Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.
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Saturday, 18 March 2023
U.S. News: Prestigious American Heritage Private School Raises $10,000 for Radical Mosque
Prestigious American Heritage Private School Raises $10,000 for Radical Mosque
High tuition costs, but money to spare for terror and bigotry.
Front Page Magazine, by
Joe Kaufman is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and the Chairman of the Joe Kaufman Security Initiative. He was a 2014, 2016, and 2018 Republican nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives (Florida-CD23).
American Heritage Schools (AHS) are a pair of high-priced college preparatory schools located in South Florida, with campuses in Broward and Palm Beach Counties. AHS calls itself the “#1 School In Florida.” It boasts the “Highest Number of National Merit Scholars” – 175 for the Class of 2023, 16 Presidential Scholars, and 168 AP/Honors courses with a “94% rate on all AP exams.” Yet, for a school(s) that would appear so smart, it just did something awfully foolish and alarming. It bragged about how one of its clubs raised $10,000 for an entity linked to terror and bigotry. If the educational institution has any integrity, it will demand the money is given back.
On March 8th, the AHS Broward campus, which is located in Plantation, proudly posted on its Facebook page about how its Arabic Club organized a Ramadan food drive to raise money for the Islamic Foundation of South Florida, a radical mosque based in Sunrise. It stated, “The Arabic Club organized a food drive for the day of Ramadan. Led by Mr. Jose Bronca, club advisor, and Mohamed Hachem, club president, the Arabic Club made the Heritage community aware of the needs of the Islamic Foundation of South Florida (IFSF)… Many people donated money to the foundation, raising $10,000. Thank you to everyone that supported this drive!”
This was shocking, given IFSF’s disturbing history.
The former Youth Director and Events Coordinator for IFSF is local Muslim activist Abdur Rahman al-Ghani. Al-Ghani believes Jews are inherently wicked. His Facebook posts have described Jews as “the children of Satan” and “demonic.” About homosexuals, he has written, “If you are gay, you are not a Muslim, you are a stone cold kaffir outside the fold of Islam. No one is born gay, it is a sickness…” He has posted a photo of Hamas militants with the caption (in part), “We love u Hamas. U are the real hero.” He has labeled the US the “World’s Number One Terrorist Organization” and wrote that Islam “will over-take the World in numbers.”
In April 2014, IFSF hosted a talk by Mazen Mokhtar, a former administrator for the now-defunct al-Qaeda financing and recruitment site, Jihad in Chechnya (qoqaz.net). The site was produced by Azzam Publications, named for the mentor of Osama bin Laden and co-founder of al-Qaeda, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam. Mokhtar has described suicide bombings as “an effective method of attacking the enemy and continuing jihad.” About Hamas, he wrote, “One of the reasons of my support for Hamas is that they have very high moral standards…” and “the operations of HAMAS are heroic…”
Of course, Abdur Rahman al-Ghani may no longer be involved with IFSF, and the Mazen Mokhtar speech was nearly a decade ago. However, recent events at IFSF and affiliations of the mosque demonstrate that the radical identity of IFSF is entirely unchanged.
Last month, IFSF hosted an event for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a group with financial and foundational ties to Hamas. In December 2022, a sermon was given at IFSF by Shafayat Mohamed, an imam who has been thrown off several Broward boards for his anti-gay rhetoric and whose mosque, Darul Uloom, has been a haven for high-profile al-Qaeda operatives. In June 2022, IFSF hosted a speech by a representative from Islamic Relief, a group that has been banned by a number of nations. And in March 2022, IFSF hosted an event for the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), a group with a variety of links to South Asian terror.
IFSF and its children’s school, Salah Tawfik Elementary & Middle School (STEMS), are currently members of the South Florida Muslim Federation (SFMF), an umbrella organization for South Florida’s many extremist Muslim groups, including all of the entities mentioned already and a number of radical mosques beyond IFSF and Darul Uloom.
