US Naval Academy Instructor Teaching On Behalf Of US Muslim Brotherhood

We got a message from the Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report yesterday and wondered why they hadn’t been posting for a while. The good news is they’ve moved to a new site called The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Watch. Check it out. Blogroll updated. The GMBDW’s latest post below.

via US Naval Academy Instructor Teaching On Behalf Of US Muslim Brotherhood

According to promotional material, a United States Naval Academy professor is teaching on behalf of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), a part of the US Muslim Brotherhood and where global Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi reportedly serves as a trustee. IIIT recently announced its Summer Students Program for 2013 to be held from May 26 – July 3. According to the IIIT announcement, one of the instructors for the program will be Professor Ermin Sinanovic, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland who will be teaching the following course titled “Muslim World Affairs”:

Ermin Sinanovic

This course is meant to provide students who had little or no background on the Muslim world with a basic understanding of its contemporary history, its geopolitics, its diverse cultures, languages and ethnic groups. Also, the course introduces the key issues and developments that framed the relationship between the world of Islam and the West, such as the colonial encounter, the capitalist expansion of the West, the emergence of the nation-state and its institutions, the discovery of oil in the Middle East and its implications, the communication revolution and contemporary globalization and their impact on cultures, values and life styles; and finally the US foreign policy towards the Muslim world and its implications. This course will be covered in twelve hours.  Instructor: Professor Ermin Sinanovic, US Naval Academy, Maryland.

According to his bio, Ermin Sinanovic is:

…an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, USA. He studied for an MA and a PhD in Political Science at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. Prof. Sinanovic obtained two BAs (one in Qur’an and Sunnah Studies, the other in Political Science) and an MA (Islamic Civilization) from the International Islamic University Malaysia. His research interests include transnational Islamic revival, Southeast Asian politics, Islamic movements, Middle East politics, Islamic political thought, and Islam and politics in general. At the Naval Academy, Prof. Sinanovic teaches courses on Southeast Asian politics, Middle East politics, and Islam and politics. He speaks Bosnian, English, Arabic, and Malay. “

One of the other instructors at the IIIT summer program will be US Muslim Brotherhood leader Louay Safi, identified in the announcement as affiliated with the College of Islamic Studies of the Qatar Foundation. In 2009 Louay Safi, also an official at the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), was at the center of a controversy when it was learned that the US Defense Department brought him to Fort Hood as an instructor and that he had been lecturing on Islam to troops in Fort Hood who were about to deploy to Afghanistan. In February 2010, the activities and lectures of Dr. Safi on all military bases were suspended pending  criminal by the U.S. military.

Read it all at the new site.

Another burqa robbery in the U.S., this time Maryland

Burqa clad bank robber

No better disguise than that of a protected class who can not be questioned without fear of legal jihadists. via Female impersonator robs liquor store wearing burqa.

BEL AIR, Md. – A burqa-wearing man pretending to be a woman is in police custody after an armed robbery and dramatic police chase Friday afternoon.

Police say around 3 p.m. Harford County Sheriff’s deputies were called to Third Base Liquors on South Fountain Green Road in Bel Air for a report of a robbery. When officers arrived witnesses told them a man wearing a burqa covering his entire face except for his eyes entered the store and asked the clerk about beer.

Police say the man altered his voice to sound like a woman and chose a case of beer. As the clerk leaned over to pick up the beer the fake lady flashed a gun and announced a hold up.

The clerk gave the burqa-wearing female impersonator an undisclosed amount of cash and the robber left the store and jumped into a white SUV.

Police say an alert passerby noticed something strange, copied down the tag number and reported it to authorities.

A short time later police saw the SUV on Rt. 40 at Rt. 755 in Edgewood and attempted to stop it. As the Divine wannabe fled west on Rt. 40, he clipped a car and lost control. The man was critically injured and taken to Shock Trauma for treatment.

