FREE KORANS TIED TO ISLAMIC RADICALS?

What you need to know when a Koran shows up on your doorstep:

Some Houston residents are upset after Korans were left on the doorsteps of hundreds of homes in their neighborhood as part of a campaign to educate people about Islam.

Residents of Braes Timbers in southwest Houston began finding the holy books two weeks ago, MyFOXHouston.com reported. The Korans came with a note saying they had been left by the Book of Signs Foundation, which claims to have distributed 30,000 free copies of the texts to residents throughout the city.

"If we went into a Muslim country and left a Bible, we would be in prison and then decapitated a few years later," Sue Ann Pieri, a resident who chose not to destroy the book, as other neighbors did, told MyFOXHouston.com.

The foundation, which left the books on doormats or hanging from doorknobs, said in a note accompanying the Koran that "rather than judging Islam and Muslims by the actions of a few, we want our fellow citizens to judge us by the book that influences and guides the lives of over 1 billion Muslims."

Try this Houston. Read THE BIG FEED. I'll learn you all you need to know about Islam. And what of these Book of Signs Foundation people spamming normal people with Korans? From Dinah Lord:

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 goes on to say, about al Furqaan:

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.

The folks over at CreepingSharia add some real insight into these al Furqaan and Book of Signs "foundations":

A little research also on the Al-Furqaan site itself demonstrates some concerning ideologies. For example, on the Book of Signs website (a subsidiary of Al-Furqaan), al-Furqaan posts an interview with radical convert Yvonne Ridley in their “Myths and Realities” section, directing viewers to a 57 minute absurd and nauseating apologetic for the Taliban and against the U.K and the U.S. She is a known defender of one of the primary enemies of the United States, Mullah Omar of the Taliban. She is a British citizen who preaches to Muslims that she hopes God forgives any who join the UK police force, telling Muslims that the UK police gun down Muslims.

She told the Independent’s Julia Stuart that the Islamist extremist, Abu Hamza, the head of the radical Al-Muhajiroon who has defended the 9-11 hijackers as martyrs, called to congratulate her on her conversion. She refused to denounce the cleric telling the Independent “As a Muslim I don’t think it’s constructive to criticize other Muslims”. About Abu Hamza she states, “I don’t have a problem with him. I think the media has created this monster and the Muslim community go along with it. In fact, I’ve criticized various Muslim leaders for criticizing him. I’ve said just ignore him, he’s hardly representative of British Muslims.”

The Book of Signs Website also uses Khalid Yasin to discuss the “Oneness of God” on a video posted on their site. A brief review of Yasin’s ideology demonstrates an unstable radical who believes that the U.S. government was behind 9-11, homosexuals should be killed, and the terror bombings in Bali were justified because of “western oppression”. He also cites equal rights for women as a “delusion and foolishness“, that Islamic law - shar’ia - should govern all nations, that Muslims cannot have non-Muslim friends, and rejects any separation between Islam and the state to name a few of his dangerous ideologies which are threat to American security.

Always be cautions when radicals hand you a "book of peace". Nothing in this world is "free"