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JIHAD AWARENESS PROJECT


Contact: Traeh Lledew.......................................................FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
traehnam@yahoo.com


COUNTER-JIHAD GROUP SEEKS TO INFLUENCE U.S. SENATE
“Jihad Awareness Project” Sends More Than 100 Books, Dozens of DVDs, to Congress

Three months ago, a volunteer group began coalescing in cyberspace. In a little over two months, the “Jihad Awareness Project” had over a hundred members from forty-seven U.S. states. Concerned about the “more than 10,000 jihad terror attacks” media analysts like Glen Reinsford have counted in news reports from around the globe since September 11, 2001, and upset by terrorist death threats against cartoonists, authors, feminists, and politicians critical of Islam, the internet group wanted to do something “to protect Western values,” according to Traeh Lledew, the group’s organizer. The group was also alarmed over what its members perceived as the subtle creep of elements of Islamic law and practice into public institutions and economic life in the U.S. and Europe.

So two weeks ago, on November 5th, each of the more than one hundred members of the group sent author Robert Spencer’s provocatively titled book Religion of Peace? Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t to a U.S. senator or representative. Many also sent the DVD Islam: What the West Needs to Know, a film that makes few concessions to what some deem political correctness. The DVD interviews Mr. Spencer and a number of other scholars who argue that core elements of Islam’s texts and traditions urge warfare against unbelievers and their subjugation as second-class citizens under Islamic law. Mr. Lledew said many in his group believe that unless the “supremacist” elements of Islamic doctrine are abandoned, over time it will become “increasingly difficult for anyone to escape a sad clash of civilizations.”

That is not an uncontroversial position, of course. But according to Mr. Lledew, “it probably doesn’t get enough airplay, because too many journalists and public figures are afraid to criticize any aspect of Islam.” Asked to elaborate, he said that “not all Muslims want Islamic law imposed, but surveys show that a great many do. And it’s true that Muslims who agree with jihad terrorism are not the majority, but they are by no means a tiny minority either. For example, a survey commissioned by the Guardian newspaper and carried out by the ICM polling organization a few weeks after the deadly terrorist attacks in the London subways showed that five percent of Muslims in the United Kingdom thought those attacks were justified. Five percent works out to about 85,000 UK Muslims. Other surveys came up with similar or more disturbing numbers. Close to half of UK Muslims would like to live under Islamic law rather than under a Western legal system. Nearer to home, a 2007 Pew survey showed that at least 15,000 American Muslims think suicide bombings against civilians are ‘often justified’ to defend Islam. Too many people are afraid to acknowledge these facts. If there is to be a chance of reform in the Islamic world, more people will need to face up to and reject the aspects of Islamic doctrine that support jihad terrorism and that command the imposition everywhere of Islamic law.”

Mr. Lledew, who like his volunteers earns nothing from the project he started, said he expects senators and representatives to receive most of the books and DVDs during the second week of November. But what does he hope the group will accomplish? “I’m optimistic,” he said. “I like to picture a few senators sitting around together after hours, sipping drinks, watching the DVD and learning. I hope the project will plant some seeds for the future and that perhaps we’ll be able to pursue additional projects and continue to grow.”

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If you’d like more information about this topic, or would like to schedule an interview with Traeh Lledew, please email Traeh at traehnam@yahoo.com.
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Letter to Congress


More than 100 people sent a variant of this letter, which, together with book and DVD, should be arriving to most of the recipients in the second and third weeks of November.

.......................................................................................................[Volunteer's Name
.......................................................................................................address&zip]

.......................................................................................................November 5, 2007
The Hon. [Senator or Representative’s name]
[Sen. or Rep.Address & zip]

Dear Senator ___________ [or Dear Representative ___________]:

Thank you very much for all the work you do on my behalf and on behalf of your other constituents.

Enclosed please find the book Religion of Peace? Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t, and the DVD Islam: What the West Needs to Know. I hope you will enjoy them.

I respectfully ask you to consider the contents of the book and DVD whenever you have to deal with immigration legislation or you hear news of the nearly global Islamic persecution of Christians, which has been aptly labeled a new Holocaust.1

Consider the following facts, which are relevant not just to Christians, but to non-Muslims and Muslims of all stripes:

-- Islamic death threats against increasing numbers of journalists,2 cartoonists,3 teachers,4 writers,5 democratic politicians,6 feminists,7 and other public figures show that the percentage of Muslims who desire to live under Islamic law, despite its dictatorial theocratic character, is not as small a percentage as Americans have often been told.

-- A 2006 Pew Research poll found that 24% of Jordanians, 26% of Egyptians, 33% of Indonesians, 38% of Pakistanis, and 61% of Nigerian Muslims “have a lot or some confidence in Osama Bin Laden.”8 Similar percentages could be adduced in the case of many other Islamic nations.

