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Cleric says president 'must embrace Islam' or be tried when Muslims take over
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Posted: February 27, 2011
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President Obama must embrace Islam as a way of life
or face the consequences of a trial under the Shariah
Islamic court system, declared British extremist cleric
Anjem Choudary.
Choudary, founder and former chief of two Islamic
groups disbanded by the British authorities under antiterror legislation, is planning a Washington protest
later this week in which he says he will call on
American Muslims to revolt against the country and
implement Shariah law.
Anjem Choudary
Read about plans for the United States, in "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld
That's Conspiring to Islamize America"
Speaking in an interview with investigative reporter Aaron Klein on his program on New
York's WABC Radio, Choudary claimed Obama was waging a war against Islam.
"[Obama] has promised all Muslims to be released from Guantanamo Bay. They are still
languishing there even though he knows they are completely innocent," Choudary
claimed. "On top of that, he's increased the number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, so he
is a warmonger just as his predecessor was. And thirdly and more importantly,"
Choudary said, "the Muslims don't want democracy and freedom. Democracy and
freedom are anathema to Islam and the Shariah."
Audio of the first part of the interview can be heard below: (Neuhaus Schaan note: In
trying to access the audio, I was unsuccessful. The web page I was using to access the
audio was the same as for this article http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=268989)
Choudary said that at his protest, scheduled to take place Thursday in front of the
White House, he will call on Obama and all Americans to "embrace Islam, not only
as a religion but as a way of life."
Choudary continued: "And at the same time, we will be issuing a warning that the
presence of U.S. forces and U.S. personnel in Muslim countries, looking out for their
interests, at the moment is very, very insecure. I think the Muslims are boiling angry
around the world. This is something [Americans] should take very seriously."
Choudary turned his ire back to Obama, claiming the president was committing "crimes"
against Muslims in Iraq and in Afghanistan.
He warned Obama: "I do believe that the only way for him to save himself in this life and
in the hereafter is to embrace Islam. Islam will eradicate all his sins; he will be like the
day his mother gave birth to him. Otherwise, when we do implement the Shariah,
obviously he will face the consequences of a trial under the Shariah court."
Choudary has publicly stated he believes the flag of Islam will fly over White House. He
repeated that contention in his interview with Klein today.
"I do believe that as a Muslim every part of the world will be governed by the Shariah,"
he said. "So symbolically the flag of Islam will fly from every single country, every
single nation."
Audio of the second part of the interview can be heard below:
Choudary says he expect thousands to come out to this week's protest, which he said is
being organized with the Islamic Thinkers Society, an extremist group based in New
York.
It was not immediately clear whether Choudary will be allowed to enter the U.S.
He currently presents himself as an Islamic lecturer and a leader of Britain's Shariah
Islamic court. He is a founder and former chief of Al Muhajiroun, a British group that
sought to impose an Islamic state on the U.K. and that was allied with the goals of alQaida.
Al Muhajiroun, officially disbanded by the British government citing anti-terrorism laws
in 2004, and its main leader, Omar Bakri Muhammad, were banned from the U.K. in
2005. Choudary then became a leader of Al Ghurabaa, which was reportedly a
continuation of Al Muhajiroun. Al Ghurabaa was banned in 2006 by the U.K. for
reportedly supporting terrorism.
Former Al Muhajiroun members led by Choudary reportedly continue their activism at
public protests and on Internet forums under a new banner group called Ahlus Sunnah
wal Jamaah.
Choudary in 2007 led a protest outside London's Central Mosque attended by WND. The
protest called for the downfall of the British government for offering knighthood to
novelist and essayist Salman Rushdie, who was accused by Muslims of defaming Islam
and Muhammad in his 1988 book "The Satanic Verses."
Depictions of British flags were burned at Choudary's protest. Ralliers chanted, "Down
with Britain, down with the Queen."
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N.Y. man admits he aided al Qaeda, set up jihad camp
Mohammed Babar agrees to cooperate with investigation
By Jonathan Wald
CNN
NEW YORK (CNN) -- A New York man has admitted to smuggling money and military supplies to a
senior member of al Qaeda in Pakistan, setting up a jihad training camp and assisting in a bombing
plot in the United Kingdom.
Mohammed Junaid Babar, a naturalized American originally from Pakistan, pleaded guilty June 2 to five
counts of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, as well as providing the support, according to a
court transcript recently released.
Babar is being held without bail and faces up to 70 years in prison, but Federal Judge Victor Marrero
indicated Babar will serve less jail time under a plea deal.
Babar has agreed to cooperate fully with any investigation or prosecution by the U.S. Attorney's Office and
he may apply to the witness security program, which would relocate his family under a new identity.
