Alexandria-based Muslim American Society weighs in on Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens affair

The Alexandria-based Muslim American Society, which has ties to the militant Muslim Brotherhood (of which Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command was a member), reprints an article from Kurt Nimmo that links Yusuf Islam's being denied entry into the U.S. to "larger strategy" to bind the national security of the United States with that of Israel. Nimmo asserts that he is a U.S. citizen, but advocates ruining the U.S. economy through a boycott of American products.

Virginia Islamic Leader Faces Jihad Charges (washingtonpost.com)

Va. Islamic Leader Faces Jihad Charges (washingtonpost.com)

An Islamic spiritual leader was indicted yesterday on charges that his preaching inspired a group of Northern Virginia men to train for violent jihad overseas and prepare for war against the United States.

Ali Al-Timimi, 40, is charged with inciting members of an alleged "Virginia jihad network" to travel to terrorist training camps in Pakistan and battle U.S. troops seeking to oust Afghanistan's former Taliban rulers. The Fairfax County resident was for several years a frequent and popular lecturer at the Center for Islamic Information and Education, also known as Dar Al-Arqam, in Falls Church.

George Mason University hosts Islamic Conference, September 24-25, 2004

30th Annual Conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS).

Tariq Ramadan, a master of the art of taqiyya whose visa was recently revoked by the U.S. government, was scheduled as the featured speaker. In an article on the op/ed page of the September 27, 2004 Wall Street Journal, Fouad Ajami wittily noted, "The man [Ramadan] condemning McDonald's was coming to an academic institute funded by an endowment granted by McDonald's heiress, Joan B. Kroc," namely, the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Washington - and the US - spared visit by Islamic apologist and Hamas supporter Yusuf Islam

Yahoo! News - Passenger Cat Stevens Gets Plane Diverted

Alhamdulillah (Praise be to Allah) - Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, was on a flight bound for Dulles International Airport, but the flight was diverted when it was realized that he was on a government watch list. He will be returned to the UK.

Riggs Bank Sued Over 9/11 Attacks

iWon Money & Investing

Profile of Falls Church mosque - Yahoo! News - Facing New Realities as Islamic Americans

Yahoo! News - Facing New Realities as Islamic Americans

A profile of the Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church. Its iman stated that the Qur'an made no mention of beheadings and decapitation.

From the article:

"The FBI and the federal 9/11 commission concluded that two of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers briefly worshiped at the mosque after one of them befriended its imam in San Diego."

"It is closely affiliated with the Muslim American Society, a 12-year-old organization committed to promoting Islam in the United States. Several of the group's founders had been active in the Muslim Brotherhood, a movement started in Egypt in the 1920s that advocates a purer, more restrictive form of Islam throughout the Middle East."

"Last month, a former member of Dar's executive committee, Annandale resident Abelhaleem Hasan Abdelraziq Ashqar, 46, was indicted with two other men by a Chicago grand jury on racketeering conspiracy charges in connection with alleged efforts to raise money for Hamas beginning in 1988.

And a law enforcement document filed in federal court in Alexandria says Ashqar and two other longtime Dar members -- Mohamad al Hanooti, a former Dar imam, and Ismael Selim Elbarasse, a founding member of the mosque -- attended a 1993 meeting of senior Hamas leaders in Philadelphia.

Elbarasse was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Chicago case. He and Ashqar served time in jail for refusing to answer questions about Hamas before a grand jury that was probing the group before September 2001."

Daughter of alleged HAMAS figure raises canard of "racial profiling"

Yahoo! News - Racial Profiling Alleged in Muslim Arrest

Duaa Elbarasse, the 21-year-old daughter of Ismael Selim Elbarasse, the alleged HAMAS figure arrested for capturing video of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, raises the canard of "racial profiling" concerning her father's arrest.

