Fighting USG’s Enforcement of Sharia in America: Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer Appeal Denial of
“Stop Islamisation of America”

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Our organizations, AFDI and SIOA, are on the front lines in America, fighting the imposition of Islamic law one lawsuit at a time. The United States government (USG) denied our application for trademark of SIOA (Stop Islamization of America) because jihadists might be offended. It is the same sharia enforcement that we are facing in Seattle, where Seattle Transit refused to run AFDI's submission of an FBI wanted poster of global terrorists because that, too, might offend jihadists. 

Here's the latest in our lawsuit against the US government's enforcement of the blasphemy laws under the sharia from our pre-eminenet fighting legal firm, the American Freedom Law Center. 

Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer Appeal Denial of “Stop Islamisation of America” Trademark

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Washington, D.C. (August 30, 2013) — The American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), a national, nonprofit Judeo-Christian law firm, filed its opening brief today in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, asking the court to overturn the Trademark Trial & Appeal Board‟s (TTAB) denial of the trademark application for “Stop Islamisation of
Sioa logoAmerica” and “SIOA.”

Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, executive directors of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), an advocacy organization that raises awareness about the human rights abuses perpetrated by sharia-adherent Islamists, applied to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in February 2010 to register the trademark “Stop the Islamisation of America” to foster and provide an understanding of how to prevent sharia-based tyranny and Islamist terrorism.

The USPTO rejected FDI‟s application because it deemed that the trademark disparaged Muslims and linked them to terrorism. In its appeal to the TTAB, AFLC argued that “Islamisation” is not broadly defined as all things Islamic or even a conversion of an individual or society to Islam; rather, it is the process of implementing sharia as the law of the land into a society in order to create a sectarian political system based upon sharia (i.e., Islamic law).

David Yerushalmi, AFLC Co-Founder and Senior Counsel, commented: “Muslims and non-Muslims alike use and understand „Islamisation‟ to be the political movement to implement Islamic law or sharia as the law of the land. It has nothing to do with religious conversion. In fact, the term, Islamisation‟ can be traced to the Muslim Brotherhood, where it is found in their own documents advocating „civilizational jihad,‟ which seeks nothing less than the destruction of Western Civilization and the establishment of a worldwide Islamic caliphate.


“Furthermore, the term is used frequently in professional and academic contexts. Therefore, „stopping Islamisation‟ and linking this doctrine to terrorism does not implicate or disparage good, patriotic, loyal Muslims in America. Instead, it is an important educational tool that raises awareness about those who seek the demise of our constitutional Republic through a sharia-based political process.”
Nevertheless, in February 2013, the TTAB affirmed the USPTO‟s denial of the trademark, concluding that the Mark is disparaging to American Muslims.

Robert Muise, AFLC Co-Founder and Senior Counsel, commented: “There is no doubt that the TTAB used legally and factually unfounded „evidence‟ to support its position that „Islamisation‟ means all things Islamic. By doing so, the TTAB ignored the overwhelming evidence that the only public use of„ Islamisation‟ is as a description of an Islamist political agenda to replace secular democracy with Islamic religious law.”

As argued in AFLC‟s brief:
Appellants [Geller and Spencer] are sympathetic to the USPTO’s politically correct sensitivities enticing it to protect Muslims and indeed Islam itself from even the slightest hint of disparagement in the form of public criticism, especially in the post-9/11 age with global terrorism conducted daily in the name of Islam and the Arab Spring featuring the Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamisation program for Egypt and elsewhere melting into murder and mayhem. The problem with these sensitivities as applied to the denial of Appellants’ Mark is that the USPTO’s beef is not with Appellants or their Mark, but rather with terrorists who claim to speak in the name of all of Islam and all Muslims. Appellants’ Mark does not. “Stop the Islamisation of America” has a specific meaning that Muslims and non- Muslims in America and indeed throughout the West embrace if they treasure liberty and religious freedom for all. In a zeal to take on the role of parens patriae and to protect Muslims from every insult, the USPTO and the TTAB have both ignored the factual record and have simply assumed meanings and understandings of the terms of the Mark that have no factual or evidentiary basis. There is no substantial evidence to support the TTAB’s Decision or the USPTO’s denial of the Mark.

As such, Appellants ask this Court to find that the USPTO’s denial of Appellants’ Mark lacks the requisite evidentiary basis and order the USPTO to register the Mark forthwith.

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Amerisrael
Amerisrael
10 years ago

Like Nevile Chamberlain appeasing rather than resisting and confronting.

Michael Teuber
Michael Teuber
10 years ago

At least Neville Chamberlain never sent Scotland Yard to prosecute those who ‘defamed’ National Socialism for ‘hate speech’.

RCCA
RCCA
10 years ago

Great and extraordinary work by AFDI and AFLC to expose the essential question, what is Islamisation? Shall we compromise our values for the sake of goodwill towards people who do not share our core values of liberty and equality under the law? No.
‘Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Qur’an should be the highest authority in America.’ – Omar Ahmed, CAIR
FRANCE: 54% OF FRENCH PEOPLE BELIEVE “TOO MUCH LIBERTY” HAS BEEN GIVEN TO MUSLIMS IN THEIR COUNTRY http://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/france-54-of-french-people-believe-too-much-liberty-has-been-given-to-muslims-in-their-country/

wtd
wtd
10 years ago

OT: Creeping Islamization – Australia’s Q Society presents and excellent 33 minute long PSA
Shariah Compliant Trillion Dollar Extortion Racket: Halal Certification impacts every purchase made without checking for this hidden tax. Halal certification fees are NOT limited to slaughter house transactions. Beverages, dairy even cosmetics incur this hidden tax. Even the transport from mfg. to warehouse to distributor to sales counter have this hidden tax imposed on them lest the next location loose their halal certification! Quoting Q Society:

Please note this is not about halal food. Q Society’s spokesman Andrew Horwood points out: “Halal food itself is not of concern. Nearly all our food is naturally permissible to Muslims and observant Muslims can make food of unknown origin halal by proclaiming ‘bismillah’ over the food before eating.*
What is of concern are the recently invented certification schemes, designed to permeate the supply chain from feeding trough to super market shelves and restaurant kitchens; including many non-food goods and services.
According to meat industry groups and research, two thirds of chicken and lamb meat and over half the beef sold in Australia now comes from Halal-certified suppliers. Most dairy products as well as other food and many non-food items are certified to sharia standards, but not always labelled.
Islamic organizations have estimated the value of the global halal certification market at USD 2.3 trillion in 2013, growing by 20% per year. No other religious group has imposed a similar tax-like scheme on the general public.

Sofus
Sofus
10 years ago

Religion is good for us?? Biggest crime syndicate in the world. Get a life.!!

KLKL
KLKL
10 years ago

thank you Geller and Spencer for all you do! it takes great courage to speak the turht in these days. we have few like you in our day.

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