that would serve to increase discrimination of American Muslims and adversely affect the image of the United States. Following pressure from CAIR and hundreds of negative e-mails, Reps. McMahan and Condotta were pressured to apologize to the Imam. Two days later, when Joban was invited to return, he shook hands with the previously absent lawmakers who espoused respect for the imam’s God-given right for freedom of religious expression.

Expression or not, clearly this is a violation of the “separation” thingy. So much for that. The ACLU loves to howl on about the use of religion in government. Where are they in incidents such as these? Being big on being “left,” they quietly tucked themselves away.

Levy closes out her article with a perfectly placed warning;

Americans would be wise to heed the words uttered by Muslim Brotherhood founder, Sheik Yusuf Qaradawi in 1995, “America will not be conquered by the sword, but by da’wa.” This Muslim proselytizing is already well underway to a significant extent in the United States with the assistance of our very own “unbeliever” politicians, who fail to recognize that the true agenda of radical Islam is worldwide domination and the subjugation of non-Muslims.

It doesn’t get much more acurate than that.

Article info provided by FrontPage Magazine and American Congress for Truth.