Alleged HAMAS figure from Annandale arrected for capturing video of Bay Bridge

ABC 7 News - Alleged Hamas Figure Arrested by Police After Taping Bay Bridge

Ismael Selim Elbarasse of Annandale was arrested for captured video of Chesapeake Bay Bridge. He is identified as a co-conspirator in the indictment of Mousa Mohammed Marzook, formerly of Fairfax County, and Abdelhaleem Hasan Abdelraziq Ashqar of Alexandria.

Three Indicted in Raising Funds for Hamas

Yahoo News - Three Indicted in Raising Funds for Hamas

Indictee Musa Abu Marzook is a former resident of Fairfax County, while Abdelhaleem Hasan Abdelraziq Ashqar is from Alexandria.

Jihad videos on GWU servers

The New Yorker:

From a very long article on The Terrorist Web, in reference to the March 11 train bombings in Spain and subsequent capitulation of the Spaniards to terror, an interesting reference to George Washington University:

"The Internet jihadis now cover themselves by stealing unguarded server space. Jihad videos have recently been discovered on servers belonging to George Washington University and the Arkansas Department of Highways and Transportation. "

Stealing unguarded server space? NPR once had a feature that noted that 10% of the student population at George Washington University is Muslim. I wouldn't be surprised if the videos were posted using IDs and passwords issued by GWU.

Islamic groups hit curriculum at ISA - The Washington Times: Metropolitan - August 02, 2004

Islamic groups hit curriculum at Saudi school - The Washington Times: Metropolitan - August 02, 2004

I had previously noted the Islamic Saudi Academy's decision not to build another campus in Loudon County in the July 8, 2004 posting on Northern Virginiastan. Now comes news that Alexandria lawyer and politician Kamal Nawash and CAIR - of all organizations - are urging ISA to withdraw a textbook from its curriculum. Read Robert Spencer's desconstruction of this effort at Jihad Watch.

The Washington Times notes that Nawash's law firm once represented Abdul Rahman al-Amoudi (AKA Abdurahman Alamoudi) and that Nawash unsuccessfully ran for political office on two occasions. Nawash blamed his most recent political defeat on the attention focused on him through Daniel Pipes' weblog.

al-Qaida threat to World Bank and IMF buildings in DC

Yahoo! News - U.S. Warns of Threat to Financial Icons

Falls Church Muslim activist Abdurahman Alamoudi pleads guilty to three charges

U.S. Muslim Activist Makes Plea Deal; Documents Expected to Implicate Libya (washingtonpost.com)

"Abdurahman Alamoudi has agreed to admit guilt to three counts, including one related to the mysterious movement of $340,000 he allegedly received in a London hotel room from a charity funded by the Libyan government, sources familiar with the case said yesterday. The other two counts cover tax violations and lies on his immigration forms, the sources said. ...

His arrest last September shook the U.S. Muslim community and reverberated through Washington's political elite. As leader of the American Muslim Council, Alamoudi met on occasion with senior Clinton and Bush administration officials. He also helped found the Pentagon's Muslim chaplain program and is particularly well known in the Muslim community of Northern Virginia, where he helped run a number of charities and political groups."

As expected, the Post is back-pedaling Alamoudi's relationship with the Clinton Administration. The article The Clintons, Abdurahman Alamoudi, and the Myth of "Moderate" Islam describes the close relationship Alamoudi had with the Clintons, saying that he had "repeated high-level contacts with the Clinton White House in late 1995 and early 1996."

Rant Wraith: DNC Benediction by Imam Yahya Hendi

Rant Wraith: DNC Benediction by Imam Yahya Hendi

Fellow blogger digs up the goods on the education of Imam Yahya Hendi of Georgetown University.

Tuesday Speaker Schedule - 2004 Democratic National Convention - Georgetown U Imam to deliver benediction

Tuesday Speaker Schedule - 2004 Democratic National Convention Official Site

September 11 has been a boon and an unprecedented opportunity for Muslim presence at national events. I have already written about Mohammad Magid, imam of the All-Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) in Herndon, who participated in Ronald Reagan's funeral, and Dr. Muzammil H. Siddiqi of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) who delivered the invocation at the post-911 service at the National Cathedral. Tonight, Imam Yahya Hendi, the Muslim chaplain at Georgetown University (which declares its Catholic and Jesuit identity on its home page), will deliver the benediction at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.

