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NEW YORK - A New York Police Department detective told a federal judge that he's seen no evidence that one of his informants brought up the subject of jihad as a way to bait Muslims into making incriminating remarks. But text messages obtained by The Associated Press show otherwise.

And while the detective, Stephen Hoban, described the activities in a new legal filing in U.S. District Court as narrowly focused on a few people under investigation, text messages show a wide-ranging effort. Eager to make money, Shamiur Rahman, the informant, snapped pictures during prayer sessions, rallies and a parade; recorded the names of people who signed petitions or protested; and reported fellow Muslims who volunteered to feed needy families.

When the detective responded, his text messages nearly always sought more information:

"Did you take pictures?"

"I need pictures from the rally. And I need to know who is there."

"Get pictures"

Rahman told the AP last year that he made about $9,000 over nine months spying widely on friends and others. He said the NYPD encouraged him to use a tactic called "create and capture." He said it involved creating conversations about jihad or terrorism, then capturing the responses and sending them to the NYPD.

Now, as the NYPD defends itself from allegations by civil rights lawyers that such tactics violated a long-standing federal court order, the department said Rahman was either lying or didn't know what he was talking about.

"Rahman was never tasked to, nor did he as far as I know, engage in what he refers to as a `create and capture' methodology," Hoban wrote. "There are 57 field reports documenting Rahman's work as an informant. In reviewing those field reports, it is clear that Rahman did not use what he refers to in his declaration as a `create and capture' strategy."

Rahman allowed the AP to review months of text messages with Hoban from January to September 2012.

"Hey bro," Rahman told Hoban in one message. "I think im going to bring up jihad with these guys tonight, see what they say and know and then go home because everyones really just praying and stuff."

Hoban did not respond to that message. Rahman previously said his NYPD handler only encouraged him to use the tactic, never dissuaded him. Rahman did not respond to messages for comment from AP after Hoban's filing in federal court in Manhattan.

The different accounts of Rahman's activities are significant. Taken with the NYPD's use of plainclothes detectives assigned to the Demographics Unit to catalog Muslim business and eavesdrop on conversations, civil rights lawyers say that Rahman's tactics show the NYPD is violating court-imposed rules about what files it can keep on activities protected by the First Amendment.

The NYPD strongly denies that and Hoban's affidavit is central to their defense.

The NYPD's court papers also reveal for the first time the scope of the monitoring by its Demographics Unit, now called the Zone Assessment Unit. In the past three years, the unit has filed more than 4,200 reports, or about four per day.

Each report typically describes a clandestine visit to a business or mosque, the ethnicity of the clientele and, in some cases, what conversations the officers overheard. The detectives reported details from more than 200 conversations, or about one a week.

Thomas Galati, the commanding officer of the Intelligence Division, said most of those conversations were used to gauge people's reactions to overseas events. The AP has previously reported that Demographics detectives were extremely interested in people's reactions to U.S. drone attacks.

The civil rights lawyers want a federal judge to appoint an outside monitor to oversee the NYPD's intelligence-gathering operations, which the police department is strongly resisting. Such a monitor, the NYPD says, "would have rippling negative effects with dire consequences."

David Cohen, the NYPD's top intelligence official, argued in court documents that he and a battery of lawyers review all investigations. Oversight from outside the department, he said, would make New York a more dangerous place to live.

As evidence that New York was under constant threat of terrorism, he said the suspects in last month's Boston Marathon bombing were headed to Times Square, where he said they might have carried out an attack deadlier than the one in Boston.

Coupled with other thwarted and aspirational plots against New York in recent years, Cohen said the Boston attack showed "the need for a vibrant intelligence program that uniquely addresses the counterterrorism security equities of New York City."

Informants such as Rahman were central to Cohen's effort to identify terrorists before they attacked.

Rahman sent Hoban pictures: Imams. The sign-up list for an Islamic study group. People at rallies and parades. And bags of rice and boxes of Cheerios that his mosque was collecting for the needy.

"This is what they give to each family, plus flour, cookies, pudding, and meat," Rahman wrote.

And he collected phone numbers. One belonged to an elderly neighbor who worked in a woman's shelter. Two more were people who signed a petition and were "probably organizing a rally" for Muslims suffering in Myanmar.

Rahman collected information on the Muslim student group at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the non-profit Muslim American Society. Hoban, however, said those groups were never his informant's focus.

Instead, Hoban said Rahman kept tabs on a small group of people. That effort happened to take him into mosques and student groups, Hoban said.

For instance, he said Rahman went to a Brooklyn youth center run by the Muslim American Society "spontaneously." Hoban said he found out about it later.

In one text message, however, Rahman said he was heading to Friday prayers.

"Afterwards I might go to the mas center," he writes, a reference to the center.

"Ok," Hoban responds, "let me know who is there."

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PESHAWAR - US drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal belt are illegal, Peshawar High Court (PHC) declared and directed the Foreign Ministry to move a resolution in the UN against such attacks. The PHC issued the verdict against the strikes by CIA-operated aircraft in response to four petitions that contended the attacks killed civilians and caused collateral damage.

PHC Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan, who headed a two-judge bench that heard the petitions, ruled that drone strikes were illegal, inhuman and a violation of the UN charter on human rights. The court observed that the strikes must be declared a war crime as they kill innocent people. The PHC ordered the government to contact International War Crime Tribunal (IWCT) over the issue.

"The government of Pakistan must ensure that no drone strike takes place in the future," the court said. It asked the Foreign Ministry to table a resolution against the US attacks in the UN.

"If the US vetoes the resolution, the country should think about breaking diplomatic ties with the US," the judgment said. US officials have said that the drones target Al Qaeda and Taliban in Pakistan's tribal regions who are blamed for cross-border attacks in Afghanistan. Pakistan insists that drones kill innocent people, damage civilian property and are counter-productive.

The US has been rejecting Pakistan's calls for halting drone strikes.  The Peshawar High Court had earlier reserved its verdict after the completion of arguments by lawyers for the federal government and the petitioners, including the Defence of Pakistan Council, an amalgamation of religious groups, tribal elders and rights groups.

The petitioners asked the court to direct the government to make public any secret deal with the US on drone strikes, stop drone strikes by force, take the issue to the UN Security Council and pay compensation to families of the people killed in missile attacks.  Peshawar High Court has directed to shoot down drones entering Pakistani airspace.

In its detailed verdict about drone attacks‚ the court declares that drone attacks are the sheer violation of international law and the basic human rights as well as against the territorial sovereignty of Pakistan.

The court has also directed the government to stop drone strikes inside Pakistan. The attacks have caused deaths of scores of innocent people. US officials says that such strikes by the remotely piloted aircraft are a highly effective way of attacking militants and are an important weapon in the war against militancy. They maintain that the attacks are in accordance with the US laws. (The Nation)

 The public is to believe that two immigrant Muslim residents, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, of Chechen parentage, committed a terrorist act against innocent men, women and children for reasons which may never truly be known, but seem to point to the older brother becoming “radicalized”. The media underpins the public perception that this kind of behavior is what can be expected from one’s Muslim neighbors, however peaceful they may appear. 

Reports are that the surviving brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is hospitalized and cannot speak. However, Al- Arabiya News reports that before police took him into custody, he was able to post a message on Facebook disclaiming any part in the bombing, claiming that he was set up. The posting was subsequently removed. 

Numerous conflicting reports depart from the official version which, itself, has been subject to revision. Firstly, there was the Saudi national who was tagged as the terrorist, but then that idea was swiftly retracted. Even more puzzling, was the account of one Sunil Tripathi, a reportedly disaffected individual with a striking resemblance to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Tripathi had a troubled history that pointed to what one would look for in a bomber’s profile. He was reported missing in March, leaving behind a suicide note in his Philadelphia apartment. Any mention of Tripathi’s name in the mainstream media was swiftly buried when it came to light that his body was found in the Providence River, with apologies from Reddit for falsely identifying Tripathi as the second suspect. 

How is it that the FBI was, at first, unable to identify the suspects and asked for the public’s assistance, but then turned around to swiftly and positively identify the two brothers accused? This is troubling. If they had both been on the FBI radar in the past two years, investigated, interviewed, and cleared of any possible “terrorist involvement”, why was help needed to identify them from the photos publicized? 

