Big Journalism

Posted by Christine Brim
Oct 23rd 2010

The news about NPR firing Juan Williams is opening the eyes of many in the media and public to the extraordinary rules of censorship that CAIR, other Muslim Brotherhood groups, and the “Establishment Left” impose to restrict free speech. 


But it’s not just NPR that responds to CAIR’s political pressure which may in itself be a violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. On October 9, 2010 – less than two weeks before NPR fired Williams on October 21 – the federally-funded sister agency Public Broadcasting System (PBS) sent Joel Schwartzberg, Senior Editor of PBS Interactive to be a presenter at the CAIR Leadership Conference preceding their 16th annual national banquet.


Here’s a copy of the 36 page CAIR program for the conference and banquet (or click on the image below – 4 MB file size). Page 4 lists Schwartzberg in the 9:15 -10:45 a.m. session (Room B): “Becoming a Dynamic Public Speaker (Room B).” Page 6 provides Schwartzberg’s biography under the title “CAIR Leadership Conference Trainers 2010.”



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There’s more. PBS sent Schwartzberg to train “CAIR Leadership” knowing that CAIR had advertised the conference for several weeks listing the #1 reason to attend as, “You’re tired of seeing Islam defamed and want to do something about it.” Click on the image below to view the entire saved pdf of the conference promotional web page:



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To make this clear: PBS sent Schwartzberg to train “CAIR leadership” at a conference held specifically to “do something about” the alleged problem of “Islam defamed.” The use of the concept of “defamation” of Islam should be a red flag alert to Congressional funders of PBS: CAIR’s conference publicity followed the instructions of the Organization of the Islamic Conference to enforce Shariah blasphemy and defamation laws in the U.S. – in this case, with the support of publicly funded PBS staff.


For years, the OIC has been trying to pass a law through the U.N. that would criminalize any “defamation” of Islam, defined as blasphemy within Shariah law itself. In the 2008 Organization of Islamic Conference “Ten Year Plan,” the OIC’s 56 Islamic state members resolved to, “Emphasize the responsibility of the international community, including all governments, to ensure respect for all religions and combat their defamation…endeavor to have the United Nations adopt an international resolution to counter Islamophobia, and call upon all States to enact laws to counter it, including deterrent punishments.” For Juan Williams, those “deterrent punishments” became what CAIR had demanded of NPR in the CAIR press release – “professional consequences” – when NPR fired Williams.


One more item: At that same October 9 CAIR meeting where PBS’ Schwartzberg presented, CAIR announced a new department devoted to opposing “Islamophobia.” They had previously received $325,000 from the Organization of Islamic Conference to oppose “Islamophobia” in America – presumably with those  “Ten Year Plan” deterrent punishments. Their attack against Williams
was presumably one of the first influence operations of that new  “Islamophobia” department.


Let’s review the policy issues here:


Your tax dollars partly fund the big-budget PBS, that sent Schwartzberg to train “CAIR Leadership” at a conference that had a primary goal of imposing shariah blasphemy (defamation) laws in America.
PBS has a background of proselytizing for Islam with their “documentary” Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet” and of course, for blocking distribution of Frank Gaffney’s 2006 documentary about the Muslim establishment’s opposition to Muslim reformers, Islam versus Islamists.


Your tax dollars also fund the Department of Justice, where prosecutors named CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial, the largest terrorism finance trial in history, and where another team of prosecutors apparently are conducting a Grand Jury investigation of CAIR. Your tax dollars also pay for the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, where the judge just gave the greenlight to a fraud case brought against CAIR by African-American and Pakistani-American families, in spite of CAIR’s losing efforts to get it dismissed.


So you have an investment here, as a taxpayer and as a citizen. If you’re a member of Congress, you also have a duty to uphold your oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” And since that Constitution has a
First Amendment protecting free speech, here’s a question to add to your list for the hearings on the 2012 appropriations budget for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS and NPR:


Is it U.S. policy to fund organizations like CPB and PBS, that then send employees to train Muslim-Brotherhood, Hamas-associated groups like CAIR to improve their “leadership” abilities to impose shariah defamation laws in America? Because that is what happened on October 9, 2010. And then less than two weeks later, PBS’s sister organization NPR fired Juan Williams after CAIR called for them to “address” Williams’ “irresponsible and inflammatory” comments with “professional consequences.” Yet another example of a federally-funded agency enforcing the OIC’s shariah defamation laws in the U.S., augmenting the OIC’s $325,000 payments already given to CAIR.


