Exposed: Islamic Supremacist Organization’s Banquet in Orlando, Florida
Advancing Justice Challenging Hate.
That was the theme of CAIR Florida’s 16th annual banquet at the Rosen Center in Orlando last night. Hassan Shibly, The Council for American Islamic Relations FL. Chief Executive Director took to the stage and delivered his Champions of Justice speech. (1)
“We stand strong and unafraid, unapologetic and unwavering as champions of justice and unity and civil rights for all”
He continued…
“Anyone…ANYONE, regardless of race or religion who faces discrimination on account of the color of their skin, the language they speak, how they worship God knows that we will be there and that we will be their champion, we will defend their rights, we will have their back!”
But who had the backs of the LBGTQ community when Sheik Sekalesfar was invited to Central Florida to give a speech titled: “How to deal with the phenomenon of homosexuality?” Do the words champions of justice, unity, civil rights accurately describe anyone who rolls out the welcome mat, refuses to reject the sermon of this man who soft peddles brutal punishment of gays as follows:
“Death is the sentence We know there’s nothing to be embarrassed about this. Death is the sentence….We have to have compassion for people. With homosexuals, it’s the same— out of compassion Lets get rid of them now.” (2)
Compassion? Justice? Unity? Civil Rights for all?
Persons representing such lofty virtues do not welcome or applaud individuals advocating death as an acceptable—even compassionate response to homosexuality. They reject them. It is profoundly disturbing that these practices exist in a solid dozen Muslim majority countries where being gay can get you strung up and hung from a tractor, lashed in a public square, fined, imprisoned stoned, burned or beheaded . It is horrific enough that human rights organizations estimate up to 6,000 men and women have been executed in Iran alone for homosexuality. But it is even more unsettling to know it’s the official stance of the Fiqh Council of North America as outlined in the explanation for their Fatwa issued in 1993(3):
“Verily, the punishment here is the burning of both homosexuals (the actor and acted upon) or stoning them with rocks till death because Allah Most High stoned the people of Lut after demolishing their village. “Homophobia and religiously sanctioned violence against gays is a virulent thread running through Islam from Raqqa to Mosul to Tehran to Saudi Arabia to Orlando, Florida. In this video Orlando Imam Abu Taubah (aka Marcus Robertson) screams gay epithets like f**gotts and f***ggoteurs (4)
Taubah has quite the resume. He was already a felon when arrested on weapons charges and tax fraud in 2011. In a sentencing memorandum Federal prosecutors describe that he “murdered several individuals; participated in assassination attempts; used pipe bombs, C-4, grenades, other explosives, and automatic weapons.”
The prosecutors also stipulated that the gang he belonged to “stockpiled weapons and explosives in preparation to fight against the perceived threat of interment of Muslims by the United States. (5) Taubah’s long association with terrorists dates back decades when he acted as the bodyguard to the Blind Sheik who is currently serving a life sentence on terror charges at Butner Correctional facility.
Taubah was himself recently released from prison after serving time for a firearm charge and tax fraud. Prosecutors submitted that the tax fraud involved a scheme to finance another mans trip overseas for purposes of jihad with a tax refund bilked out of the rest of us by listing 3 of Taubah’s 15 children as his dependents on the other man’s tax return. After his recent release from the Polk Correctional facility Taubah resurfaced in Orlando.
As an attorney Hassan Shibly may choose to represent individuals like Imam Abu Taubah. Acting as his legal counsel he has a fiduciary obligation to defend his client’s right to the free and utterly vile speech in which he engages. But as the leader of CAIR, a self-proclaimed civil rights organization claiming a mission of “Advancing Justice Challenging Hate”. It begs the question: where exists CAIR’s challenge to the 1400 years of Islamic jurisprudence, scripture and clerical guidance seething with hate and violence towards gays? And… it must also be asked who pays the price for CAIR’s blatant hypocrisy involved in refusing to challenge the hate in the house of Islam?
