Free Korans and the Book of Signs Foundation
The Interwebs have been buzzing today about the great Koran giveaway in Houston...
It got me wondering. Who is this Book of Signs Foundation and why are they home spamming us kafirs with their Korans? I looked all over their website (creepy!) and couldn't find any real information about the group. I don't know about you but this always strikes me as kind of hinky, especially when you're talking about a charitable foundation. Add the Islamic angle into the mix and the hink factor escalates. Why wouldn't they want their identities known? It's a charity for Allah's sake. Dawah, zakat and all that.
Curious now, I fired up the Google machine and discovered that they'd been Koran spamming in Chicago as well. (I must have missed it when I was off doing my thing.)
As Marcia Macy chatted with her dog walker in the driveway of her Wheaton home Thursday, a young Muslim man passed her and hooked a plastic bag containing a Quran on her doorknob. Unlike most religious solicitors, the man didn't try to speak with her or engage her in debate. He simply left her a 378-page paperback English translation of the holy book of Islam."I'd read it just to see what it says, but I believe in Jesus, not Allah," said Macy, a longtime Christian. "They have a right to do it . . . but I feel pretty strong in my faith."
If Macy reads the text, she will have fulfilled the goal of the Book of Signs Foundation. The Addison-based Muslim organization says that since July it has distributed more than 70,000 free English Qurans to homes in the Chicago area and another 30,000 around Houston. The foundation spent the previous three weeks in Chicago's Hyde Park and Jackson Park neighborhoods.
Their aim is to help people develop their own opinions about Islam instead of being misled by common misconceptions about the faith that have been especially egregious since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. They're just trying to be honest brokers of information..." or so says Wajahat Sayeed, founder and director of Book of Signs.
Funny, they aren't very honest about the Book of Signs appearing to be a wholly owned entity of something called the al Furqaan Foundation and they certainly aren't being very forthcoming about all of the group's unsavory connections. About al-Furqaan:
Al-Furqaan Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) non profit organization based in Chicago, IL. We are an Islamic dawah organization working towards spreading the message of Islam to all mankind.
It looks like they've set themselves a couple of interesting front groups to spread that message to all mankind. Convert or die, kafir.
Their stated mission:
Imagine A Qur'an in Every Household, Every Hotel Room, Every Hospital, Every College Dorm, Every Retirement Home In America!
Oh, and every prison. Let's not leave them out!
Their scope - sounds innocuous enough, doesn't it?
3:104 - Let there arise out of you a band of people inviting to all that is good, enjoining what is right, and forbidding what is wrong: They are the ones to attain felicity.
Al-Furqaan Foundation takes direction from this verse and serves as a conduit within an organizational framework to allow Muslims to communicate the message and fulfill their obligation by making donations for this purpose. Al-Furqaan takes the charitable donations and promptly distributes a corresponding copy of the Qur'an on their behalf to a non-Muslim, in accordance with a board-approved plan of execution.
Here's the part of their so-called "scope" that worries me...
Of course the total Dawah process is more than just delivering the Qur'an to a non-Muslim. Through an extensive network of co-operating organizations, Imams, social workers, masajid, dawah centers, etc., Al-Furqaan Foundation will coordinate all the different tasks of dawah that arise from the point a copy of the Qur'an reaches a non-Muslim. From the supplying of additional literature to direct consultation, Al-Furqaan Foundation and its partners will manage the entire "supply chain" of dawah activities.
Of course.
But what about Wajahat Sayeed, the Book of Signs and al - Furqaan? I am happy to report that the good folks over at CreepingSharia.com are all over this. Hop over and check it out. Here's a little something to get you interested:
Sayeed [founder of BoSF] is also the director of the MLFA (Muslim Legal Fund of America). This fund is a coalition of Islamists including CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations), named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial; the MAS (Muslim American Society); and the American Muslim Task Force associated with the far left, such as the ANSWER Coalition. The organization clearly is a mouthpiece for the Holy Land Foundation victimology propaganda and believes among other absurd apologetics that Sami al-Arian is “wrongly accused”… - note - nothing about Muslim responsibility in Islamist-inspired terror. The goal of Al-Furqaan as stated on their website is to put a Qur’an in “every household, hotel room, hospital, college dorm, and retirement home in America”. The translation is endorsed by the toxic Zakir Naik, and his entire Wahhabi-Deobandi proselytizing mission for Islamism (i.e., political Islam).
Oh, and about Zakir Naik? Hear what he has to say about Bibles and Churches in Islamic countries.
During an interview he was asked why non-Muslims were not allowed to preach their religion in Islamic countries. Naik quoted verse 3:85 from the Qur'an and said that "...as far as the matters of religion are concerned we know for sure that only Islam is the true religion in the eyes of God. In Qur'an 3:85 it is mentioned that God will never accept any religion other than Islam. As far as the second question regarding building of churches or temples is concerned, how can we allow this when their religion is wrong and when their worshipping is wrong? Therefore, we will not allow such wrong things in our Islamic country."
This outfit is bad news, no ifs ands or buts about it.
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