The UCLA Middle East Studies Department may have decided recently to take a break from symposiums that preach hatred of gays, Jews, and America itself. A recent symposium took a barely more subtle approach by merely supporting those who advocate and financially fund the hatred of gays, Jews, and America itself.
The column itself was published at Campus Watch and Front Page Mag.
https://tygrrrrexpress.com/2010/05/ucla-supporting-islamist-terrorist-charities/
(Editors Note: Neither organization has any affiliation with this column today, which are additional musings unrelated to the official events I covered for them.)
Here are some other observances from this terrorist sleeper cell blocks from my home.
The title of this symposium was “Critical Perspectives on the Criminalization of Islamic Philanthropy in the War on Terror.”
The title was odd given that the analysis was fawning, not critical. Additionally, in keeping with the tradition of the UCLA MES, only one perspective was represented. Anti-Islamist sentiment was absent.
The thrust of the symposium was very simple. The War on Terror has led to a crackdown on Islamic charities, which has led to a chilling attack on Muslims by rendering them unable to engage in Zakat (charity), one of the five pillars of Islam.
Unmentioned throughout this eight hour Islamist infomercial was the notion that the charities in question were guilty of financially aiding terrorism, and that decent Muslims are capable of giving to charities that do not foment bombings, beheadings and other behavior that only UCLA MES professors could ignore.
The professors had a diverse lack of skill sets, and a unique desire the day after April 15th to waste taxpayer dollars and poison the environment with wasted breaths.
Boston attorney Malik Ghachem spoke of an “organicism between church and state.” Perhaps he likes piano music during his religious services.
He also stated that the U.S. remains in a “Hobbsian state of nature, unable to engage in dialogue and international rules of law.”
Americans are so unreasonable the way we try to stop gunrunning, drugrunning, and terrorism being carried out through Islamist charities.
“The United States takes a sledgehammer approach while Britain takes a scalpel approach.”
This is why Londonistan is now part of the Europistan part of the Caliphate, while America remains (largely) Sharia free.
Akil Vohra is the Counsel for Muslim Advocates. He lamented that the U.S. crackdown on terror has “prevented Muslims from donating to health clinics, soup kitchens, and domestic violence shelters.”
If Islamists truly cared about ending domestic violence, they could have donated to the 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign. The Bush administration freed 50 million women in the Middle East from savage beatings at the hands of Islamists. As for soup kitchens, some soups are Kosher, which means that soup is a Zionist plot to infiltrate Islam through broth and lentils.
“Jews and Christians tithe. There is a disproportionate attack on American Muslims.”
Jews and Christians do not tithe to murderers.
Several of the panelists praised Barack Obama’s July 14th, 2009 Cairo speech just because he spoke.
St. John’s University Law School Professor Nina Crimm pointed out that “Pre-9/11, there was very little problem in Muslim charitable giving.”
Apparently she fails to see why 3000 murdered Americans would lead to a reevaluation of lax policies.
She lamented that “Muslims needed to redirect to legitimate domestic charities or secular charities like the Red Cross.”
What is the world coming to when Islamsts cannot fund their holy war in peace?
She also stated that we needed a “new humanitarian relief model, to get to the root causes of terrorism.”
I don’t need a PhD to know that the root cause of terrorism is that whacked out Islamofascists want to murder all non-Muslims.
Even the few students still awake seemed surprised that the bulk of the questions went to faculty.
The speaker everybody seemed to be fawning over was ACLU Human Rights Employee Jennifer Turner.
She should change her name to Jennifer Turn-on. She is one hot piece of Islamist @ss.
I love it when sexually repressed Muslims get together and brag about how pure they are while having their lead speaker show up in a miniskirt that would get her killed in the very Islamist nations she admires.
Personally, I think she needs a good Republican Jewish spanking. She may be offended by the fact that I want to paddle her and play volleyball with her backside, but it would be nice if she took more offense at Arab Muslim nations that beat women like her for dressing like that in public.
It was a delight watching these repressed Muslim boys do everything but sing Sir Mixalot’s “Baby Got Back” during her presentation.
She was there because sex sells. Period. It is not offensive to point this out. It is offensive to prop her up as an expert on anything. So what if I pointed out her grade A top quality choice piece of rumpus? The university brought her in, not me. In her next life she will be a belly dancer for Islamists. If she knew any less about the Middle East, she would be a Middle East professor.
