Radical Speech at NY Muslim Parade Prompts On-Stage Walk-Off
On the other hand, a colleague with me at the event pointed out that some Muslims glanced at the extremist literature and immediately dropped it or put it back down with an irritated look on their faces. The ideological struggle within the Muslim-American community was on display, though its quiet nature made it only visible to the most interested observers.
The video captured by The United West also demonstrates the dynamics between the largely Islamist leadership of the Muslim-American community, even though the community itself is largely non-Islamist.
At the parade, the Islamists had a position of prominence. They were the ones with the prestige to speak to the audience. These two speakers were leaders. The majority of the parade attendees may not share their extreme views, but there was no audible backlash. No one stood to challenge them.
This happens on a broader level across the country. Groups that originated in the Muslim Brotherhood, like the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America, the North American Islamic Trust, and the Muslim Public Affairs Council, lead the community even if the majority would never support the Muslim Brotherhood or its Palestinian branch, Hamas.
Only 24% of Muslim-American men and 19% of Muslim-American women feel represented by these groups. Almost half of Muslim-American adults oppose mosques getting involved in political matters at all. Yet it’s hard to see any internal challenge to the Brotherhood-linked groups, though that’s changing slowly due to the admirable work of people like Jasser.
Having speakers such as those in The United West’s video spreads Islamist themes and reinforces prejudices that non-Islamist Muslims then have to overcome. It makes the work of anti-Islamist Muslims much harder because it keeps them unseen, tucked away in a corner, looking around for a microphone to use to voice their protests. The Obama administration, government officials, and even some churches are all complicit in embracing the Brotherhood groups as their outreach partners, while groups like the American Islamic Leadership Coalition are left out in the cold.
The episode at this year’s Muslim Day Parade in New York is a reminder of the prominent place Islamists hold in our country.
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This article was sponsored by the Institute on Religion and Democracy.
But, left/libtards, these are the folk you value and love unlike Americans or nations like Israel who are our friends!
A silent majority is a complicit majority.
Short, sweet and to the point. It doesn’t get any clearer than this.
Why would any politician attend “Muslim Day”? That’s like going to “Klan Day” — you know what you’re going to hear, and you know it’s going to make your skin crawl.
Less like the Klan and more like a totalitarian “party” like the Nazis. Indeed, the little secret is the mutual support of Islamists and the Nazis before 1945–even to the extent of supplying soldiers for the Wermacht.
ya the nazis tried to get a muslim division but they really sucked, so the Germans disbanded them, something about stealing each others gear.
It’s here, Sharia, all it takes is some politician looking for votes and people who are scared and wish peace at any price, people who are ignorant of Islam, folks who won’t walk away but remain there grinning like a Dhimmi Carter, and most of all the ones who don’t vote, don’t care and will go about their lives unaware until they are muzzled, silenced and disarmed who will ask way to late, “What happened I thought I had rights?”
Show some intelligence America, walk away, show some guts politician’s walk away from this evil cult.
Just walk away.
No – you can’t just walk away. You – me – everyone who disagrees with this hateful rhetoric needs to stand up and defend freedom – defend free speech – and defend democracy and our country from this assault. Our Republic will not last if we simply walk away. We need to confront militant islam (is there any other flavor?) wherever it crops up.
I concur. An object in motion tends to stay in motion until acted upon by an equal and opposite force. We must be that equal (or more) and opposite force.
When did we become a Country of wussies who “walk away”? We cannot even use the word “Terrorism” anymore. I think we’ve “turned the other cheek” enough this month. Walk away to arm up maybe. How about a law that bans Sharia be a consideration in any way, shape or form in our judicial system? A law that garbage like this is “hate speech” and incite to riot? Where’s the Drones when ya need ‘em!
Glad to see at least one Democrat has the good sense and cojones to demostrate disgust at that garbage. Too bad ObamaRx doesn’t do the same.
