Media Belatedly Mentions that Gunman Who Opened Fire in a Church on Easter Left Behind a Koran

via Media Belatedly Mentions that Gunman Who Opened Fire in a Church on Easter Left Behind a Koran | FrontPage Magazine.

Let’s lay out a hypothetical scenario. An American walks into a mosque during Ramadan, opens fire while quoting Bible passages and then leaves behind a Bible.

On a scale of 1 to non-stop coverage, how often do you think you would be hearing about it, how fast would religious motives be attached to it and how quickly would we learn that the bible was left behind?

But the same rules don’t apply to Islam. Muslims are designated victims. And they may act like oppressors, but that just means the story gets buried. So only now do we learn that a Muslim who opened fire in a church on Easter left behind a small present.

Police found Reshad Riddle inside the church, standing at the podium. “He had the gun in the air,” Janek said. “He had several knives on him … we later discovered the Koran on the podium.”

The second witness, Patrolman Thomas Clemens, said he was called to the church Easter Sunday for “a subject in the church waving a handgun.”

Upon arrival, he saw several people running from the church and several people crawling out the narrow windows.

“I pulled two children out of a window,” he said.

“He admitted he used a Smith and Wesson .38 Special,” Clemens said. “He referred to the Koran and Allah, quoting passages.”

Upon cross-examination, Humpolick pushed for more details on Riddle’s statements.

Clemens said he wasn’t familiar with the Koran, but remembered Riddle had said he had “served his purpose.”

The media has done its best to bury the story. Plenty of headlines read, “Man Yells About God After Church Shooting” which gives a completely false picture of events.

Reshad Riddle did not yell about God. He yelled about Allah. And the media’s trend of using God in place of Allah is done to hide the meaning of scenes like these.

“Associate Pastor Sean Adams told The (Ashtabula) Star Beacon newspaper that Reshad Riddle walked through the church, still holding the gun, and yelled that the killing was “the will of Allah. This is the will of God.

But of course there’s still no motive. After decades of Muslims killing Americans in the name of Allah, there’s just no motive. Instead we’re going back to psychiatric disturbance. Maybe Reshad, like Nidal Hasan, contacted PTSD in the air.

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

Previously: Ohio: Son Fatally Shoots Dad During Easter Service, Yells Was “Will of Allah”

Ohio: CAIR waging legal jihad so Muslims can skip work for Friday prayers

This is not a repost. Yesterday’s legal jihad was in New York. via Suit says Muslim’s firing was based on religious bias.

A North Side man has filed a federal lawsuit that says a Westerville-based logistics company fired him after he sought permission to attend weekly Muslim worship services that conflicted with overtime shifts.

The lawsuit was filed Tuesday on behalf of Yusuf Sufi, 23, by the Columbus chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. It says Exel Inc. used religious discrimination and retaliation, and wrongfully terminated him.Exel is a subsidiary of Deutsche Post DHL.

Sufi was hired in April 2011 at a Northeast Side warehouse and subsequently given permission to use vacation and other time-off hours to attend Friday afternoon worship, according to the suit filed in U.S. District Court in Columbus. Several months later, he was given permission to combine his breaks to attend the services.

When his supervisors were replaced, those permissions were revoked, Sufi claims, and he was fired in May 2012 after telling a manger he could not skip Friday worship.

Friday services are mandatory for Muslim men, akin to the Sabbath for Jews or weekend worship for Christians.

In a statement, Exel said the company has not terminated anyone for religious practices or requests and that it “goes to great lengths to ensure employees’ religious practices are understood and, as appropriate, accommodated.”

Sufi’s regular work week was Monday through Thursday, but he was told he’d be penalized if he declined to work Friday overtime shifts when requested, the lawsuit said.

He seeks reinstatement as well as an unspecified amount in lost pay and benefits and other damages.

The lawsuit comes on the heels of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaints filed last month by 18 Muslims who worked at the same warehouse. They claim they were fired for praying at work. The company denies the allegations.

CAIR is Hamas. But don’t expect The Columbus Dispatch to share that information.

Ohio: Son Fatally Shoots Dad During Easter Service, Yells Was “Will of Allah” (updated)

via Police: Son Fatally Shoots Dad During Easter Service, Yells Killing Was ‘Will Of Allah’ « CBS Cleveland.

