Pennsylvania Muslim Cleric Hate
Philadelphia
Muslim Leader Calls for Bloodshed
BY ROBERT SPENCER JUN 16, 2020
PJ Media
There is
considerable evidence of Leftist/Islamic
collaboration in the recent riots, and one Islamic scholar has
called openly for more bloodshed. This should be, but probably won’t be, a
matter of concern for intelligence and law enforcement officials, because this
imam is not in Tehran or Lahore or Kabul: he is in Philadelphia.
The Middle
East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)
reports that on June 2, an Islamic scholar in the City of Brotherly Love, Nafis Abu Zayd Sparrow, uploaded a video to the Maktabah Ibn Taymiyyah YouTube
channel in which he dismisses peaceful protests on Islamic grounds: “Even
scholars of the past, they mention clearly that there is nothing found – no
basis whatsoever – in the Quran or the Sunnah for demonstrations or protests.”
Sparrow mocked
the Twitter wars and meme-making that characterize our current silly civil war:
“When Allah told [Moses] to go back to deal with this tyrannical ruler, to deal
with this tyrannical system – did He tell him to spit in their faces? Did He
tell him to stand outside and do public demonstrations? Did He tell him to
behave a certain way – to clown the president, make up all types of memes, say
this about the president because it is the way you feel? Did He say to do all
of that, and talk bad about Pharaoh?…So all of this
tweeting, speaking, celebrities – don’t follow them. ‘F Trump,’ that sounds
good… Don’t follow them.”
What to do
instead? Wage violent jihad: “To get freedom, brothers, it takes fighting, I’m
sorry, unless you have got divine intervention….Moses didn’t
need an army to fight. But go to Muhammad. Didn’t Muhammad have to fight? Go to
all the prophets before – get your verses at the verses – did they not have to
fight?”
Indeed, the
Qur’an tells Muslims: “Fighting has been enjoined upon you while it is hateful
to you. But perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you; and perhaps you
love a thing and it is bad for you. And Allah Knows, while you know not”
(2:216). Most Western counterterror analysts don’t know that this verse and
others like it exist, or prefer to ignore the fact. But Nafis
Abu Zayd Sparrow knows what the Qur’an says, and he expects his followers to
obey its commands.
“I challenge
you,” he says to them in the video, “show me where your power to vote ever
changed anything. ‘Oh, we got Obama into office’ – and what did Obama do? Show
me! People are not listening. We, as Muslims, have to use our insight. Show me!… I am saying that if you want to separate from the
racism, from those people that are embedded with racism – then you have to remove
yourself from the system itself and you have to create your system within the
system.”
Hmmm. Maybe
something like an Autonomous Zone?
Sparrow
expressed impatience for the white Leftists who co-opted the George Floyd
protests: “And you have to become a formidable foe. And since we are not going
to do that, we have yet to do that, and we have not shown to do that – then can
you please stop with these senseless causing-more-harm-than-benefit
demonstrations and being somebody’s guinea pig? That’s what I mean – a public
demonstration within a public demonstration. They set you up and they put you
there and use your call, your outcry and your outrage to make their own agenda.
Then they bring other people, anarchists, antifa, whatever you want to call
them – different people came out and they all exploited the George Floyd
situation.”
The
alternative? Blood: “But if you truly want to stand up then it’s going to take
some real fighting, and that is what Malcolm X was saying. It’s going to take
some blood-shedding – that is what Malcolm X was saying. Because revolution is
land and that is what it is about. You are fighting for land. That is what you
are fighting for. And if you really want that, that is what you are going to
have to do. Power respects power.”
What’s more,
“We have a protocol in Islam already for how this is supposed to be done,” and
this would apparently involve demanding a Sharia enclave: “You gave Chinatown
[sic] a Chinatown. You gave the Jews a whole police state in New York – think
about it. All these other different minorities – you gave them things that they
can do within their respective lands – you just didn’t give it to the
indigenous black person.”
Sparrow
exhorted his audience: “Where are you on the front line? What skill are you
utilizing to put forth to fight against this oppressive regime? You are not
even talking about that. You haven’t… You are probably out of shape. You
haven’t even put yourself in shape. You are probably not ready for any form of
Jihad – period.”
With Sharia
enclaves in many European cities and antifa enclaves now in Seattle and
springing up in other American cities as well, law enforcement and intelligence
officials would be wise to take Sparrow’s words seriously. But that is about as
likely as Nancy Pelosi endorsing Trump and becoming his vice
presidential candidate. Sparrow’s words will almost certainly not lead
to any investigation. That would be “Islamophobic.”
