On 11/15/2006 Glenn Beck hosted a program on CNN Headline News called Exposed: The Extremist Agenda. It was the first time I’ve ever seen some of the things discussed on this blog and some others covered on CNN. Some of the hate and lies spread across the Muslim world were exposed. Also, Beck tried to show what he felt were voices standing against those who some call “Radicals”, although the so-called Radicals say that they are the true followers of “pure Islam”. One voice Beck presented as one of moderation was Dr. Aslam Abdullah.
Transcript excerpt from Exposed: The Extremist Agenda
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BECK (voice-over): A couple of months ago, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq urged his supporters to each kill at least one American in the next 15 days. It was a shocking statement, but hardly surprising.
Then, just a few days later, I came across a response to that message of hate that was surprising. It said, “You hid in your caves and behind the faces of civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq. You have abandoned God and have started worshipping your own Satanic egos that rejoice at the killing of innocent people.”
Why do I say that statement, something that many of us agree with, is surprising? Because the man who wrote it is a Muslim. He lives right here in the United States.
BECK: Dr. Aslam Abdullah, he is the director of the Islamic Society of Nevada. He is the author of that powerful letter, and he joins me now.
Doctor, thank you so much for being a part of the program.
ASLAM ABDULLAH, DIRECTOR, ISLAMIC STUDIES OF NEVADA: Thank you very much for having me on your show.
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Here is his article We’re Muslim-Americans - kill us, too. I must say it certainly is a powerful piece. A Muslim verbally putting his own neck on the line as a fellow American. I’m sure most Americans like myself were pleased to see such a powerful stand. But does Dr. Aslam Abdullah really stand for what me and most other Americans stand for? I have my doubts. Because while much of his writing regarding domestic American Muslims is what one would call material of a moderate nature, reading his foreign policy writing looks almost like a piece from Hamas or Hezbollah, sprinkled with his renouncing the use of violence. In my reading his writings related to America and the Middle East, I felt I was reading material from an Islamist front man. Dr. Abdullah is the director of the Islamic Society of Nevada and also newspaper editor for the Los Angeles based Minaret and Detroit based Muslim Observer.
Here are some things about Dr. Abdullah that Glenn Beck didn’t tell you about. Maybe Beck didn’t know.
Jihad in California
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In February 2003, Aslam Abdullah, Vice Chairman of MPAC , was asked about the authenticity of a threatening audio tape containing the voice of Osama Bin Laden:
“No one knows the origin of this or any other tapes. Al-Jazeera says that it received those tapes and the CIA analysts say that they have verified Bin Laden’s voice. But no one gives accurate and factual information about these tapes. The world wants to know the reality of these and many other tapes. The world wants to understand the origin the validity of his statements and the legitimacy of his ideas. Moreover, the world wants to know his whereabouts.
“The US has spent billions of dollars on its war on terrorism. Yet it has so far not been able to find out the whereabouts of Bin Laden. Why? That is a big question…..
“It seems that Bin Laden serves a useful purpose for the CIA planners and Pentagon officials. They use his so-called tapes to create panic and initiate legislative or policy issues. One does not really know if these tapes are real. Technology has advanced to such an extent that everything is possible.”
On November 30, 2002, Aslam Abdullah participated in a question and answer session on IslamOnline.net entitled “The Truth Behind America’s War on Terrorism.” His conspiratorial views on Zionism and Israel were telling:
“Those who are part of the political Zionist movement in America want to ensure that no one ever comes close to challenging their power in Washington. They want to intellectually destroy everything that endangers their interests. They know it very well that without the support of the United States or any of the world superpowers, their country, namely Israel, would not be able to pursue its apartheid and racist policies in the Middle East. They will use every means possible to ensure that American administration stays on their side. They will create false enemies, they will distort facts, they will manipulate events; and they will concoct and fabricate lies. They have taken America hostage. Americans realize that, and many in the country have started speaking up. The political Zionists want to silence them before they become louder. They realize that young Muslim Americans are in the forefront of this movement of liberating America from the influence of racist policies of political Zionists. They want to silence them. The best way to discredit Islam and Muslims and use all the propaganda tools against them.”
