Jihad Awareness Project

Have you called a public official (here) and

1. Asked him or her to prosecute Younus Abullah Muhammad and Yousef Al-Khattab for the recent death threats that made Comedy Central censor the South Park television show? And

2. Have you asked the public official to place an image of Muhammad in his/her office in solidarity with Comedy Central and the right to freedom of speech?

Please leave a comment at the bottom of this post. Tell us

A. the date you called the official;

B. the person you called and the person you actually got to speak to (if the official was not available, remember to ask the name of the staff person who takes your call and speaks with you);

C. whether you communicated messages #1 and #2 above.

When you call, I would avoid trying to teach the official about Islam; politely and concisely deliver messages #1 and #2 above.

Thanks!

Are you interested in participating in the Jihad Awareness Project (to mail Spencer's new book to the U.S. Senate and Congress) that I've mentioned in the comments threads at Jihadwatch.com and other sites? If you are, send an email to me at traehnam[at]yahoo.com under the subject heading "Senate", and in the email tell me what state your senator represents, an email address where I can reach you, and a nickname. No need for your real name. And I'll never share your email address with anyone, not even with other volunteers on this project.

Once we have volunteers to cover all 100 senators (and many representatives), we can coordinate our timing so we all mail Robert Spencer's new book to Congress simultaneously.

You can volunteer even if we already have two volunteers for your state, because then we can begin to cover not only the Senate, but the House of Representatives also. For example, we currently have eight volunteers from Florida. The more the merrier.

To easily find the names and addresses of your congresspersons, click on this link.

By the way, a volunteer from the state of Indiana was able to sign up to send a book because of generous help from Gabrielle, of Australia. Thank you, Gabrielle!

And another volunteer from Florida will have the book in time to send because of the generosity of Ian, also from Australia. Thank you Ian! Way to go Australia!

And Ken, of Texas, is not only participating himself, but has also made it possible for a worthy college student to join us. Thanks Ken!

And a foreigner whose nation shall remain unnamed has been very generous in donating two copies of the DVD: "Islam: What the West Needs To Know," so that two budget-strapped volunteers will be able to include it with the book. Thank you JK!!! (Many volunteers will be including that powerful DVD in their packages to Congress.)

Here's the current list of sign-ups as of 3:30 PM, Saturday, October 27.

1. Richard/Florida       2. Brian/S.Carolina
3. Chris/Missouri        4. Jake/Oregon
5. Jan/Pennsylvania      6. Frank/California
7. Maya/California       8. Anthony/New York
9. Traeh/New York        10.Lane/Virginia
11.Tim/Virginia          12.Lisa/Minnesota
13.Taylor/Kentucky       14.JR/Texas
15.Cindy/Florida         16.Caroline/N.Carolina
17.Kevin/Alaska          18.Chuck/Florida
19.Mo/Illinois           20.Ken/Arizona
21.Derbydaze/Texas       22.Miss_Anthrope/Virginia
23.Cassandra/California  24.Sydney/Maryland
25.Bern/Pennsylvania     26.Bob/California
27.Clayton/Indiana       28.Elizabeth/Florida
29.Dar Al-Harb/Illinois  30.Dorothy/N.Carolina
31.Rod/New Hampshire     32.Beth/California
33.Mac/Maryland          34.Stendec/Arkansas
35.atheling/Washngtn.St. 36.Eric/Florida
37.butterfly/Texas       38.timmyosmith/Wisconsin
39.Wendy/Florida         40.Todd/Colorado
41.Nate/Idaho            42.Paula/Nevada
43.RVWinkle/N.Carolina   44.Heidi/Massachusetts
45.Mary Beth/Virginia    46.SororRRA/California
47.Margy/New Mexico      48.Ernie/Georgia
49.Karla/Florida         50.Joseph/New York
51.Lee/Iowa              52.Kate/Maine
53.Islamosavant/New York 54.Lyone/Ohio
55.Ken/Tennessee         56.Pat/New Jersey
57.Andrew/New York       58.Larry/Missouri
59.NathanBrazil/Nebraska 60.Smoke/N.Carolina
61.Darth Vader/Colorado  62.Peg/Rhode Island
63.Linda/Indiana         64.TexasMom/Texas
65.Pat/New Hampshire     66.Docgary/New Jersey
67.Christy/Michigan      68.Nyssa/Oregon
69.Terise/Florida        70.Anyhoo/Alabama
71.Mott/North Carolina   72.Brad/Illinois
73.Rick/Texas            74.Kaelin77/California
75.John/North Carolina   76.GG/Utah
77.Ms.AnthCous/Oklahoma  78.CA/Pennsylvania
79.John/Louisiana        80.LB/Texas
81.GM/Pennsylvania       82.aitusa/Nevada
83.Russ/Alaska           84.Katherine/Texas
85.Ally/Ohio             86.Lou/Ohio
87.Daniel/New York       88.Dennis/Kansas
89.NxNW/Washington St.   90.Annie/Hawaii
91.Susan/Georgia         92.Susan/Wyoming
93.Blue/Oklahoma         94.Zack/Missouri
95.ChristyFrnd/Michigan  96.Blitz/Massachusetts
97.Mac/New Jersey        98.Bob/Massachusetts
99.Claire/New York       100.Bob'sWife/Mass.
101.JoeSchmoe/New York   102.Ken/Texas
103.Drew/California      104.Kathleen/Montana
105.Diane/Virginia       106.Chris/Tennessee
107.ClaireBro/Connecticut108.Margaret/California
109.Paul/Arizona         110.Zee/Ohio
111.Peter/New Mexico     112.Geoffrey/West Virginia
113.Michael/Mississippi  114.Eric/Arkansas

Earlier I had people leaving their email addresses in the public comments thread for this post, but one commenter to whom I'm thankful pointed out that wasn't optimal from a privacy standpoint. So that's why I'm now asking people to email me at traehnam[at]yahoo.com instead. I've now deleted any public comments that contained email addresses. To those of you whose comments were deleted: I did record in a "secure, undisclosed location" your email addresses and other data, so you need not send them to me again.

Another commenter to whom I'm thankful suggested I should reassure potential volunteers that I will never send out a group email reply unless I'm certain I can do that without revealing the roster of email addresses to the group. So let me be clear: if you get an email reply from me, the only email address you'll see will be mine. The only way other volunteers on this project will know your email address is if you give it to them.

Thanks, all.