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2007-01-17 Home Front: Culture Wars

As NYC's Muslim population grows, imams become hot property

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Posted by ryuge 2007-01-17 07:13|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Rimawi pointed to incidents such as the removal before Thanksgiving of six imams from a commercial flight in Minneapolis. The imams had prayed at the gate before boarding, and other passengers asked authorities to remove them from the plane, concerned the imams were preparing for a terrorist attack.

Why can't any reporter get this story right? Is it intentional, laziness, or gullibility?

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-01-17 07:38|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-01-17 07:38|| Front Page Top

#2 I'd like to see them get a LOT hotter.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-01-17 07:58|| 2007-01-17 07:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Islamic Circle of North America:
ICNA has established a reputation for bringing anti-American radicals to speak at its annual conferences. Moreover, experts have long documented the organization's ties to Islamic terrorist groups. Yehudit Barsky, a terrorism expert at the American Jewish Committee, has said that ICNA "is composed of members of Jamaat e-Islami, a Pakistani Islamic radical organization similar to the Muslim Brotherhood that helped to establish the Taliban." (Pakistani newspapers have reported that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a leading architect of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, was offered refuge in the home of Jamaat e-Islami's leader, Ahmed Quddoos.) On September 27, 1997, another Pakistani Islamist leader, Maulana Shafayat Mohamed, played host to an ICNA conference at his Florida-based fundamentalist madrassa (religious school), which served as a recruitment center for Taliban fighters.

In 2000, CNSNews.com made public a press release, originally posted on a Middle Eastern website, from a July 2000 ICNA meeting, which read: "Jamaat e-Islami's supporters have an organization in America known as ICNA " The press release also recounted some of the views expressed at the aforementioned ICNA meeting. These included an exhortation that "Islam must be translated into political dominance"; pleas for support for "jihad" in "Chechnya, Kashmir, Palestine, Iraq [against U.S. forces], southern Sudan, and in Bosnia/Kosova [sic]"; an appeal for unity among Pakistani Muslims against "Hindu Brahmins and Zionist Jews"; and an endorsement of Muslim women's inclusion in carrying out jihad. One Islamic leader present at the ICNA event complained about "human rights violations" being carried out by the U.S. government against the terrorist mastermind Omar Abdel Rahman, spiritual leader of Egypt's Islamic Group.

In part because of such revelations, ICNA is now under investigation by U.S. authorities for possible connections to terrorist groups. In December 2003, the U.S. Senate Finance Committee requested that the Internal Revenue Service provide detailed information on 25 U.S. Muslim organizations, including ICNA.

Fucking reporters too stupid to use google.

Posted by ed 2007-01-17 08:50|| 2007-01-17 08:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Jamaica Muslim Center:
The Islamic Thinkers Society, aka the Intellectual Thinkers Society, is the new face of Al Muhajiroun in the United States. The proof that they are not a fringe organisation can be seen in a list on their website which shows them as organisers of a demonstration in front of the Danish Embassy in New York. Demonstrators carried signs with texts such as "Allah's wrath is on the way".
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The Islamic Thinkers Society is closely tied to the Islamic Circle of North America which operates out of Jamaica, Queens. ICNA's Young Muslim Society is tied to the Islamic Thinkers. The Muslim American Society merged with ICNA in 2002.

Posted by ed 2007-01-17 09:02|| 2007-01-17 09:02|| Front Page Top

#5 ICNA's Young Muslim Society:
The Young Muslims (YM) was founded well over a decade ago, as a subsidiary of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), an organization that was created specifically to emulate the violent Muslim Brotherhood of Pakistan, Jamaat-e-Islami. Through ICNA, YM holds events that feature as speakers some of the most radical individuals in the Islamic community. These events include youth camps, which, prior to the attacks on 9/11, were referred to as jihad camps.

Posted by ed 2007-01-17 09:03|| 2007-01-17 09:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Mosques and Imans=HATRED!!!!

Posted by Ebbolump Glomotle9608 2007-01-17 12:17|| 2007-01-17 12:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Excellent work, ed. Interesting that none of the most pertinent facts are even hinted at in the article, isn't it?

Posted by ryuge 2007-01-17 16:41|| 2007-01-17 16:41|| Front Page Top

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