The driver has not yet been identified and detectives are investigating if this robbery was connected to an armed robbery that had occurred earlier today in the 2400 block of Churchville Road in Bel Air. Witnesses in that case also reported a white SUV as a suspect vehicle.

The investigation is continuing.

Update: We should have titled this another burqa robbery in Maryland as it is not the first time:

• Police say man wearing burqa robs Maryland bank
• Maryland AG: Religious garb open to security searches, if sharia compliant

Elsewhere on the Muslim crime blotter, another Muslim lottery scam, this time in Long Island where Riverside convenience store clerks scammed $74,000 from lotto winner last month.

 

Islam alive and well in Maryland public high schools

A followup to a previous Creeping Sharia post, Maryland: Muslims excused from class early for daily prayers in public school library.

via Montgomery County High School Students Host Unified Eid Celebration.

On Friday November 2, 2012 at 5:30pm forty-five students from Muslim Student Associations in Northwest, Richard Montgomery, Quince Orchard, Wootton, and Magruder high schools came to the Northwest High School cafeteria to celebrate the Muslim holiday Eid-al-adha.

The event was the first ever Eid event of the Montgomery County Muslim Student Association. The group is a student run organization that brings together Muslims from various high school Muslim Student Associations in the county.

The Montgomery County Muslim Student Association, known by students as the MOCO MSA, was started in 2010 when Richard Montgomery High School student Zaid Bilgrami and Wootton High School student Bilal Naved were volunteering together at that year’s Eid prayer. Bilgrami and Naved were both presidents of their high school Muslim Student Associations, and as they stood by the doors on Eid day handing out bags, the idea came up to somehow bring their two MSAs together.

Apparently a precursor to the Muslim Brotherhood-founded Muslim Student Association found on college campuses throughout the U.S.

“All we wanted to do at first was a barbeque.” Said Bilgrami, “Initially we didn’t even intend to create an organization out of it.” But what started out as a simple idea to bring together two MSAs quickly grew into something much larger as Bilgrami and Naved contacted the heads of MSAs from Churchill, Paint Branch, Quince Orchard, Northwest, and Gaithersburg high schools.

In the fall of that same year the two organized a Montgomery County MSA barbecue with several MSAs in the area. The barbecue was a tremendous success, the only problem was figuring out what the next step for this emerging group would be.

Then came DC MIST 2011, an annual competition for Muslim youth across the DC area. Bilgrami attended the event with his own humble sized high school MSA. Although he did enjoy it, he noticed how larger MSAs seemed to get more out of the experience. A few months later Bilgrami called a meeting with the heads of all the MSAs in the county, and at MIST 2012 each school came to MIST not only as individual high school MSAs, but also as the MOCO MSA.

In 2012, the responsibility of the MOCO MSA was left to the steadily growing Northwest High School MSA. The Northwest MSA started out small eight years ago and just four years ago had to do prayers with only five people in a school storage room. Now, under the presidency of Asim, the Northwest MSA has gotten to around twenty-five members and has regular jummah prayers in a classroom and meetings every week.

Regular jummah prayers in classroom. In a public high school?

“Muslim youth in high schools are immersed in an environment conducive to spiritual deterioration, let alone one conducive to the obstruction of spiritual development.” says Zaid Bilgrami, “An MSA can be a ray of hope, in that it provides a place where it’s ‘normal’ to be a Muslim and practice Islam.” Bilgrami believes that the MOCO MSA is able to provide much needed support and strength for Muslim students in Montgomery County.

The MOCO MSA plans to stay active throughout the year and plan many more events and opportunities for Muslim high schoolers in the county to come together. Currently, the group has set it’s focus on trying to get Eid as a day off in Montgomery County Public Schools.

 Creeping along. What’s the next goal? Segregated jummah prayers in classrooms?

In unrelated news, gun maker Beretta is poised to leave Maryland.

