Abdulrahman Alamoudi Quotes
Remaining here might not be good for your health.
The AMC stated that Alamoudi, a well-known supporter of Hezbollah and Hamas, was not acting or speaking on its behalf and apologized to the reporter.
Abdurahman Alamoudi, Founder, American Muslim Council, Statement to a Jewish reporter for the Jewish Forward who had been invited to hear FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III speak at an AMC meeting, Washington DC, July 2002
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Issuing a statement over the health threat of dioxin in 1983:
This characteristic of much of Islam is corroborated by Islamic scholars and politicians. To some, the implication is that it is foolish to negotiate with Muslims over issues that have been classified as jihad. The negotiation is only a sham which will go on until Islam feels strong enough, and then force and violence will be used. While this is historically and culturally true, many Muslims have modernized and see the world in terms of vested interests and negotiated settlements and compromise just like most others. And there have been many non-Islamic ideologues who have also used negotiations and diplomacy as a smokescreen to buy them time to strengthen militarily and then have used force and violence.
Referring to the United Nations:
Ellsworth was pleading for resolving the slavery issue then.
See {621776} for the official Muslim Brotherhood Slogan. The major issue is whether or not an organization that holds to those slogans can be trusted in a democratic society after they have officially espoused non-democratic means and ends. No one took the Nazi Party writings seriously until the party was elected and then ended the German Democracy. Similarly, the Iranian Ayatollahs were not taken seriously until they had turned Iran into a tyrannical theocracy. So one view is not to relate to or have the Muslim Brotherhood participate until they renounce the violent, non-democratic parts of their charter and/or slogans. The other, urged by Tarek Masoud is to not take the “blood curdling” slogans seriously, and assume that it is just verbal hyperbole to which Arabs are culturally prone.
In early America, the political parties had their own newspapers where “truth” was not an important journalistic virtue. Red scares and other fears of foreign conspiracies are as old as our nation. In 1798 the Federalists accused Vice President Thomas Jefferson, among others, of being in contact with the foreign conspirators and printed details of a "manufactured" plot to massacre the citizens of Philadelphia in one of their controlled newspapers. The nation was so alarmed that the infamous Alien and Sedition Acts were passed by Congress a few months later. These were probably the greatest infringements on American civil liberties in our history.
He and saome others were concerned that if most American citizens knew most of the details about terrorists and U. S. potential vulnerability to terrorism, many would be totally inhibited and American Society would become very insular and restrictive to the detriment of the nation and the economy. Critics argue that American's imagination stimulated by entertainment, journalism and literature was extreely robust and Americans nnetheless could handle the risks. And the secrecy even exacerbates the problem becasue there was no way to refute or curtain those who exaggerated the problem and the risks.
