Imam, aunt: Usaamah Rahim not a terrorist, was 'murdered' by 'reckless' cops

Boston Herald ^ | 6/5/2015 | Bob McGovern, O’Ryan Johnson

[markomalley]

A Boston imam and the aunt of the 26-year-old Roslindale man killed by police and the FBI on Tuesday say he was not a terrorist and blamed his “murder” on the media, an investigation gone awry and the strained relationship between cops and black men.

“I ask that God overlook the shortcomings in the people who continue to exist that murdered the young man,” said Imam Abdullah Faaruuq of the Mosque for the Praising of the Lord in Roxbury yesterday. “I know that’s probably not what they intended in their hearts. But this is how they’re trained — to shoot at the critical mass, in an open space with cars going by.”

Authorities have said Usaamah Rahim was shot around 7 a.m. Tuesday after being ordered to drop his military-style knife before he responded, “You drop yours.” He was under 24/7 surveillance by the Joint Terrorist Task Force and was considered armed and dangerous, and allegedly plotting to behead police.

Rahim’s supporters, however, said they had no evidence he had been radicalized, according to family spokesman Ronald Sullivan, an attorney and Harvard law professor. Rahim’s aunt said her nephew felt threatened as a black man in America.

“There’s a lot of black people and black men who are angry at the cops right now and putting things out on social media about the cops and maybe you know, just not being happy with the cops,” said his aunt, who gave only her first name, Karen. “When you add the factor of Islam, now everyone in the media wants to add terrorism to it — if it wasn’t for him being Muslim, then we would not be hearing terrorism, we would not be hearing ISIS, and that’s what I want to say.”

Sullivan insinuated that Rahim shouldn’t have been approached by police in the first place without a warrant and said he was looking into whether authorities made an unconstitutional stop.

“If in fact there was an illegal arrest, that is something that has to be dealt with,” he said. “If in fact the conduct of law enforcement constituted the functional equivalent of an arrest, that is a standalone issue that has be dealt with.”

After the press conference, Black Lives Matter Boston posted on its Facebook page: “We, at Black Lives Matter Boston, are sickened to once more have to call out in grief over the violent taking of another community member at the hands of the white supremacist state.”

An FBI affidavit released this week indicated that Rahim was hellbent on “committing violent jihad” and wanted to “go after” the “boys in blue,” in an apparent reference to attacking police officers.

U.S. Rep. William Keating said yesterday Rahim had been on the Joint Terrorism Task Force’s radar since 2012.

Keating said during a private meeting with the FBI on Wednesday he was told social media was among the ways Rahim stayed informed of those who were sympathetic to radical ideologies. Asked if there were others who the FBI believes were linked to this plot, Keating said he was told the investigation is ongoing.

“They’re going to exhaust every avenue,” Keating said. “(The FBI) said it was an active investigation and clearly went on to talk about social media and how he was involved in that. There are going to be things that they cannot discuss because they don’t want to alert others they may be looking at.”

Faaruuq said authorities were “reckless” when they gunned down Rahim and that, if they wanted to, they could have taken him into custody without killing him.

“You can capture tigers and lions and bears, oh my,” he said.

“I think it was reckless that they would be out in the parking lot shooting. I think it was foolish for the young man if he did wield a knife in front of five officers.”

Faaruuq also blamed the media for the violence, not Islam.

“Nothing of the religion teaches that. The media teaches our children. Our homes and our religious organizations no longer influence,” he said. “They are on the Internet and watching the media and watching the ‘Rambo’ movies more than they are influenced by what we teach them.”

Rahim’s family went to Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley’s Office last night to watch a video of the shooting. Sullivan said he and the family “don’t have any further reaction at this point” when asked about the video.

[BigEdLB]

Good news. Usaama has his 72 succubuses in Hell,and we don’t have to waste money on a trial.

[madprof98]

family spokesman Ronald Sullivan, an attorney and Harvard law professor

I'd like to have a Harvard law professor to speak for my family too. How do you get one?

[Popman]

Usaamah Rahim was shot around 7 a.m. Tuesday after being ordered to drop his military-style knife before he responded, “You drop yours.”

That may work in some idiotic Hollywood movie, but in real life when you bring a knife to a gunfight...

Most of the time you will wind up bleeding out on the sidewalk...

[MrBambaLaMamba]

F’kallah

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

See? He wanted to become an aspiring jihadist, but the out of control police stopped him.

BURN THIS B!TCH DOWN!

