obligation for Muslims to condemn the extremists

Caringheart wrote: I had no idea who David French is, but I looked him up and found this: David is a Senior Counsel at the American Center for Law and Justice. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he is a former Senior Counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, and a past president of the Foundation of Individual Rights in Education. He has taught at Cornell Law School and served as a commercial litigation partner in the firm of Greenebaum, Doll & McDonald. His legal practice is concentrated on constitutional law and the international law of armed conflict, and he is licensed to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States. David is the author of multiple books, including Home and Away: A Story of Family in a Time of War and A Season for Justice: Defending the Rights of the Christian Home, Church, and School. David is a regular contributor to National Review Online, a columnist for Patheos, and he has written numerous op-eds and articles, including pieces in the Washington Post, Washington Times, Human Events, Townhall, New York Post, New York Daily News, Boston Herald, and Philadelphia Daily News. Regularly interviewed by both print and broadcast media, David has appeared on ABC World News Tonight, The O�Reilly Factor, CNN Newsroom, The Fox Report with Shepard Smith, and Special Report with Brit Hume, among others. A regular guest on talk radio programs, David has been interviewed on National Public Radio and by numerous hosts, including Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt, Laura Ingraham, Dennis Prager, James Dobson, and Michael Reagan. David has guest-hosted a number of radio programs, including the Hugh Hewitt Show. David is the 2012 recipient of the American Conservative Union�s Ronald Reagan Award. David is also a Captain in the United States Army Reserve, joining the USAR in April, 2006. He currently serves as Brigade Judge Advocate for the 1st Brigade, 104th Division. From October 2007 to September 2008 CPT French served as Squadron Judge Advocate for the 2d Squadron, 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment in Diyala Province, Iraq, where he was awarded the Bronze Star. and this; When I came home from Iraq in 2008, friends frequently asked me what I learned �most� from the experience. That�s a tough question to answer, and it depends greatly on context. I learned many things about my faith, my family, and my country, but if the question relates to the war itself, I�d tend to say something like this: �I learned the enemy is more evil than you can imagine, and I learned that a deployment is more difficult than you can imagine.� But while the deployment was the hardest thing I�ve ever done, the chance to play a very small part (surrounded by a band of brothers) to fight this extraordinary evil made it the most meaningful year of my life. Since I�ve returned � and it�s been almost six years � I haven�t stopped talking about the nature of the jihadist enemy. I share the stories as much as I can (when the context is appropriate), yet I continue to be discouraged by how few Americans � and especially how few of my friends on the left � truly understand (or even try to understand) what the world faces. So they react in outrage when Israel strikes at Hamas, use the collapse in Iraq to once again score political points against President Bush, and use words like �irresponsible� to describe actions like launching rockets at civilians while hiding behind civilian human shields. and this; A Kentucky native, David is a 1994 graduate (cum laude) of Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a 1991 graduate (summa cum laude, valedictorian) of Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee. David French is a lawyer, writer, soldier, and veteran of the Iraq war. He is Senior Counsel at the American Center for Law and Justice. and here's a very good article of his; http://www.patheos.com/Resources/Additional-Resources/How-Pervasive-Is-the-Threat-of-Political-Islam-David-French-06-06-2011 don't knock it before you've read it.  It is a very balanced article. and the American Center for Law and Justice are fighting for good causes... they were largely responsible for the freeing of Miriam Ibrihim, which is how I happen to know of them.

While the ACLJ pursues its multi-platform anti-Muslim agenda, Awad also is fighting the battle on more than one front. In the court of law, he is on the offense. But in the court of public opinion, he must strike a careful balance between making his case against the law and being sensitive to the plight of his co-religionists across the state.

When Awad first came to Oklahoma, he believed that drawing attention to people spouting anti-Muslim vitriol would shame them into silence. But just a few months in the state have shattered that illusion, he told the Intelligence Report. "Some people," he said, "can't be shamed.""

[http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2011/spring/oklahoma-shariah-law-ban-creates-controversy]

3.  The SPLC also has noted that the ACLJ tends to cooperate with other extremist Christian organizations:

"Sponsors include SIOA, Gaffney�s Center for Security Policy, Joseph Farah�s far-right online publication World Net Daily (WND), and the ironically named Religious Freedom Coalition, which declares itself �dedicated to the equality of all mankind and the freedom of religious expression.� Among the co-sponsors are the Traditional Values Coalition (another relative newcomer to the anti-Shariah bandwagon that has long been listed by the SPLC as an anti-gay hate group); Pat Robertson�s American Center for Law and Justice, which has been active in pushing anti-Shariah legislation; and Vision America, a network of �Patriot pastors and Patriot Partners� with a history of gay-bashing."

[http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/10/26/the-crying-shariah-game/]

4.  The SPLC also noted that Mr. David French, the previously mentioned "valedictorian" () has spoken at events held by some of the above organizations.  This is how the SLPC described French's speech at one such event:

"Many of the speakers � particularly Americans who had spent time overseas, such as David French of the American Center for Law and Justice, who specified that the enemy is �jihadist Shariah� � stressed that there is a difference between radical Islam and law-abiding Muslims. Yet the overall message of the conference was that no Muslim who attends mosque can ever really be trusted."

[http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/11/12/anti-muslim-activists-gather-in-tennessee-to-warn-of-shariah-takeover/]

So, as we can see, the "American Center for Law and Justice" is just a front-organization for Christian fundamentalist nut-jobs like Pat Robertson.  And since "Caringheart" seems to get most of her information about current events and Islam from such sources, there should be no doubt (if there still was any) about what her motivations are. She is here to spread the propaganda and lies of her fellow Christian fanatics. 

As the saying goes:

"A man (or in this case, a woman) is known by the company he/she keeps."