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Nazi Groups and Jihad
Since its founding in the mid-1970s, more criminal incidents can be linked to Aryan Nations than any other neo-Nazi group in the United States.
In addition to Aryan Nations members' involvement in terrorist firebombing of Oklahoma City synagogue, the Nazi group Aryan Nations is also responsible for leading efforts to coordinate terrorist efforts with Islamist Extremist groups.
Aryan
Nation's August Kreis: "You say they're terrorists, I say they're freedom
fighters. And I want to instill the same jihadic feeling in our peoples' heart,
in the Aryan race, that they have for their father, who they call Allah."
"I don't believe that they were the ones that attacked us," Kreis said. "And
even if they did, even if you say they did, I don't care!" Kreis wants to
make common cause with al Qaeda because, he says, they share the same enemies:
Jews and the American government.
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The Nazi Aryan Nations Leaders have been promoting
the writings of Islamist leader Abdul-Aziz Ibn Myatt and have provided collections of his hate ravings as teachings for Nazis to prepare in planning attacks on USA: |
Aryan Nations: "Aryan Jihad"
Aryan
Nations and "All Things Islamic"
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An unholy alliance
Aryan Nation leader reaches out to al Qaeda
By Henry Schuster
CNN
Tuesday, March 29, 2005 Posted: 2:42 PM EST (1942 GMT)
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/29/schuster.column/index.html
August Kreis
SEBRING, Florida (CNN) -- A couple of hours up the road from where some
September 11 hijackers learned to fly, the new head of Aryan Nation is praising
them -- and trying to create an unholy alliance between his white supremacist
group and al Qaeda.
"You say they're terrorists, I say they're freedom fighters. And I want to
instill the same jihadic feeling in our peoples' heart, in the Aryan race, that
they have for their father, who they call Allah."
With his long beard and potbelly, August Kreis looks more like a washed up
member of ZZ Top than an aspiring revolutionary.
Don't let appearances fool you: his résumé includes stops at some of America's
nastiest extremist groups -- Posse Comitatus, the Ku Klux Klan and Aryan Nation.
"I don't believe that they were the ones that attacked us," Kreis said. "And
even if they did, even if you say they did, I don't care!"
Kreis wants to make common cause with al Qaeda because, he says, they share the
same enemies: Jews and the American government.
The terms they use may be different: White supremacists call them ZOG, the
Zionist Occupation Government, while al Qaeda calls them the Jews and Crusaders.
But the hatred is the same. And Kreis wants to exploit that.
A Nation in turmoil
The best thing that can be said about August Kreis is that he has helped preside
over the decline of the once-feared Aryan Nation, a movement inspired by the
racist tenets of Nazi Germany. He cannot or will not say how many followers the
group now has.
What's clear is that Aryan Nation had a violent streak aligned with its
anti-Semitic and racist ideology. One of its followers, Buford Furrow, received
two life sentences, plus 110 years, for an August 1999 shooting spree in which
he shot and wounded four children and one adult at a Jewish community center in
the Los Angeles suburb of Granada Hills. Furrow then drove to nearby Chatsworth,
California, where he shot and killed a Filipino-American postal carrier.
Others had been accused of involvement in bank robberies, shootouts with
authorities and the murders of blacks and others.
More recently, the Aryan Nation lost its Hayden Lake, Idaho, compound, after
losing a civil suit led by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Last year, founder
Richard Butler died just as the group's leaders were fighting amongst
themselves.
Around that time, Kreis tried to open up shop for Aryan Nation in northern
Pennsylvania, but got run out by locals. Now he is in Sebring, Florida, and,
although his rhetoric is full of revolution and defiance, he wanted to meet our
CNN crew at a local park because he didn't want trouble from his neighbors.
You might think white supremacists like Kreis would spurn al Qaeda, since they
tend to view non-Aryan Christians as, in their own term, "mud people." In fact,
most of them do. But Kreis wants to change that.
