$5M reward for two American-born Muslims waging jihad in Somalia

They’ll hype these guys up like they did al Awlaki – who was never more popular than after Obama raised his profile. via CNN: Bounty on two Americans tied to Somali terror group

PS: He’s a Muslim Student Association Alumni

The State Department has put a multimillion-dollar bounty on the heads of two Americans who the United States claims belong to an al Qaeda affiliate in Somalia, CNN has learned.

Posters and matchbooks in Somali and English emblazoned with the names and pictures of Omar Shafik Hammami and Jehad Serwan Mostafa tout rewards up to $5 million each for information leading to their arrest or conviction. Both men are on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists List.

The rewards are being offered through the State Department’s Rewards for Justice Program.

Hammami and Mostafa are members of Al-Shabaab, the al Qaeda affiliate in Somalia, and “have made significant contributions to this terrorist organization’s media and military activities,” according to a State Department statement on the rewards, obtained by CNN. They are both are believed to be in Somalia and speak English, Arabic and Somali.

Hammami has been engaged in a public rift with Al-Shabaab over the past year. Last March, he first expressed concern about his safety in an extraordinary Web video. He has since criticized the group’s leaders for corruption and living extravagant lifestyles with money fighters collect from Somali residents, and for fighting only in Somalia while ignoring global jihad.

Hammami’s family has said they fear for his life.

But the senior FBI official told CNN that Hammami’s current status with the group is “immaterial” and that the reward is based on the actions he has already taken to threaten U.S. interests.

“We still believe he is an individual of great significance to the activities that are going on in Somalia with Al-Shabaab,” the official said.

Mostafa is believed to be either 27 or 32. He was born in Wisconsin before moving California, where he attended college. He traveled to Somalia in 2005, where officials say he led foreign fighters for Al-Shabaab and served as a media expert and recruiter. He was indicted in California on charges of providing material support to Al-Shabaab.

“Anytime we have U.S. citizens who are trying to affiliate with groups to obtain experience and training and have the opportunity to bring back that lethal experience back to the United States, it’s a concern,” a State Department diplomatic security official said. “There is no question the cases against these two guys are based on their activities to date. However, we have a continuing interest in terrorist activates in Somalia right up to now. And these men serve as very powerful images for radicalization and recruitment.”

Unless they are Obama-funded groups whom the U.S. (Holder) allows Muslims in the U.S. to fund, arm and affiliate with. Then it’s ok.

Under the Rewards for Justice Program, a $25 million reward was offered for information leading to the capture of Osama bin Laden.

Then the U.S. left the informants flat and the Pakistani’s arrested them.

What about this American-born Muslim fighting on Obama’s side in Syria?

Or what about this Huffpo writer who fought on Obama’s side in Libya and Syria, wrote a book about it and blogs about it?

VanDyke fought with Libyan militants under the banner of the LIFG, a terrorist group which killed US troops in Iraq, yet he will not even be questioned by authorities when he visits the nation’s capital.

Why the selective prosecution?

Green Bay: Muslim gets probation in khat bust

Local drug enforcement officers say this was their first khat-related find but that they expect the drug to become more common as the area’s Somali population grows.

via USA: Man gets probation in khat drug arrest.

Charges against three men for allegedly bringing the first known supply of the illegal drug khat into Green Bay could be resolved within the next several weeks.

One man, Abdignani Raage, 30, of Green Bay has pleaded no contest to related charges in Brown County Circuit Court. Two other men, Abdimajid Said, 37, of Minneapolis, and Hussein Salad, 31, of Howard, are scheduled for trial next month.

Raage was sentenced earlier this month to two years of probation for felony possession of a nonnarcotic with intent to deliver and two misdemeanor counts of possession of a controlled substance.

Said and Salad are both charged with a felony count of possession with intent to deliver. Said is scheduled for a Jan. 14 final pretrial conference. Salad’s final pretrial conference is Jan. 28.

The three are believed to be immigrants from Somalia, where the drug immensely popular, according to police.

Believed to be? Why isn’t their status a known fact at this point? And why isn’t deportation on the table?

The effect of the drug is similar to that of cocaine or methamphetamine, though less intense, according to the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Drug Intelligence Center. Chronic abuse can result in exhaustion, violence and suicidal depression.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security allegedly intercepted two boxes of khat at a Cincinnati port in October 2011, according to court records. The boxes, which came from the Netherlands, were addressed to a postal mailbox in Green Bay. Local drug enforcement agents were notified. They staked out that postal box and arrested the three when they showed up to pick up the delivery, the complaint says.

Local drug enforcement officers say this was their first khat-related find but that they expect the drug to become more common as the area’s Somali population grows.

First locally but not the first in the Somali immigrant community.