Maryland: Muslims excused from class early for daily prayers in public school library

The civilizational jihad being waged in schools across the U.S. is very active. Just this weekend we posted, Illinois School District adding Muslim holiday, considers dropping Veterans & Presidents Days.

In Maryland, the Muslim Brotherhood-founded Muslim Student Association is now on high school campuses, performing dawah and spreading sharia. One of their victories, with the help of terror-linked CAIR, is convincing the school to use the library as a mosque for daily prayers.

via Praying By the Rules or as Halal Porkshop titled it, h/t, HOW CAIR LAWYERS & MSA CONVINCED MARYLAND SCHOOL TO ALLOW PRAYER IN SCHOOL

When the parents of Hayat and Habeeb Marso chose to send her two sons to Parkdale High School in Riverdale, MD after they had completed memorizing the entire Qur’an at Dar-us-Salaam’s full-time hifdz school in College Park, she wasn’t worried.

It was tough leaving beloved teachers, but their training at Dar-us-Salaam had made them strong enough to handle public school. Hayat and Habeeb Marso are actively involved in the Muslim Student Association of their new school. Their principal, Cheryl Logan turns to Hayat for advice on Muslim issues.

A major issue of concern for many Muslims is being able to offer their daily prayers, and prayer in public school has always been an ‘issue’. A lot of parents at Parkdale are frustrated that their kids cannot pray in school.

“We got into major trouble last year as we were hiding and praying in congregation,” Hayat says as he soberly wraps up the leopard print prayer rug in his family’s prayer room. Last year, the principal, Cheryl Logan told the students that they could not pray in congregation..

At a recent bullying seminar hosted by CAIR at Dar-us-Salaam, Hayat consulted with Todd Gallagher, an attorney with CAIR. Habeeb also spoke with a local lawyer to learn more about the laws. As the MSA President who will graduate in May, Hayat maintains that it is his responsibility to pave the way for students who will follow him.

It’s not that students of any faith can’t pray in school, no matter what the general public thinks. They can. And Muslim students do, in empty classrooms, under stairwells, and library corners. They just can’t do it with the support of the school, because that’s a violation of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.

What this means is that the school administration cannot lead prayers or mandate that students attend prayer.

The ruling according to the First Amendment Center “requires that teachers and administrators neither promote nor denigrate religion — a commitment to state neutrality that protects the religious freedom of students of all faiths and no faith.”

The U.S. Supreme Court banned official prayers in public schools, but religion is not taboo in schools. That’s because the same First Amendment that separates church and state also gives students like the Marsos the right to freely practice their faith.

Abdul Karim Taufique is the MSA Vice-President at Roosevelt High School in the same school district. He says that they have no issues with holding salah at school. Since they follow a different period system, student can easily pray at lunch time. They host Friday prayers after classes, where he delivers the Khutbah.“There is no process. The Principal gave permission so anyone can pray in the library media room,” says Abdul-Karim.

“We cannot have daily congregational salah after classes at Parkdale, as there is not enough time and we will miss our bus home and our lunch schedule is such that some students have lunch before Dhuhr time starts,” says Hayat.

“Ms. Logan needs to prepare for an increase in Muslim students coming to her school,” says Afeefa Marso, Hayat and Habeeb’s mother. With Dar-us-Salaam and its K-12 Al-Huda School set to relocate to Howard County after this school year, there will be a vacuum and “those area residents who cannot move or send their children to the future Dar us Salam campus in Cookesville, will look for options such as the local high schools.” Arabic as a foreign language and the International Baccalaureate program makes Parkdale a viable option for some parents.

As the MSA President who will graduate in May, Hayat maintains that it is his responsibility to pave the way for students who will follow him.

So instead of making it a public issue, Hayat and the Parkdale MSA decided to continue the gentle and diplomatic approach. The MSA invited parents and Principal Logan to an MSA meeting and they discussed the process of getting permission to pray in congregation for Dhuhr salah. Principal Logan said she would need to see report cards and good behavior. But 4 weeks passed without results.

