Re: Top American Islamic Cleric Threatens U.S. on Egyptian TV
- From: moshes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 10:50:53 +0000 (UTC)
"Shmaryahu b. Chanoch" <omega.d21@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
So much to disect here...so many things to scratch one's head on this
Friday afternoon....
Top American Islamic Cleric Threatens U.S. on Egyptian TV
Pajamas Media =96 Patrick Poole
Many thanks for this. What _is_ wrong with America. "Human rights"
only for perpetrators not for victims!
Moshe Schorr
Nothing snipped
.
http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/founder-of-islamic-american-u=
niversity-caught-on-video-threatening-destruction-for-america/
Islamic cleric Salah Sultan appeared on Egypt=92s Al-Nas TV last week
and delivered a warning of death and destruction for America. Not only
did he attack the U.S. for its military support of Israel in its fight
against the Hamas terrorist organization, but he vowed retaliation
such that more Americans would be killed than those Palestinians (and,
presumably, Hamas terrorists) killed in the present conflict in Gaza,
emphasizing that this would take place =93soon=94:
America, which gave [Israel] everything it needed in these battles,
will suffer economic stagnation, ruin, destruction, and crime, which
will surpass what is happening in Gaza. One of these days, the U.S.
will suffer more deaths than all those killed in this third Gaza
holocaust. This will happen soon.
He also invoked a notorious Islamic hadith on the inevitable
annihilation of the Jews by Muslims:
The stone, which is thrown at the Jews, hates these Jews, these
Zionists, because Allah foretold, via His Prophet Muhammad, that
Judgment Day will not come before the Jew and the Muslim fight. The
Jew will hide behind stones and trees, and the stone and the tree will
speak, saying: =93Oh Muslim, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill
him.=94 The only exception will be the Gharqad tree.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DhcjpTyflYmM&feature=3Dplayer_embedded
This harangue would be nothing new on television in the Islamic world;
in fact, it is commonplace. What is unique about Sultan=92s threats
against America is that he holds U.S. permanent residency status and,
according to one federal law enforcement official, travels regularly
on a U.S. passport. And as I have reported elsewhere, Sultan is
pursuing U.S. citizenship (the status of his application is unknown
due to federal privacy laws). Thus, Salah Sultan has lived quite
comfortably for more than a decade under the protections of the very
country he now threatens with death and destruction.
It should be noted that Salah Sultan is not some obscure figure in the
American Islamic world. He serves as a member of the Fiqh Council of
North America. Touted as the top Islamic governing body in the U.S.,
the Fiqh Council is an arm of the Islamic Society of North America.
Sultan founded and served as president of the Islamic American
University in Southfield, Michigan; he was the national director of
tarbiyah (Islamic instruction) for the Muslim American Society; and he
continues to operate the American Council for Islamic Research, based
in my hometown of Hilliard, Ohio.
Sultan=92s Al-Nas TV appearance last week was recorded and translated by
the indispensable Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
Curiously, as soon as MEMRI published the video clips of Sultan=92s
harangue, references to Sultan=92s membership with the Fiqh Council were
scrubbed from its website. His name has been removed from its list of
council members, even though he appeared there as recently as early
last week. However, Sultan is still listed as a member on the Fiqh
Council=92s brochure posted online (no doubt that will be remedied as
soon as they are informed of this report).
This is not the first time that Sultan has been the subject of a MEMRI
report for his statements made and activities conducted outside of the
U.S. In July 2007, MEMRI reported on a conference held in Doha, Qatar,
in honor of Hamas spiritual leader Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, who has been
banned from the U.S. since 1999 for his active support of Islamic
terrorism. One of the conference=92s keynote speakers was Hamas head
Khaled Mash=92al, a =93specially designated global terrorist=94 by the U.S.
government who praised the terror cleric for his fatwa endorsing Hamas
suicide bombings against Israeli civilians. Sitting beside Mash=92al and
Qaradawi on the speaker=92s dais was none other than Salah Sultan, who
gave two separate addresses during the conference honoring his mentor,
Qaradawi.
This appearance by Sultan with two terrorist leaders directly violates
the much-ballyhooed 2005 anti-terrorism fatwa issued by the Fiqh
Council and signed by Sultan himself prohibiting such contact. Sultan
also spoke at a July 2006 pro-Hamas rally in Istanbul held by the
extremist Saadet Party, which also featured an address by Hamas
political leader Ismail Haniyeh =97 again, a glaring violation of the
Fiqh Council=92s terrorism fatwa.