Subsequently, the Head cross country coach at the University of Mobile, a respected marathon runner, at the beginning of the race reported seeing bomb-sniffing dogs and hearing loudspeakers assuring everyone that this was “just a drill.” Very soon after the bombing, the authorities denied that any such drill was being conducted at the time stated. 

More recently, the report that the two brothers robbed a 7-Eleven was also erroneous. Executives from that company released a statement that there must have been some misunderstanding. Margaret Chabris, the director of corporate communication at 7- Eleven, is reported as saying, “The suspect in the photos for that particular 7-Eleven robbery looks nothing like the suspects. The police or someone made a mistake. Someone was confused.” 

The biggest questions on everyone’s minds, at least those who refuse to accept the official version at face value, are: “Were the two brothers essentially loners who were `radicalized by renegade elements in the Islamic community? Were they double agents recruited by the FBI to infiltrate ‘radical Muslim cells’, who were then turned themselves by those they were recruited to infiltrate and so were led to commit the horrific act everyone witnessed on April 15th? 

There is some speculation that “… The Tsarnaevs’ recruitment by US intelligence as penetration agents against terrorist networks in southern Russia explains some otherwise baffling features of the event.” The two brothers attended an elite college in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The younger brother, Dzhokhar, was admitted and even granted a small scholarship, without being subjected to what is described as “exceptionally stiff standard conditions of admission.” Could this have been a stipulation made by the older brother as part payment for recruitment? 

According to the boys’ mother, “He was controlled by the FBI, like for three, five years,” she told Russia Today during an interview. “They knew what my son was doing, they knew what actions and what sites on the Internet he was going [to], they used to come…and talk to me…they were telling me that he was really a serious leader and they were afraid of him.” 

“How could this happen?…They were controlling every step of him, and they are telling today that this is a terrorist attack.” 

There are even some who conclude, “it looks like the FBI used a confidential informant (CI) to lure the brothers to the finish line of the Boston marathon so they could be set up as the patsies for this false flag event.” However, the establishment media continues trying to discredit anyone looking for, or suggesting, an alternative to the official version of the incident that is full of inconsistencies. 

In no uncertain terms does Islam, in any way, shape or form, either teach or condone violence towards innocent men, women, and children. On the contrary, the specific Islamic code of conduct at all times is exemplary. Such senseless attacks are criminal. There is no religious justification to perpetuate terror in your own backyard, so to speak. It practically amounts to soiling your own nest. Where then will you lay your head? Who does it serve? Not the thousands of law-abiding American Muslims who live at peace with their neighbors. This whole business rather serves those who want to engender fear, and keep it alive, to drive a wedge between Muslims and their Christian neighbors. 

Syedina Abu Bakr, the first caliph after the Holy Last Messenger’s (peace be upon him) passing away addressed the Muslim army setting out for Syria, which was then governed by the Byzantine Empire: 

Stop, O people, that I may give you ten rules for your guidance in the battlefield. Do not commit treachery or deviate from the right path. You must not mutilate dead bodies. Neither kill a child, nor a woman, nor an aged man. Bring no harm to the trees, nor burn them with fire, especially those which are fruitful. Slay not any of the enemy’s flock, save for your food. You are likely to pass by people who have devoted their lives to monastic services; leave them alone.” 

Any Muslim who disregards these rules of conduct is one who is ignorant of his religion or simply a criminal, not a zealot. And these rules would apply to a recognized war zone. 

It remains to be seen if Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, in critical condition in a Jewish hospital, will be trotted out for a courtroom trial to mollify the public, and whether mass media will continue to milk the “Muslim terrorist” angle, or seek to answer questions as responsible journalists for an unsuspecting public. 

As Glenn Greenwald, an American political journalist, who writes a column for The Guardian states: “The overarching principle here should be that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is entitled to a presumption of innocence until he is actually proven guilty. As so many cases have proven – from accused (but exonerated) anthrax attacker Stephen Hatfill to accused (but exonerated) Atlanta Olympic bomber Richard Jewell to dozens if not hundreds of Guantanamo detainees accused of being the “worst of the worst” but who were guilty of nothing – people who appear to be guilty based on government accusations and trials-by-media are often completely innocent. Media-presented evidence is no substitute for due process and an adversarial trial.” 

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Extremist group Boko Haram was cited as perpetrators of an attack on Nigerian soldiers that resulted in the killing of an Army officer and a number of civilians as well. The incident prompted a military operation in Baga town of Borno State recently, with inflated reports quoted by major media outlets alleging at least 200 dead, and at least 10,000 people having lost their homes in the violence. 

The Nigerian government announced that the inaccuracies and exaggerations are how the western media reported the outcome of t he fi refight w hich military authorities said began as troops surrounded a mosque that was utilized by Boko Haram’s Jama’atu Ahlis Sunnah Lid Da’awati Wal Jihad. 

A government press release stated: “While preliminary briefings indicate that the casualty figures being reported by the foreign media may be grossly exaggerated, President Jonathan assures Nigerians and the global community that the Federal Government of Nigeria places the highest possible value on the lives of all citizens of the country and that his administration will continue to do everything possible to avoid the killing or injuring of innocent bystanders in security operations against terrorists and insurgents,” official spokesperson Mr. Reuben Abati said. 

The Defence Headquarters in Abuja said it could confirm the death of only 26 people including the deceased soldier, saying the violence happened when gunmen attacked residents of Baga town and security forces moved in after receiving a report. 

A consistent practice of ‘media terrorism’ is to grossly inflate numbers of victims as a means to ignite anger and hatred that could result in sectarian violence. Similarly, a statement presently being broadcast across the internet is that “1,000 Christians have been killed in their homes and churches in Nigeria”. Oddly, the exact figure (and identical wording) also appeared in reference to alleged ‘massacres’ in Iraq, Syria and Egypt. 

Material for this report obtained from The Daily Trust/ Y. Ibrahim, I. Wakili, and M. Bashar 

The US government is expanding its drone campaign on to the continent of Africa with drone presence in Djibouti, and flying unarmed drones from Ethiopia. Surveillance flights have been conducted over East Africa from Seychelles. 

Predator drones, which are designed to carry missiles, have been introduced into Niger that borders Mali. The administration believes Al Qaeda and such groups have established themselves in West Africa. Washington says the predator drones are unarmed, only gathering intel and conducting surveillance over Mali and Niger. Arming the drones has not been ruled out. 

Drone strikes were first used after the 9/11 attacks from bases in Pakistan and Uzbekistan, in combat missions inside Afghanistan and along the Pakistan border under the Bush administration and have continued with this administration. More than a decade later, having killed almost 5,000 people, mostly civilians including women and children, Washington has expanded the use of the remotely controlled aircraft into Yemen, Somalia and most of all in Pakistan. 

The 2011 Air Force Chief of Staff General T. Michael Moseley proudly proclaimed: “We’ve moved from using [drones] primarily in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance roles before Operation Iraqi Freedom, to a true hunter-killer role with the Reaper.” 

In February of this year, President Obama signed the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, a bill that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) described as containing requirements for integrating drones into the national airspace starting immediately. The FAA anticipates as many as 30,000 drones to be in the skies over America by the end of the decade; they are likely to begin flying by 2015. 

A Back Room Bargain to Kill 

An article in the New York Times, adapted from an excerpt of the Times national security correspondent Mark Mazzetti’s new book on the CIA drone campaign in Pakistan,“The Way of the Knife”, provides details on how the killing campaign started. With one targeted killing and at least three other simultaneous kills, including two boys, aged 10 and 16.

Selection from the Times: 

The target was not a top operative of Al Qaeda, but a Pakistani, allegedly an ally of the Taliban, who led a tribal rebellion that fought and humbled Pakistan’s army in the country’s western mountains, and was marked by then president of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf’s government as an enemy of the state. In a secret deal, the CIA had agreed to kill him in exchange for access to airspace it had long sought so it could use drones to hunt down its own enemies. 

That back-room bargain, described in detail for the first time in interviews with more than a dozen officials in Pakistan and the United States, is critical to understanding the origins of a covert drone war that began under the Bush administration, was embraced and expanded by President Obama, and is now the subject of fierce debate. The deal, a month after a blistering internal report about abuses in the CIA’s network of secret prisons, paved the way for the CIA to change its focus from capturing terrorists to killing them, and helped transform an agency that began as a cold war espionage service into a paramilitary organization. 

