Alabama: Father of Most Wanted Terrorist Wants Bigger Mosque in Res. Neighborhood

The local council rejected the plan. Will Eric Holder come to the rescue of the father of the FBI’s most wanted terrorist expand his mosque? via Mosque Leader Says Discrimination a Factor – WKRG News 5.

It’s a situation that has the president of a local mosque pondering his next move.

“I believe in all my heart that this is somewhat of a discrimination,” said Shafik Hammami.

The Islamic Society of Mobile has called East Drive home for over 20 years. The buildings however, are much older, and that’s why Hammami wants to rebuild.

But many residents in the area are against building a bigger building, saying traffic is a major problem.

“There’s not enough room. There’s not room for the cars. Really it’s a small area to expand a school and a church,” said neighbor Beverly Montgomery.

The Mobile City Council agreed, blocking his construction plans. Hammami feels the traffic concerns are just a mask to cover people’s prejudices about the Islamic faith.

“Does it have anything to do with them being Muslim?” I asked Montgomery. “Not really, no. Of course it’s, you know we have feelings. Terrorist that came from that particular mosque, makes you think,” she said.

And that terrorist is Omar Hammami, who is Shafik Hammami’s son. He is on the America’s Most Wanted list for supporting the terrorist organization Al Shabaab and recruiting terrorist for the organization.

I asked Hammami if just picking up and moving would be an option and he told me no, saying the property is owned by the Islamic Umbrella which does not allow anything else to be built there other than a mosque. Hammami tells me he plans to seek legal counsel.

More:

A planning commission recommended approval of the phased expansion provided adequate parking was provided, but the full council rejected the project amid complaints the center failed to meet the parking requirements.

Omar Hammami, one of the most notorious Americans in overseas jihadi groups, moved from Alabama to Somalia and joined al-Shabab in about 2006. He fought alongside the al-Qaida-linked group for years while gaining fame for posting jihadi videos on YouTube.

Just to be clear folks, since the media nor Muslims will not mention this – it’s not a mosque. Like many of the so-called mosques across the U.S. this is or was a single-family home converted to a make-shift mosque in a residential neighborhood. Now, they want a larger mosque, a school and administrative buildings on 1.3 acres of land in a residential neighborhood.

Trial begins for Somali Muslims who kidnapped, killed four Americans

via Attorneys make opening statements in Somali piracy, murder trial.

NORFOLK, VA (AP) — Defense attorneys for three Somalis charged with murdering four American yachters in a pirate hijacking said Thursday there’s no physical evidence proving their clients fired the shots that killed the Americans during a moment of chaos as U.S. Navy warships and special forces circled nearby off the coast of Africa.

The attorneys also suggested during opening statements in federal court that the other 11 men who have already pleaded guilty to piracy in the case have a vested interest in testifying against their clients, noting that they agreed to testify in exchange for the possibility of a reduced sentence. The 11 are currently serving mandatory life sentences.

The yacht’s owners, Jean and Scott Adam of Marina del Rey, Calif., and their friends, Bob Riggle and Phyllis Macay of Seattle, were shot to death in February 2011 after they were taken hostage at sea several hundred miles south of Oman. They were the first Americans to be killed during a wave of pirate attacks that have plagued the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean in recent years, despite an international flotilla of warships that regularly patrol the area.

The men who have pleaded guilty in the case have said they intended to take the Americans back to Somalia and hold them for ransom. Their plan fell apart after U.S. Navy warships began shadowing the Quest.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Samuels said that after the Navy established contact with the Quest, the 19 men who boarded the American yacht split into two factions. One group wanted to accept the Navy’s offer to release the Americans and be allowed to return to Somalia with the Quest. The other faction repeatedly threatened to kill the Americans if they weren’t allowed to proceed to Somalia with them.

Samuels said the three men charged in the murders — Ahmed Muse Salad, Abukar Osman Beyle and Shani Nurani Shiekh Abrar — fell into the more aggressive camp.

Despite all the witnesses, DNA samples and ballistic experts, Dash said there is no physical evidence proving his client fired the fatal shot. Samuels noted that some DNA evidence wasn’t available because of exposure to weather during the two days that the Quest was towed to Djibouti following the shootings.

That distinction could help determine whether the men face the death penalty. In all, In all, 22 of the 26 counts against the defendants are death-eligible offenses. Jury selection took more than two days, in part, because of questions about jurors’ views of the death penalty. Piracy carries a mandatory life sentence.

