CAIR Criticizes Independent Investigation It Requested … Again

IPT News
March 25, 2014

A Florida state attorney has cleared an FBI agent and a Massachusetts State Police officer in last May’s shooting death of a Chechen man who was friends with the Boston Marathon bombers.

Ibragim Todashev had been cooperative during hours of questioning in his Orlando apartment, State Attorney Jeffrey Ashton wrote Tuesday in a letter to FBI Director James Comey. But his mood changed after he “confessed to some involvement” in a 2011 triple homicide in Massachusetts also under investigation, and after he realized he might be arrested.

Todashev, described as a “skilled mixed-martial arts fighter,” heaved a coffee table at the FBI agent, hitting him in the head. He ran into his kitchen, coming out holding a five-foot-long metal pole over his head “with the end of the pole pointed toward [the FBI agent] as if intended to be used to impale rather than strike,” Ashton wrote. The agent fired three shots, which knocked Todashev down. But he tried to get back to his feet, prompting the agent to fire three or four more shots, killing Todashev.

A separate Justice Department review reached the same conclusions. It noted that Todashev’s half-written confession was found at the scene. “The last sentence that Todashev wrote on the tablet of paper specifically related conduct by him that acknowledged complicity in the crime,” the DOJ report said.

Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) officials asked for an independent investigation last summer, claiming “senior sources within the FBI” told them Todashev “was indeed unarmed when he was shot seven times.”

Hasan Shibly, CAIR’s Tampa director, said Ashton’s letter was still being reviewed, but that he already saw “several concerns and key inconsistencies and … many important unanswered questions.”

“The FBI’s history, past abuse by law enforcement, and our own independent investigation have lead us to question the original narrative which can no longer be taken at face value,” Shibly told the Orlando Sentinel. “The only person who can contradict the government’s narrative is now dead and the investigation into his death relied on evidence gathered by agents of the same agency involved in his death.”

Shibly first criticized the investigation last Friday, when reports first indicated it would clear the FBI.

CAIR has had difficulty accepting investigative outcomes that don’t match its own narrative. In 2010, CAIR asked for, then rejected, investigations by the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, the Dearborn Police Department and Michigan attorney general’s office after an imam was shot and killed after he fired on a K9 dog leading an FBI SWAT team.

Video from that investigation shows Imam Luqman Abdullah, who preached that followers should not go peacefully if police came for them, tried to run away as agents moved in to arrest him. He refused their orders to lie down, lurked behind a corner and kept his hand hidden despite repeated instructions to show them.

CAIR’s Michigan director dismissed the DOJ investigation as “superficial and incomplete” and continues to cite the incident as an example of FBI excessive force and mistreatment of Muslims.

It comes amid a broader campaign against the FBI by CAIR. In 2008, the FBI enacted a formal policy prohibiting goodwill outreach to CAIR after an investigation linked the organization and its founders to a Hamas support network in the United States. That policy remains in effect.

Its “Know Your Rights” seminars, ostensibly about the right to counsel, involve outrageous claims casting FBI agents as willing to break the law to set up unwitting Muslims. A California chapter in 2011 advocated building a “wall of resistance” advising “Don’t Talk to the FBI.”

Todashev’s death likely will remain in the litany of government sins despite the investigations.

If CAIR stands by its account about Todashev, it ignores evidence tying him to both the Boston Marathon bombers and the triple murder. It ignores his martial arts skills, which Ashton credited with making him a “fearless fighter.” Todashev could have tried to run away, Ashton wrote, instead he chose to attack. “Regardless of how beaten down he was, he simply didn’t have any quit in him. Perhaps on this occasion, he simply reverted to that basic aspect of his personality and chose to go down fighting.”

Posted on 25 Mar 14 by Investigative Project on Terrorism

Judge allows defendants in underage sex trafficking ring Muslim prayer breaks during trial

Posted on March 23, 2012 by creeping

Muslim gang bangers who rape and violently force underage girls into prostitution get Islamic prayer time during the trial? Judge Dhimmi reporting for duty. via Suspects facing trial in sex trafficking ring that included Twin Cities – TwinCities.com.

More than a dozen people accused in a sex trafficking ring run by Somali gangs that reached from Minnesota to Tennessee are facing trial in Nashville.

