RADICAL UK ISLAMIC CLERIC MAKES SPECIAL APPEAL TO MUSLIMS IN MICHIGAN AS HE PLANS TO RALLY OUTSIDE WHITE HOUSE FOR SHARIAH

While we sit transfixed before our televisions watching the earthquake of upheaval that is convulsing the Mideast, we had better start paying attention to the tremors closer to home.

Consider this newsflash from the UK's Daily Mail disclosing that hardline Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary will be holding a March 3 demonstration outside the White House "a rally, a call for the Sharia, a call for the Muslims to rise up and establish the Islamic state in America."

Choudary is the fiery former leader of the banned group Islam4UK whose interview with Sean Hannity we posted here is nothing less than explosive and who famously said that "one day the flag of Islam will fly over the White House."

It is noteworthy -- and mightily disturbing -- that this radical Islamist cited Michigan (home to the largest concentration of Arab- and Muslim-Americans) as one of four US Muslim population centers where Muslims should "take lessons from their Muslim brothers and sisters in North Africa and the Middle East and rise to implement the Shari'ah in America," as is noted on his group's website. American-born al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn similarly urged Muslims living in the "misearable suburbs of Paris, London and Detroit" to rise up in jihad.

Choudary was a co-signer of a "Warning to All Jews" in 2000 in the UK, admonishing them that "if you support Israel financially, verbally or physically you will become part of the [Middle East] conflict. A veiled threat to be sure, followed three years later by a chilling interview with the Jerusalem Post about jihad in which he said:

"In Israel there are no civilians. You have to remember that they are occupying Muslim land. "

Asked if that applied to babies and old women who get "blown up in the marketplace," he responded:

Those people in the land are occupiers and aggressors and are part of the atrocities which, as far as we're concerned, are as bad - if not worse - as in Nazi Germany. As far as women are concerned, they are a part of the army. By and large the operations are targeted at people who are part of the army, but invariably innocent people will be caught up in the explosions but this is what we call collateral damage.

It is noteworthy -- and mightily disturbing -- that this radical Islamist cited Michigan (home to the largest concentration of Arab- and Muslim-Americans) as one of four US Muslim population centers where Muslims should "take lessons from their Muslim brothers and sisters in North Africa and the Middle East and rise to implement the Shari'ah in America," as is noted on his group's website.

Read the action alert from the Endowment for Middle East Truth below.

It is also instructive to read the editorial in the Washington Times that appeared this past fall after Coudary's interview on ABC.

"Banned in Britain"

Islamist Seeks Shariah for America

March 3rd is not a date of interest for most Americans. But for Islamists it’s a date steeped in significance. March 3rd will be the 87th anniversary of the abolition of the Caliphate by Kemal Ataturk. It’s also the date that Islamic radical Anjem Choudary’s new Shariah4America group plans for a protest outside the White House, over which Choudary has stated, “…one day, the flag of Islam will fly over the White House."

Who is Anjem Choudary?

Choudary is a British-born Muslim, trained as a solicitor and leader of the banned organization Islam4UK, best known for violent demonstrations against British troops returning home from Afghanistan. Choudary is a close associate of the imprisoned Islamic cleric Omar Bakri Muhammad, founder of the terror-linked Al –Muhajiroun, known by British law enforcement to have close ties to Al-Qaeda. Numerous members participated in terrorist plots in Israel, India and Britain including suicide bombings. Other followers have been recruited to fight abroad in Chechnya, Kosovo, Sudan, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

The objective of Choudary and his ilk, like all Islamists, is world-wide Shariah law, and the reestablishment of the Caliphate, and they seek to capitalize on the revolution in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East in order to see this accomplished. In his interview with TV host Sean Hannity, Choudary predicts the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and solidly stands behind the Brotherhood motto, “Allah is our objective, the Prophet is our leader, the Koran is our law, Jihad is our way, and dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope. Allahu akbar!”

And Choudary’s Shariah4America group seeks to accomplish the same here in the United States.

“We hereby call upon the Muslims in the US, particularly in New York, Michigan, Chicago and Washington DC to take lessons from their Muslim brothers and sisters in North Africa and the Middle East and rise to implement the Shari’ah in America,” the group writes on their website, which prominently features a black jihad flag subsuming a red, white and blue map of the United States, and the words “A Call for Revolution.”

Americans must begin to take the threat from Islamists like Choudary seriously. Shariah is a dangerous affront to the U.S. Constitution, and is a goal being advanced every day by organizations like Shariah4America, and the Muslim Brotherhood with their numerous front organizations. Those organizations include those described in the Holy Land Foundation trial documents, such as the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Society of North America. It is vital that we educate our citizens, and policymakers about this effort. Contact your Representative and Senators, and ask them to speak out against Anjem Choudary’s March 3rd demonstration, in support of the U.S Constitution, and against Shariah. You can find contact information for your elected officials at: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt

--Posted by MT Beadle