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Sunday, 15 May 2011
"Poor, Sickly" Miami Imam Indicted for Funding Pakistani Taliban
by Jerry Gordon
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Flagler Mosque, Miami
Lots of consternation among the members of the Flagler Mosque in Miami in
the wake of a federal indictment and arrest Saturday of "poor, sickly" 76
year imam, Hafiz Muhammad Sher Ali Khan.
The Miami Herald report,
<http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/14/2217517/mosque-members-imam-doesnt-ha
ve.html#ixzz1MQMicWnB> "Imam's arrest shocks mosque members," provides the
'shocking details.'
As dawn prayers were spoken just after 6 a.m. Saturday, FBI agents
surrounded Miami's oldest mosque, then banged on the door.
A man opened it. The agents were there with an arrest warrant.
The Muslim man explained that they were in prayer and could not be
interrupted. He returned to praying. The agents, who had taken off their
shoes before entering the mosque, waited quietly.
"No matter what kind of emergency, we do not break the prayer,'' explained
Shameem Akhtar, a mosque member who was there.
When the prayer was finished, agents arrested Hafiz Muhammad Sher Ali Khan,
the 76-year-old imam of the Miami Mosque, more commonly known as Flagler
Mosque. They charged that he and his family had funneled more than $50,000
to Pakistani terrorists over the past three years.
The imam spoke in a Pakistani dialect to others in the room as he was
escorted out.
The idea that the soft-spoken, sickly prayer leader could have been involved
in a conspiracy to murder, maim and kidnap terrorist targets seemed
unbelievable to those who knew him. embers explained that Kahn lived with
his wife in a tiny apartment near the small mosque, which was built 40 years
ago from a converted house.
[. . .]
But federal documents detail how Khan, two of his sons, his daughter and
grandson conspired to help the Pakistani Taliban, a terrorist organization
that has killed an untold number of Pakistani citizens, government officials
and U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. The family "endorsed" the violence
perpetrated by the Taliban, according to the federal indictment released
Saturday. Tape-recorded phone conversations caught Khan discussing a
strategy to shoot and kill Pakistani officials and called for an attack on
the Pakistani Assembly. He also lent support for a school that trains
children to kill Americans, authorities said.
Also arrested Saturday were Khan's son, Izhar Khan, 24, imam of the Jamaat
Al-Mumineen Mosque in Margate; another son, Irgan Khan, 37, of Miami. Three
others living in Pakistan are also charged: Khan's daughter, Amina Khan, and
his grandson, Alam Zeb; and one other non-family member, Ali Rehman.
Note these taqiyyah -like comments from press conference held by a local
Muslim Adviocacy group:
The Muslim Communities Association and Coalition of South Florida Muslim
Organizations held an afternoon press conference to publicly condemn any
support of terrorism or violence.
"Islam as a faith does not promote, advocate, or condone terrorism,'' the
statement said.
Kahn came to Miami from New Orleans and has been an imam at Flagler mosque
for the past 14 years, according to Asad Ba-Yunus, spokesman for the Muslim
Community Organization.
In an NER article, Zakat and Terrorism
<http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/42478/sec_id/42478> , we
noted:
Zakat recipients would include the poor and needy, administrators of Zakat,
debtors, converts to Islam, bondsmen, wayfarers and those fulfilling the
"way of Allah", Jihad. Note this comment:
By this is meant to finance a Jihad effort in the path of Allah, not for
Jihad for other reasons. The fighter (Mujahid) will be given as salary what
will be enough for him. If he needs to buy arms or some other supplies
related to the war effort, Zakat money should be used provided the effort is
to raise the banner of Islam.
It is the application of Zakat proceeds to Jihad, especially in the US, that
is most problematic . . .
It is a big time problem for "poor sickly" Hafiz Muhammad Sher Ali Khan,
Imam of the Flagler Mosque in Miami, today. Both he and members of his
family are under arrest for funding Jihad.
Let's see how the USDOJ under AG Holder handles this 'hot potato' given
President Obama's declarations in his June 2009 Cairo speech and Holder's
official statements aimed at 'lifting restrictions' on Muslim charities,
that obligate adherents to support Jihad against us. Looks like the
federal Material Support laws for terrorism overarch even President Obama
and AG Holder's 'outreach' to the Muslim ummah, here and around the world.
They look like dhimmis useful fools given this latest episode in Miami. look
at their original statements:
Freedom of religion is central to the ability of peoples to live together.
We must always examine the ways in which we protect it. For instance, in the
United States, rules on charitable giving have made it harder for Muslims to
fulfill their religious obligation. That's why I'm committed to working with
American Muslims to ensure that they can fulfill zakat.
Immediately following the President's Cairo speech, US Attorney General Eric
Holder issued this statement i
<http://www.redcounty.com/atty-general-holder-extends-new-beginnings-america
n-muslims> n furtherance of President Obama's Cairo remarks:
The President's pledge for a new beginning between the United States and the
Muslim community takes root here in the Justice Department where we are
committed to using criminal and civil rights laws to protect Muslim
Americans. A top priority of this Justice Department is a return to robust
civil rights enforcement and outreach in defending religious freedoms and
other fundamental rights of all of our fellow citizens in the workplace, in
the housing market, in our schools and in the voting booth.
There are those who will continue to want to divide by fear - to pit our
national security against our civil liberties - but that is a false choice.
We have a solemn responsibility to protect our people while we also protect
our principles.
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