Out of the total 30 who were indicted, 15 are going to trial this week on charges of conspiracy to commit sexual trafficking of children by force, fraud or coercion and charges related to the sexual trafficking of two unidentified juvenile females, who prosecutors say were ages 14 or younger at the time of the offenses.

Jury selection was scheduled to begin Tuesday, March 20, and the trial is expected to last about two months.

The indictment, which was originally unsealed in 2010 and amended by a superseding indictment in 2011, says the defendants, many of them from the Somali immigrant communities in the Twin Cities and Nashville, were members or associates of three gangs called the Somali Outlaws, the Somali Mafia and the Lady Outlaws The gang members are accused of forcing teenage girls into prostitution and operated in St. Paul; Minneapolis; Columbus, Ohio; and Nashville. Four unidentified female victims are listed in the indictment.

The indictment accuses the gangs of finding and recruiting young girls, some also Somali, for the purpose of prostitution in exchange for money and drugs between 2000 and 2010. The indictment lists instances in which a young Somali girl, identified as Jane Doe #1, was taken from Minneapolis to Nashville and Columbus to have sex with gang members and others.

The indictment says that another young Somali girl, Jane Doe #2, was told that using her for prostitution was referred to as a “mission” and other gang members wouldn’t be charged to have sex with her. Some of the victims are expected to testify during the trial.

Many of the defendants have remained in federal custody since their arrests in 2010 and all 15 are represented by separate defense attorneys. The defendants are Abdifatah Jama Adan, Ahmad Abdulnasir Ahmad, Musse Ahmed Ali, Hassan Ahmed Dahir, Faduma Mohamed Farah, Idris Ibrahim Fahra, Abdullahi Hashi, Fatah Haji Hashi, Abdirahman Abderazak Hersi, Dahir Nor Ibrahim, Abdifatah Bashir Jama, Andrew Kayachith, Fuad Faisal Nur, Yasin Abdirhaman Yusuf and Mohamed Ahmed Amalle.

All citizens of Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison’s state.

The trial could involve about two hundred witnesses, including many who are being brought from Minnesota. U.S. District Court Judge William Haynes is allowing the defendants to take scheduled Muslim prayer breaks during the proceedings.

Most of the defense attorneys declined to comment before the trial, but some said they expected this to be a complicated trial for the attorneys and the jurors.

A proposed questionnaire for potential jurors includes questions about opinions about Somalis, immigrants and recent protests over the building of mosques in Murfreesboro, Tenn., and New York City.

Surely everyone involved will say this has nothing to do with Islam, despite the Islamic prayer breaks that all jurors will likely have to witness. So why ask about mosques that were built despite zoning laws being violated?

This is the case the barely made it to trial due to the dhimmitude of a US attorney (probably on orders from Eric Holder).

• US Attorney in Minnesota chose not to prosecute Somali sex traffickers
• 29 indicted in US underaged sex ring allegedly run by Somalis

Posted on 24 Mar 12 by Creeping Sharia

Tarrant County College Investigation

• January 25, 2012 •

Well, well, well.  Tarrant County College has released the findings of its investigation and SURPRISE!!!!!!!! 

The poor Muslim students were completely innocent, did nothing wrong and apparently were incapable of telling a lie.  On the other hand the Professor and several of the Non-Muslim students created a hostile environment for the poor Muslims and then lied about every aspect of the incident.

UH, NO!!  Facts would indicate otherwise.  But then this is just my opinion based on a belief in the Constitution of the United States of America and the freedoms that it guarantees.  Of course this radical belief in freedom may have clouded my judgment so, read the article below and decide for yourself.

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Investigation concludes that TCC professor created hostile environment

Monday, Jan. 23, 2012

By Diane Smith    Star-Telegram Staff Writer

FORT WORTH — An internal investigation by Tarrant County College concluded that a former professor created a hostile classroom environment for Muslim students who questioned his source material and complained that his teachings were biased during a November lecture.

(He was teaching from the Quran and Sunnah.)

Paul Derengowski’s Great Religions of the World class at TCC Southeast Campus grabbed headlines when a Nov. 8 lecture ended with two Muslim students abruptly leaving his class after questioning the professor about his lesson and other students reporting that they felt threatened by what happened.

(I would assume that the fact that the male Muslim student issued a treat as he stormed from the room could be the reason other students felt threatened.)

