*Florida Prof Endorses Severing Hands, Blasphemy Laws* *---* *he can endorse it all he wants ... just like a jew can endorse judaic law ... but American law trumps both judaic and sharia law. Stop fearmongering.* On Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 10:24:26 AM UTC-5, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > *Florida Prof Endorses Severing Hands, Blasphemy Laws* > > A Florida Atlantic University professor and mosque official has been > exposed as an Islamist radical after activists videotaped him endorsing the > severing of hands under Sharia > <http://www.clarionproject.org/glossary/sharia/> governance. On another > occasion, he supported outlawing speech he perceives as “blasphemy,” like > criticizing Islam. > > The blockbuster footage <https://youtu.be/e43MSvIxb6k> was taken by an > activist group named the United West that attended a panel on Islamophobia > <http://www.clarionproject.org/glossary/islamophobia/> at Florida > Atlantic University featuring one of its staff members, Associate Professor > Bassem Al-Halabi, who teaches computer science and engineering there. > > The panel included other unsettling speakers and the organizer > <http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/262912/islamophobia-forum-features-panelists-linked-joe-kaufman> > > posted on Facebook about “wiping out the CIA” and “Zionist/Israelis are not > holy people. They are demonic and the most evil on earth.” > > The footage shows Al-Halabi saying: > > *“Where there is no sharia, Islamic sharia, they die in dozens and > hundreds every day because of organized crime. People kill people, other > people or steal pizza for $10 and so – so when Islamic shariah is saying > about capital punishment – so even though it sounds like it is severe but > if that is the solution to prevent any crimes, then it still has a lot of > rules and regulations.* > > *I will just mention one and stop here, which is let’s say cutting off the > hands of a person if they steal. It sounds very severe. It sounds very > barbaric, I know. But if takes one or two people to have their hands cut > off, and then there’s no more stealing and there’s no more stealing in the > whole nation – that’s a much better resolution than having hundreds of > people die every day.”* > > The Islamic speaker next to Al-Halabi heard the audience’s booing and > jumped in to clarify Al-Halabi’s statement, saying that Al-Halabi was only > talking about the Islamic State’s practice of the severing of hands and not > about it happening in America. Al-Halabi nodded in agreement, but that > doesn’t change the fact that he was endorsing the practice. The geographic > location of where it’s currently happening is beside the point. > > Another video <https://youtu.be/kj5gUPBjxKA> of Al-Halabi filmed in 2012 > shows this isn’t some kind of misinterpretation of what he clearly said. He > engages a demonstrator who presses him on whether he supports Islamist > blasphemy laws that would criminalize criticism or mockery of Islam. After > a series of dodges, Al-Halabi says, “We should have laws to eliminate that” > (05:30 in the video). He confirmed his answer when it was repeated back to > him. > > Al-Halabi is a co-founder of the Islamic Center of Boca Raton, which has a > history > of radicalism. > <http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/islamic-center-boca-raton> The > extremism of the mosque and history of Al-Halabi has been meticulously > documented <http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=32348> > by Joe Kaufman of Americans Against Hate, including its links to Hamas > <http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/245684/boca-mosque-targets-jews-christians-and-west-joe-kaufman> > > and anti-Semitic incitement of violence towards Jews. > > Of special concern is that Al-Harabi was the research assistant for Sami > Al-Arian from 1989 to 1990. Al-Arian was acting as a secret Palestinian > Islamic Jihad <http://www.clarionproject.org/glossary/jihad/> operative. > He was later convicted on terrorism-related charges related to that > organization . Video footage from 1991 shows him > <https://youtu.be/Xc3E1VfyEtc> preaching for the destruction of Israel > through jihad and using language very similar to the Muslim Brotherhood > <http://www.clarionproject.org/glossary/muslim-brotherhood/> motto. > > Kaufman writes that Al-Arian provided Al-Harabi with a reference letter to > use in applying for Florida Atlantic University, where he has taught since > 1996. They also wrote a book together that was published in 1992. > > One of Al-Arian’s strategies was to advance the Islamist agenda using the > kind of activity that Al-Harabi, his former colleague, is undertaking with > the Islamophobia panel. The indictment > <http://fas.org/irp/ops/ci/al-arian_indict_022003.pdf> of Al-Arian and > his partners says that they “would and did seek to obtain support from > influential individuals, in the United States under the guise of promoting > and protecting Arab rights.” > > Al-Halabi himself was convicted > <http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/84703/islamist-professor-teaches-lesson-violence-joe-kaufman> > > in 2003 of illegally transferring a $13,000 thermal imaging camera to > Syria, a country ruled by a regime that is labeled a state sponsor of > terrorists including those that Al-Arian was involved with. > > And in 2010, after attacking Kaufman and his cameraman at in the lobby of > the State Capitol Building in Florida, he pled guilty > <http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/84703/islamist-professor-teaches-lesson-violence-joe-kaufman> > > to assault and battery. > > Still, he kept his job at Florida Atlantic University. > > If close ties to a convicted terrorist, founding and continuing to > associate with a radical mosque, getting convicted for illegally > transferring a dangerous device to a state sponsor of terrorism and > pleading guilty to assault isn’t enough to get Al-Halabi fired from Florida > Atlantic University, then it is doubtful that these latest videos will even > get a second glance from the school. > > > > *Ryan Mauro is ClarionProject.org <http://www.clarionproject.org/>’s > national security analyst, a fellow with Clarion Project and an adjunct > professor of homeland security. 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