Posted on 01/07/2006 7:50:13 PM PST by seastay
What started as an apparent rent dispute in the Bronx, has led to a police raid on the Upstate home of a controversial Imam.
The case against Warith Deen Umar began December 30th when the NYPD arrested the Imam at his home on Union Avenue in Longwood in the Bronx. Umar allegedly pulled a gun on a tenant and police say they found a shotgun and a rifle at the home. He is charged with menacing and weapons possession.
Then on Friday, a team of NYPD, FBI and local police searched another home belonging to the Imam in Bethlehem, a suburb of Albany. The police have not said what they were looking for, but Umar says they took computers belonging to his wife and college-age children.
Umar says he is innocent of all charges and the authorities are harassing him for no reason.
"They don't frighten me, said Umar. They don't frighten me. They make me angry. They make me hate them more. So, this evil that they are perpetrating is not something that creates a lot of intimidation. What it does is it creates ill will."
Umar, a longtime Imam for the Department of Correction, was fired in 2003 when quotes attributed to him praised the September 11th hijackers and predicted more attacks. Umar claims to have never made those remarks and maintains he's not un-American.
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January 09, 2006
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