ASHTABULA, Ohio (AP) — Witnesses say the 25-year-old man accused of walking into an Ohio church and fatally shooting his father after an Easter service Sunday was yelling about God and Allah after the killing.

Police say Reshad Riddle walked into the Hiawatha Church of God in Christ in Ashtabula and killed his father, 52-year-old Richard Riddle, with a single shot from a handgun Sunday afternoon.

Associate Pastor Sean Adams told The (Ashtabula) Star Beacon newspaper that worshippers started screaming, ducking down and calling 911 on cellphones after the shooting.

“”It was terrifying,” Adams told the newspaper. “The children were screaming and people were dialing 911. We were afraid to breathe.”

Adams said Reshad Riddle then continued into the church, still holding the gun, and yelled that the killing was “the will of Allah. This is the will of God.”

Reshad Riddle was quickly subdued by officers, who arrived just moments after the shooting. They say he has been mostly cooperative.

The Plain Dealer newspaper in Cleveland reported that another church pastor said congregants were leaving when they heard a gunshot.

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Records show that in 2007, Reshad Riddle was charged with felonious assault, and in 2009 he was charged with possession of drugs, tampering with evidence and possession of cocaine.

According to police reports, one of the felonious assault charges stemmed from an incident when Reshad Riddle allegedly attempted to cut his girlfriend’s throat. Capt. Joseph Cellitti said the young woman’s neck had been cut with a knife and she suffered bruising on her side and chest.

 More disturbing details come out about that day

The first witness, Patrolman Jay Janek said when he arrived on the scene, the elder Riddle was on the ground bleeding profusely, with an obvious gunshot wound to the head.

“He was deceased,” Janek said.

Police found Reshad Riddle inside the church, standing at the podium, he said.

“He had the gun in the air,” Janek said. “He had several knives on him … we later discovered the Koran on the podium.”

Clemens testified that once officers transported Riddle to the city jail, they performed a Gunshot Residue Test on his hands.

“He admitted he used a Smith and Wesson .38 Special,” Clemens said. “He referred to the Koran and Allah, quoting passages.”

Upon cross-examination, Humpolick pushed for more details on Riddle’s statements.

Clemens said he wasn’t familiar with the Koran, but remembered Riddle had said he had “served his purpose.”

A third witness for the prosecution, Detective William Felt, said he was called into work at about 5 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Easter Sunday. His job was to interview Riddle at the Justice Center, he said.

“Riddle told me he shot his father with a Smith and Wesson .38 caliber revolver,” he said. “He said he wasn’t being respected by his father.”

Felt also said Riddle spoke about religious passages in the Koran.

Humpolick again pressed for details.

“He found solace in his religion after he shot his father,” Felt said.

Air Force Chaplain Awarded Bronze Star for PowerPoint Teaching Proper Sensitivity for the Koran

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! Any self-respecting chaplain would reject the award for that reason, right?

via Patrick Brennan – The Corner – National Review Online.

An Air Force chaplain has been awarded a Bronze Star for his service in crafting an especially good PowerPoint about how to treat Islamic religious materials with sensitivity, according to Ohio’s Dayton Daily News. After U.S. troops in Afghanistan accidentally burned copies of the Koran, sparking riots that took over 30 lives, Lieutenant Colonel Jon Trainer came to the rescue:     

After the accidental burning last year of Qurans by U.S. troops in Afghanistan sparked deadly rioting, an Air National Guard chaplain from Springfield stepped in and potentially saved countless American lives.

For his effort, Lt. Col. Jon Trainer received the prestigious Bronze Star — a medal given for heroic or meritorious achievement in connection with operations against an armed enemy.

And he did it with a PowerPoint presentation. . . .

Within 48 hours, Trainer developed a PowerPoint presentation on the proper handling and disposal of Islamic religious material that was seen by every American — military and civilian alike — in Afghanistan. The presentation then was distributed to the U.S. for use in all pre-deployment training.

The piece explains that Trainer also helped teach service members just how wide the breadth of their sensitivity had to be, covering what constitutes Islamic religious material in the first place. “When a Muslim writes down even a few verses from the Quran on a piece of paper,” he told the paper, “that immediately gets that same protected status.”

Trainer is a nondenominational Christian minister who has been in the Air Force for 17 years. He is also being recognized for his work running the Army’s suicide-prevention program, in which he’s trained more than 36,000 service members.