The deal with Pakistan, struck in 2004, limited CIA drones to the tribal regions, along the Afghan borders, away from its own terror training camps. Since then, the CIA has conducted at least 366 strikes, killing at least 2,537 people, including 168 children. The CIA has conducted hundreds of drone strikes in Pakistan that have killed thousands of people. The Obama Administration’s proposed rules for the use of drones, brought up only after his entire first term had passed, exempts the CIA’s operations in Pakistan. 

Secrecy is Not An Option 

The April protests across the country and the consensus of Congress against the most secretive program of this administration is sending an unclouded message to the White House -- secrecy is not an option for this government to invoke when placing American citizens on kill lists, or the use of drones in the assassination of anyone off the battlefield without due process of the law. It is incongruous that the government would write clandestine laws justifying murder of its citizens and to justify trespassing on the sovereignty of a country to spy on and assassinate its citizens. 

Major milestones have been reached for the release of information on the Obama secretive killing program and the CIA’s knowledge of drones used by the government in targeted killings. The American people are holding the administration accountable to its word for transparency of government and for the protection of rules of law. 

In March Senator Rand Paul, Republican from Kentucky with a bipartisan backing took a posture to protect the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; along with the outrage of the American people, Congress has exercised its authority to provide checks and balances for the executive office and its most secretive killing program. As a result, the demand emerged for the White House to turn over to Congress and the American public its legal opinions justifying Obama’s vast killing program. 

D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the ACLU for release of information on the secretive killing program was directed at the CIA, the administration’s partner in secrecy about the government’s use of drones in killing people away from the battlefield. The CIA’s typical response to inquiries about its knowledge of the government’s involvement in the use of drones as part of the secretive killing program – “cannot confirm or deny”. This ruling made two things very clear, the CIA is not exempt in its drone operations and the public has the right to understand and evaluate the government’s defense of the drone program with information that goes beyond what has been selectively leaked and disclosed. The CIA will have to change its vernacular and disposition when responding to requests for information about drones; refusal to explain its knowledge with “ cannot confirm or deny” on the issue of drones is not an option. 

The First State Laws on Drones 

Idaho Governor Butch Otter signed into law the first bill in the nation protecting individuals from unfettered surveillance by unmanned aerial vehicles. 

Virginia enacted the very first drones bill nationwide on April 3. Their bill imposes a two-year moratorium on law enforcement drone use, except in emergencies, in order to give the VA legislature time to put in place legal protections for domestic drone use. 

Idaho’s new law, which, like Virginia’s moratorium, will go into effect on July 1, prohibits law enforcement from using drones to conduct investigations absent a probable cause warrant, ensuring that the police can only use drones to watch Idahoans who are suspected of wrongdoing and can’t keep an eye on everyone in the Gem State just in case they do something wrong. 

–This article was prepared with information fromDemocracyNow, ACLU, Reason, Russia Today, October 2011, Answer Coalition 

Islamberg, NY, April 20, 2013 - The Muslims of America, Inc., send their heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims of the horrific event at the Boston Marathon. We unequivocally condemn this cowardly attack on innocent men, women and children and join with those voices who hope that all perpetrators bear the full weight of justice. As upstanding American Muslim citizens, many of whom are veterans who have fought to preserve the honor of our great nation, we remain committed to working tirelessly in defending our country from attacks, whether internal or external, that threaten the peaceful fabric of our society.

Contact: Matthew Gardner

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The Muslims of America, Inc.

(434) 664-6775

Email: Public.relations@iqou-moa.org

It’s strange that his catapult to Zionist-friendly media fame has come out of nowhere and that they continually tout his book as “The strongest condemnation of terrorism…,” and “the only bold stand against terrorism,” which both the media and his organization claim. Notice how the aforementioned parties ignored all of the other Islamic scholars that not only produced thorough Islamic verdicts against terrorism (terrorist acts, suicide bombings, etc.), but—like the case of Mufti Sarfraz Naeemi, PhD (rahimahullah)—were murdered in cold blood for having taken a bold stand against the very same activities the book mentions.

M. Abdur Rashid Qadri of Toronto chaired a meeting wherein it resolved to approach the Canadian government to bar Mohammed “Tahir-ul-Qadri” from entering Canada, because he had planned to commit acts of terrorism, blackmail and violence, and planned to take over The National Assembly in Islamabad by using thousands of women, babies and elderly as human shields while in Pakistan. Furthermore, the committee would take legal action against him for bringing insults and a bad name to the Canadian people, since Tahir did all of this as a Canadian citizen who had openly violated his oath by which he was legally bound not to re-enter his former country, Pakistan, after seeking political asylum.

The Canadian authorities are urged to take heed of the warnings put forth against Tahir that have come from established professional sources. Psychiatrists in his native country of Pakistan have deemed him as “paranoid, with aggressive behavior,” an “egotist,” and “having delusions of grandeur.” Tahir’s justification for seeking asylum in Canada was because of supposed death threats against him, saying “People were out to kill me.”

The psychiatrists’ assertions are substantiated by Tahir’s original plans for “extreme action” in case his demands were not met. These “extreme actions” were to be aggressive occupations of government buildings and other such facilities by his followers—a lot of whom were women and children who were used as human-shields. The facist-style actions and pattern of immobilizing people to commit potentially large-scale crime reflects the same tactics of past leaders such as Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, with his followers were brandishing pictures of him on their chests and their laps.

Canadians should be concerned as to why someone who has been spending millions of dollars daily promoting himself in Pakistan has been receiving welfare funding from the Canadian government—thus, their hard-earned tax dollars. Canada has been strategically reserved by Tahir-ul-Qadri as a ‘fallout shelter’, with Canadian citizenship being his shield against any reprisal from Pakistan; and—from the internationally observed drama he transacted—as a tactical operations center for his Minhaj-ul-Quran organization.

According to FBI crime statistics, hate crimes motivated by anti-Islamic bias sharply rose 50% in 2010 and are not declining. These numbers are startling, but even more alarming is that the statistics are known to be greatly understated. The Southern Poverty Law Center reports, “Two Department of Justice studies have indicated that the real level of hate crimes in America is some 20-30 times the number reported in the FBI statistics, in part because some 56% of hate crimes are never reported to police and more than half of those are mischaracterized as non-hate crimes.” The heightened state of ‘Islamophobia’ is evident in the New York City tragedy involving a woman who savagely killed a man she thought was Muslim by pushing him in front of a subway train. It is no coincidence that in those same New York subway stations are advertisements that malign the religion of Al-Islam. On December 28, 2012 a Muslims 

of the Americas village in Red House, Virginia was fired upon by trespassers - endangering innocent men, women and children while they slept. Less than thirty miles away is the headquarters of the so-called Christian Action Network (CAN), run by Martin Mawyer, who rapidly proliferates anti-Islam propaganda in the areas surrounding the American Muslims’ homes - going so far as to post the addresses of Muslim villages on the CAN website, inciting others to act, by falsely depicting American Muslims as ‘enemies of America’ who are seeking to bring harm to their fellow citizens. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Since your first inauguration, we have appreciated your inclusiveness of the American Muslim; acknowledging our patriotism and contributions to American society; sending Ramadan Mubarak and Eid greetings; and quoting a tradition of the Holy Last Messenger Muhammad (peace be upon him) during your historic National Prayer Breakfast in February 2009. Muslims and Christians have been coming together in brotherhood in this great country and around the globe for centuries. This is part of “Love thy neighbor as thyself,” and as the Holy Last Messenger (peace be upon him) related to us, and you quoted, “None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.” True to this tradition, the Muslims of the Americas formed the United Muslim Christian Forum (UMCF) to recognize similarities between Muslims and Christians based on the unchallenged commandments of Almighty God and love for the blessed Messengers of God (peace upon them all).

Since 2008, the UMCF has held interfaith programs bringing together Christians and Muslims from all over the country to celebrate the auspicious births of Jesus, Son of Mary, and the Holy Last Messenger, Muhammad, peace be upon them. The message of UMCF advocates the fellowship and peaceful co-existence between Muslims and Christians, recognizing an obligation to stand up against the cruel atrocities of war, injustice, and the suffering of innocents. As such, Islam is not a religion inimical to the West and despite the wicked plans of extremist anti-Islam groups, a clash of civilizations between Muslims and Christians will never take place. Reviver of Al-Islam, and Spiritual Guide of the Muslims of the Americas, El Sheikh Syed Mubarik Ali Shah Gillani, has confirmed that Muslims and Christians will unite upon the platform of ‘There is Only One Almighty God,’ leaving aside all differences for the benefit of mankind as a whole.