One of the Muslim students, Randa Bedair, e-mailed classmates and accused Derengowski of being biased.

Derengowski eventually resigned, and later said that he did so under duress. His resignation became part of the inquiry, which also examined complaints from the Muslim students who left the class as well as accusations by other students that the Muslim students were disruptive and defamed the professor.

The students supporting Derengowski also criticized the administration’s handling of the situation.

But TCC administrators said that the situation was handled appropriately and that Derengowski’s resignation was completely voluntary.

“It was determined that Mr. Derengowski voluntarily resigned from his teaching responsibilities without duress as he alleged,” states a copy of the inquiry report obtained by the Star-Telegram through the Texas Public Information Act.

The report added: “… Mr. Derengowski created a hostile learning environment for the two Muslim students.”

(Damn that Professor for telling the truth!)

The report concluded that the Muslim students didn’t display disruptive behavior or defame Derengowski.

Derengowski said Monday that he is not surprised that the college would issue findings supporting the students. Administrators are “covering themselves” for mishandling his situation, he said.

“I think it is a legal formality,” Derengowski said, adding that he did not voluntarily resign and that he is exploring his legal options.

“You are getting the PR version of their so-called investigation,” he said.

Documents filed with the college district indicate that Derengowski felt “berated” by the Muslim students, who believed that he was speaking negatively about Islam and Mohammad.

(Once again, HELLO – THE TRUTH!!!!)

Bedair could not be reached for comment Monday evening.

The inquiry states that 38 students — 28 of whom who are still enrolled in the class and 10 who dropped it — were asked if they felt threatened.

Only 10 students responded.

Some said they were uneasy about a requirement to read Derengowski’s personal web site, which referred to Islam as a cult. Others defended the professor, questioned the college’s response and accused the Muslim students of “sabotaging the class.”

Click here to read the investigation results issued by Tarrant County College.

Click here to read about Professor Paul Derengowski from Tarrant County College in Texas.

Posted on 25 Jan 12 by Patriots United Against Radical Islam (PUARI)

Another Muslim sues another US company – American Bottling Company – over prayer time

Posted on October 29, 2011 by creeping

Legal jihad is becoming the weapon of choice in the war to submit America to Islam. via Muslim sues bottling company over prayer time – chicagotribune.com.

A former delivery driver has filed a federal lawsuit against a soda bottling plant in Harvey that allegedly fired him shortly after he asked to time his lunch break to attend weekly Islamic prayers at a mosque.

According to the suit, Nathan Henderson, a Muslim, had worked for the American Bottling Company for only a month in early September 2007 when his boss pulled him aside to discuss reports that Henderson was taking time to say his five daily prayers during the workday.

Because those breaks only lasted a minute or two and didn’t interfere with Henderson’s work, his boss added that he didn’t have a problem with it, the suit said.

The suit alleges that when Henderson then asked permission to take his lunch break in time to correspond with Jumma prayers, the Friday-only weekly congregational prayer in the Muslim faith, his superior told him he could not do that.

Henderson proposed working on Saturdays to make up the hours, but the boss said Saturdays were reserved for employees with “the most seniority,” the suit said.

According to the suit, the supervisor also reprimanded the driver for not mentioning his faith during the job interview, adding that he wouldn’t have been hired.

A few days later, on Sept. 11, 2007, Henderson was fired for not “meeting the job requirements,” the suit said.

Henderson filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in December 2007.

The commission gave Henderson the green light to sue after an investigation found that the “evidence established reasonable cause to believe that [the company] discriminated against [Henderson] because of his religion.”

“Employers are legally obligated to make reasonable religious accommodations for their employees as long as it does not interfere with work performance, and Mr. Henderson’s reasonable requests would have in no way placed an undue hardship on the company,” said Henderson’s attorney, Kevin Vodak, litigation director for Chicago’s chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations.

Chris Barnes, a spokesman for Dr. Pepper Snapple, the parent company of American Bottling Company, said: “We evaluate all requests for religious accommodation within the framework of our broader EEO policy.”

“We are strongly committed to providing a work environment for all of our employees that is free from discrimination,” Barnes said. “We have a clear equal employment opportunity policy and take no actions based on an employee’s religion or creed.”

Henderson now works as a truck driver for another company.