The Bronze Star is the U.S. military’s fifth most prestigious combat award, and can be awarded for acts of merit or valor in a combat zone (if the military deems it an act of heroism, the award is given with a “V” device).

But soldiers attacked and murdered by an Islamic jihadi on a U.S. military base is not combat and does not warrant a Purple Heart. And here.

Update: Apparently, while it is ok for the Dayton Daily News to portray the award as a result of the Koran Powerpoint, it wasn’t the only reason and again rather than focusing on the extreme levels of dhimmitude in the U.S. military, folks are upset over the news getting out. 

On Chaplain Trainer

The piece went on to describe how Trainer’s PowerPoint on proper handling of the Koran led to him receiving the Bronze Star. Patrick Brennan wrote a post  linking to the Dayton story with a headline, “Air Force Chaplain Awarded Bronze Star for PowerPoint Teaching Proper Sensitivity for the Koran,” that spread around the web (Pat also mentioned Trainer’s work training personnel in a suicide prevention program). Lt. Col.  Jon Trainer, a NRO reader, has been in touch and convinced me that this isn’t quite fair. He has explained that the Bronze Star was an end of tour award presented to him for meritorious service over the span of his deployment to Afghanistan, which obviously involved more than that PowerPoint. (This story gives a broader sense of his service during the tour.) So there wasn’t anything inaccurate in the Dayton story or Pat’s post, but they created a misimpression about the centrality of the PowerPoint to Trainer’s Bronze Star. I wanted to provide this fuller context and take the opportunity to salute Trainer for his service to our country.

The question is, why was the Koran PowerPoint made the centrality of the award and why is that people only get upset when it is brought to light? What we should really be asking is why the PowerPoint was needed in the first place and what exactly have we been doing in Afghanistan for twelve years and counting. 

If a Muslim [blanked], would the media mention it?

If a Muslim shot and killed three people in a broad daylight shooting spree in California, would the media mention it?

February 19, 2013 |Ali Syed identified as shooter in Orange County, California shooting spree that killed three

If a Muslim doctor lured a 9-month pregnant woman through a Craigslist ad in Ohio then drugged, raped, killer her and her unborn child then abused her corpse, would the media mention it?

February 22, 2013 | Dr. Ali Salim Raped, Killed Pregnant Woman, Sought More Victims

If a Muslim was the primary suspect in a shooting on the Las Vegas strip that killed three people, would the media mention it? And would the media stop using the his full Muslim name after blogs pointed out his apparent conversion to Islam?

February 23, 2013 | Las Vegas shooting suspect named: Ammar Asim Faruq Harris

If a Muslim – a prominent imam no less, told Muslims at a Virginia high school they must be first in line for armed jihad, would the media mention it?

February 22, 2013 | Virginia imam tells Muslims to wake up, promotes armed jihad (video)

If a Muslim shot, decapitated, cut the hands off of and burned two Christian men in New Jersey, would the media mention it?

February 13, 2013 | Gruesome double murder, men decapitated

Reporting must be better outside the U.S., right?

If a mob of Muslim kids bullied a nine-year-old boy in Britain so mercilessly that he hung himself, would the media mention it?

February 24, 2013 | Aaron, 9, ‘bullied to death for being white’ Family blames Asian yobs for suicide

If Muslims killed 16 people and injured more than 100 car bombing a cinema and a bus terminal in India, would the media mention it?

February 23, 2013 | India: Terrorist attack kills 16 in Hyderabad

If Muslims torched and looted more than 200 Hindu homes in West Bengal, would the media even report it?

February 21, 2013 | a near-complete media blackout and distressing silence from statutory bodies like the National Human Rights Commission

These are just a few of the incidents from the last week.

And finally, if Barrack Hussein Obama ordered the U.S. State Department to issue a “worldwide caution” to all U.S. citizens about potential terror threats, would that document include the words jihad, Muslim or Islam?

February 21, 2013 | Obama’s State Dept Issues 2000-plus word Terror Alert, refuse to use words Islam, Jihad or Muslim

Update: Daniel Pipes wrote in a similar vein a few days ago via Jihad or Criminality?