We must bring to an end the rampant, inflammatory media abuse issued at the hand of extremists like Mawyer, who released a book, Twilight in America, where he falsely links the Muslims of the Americas to just about every terrorist and terrorist organization imaginable, in order to pit neighbor against neighbor- along with urging violent government action against innocent American Muslims. Furthermore, in a national Fox News broadcast, Mawyer spit venomous false rhetoric to depict the villages of the Muslims of the Americas as holding underground bunkers with Weapons of Mass Destruction - which is completely fabricated.

As set forth by the founders of the United States of America, this country holds abundant opportunity for those who work hard and respect their fellow citizens. However, it seems that Mawyer, Terry Jones and the owner of the hate-filled subway ads, Pamela Geller, have misinterpreted the American dream and found their way to fame by creating organizations of hate against Muslims, burning Holy Qurans, and supporting derogatory films that attempt to disparage the character of the Holy Last Messenger, peace be upon him, who is a true benefactor of humanity.

Mr. President, in your September 25 address to the United Nations General Assembly you affirmed, “I do believe that it is the obligation of all leaders in all countries to speak out forcefully against violence and extremism.” Correspondingly, a delegation from the Muslims of the Americas delivered a petition on November 26 to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon urging action to “preserve human life and stop the oppression that is being allowed to fester in the United States of America, even ignored in courts of law.” The women and children of our communities are fearful that the next hate crime will take the life or property of another- and one more is too many. In Pakistan, and other Muslim countries, Christians are the minority, but they enjoy full autonomy to exercise their religious rights. Yet, here in America, a country founded on religious freedom, Muslims are suffering at the hands of these front organizations that are totally out of control. We recognize that as part of the trickery of the hate campaign, there are people who use those who appear as Muslims but are not, such as the Wahhabi and criminals-turned-informants, to destroy the good name of Islam and the character of American Muslims. Nevertheless, no American Muslim has ever committed an act of violence against the United States.

The founding fathers of the Muslims of the Americas fought for America in the Vietnam War and other conflicts. We are not settlers here. We love our country and we love Islam - the two are not mutually exclusive. Therefore, as patriotic citizens of the United States, we humbly and urgently seek your advice and ask you to use your power to involve the authorities to provide us full protection; to arrest and then prosecute with vigor the villains who perpetrate crimes against American Muslims; to provide justice; and to hold accountable those who use hate and terror to deny others basic human and religious freedoms.

Most Respectfully,

Hon. Khalifa Hussein Adams

Hon. Khadijah Smith

Hon. Khadija Salam

M. Ahmad Abdul Mumin Qadri

The reign of terror of the extremists forced hundreds of thousands of Malians to flee their homeland into neighboring countries as refugees.

French and Malian troops have retaken Konna, and  secured the Sevare military base, once jeopardized by the Wahhabi terrorists’ push southward towards the capital city of Bamako, now also fortified by the French military presence.

“I have said it repeatedly, war is not our choice. Our choice is peace, peace again and peace always. But war was imposed to us. We will bring a massive and scathing response to our enemies.” These words were uttered by Malian President Dioncounda Traoré during his televised address to the nation on Friday, January 11, 2013. President Traoré’s address was, in fact, an official declaration of war against the Wahhabi-Salafi invaders who brought terror, violence and committed crimes against the defenseless Muslim population in Mali, murdered god-fearing Muslim citizens, oppressed them and stole their properties, and destroyed and desecrated the tombs of Muslim sages and scholars who have dedicated and sacrificed their lives and works for Islam.

Mali is  suffering the collateral damage of the Zionist inflammatory propaganda of Bernard Henry-Levi and his associates who pushed France into the US/NATO sponsored war in Libya. The fall of Libya saw the return of Malian Tuareg mercenaries who were employed by Muammar Qaddafi. These mercenaries returned militarily well-equipped –arguably better equipped– than the Malian army. Subsequently, the Salafi/Wahhabi rebels, funded and armed by France and NATO during the Libyan war, streamed into the Mali desert, which for the past decade has been under the control of terrorist groups and drug traffickers. It was this scenario which spawned the union of extremist elements into the force which has overrun Northern Mali.

The current state of affairs in Mali is due in part to the negligence under former President Amadou Toumani Touré, also known as ATT. It had been known in the intelligence circles around the world how poorly trained the Malian army was. In fact, this state of affairs was alluded to in Wikileaks cables of the US State Department which revealed in many instances the poor level of training and preparation of the Malian army. It also made mentioned of former President ATT’s complaisance with the terrorists and drug traffickers in the Sahel desert. Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika also made allusion to this in 2009, when he told AFRICOM (U.S. Africa Command) Commander General William Ward, “The Malian president needed to understand he could not be friends with both the thieves and their victims at the same time.”

Political instability in Bamako and across Mali was exacerbated by the March 2012 military coup and the incompetency of the coup leader on a strategic and military level.  The reign of terror of the extremists forced hundreds of thousands of Malians to flee their homeland into neighboring countries as refugees.

French and Malian troops have retaken Konna, and  secured the Sevare military base, once jeopardized by the Wahhabi terrorists’ push southward towards the capital city of Bamako, now also fortified by the French military presence.

“I have said it repeatedly, war is not our choice. Our choice is peace, peace again and peace always. But war was imposed to us. We will bring a massive and scathing response to our enemies.” These words were uttered by Malian President Dioncounda Traoré during his televised address to the nation on Friday, January 11, 2013. President Traoré’s address was, in fact, an official declaration of war against the Wahhabi-Salafi invaders who brought terror, violence and committed crimes against the defenseless Muslim population in Mali, murdered god-fearing Muslim citizens, oppressed them and stole their properties, and destroyed and desecrated the tombs of Muslim sages and scholars who have dedicated and sacrificed their lives and works for Islam.

Mali is  suffering the collateral damage of the Zionist inflammatory propaganda of Bernard Henry-Levi and his associates who pushed France into the US/NATO sponsored war in Libya. The fall of Libya saw the return of Malian Tuareg mercenaries who were employed by Muammar Qaddafi. These mercenaries returned militarily well-equipped –arguably better equipped– than the Malian army. Subsequently, the Salafi/Wahhabi rebels, funded and armed by France and NATO during the Libyan war, streamed into the Mali desert, which for the past decade has been under the control of terrorist groups and drug traffickers. It was this scenario which spawned the union of extremist elements into the force which has overrun Northern Mali.

The current state of affairs in Mali is due in part to the negligence under former President Amadou Toumani Touré, also known as ATT. It had been known in the intelligence circles around the world how poorly trained the Malian army was. In fact, this state of affairs was alluded to in Wikileaks cables of the US State Department which revealed in many instances the poor level of training and preparation of the Malian army. It also made mentioned of former President ATT’s complaisance with the terrorists and drug traffickers in the Sahel desert. Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika also made allusion to this in 2009, when he told AFRICOM (U.S. Africa Command) Commander General William Ward, “The Malian president needed to understand he could not be friends with both the thieves and their victims at the same time.”

Political instability in Bamako and across Mali was exacerbated by the March 2012 military coup and the incompetency of the coup leader on a strategic and military level.  leader Iyad Ag Ghaly, an adherent of the Wahhabi/Tablighi Dawa Movement, until he launched his own Ansar Dine group.

On January 19, in Gao, one of the northern cities occupied by extremists, a rumor circulated to the effect that a journalist was beaten to death by Islamists who accused him of working for the enemy. Enraged, Gao citizens killed the Islamist leader responsible for the murder named Alioune Touré, said Ms. Sema Maïga, Deputy Mayor of Gao. The retaliation was also confirmed by the director of a local private radio station, “In response, people lynched the Islamist leader Alioune Touré,” he said.

Youth in Gao decided also not to let it go, organizing a punitive expedition against the “oppressor Wahhabi Islamic police”. “We lynched and killed the head of the police. I hope that the message has passed. Fear changes sides now and it just started,” said Issa, a young teacher in Gao.

Muslim and Christians from the whole of Africa are uniting to fight hand in hand against the Wahhabi and Salafi terrorists and the spread of their violent falsehood which has caused darkness in Mali. The world must know that this is not a war against Islam, nor are the armed aggressors Muslims. The extremist rebel’s actions have nothing to do with Islam, nor with the spirit of jihad, which signifies pure love and awe of the Almighty Creator, compassion for all mankind, and sacrifice for  the benefit and improvement of  the society.

