FBI Mosque Counting Questioned

The United States should not engage in religious profiling as part of its anti-terrorism efforts, Human Rights Watch said today.

Human Rights Watch

Jan 29, 2003

According to recent news reports, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has ordered its field supervisors to count the number of mosques in the United States as part of its anti-terrorism data gathering efforts. These reports raise serious questions concerning the FBI’s willingness to engage in religious profiling.

“The entire Muslim community in the United States should not be presumed guilty of links to terrorism simply because of the religious beliefs of some terrorists,” said Jamie Fellner, director of the U.S. Program for Human Rights Watch. “This is as offensive as counting Christian churches on the assumption they may harbor abortion clinic bombers.”

Asking Human Rights Watch - How offensive are these?

004.094 O ye who believe! When ye  ''''go abroad''''   in the cause of Allah, investigate carefully, and say not to any one who offers you a salutation: "Thou art none of a believer!" Therefore carefully investigate. 

004.101 When ye travel through the earth, there is no blame on you if ye shorten your prayers, for fear the Unbelievers May attack you: For the Unbelievers are unto you open enemies.

 

004.100 He who forsakes his home in the cause of Allah, finds in the earth Many a refuge, wide and spacious.

004.092 Never should a believer kill a believer [But the 'unbelievers' - they are commanded to slay. That includes ALL who believe in the Son of God} 009.030 ]

009.004 (But the treaties are) not dissolved with those Pagans with whom ye have entered into alliance and who have not subsequently failed you in aught, nor aided any one against you. So fulfil your engagements with them to the end of their term.

009.005 But when the forbidden months are past [when the 'treaties' expire}  then fight and slay the Pagans ''''wherever'''' ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war.

008.067 It is not fitting for a prophet that he should have prisoners of war [slay them] until he hath thoroughly subdued the land. [Treason - in all non-Muslim nations]

009.029 Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued. [Violent Discrimination?] These commands violate 'international laws'

008.065 O Prophet! rouse the Believers to the fight.

009.038 O ye who believe! what is the matter with you, that, when ye are asked to go forth in the cause of Allah, ye cling heavily to the earth? Do ye prefer the life of this world to the Hereafter? But little is the comfort of this life, as compared with the Hereafter.

009.044 Those who believe in Allah and the Last Day ask thee for no exemption from fighting with their goods and persons. And Allah knoweth well those who do their duty.

004.095 Not equal are those believers who sit at home and receive no hurt, and those who strive and fight in the cause of Allah with their goods and their persons. Allah hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit at home. But those who strive and fight hath He distinguished above those who sit at home by a special reward.

002.216 Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing [war] which is good for you and that ye love a thing [peace] which is bad for you?

009.039 Unless ye go forth, He will punish you with a grievous penalty, and put others in your place.

How much influence do such teachings have with society? [especially the young]

If Human Rights Watch won't take a stand against such vile teachings - who will?

1Cr 1:20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

How can Human Rights Watch bear such a name - and at the same time - defend such viciousness? 

In a FBI briefing last week to congressional staff, the FBI reportedly said the purpose of counting mosques was to create a yardstick against which to measure the number of FBI terrorism investigations and intelligence warrants. [Why not just speak the Truth out loud - instead?] Today, however, an FBI spokesperson told Human Rights Watch that the FBI only wanted to count mosques to help prevent hate crimes against them. The FBI apparently did not provide the hate crimes rationale during the congressional briefing. [Scroll back up]

The director of the FBI, Robert Mueller, has not publicly explained the reason for the FBI order.

“The FBI should publicly explain the order,” said Fellner. “It certainly appears to be the latest in a series of Department of Justice counter-terrorist measures that target Muslims in the United States.”

008.065 O Prophet! rouse the Believers to the fight

008.067 It is not fitting for a prophet that he should have prisoners of war [slay them] until he hath thoroughly subdued the land. [Treason - in all non-Muslim nations]

Previous measures have focused on Muslim nationals of specified countries, primarily from the Middle East and South Asia. Those measures include: “voluntary” questioning of thousands of Muslim non-citizens by the FBI; special Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) registration procedures; the post-September 11 detention of hundreds of Muslim non-citizens while the FBI investigated them for possible links to or knowledge about terrorism; and the ongoing INS effort to detain and deport Muslim men from the specified countries who have violated the conditions of their visas.

Human Rights Watch documented the arbitrary, prolonged detention of hundreds of Muslim non-nationals as part of the Department of Justice’s investigation of the September 11 attacks. In a subsequent report on hate crimes against Arabs and Muslims in the United States, the organization warned that overbroad and indiscriminate intelligence gathering efforts and detentions encourage a public perception that Arab and Muslim communities as a whole are suspect and linked to the “enemy” in the U.S. war against terrorism. [NOT as much as the Koran does!]

Human Rights Watch strongly supports efforts to hold accountable those who engage in crimes against humanity and other acts of terrorism. Those efforts, however, should be constructed within the human rights framework.

“Law enforcement efforts to combat terrorism should not be based on sweeping generalizations against whole communities defined by their religion,” said Fellner.

009.030 The Jews call 'Uzair a son of Allah, and the Christians call Christ the son of Allah. That is a saying from their mouth; (in this) they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say. Allah's curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth!

047.004 Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers in fight [jihad], smite at their necks. [Behead them!]

Mixing Islam within non-Muslim societies is a SURE recipe for much bloodshed.

How can Human Rights Watch be so blind?

It is their responsibility to speak the Truth about Islam

Because they made it their responsibility!

 

 

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