Muslim Groups sue Counter-Terror Activist...

The fifth-column assault on free speech continues.....

A counter-terrorism activist has been sued for protesting an amusement park event sponsored by a Muslim group accused of helping finance the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.

Joe Kaufman of Florida-based Americans Against Hate says he was at the Six Flags Over Texas park in Arlington Oct. 14 to demonstrate against the Islamic Circle of North America, or ICNA.

Kaufman, writing in FrontPageMagazine, said his purpose was to expose ICNA's alleged ties to the financing of Hamas.

ICNA was the top donor to the Pakistan-based charity Al-Khidmat Foundation, Kaufman pointed out, which gave $99,000 to the head of Hamas, Khaled Mashaal.

"I believed that the public had a right to know about it," he explained.

WND attended a conferene in Orlando, Fla., co-sponsored by ICNA featuring a speaker who voiced empathy and support for suicide bombers, denied Muslims were involved in 9-11, characterized the war on terror as a conspiratorial Zionist plot to destroy Islam and blamed attacks on affirmative action on "the rise of the Jewish cracker."

In his book, "American Jihad," terrorism expert Steve Emerson wrote ICNA "openly supports militant Islamic fundamentalist organizations, praises terror attacks, issues incendiary attacks on Western values and policies, and supports the imposition of Sharia," or Islamic law.

The plaintiffs, Kaufman said, "claim that the article and the protest are threats to them – that somehow me writing or demonstrating against 'them' could cause them physical harm."

He notes that during an Oct. 29 hearing, in which more than 70 members of the Muslim community packed the courtroom, "witnesses for the plaintiffs admitted that neither I nor any of the other protesters ever threatened them in any way, physical or otherwise."

Kaufman claims that, if anything, he and his colleagues were the ones who were threatened when an Internet poster warned "there better not be a protest or else."

"The suit against me is entirely a frivolous one, which attempts to deny my First Amendment right to freedom of speech and freedom of assembly," he said.

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Comments

[sheepdog]

WHERE'S THE OUTRAGE FROM THE ACLU?
Shouldn't they be defending Mr Kaufman ?

[ISLAMSFORLOSERS]

CAIR, ICNA, ACLU all should meet another acronym-RICO. The sooner the better.