One of IFSF’s fellow Federation mosques is Masjid Jamaat Al-Mumineen (MJAM), which promotes on its website material: calling Jews and Christians “enemies,” sanctioning domestic violence against women, glorifying female genital mutilation, and mandating death punishments for homosexuals. In September 2021, IFSF hosted a talk by MJAM’s imam, Izhar Khan. In May 2011, the FBI accused Khan of plotting with members of his family to help finance the Taliban.
Another SFMF mosque, the Islamic Center of Boca Raton (ICBR), was founded by a website designer for Hamas and a former assistant to a leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). In May 2021, IFSF hosted an event with ICBR founding Imam Ibrahim Dremali and IFSF Imam Sultan Mohammed, titled ‘LET’S TALK PALESTINE.’ One day prior, Dremali lauded Hamas and PIJ, saying “The only people right now in Gaza fighting are Hamas and Jihad… Don’t worry. Victory is coming soon.” Dremali also had implored people to read Protocols of the Elders of Zion and said, “If the Arab leaders open the borders for Palestine… the Jews they’ll be inside that ocean.”
Following the August 2020 explosion that devastated Beirut, Lebanon, leaving hundreds dead, thousands injured, and over $15 billion in property damage, the Arabic Club of American Heritage Schools sent two sizable containers filled with clothes, food and medicine to Beirut. It was a legitimate and commendable act, and the group was praised for doing so.
However, what was neither legitimate nor commendable was for the club to raise money for the extremist IFSF. Given the mosque’s numerous links to terrorism and bigotry, not a dime raised was warranted, let alone $10,000. Advisor Jose Bronca and AHS failed to exercise due diligence in investigating the insidious nature of their funds’ recipient. As a result, donors were duped into thinking their money would go to a worthy cause and institution.
The AHS slogan is “Knowledge, Integrity, Compassion.” AHS and its Arabic Club should live up to this motto and show ‘integrity’ by owning up to their mistake and immediately demanding that the money be returned. Providing funds to such an organization as IFSF is both immoral and a threat to security.
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Thursday, 16 March 2023
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No monkey business: Great apes spin around to get themselves high - study
Throughout human history, people have always sought ways to achieve an altered state of mind by getting high. It seems great apes may have done this too.
A mountain gorilla in the Volcano National Park. (photo credit: ATZMON DAGAN)
Humanity's closest relatives, the great apes, could be more similar to us than we thought: They're even able to get themselves high, according to a new study.
The study sheds light on another shared behavior between humans and some of our closest relatives on the evolutionary tree - gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans - and the findings were published in the peer-reviewed academic journal Primates.
And yes, it turns out that trying to achieve an altered state of mind may just run in the family.
Stoned since the stone age: A history of humans getting high
Throughout human history, people have always sought ways to achieve an altered state of mind through a variety of means. These can range from sophisticated methods like synthesizing drugs to ingesting psychoactive substances in plants and fungi. In one case documented by an Israeli researcher in 2021, prehistoric humans could have achieved a psychedelic experience by sitting in caves and lighting the entrance on fire, with the subsequent oxygen depletion causing hypoxia, which in turn causes an altered state of mind.
A chimpanzee. One of the closest animals to humans on the evolutionary
ladder (illustrative). (credit: Tambako The Jaguar/Flickr)
In layman's terms, people have always sought ways of getting high.
This has long been seen by many as a uniquely human trait. However, this isn't actually the case. In fact, there are a number of other types of animals that enjoy achieving an altered state of mind. These include reports of wallabies in Australia raiding medical poppy fields to get high on opium, reindeer eating psychedelic mushrooms, elephants getting drunk on Marula tree fruit and of course, cats and catnip.
And then, of course, there are primates. Great apes like gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans can be seen in viral videos on YouTube spinning around, essentially getting high and in an altered state.
And it was actually these YouTube videos that helped inspire the researchers behind this study.