Comments: Because the media, law enforcement, and elected officials are so reluctant to give out information about the attackers’ religion, much less their motives, it’s basically impossible to tell from the outside if they represent a wave of jihadi attacks by Islamists or are just a bunch of criminals who happen to be Muslim, or a bit of both. (For documentation of this pattern, see both my article “http://www.danielpipes.org/2396/denying-islamist-terrorismwww.danielpipes.org/2396/denying-islamist-terrorism” and the follow-up blog, “More Incidents of Denying Islamist Terrorism.”) The most the media will concede is in the Ibrahim case, that “Privately some wonder if it had something to do with the victims’ [Christian] religion.” When will journalists, police, and politicians end their efforts to hide key information that the public needs and deserves? (February 24, 2013)

Feb. 25, 2013 update: This blog prompted readers to send other recent cases of Muslim-on-non-Muslim violence:

Sep. 8, 2011: As Justin Hall, 32, of Mount Vernon, Ohio, was about to board a Greyhound bus in Springfield, Mo., Mohamed H. Dawod, 25, of Glendale, Ariz., shot him in the back. Dawod tried to fire more shots but his pistol, a .22-cal. semi-automatic, jammed, at which point other passengers subdued him. The attack appeared to be unprovoked. Police are seeking a motive. They charged Dawod with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the shooting.

It leaves one wondering how many other cases are out there that are never reported anywhere.

Update: Several days after this post, a similar post appeared at IBD.com on March 1, Jihad? What Jihad? Media Shrug At Islamic Threat

Ohio: Muslim doctor drugged, raped, killed pregnant woman, abused corpse

via Dr. Ali Salim Raped, Killed Pregnant Woman: Deanna Ballman,23 Murdered Responding To Craigslist Ad, Continued To Abuse Corpse And Solicit Other Women To Kill : News : Mstarz. via Tundra Tabloids

An Ohio man has been charged with raping and killing 23-year-old woman. Dr. Ali Salim is charged with murdering Deanna Ballman after she responded to a Craigslist ad. The Doctor allegedly injected the expecting mother with a lethal dose of heroin killing her and her unborn baby and later doing ‘inhumane’ things to her corpse.

The mother of two was found dead in the backseat of her car outside of New Albany on August 1. The Pakistani born doctor was charged with two counts of murder as well as rape, felonious assault, corrupting another with drugs, kidnapping, tampering with evidence and abuse of a corpse. The 44-year-old doctor has pleaded not guilty to the charges and will be released on $1 million bail Friday.

Salim had put up an ad on Craigslist looking for models to which Ballamn responded to, but told her family she was responding to a housecleaning ad. In September investigators searched the Salim’s Ohio home and confiscated his laptop, camera, and other items.

Kyle Rohrer, assistant county prosecutor said Salim mistreated Ballman’s corpse “in a very inhumane way.”

According to 10TV, Salim had sent a woman an offer to paint organs on her body for $300 in September and insisted that the work environment be ‘drama free,’ adding ‘I just don’t need the drama.’ Salim allegedly told the woman, “wear anything but black or brown bra, and panties are essential. I will take most shots from the back.”

The coroner found Ballamn had died from a Heroin overdose and had substances such as, morphine and codeine in her system. Ballman’s urine contained morphine, monoacetylmorphine, codeine, acetylocodine and diacetylmorphine.

Rohrer said, “We believe this is not an isolated incident and that he remains a threat to others in the public if he’s released.” Rohrer also claims that since Salim is a Pakistani native he has reason to flee the country and asked for his bail to be raised to $5 million. Salim’s attorney, Sam Shamansky doesn’t believe his client had reason to leave the country after living her for almost 20-years, “If he was going to flee, it would have happened,”

More from CBS: Deanna Ballman Murder: Ali Salim, Ohio doctor, charged in 2012 murder of pregnant woman

Licensure information from the state indicates Salim was born in Pakistan and trained there at King Edward Medical College, graduating in 1993. He told the State Medical Board of Ohio that his specialties were internal medicine, emergency medicine and psychiatry.

