CIRCA 2014-—Muslim Christian Killer on US gravy train
(had Diamonds and 200 Credit Cards Hidden on Texas property)
Front Page Magazine | 6/20/2014 | Daniel Greenfield / FR FR Posted by Dqban22
This sort of thievery is surprisingly common among Muslims. The only reason this came to light is because the Muslim settler committed two murders in Texas, one of which he actually got away with.
The murder of Christian believer, Gelareh Bagherzadeh, was reported earlier. Gelareh Bagherzadeh was an Iranian Christian who came to this country only to be murdered by a Muslim because she encouraged his daughter to marry the man she loved.
The Texas Muslim claimed he was too disabled to work. But he wasn’t too disabled to kill.
BACKSTORY The Texan, a strict Muslim, was furious when his Jordanian-American daughter married a man without his permission. The Muslim, Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan, blamed his daughters husband, relatives say. They say he also faulted one of her closest friends, 30-year-old Gelareh Bagherzadeh, a Christian convert who widely denounced Islam.
<><> First Christian-believer Bagherzadeh was killed, gunned down outside her parents Texas Galleria townhouse complex in January 2012.
<><> Eleven months later, Irsans son-in-law died after being shot multiple times in northwest Texas, in the Harris County apartment he shared with his wife.
The Texas Muslim thought he could get away with murdering because he had already gotten away with so many other things in Texas.
Federal authorities executed a search warrant at Irsans sprawling, 5-acre property 40 miles north of Houston, where they allegedly found cash, diamonds, pearls, weapons and phony passports hidden in attic rafters, in secret compartments throughout a cluster of trailers and outbuildings and even inside the buried drum of a clothes dryer at the Conroe, Texas property.
The Muslim Irsan, his wife Shmou Ali Alrawabdeh, and another daughter were subsequently arrested on a variety of federal fraud charges and are in federal custody.
A federal criminal complaint detailing the discoveries recounts a saga of nearly 20 years in which the 57-year-old naturalized citizen from Jordan, and his family, allegedly scammed taxpayer disability assistance funds claiming fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue symptoms, and affective disorders while secreting real estate, vehicles and cash in US and foreign bank accounts.
The complaint also alleges the Muslim Irsan:
<><> was receiving taxpayer funds for a son not living in the US,
<><> maintained several addresses on the property to facilitate various schemes, and,
<><> once disabled a safety feature on a saw then purposefully cut himself to receive a $75,000 settlement.
The Muslim Ali was certainly industrious and entrepreneurial, just not quite in the way amnesty advocates like to claim.
Also found on the property was a makeshift gun range, which witnesses said five or six Muslim families frequently visited to fire AK-47s and information about Irsans attempts to get a silencer. Nothing to do with Islam Im sure.
The rest of the scam ...... While there have been no allegations of terrorist ties regarding the Muslim familys alleged (a) foreign bank accounts, and, (b) suspicious wire transactions, Irsans strict adherence to radical Islam may have been a motive in the alleged murders.
Authorities are also re-examining a 1999 case in which Irsan was not indicted after claiming self-defense in the shooting of son-in-law Amjad Alidam, who was married to Nasemah Rachelle Irsan.
And thats not all. Prosecutors also revealed, in connection to the social security fraud and credit card charges against Irsan, that they found more than 200 credit cards with various names and multiple variations of his own name throughout the Irwin Keel home.
Arresting officers say they also found more than 40 similar credit cards in his wallet the morning he was arrested. His daughter also alleges, among multiple other schemes detailed in court documents, that Ali Irsan purposely disabled the safety device on a Ryobi rotary saw and purposely cut his own foot. Prosecutors say he used that injury to receive a $75,000 settlement from the manufacturer.
He said he was a Victim of Islamophobia
But the Imam is now in jail accused of plotting Murder
JIHAD WATCH ^ | JUN 15, 2019 11:00 AM | DANIEL GREENFIELD
FR Postedby robowombat
Observe how peaceful we are, Imam Mahmoud Shalash urged. We do not cause any harm to anybody.Shalashs mosque, the Islamic Center of Lexington, had contacted Lexington cops and Homeland Security, while claiming to be suffering from Islamophobic threats. Before long, two cop cars in the Kentucky city known as the Horse Capital of the World were parked outside the mosque to protect the imam and his congregation.
The FBI also got on board.
CAIR widely circulated reports of the threat to what it called, its house of worship.Our nations leaders must send a clear message challenging the rising Islamophobia that leads to such threats, CAIRs Ibrahim Hooper declared. With the 2016 election still imminent, his news release blamed the extreme anti-Muslim rhetoric of Donald Trump and Ben Carson. Four years later, Imam Mahmoud Shalash is in jail. The imam of the Islamic Center, along with John Sadiqullah, and Abdul Hadi, were charged in a harmful and not especially peaceful murder plot.