"That's old-school racism, white supremacy, this is something new," he said. "We
have to be realists and realize what didn't work [previously] isn't going to
work in the future."
Supremacist, Islamist connections
The idea of a Nazi-Islamic alliance dates back to World War II, when Adolf
Hitler played host to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, that city's Muslim leader.
Some Nazis, moreover, found refuge in places like Egypt and Syria after the war.
Three years ago, I met a Swiss Islamic convert named Ahmed Huber, who began his
life as a devotee of Adolf Hitler and moved on to praising former Iranian leader
Ayatollah Khomeini, who led that nation's Islamic revolution and vigorously
opposed U.S. policies.
Huber wanted to forge a fresh alliance between Islamic radicals and neo-Nazis in
Europe and the United States. And he cannot be simply dismissed as a crackpot:
Huber served on the board of directors of a Swiss bank and holding company that
President Bush accused of helping fund al Qaeda.
Mark Potok, of the Southern Poverty Law Center, said that while some U.S.
extremists applauded the September 11 attacks, there is no indication of such an
alliance -- at least not yet, and not on a large scale. If it exists anywhere,
he said, it is in the mind (and the Internet postings) of August Kreis.
For its part, the FBI says it hasn't seen any links between American white
supremacists and groups like al Qaeda.
"The notion of radical Islamists from abroad actually getting together with
American neo-Nazis I think is an absolutely frightening one," said Potok. "It's
just that so far we really have no evidence at all to suggest this is any kind
of real collaboration."
So while August Kreis may be calling, there is no sign that al Qaeda is
listening.
But that hasn't stopped him. As we ended our interview, we asked Kreis if he had
any message for Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants.
"The message is, the cells are out here and they are already in place," Kreis
said. "They might not be cells of Islamic people, but they are here and they are
ready to fight."
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Islam's unholy alliance with neo-Nazis, leftists
Western-made terrorists plot joining al-Qaida in 'Red Jihad'
Posted: December 29, 2003
2003 WorldNetDaily.com
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36350
Western-made terrorists motivated by Marxist, anarchist and neo-Nazi ideology are forming alliances with jihadists and are planning copycat-style attacks and others utilizing funding from Islamists, according to intelligence sources, reports Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
While old-line non-Muslim terrorists seem to have been in hibernation, since Sept. 11, 2001, they are waking up to the need to act and the availability of funds from al-Qaida and other similar jihadist groups, according to the premium, online intelligence newsletter.
Danger spots were recently identified in Europe, Asia and North America. Recent assessments indicate that daily reports on the success of Islamic terror in disrupting normal life are creating an urge within the ranks of western terrorists to return to action.
Such groups dominated the terror scene in the 1960s and 1970s. The U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the resistance to globalization, xenophobic tendencies and anti-Semitism have all combined to pour oil on old flames, encouraging new alliances as a result.
Experts attempting to draft the profile of non-Islamic terrorism in the 21st century are turning their interest toward militant Muslims' efforts to recruit terror contractors and to use the services of European terrorists and anarchists.
Intelligence sources say they expect the jihadists to sub-contract terrorist attacks to small cells of two to three people familiar with their modus operandi. These groups sometimes operate in gangs of more than 10 individuals. European-style terrorism differs from the Islamic jihad type in that it often targets individuals to be assassinated or kidnapped. It has also been marked by taking large groups of innocent hostages for negotiation purposes.
Jihad organizers are acquainted with the sleeper terror groups of Europe and North America, and they know these groups are in dire need of funds. These "underground" groups need to travel and change their identities frequently.
Sleeper terror groups are careful not to deal directly with money laundering, drug dealing or organized crime. This is due in part to ideological beliefs, but more because of the need to keep a low profile, away from the eyes of law enforcement agencies.
Interrogation of non-Muslim terrorists apprehended during the last two years in Europe and Asia, reveals a desire to become copy-cats of the Islamic jihad and a growing need to be placed once again on the international scene. Intelligence agencies are beginning to dust files of old-style terror organizations, which some agencies now describe as the "Red Jihad."