Babar told Marrero he provided night-vision goggles, sleeping bags, waterproof socks, waterproof ponchos
and money to a high-ranking al Qaeda official in South Waziristan, a Pakistani region near the Afghan
border.
Babar said he delivered the supplies personally in January and February 2004 and someone else
transported the items in the summer of 2003.
"I understood that the money and supplies that I had given to al Qaeda was supposed to be used in
Afghanistan ... against U.S. or ... international forces or against the Northern Alliance," Babar said.
The Northern Alliance helped remove the Taliban from power in Afghanistan by joining forces with U.S. and
British soldiers.
"I set up a jihad training camp," Babar told the court, "where those who wanted to go into Afghanistan where
they could learn how to use weapons, and also, you know, any explosive devices that they wanted to test
out over there."
Babar, 29, confessed he supplied people who attended the training camp with aluminum powder and
attempted to buy ammonium nitrate for them "with the knowledge that it was going to be used for a plot
somewhere in the U.K."
Assistant U.S. Attorney Lisa Baroni said in court that Babar's training camp lasted for three to four weeks in
July 2003 and he was involved in planning a bomb plot in Britain from around December 2002 until about
March 2004.
Baroni said prosecutors had witnesses, documents and other physical evidence to prove the case against
Babar.
Babar, who grew up in the New York borough of Queens, was arrested after he returned from Pakistan in
April.
One senior law enforcement source said Babar had been "on the radar screen" before he was taken into
custody.
Babar is believed to have been associated with a group in London known as al Muhajiroun, which includes
Pakistani terrorists, according to law enforcement sources.
Al Muhajiroun was under British surveillance and members of the group purchased nearly a ton of
ammonium nitrate, a raw material used to make bombs, the source said.
British police foiled an apparent bomb plot March 30 when they arrested eight men and seized about 1,320
pounds (600 kg) of ammonium nitrate from a self-storage warehouse in west London.
Six of the men -- five of Pakistani descent -- were charged with conspiracy to cause explosions and
possessing ammonium nitrate for possible use in terrorism.
Ammonium nitrate was a key ingredient in the bomb that destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1995, killing 168 people, as well as a bomb that destroyed a nightclub in Bali,
Indonesia, in 2002, killing more than 200.
U.S. Muslim Youths and Militant Islamism
Stratfor 16 June 2006
Syed Hashmi, better known as Fahad, a 26-year-old U.S. Muslim and New York City
resident, was arrested June 6 at London's Heathrow Airport as he prepared to board a
plane for Pakistan. He was charged with aiding an al Qaeda plot to stage attacks in
London and shipping equipment to the jihadist network headquartered in Pakistan.
Hashmi's evolution from a New York City college student to an al Qaeda operative
underscores the manner in which militant Islamism can attract certain Western Muslim
youths. The factors that cause such transitions can give security and intelligence officials
the tools to effectively track down potential terrorists. Hashmi is a U.S. citizen of
Pakistani origin who grew up in New York, attending high school in the Long Island City
area of Queens in the late 1990s. After briefly attending the State University of New
York at Stony Brook in Long Island, he went to Brooklyn College, where he graduated in
2003. During this period, Hashmi was exposed to radical Islamist ideas, particularly those
of the now defunct London-based group called al-Muhajiroun (The Immigrants).
Successor groups, such as New York's Islamic Thinkers Society and London's al-
Ghurabah (The Strangers) and Firqah al-Najiyah (Saved Sect), have emerged on both
sides of the Atlantic since al-Muhajiroun disbanded in October 2004.
Hashmi is not the only U.S. citizen from New York who turned into a high-profile al
Qaeda suspect. Mohammed Junaid Babar, like Hashmi, briefly was affiliated with alMuhajiroun in Queens before becoming an al Qaeda operative. In fact, reports suggest
that Hashmi was the one who brought Babar into the al-Muhajiroun fold. Hashmi had a
reputation as a key recruiter for the group until he left it sometime before it disbanded.
The question is: How did Hashmi and others affiliated with groups that are no more than
jihadist cheerleaders become actual jihadists? Media reports say Hashmi founded alMuhajiroun in Queens. However, the Queens chapter of al-Muhajiroun was founded
sometime in 1996, a few months after Omar Bakri Muhammed -- a radical Islamist
ideologue -- founded the original group in London. Hashmi would have been only 16 in
1996; he reportedly joined the group around 2000.
