Aisha Khan Found

wordpress has changed things around and I havent been on here in a while to view my three videos on the Aisha Khan situation please go to my youtube channels here. Thre videos address three seperate sets of issues.

Aisha Khan Found: Muslim Community Lessons

Muslim Extremism and The Middle Path

Interview With Imam Siraj Wahhaj Part One

In an interview with Umar Lee Imam Siraj Wahhaj discusses the history of Brooklyn Muslims, gentrification, the changing demographics of Masjid at-Taqwa and more.

Life Lessons From The 2011 St. Louis Cardinals

Sports is a metaphor for life, it is a cliché, but it’s true. When I was a kid and competing in youth sports the Dads used to tell us “ boy you are learning life lessons” and I would think to myself “yea that’s just the BS they tell you”.  But as a kid I worked hard in practice and now I work hard as an adult, I played the games to win and now I play the game of life to win, I was hurt when I lost and I still feel pain at loss, and I realized at a young age that to get ahead it often takes courage and a team effort.

 

 

Football may have surpassed baseball as the favorite sport in America a couple of decades ago; but there is no question whatsoever that in St. Louis, beyond the shadow of a doubt, baseball remains the most popular sport in this city. Indeed as a kid in St. Louis I don’t think I ever met a single human who was not a St. Louis Cardinals fan.

 

 

When I was a kid in the 1980’s the Cardinals played a very exciting kind of baseball referred to as “Whiteyball”. Whiteyball was named after the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals Whitey Herzog. Herzog, a down home folksy manager from nearby Illinois, was wildly popular in the St. Louis area and reminded people of any number of guys riding around St. Louis in pickup trucks and going hunting and fishing on the weekends. The style of play the Cardinals popularized relied heavily on speed and good defense. Few home runs and lots of stolen bases and manufactured runs.

 

 

The players on the Cardinals were as diverse as the city. In a city, and region, heavily divided by race, everyone cheered for the team which had a lot of black players. The two most popular players of the 80’s teams- by far, were shortstop Ozzie Smith, a defensive wizard who would come onto the field doing backflips, and Willie McGee an awkward yet productive outfielder. Both are African-American.

 

 

It is hard to put into words how racially divided St. Louis was when I was growing up ( and if I dedicated this post to that I would talk about nothing else), but let’s just say racial tension was everywhere from local politics, to the media, to peoples workplaces, and to the schools I was educated in. Yet, black kids cheered for white players such as Tom Herr and Jack Clark, and white kids cheered for black players such as Ozzie Smith and Willie McGee. The Cardinals, and other sports to a lesser extent, brought this city together like nothing else when I was a kid, and for a moment everyone would forget we were on different teams and we all just joined our voices and cheered for the Cardinals.

 

 

In 2006 when I returned to St. Louis from New York the Cardinals had just faced the Mets in a memorable National League Championship Series. Like the World Series runs of 1982, 85 and 87 (we can forget about the 2004 sweep by the Boston Red Sox), this city was on fire when I got here. Black and white, rich and poor, young and old, city and county, everyone was united in pulling for the Cards. When they won the series, and I was outside the stadium in my cab when it happened, I witnessed the biggest street party I have ever seen in St. Louis.  Race relations may have improved slightly since my childhood, although they are still amongst the worst in the nation, but that 2006 celebration was the most diverse party I have ever witnessed here by far. Mardi Gras is a huge street party in Soulard every year, but I see few black faces, and the Annie Malone May Day Parade is a huge party on the North Side, but I see few white faces, ALL come to celebrate the Cards.

 

 

The 2011 World Series run by the Cardinals has to be the most unlikely and fascinating season in my lifetime. In August the Cardinals were 10 and a half games out of the wild card slot and well behind the division leading Milwaukee Brewers. Local sports writers and sports radio were bashing the Cardinals every day all day. The team was too slow, too old, manager Tony LaRussa needed to retire, the relief pitching sucked, and on and on. Many had stopped watching games and following the teams and basically viewed the season as over. I gave up in the Cards in the middle of August.

 

 

Then, with few believers, the Cards made an improbable late season surge and made it to the playoffs on the last game of the regular-season. Suddenly, the Cardinals were red hot, beating the heavily favored Philadelphia Phillies in the first round of the playoffs and then handling divisional rivals the Milwaukee Brewers to win the National League Pennant. Next thing you know the local sports media and all the haters and doubters had all caught Cardinals fever and were back on the team bandwagon. Everyone was talking about the Cards, and I mean everyone in my cab, from middle-aged women working as housekeepers at hotels, to nurses aids, to white collar types working in the financial sector. Even the dopeboys and crackheads in my cabs were sporting their Cardinals hats.

