Muslim “Mark Zuckerberg” conned Cali investor out of $1M

via Con man exposed after Justin Bieber ruse – CNN.com.

(CNN) — Waleed Ahmed grins for the camera, a sly smile on his face as he poses in front of a black Porsche parked on the street.

At first glance, he looks like any other young guy hamming it up for an image to share with his buddies on Facebook.

Yet looks can be deceiving.

The Norwegian gained fame and fortune in his 20s — enough to own that shiny, black Porsche in the photo — after supposedly inventing an iPhone cover that uses solar energy to charge the phone.

Norway’s media dubbed him the “Mark Zuckerberg of Norway,” and the government even posted a video on its website of Ahmed and his then-business partner meeting with Norway’s minister of trade and industry to show off the solar iPhone case.

Ahmed’s fame led to numerous encounters with international royalty and well-known diginitaries, including the crown prince and princess of Norway, former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young and CNN founder Ted Turner.

Ahmed apparently wasn’t just an innovative genius: He said he had been selected to be the chairman of Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign in Norway.

So, when Ahmed approached California investor Todd Weinberg last summer about his latest business proposition — managing Justin Bieber’s 2013 Scandinavian tour — it didn’t seem like a stretch that the young genius could secure the rights to the pop star’s multimillion-dollar tour.

But the business deal between Ahmed and Weinberg would go terribly wrong. In the end, it would uncover a story that reads like the plot of a Hollywood movie.

Weinberg said he paid $860,000 to Ahmed to secure the concert venues and $140,000 to Karmic Management to get a website created and for other parts of the deal.

“After I invested the money, there was a lot of friendly collaborations happening,” Weinberg said. “A lot of e-mails coming back and forth. Waleed was very involved and we started talking about who our ticketing agency was going to be, which was an organization that everyone has heard of. … We hired a company to start developing a website for the Scandinavian leg of the tour.”

But it wasn’t long before, as Weinberg put it, “a couple of things went off track.”

First, Weinberg said he started getting nervous when Ahmed “went off the radar” for 10 days.

“Well, you can imagine after 10 days, we are freaking out,” Weinberg said. “Something is not right. Well, he surfaces and tells us, ‘I’m sorry, you know, I was basically out for a Muslim holiday. I was out for Ramadan, and I’m sorry, but I am back. Let’s go.’ “

California mass shooter who killed 6 was…Muslim

The death toll of the shooting rampage in Santa Monica rose to six Sunday after one of the victims was taken off of life support. And more via John Zawahri’s Father Was Abusive, Santa Monica College Shooter’s Mom Charged. (Tami Abdollah misuses “charged” here – it doesn’t appear the mother has been charged with a crime)

LOS ANGELES — Police found bomb-making materials seven years ago in the home of the gunman who killed five people last week in Santa Monica, a school board official said on Tuesday.

Police discovered the materials after John Zawahri threatened fellow high school students in 2006, Oscar de la Torre, a member of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified school board, told The Associated Press.

Did school and law enforcement officials treat Zawahri with kid gloves then because he was Muslim? Did that lead to ignoring potential issues, be it family violence or mental health, that may have prevented last weeks shootings?

The board was briefed by school administrators after police found Zawahri was learning to make explosives by downloading instructions from YouTube, de la Torre said.

Sounds familiar.

“It was some type of devices or materials that would be able to make explosives, and the word `pipe bombs’ was what was referred to,” he said. “If it was guns and stuff like that it would have been more serious, but because it was explosives, it wasn’t deemed `Oh my God,’ just that this guy had a fascination.”

Zawahri wasn’t expelled, de la Torre said, but he never finished classes at Olympic High, a continuation school for students who have academic or disciplinary issues.

Zawahri, 23, shot his father, Samir Zawahri, and his 25-year-old brother, Christopher Zawahri, on Friday, leaving their home in flames before shooting at strangers in cars and at Santa Monica College.

De la Torre, who was a neighbor of Zawahri, said the gunman’s father told him he was having problems with his son eight months ago.

“They didn’t talk to a lot of people, they were very reserved,” de la Torre said. “One time he did tell me he had problems with his younger son, knowing I work with youth. He never went into detail about anything.”

Investigators were trying to determine whether problems in the Zawahri family played a role in the killings.

Zawahri’s mother, Randa Abdou, said in court filings in 1998 that her husband threatened her and became abusive five years into their marriage when she moved from Lebanon to join him in the U.S. Abdou has not spoken to the media.