Vodak would not say whether that company has accommodated Henderson’s prayer schedule.

If it hasn’t, expect more legal jihad.

Posted on 29 Oct 11 by Creeping Sharia

OH, BOO HOO! Terrorist Front Group CAIR lawyer talks about how the ‘Surveillance State’ unfairly targets Muslims in America

Posted: November 1, 2011 | Author: barenakedislam

One of CAIR’s professional whiners tells the ACLU about, “running out of tissue boxes from hearing all the heartbreaking stories from fellow Muslims about their harrowing experiences with profiling and surveillance by the U.S. government, as well as their anxiety and concerns over so-called ‘Islamophobia’ in America since 9/11.”

 

 

 

 

BNI readers will find this lawyer’s tales of woe at an ACLU-sponsored event to be very uplifting because it shows, despite having a Muslim in the White House, our FBI and law enforcement officials are doing everything they should be doing to keep us safe from the ever present Muslim threat in this country.

You will be glad to hear that many Muslims now refrain from going to the mosque too often, or traveling in big groups, or going on camping trips, or flying more than they have to for fear of being profiled. They have only themselves to thank for the intense scrutiny they are put under because it is their fellow Muslims who are responsible for virtually all the terror attacks and attempted terror attacks that have been averted here and around the world since 9/11. Congratulations to the people who are protecting us from these potentially dangerous Islamic invaders who shouldn’t be in this country at all.

posted on 1 Nov 11 by BNI

HLF Defense Argues to Overturn Convictions

IPT News
September 1, 2011

Holy Land Foundation, an unindicted criminal foundation started by the Muslim Brotherhood

NEW ORLEANS – A federal judge abused his discretion in admitting key evidence and testimony used to prove that zakat (charity) committees inside the West Bank funded by an American Muslim group were Hamas-controlled, defense attorneys argued Thursday before a three-judge appellate panel.

In November 2008, five former Holy Land Foundation (HLF) officials were convicted on 108 counts of illegally routing money to Hamas through those committees. HLF had been one of the nation’s largest Muslim charities.

In their briefs filed last October, the five defendants asked the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to overturn the convictions. Anonymous testimony by Israeli intelligence and military witnesses, and evidence seized from Palestinian Authority offices during an Israeli raid, are among the things the presiding judge allowed jurors to hear in error, the defendants argue in their appeals.

During Thursday’s hearing, defense attorney John D. Cline, who represents former HLF Chairman Ghassan Elashi, called the government’s case a “textbook on evidentiary error.”

One Israeli witness, identified only as “Avi,” was key to the government’s case. Avi linked together documents to show that the committees which HLF sent money to were funding Hamas.

“Avi was a critical, critical witness in this case,” Cline said. Avi linked together a volume of government documents and created an easy-to-understand narrative for the jury. “He wove that all together in a nice, neat package.”

The government’s refusal to identify Avi’s true identity hindered the defense attorneys’ ability to conduct a background investigation on the witness, Cline said. But Justice Department attorney Joseph Palmer said the Israeli witnesses’ lives could have been endangered if their identities had been disclosed in public. The defense was still able to place “Avi” in a proper context before the jury.

Avi’s cross examination “was rigorous and it was effective,” Palmer said. He pointed to a separate case upheld by the 4th Circuit, in which a police officer from El Salvador was allowed to testify as an expert on a gang called MS-13, without disclosing his identity.

Cline also criticized the court for allowing prosecutors to use Avi instead of another witness identified in a government document – retired Israeli military officer Jonathan Fighel – who could have covered the same subject as Avi.

“The government, with the district court’s blessing, made a tactical choice,” said Cline.

Cline and his colleagues also challenged the credibility of government exhibits found in the West Bank. But Appellate Judge Emilio M. Garza countered that those documents taken from Palestinian Authority (PA) offices “have a certain amount of credence.”

In his remarks during oral argument, Judge Garza noted that the documents were found at the PA headquarters in Ramallah, which was then controlled by Hamas rival Fatah. It was in Fatah’s interest to have accurate information on Hamas support. “Fatah found these documents important,” he said. “The possession of these documents [by the PA] is in and of itself important.”