 

 

Sports can be a something that two people talk about who otherwise have nothing else in common.  They don’t listen to the same kind of music, don’t live in the same kind of neighborhood, don’t vote for the same party, and maybe are not even of the same race, but in St. Louis all can talk about baseball together. And, it is not just a simple matter. These sports conversations can spawn friendships just as my high school sports teams gave birth to lifelong friendships amongst a diverse group of people.

 

 

Everything is by the decree of Allah and is His plan and it just so happened that I got a call to pick up a passenger from a St. Louis hospital and take him to rural Missouri. It just so happened that this was the same small town my father had moved to but I had never visited my Dad. After dropping my passenger off I said asked myself should I visit my dad. After all we had not spoken in years, the last time I saw him we almost came to blows, and we have a troubled relationship at best.

 

 

I decided to drive to my dad’s house after getting the address from my grandmother. I knocked on the door wearing my Cards hat and he answered the door wearing his Cards hat. We sat, we talked about the Cards chances in the World Series, he gave me a tour of his basement which is basically a Cardinals museum, and in between sentences we caught up on each other’s lives.

 

 

Baseball can bring people together and it brought my father and I back together- in a sense, and to an extent. When I was a kid it was black and white Cardinals playing side by side. Today, in a climate of anti-immigration and the fear of a growing Latino population, white folks are cheering for Albert Pujols, Yadier Molina and Jaime Garcia. I am willing to bet there are some who have softened there position towards Latinos and immigration seeing that just as Latinos can make the Cardinals stronger and work as a team they can also do so with Team America.

 

 

Once the Cardinals made it to the Fall Classic the experts still did not believe and most picked the Texas Rangers- but experts don’t play the game. The Cards showed up big and in one of the best World Series in years, highlighted by the 11^th inning Game 6 victory a game which will go down as one of the greatest in baseball history, the Cardinals defeated the team of Nolan Ryan and George W. Bush and in doing so a new star was born- St. Louis hometown kid David Freese.

 

 

Just as in 2006 I was there outside the stadium listening to Mike Shannon on the radio as the final out was made to give the Cardinals the 11^th championship in 2011. I experienced the victory with my passengers as they celebrated and at least for one day we were all one. There are a lot of people who may be in the August of their lives; but if you fight through it, like the Cardinals did, you may end up on top like they did.  

 

 

 

Occupation Without Foundation Will Lead to Damnation

Prior to the American led invasion of Iraq I, along with many other American-Muslims, was involved in the anti-war movement. I attended anti-war marches in St. Louis, New York, and Washington DC. Some of these marches involved tens of thousands of people. In New York we even had a Jummah Prayer service attended by thousands of Muslims in Times Square. The march in DC turned from an anti-war rally to a pro-Palestinian rally and was a site to behold. In St. Louis I organized and led with a few fellow activists a large rally against the war in the Delmar Loop. Along with Tim Kaminski we leafleted against the war at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Dogtown and were physically attacked by the crowd.

While the anti-war movement didn’t get that much mainstream media coverage it was a substantial movement organized both locally and nationally. The movement was broad and consisted of pacifists opposed to any war, human rights activists, liberal Democrats, Greens, libertarians, socialists, communists, anarchists, a few trade unionists, Arabs and Muslims. I saw all of these factions and how they interacted with one another.

I experienced the energy and the good of this movement; but in the end I got burned out.  First I got burned out after seeing that no matter what we did the administration of President George W. Bush was determined to pursue its policies of war. Secondly, because I saw the weaknesses within the movement.

The primary weakness I saw was that the movement was not growing beyond its base. Mainstream Americans of any race were not coming into the movement. Amongst African-Americans I saw a very narrow participation from people who normally are protesting someone anyway. The average black barber or school teacher was not compelled to get involved. With whites I saw very few, and I mean hardly any, working-class folks involved. I saw a lot of rich college kids, young people of privilege who were maybe slumming it in an activist phase, and professional protesters who had been protesting since the 1960’. When I attended meetings in New York, of people who claimed to be representing the masses, I had never been around a group of more wealthy and educated people with the bourgeois tastes and mannerisms of the upper-class. This was a group incapable of reaching the masses.