Police say John Zawahri had contact with officers in 2006 but wouldn’t divulge details because he was a juvenile.

In 1993, Zawahri’s mother contacted the school terrified; not knowing where to go at the time. She told the school that “her husband had pulled a knife on her and her boys,” Parise said. The school contacted a local battered women’s shelter and Abdou went there.

When Zawahri was 9, his now-separated mother sought a restraining order. He once came to the apartment and told her that he was going to take the children to Canada, she said.

“The defendant said that he would do anything to make my life miserable and that he could kill me and no restraining order can stop him,” she said in court papers.

Sounds like something a devout Muslim who lived according to the sharia might say.

Back in February 2013 the Media Covered Up Another Muslim Mass Shooter, Ali Syed, in California who shot six people killing three of them.

Just another case of If a Muslim [blanked], would the media mention it?

San Fran airport’s garage now a mosque complete w Islamic foot bath

Praying for our demise. via Airport’s garage now Muslim house of worship | Matier And Ross | an SFGate.com blog. h/t

Here’s a sign of the changing times — Muslim cabbies now have their very own place at San Francisco International Airport to wash their hands and feet before they pray.

Under Islamic law, Muslims are required to pray five times a day — a ritual that also calls for a ceremonial cleansing.

For many cab drivers, that’s meant either lugging bottled water around or using one of the bathrooms inside the terminal to wash — a practice not always welcomed by airport passengers.

So Royal Cab driver Hasan Khan, 52, a Pakistani immigrant, collected some 300 signatures from fellow cabbies, urging the airport to give them their own cleansing station.

Airport brass obliged — and the wash equipment was installed on the ground floor of the main garage, right next to where the drivers congregate for their breaks.

“The way we look at it…this was in the interest of maintaining a good relationship with ground transportation providers,’’ says airport spokesman Doug Yakel.

As for using public resources?

Yes, your taxpayer dollars are being used. But as usual, for Muslims, it’s ok.

Yakel says the costs were nominal, with the work done by in-house plumbers.

As for Khan, he recognizes not everyone might appreciate the religious accommodation. But then he points out that Christians generally pray at church on Sundays — while for him and his fellow working Muslims, the ritual is woven into their daily routine.

And from the looks of things, they’re grateful.

“We are very happy,’’ said Ahmed Algazali, 49, a fellow driver from Yemen as he prepared to join Khan for a late-afternoon garage prayer.

California: Muslim arrested, tried to kidnap and ‘intended to marry’ girl, 17

via Authorities: Suspect In Botched OC Abduction ‘Intended To Marry’ Girl, 17 « CBS Los Angeles. h/t Jawa

SANTA ANA (CBSLA.com) — A 29-year-old Orange County man is accused of trying to abduct a teenage girl out of an Aliso Viejo bookstore, authorities said Monday.

KNX 1070′s Mike Landa reports Saif Mohamed Moussa was arrested after the incident in a Barnes & Noble store at 26751 Aliso Creek Road around 2 p.m. Saturday.

A 17-year-old girl was shopping in the bookstore when Moussa wrapped her up in a bear hug and started walking her to the front door, according to Orange County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Jim Amormino.

“He said he intended to marry her,” Amormino said.

Before Moussa was able to exit the store with the victim, the girl broke free and located her father – an off-duty Orange County Sheriff’s deputy – at another location inside the store, said Amormino.

The deputy restrained the suspect until other deputies arrived and took Moussa into custody, Amormino said.

Moussa was booked on kidnapping and child annoyance charges, according to Amormino.

al Jazeera America plans bureaus in 12 U.S. cities

The silent invasion of jihad-supporting Islamists is coming to your state. Aided and abetted by elected officials. via The first 12 Al Jazeera America bureaus – POLITICO.com.

Al Jazeera executives have been touring the country and rolling out announcements of new bureaus ahead of Al Jazeera America’s launch later this year. First it was a bureau in Chicago, today it is a bureau in Detroit. These will join Al Jazeera’s U.S. headquarters in New York and previously announced bureaus in Washington, Miami and Los Angeles, among others.

The network is planning 12 bureaus in all, with plans to add more after the launch. The network has yet to disclose the full list of bureaus — “We don’t comment on rumors. No leases have been signed anywhere,” Stan Collender, an Al Jazeera spokesperson told POLITICO — but a source at the network was kind enough to share it with POLITICO, on background.