In 1996, the nascent and small New York branch of al-Muhajiroun, like its parent group
in London, comprised members who had parted ways with Hizb al-Tahrir, or Party of
Liberation (HT), a transnational radical Islamist group seeking to re-establish the
caliphate through nonviolent means. Al-Muhajiroun began as a more moderate
alternative to HT, but when the leadership of al-Muhajiroun in London came out in
support of the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, its founding
members -- except Akbar Khattak, the chapter's leader -- began leaving. By the end of
1999, the chapter had undergone a complete turnover, and the group gained notoriety for
being an al Qaeda propaganda front organization. The group began flirting with jihadism
but maintained a safe distance from al Qaeda even after Sept. 11, when the group's
founder initially condemned the attacks -- though it was not long before he changed his
tune and praised the attacks, even calling the Sept. 11 hijackers "The Magnificent 19." In
mid-2002, the group posted on its Web site its formal renunciation of the Maturidi creed
and its adoption of the Wahhabi doctrine. The group quickly emerged as the most
extreme Wahhabist/Salafist group in the West.
Though al-Muhajiroun's Islamist ideology took a more extremist direction, it avoided
engaging in acts of terrorism. This frustrated many members such as Hashmi and Babar,
who eventually left the group in search of the "real deal." Their Western nationalities
allowed them to easily travel to and from Pakistan, Europe and North America. Hashmi,
Babar and others were able to make contact with a group of like-minded Western
Muslims who, in the wake of the Afghanistan invasion, were engaged in sending young
Muslim males to fight alongside the Taliban and al Qaeda. From there, Hashmi was able
to link up with some facet of the jihadist hive mind and was inducted.
Meanwhile, the Pakistani branch of al-Muhajiroun -- led by Sajeel Shahid, a Bakri
follower from London who had moved to Pakistan -- evolved into one of many support
networks connecting Western Muslim youths, mostly from Europe, to the jihadist theater
in Southwest Asia. This occurred after the Pakistani branch's 2003 announcement of
independence from the parent group in London. The Pakistani branch of al-Muhajiroun
had decided to participate more actively in the "jihad" in Afghanistan, which necessitated
its secession from the parent body. Bakri, the organization's founder, blessed this
decision; clearly, he wanted to maintain plausible deniability for the group as a whole and
avoid trouble with law enforcement agencies that the Pakistani branch's actions might
create.
Groups like al-Muhajiroun's Pakistani branch are channels for bringing conditioned
Western Muslim youths into contact with al Qaeda recruiters. This is likely the same
medium that allowed the July 7 London bombers to go from being radicalized youth to
becoming actual suicide bombers. Given that the process begins in the West, it is
essential that security and intelligence agencies maintain close vigilance for any signs of
radical ideas circulating among Muslim students on Western campuses. That said, most
Muslim student groups on U.S. and European campuses have diverse ideological trends,
and it is difficult to pick out the few potential militants. Working with mainstream
Muslim groups would facilitate this. Accurately identifying radicals and understanding
the process by which radical ideas become terrorist activity are the greatest tools in the
war against militant Islamists.
Mujahiroun, Alabama
>http://msnbc.com/news/668509.asp?cp1=1
>
>The British Broadcasting Corp. interviewed a British Muslim it identified
as
>Abu Yahya who claimed to have attended a military training camp in the
>Kashmir
>after being recruited by Sakina Security.
>"I learned everything with respect to fighting - making bombs, using
>artillery, using a Kalashnikov (assault rifle), how to ambush," he told the
>network.
>The following month, the Hindu newspaper of India quoted a Sakina Security
>representative who identified himself as Sulayman Balal (Zain-ul-abidin's
>first and middle names) as saying that "a few people" had signed up for the
>first "Ultimate Jihad Challenge" in April. He described the two-week course
>as
>taking place on a "1,000-acre, state-of-the-art shooting range in the
United
>States."
>
>The description closely matches published information about Ground Zero,
the
>Alabama training camp that Yates runs.
>The Ground Zero Web site, which was quickly retooled after Sept. 11 to
>highlight a new "five-day anti-terrorist training" course, says the Alabama
>compound features "state-of -the-art, world-class ... training facilities."
>A British security company, WK Security, which offers training in SWAT team
>tactics at Ground Zero under an arrangement Berkeley & Associates,
>advertises
>the five-day course as being held at a "1000+ acre training facility."
>Bakri Mohammed, the founder of al-Muhajiroun movement, told the Telegraph
>last
>year that the United States was becoming a favored destination for military
>training.
>
>TOURISTS OR TERRORISTS?
>
>"We use U.S.A. because whenever we go to Afghanistan, U.S.A. labels us
>terrorist," the Syrian-born Bakri Mohammed was quoted as saying, "OK, so
let
>us go to America. You call us tourists."