Israeli, British, Turkish and Greek counter-terror experts, have warned of signs pointing to jihadi groups trying to establish contacts with European and American organizations. The technique of hiring terror services, or partnerships with other terror operators was once popular with the Palestinians. The results of these unholy unions in the past have been the Air France hijacking by a group of Arabs and Germans to Entebbe, Uganda, in 1976, the Lufthansa hijacking to Mogadishu in 1977, and the Japanese Red Army attack on Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv in 1972.
Al-Qaida, Jamaah Islamiah and Wahabbi groups see nothing wrong in using non-Muslims to further their cause. As the origin of most anti-terror activities focuses mainly on the Middle East and Asia, it is clear a western terrorist could be more successful in penetrating a number of security and defense circles. In cases of a precision attack against individuals or institutions, European or American Caucasian terrorists will be more successful in disappearing from the radar screen.
Over the years, scores of Europeans, Americans and Asians, have been trained in Arab terror bases in Lebanon, Syria, Sudan, Libya and Iraq. A number of those were later involved in attacks on international air traveling, including airports.
Meanwhile, Marxist terror and guerrilla attacks in Latin America and Asia have never ended. A former supporter of international terrorism, Cuba's Fidel Castro, is showing signs of re-involvement in regional violence, manifested through his support to Colombian terrorists and even connecting them to Irish bomb experts of the Irish Republican Army. Castro's efforts also continue to target the cooperation of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela as part of his renewed plan to sway political alliances. Intelligence schools in North Korea were never closed and they continue to produce saboteurs and agents originating from many countries. The North Koreans may also return to the business of producing terrorists for hire, not unlike the way they handle their development of weapons of mass destruction.
Western intelligence services have identified a number of warning signs as they emerged following 9/11:
An Oregon based on-line paper, the Portland Independent Media Center, carried a headline on Dec. 1 calling readers "to send support letters for comrades facing trial in Egypt." The drive is supported by the Socialist Arab Coalition in North America. On the day Saddam Hussein was captured the organization flashed an Iraqi Baath flag saying: "Resistance will continue until victory!" Articles and pictures do not disguise the potential of such support. Together with slogans such as: "Long live the resistance, no turning back," and "Death to the imperialists, death to the collaborators," the site includes pictures of heavily armed comrades, their faces covered with Arab kefiyah headdresses, and stories such as "the tactics of resistance."
This short list does not include other terror threats coming from separatists, nationalists and religious groups. Some examples are: The Basque Fatherland and Liberation operating from the Basque region in Spain or the Irish Protestants or Catholics in Northern Ireland and the French Corsicans.
New evidence in a book to be published next year will point to an alliance between Iraqi-sponsored terrorists and Timothy McVeigh, the man executed for the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building.
In a related development, last Month, G2B reported Carlos the Jackal, the legendary terrorist of the 1970s, has converted to Islam and pledged his allegiance to Osama bin Laden.
Carlos, aka Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, has just published a book in French to announce his conversion to Islam and present his strategy for "the destruction of the United States through an orchestrated and persistent campaign of terror."
Titled "Revolutionary Islam" and published under the name Ilich Ramírez Sánchez-CARLOS, the book urges "all revolutionaries, including those of the left, even atheists," to accept the leadership of Islamists such as bin Laden and so help turn Afghanistan and Iraq into the "graveyards of American imperialism."
Son of a militant Communist, Ilich was sent to Moscow to study at Patrice Lumumba University, an institution set up by the KGB to train terrorists from the Third World. That was in the 1970s, when the most fashionable cause was opposition to the U.S. intervention in Indochina.
Ilich opted for the less-fashionable cause of Palestine, and soon moved to Lebanon, where he trained for operations organized by George Habash's People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Western intelligence services first noticed Carlos when he murdered two French policemen and a Lebanese informant in Paris in 1975. But the peak of his career came in 1975, when he led the team that took 11 OPEC oil ministers hostage in Vienna, then flew them to Algiers.
