Philadelphia ZOA Ebulletin for Feb. 5:
Philadelphia ZOA Ebulletin for Feb. 5:
You have an opportunity to make an Israeli soldier’s day!
If you have children or grandchildren, or if you are a teacher, principal or other school official, ZOA is looking for “thank you” letters and cards for IDF soldiers which ZOA leaders will hand-deliver to them as part of ZOA’s annual Purim Mission.
This is a great project for a family, a class or an entire school.
ZOA will deliver the cards and letters along with thousands of shalach manot bags we will be handing to the soldiers on visits to multiple bases. ZOA Mission participants report that while the IDF soldiers appreciate the necessities and goodies that are in each bag, it is the cards and letters that mean the most.
Deadline to get the cards and letters to Philadelphia ZOA is February 18.
If you have any questions, please call the Philadelphia ZOA Office at 610-660-9466.
Volunteers Needed
Philadelphia ZOA is looking for two volunteers to help with a mailing in our office early next week.
If you are able to help us, please call our Office at 610-660-9466.
Thank you in advance.
Krav Maga, Firearms Safety Classes
Are you interested in learning Krag Maga, the IDF’s original self-defense method, or finding out about firearms laws and safety?
If so, please contact our Office at 610-660-9466.
Basic Handgun Usage and Safety Class
In conjunction with a meeting Philadelphia ZOA had last year on personal security and self-defense, we are considering having a “Basic Handgun usage and safety” class on a Sunday in March led by a certified instructor.
There will be limited space for this class.
If you are interested, please email Philadelphia ZOA at [email protected]
What is “Past & Present”?
An exciting, new Philadelphia ZOA project that you can play a key role in.
Full details coming next week!
Watch a teaser video right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTUx3FxZTUQ
Philadelphia ZOA is a Co-Sponsor of the Event Below:
A Worthwhile and Fun Event. If You Participate as a Member or Friend of Philadelphia ZOA, Philadelphia ZOA Receives a Percentage of the Proceeds:
To learn more and to register for the run, go to: http://rajephilly.com/5k-race-roll-dye-2/
Save the Date!
Please Join Us on May 11 for ZOA’s Annual Washington Advocacy Mission
This is a day of hands-on pro-Israel advocacy as we meet with our area lawmakers to promote pro-Israel legislation, and we hear from dozens of lawmakers from throughout America who speak at our kosher luncheon.
Reserve your spot on our bus now by calling us at 610-660-9466
Join Philadelphia ZOA!
Philadelphia ZOA is having a Winter Membership Drive
Be a part of our region’s leading pro-Israel education, advocacy and outreach organization and help make us even stronger.
If you are already a member, please make sure your annual dues are up-to-date. If you are not sure, contact us and we will check and let you know. It may be time to renew your membership.
You can also invite your friends or relatives to join Philadelphia ZOA, and additionally, you can purchase a gift membership for a loved one.
We value each and every member!
Bring ZOA’s Message and Knowledge To Your Friends and Neighbors
If you are like most people, you have friends, neighbors and even relatives who do not quite understand what is taking place in one of the most pivotal regions in the world.
The Middle East is home to key U.S. allies and enemies; it is the focal point of much of the media; it is the source of most of the terrorism that plagues the world; it is where a large amount of American foreign aid is targeted and the source of much of the world’s oil. It is where our beloved Israel is trying to exist and thrive.
But the Middle East has become a muddled area to most Americans because of incomplete or biased coverage, plus a campaign of mis-education in schools and universities.
One of ZOA’s missions is to clarify the issues and to help Americans understand what is taking place in the Middle East and how it impacts them.
Help us fulfill this vital mission by hosting a parlor meeting in your home. A small gathering can make a huge difference.
To view our 2015 Philadelphia ZOA Tribute Book and Ad Journal, click on the link below: https://www.scribd.com/doc/287563355/Gala-2015-Tribute-Book
ZOA: Obama’s Visit to Baltimore Mosque That Has Terror Ties Was A Frightening Disgrace
Morton A. Klein, national president of the The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), issued the following statement:
Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, a prominent Muslim leader, stated: “As an American Muslim I’m just insulted. It’s disgraceful that this is the mosque-that Obama’s picked to be the first visit. The Islamic Society of Baltimore, first of all if you go to their website it’s like a covert operation. There’s no name on it. It basically has pictures of individuals but no names. They had an imam, Mohammed Al-Sheikh, who was there from ’83 to ’89 and then another 10 years, came out of the [terrorist] Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan. Has had online imam sermons in which he basically excused Palestinian suicide bombing. He then went in to fill in, he was the guy who took over the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque in Northern Virginia after Awlaki left, and I”ll remind you Awlaki is the imam that declared war on the United States, radicalized Nidal Hasan and so many other Americans against our country. So this mosque is very concerning. The imam Yaseen Shaikh in 2013 has a youtube sermon from just two years ago calling homosexuals basically psychological deviants, a disorder, and basically espousing a very extreme opinions about homosexuality, which I would think is at divergence from the president’s position on that.” [Fox News, Fox &Friends Sunday, 1/31/16]
It is disgraceful and frightening that President Obama chose to speak at a mosque with multiple terror ties, the Islamic Society of Baltimore (ISB), yesterday (Wednesday February 3). President Obama’s selection of this mosque underscores the absurdity of the President’s unnecessary campaign to “defend Muslims” – despite the fact that anti-Muslim hate crimes are rare here (only 25% of the hate crimes that occur against Jews), while the President downplays and virtually ignores the scourge of Islamist terrorism that endangers all Americans.