Unrelated:

• Dearborn Doctor Demands Sex for Prescriptions, Arrested
• Muslim doc whose Nebraska clinic infected patients, killing some, blames Islamophobia, seeks N.Y. license
• Mayo Clinic Fires Muslim Doctor Promoting Female Genital Mutilation (video)
• Muslim doctor released after killing worker with minivan, dragging 2.5 miles
• Detroit: Muslim doc arrested in Medicaid fraud, shipped cash to Lebanon

Muslim Brotherhood tells us they are in the United States – anyone listening?

via causingfitna

The Muslim Brotherhood in America and some of the leading Islamic groups throughout the USA have been a hot button issue for some time. Both corrupt/ignorant politicians and the media have tried repeatedly to paint any who speak of the Muslim Brotherhood as “crazies”……. that is coming to an end. The “Ikhwan” AKA “Muslim Brotherhood” has been in America long enough to plant their offspring on U.S. soil making them legal citizens even in the event that they are deported, thus the Ikhwan remains.  DEPORTED Dr. Salah Sultan of Ohio is a perfect example.

In a few recent articles by Patrick Poole, and a documentary put out by Glenn Beck called “The Project”, newly found pictures of Dr. Salah Sultan made it clear he was a Muslim Brotherhood operative in the U.S.

The newly found pictures of Salah Sultan were found by  ”CAUSING FITNA” while researching Kansas City Islamic groups that raised our attention through some of their actions and online activity.

We have continued to research these ties of  Salah Sultan and Kansas City. Below you will see a recent picture of Dr. Salah Sultan, The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, and Mohammed Sultan, a Ohio State University grad, and former President of the Muslim Students Association at OSU.

Note to new readers: The Muslim Students Association or MSA “was established mainly by members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in January 1963 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.“

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A closer look at Mohamed Sultan’s twitter feed may give some insight into the Ohio MSA and how his father raised him.

Note: The “ikhwan” is the Muslim Brotherhood.

Mohamed Sultan is a Citizen of Ohio, which the last time I checked was in the UNITED STATES…… any questions?

This is without a doubt open praise of HAMAS. The so-called LION in the picture above is none other than Khaled Mashal, a Palestinian political leader. Mashal has been the main leader of the Palestinian organization Hamas since 2004.

Note: Hamas is an Islamic terrorist organization, designated so by Bill Clinton, and one of the military wings of the Muslim Brotherhood – as stated in the Hamas Covenant.

Read that again.

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As stated previously, we became more interested in the activities of the Sultan family while researching Kansas City Islamic groups. The Islamic Center of Johnson County in Overland Park, Kansas is very well acquainted with Mohammed Sultan. The picture above shows Imam of ICJC Dahee Saeed with Mohamed Sultan in Kansas City. With ICJC planning a new Mega Mosque in the Overland Park community, Kansans might want to know a bit more about this group, and if they are affiliated with the Ikhwan in any way.  It should be noted that the Muslim Brotherhood have been well established in Kansas City for many years, as documented in Steve Emerson’s “Jihad in America”. A portion of that can be seen here highlighting a convention at Bartle Hall - take note that this video is posted from the youtube favorites playlist (screencapture below) of Mohammad Albadawi, a leader with the Islamic Society of Greater Kansas City, as well as a leading organizer for MAS-ICNA conventions nationwide for many years. Screencapture attached in the case that Mr. Albadawi gets clever and removes this video from playlists.

Much more, read it all and watch the videos at Causing Fitna’s blog and follow him on Twitter.

Update:

…Mohamed Soltan has left America as of Feb 7th, 2013! That should be good news for anyone in Ohio and America. Of course there are still many Muslim Brotherhood supporters in the USA.

The Muslim Brotherhood has been telling us their goal for North America since 1991, An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America.

If you know anyone in the Kansas City area, forward this information to them.

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Minneapolis, Columbus cops and firefighters seek to hire Somalis

Equal opportunity? Not so  much. h/t RRW

via Minneapolis, Columbus seek to hire Somalis in public safety | The Columbus Dispatch.

About 35 young men showed up at a meeting in Minneapolis last week to find out how to join the city’s fire department.

They were all from the local Somali community, which is the nation’s largest.

Community leaders organized the meeting because Minnesota’s largest city is making an effort this year to recruit from the Somali and eastern African communities, said Casidy Anderson, the fire department’s community risk-reduction officer. “It’s important for the fire department that it reflects the face of the community,” Anderson said.

Columbus is making a similar effort and is hiring a consultant to work with both the fire and police divisions to increase diversity.