Wisconsin: Another large mosque forced on another rural neighborhood

Another town. Another mosque forced on the community against its wishes. Across the country, elected officials are ignoring their constituents and the obvious threats of an ideology that seeks their demise. Resident speaks via Mosque decision flouted residents’ desires – BrookfieldNOW.

The Brookfield Common Council decision to build a mosque within the city of Brookfield again shows the residents how their voices were heard.

This is not about religious freedom or building a place to worship. This all about Islamic leadership. The culture of Islam vs. religion. Religion to its believers among all denominations is protected by the First Amendment, but the culture of a population is not. This comes into question regarding the religious leader of the Milwaukee Islamic Society, Zulfiqar Ali Shah, and the affiliation he and the Milwaukee Islamic Society have to two questionable organizations: the Islamic Circle of North America and the Industrial Areas Foundation (Common Ground).

The ICNA Vision 2020 seeks to promote destabilizing governments in favor of the Quran and Sharia Law plus Common Ground, a firmly established Saul Alinsky Chicago-based community organizing group that promotes partisan progressive ideology to advance radical political agendas.

The Brookfield residents who were not heard at the Common Council meeting May 7 are well aware of these dangers. Unfortunately this construction was a done deal that the members of the Common Council acknowledged two years ago when the land was purchased. This is not new.

As always, the citizens are kept in the dark until this is shoved down our throats. So taxes, expansion of Calhoun Road, eventually – you bet this is going to happen.

What are we going to do?

You got it. Clean house.

Media version via Mosque rises above opposition in Brookfield – BrookfieldNOW.

The Brookfield Common Council didn’t hear the same kind of vigorous support for the mosque project as the Plan Commission, but in the end it didn’t matter.

The council on Monday unanimously approved the controversial plans, setting aside concerns over Islam and Sharia Law that finally were voiced to city officials after weeks of conversations previously confined only to town hall meetings, online forums and personal conversations.

Some speakers who had spoken solely about traffic and environmental concerns at the public hearing a week ago this time addressed religion specifically.

Mosque officials expressed relief that the council was not swayed by such comments from a small group of residents.

“I’m glad (city officials) saw past some of the smoke-screen issues that were raised in the last several months, so the unanimous vote from the Common Council was very gratifying,” said Islamic Society of Milwaukee President Ahmed Quereshi, who acknowledged he and the organizers knew there would be some opposition from the start.

“We saw it two years ago in this state when a Muslim community tried to build a mosque in Sheboygan,” he said. “We knew that we would see it here too, but we also knew we have been part of this community in Brookfield and Waukesha County for decades.”

Original plans for the mosque were significantly larger, to accommodate a congregation of more than 200. The city’s concerns about traffic actually rejected the project initially, but ISM worked with the city to come back with a proposal to meet Brookfield’s requirements.

What was eventually brought forward was a 13,000-square-foot building and prayer spaces for just over 100 members. Mushir Hassan, a Brookfield doctor and leader of the project, said the group plans to have between 60 and 75 regular congregants for a Friday service, which will run from 1:30 to 2 p.m.

Previous Creeping Sharia posts on Wisconsin – any locals who want to provide us with more info please do so. There is likely much more than meets the eye going on there.

10 AM @creepingsharia Reads

Too much creeping, too little time. Volunteers welcome.

1. Welcome to the Minnesota Da’wah Institute
2. Milwaukee mosque opponent aware of two Muslim women from Dearborn being “harbored” in Wisconsin; Muslims respond: “We’re going to use the principals of the sharia to be able to help decide what we are going to teach to our children and teach to ourselves.”
3. Virgina DMV revokes “F.OSAMA” license plates, replaced with “6668UP”
4. Washington, DC: 27 Muslim & Arab groups tell Senate to make Islam a protected class
5. Moderate Muslims fulfill dawah pushing sharia in Houston, similar lies in Vero Beach, and deceiving senior citizens somewhere in the U.S.
6. Alameda (CA) Army-Navy Surplus store sports terrorist mannequin complete with bomb vest, red-checkered kefiyah, and AK-47! (picture)
7. Virginia: Woman In black burka Kicked Out Of Obama Campaign Event
8. Goldman Sachs caught in a Sharia Catch-22
9. Oregon FBI about to be submitted as Hamas-CAIR Tells their Tools at Department of Justice to Probe 
10. Dead North Carolina Muslim’s guidebook to jihad, Full Expectations – short, read it

Wisconsin: Muslim attacks man with tire iron, claims insulted Islam

via Wausau Man Attacked With Tire Iron – WSAU News/Talk 550AM 99.9FM. h/t JW and TROP

WAUSAU, Wis (WSAU) A man was attacked on Wausau’s east side on Friday afternoon during a reported argument over religion. Witnesses to the attack in the 600 block of Jefferson Street say a man got out of his vehicle, accosted the victim and claimed he had criticized his Muslim religion. The victim denied it but was struck in the head with a tire iron. The attacker then escaped in his vehicle.