Hayat and his peer’s parents continue emailing their requests and recently have convinced the administration.

“Requests for prayers are done by parents of students, not by organizations. This ensures that the parent is aware that the student has made a request. To date the ones that have been requested have all been granted,” says Cheryl Logan, the principal of Parkdale High School in an email to the Muslim Link.

All parents who had given written permission received this good news on January 13, 2013. On Monday, January 14, 2013, students will be directed to a location to pray Dhuhr prayer in jam’ah from 12:45 to 1:00. They will be excused from class 10 minutes early so that they can fulfill this obligation.

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Rules for Muslims, and rules for everyone else. Read it all and prepare to have your public school library converted into a mosque. 

More on the Muslim Brotherhood-founded Muslim Student Association (MSA) here.

Founded by members of the Muslim Brotherhood, MSA was named in a May 1991 Muslim Brotherhood memorandum as one of the Brotherhood’s likeminded “organizations of our friends”[1] who shared the common goal of destroying America and turning it into a Muslim nation. These ”friends” were described by the Brotherhood as groups that could help teach Muslims “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 … so that … God’s religion [Islam] is made victorious over all other religions.”

In its earliest days, MSA was financed largely by Saudi Arabia. In return, says a February 2008 New York Times piece, the organization’s leaders “pushed the kingdom’s puritan, Wahhabi strain of Islam.”

Is Principal Cheryl Logan aware of who the MSA is?

Flashback 2008:

Terror sentencing delayed for Maryland Muslim teen and pair of Jihad Jane’s

Why the delay? via Md. teen, women face May sentencing in terror plot – WTOP.com.

PHILADELPHIA – Two American women and a Maryland teen won’t be sentenced until May for their roles in a foiled terror plot based in Ireland.

Colleen LaRose, a Pennsylvania woman who called herself “Jihad Jane” online, faces a life sentence for planning to kill a Swedish cartoonist.

She’s been in custody since surrendering to the FBI in 2009. Her sentencing _ initially set for Wednesday _ is now scheduled for May 7.

Jamie Paulin-Ramirez of Colorado and Maryland teen Mohammad Hassan Khalid are due in court on May 9.

Each faces up to 15 years in prison for conspiring to provide material aid to terrorists.

Authorities say Khalid, a high school honors student from Ellicott City, had a secret life online devoted to jihadist causes.

Officials say Paulin-Ramirez helped the cause by marrying an Algerian terror suspect.

Back posts on all these Muslim terrorists in our archives. Ramirez has a young child too – whom she and her Muslim husband attempted to indoctrinate to jihad.

Maryland: “Largest Islamic Project in America…could change landscape for years to come”

via Mosque plan called too large for rural Howard County – baltimoresun.com.

Leaders of the Dar-us-Salaam community in College Park have been looking for years for a new home, a place for a school and a mosque close enough to be convenient for members living in several counties. They’ve scouted hundreds of spots and looked closely at a handful, and now they think they’ve found what they’ve been looking for in the rural western section of Howard County.

The 66-acre former home of the Woodmont Academy, a Catholic school in Cooksville, looks just right to the Muslim community leadership, with buildings already in place and plenty of undeveloped land for parking and a new mosque to accommodate thousands of worshippers in the decades to come. To many of the people who live nearby, however, it seems all wrong, a poor fit for a rural community weary of battling what they consider encroachments on the quiet way of life they’ve chosen.

Some remember the “Stop Woodmont Academy” signs sprouting on lawns 12 years ago, when the school staked out a spot in a residential area a few miles from where the project was eventually built on Frederick Road. Now there’s a “Preserve the Woodmont Academy Land” Facebook page; a recent routine homeowners association meeting turned into a session on Dar-us-Salaam that drew a couple of hundred people; and residents talk of fighting a project that to them seems too large for an area of horse farms and homes.