There’s only one thing left to ask: how soon can the 2012 federal funding for CPB, PBS, NPR, and related agencies be eliminated?



Bonus Feature – death to defamers, from Ground Zero Mosque’s Shariah Index Project leader: Juan Williams found out that CAIR and NPR believe in “professional consequences” for defamation of Islam. But shariah law calls for more serious penalties for defamation against Islam. One of the leading shariah experts on penalties for defamation and blasphemy against Islam
was also a founding member of Ground Zero Mosque Imam Feisal Rauf’s Shariah Index ProjectMohammad Hashim Kamali. Dr. Kamali might have imposed far more serious consequences on Williams.


Remember that CAIR wrote, in their promo for the October 9 conference, “You’re tired of seeing Islam defamed and want to do something about it,” and that the OIC called for “deterrent punishments” for defamation and Islamophobia. Let’s look at what those “deterrent punishments” are under the very best authoritative shariah law, as detailed in Kamali’s 1994 book “Freedom of Expression in Islam” here at amazon.com.


Kamali’s shariah credentials are exemplary: professor of law at the International Islamic University of Malaysia where he has taught Islamic law and jurisprudence since 1985, a member of the royal academy of Jordan, a shariah advisor with the Securities Commission of Malaysia, etc.


Kamali’s “Freedom of Expression” includes many authoritative opinions endorsing the death penalty for blasphemy and defamation. Appendix V  “The Salman Rushdie Affair” (pages 294-301) is a nuanced analysis within shariah legal concepts of how to legitimate the execution of Rushdie with greater authority: “No serious Muslim commentator has challenged the basic validity of the Ayatollah’s fatwa…” But it is his broader analysis of “deterrent punishments” that can be imposed on a non-Muslim that is theoretically applicable to Juan Williams – and indeed to all of CAIR’s targets. NPR, PBS, Joel Schwartzberg, and CPB appropriators in Congress have a professional obligation to know what Kamali and his colleagues actually declare as authoritative shariah law about “Freedom of Expression.”


“The Blasphemy of a Non-Muslim” is a short 2 page chapter (pages 235-236) in Kamali’s “Freedom of Expression” which I’m including here in entirety as a pdf (click on image below).



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Kamali proposes three cases “where a non-Muslim may be involved in blasphemy against Islam.” The second case is the most relevant in terms of NPR and PBS implementation of their own – and the OIC’s – speech codes against defamation and blasphemy against Juan Williams. Kamali
writes:


When a non-Muslim says something which, although part of his belief, is said in an offensive manner. An example of this is the incident which occurred after the call to prayer, when a
Jew addressed the muezzin with the words ‘you lied’. The case here is similar to any involving a non-Muslim scorning an article of the muslim faith or any of the injunctions of God that are contained in the Quran. 


In this case, if the non-Muslim is a dhimmi, he loses his protected status and becomes liable to punishment.


In other words, when Williams said that he was nervous seeing a Muslim in traditional dress in an airplane, he lost his protected status as a liberal commentator, and became liable to punishment – which was swift punishment indeed. But Williams should count himself lucky that Kamali isn’t running NPR; Williams could have had only one option to save his life – to convert to Islam:


The jurists have differed, as stated earlier, on the admissibility or otherwise of repentance, but most regard it as admissible and hold that repentance may, in the case of a non-Muslim, consist of conversion to Islam…



Kamali goes on to discuss some shariah authorities who would treat non-Muslims such as Williams as a prisoner of war with options “to kill the offender or ask for ransom, and over whether or not to expropriate his property.” And as a fair and balanced view, Kamali also mentions more liberal approaches where an offender like Williams would have simply received a “deterrent punishment of ta’zir in the same way as when he commits other evil acts which are forbidden to him.” A ta’zir crime is one without a mandatory punishment under shariah – one subject to the judge’s discretion, and possibly ranging from an admonition to death.


So it all comes full circle – Kamali, a close colleague of Ground Zero Mosque Imam Feisal Rauf advocates death for defamation of Islam in his book “Freedom of Expression in Islam”; and news analyst Juan Williams, making a statement about Islam in a discussion of Bill O’Reilly’s comments on the Ground Zero Mosque, receives “deterrent punishments” administered by NPR, as demanded by CAIR, as instructed by the OIC.


At least they didn’t kill him or threaten his life.


Begin making the lists of questions for the hearings on this travesty of justice, and on so many others. It won’t be long now.





