On Saturday, June 12, 2010, a Tea Party rally in Brooklyn devoted itself entirely to the problem of the Islamization of our country. This may be the first time that a Tea Party rally has turned its attention to this issue, which is an historical turning point. Of course it is a natural and logical extension of patriotism to move from outrage about high taxes and socialized health care to anger about the intrusion of a hostile entity into our country.
The rally was organized by the Brooklyn Tea Party chapter head, Dr. John Press, and was held at McKinley Park in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn. A list of the invited speakers includes Dr. Press; US senate candidate Jay Townsend (“Not Here, Not Now” regarding the Ground Zero mosque); myself as a counter-jihad activist; Arish Sahani and Satya Hitaya, Hindu American activists with the Human Rights Coalition Against Radical Islam; Al Santora, retired Fire Department Deputy Chief; and Andrew Sullivan a construction worker and first responder at the World Trade Center when it was attacked on 9/11.
Dr. Press said “Personally, I see building this mosque as an act of aggression and triumphalism by a foreign power.” He also noted, “No one has been willing to say where the 100 – 150 million dollars to build the mosque has come from. But logic makes one suspect that Malaysia, where the Cordoba House project’s office is located, or Saudi Arabia are funding it.”
Retired FDNY Deputy Chief Al Santora, whose 23 year old son Christopher was the youngest firefighter to die on 9/11 said, “I do have a problem with having a mosque on top of the site where (terrorists) can gloat about what they did.”
In my speech, I said that Americans need to take ourselves off the defensive. We do not need to prove we are open minded and tolerant because we have already done that. Now Muslims must prove to us that they are tolerant. They must build churches and synagogues in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Malaysia. They must accept the dominant Judeo-Christian culture of this country if they choose to come here. But this is the exact opposite of what the Muslim Brotherhood is about, with its boldly stated intention to commit “a grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” their miserable house by their own hands…”
New Muslim Brotherhood mosques are springing up all the time. There's one in Staten Island that wants to take over a convent, one in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, and another one on Allen Street in downtown Manhattan. The Allen Street mosque, the Assafa Islamic Center, is blatantly fundamentalist. Its website talks about Islam being the ‘only acceptable religion,’ declares that Muslims to have superior rights over other people, and calls for Islamic law to be the law of the land.
If the Muslim Brotherhood’s intention to ‘destroy’ us is not an act of insurgency, I don’t know what is. According to the U.S. counterinsurgency manual ( FM 3-24), an insurgency is defined as “an organized movement aimed at the overthrow of a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict…[in a] protracted politico-military struggle.”
Yet our elected officials insist that Islam is ‘a religion of peace’ and that ‘Islamic terrorism’ does not exist. So we are left defenseless, defanged by our own government.
In an interview recorded with Andrew Sullivan after the rally, I call for removal of the government officials that allow such pernicious infiltration and undermining of our homeland. Video
(Please overlook the obvious flub at the beginning of the tape where I meant to say, “We have to get off the defensive and put them on the defensive” and instead said, “We have to get off the offensive.”)
An open microphone let the assembled participants – about 60 strong, high spirited and well informed – speak their mind. Many of them were proud to be working class – to the point, angry and determined not to be stepped on. There was talk about construction workers refusing to participate in any construction of a mega-mosque at Ground Zero. People at the rally were aware of their potential power and were starting to find ways to express it. The mood was funky, hands-on…and I loved it.
Another Brooklyn Tea Party rally is scheduled for Sunday, June 27, 2010.
Madeline Brooks is a counter-jihad activist based in New York City. Madeline can be reached at: Resistjihad@aol.com