According to investigative reporters (see here and here and here) and additional sources, ISB’s terrorist ties include the following:
* ISB is a member of the network of mosques controlled by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). Declassified FBI memos revealed ISNA to be a terrorist Muslim Brotherhood front group. ISNA was also a named un-indicted co-conspirator in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation terror case, and evidence in that case showed that ISNA was involved in funneling money to the terrorist group Hamas. The Investigative Project on Terrorism revealed that ISNA’s annual conferences distribute blatantly anti-Israel, anti-gay and anti-American literature, including books and pamphlets “portray[ing] U.S. prosecution of terrorists and terror supporters as anti-Muslim bigotry; dramatic revisionist history that denied attacks by Arab nations and Palestinian terrorists against Israel; and anti-Semitic tracts and hyperbolic rants about a genocide and holocaust of Palestinians.”
* The infamous charismatic Al Qaeda recruiter Anwar Al-Awlaki was a celebrity guest speaker at ISB. Al-Awlaki preached to, inspired and was in contact with numerous terrorists shortly before their terrorist attacks, including several 9/11 terrorists, Fort Hood shooter Dr. Nidal Malik Hasan, and underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Al-Awlaki also issued a fatwa to take the life of cartoonist Molly Norris, who launched an “Everybody Draw Muhammed Day.”
* Radical Imam Mohammed Adam el-Sheikh served as ISB’s Imam for 15 years (1983-1989 and 1994-2003). El-Sheikh was also a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood network, and was a regional director for the Islamic American Relief Agency, a subsidiary of the Islamic African Relief Agency (IARA). The U.S. Treasury designated IARA as a terrorist organization in 2004, and explained that IARA participated in meetings to find safe havens for Osama bin Laden; helped raise $5 million in 2000 for IARA’s affiliate Maktab Al-Khidamat (MK) (an organization co-founded by Osama bin Laden); and “was responsible for moving funds to the Palestinian territories for use in terrorist activities, notably serving as a conduit to Hamas in one Western European country.” After leaving ISB in 2003, El-Sheikh moved to the notorious Muslim-Brotherhood-controlled Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia (where he replaced Al-Awlaki) and justified suicide bombings by Palestinians against Israelis.
* ISB resident scholar, Imam Yaseen Shaikh condemned “progressive Muslims” and blasted homosexuality as “something which we despise,” “immoral” and “disgusting,” and said we have to stop accepting them, and that homosexuality has no place in Islam or society, and that the Quran says “harm them” to those who engage in homosexuality, in his lengthy 2013 youtube video. Shaikh also said that whatever the Quran commands, we must submit to it.
* Israr Ahmed was a “celebrity guest speaker” at ISB. Ahmed had ties to Pakistani Islamic jihadist groups, Tanzeem-e-Islami (which seeks to establish a global caliphate, is anti-modernity and wants Sharia to control all spheres of life) and Jamaat-e-Islami (which Ahmed withdrew from when Jamaat-e-Islami chose to engage in “electoral activities,” which was contrary to Ahmed’s belief that a revolution should bring about a caliphate.) Asia Times reported that Ahmed spoke at a 1995 ISNA convention, saying: “A final showdown between the Muslim world and the non-Muslim world, which has been captured by the Jews, would soon take place. The Gulf War was just a rehearsal for the coming conflict.” The report also explained that Ahmed “appealed to the Muslims of the world, including those in the US, to prepare themselves for the coming conflict.”
* Two ISB officials, ISB President Muhammad Jameel and ISB general secretary Abid Husain, joined the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR, an un-indicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas funding trial) at a news conference in August 2014, where ISB’s officials condemned and spewed numerous falsehoods about Israel’s defensive operation in Gaza to stop Hamas’s incessant firing of thousands of rockets at Israeli civilians. The ISB officials never mentioned the Hamas rockets targeting Israeli civilians. Instead, ISB Pres. Jameel falsely accused Israel of guiding precision missiles to kill civilians, “genocide in the name of self defense,” “immunity to violate human rights,” and doing all this to “depopulate and uproot the people of Gaza to make way for more settlements,” and condemned the U.S. for “reject[ing] the right of resistance of an occupied people under siege.” Similarly, ISB officer Husain falsely accused Israel of “indiscriminate assault and unjust use of force” and “unrestrained aerial bombardment of civilian populations.”