From a Muslim perspective I was also troubled by a few things I saw. Prior to 2001 Muslims lived in America in relative isolation. The majority of the political discussion was Islamist in nature and dedicated to overseas issues. Those that did promote voting were on the fringe and nobody really paid attention to them anyway. Amongst the Muslims I hung out with I was one of only a few who even voted. Many believed that to vote was to justify an un-Islamic system and some even said it was a form of shirk. The small group of Muslim elites that did exist at the time had campaigned for Bush in 2000. Partly because he promised to repeal the Secret Evidence law that the Clinton Administration had used against Muslim activists and partly due to paranoia of Joe Lieberman being on the VP slot of the Al Gore ticket.

After 9-11, with a full scale media, religious, cultural, law-enforcement and military assault against Islam and Muslims it was necessary for a lot of Muslims to come out of their cocoon and fight against this assault. Seeking alliances Muslims joined hands with the anti-war movement marching hand in hand with leftists and atheists for a common cause and that was the right thing to do. The good that came from this was that for the first time Muslims were getting involved in large numbers. The bad was that many young Muslims, who had no political center and limited Islamic education, were getting converted by the left into being Marxists, secularists, greens, and in turn many then supported the kufr of “progressive” Islam or just left the deen.

Stepping away from the anti-war movement while still opposing the war I returned to the kind of activism that my early teachers such as Sheikh Abdul-Rahman al-Basheer taught me. That was the activism of the masjid and grassroots inner-city Dawah. Realizing that you had to first change the condition of the people and all isms would fail without the foundation of al-Islam. I also became skeptical of Muslim involvement in these movements after seeing so many people losing their deen after becoming involved. A new generation of converts was arising (many white) who converted, never studied the religion, didn’t know anything about tawheed or aqeedah or basic fiqh, and immediately became activists protesting on behalf of the Muslim community. One activist I met kept up a vigorous schedule of anti-war and anti-Bush activity but did not even know how to properly make salaat. So, I began advising all new converts to not become activists until studying the deen for a couple of years first at the masjid and with a teacher (not Sheikh Google or Maulana Myspace).

Moving on to the election of Barack Obama, which most Muslims supported- many enthusiastically (I voted for him), the anti-war movement basically ended outside of a small nucleus of die-hard activists. However, the wars did not stop. As a matter of fact under Obama the wars have increased. Obama has rapidly expanded the war in Afghanistan and has declared a de-facto war on Pakistan killing thousands of its citizens. Predator Drones strikes are now occurring in several Muslim countries who are not in a state of warfare with America, American citizens are being executed with trial ( including minors) and Obama also led the NATO regime-change in Libya. Support for Israel from America has remained steady. The unjust prosecution of Muslims in America has not stopped. The shady prisons from GITMO to the CMU’s started under Bush have not been closed under Obama. Far from reaching out to the mainstream Muslim community Obama has ignored the mainstream and chooses to deal with the liberal fringe of the Muslim community. Instead of inviting known Muslims to government iftars he now invites random people with Muslim names nobody has ever heard of or fringe organizations with no real community support. A new class of Obama Muslims has arisen dedicated both to defending Obama and getting paid via patronage jobs and government contracts.  It is hard to criticize a man and be neutral towards him when he is paying your way (just ask Saudi clerics).

If you are critical of Obama, just as you were critical of Bush for doing the exact same thing, you may lose your job, get your funding cut, and may not get to go on any CIA field trips for Muslim artists to Muslim countries. Abroad these Muslims are on the payroll of the Bush-Obama position and at home I fear they are violating the United States Constitution by violating the separation of religion and state. In Pakistan, Egypt or Sudan there is a state-sanctioned waqf Islam and Muslim leaders vie for the favor of the state and get their direction from it, in America the mere thought of creating such an Islam is profoundly un-American and just another manifestation of FOB Uncle politics this time perpetrated by their children.  

In this context arises the Occupy Movement. A movement I will say off top I morally support and am happy to see Muslims involved in of they have an Islamic foundation and good intentions. I agree with some if the things this movement stands for and disagree with others. Wall Street is corrupt and its actions and bailouts have hurt the people- this is true.

However, it is not just Wall Street.  Main Street is corrupt. It is easy to not take any personal responsibility for the problems of society and point it all towards Wall Street but that is not fair. How many of these occupiers complain about being unemployed but went to college for some nonsensical major that anyone could have told them was a waste of time? How many racked up credit card debt on non-essentials such as pricy restaurants, coffee shops, alcohol, clubbing, expensive clothing, laptops, cell phones and vacations?  How many of the parents bought houses they couldn’t afford and used their homes as ATM’s? How many have lost the sense of delayed gratification? In New York City and DC the biggest plight that faces the poor, and is literally driving them out of the city, is gentrification. How many of these young white activists from say Cleveland moving into former black working-class areas in Brooklyn or Trinidad Northeast living as roommates with four other people setting a market standard which makes it impossible for working-class families to live there are actually a part of the problem? They need to take one finger and point it towards Wall Street and the finger on the other hand and point it towards themselves.