Wausau police say the victim knew the attacker but no arrest has been made as of yet. The attack remains under investigation

No arrest yet. Was the victim terrorized by the Religion of Peacer? Has sharia won the day?

Green Bay gets mosque, Somali student population quadruples

Coincidence or a case of ‘build the mosque, and they will come’? Will Ground Zero be any different? An update on this post, Rezoning gives Green Bay its first mosque, via Somali student enrollment surges in Green Bay School District – h/t RRW

The number of Somali students enrolled in the Green Bay School District has more than quadrupled since the end of last school year.

The district now enrolls 90 Somalis, compared with 49 in September and just 18 in June. The district’s overall student population tops 21,000.

The growing number of Somali students — many of whom need help to improve their English skills — prompted the Green Bay district to hire someone full time to support and instruct students, to work as a parent contact for schools and to interpret. Abdul Nur’s first day is Monday.

District officials expect to see more Somalis moving to the area, Seefeldt said.

“Green Bay doesn’t have neighborhoods like Chicago,” she said. “They’re coming here because they feel safe, and now they have a community.”

They also are attracted to the newly located Green Bay mosque of the Islamic Society of Wisconsin, she said.

“We have had an influx of Somalis in the past year and a half or so,” said Mohamed Ibrahim, a mosque leader. “They come to worship and be part of a community.”

Nearly 40 percent of students were minorities in the 2009-10 school year, according to the state Department of Public Instruction. Hispanics make up the largest minority group, representing about 20 percent of total student population. In 1995-96, nearly 83 percent of the Green Bay student population was white when the overall student count was 19,618.

How long before Green Bay has its first jihad plotter?

Previous posts on Wisconsin here.

Rezoning gives Green Bay its first mosque

The zoning jihad. Pay attention to it. via Green Bay OKs Velp Avenue site for mosque | greenbaypressgazette.com | Green Bay Press Gazette.

After a sharp debate about religious freedom, the Green Bay City Council agreed Tuesday to allow a mosque in a former bait-and-tackle shop on Velp Avenue.

It is believed to be the first official Muslim house of worship in the city.

Members of a group called the Church of Islam told aldermen that they have been meeting in leased facilities that have become too cramped and uncomfortable.

“I just want a place to pray,” said Kevin Burch, one of several church members who turned out to seek support for the mosque.

The proposal to rezone the former Bob’s Bait and Tackle shop, 1512 Velp Ave., also stirred opposition from a member of the public.

Doug Cayer, who said he lives nearby, said he was concerned about Islamic followers turning radical and potentially disrupting the neighborhood.

“I’m just dead set against this,” he said. “I don’t want something scary coming to my neighborhood.”

Mosque developments have stirred fervent opposition elsewhere — including in New York City currently — since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks perpetrated by Muslim extremist hijackers.

Some aldermen Tuesday voiced concerns about the Velp Avenue mosque generating too much noise or taking industrial property off the tax rolls.

But after an hourlong debate that erupted in shouting more than once, the council voted 9-3 to approve the new house of worship.

Alderman Guy Zima raised several issues with the mosque proposal, including his belief that some followers of Islam are intolerant toward other religions.

“It has been very divisive in other communities,” Zima said.

Those sorts of concerns — and questions directed at church members in the audience by other aldermen — prompted strong reaction from council members who argued that such scrutiny of any person’s religious beliefs were inappropriate.

Alderman Anthony Theisen said other houses of worship have not undergone such questioning.

The property was rezoned from industrial to a commercial usage that allows for a religious institution.

Is the media now calling mosque’s churches? Have Theisen and others actually read the Qur’an and other Islamic texts? Are they aware that Islam is not merely a religion – and not in the Western sense – but a complete way of life? They should have read the ‘Do You Know What a Dhimmi Is?‘ post.

Wisconsin town approves mosque after controversy

It’s not Ground Zero, but it is symbolic nonetheless.

Concerned local residents asked great questions, and as we predicted in this previous Creeping Sharia post, they wouldn’t get answers. The Muslim group was allowed to operate a mosque in a retail zoned area despite zoning violations and more startling – the address of the building this Muslim group chose to purchase and convert to a mosque:  9110 Sauk Trail Road.

WITI-TV, WILSON – Town of Wilson board approved a conditional use permit for a mosque looking to settle in the Sheboygan County town.

On May 10th, close to 80 people showed up to the town hall in Wilson to see if plans for the mosque would move forward. The idea of Mosque in Sheboygan County has been a very hot topic for several months.