“There is a targeted approach to reach out not just to the Somali community but to all immigrant communities,” said Napoleon Bell, the executive director of the Columbus Community Relations Commission. Columbus is home to the country’s second-largest Somali population. Some are hesitant to apply to become a police officer or firefighter because they don’t trust authorities, based on bad experiences where they came from, Bell said.

The city is to begin a 35-member fire-recruit class in June.

“We think we need to rebrand our product,” Fire Chief Gregory Paxton said. “People don’t understand what opportunities are available in public safety.”

Rebrand your product? WTF? It’s not a product. It’s a job. Paid for by citizens and thus should be open to all citizens not specific segments of the population.

People with Somali backgrounds can act as interpreters and liaisons between safety forces and the community, said Hassan Omar, who leads the Somali Community Association of Ohio.

Minneapolis is aiming for younger members of the Somali community who have grown up in America and are more comfortable with the idea of joining the fire department, Anderson said. “It’s almost like they’re straddling two cultures,” Anderson said.

Cherie Penn, the assistant chief of administration for the Minneapolis Fire Department, said the Somalis are one segment of the population being recruited in an effort to diversify its work force overall.

Minneapolis hasn’t hired firefighters in seven years, Anderson said.

Abdirizak Bihi, the executive director of the Somali Education and Social Advocacy Center in Minneapolis, said Somali women also are being encouraged to apply to be firefighters.

They’ve followed Somali’s demands in the past.

Communities in the Twin Cities area began hiring Somali police officers about a decade ago, after Somali leaders demanded it, Bihi said. He estimated there are seven now, including three in Minneapolis. St. Paul just hired its first Somali officer.

The Minneapolis fire department wants to make sure it reflects the changing face of the city, Anderson said. “The Somali community is here. They are here to stay.”

Cops and firefighters will be selecting from a community that has wreaked havoc on local citizens, schools and law enforcement agencies across the country. And for that they are rewarded. Expect sharia concessions like prayer rooms, halal food, paid prayer breaks, gender segregated tasks, and Islamic holidays to follow shortly thereafter. Lawsuits as well.

And who can forget when Saudi Arabia’s religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress. 15 died.

Ohio imam gets just 1 year in $3.8M food stamp fraud

#MyJihad

A few days ago we gave you five other examples of Muslim food stamp and medical fraud.

via Man in $3.8M food stamp fraud case sentenced | www.daytondailynews.com.

A federal judge on Thursday sentenced Al-Idu Al-Gaheem to one year and one day in prison for his role in a scheme that bilked $3.8 million from the federal food stamp program.

Al-Gaheem, the former owner of two Dayton View businesses and the imam of Masjid At-Taqwa mosque, was the second of four defendants to be sentenced in the case. All four defendants have pleaded guilty.

Al-Gaheem faced as many as four years in prison after he pleaded guilty in August to felony charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, food stamp trafficking and structuring transactions to avoid reporting requirements.

Al-Gaheem, who previously was named Lawrence Phillips, was the owner of Five Pillars Market, 1263 W. Riverview Ave., and Riverview Cell & Cup of Dreams, 512 N. Broadway St.

Al-Gaheem worked and conspired with Abdul Yamini Sr., Abdul Qadir and Omar Yahya to defraud the food-assistance program. The men illegally paid customers 50 cents in cash for every $1 in food stamp benefits they redeemed.

Undercover law enforcement agents caught the defendants illegally trading cash for food stamp benefits and buying and selling products that are ineligible through the program, such as counterfeit clothing and firearms.

Authorities estimate that more than 1,000 transactions took place at Five Pillars Market that involved the illegal exchange of food benefits. The federal government deposited about $3.8 million into bank accounts controlled by Al-Gaheem and others as reimbursement for food benefits redeemed at Five Pillars.

Al-Gaheem repeatedly withdrew large amounts of cash from the bank account, but he always took out sums that were just less than the threshold that requires the filing of federal financial reports.

Al-Gaheem and the other defendants used the money they stole to renovate the Dayton View businesses and pay for personal expenses, such as rent, mortgage and other bills, said assistant U.S. Attorney Dwight Keller.

Keller urged Judge Timothy S. Black to give Al-Gaheem the maximum prison sentence to deter him from breaking the law in the future and also to send a message that this criminal activity will not be tolerated.