Unlike the academics, at least she inadvertently admitted her lack of qualifications. I am now promoting myself to the head of the Norwegian Life Council, despite not being from Norway, speaking the language, knowing anything about the culture, and making up the fictional NLC.
She was critical of the “FBI infiltration of Mosques, and the use of informants in Mosques. The FBI interviewed donors and issued subpeonas.”
I am outraged that law enforcement personnel would conduct investigations using law enforcement techniques. Perhaps the FBI should give up the use of informants and just ask the terrorists to identify themselves.
Dearborn, Michigan Professor Sally Howell actually found oppression in increased giving. So increased and decreased giving is oppressive.
“Since 2001, there have been 14 new mosques, and 17 mosques have doubled in size. This is proof that people are not donating overseas.”
Even by the rigorously low bar set by academics, this is idiocy. Shall we shut down more mosques domestically to help giving overseas? Maybe many Muslims prefer America to the countries they fled. This bizarre notion was not broached.
She also said that the “CAIR leader is a very effective spokesperson.”
If one leads a terrorist movement, they should be effective. Being ineffective is bad for the genocide business.
“The Arab charity LIFE had their board resign one year after Israel invaded Lebanon.”
I ate a McDonalds hamburger in 2002, only months after 9/11. Therefore, McDonalds is a terrorist organization that forced beef on people while innocent Americans were grieving. McDonalds is not Kosher, which proves that Israel is to blame. If it was Kosher, it would be proof of the Zionist conspiracy.
“As a result of restrictive policies, one Al-Marabbat board member embezzled $10,000.”
As a result of inconvenient and restrictive securities laws, Bernie Madoff was forced to steal. It was all America’s fault.
“Does government get to decide what is good Islam and what is bad Islam?”
Actually, yes.
“The FBI has to show results or lose resources.”
I wish the UCLA MES had such a rigorous standard. The results are the convictions in courtrooms of the worst Muslim “charities.” Then again, the convictions were based on facts and evidence, which might make them invalid in the UCLA MES.
Erica James of MIT offered proof of…nothing, actually.
“I have an anthropology background. I am here to theorize what is happening.”
I wish I could get a cushy six figure tenured job to contemplate my navel.
Perhaps she can analyze the fossils employed by the UCLA MES. I believe they were from the era connecting the Cretaceous Period to the Cretinous Period.
What was her solution?
“Defiant giving.”
Given that she advocated criminality, perhaps somebody can have her arrested.
The Chairperson of Kinder USA said that “Hamas helps Palestinian children in Gaza. I don’t consider Hamas and Hezbollah as threats to me and my family.”
As a Jewish person, I was never threatened by the Irish Republican Army or their Protestant counterparts. Therefore, they were all delightful fuzzballs.
As Islamists go, University College of London Professor Jonathan Benthall was the highlight of the event (not counting Jennifer Turn-on).
Benthall was like a Jon Cleese caricature of a Jon Cleese caricature.
He spoke some British dialect of the Queen’s English. Utterly incomprehensible, his brief criticism of Israel and America was the only thing that made me think that he was not discussing Julia Child recipes or announcing the Masters.
“You have to mix the sauce into a thick paste. Then grab a five iron, or perhaps a lob wedge and a lemon wedge, and make sure to add a slice of lime but not slice the shot away from the green. Mumble, mumble, Israel, mumble, mumble, America, mumble, mumble, Phil Mickelson tastes great when mixed with cilantro.”
Who could possibly disagree with that?
What little I could decipher accurately was when he said that “The United States is the key to the problem.”
He also said that “there is little hard evidence that Hamas provides life insurance for suicide bombers.”
There is little evidence that coherent thought exists between his spacious luxury cranial condominium.
“See the minority report by Judge Rovner in ‘Boym vs. HLF.'”
I think I will stick with the majority opinion that is established law.
“The proposition that political motivations dominate Islamist movements is highly debatable.”
I was wrong. They are upset that they do not have cable television including a premium package with HBO.
“Hamas hospitals? Should they be shut down?”