>But in the wake of Sept. 11 and the heightened scrutiny from British
>authorities that the attacks brought, al-Muhajiroun is now distancing
itself
>from Sakina.
>Mohamed Sharif, an al-Muhajiroun spokesman, told MSNBC.com that Bakri
>Mohammed's comments about military training in the United States referred
>only
>to "three or four men" who signed up for a Sakina course and practiced
their
>marksmanship at an unidentified shooting club in Missouri.
>
>
>Mujahiroun was linked to the London bombings last summer.
Groundzerousa.com was still in business in 2006. (Corporate and private security
business)
Mark Yates and Associates
0151-334-4277
07736-777553
[email protected]
www.groundaerousa.com
po.box 43
South Wirral
Cheshire
CH663TG
England
I haven't located their new training site in the US. After a few
conversations with them they state there is one in the US but for security
reasons and until a very large service contract fee is exchanged the detail
training sites will not be devulged. There was a Berkeley and Associates run
by a Jason Fish in Austin.
Mahmood Alessa & Carlos "Death to All Juice" Almonte
Islamic Thinkers Society from 2005 desecrating an American flag. At an earlier protest
members of the group could be heard saying, "next time we'll get all of New York City"
in reference to the 9/11 attacks.
By Rusty Shackleford
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/202843.php
June 11th, 2010
N.J. suspects attended protests organized by
radical Islamic group
CNN has obtained this photo of Mahmood Alessa and Carlos Eduardo Almonte at a rally of an extreme Islamist group.
Two New Jersey men arrested last week at John F. Kennedy International Airport allegedly on their way
to fight with an al Qaeda affiliated group in Somalia were followers of an extreme Islamist group based in
New York, CNN has learned.
CNN has obtained an image of the two suspects, Mahmood Alessa and Carlos Eduardo Almonte,
attending a protest in New York organized by the Islamic Thinkers Society on June 1 of this year. They
appear to have been taking part in a demonstration against Israel.
One is holding a banner; the other an Islamic Thinkers Society poster that includes the slogan,
"Exterminate the Zionist Roaches." The Society's video of the event, posted on its YouTube channel,
has since been removed.
The rally took place just a week before the two suspects made their way to JFK airport and were
arrested.
"My soul cannot rest till I shed blood. I wanna like be the world's [best] known terrorist" Alessa is alleged
to have told an undercover agent in the United States late last year.
Later he said, "We'll start doing killing here, if I can't do it over there."
Another image - from late in 2008 - shows Almonte at a different rally, holding a poster that says "Death
to all Juice" (sic.) It's not clear whether that rally was organized by the Islamic Thinkers Society.
Several calls to the Islamic Thinkers Society about Alessa's and Almonte's involvement with the group
were not returned.
On its website, the Islamic Thinkers Society says, "Our struggle is always intellectual & political nonviolent means." But counterterrorism officials say that the group and another called Revolution Muslim
have come under scrutiny for their anti-Western rhetoric and for endorsing the actions of al Qaeda and
other terrorist groups. The two groups often hold joint events.
While they have few full-time members and their rallies are sometimes sparsely attended, the Islamic
Thinkers Society and Revolution Muslim have thousands of followers online, many of them American.
According to counterterrorism officials they also organize private gatherings in the greater New York
area.
The director of intelligence analysis of the New York Police Department, Mitch Silber told CNN earlier
this year: "In a sense they are almost bug lights for aspiring jihadists. They've got an anti-Western, antidemocratic, anti-U.S., pro-al Qaeda message."
In April, Revolution Muslim posted a warning on its website that the creators of the cartoon South Park
risked being killed for their depiction of the Prophet Mohammed in a bear suit. The warning was widely
seen as a threat.
Alessa and Almonte are by no means the first Americans alleged to have had links to the groups. CNN
revealed in its recent documentary "American Al Qaeda" that Bryant Neal Vinas, a Catholic convert to
Islam from Long Island, moved in Islamic Thinkers Society circles in New York before he left the United
States.
Vinas went to Pakistan determined to fight jihad against U.S. troops in Afghanistan. He subsequently
confessed to helping al Qaeda plot a bomb attack on the Long Island Railroad. CNN revealed in the
documentary that followers of the Islamic Thinkers Society not only helped radicalize Vinas, but also
helped him connect with militants in Pakistan.
Several other Americans recently charged in terrorism cases were followers of these groups.
Counterterrorism officials say Colleen LaRose, a Pennsylvania woman also known as Jihad Jane, was
an online follower of the Revolution Muslim YouTube Channel. LaRose was charged in March with
plotting to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist; she has pleaded not guilty.