He spent most of the next 20 years on the run, living under assumed identities, constantly changing protectors, until his Sudanese friends finally betrayed him six years ago, when they allowed French authorities to abduct him from his home in Khartoum and fly him to Paris for trial.
Carlos claims that terrorism is "the cleanest and most efficient form of warfare."
Carlos, was arrested in Sudan in 1994 and turned over to France, where he is serving life for the 1975 murders of two French secret agents and an alleged informer.
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Swiss Holocaust denier working
for Muslim jihad as well, he tells JTA
Source: JTA.org
http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?strwebhead=Swiss+denier+uniting+with+jihadists&intcategoryid=
Published: Jul 15, 2003
BERN, Switzerland, July 13 (JTA) - A Swiss Holocaust denier took a job as a
liaison between Islamic organizations and a European Neo-Nazi group, he has
revealed to JTA.
"A few years ago, my friends in the Iran regime motivated me to function as
go-between with the international Revisionist Szene and the Islamic groups in
Europe," Albert "Ahmed" Huber told JTA.
Huber, a former journalist who converted to Islam and changed his first name
from Albert to Ahmed, travels regularly to Germany to give lectures in the
German extremist party NPD on Holocaust denial and the Islamic Jihad against
Israel and the Jews.
"I am very happy that the right-wing world in Europe more and more understands
that the Holocaust was a big fraud and the European neo-Nazi should join Islamic
organizations to fight Israel, the Jews and America," he told JTA.
Huber, 76, was just recently put on U.N. and E.U. lists of individuals involved
in terrorism, and whose assets should therefore be frozen.
"I am not surprised that after the United States, the Europeans and the U.N. put
me on this list because all these organizations are controlled by the
American-Jewish-Israeli terrorists," Huber said.
But Huber told JTA that he can access his bank accounts freely.
A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Justice in Bern told JTA that Huber is still
under criminal investigation.
But Huber is optimistic he and Islamic organizations like Hamas, Islamic Jihad
and Hezbollah can operate unharmed in Switzerland.
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Midland Nazi turns to Islam
Sunday Mercury (England), Feb. 16, 2003
http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/
By Amardeep Bassey, Sunday Mercury
A "Satanic Fuhrer" who urged neo-Nazis to fight a race war has turned full
circle to become an Islamic fundamentalist.
Midland-based David Myatt, 51, was the political guru behind white supremacist
group Combat 18 and has been the leading hardline Nazi intellectual in Britain
since the 1960s.
Now the self-confessed Pagan and Adolf Hitler worshipper hails al Qaida leader
Osama bin Laden as his inspiration and praises the World Trade Center attacks as
acts of heroism.
Writing under various pseudo-nyms, including his Islamic name Abdul Aziz, the
thrice-married Physics graduate has posted messages on Islamic religious
websites supporting suicide missions and urging young Muslims to take up Jihad.
He is also believed to be the author of several anti-semitic and anti-West
articles entitled 'The Crusader War Against Islam and The Zionist Quest for
World Domination', written under the name Abdul Aziz ibn Myatt.
It is a far cry from his previous literary works which included the 1997 fascist
terrorist handbook 'The Practical Guide to Aryan Revolution'. The book inspired
Brixton nail-bomber David Copeland, who is now serving six life sentences.
According to anti-fascist magazine Searchlight, Myatt was also the Grand Master
of a secret occult sect called the Order of the Nine Angels, which was alleged
to have practised human sacrifice.
But a Sunday Mercury investigation suggests that his sudden conversion to Islam
three years ago may be just a political ploy to advance his own failing
anti-establishment agenda.
We discovered that Myatt uses various online identities to simultaneously post
supportive messages on right-wing nationalist websites, while calling for the
creation of a global Islamic superstate on Islamic religious internet sites.
