Obama Sides With Iran Over Families of Beirut Bombing Victims

Obama and his pro-Islamic Department of Justice (DOJ), have stabbed the families of the Beirut bombing victims in the back. Just like he did the families of the 911 victims, when he had the DOJ fill a brief to shield the Saudi Royal Family from any 911 lawsuits. Any questions where his loyalties lie?


Hat tip to Bare Naked Islam.

Adding insult to infamy
26 years after attack on Marine barracks in Beirut, families stymied again in bid for restitution

On Veterans Day, Christine Devlin stood in the cold in Westwood for the unveiling of a new memorial to local soldiers lost overseas, including her son Michael, one of the 241 servicemen killed in the bombing of the US Marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983.

Devlin is among 30 Massachusetts relatives of victims of the Beirut attack who have been fighting for more than a decade to get compensation for what many consider the first major terrorist attack against the United States. After a federal judge ruled in 2007 that Iran was liable for $2.65 billion in damages to be shared by 150 families seeking restitution, they believed they were on the cusp of victory.

But now, the Obama administration is going to court to try to block payments from Iranian assets that the families’ lawyers want seized, contending that it would jeopardize sensitive negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program and establish a potentially damaging precedent.

In a little-noticed filing in federal court, the Justice Department is arguing that giving the money to the victims “can have significant, detrimental impact on our foreign relations, as well as the reciprocal treatment of the United States and its extensive overseas property holdings.’’

The Obama administration’s position is a blow to those like Devlin, who is still waiting for some measure of justice for her son, who was 21 when Hezbollah terrorists rammed a suicide truck bomb into the peacekeepers’ headquarters.

“It is offensive that our government - the government that [the Marines] were fighting for, who sent them there - are against us collecting from Iran,’’ Devlin said in an interview this week. “I felt justice was going to be served, but so far it hasn’t.’’

“We can’t go on with our lives,’’ said Marlys Lemnah, 62, of St. Albans, Vt., whose husband, Richard, a Marine sergeant nearing his 20-year retirement, was killed in Beirut. “It’s not about the money. We need something tangible: responsibility and accountability. We will fight until we have no more fight left.’’

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The Justice Department declined to comment further on the administration’s position, but as the congressional analysis stated, “The issue has pitted the compensation of victims of terrorism against US foreign policy goals and some business interests.’’

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Holder: Protect Rights of all Americans, Including Muslims

Once again Eric Holder has reached out to the Muslim community. Holder speaks of treating people equally. Then how about him and the rest of our leaders stop bowing down to Islam, and acting like Muslims are the most important people here in America? Who protected the victims of the Fort Hood attack?

Holder: Protect rights of all Americans, including Muslims
Attorney General speaks in Detroit
BY NIRAJ WARIKOO

Reaching out to Arab Americans and Muslims, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder strongly declared in a Detroit speech Thursday night that their full rights must be protected while the country battles security threats.

“We are committed to protecting the rights of all Americans, including Muslims,” Holder told a crowd of hundreds at the Detroit Marriot in the Renaissance Center. “This is not blind adherence to political correctness. It is devotion to our founding documents.”

In recent days, conservatives have assailed the Obama administration for what it sees as a political correctness in dealing with the issue of Islamic extremism.

Holder addressed the Republican criticism head on, saying that it’s vital that all ethnic and religious groups in America be treated equally. He attacked racial profiling, saying it was bad policy that breeds mistrust and division.

“For the last nine months, I’ve heard from Muslim and Arab-Americans who feel uneasy about their relationship with their government, who feel isolated and discriminated against by law enforcement,” Holder said. “This is simply intolerable. No American should feel denied the tenets of our Constitution or of the government that created it… It is inconsistent with what America is all about.”

Holder also addressed tensions locally that have emerged over the Oct. 28 shooting death of a Muslim leader by federal agents who were going to arrest him on suspicions he dealt with stolen goods. Holder did not mention specifically the case of Luqman Ameen Abdullah, the head of a Detroit mosque. But he said:

“The dialogue between law enforcement and those in the Muslim and Arab-American communities has been tested in recent weeks by events here in Michigan and events far away.”

But, he added, “Our resolve must not waver. We must renew our commitment to open communication even when we disagree.”

Holder also touched upon the Fort Hood shootings, in which an Arab-American Muslim serving in the U.S. Army shot dead 13 members of the military.

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“We need answers,” said Abdullah’s son, Omar Regan. “Islam is a target.”

Not really Omar, but it should be.