Yes this democrat, probably a supporter of our muslim president, got up and walked away, but notice that he would not respond to what he heard. He did not rebuff the suggestions of these two speakers who should have been taken right to a boat and shipped back to from whence they came. When the time comes to stand up for our country, these muslims will have already cut off our legs.
I guess this reinforces the notion that the Dems thought we were making it all up. I thought, maybe, that they knew all this crap about radical muslims and just covered for them to make conservatives look bad, but it looks like at least some of them are really just this naive.
To much radicalism even for a democrat. It’s good he ran away from these terrorists.
I will never understand why some people will go through all the hoops of emigration, spending money that they sometimes don’t have, many of them risking their lives, looking to get to the land of freedom, to be all they could be, but mainly to escape the hellholes they were born into, only to arrive here and try to turn this great and generous country into the hellhole they escaped from.
Because it’s their religious duty to take the fight into Dar al Harb.
Your reply to Miles beat me to the punch. Yes Miles, you’re going to find that they are here to change America, not to share in its bounty or its opportunities.
Remember Project VISTA? Anyway, like CARE, it started in the 60′s to provide
outreach, except VISTA was primarily domestic. Senator Rockefeller started his political career as a “VISTA VOLUNTEER.” I think the program, having served its purpose of establishing Rockefeller’s bona fides, closed up shop shortly thereafter. Well, settlement is the muslim world’s PROJECT VISTA, except they have a much better deal. They come here to settle and establish shariah normalcy and WE PUT THEM ON WELFARE. How cool is that. Hell, who wouldn’t volunteer for that gig?
Didn’t mean to leave the above as anonymous to Rob and Miles!
Half the PITA lefties here in Alaska came here as VISTA volunteers, too. That’s one we should get overs on.
Maybe they are being paid to relocate. I suspect Saudi Arabia is financing many of these immigrants.
I have the same problem with people that leave a bankrupt state, like say California, move to a more conservative state like say Colorado or Wyoming and then immediately proceed to try and change their new home to be like the old one.
Boggles the mind.
It’s called “Californication.”
I’m a Californian and left the state in 95 because of the economy. I was a liberal (had no choice – they brainwash well) but my first President that I voted for (twice) was Reagan. Lived 4 years in Oklahoma where my de-libbing began. I never voted there. Went to Virginia and voted for Gore. Then my “enlightenment” happened because I worked for a newspaper and I would get spammed.
During Clinton’s admin the spammers would call him a, “pot-smoking-skirtchasing-draftdodger,” and I thought, “Well that’s rude. True! But how RUDE to say it out loud!” Then Bush won and I thought, “Oh Lord! This will be a long 4 years.”
Then the lib spammers started. The man had not even taken office and I was getting, “Massmurdering-bloodsoaked-nazi-babdykiller.” and worse! And I thought – REALLY???? My eyes were opened at that point and I didn’t even NEED 911 to switch my allegance.
NOW? I’m worse than a former smoker around smokers (and I’ve been one of those!). I’m so far to the right that you could put Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro and Chavez in a boat and I would still tilt it to the starboard!
You HAVE learned well, not many on the right even realize Hitler was a man of the left. You are on course. I am of the few that has stayed behind in California and am trying to reverse course. It is a monumental task but I know not where to go. Funny back in 94 I had breakfast , al fresco, at a cafe in Salida, Co.The 2 couples at the next table were going on and on about how some Californians moved into their nich and were in the process of trying to change things. I was very amused but I also understood how correct they were. When I got up to leave I stopped by their table and told them to keep up the fight that Californians had ruined my home State. They all looked pleased that we were all kindered spirits in the same fix then one asked where my home State was. I said California of course. They looked sullen for a moment until I started cracking up and they got a good chuckle too. Californian lefties ruined it and then like an Imam the go out to spread the word.
Same thing happens when California liberals move to Texas, or any other sensible state. They bring their misguided views with them and try to make the new state just like the disaster they left. A leopard can’t change its spots.
