This item is available on the Militant Islam Monitor website, at http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/1305
November 23, 2005
MIM:LA Sheriffs Baca's announcement the creation of a Muslim American Homeland Security Congress at the 2005 CAIR banquet makes the possibility that LA Sheriffs Baca and Corona may have converted to Islam seem even more likely. It also looks like the LA police department is now working with and for CAIR. At the banquet Sheriff Corona announced that, "in conjunction with CAIR his office has put together a law enforcement educational tape". Which begs the question as to when a law enforcement educational tape dealing with CAIR's ties to terrorism will be forthcoming.
The ties of the Los Angeles law enforcement officials and politicians to Islamist terrorist organisations was highlighted with the recent election of Antonio Villaraigosa as mayor.
Villaraigosa was the student leader of Mecha a group tied to the crypto facist Voz de Aztlan organisation, which believes California is a Mexican country which was taken over by white people and must be separate from the US. Vox de Atzlan supports suicide bombings and their website has a page with a picture gallery saluting female suicide bombers. http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/1233
At the 2003 CAIR banquet Baca greeted the crowd with Assallamo 'leikum and Corona announced he was "studying the fundamentals of Islam".
"...Similarly, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca announced the creation of a Muslim American Homeland Security Congress, in which every mosque and all Muslim organizations in America will be invited to participate, "and every Muslim family will be invited to join on this as well," he said.
"We are forming the organization in such a way that it is a Muslim-run organization," he added. "It'll have an advisory council and I spoke to Congresswoman Jane Harman, the ranking Democrat on the congressional committee regarding terrorism and homeland security, and she quickly volunteered to be on that advisory council.".."
"...The evening's program opened with speeches by local elected officials. Orange County Sheriff Michael Corona announced that, in conjunction with CAIR, his office has put together a law enforcement educational awareness tape, not just about Muslims, but "about the religion, the culture, traditions and habits so that law enforcement has an understanding what Islam is all about." "We've trained 1,500 deputy sheriffs but the videotape is to go out to law enforcement across the country free of charge..."
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For an account of CAIR Banquet in LA 2003 see: http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/518
Sheriff Leroy Baca and Sheriff Michael Carona not only delighted the gathering with their warm "Assalamo ‘laikum" greeting but well-meaning assurances that their respective forces would ensure the safety and well-being of Muslims living in their respective counties. Sheriff Baca remarked that "God and Allah must talk to one another" while affirming that "God is found in all faiths." He exhorted the gathering to "convert hate into love and peace, instead of perpetuating it."
Sheriff Carona recounted the efforts made by his force to ensure that the hatred from Washington, New York, Pennsylvania "did not come to Orange County." He appreciated the role of CAIR in promoting a better understanding of Islam among non-Muslims. He admitted of having himself learnt the "fundamentals of Islam" and what the faith had in common with other religions through the multifarious CAIR initiatives..."
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Muslim Americans Call for Renaissance in Islam India West ,
News Report, Michel W. Potts, Oct 03, 2005 ANAHEIM, Calif.
After the greater Muslim community of Southern California donated a reported $420,000 to the Council of American Islam Relations during its tenth annual banquet, held Sept. 17 at the Anaheim Convention Center here, keynote speaker Prof. M. Cherif Bassiouni presented them with a challenge and a proposal.
"When you look at these cases (in which Ashcroft claimed that home grown terrorists across the country had been arrested), you will find in all of these cases that charges were never proven," he pointed out to the audience.
Bassiouni proposed that Muslims in this country seriously consider forming a national council of learned Muslims scholars. "What we really need to do is to start a movement what I would call a renaissance of Islam," he proclaimed.
"And we have said and done very little to engage ourselves in the renaissance of Islam in the Muslim world. Maybe now the time has come. Maybe this is the challenge. Maybe this is the best thing that would have happened to Muslims, to be kicked in the back after 9/11 and to wake up."
One of the highlights of the evening was the presentation of the Bridge Builder Award to David Stacy, a Christian who agreed to uproot his life and live in a large Muslim community for 30 days in Dearborn, Mich., as part of a Fox Channel documentary that attempted to portray what it is like to be a Muslim in America.
Bridge Builder Awards were also presented to Sadia Shakar and Shamail Huk, a Pakistani couple who opened their home to Stacy, who had to follow the ground rules of dressing like a Muslim and observing all Islamic traditions as well as reading the Koran daily. By the end of 30 days, his perceptions of Muslims had radically altered.
Matt MacLaughin, special projects supervisor for the Los Angeles FBI office, recounted that the Multicultural Advisory Committee, formed in 1991, is to provide access to law enforcement officials during its monthly meetings and announced that the committee will have its first townhall meeting Oct. 2 in the San Fernando Valley. Many members are Sikhs who now have seats on the committee because "they are actually targeted in hate crimes more than Muslims are," he noted.
Similarly, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca announced the creation of a Muslim American Homeland Security Congress, in which every mosque and all Muslim organizations in America will be invited to participate, "and every Muslim family will be invited to join on this as well," he said.
"We are forming the organization in such a way that it is a Muslim-run organization," he added. "It'll have an advisory council and I spoke to Congresswoman Jane Harman, the ranking Democrat on the congressional committee regarding terrorism and homeland security, and she quickly volunteered to be on that advisory council." The evening's program opened with speeches by local elected officials. Orange County Sheriff Michael Corona announced that, in conjunction with CAIR, his office has put together a law enforcement educational awareness tape, not just about Muslims, but "about the religion, the culture, traditions and habits so that law enforcement has an understanding what Islam is all about." "We've trained 1,500 deputy sheriffs but the videotape is to go out to law enforcement across the country free of charge."
While CAIR executive director Hussam Ayloush noted that the money raised that evening will go toward the operational expenses of the Los Angeles chapter, CAIR California chairman Fouad Khatib said that at least 20,000 free copies of the Koran had been given away in a campaign to educate non-Muslims in an understanding of the holy book.
Islamic Center of Greater Houston president Rodwan Saleh informed the gathering that Houston police office M.H. Siddiqi, who has established a liaison between the local Muslim community and the police department, will be honored at the White House Oct. 2 as "one of the best cops in America".
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