Cline singled out one exhibit for its illegible signature. He also said that it had no date or letterhead, making its reliability unclear. Cline argued that under rules of evidence, the government had a “heavy burden” to show why the exhibit is reliable and relevant. Judge Carolyn Dineen King called that argument “powerful.”

The defense also took issue with the use of documents found in the homes of Hamas activists Ismail Elbarasse and Abdelhaleem Al-Ashqar. These documents are hearsay, argued defense attorneys, and date back to a time period before Hamas’ designation as a foreign terrorist organization.

One exhibit introduced during the trial was a handwritten document addressed to defendant Shukri Abu Baker, who was HLF’s chief executive. In rebuttal, Cline said that the document was simply addressed to “Shukri.”

“It could have said ‘Dear John,’ but that doesn’t mean it was written to me,” said Cline.

That evidence from the contested documents can be corroborated with other exhibits in the case, Palmer countered, such as the testimony of convicted Hamas supporter Mohamed Shorbagi, phone records showing the defendants’ personal relationships with Hamas leaders, and transcripts and documents from a 1993 Philadelphia meeting of the Palestine Committee, a U.S.-based Hamas support network.

Additionally, he argued, there is “circumstantial evidence” inside those Elbarasse and Ashqar documents themselves, such as organizational charts.

All five HLF defendants had counsel at trial. The HLF charity itself did not, however, but attorney Ranjana Natarajan filed an appeal on the charity’s behalf.

Prosecutors say that she is unable to represent the charity before the court and the appeal should be dismissed.

During the 2007 trial, Shukri Abu Baker’s attorneys dropped HLF as a client, leaving it unrepresented. That proceeding ended in a mistrial when jurors deadlocked on most counts. U.S. District Judge Jorge Solis, who presided over the 2008 trial, was never informed that HLF was not represented by any of the defense lawyers at the second trial.

You can listen to the arguments here. A decision from the appellate court is expected later this year.

Posted on 1 Sept 11 by Investigative Project on Terror

Promoting Islam at Lackland Air Force Base

Posted on August 21, 2011 by creeping

And based on the photo’s and description, enforcing sharia too. via Timothy Furnish, PhD at FSM: Promoting Islam at Lackland Air Force Base

On August 7, 2011, in a chapel converted to a mosque on Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio, Texas, the U.S. government officially became a sponsor of the Mahdi. No, not Barack Husein Obama, but a much more serious and overt candidate: Adnan Oktar, a.k.a. “Harun Yahya,” the Turkish Creationist whose followers consider him the “rightly-guided one” of Islamic tradition, expected to come before the end of time to make the entire world Muslim.

Mahdism was my original area of academic specialization within Islamic history (about which I wrote my doctoral dissertation, first book and numerous articles, and which I track via this website); I interviewed Oktar in Istanbul a few years ago; and, finally, I spent time in the military, both enlisted and commissioned, the latter training to be a chaplain. So I have some familiarity with all aspects of this troubling story, which came to my attention early on 14 August 2011 via photos posted to my Facebook page by contacts within Oktar’s organization. I contacted the Public Affairs Officer (PAO) at Lackland and, in summary, was told the following: that such “religious education” classes are provided every weekend from “other” faith perspectives (Latter Day Saints, Buddhists, Pentecostals) besides the main ones (Protestant, Roman Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Eastern Orthodox); that these are entirely voluntary; that the “program chaplain …was aware of and approved of the speaker.”

The speaker in question was from Oktar’s organization , an Islamic Creationist one, which is very inimical to Darwinian evolution as well as a strong proponent of Islamic Mahdist da`wah (“propaganda” or “evangelism”). From Istanbul Oktar presides over a publishing and Internet franchise dealing in a double-sided coin of Islamic anti-Darwinism and belief in the imminent arrival, if not presence already, of the Islamic deliverer—most likely in the guise of Oktar himself. The Harun Yahya movement resembles that of fellow Turk Fethullah Gülen, insofar as both spring from a neo-Ottoman Sufism with Mahdist overtones. But the latter, with his global chain of Islamic charter schools, is taken more seriously and viewed by many in the U.S. as an ideological threat.  The fact that Gülen lives in exile in the U.S. has so far provided him a higher profile here. But Oktar and his people, while heretofore playing Avis to Gülen’s Hertz, are definitely trying harder—and succeeding even where Gülen’s people have so far feared to tread: onto the U.S. Air Force’s only basic training installation.