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  • Where is judge Roy Bean when you need him?
  • Have been hounding them to no end will get back to work helping had to go in for some minor heart surgery.

    I am still here so the LORD was not finished with me. I am at home know taking it easy will be up and running next week.

    Are politics here in Alaska are in my opinion some of the most corrupt in the country.
    I have found that I can be present for the counting of votes. Out of three candidates for Senate I will not vote for any. The one person running against Young will not win, I have talked to him many times and he is a stench Dem.
    I was wondering about state leaders, the task to fill that requirement, are you still looking for Alaska state rep.?
  • When any one tells the truth about those bastards they claim we are "racists" well who is wanting to control the world and telling people "convert or die!"? It sure as hell isn't the "Christian Faith", but ISLAM ! The Christian Bible, doesn't say go out and rape the women of nonbelievers to make more soldiers for our God, but sure as hell the Koran states that in no uncertain terms. The Christian bible frowns on thievery, lying and murder, the Koran endorses it calling it a virtue to, lie to, steal and ti kill any and all nonbelievers.

    Now we all know that the letters P.B.S. means Pure Bull Shit and they have swallowed a load of it from the Islamic, who despise them as they would any traitor, they believe they are winning in the propaganda war. Well it is time we wage our own propaganda fight against the scum from the butt hole of the world! It is time to make them back the hell off or be ran out of the country.

    It is time to start telling the truth about Islam, invite the local mullah to a Town Hall debate and rip them all a new one by using their own book to do it with!
  • It is so sad to see my country, my beloved America lost to islam principles. They are claiming our country. They have been at work for many years while we all stood by, beginning with recruiting prisoners back in the 60's. Slowly they creep further and further into our democracy and taking little steps they have succeeded in changing our laws, bits at a time. Then getting their people to run as politicians and even getting into positions of power, and then another of their puppets is elected (obama) and now they're getting more confident. Now they're coming out of the closet and openly attacking anyone or any ideology that is contrary to their way of thinking. Scares the heck out of me. I fear that our younger generations are oblivious to what is happening these days, and only a few are knowledgeable of our country's great history and the fight, the determination, the faith, and the blood that it took to build it. They are complacent and ignorant and have no idea what is being sacrificed. I won't be around in 10 more years, but I fear that I will live long enough to see our democracy crumble further in to some sort of sharia law.

    As for PBS....well, my donation of time and money has ceased. I recently watched a PBS show on the spread of islam in Europe. It romanticized islam, showing off beautiful mosques and garments. Is claimed to be a means of teaching the world how wonderful islam is and that we should welcome their presence. It sickened me! I talk about this infestation all the time to my family, my friends, and my fellowship and I know people who close to me are aware of what is happening here in OUR America!

    IN GOD WE TRUST
  • i got this in an email today (go to the link & vote to cut funding to NPR):


    NPR firing Juan Williams for expressing his opinion demonstrates an over-reaching political correctness that is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression. That is why we have included the termination of federal funding for NPR in the latest round of YouCut options.

    We're asking you to weigh in: do you believe that your tax dollars should be going to fund NPR? Click here to vote on this week's cuts: http://republicanwhip.house.gov/YouCut/

    As always, we will take the item chosen by the YouCut community to the House floor for an up-or-down vote.

    Regards,

    Eric Cantor
    House Republican Whip
  • Looks like it is time to pull the funding from NPR and PBS as far as I am concerned. It seems that neither of them are unbiased, but extremely biased to the Left and intimidated by special interest groups. They need to learn to sink or swim on their own just like Air America did.
  • WE need to care! CAIR is pushing Shariah on us, along with their sister organizations here in the US, THROUGH our own laws and law enforcement agencies which they're LOADING with Muslims THEY approve! Especially the FBI and DHS have them at even HIGH levels within the organization. That worries me on 2 levels; first, we're still at war with practitioners of that religion on the BASIS of it, and actions prompted BY it; and second, WE can't depend on our own LEOs for protection against those w!ho would seek to act out in terrorist ways because they ARE the LEOs. Even more than the "blue wall" type, these are GOING to stand with the Muslims against us, no matter how many of OUR laws are broken by them. CAIR has also been infiltrating our Congress fairly heavily, not so much in the seats as yet although they do have some already, but in ways that ARE influencing how laws are being made in our nation, and how they're being enforced, or not, as well! Read theMuslim Mafia; it's an excellent and well documented expose of exactly what CAIR is and what they're up to!
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