Tarek Mehanna, a Boston resident, was charged last year with planning violent jihad in the United States
- including planning to attack shopping malls. He had connections with members of Revolution Muslim,
according to Yousef al Khattab, one of the group's founders. CNN cannot independently confirm those
connections. Khattab has since left the United States, says he has quit Revolution Muslim, and is now
living in Morocco. Mehanna has not entered a plea.
Counterterrorism officials tell CNN that before he founded Revolution Muslim, Khattab was the chief
ideologue of the Islamic Thinkers Society. In an interview with CNN's Drew Griffin last year, Khattab said
he had met Vinas, the Long Island al Qaeda recruit, and made no secret of his radical views. "I love
Osama bin Laden like I can't begin to tell you," Khattab said.
The Islamic Thinkers Society and Revolution Muslim are offshoots of Al Muhajiroun, a pro-al Qaeda
British extremist group that has seen several of its supporters convicted of terrorism offenses in the
United Kingdom.
Like Revolution Muslim, the Islamic Thinkers Society is still active on New York streets. In April it held a
protest rally outside the Israeli Consulate.
After the rally, the group's spokesman, Abu Mujaddid, told CNN that the group plans to step up its
activities in New York and was successfully recruiting supporters.
The activities of both Revolution Muslim and the Islamic Thinkers Society are protected by First
Amendment guarantees. "As much as the Islamic Thinkers Society might put out an extremist message,
it seems they go right up to the line of the First Amendment. For the most part they, themselves as a
group, aren't acting," NYPD's Silber told CNN recently.
Terrorism experts believe that groups like the Islamic Thinkers Society are dangerous nonetheless.
According to Marc Sageman, a former scholar in residence at the NYPD, "Even if they do not have the
connections to help [young radicals] go further, they articulate the glory of fighting Jihad, the glory of
doing something, of being active. And this very much inspires young people."
UPDATE: Here's a screenshot of Jesse "Younes Abdullah Mohammad" Morton in
front of the White House with his friend Zachary Chesser. That's him on the left.
Jesse also wrote an article for Samir Khan's first attempt at a magazine promoting
terrorism.
Neuhaus Schaan note: This seems to refer to the first edition of Al Qaeda’s “Inspire”
magazine that was published online in the summer of 2010.
ADL:
Abdullah Muhammad has appeared in several RM (Nuehaus Schaan note:
RevolutionMuslim) and Islamic Thinkers Society (ITS) events with Mohamed
Mahmood Alessa and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, two New Jersey men who have
been arrested on terror-related charges. In RM's video of the its protest at the 2010
Israel Day Parade in New York, Alessa is seen standing next to Abdullah Muhammad
while he reads RM's condemnation of Israel. In another instance, on December 28, 2008,
Abdullah Muhammad and Almonte appeared together at an ITS protest outside the Israeli
consulate in New York. Standing next to Abdullah Muhammad, Almonte held a sign
that read "Death to all (zionist) juice."
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/203400.php
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Arrested men attended protests
organized by radical Islamic group
ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center
SOURCE: CNN
12June2010 4:45amPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Two New Jersey men arrested last week at John F. Kennedy
International Airport allegedly on their way to fight with an al Qaeda-affiliated group in Somalia
were followers of an extreme Islamist group based in New York, CNN has learned.
CNN has obtained an image of the two suspects, Mahmood Alessa and Carlos Eduardo Almonte,
attending a protest in New York organized by the Islamic Thinkers Society on June 1 of this year.
They appear to have been taking part in a demonstration against Israel.
One is holding a banner, the other an Islamic Thinkers Society poster that includes the slogan,
"Exterminate the Zionist Roaches." The society's video of the event, posted on its YouTube
channel, has since been removed.
The rally took place just a week before the two suspects were arrested at JFK airport.
"My soul cannot rest till I shed blood. I wanna like be the world's [best] known terrorist" Alessa is
alleged to have told an undercover agent in the United States late last year.
Later he said, "We'll start doing killing here, if I can't do it over there."
Another image -- from late in 2008 -- shows Almonte at a different rally, holding a poster that
says "Death to all Juice" (sic). It's not clear whether that rally was organized by the Islamic
Thinkers Society.
Several calls to the Islamic Thinkers Society about Alessa's and Almonte's involvement with the
group were not returned.
On its website, the Islamic Thinkers Society says, "Our struggle is always intellectual & political
non-violent means."
But counterterrorism officials say that the group and another called Revolution Muslim have come
under scrutiny for their anti-Western rhetoric and for endorsing the actions of al Qaeda and other
terrorist groups. The two groups often hold joint events.
