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| 2009-10-30 |
| by Robert Spencer Luqman Ameen Abdullah, the imam of Detroit’s Masjid Al-Haqq (Mosque of Truth), was killed Wednesday in a shootout with FBI agents. The agents were trying to arrest him on charges of conspiracy, receipt of stolen goods, firearms offenses and more. Agents also arrested eight mosque members; then Thursday, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police caught Abdullah’s son, Mujahid Carswell. Two other accused jihadists also fled, and have not yet been found. According to the indictment, in his mosque in Detroit Luqman Abdullah was preaching “offensive jihad” and the establishment of a Sharia state in North America. This sovereign Isamic state would be ruled by Islamic law – and by the apparent godfather of Abdullah’s movement, Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin. Al-Amin is the former Black Panther and convert to Islam who gained fame under the name H. Rap Brown. Al-Amin is now serving a life sentence for murdering two police officers, while his disciples, like Luqman Abdullah, carry on the message he articulated so memorably in the 1960s: “If America don’t come around, we’re gonna burn it down.” In the spirit of his mentor, Abdullah has told his flock: “America must fall.” He has encouraged the Muslims in his mosque to support Hizballah, the Taliban and Osama bin Laden. He exhorted them to bestir themselves to pious deeds: “We should be figuring out how to fight the Kuffar” – that is, unbelievers. “We got to take out the U.S. government. The U.S. government is nothing but Kuffars.” Among the unbelievers were FBI agents, about whom Abdullah declared: “Deal with them, deal with them the way, the way they supposed to be dealt with…. It’s not that complicated, man….If they are coming to get me I’ll just strap a bomb on and blow up everybody.” A law enforcement official wrote in an affidavit that “Abdullah and his followers have trained regularly in the use of firearms, and continue to train in martial arts and sword fighting” – in accord with Abdullah’s dictum that every Muslim believer should “have a weapon and should not be scared to use their weapon when needed.” Abdullah found justification for all this in the Islamic holy book, the Qur’an, which he said “justified stealing, robbing and other illegal acts, as long as they profit Islam.” One would think that Muslim spokesmen in America would be anxious to prove their moderate bona fides by repudiating Abdullah, praising the efforts of law enforcement officials, and announcing new measures to teach against the understanding of Islam that prevailed at the Masjid al-Haqq and to shore up the moderate Islam that politically correct orthodoxy insists prevails in all mosques in America in the first place. But no such luck. Instead, they praised Abdullah and excoriated law enforcement. Rest at link |
| Posted by:ed |
| #10 ION REDDIT > MUSLIMS MARCH FOR FULL ISLAMIC LAW IN BRITAIN. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-10-30 22:33 |
| #9 "We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of black people" The normal people out here want an immediate end to the brutality to and murder of black people BY OTHER BLACK PEOPLE. Too bad you don't, Rap. Idiot. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-10-30 15:53 |
| #8 two of its members were convicted of illegally shipping more than 900 firearms to groups in Detroit and Philadelphia So where do these firearms come from? I or anyone else I know would have difficulty purchasing 900 firearms. A FFL wouldn't allow me to purchase this many firearms without a lot of scrutiny. This most likely means a lot of people stole a lot of firearms from a lot of places. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2009-10-30 14:55 |
| #7 3. We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of black people, other people of color, and all oppressed people inside the United States. Chicago teenager, Derrion Albert, could not be reached for comment. |
| Posted by: Woozle Uneter9007 2009-10-30 13:39 |
| #6 Abdullah found justification for all this in the Islamic holy book, the Qur'an, which he said "justified stealing, robbing and other illegal acts, as long as they profit Islam." Abdullah openly says that the Qur'an is a crook book justifying any criminal activity. Wow! I appreciate his honesty. |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2009-10-30 12:31 |
| #5 A former Black Panther What became standard Black Panther discourse emerged from a long history of urban activism, social criticism and political struggle by African Americans. “As inheritors of the discipline, pride, and calm self-assurance preached by Malcolm X, the panthers became national heroes in African American communities by infusing abstract nationalism with street toughness-by joining the rhythms of black working-class youth culture to the interracial élan and effervescence of Bay Area New Left politics. Their agenda was defined as a 10 Point Program: The Ten Point Program The Ten Point Program was as follows: 1. We want power to determine the destiny of our black and oppressed communities' education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present day society. 2. We want completely free health care for all black and oppressed people. 3. We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of black people, other people of color, and all oppressed people inside the United States. 5. We want an immediate end to all wars of aggression. 6. We want full employment for our people. We want an end to the robbery by the capitalists of our Black Community. 7. We want decent housing, fit for the shelter of human beings. 8. We want decent education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. 9. We want freedom for all black and oppressed people now held in U. S. Federal, state, county, city and military prisons and jails. We want trials by a jury of peers for all persons charged with so-called crimes under the laws of this country. 10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, peace and people's community control of modern technology. No "former" about it. This sounds like the agenda coming out of the WH! |
| Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-10-30 11:22 |
| #4 This sovereign Isamic state would be ruled by Islamic law – and by the apparent godfather of Abdullah’s movement, Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin. Al-Amin is the former Black Panther and convert to Islam who gained fame under the name H. Rap Brown From Daniel Pipes: H. Rap Brown is a famous black nationalist and the self-styled namesake of "rap" music...His 1971 conversion came at the hands of Dar-ul-Islam, a Sunni organization of African-Americans. He went on pilgrimage to Mecca following his release in 1976, then settled in Atlanta, where he soon founded the Community Mosque. By 1980, Al-Amin had become spiritual leader-imam-of over thirty Islamic centers belonging to the Dar-ul-Islam "national community." Estimates of its total membership have run as high as 10,000. The Islam that Al-Amin adopted is - no surprise - the radical variety. The transition was easy from the hate-America sentiments he had espoused as a black nationalist in the 1960s. "When we begin to look critically at the Constitution of the United States," he wrote in a 1994 book Revolution by the Book (The Rap is Live), "we see that in its main essence it is diametrically opposed to what Allah has commanded." He chastises American blacks for being too integrated into their country's life: "The problem with African-Americans is that they are so American," he wrote. Men who belong to Al-Amin's Atlanta mosque wear either Islamic-style skullcaps and long robes or black-nationalist combat boots and fatigues. In 1995, two of its members were convicted of illegally shipping more than 900 firearms to groups in Detroit and Philadelphia, and to an Islamic gang linked to Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind sheikh of New York. One young convert at Al-Amin's mosque subsequently joined Islamic separatists in Kashmir, where he was killed attacking an Indian army post. Al-Amin has never been shy about invoking Islam in his struggle against white "ameriKKKa." Indeed, he falls into the usual trap of the extremist, mirror-imaging - he assumes that the U.S. government reciprocates his own fear and hate. "Islam is under attack on a global scale by those who wish to control the world" he wrote after his 1995 arrest. "The charges leveled against me are in direct relationship to the success that Islam has experienced in our immediate area. My persecution by the U.S. government is nothing new." Al-Amin went on to call the United States a country "where Islam is under attack." Similarly, his first words in an Alabama courtroom, explaining his arrest in 2000 were: "It's a government conspiracy." His habeas corpus petition elaborated on this claim, stating that law enforcement authorities and organized crime "want him dead," and had joined forces to frame him for Kinchen's murder. "This matter is not just about me." he wrote in a letter that was later published. "It is about Islam and the entire Muslim Ummah. There is a pre-meditated conspiracy to destroy Islamic leadership. When the truth is established, the disbelievers will start to do things." One might think, given his record and his wild-eyed views, that Al-Amin would be shunned by America's Islamic establishment. Just the opposite. He has been celebrated by Council on American-Islamic Relations for - of all things - his "moral character." A coalition of Islamic organizations in 1995 called him one of the "leading figures" of American Islam. Al-Amin has been a sought-after speaker on the Islamist circuit, addressing meetings of CAIR, the Islamic Society of North America and the Islamic Committee for Palestine. He has held starring roles at major Muslim rallies, including the Bosnia Task Force USA rally outside the United Nations in New York in October 1995, where an audience of 18,000 heard him condemn the world body for its "betrayal" of Muslims in Bosnia. Revolution by the Book garnered rave reviews in the Islamic press. "Clear, sharp, focused, alert, lively, snappy; eminently reasonable and accessible to one and all," read one assessment, which called it "a classic of its genre." |
| Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-10-30 11:08 |
| #3 Detroit is the new Fallujah. Bulldoze it and start over. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2009-10-30 10:54 |
| #2 Oh wait a sec…what they could be saying is, it's “offensive jihad” and not the garden variety “defensive jihad”…my bad. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2009-10-30 10:53 |
| #1 ‘According to the indictment, in his mosque in Detroit Luqman Abdullah was preaching "offensive jihad"…’ As opposed to that first-rate “inoffensive jihad” we hear so much about. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2009-10-30 10:45 |