   Ikhwanul Muslimeen (IM) is the deadliest armed wing of the Wahhabis, which was created by Ibn-as-Saud with the aim to extinguish all those who do not believe in their religion, Wahabism, which declares Muslims to be heretics, and Holy Shrines and Sufi Centers as places of idol worship. Wahabis are operating in many countries under various cover names such as Salafi, Darrussalam, and Al-Qaida as well as in the middle of India and Pakistan under the name of Lashkar-Jhangui (LU), Lashkar-A-Tayyaba (LT), Sifah-A-Sahaba (SS). A glimpse into their past horrendous deeds will open the eyes of everyone for they specialize in murdering Descendants of the Holy Last Messenger (peace be upon him), Sufis, and destroying their Mosques, Shrines and Tombs.

I, El Sheikh Syed Mubarik Ali Shah Gillani, am head of the Qadiree Sufi order, Vice Chancellor of the International Qur’anic Open University, Imam of the Muslims of the Americas and a direct Descendant of the Holy Last Messenger (peace be upon him). I find it necessary to clarify certain things about myself and our community, which is being falsely labeled as terrorist organization. The Muslims of the Americas (MOA) is a Sufi organization. We have gotten rid of Wahabi Ikhwanul Muslimeen in America. I came to the U.S. in 1980, to propagate Islam. My mission is supported with the appearance of miraculous signs. Ninety-nine (99%) of people who come to the United States from other countries are aiming to make a fortune through business and other enterprises; some come to commit fraud, cheat and deprive people. On the contrary, my sole aim was to save humanity.

Soon after my arrival in America, thousands of members from Ikhwan-al-Muslimeen’s Herkimer Place headquarters in New York City, followed me and became Sufis. I then established a new organization for non-Wahhabi Sufi Muslims, the Muslims of the Americas. However, those “die hard” individuals who were involved in gang wars for distribution of funds from Arab countries did not give up, but followed the Sufi way while setting up their underground organization, Ikhwan-al-Muslimeen (also known as Ikhwanul Muslimun). Jamil Abdul Haqq, who had been crippled in a gang war, became my follower and later on, I made him my Khalifa. Most surprisingly and shockingly, he was secretly the head of the hit team of Ikhwanul Muslimeen and established himself at the MOA village of Islamberg by occupying a doublewide mobile home. Haqq went so far as to have his collaborator submit MOA incorporation papers without the knowledge of IQOU and MOA administration. One of his accomplices, Hasib Abdul Haqq, counterfeited my signature making me president and then stating that from then onward “Ikhwan-ul-Muslimun” would be known as MOA. I did not approve or sign such a document. I was never President of MOA. This was a treacherous attack by Wahhabis to sabotage the Sufis. We recently discovered this horrendous fraud and after throwing out the culprits are filing new incorporation papers

My last visit to the U.S. was in 1990 and before that previous visits were brief. Jamil Haqq took advantage of my absence to start the biggest fraud in history by closing his eyes, taking long breaths, and going through physical changes before speaking to people as if he were Sheikh Gillani. Some believed him and so Ikhwan once again tried to take root. Jamil Haqq recruited people from Delaware, Atlantic City, and beyond who were involved in street crimes, drugs, brothels, unemployment fraud, and other offenses. Unfortunately, when caught, it brought a bad name to MOA. It was Jamil Haqq who patronized the Egyptian Ali A. Aziz, the man now known to be an NYPD informant who married a girl from a family that was also living in Haqq’s doublewide.

For the last thirty-two years, I have guided American Muslims to become good, honorable and educated citizens who stay away from welfare and move away from the filthy ghettos. Our community’s fourth generation of ladies and men are educated, working a trade, doctors, lawyers, architects and builders- all enjoying complete freedom in their own peaceful villages. It is the saving of humanity that brought me to the U.S., not to carry out an anti-American campaign as claimed by the Christian Action Network (CAN). Now, we are under attack by those who are acting like terrorists and funded by Zionists under operating front organizations. In Pakistan, and other Muslim countries, Christian minorities are independent and live peacefully without bother. On the contrary, in America, the Muslim villages are being attacked by automatic weapons and no one is arrested.

Fact is, I was able to disband the world’s most dangerous setup of Wahabis, the Ikhwanul Muslimeen. I expect that the American government would show gratitude for having saved thousands of youth from a life of crime. Almighty God made it possible to do so because He sent me not only with knowledge, but with miraculous signs. At the MOA village of Islamberg, in our Sufi shrine and mosque, Almighty God’s personal name, Allah, has been shining for the last two and a half years. Many have beheld the Holy Last Messenger Muhammad and Jesus son the Chaste Mary (peace be upon them) as well as witnessing bright rainbows, even at night.

As a guide to people, Almighty God has also given me the ability to demonstrate the truth and powers of the words of Almighty God over human, non-human, animate and inanimate objects. It is on record that in 1975 the World Health Organization (WHO) sponsored an international conference of psychiatrists held in Cairo and attended by London’s Dr. Dennis Leigh, the Hon. General Secretary of the International Psychiatrists Federation as well as other psychiatrists. Their objective was to find a remedy from other disciplines for many incurable diseases. A delegation from Saudi Arabia under Health Minister Husain al Jazeeri and the Director of mental health at Taif Medical Hospital, Dr. Osama Radi, accepted the challenge to prove patients could be healed using select portions of Holy Qur’an. The Saudi Arabian delegation advised they would bring forth learned scholars to accept the challenge. Psychiatrists laughed saying the delegation wanted to take psychiatry “back five hundred years” to the age of black magic.

When the Saudi delegation returned home, they asked their Chief Imam of Makkah, Sheikh Ahmad Sabeel to be prepared to give a demonstration of the power of the words of God. He excused himself saying of course, there is promise of healing, but “we don’t know how to derive benefit from that”. They asked Chief Mufti Sheikh Bin Baz who had already declared the tomb of the Holy Last Messenger (peace be upon him) as a place of idols. Bin Baz refused the challenge. Eventually, two princes from Saudi Arabia went to Maudoodi in Lahore, Pakistan. Maudoodi had been given financial support for his mission, which included great opposition to Sufis and all those who rejected Wahhabism. Maudoodi did not know how to derive benefit from the words of Holy Qur’an, but said to try the Sufis. Prince Muhammad, the Saudi Chancellor and another prince I would not like to name because he later became the King, came to me knowing that my Holy Shrine of the spiritual Qadri Order is well known over the last three hundred years. They attended a dinner I held in their honor and presented the challenge. I said, “Well, you call Sufis heretics and particularly descendants of the Holy Last Messenger (peace be upon him) as ‘lesser idols’. Furthermore, you call people who go to the graves of parents and teachers to send credit to their departed souls as ‘grave-worshippers’.” The princes were very apologetic. I accepted the challenge, “Ok, I’m prepared to help you on the condition that I’ll accept no pay, a separate institution for the research and demonstration must be established and then by the grace of Allah I will be there to meet the challenge.”

In Taif, Saudi Arabia, a wing was established in the Shahar Mental Hospital where, under strict scientific observation, I used Holy Qur’an to heal patients suffering from incurable schizophrenia, neurosis, insomnia, witchcraft, black magic, suicidal patients, and night frights. Despite lack of facilities, my healing rate was about 50%. Two doctors assisted in recording and documenting. I completed the scientific demonstration leaving records, reports and clippings from official Saudi newspapers. In 1980, I took this methodology, the El Gilani Methodology (EGM), to the United States. There, I set up psychiatric healing clinics and began training the American Muslims. In February 2012, a delegation of EGM practitioners, who are medical doctors, attended a conference in California sponsored by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights. At the conference, the delegation presented an updated EGM journal, which lists case studies of the only scientific methodology to actually heal patients. There is no hocus pocus.

I reveal these personal aspects of my life in order to dispel false accusations and propaganda about why I came to America and to underscore the dangers of Wahabis, who are the enemies of Sufis. I have myself personally been attacked six times by the Ikhwanul Muslimeen and Al Qaeda groups in Pakistan. I no longer find Pakistan a safe place for myself or my family. I am the head of a family who is all Americans and I plan to send them back to America where they can be safe from attacks by the terrorists. The campaign of falsehood against me and the MOA community has been launched by the Zionist front organizations, such as CAN, who wish to spark a clash between Muslims and Christian, but they have no understanding of the relationship.