According to both my sources–Oktar’s organization and the Public Affairs Office (PAO) at Lackland—on the first Sunday in August a representative of Harun Yahya was allowed, following an invitation from the Muslim chaplain at Lackland, Captain Sharior Rahman, to present two classes: a morning one on “The Collapse of Darwinism and the Fact of Creation” and an evening one covering “Miracles in the Qur’an.” It would appear that the morning class was attended solely by basic trainees, as the photo above shows (note the screen, which says “The Collapse of Evolution and the Fact of Creation”).

The Turkish Muslim group further claims about the evening class (of which I have no pictures) that “attendants were high rank officials [sic]: sergeants, master sergeants and captains. The talks were very well received and appreciated and the attendants were gifted the Quran [sic] (emphasis added). The captain presented a special medal as the token of appreciation to Mr Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya).” “The captain” would be, presumably, Chaplain Rahman—which brings up its own troubling issues, as I shall examine below.

Another picture shows a dozen female trainees, sitting separately from the males—whether out of military, or Islamic, mandate is unclear:

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The Lackland basic training command seems to have deferred to the Muslim Chaplain, Rahman, on this issue—and the PAO told me as much. I have no desire to cast aspersions on Chaplain Rahman, for I have never met him and know little about him. But if a non-mainstream group like Oktar’s can gain entrée so easily to a major US military installation simply on the Muslim chaplain’s advice, what’s to prevent another Muslim military chaplain in this, or another, branch of service from signing off on Hizb al-Tahrir’s preaching their plans for peacefully resurrecting the caliphate or Tablighi Jama’at from inculcating trainees with ideal Islamic piety and the need for shari`ah?  Both HT and TJ are non-jihadist and operate (at least in this country) via Islamic da`wah (“missionary work”), not terrorism. But should the U.S. military really have such a coarse vetting net—based on this episode—that it could very readily allow these, or similar, groups to slip through and disseminate their ideas to some of the most impressionable members of our military?

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I first learned Arabic in the mid-1980s at the Defense Language Institute, and I have been studying Middle Eastern and African Islamic history for two decades. I have no problems with Muslims attempting to spread their faith peacefully in this country, nor even with our military service members learning about Islam as an important adjunct to the global struggle in which we are engaged. What I do have a problem with—as an American, a veteran, a Christian and an Islamic expert—is Islamic groups being given access to young, impressionable basic trainees under the spurious guise of the First Amendment.

As it is, Lackland Air Force base is in the business of promoting Islam in general, and the Mahdi in particular, over the faith of the vast majority of military personnel (73% of Air Force enlisted are Christian; 0.2% are Muslim).  And that should be unacceptable to all Americans.

Posted on 21 Aug 11 by Creeping Sharia

Muslim demands for prayer breaks disrupt Colorado meat packing plant

“We know that some of our employees would like a guaranteed prayer time every day. That is not the legal requirement, and it would be impractical to accommodate this without shutting down the production line.”

Indeed — especially since the prescribed times for Muslim prayers change slightly each day. But the Denver Post, as you can see, has decided that these Muslims demanding prayer breaks are victims — “I’m sorry, I was only praying,” and “It’s not a good thing when you have a family and you are supporting your wife, your kids” — and hence must be accommodated, despite the disruption that such accommodation will cause to the plant.

There is a consensus among Muslim scholars that obligatory prayers can — in fact, must — be made up at a later time. If, then, one is working and can’t get away, one can make up the prayers later. But that is not acceptable to these workers, which reveals that the objective here is not primarily to fulfill a religious obligation, but to make American businesses bend. Here again, wherever American business practice conflicts with Islamic law, it is American business practice that must give way. There is never any bending, any accommodation whatsoever in the other direction.

“Fort Morgan meatpacking plant strives, struggles to accommodate Muslim workforce,” by Eric Gorski for The Denver Post, August 21 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

FORT MORGAN — One afternoon this summer, Asha Abuukar said, she approached her supervisor at the Cargill Meat Solutions plant and got permission to go on break.

She washed in accordance with Islamic principles and prayed in a “reflection room” Cargill has set aside where beef is boxed and sealed.

When she returned two minutes late, she said, her supervisor told her that if it happened again, she would be fired.