Speaking of the poor, which they claim to represent, how much time with the poor are they spending. I went to Occupy St. Louis and met some cool people who had good energy; but basically all I saw was a bunch of middle-class and rich white kids and a handful of blacks. What can the Occupy Movement do for the temp-tag drivers? You know those people who buy a car, can’t afford plates, get drunk and drive like a damn fool and then crash before they can get plates. Or the mothers who shop their children to doctors so that they can get an SSI check for their kids and use their kids as a paycheck. The parents who have premium cable and wearing Jordans in the projects but not a book in the house. If I drive to the projects a few blocks from my house the parking lot is full of pimped out rides. If I go to the government-funded day care center for kids where my friends mother works I can watch the supposedly poor mothers pulling up in Escalades with TV screens in the backseat, all black Mercedes sittin on fresh rims, and the working people who staff the place are either catching the bus to get to work or driving some piece of crap they bought from one of these scandalous used-car lots. Or how about the passengers in my cab in nice clothes, smelling of weed, who offer to sell me their food stamps (EBT) on a regular basis. The poor steal and scam, the rich steal and scam, and government steals and scams, preachers at churches feat off their congregations (some new imams studying this get rich off religion model) it’s a problem of the whole society and the culture of a nation stolen from Native Americans and built by stolen slave labor from Africa.

Wanna talk about Muslims? The poor Muslims who send their wives in hijab or niqaab into the welfare office and instruct their wives (who they have not married on paper) to tell the caseworker she does not know who the father of her children is so she can get government aid and the man not charged for it. Wanna talk to the sister in Pennsylvania I was a wali for who could not find a husband because all the brothers were interested in marrying a sister with a Section 8 housing voucher and she did not have one. Or how about the Muslim kids, who know the welfare state will take their side to break up a family, who will go and scream abuse to the state so that they can get paid themselves. Education?  There is no shortage of money in urban schools. The schools have a cultural problem that cannot be solved by money or naïve white do-gooders from Teach For America or some guy like Jeffery Canada who was born in the wrong century and should have kicked it with Cecil Rhodes.

I say this to say I support the protest movement- if it expands. If it says the political system is broke, both parties do not represent the people, end the wars, end the racism, end white supremacy, and Islamophobia, change the economic system, as a matter of fact just blow the whole damn thing up. If the movement is saying that then I am with that. If it is this kind of movement I encourage more Muslims to get involved. If it is not, it is a work in progress and still possible of changing if more people get involved. There is no 99, and there never will be, because people are defined and define themselves by so much more than economics, but diverse groups can come together as a working coalition to bring about change.

At the end of the day though real change begins with ourselves and our families and that will change neighborhoods which will in turn change nations. The best model for change is not from the Left or Right; but from Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and if we cling to the Quran and Sunnah and let taqwa and emaan occupy our naffs that is the most important occupation. While we are standing up and occupying the streets lets take some time out and occupy the masjid.

Challenge to Imam Dawud Adib

Assalamu alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatu,

I am no longer blogging but encourage people to go to my youtube channel. Recently, the Imam of Shaytan and devil Dawud Adib made some lies against me. He, amongst other things, said I support those who leave Islam which is a straight-up lie with no basis in any truth.  Below are my videos responding to Imam Ike. If you are reading this Imam Ike, oe one of your flunkies ism give me a call at 314-324-1508, because I want you to say those lies to my face.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC6H7pjUEJY

Several more videos can be found at my youtube channel umarleee that is three e’s. Once again umarlee.com is no longer owned or operated by me.

Usama bin Laden: Feelings, Reaction and Aftermath

 Usama bin Laden: Feelings, Reaction and Aftermath

I first heard the name of Usama bin Laden in 1996 at the home of a Saudi friend of mine. He showed me a magazine article featuring bin Laden and said in Saudi Arabia he was referred to as ‘’Sheikh Mujahid” because he was a pious man who was also a warrior for Islam.

During the 1990’s every time I heard his name it was in a positive light. Before jumping to conclusions as to why this is we should first put this into context. The Muslim Ummah has fallen from greatness and has been under siege for centuries. The Crusades, Colonialism, Neo-Colonialism, Secularism, Globalism and the rule of corrupt Western-backed puppet regimes created the political climate bin Laden operated in.

