Meet Mahdi Bray
As part of my continuing series on the sponsors for the March 17th anti-America protest in Washington, DC, Here’s what I’ve found out about Mahdi Bray:
As WorldNetDaily reported, the Muslim American Society held a rally last month during which a Jewish activist was physically assaulted and threatened. The event at Boston’s City Hall Plaza was the group’s “Justice for Palestine and Lebanon Protest.” Signs brought by participants included some including some calling for “victory” for the terrorist group Hezbollah and the “Palestinian Resistance.”
In a WND interview, the group’s executive director, Mahdi Bray, blamed the United States and President Bush for the war between Hezbollah and Israel. Bray said that while there are “no clean hands” in the escalating violence, the United States has failed completely. “We have the…capability of doing something,” he said. “Our position is not defensible that we have not used our leverage to obtain a cease-fire.”
Mahdi Bray is a very smooth talker. He’s also anti-semitic. Here’s a picture that offers proof of his anti-semitism:
If that phrase sounds familiar, it should. It’s a combination of two statements which I posted about here.
Here’s what I found on FPA’s website:
10. Divestment, Corporate Boycott, and Ending all Support to Israel: The FPA regards the implementation of a full divestment program in the United States coupled with effective corporate boycotts to be a necessary material formulation of the overarching goal of ending all forms of governmental and private economic, political, and military support to the Apartheid State of Israel.
In other words, Mahdi Bray is seen speaking to a group of people that agree with the FPA. furthermore, FPA thinks that Israel shouldn’t exist because it thinks that Israel is occupying the Palestinian homeland. FPA thinks that Israel doesn’t have a claim to the land that the international community says it owns.
Don’t be surprised if Bray is also associated with Palestine Remembered. Palestine Remembered put together this map:
That isn’t all that I’ve found out about Bray. Here’s what Discover the Network said about him:
“In October 1998, Mahdi Bray coordinated and led a Washington rally of 2,000 people,” reported columnist Debbie Schlussel, “during which he played the tambourine as the crowd repeated, ‘Let’s all go into jihad, and throw stones at the face of the Jews.’” On December 22, 2000, Bray organized and spoke at a rally outside the White House at which the emcee and crowd chanted responsively in Arabic: ‘O Jews, the Army of Muhammad is coming for you!’ The Nazi swastika was openly displayed.”
At this second Mahdi Bray-organized rally, wrote Steven Emerson in his book American Jihad, “posters calling for ‘Death to Israel’ and equating the Star of David with the Nazi swastika were openly displayed and anti-Semitic literature calling for the destruction of the Jews and Israel was distributed. Members of the crowd burned the Israeli flag while marching to the White House.”
Mahdi Bray thinks it’s acceptable to chant “Death to Israel” and to “equate the Star of David with the Nazi swastika.” I’d doubt that any rational person would honestly think that, meaning that Bray is either irrational or that he’s being dishonest. Personally, I believe he’s being dishonest. I suspect that Bray is so anti-semitic that he’ll say almost anything to make Israel disappear. I suspect that Bray’s brash advocacy is designed in part to increase fundraising for his anti-semitic, anti-American and anti-reform causes.
One last thing worth noting is this Weekly Standard article written by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross. Here’s the opening of Gartenstein-Ross’s article:
ON MAY 14, 2005, PAX-TV’s Faith Under Fire broadcast a debate that I took part in against Mahdi Bray, the executive director of the Muslim American Society’s (MAS) Freedom Foundation. Bray had selected the debate topic in advance, and chose to argue about “The United States of Islam?”–that is, whether American Muslims wanted to see Islamic law (sharia) implemented in the United States. While I unwaveringly agreed that most American Muslims don’t want to see the United States ruled by Islamic law, I nonetheless jumped at the chance to debate this topic against Bray. After all, the Chicago Tribune recently published a story detailing how the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood operates in the United States as none other than MAS. So while most American Muslims don’t want to see the United States governed by sharia, Bray’s organization does. And while researching for the debate, I found that MAS, except in its most public of statements, is quite open about its agenda and allegiances. Even a brief review of various MAS chapters’ websites provides a revealing look at what the national organization is teaching its members.
THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD is an international Islamist group that largely operates underground and behind the scenes, with branches in about 70 countries. The Brotherhood was founded in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, an Egyptian schoolteacher who, in the wake of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and abolition of the caliphate, bemoaned the sickness of the Ummah, or larger Muslim community.
Now we’ve uncovered something that should make any American run from Mr. Bray. His organization, the MAS’s Freedom Foundation, has as a goal the turning of America into one part of the greater Islamic caliphate. Think of this Islamic caliphate as a worldwide government that al Qa’ida or Taliban would embrace.
I’d doubt that Jane Fonda would approve of a Taliban-like rule where women are treated as property.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog