A Muslim School Used by Military Has Troubling Ties

FAIRFAX, Va. -- When the Defense Department wanted to hire a qualified imam for leading Friday prayer for Muslim employees at the Pentagon last year, it posted a notice at the nearby Institute of Islamic and Arabic Sciences in America.

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Saudi Arabia's embassy in Washington, D.C. recommends the homepage of its Islamic Affairs Department (IAD) to Americans who want to learn about Islam and Muslims. [1] The website, www.iad.org, [2] contains hundreds of pages of information about Islam and is linked via the Internet to branches of the Saudi government worldwide, including embassies in London [3] and Rome. [4]

The website contains information that is anti-Western in general and anti-American in particular. In one instance for example, the IAD states, " Today's false idols, which dominate over the entire world, are Democracy, Capitalism, Socialism and Communism. Islam instead calls for a Khilafa (Caliphate) based on consultation, and a just economic system based on Zakat and a prohibition of usury. " [9]

The website also contains many documents answering Western criticism of Saudi Arabia and Islam. One example states, " Islam is not a terrorist group as the stereotype would have one believe… We are told that Muslims are terrorists, barbaric and what not. But let us recall what the Christian authorities did… [10] over 12 million people were put to death through the authority of the 'Inquisitions.' Such barbaric act has never been committed by any Islamic authority in the history of Islam. Where was the media then and where are they now - let us judge. Who is barbaric, who chops heads?…" [11]

All material in this report appears in its original English as published by the IAD..................................

Abdur Alamoudi's school was funded in large part by the SAAR Foundation, also of Fairfax, Va, area. SAAR is a network of over 100 shell organizations (charity, corporate, religious/educational) that have, for the most part, no more than documents of incorporation and the same address.

One of these is the GSISS, founded and run by Taha Al-Alwani. GSISS is an islamic studies "graduate school". Its purpose is to train Imams, primarily to be funneled to the US Military's Chaplains Corps. All of the 14 or so serving muslim chaplains were trained and sponsored by the GSISS or one of its affiliates.

Al-alwani is also the founder of the Muslim World League and International Islamic Relief Organization. Both of these are indicated by the FBI as not just money channels for Hamas, al-queda and Palestinian Islamic Jihad but also as recruiters for these movements here and abroad.

These people and organizations are all dotted line connected and have been tunneling into our soft under belly for years.

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