D’où vient le « mouvement anti-shariah » ?
David Yerushalmi, the Man Behind the Anti-Shariah Movement - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/us/31shariah.html
In fact, it is the product of an orchestrated drive that began five years ago in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in the office of a little-known lawyer, David Yerushalmi, a 56-year-old Hasidic Jew with a history of controversial statements about race, immigration and Islam. Despite his lack of formal training in Islamic law, Mr. Yerushalmi has come to exercise a striking influence over American public discourse about Shariah.
Working with a cadre of conservative public-policy institutes and former military and intelligence officials, Mr. Yerushalmi has written privately financed reports, filed lawsuits against the government and drafted the model legislation that recently swept through the country — all with the effect of casting Shariah as one of the greatest threats to American freedom since the cold war.
Déjà en mars dernier, un article de Mother Jones présentait le gugusse :
Meet the White Supremacist Leading the GOP’s Anti-Sharia Crusade | Mother Jones
►http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/david-yerushalmi-sharia-ban-tennessee
Yerushalmi, a lawyer, is the founder of the Society of Americans for National Existence (SANE), which has been called a “hate group” by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). His draft legislation served as the foundation for the Tennessee bill, and at least half a dozen other anti-Islam measures—including two bills that were signed into law last year in Louisiana and Tennessee.
Ces articles sont vraiment très intéressants mais... parviennent à ne jamais citer Israël. Voici ce qu’on peut pourtant lire dans une biographie du bonhomme :
IASPS Staff
►http://www.iasps.org/dybio.htm
From the Institute’s founding, Yerushalmi took a leading role as a substantial financial contributor, in addition to serving on the Board of Trustees for over a decade and as Chairman for more than five years. In 1991, teaming up with the Institute’s policy experts, Yerushalmi was instrumental in establishing the Israel Export Development Co., Ltd., as an entrepreneurial policy tool to initiate radical free market reforms in Israel. Working along side fellow board members and shareholders such as Robert Tishman, Jerry Speyer, Larry Silverstein, Lawrence Tisch, Eugene Grant and Sy Syms, Yerushalmi was appointed the company’s CEO and Chairman.
Over a two-year period, Yerushalmi built an international sales force for marketing free zones and knowledge parks in Israel and around the world, successfully attracting $750 million in financial commitments and identifying over 20,000 high-technology jobs for Israelis. In addition, he successfuly headed an international lobbying effort to persuade the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Israel’s entrenched statist institutions and politicians to enact the revolutionary Israeli Free Processing Zones Law. (The Zone “story” can be found throughout this web site.) As a result of his work on the Israeli free zone project, Yerushalmi has also provided select services for free zone projects in Hungary, the Republic of Chuvashia, and the Baltic States.
Les deux articles (y compris dans le très « mainstream » et pas du tout pro-arabe New York Times) sont donc intéressants, puisqu’ils identifient clairement la source de la campagne islamophobe « Anti-Sharia » aux États-Unis : ils révèlent qu’il ne s’agit donc pas d’une idéologie spontanée, mais bien d’un thème construit et promu, dont la source est ici clairement nommée.
Là où ces deux articles échouent, en revanche, c’est à signaler que l’individu qui est derrière ce nouveau grand combat islamophobe est directement lié à Israël. À ce sujet, à nouveau, il faut relire l’enquête de Max Blumenthal sur l’origine des réseaux islamophobes aux États-Unis :
►http://seenthis.net/messages/28980
(En signalant clairement que Yerushalmi, activiste islamophobe, est juif, mais en occultant ses liens avec Israël, on peut considérer que ces deux articles font en pratique la promotion de l’antisémitisme.)