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Feds May Look Into Attack on Ann Arbor Muslims

I am completely against what happened to these two teenagers, but I am also against Muslims continually using our freedoms to try and get non-Muslims to respect Islam. Would the Feds even be interested if this was about non-Muslims? I am sure that the Islamic loving Department of Justice, will be more than happy to accommodate them.

Feds may look into attack on Ann Arbor Muslims
Oralandar Brand-Williams / The Detroit News

Ann Arbor -- The attorney for two Muslim teens attacked last month aboard a school bus is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to step in after Washtenaw County prosecutors decided not to file ethnic intimidation charges in the case.

The girl, 16, and her brother, 15, were attacked Sept. 8 after they left Skyline High School.

They said the incident began aboard a school bus and escalated after they got off the bus several blocks from their home.

The girl said a group of black teens removed her hijab, a traditional head scarf, and yelled ethnic slurs at her and her brother before punching her. The girl suffered a black eye and said she required stitches to the top of her head. Neither teen is being identified.

The prosecutor's office said it found no evidence the attack was motivated by their ethnicity.

"We did not feel there was sufficient evidence to justify prosecution for that based on information that was gathered by the Ann Arbor Police Department," said Steven Hiller, the deputy chief assistant prosecutor for the Washtenaw County Prosecutor's Office.

The girl's attorney, Nabih Ayad, expressed outraged over the prosecutor's decision.
Ayad said the case "is clear" that the girl was a victim of a hate crime and said he will be filing a civil lawsuit.

Dawud Walid, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations-Michigan, said his office "will be closely monitoring the outcome of the court proceedings as well as any possible involvement in this matter by the U.S. Department of Justice."

The four attackers will still face juvenile civil charges, Hiller said. He would not elaborate on what punishment they may receive.

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DOJ's Eric Holder's Mosque Visit to Advance Islam

Recently we saw the Obama lead Department of Justice issue a statement to help advance Islam in America. That quickly lead to the DOJ suing Essex County in an Islamic protecting lawsuit. Apparently that was just the beginning of our government's pro-Islamic agenda.

U.S. attorney general engages L.A.'s Muslim American youths
In a closed meeting at a local mosque, he tries to bridge relations between the Justice Department and the community, which has been critical of the 'infiltration of mosques,' among other things.

By Paloma Esquivel
July 18, 2009

In a quiet event during an otherwise well-publicized visit to Los Angeles this week, U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. reached out to local Muslim American youths, calling on them to work with the government to fight violent extremism and pledging that the Justice Department would reinvigorate enforcement of civil rights and work to advance religious freedom.

"For American Muslims specifically, these are times that pose serious civil rights and civil liberties challenges," Holder told the crowd, according to a copy of prepared remarks.

The meeting, which was closed to the media, was held Thursday evening at the Omar Ibn Al Khattab Foundation, a mosque and community center near USC, said Dafer Dakhil, the foundation's director.

It lasted about an hour, during which Holder gave prepared remarks and answered questions from an invited audience of about 200 people between the ages of 18 and 33.

The relationship between the Muslim American community and the Department of Justice has come under increasing strain. Earlier this year, a coalition of the nation's largest Muslim organizations issued a statement demanding that the Obama administration address FBI actions, including what they described as the "infiltration of mosques," the use of "agent provocateurs to trap unsuspecting Muslim youth" and the "deliberate vilification" of one of the nation's largest Muslim civil rights organizations.

The point of Thursday's event "was to engage the Muslim community here in Los Angeles," said Justice Department spokesman Matthew Miller.

Events closed to the media are not unusual and allow participants to have an "open, frank discussion," he said, adding that Holder also held a closed community round table Thursday morning about fighting gang violence in South Los Angeles.

Although Muslim Americans suffered in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks like all Americans, Holder said in his prepared remarks, they also suffered in unique ways -- as victims of hate crimes and as people who "have seen your faith maligned and insulted by those who commit acts of hatred and violence in its name."

Questions posed at the event included concern about law enforcement's profiling of Muslim Americans, the sanctity of mosques, hate crimes and plans for the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, said Dakhil, who helped organize the event.

Sharaf Mowjood, 26, of Upland said he asked Holder about the use of informants in mosques, a topic that stirred controversy locally after the disclosure earlier this year that the FBI sent an informant to an Irvine mosque.

Holder "recognized that the department has to be sensitive to religion," Mowjood said.

"The good thing is that he listened. He answered the questions to the best of his ability. . . . He could have been more frank, but it's OK. He's new."

The event was important to building relations between the Justice Department and the Muslim American community, Dakhil said.

