Muslim dispels myths - creates new ones

Jeff Siddiqui is on a mission to show the public what Islam is truly about.

And I'm on a mission to show the public what Jeff Siddiqui is truly about.

From Herald Net

EVERETT - When Snohomish County Councilman Dave Gossett was looking for a Muslim to give the invocation at the July 7 County Council meeting, an interfaith group directed him to Jeff Siddiqui.

Since Sept. 11, 2001, Siddiqui has made a mission of countering negative stereotypes about Islam. The Lynnwood real estate agent has spoken before skeptical Veterans of Foreign Wars members in Edmonds, addressed Jewish students in Everett and talked to teachers in Snohomish.

Wonder who the interfaith group was? Would have been nice if this reporter had done the basics of reporting.

However, let's see who Jeff Siddiqui is.

Muslims try to bar terror expert

SEATTLE – Who is the enemy in the war on terrorism? Seattle-area Muslims fought hard to block the appearance this week of a leading terror expert whose answer to that question, some believe, strikes too close to home.

Former Harvard professor Daniel Pipes, who has been in high demand by the mainstream media since Sept. 11, says he experienced unprecedented opposition prior to his lecture at the University of Washington Wednesday night.

Calling Pipes a "rabid Muslim/Arab-hater," Jeff Siddiqui of the American Muslims of Puget Sound distributed a letter expressing "profound shock" that Pipes had been invited and urging organizers to cancel the event, sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and the university's school of international studies.

Pipes, who speaks Arabic, has a Ph.D. in history from Harvard and served in the U.S. Departments of State and Defense. The author of 10 books, he was director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute and currently heads a Philadelphia-based think tank, the Middle East Forum.

"Indeed, it is not unlike having a Nazi speak about the security of the U.S.A., or a KKK member speak about crime," Siddiqui wrote to event organizer Edward Alexander, an English professor at the university.

Pipes has been an outspoken critic of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which bills itself as a Muslim civil rights group but actually has a long history of terrorsit involvement. What is interesting is that Siddiqui never questions Pipe's facts, he just calls him names.

University of Washington defends its' actions.

What else do we know about Mr. Siddiqui?

Western Associates Real Estate

Jeff Siddiqui, Associate Broker
Seattle, WA 98103
Pager: (206) 994-7398

So, Mr. Siddiqui is a real estate broker. Nothing wrong with that. I'm not saying there is a connection but I find this interesting.

From Jihad Watch

The terrorist organization Hamas invested millions of dollars during the past decade in real-estate projects nationwide, including in suburban Maryland, as part of a scheme to raise cash to fund acts of terrorism, records show.

What about Mr. Siddiqui's political views?

Not In Our Name: Seattle Area Endorsers of the Statement of Conscience

Jeff Siddiqui, American Muslims of Puget Sound

And what does this "Statement of Cosicience" say that Mr. Siddiqui signed?

Among other things,

We believe that people of conscience must take responsibility for what their own governments do — we must first of all oppose the injustice that is done in our own name. Thus we call on all Americans to RESIST the war and repression that has been loosed on the world by the Bush administration. It is unjust, immoral, and illegitimate. We choose to make common cause with the people of the world.

And who else has signed this statement?

Project and has been signed by an extraordinary list of public intellectuals and artists including (just to mention a few) Mos Def, John Edgar Wideman, Barbara Kingsolver, Ossie Davis, Noam Chomsky, Eve Ensler, Tony Kushner, Edward Said, Gloria Steinem, Alice Walker and Howard Zinn.

Siddiqui is a prolific speaker and writer, just do a Google search. Here is one example.

Seattle PI

In this article, Siddiqui, defends, among others, Jose Padilla.

It turns out the "dirty bomb" plan was not so bad after all because it was infeasible, the REAL plan was to blow up apartment buildings!

Yeah, like that would terrorize a lot of people. And if the plan was infeasible, why attempt it? We are after all talking about Al Qaeda, the organization that was able to train terrorist to fly commercial airliners and convice them to fly them into multiple independant targets simultaneously. Not a dumb organization.

So, ask yourself, what is Jeff Siddiqui's real mission?
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