Well that last question is easier to answer but harder to bear: here in Orlando at Pulse, a gay nightclub, 49 people paid with their lives. Another 53 were injured. Hundreds more who witnessed a human bomb explode with religiously sanctioned hate and violence were traumatized. A tsunami of pain and grief has broken the hearts of mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, partners and friends who now are faced with the unimaginable task of somehow carrying on in the wake of the brutal murders of their loved ones. In the days after the jihad waged at Pulse CAIR’s leadership offered empty platitudes and condemnation of the attack. But not once have they spoken to the scriptural foundation for the hate and violence directed at homosexuals. And defending persons persecuted and discriminated against due to their sexual orientation was conspicuously ABSENT from the speech in which Mr. Shibly listed the groups for whom CAIR would champion justice, unity and civil rights.
And in the wake of this horror and trauma, as survivors are tasked with healing their physical and emotional wounds CAIR decides that they will “Champion Justice, Unity, Civil rights for all” by inviting none other than Imam Siraj Wahhaj as a keynote speaker for their event. Because nothing says unity and respect for the victims butchered by Islamic jihad in a gay nightclub quite like bringing a cleric who personally threatened to take an audience to Toronto to prevent a gay-friendly Mosque on Toronto from being built. Nothing says Anti-extremism like Siraj Wahhaj,(6) (7) (8)unindicted co-conspirator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombings. Yes, one and the same Siraj Wahhaj who acted as a character witness extolling the virtues of the Blind Sheik. The blind Sheik, master-mind of the 93 WTC bombings, author of a fatwa in the US declaring it lawful to rob banks and kill Jews. That’s right…as 49 families and survivors of the Orlando terror attack struggle to mend their shattered lives and wounded bodies CAIR Florida under the guidance of Hassan Shibly and Nezar Hamze invites the cleric who attested to the upstanding character of a man who called for jihad against the infidels and referred to Americans “descendants of apes and pigs”
What kind of person, or ‘civil rights’ group does that?
Last night CAIR FL. Civil Rights Director Thania Clevenger said: “I cannot explain to you how a victim of discrimination really feels” Well Madam Clevenger the victims of Omar Mateen can explain it to you. ALL hate ALL discrimination is appalling and repugnant. Bottom line? You cannot profess to be a champion of civil rights when you refuse to condemn ideology espousing violence towards others. You cannot honestly fancy yourself a champion of anything remotely resembling justice or unity while refusing to renounce leaders in your own community advocating death to gays.
Champions of justice do not hide behind phony veils of victimhood while inviting faith leaders inciting religiously sanctioned hate, supremacy and violence. If you challenge the thinking and ideology that leads to bullying a Muslim woman but not the thinking and ideology that tosses gay men off of buildings you are not a champion for justice. You are an enemy of justice. If you bemoan Islamaphobia but not Homophobic persecution of gays in your own tradition you are not a champion for justice. You are a hypocrite. If you decry the ignorance, the ideology which results in discrimination based on race but not that which would see a gay person stoned, lashed, burned fined or imprisoned then you are no champion of justice. You are a wolf in sheep’s clothing. If you have the audacity to demand more tolerance from others but refuse to address the intolerance of your own ideology you are not a champion of justice. You ARE the embodiment of hypocrisy and discrimination.
And if you are a person involved in welcoming individuals like Sheik Sekalesfar and Imam Siraj Wahhaj to Central Florida both before and after the horrific act of jihad waged on the good people of Orlando? Congratulations: Look in the mirror: YOU are the reason for the Islamaphobia you decry, the Islamaphobia that utterly innocent Muslim Americans who reject all discrimination and persecution also endure thanks to you.
Research/Sources:
1) https://m.facebook.com/story.p
2)http://www.shiatv.net/video/
3)https://web.archive.org/web/
(4) https://www.youtube.com/watch?
6)Siraj Wahhaj testimony re Blind Sheik http://www.investigativeprojec
7)Siraj Wahhaj listed as unindicted co-conspirators 1993 WTC bombing http://www.investigativeprojec
8) https://archive.org/details/Im
ADDITIONAL RESEARCH:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/315
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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