While they have few full-time members and their rallies are sometimes sparsely attended, the
Islamic Thinkers Society and Revolution Muslim have thousands of followers online, many of
them American. According to counterterrorism officials they also organize private gatherings in
the greater New York area.
"In a sense they are almost bug lights for aspiring jihadists," the director of intelligence analysis
of the New York Police Department, Mitch Silber, told CNN earlier this year. "They've got an antiWestern, anti-democratic, anti-U.S., pro-al Qaeda message."
In April, Revolution Muslim posted a warning on its website that the creators of the cartoon
"South Park" risked being killed for their depiction of the Prophet Mohammed in a bear suit. The
warning was widely seen as a threat.
Alessa and Almonte are by no means the first Americans alleged to have had links to the groups.
CNN revealed in its recent documentary "American Al Qaeda" that Bryant Neal Vinas, a Catholic
convert to Islam from Long Island, moved in Islamic Thinkers Society circles in New York before
he left the United States.
Vinas went to Pakistan determined to wage jihad against U.S. troops in Afghanistan. He
subsequently confessed to helping al Qaeda plot a bomb attack on the Long Island Railroad. CNN
revealed in the documentary that followers of the Islamic Thinkers Society not only helped
radicalize Vinas, but also helped him connect with militants in Pakistan.
Several other Americans recently charged in terrorism cases were followers of these groups.
Counterterrorism officials say Colleen LaRose, a Pennsylvania woman also known as Jihad Jane,
was an online follower of the Revolution Muslim YouTube Channel. LaRose was charged in March
with plotting to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist; she has pleaded not guilty.
Tarek Mehanna, a Boston resident, was charged last year with planning violent jihad in the
United States -- including planning to attack shopping malls. He had connections with members
of Revolution Muslim, according to Yousef al Khattab, one of the group's founders. CNN cannot
independently confirm those connections. Khattab has since left the United States, says he has
quit Revolution Muslim, and is now living in Morocco. Mehanna has not entered a plea.
Counterterrorism officials tell CNN that before he founded Revolution Muslim, Khattab was the
chief ideologue of the Islamic Thinkers Society. In an interview with CNN's Drew Griffin last year,
Khattab said he had met Vinas, the Long Island al Qaeda recruit, and made no secret of his
radical views. "I love Osama bin Laden like I can't begin to tell you," Khattab said.
The Islamic Thinkers Society and Revolution Muslim are offshoots of Al Muhajiroun, a
pro-al Qaeda British extremist group that has seen several of its supporters convicted
of terrorism offenses in the United Kingdom.
Like Revolution Muslim, the Islamic Thinkers Society is still active on New York streets. In April it
held a protest rally outside the Israeli Consulate.
After the rally, the group's spokesman, Abu Mujaddid, told CNN that the group plans to step up
its activities in New York and was successfully recruiting supporters.
The activities of both Revolution Muslim and the Islamic Thinkers Society are protected by First
Amendment guarantees.
"As much as the Islamic Thinkers Society might put out an extremist message, it seems they go
right up to the line of the First Amendment. For the most part they, themselves as a group,
aren't acting," NYPD's Silber told CNN recently.
Terrorism experts believe that groups like the Islamic Thinkers Society are dangerous
nonetheless. According to Marc Sageman, a former scholar in residence at the NYPD, "Even if
they do not have the connections to help [young radicals] go further, they articulate the glory of
fighting Jihad, the glory of doing something, of being active. And this very much inspires young
people."
June 12 4:48 AM
Revolution Muslim Shifting from Ideological to Operational
IPT News
November 2, 2010
Followers of the outspoken
groups Revolution Muslim
and the Islamic Thinkers
Society are moving from
ideology to violent action, a
review of recent terror
indictments by the
Investigative Project on
Terrorism shows.
U.S. counter terror agencies
have traditionally paid little
attention to those groups,
presumably because they
represent a safe and legal
outlet for the frustrations of
young, aspiring Jihadists.
Similarly, Islamist groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) have
minimized the danger of these individuals. CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper wrote off the
RevolutionMuslim.com site as "an extreme fringe group that has absolutely no credibility
within the Muslim community." "In fact, most Muslims suspect they were set up only to make
Muslims look bad," Hooper added. "We just have very deep suspicions. They say such
outrageous, irresponsible things that it almost seems like they're doing it to smear Islam." But
the new indictments show that some overzealous participants in the groups are increasing
their radical activity, resulting in the groups' heightened threat. Their influence is growing.
The case of Abdel Hameed Shehadeh is the most recent example. Shehadeh was arrested
Oct. 26 in Hawaii on charges of lying about why he traveled to Pakistan and his attempts to
join the Taliban. Shehadeh, who operated three websites hosting extremist material
and Al-Qaeda videos, enjoyed a close relationship with Revolution Muslim.
