A little background needed here. Muslim Day on Capitol Hill in Texas was arranged by CAIR Houston for 1/31/13. There were probably 200 attendees by the end of the day. They were bussed in from various parts of the state. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn they were also paid and fed to attend. There were many speakers at the outdoor podium in the early morning; each got maybe a minute to say his/her name and rushed off. Few of the 200 attendees (most were the speakers themselves) had arrived yet and there was little applause and less understanding of what was said.

Mustafa made his inflammatory statements inside, away from the cameras, which weren’t allowed in the meeting room. The demographic of the audience was black and Arab men with a sprinkling of hijabbed women, but no Hispanics or whites.

When the subject of sharia came up, the crowd was clueless, which also tells us that the Muslim populace as a rule is not taught the basics of its creed; it is and will continue to be the lslamic leaders who rally the crowds and direct the histrionics that drive the fodder to jihad.

Stop the leaders (the Muslim Brotherhood); stop the drive.

Also note that 1/31/13 was a Thursday. The legislators generally quit the capitol to go back to their home offices at noon on Thursdays, hence no one to take the podium and talk some sense to the attendees.

http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/we-are-above-the-law-of-the-land/

‘We are above the law of the land’

Muslim’s stunning claim at Texas rally for Islam

byJohn Griffing Email | Archive

A Council on American-Islamic Relations leader told a crowd at a rally for Islam that members of the faith should not be bound by American law. “If we are practicing Muslims, we are above the law of the land,” said Mustafa Carroll, executive director of the Dallas-Fort Worth CAIR branch.

The rally in Austin was part of a nationwide effort to hold “Muslim Capitol Day” events. According to the event website, Muslims from around Texas went to the capitol to “promote civic and political activism throughout the wider Muslim community.” The organizers said one major issue discussed “was the recent House and Senate bill proposals involving the implementation of ‘anti-Shariah’ legislation, where the First Amendment rights and freedoms of Muslims would ultimately be hindered.” [Note that in the Texas Website, they talked about the 2011 bills, not this lege sessions’, so that info was incorrect.]

Critics argue Shariah prohibits other faiths from free exercise of religion when enforced, giving freedom only to Muslims.

Carroll’s statement was similar to a statement allegedly made by CAIR co-founder and former chairman Omar M. Ahmad. He was paraphrased by a reporter saying, “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant” and the Quran “should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”

Carroll began joking [because his audience didn’t know what it was] about the widespread concern about Shariah, the religious code that governs Muslim civil and political life. “We tried to downplay Shariah, because we didn’t want to give the other side any excitement for being here,” he said. He dismissed critics who express concern about Shariah, calling them “anti-foreign.” “When you even say the word Shariah, people get nervous. We are not advocating for Shariah. We are not trying to make Shariah the law of the land,” he said. Carroll claimed Muslims only want the “right to practice our faith.” But he also said, “If you understand Shariah, the foundation of our faith … how we treat our neighbor, how we treat our parents … how we participate in society, all of that is part of Shariah.”

Carroll is on record defending Hamas, classified by the U.S. as a terrorist group. “I think you can only blame Hamas for so long. It takes two to tango [if Israel or the US didn’t fight back, he means]. And I think, you know, that what we’ve heard for a number of years is this terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, Hamas, Hamas, Hamas, was not just Hamas,” he’s said.

At CAIR’s Dallas banquet in 2007, Carroll denied the Quran is the source of terrorism. “Look at the true cause of the terrorism. It’s not somebody is reading a book, reading a Quran, and then go out and say, ‘Well, the Quran told me to blow this up. I’m gonna blow it up.’ The cause, the root cause of terrorism is oppression. The root cause of terrorism is oppression.” [Well, yes, you might say. What HE’s saying is that the only legitimate reason for terrorism is to throw off oppression, which is anyone keeping Muslims from submitting the world to Islam.]

Rev. Ronnie C. Lister, a social justice activist from the Houston area, spoke at Muslim Capitol Day. “This country belongs to you. This state house is your state house. The police department is your police department,” he told the crowd. “This land is your land. … God is on your side … this is your house. [It] does not belong to the Republicans. It does not belong to the Democrats. It does not belong to just Americans. It belongs to all of us! [No, it most emphatically does not.]“We are looking for the day when a Muslim will become president of the United States [which means, of course, that the US is no longer the US]; you heard it from me,” Lister said.

Islamic expert Frank Gaffney, founder of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., told WND that Carroll’s declaration of Islamic supremacy was consistent with Muslim teaching. “When you hear one of their speakers say, we are above the law of the land – take it to the bank. That is what they really believe,” he said. “That is what all Muslims believe. That is what Shariah teaches. To the extent that Muslims adhere to Shariah, they are obliged to try and impose it on the rest of us.”

There is a great deal more to the article. Click on the link above.