Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America (26 page)

So let’s look at Mahdi Bray, MAS’s executive director. Here is an excerpt from testimony by Dr. J. Michael Waller, Annenberg Professor of International Communication the Institute of World Politics, regarding “Terrorist Recruitment and Infiltration in the United States: Prisons and Military as an Operational Base,” before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security, on October 14, 2003:

Appendix 2: Key Organizations Involved in Muslim Prison Recruitment

National Islamic Prison Foundation (NIPF)
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Contact: Mahdi Bray; 1212 New York Ave. NW, Suite 525, Washington, DC 20005. This is the same address as the American Muslim Council (AMC).

• "Specifically organized to convert American inmates to Wahhabism."
  

And at
www.masboston.org,
the Web site of the Boston chapter of the “Muslim American Society” there are quite a number of items of interest. The first is the listing of the “Trainers” of Muslim activists ("training” in how to talk to Infidels at Outreach Meetings or in the conduct ofDa’wa [literally, “the call” to proselytize or preach Islam] or in dealing with inquisitive media). In fact only one “trainer” is listed: Mahdi Bray.
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So Mahdi Bray can fool some of the people some of the time with his peaceful talk. Luckily, Americans are becoming very informed about the double-talk of these so-called Muslim moderate organizations who are trying to clean up their images with their crafted words yet acting in a completely different matter when talking to their own.

Another organization that should be spotlighted in our investigation of Islamic organizations supporting our enemy in our country is the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). MPAC talks the sweet talk of interfaith dialogue and understanding. MPAC has defended Hezbollah, which until September 11, 2001, had been responsible for the deadliest attack on U.S. troops in decades. MPAC even lobbied against the United States designating the group, along with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which regularly commit and encourage suicide bombings, terrorists.

MPAC also encourages its Muslim members to send in their so-called grievances and report what they perceive as hate crimes, and actively discourages Muslim Americans from cooperating with U.S. authorities investigating terrorism-related issues.
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Because of the actions of these organizations, which supposedly represent mainstream Muslims in America, how can we as a country fight successfully this holy war declared on us by fanatics? When we are living with moles within our country, masquerading as a voice of understanding and using our laws to fight us under the banner of civil liberties and human rights, how can we expect to win this war? When those same Islamic organizations praise our enemies, using our freedom of speech, and not only refuse to condemn them, but state their agreement with them and lobby to stop our government from designating them as terrorists, how can we expect to win this war?

In order to become a citizen of the United States, I had to learn some basic facts about American history, which I was happy and proud to do. When I studied the American Revolutionary War, I learned about Patrick Henry, a great patriot and an icon in the history of freedom. Two hundred thirty years ago, Patrick Henry said, “Give me liberty or give me death.” However, all he and the American revolutionaries had to worry about was taxation without representation and redcoat soldiers bivouacked in their parlors. The British weren’t bombing their churches and beheading their families.

On September 11, 2001, nineteen Muslim terrorists gave us death. Citizens of the most powerful country on earth watched in horror as a handful of barbaric men used airplanes as missiles and flew them into skyscrapers and the Pentagon, our symbol of power. These men not only brought the Twin Towers down, they brought the United States of America to its knees. Wall Street froze, the stock market tumbled, and national air traffic ground to a halt.

Muslims have been sounding the call to war for the last thirty-some years, but until 9/11 America was not listening. Americans were not watching the evening news and were not interested in documentaries about world affairs, nor were they listening to radical Muslims proudly and repeatedly announcing their intention to destroy our civilization. On 9/11, and for days afterward, there was rejoicing all over the Arab world.
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Arabs were dancing in the streets. They were dancing in the streets of Syria. They were dancing in the streets of Egypt, an ally to which we yearly give $2 billion of our hard-earned money. They were dancing in the streets of the Palestinian territories, for which our government brokered a peace deal with Yasser Arafat and the Israelis, and committed millions per year for their development. They were dancing in the streets of Lebanon and Jordan. They were dancing because the World Trade Center had collapsed and the Pentagon was burning. They were handing out candy and shouting “Al-lahu Akbar” because thousands of Americans had died.

Both the attacks themselves and their glorification in the name of God are incomprehensible to the vast majority of Americans. Americans asked why people would rejoice at the loss of innocent life. There is a three-word answer that is both simple and complex: because they hate. They hate our way of life. They hate our freedom. They hate our democracy. They hate the practice of every religion but their own. They don’t just disagree. They
hate.
Not just Judaism. Not just Christianity. In various parts of the world today, Islamists are also waging terror war against Hindus, Buddhists, and all other “infidels.” The imposition of Islam upon the entire world is not merely their goal. It is their religious duty. They are following the word of their holy book, the Koran, which is the guide to hatred of infidels, waging war, and victory through slaughter.

Don’t take my word for it. Read it in their own words—and not just the words of Osama bin Laden, coming from some remote wasteland by way of Al Jazeera television. Read the words of the government of our so-called moderate ally Saudi Arabia, coming from Washington, D.C., by way of the Saudi embassy. A recent report by Freedom House/Center for Religious Freedom clearly reveals the toxic tsunami of religious hatred that Saudi Arabia has unleashed
here in the United States.
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The entire report can be found online at
www.freedomhouse.org/religion
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In compiling the report, the center studied over two hundred books and publications collected from more than a dozen of the most prominent mosques and Islamic institutions in the United States, including those in Washington, D.C., New York, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Oakland. All of these books and publications were financed and produced directly or indirectly by the Saudi government. Some of the books were texts from Islamic schools. Some were publications issued by the Saudi government specifically to provide guidance to Muslims living in or visiting the United States.