-- A May 22, 2007 Pew Research poll shows that 7% of the estimated 450,000 American Muslims aged 18-29, i.e., about 31,000 Muslims, have “favorable views of Al Qaeda."9 Among all adult American Muslims, 5%, i.e., 75,000, have favorable views of Al Qaeda.10 And those numbers may well be too low, since some poll respondents surely would not admit to favorable views of Bin Laden’s organization.

1 http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/07/islams_global_war_against_chri.html

“From Nigeria to Indonesia, Christians are under siege in virtually every single country in the Muslim world, the victims of countless acts of discrimination, depredation, brutality, and murder that are so widespread and systematic that it can rightfully be called the new Holocaust. This time, however, the perpetrators of this Holocaust aren't wearing swastikas, but kufi skull caps and hijabs.”
2 http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/017646.php
3 http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/540
4 http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014961.php
5 http://www.theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=6060
6 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article393161.ece
7 http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/002905.html
8 Page 25, http://pewglobal.org/reports/pdf/253.pdf
9 Page 6, http://pewresearch.org/assets/pdf/muslim-americans.pdf
10 Page 54, http://pewresearch.org/assets/pdf/muslim-americans.pdf




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-- From the same 2007 Pew poll, one learns that at least 2% of American Muslims aged 18-29, which means an estimated 9,000 Muslims, believe suicide bombings against civilian targets are “often justified” to defend Islam.11 Among all adult American Muslims, at least 1%, or 15,000, believe suicide bombings against civilians are often justified. Another 7%, or some 100,000 American Muslims, believe bombings against civilians are sometimes justified.12

-- Since after 9/11/01, over 10,000 deadly terrorist attacks in the name of Islam have victimized tens of thousands of civilians around the globe.13 The only large-scale mass public protests by Muslims against jihad terror have taken place in response to Muslim terror against other Muslims. There have, however, been large numbers of Muslim complaints about supposed “Islamophobia.” While some of those complaints are certainly sincere, it is not reassuring that both the Qur’an and traditions of Muhammad permit Muslims to deceive non-Muslims for the purpose of advancing the rule of Islamic law over non-Muslims and Muslims alike.14

-- In 2005, author Robert Spencer wrote: “It is now over five years since...Sufi Sheikh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani testified at a State Department Open Forum that Muslims holding an ‘extremist ideology’ had taken over ‘more than 80 percent of the mosques that have been established in the US. And there are more than 3000 mosques in the US.’ … Corroborating evidence came...from Freedom House, which released a report revealing the extent to which American mosques are filled with jihadist material…”15

We must not allow death threats and terrorism to pave the way for the slow creep of Islamic law into our private and public institutions, as we have begun to witness happening.16

I hope that somewhere in your busy schedule you will be able to find time to view the DVD and read the book. And since there is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that requires national suicide, I respectfully urge you to employ every possible legal means to prevent entrance to the U.S. (except for Christians, Jews, or other non-Muslims facing religious persecution) by would-be immigrants from nations where significant percentages of the population, even if not the majority, show decided sympathies for Islamic extremism, jihad, and sharia law. The threat to the West and its values is real and very active.17

..........................................................................................................Sincerely,
.......................................................................................................[Volunteer signature]


11 Page 53, http://pewresearch.org/assets/pdf/muslim-americans.pdf
12 Page 53, http://pewresearch.org/assets/pdf/muslim-americans.pdf
13 For documentation of each of the 10,000+ deadly attacks carried out around the globe in the name of Islam, see www.thereligionofpeace.com, or contact that site’s administrator.
14 See, for just one example, Qur’an Chapter 3, verse 28, which tells Muslims not to take non-Muslims as friends, unless it is secretly to "guard yourselves" against those “friends.” For an overview of the Qur’anic and hadith sources on deception see http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Quran/011-taqiyya.htm
15 http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID={69B2BA66-85EC-4C3A-BC0E-3F00B171B3FF}
16Investors Business Daily editorial, at http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=277080979980027
17 And particularly advanced in Europe, where the future of freedom is increasingly in doubt. See, for example, While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West from Within, by Bruce Bawer, 2006. See also "The Bomb in the Backyard," Foreign Policy, Nov./Dec. 2006, in which physicists Peter D. Zimmerman and Jeffrey G. Lewis explain how a team of 19 men, with a budget of around $5 million, could purchase highly-enriched uranium on the black market, build within U.S. borders a simple gun-type nuclear weapon, transport it to an American city, and kill hundreds of thousands of people. The article is also on the web, at http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/ksgnews/Features/opeds/122006_lewis.html