“Extremism at the Muslim Day Parade isn’t anything new.”
Not new on the streets of Manhattan. Parades are optional.
So, did any muslims at the gathering say anything or walk away in disgust? I thought not.
If there were a moderate contingent, the vocal haters of the west would be an almost tolerable minority. In fact they are neither tolerable nor a minority.
Stand up for your country. It’s not an airport at the service of the Third World, or morons who take advantage of laws they have no ability or interest in creating or maintaining.
End all immigration; it’s not rocket science.
I would like to start taking the country back AT the airports! I’m tired of the Gestapo baby molestors subjecting us to humiliations every time we choose to purchase a mode of transportation. WE are the consumers! WE PAID for a service. THEY have NEVER stopped a terrorist attack.
I don’t know how many times on threads I’ve pointed out that any “thwarted” attack has been stopped by PASSENGERS and NEVER by the TSA only to be slapped down by sheeple who willingly give up the right to their own PERSONS to be “safe” on a flight.
We are NOT the people we used to be!
I think the point of the article is (1) we have to stop giving official defacto sanction to the Islamofascist front groups like CAIR, and (2) be more perceptive in recognizing there are muslim Americans who disagree with the front groups but have to do it quietly. I wonder if a loudly championed, enforced defense of domestic free speech would create enough security for moderate/apolitical muslims to start speaking out? At least such might create conditions in which we could more accurately assess whether or not or how many moderate/apolitical muslims there are in CONUS.
“Islamic Thinkers Society” That’s a rather oxymoronic-sounding group. Wonder what abstruse topics they discuss. “How to nail custard to the ceiling.” “Underwater glassblowing.” “Child rape for fun and profit (prophet?)”
I can’t agree with the maker of the video that State Sen. Avella “is to be commended”. What was he doing there in the first place? And why is he oh-so-sensitive about not wanting to “ruin the event for someone else”, when those Someones are quite evidently jihadists?
I think he was so upset that he was afraid he’d say what he really wanted to on camera. Like any good politician, he wanted to compose his thoughts so he wouldn’t hurt his election chances. It certainly would have been far more commendable if he had interrupted the nonsense, or had spoken in his turn against the two radical speakers, or had been willing to express his disgust vividly and on camera right away. Nonetheless, he did take the baby step of refusing to support it. Maybe after he has an opportunity to think about it, he will actively condemn it. He just was too naive to believe there were people who not only believed that crap, but that they felt comfortable proclaiming it. His mind was shattered.
One can only hope this woke him up, but it may not have….
You hear people like this and Americans just shrug their shoulders and don’t seem to care. That type of apathy, though, led to the attacks on 9/11/2001. And this president’s appeasement to nations that market that type of rhetoric paved the way to our ambassador being murdered on 9/11/2012.
It seems that we have the same mindset that brought us to our first 9/11 in 2001 and we don’t seem that outraged when newer acts of terrorism take place just two weeks ago. After all, what has been done to avenge the death of our ambassador and three other Americans? Has Obama even bothered to order a drone strike against anybody in retaliation to that attack? Not a peep. It reminds me of the lack of reaction from the United States after the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen. And that attack led to the horror on 9/11/2001. Seems like we have yet another Democratic president that is determined to follow the same mistakes of Bill Clinton when it comes to appeasing terrorists.
I do want to emphasize that Avella was a marshal and had already marched in the parade. So he’d already participated in the deed. He just didn’t like the cuddling afterward. In order to atone we must first admit our wrong. Then we must make amends. Mr. Avella, I’m still waiting.
the walk off was political self-preservation. Being the marshal of such an event in the first place enables the shed blood of 9/11 victims and other american patriots who have fallen to islamic hate to stain his hands.
“On the other hand, a colleague with me at the event pointed out that some Muslims glanced at the extremist literature and immediately dropped it or put it back down with an irritated look on their faces. The ideological struggle within the Muslim-American community was on display, though its quiet nature made it only visible to the most interested observers.”