According to the criminal complaint, a June 28, 2008 visit by a federal agent to one of these
websites revealed a blog post "introducing www.civiljihad.com to the Revolution Muslim
online community."
"It is time for the Muslims to start practicing our freedom of speech… My brothers of
revolution islam [Revolution Muslim], I am with you as long as you keep struggling. Trust me
there are many brothers and sisters in America that are ready to speak up. They just need a
push," Shehadeh posted on his site. By August 03, 2008, www.civiljihad.com simply became
a redirecting website, automatically sending viewers to Revolution Muslim's homepage.
Organizations like Revolution Muslim have been the "push" that many of these individuals
needed to organize and act. These groups share a common belief in spreading their
understanding of Islam through Da'wah [proselytizing]. They also promote a common
narrative of a "War on Islam," and an identification with foreign terrorist organizations aimed
at bringing down the West.
RM functions as one of the most visible English-language websites and organizations
promoting al-Qaida's call to jihad. In addition to promoting the literature and videos of
individuals like senior terrorist ideologue Anwar al-Awlaki, RM leaders have personally
participated in all levels of the radicalization process, from identifying targets to providing
advice about bombings.
For example, RM founder Yousef al-Khattab sparked heightened security at prominent
Jewish sites by identifying them as sources of funding, spiritual guidance and
material for Israel's January 2009 attack on Gaza. He also taunted law enforcement in his
threat, noting that, "And Wallahi [really], New York City Police Department, CIA, and FBI, you
can put me in jail for the rest of my life. As long as I got that information out there to people
about what to do, I did something." The following picture on RM's website was linked to his
threat.
An earlier posting featured a Jewish prayer book covered in what appears to be blood.
Likewise, a posting concerning the Times Square Bomber stated, "I think people should be
more careful when they plan operations. Try fertilizer, not firecrackers, Insha'Allah [Allah
willing]."
Revolution Muslim has also been a stopover point for identification with larger
terrorist groups like Hamas and al-Qaida, or an ideological breeding ground for
homegrown jihadist sentiment. By giving would-be warriors a centralized place to review
and discuss violent speeches by clerics such as Abdullah al-Faisal, RM gathers isolated
individuals on varying levels of the radicalization process. It gives them "a push" to identify
with the most violent extremes of Islamist theology and feeds the narrative that Muslims
everywhere are the victim of a "War on Islam."
RM's efforts have registered with susceptible individuals, including Abdul Hameed
Shehadeh, former RM leading member Zachary Chesser, and a host of other attempted
terrorists.
Chesser, aka Abu Talhah al-Amreekee, recently pled guilty in Alexandria, VA federal court to
providing material support to Al-Shabaab, an al-Qaida-affiliated terrorist organization.
Chesser also echoed calls by Awlaki aimed at inciting violence against cartoonists for the
animated show "South Park" and a journalist who initiated the "Everybody Draw Muhammad
Day." In addition, he provided the personal information of several individuals involved with
"Everybody Draw Muhammad Day" on a jihadist forum. Other accused or convicted terrorists
with noted Revolution Muslim ties include Colleen LaRose, Bryant Neal Vinas, Tarek
Mehanna and Daniel Maldonado. Even Samir Khan, the suspected editor of Al-Qaeda's
English magazine and the author of its second edition article, "I am proud to be a Traitor to
America," gradually moved from the organization's circles to al-Qaeda.
RM is not alone in its connections to individuals who have carried out acts of terror. The
Islamic Thinkers Society, another radical Islamist forum, promotes an identical message
about a "War on Islam" and violent solutions. Islamic Thinkers Society went well beyond
providing ideological support and identifying potential targets. According to CNN, "followers
of the Islamic Thinkers Society not only helped radicalize [convicted terrorist Bryant Neil]
Vinas, but also helped him connect with militants in Pakistan." Other accused terrorists
affiliated with the movement include Mahmood Alessa and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, both
reportedly negotiating guilty pleas for attempting to fight alongside Al-Shabaab.
Read more at: http://www.investigativeproject.org/2296/revolution-muslim-shifting-fromideological-to
Additional Articles re UK
Revolution Muslim Threatens British Parliamentarians
IPT News
November 4, 2010
http://www.investigativep
roject.org/2306/revolutio
n-muslim-threatensbritish
Revolution Muslim, an
Islamist organization that
gained notoriety for its
calls to violence against
the "South Park" cartoonists, issued its most explicit threat so far on Thursday. A blog
post calls on Muslims to kill British parliamentarians who voted for the Iraq War,
and provides recommendations about how to meet up with the MPs one-on-one. The
posting also salutes a British terrorist recently convicted for carrying out just such an
attack.
