YES, LINDA SARSOUR DID INCITE VIOLENCE AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP

 
 
 The Growing Sedition Of Linda Sarsour 
 Published on Jul 10, 2017

Due
to the broad and ironclad protections of the first Amendment, A charge
of sedition against a U.S. citizen is extremely rare. Nevertheless,
sedition remains a crime in the United States under 18 U.S.C.A. § 2384
(2000), a federal statute that punishes seditious conspiracy, and 18
U.S.C.A. § 2385 (2000), which outlaws advocating the overthrow of the
federal government by force. Generally, a person may be punished for
sedition only when he or she makes statements that create a Clear and
Present Danger to rights that the government may lawfully protect. A
person found guilty of seditious conspiracy or advocating the overthrow
of the government may be fined and sentenced to up to 20 years in
prison. States also maintain laws that punish similar advocacy and
conspiracy against the state government.

Brooklyn born Palestinian-American Activist Linda Sarsour is walking a tightrope as she tests those federal statutes.

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YES, LINDA SARSOUR DID INCITE VIOLENCE 
AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP
BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 
The
hijabbed feminist heroine Linda Sarsour is in the center of another
controversy, and the Leftist establishment media is again rushing to
defend her. This time, she called for “jihad” against President Trump.
The
whole controversy, says Sarsour and her defenders, is just another
indication of conservatives’ ignorance and “Islamophobia.”
But it isn’t: she really did incite violence.
Sarsour’s
call for jihad came in the midst of her denunciation of the Trump
administration at the annual convention of the Islamic Society of North
America (ISNA) over the July 4 weekend.
Sarsour said:

Why, sisters and brothers, why are we so unprepared? Why are we so
afraid of this administration and the potential chaos that they will
ensue on our community?

Invoking Muhammad, she said:

A word of truth in front of a tyrant ruler or leader, that is the best form of jihad.

She added:

I hope that when we stand up to those who oppress our communities, that
Allah accepts from us that as a form of jihad, that we are struggling
against tyrants and rulers not only abroad in the Middle East or the
other side of the world, but here in these United States of America,
where you have fascists and white supremacists and Islamophobes reigning
in the White House.

She not only denounced Trump, but the idea that Muslims in America should assimilate:

Our number one and top priority is to protect and defend our
communities. It is not to assimilate and to please any other people in
authority … Our top priority, even higher than all those priorities, is
to please Allah, and only Allah.

The establishment media rushed to defend her. Time
explained: “Women’s March Organizer Linda Sarsour Spoke of ‘Jihad.’ But
She Wasn’t Talking About Violence.” The Wrap published a piece titled:
“3 Things Conservatives Got Very Wrong About Linda Sarsour’s Speech.” The Huffington Post gloated: “Linda Sarsour Said ‘Jihad’ In A Speech And Conservatives Freaked Out.” ThinkProgress
mocked those ignorant, racist conservatives: “A Muslim activist
referenced jihad and the right freaked out because they don’t know what
it means.” CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill tweeted: “The people disagreeing with @lsarsour clearly don’t understand what Jihad means.”
Sarsour herself took to the Washington Post to explain:

[I] sent not a call to violence, but a call to speak truth to power and
to commit to the struggle for racial and economic justice.

I was speaking to an
all-Muslim audience; as an American, I should be free to share and
discuss scripture and teachings of my beloved Prophet.
Worst of all to her was the sullying of the reputation of “jihad”:

Most disturbing about this recent defamation campaign is how it is
focused on demonizing the legitimate yet widely misunderstood Islamic
term I used, “jihad,” which to majority of Muslims and according to
religious scholars means “struggle” or “to strive for.” This term has
been hijacked by Muslim extremists and right-wing extremists alike,
leaving ordinary Muslims to defend our faith and in some cases silenced.

Linda
Sarsour is not stupid, and likely knows what Islamic tradition actually
has her “beloved Prophet” saying: “I have been made victorious through
terror” (Bukhari 4:52.220). Muhammad told his followers to offer
non-Muslims three choices: conversion to Islam; subjugation to Islamic
hegemony, as signified by the payment of a poll tax (jizya); or death:

Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war … When you
meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of
action. If they respond to any one of these you also accept it and
withhold yourself from doing them any harm. Invite them to (accept)
Islam; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from
fighting against them. … If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from
them the Jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off
your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah’s help and fight
them. (Muslim 4294)

Islamic tradition also depicts Muhammad saying:

I have been commanded to fight against people so long as they do not
declare that there is no god but Allah, and he who professed it was
guaranteed the protection of his property and life on my behalf except
for the right affairs rest with Allah. (Muslim 30)

If one does not profess belief in Allah, his property and life are not protected.
Sarsour
also must know that there is an entire chapter of the Qur’an entitled
“Booty,” or “The Spoils of War” (al-Anfal). What spoils ensue from “a
word of truth spoken in front of a tyrant ruler or leader”? If jihad is
simply a word of truth spoken in front of a tyrant, how is a Muslim
supposed to make Jews and Christians “pay the jizya with willing
submission and feel themselves subdued” (Qur’an 9:29)? If jihad means
only to “struggle” or “strive,” why have millions of Muslims worldwide
joined violent jihad groups?
Why are there any violent jihad groups at all? Why is this misunderstanding of jihad so widespread?
A
professedly devout and knowledgeable Muslim, Linda Sarsour must know
about all the many exhortations to violence in the Qur’an and Sunnah,
and the doctrines of jihad warfare taught by all the
schools of Sunni jurisprudence. When Sarsour says that “this term has
been hijacked by Muslim extremists and right-wing extremists alike,” she
is attempting not just to intimidate people into dismissing the idea
that jihad involves violence for fear of allying with hated “right-wing
extremists,” but also to liken foes of jihad terror to its proponents,
thereby stigmatizing resistance to jihad terror as “far-right
extremism.”
Of course, the
centrality in Islamic law of jihad as warfare against unbelievers does
not in itself mean that Sarsour was inciting violence against Trump. But
Sarsour certainly knows what Muslims are doing in the name of jihad
around the world today. When she says, “I hope that when we stand up to
those who oppress our communities, that Allah accepts from us that as a
form of jihad,” she may mean a non-violent standing up, but she has to know that when other Muslims who know the real meaning of jihad in Islam hear that, they will hear it as a call to violence.
She
must know that when she says that “our number one and top priority is
to protect and defend our communities” and that “our top priority, even
higher than all those priorities, is to please Allah, and only Allah,”
that some Muslims will think of how pleased Allah is with the deaths of
unbelievers — since he has guaranteed Paradise to those who “kill and
are killed” for him (Qur’an 9:111).
All
the damage control of the Leftist media, heaping contempt upon
conservatives for being so stupid as to think that jihad involves
violence, is simply more of the denial and willful ignorance regarding
jihad that the political and media elites constantly force upon us. If
anyone knows what jihad means in Islam, it is Linda Sarsour. And so she
also must know how incendiary her words really were.
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