National Security Blog

National Petition Campaign Launched
Please Sign the Petition Today and Forward It To Everyone You Know!!

May 14, 2008 -- Last night we announced the launch of our national petition drive during our Telephone Town Hall. What an exciting event this was! I was thrilled and honored to be with so many of our outstanding, dedicated members who share my passion and determination to make a difference.

The petition we launched is entitled "Petition Calling for Congressional Hearings to Review Radical Islamist Materials Distributed in American Mosques."

The petition, which you can read in its entirety by clicking here, begins with these words:

We the American people call on our U.S. Congress to conduct hearings for the purpose of examining extremist materials that have been found in American mosques that:

• exhort Muslims to engage in holy war (jihad) against us;
• incite terror and violence against us;
• call for abolishing our constitutional form of government and replacing it with the theological totalitarianism of strict Islamic law, known as "sharia."

The petition includes some examples of such materials, and then closes with these words:

Since there is sufficient evidence to indicate that the information in some materials sold or distributed in mosques in America rises to the level of a genuine threat to our nation’s security and liberty;

Since it is the first responsibility of our federal government to safeguard the national security of our country and its citizens and guests;

And because the oath of office of a Member of Congress is an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution;

We, the undersigned, call upon Congress to conduct hearings to examine materials that have been uncovered that have been sold or distributed in mosques in the United States, to determine if these materials violate federal statutes governing tax-exempt organizations; to determine if these materials violate federal anti-terrorism statutes; and to determine if these materials violate federal statutes prohibiting sedition, the advocacy and/or effort of abolishing or overthrowing our constitutional form of government.

To read the full petition, sign it and forward it to others, please click here.

As we announced on the Town Hall last night, this petition drive is going to be unprecedented in scope on an issue such as this. Not only are we emailing you the petition and asking you to forward it to others, we are going to be sending millions of emails over the next few months to people who likely share our concerns about the nature of these materials, and asking them to sign the petition.

What's more, we are launching a full-scale national media campaign informing people of this national petition drive on radio and television across the country, with the hope of driving hundreds of thousands of listeners to our website to sign the petition.

Our objective is to take this petition, with hundreds of thousands of signatures, to Congress in September, and demand that congressional leaders heed the voice of Americans exercising their constitutional right to petition their government.

We will provide you numerous updates over the next few months as to the progress of our campaign. In the meantime, please click here to read and sign the petition. Then follow the easy directions to forward the petition to everyone you know.

The petition is also available for viewing by going to our Web site: www.actforamerica.org.

Thank you so much for your support and your commitment to helping us roll back the tide of Islamofascism. Together we rise in defense of our security, our liberty and our values.

Brigitte Gabriel

ACT for America
P.O. Box 6884
Virginia Beach, VA 23456

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