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Suddenly he does not sound so much like a proud American. Read all of that when you can.
And check this out:
An Activist’s Guide to Arab and Muslim Campus and Community Organizations in North America
By Stephen Schwartz FrontPageMagazine.com | May 26, 2003
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The Minaret, also published in Los Angeles by the Islamic Center of Southern California, is infamous for its anti-Jewish cartoons. Its May 2002 issue featured a tasteful headline: ‘Axis of Evil: The United States, Israel, and Arab governments,’ adorned by a graphic of a rattlesnake. In it, editor Aslam Abdullah accused Israel of pursuing ‘a policy adopted by Henry Kissinger in 1979 that called for a final solution of the Palestinian problem.’ If this is not the language of incitement, what is?
In the April 27-May 2, 2002, issue of the Michigan-based Muslim Observer (www.muslimobserver.com), we find an article titled ‘Eyewitness Account of Washington March,’ in which a Pakistani-American proudly described how one of his companions, a 16-year-old boy, ‘put on a Palestinian scarf and truly gave the tingles to the breakfast crowd, looking quite the epitome of the suicide bomber.’
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Is Dr. Abdullah really standing side by side with fellow Americans, or simply realizing that when his more war-like Muslim brothers attack they really don’t care who in America they kill? And with the attacks of American policy that he offers, one must wonder how upset he would be if violence in the Middle East favored the goals of Hamas and Hezbollah? Because his ultimate goal appears to be the same as theirs. To me, he’s just basically saying we don’t have to kill the infidels to achieve our goals.
Check out what he was saying around the time tensions heated up between Israel and Hezbollah.
Implementing Prophecies in Lebanon and Palestine IslamiCity.com 7/18/2006, By: Dr. Aslam Abdullah
What is happening in Lebanon and Palestine is a pseudo religious game being played by dominant powers and their surrogates in the region to serve their political interests. The total subjugation of neighboring Arabs to the might of Israel, the total decimation of any Arab and Muslim opposition to the continued brutal occupation of Palestine and the total disregard of the world opinion, are some of the highlights of the most recent conflict sparked in the wake of the kidnapping of ONE Israeli soldier in Ghaza and TWO Israeli soldiers on the Lebanon borders.
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Regardless of the secular claims of the power elites in the two countries, the fact is that the perspectives and policies [i]n the Middle East by several Christian and Jewish groups are determined on the basis of prophecies that all of them are waiting to be fulfilled. It is no wonder that President Bush and his team as well as Prime Olmert of Israel and his team pursue policies that in their view hasten the fulfillment of prophecies.
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These fanatics have held the entire world as hostage to their religious thinking and have caused billions of people to suffer. It is only in this framework, we can understand the realities in the Middle East. Otherwise who in his right mind would not stand for a people who have been forced to live in refugee camps for the last 60 years in sub human conditions on a land their forefathers inherited from their forefathers? Who in his right mind would justify the occupation of Palestine by the Zionists? Who in his right mind would believe that Israel was justified in forcing itself upon the Middle East? Who in his right mind would believe that Palestinians should not be permitted to return to their homes?
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Suddenly he sounds like he would fully support the removal of Israel. He later mentions he does not wish to thrust Israel into the sea, but I wonder if that is only because he realizes that the Muslim world does not have the military might to both do that and defend its self in the aftermath? He feels every action being carried out by the USA and Israel is done based on our views of Biblical prophesy. All prophesy aside Dr. Abdullah, we are aware of the big lie you and others continually attempt to play regarding the Middle East. And regardless of the name, any who sugar coat what your Muslims brothers have done to Israel, Black African Christians and others is going to earn a boat load of scorn.
But lets see some more of what Dr. Abdullah said in that piece.
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Israel and the US in their attempt to hasten the arrival or return of Messiah adopt policies that go directly against their own religious teachings.
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Of all the deaths that have occurred as a result of war and violence in our world, the two communities account for more than 85 percent of the killings.