There is nothing uncommon between Islam and Christianity, save a wooden stick. As such, there is nothing common between Islam and Wahabism-they are two separate religions so much so it is part of the Wahhabi religion to murder non-Wahabis as found in the detail in the book Confessions of a British Spy. Some of my followers were able to meet the promised Imam Mahdi who will come very soon, followed by Jesus, son of Mary who will appear on the Eastern dome of the rock in Palestine. Thereafter, Islam and Christianity will merge as one for they are two aspects of the same reality. As Muslims, we believe in Jesus, son of Mary as a messenger and prophet of Almighty God. We believe in Jesus, son of Mary’s Holy Gospel -though it is not currently found without change. For these reasons, some years ago we founded the United Muslim Christian Forum where we join together to celebrate the birthdays of both messengers. We know our enemies are trying to bring about clash of civilizations the way they brought about clash between Americans and Germans by allowing the Japanese to bomb Pearl Harbor. At that time, Germans were not against Americans, but they were against Zionist. So Zionist sacrificed the lives of millions of Americans to save themselves. Similarly, in Iraq, despite the fact that UN inspectors gave statements that no weapons of mass destruction existed, there was a push seen on Fox News to insist that WMDs were there.

The Muslims of the Americas has been targeted by Martin Mawyer who also appears on Fox programs passing claims that the village of Islamberg has WMDs. Another man ludicrously claimed that MOA has nuclear weapons, underground bunkers, tunnels and airports. An independent NY news channel, Al Arabiya investigated, inspected and proved with local police that every claim was a lie and no laws have been broken on Islamberg. One of CAN’s oft-repeated propaganda tools is to instill fear by showing pictures and video of Muslims doing military training and then state the training is being done by American Muslims to attack America. It is a well-known fact that those videos are from decades ago, when US President Reagan, the United Nations and the world was directing efforts against the communist threat of Russia in Afghanistan “calling” for people to come fight, urging the freedom fighters in their right to self-determination. Other videos feature Kashmiris who were also supported in their quest for freedom against the atrocities and genocide they faced under Hindu rule as sanctioned by a UN Resolution in 1947. These lies serve one purpose: to provoke an attack by the U.S. government against the American Muslim.

I warn the American government that in order to destroy the images of Muslims in America, our enemies are working day and night by posing as “jihadists” and brainwashing local American Muslims to undertake acts of sabotage. In 1993, such elements lured some Muslims saying they would train them to make bombs from fertilizers and later took them to America to destroy the World Trade Center. Thankfully, they were arrested. However, these wahabis will stop at nothing even very dangerous suicide bombers against all Americans- Muslims and otherwise.

My request to President Obama, as he enters his second term as president, is to protect Muslim minorities in America.This request is from me to him, for whether he acknowledges or not, he belongs to my family – the family of the Holy Last Messenger (peace be upon him) -as his real name is Syed Mubarik Hussain Obama. Almighty God has given him the opportunity to govern the U.S. and I advise him to do so with justice and kindness as he looks after the rights of all people, including saving the American Muslims from so-called Christians who are terrorizing them. This campaign of harassment led by Mawyer must stop, including his publishing of MOA addresses on the web. Not surprisingly, gunshots were recently fired at an MOA location in Virginia near the CAN headquarters. These criminals and their instigators must be arrested. American Muslims will not retaliate because we know that it will result in war in America between Muslims and Christians and we desire unity. Moreover, I need not advise the president to stop the use of drones that kill innocents in Afghanistan. Albeit, if you try to stop it you cannot because the drone lobby in America is very strong. The world knows that the U.S. isn’t truly operating independently anymore. Anyone who goes against the Zionist lobby in America goes the way of President John F. Kennedy. Nonetheless, ultimately these things have their own repercussions, not by men, but by the Almighty Creator as you have already seen through the devastating storm that hit the East coast.

With these words of clarification, I have advised the U.S. government to be careful about Ikhwanul Muslimeen and their branches who intend to brainwash local youngsters into becoming suicide bombers, which Islam forbids. If needed, I might have to come back to the U.S. to save, protect and seek justice for the life and property of the American Muslim. I demand that Muslims and Christians should join hands together to fight the Wahhabi terrorism and their global order.

The obvious and real intention of the criminals behind this fallacious onslaught of inflammatory propaganda is to instigate fighting and violence between Muslims and Christians. This violence could be seen as a direct result of the publication of a most contentious, blatantly falsified book Twilight in America written by the fraud Martin Mawyer. He and his extremist cohorts , the Christian Action Network (CAN) who have publicized their intention to destroy Islam and Muslims, have resorted to all manner of deception and outright lies to frame and target American Muslims in general, the Muslims of the Americas, Inc., in particular, and their leaders as a ‘terrorist threat’ which seeks to take over America. Mawyer repeatedly makes reference to this in his book, going so far as to give an address of our peaceful community on the web, appealing to Americans to ‘do something’ about this alleged ‘terrorist threat’; even stooping to the ridiculous claim that the Muslim villages possess ‘weapons of mass destruction’! In the book,  Mawyer quotes extensively  Ali Aziz, an apparent NYPD informant planted amongst the Muslims of the Americas for eight years. The book reveals that Aziz has a checkered past and criminal history as a felon, having entered the United States illegally with fraudulent paperwork - issues which were used to coerce Ali into spying on behalf of NYPD. Yet, although apparently known as a liar and criminal, his false accounts have been taken as fact and fed the writing of Mawyer’s fallacious book. According to Mawyer, “Though the ‘deal’ gave the NYPD complete control over Ali, there were some perks to becoming the department’s undercover agent. Besides being provided a green card, giving him permanent U.S. residence status, Ali would be paid money— lots of money— for becoming a spy inside the MOA organization.” (Mawyer, Martin; Pierucci, Patti (2012-10-11). Twilight in America (pp. 191-192)

The attack in Virginia is a hateful spark ignited by the rhetoric of extremists such as Mawyer and his cohorts’ who broadcast anti-Islam ranting aimed at inciting unaware patriotic Americans to violent actions against Muslims of the Americas. The shooting incident in Virginia should be classified by federal and local law enforcement officials as a hate crime, necessitating our demand that they preserve and protect our villages from further assaults.

A recent Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) report documents the alarming increase in hate-incited attacks against Muslims, one of the most recent being the outright murder of a man who was pushed in the path of a subway train in New York City by a woman who believed he was a Muslim. In addition, it was reported that:

· A man of Afghan ethnicity was repeatedly stabbed by an attacker who is reported to have said he ‘doesn’t like Muslims’.

· Two teenage males beat a 70 year-old man after asking if he was Hindu or Muslim.

· Anti-Muslim hate speech is delivered to a right-wing Tea party gathering at a public school, during which it was said that ‘we are at war with Islam’ and that ‘Muslims will kill your children’.

· An Indiana man was prosecuted for setting fire to a mosque in Toledo, Ohio. Muslims in Fremont, California were put on increased vigilance after a man reportedly entered a mosque claiming he had a gun and threatened to kill all inside of the house of worship. A similar occurred in San Antonio, Texas.

· An incident in Philadelphia identified two members of extreme white supremacist groups who attacked two Muslims and were apprehended after bragging online of their crime.

These are a sampling of the epidemic of hate crimes across America and the proliferating threat of domestic extremism. Mawyer along with other deplorable, extremist hate-mongers such as Pamela Geller, whose organization paid the city of New York to advertise their incendiary propaganda on billboards on and around public transportation systems, are uninhibited from spouting their rabid Islamophobic rhetoric - despite that fact that US law protects its citizens against slander, libel and character defamation. Their affiliation and connections to the Zionists have been documented and proven. As such, they have unabashedly insulted and maligned the sacred holy book of Islam and produced blasphemous, mocking films, and burned Holy Qur’an which can never be destroyed – all actions which have been uncategorically rejected and condemned by true Christians.

Mawyer and his lies clearly depict his fraudulence because Christians, by and large do not tell lies. It is of the utmost urgency that the United States government, as well as local law enforcement officials, take all necessary and required actions to bring to an immediate halt the epidemic spread of the malicious falsehood and media terrorism which is evoking fear and hatred among the unwary public, and to prosecute the outright vicious physical attacks upon Muslims, our communities, and property. In addition, the media should be scrutinized and legally prevented from collusion with those whose hidden agenda is the malevolent spread of false and inflammatory propaganda under the ruse of the 1st Amendment right of free speech!