Executions under federal law are rare. Only three out of more than 1,300 executions in the U.S. since 1976 have been carried out by the federal government, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, which tracks death penalty statistics and is opposed to the death penalty.

Report recommends changes for translator that altered Bible to appease Muslims

An update on this post, New Bible appeases Muslims, yanks ‘Father,’ Jesus as ‘Son of God’

via Wycliffe pledges to comply with an audit panel’s recommendations on controversial Bible translation practices

After a year’s work, a World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) panel has released its report on the Muslim-context translation practices of Wycliffe Bible Translators and its partner SIL International. Wycliffe requested the audit of its policies after controversy erupted last year over the world’s premier translator supporting translations that altered the phrases “Son of God” and “God the Father” in Muslim contexts.

Western mission agencies have been concerned about literal translations of “God the Father” and “Son of God” in Muslim contexts because the terms imply God had sexual relations with Mary. One SIL-supported translation of Matthew in Turkey rendered “God the Father” something along the lines of “the great protector,” according to locals. (See “The battle for accurate Bible translation in Asia” from the Feb. 25, 2012 issue of WORLD Magazine.)

Both the Assemblies of God and the Presbyterian Church in America threatened to withdraw support from Wycliffe over the issue. Western mission agencies have also felt backlash from local believers in Muslim contexts who felt the agencies were changing the terms out of impatience over church growth. Frontiers, a missions agency that funds translation work, has also supported translations that alter the divine familial terms, but unlike Wycliffe it has not publicly submitted to an audit of its practices or policies. The WEA report may set the standard for Frontiers whether it officially adopts the recommendations or not.

The report never overtly rebukes Wycliffe/SIL, but it does draw clearer lines for the organizations’ translation practices. (Download a PDF of the report.)

Wycliffe’s earlier standards said translators should use a literal translation of the divine familial terms in a “majority” of cases, but left open the possibility of using an “alternative term with equivalent meaning” when the literal translation might “communicate wrong meaning.”

The new report is clearer. “The WEA Panel (hereafter referred to as ‘Panel’) recommends that when the words for ‘father’ and ‘son’ refer to God the Father and to the Son of God, these words always be translated with the most directly equivalent familial words within the given linguistic and cultural context of the recipients,” the report says.

They needed a report to conclude the most directly equivalent words should be used when translating?

The panel says where the familial words had a sexual implication, the translators should add qualifying adjectives to the familial word rather than change the word itself, using terms like “anointed Son of God” or “heavenly Father.” They also recommend that translators use “paratext” (footnotes or commentary) to explain the terms rather than alter the text itself.

The report notes “the centrality of the word for “son” in the biblical presentation of salvation,” and says the centrality “demands that translators render the word with the most direct equivalent possible.”

The report also recommends standards for local involvement in translations and urged Wycliffe to set up a process for handling controversies over the familial terms. The panel says Wycliffe should be transparent about the translation decisions it makes.

Wycliffe had suspended the controversial translations while the review moved forward. A Wycliffe spokesman said that all the suspended translations (and all future translations) would meet these new standards prior to publication.

Critics of Wycliffe’s translation practices were cautious about embracing the report until they had studied it more fully.

Some readers may be interested in this web seminar talk recorded online with questions and answers on the topic. We have not had an opportunity to review it.

Wycliffe, based out of Orlando, Florida is listed by Forbes as #70 The 100 Largest U.S. Charities.

Live streaming Chicago global Islamic caliphate conference

via KhilafahConferenceUSA on USTREAM

More details in our previous post Illinois: Muslims seeking global Islamic caliphate ruled by sharia annual meeting June 9

Video: Muslim Brotherhood Gaining Foothold in Boston

via Stakelbeck on Terror

As I found during a recent trip to Boston, the Brotherhood had laid down major roots in the city, particularly through area mosques.

Locals fear that the Brotherhood is putting young Boston-area Muslims on the path to radicalization.

Click on the viewer below to watch my new report (transcript here).

Related:  Muslims using Boston as jihadi headquarters since at least 1993

Argentine Indictment Accuses Iran of Terror Plots, Cells in Latin America

via Latin Times.

A prosecutor from Argentina, Alberto Nisman has accused Iran of planning to carry out terror attacks in various Latin American countries, BBC reports. Nisman believes Iran is sending spies to gather intelligence in order to execute terror plots in Brazil, Chile, and other countries in Latin America.

Alberto Nisman is investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community in Buenos Aires. 85 people were killed in the attack. On Wednesday, the New York Times reports that Alberto Nisman accused Iran of masterminding the attack.