On one site, Aryan Nation, he attempts to reconcile the differences between both
extremes under the title Islamic Liaison Group dating his messages with his
trademark yf (Year of the Fuhrer).
On another he argues that Muslims and Aryans share the same common enemy in the
Jewish nation and western capitalism, supporting his diatribe with claims that
more than 60,000 Muslims joined Hitler's SS in the Second World War.
He also continues to publish newsletters for his own German Nazi-modelled
National Socialist Movement (NSM) which counted Copeland as a branch organiser
and advocated terrorist insurrection to spark a race war.
On Islamic internet discussion sites he likens the American attacks on
Afghanistan and Iraq to the Allied occupation of Hitler's Nazi Germany.
One Muslim internet user told the Sunday Mercury that Myatt, who has an IQ of
187, had convinced other users he was an Islamic scholar with his eloquent
arguments backed with Koranic verses.
He said: "After September 11 Abdul Aziz's messages started to become more
extreme.
"But because he wrote with authority, many less-knowledgeable Muslims thought he
was a holy man and began supporting his fundamentalist views.
"When his true identity was revealed by other users on the site, he changed his
online name to Abdul bin Aziz and then al Haqq.
"Other e-mail addresses he used included
sheikh@al-qaeda.com.
"He was a very popular and controversial figure until he was unmasked late last
year, after which people became much more wary about what he was writing and his
messages dried up."
Gerry Gable, from anti-fascist magazine Searchlight, said: "Myatt is an ethereal
character who has used numerous aliases to post messages on extremist websites.
"He is a dangerous man who has twice been jailed for his violent right-wing
activities and who openly asked for blood to be spilled in the quest for white
Aryan domination.
"We believe that despite his claims to be a devout Muslim he remains a deeply
intellectual subversive and is still one of the most hardline Nazi intellectuals
in Britain today.
"Myatt believes in the disruption of existing societies as a prelude to the
creation of a new more warrior-like Aryan society which he calls the Galactic
Empire.
"Now he has has simply jumped on the Islamic extremist bandwagon to further his
own wish of a society divided on ethnic lines.
"He believes they have common enemies but it is his disillusionment with the
ineptitude of the Nazi movement that has led to this most unholy of alliances."
Michael Whine, Chairman of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, added: "Myatt
has a long history of involvement with Nazi activity and anti-semitism.
"The fact that he has converted to Islam and allied himself with its extremist
fringe is in line with the opportunist politics that have seen him dabble in
Buddhism and Chinese Taoism in the past.
"I would advise all Muslims to have nothing to do with this man."
But one hardline Islamic group has defended Myatt and welcomed him with open
arms.
Sheikh Omar Bakri, leader of the extremist Al Muhajiroun organisation, said:
"When you become a Muslim you start afresh with a clean slate so it does not
matter what views he held before.
"I am very keen to meet up with him as we both share a lot in common and I am
sure he can help the Islamic cause."
Myatt was last night unavailable for comment, having moved from his Leigh Sinton
home in Worcestershire some years ago.
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On April 30, the Assidiq Islamic Educational Foundation (AIEF), an Islamic center in Boca Raton, is hosting an event commemorating the “prophet” Mohammed at the Boca Marriott Hotel. The featured speaker for the event is William Baker
, a man whose anti-Jewish works and statements have won him accolades throughout the white supremacist movement.In 1984, Baker was Chairman of the Populist Party, a Neo-Nazi organization founded by Holocaust denier Willis Carto. Baker’s book, Theft of a Nation, sports a cover depicting a Jew carrying, on his back, a container holding the state of Israel, which Baker claims in his book the Jews stole from the Palestinians. Baker writes: “The entire country of Palestine has been ‘taken’ by political Zionists, and it would seem the entire world has believed, supported and participated in the ‘theft’ of an entire country from an entire nation.”