The full list (from East to West):

New York

Washington

Miami

Nashville

Chicago

New Orleans

Detroit

Dallas

Denver

Los Angeles

San Francisco

Seattle

Related: Al Jazeera Likely Violating Multiple U.S. Laws

Kincaid and Kenney have documented Al Jazeera’s anti-American propaganda and its many terrorist connections. A few highlights:

• The Emir of Qatar, who owns Aljazeera, recently donated 400 million dollars to Hamas, a State Department designated terrorist group.
• Film footage of captured terrorists in Iraq shows they came to kill Americans because of Al Jazeera.
• NBC News reporter Lisa Myers said: “Why do they go [to fight in Iraq]? Saudis captured in Iraq say it’s because of pictures on Arab television network Al-Jazeera.
• CNN reports that a document found in bin Laden’s compound after his death referred to a meeting with the Al-Jazeera bureau chief in Pakistan.
• The new film, “Zero Dark Thirty,” mentions that the courier who eventually led the CIA to bin Laden was located in Pakistan near an Al Jazeera office in order to get the terrorist leader’s videotapes to the channel for worldwide distribution.
• 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed… was protected by the government of Qatar, which funds Al Jazeera.
• Father of journalist Daniel Pearl, the journalist beheaded by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, says, “Al Jazeera is the main propaganda machine of the Muslim Brotherhood.”
• French media openly report that Qatar is supporting the Mali terrorists
• An Al Jazeera story, “Mali: The ‘gentle’ face of al-Qaeda,” reported that the terrorists “are playing the role of humanitarians” by providing food to local people.
• Al Jazeera supports the radical Muslim and far-left campaign to free “Lady al Qaeda” Aafia Siddiqui, currently serving a life sentence for attempted murder and wife of 9/11 planner Ammar al-Baluchi,.
• In the U.S., the movement to free Siddiqui includes Ramsey Clark, the Workers World Party (WWP) and the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
• Al Jazeera reporter Tayseer Allouni, was convicted as an agent of al Qaeda.

Are we going to stand for this without a *#+*&@!ing fight? More:

Please call the House Homeland Security Committee and ask that the new chairman, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), open hearings into Al-Jazeera. Call their office at 202-226-8417 and ask Chairman McCaul to investigate Al-Jazeera’s ties to terrorist groups.

http://mccaul.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=133

San Jose: Woman Arrested at Starbucks for Poisoning Orange Juice

Will anyone in the media or police dare ask the obvious? via Woman Arrested at SJ Starbucks for Potential Orange Juice Poisoning | NBC Bay Area.

Ramineh Behbehanian

A 50-year-old pharmacist was arrested Monday night after police say she removed two bottles of orange juice from a bag – which they say were filled with rubbing alcohol – and placed them on the shelf with other refrigerated items at a Starbucks in San Jose.

San Jose Police Sgt. Jason Dwyer took Ramineh Behbehanian of San Jose into custody on an attempted murder charge because the orange juice contained what police said were lethal quantities of isopropyl alcohol. She is scheduled to appear in court Thursday.

She has no criminal record in Santa Clara County, according to court records. Late Tuesday, sources confirmed for NBC Bay Area that Behbehanian is a pharmacist working for a company owned by Johnson and Johnson.

Authorities are still not sure why she would have allegedly mixed rubbing alcohol with some orange juice in the afternoon, left the bottles in the refrigerated section alongside some yogurt and milk, and left the Snell Avenue store about 3:30 p.m.

“Why would she do such a thing?” Chris Africa said, standing outside the Starbucks on Tuesday morning. “Was she trying to poison us?”

Jihad?

An alert customer standing behind her in line spotted her taking out her own bottles of juice from a green Starbucks bag, and put them in the refrigerator section. He also noticed a toxic smell. He told management. The woman might have felt under suspicion, police said, but a Starbucks employee got her license plate.

“A lot of people out there may have seen something and probably dismissed it,” Dwyer said. “But I believe that person saved lived by doing that.”

The San Jose Fire Department responded to the scene, retrieved the bottles and tested the contents with hazardous materials equipment. It turned out, the bottles were filled with orange juice and rubbing alcohol.

On Tuesday morning, customer Brent Breyer said he was a little “apprehensive” about what happened at his usual Starbucks. He said he often brings his young daughter, who routinely grabs for items in the refrigerated section.