“I legally accuse Iran of infiltrating several South American countries to install stations, in other words espionage bases destined to commit, encourage, and sponsor terror attacks like the one that took place against Amia,” BBC reports Nisman as saying.

The Japan Times reports that Nisman accused the former cultural attaché from Iran in Buenos Aires, Mohsen Rabbani of working to build an intelligence network over the past two decades.

“These are sleeper cells,” Nisman said in an indictment. “They have activists you wouldn’t imagine. Sometimes they die having never received an order to attack.”

According to reports this past February Argentine legislators worked out an agreement with Iran to set up an international commission in order to get to the bottom of the 1994 Buenos Aires bombing.

The Argentines have issued indictments and called for the arrest of several high level officials but Iran has not turned over anyone wanted in the bombing.

That’s odd. The ever so trustworthy U.S. State Dept. just released a report declaring there were No Active Al Qaeda, Hezbollah Terror Cells in Western Hemisphere. More via the BBC:

He said the countries targeted included Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and Surinam.

Argentina has issued arrest warrants for several Iranian nationals and a Lebanese national in connection with the bombing.

9/11 family members demand FBI ‘come clean’ about Sarasota Saudis, DOJ wants silence

Who are the FBI protecting…in direct contradiction to their mission statement?  h/t Jihad Watch who concurs with the conclusion of our previous post and puts it simply: “FBI: complicit.”

9/11 family members demand the FBI ‘come clean’ about Sarasota Saudis | Broward Bulldog.

By Dan Christensen and Anthony Summers, BrowardBulldog.org

A group representing 6,600 survivors and relatives of those killed and injured in the 9/11 attacks called on the FBI Thursday to “come clean” about its investigation of Saudis in Florida who may have aided the terrorist hijackers.

The reaction by 9/11 Families United to Bankrupt Terrorism followed news that former U.S. Sen. Bob Graham had accused the FBI in court papers of  concealing the existence of its Sarasota investigation and impeding Congress’s Joint Inquiry into the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

“After almost 12 years, the time has come for the Department of Justice, the FBI and this administration to give the American people access to the truth about who financed the murder of 3,000 people on 9/11,” said Sharon Premoli, who was pulled from the rubble of the World Trade Center.

Graham, co-chairman of the Congressional probe, discussed the FBI’s performance in a sworn declaration given in support of a Freedom of Information lawsuit pending in federal court in Fort Lauderdale.

BrowardBulldog.org filed the suit last summer while seeking FBI records of its probe of Esam Ghazzawi, a former advisor to a senior Saudi Prince – who had he lived was well placed to become king – Ghazzawi’s wife Deborah and son-in-law and daughter, Abdulaziz and Anoud al-Hijji.

The Ghazzawis owned the upscale home at 4224 Escondito Circle where the al-Hijjis lived until about two weeks before 9/11. Neighbors called the FBI after the family’s hurried departure – leaving behind cars, furniture and other possessions.

Sources have said that security records – including photos of license plates – from the gated community where the al-Hijjis lived later revealed that vehicles used by the future hijackers had visited the al-Hijji home.

The FBI, however, has publicly denied finding any evidence linking the family to 9/11.

Yet 31 pages of FBI documents released to BrowardBulldog.org in March say something very different: that the Sarasota Saudis had “many connections” to “individuals associated with the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001.”

FBI agent announcing sharia at Tennessee event approved Muslim-led purge of FBI training

Former FBI agent and US Marine provides some detail on the government sponsored sharia event in Tennessee. via Civilization Jihad “By OUR Hands” Delivered to TN by US Attorney and FBI Leader | UNDERSTANDING THE THREAT TO AMERICA.

Killian (l) and Moore (r). Moore sharia, Killing free speech.

In an stunning display of a complete disconnect from reality and a factual understanding of the threat posed by the Muslim Brotherhood and one of its front organizations in Tennessee – the American Muslim Advisory Council (AMAC) – U.S. Attorney William Killian demonstrated Tuesday night he is a tool for the Muslim Brotherhood’s Civilization Jihad. His partner, Special Agent in Charge of the Knoxville FBI Office, turns out to be one of the key FBI leaders who purged evidence and fact-based training about the Muslim Brotherhood and Shariah from the FBI last year, demonstrating he too is a “useful idiot” for our enemy.

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Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Knoxville Office Kenneth Moore, happens to be the same FBI leader who was a part of the whitewash of training materials to ensure that Muslims are not offended by what FBI agents are learning about Shariah and the Muslim Brotherhood – ie he made sure FBI agents in the field do not get the truth about the threat we face.  He was the approving authority on the FBI memo detailing the information purged from the FBI training programs.  I believe if Mr. Killian looked hard enough in the Federal Criminal Code, there is a violation to go along with this as well.