"The attorney general got to meet face to face with a generation of Muslims born and raised in this country," he said.

But more than one participant expressed a wait-and-see attitude.

"It was a good gesture for him to come out," said Adel Syed, a student at UC Davis who is critical of the FBI's use of informants in mosques. But "more telling will be what the attorney general does next and the DOJ does next."

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It's up to all of us to do What's Necessary to Fight Islamic Jihadism and Incremental Sharia law

This is a letter sent in from reader Ann Huggett. She had called and written to Essex County in response to the "Dept. of Justice Sues Essex County to Protect Islam!" article. I applaud her for trying to change the direction that we are heading in.

xxxxx@admin.essexcountynj.org
Date: Tuesday, June 9, 2009, 10:41 AM

Dear Xxxxx

Thank you for taking my call as I believe that an article, which I researched and wrote in 2003, may prove invaluable to Essex County in its lawsuit filed against it by the US Justice Department over the county firing a corrections officer for wearing religious head wear.

My article, Muslim Headscarves on Western Streets, takes issue with the Islamic headscarf, what it actually means, what it represents and precisely why it is being worn. In my article I provide back-up research and the following two paragraphs are crucial:

If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times to anyone who will listen: that headscarf is NOT a religious requirement but a political statement and symbol of radical Islamic Fundamentalism. Egyptian student radicals dreamed up this headscarf in the 1970s as a covert political signal of Fundamentalist approval by female students for their male counterparts. This is according to Fadwa El Guindi, who is Adjunct Full Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern California.

In her article "Veiling Resistance", which appeared in the March 1999 edition of Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, Professor El Guindi said, "Women's Islamic dress, known as al-ziyy al-Islami, is an innovative construction that was first worn in the mid-1970s by activists. It does not represent a return to any traditional dress form and has no tangible precedent. There was no industry behind it-not one store in Egypt carried such an outfit. Based on an idealized Islamic vision gradually constructed for the Islamic community in the seventh century, it was made in the homes by the activists themselves."

Professor Fadwa El Guindi also has a book that might be of help in formulating your case. Her book is entitled, "Veil: Modesty, Privacy & Resistance" and is available through Amazon.com.

France, Turkey and Egypt all recognize the danger inherent in allowing this form of dressing and America must understand and recognize it too. Please forward this article's archived link (http://www.americandaily.com/article/3843) to the appropriate Essex County lawyers, who are handling this case. The US Department of Justice is clearly in the wrong and the Obama Administration has no business furthering Islamic political and cultural jihad here in the United States.

If you have any questions or if I can be of any further help, please call me at (xxx) xxx-xxxx.

Yours truly,

Ann Huggett

Dept. of Justice Sues Essex County to Protect Islam!

Just days ago I posted an article entitled "Justice Dept. Issues Statement to Help Advance Islam in America". Well the DOJ did not waste anytime and they have filed their first pro-Islamic lawsuit since then. It is now clear that our government supports one religion and that religion is Islam!


Hat tip to Creeping Sharia.

Suit claims NJ woman fired for wearing Muslim garb

NEWARK, N.J. - The U.S. Justice Department has sued Essex County over its firing of a corrections officer for wearing religious headwear.

The suit was filed in federal court in Newark on Monday on behalf of Yvette Beshier.

It claims Beshier was first suspended and then fired by the county for wearing a khimar, or Muslim head scarf.

The suit seeks monetary damages and also to require Essex County to adopt a policy that accommodates the religious observances and practices of employees.

Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination based on race, color, sex, national origin or religion.

A county spokesman declined to comment on the lawsuit.

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Justice Dept. Issues Statement to Help Advance Islam in America

While American Muslims are actively taking to the streets calling for jihad, the destruction of Israel and shooting American soldiers, our Obama led Justice Department has turned on America and sided with Islam.

Hat tip to Michelle Malkin.

Statement of Attorney General Eric Holder on Department of Justice’s Outreach and Enforcement Efforts to Protect American Muslims

Thursday, June 4, 2009

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder released the following statement relating to President Obama’s historic speech today in Cairo, Egypt:

"The President's pledge for a new beginning between the United States and the Muslim community takes root here in the Justice Department where we are committed to using criminal and civil rights laws to protect Muslim Americans. A top priority of this Justice Department is a return to robust civil rights enforcement and outreach in defending religious freedoms and other fundamental rights of all of our fellow citizens in the workplace, in the housing market, in our schools and in the voting booth.

"There are those who will continue to want to divide by fear - to pit our national security against our civil liberties - but that is a false choice. We have a solemn responsibility to protect our people while we also protect our principles."

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