“Mr. Al-Gaheem is arguably the most culpable” defendant in the case, Keller said.

Al-Gaheem’s attorney James Fleisher argued that justice would best be served by placing his client on probation or house arrest, because Al-Gaheem is an important part of his community and some family members depend on him for caregiving and financial support.

Judge Black said although Al-Gaheem had an “extraordinarily impressive” record of good deeds and charitable actions, he could not ignore his role in the criminal enterprise by only giving him “a slap on the wrist.”

Black sentenced Al-Gaheem to the same prison term that he handed down to Qadir in November.

In addition to prison, Black also ordered Al-Gaheem to be placed on three years of community control after his release.

Al-Gaheem and the other co-defendants in the case will be ordered to pay $3.8 million in restitution to the federal government, even though authorities doubt that they can even come close to paying back the money they stole.

Yamini is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 20. Yahya is scheduled to be sentenced in late February.

 From our 2011 post, Ohio Imam Defrauds Taxpayers of $2 Million:

Al-Idu Al-Gaheem, the owner of Cup of Dreams and Five Pillars Market and a local imam, allegedly received more than $2.5 million in food stamp reimbursements from the federal government, between $890,000 and nearly $2 million of which was from “unexplained” food stamp charges, according to an IRS agent’s affidavit in support of seizing Al-Gaheem’s bank account.

For that he got 1 year. A lose-lose for taxpayers.

Ohio: Muslim immigrants get violent fighting for affordable housing applications (video)

The future of America. Watch and weep. h/t Halalboozeshack

Police Called When Crowd Signing Up For Housing List Gets ‘Out Of Control’

Residents in the area called police overnight and complained about the noise and number of cars in the neighborhood.

According to police, a melee broke out when the manager of the complex started to set up for the event just before 7 a.m. Saturday morning.

Several individuals were sprayed with Mace by police and treated at the scene by emergency crews.

Police did not report making any arrests.

Of course not.

Muslim who planned Ohio mall attack deported to Somalia

He was an illegal immigrant, otherwise he’d be back in Ohio. via Ohio mall terrorism defendant deported to Somalia – SFGate.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Somali immigrant who federal prosecutors say plotted to attack an Ohio shopping mall has been deported to Somalia.

Nuradin Abdi completed his prison sentence in August and was in federal custody in Louisiana while final preparations were made to return him to Somalia.

Nuradin Mahamoud Abdi, a Somali immigrant convicted of terrorism charges in Columbus, Ohio in 2007 in a plot to bomb an unspecified area shopping mall.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday confirmed the deportation.

Abdi’s sister, Kaltun Karani, says the family is happy that Abdi is a free man.

The Justice Department accused Abdi of suggesting a plan to shoot up an unidentified Columbus shopping mall during an August 2002 meeting at a coffee shop with two friends, both of whom were later convicted of terrorism charges.

Early reports indicated the threat might also have included bombing a mall.

Background from Wikipedia:

Nuradin Abdi entered the United States Illegally in 1999 from Somalia.^[2] He lived in a predominantly Muslim neighborhood on the north side of Columbus. According to one report, Abdi flew to Ethiopia to train in a military-style training camp in January 2000. There he allegedly was trained in the use of guns, guerrilla warfare, and bombs.^[3] He returned two months later. Abdi met with Christopher Paul and Iyman Faris at a coffee shop in Upper Arlington on August 6, 2002.^[4]

From Militant Islam Monitor:

After insisting for years he had done nothing wrong, Abdi pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to provide material support for terrorists. As part of his plea deal, he will be deported to Somalia after serving his 10-year term.

Abdi and two friends “could attack the mall with a bomb,” Abdi told his friends Aug. 8, 2002, as they sipped refreshments at the coffee shop, according to court documents filed in U.S. District Court.

One of the men with Abdi that day was Iyman Faris, who pleaded guilty in May 2003 to providing material support for terrorism. A Pakistani immigrant, Faris was convicted of plotting with al-Qaida to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

A second man, Christopher Paul, a U.S. citizen who grew up in suburban Columbus, was charged in April with plotting to bomb European tourist resorts frequented by Americans as well as overseas U.S. military bases. Paul’s trial is scheduled for January 2009.

Abdi was arrested on Nov. 28, 2003, as he left his house for morning prayer.

Anyone want to wager we hear this name again in the future?