“I’m sorry,” Abuukar, 41, who also runs a Somali market in town, recalled replying. “I was only praying.”

Although Cargill’s Fort Morgan operation has escaped controversy over accommodating the religious needs of its Muslim workforce, an undercurrent of problems exists, according to current and former workers and Somali translators.

Company officials say they respect religious rights and follow the law but cannot undermine a plant that produces 4 million pounds of beef daily.

“We know that some of our employees would like a guaranteed prayer time every day,” said Cargill spokesman Michael Martin. “That is not the legal requirement, and it would be impractical to accommodate this without shutting down the production line.”

He said the company accommodates the vast majority of daily prayer requests.

Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, employers cannot deny a “reasonable” religious accommodation request as long as it does not pose an undue hardship, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Muslims pray five times a day at prescribed times that move depending on the sun’s position. That can pose challenges for plants with many Muslim workers. One-fourth of Cargill’s 2,000 workers are Somali, company officials say.

The number of federal workplace-discrimination complaints filed by Muslims shot up in 2009 and 2010, to almost 800 each year, the EEOC says. Those numbers eclipsed the decade’s previous high mark the year after 9/11.

“It’s not a good thing when you have a family and you are supporting your wife, your kids,” said Abdinasser Ahmed, a former Cargill worker….

Posted on 22 Aug 11 by Jihadwatch

ACLU and CAIR suing Feds over mosque infiltration to seek out potential terrorists

Posted: August 6, 2011 | Author: barenakedislam

What’s wrong with infiltrating the places where terrorists learn their trade? At least Eric Holder is using the state secrets rule that says disclosing further information about the surveillance operation could cause significant harm to national security.

Why do we allow the taxpayer-funded ACLU to always litigate on behalf of America’s enemies like CAIR? The suit accuses the FBI of paying Southern California resident Craig Monteilh to go undercover, infiltrate mosques and record conversations in search for potential terrorists.

posted on 6 Aug 11 by BNI

Looks like NJ Governor Chris Christie is deeper in bed with the Islamists than we suspected

Posted: August 5, 2011 | Author: barenakedislam

Christie blasts “CRAZIES” for their objection to his appointment of a Muslim judge who worked to get several Islamic terrorist suspects out of jail. Says all this “shari’a law business is just crap.”

(Christie is no Allen West, that’s for sure. But this little ‘Muslims are all wonderful’ hissy fit of Christie’s makes it more than apparent why he stubbornly refused to oppose construction of the Ground Zero Victory Mosque. I guess we have to say ‘Allahu Akbar’ to you, fatboy)

Christie’s Muslim Judicial Appointee says the Fort Dix Six Terrorists had “NOTHING TO DO WITH ISLAM”

Mediaite – (H/T The Blaze) The New Jersey governor appointed a Muslim judge this year, something Herman Cain said he would never do (but then backtracked), and during a press conference yesterday answered questions about it.

Or more appropriately put, he delivered a trademarked, passionate tongue-lashing of those who questioned his decision.

Christie’s appointment of Muslim Sohail Mohammed to a state bench this week ruffled some feathers among some who fear the threat of Sharia Law, but when asked about those concerns, Gov. Christie made clear he had no patience for such “ignorance,” calling the complaints “crap.”  Christie argued, adding that he was “disgusted, candidly, by some of the questions he was asked… at the Senate judiciary committee.”

“Ignorance is behind the criticism of Sohail Mohammed,” he told a reporter asking about the complaints that he may be inadequate to be a judge because he defended Muslims who were  arrested post-9/11.

But it was a follow-up question on the fear of Sharia Law that set the governor off. “Sharia Law has nothing to do with this at all, it’s crazy!” he cried. “The guy is an American citizen!” He concluded that the “Sharia Law business is just crap… and I’m tried of dealing with the crazies,” adding with disgust and frustration that “it’s just unnecessary to be accusing this guy of things just because of his religious background.”

Christie being combative at a reporter is so, but it is particularly significant in that it gives one an idea of what Gov. Christie would sound like on the matter as a (now unlikely) presidential candidate.

It begs the questions: what would Gov. Christie have said on a podium across from Herman Cain while he insisted that “American law in American courts, period” was one of the more important platform issues of his campaign, or how he would respond to other states banning Sharia Law?

Posted on 5 Aug 11 by BNI