Local Muslims say this would be convenient for Sheboygan County Muslim families, who currently have to drive to Green Bay to worship.

Residents in the area are uneasy about having a mosque in their neighborhood. Some fear that hate and terror against non-Muslims will be taught in the country mosque.

Now with the final decision made by the Town of Wilson town board, the new mosque can go ahead with their plans to set up in Wilson.

via Mosque Controversy: Town of Wilson approves conditional use permit for new mosque – WITI.

Wisconsin: Health store conversion to mosque met with serious questions

Here is a group that is asking the right questions. Don’t expect any answers though. via Mosque idea meets with opposition | sheboyganpress.com | Sheboygan Press.

A Manitowoc doctor is proposing to convert the former Tom’s of Wisconsin health store into a Muslim mosque, riling some nearby residents.

The Town of Wilson town hall was packed for a public hearing last month when Mansoor Mirza presented plans to invest up to $20,000 to convert the 5,000-square-foot building at 9110 Sauk Trail Road into Sheboygan County’s first mosque.

“It did not go as I expected,” said Mirza, an internist at Woodland Clinic in Manitowoc.

What he said he heard from the audience, many of them from Oostburg, was that the mosque might attract terrorist elements to the area.

Oostburg resident Melvina Gall, who attended the hearing, said a mosque “would be detrimental to the health and welfare of our community. Look at the track record in the past of what the Muslims have done and are doing,” referring to terrorist attacks in recent years.

“He’s going to have people coming from all over the area. I surely don’t know these people,” Gall said. “There might be a couple who might have on their mind to harm Christians.”

Rev. Walter Hackney, interim pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Oostburg, said he does not oppose the proposed mosque “from a freedom of religion point of view,” but from a safety standpoint.

“Can there be a government official who can assure us that they will not in anyway be teaching or doing things that are unsafe for the community,” he said in a telephone interview. “I have concerns about it.”

Hirsi Ali: “When you criticize Islam…they intimidate, threaten and kill” (video)

Update (video added)

College campuses have become the most intolerant of places in the U.S. Particularly when the topic is Islam, whereby the speakers and the forums they speak at require inordinate amounts of security and protection. Not to mention the harassment of those who invite such speakers.

Leading the jihad charge against any discussion of Islam at universities, and infiltrating all media coverage of such events, is the Muslim Brotherhood founded Muslim Student Association. A fact never reported by the media.

During her recent visit to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Ayaan Hirsi Ali explained the necessity for security when discussing Islam:

“Because when you criticize Islam, you’ll find people who object to it don’t always do it only by using words and arguments, but they also intimidate, threaten and kill,” she said.

They being adherents of the religion of peace. More, UW to host controversial author who rejects Islam:

When Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s name was first mentioned as a possible speaker at UW-Madison this semester, she was rejected as too controversial.

But, ultimately, a student committee voted to bring the outspoken critic of Islam and author of “Infidel” to Madison, despite concerns by the Muslim Student Association.

“Because when you criticize Islam, you’ll find people who object to it don’t always do it only by using words and arguments, but they also intimidate, threaten and kill,” she said.

The stolen Canadian plane and previous terrorist dry runs

All too often, the media immediately proclaims news events to be “not terrorist related” – even when they are.

Norfolk Crime Examiner

News outlets have been reporting that the man who stole a single-prop Cessna from a Canadian flight school on Monday, was distressed and the entire incident was simply a failed suicide attempt. However, many of the facts point to something much more sinister.

The pilot of that plane was initially reported as being a Canadian man named Adam Leon, his real name is Yavuz Berke. He is in fact, a Muslim immigrant from Turkey.

Berke stole Cessna 172 from Confederation College in Thunder Bay, Ontario, around 2:55 p.m. EST. At 4:23 p.m. he entered U.S. airspace as he flew over Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, at which time two F-16s from the Wisconsin Air National Guard intercepted began following the plane. For the next five hours, Berke flew over Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and eventually landing in Missouri.

Apparently, someone believed the flight to be a terrorist attack. As the plane approached Madison, the Wisconsin state capitol building in Madison was evacuated.

The F-16 pilots made repeated attempts to establish communications with Berke, issuing him warnings to respond to calls from air traffic controllers. Despite the warnings and obvious perceived consequences, Berke never answered their calls.

At 9:50 p.m., Berke landed the plane on 172 on U.S. Highway 60 in Ellsinore, Mo. State police officers arrested him in a convenience store after the clerk called 911 and reported his presence.

Reports immediately following the conclusion of the chase, claimed that Berke had been depressed and left his girlfriend a note, and his car was left at the airport with the keys inside. Berke has been portrayed by federal authorities as nothing more than a despondent individual who had hoped to be shot down, and never mentioned the possibility of terrorism…Suicide by F16, if you will.