Why would the AIEF choose to bring a notorious anti-Semite like Baker to an event in an area that houses a very large Jewish population? A glimpse at the center’s background and ideology may provide some answers.
The Assidiq Islamic Educational Foundation incorporated in February of 2005 and has been in existence for just over a year. Its founder and Imam, Sayed Mohammad Jawad Al-Qazwini, only 23 years of age, was born in Iran and moved to Florida by way of California, where members of his family operate numerous other Islamic centers.
These centers were built by his grandfather, Ayatollah Sayid Mortadha Al-Qazwini, currently the head of the shrine in Karbala, Iraq. Karbala is the place where Imam Hussein bin Ali, the revered grandson of the “prophet” Mohammed, is said to have been murdered by Sunni Muslim rivals. Assidiq is the third Islamic center to open in the city of Boca Raton, the other two being the Islamic Center of Boca Raton and the Assalam Center. Unlike the latter two centers, Assidiq is a Shi’ite mosque, with a mostly Iranian and Iraqi influence. But like the other two, Assidiq brings with it a radical element (see ‘Boca Raton, City of Terror‘).
On the Audio Library section of Assidiq’s website, along with an animated graphic of dripping blood (apparently taken from another site glorifying the barbaric custom of pounding oneself over the head with swords until blood flows), there are a series of (what used to be) downloadable lectures made by Sayed Mohammad Jawad Al-Qazwini. In one dated February 12, 2005, titled “The concept of war through an Islamic perspective,” Al-Qazwini said the following:
“And until today, people do not seem to be able to forget what happened on [September 11, 2001]. It’s very hurtful. But who suffered the most after that attack? Immediately, if you turned on a TV set, and they started mentioning the names of those who were involved in the attack, the Muslims and American Muslims started suffering right away...The American Muslims were suffering the most, and they’re still suffering. They’re not comfortable. And that is because of the lack of understanding of Islam in this country. Brothers and sisters, this is our country.”
He continues: “Thus rule number one, fight for the sake of Allah. Who must you fight? Those who start the war against you. Those who establish the war against you. Those who initiate the war against the Muslims. Then you are allowed to defend yourself...If you are attacked, you ought to defend...Permission has been given to those fighters whom have been forced, have seen injustice, have seen wrongdoing, have seen oppression and occupation. Then, they are given the permission to fight and to defend themselves and let them know that Allah will assist them to victory.”
Since Al-Qazwini believes that Muslims—inside and outside America—have been wronged following the 9/11 attacks, does he also believe that Muslims should fight “for the sake of Allah” against America, a country that Al-Qazwini claims for Muslims?
In the same speech, Al-Qazwini discusses the issue of martyrdom in Islam. He uses the terms “shahada” and “shaheed,” which are also the Arabic words used to describe suicide bombers in Iraq and the Palestinian territories.
He states: “Shahada is equivalent to a very very important degree in Islam. The shaheed is not washed. The body of a shaheed is not washed. The shaheed is [pure/exempt from washing]. Thus he is placed in his grave immediately after he dies, because the shaheed is a purified figure. Not anybody that dies can be given the title of a shaheed. The shaheed is chosen by Allah, and the prophet is chosen by Allah. Those two people. Less not anybody can go and become a shaheed, brothers and sisters.”
With this information in mind, it’s no wonder that the Assidiq Islamic Educational Foundation issued a disclaimer on its website warning viewers that the center is not “liable for damages of any kind arising out of [one’s] use of [the center’s website]” just in case one would want to go off and start a jihad or become a shaheed.
One final bit of information discovered within Al-Qazwini’s February 2005 lecture may very well unveil the real answer as to why the Nazi sympathizer William Baker was invited to the center’s upcoming event. In his speech, Al-Qazwini matter-of-factly states, “Before Islam, there were the idol worshippers, the Christians and the Jews.”
