HEADBAG hinders reporter's on-air TV News job prospects

Can Marian Sobh, a Muslim woman who wears a headbag (hijab), actually be capable of reporting the news on television in America? (She can, if the news station doesn’t mind losing most of its audience whenever she’s on the air)

Womens e-news  I always thought the answer was a strong and resounding YES! Because I was that Muslim woman wearing hijab, and I was going to do it. I was going to break the barrier and get out there and pursue my dream.

I finished my master’s in broadcast journalism and worked in radio and for the university television station during both undergraduate and graduate school. On paper, I seemed bound for broadcast success. I had internships in radio and television in town. I was even the commencement speaker at our graduation ceremony. People raved about my work and patted me on the back. Nothing ever made me feel I could not make it in my field.

Yet once in a while, a nagging voice in the back of my mind would make me feel self-conscious about my hijab. One of my classmates had once asked me, “What will you do if you don’t get hired because of your headscarf?” I confidently responded, “Sue them!” (Ah yes, the infamous litigation jihad used by CAIR every time a muslim doesn’t get a job because her headbag offends Americans)

I started to realize not all was going as planned when I began applying for jobs in television. Every time I sent someone my resume and demo tape, there was no response…until I received a phone call from a news director in Negaunee, Mich.”Do you have a job yet?” the news director asked me. I was literally speechless. I told him that I’d love to come out for an interview. The news director looked over my demo tape (see below) with me and said he was impressed. Could this be my big break?

Oddly, the news director never asked me about my skills or my professional experience.  He said, “I’ll give you a call at the end of the week and let you know what we decide.” The phone call came and I was devastated. “I think you’re too good for this place. You need to go to a bigger town. You wouldn’t like the winter here, anyway.” My self-esteem took a huge hit. Was it my skills, or was it my scarf? (It was your scarf and what it represents)

Since television has expanded in the past decade, we now see all kinds of people on the air: skinny, plump, homely, beautiful and ethnically diverse. There is still, however, a lack of representation for anyone who happens to wear their religious identity openly. (Gee, I wonder if that’s because seeing a Muslim Baghead on the TV news reminds them of the Palestinians bagheads they saw on the news celebrating 9/11?)

Certainly, I understand the argument that you can’t show your religious affiliation on television because people might start thinking you’re biased a certain way.  Doesn’t reflecting one’s religious identity mean we’ll hold those journalists up to a higher standard because they must ensure their work doesn’t reflect any personal bias? (Muslims can’t NOT reflect their personal bias because they are loyal to Islam first, not America)

Knowing my religious identity, don’t you think I would hold myself to a higher standard? Furthermore, why the assumption that wearing a headscarf means I want to report on religious issues?  (No, it means you want people to know you think your customs are superior to theirs) I’m perfectly content reporting on education, entertainment, health and environmental stories.(As long as  you don’t have wear short sleeves, report on Texas pig races,  or work during Ramadan)

 I knew deep inside that if I took my scarf off, I’d be welcomed with open arms. (You could always work for PressTV or al-Jazeera)

As you can see in this video, she’s not too bad. If only she would act like an American and not a slave of Allah.

Ground Zero Victory Mosque gets scaled back considerably. For now.

Fear not, New Yorkers? A monster mosque will not soar over Ground Zero. The news should have reverberated all over the city, ‘The Ground Zero Victory Mosque blinked!’ But if you shut your eyes for a second, you likely missed it.

(Don’t believe it, all muslims lie to infidels because their quran tells them to)

NY POST  Last month, in an amazing feat of contrition mixed with public-relations savvy, the man who controls 51 Park Place, the spot where developers threatened to build a 15-story, $100 million mega-mosque and Islamic center in the shadow of Ground Zero — said such a project will not be built.

Originally, Park51, formerly Cordoba (as in the Moors’ conquering of Spain Cordoba) House) was envisioned as a monster complex, complete with sex-segregated swimming pool and religiously segregated prayer spaces.

But buried deep inside the mosque-supportive New York Times, on a Saturday, was an amazing mea culpa by Sharif El-Gamal, lead developer of the boneheaded project, which, polls demonstrate, is opposed by 70 percent of New Yorkers.

El-Gamal said raising $100 million was unrealistic. And 15 stories? Would Park51 become, as planned, a soaring testament to the rise of Islam? Or, as some protested, a giant middle finger erected close to the scene of a massacre?

Not gonna happen. “If the community only wants four or five floors, it’s going to be four or five f
loors,’’ said El-Gamal. And maybe not that many. Plus, he said it would take at least five years before he could raise two dimes and start building. (Only because the Saudi King refused to fund it unless they move it from this location)

The Times piece made it sound as if Park51 had turned a corner. El-Gamal had already forced out the fiery and stubborn Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf, who refused to call Hamas a terrorist organization, and Rauf’s wife, Daisy Khan. Had the kinder, gentler and more accommodating face of Islam taken over in the form of the American-born El-Gamal?

Or, as some community members suggested to me, is Sharif El-Gamal merely counting on wearing people out? “It’s new packaging on an old product,’’ said downtown resident Betty Murray. “You start small, you build from there.’’ Last week, with no protest, Park51 opened to the public an exhibit featuring noncontroversial photos of New York children.