Yeah, and they will remain silent because otherwise they get in trouble with the radicals. Guess who end up the winners… Well, no need to guess really, look at the Arab world, especially those Arab Spring countries.
Read: Silent Majority Does Not Matter: A German View of Islam.
http://pakteahouse.net/2009/04/12/silent-majority-does-not-matter-a-german-view-of-islam/
Well it’s nice that some of those Muslims present were “uncomfortable” over the tone of the literature but what else did they do? I like to think that if I came on a group from the Aryan Brotherhood holding a street rally and calling for the extermination of blacks and Jews I certainly wouldn’t hang around. And if there was a protest group handy I like to think I would join it.
I realize that it must be tough to be a “moderate Muslim” in the U.S. (or anywhere else) these days but the day is approaching (and approachng pretty fast) when this group to have to decide where they stand. Do they stand for Western values of personal liberty and free expression or for the dictates of an increasingly intolerant Islam? This should prove interesting.
Nah! The day they should have chosen was on 9/11/01. They have already chosen!
In fact, before 911 I never saw a hajib or burka. Since that day they are all over the place. That’s an IN.YOUR.FACE! statement to me.
They have already chosen.
Muslims have destroyed their country and now want to destroy ours. Send them all back and refuse entry to all.
Change the words “Islamist” and “Muslim-American” to “radical leftist” and “Democrat”, respectively, and this is an accurate portrait of the Democratic party today, as defined over a decade ago by Zell Miller in his book A National Party No More.
This probably explains why the leadership of the “progressives” here cannot bring themselves to criticize Islamists, and spend most of their time blaming the rest of us for Islamists’ outrages. (Kind of like the little kid who tells his mother who’s just been beaten up by her raging, alcoholic husband, “If you’d be nicer to Daddy he wouldn’t act this way”.) They see the Islamists as fellow avant-garde’ “innovators”, “freedom fighters”, and campaigners against the evil civilization they hate- namely, ours.
The poem and various fulminations heard there could have come from any “poetry jam” or Democratic Party political rally in San Francisco, Greenwich Village… or for that matter, Harvard, OSU, or the White House under its present management.
These are not sane people. Either lot.
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Then there is the issue of demography. Any loyal party member works for the future of his party, as well as the present. The demographics, based on today’s open boarders, anti-voter-ID policies, birth-control, etc. are anything but good news for our Judeo-Christian-atheist-agnostic society.
Political families want their little juniors and junioritas to become Senator Corleone, Congressman Corleone, something. So what if they have to give up eating bacon.
Sorry, the violent cult and false pig-”prophet” Mohammad can stick it where the sun don’t shine.
This is a America jack. You don’t like free speech get the &#$^&$ out of my country. We need to ride into “parades” like this (used to be known has inciting violence) with some police riding horses and swinging batons.
Sorry people, Muslims who aren’t violent aren’t following their own teachings.
I’m going to go a little oout on a limb and asy that every faith has it’s own percentage of nutjobs and that part of the price of living in a free society is having to put up with them. There are some Christians (hello Terry Jones) out there and we should just hope that they wither on the vine.
However the nutjob element in Islam has managed, with the considerable help of our craven Western political classes and neutered media, to put it’s agenda front and center in our politics and dare anyone to oppose it. Here we have a “Muslim Day Parade” with a featured speaker advocating blasphemy laws and the abolition of the principle of freedom of speech. Kudos to Mr. Avella for walking off the stage but where was the outcry from the “moderate Muslims” we hear so much about?
This is the deal – These organizations are going to keep pushing and pushing this because they know that they can get away with it. They are serous and know that the rest of us aren’t. Imagine if, for some reason, this guy was prevented from speaking at this function or the entire “Muslim day Parade” was banned as a “threat to public order.” This would have been the signal for more “outraged protests” from Pakistan to Libya complete with burned-out consulates and quite a few deaths. And it would have been our fault just as the “Innocence of Muslims” was our fault and the putative “cause” of the most recent violent outbreaks.
