Guest Commentary 5

THE DISCOUNT MATS WAR

...or the WARCHICK and the Peon

©2007  Resa LaRu Kirkland

At requests of several readers, I am listing all of the information regarding this Islamic-owned company and their treatment of our American warrior.  I am also including the information that would indicate that this is the tip of the iceberg—as you will see, this seems to be a network of business fronts.  Now why would they do that?  You’ll see as you read…

Here is the original email I sent on January 18, 2007 to one Faisal Khetani, owner and the only contact listed for www.discount-mats.com:

Dear Mr. Khetani,

I was recently forwarded the following exchange between one of our American Warriors and your company:

To Whom it may concern:

Do you ship to APO addresses? I'm in the 1st Cavalry Division stationed in Iraq and we are trying to order some mats but we are looking for who ships to APO first.

SGT Hess

Subject: Re: Feedback: from discount-mats.com

SGT Hess,

We do not ship to APO addresses, and even if we did, we would NEVER ship to Iraq . If you were sensible, you and your troops would pull out of Iraq .

Bargain Suppliers
Discount-Mats.com
 

I would appreciate it if you would respond to this, as I cannot get through on your phone number.  You have turned on the answering machine.  I will follow this up on my radio show and articles I write, and I know my readers will want to know what you intend to do about this horrific and vile response to one of our beloved Warriors.

I am also BCC this to everyone on my list, so take that into consideration when you answer.

Discount Mats contact info:

Please pass this along.

Registrant:
Faisal Khetani
PO Box 270693
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53227
United States

Registered through: Teknon Domains
Domain Name: DISCOUNT-MATS.COM
Created on: 23-Mar-05
Expires on: 23-Mar-08
Last Updated on: 03-Mar-06

Administrative Contact:
Khetani, Faisal sportsfitness@gmail.com
3259 S.106th Street
West Allis, Wisconsin 53227
United States
(414) 543-9634

Technical Contact:
Khetani, Faisal sportsfitness@gmail.com
3259 S.106th Street
West Allis, Wisconsin 53227
United States
(414) 543-9634


this is a wisconson based company
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SO SAYS WARCHICK, Resa LaRu Kirkland
Columnist/Writer/Speaker/Military Historian/The Anti-Feminist!
Agree with RESA at:  http://www.warchick.com
Hippies, commies, and femmies opinions altered here!!
STAND WITH ISRAEL !  FREE NORTH KOREA !!
POW/MIA:  Bring them home or send us back!

Here is his reply, received January 22, 2007 :

Resa,

FOX News came to me personally and locally to do the story with me and that is why I responded to them. You have to realize that I started receiving thousands of emails less than 12 hours after this news was made public. I couldnt respond to hundreds of phone calls or thousands of emails... As you can see the discount-mats.com site has been taken down due to the overwhelming traffic and emails

As for the "Administrative", "Technical" and "Billing" contact, yes I am solely listed because this domain was registered almost two years ago with the option of "filling all contacts as same"... I did not go out of my way to list the same information under each section but rather I chose the default option of filling in the all fields automatically

I had a member of my company publicly speak to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel so there is documented proof that I have additional members. I also had a previous employee for this store who managed operations for me. Moreover my local mosques can easily testify that I have additional members within my company. 

After seeing the life-threatening voicemails I received I do not prefer to disclose the identity of this individual, because unlike yourself, I don't think its right to expose a person publicly to the point where there life is threatened

I am a Muslim and I certainly don't appreciate you directly insulting me and my religion with foul names and accusations. I will be sure to forward this to all the major muslim organizations around the nation and you may have your support and your listeners, but you can be sure that there are million of muslim activists as well that will do something about your foul statements.

As I told my local reporters, the individual who made those statements has been held responsible and liable and what they spoke of apo addresses is absolutely true, but the second half was their own personal opinion and not the opinions of the company. Once again I re-iterate the fact that I already had one member speak publicly to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel so you are refuted in this issue.

I will say this, my company most certainly doesn't support the war, and we do hope that the policies will change. However the personal opinions stated by the former member of Discount-Mats.com were very strong and personal and other members within our company certainly feel that his actions were not justified.

I dont care to address this issue any further with you except that your statements against Muslims and your direct insults will not go unheard, I assure you.

Thank you

Faisal R. Khetani

My response, January 23, 2007 :

Dear Mr. Khetani,

Thank you for answering me.  That showed integrity.

I still believe that you are the one who gave that answer.  But even if you aren't, you had to see this coming since you boldly proclaim your opposition to the war in Iraq publicly and through your business.  Your "employee" was merely passing along the apparent sentiment of the company and its owner, something that was inevitable.

My readers/listeners are dying to know something, Mr. Khetani.  Why do you choose to live in a nation that is founded on Judeo/Christian beliefs, and that believes in the right to choose whatever religion.you wish to choose?  We believe in a woman's right to dress however she wants and say whatevere she wants.  All of these things--freedom of religion, speech, and women--are in direct violation to the beliefs of Islam.  My readers and I would NEVER choose to live in a nation that despised and oppressed our religion; why do you choose to live in a land whose foundation beliefs are the exact opposite of your own?  It is a valid question, and one that all Americans want to ask, but that the Hippy Press is too gutless to address.

