U.S. Islamic leader indicted for terror link

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Wednesday, January 14, 2003

[JohnHuang2]

GLOBAL JIHAD
U.S. Islamic leader indicted for terror link
Known as moderate, said Jews 'the sons of monkeys and pigs'

---

Posted: January 14, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

A prominent Islamic leader in the U.S. regarded as a moderate for his interfaith efforts has been arrested on an indictment linking him to terrorist groups.

Imam Fawaz Mohammed Damrah

Imam Fawaz Mohammed Damrah, head of the Islamic Center of Cleveland, allegedly withheld information on his membership or affiliation with several groups, including the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which is on the U.S. list of terrorist organizations.

Damrah, also known as Fawaz Damra, was filmed making a 1991 fundraising speech in Chicago for Palestinian Islamic Jihad in which he urged attacks on Jews.

"[Muslims should be] directing all rifles at the first and last enemy of the Islamic nation, and that is the sons of monkeys and pigs, the Jews," he told the audience.

The Muslim leader, born in the West Bank in 1961, became a permanent U.S. resident in 1988 and a citizen in 1994. Accused of giving false information to obtain U.S. citizenship, he could face up to five years in prison, a $5,000 fine and loss of citizenship.

After the fundraising tape aired on Cleveland television in 2001, Damrah apologized, attributing his remarks to youthful prejudices he grew up with in the contentious environment of the West Bank. He also noted Islamic Jihad was not recognized at the time as a terrorist group by the U.S.

"The person who made those comments had absolutely no interaction with the Jewish/Christian community, or have [sic] any idea what extraordinary people they are, as I now do," Damra wrote in an Oct. 1, 2001, op-ed in the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper.

"As all of us go through evolution in our life, intellectual and spiritual, so did I, and I will now do everything in my power to continue to show the community that I am the peacemaker they have come to know me as," he said.

Prior to coming to Cleveland in 1990, Damrah was the head of the al-Farooq mosque in Brooklyn where he was succeeded by Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, an Egyptian cleric serving a life sentence for conspiring to blow up New York City landmarks.

Damrah was one of the 170 possible co-conspirators in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing named by the U.S. attorney for the southern district of New York. He was not arrested in connection with the bombing after being questioned by the FBI.

The indictment brought yesterday against Damrah does not specify his activities related to the terrorist groups.

---

[JohnHuang2]

Wednesday, January 14, 2003

Quote of the Day by feedback doctor

[JudgemAll]

Ask Christian arabs, and they will tell you there cannot be peace with muslims unless they are dead or have converted to christianity. These people see missionary work by Christian as a success of Christians and a failure of Jihad to win converts, and so they kill those Christians.

The only reason interfaith is accepted by these so called moderate muslims is because the Christians in those interfaith groups promise to only target non-muslims... what courrage indeed to make your target of proselytism non-muslims. Seems to me more like a trojan horse to get them ultimately to submit to Islam.

[RaceBannon]

That is sad what fear can make you do. I wonder how often we fail to believe as we should because of fear.

[JudgemAll]

Yes, fear is like hunger, an alibi for the thief to steal or run like a coward. I believe Jesus not only blamed pagans and gentiles for using idols, material needs and other alibis, but He also blamed those using the truth to conduct cruel and unusual punishment... thus defeating the purpose of truth and transforming it into a lie through selective prosecutions etc... This was the gist of the dispute with His Jewish brothers.

So how do we choose? What criteria then helps us choose? Do we have a choice or is it just causality? Clearly we can choose our Prophet. We can choose to adapt ultimately to a Prophet, which means consumption: hence, "This is my flesh and this is my blood" and people get forgiven through Christ's blood, an ultimate consumption of the marriage.

Once that is done, it is most likely that the believer will never again consume what is not of Christ and thus distasteful, and the believer will give up arbitrary alibis to do things. At least this is how I perceive it or how it has been working for me personaly.

Last but not least, there is the mission, which is a further development of this study. Every man on this Earth has a mission, including that of winning converts, or, rather, of urging justice and strength, and not weakness. Doing missionary work in muslim or communist countries must be harrowing, because these people have an ideology that makes them commit murders without skipping a beat. While muslims cannot stand to be in doubt and skipping a beat, thus turning to hotblooded killing to appease the heart, communists are much more cold blooded in their murders, lies and disregard of the truth and true murderers. All these doctrines allow these people to construct an internal structure that will provide them with no alibi to stop, no skipping of beat and no qualms whatsoever in order to kill us.

This is what liberals and liberal unitarian religious movements do not understand: can they eat their own finger out without skipping a beat while intellectualizing the act? If they cannot, they will be deemed unworthy by those motivating them to ignore the crimes thereof.

Christ of course did not need a complicated structure to do what He did and is followers did without skipping a beat, He simply faced the pain and confronted its reality without letting that influence the post-reality, the future reality, i.e the ability to forgive so that no deed becomes an alibi for us to act in this way or that way, but only Christ's word should be our sole reason to act, a faith that for the future it is better and truer to act that way or consider the event that way.

With Christ a perception of the future occurs, a rejection of alibi filled doctrines occurs, and a genuine endorsement and enjoyment of God's blessings occurs, meaning anything that God tells us should be inspired of His blood and flesh becomes edible and welcome healing of pain and suffering.

[joesnuffy]

The Muslim leader, born in the West Bank in 1961, became a permanent U.S. resident in 1988 and a citizen in 1994.

Another high quality immigrant/illegal alien...immagine another 10 million streaming in through Mexico....how many more of this kind of cucaracha will amble on over...with the drug cartel mules and other criminals yearning to 'breathe free"....and ply their proclivites while complaining of discrimination and getting nice settlements...and they and their advocates crying out for even more affirmative action type perks...