If the KKK builds roads and schools, they are still the Klan. Besides, Hamas does not need hospitals. If they would do their job properly they would be dead. Inefficient murderers should not be rewarded with warm beds.
“The Israelis have been designated as the worst of the worst. We need an undivided Palestine.”
It already exists. It is called London.
“Not all Islamists are members of Hamas. Some are Fatah. There was coopetition.”
Now I know what the British invasion represented when the Beatles sang “Come together.”
“Hamas is so important to the social fabric.”
Pass the fabric softener.
Mona Atia of George Washington University said that “Egypt has been a model of fighting terrorism.”
Khalid Medani of McGill University said that “Somalia is a place where Islamic terrorism is not possible because they are not organized.”
ACORN will help them community organize so they can get up to speed.
“In Egypt, there are no charitable organizations, only welfare institutions.”
No wonder I favor welfare reform.
When asked if the definition of a terrorist was hard to prove, he responded “You’re right. I try to critique them based on their own terms. I’m not a lawyer.”
Then he analyzed what Jeff Foxworthy thinks makes somebody a redneck.
Despite eight hours of groupthink, I was able to finally cut through the leftist clutter to determine why the United States is investigating Islamist charities.
It seems that 9/11 did happen, and the Islamist charities accused of funding terrorism actually did it.
Only a UCLA MES conference could deliberately fail to grasp this.
The only thing that would have made this conference tolerable would have been a threesome video between Jennifer Turner, Yassir Arafat, and a goat. Jonathan Benthall could narrate the video, because nobody listens to narrators of porn videos anyway.
Jennifer Turn-on does the Gaza Strip.
Hey, it beats the real life pornography passing for education at the University of Crooked Lying Arabists in their Middle East Studies Department.
eric
Some of the problems lies with the victims of Hamas, Hezbollah, Fatah,
the PLO, the DFLP and PFLP, etc. All are, in way or another, are for the destruction of the only democracy in the M.E., Israel.
Today, in the LA Times, is an article about an extension of a law which
targets terrorism and local opposition to the government of Mubarak (a dictatorship).
While there is a government in Egypt, the police and army still
stop dissent..either online, in the media, at rallies, etc.
Instead of focusing on Egypt, Syria, Iran..the US groups engage in
spreading their lies about Israel, AND are now (UCLA), active
in getting funding for so-called humanitarian charities ( in the Gaza Strip, etc.).
With all the arming ( being supplied with the most advanced Syrian/Iranian
missiles), of Hezbollah and Hamas, one wonders WHERE are they getting the funding?
It would be interesting to learn that UCLAs M.E. department’s solicitations are providing the money (it costs a lot to buy a Syrian/Iranain Fajr,
Scud D and 600 serious land to land rocket.
Eric has it right on the mark. It’s one thing for a charity to help
people (health, work, welfare, food, etc) and another to allow the purchase or smuggling ( against US resolutions) to a US enemy.
Hamas and Hezbollan, as well as the Rev Guards (Iran) are our enemies.
The wife of Jay Leno is active in aiding women in AFghanistan who are
fighting the brutal religious segment of Islam..called Wahabism, which
are controlling he thinking of young Taliban throughout the M.E.
Women in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the Muslim world where
the Taliban are strong…are, in effect, non-entities. If, for example,
they wear nail polish..they have their fingers cut off. This is just
the beginning folks,
We have to ask ourselves why UCLA allows this and what can we
do as citizens of California to stop it?
“Unmentioned throughout this eight hour Islamist infomercial was the notion that the charities in question were guilty of financially aiding terrorism,”
Why do you keep repeating this lie?
JMJ
Gee, last time on the same topic I only presented a list of guilty Islamic charities ?
You seem to think if you say something often enough its truth ?
Why are you defending an obvious source of terror funding ? What the hell is wrong with you ?
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/25/texas.charity.trial/
“Five men — once leaders of the now-defunct Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development — were found guilty in a federal court in Texas on charges of conspiring to support terrorism and launder money for Hamas.
Hamas controls the Palestinian territory of Gaza. The U.S. and European Union consider it a terrorist organization.
Holy Land, once one of the nation’s largest Islamic charities, and two of its former leaders — Shukri Abu Baker and Ghassan Elashi — were convicted on charges of providing material support and resources, including money and goods, to a foreign terrorist organization.