At the opening, the 37-year-old developer, not known to speak with anyone except the loving Times, kept up his “We’re the good guys’’ mantra, telling The Post, “We made incredible mistakes’’ with the mosque. “The biggest mistake we made was not to include 9/11 families.’’

But if the public is buying the all-inclusive mantra, some on Community Board 1, which voted last year to welcome the mosque, are not so sure.

“We don’t know what they’re really going to do. They’ve said they wanted to do a lot of things,’’ said a board member who asked not to be named for fear of retaliation. Still, he confessed to being weary of the fight. “It’s been emotionally and physically draining. After the anniversary [of 9/11] passed, I have to distance myself from it.’’

“I don’t trust this guy as far as I can throw him,’’ said another board member, concerned about El-Gamal’s long rap sheet, another thing you’ll never read about in the Times.

El-Gamal has been busted at least seven times since 1990 for DWI and disorderly conduct, and charged with failing to pay more than $200,000 in taxes. Most recently, in 2005, El-Gamal was arrested for assaulting a man who sublet an apartment from his brother, punching the guy and breaking his nose and cheekbone. El-Gamal at first said he didn’t hit the man, but WCBS/Channel 2 discovered records that show El-Gamal conceded “his face could have run into my hand.’’

I tried to talk to El-Gamal and give him a chance to turn me around to the sunny face of Islam. He refused. Can you blame him?

Last year, The Washington Post and Salon.com reported that the national mosque controversy started in the blogs but moved into the mainstream media through my column. An honor. My piece concluded with this message: “Move it away.’’ I just hope El-Gamal can be trusted to keep the thing small and friendly. I won’t count on it.

FLORIDA Department of Education is promoting Islamic propaganda in public school classrooms

The war for the “Heart” of America (our children) in accordance with the objectives of the Muslim Brotherhood has taken another bold step forward, one which has apparently gone undetected by the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) and other education officials.

Red County (H/T Randy)  While Islamic Indoctrination in America’s public school textbooks has been detailed in reports by groups like ACT for America, American Textbook Council, and most recently a report by Citizens For National Security (CFNS) which cites over 200 false or misleading excerpts in (27) twenty seven of Florida’s approved History and Social Studies textbooks, this is the first time to our knowledge of Islamic propaganda being reported in an English textbook.

 The textbook “Elements in Literature” fourth course by Holt, Rinehart and Winston (ISBN 10:0-03-099302-4) is currently being used by Hilliard Middle-High School in Nassau County, a state of Florida approved textbook. 

The lesson is based on an article “Islam in America” by Patricia Smith of the New York Times.  A concerned school employee, who requested anonymity, brought this textbook to the local ACT! for America – Jacksonville Chapter for review.   What immediately caught our eye was Ihsan Bagby, the Professor of Islamic Studies referenced in the article.

In other word, he states Muslims can’t by loyal American Citizens.  Then consider CAIR was designated a Muslim Brotherhood front group and the Palestine Committee (HAMAS) by a federal judge in largest terrorism funding trial in U.S. history (U.S. vs HLF).  CAIR members were sentenced up to 65 Years in Prison as a result.

While the message is subtle, the author starts by portraying Sana Haq, a 17 year old Muslim girl as all American, and then explains as an observant Muslim she prays five times per day, which makes her different.  Detailing how shopping for jeans could take a week to find a pair which meets her definition of “decent” and although she is not allowed to date, she has male friends.  Sana goes on to tell how Islam affects every aspect of her life, “If you ask me to describe myself in one word, that word would be Muslim”… “Not American, not Pakistani, not a teenager. Muslim.  It’s the most important thing to me.”

The next paragraph informs the students that Islam is the fastest growing religion in the U.S., and estimates Muslim demographics in America between 1.5 and 9 Million.

It is interesting how the author or anyone could determine Islam as the fastest growing religion with such a wide guestimate in regard to Muslim demographics?  Reflecting on this and the images chosen, the author knowingly or not promotes one Muslim Brotherhood agenda of exaggerating the size and political clout of the Islamic community in America.   More accurate estimates actually place the Muslim population in the U.S between 2.5 and 3.5 Million.

 Students are given the impression Sana, is just like any other American, with the exception that as a Muslim, she is more “Modest” and “Decent” then most of her western friends, and she dresses this way by her own volition and not as a religious requirement.

The next section titled “Contrast with Europe” opens by praising the cultural advances Muslims have made in America, their high voting record, and successful integration as opposed to their European counterparts who remain on the economic and political fringes, briefly mentioning that Muslims rioted in many French cities in 2005.

The author uses Dearborn, Michigan, (a city with one of the largest concentrations of Muslims in America) as her shining example of integration, and another human interest piece about a senior high football player giving a glowing detail about his requirement to fast during Ramadan.   Hassan ends with the statement “When you start your day off fasting…..At the end of the day you know you’ve work hard, you know you’ve been faithful….. After fasting all day, you feel like a warrior.”