“That’s not what rural, country land on wells and septic was created for,” says David Yungmann, who lives in the Carriage Mill Farms community in Woodbine, about a mile west of the Woodmont site. “We’re constantly defending the rural environment, the rural zoning, which is in law.”

Minhaj Hasan of Catonsville, a board member and project manager for Al-Huda Inc., which runs Dar-us-Salaam, is aware of the nascent opposition and says the organization’s plans may be misunderstood. He says the project is more modest than the rather grandiose descriptions that appeared a few months ago in an Al-Huda newspaper.

EEOC and hijabi shake down Maryland living center for $25,000

The various regimes now ruling the United States have an unwritten rule: hire Muslims and submit to their every whim. If not, you will face federal action from the official protectorate of all things Islam. via Morningside House of Ellicott City to Pay $25,000 for Religious Discrimination.

BALTIMORE – An Ellicott City, Md., assisted living center will pay $25,000 and furnish other relief to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that Morningside House of Ellicott City denied hire to a Muslim job applicant because she refused to remove her hijab, a headscarf worn by Muslim women as a religious obligation.

In its suit, (1:11-cv-02766-JKB), filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Northern Division, the EEOC said that the director of health and wellness asked Khadijah Salim if she would be willing to remove her hijab. The directorexpressed concerns that if she were hired, the hijab may interfere with her ability to work as a certified nursing assistant (CNA). Salim responded that she had worn her hijab throughout her nursing training, which included working in the operating room, and it had never interfered with her ability to perform her duties. Although she was told she would be contacted if someone were interested in her, she was never contacted, nor was she one of ten CNAs who were hired by the employer in September 2010.

How many applied and  how many others were not hired? How many of those night hired scored $25k in a bogus shakedown scam?

Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, employers have an obligation to accommodate an employee’s or applicant’s sincerely held religious beliefs unless it creates an undue hardship. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.

In addition to the monetary relief to Salim, the consent decree settling the suit enjoins the senior living home from further discriminating against any individual on the basis of religion; requires religious discrimination training to supervisors, managers and all involved in the hiring process; to post a notice stating the company’s commitment to maintaining an environment free of religious discrimination; and submit copies of any complaints about religious discrimination to the EEOC for a period of two years.

“In this case, there was no undue hardship to the employer — just an apparent overreaction to a reasonable request because of myths and stereotypes about a religion,” said EEOC Regional Attorney Debra M. Lawrence.

According to its website, http://www.morningsidehouse.com, “Morningside House has been proudly serving seniors and their families since 1992 and is considered the ‘top-referred’ assisted living and dementia care provider in the Baltimore / Washington area.”

$25k plus Islamic dawah training for all.

Maryland county schools consider adding Muslim holidays

Creeping. via Montgomery County Schools consider adding Muslim holidays – DC Breaking Local News Weather Sports FOX 5 WTTG.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. – There are an estimated 250 thousand Muslims in the DC area,but right now, no Washingtonarea schools close on Muslim holidays.

A Montgomery County Councilman wants to change that, andhe’s already gotten a response from the Superintendent.

Councilman George Leventhal (D-At Large) says it isn’t fairthat Montgomery County Schools close for some religious holidays for some faithsand not others, so he asked the board to consider closing schools for twoimportant Muslim holidays.

“These are the two holiest days for Muslims. Eids, whichmeans festival, Eid-ul-Adha and Edi-ul-Fitr.

The request is getting mixed reviews.

“As a Jew, I think it’s important that all religiousfaiths are recognized by the school system,” Stephanie Rubin says.

“It sort of depends on how much of a disruption there is tothe school calendar, and how many Muslim students and teachers, and staff wouldwant to take off on these holidays,” David Rubin said.

But there are opponents who say students miss enough classtime already without adding two Muslim holidays into the mix.

“Schools are closed for the primary Christian and Jewishholidays. We’re talking about one day– Eid ul-adha which I don’t think wouldbe inconvenient or burdensome.” Leventhal says.

