This Just In: 'Jihad' is 'defensive warfare,' West blamed for 9/11 attacks

Campaign warning parents of bias in classroom books

A new Islam-awareness campaign is being launched to tell parents and students that they simply shouldn't believe the editorializing in the textbooks used in Florida's schools.
Two organizations have worked together to produce a study on the controversy, and they are reporting that some of the nuggets that students in Florida's schools can learn from their social studies textbooks include:

• The Jewish Temple in Jerusalem contained "symbolically, the throne of their invisible God."
• Jesus was a "Palestinian Jew" who grew up in Galilee amidst "militant Zealots."
• It was "a few followers" of Jesus who "spread the story" about his resurrection.
• While Islamic Arab warriors "rarely imposed their religion by force," Christian monks "by contrast," were busy converting "peoples of Central and Eastern Europe."
• Israel is to blame for terrorist attacks by Palestinians because they were "angered over the loss of their territory."
• When the Jewish state of Israel was born in 1948, the nation and its neighbors "went to war."
• It was because of the "loss of their territory to Israel" that "militant Palestinians responded with a policy of terrorist attacks."
• "The Quran permitted fair, defensive warfare as jihad, or 'struggle in the way of God'" and this was how Muhammad and his successors expanded their territory.
• And while Jesus is "believed" by followers to be the messiah, it's a fact that "Gabriel continued to send revelations to Muhammad over 22 years."

Read the realwording of the Declaration of Independence and the story behind America's founding document in Rod Gragg's "The Declaration of Independence."

Martin Mawyer, president of Christian Action Network, whose group worked with Citizens for National Security on the study and its distribution, said, "We found some very skeptical phrasing meant to cast doubt on the historical accuracy of the Bible."

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Muslims To NYPD: Investigating Terror Is None Of Your Business

New York Muslim Leaders Protest NYPD Terror Prevention Tactics

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NEW YORK — A group of Muslim leaders says the N.Y.P.D.'s practice of infiltrating the Muslim community with undercover cops and keeping civilians under surveillance is unfair, and to protest they plan to boycott the mayor's annual Interfaith Breakfast.

Fourteen Muslim leaders sent a letter to the Mayor Michael Bloomberg Wednesday saying they will boycott Friday morning's breakfast over what they are calling "very disturbing revelations" centering on how New York Muslims are treated.

All of this stems from a series of Associated Press articles detailing the use of undercover officers and informants to gather information about Muslims in the city even when no crimes have occurred.

The N.Y.P.D. says at least 44 terrorists who have been captured or killed resided in the five boroughs or metropolitan area and they are following leads.

The police department issued a statement saying: "The N.Y.P.D. lawfully follows leads in terrorist-related investigations and does not engage in the kind of wholesale spying on communities that was falsely alleged."


The statement goes on to say, "There have been at least 14 terrorist plots against New York City since the 9/11 attacks, and the N.Y.P.D. is actively engaged in making certain we are not attacked again."

But Imam Al-Hajj Talib W. Abdur-Rashid of the Islamic Brotherhood told PIX11 News, "We've seen some of the leaked documents, and we do not believe the N.Y.P.D. is following leads spying on school children, spying on college students who are doing nothing more than pursuing their academic study. So we reject and proof will tell that the N.Y.P.D. version of what they are doing is not so."

In an email a mayoral spokesman says, "We have a couple dozen Muslim community leaders who have RSVP-ed that they will be at the breakfast which is about the same as previous years." The statement goes on to say, "The Mayor's office and the N.Y.P.D. maintain their strong ties with the City's Muslim communities."

It's Not My Fault! ... They Made Me Do it!

S.I. Jihadi Abdel Hameed Shehadeh rats out a big roster of plotters 

Wanna-be terrorist fingered teachers, a cabbie, a Muslim soldier and many others when nabbed by FBI-NYPD force, court papers show

BY JOHN MARZULLI
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

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Abdel Hameed Shehadeh (at right in courtroom artist's rendering) was arrested in 2010 by an FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force, charged with lying to feds about an attempt to travel to Pakistan to join the Taliban, and accused dozens of people of  jihadist plotting.

A TERRORIST wanna-be from Staten Island ratted out dozens of people he called pro-jihadists in New York and Hawaii after he was arrested by the FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorist Task Force, it was revealed Tuesday.

Abdel Hameed Shehadeh was a fount of information when lawmen interrogating him last year in Honolulu showed him more than 40 photos of possible evildoers, according to court papers filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.

Shehadeh’s lawyer is seeking to suppress the 22-page FBI report in which Shehadeh spills his guts.