Surely Patricia Smith is wishing she had looked into her crystal ball or consulted a medium prior to using Dearborn as an example of Islamic “integration” in America.  Many controversies emanating from Dearborn have come to light in recent years, to include at each of the past three “Arab Fest” in 2009, 2010, and 2011 respectively.  The City of Dearborn was recently embarrassed for a second time, when it lost a lawsuit as a result of unconstitutional actions taken by Dearborn police at Arab Fest to silence Christian citizens.  The incidents were caught on video with “integrated” Arab crowds cheering this First Amendment violation in the background.

It is becoming increasing clear the Islamic community in Dearborn, is much more aligned with their European counter parts who dwell in many of the 750 huddles/No-go zones in France, as well as those in other European cities occupied by Muslims who refuse to “Integrate”.  Muslims who are demanding Sharia law become the law of the land.  This may or may not be representative of the mindset of the majority of American Muslims; however the reality of the situation in Dearborn combined with those Muslims with influence in the American mainstream is quite disturbing.

The final and most offensive Section “Impact of 9/11” – is a tired restatement of Muslim victimhood following 9/11 with absolutely no mention of the nearly 3,000 lives lost that day at the hands of Muslims, and no condemnation, and no mention of tens of thousands of attacks in the name of Allah since that day.

Bagby states on one hand “September 11 exposed American Muslims for the first time to a large degree of hostility”, “that many young Muslims spend a lot of time correcting common “Misperceptions”  about Islam: that it condones terrorism (it doesn’t); and that it denies women equal rights (it doesn’t though many majority-Muslim cultures and countries do)”.

Professor Bagby, uses truth, partial truth (Islamic doctrine of Kitman), and deception (Islamic doctrine of Taqiyya/holy deception) to lead the child to the conclusion Muslims in America are greatly persecuted and misunderstood by Americans.

Now the facts:  While it is true there was an increase in hate crimes in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, American’s as a whole were cautious not to offend Islam or Muslims, as demonstrated  in speeches by President Bush and other leaders, yet there is no discussion of this?

According to FBI statistics, hate crimes against Muslims and Christians are almost equivalent, ranging between 4-9%, quite insignificant in comparison to Jews, the real victims with stats ranging between 66-71.8% each year since 9/11.  Yet Children are left with the impression that Muslims are a victim class, despite the fact Jews, lesbians, gays, and Caucasian males have higher rates of hate crimes perpetrated against them each year.

In the lesson Professor Bagby, then tells our children Muslims do not condone terrorism.  While he is doctrinally correct, this statement is deceptive and misleading.   Terrorism as defined under authoritative Islam is the UNJUST killing of a MUSLIM only, so while his statement is technically correct, it does not apply to non-Muslims killed on 9/11.  Killing Innocent Human Beings is also condemned under Islamic Law, however non-Muslims are excluded because they are guilty in the eyes of Islam, merely for the fact they are not Muslim.

Bagby’s inference that Islam offers women equality is completely counterfactual.  Islam recognizes no equality between religion, gender, nor Muslim and non-Muslim.

Regarding women:  The inheritance of a female Muslim is ½ that of a male, her testimony in court is ½ that of a male, a husband may divorce her by simply saying “I divorce you” three times and he keeps all property and any children, women must petition the court for a divorce which is seldom granted, a husband my take his wife by force if she refuses to submit, a husband may beat his wife, and more in accordance with Sharia law derived from the Noble Koran and Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad. Yet, again none of this is discussed in the lesson.

Islamic outreach has been a one way street, one which has made America a very dangerous place.  Consider Shabbir Mansouri, Founder and Director of the Council on Islamic Education (CIE), which is virtually responsible for all textbook content regarding Islam who said “I am waging a Bloodless Revolution in America’s Public Schools” .  Incidentally, the CIE changed its name to the Institute on Religion and Civic Values (IRCV) to help camouflage its true nature.

Then consider an english lesson which allows a CAIR/HAMAS leader to twist and influence the impressionable minds of our children, unwittingly or not, reinforced by the very people we entrusted to educate them.  

Despite these failures and those of the mainstream media to report on Islamic Indoctrination in classrooms across America, (Fox News excluded Video) and the fact little has been done by education officials and textbook publishers to correct them in the past, the good news is….Things are about to change!

This issue is increasingly being forced to a head by the groups already mentioned and now in Florida, individual education teams from various groups (Textbook Action Team (TAT), TEA Party groups, ACT for America, 912, etc… as well as citizens) have joined forces and created Eye on U.S. Education (EUSE) http://www.eyeonuseducation.org  led by Sheri Krass.  EUSE is quickly emerging as the go to organization on all things education, with teams in virtually every county and already expanding to other states.  EUSE is poised to work with our Education Officials to help make the necessary changes to protect our children.

Bill Korach, author of “Rock of the Republic” is working as the media hub for these groups via his blog THE REPORT CARD at www.thereportcard.org to help keep parents and citizen informed.

 This fall ACT! for America Education will mail their Executive Summary of a textbook analysis report to America’s 70,000 school board members,  the full report will be available on the web.  The report analyzes how 38 commonly used public schools textbooks relay the history and doctrines of Islam.  What was uncovered will shock you. www.actforamerica.com

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