[kearnyirish2]

“He was under 24/7 surveillance by the Joint Terrorist Task Force and was considered armed and dangerous, and allegedly plotting to behead police.”

Imagine having a loved one killed by this mutant before he was taken down...They probably knew the plans of the Boston Marathon bombers as well but lost them with the surveillance. Do you think they’d just admit it?

[Recompennation]

Dead guys lawyer said not enough evidence to determine what mo mo was holding???
In other words he had his hands up and we are sticking with that.

[PghBaldy]

They had a press conference, and showed the video to black and/or muslim community leaders, live on TV. I saw enough of it to be satisfied they were satisfied. I hope this fizzles out.

[JRandomFreeper]

I think you can order them out of the back of comics, next to the cardboard submarines.

/johnny

[Old Sarge]

H/T to our FRiend markomalley for the post.

There has been more reporting from social media regarding this incident as possibly the next stop on the Race-Road-Show.

Watch for statements coming from NAN/Sharpton, NBPP, and more appearences from ISIS-aligned groups such as we observed in Ferguson.

Compare Boston to Baltimore: Boston gratefully accepted a massive police lockdown of an entire metro area for two Muslim terrorists - and everyone complied "in the interest of public safety".

Baltimore's leadership gave an entire city a blank check to loot and pillage, and called anyone who dissented "racist" - and everyone complied "in the interest of public safety".

What will Boston's reaction be if the fires get lit there?

For thus has the Lord said unto me:
“Go, set a watchman, Let him declare what he sees.”
Isaiah 21:6

The Watchman Ping List - FReepmail Old Sarge for details!

[canuck_conservative]

They’re hilariously delusional.

I would love to see Big Gay Media show more of these types, that should pretty much confirm the image of “over-exaggerating and whining” in everybody’s mind.

This is the most effective anti-Muslim marketing campaign ever!

[BuffaloJack]

It’s a shame he didn’t suffer in agony for a longer period of time.

[bert]

Black thug lives don’t matter

Think of it as societal cleansing

[logic101.net]

He was really just trying to offer the cop a free shave with that big knife.... So misunderstood.

[Travis McGee]

[BykrBayb]

Rahim’s supporters, however, said they had no evidence he had been radicalized…

So then his terroristic behavior is, after all, just moderate Islam? Okay.

[a fool in paradise]

FYI on “Abdullah Faaruuq”

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/letters/2013/05/04/problem-not-with-boston-muslims-but-with-radical-leaders/LqExH1l9B9FvleIWhEdcxH/story.html
Problem is not with Boston Muslims but with radical leaders
May 05, 2013

Lisa Wangsness and meghan e. Irons cite only me as a critic of the Islamic Society of Boston, whose Cambridge mosque was attended by at least one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers (“Praying for peace — and understanding,” Page A1, April 27). In fact there have been others who have recognized the radical nature of the mosque leadership. The situation today is far different from the time Mayor Menino agreed to subsidize the building of the Islamic Society of Boston’s Saudi-funded mosque, and when many in the Jewish community embraced the mosque’s leaders...

...A few months ago, Northeastern University dismissed Imam Abdullah Faaruuq, a frequent spokesperson for the Islamic Society of Boston, from his role as Muslim student chaplain after we released a video of Faaruuq urging Muslim students at Northeastern to support terror suspect Tarek Mehanna, and telling a gathering at a mosque that “it’s time to pick up the gun and the sword and go out and do your job.”

...Charles Jacobs
President
Americans for Peace and Tolerance
Boston

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The Counter Jihad Report
http://counterjihadreport.com/tag/abdullah-faaruuq/

Video Exposes Northeastern University’s Muslim Chaplain as an Islamist Extremist
Posted on September 7, 2012
By CHARLES JACOBS:

“Our video shows that there is a culture of extremism at the Islamic Society of Northeastern University (ISNU) – the Muslim student group on campus under the leadership of its spiritual advisor, Imam Faaruuq,” said human rights activist Dr. Charles Jacobs, APT President...
Islamic Extremism @ Northeastern University
https://youtu.be/50YgDPSheVk
Published on Sep 5, 2012

[a fool in paradise]

It’s not delusion, it’s rabid Islamonazism in defense of violent jihad.

[livius]

I finally saw a photo of this guy and his family. They are clearly not ethnic or immigrant Muslims, but are black American converts. His choice of the name Usaama (Osama) was clearly no accident either.

These converts are filled with hate, and they’ve finally found the perfect vehicle for it.