Read the FBI memo linked in the above paragraph – it’s much worse than anyone could have imagined.

We’ve stated many times over the years that the FBI has been infiltrated. It couldn’t be more clear. We told readers about this event, thanks to a reader, well before it became news here and posted video here.

Back stories:

• FBI submits, removes 1,000+ documents on Islam; Islamists suggest overseeing future training

• Muslim Letter Prompted Pentagon to Purge Military Instruction “Offensive to Islam”

• FBI won’t release names of “Islamic experts” who purged terror training materials – Kenneth Moore must know

Kerry Secretly Sends Muslim Brotherhood-Controlled Egypt $1.3 Billion Military Aid

The move was never released to the public (like the 1,000 Marines sent to Jordan and anti-missile batteries and fighter jets to Jordan at the kingdom’s request this week) and possibly not even to an inept Congress. The corruption continues at a record pace.

via Kerry Quietly Skirts Law Put in Place by Congress, Sends Muslim Brotherhood-Controlled Egypt $1.3 Billion Gift | TheBlaze.com. h/t Daniel Greenfield

Secretary of State John Kerry last month secretly sent $1.3 billion in U.S. military aid to Muslim Brotherhood-controlled Egypt, waiving the restrictions put in place by Congress to withhold such aid unless the country could meet certain democracy standards.

“Under U.S. law, for the $1.3 billion to flow the secretary of state must certify that the Egyptian government ‘is supporting the transition to civilian government, including holding free and fair elections, implementing policies to protect freedom of expression, association and religion, and due process of law’,” Reuters reports.

Kerry’s quiet decision came before an Egyptian court this week sentenced 43 democracy workers, including 16 Americans, to up to five years in jail for working in NGOs not registered with the government. Critics of the restrictive government see the action as a crackdown on pro-democracy, non-governmental organizations.

In a May 9 memo, Kerry said that “we are not satisfied with the extent of Egypt’s progress and are pressing for a more inclusive democratic process and strengthening of key democratic institutions.” Yet the new secretary of state still decided to push the aid through.

Reuters was able to obtain a copy of the State Department’s notification of Kerry’s sneaky move, which was never released to the public.

“A strong U.S. security partnership with Egypt, underpinned by FMF (Foreign Military Financing), maintains a channel to Egyptian military leadership, who are key opinion makers in the country,” Kerry wrote in the memo.

“A decision to waive restrictions on FMF to Egypt is necessary to uphold these interests as we encourage Egypt to continue its transition to democracy,” he continued.

The unpopular memo was reportedly sent to congressional appropriations committees while some aides didn’t even know about its existence.

The Daily Beast’s Josh Rogin has more details:

The law that allows the State Department to give Egypt $1.3 billion each year in Foreign Military Financing (FMF) specifies that to get the money, the secretary of State must certify that Egypt is honoring its peace treaty with Israel as well as “supporting the transition to civilian government including holding free and fair elections; implementing policies to protect freedom of expression, association, and religion, and due process of law.”

Several members of Congress said this week that Egypt’s sentencing of American NGO workers, who were there to help Egypt build up its civil society and to promote democracy, flew in the face of that very law, meaning that Egypt should not get the money.

Donating taxpayer money to any nation, particularly ones that hate us flies in the face of politicians oath to protect and defend Americans and the Constitution. Not the people of any other country.

World War III is pending, funded with your stolen tax dollars.

Illinois: Muslims seeking global Islamic caliphate ruled by sharia annual meeting June 9 (updated)

Update: The venue has been announced:

Contact Them ASAP!

The Lexington House

7717 West 95th Street
Hickory Hills, IL 60457
Phone: (708) 598-4150
Fax: (708) 598-2533
Emails:  info@lexingtonhousebanquets.com and weddings@lexingtonhousebanquets.com
Flood their Facebook page

The terror-linked Muslim group that seeks a world ruled by sharia has toned down their meeting promotion and public agenda because no venue that knows Hizb’s agenda [read Spread Islam or Die Trying says Hizb ut Tahrir USA (Video)] will host them without blowback from the citizenry. via www.hizb-america.org

On the anniversary of the abolishment of the Islamic System of Mercy & Justice (Khilafah) sent to us by Allah سبحانه وتعالى through His Messenger Mohammad صلى الله وسلم , Hizb ut-Tahrir America humbly presents its annual Khilafah Conference titled ‘Mohammad صلى الله وسلم Mercy to Mankind: Messenger, Leader & Statesman’ on Sunday June 9^th, 2013.