Radical Islam is setting up a situation where it is impossible for us to win because any protest of THEIR extremism will result in mass disorder across the globe. If we aren’t careful we will soon be signing on to their proposed blasphemy laws and aresting those insufficiently respectful toward Islam.
Terry Jones? Really? And what violence has this man caused? Where are his rampaging Chistians killing and destroying? How many mosques has he destroyed? How many people has he incited to go out and kill muslims?
None? Thought not!
Take a deeper breath.
That Terry Jones was only mentioned in passing as one of our nut-jobs. There’s no denying that.
Your dramatic, exaggerated extension of his influence is “Far Out!”…..as the Youth of today say.
Only a nutjob would stand up to Islam, the Western Left, the Leftist media bullies and the Powers That Be in the Obama Administration and the Dearborn City Administration.
May God bless Pastor Terry Jones!
You are prolly in school still…I hope or just young because you are ingnoranance on fire.
No one here is saying this idiot Terry Jones has any say.
He’s an idiot.
But Terry Jones will be arrested as soon as he starts spouting his idiocy which of course is the double standard we are speaking of.
Why?
Well he’s a Christian and they do get arrested here in Canada simply for preaching.
And if you don’t get how that’s a problem young Lolly…well there you go.
You want him censored where as I personally don’t want these jihadists cenesored but I/we do want the rules to apply to all consistently.
That’s where the problem lies.
Once the censorship starts Lolly who’s to say your’re not going to be next to be censored?
Plus I don’t see all that many Christians blowing things up around our world on a daily bases but we certainly do see one of the SMALL MINORITY OF MUSLIMS doing just that on a daily bases.
Truth is tough stuff.
Re #22 Chambers…..
“…. but where was the outcry from the “moderate Muslims” we hear so much about?”
Thank you for posting that, which I’ll seize upon here to say yet again:
These “moderate Muslims” are walking oxymorons. The very phrase itself is nauseous and oxymoronic. Don’t ask me to quote their Koran…..it’s been well explained by Daniel Pipes and pointed out daily at Robert Spencer’s “Jihad Watch”. Read for yourselves.
Elsewhere I’ve posted the analogy that these nervous “moderate Muslims” are straddling a very thorny hedge with the sharpest points very close to their testicles. I want to take these “moderates” by the shoulders and force these “moderates” down upon the thorns.
But we must do this legally. Hence we’re very much ‘hoist on our own petard’ and the Muslims skillfully use this against us in the form of the Hamas-affiliated C.A.I.R.’s “Lawfare”.
Washington…we have one helluva dilemma…..and……it’s Election Time.
They have a hard time deciding upon which shade of hypocrisy they’ll endorse, but whatever the hue, at either end of their most peculiar spectrum, it remains crass Muslim hypocrisy until they declare themselves to be either for the America which has hosted them and has provided them an opportunity for the material prosperity which they supposedly disdain, yet eagerly strive for….or at least it’s my understanding that their mullahs and imams so preach……or they must proclaim themselves against us, and so doing negate the very prosperity they’ve achieved amongst us unwashed, filthy infidels. Then they must be declared enemy aliens-in-residence. Those who’re “anchor babies” have created a problem similar to the Mexicans who’ve slipped across the Rio Grande.
It’s in effect our own fault that we (the Congress?…fat chance..) haven’t yet called these Muslims out for what they are….they can’t because they (both parties) want the votes.
How many remember Franklin Roosevelt’s quarantining the Japanese nationals and U.S. Citizens of Japanese descent…or at least they somehow possessed our papers…..in 1942? Remember Franklin Roosevelt, that shrinking-violet of a Liberal in his time?
I like that expression, “hoist on our own petard”……..look it up. The petard of political correctness.
