Category: The Opposition

Gordon: “…a demonstrable pushback against stealth jihad”

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That is what Jerry Gordon said about the vote in a Florida city council meeting to put off adding (for now) a Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) activist and former chairman to the Human Rights Commission there.  In a post at New English Review yesterday, Gordon reports:

Another pushback against stealth jihad occured in Jacksonville, Florida. A coordinated effort by the ACT for America Chapter in Jacksonville, Florida Security Council, Former Muslims United and a major state political figure stopped cold an attempt by the Mayor and City council to ‘rubber stamp’ the appointment to the City Human Rights Commission of former Council of American Islamic relations (CAIR) National Chairman, Professor Parvez Ahmed of the University of North Florida. Professor Ahmed is a vigorous proponent of Sharia Finance. Ahmed lead CAIR, a Muslim Brotherhood front group, from 2005 until his resignation in July, 2008.

After being besieged with emails and calls, the Jacksonville City council voted 12 to 5 to defer the vote, originally scheduled for today, April 13, to early next week. Under Jacksonville City Council Res. 2010-193, Ahmed would have been appointed to the municipal Human Rights Commission for an initial one year term. That may not eventuate given today’s coordinated surprise.

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Today was an example of what happens when a working coalition of grass roots activists, former Muslims, and state political leaders intervene to get local politicians to wake up about perpetrating perfidy by appointing a former CAIR national chairman Pervez Ahmed to the City’s Human Rights Commission. The irony is that Pervez is steeped in doctrinal Islam that rejects the human rights of all unbelievers and sanctions death Fatwas against former Muslims.

This was a demonstrable push back against ‘stealth jihad’.

Read it all.

What’s up with this ‘human rights commissions and directors’ issue?  Is this the latest push by Islamic supremacists and the Far Left to control speech and frankly you.  I noticed in the post I wrote about St. Cloud, here, that the professor was demanding the city of St. Cloud hire a “human rights director.”  They really are a bunch of fascist control freaks!

What a coincidence, CAIR is involved in St. Cloud too!

Michelle Malkin:The Pfleger-ization of the Catholic Church

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Michelle Malkin has posted a good column today in which she tells us more about the role of the Far Left US Conference of Catholic Bishops—one of the top federal refugee contractors that we have discussed many times on these pages.    Here is one post at RRW about how much of your tax dollars the USCCB receives.  95% of its refugee budget is from you when it was supposed to be a public-private partnership.   If they use only a tiny fraction of their overall funding for refugees that leaves many millions available for their political agenda.   And, I sure hope they aren’t dipping into their refugee funds for political organizing!

It’s just the sort of thing Planned Parenthood does.  They say they don’t use their taxpayer funding for abortions, but for other “educational” and political activities which then leaves more of their own funding for abortions.

Without your money the USCCB political agenda would be crippled!

Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights launders your tax dollars to ethnic advocacy groups

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Your tax dollars:

Nice sounding name, right, sounds like they are doing good things for struggling immigrants and refugees in Illinois. Right? Wrong!  If only taxpayers and Tea Partiers had a clue about how tax money is funneled into lobbying, it would make them sick.  As a matter of fact, without taxpayer funding there wouldn’t have been much of a March on America two weeks ago.

Just now browsing around I learned that the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) was a key organizer for the lobbyists and demonstrators who attended the Marxist March on America here.  So, I wanted to see exactly what they do.  Their website says:

ICIRR is dedicated to promoting the rights of immigrants and refugees to full and equal participation in the civic, cultural, social, and political life of our diverse society.

In partnership with our member organizations, the Coalition educates and organizes immigrant and refugee communities to assert their rights; promotes citizenship and civic participation; monitors, analyzes, and advocates on immigrant-related issues; and, informs the general public about the contributions of immigrants and refugees.

Not much here about helping those poor refugees who have been suffering in Chicago, living in slums and having no work—you know the ones supposedly taken care of by the Heartland Alliance.   Maybe some of the ICIRR’s millions could be used to actually help suffering people, or is the word “refugee” in their name only to give them political cover?

But, what is most maddening about the fact that the ICIRR is really a lobbying outfit and money launderer for Left wing political advocacy is that 78% of their money comes from unsuspecting taxpayers!   Check out their 2008 Form 990 here.  Note that their income that year was $6,153,133 and that $4,770,755 came from governments (you! the federal taxpayer and the Illinois taxpayer).

And, adding more insult to injury they gave $3,685,364 to all sorts of ethnic advocacy groups that likely could not have gotten government funding on their own because of what they do, some of  them are not even in Illinois.  I was shocked to see they gave $50,000 of your tax dollars to Casa de Maryland a notorious lobbying outfit for illegal immigrants in Maryland, not to mention the funding they gave to other pro-amnesty advocacy groups in other states. 

Do the people of Illinois know their tax money is leaving the state of Illinois via a money laundering scheme?

I’m not really suprised by all this, it wasn’t completely new information to me, I told you about ICIRR, money laundering and Obama here two years ago.

And, by the way, remember how open borders advocates sat-in at RNC headquarters and demanded a meeting with Michael Steele, well ICIRR’s Executive director was among them, here.   Here  the ICIRR is linked with the Council on American Islamic Relations in Chicago.  Need I say more.

Level the playing field!  CUT OUT ALL TAXPAYER FUNDING FOR ADVOCACY GROUPS OF ALL STRIPES!

Lindsey Graham says “immigration reform” dead for this year

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Maybe, maybe not, but we’ll take if for now.  Thanks to Susan for sending this story from The Hill.   Senator Graham (R-SC) says that the healthcare debate has “poisoned the well.” 

Let’s now hope that Michael Steele doesn’t see any need to meet with the agitators who sat-in at RNC headquarters recently.  You can bet the DNC would have called the cops if there had been 75 conservatives who parked themselves inside DNC headquarters.

Open borders activists bullied RNC into meeting with them!

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Now imagine if this had been 75 Tea Party activists sitting in at the DNC headquarters, it would be a front page story about violence and intimidation at the Washington Post and New York Times!  I hadn’t even heard about this until I found it at some Open Borders blog!   This is who FIRM represents!  (Refugee agencies too!)

From Standing FIRM “Activists Shut down RNC:”

While everyone was still riding high on the wave of excitement from the March for America, there was a group of 75 activists that woke up that next morning ready for more.

Early Monday morning, the group of youth, faith leaders and immigration advocates entered the Republican National Committee (RNC) headquarters with one goal: a meeting with RNC Chairman Michael Steele about GOP support for immigration reform.

The group quietly and peacefully walked into the headquarters and staged a sit-in, praying, singing and sharing stories while RNC employees tried their best to ignore them and go about business as usual.

They bullied Michael Steele into a meeting!

And we won. Eventually, we got a hold of RNC Deputy Director of Coalitions Manuel “Manny” A. Rosales, who talked to Steele. Steele agreed to a meeting on March 31st with 6 of our representatives from around the country.

Learn all about what happened and who sponsored the March on America, here.