For the next several years, Eid-ul Fitr falls in August andwouldn’t affect the school year, Leventhal says.

Leventhal received a letter from Superintendent Joshua StarrFriday. Starr writes, “It is extremelydifficult to consider all of the potential holidays as school closings in sucha diverse community as Montgomery County. MCPS gladly wouldwelcome a representative from the Muslim community to serve on the schoolcalendar committee work group.”

Why do they need a “Muslim” representative? Did they chose other members specfically for their religion? Not likely but rather than earn a spot on the committee it will simply be handed to them and the committee will bend over backwards fearing lawsuits and cries of raaaacism and Islamophobia.

A move Ronit Eisenbach says presents a teachable moment tothe county’s students.

“I think in this day and age and all that represents the U.S., it makesa lot of sense,” Eisenbach says.

And that’s just plain creepy – suggesting that all students in the county be forced to learn about Islam? It makes no sense.

Even if the school calendar committee were to approve theMuslim holidays as days off from school, it wouldn’t happen next year. Thecalendar is already set. The earliest itcould happen would be during the 2014 school year. The committee will startworking on that in November.

People interested in being part of the school calendarcommittee work group should email Ms Robin Confino at: Robin_Confino@mcpsmd.org.

Maryland: Muslim teen pleads guilty in ‘Jihad Jane’ terrorism plot

No shortage of Muslims in the United States wanting to wage jihad. via Maryland teen pleads guilty in ‘Jihad Jane’ terrorism plot, faces up to 15 years in prison: – NY Daily News.

PHILADELPHIA — A teen from Pakistan with a once-bright future in the U.S. pleaded guilty Friday to terrorism charges for helping an American woman dubbed “Jihad Jane” support an Irish terror cell planning to wage a Muslim holy war in Europe.

Mohammad Hassan Khalid had won a full scholarship to prestigious Johns Hopkins University before the FBI arrested him last summer at 17, making him the rare juvenile held in federal custody.

Khalid, now 18, faces up to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to a single count of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. In a secret life online, the high school honors student had agreed to raise money and recruit terrorists for jihad.

“It’s absolutely tragic,” defense lawyer Jeffrey M. Lindy said after the plea. “Was he feeling lonely after coming from Pakistan? Absolutely. But he was not a loner. He wasn’t the big man on campus, or captain of the football team. But he wasn’t a black trench-coat wearing loner.”

Khalid lived with his hard-working parents and siblings in a cramped apartment in Ellicott City, Md., while building an alternate life online.

He met Colleen LaRose in a chat room when he was 15 and began corresponding with her. LaRose, who dubbed herself “Jihad Jane,” lived with a boyfriend in small-town Pennsylvania, but had secretly converted to Islam and was appearing in jihadist YouTube videos. She faces life in prison after admitting last year that she had plotted to kill a Swedish artist whose cartoon had offended Muslims.

In court Friday, prosecutors said that Khalid once received a package from LaRose, removed a passport from it and then forwarded other items to co-conspirators. He wanted to deliver the passport to them himself, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams said.

“Khalid also sought confirmation from LaRose that her ‘brothers’ are REAL muhahids,” or jihadists, Williams said. Khalid also helped LaRose remove online jihadist posts after the FBI interviewed her, she said.

More here.

Maryland Muslim gets 25 years in military bomb plot; jihad drawings found in cell

via Maryland man gets 25 years in military bomb plot – World news – msnbc.com.

A judge sentenced a Baltimore man to serve 25 years in a federal prison on Friday for a plot to bomb a U.S. military recruiting center in Maryland as revenge for American policy towards Muslims.

Antonio Martinez, who recently converted to Islam and is also known as Muhammad Hussain, pleaded guilty in January to charges of plotting to detonate a car bomb outside the recruiting center in Catonsville, Maryland, in what had been an FBI-run undercover operation.