Now….what do we do?
“Edmund Burke had it wrong; for evil to triumph all one needs is an ENABLER” – Robert Bidinotto, Hunter: A Thriller.
Cowardice and silence is ENABLING!
The irony that these people come to America and exercise their free speech, freedom of religion and freedome of assembly to demonize Zionist Nazis and to curtail the free speech, freedome of worship and assembly of their host country.
It is time to put the red lines out for these people to see clearly. We need anti sharia provisions voted on state by state to ackowledge the supremcy of our laws and the FACT that we will not tolerate any muslim “no go zones”, muslim “sanctuary cities” and other manifestations of this political movement. Islam is NOT a relgion. Get over it. They want to take over the US via stealth jihad and have made great progress on all fronts. We need to wake up to this threat. First step is throw the Muslim in chief in the WH out in November.
Oh, what a missed opportunity! I’m bitterly disappointed that our NY Senator did not stay and give a fiery speech denouncing the Muslim God-haters who loath America, Israel and the Free World; whose goal is in obedience to the commands of the infidel-hating Quran to DESTROY our FREEDOM and HUMAN RIGHTS. To wage jihad against us and conquer America and all nations.
For our very survival, the TRUTH about totalitarian, barbaric Islam must be proclaimed all over the Free World. Or the darkest night will descend on our nations.
These people are causing war and problems across the world. This is why we are going to end up here with one in our own country.
500 hippies in Liberty Plaza–global news. 1000 jihadis march past Liberty Plaza–what march? Jill Abramson and Brian Williams are too busy inventing new Romney scandals to bother with domestic terrorists marching on Wall Street.
Ya know its odd but I would think that these sort of gatherings would be more of a celebration of being grateful for living in a country where they (Muslims) are free to live, work, play and practice their faith unhindered in a Free Nation showing mutual respect to fellow citizens, ooooooooooops I guess that makes me Islamophobic, damn it I was doing so good. This is a result of misguided policies from the 70′s that disregarded assimilation.
they hate america.
they hate you and me.
you think the USA belongs to you?
no, they will tell you it belongs to mohammed and they are here to take it back.
and these are the ‘level headed’ mohammedans.
We know this is happening EVERYWHERE in N.A.
Here in Toronto the jihadists are protected.
We as Christians are arrested asap and cuffed at many events that we choose to watch.
The Muslims have posters that that say things like “Destroy Isreal”,F— Freedom, etc…and if we have posters that reciprocate as in f— Islam we are told we are incenting a riot so take it dowm or be cuffed.
You’ll see many of these vids on http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca.
This is one of the only stations that is covering what is really going on.
So what to do freedom lovers?
For most of us we need to at least speak up and write our MPs here in Canada consistently.
But at the least stand up and share some of this “stuff.”
We need to fight this.
I’m not going down without fighting and I’m ready for “pitch forks” so to speak.
Why?
Because these radicals WILL NOT STOP UNTIL SHARIA LAW IS IMPOSED.
Then you can we can all have our women wearing their very own bee keepers outfits.
I have a young daughter and that is simply not happening while I’m above ground.
But it is going in that direction and speeding up now that you folks have your own “black Muslim” president.
I did not say that by the way…Pop culture idiot Madonna said that during a concert two nights ago.
Stop being afraid some of you are wake up!!
no more negative vibes.
we gotta celebrate this diversity.
you will have no future if you insult the prophet mohammed. you will get your heads handed to you. (they tell you to hold out your hands, the swordsman cuts off your head soo fast you still stand and they place your head in your out stretched hands so that your last view is your headless body).
it had been proven during the reign of terror in france that the brsin functions for some limited time after decaptitation.
so all of you have no future when sharia law shows up.
lets celebrate this diversity NOW.
what we need is more political correctness and truth commissions to fine and jail the dissenters.
adios,
harv
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Overall, the best issue I have seen from you.Well done.