Serious concerns have repeatedly been conveyed to government and law enforcement officials for some time regarding the alarming increase in the broadcast media terrorism being engaged in by nefarious anti-Islam groups, with the most recent declaration being presented to United Nations Secretary General Ban-Ki-moon by a delegation from the International Quranic Open University and Muslims of the Americas emphatically requesting that this issue be addressed and the incendiary and violent actions of these extremist criminals be officially condemned by that international body. Further, the statement  implores the UN to demand that the perpetrating groups and individuals be held legally accountable for their irresponsible and inhumane actions and the tragic results of their media terrorism as well. In addition, we are petitioning US President Barack Obama, by means of an appeal requesting him to follow up, as he has stated, "protecting the rights of every citizen."

Under the high moral code of the Islamic way of life, Muslims choose to live in the bucolic peace and tranquility of rural America, protecting us and our families from the crime, perversion and profusely immoral environment which predominates in the cities.

We acknowledge the blessing of freedom in our country, where all may practice the tenets of their faith without fear of reprisal or harm. This is a right whose enforcement is assured by our government. We are indigenous United States citizens – America is our home!

We participate in elections, share concerns in our communities, volunteer and take part when disasters struck our neighbors near and far – an obligation in Islam which is done for the Sake of Almighty God.

We will never resort to attacking anyone; we will not be provoked into a cataclysmic ‘clash of civilizations’. This will not happen for Christians and Muslims will unite.

We will utilize the US courts to exact our legal rights, making these criminal extremists accountable for their crimes which, if successful, will adversely affect not only Muslims, but all of humanity. Almighty God has declared that Muslims and Christians are brethren who must and will become one dynamic body against those who seek to destroy religion and mankind as well.

Regards,

Matthew Gardner

Deputy Director, Virginia

Muslims of the Americas

The following is a reader response to the recent publication in the Islamic Post entitled, Destruction of Timbuktu Sufi Shrine Exposes Wahabi Agenda.

Comment made by maryamshams:

Its strange to see that people make accusations without any facts. Let us cross examine the accussations point by point.

1. Dr Adams says: "Thus, the term ‘Wahabi Islam’ is absolutely wrong" .

The muslims he refers to never claim themselves to follow" Wahabi Islam". They follow the way of the salaf with evidence from the Prophet SAWS hadith and the Quran.

Speaking lies against someone because you hate them is defintely a sign of hypocrisy and fanatism.Why talk about something when you cannot even speak the truth.

2. Salafi Scholars never approve of suicide bombings , infact they severely prohibit it even in case of Palestinians who fight the zionists because Allah has forbidden a muslim to take his own life. Its only some extremists who follow Scholars with weak knowledge fall into this trap.

3. In another claim - "Extremism, terrorism and fanaticism against Muslims reigns in Wahabi ideology; this same spirit served to massacre a half million Muslims in the bloody takeover of Arabia" .....

No basis to this accusation. If half a million people were really killed , it would have been known well in history and would be a genocide. All that is known is few hundreds of people were killed, and in war there are always casualties.

Another Blatant Lie !

4. "opening of the Sidi Yahya masjid main door is amongst the signs of last days" - No proof of this in Islam. Never did the Prophet SAWS mention about the sidi yahya masjid door .

Why mislead muslim masses to falsehood with these lies ?

These claims and attacks are nothing but a way of falsifying those who Follow True Islam. This shows how much hatred and jealousy people like Mahmoud Siddibe qadri and Dr Adams have towards the Salafis . Its up to the muslims to understand whether they can follow the way of those who simply lie in the first place , or those who speak truth with facts and proof to back it up.

If i am wrong please prove it !

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Author’s response:

First, we want to thank you for taking the time to read the article and give us your impression. We will do our best to respond to your questions and the points you raised in relation to the article and we hope that it will enlighten you on the reason why our previous article on Timbuktu and other articles on Wahhabism were published.  

In regards to your  first point on the calling Wahhabi as ‘ Wahhabi’:

The Kharijites (a group of rebellious seceders, so-called because they seceded from the army of the Caliph Ali when he agreed to settle his dispute with Muawiyah through arbitration) never called themselves in this manner; they were labelled as such due to their belief and actions. So, even though the Wahhabis never claimed to be as such, Muslims scholars have called them  Wahhabi based on their ideology and to make sure that there is a separation between  their sectarian ideology and that of the Muslim community (Ahle Sunnah wal Jamma’ah).

The claim by the Wahhabi/Salafis to be the only ones following ‘the Salaf’ is dubious. Every Muslim that learned the precepts and the sciences of Islam from one of the four schools of jurisprudence (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’I, Hanbali) at the hand of a competent and authorized teacher, in fact, follows the ways of the Salaf and no one else does; and the same applies  for the science of Aqida, for the science of Hadith, for the science of Tafsir and any other science. Up to this day, every competent teacher that received proper authorization (or ijaza) to teach a subject can trace back to his teacher, who, in turn, can prove his authorization from his teacher and this all the way back to Imam Abu Hanifa, Imam Malik, Imam Shafi’i or Imam Hanbal, may Allah be well pleased with them. And as we all know, these luminaries studied at the hand of the Tabi’i, the first generation of Muslims who lived after the Holy Prophet (Peace and blessings be upon him). 

However, this is not the case for those who nowadays claim to be the followers of the true Salaf. We have yet to see one of their scholars bring their chain of learning as proof of following the way of the holy Companions, may Allah be pleased with them all. In fact, some of the greatest and most respected pseudo-scholars and imams of the Wahabis or Salafis never, ever provided evidence of getting authorization to teach from any competent scholar. Did Sheikh ibn Baz ever provide any proof or did Sheikh Nasir Al-Albani, who is reputed to have learned most of his knowledge in the Dhahiriyya Library in Damascus, ever provide evidence to refute these claims? No - and they never will because they did not acquire the required credentials to teach others. In fact, the chief of the Wahabiyya and Salafia, Muhammed ibn Abdul Wahab, was refuted by all the respected scholars of his time and even by his own family. This is not a claim, but an historical fact!

Moreover, if the Salafi are “following the way of the Salaf with evidence from the Prophet (Peace and blessings be upon him) hadith and Quran”, why is it that up to today we have yet to see any descendant of Imam Hasan or Imam Hussein (Allah’s mercy be upon them) approve of their way and follow them since the evidences are there? Any time we hear or read from members of the Ahle Bait (descendant family members of the Holy Prophet, peace and blessing be upon them )  on the Wahabis or Salafis is to condemn their actions and their beliefs. If they “follow the Salaf with the evidence of the Prophet’s hadith and Quran”, does that mean that every single descendant of Imam Ali and of Syeda Fatimah Zahra (Allah be pleased with them) are misguided? This is ludicrous. That in itself should be enough of an argument for people who reflect.

Salafi Scholars never approve of suicide bombings?

As far as the statement that Salafi scholars do not approve of suicide bombing and vehemently condemn it, even in the case of Palestinians who fight the Zionists and that its only some extremists that follow scholars with weak knowledge, I would respond that if it is so, why is it that all those suicide bombers that attack Holy Shrines, Muslims and non-Muslims all over the world come from Wahhabi/Salafis based groups? We never hear of attacks or killings perpetrated from Muslim moderate organisations or from Sufi based groups. In fact, moderate Muslims and Sufis are the first victims of suicide bombings and terror attacks. 

All over the world, more Muslims are victims and die from terrorist attacks than any other group or religion. In many Muslim countries, attacks are perpetrated weekly, if not daily, by so-called Muslims against other Muslims. These are not isolated incidents. The perpetrators of these attacks base themselves on the Wahhabi/Salafi notion of takfir and do not consider other Muslims as their fellow brothers, but as ‘kafir’ because they say "Ya Muhammad" and because they go and pay their respects to and visit people at their graves.

The people who desecrate and destroy graves are the same ones who go and blow themselves up in Holy Shrines. The only difference is that they pushed their ideology to the next level. However, both Wahhabis and Salafis consider the visitors of the graves as committing an act of ‘idolatry’ and therefore, label those who practice that as not being Muslim. The scholars of the two groups come from the same root (Wahhabism) and from the same tree (Salafism), it’s only the branch that differs.