In recorded conversations with a confidential source and an FBI undercover agent, Martinez voiced anger toward the United States, his belief that Muslims were being unjustly killed by the U.S. military and his desire to send a message that soldiers would be killed unless the country stopped its “war” on Islam.

Several people he initially attempted to recruit to join in the operation all declined and one of them attempted to persuade him to drop the idea, the Justice Department has said.

The case is one of a series of undercover sting operations involving possible terrorism threats conducted by U.S. law enforcement authorities in recent months, which have drawn some criticism from Muslims groups concerned about being targeted.

The 25-year prison sentence handed down by Judge Frederick Motz had been agreed upon as part of the plea deal between federal prosecutors and Martinez.

And for those who claim this was just an FBI sting – despite the fact that Muhammad Hussain Martinez Admitted Thinking Up Military Recruiting Bomb Plot – or that he was remorseful, check out what was recently found in his jail cell, Antonio Martinez banner seized in prison:

The defendant’s cell was inventoried, and among the defendant’s personal items, which he identified for the jail guards, was a banner
he had made. The banner was subsequently turned over to the FBI. I have attached a photograph of the banner, which depicts crossed
swords, an AK-47, and Arabic writing, including Chapter 9, Verse 20 from the Qu’ran with the defendant’s translation written below.
The second photograph is a close-up of the defendant’s translation of Verse 20. This particular passage from the Qu’ran has been
interpreted as an incitement to violent jihad and martyrdom. FBI Language Services has reviewed the Arabic writing and translated
it as follows:

There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
Those who believe, and have left their homes and striven with their wealth and their lives in Allah’s way are of much greater worth
in Allah’s sight. These are they who are triumphant. (20) [Defendant's English Translation]

Sounds exactly like the Islamic dawah ads in the Toronto subway. Time to remove the source of the jihadi ideology or he’ll be studying it for the next 25 years.

Maryland imam says gay marriage bill incentive for polygamous Muslim men

If you can’t kill beat them, join them. Or at least ride their coattails to legalize polygamy. Then sharia divorce. via the Muslim Brotherhood’s U.S. newspaper, Gay Marriage Bill Set to Pass Maryland Legislature.

Politicians or not, people, particularly Muslims, have a duty to put principles above politics contends Jameel Johnson with the Prince Georges County Muslim Council. “The Muslim community has an obligation based on our faith to speak in support of just moral behavior and in opposition to that which is unjust even when it is unpopular,” asserted Johnson.

Imam Hussein Barre of the Avondale Muslim Community explains that the issue of same-sex relations is not new. Barre recounts the prayer of Prophet Lut (may Allah be pleased with him) who in the face of being overwhelmed by homosexuals of his time called upon Allah for support. According to the Quran, Allah saved Lut and his family, except a person who was sympathetic to homosexual lifestyles. Barre believes this example and others in the books of Allah offer ample evidence why Muslims must oppose same-sex marriages.

Further, Barre points out that if Maryland permits men to marry each other, there will be even fewer men to marry women. Barre suggests that the change in Maryland’s marriage law may provide Muslim men additional incentive to marry more than one wife.

The prosperity of Muslims and others may be critical for the success of the planned referendum to block same sex marriage from becoming law in Maryland. Its estimated that both sides of the debate may spend as much as $20 million in preparation of the referendum vote expected to coincide with the November presidential election.

In the event the same-sex marriage measure prevails, legal observers note that Maryland might also be obligated to recognize Islamic unions, including polygamous bonds. By expanding the legislation’s language protecting a religion’s definition of marriage, sponsors may have unknowingly opened the door for Maryland’s legalization of Islamic marriages. Maryland Delegate Alston herself, acknowledged the possibility that if the Civil Marriage Act becomes law, same-sex couples may have to make room for polygamous spouses heading to city halls across the state seeking licenses to wed along with the federal benefits that comes along with marriage permits

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