Police were able to track her down at her home, though no motive has surfaced.

Update:

Police haven’t revealed whom, if anyone, might have been targeted. But they felt strongly enough to arrest Ramineh Behbehanian on suspicion of attempted murder after the ploy was literally sniffed out by an alert customer and a sharp-eyed employee who took note of her car’s license plate number as she made a hasty exit. Initial tests of the bottles revealed them to have a potentially lethal amount of the household solvent.

“If it weren’t for the actions of that customer, I believe we’d be talking about a homicide right now,” said Sgt. Jason Dwyer, a police spokesman.

The last time we posted on a California pharmacist it was California: Turkish pharmacist who aided al Qaeda gets 5 year sentence

Seattle: 2nd Muslim Sentenced in Jihad Attack on Military Processing Center, 17 Years

via FBI — Former Los Angeles Man Sentenced to 17 Years in Prison for Role in Plot to Attack Seattle Military Processing Center.

SEATTLE—A former Los Angeles resident was sentenced today to 17 years in prison in connection with the June 2011 plot to attack a military installation in Seattle, U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan announced. Walli Mujahidh, 34, pleaded guilty in December 2011 to conspiracy to murder officers and agents of the United States and conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Mujahidh plotted with lead defendant Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif of Seattle in a plan to use grenades and machine guns to attack recruits at the Military Entrance Processing Center in a federal office complex in south Seattle. U.S. District Judge James L. Robart imposed 10 years of supervised release following the prison term.

“This defendant was a cold-hearted, enthusiastic partner in this murderous scheme. He talked at length in recorded conversations about the innocent people he planned to gun down,” said U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. “Even after his arrest, he boldly tried to justify his plot. I am thankful this plot was disrupted and again thank the FBI and Seattle Police Department.”

The other defendant in the case, Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif, of Seattle, was sentenced to 18 years in prison last month.

Law enforcement first became aware of the plot when a citizen alerted them that he/she had been approached by Abdul-Latif about participating in the attack and supplying firearms to the conspirators. The person then agreed to work with law enforcement, which began monitoring Abdul-Latif and Mujahidh. Beginning in early June 2011, the conspirators were captured on audio and videotape discussing a violent assault on the Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS). The MEPS is where each branch of the military screens and processes enlistees. In addition to housing many civilian and military employees, the building houses a federal daycare center.

In his plea agreement, Mujahidh admitted that he agreed to carry out the planned attack and that he traveled to Seattle from Los Angeles to participate in the attack. Mujahidh arrived in Seattle on June 21, 2011. On that same day, during a meeting between Abdul-Latif, Mujahidh and a person who was working with law enforcement, Abdul-Latif outlined the plan of attacking the MEPS with machine guns and grenades and took steps to purchase weapons and further the plot. In accordance with the defendants’ plan, the next day the person working with police brought three machine guns to a meeting with Abdul-Latif and Mujahidh. The men were arrested after they took possession of the weapons, which had been rendered inoperable by law enforcement.

In their sentencing memo, prosecutors describe multiple times where Mujahidh described his enthusiasm for the attack and his terrorist motivations. “During the planning sessions for the attack, Mujahidh made clear that he was eager to kill his intended victims, and as many as possible. He made numerous statements along these lines while he and Abdul-Latif planned out the play-by-play movements of the attackers using the map of the Federal Center South building,” prosecutors wrote in their sentencing memo.

His partner in jihad in his own words:

Related: Seattle: Muslim gets 18 years in jihad plot on US military recruiting center

California: Turkish pharmacist who aided al Qaeda gets 5 year sentence

Updated: California Pharmacist, Gets Prison For Funding Terrorism

SANTA ANA, Calif. — A California woman was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for wiring money to Pakistan to help fund terrorist attacks against U.S. military personnel.

Oytun Ayse Mihalik, 40, of La Palma pleaded guilty in August to one count of providing material support to terrorists. She admitted to providing a total of $2,050 in three wire transfers to a person in Pakistan with the intention that the money would be used for attacks against U.S. military personnel and other people overseas, prosecutors said.

“While the sum of money involved in this case may not seem substantial, there’s no doubt the funds this defendant sent overseas would have covered the cost of an attack on U.S. soldiers,” said Claude Arnold, special agent in charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s homeland security investigations in Los Angeles. “Money is the mother’s milk of terrorism and we will move aggressively against those who provide financial support to groups and individuals bent on harming the U.S. and its allies.”