No matter what messages you see within the three commonalities of education, media, and Hollywood , Americans do NOT support Islam, we DO support Christians and Jews, and we will NEVER become shariah.  We will never hand over our free will, given to man by God, NOT man, even if it means fighting in order to keep them.  Islam has a bad rep here, sir, and it is not because we are racist or Islamophobes; it is because yours is the only religion that believes in hacking off heads, strapping bombs to brainwashed men and women, and wiping Israel off the map.  No other religion is so blood-soaked and vicious, so backward and medeival, and it is the exact opposite of our foundation beliefs in this land.

The question is valid, sir:  Why?
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SO SAYS WARCHICK, Resa LaRu Kirkland
Columnist/Writer/Speaker/Military Historian/The Anti-Feminist!
Agree with RESA at:  http://www.warchick.com
Hippies, commies, and femmies opinions altered here!!
STAND WITH ISRAEL !  FREE NORTH KOREA !!
POW/MIA:  Bring them home or send us back!

And his, sent January 23, 2007 :

Resa,

I neither have the time nor the space to discuss Islam with you and I know that you are not the least bit interested...

I will say this. The political situation in the middle east and the Muslim nations is not what Islam condones at all. Our history has been been rich over the past thousand years where a lot of prosperity took place, where lands open-handedly invited us, and where the Jews and Christians lived in peace even when the Christian lands were not willing to offer the same.

The political situation of the leaders is downright un-islamic and many of them claim it themselves. They do not believe in Shariah and many of them openly claim communism and dictatorship. Even the ones that claim Shariah are not following it at all, as agreed upon by the scholars of Islam.

You have to realize who broke up the Islamic Caliphate and why they did it, causing dissension and separation for their own motives (The British). Ever since then the Muslim world has been in a state of turmoil but we are working hard to restore the image of Islam and the correct practices as peacefully as possible. There are million of Muslims and thousands of Muslim scholars who don't agree with fundamentalist/terrorist views. Believe it or not many of these scholars are in Saudi Arabia , Egypt , and Libya .

Other than that, I as well pay taxes, stay free of committing crimes, and treat my neighbors with respect. As far as I see I have the right to be here because I pay to be here just like everyone else and so does my family. We do not committ crimes or injustices against anyone.

Faisal Khetani

Uh-huh……

This story really heated up when Rush Limbaugh and Fox News began covering it.  But it was WARCHICK REVOLUTION and the FREEDOM FIGHTER SHOW that pursued this to the point of veiled threats as posted above.

Then this story of a snotty allah-lover took a weird turn.  Take a look at what my favorite artist Jeff Holland sent me.  This website dug up some interesting stuff on Mr. Khetani.  As I reviewed I had a nasty little feeling, and asked my husband—who has a degree in Finance—why these people would be setting up front businesses.  He said 5 words:  money laundering and money funneling.  Apparently Mr. Khetani can get other Muslims to “purchase” his items from his phony business and then funnel the money to—hmm…shall we guess?—without a lot of embarrassing questions.  See, if he was handling all of that money without a business or businesses, it would raise suspicion.  But if he and his “associates” are exchanging money back and forth through their sham businesses…do I really need to spell it out?

Read for yourself:

The Khetani Family

• Faisal Khetani is 24 years old and lives with his parents, Ramzan and Amina Khetani, in West Allis. He operates his business out of their home.

• Ramzan Khetani, age 55, is an engineer who works in the engineering department for Wisconsin’s state facilities. As such, he has ready access to building blueprints and site plans. Ramzan formerly operated a home-based business under the name Khetani Consulting Group, which he had established in 1999 and dissolved in March 2006.

• Amina Khetani, age 55, is a data architect in the information technology industry.

• Salman Ramzan Ali Khetani is Faisal’s older brother. He holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering, and received a fellowship award from National Science Foundation (confirms the connection to Faisal - home address is the same). When you do a keyword search for Salman R Khetani, you’ll find that Salman Khetani is quite knowledgeable and involved in toxicity studies, engineered tissue, and disease studies.

Faisal Khetani has claimed that he “fired” the unnamed employee who sent the original rude email to SGT Hess, since the email didn’t reflect the company’s position. Then, he contradicted himself and confirmed that the company was indeed anti-war:

“As I told my local reporters, the individual who made those statements has been held responsible and liable and what they spoke of apo addresses is absolutely true, but the second half was their own personal opinion and not the opinions of the company.”

“I will say this, my company most certainly doesn’t support the war, and we do hope that the policies will change.”

