CAIR linked to FBI shootout

Already under increased scrutiny after revelations in a new book, the Council on American-Islamic Relations now is defending itself against documented links to a federal case that drew national attention this week when an indicted Detroit imam was killed in an FBI raid.

Internal documents from an undercover investigation by the authors of "Muslim Mafia" show CAIR helped finance the legal appeal of Muslim cop-killer Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, who is named in the Detroit criminal complaint as the spiritual leader of a radical group that calls for violent action to establish a sovereign Islamic state within the U.S.

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DISCOVER the NETWORKS: Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin

60’s:

Popularly known as H. Rap Brown, in May 1967 he succeeded Stokely Carmichael as the leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a civil rights and anti-Vietnam War student organization that had emerged 7 years earlier. Carmichael and Brown together were key activists in the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, which sported a black panther on its flag.

They rejected Martin Luther King, Jr.’s nonviolent and integrationist politics while calling for “Black Power.” Brown’s most famous statement was “Violence is as American as apple pie.” A 1967 Newsweek article described Brown as a man who “preaches armed eye-for-an-eye self-defense for Negroes and packs a 12-gauge ‘cracker gun’ in his own dusty Plymouth.”

In July 1967 Brown was arrested for inciting a riot at a civil rights rally in Cambridge, Maryland. At the event, Brown declared, “Black folks built America, and if America don’t come around, we’re going to burn America down.” At a rally in Oakland, California the following year, Brown was named the Minister of Justice for the Black Panther Party, a radical group that engaged in much criminal activity including drug dealing, pimping, extortion, assault, and murder.

In 1968 Brown wrote his first book, Die Nigger Die, in which he claimed that white people wanted all blacks dead. Then, rather than face criminal charges stemming from the Cambridge incident of 1967, he jumped bail and disappeared for two years, thereby earning himself a spot on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted List.”

70’s

Brown was captured and arrested at a 1971 shootout in New York City and was sent to prison for five years. During this time, his lawyer was the radical William Kunstler, who previously had represented Stokely Carmichael and Angela Davis. While serving his sentence, Brown converted to Islam. A fellow inmate recommended that he call himself “Al-Amin,” which translates to “the trustworthy” in Arabic. From then on, Brown was known as Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.

When he was paroled in 1976, Al-Amin became Imam of the Atlanta Community Mosque.

80’s

In 1983 he established Imam Jamil Al-Amin’s National Community, a coalition of 30 mosques that fell under his guidance.

90’s

In 1990, Al-Amin was elected Vice President of the American Muslim Council, which would later become a member organization of Sami Al-Arian’s National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom.

In 1992, Imam Jamil Al-Amin’s National Community became a member of the Bosnia Task Force, an alliance of ten Muslim groups supporting Muslims affected by the Bosnian War. The following year Al-Amin helped organize the Islamic Shura Council of North America, which brought together the Islamic Society of North America, the Islamic Circle of North America, the Ministry of Imam W. Deen Mohammed, and Imam Jamil’s National Community.

During the second half of the 1990s, Al-Amin was investigated for a number of murders but was never formally charged. Then in 1999 he was charged with possessing a stolen car, driving without insurance, and impersonating a police officer. Al-Amin refused to appear for his court date, prompting police to issue a warrant for his arrest.

When two sheriff deputies tried to serve the warrant on March 16, 2000, which was the Muslim holiday Eid ul-Adha, they were shot. Deputy Ricky Kinchen was killed and his partner Aldranon English was wounded. English later identified Al-Amin as the shooter, and after a five-day police manhunt the suspect was caught and arrested on March 21 in a wooded area near a small town in Alabama. The gun that had been used in the police shootings was found near the arrest site.

TODAY

In 2002 Al-Amin was tried and found guilty of Deputy Kinchen’s murder and is now serving a life sentence in prison.

Along with Philadelphia cop-killer (and former Black Panther) Mumia Abu Jamal, Al-Amin ranks among the most celebrated “political prisoners” championed by the political left. A supportive Mumia has written: “Imam Jamil has lived a good and rich life in service to his spiritual and ethnic community. He richly deserves the fullest support in all efforts leading to his freedom, so that he may return to the community.”

Also supportive of Al-Amin’s cause has been the organization International ANSWER, which, at an April 20, 2004 demonstration in Washington, DC, played for the crowd a taped message from the incarcerated Al-Amin. The stated purpose of ANSWER’s demonstration was to show “support for the Palestinian people battling the U.S.-backed Israeli aggression.” “FREE PALESTINE! No new war on Iraq!” was the event’s oft-repeated slogan.

Other supporters of Al-Amin include the Muslim Students’ Association, the National Lawyers Guild, the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade, the Workers World Party, the Muslim Alliance of North America, Amnesty International, and Campaign to End the Death Penalty...

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