Agents at a warehouse in Dearborn were trying to arrest Luqman Ameen Abdullah, 53, on charges that included conspiracy to sell stolen goods and illegal possession and sale of firearms. Ten followers listed in a criminal complaint were also being rounded up in the area. Three – Mujahid Carswell, 30, Mohammad Alsahi, 33, and Yassir Ali Khan, 30 – are Ontario residents, the FBI said in a release.
Abdullah refused to surrender, fired a weapon and was killed by gunfire from agents, FBI spokeswoman Sandra Berchtold said.
In a court filing, the FBI said Abdullah, also known as Christopher Thomas, was an imam of a Black Muslim radical group named Ummah whose primary mission is to establish an Islamic state within the United States.
No one was charged with terrorism. But Abdullah was "advocating and encouraging his followers to commit violent acts against the United States," FBI agent Gary Leone said in an affidavit.
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The group believes that a separate Islamic state in the U.S. would be controlled by JAMIL ABDULLAH AL-AMIN, formerly known as H. RAP BROWN, who is serving a life sentence in a federal prison in Colorado for shooting two police officers in Georgia in 2000, Leone said. Al-Amin, a veteran of the black power movement, started the group after he converted to Islam in prison.
"They're not taking their cues from overseas," said Jimmy Jones, a professor of world religions at Manhattanville College and a longtime Muslim prison chaplain. "This group is very much American born and bred."
The movement at one time was believed to include a couple of dozen mosques around the country. Ummah is now dwarfed in numbers and influence by other African-American Muslim groups, particularly the mainstream Sunnis who were led by Imam W.D. Mohammed, who recently died.
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, known fomerly as H. Rap Brown
My general profile and major accomplishments
I was born Hubert G. Brown in 1943 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In my childhood, I carried a gun to protect myself against older boys in my dangerous neighborhood and gained a reputation of always being ready to fight. I attended Southern High School, which was affiliated with Southern University, an African-American college.
In the spring of 1960, my high school class attended a college class at Southern University which was connected to the civil rights demonstrations. I felt I could not return to school when African Americans needed so much to be done for them. I began to work with NAG in Washington and the SNCC [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee], headquartered in Atlanta. I was eventually elected chairman of NAG even though I wasn’t a Howard student. In May 1967, I became chairman of the SNCC.
I continued "hate preaching" and was considered an even greater menace than Stokeley Carmichael, the previous chairman, had been. After a speech in Cambridge, Maryland in July 1967, during which I said, "Violence is as American as cherry pie," police and African Americans clashed in a riot in which I was hit in the head with shotgun pellets. After I received first aid, I returned to Washington. Officials issued a 13-state warrant for my arrest. I was placed on the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted List and in 1971, was wounded and captured in a gun battle with police in New York City. Convicted in 1973, I was released from prison on October 21, 1976.
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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.
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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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Thursday, October 29, 2009
FOX Reports Ummah Imam Abdullah Shot Dead in FBI Raid
PASTORIUS CUTTING IN:
Check this out. Note the following sentences in the following report:
"Federal authorities say a leader of what they describe as a nationwide radical Sunni Islam group ... at a Dearborn warehouse on charges that included conspiracy to sell stolen goods and illegal possession and sale of firearms. Authorities also conducted raids elsewhere to try to round up 10 followers named in a federal complaint."
Do you realize Federal authorities are admitting here that there is a nationwide radical Sunni group involved in CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY.
We may be seeing the Feds working on their first RICO prosecution of radical Isalmists.
According to my theory, and it is only a theory, they could probably close almost every Saudi funded mosque in the USA if they used RICO correctly.
We may be seeing the beginning of a real break in the dam. This group is relatively small, and they are American-born, prison-converted Black Muslims. But, now the Feds are setting the precedent for busting up radical Islamists using Criminal Conspiracy charges.
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