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I guess if we exclude much of the killing done by Muslims, Communists and others, the numbers can be tweaked to show 85%. Of course this means you must ignore things like India’s Hindu population decreasing by 80 million when Muslims had their way.
Here’s why he feels he does not get much support in the USA and Israel.
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Why are the ordinary human beings not speaking for the suffering of ordinary people in Lebanon, Palestine or for that matter any other place? Simply, because the ordinary person in the USA or Israel or other places have been forced to a life style where there is no room for other people, and where concerns for human rights and human dignity are secondary to the survival of one’s own self or family.
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Notice when he speaks of suffering in Lebanon, he’s not saying a word about the Christians, who are really the ones getting the worst treatment there.
Here’s something else he has to say.
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A response to the fanatics in the US and Israel who can be described as lunatics, would not come through these emotional or childish acts as we saw in the past few days. It would not come through military means as the might of Israel and the US would crush and crumble any opposition in the Middle East instantly. Rather, the response would come through educating people in the United States that the prophecies they believe in have no basis.
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When Hezbollah attacks he sees it as them falling for a trick of the “Zionists” and when Israel acts in defense he feels it’s time to call for calm. Given his view of America and Israel, I seriously wonder if his words are simply a result of circumstance rather than conviction. And it’s also interesting how he denounces both Christian and Jewish prophecies, while his own efforts provide cover for the fulfillment of Islamic prophecies of Islam spreading.
November 28th, 2006 at 10:03 am
Great background research!
I saw most of Glenn Beck’s program, which seemed to borrow heavily from “Obsession: Islam’s Ware With the West.”
I was not familiar with Aslam Abdullah’s background and your source material makes his actual views that much more clear. Excellent work, on your part.
The problem that many Americans have is that they don’t see the actual scope and breadth of this threat. They dismiss pan-Islamicists as “cave dwellers” and “camel jockeys” because they don’t understand (1) how global this threat is and (2) how organized and well-financed it is.
Our government is even partly complicit in this, by its refusing to properly define the real enemy in this “War on Terror.” It is certainly NOT “fundamentalist Islam,” as Islam (unlike Christianity and Judaism) has not had any Reformation. It is not merely “radicalized Islam” either, as this implies a small minority of Muslims, when in fact, traditional Islam has had clashes all over the world, with virtually all the world’s other relgions - in the Phillipines they’ve clashed with Phillipino Catholics, in the Sudan they’ve attemtpted genocide on both the Christian and other non-Muslim peoples of the southern regions of Sudan, in Kashmir they clash with Hindus and in Kosovo, they initiated the first genocide in that region, against the Christian Croats.
NO! It is NOT “radicalized Islam” that is the scourge of the world today, but traditional “Sharia-adhering Islam” that is the problem. Sharia Law DOES rationalize the enslaving and slaughtering of non-Mulsims (”infidels”) and it does define and demand a second-class citizenship (called DHIMMITUDE) for all non-Muslims in predominantly Muslim lands, including crosses and stars of David posted over the shops of allChristians and Jews respectively, so that Muslims would know not to shop there.
It is not “fundamentalist” or “radicalized” Islam that is the threat, it is Sharia-based, or Sharia-adhering Islam that is incompatible with the West and now poses such a global threat. That seems to be a very difficult concept to get across to Westerners, but if we don’t wake up to it soon, we may wake up too late.
November 28th, 2006 at 10:58 am
Well I can’t add a word to that and THANK YOU! I just pray WE can get the TRUTH out.
Savage had to say it once himself. Check out the audio I captured in this post.
November 28th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
Great bit from Savage.
I hadn’t heard that, but he’s 100% right…dhimmitude (pronounced Zimmi-tude) proves that beyond any measure.
I certainly hope the truth gets out.
I’ve been a firefighter (FDNY) for 21 years, 19 of them in the South Bronx.