In fact, then-chairman of the U.S. Joint Chief of Staff Martin Dempsey confirmed that Israel “went to extraordinary lengths” to minimize civilian casualties and “acted responsibly” during the operation to destroy Hamas rockets and tunnels. Israel made hundreds of thousands of calls to Gazans’ cell phones and dropped hundreds of thousands of leaflets warning Gazan civilians to leave areas that Israel needed to target to destroy Hamas rocket arsenals. General Dempsey even sent an American team to Israel to learn how to avoid civilian casualties from Israel’s military.
* The Investigative Project on Terrorism also reported that an ISB action alert solicited support and donations to help the “jihad effort” by Chechnyan Muslim jihadists in Russia. (In 2004, Chechnyan Islamic terrorists seized a school in Beslan, held 1,100 children and teachers hostage, and killed almost 400 innocents, mostly children.)
It’s absolutely horrifying that President Obama would choose a radical terrorist supporting Mosque similar to the one the San Bernardino Muslim killers attended. This does the opposite of sending a message against radical terrorist Islam. It promotes and legitimizes radical murderous Islam. This gives more credence to the painful and frightening belief that Obama has sympathy for and is an apologist for radical Islam. After all, Obama has released terrorists from Guantanamo, won’t use the term radical Islamic terrorism, wouldn’t attend the anti radical Islam rally in Paris, has invited Muslim Brotherhood members to the White House, embraced the radical Morsi government in Egypt, fought against sanctions on Iran, ignored Iran violations and ended sanctions on Iran, stated Hezbollah and Hamas have “legitimate claims,” said ISIS is a JV team, allows only a fraction of anti-ISIS bombing raids the armed forces recommends, and has sent radical Muslims to represent the US in Europe, etc.
Where is the media? Where is Congress? Where are our American Jewish and Christian and moderate Muslim leaders? Where are our presidential candidates? We dare not be silent again!
Obama Praises “Morocco Summit” Which Committed to “Charter of Medina” Used To Trick and Murder Jews
During President Obama’s speech at the Islamic Society of Baltimore mosque yesterday (Wednesday February 3, 2016), Obama praised a recent Morocco Muslim leadership summit, again. President Obama had praised the Morocco summit last week (Jan. 27) at the “Righteous Among Nations” awards ceremony. During both speeches, Obama claimed the Muslim leaders met in Morocco “to protect religious minorities, including Christians and Jews.” However, in fact, the Morocco summit last week culminated in a “Morocco Declaration” “firmly committed” to the “Charter of Medina.”
The Charter of Medina was a deceptive agreement that Mohammed made 1400 years ago with Medina’s ancient Jewish community to hoodwink the Jewish community into welcoming Mohammed into Medina. The Charter only gave rights to Jews who “followed” the Muslims, and required Jews to assist the Muslims in their wars. After establishing himself in Medina, Mohammed turned around and evicted, robbed, enslaved, beheaded and slaughtered Medina’s Jews in a horrible bloodbath.
During his mosque speech yesterday, Obama stated: “I want every American to remember how Muslim communities are standing up for others, as well. Because right now, as we speak, there are . . . Muslims who just met in Morocco to protect religious minorities, including Christians and Jews. (Applause.)”
Similarly during his “Righteous Among Nations” speech on Jan. 27, Obama stated: “In Morocco, leaders from Muslim-majority countries around the world just held a summit on protecting religious minorities, including Jews and Christians.”
During both of his speeches, the President failed to mention the troubling fact that the Morocco Summit culminated in the Morocco Declaration, which is based on and firmly committed to the “Charter of Medina.” The Morocco Declaration says that it “declares our firm commitment to the principles articulated in the Charter of Medina,” “reaffirm[s] the principles of the Charter of Medina,” and says that the “Charter of Medina provide[s] a suitable framework for national constitutions in countries with Muslim majorities.”
The Charter of Medina granted rights to Jews only under limited circumstances: “Those Jews who follow the believers will be helped and will be treated with equality,” and required that “The Jews will contribute towards the war when fighting alongside the Believers.”
As noted above, shortly after signing the “Charter of Medina” and establishing himself in Medina, Mohammed turned on Medina’s ancient Jewish tribes. Mohammed evicted and seized the lands of two Jewish tribes and brutally slaughtered (beheaded) 800 men and boys and enslaved the women of the remaining Jewish tribe in a sickening bloodbath.
During both his mosque speech and his “Righteous Among Nations” speech, President Obama also failed to mention that the declaration resulting from the Morocco conference urging the protection of all religious minorities appears to only apply to “countries with Muslim majorities.” In other words, the Morocco Summit apparently did not address attacks on Jews and Christians in Israel, America and Europe.