These Saudi books and publications repeatedly exhort Muslims, in their relations with
all non-Muslims,
to “hate them for their religion,"
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to “hate ... for Allah’s sake,"
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to “always oppose them in every way,"
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to maintain a “wall of resentment” against them.
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They say that democracy is “responsible for all of the horrible wars” of the twentieth century and that “attractive names like democracy,. . . justice, freedom, brotherhood and equality” cause all of the world’s problems.
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They say that all religions but Islam are false, and that it is the religious duty of
every
Muslim to impose “functionally Islamic governments” on every country in the world. This religious duty is “binding in principle, in law, in self-defense, in community, and as a sacred obligation of jihad."
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In order to fulfill this “sacred obligation of jihad,” Muslims must “invade its western heartland, and struggle to overcome it until all the world shouts by the name of the Prophet [Muhammad] and the teachings of Islam spread throughout the world. Only then will Muslims achieve their
fundamental goal.
. . . [A]ll religion will be exclusively for Allah [emphasis added]."
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Are you outraged yet? These are supposedly our allies? With friends like these, who needs enemies? Where is our government, which is supposed to protect us? Have our politicians all been so corrupt and so paid to look the other way? Has Saudi money become far more important to our government and our institutions than the love of country? Our founding fathers are turning in their grave at our apathy. Keep on reading. It only gets better.

In addition to the hundreds of books and publications published by Saudi Arabia teaching arrogance, intolerance, and hate, the Islamic Affairs Department of the embassy of Saudi Arabia maintains a Web site entitled “The Religion of Islam” (
http://www.iad.org/
) which explains the principles and beliefs of Islam. This Web site contains such gems as:

Democracy and capitalism are two of “today’s false idols, which dominate over the entire world."
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"[A]ny form of worship that does not conform to Islam is not valid."
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Under the presumptuous heading “Rights Granted by Nature,” the official Saudi Web site states that in Islamic society, Christians and Jews “are not allowed to display any
abominable deed or gesture that could go into conflict with Islam, such as the cross or the bell
[emphasis added]."
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This official Saudi Web site again explains the fundamental goal of Islam in simple, easy-to-understand English that even the most naive reader will understand: “The Muslims are required to raise the banner of Jihad in order to make the Word of Allah supreme in this world."
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The material in the Saudi books and publications and on the embassy’s official Web site clearly demonstrates that the hatred the Saudis teach and the jihad they preach extends not only to Christians and Jews, but to all non-Muslims, everywhere. Further, the poisonous hatred spewed into the United States by Saudi Arabia is gentle and benevolent compared to the curricula of applied terrorism taught at Saudi-funded madrassas in Pakistan, Indonesia, and other parts of the Muslim world. Young boys spend their mornings screaming verses from the Koran by rote (in Arabic that they do not necessarily understand), and they spend their afternoons learning how to slit throats, shoot assault rifles, and turn themselves into bombs. Between 1975 and
2002,
the Saudis spent over $70 billion to spread their noxious brew of arrogant and intolerant Islam all over the world. In Pakistan alone, the Saudis spend approximately $350 million per year to operate madrassas. The Saudis have built 210 Islamic centers, 202 colleges, more than 1,500 mosques, and almost 2,000 schools to “educate” Muslims about their “sacred obligation of jihad” to make Islam “supreme in this world."
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And we wonder where this hate is coming from? We wonder how fifteen out of nineteen hijackers on 9/11 were actually from an ally country?

This “sacred obligation” to impose Islam upon the entire world is not a distortion of Islam, nor is it the creation of a few extremists who have hijacked a peaceful and tolerant religion. It is mandated by the holy writings of Islam, as interpreted by a vast majority of the classical authorities. According to Islam, the Koran is the word of God (Allah), revealed to and through the prophet Muhammad. The Hadith, or “Traditions,” are reports of the words and actions of Muhammad, “as witnessed by his followers and passed on through other reliable believers."
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Sharia is Islamic law, as it developed under the Koran and Hadith. According the eminent scholar of Islamic history and culture Bernard Lewis, Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University,

[i]n the Qur’an and still more in the Traditions, [the term
jihad] . . .
has usually been understood as meaning “to wage war.” The great collections of
hadith
all contain a section devoted to
jihad,
in which the military meaning predominates. [Footnote omitted.] The same is true of the classical manuals of shari’a law. . . . The overwhelming majority of classical theologians, jurists, and traditionalists . . . understood the obligation of
jihad
in a military sense. . . . According to Muslim teaching,
jihad
is one of the basic commandments of the faith, an obligation imposed upon all Muslims by God, through revelation. . . . It must continue until the whole world has either accepted the Islamic faith or submitted to the power of the Islamic state.
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Throughout the Koran and the Hadith,
harb
("war") and
qital
("killing,” “slaughter") are ordained by Allah as the unavoidable and immutable punishment for refusing to convert or submit to Islam. The most respected collection of Hadith, that of Muhammad bin Ismail bin al-Mughirah al-Bukhari (died A.D. 870), contains 199 references to
jihad,
and every one uses the term to mean warfare against infidels.
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People that tell you that Islam is a religion of peace are only announcing their ignorance and lack of understanding of a poisonous formula that has been developed for mass use on the whole world. This ignorance endangers the lives of millions who live in the West and enjoy a Western lifestyle. People who speak Arabic and can read the Koran in the language it was written in, not in any watered-down version or in selected verses fed to us by our enemy, know better.