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A former Muslim terrorist who became a Christian says he won't be intimidated by a Muslim advocacy group that is up in arms over a recent appearance he and several colleagues made at the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Walid Shoebat, Kamal Saleem, and Zachariah Anani were invited to speak at the Colorado Springs school on the topic of dismantling terrorism. Their appearance was part of a weeklong conference on terrorism that was organized by Academy cadets under the auspices of the political science department.
 
But even before Wednesday's appearance, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) demanded that the school include faithful Muslims to balance the presentation -- claiming the three speakers use hateful rhetoric against Islam. "Their entire world view is based on the idea that Islam is evil," Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR spokesman, told the New York Times. "We want to provide a balancing perspective to their hate speech."
 
But Walid Shoebat says it was an Islamic student sent by CAIR who displayed hate. "One of our colleagues, Kamal Saleem, after finishing speaking was approached by Omar Khalifa, a Palestinian student, [who] gave him a death threat," says Shoebat. "And there was a report, of course, and investigation over this whole issue."
 
Shoebat says this is not the Middle East. "We don't deserve to get death threats from Muslims who are coming here as students and who are immigrating to this country to try to run this country the way they want back in the Middle East," he argues. "This is the United States of America, and we are entitled to free speech."
 
According to Shoebat, authorities are looking into the situation, but he does not know what action might be taken.
 
The New York Times also reports that a group known as Members of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation was critical of the three former Muslims speaking on campus, saying it was "typical" of the Academy to invite "born-again Christians to address cadets on terrorism rather than experts who could teach students about the Middle East." The group is suing the federal government to combat what it considers creeping evangelism in the armed forces.
 
Reportedly, Mr. Anani did tell students during his talk that converting from Islam to Christianity saved his life.

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Comment from Reformed Faith:

Well, DUH. Of course they're going to try and use our own legal system against us! They want us to be silent so they can permeate our culture so much that our American culture and our Christian spiritual heritage will be drowned under the muck of their oppression. 

DeMint vs. Berkeley 

Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Editorials
February 3, 2008

The city of Berkeley, Calif., has decided it doesn't want to participate in the defense of the nation, so the federal government should feel no obligation to contribute to the prosperity of that city.

That's the theory behind Sen. Jim DeMint's plan to withdraw all earmarks for the city.The Berkeley City Council voted last week to tell a Marine Corps recruiting station that it "is not welcome in the city, and if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders."

That's a truly bizarre position to take toward the men and women who have dedicated their lives to preserving your freedom, but Berkeley went even further. The council's action went beyond insulting the Marines to sponsoring harassment of them.

The group Code Pink has been protesting the recruiting station. The council voted to give that group a parking space in front of the recruiting station once a week for six months and to give the group a free permit for protesting once a week. This is despite the fact that business owners in the area are sick of these disruptive protests.

It is one thing for the city to condemn current foreign policy. That's within the free speech rights of any group. It's quite another to try to kick a military recruiting station out of the city and set up the constant protests against this station. Berkeley's action was against the Marine Corps as an institution, not against the current war. And its action wasn't merely speech. It wants the recruiting station moved from the city.The City Council acted against the military, not any policy. In doing so, it voted not to support our national defense.

Other cities have adopted loony measures to oppose the war. The town of Brattleboro, Vt., is considering issuing city criminal charges against President Bush. But those acts are mere statements against a politician's actions, not an official act to kick the military out of the city.

Since Berkeley doesn't want to contribute to national defense, why should the federal government subsidize Berkeley's success?

DeMint, R-S.C., identified $2.1 million in earmarks in recently passed legislation allocated to that city. He says he will introduce legislation to rescind them and dedicate the money to the Marines instead.The rest of the Senate should back him.

Congress had to take federal funds away from universities that wouldn't allow recruiters on campus. It should extend that policy to municipalities.

www.jimdemint.com