Great apes and getting high: Going bananas and getting spun
The researchers analyzed a vast number of videos on YouTube, spotting these great apes spinning multiple times, sometimes 1.5 times per second, in a way that they noted was similar to Muslim Sufi whirling dervishes, which itself is meant to induce a trance-like state.
This works because the spinning causes neuronal cross-signaling, which helps induce dizziness, light-headedness, feelings of elation and other altered states of mind and perception.
Because of similar inner ear anatomy between humans and great apes as well as relatively similar body size, it is possible, if not likely, that spinning like this could induce the same altered state of mind in great apes as it does in humans.
Now, here is why this is so interesting.
Wild chimpanzee Fiona shows a leaf to her mother. (credit: Dr. Claudia Wilke, University of York)Humans get high and/or drunk, as do some animals. But apes are another story.
True, there are many documented instances of apes getting drunk by consuming fruit filled with alcohol. However, there is no evidence indicating that they did this for the sake of getting drunk, rather than due to the high caloric value of the alcohol-filled food.
Getting high to evolve or evolving to get high?
Figuring out the reason for their alcohol consumption is important, as it has long been a question of some researchers as to whether an altered state of mind helped shape the course of evolution and the development of the modern human mind, or if humans only started trying to get high after evolution.
Calculating the apes in the videos showed that they were spinning at speeds that could get one high.
While this is far from definitive proof, the researchers argue that this is still a proof of concept and that it is definitively something that is highly possible, as great apes have the necessary anatomy for it to be possible, as well as the intelligence to do so on their own without any human intervention – and one of the videos was of gorillas in the wild, rather than captivity.
However, it also raises more questions, such as whether this is something done only by specific individuals or by all apes, or if it is for a specific purpose or just recreational.
More research on apes getting high by spinning could help fill the gaps. This could perhaps be facilitated by giving apes in captivity better access to methods for getting high, such as children's playground equipment like merry-go-rounds – something that some zoos have reportedly done already.
But overall, this study shows that there are grounds for further research in seeing the evolutionary history of getting high, in how it could have shaped human evolution and the many benefits it can bring for helping maintain mental well-being and overall mood.
Ape deliberately spins around to make himself dizzy!
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Female Fantasist Made False Accusations, Ruined Men's Lives, Some Still Believe Her
'She's destroyed many lives, not only mine... and people STILL think I'm guilty': Father, 22, who attempted suicide after fantasist Eleanor Williams falsely accused him of rape tells of his fury that people still take her side - despite her being jailed
- Jordan Trengove attempted suicide after being falsely accused of rape in 2019
- He spent 73 days in prison in a sex offenders wing after Eleanor Williams lied
A young father who was driven to attempt suicide after fantasist Eleanor Williams falsely accused him of rape says he is 'destroyed' by the fact that there are 'still believers on her side' despite her being thrown in jail.
Jordan Trengove spent 73 days in prison in a sex offenders wing after Williams, then 19, claimed he drugged and raped her after they met in a nightclub in March 2019. She further alleged he came to her flat, threatened her with a knife and attacked her.
Angry locals who believed her lies targeted Mr Trengove, 22, by smashing his window and spray painting the word 'rapist' across his home.
Despite Williams being proven a serial liar, the young father has now revealed that he thinks she 'should get life in prison'. Williams was jailed for eight-and-a-half years after being found guilty of eight counts of perverting the course of justice.
The judge told Preston Crown Court on Tuesday that she has shown 'no significant signs of remorse' and her motive for lying about being a rape victim remains unknown.
Jordan Trengove spent 73 days in prison after Eleanor Williams claimed he drugged and raped her after they met in a nightclub in March 2019. Williams is pictured with her self-inflicted injuries
Jordan Trengove (pictured Tuesday) revealed that after Williams falsely accused him, he attempted suicide in front of his mother because his 'life was just too messed up'
Williams is pictured at a Tesco buying a hammer that she later used to beat her own face
Mr Trengove shared how he attempted suicide in front of his own mother - 'but survived' - after locals in Barrow-in-Furness started to believe Williams' lies.