But with several former Fiqh Council members in prison on terrorism-
related charges (former council trustee Abdurahman Alamoudi, currently
serving a 23-year prison sentence), deported for concealing their
terrorism ties (Fawaz Damra), fingered in illegal terrorist
fundraising (current member Muhammad Al-Hanooti), and named as
unindicted co-conspirators in terrorism trials (former chairman Taha
Jaber Al-Awani), it should be apparent that the group is not rigorous
in the fatwa=92s enforcement. The Investigative Project has published a
dossier on the extensive roster of Fiqh Council members tied to the
international Islamic terrorist network.
May 2006 saw Salah Sultan=92s first starring role in a MEMRI report when
he was recorded on Al-Risala TV saying the U.S. government was behind
the 9/11 terror attacks, which he claimed were then used to declare
war on Muslims worldwide, and also praising Osama bin Laden mentor and
=93specially designated global terrorist=94 Abd-al-Magid Al-Zindani (see
the MEMRI video clip and transcript of Sultan=92s Al-Risala interview).
These comments were made just two weeks after the Columbus Dispatch
published a lengthy defense of Sultan as a moderate and the Central
Ohio Islamic school that he was religious director of at the time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DLIyy5jqMUlg&feature=3Dplayer_embedded
Sultan=92s Middle East media appearances also caught the eye of the Los
Angeles Times in July 2007. The paper cited him by name in an article
by Borzou Daragahi on a group of Islamic clerics who =93share the
outlook of al-Qaeda=94 and who were =93glorifying holy war=94 on Bahraini
TV. Sultan was a regular guest on a program hosted by Muslim
Brotherhood cleric Wagdi Ghoneim, who was expelled from the U.S. in
December 2004 and banned from reentering for his ties to Islamic
terrorism. As noted by Bahraini blogger and journalist Mahmoud Al-
Yousif, their television program was shut down by the Bahraini
government after extensive criticism by members of parliament and the
media.
Considering Salah Sultan=92s lengthy r=E9sum=E9 of Islamic extremism and
regular association with designated terrorist leaders =97 much of it
captured on video =97 you might think that the Department of Homeland
Security would take some action with respect to his permanent
residency status (despite owning a home in Ohio, he spends most of his
time in Bahrain, disqualifying him for permanent residency), if not
ban him completely from the country. You would be wrong, however. In
fact, Sultan spent most of December touring mosques in Central Ohio
before jetting off to Egypt last weekend for his Al-Nas interview.
But now that Salah Sultan is publicly inciting violence against the
U.S. and predicting the deaths of hundreds or even thousands of our
citizens through foreign media outlets, on what basis can Homeland
Security officials continue to ignore this very real and extensively
documented terror threat, his connections to leading U.S. Islamic
groups notwithstanding? That remains to be seen.
----------------------------------------------------
The reason this piece of work is allowed to stay in our country is
because we have become increasingly a nation of moral cowards who have
allowed politicians and others to set the agenda that by expelling and
barring dangerous aliens is either =93racist=94 or violates someone=92s
=93human rights.=94
Long time ago there was a man by the name of Fritz Kuhn who was a
=93community activist=94 of a =93grass roots political movement=94 that
identified itself with a particular =93ethnic community.=94 He had a base
of support from within that community, but he also meet serious
opposition from that same =93ethnic community.=94 And then a war
happened. And Herr Kuhn and about 10,000 of his followers were sent
to internment camps as they had showed themselves to be a threat
(ideologically committed to National Socialism). At the end of the
war Herr Kuhn (and some others) were quickly deported back to their
country of origin as our government felt there was no need to give
this man the privilege of living here.
Now imagine our government even attempting to do this now? Not
likely. There are several reasons, (1) he is a =93religious man=94 and
therefore is given more latitude; (2) deportation would be seen as
=93Islamophobic=94 and =93racist=94; (3) =93tolerance=94 gone haywire =96 a=
nd allows
for all manner of counterintuitive and self destructive behavior to be
engaged in =96 like how all the warning signs about MAJ Hasan were
ignored (and how those actions were still being defended after the
murders).
Nothing will be done until it is too late and then people will ask
=93how could this happen?=94 And then will come the other questions =96
=93Why do they hate us? What can we do to make them like us more?=94
- References:
- Top American Islamic Cleric Threatens U.S. on Egyptian TV
- From: Shmaryahu b. Chanoch
- Top American Islamic Cleric Threatens U.S. on Egyptian TV
- Prev by Date: Re: Israel: Yeshiva students to get millions
- Next by Date: Re: Helen Thomas doesn't get it
- Previous by thread: Re: Top American Islamic Cleric Threatens U.S. on Egyptian TV
- Next by thread: Re: Top American Islamic Cleric Threatens U.S. on Egyptian TV
- Index(es):
Relevant Pages
|