The objective of the conference is to present the current condition of the Muslim Ummah in the absence of the Islamic System of Mercy & Justice and how today we should once again seek guidance and inspiration from Mohammad صلى الله وسلم as a Messenger, Leader & Statesman and work practically and tirelessly to once again bring the Mercy & Justice of Islam back for all of humanity.

Hizb ut-Tahrir America cordially invites all to join us in this conference and make it a successful learning experience.

Press Conference @ 4:30 PM

Sunday June 9th, 2013
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Venue: Lexington House

7717 W. 95^th St. Hickory Hills, IL 60457

 

Quotes from the 2011 khilafah conference in Chicago, USA:

Speaker: ‘…Sharia is something all the Muslims want, and sharia is something the non-Muslims should live under too...’

Speaker 2: ‘ We’re not here for philosophical debate, we’re here for action, every Muslim has a duty, especially the sisters…’

Speaker 3: ‘Under Khilafah the military(s) would be controlled by the Muslims…and they would take back Al Aqsa (Jerusalem) from the Crusaders…[crowd chants Allahu Akbar]‘

This 2012 video suggests that Hizb ut Tahrir and the Obama administration are fighting on the same side in Syria (along with al Qaeda, Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood, etc.)

Previous Creeping Sharia posts:

• Jihad: The Highest Peak of Islam
• Hizb ut Tahrir: Islam allows pre-emptive nuclear strikes
• The Truth About Hizb ut-Tahrir
• Why Is This Islamist Group Still Legal In The USA?
• “Conveyor Belt to Terror” not Banned in US
• Map: United States of Islam
• Muslim group seeking global sharia rule to hold US conference June 26, 2011 (video)

Miss World axes bikinis fearing Muslims; Muslims vow to stop entire contest

via Miss World axes bikinis for Muslim Indonesia – FRANCE 24. h/t Europe News

Contestants at this year’s Miss World beauty pageant will not wear bikinis in the parade in a bid to avoid causing offence in Muslim-majority Indonesia, organisers confirmed Wednesday.

The 137 women taking part in the September contest will swap bikinis for more conservative attire, such as traditional sarongs, for the beach fashion section.

The contest is being held on the resort island of Bali, where foreign tourists flock in their millions and the beaches are packed with women sunbathing in skimpy swimwear.

But Miss World Organisation chairwoman Julia Morley insisted that none of the pageant’s contestants would wear a bikini.

“I don’t want to upset or get anyone in a situation where we are being disrespectful,” she told AFP from London.

“We treasure respect for all the countries that take part in the pageant,” she said, adding the final outfits had not yet been finalised.

“We discussed the beach fashion issue last year with Miss World in London before we even agreed to host the event because we knew this would be sensitive in Indonesia,” said Nana Putra from media group MNC, the official broadcaster and local organiser.

Update: Indonesian Muslim hardliners vow to stop Miss World

JAKARTA — Islamic hardliners vowed Thursday to stop the “immoral” Miss World beauty pageant taking place in Indonesia even after organizers agreed this year’s contestants would not wear bikinis.

The Hizb ut-Tahrir group slammed the show as like “selling women’s bodies” and threatened to hold demonstrations against it, while a group in the province where the final is due to take place also voiced strong opposition.

Organizers confirmed on Wednesday the contestants would not wear bikinis during the beach fashion section, to be held in Bali, and would instead wear more conservative attire such as traditional sarongs.

However, the concession was not enough for hardline groups in Indonesia, where some 90 percent of the 240 million population are Muslims.

“Supporting this event is the same as supporting the selling of women’s bodies,” said Ismail Yusanto, spokesman for Hizb ut-Tahrir Indonesia, who also warned the group may organize protests.

“Women are lowering themselves by allowing themselves to be turned into objects, to be stared at and have their bodies measured.”

Hardline group the Islam Reformist Movement (Garis), which is affiliated with prominent radicals the Islamic Defenders Front, also said the bikini ban was not enough.

“They will still wear outfits that will encourage sex and immoral acts,” said Chep Hernawan, the head of Garis which has its base in West Java province.

So says the religion of four wives, temporary marriages and instant divorces.

Why would any pageant choose Bali as a host location? In 2002, Muslims killed 202 in Bali nightclub bombing:

Two Americans and 88 Australians were among the 202 killed and up to 300 more were injured.