On the flier announcing the April 30 AIEF event, which refers to Baker as an “outstanding figure,” the Mayor of Boca Raton and the Mayor of Coral Springs were listed as “Guests of Honor.” Following numerous complaints via phone and e-mail, both Mayors expressed their anger at their titles being used and have stated that they have no intention of partaking in the event. Summarily, the Mayors were deleted from the flier, but they are still listed as ‘Guests of Honor’ on Assidiq’s website.
Along the Mayors, another listed “Guest of Honor” is the Educative Chairman of CAIR. CAIR is a spin-off of the Islamic Association of Palestine, which has been identified as a “front group” for Hamas by Steve Pomerantz, former chief of the FBI's counterterrorism section.
The fact that AIEF invited extremists like Baker and CAIR to attend its upcoming event is no surprise considering some of the previous guests at the center (including numerous members of Sayed Mohammad Jawad Al-Qazwini’s family):
In a speech entitled “Challenges facing Muslims,” the Al-Qazwini, uncle of AIEF founder and lead Imam Sayed Mohammad Jawad Al-Qazwini, tries to explain away the Qur’anic verse, “O you who believe, do not take the Jews and Christians as friends.” (Al Ma’idah, Surah 5:51) He stated: “Qur’an is not saying do not follow Jews and Christians because they are Jews and Christians. Qur’an is not anti-Semitic. Qur’an is anti-evil. Because they were evil. This specific group of Jews and Christians, who were in Medina at that time, were evil people. And Allah was telling the Muslims to avoid them, because they stood against justice and faith. Stubbornly, they rejected the truth. They did not let Prophet Muhammad to [sic] propagate the word of Allah.”
In his 1999 book, “Invitation to Islam“ Al-Qazwini wrote: “Since all the Judeo-Christian-Islamic prophets were sent sequentially, the question arises as to why Judaism, Christianity, and Islam now exist as separate religions. The answer is that the followers of these religions, particularly Judaism and Christianity, corrupted the original teachings given to them and ended up making sects of their own rather than following the pure word of G-d.”
In a December 2004 speech he gave in Detroit at the Islamic Center of America’s Young Muslim Association about guidelines on how to deal with non-Muslims, Al-Qazwini stated: “The non-Muslims, the ill-thought people who always attack Islam, the great religion, they attack it based on certain facts. They attack it based on certain allegations...[Islam is] a religion that opens its doors and embrace [sic] others and welcomes others to join that. And we see that according to the literature, to Islamic literature, there’s no difference between this great religion and between Christianity and Judaism. They all embrace others. [sarcastically] Well, let’s not speak about Judaism now, but I am comparing between Islam and Christianity. Both embrace others.”
In a speech he gave, dated March 12, 2004, he discussed how Jews react to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. He stated: “The Jews want the world today -- those who made a big issue out of [the film, The Passion of the Christ] -- they want someone to come up and say ‘Jesus was not crucified by the Jews. [sarcastically] It was aliens, who came from outer space who abducted him, and they crucified him.’ You cannot deny historic facts. Even though that we Muslims believe that it wasn’t Jesus who was crucified...[The Jews] thought that Jesus was in the business competition with them. If people would follow him, nobody would go to them. They would go out of business. That’s why they decided to conspire against him.”
In an October 2004 speech to mark the beginning of Ramadhan, Al-Qazwini described how Judaism and Christianity are lower forms of humanity than Islam, Judaism being the lowest. He stated: “Generally, human being [sic] goes through his or her life through certain stages -- infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood -- as when you start your education, you go to an elementary school, then you move to high school, then you go to university, get your degree and find a job. This is how the entire humanity did. It was, in the beginning, preventive teachings. And then there was Judaism. And then, when the humanity advanced, there was Christianity. And now, when the humanity had advanced one more step, Islam came to be the universal, the university.”
In a news article that came out in The Boston Globe, dated October 23, 2000, it was reported that, during a lecture he was giving inside a university classroom, Imam Sayed Hassan Al-Qazwini had “expressed...hostility towards Jews.”