What makes this particular murder plot interesting is that it would have been authorized with a fatwa.
Imam Shalash has worn many hats. According to a LinkedIn profile, In addition to running the Islamic Center of Lexington, a man of that name owned a mobile home park and the Bluegrass Extended Stay motel (guest reviews have complained about roaches, stained beds and unfriendliness to service dogs), was a member of the Muslim Students Association (a terror linked Muslim Brotherhood hate group) while working on a degree in electrical engineering at the University of Chicago, and, ironically, considering his current predicament, had worked as a chaplain at fedral and state prisons.
Its unknown which, if any of these businesses, led to the first plot.
In March, Imam Shalash met up with a government informant at the Days Motel which records indicate is owned by Shalash. (Reviews of the motel describe a man named Mohammed, accuse the staff of sexual harassment, and claim that the motel is dangerous and that the mattresses are covered in bugs.)
There the imam told the informant he needed help getting $80,000 from his target. Do whatever you have to do to get my money back. That, according to the informant, included breaking the mans legs.
At a second meeting, Imam Shalash was there along with Sadiqullah, for a murder plot against another man, this time apparently involving a taxi company deal gone bad, across state lines. I want him dead, Sadiqullah said. If someone could kill him for $10,000, we all four will pay someone $10,000. A meeting was then meant to happen at a mosque at which a fatwa would be provided authorizing the murder. That mosque may have been the Islamic Center of Lexington, which is just across the street from the University of Kentucky.
A fatwa, a religious Islamic authorization, for murder would have provided a sharia license for violence.
This is the month when the heart gets soft, Imam Shalash had claimed during a previous Ramadan. You read the Quran more often, you remember Allah more often, you tend to come to the mosque more often to pray in congregation.
This Ramadan didnt seem to have softened his heart. But Imam Shalash has never been a kind man.
A decade ago, Asra Q. Nomani described Imam Mahmoud Shalash telling Muslim men to beat their wives. This is America, Nomani had protested. How can you tell men to beat their wives? They should beat them lightly, Imam Shalash had insisted. Its in the Koran.And yet, despite incidents like this, the media continued quoting Imam Shalash favorably.
When Sonny Landham called for a Muslim ban while running for a Senate seat in Kentucky, the media turned to Imam Shalash to describe the libertarian actors comments as irresponsible.
The media constantly turned to Imam Shalash because hes a major figure in the Muslim settler community in Lexington. Documents list him as an incorporator of the Islamic Society of Central Kentucky. The Societys site lists him as conducting marriages and funerals. And the Society founded the Lexington Universal Academy whose board appears to contain a number of people with that last name.
That includes one woman described as a CAIR board member and anti-Israel activist who shares a name with a woman who is listed as living at the same address as Imam Shalash.
The Islamic Center of Lexington responded to Imam Shalashs arrest with a statement claiming that its leadership is shocked at the news, that every American citizen is innocent until proven guilty, and that Islam is a religion built on peace and tolerance. But how shocked can the Center really be?
News accounts report that Imam Shalash had already pleaded guilty to federal charges of $238,763 in illegal currency transactions back in 2012. Despite that, the Center didnt cut ties with him. It didnt cut ties with him after the wife-beating story. The Islamic Center is probably hoping once again that this latest Shalash scandal will blow over.
The media has been the Islamic Centers greatest ally during its previous scandals. When neighbors protested the plans for an Islamic community center, the media took Shalashs side. Had the media disclosed Shalashs previous guilty plea and the wife-beating incident, the stories and the hearings might have had a very different outcome.
Instead the media waited for a murder. And nearly got one.
Imam Shalash has spent the better part of two decades trading in vague concerns about Islamophobia while preaching that Islam is a religion of peace.
When Obama ran for office, Imam Shalash claimed that his opponents were trying to exploit the anti-Islamic sentiment in this country that ties Muslims with terrorists.
After President Trumps travel ban, Imam Shalash had insisted, People come for better opportunities to this country, not to do terroristic actions. Apparently the two are not mutually exclusive.
After repeatedly exploiting false claims of Islamophobia, the former chaplain is now facing prison.
This case isnt about Islamic terrorism. But it is about how Islamic law can be leveraged for violent purposes. Islamic violence isnt just terrorism. Its violence that is licensed by Islamic authorities.
And that can be as simple as a meeting in a grimy motel or a mosque opposite the University of Kentucky where the religious authority is just a thug who wants to get his money any way he can.
We want to come up here and show them the real Islam that carries the love and courtesy and tolerance in our faith, Imam Shalash was quoted as saying in news stories.
It took a while, but he finally did.
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