BREAKING NEWS – 7/31/11

MUST READ: NY Times Exposes Bigot Behind Anti-Sharia Movement (CAIR)
Andrea Elliott, New York Times, 7/31/11

A confluence of factors has fueled the anti-Shariah movement, most notably the controversy over the proposed Islamic center near ground zero in New York, concerns about homegrown terrorism and the rise of the Tea Party. But the campaign's air of grass-roots spontaneity, which has been carefully promoted by advocates, shrouds its more deliberate origins.

In fact, it is the product of an orchestrated drive that began five years ago in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in the office of a little-known lawyer, David Yerushalmi, a 56-year-old Hasidic Jew with a history of controversial statements about race, immigration and Islam. Despite his lack of formal training in Islamic law, Mr. Yerushalmi has come to exercise a striking influence over American public discourse about Shariah.

BACKGROUNDER: Yerushalmi's Anti-Sharia Study Measures Length of Imams' Beards
Paul Berger, Jewish Daily Forward, 7/22/11

Wearing what they said were "Sharia adherent" disguises, the researchers independently visited 100 mosques and Islamic centers, where they collected various data, such as the length of the imam's beard and whether he wore a watch on his right wrist, the percentage of worshippers wearing hats and the reading materials available to visitors.

Yerushalmi Ally Edits Post to Conceal Violent Rhetoric From Norway

As you can see, the line Geller edited out is: "We are stockpiling and caching weapons, ammunition and equipment. This is going to happen fast."

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