Provided all of the above statements, this hostility seems evident in much of the Al-Qazwini family. It exhibits a pattern of prejudice and bigotry aimed at those that are not of the Islamic faith, primarily those that are Jewish.
Coral Springs Mayor Rhon Ernest-Jones, in the e-mail he sent out expressing his wishes to cancel his invitation to Assadiq’s event, said he believed when he had previously met Imam Mohammad Jawad Al-Qazwini that he took Al-Qazwini to be “the kind of leader who would seek out the paths to peace and understanding.” Ernest-Jones isn’t the first American politician to be fooled by radical Islamists posing as moderates; and sadly, he won’t be the last.
Joe Kaufman is the Chairman of Americans Against Hate and the host of The Politics of Terrorism radio show. Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report
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May 1, 2005
Militant Islam Monitor
http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/577
| MIM: Investigative reporter Emily Emerson
attended what was billed as an event to "Celebration of the Birthday of the
Last Messenger of God' organised by the Assadiq Islamic Educational Center
of Boca Raton, which took place on April 30th at the Boca Marriott which
featured Neo Nazi William Baker as a keynote speaker. Emerson may well have
been the only journalist to attend the event, and she noted that all the
major television stations were kept at a distance, denied entrance to the
hall, and prevented from having access to Baker. For background on the event
see the previous blog entry :http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/538 The controversial Nazi - Islamist hatefest held by the Assadiq Islamic Educational Foundation took place at the Boca Marriott Saturday night despite appeals from concerned citizens to the management of the Boca Marriott to cancel the event. The Boca Marriott's hosting of the event provided the group with a facade of legitimacy. (Even if the Assadiq Islamic Educational Foundation had cancelled Baker, the presence of a CAIR speaker,and the uproar which ensued as a result of their fraudulent use of two mayor's names on their event listing, should have been enough reason for the hotel to deny the group use of it's premises ). It can only be hoped that next time any Islamic group organises an event that both city officials and management of event halls will practice due diligence and research the group before agreeing to appear (as in the case of the Mayors who were announced as guests of honor ). According to reporter Emerson, the Boca Marriott was in a state of semi lockdown with law enforcement everywhere and protesters outside, presenting an 'inconvienence' which certainly did not escape the notice of the paying guests who may decide to take their business elsewhere next time. Imam Sayed Al Qazwini explained his reason for bring neo Nazi William Baker to speak in a predominently Jewish neighborhood by saying he was "going to bridge the gap between communities", and he would "only (to)speak about religion". For his part, Baker told the audience that he would "welcome working with Jewish brothers and sisters who practice true Judaism". Holocaust denier Baker is not surprisingly, also ignorant of 'true Judaism' since the night of the event was a Jewish holiday which prohibits travel .It is unlikely that any Jews, nor anyone interested in truth, would have wanted to receive his message, ;which included such lies as "Islam was not spread by force", and " Muslim soldiers were never allowed to rape woman", which as Emerson pointed out, blatantly disregarded the ongoing slaughter and rape of men, women ,and children, in the Sudan, by Muslim soldiers. The Assadiq Islamic Educational Foundation further belied their stated committment to 'understanding' by denying the media entry to the event and access to Baker. Inside the hall, an additional obstacle was put in the way of anyone who might have felt compelled to answer Baker's call to 'interfaith understanding', in the form of two 'burly bodyguards' who formed a menacing presence on the stage throughout the proceedings. Reporter Emerson related that the guards seemed to be members of the Nation of Islam, a likely scenario, since Al Qazwini's relative - Hassan Al Qazwini, the head of the Islamic Center of America, "...has enthusiastically hosted Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan, ....Qazwini was seen to cheer when Farrakhan denounced Jews as "forces of evil." http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/1217 Jew hater Hassen Al Qazwini was himself a guest speaker at the Assadiq Center of Boca Raton, no doubt in another example of what Imam Mohamed Sayed Al Qazwini would describe as an attempt at "bridging the gap between communities". |
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