Here is what Sheikh ibn Baz had to say about Muslims who seek intercession and assistance from The Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and  the Muslim saints or Awliya:

"But if he prays to the dead and seeks help from them or from the jinn or other created beings, and he says “O Messenger of Allaah help me or heal my sick loved one” or he says “Ya Sayyidi al-Husayn” or “Ya Sayyidi al-Badawi” or calls upon any other dead person, or prays to inanimate things such as idols, saying “al-madad al-madad (help, help)”, then he is a mushrik who is guilty of major shirk, and you should not pray behind him and his leading the prayers is not valid." (Fataawa al-Shaykh Ibn Baaz, 9/373, 374)

That is the same person who accepted the invitation of the United States Army in Saudi Arabia to attack Muslims and "grave worshipers" of Iraq.

Now let’s look at the statements of some respected Wahhabi/Salafi based scholars that legitimise terror so that we do not say our claims are unfounded.

In the 1970s, under King Khaled, the Saudi education system which was full of the Muslim Brotherhood and other Salafi groups, published and promoted many books of Sayyid Qutb, the brother of Muhammad Qutb, who was a professor of Islamic Studies in the Kingdom. Sayyid Qutb, one of the founding fathers of modern-day terrorism, was the editor of the Salafi-based Muslim Brotherhood weekly periodical and a member of its Working Committee and of the Guidance Council. Qutb, in Ma'alim fil-Tariq, taught that Muslims and Muslim rulers who fail to implement Almighty God´s laws are not actually Muslims but ‘apostates’, they live in a state of ‘jahiliyya’ and must be opposed. This idea has influenced the rise of contemporary militants who use this doctrine to legitimize the killing of Muslims by Muslims for alleged ‘apostasy’. It would be good to mention at this point that Sayyid Qutb, "the scholar", had no Islamic credentials for his books and teachings to be propagated throughout the Muslim world, his only post-secondary education was a secular background. 

Here is a 2004 excerpt from a BBC in regards to Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi views. He is praised and followed by many MSA (Muslim Student Associations) around the world:

"It is particularly his views on suicide bombings that has courted controversy, but mainly in the West. He has distanced himself from suicide attacks in the West, but he has consistently defended Palestinian suicide attacks against Israelis.

Recently, he told Al-Jazeera that he was not alone in believing that suicide bombings in Palestinian territories were a legitimate form of self defence for people who have no aircraft or tanks.

He said hundreds of other Islamic scholars are of the same opinion. In this respect, he is very much in tune with what the vast majority of people in the Arab world believe.

Defending suicide bombings that target Israeli civilians, Sheikh A-Qaradawi told the BBC program Newsnight that "an Israeli woman is not like women in our societies, because she is a soldier. I consider this type of martyrdom operation as an evidence of God's justice. Allah Almighty is just; through His infinite wisdom he has given the weak a weapon the strong do not have and and that is their ability to turn their bodies into bombs as Palestinians do".

Despite his popularity, Sheikh Al-Qaradawi is not without his critics in the Arab world.

Some see his regular preaching on Al-Jazeera as ‘an uncritical regurgitation of Islamic dogma out of touch with the modern world.’

One can say that not all Salafi scholars authorize the killing of innocent Muslims and non-Muslims, but no one can claim that it is the only and unique view of their Ulemas. And the fact that, as mentioned previously, in almost every case of terrorist attacks, the radical groups behind the attacks (killings, the destruction of shrines, etc.) come from the Wahhabi/Salafi ideology; we can claim that this minority was misguided due to the Wahhabi indoctrination.  

The massacre of Muslims in the bloody takeover of Arabia - Another Blatant Lie !

The massacres of Muslims committed by Wahabis throughout their short history are very well documented by many Muslim scholars in many different languages. To prove this point, let us quote from some of the renowned scholars of the Ahle Sunnah.

The following is quoted from the book Fitnatul Wahabiyya (which can be found online) of the chief Mufti of Makkah, Shaykhul-Islam Ahmad Zayni Dahlan al-Makki ash-Shafi'i (ra) (1816 - 1886). Sheikh Dahlan was a historian as well as a scholar in Islamic fiqh. He acquired different types of Islamic knowledge and was appointed as the Mufti of the Shafi'iyyah scholars in Makkah. Sheikh Dahlan recorded the story of the Wahhabis’ takeover of the holy places in a number of books. Here is one of the passages from Fitnatul Wahabiyya that gives details of some of the killings perpetrated by the adherents of the Wahhabi ideology:

“The fighting started between the Wahhabis and the Prince of Mecca, Mawlana Sharif Ghalib Ibn Bu Sa'id, who had been appointed by the honored Muslim Sultan as his ruling representative over the areas of al-Hijaz. This was in 1205 A.H., during the time of Sultan Salim III, the son of Sultan Mustafa III, the son of Ahmad. Previous to the outbreak of fighting, the Wahhabis began to build power and gain followers in their areas. As their territories expanded, their evil and harm increased. They killed countless numbers of Muslims, legitimated confiscating their money and possessions, and captured their women. The founder of their wicked doctrine was Muhammad Ibn 'Abdul-Wahhab, who originated from eastern Arabia, from the tribe of Banu Tamim. He lived a long life, about one-hundred years. He was born in 1111 A.H. and died in 1200 A.H. His history was narrated as follows:

Muhammad Ibn 'Abdul-Wahhab started as a student of knowledge in the city of the Prophet, sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam: Medina al-Munawwarah. Ibn 'Abdul-Wahhab's father was a good, pious man among the people of knowledge as was his brother, Shaykh Sulayman. His father, his brother, and his Shaykhs (teachers of religion) had the foresight Ibn 'Abdul-Wahhab would innovate a great deal of deviation and misguidance, because of their observance of his sayings, actions, and inclinations concerning many issues. They used to reprimand him and warn people against him.”

Here is another quote, this time from one of the most renowned Hanafi scholars Ibn ‘Abidin (1783-1836) in history, who wrote in his book Hashiya Radd al-Muhtar:

“His words and who consider the Companions of our Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) to be disbelievers are not a condition for someone to be a Kharijite, but rather are a mere clarification of what those who revolted against ‘Ali (Allah Most High be well pleased with him) in fact did.

Otherwise, it is enough to be convinced of the unbelief of those they fight against, as happened in our own times with the followers of [Muhammad ibn] ‘Abd al-Wahhab, who came out of the Najd in revolt, and took over the sanctuaries of Mecca and Medina. They claimed to be of the Hanbali madhhab, but believed that they were the Muslims, and that those who believed differently than they did were polytheists (mushrikin). On this basis, they held it lawful to kill Sunni Muslims (Ahl al-Sunna) and their religious scholars, until Allah Most High dispelled their forces, and the armies of the Muslims attacked their strongholds and subdued them in 1233 A.H.”

Syed Hussain Ahmad al-Madani  said in his book  Ash-Shihab as-Saqib :

"Ibn Abdal Wahhab arose in the  beginning of the  thirteenth Islamic century in the Najd.  His thinking was false, and his beliefs were  corruptional; on these grounds he opened the way for killing the Ahl as-Sunnah."

The incident of Taïf is known through the Islamic world. As we can see, to say that there is no basis to the accusation of killing of Muslims at the hands of the Wahabi and the Saud family is The Blatant Lie of our time.

The opening of the Sidi Yahya masjid main door.

With all the events that have been unfolding in the world in the past three decades, one can see that all the major signs of the last days mentioned by the Holy Last Messenger (Peace and blessings upon him) occurred. And in the past 10 years, events have been unfolding at an even faster pace. I do not claim that the opening of door of Sidi Yahya masjid is a sign of the last days mentioned in the ahadith, I clearly said that the demolishers of Timbuktu in their zeal to prove that the claim was false, proved that we are in the last days. And from the sayings of the Holy Last Messenger (peace be upon him), no one in their right mind can claim that we are not in the end of times. There is nothing in this that can mislead anyone who possess the faculty of thinking and contemplation. Even the Christians recognize this. This is my opinion and I will stick to it.

We have provided you with irrefutable proof, documented facts and well researched details to educate our readers on the reality of the Wahhabi doctrine. We are living in times where the field is not levelled and equal for all to present their arguments; a time where the petrodollars Monarchies finance Wahhabi/Salafi organisations and print books propagating their doctrine all over the world. The voices of the true scholars of the Ahle Sunnah wal Jammat are being silenced in the medias.

Many books, pamphlets and DVDs are available on the subject. A newspaper article presents limitations to go into great detail, however we pray and we hope that enough was provided for the seekers of truth to continue their own research on the answers that were provided.