Roshonara Choudhry stabbed MP Stephen Timms in May. According to British police
reports, Revolution Muslim also played a role in preparing Choudhry for her attack. It
provided an online source for Choudhry to access videos by American al-Qaida preacher,
Anwar al-Awlaki, whose popular speeches have underpinned a large number of recent
terror attacks. This week, Choudhry received a life sentence in a British prison. The
judge noted her declaration that although her attack had taken away her life, it "was
worth it." Revolution Muslim saluted her efforts by saying, "We ask Allah to keep her
safe and secure, to hasten her release and to reward this heroine immensely."
Thursday's blog also called on other Muslims to follow in her footsteps: "We ask Allah
for her action to inspire Muslims to raise the knife of jihad against those who voted for
the countless rapes, murders, pillages, and torture of Muslim civilians as a direct
consequence of their vote."
According to Revolution Muslim, Choudhry also read The Book of Jihad by Abi
Zakaryya Al Dimashqi Al Dumyati. The blog provides a link to the text along with
multiple exhortations to go to battle from classic Islamic texts like the Qur'an and
Hadeeth. They include declarations such as, "Jihaad (holy fighting in Allaah's Cause) is
ordained for you (Muslims) though you dislike it," and "O you who believe! What is the
matter with you, that when you are asked to march forth in the Cause of Allaah (i.e.
Jihaad) [but] you cling heavily to the earth? Are you pleased with the life of this world
rather than the Hereafter?"
In addition, the blog provides instructions about how to track other parliamentarians, by
accessing their schedule of private one-on-one meetings with constituents. The post
notes, "If you want to track an MP, you can find out their personal website after typing
their name in this website… In their personal website, you can usually find the time and
location of their surgeries [private meetings] where you can encounter them in person."
That's reportedly how Choudhry attacked Timms.
Details about personal information and calls for Muslims "to raise the knife of jihad,"
mirror the threats issued by another Revolution Muslim personality. Zachary Chesser, a
rising leader in the organization, recently pled guilty in the United States to issuing
threats against South Park cartoonists and attempting to join al-Qaida's Somali
affiliate, al-Shabaab. In his plea, Chesser admitted making online postings including
home addresses of producer Trey Parker and cartoonist Matt Stone, and suggesting
readers "pay them a visit." Chesser also posted speeches by al-Qaida cleric Anwar AlAwlaki in which he cited religious justification for killing people who insult the prophet
Muhammad.
Revolution Muslim has had numerous connections to other convicted and indicted
terrorists. Another contact, Abdul Hameed Shehadah, was indicted in late October after
trying to join al-Shabaab and the Taliban. He also tried to enlist in the US military to kill
soldiers in Iraq, a regular 'target' of Revolution Muslim's propaganda. Shehadah's
website, civiljihad.com, introduced readers to Revolution Muslim and soon afterwards
simply automatically redirected readers to its website. Other famous contacts of the group
included, Colleen LaRose, Bryant Neal Vinas, Tarek Mehanna, Daniel Maldonado, and
Samir Khan, the editor of al-Qaida's English language magazine Inspire.
Revolution Muslim's latest threat further demonstrates that it has transitioned from
offering extremist rhetoric to issuing instructions on who to target and how to do it. For
an organization that has always skirted the limits of free speech, it is actively inciting
violence and applauding those who carry it out.
Read more at: http://www.investigativeproject.org/2306/revolution-muslim-threatens-british
Muslim Web Site Publishes “British “Kill List
London : United Kingdom | Nov 05, 2010
By macnair
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/7242643-muslim-web-site-publishes-britishkill-list
Muslims Website Publishes Kill List.
There are hundreds of British members of parliament in an extremist Muslim website has
published a “Kill List” who voted for the war in Iraq. The site, Revolutionmuslim.com,
insists readers to follow the example of a young "holy warrior" Muslim woman who
attempted a associate of Parliament and was sentenced this week to life in prison for
attempted murder. “We ask Allah for his act to encourage Muslims to move up the knife
of Jihad next to those who voted for the immeasurable rapes, murders, pillages, and
torture of Muslim civilians as a straight effect" of the politicians' vote, says the message.
The Telegraph report say that is clearly mentioned in the website that how to track a
Politician’s activities through their websites. British Government is pressurizing the
White House to take the action against such site because Revolution.com is hosted in the
US.
These sites are enormously dangerous, and this one must be taken down immediately,"
said the former chairman of Britain's homeland security.