In addition, Abu Baker and Elashi were convicted on tax fraud charges. There were 108 counts in all.
The government accused Holy Land of funneling some $12.4 million to Hamas in the guise of charitable donations.
Abu Baker, Elashi, Mohammad El-Mezain, Mufid Abdulqader and Abdulrahman Odeh are expected to face “substantial” prison sentences, the Justice Department said.
The Justice Department said it had investigated the group for about 15 years. It refiled charges after an initial trial in October 2007 ended in a mistrial after 19 days.
The jury in this second trial, which lasted about two months, deliberated for eight days.
“Money is the lifeblood of terrorism,” U.S. Attorney Richard Roper said in a written statement. “The jury’s decision demonstrates that U.S. citizens will not tolerate those who provide financial support to terrorist organizations.”
Micky, you pointed out THREE out of FORTY FIVE! Jesus H Bizarro World! Do you guys even know what the word “guilty” means?
I am not defending anyone. I’m just saying that LYING about it is not a good idea. I expressed that exactly in the last post on this topic. I wrote that if Tygrrrr keeps repeating these lies, he’s going to be tarred like Pipes as a ridiculous anti-Islam fanatic!
JMJ
“Micky, you pointed out THREE out of FORTY FIVE! Jesus H Bizarro World! Do you guys even know what the word “guilty” means ?
Look, you obviously choose to play stupid knowing any idiot could dig up more than 3 charities funneling funds to terror.
It dont just come from poppies bro.
” he’s going to be tarred like Pipes as a ridiculous anti-Islam fanatic! ”
only by fanatics such as yourself.
Micky, I took a good hard look at the subject when Eric first posited what he did. I could only find two who were “found guilty” of any such thing. You pointed out one more. That’s it! Just three! You’d think, after all these years, if they had the evidence that these charities were funnelling money for terrorism, they shut them down and prosecute the offenders! But they haven’t. Look, many many chariteis and much aid money does find it’s way into the hands of bad guys. It’s the nature of the situtations. If you give money or aid to people in dangerous parts of the world, dangerous people may get their slimy hands on it. But if you think that a group is nothing but a front for funding nefarious activities, then gather the evidence and take them down! But if you don’t have the evidence, but you go around LTYING about it, don’t be surprised when people start ignoring you. Pipes is persona non grata among people taken seriously these days. I’d hate to see the Tygrrrr wander aimlessly down that lonely path.
JMJ
So tell me Jersey.
Wheres the money coming from ? Just poppies and three busted charities ?
Common sense dictates that if the three you’re talking about are busted, convicted, guilty then there must be others funneling funds that have not been prosecuted, right ?
I give up. I cant get any of my sources and their links to stick here.
Its easy, just search charities funding terror, theres undoubtedly more than three.
But if you wanna hide behind the BS that since only three have been convicted thatsit then you’re an imbecile. And I mean that with the utmost respect.
Thats like saying weve only popped a 1000 crack dealersand theres no more out there.
Believe what you on the left want at the cost of American lives
As I am not a rightwingnut fanatic about terrorism, I have to confess that I don’t really know all that much about how terrorism is funded, but I do know this: if it is from these charities, they’d have shut them all down and arrested them by now.
And sure, I’m wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if some charity money that goes to the Middle East winds up in the hands of terrorists – and kleptocrats and police states and crooked Mosques, etc, etc. I’m sure some of the charity that goes to Zimbabwe winds up in the hands of Mugabe’s militias. I’m sure some of the charity that goes to Cambodia goes to old Khmer Rouge rebels still running around over there. And I’m sure some of the charity that goes to our very own Appalachia winds up in the hands of our very own homegrown terrorist screwballs.
THAT DOESN’T MEAN THESE CHARITIES ARE CRIMINALLY FUNDING TERRORISM.
JMJ
” they’d have shut them all down and arrested them by now.”
WITH THIS ADMINIDTRATION ?
GOOD GRIEF !
For all we know a large percentage of liberals sympathetic to radical Muslims are probably funding half their war and our lame a$$ intelligence community is none the wiser as has been abundantly obvious in recent months with inexcusable slips in security.
You can start with the Saudis and work your way down.
Its really common knowledge. I hate to be that way but none of my links will stick here
:-(