Imam Who
Threatened Ayaan Hirsi Ali with Death for Apostasy Led Interfaith Service After
Paris Attacks
BY PATRICK POOLE
APRIL 23, 2016
PJ Media
A Pennsylvania imam who was fired last year by the Bureau of Prisons for his
claims that author and Harvard lecturer Ayaan Hirsi Ali deserved to be killed
under Islamic law for apostatizing from Islam recently led an interfaith prayer
service after the ISIS attacks in Paris last November.
Fouad ElBayly, the imam at the Islamic Center of
Johnstown, led the Nov. 21 prayer event, where he said:
The Islamic Center of Johnstown and all the Muslim communities in our region
condemn the evil doing of the people who carried out that terrible attack
against innocent people.
This is similar to the statements he made at a March 2002 prayer service for
the 9/11 victims on United Flight 93, which crashed in Shanksville, PA, not far
from ElBayly's mosque:
Imam Fouad El Bayly of the Islamic Center of
Johnstown and Somerset asked people to be tolerant. He said the Muslim
extremists who hijacked the plane also hijacked the Islamic faith.
"In the name of God, in the name of peace, in the name of brotherhood, in
the name of mankind, let there be peace," he said. "We cannot condemn
a nation, a religion, for the acts of a few."
But peace and tolerance are are apparently hard
concepts for ElBayly to follow himself.
Last year he was fired as a Bureau of Prisons chaplain at the Federal
Correctional Institute of Cumberland, MD, after it was reported he was hired
under a $10,500 February 2014 federal contract despite his 2007 comments
calling for the killing of Ayaan Hirsi Ali. He later received another $2,400
contract to teach Islam in the same federal prison in December 2014.
In January, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), chairman of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, wrote to the Bureau of Prisons inquiring about the flaws in their
hiring process that led to ElBayly's employment.
After it was revealed that ElBayly had been hired,
Hirsi Ali penned an editorial in the Wall Street Journal expressing surprise
that the imam who had threatened her with death was now employed by the Justice
Department.
Philly Cleric
Sentenced for Corruption
By JOANN LOVIGLIO
The Associated Press
Monday, September 19, 2005; 2:12
PM
PHILADELPHIA -- A prominent
Muslim cleric on Monday was sentenced to more than seven years in prison on
racketeering and other charges, the latest in a string of convictions stemming
from the FBI's sweeping probe of municipal corruption.
Prosecutors said that Shamsud-din Ali, 67, used his political connections to
obtain dubious loans, donations and city contracts. In addition to his 87-month
sentence, Ali was ordered to pay restitution. He was released pending an
appeal.
The investigation of the
so-called "pay to play" culture in Philadelphia's city government has
led to the convictions and guilty pleas for more than a dozen people, including
a former city treasurer, two bank executives and several business owners
seeking city contracts.
The probe became public when
police discovered an FBI bug in Mayor John F. Street's office. The mayor has
denied any wrongdoing and has not been charged.
Ali, the leader of a west
Philadelphia mosque, was charged with 34 counts. After six days of
deliberations, jurors convicted him in June of 22 counts, including
racketeering.
According to prosecutors, he and
his wife, Faridah, used the Muslim school they ran as
a private piggy bank, soliciting donations and public education funds for adult
education classes that were never held. The Alis had
at least five family members on the payroll, including two adult children who
lived out of state.
Faridah Ali was convicted and sentenced
to a year of house arrest on related charges.
Muslim
Cleric's Wife Sentenced To Prison In Philly
Faridah Ali Gets Two Years
February 17, 2006
PHILADELPHIA
-- The wife of a prominent Muslim cleric has been sentenced to two years
in prison for her role in Philadelphia's "pay-to-play" corruption
scandal.
Faridah Ali pleaded no-contest to racketeering
charges in September. She broke down during testimony at yesterday's
sentencing, saying she hopes she can "take something positive from this
experience." She said, "I broke the law and I'm sorry."
From the witness stand, Ali said she was guilty of defrauding the Community
College of Philadelphia, a car dealership and a bank.
She also admitted to wire fraud, tax evasion, and filing false tax returns.
Ali was ordered to pay restitution of $21,600 to the community college and
faces forfeiture of some $87,000 for defrauding from the Mercedes-Benz dealer.