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More Muslim baiting in Daily News
Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit
sent by Andy Pollack
[Daily News: "City libraries offer terror 'recruiting' Islamic texts"
Tsk tsk. Next thing you know the libraries will be stocking books that
advocate stealing another people's land, like, oh say... those written
by Theodore Herzl. -Andy]
The NY Daily News - Oct 8, 2007
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/10/08/2007-10-08_city_libraries_offer_terror_recruiting_i-2.html
City libraries offer terror 'recruiting' Islamic texts
BY ROBERT GEARTY
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Hard-line Islamic books that justify violence against non-Muslim
societies - including texts used as terrorist "recruiting tools" - are
freely available in New York City public libraries.
A Daily News spot check found a book by an Islamic theorist who
inspired Osama Bin Laden and terror Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, as well as
others that promote the hatred of other religions and one with the
misogynistic title: "Women Who Deserve to Go to Hell."
Several of these texts can be found at the Brooklyn Public Library's
main branch, a mile from the Al Farooq mosque, where Rahman once
inspired followers to try to blow up New York.
In the main stacks sits "Milestones," a notorious work revered by Bin
Laden and Rahman and penned by Seyyid Qutb, a Muslim Brotherhood member
executed in 1966 for trying to overthrow the Egyptian government.
In its final re****t, the Sept. 11 Commission noted Rahman and Bin
Laden's attraction to Qutb: "Bin Laden shares Qutb's stark view,
permitting him and his followers to rationalize even unprovoked mass
murder."
An August NYPD re****t on the "homegrown threat" of terrorism contended
Qutb believed "militant jihad had to be used ... to overthrow
non-Islamic governments and to bring about a 'pure' Islamic society."
Qutb's treatise is hardly the only hard-line book on library shelves in
New York and Long Island, The News found.
The reference room of the Brooklyn main branch carries "Fundamentals of
Tawheed." In it, author Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips writes, "Un-Islamic
government must be sincerely hated and despised for the pleasure of
God."
In the research section of the New York Public Library in Manhattan,
The News found "Islamic Fatawa Regarding Women" and "Women Who Deserve
to Go to Hell."
"We have no intention to accuse women when we say that they will be a
majority in hell," wrote author Manssor Abdul Hakim.
The availability of such controversial books in public libraries points
out the difficulties a society faces in balancing an aversion to
censor****p against the need to prevent terrorism.
"These are also recruiting tools," said counterterrorism consultant
Ilana Freedman of the Gerard Group International. Freedman said she was
not suggesting banning books, "but without balance, without
counterpoint, children cannot make informed decisions."
Librarians said it is not up to them to decide what belongs on their
shelves.
"We don't censor what people read," said Mary Haines, director of the
South Country Public Library in Bell****t, L.I., which just added
"Milestones" to its collection.
Brooklyn Public Library spokeswoman Ruth Wagner said libraries have the
responsibility to be inclusive, and "efforts are made to represent the
widest possible diversity of views."
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