Mihalik, who worked as a pharmacist, has been in federal custody since she was arrested in August, after she attempted to board a flight to her native Turkey. Court records show she had been cooperating with investigators.

Shortly after her arrest, Mihalik told the FBI that she believed the person in Pakistan was a member of the Taliban and al-Qaeda and he was using the money for mujahideen efforts against American military forces in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region, authorities said.

via Doc al-Qaeda h/t Vlad Tepes

A Los Angeles CVS pharmacist who tried to aid al-Qaeda and Taliban mujahedeen operations against American soldiers in Afghanistan, only to be caught by the FBI because of sloppy secret-agent moves, has a message for U.S. District Court Judge Josephine Staton Tucker: “Please forgive me for my actions.”

Tucker is scheduled next week at the Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse to punish Orange County resident Oytun Ayse Mihalik, 38, a Turkey native who used a fake, Americanized name, Cindy Palmer, in her efforts to supply more than $4,000 to Islamic terrorists in 2010 and 2011. The U.S. government is seeking a 12-year prison trip for Mihalik. She is hoping for a whopping 10-year reduction. If she wins her argument, she could be set free in about six months, as she has been in the custody of U.S. marshals for 18 months.

“Ms. Mihalik never attended any terrorist-training camp,” Van Nuys-based criminal defense lawyer Alan Eisner told the judge last year. “Ms. Mihalik was never privy to any specific terrorism plot. Ms. Mihalik never offered any plan or advice for any terrorist attack.”

FBI agents and federal prosecutors hold a more sinister view of the defendant, who has been residing legally in the U.S. because of a marriage to an American. After returning from a 2010 trip to Turkey, she voiced anti-American sentiments to her husband, who was so frightened he secretly contacted Homeland Security officials. He reported that she told him, “If I have to kill people for Allah, I will,” and that she called taking a citizenship oath to the U.S. “a blasphemy.”

Mihalik was unaware that on-the-ball U.S. agents had copied her laptop files when she’d landed at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). They found that she had saved “The Al Qaeda Manual” as a “favorite” Internet Explorer tab and had viewed information pertaining to the book The Mind of the Terrorist. After activating the computer’s online “privacy” mode, she searched for “true jihad” and “Jihad in Afghanistan.” Agents also determined that she studied the pro-al-Qaeda manual repeatedly during her flight to LAX. Rather than reading terrorist manuals for training purposes, Mihalik claims she viewed the information only in an effort to understand her brother’s commitment to radical Islam.

But, according to a Feb. 8 brief filed by Assistant United States Attorney Judith A. Heinz, Mihalik—a Cypress resident who worked at a Norwalk CVS pharmacy for more than $59 per hour and got her education thanks to sponsorship from Walgreens—knowingly tried to avoid detection by using a fake name to make three separate payments to “Allah’s Soldiers” in Pakistan via Western Union at a Ralphs grocery store: $750 on Dec. 21, 2010; $600 on Dec. 29, 2010; and $700 on Jan. 11, 2011. Though the total amount of the wired funds doesn’t seem monumental, Heinz describes the $2,050 as enough to fund a single al-Qaeda operation against U.S. soldiers. The government has redacted huge portions of the files in the case by citing protection of national security methods, but it seems likely given the contents of captured emails—communications that cryptically mention a car and contain the words “infidels,” “jihad” and “mujadeen”—that the money may have been intended for a car bomb attack.

(An FBI report also claims that Mihalik, who obtained a master’s degree in pharmaceutical marketing and health-care administration from Long Island University in 2002, convinced her father in Turkey to make an April 2011 payment of $2,000 to al-Qaeda.)

In August 2011, Mihalik tried to leave the U.S. at LAX with a one-way ticket to Istanbul—the day after FBI agents questioned her about the transactions. Following her airport arrest, she confessed during an Irvine interrogation to harboring anti-American feelings. “She stated repeatedly and with great conviction that she sent the money to [al-Qaeda operative] Ebu Yasir, knowing that he intended to use it for mujahedin operations against United States military forces in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region,” wrote Heinz. “[She believed that] sending money to [the terrorist] was right because it would keep her in Allah’s good graces.”

Read it all via OC Weekly.

More from our 2011 post, Cali: Muslim Pharmacist Charged With Sending Money to Fund Terrorist Attacks on US Military.

