How U.S. 'harassed' Bay Area Muslim - Customs delay imam who advised Bush

Oakland Tribune ^ | 1/16/05 | Ian Hoffman

[Alouette]

"The blown-up children just aren't seen here, whereas that's what Arabs see all the time,"

But we get to see the blown-up children on Israeli buses and in Russian schoolrooms.

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[mtbopfuyn]

When I go back to my country, are they going to detain me?

If it's so much better, then what the heck is he doing here? Be gone!

[Czar]

Here's a suggestion for you Yusuf: if you don't like being delayed and questioned, stay the hell out of the United States. Works for us...

[stylin19a]

why the article twice ?

"I think's it's racism, and it's based on names," Yusuf said. "It's been three years now. They've had time to sort things out and they're not sorted out. Unfortunately I think they've lumped us all in together, and it's just guilt by association."

That's opposed to dragging Joe Foss out of an airport line for special attention.

I suppose it's time for my token re-run:


"In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by:

(a) Olga Corbutt
(b) Sitting Bull
(c) Arnold Schwartzeneger
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


In 1979 the U.S. Embassy in Iran was taken over by:

(a) Lost Norwegians
(b) Elvis
(c) A tour bus full of 80 year old women
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


During the 1980's, a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:

(a) John Dillinger
(b) The King of Sweden
(c) The Boy Scouts
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


In 1983 the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:

(a) A pizza delivery boy
(b) Pee Wee Herman
(c) Geraldo Rivera making up for a slow news day
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard by:

(a) The Smurfs
(b) Davy Jones
(c) The Little Mermaid
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens and a U.S. Navy diver was murdered by:

(a) Captain Kid
(b) Charles Lindberg
(c) Mother Teresa
(d) Muslim make extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


In 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:

(a) Scooby Doo
(b) The tooth Fairy
(c) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid who had a few sticks of dynamite left over from the train job
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:

(a) Richard Simmons
(b) Grandma Moses
(c) Michael Jordan
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


In 1998 the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:

(a) Mr. Rogers
(b) Hillary, to distract attention from Wild Bill's women problems
(c) The World Wrestling Federation to promote its next villain, "Mustafa the Merciless"
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


In 2001 and 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:

(a) Enron
(b) The Lutheran Church
(c) The NFL
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:

(a) Bonny and Clyde
(b) Captain Kangaroo
(c) Billy Graham
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

[FITZ]

the "Reviving the Islamic Spirit" conference

Sounds like a code word meaning "Jihad" or "murder for the Jews".

[Eagles6]

Please put on boots while I cry a river. It's the Mormons and Mennonites we should really be eyeballing!

[NormsRevenge]

I am asking the AM to edit my original article post or make it an excerppt, worse case.

Looks like the newspaper double posted a lot of its original content,,

(I was wondering why that dang article was so long.-)

Thanks!

[joesnuffy]

10,000 American Muslims are expected back from Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.

American Muslims....right up there with American Dhimmis

[Bahbah]

...according to officials at the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations."

I do not believe one word coming from these people.

[VOA]

Some women cried as agents pressed their hands to digital fingerprint scanners.

No wonder...that's about like a beheading.
(End sarcasm)

[atruelady]

I don't believe them either. It is common knowledge that the terrorists from 9/11 would meet up and make plans at mosques.

Muslims in this country still have a separatist attitude where they don't condem uncle osama and when they do they generalize in muted tones there condemnation of terrorism.

That is why we laugh and don't believe them. They are full of it. They would see 1,000 Christians in this country die rather than tell the authorities where the terrorists are AND YOU KNOW DAMN WELL THEY KNOW!

Muslim leaders in this country know who the bad apples are. They also use the freedoms here to NOT tell anyone.

[atruelady]

This is a holy war. This is Christianity against muslims. I don't care what people think of me when I say that. Muslims are the most violent, oppresive people on the face of the earth. No wonder they have been backward for decades.

This country is based on Judeo-Christian belief. You mix muslims in it and you get what we now have. Terrorism on our own soil AND mass chaos with no responsibility.

I say to the government, target more muslims and arabs. Go ahead. Bush's approval rating will go up when he does this more openly and without apologies.