'She was getting so much support and there was so much grief,' Mr Trengove told The Sun after her sentencing, adding: 'I wanted away from it all.'
Even though he has been proven innocent, Mr Trengove says the situation has fuelled his desire to move out of the area.
He claims he told his partner that they have two years to relocate because he 'doesn't want to be in the area when [Williams] is released.'
Mr Trengove, appearing yesterday on Talk TV's Piers Morgan Uncensored, also shared that he thought Williams should have received a life sentence for her crimes.
He claimed his solicitor told him that he could face 22 years in prison if he had been found guilty of the crimes Williams alleged against him, but noted that the liar only received eight-and-a-half years.
'She's destroyed many lives, not only mine,' he said. 'So she should have her life took away from her.'
In the UK, perverting the course of justice can carry a sentence of up to life in prison, although experts say receiving life imprisonment is unlikely.
Mr Trengove has started 'taking steps to rebuild my life,' but is still heavily affected by the situation.
He noted that he is really struggling with the fact that some people still believe the liar and continue to campaign online on her behalf.
'Even now there are still believers on her side. This destroyed us all,' he added.
Mr Trengove has started 'taking steps to rebuild my life,' but is still heavily effected by the situation. He shared how he is still struggling with the fact that Williams (pictured in a social media photo) 'still has believers on her side'
Williams accused Mohammed Ramzan (pictured on Tuesday with his wife Nicola Holt) of trafficking her to Amsterdam
The fantasist was seen in a hotel in Blackpool at the same time she claimed she had been trafficked
Mr Trengove briefly met Williams at a nightclub while on a night out with his friends in March 2019.
His friend group spent about two hours with the fantasist before going their separate ways, however Williams later claimed that Mr Trengove assaulted her that night.
But in reality the 22-year-old was with police during the time of the alleged assault. He had gone to a friend's house and was picked up by officers in connection to an unrelated argument by a taxi rank.
Despite having what Mr Trengove described as 'probably the most solid alibi', he was arrested in May 2019 after Williams made a second complaint.
He was held on remand for ten weeks in a sex offenders wing, before finally being cleared.
But during a three month trial, Preston Crown Court heard she told a pack of lies, and falsified evidence.
Williams had falsely accused multiple people of abusing her, with a jury finding her guilty of eight counts of perverting the course of justice
She created false social media accounts, doctored innocent men's profiles and even attacked herself with a hammer before posting her injuries on social media.
Her lies resulted in Mohammed Ramzan, a local businessman, being arrested and wrongly accused of leading a gang that who trafficked girls to sex parties across the North of England.
She claimed that Mr Ramzan, 43, had trafficked her to Amsterdam. But the court heard that, at the time she was in the Netherlands, his bank card was being used at a B&Q in Barrow.
Williams also gave police an account of being taken to Blackpool, where she said Mr Ramzan threatened her and she was taken to different addresses and forced to have sex with men.
But police made inquiries, found she had travelled to the seaside resort alone and stayed in a hotel, where she bought a Pot Noodle from a nearby shop and then remained in her room watching YouTube on her phone.
Mr Razman and Williams met only once - briefly at a family party, he told the court.
Oliver Gardner was accused of raping Williams and selling her as a sex worker after a chance encounter at Preston station.
Similarly, Cameron Bibby was accused of raping Williams when she was 16 after a house party in the town.
Williams was jailed for eight-and-a-half years after being found guilty of eight counts of perverting the course of justice. The judge told Preston Crown Court that she has shown 'no significant signs of remorse' and her motive for lying about being a rape victim remains unknown
In May 2020, Williams was arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.
Williams posted a shocking image of her badly bruised face and body on Facebook, with a long post describing how she had been 'abused' since the age of 12.
The post was shared more than 100,000 and a Justice For Ellie Facebook group was established.
Williams was convicted of eight counts of perverting the course of justice in January and sentenced earlier this week.