Surveillance video shows 911 hijackers passing security at Dulles airport

Yahoo! News - Video Shows 9/11 Hijackers' Security Check

"Surveillance video from Washington Dulles International Airport the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, shows four of the five hijackers being pulled aside to undergo additional scrutiny after setting off metal detectors but then permitted to board the fateful flight that crashed into the Pentagon."

No surprise there. At that time, airport security at Dulles Airport (IAD) was handled by Argenbright Security Inc., which employed many Muslims. Previously, the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) had sued Argenbright because female Muslim employees did not have the "right" to wear tablecloths on their heads. When I was going through security at IAD, I saw one of those gals in hijab just standing around, chewing gum.

I'm glad that Argenbright (now called Cognisa Security Inc.) and their employees are gone, but I do resent being selected by my domestic carrier for frisking, just to assuage the sensitivities of Arabs and Muslims.

Prince William Co man with questionable ties to terrorist fronts appointed to sensitive DHS position

FrontPage magazine.com :: The Faisal Gill Affair by Frank J. Gaffney Jr.

"What is known is that Gill’s political patrons include Grover Norquist, who was listed by Gill as a reference on employment documents. After all, Gill had been a spokesman for the Taxpayers Alliance of Prince William County, Virginia, which is affiliated with Norquist’s group, Americans for Tax Reform. Gill had also worked in 2001 as director of government affairs for the Islamic Free Market Institute (also known as the Islamic Institute), whose founding president was Grover Norquist.

Interestingly, news articles published after September 11 described Gill in another capacity – as a spokesman for the controversial American Muslim Council (AMC). The AMC was founded and controlled by a prominent Islamist activist, Abdurahman Alamoudi. Alamoudi was indicted last October on terrorism-related money laundering charges. While in jail awaiting trial, he has reportedly engaged in plea-bargaining by confessing to participating in a Libyan plot to murder the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia."

Herndon-based Imam at Reagan's funeral

FrontPage magazine.com :: A Troubling Presence at a Funeral by Ben Johnson

Mohammad Magid, imam of the All-Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) in Herndon, Virginia, was invited to participate in the funeral for Ronald Reagan held at the National Cathedral.

At the post-911 services at the National Cathedral, Dr. Muzammil H. Siddiqi of the Islamic Society of North America delivered the invocation. At least Majid didn't speak.

Taqiyya at work: Falls Church imam claims that Quran doesn't mention beheading.

Question Authority - The Quran mentions beheading. Why does the U.S. press claim otherwise? By Lee Smith

Taqiyya is defined as dissimulation (deception) of one's religious beliefs to non-Muslims.

"Beheadings are not mentioned in the Koran at all," Imam Muhammad Adam El-Sheikh, co-founder and chief cleric at the Dar Al Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Va., told USA Today.

This article Killing by Beheading is Islamic! provides additional references to beheadings in the Qur'an and other Islamic texts.

Alleged Terror Threat Operates in DC Suburb -- 07/12/2004

Alleged Terror Threat Operates in DC Suburb -- 07/12/2004

The United Association for Studies and Research (UASR), based in Springfield, Virginia, has ties to Hamas and al-Qaeda.

"Since the early 1990s, UASR has conducted business from a townhouse in an office park of condominiums in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Springfield, Va. Late last year, according to sources and documents, the group sold the upper two floors of the townhouse, moved out what one source described as "a lot of boxes" and then located itself in the basement.

The windows are covered with a false brick contact paper that matches the facade of the building blocking the view from the outside. CNSNews.com's investigation found meetings convening at the midnight hour on many occasions. From time to time, day or night, the occupants emerge from the office to make cell phone calls in the parking lot. Government investigators say that is for privacy in the likely event that a government counter-terrorism unit has placed listening devices inside the building."

UASR does not list its street address; only a PO Box in Annandale.