The Shocking Truth about Lowe's and All
American Muslim
Walid Shoebat and Ben Barrack
So you're watching a soccer game in Dearborn,
Michigan between Al-Tadamun and Chelsea, a game that
was advertised in public leaflets and on the Arab American website; it
was dedicated to something termed, "The Day of
Jerusalem." The thought of incorporating such a slogan
into promotional material about a sporting event
puzzles you. What is this "Day of Jerusalem" all
about? Later, you discover that the game was hosted by
Husham Alhusayni,“ the main spiritual leader of the
Karbala Center in Dearborn, “ who was thanked by Samir
Al-Jabiri and Muhammad Alhasayni who said the victory
was "dedicated to honor the souls of the martyrs of
Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa..."
These are clearly terrorists who murder civilians;
such a dedication should spawn outrage but it did not.
The sound of silence in response to such a thing
echoed throughout Dearborn's Muslim community. Why did
no one object to such hatred, religious bigotry and
open support for terrorism?
Husham Alhusayni is not just the imam at Dearborn's
Karbala Center; he is also featured in All
American Muslim, which airs on The Learning
Channel (TLC). In the program, Alhusayni is seen
presiding over marriages within Muslim families in
Dearborn, whose day-to-day lives are portrayed as they
interact in English.
When Sean Hannity attempted to extract a confession from
Alhusayni, the double speaking slick-Willy, Alhusayni,
repeatedly refused to denounce Hezbollah. Americans
were left to wonder if he had decided to plead the
fifth, which involves no incrimination. Conversely,
when people like Alhusayni have their Arabic
translated into English, those same Americans are
struck with both shock and awe. Open declarations of
public support for Hezbollah to millions is given but
is done so in Arabic, of course.
Alhusayni is a signatory to the Jerusalem Document of
2009, which reads more like Mein Kampf. It refers to
the war on Zionism as a war between "good and evil."
Zionism is considered an "aggression" that is
infecting "the entire human race." Muslims are told to
"get ready for the holy Jihad."
If one is inclined to believe this is the "struggle
within" version of Jihad, the reading of the following
phrase after translation should prompt a
re-evaluation:
"We remind our sons to get ready to carry out
their duty in Holy Jihad and continue the path which
our young valiant men in Hezbollah began in Southern
Lebanon."
This message was not given to Muslims in Lebanon but
is "essential for the Iraqi community living in the
Diaspora," which includes Dearborn. Several of the top
Muslim leaders in the US endorsed this document, like
Fadel Al-Sahlani, the official representative of
Iraq's leading Shia religious authority and Muhammad
Zaki al-Souajh who was the leading imam of the Muslim
community in Houston, Texas for several years, as well
as Murtada Qazwini.
It is not just about the dog which the Catholic
convert to Islam in All American Muslim had
to get rid of because his new Muslim family could not
tolerate dogs, which are considered unclean in the
Islamic culture; the document also refers to
completely ridding the world of Zionism:
"The struggle between good and evil is not
measured by a generation. It does not circulate on a
specific land. Jerusalem is an Islamic destiny that
stems from ancient history into the future indebted
to 1/5 of humanity. What it suffers from Zionist
aggression does not only encompass the Palestinian
borders but the entire human race. It is time for
the nations concerned which have influence, that is
the US and all its allies, to reconsider their
position regarding Zionist aggression."
The cancer of Zionism does not only concentrate on
the Palestinian-Israeli conflict but is considered an
infection within "the entire human race."
If Americans question my translation from Arabic,
they can watch for themselves as
the All American Muslim Alhusayni lets a few words
slip in English (watch 9:24 mark) while appearing to
make the point that evil exists in "every nationality"
before speaking broadly about the Zionists and
equating them with Timothy McVeigh and Jeffrey Dahmer:
"In America, there is Timothy McVeigh... he's
evil. Jeffrey Dahmer... he cut the heads off of
children and put it in the refrigerator... he's a
criminal. Saddam, he's a criminal, killing innocent
people. So many Zionists in Palestine, killing
innocent people."
Perhaps a nuanced show consisting of the real
American Muslim at the Karbala Center would have
provided a more accurate portrayal of beliefs, “
political aspirations and all,“ including the all
black cloaks that cover each woman entirely, save for
a small portion of the face,”a far cry from the
decorative attire that appears on the television show.
I would certainly not object if the show included the
photos taken inside the
center with men participating in self-flagellation (video
here and here) repetitively
whipping and scourging themselves with self-inflicted
abuse to memorialize the killing of the Prophet
Muhammad's grandson, Imam Hussein by the Sunni
Muslims.
What they do not tell you on the show is that most of
these Muslim families are primarily of the Shia sect.
Indeed, these individuals denounce Al-Qaeda, not
primarily for carrying out 9/11 but for its connection
to Saudi Wahhabists, who were behind destroying Shia
national monuments in Samarra. Americans do not
understand the link and this is why Al-Husayni speaks
against the Wahhabists for being the instrument of
terrorism "against the Shia.â" He is continually seen (see
6:50) identifying Al-Saud as a "shame to the
world," and "Arabs are Kaffirs,"
referring to them as "the residue of Zionism who
rejects the birth of Jesus and the awaited Mahdi."
Am I saying that all Muslims and Arabs practice
doublespeak and have an agenda? Hardly. Nadia Mahdeed
from AlSharq Al-Awsat (Middle
East News) entered the Karbala Center to interview
Alhusayni; she was struck by how many people
approached her for not adhering to the dress code:
"I was not wearing a black sheet that women who
came to prayer are supposed to wear."
Mahdeed then relayed what she was told by
worshippers:
"The people who came to pray all told me that
they have no trust in America. I am amazed since
they all enjoyed living in it."
When she interviewed Alhusayni, she said to him:
"Your followers insisted I mention to you that
they hate Saddam Hussein but that they also have no
trust in America."
Alhusayni, a master of political rhetoric, cleverly
replied by adding the word "policy," thereby softening
the claim:
"Not many of us trust in the American policy."
Indeed, doublespeak artists live by double standards.
As if underscoring the reality that Alhusayni only
wanted to convey a peaceful perception while seeming
to support something else entirely, the conflict
between the two was not lost on Mahdeed:
"Despite his gracefulness, when I walked out of
there, my mind was charged with the slogans of war,
not the tranquility of peace that is supposed to
exist inside such a place."
Lowe's Home Improvement, which has found itself at
the center of controversy for pulling its advertising
from All American Muslim, is right; it is
behaving as Americans ought to, engaged in a righteous
struggle with the outcries of so-called All American
Muslims unleashing their only sanctioned dog,”CAIR.
The Council of American Islamic Relations swiftly
acted as the Muslim ACLU, barking out attacks of
"racism" and "bigotry" with threats from Rep. Chris
Murphy D-CT indicating he and other House members
would be sending a letter to Lowe's on the issue.
Democratic Senators Barbra Boxer (CA), Chuck Shumer
(NY) and Dick Durbin (IL), hardly right-wing hawks,
all have said that CAIR is closely connected to
terrorism.
So is Alhusayni of TLC's All American Muslim.
Walid Shoebat is the
author For God or For Tyranny
Ben Barrack is a talk show host on KTEM 1400 in
Texas benbarrack.com
