If you haven’t heard of The 910 Group yet (I’m a member), you will. From Gates of Vienna (with thanks to the mysterious John Smith) comes more evidence that the Islamists are hard at work right in the United States, chipping away, chipping away at our National Identity — especially around Washington, D.C. and the state of Virginia, but I don’t think Islamists are prepared for grass-roots resistance from Americans:
�Gilani Lane Is Insane!�
by Baron Bodissey
This evening just after dusk the Christian Action Network organized a demonstration at Charlotte County Courthouse. They were protesting against the official county approval of a road named for a known terrorist, Sheik Gilani, the founder of the Muslims of America and Jamaat ul-Fuqra. The event was scheduled just before a Board of Supervisors meeting.
I got there early while it was still light so I could take some photos of the area. Charlotte Courthouse is one of the more beautiful locations in the Commonwealth of Virginia, scenic and historic — the home of Patrick Henry — without being overrun with boutiques and tack shops like a lot of other “old towns” are.
While I was waiting I chatted with a local businesswoman, who said she was appalled by the name “Sheikh Gilani Lane”.
“I’ve got a son in the Navy,” she said. “That’s not what he’s fighting for.”
She wondered why the FBI couldn’t do something about the Red House compound. I reminded her that this is a free country, and that unless someone there did something overtly illegal, there wasn’t much that law enforcement could do.
She gave a reluctant assent, but added, “You know, this country is really getting kind of screwed up.”
The Christian Action people gathered at Mimmo’s Restaurant just down the road from the Courthouse to eat and prepare for the demonstration.
The media showed up in full force, and Martin was interviewed a couple of times in front of the restaurant before he could eat his dinner.
The demonstration was not at the Courthouse itself, but just down the road in front of the County Administration Building, since that is where the Board of Supervisors meets.
I got there early, while the TV crews were setting up, and spent some time talking to the counter-demonstrators who were already there in anticipation of the arrival of the Christian Action Network. The TV people took footage of them while they were waiting.
One lady carried a sign that read, “Have we made our neighbor welcome? Christ says that by this shall all men know that you are my disciples if you have love for another.” She told me that she was feeling like a young picketer. I remarked that she didn’t really look like a hippie. She replied that she thought there was a little hippie in her.
The state police were there to make sure no one got out of hand (no one did).
I chatted for a while with a representative of the state police. When I told him I was a blogger, he asked me which one.
“Gates of Vienna,” I replied.
“You’re with the 910 Group, right?”
“Well… yes, I’m associated with them.”
It turns out that he is a regular Gates of Vienna reader, and has been keeping up with the Jamaat ul-Fuqra news. He had even read today’s post. Hooray for the state police! Christine from the 910 Group was one of the demonstrators, and went over to introduce herself to him.
“Oh, so you’re Christine!” he said. “I know you.”
I had a long discussion with a local Presbyterian minister, whose sign displayed a passage from Ephesians about the neccessity for giving up anger and focusing on love. He felt that the protest was doing injustice to their peaceful Muslim neighbors. He knows people in the compound; he’s met with them, eaten meals with them, and coached their children. They’re peaceful, decent, people, and the demonstrators have no right to judge them when they don’t even know them.
When I confronted him with Sheikh Gilani’s own words, he said that his friends in the compound think the Sheikh was being taken out of context.
Well, consider this, from a recruitment video:
In a videotape obtained by The Washington Times, Sheik Gilani calls on American Muslims to help him form an “international organization.”
“We have reached out and prepared them to defend themselves in a highly specialized training in guerrilla warfare,” he says, referring to two camouflage-clad black men flanking him. “Life is becoming more hard for Muslims. Therefore, every man and woman will learn to defend himself or herself.”
Must have been some context.
For the rest of the article, complete with photographs, please visit Gates of Vienna.
Podcasts Archive
These creeps whine that things are getting harder for them yet they become more and more bold. I’m waiting for CAIR to sponsor a gigantic rally in DC of Muslims “proving” that Islam is truly a religion of peace. It’ll be reminiscent of when the KKK marched in DC back in the 1920’s but of course the media won’t make THAT comparison. Islamaniac shamelessness knows no bounds.
Great Job! I was at the protest in Charlotte County and several things stuck out in my mind as I looked around the scene: The Muslims of America were nowhere to be seen - Few supporters of the MOA were in attendance - The Board of Supervisors rearranged their schedule to avoid or discourage the demonstration - The Board of Supervisors are either frightened, foolish, or stupid if they can so cavalierly dismiss this issue - and the protestors were courageous. Considering the viloent background of al-Fuqra, Christian Action Network is putting their necks on the line in order to educate their fellow Americans about this threat to our country. I hope this most important issue will soon be the subject of national discussion. The citizens of this country need to wake up before it is too late!