I lost fifty guys I knew on 9/11 and many others since to various rare cancers and lung disorders. For the past two years I’ve worked in a Hazmat Unit (the FDNY’s only fully dedicated HazMat Unit) studying various methods of potential attack (chemical, biological, radiological)…the prevailing view right now is that the greatest threat right now comes from some form of radiolgical attack, either a radiological dispersal device (RDD) or “Dirty Bomb,” which is merely conventional explosives combined with some low-grade medical or agricultural radiological waste, or one of the 80+ suitcase nukes “currently unaccounted for” from the former USSR, being properly shielded, brought into a major city and detonated fifty stories or so above the ground. The reason they’d want it detonated so far above ground is that they’d want the accompanying electromagnetic pulse (a pulse that will eradicate all radio communications fro 1st Responders, and neutralize most other electronic devices, including onboard car computers) creating a nightmare for emergency responders.
I’ve been hoping that a second major attack isn’t going to be what’s needed to make America wake up, but increasingly I’m beginning to feel that’s what it will take, which is akin to saying that all those who were killed on 9/11/01 died in vain.
Sad, but true.
November 28th, 2006 at 1:20 pm
Well I’ll say 9/11 sure helped me better understand the threat. I knew it was there before, but definitely learned more about it since then.
Sorry to hear about your friends. You guys will be in my prayers.
We can still win this.
November 28th, 2006 at 3:09 pm
Yes we can…and we must win this, if civilization as we know it is to survive.
Europe is very close to being transformed from within into Eurabia. One pundit said that he could see a day, not far away where Europeans wall themselves off in little Euro-enclaves ceding control of the rest to the Muslims.
The problem is that we ignored this for too long.
The first WTC attack occurred in 1993 and the threat was ignored until Septmeber of 2001.
I was always curious as to why we got involved in the Balkans. BOTH sides had engaged in genocide, but only Milocevic and the Christian Serbs were called on it. We sided with the Albanian Muslims (more “Moderate Sharia-beleivers) perhaps to chow the increasingly radicalized Muslim world that we “meant them no harm.”
Typical pansey-ass Liberal pablum - “If we show them we like them, they won’t hate us and try to hurt us.”
Wrong answer.
Sadly, the only thing that savages understand is savagery. They understand force, all else is weakness. We needn’t worry about whether they want to harm us, we must make THEM worry about us harming THEM! That’s how wars are won.
As for 9/11, it certainly transformed the FDNY over night…and not for the better.
343 killed that day. Hundreds of others put off the job shortly after and thousands more men with decades of experience retired in the wake of all the overtime worked in the years directly after…most of them couldn’t stay on as they’d lose pension money that their families would never make up.
Today, out of over 10,000 members, less than 3,000 were active on 9/11/01 or before, only a few hundred “dinasaurs” (like myself) with over twenty years, remain.
There’s a guy in my firehouse who was Special Forces in Afghanistan…I’ve said to him, “Your skills are wasted here. What we need are some “quick strike” teams right here in the U.S., not to arrest the terror cells but to ferret them out and eliminate them.
We just don’t seem to have the guts to do what needs to be done.
It may well take another major attack for us to find the fortitude to do what is needed.
November 28th, 2006 at 5:49 pm
Looking at the latest election results where it seems hard liners were not favored that might be the sad truth.
With Milosevic dead, we may never know the whole story regarding things there. We do know since Clinton got involved Europe has been over-run faster by people who claim to follow “pure Islam”.
November 29th, 2006 at 11:13 am
Yes, things look pretty bleak right now.
I think the most recent elections were a repudiation of a Republicanism grown too comfy with the perks of government. The first sign was their abandoning Term Limits shortly after gaining power in January, 1995. It was mainly downhill from there.
Out West and down South most of the Dem gains were from “Blue Dawg” Democrats, with as many as 31% of eveangelical Christians voting for “New Democrats” like Heath Schuler.” That too, is the Republicans fault for tokenizing Christian Conservatives - patting them on the heads and throwing them the occasional “no or low cost bone,” like their ill-fated Schiavo intervention.
Already Pelosi’s had to backtrack from Murtha and Hastings…so that’s an encouraging sign…so was the fact that “gay Marraige” was voted down by 8 of 9 states and Eminent Domain was restricted on 9 of 11 ballot measures.