Faisal has claimed to the media that Discount-Mats has ten employees - and they’ve accepted his claim at face value. They’ve also reported that the unnamed employee was fired, without verifying if there was an employee. Considering the business is operated from his parents’ home, it is highly doubtful that there is an “employee”, and it’s likely that the email was from Faisal himself. There are no businesses with the name Discount Mats or Bargain Suppliers (or any variation thereof) registered in the state of Wisconsin. A search of the worker’s compensation database shows no company by those names either. It is not a legitimate business, nor does it have employees. Faisal Khetani is not telling the truth - that makes him suspect.

In that same letter, Khetani also threatened Kirkland with unleashing the wrath of “major muslim organizations” on her for her “insults”. He closed by telling Kirkland, “you can be sure that there are million of muslim activists as well that will do something about your foul statements…. your statements against Muslims and your direct insults will not go unheard, I assure you.”

Perhaps one of those major Muslim organization is the Muslim Student Association (MSA), with which the Discount-Mats “VP” is affiliated. No doubt CAIR will get involved, by default.

Khetani Associates

• Sajid Nasir is the vice-president and self-described co-owner of Discount-Mats. He has issued some strong statements alleging that the Khetani family is being harassed by vulgar and angry phone calls. Sajid is also a Muslim activist on the UW-Milwaukee campus (See Update Ten for more details on his activism.).

• Ahmed Bushra, 24, is an engineering student. He claims he worked at, and managed, a North Shore jewelry store in Milwaukee.

Possible peripheral contacts, based upon association with Sajid Nasir:

• Furqan Hanif (replacement registrant for Sajid’s website)

• Adam Abdi (Muslim activist at UW-Milwaukee)

Bogus Websites

There is an ever-increasing network of Muslim-owned websites that share the same characteristics:

1. Owned by Muslim men in their mid-20s, who live in the Milwaukee area.
2. Inter-connected and inter-linked to one another.
3. Four sites share a Paypal account under the name “Bargain Suppliers” (WLWR, BDP, QDS, DM)
4. Share same website template.
5. Identical configuration.

• generic junk content

• junk resources and links

• basic contact form (email address and message only - for discreet online communication?)

• email subscription form

• many empty pages/dead links

• set-up and abandoned blog sites

6. Jan 24 07: all sites changed WhoIS registry to anonymous registrant (with the exception of Discount-Mats and Quality-Discount-Scooters).

• Faisal Khetani owns several wildly divergent business websites:

Faisal Khetani, in addition to owning Discount-Mats.com, is also a supposed fitness expert/consultant: Weight Lifting Workout Routines (WLWR).

• He also owns Chicago Plumbing Guide, registered under the name Salman Farsi, but the same P.O. address in Milwaukee as Faisal’s other domains. This website links Faisal to the plumbing industry. (Note: What’s interesting about the choice of Salman Farsi as the registrant is that Farsi was the first Persian convert to Islam, and is credited for transcribing much of the Quran. However, I cannot find a live person by that name anywhere in Wisconsin, though there are plenty of buildings named after him. Conclusion? Alias.)

In addition to selling discount mats, writing weight-lifting, fat-burning and basketball drills articles, and plumbing in Chicago, Faisal, at 24, is also a self-proclaimed e-commerce expert, an online scam network marketer, and a real estate tycoon with an eye toward importing “high-volume quantities”, specifically wrist watches. Capital Renovations is a registered LLC in the state of Wisconsin. He is a very busy young man.

Sajid Nasir owns several junk info websites:

Basketball Drills and Plays. This site was registered to Sajid, but changed today to reflect a new registrant: Furqan Hanif in Springfield, IL. But they neglected to change to contact phone number - it’s still the same. Faisal is also connected to this website.

My Kitchen Backsplash. This article links him to this website, though the WhoIs record was modified today as well. This and this also link Faisal Khetani to Sajid’s website.

Yoga-Advice. Though the WhoIs registry was changed, this yoga registry, listing Sajid’s website and home address, was not.

·  Ahmed Bushra, 24, also owns several bogus websites:

Quality Discount Scooters. Shares a Paypal account with Discount-Mats.

Jewelry Spot.

Conclusion

It is my considered opinion that the intricate network of websites I listed is a facade - a front, if you will - for something other than selling “bargain supplies.” Anyone looking at the websites can see that they are not legitimate businesses. I think the anomalies I’ve summarized here, and the Muslims involved, require further investigation.

Furthermore, the Khetani family is highly qualified in some very technical and unusual fields, with an extraordinary amount of access to sensitive information. It would be worth checking to see what their affiliations are, if their mosque is radicalized, and who their contacts are.

This network of Muslim individuals was brought to public attention because of one Muslim’s outrageous response to a simple inquiry by one of our soldiers. It would be the height of irony if nefarious purposes were exposed because he couldn’t refrain from announcing his anti-American sentiments to an American soldier.

Hmmmm…hey Scooby (FBI) and Shaggy (Homeland Security), where are you?  Grab the mystery van…we have ghosts to unmask!

Any bets the Feds had no idea about these guys until bloggers did their work for them?  Just like my source Mike told me—if you want it done right, for God’s sake,  don’t involve government offices!

Mr. Khetani, you have ‘splainin’ to do.