Easter jihad? Man drives car into Cali Walmart, attacks customers (video)

We bookmarked this story the other day, Driver Crashes Into San Jose Walmart And Attacks Customers, but oddly there was no information on the suspect although it’s a known sudden jihad tactic. Today information was released and his name is Haamid Zaid. Video h/t via GroundZeroMosque

Kudos to the shoppers who took him down. Expect to do it many more times in the coming years as the jihad ramps up on American soil.

More photos and story here.

Goals and Strategy for Islamization of Knowledge and Higher Education in U.S.A.

 and World-Wide. That’s not our title. That’s the title of a strategic document from the Institute of Islamic Sciences, Technology and Development’s (IISTD) website.

Americans wonder how Islamization, e.g., CScope, creeps into our public schools. The answers are many and there are long-standing and well-funded plans afoot. We ignore them at our own peril.

Basic Goals and Strategy for Islamization of Knowledge and Higher Education in U.S.A. and World-Wide

IISTD Goals and Functions:

Islamization is an individual duty of every Muslim ( fard `ayn ); it is also a Muslim necessity because secularization, through Westernization or Marxism, has failed to develop Muslims even like the modern non-Muslim peoples of the West and East. The goal of IISTD is, therefore, to accelerate contemporary efforts to Islamize all areas of the two cultures. The function of IISTD is to PROMOTE Islamization of ALL knowledge, natural sciences and technology particularly, through the Quran, the Sunnah concerning the two cultures, and Islamic intellectual legacy. Since Islam is the system of Truth, din al-haqq, Islamization includes assimilation of those parts of the modern two cultures of non-Muslims which are in harmony with the two Islamic cultures.

*** * ***

IISTD is a non-profit organization, registered in California.

Tax-Exempt by U.S. Internal Revenue Service. I.D. # 77-0173934

Please send your tax-deductable donations to:

IISTD/Institute of Islamic Sciences, Technology and Development

Account # 510000655-09729-03458, Bank of America

( 1512 South Stelling Road, Cupertino, CA 95014 )

* Excerpt from: Islamization of Knowledge and Higher Education,

IISTD Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 2, Rabi`al-Thani 1419/August 1998 .

Editor, Prof. S. Waqar Ahmed Husaini, IISTD President.

And what Muslim strategy would be complete without reference to the kafir:

Secularization is kafirization: it excludes God and Islam from the two cultures. Modern Muslims are a blinded people ( qawman `ameen, Quran 7:64 ) due to ignorance of the two Islamic cultures and their legacy which had Islamized the West in the Middle Ages, and due to lack of contemporary intellectual efforts.

The IISTD shouldn’t be confused with An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America that lists at least twenty-nine Brotherhood groups in the U.S., many education-related:

Quote:

The process of settlement is a “Civilization-Jihadist Proecess” with all the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim’s destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who chose to slack. But, would the slackers and the Mujahedeen be equal.

Senior Cleric for U.S. Muslim Group: Islamic Punishment for Apostasy Is Death

Based in California. via Center for Security Policy | Senior Cleric for American Muslim Group: Islamic Punishment for Apostasy Is Death.

Originally published at Translating Jihad

Dr. Hatem al-Haj, a senior committee member for the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA), confirmed in the below fatwa from July 2011 that the Islamic punishment for apostasy is death. A couple of things stand out to me about this fatwa.

First, this fatwa was taken down from AMJA’s website as far back as October 2011, along with other fatwas on the same topic, possibly in response to an article written by my colleague Andrew Bostom exposing the rulings in that same month. (See the fatwa on archive.org, while the link on AMJA’s website is broken.) So either AMJA changed their minds about the penalty for apostasy; or, more likely, they just don’t want non-Muslims seeing what they really think on controversial topics. If that’s the case, then what else are they not telling us?

Second, the question that leads to the fatwa is tellingly not asking what the ruling is on apostasy, but rather how to explain this ruling to others, including non-Muslims. While Dr. al-Haj confirms that the penalty for apostasy from Islam is death, he also recommends that when explaining this to others, you should start with the caveat that this is something which should only be carried out in a Muslim country through the court system.

AMJA likes to hide behind that caveat, but at the same time they encourage Muslims in the United States to use the American legal system in order to establish Islamic law (see here and here). So isn’t it fair to assume that Dr. al-Haj and AMJA would like to eventually make death for apostates the law of the land here in the United States as well?

See my translation of Dr. al-Haj’s fatwa below (see the original Arabic on his website):

Read it all.

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