[thoughtomator]

Some women cried as agents pressed their hands to digital fingerprint scanners.

This sentence epitomizes the overreaction here. And if they were really harassed by the government, then good! It's a sign they are doing their job.

[sheik yerbouty]

i say tough shi'ite!

[sheik yerbouty]

Maybe they had the proverbial "Bad Day at Black Rock". Maybe they should abstain from woshipping a Borg cube.

[Marine_Uncle]

" translated an ancient poem and gave a scholarly talk on the Prophet Isa, Islam's analog to Jesus."

They have such fits of delusion. They have no concept as who Jesus was. I bet less then a few hundred Muslims authorities in recent times have truly did an in depth study of the bible.

They run on hearsay and bias generated over some 1400 years of deceit, lies, and mis-information. They have had to resort to lies claimed by various leaders and their troops that the OT/NT had been drastically malformed and simply could not be trusted as accurate. In short, Islam and it's proponents and followers live in a world of mis-information.
Their Koran is so convoluted with lie and deceit and often simply verses that many of the main commentators for centuries totally disagree on, and quite frankly makes no sense at all to no one. And they are content to continue to live the lie. For to do otherwise, means their lives are exposed to the worst crime given to human kind. In short. They would have to admit to being had.

[dennisw]

 

 

This clown was born Greek Orthodox
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Shaykh Hamza Yusuf was born in Walla Walla, Washington, and grew up in Northern California in a Greek Orthodox family. He is founder of the Zaytuna Institute. He embraced Islam in 1977 in Santa Barbara, California when he was only 17 and set off almost immediately to study Arabic, Islamic jurisprudence, philosophy, and spiritual psychology with masters in the Muslim world.

In 1979, he moved to the United Arab Emirates and studied in the Islamic Institute of Al-'Ain for four years, augmenting his studies with lessons by leading scholars of the Islamic world.

Some of the scholars he studied with include Shaikh Baya bin Salik, head of the Islamic court in Al-'Ain; Shaikh Muhammad Shaybani, Mufti of Abu Dhabi; Shaikh Hamad al-Wali; and Shaikh Muhammad al-Fatrati of Al-Azhar University. In 1984, Hamza Yusuf entered the Bilal ibn Rabah Madrasa of Tizi, Algeria and studied with Shaikh Sidi Bou Sai'd. After being expelled from Algeria by the government, he travelled to a unique madrassa in Mauritania and studied with the most noble scholar Shaykh Murabit al-Hajj bin Fahfu where he continues his studies periodically.

After ten-years of studies abroad, he returned to the United States and completed degrees in nursing at Imperial Valley College and religious studies at San Jose State University.

In the early 1990's he began to teach classes in the San Francisco Bay Area and in 1996 he established Zaytuna Institute. Two years later the institute acquired a property in Hayward, California, where it is now based. Zaytuna Institute is committed to inspiring a traditional understanding and study of the core Islamic sciences. In addition to weekly classes, week-long and month-long educational programs, and annual conferences that addresses contemporary issues affecting the American people, Zaytuna Institute has published four small books and several major audio-tape sets of Shaykh Hamza's classes.

His classes on the life of the Prophet Muhammad, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, produced as a 24-audio tape set, has sold well thousands of copies world-wide.

As the executive director of the Zaytuna Institute, Shaykh Hamza travels frequently to major North American and European cities to teach and lecture to both Muslims and non-Muslim audiences.

After years of passionate work Shaykh Hamza completed the first comprehensive English translation of the Burda of Imam Al-Busiri. In June 2002 Sandala Productions in the UK has released “The Poem of the Cloak: The Burda of Al-Busiri.” The poem, on two cds, is sung by the Fez Singers and and the book is calligraphed by Mohamed Zakariya, a world renowed calligrapher and the teacher of Ustadha Aishah Elinor Holland.

He presently resides in the Bay Area with his wife and four children.

(For more information on Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Hanson and the Zaytuna Institute please visit http://www.zaytuna.org)

[bayourod]

"38 other U.S. citizens who attended the "Reviving the Islamic Spirit" conference were held up to six hours at bridges crossing "

Anyone who claims that we have open borders is either ignorant or a lier.