The alleged rogues’ gallery he describes includes Brooklyn teachers of the Islamic orthodoxy Salafism, a livery cab driver, an Ethiopian Muslim in the U.S. Army and a College of Staten Island student who attended a fund-raiser at Brooklyn College for a terrorist.

Others he ID’d had delivered pro-jihadist speeches at mosques or ranted in online chat rooms, he said, and included a reputed member of the terror group Hamas who lives in Syracuse.

Most bizarre is the homeless husband-and-wife — she comes from a wealthy family and he drives a luxury BMW sedan — who watched a beheading video with Shehadeh, according to an FBI report.

Shehadeh recalled attending a lecture at the Brooklyn Islamic Center in 2008 with someone named “Omar” and a second man who peddled pro-jihad T-shirts. “Almost everything [Omar] and his friend . . . talked about was jihad,” the report states.

The names of the persons of interest are being withheld by the Daily News because Shehadeh’s claims could not be independently confirmed.

Shehadeh’s lawyer publicly filed the FBI report as part of a motion to suppress his client’s post-arrest snitching and statements about his own radicalization.

Shehadeh signed an affidavit claiming he was tricked into waiving his constitutional right against self-incrimination.

The Brooklyn-born Shehadeh, 22, is charged with lying to the feds about a failed attempt to travel to Pakistan and join the Taliban.

He also tried to join the U.S. Army himself, but was rejected because he failed to disclose his overseas trips.

“At some point after stopping the interview, Shehadeh was asked what he was thinking about. (He) answered, ‘How much I incriminated myself,’ ” Special Agent John Tinning and Detective Angel Maysonet wrote.

Kristallnacht In Our Time

New York Daily News

Debbie Egan-Chin/New York Daily News

Vandals torched three cars on Ocean Parkway and Avenue I. 

A fourth car had a swastika spray painted on it, and a nearby bench 

was tagged with the letters “KKK.”

Brooklyn, NY -- Bigots fueled by hatred and beer terrorized a heavily-Jewish Brooklyn neighborhood Friday, torching three cars, vandalizing a van and defacing other property with anti-Semitic messages.

Stunned residents on the targeted Midwood block awakened to thick black smoke pouring from the cars — and other hateful reminders of Nazi viciousness on Ocean Parkway.

"It was horrible," said 18-year-old Arlette Tebele, whose mother's charcoal-colored BMW X5 SUV was reduced to charcoal in places by the flames.

"They were trying to send a message," she said. "They're anti-Jew, anti—Semites."

Her brother, Bobby, was equally angry.

"It's not so much that the cars got blown up," he said. "It's the hatred behind it that's chilling. Of course, this would happen the one time I don't park in the driveway."

Eight nearby benches were spray-painted with Nazi swastikas and "SS" — the initials of Hitler's brutal Gestapo — and "f--k the Jews" was scrawled on a sidewalk.

Sandra Simone, a speech therapist at a nearby school, said it was no coincidence the hate attack came a day after the anniversary of Kristallnacht, when the Nazis in 1938 raided, ransacked and burned Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues across Germany.

Simone also tied the attack to the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests, where signs blaming Jews for the economic meltdown have been spotted from time to time.

"There are crazy people in this world, who just have nothing to do but hate," she said. "This is a sign of the times — that somebody would be emboldened enough to do this."

Police recovered at least four gas containers — and a dozen beer bottles — from the block of Ocean Parkway, between Avenues I and J.

"There were Coronas everywhere," said one detective. "Looks like they had a party."

"We're canvassing gas stations and hardware stores a mile around," another detective added, describing the police search for the haters.

City Councilman David Greenfield's office offered a $1,000 reward for information about the culprits, and the Anti-Defamation League kicked in an additional $4,000.

A recent ADL survey counted 133 anti—Semitic incidents in the city in 2010 — 53 of them in Brooklyn.

"New York City is home to more than 8 million of the most open and tolerant people in the world," Mayor Bloomberg said.

"But even here, there are occasional incidents involving actions that are hateful or vicious or both."

Tebele said she was in an upstairs bedroom in her home that overlooks the street when she heard "laughing and screaming," about 5:30 a.m.

"It was a group of kids," she said. "There was a series of explosions. The three cars were all on fire. It spread from the first car, to the second car, to the third."

In addition to the BMW, the vandals incinerated a rented Jaguar and an Audi and spray-painted KKK, for Ku Klux Klan, on a red Ford van.

Officers from the local 66th Precinct and the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force are investigating the hate fest.

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