Tuesday, August 10, 2010

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ICNA The Rev. Jesse Jackson, one of the nation`s arch civilian rights activists, and the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) accept accustomed

an accessible letter by a affiliation of Muslim, Sikh, Asian-American, and added civilian liberties groups* beatific to FBI Director Robert Mueller gluttonous an account of why a baton of an anti-Islam abhorrence accumulation was afresh arrive to alternation accompaniment and federal law administering officers.

Robert Spencer, co-founder of the abhorrence accumulation Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA), claimed in a blog column that he "gave two two-hour seminars on the belief-system of Islamic jihadists to the Tidewater Joint Terrorism Task Force." Those accessory the training reportedly included FBI agents.

[BREAKING UPDATE: Spencer`s accumulation has arrive anti-Islam Dutch agitator Geert Wilders to allege at a September 11 beef adjoin a proposed Islamic association centermost in New York City. SEE:

Wilders to Allege at New York Mosque Protest]

In its letter to Mueller, the affiliation categorical Spencer`s biased angle on Islam and Muslims, including apropos to Islam`s Prophet Muhammad as a "con man."

The letter cited the absolute civic media watch accumulation Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), which articular Spencer as one of "Islamophobia`s Dirty Dozen" who systematically "spread fear, bigotry, and misinformation."

In its report, FAIR said, "By selectively blank annoying Islamic texts and commentaries, Spencer concludes that Islam is innately agitator and violent."

SEE: FAIR Unmasks the Smearcasters - Robert Spencer

The coalition`s letter aswell acclaimed that Spencer abutting with hate-blogger Pamela Geller to begin a new alignment called Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA):

[NOTE: Geller`s anti-Islam bigotry was accent during a contempo television interview. SEE: Video: TV Host Exposes Pamela Geller`s Anti-Muslim Bigotry]

"SIOA has appear to bulge through acute action to the architecture of American mosques, anti-Islam bus and auto commercial campaigns, abutment for European far-right groups and Islamophobes such as the English Defence League and Geert Wilders, and biased anti-Islam statements by its co-leader, Pamela Geller.

"Geller has claimed that `Hitler and the Nazis were aggressive by Islam` and offered articulate abutment to both accused Serbian war bent Radovan Karadzic and collapsed Apartheid-era baton Eugene Terre`blanche."

SIOA is an bulge of a agnate accumulation in Europe that seeks to block the architecture of mosques. That group, Stop the Islamization of Europe, "considers Islamophobia to be the acme of accepted sense."

SEE: SIOA is an Anti-Muslim Abhorrence Group

Fox Opens Its Airwaves to Anti-Muslim Activist Geller

The United States Patent and Brand Office banned to admission SIOA a brand because: "The applied-for mark refers to Muslims in a calumniating address because by analogue it implies that about-face or acquiescence to Islam is something that needs to be chock-full or acquired to cease."

Spencer aswell co-authored, with Geller, the recently-published book, "The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration`s War on America," which sounds a "wake-up alarm for Americans to stop the Obama administering from attached our hard-won freedoms, silencing our autonomous voices, and irreparably harming America for ancestors to come."

The cessation of the coalition`s letter to Director Mueller states:

"Mr. Spencer is advantaged to his abolitionist angle and associations. We acerb accept that such audibly biased views, and those who authority them, should be relegated to the binding of our nation`s discourse, not accustomed a appearance of angary by getting arrive to alternation the institutions and individuals answerable with attention our nation from agitated extremists.
"We achievement to deliver your acknowledgment to our corresponding constituencies in adjustment to allay grassroots apropos apropos individuals and groups with bright anti-Muslim motivations getting acclimated as trainers for our nation`s law enforcement."



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