Recognizing the weak state of the Arab and Muslim World various movements and organizations were founded to try and improve the status of the society. Some of those organizations were rooted in socialism, Baathism, nationalism, or tribalism to name a few. Under the tutelage of the likes of Muhammad Qutb and Abdullah Azzam bin Laden became part of a movement that sought to revive the Muslim Ummah based on the principals of piety and social justice rooted in islam.

Shunning nationalism and the privilege that his wealth provided a young and enthusiastic bin Laden headed to Pakistan to help with the effort of the Afghan mujahudeen fighting off the invaders of the Soviet Union. Many today, including a lot of Muslims, have ceded their minds to some kind of leftist narrative of the events of those days. However, to set the record straight, the mujahudeen were not a creation of the CIA, but rather a grassroots response within the Muslim ummah to Soviet aggression. Later on, out of mutual political interest, there was some level of cooperation between various parties. It had been just a few decades since the mass atrocities committed by the Soviet Union against the Muslim peoples of the Caucuses and the Soviet-controlled republics of Central Asia were brutally repressing their Muslim populations, so it was natural for Muslims to fight against the Soviet aggression.

Young Usama could have continued a life of comfort in his native Saudi Arabia and donated money; but he chose to go to the front line. It was in Pakistan and Afghanistan where he would become a leader of a global movement to remove oppression from the Muslim ummah and to restore the lands of Islam to the rule of Islam.  He fought alongside Arabs and non-Arabs, blacks and whites, Salafis and Sufis, and he only asked for those who joined him to be committed to fighting the enemies of Islam and establishing the rule of Islam.

For religious and sincere Muslims that part of the life of bin Laden is not controversial and is heroic. Of course it was followed by his support for mujahudeen in Bosnia, Chechnya, the Philippines, Kashmir, and other places. People who were there on the ground in Bosnia have told me that if not for his organizational support many more Bosnians would have been killed.

This heroic phase of the life of bin Laden earned him a lot of love and respect in the Muslim World. Because, while he was doing these things, he also helped to organize a crucial gathering of Muslim leaders from all over the world in Sudan to develop a cohesive global strategy, organized a movement calling for the removal of the corrupt Saudi monarchy, and showed that Muslims could work together despite racial and ethnic differences.

The Controversy and Blunders

It was in the next few years when bin Laden would make some more controversial moves. As he joined hands with Egyptian Islamists such as Ayman Zawahiri who had been fighting the corrupt American-backed secular Egyptian regime he began to focus on the ‘’far enemy”.

The Far Enemy is America; because it is America who backs all of the regimes which have been oppressing the Muslims. It is also America which is the military and commercial leader of the West, a civilization that has been at war with Islam on and off for the last 1400 years.

Taking the fight to America was not controversial because there was not a lot of love for America or anyone who seriously doubted the sinister nature of American involvement in the Muslim World; but because of the timing and tactics.

Timing. This was an issue many Muslims argued believing the Muslim ummah was too weak to take on America and that the reaction would be too great endure. The counter argument of bin Laden and his supporters was that Muslims had already defeated the Soviet Union and America did not have the stomach for a fight. It was also argued that fighting the puppet regimes was meaningless as long as they had a continual supply of American weapons and money so the source had to be attacked.

Tactics. The bombing of the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen was not that controversial for Islamists. It was a military target of a hostile force and thus fair game. However, subsequent attacks such as the attacks on the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania proved to be controversial as they killed hundreds of innocent civilians (and many of them were Muslims).

In this stage bin Laden moved from someone supporting liberation struggles of oppressed Muslims holding widespread support in the Muslim World to engaging in a long and protracted game of asymmetrical warfare with a Superpower.  Some of the tactics many Muslims find to be illegitimate and unlawful. With regards to timing though in the 90’s leading up to 2001 the global Islamic Awakening was still in strong shape and had not provoked a huge reaction from the West.

9-11

What happened on September 11, 2011 no one knows for certain.  Many believe that Usama bin Laden and his organization were responsible for the attacks that took the lives of nearly 3000 Americans. I am not one of those people as I have never seen sufficient evidence of proof against the man while uncovering many more facts that lead me to believe there is a lot more to the story and many dark and sinister forces were at play. To be clear, if this was the crowning achievement of the life of bin Laden he did not claim credit for it. One would think he would have mentioned 9-11 in numerous videos, penned articles on the topic, and gloated over the attack. Yet, that did not happen. There is only one highly unconvincing video in which America claims bin Laden takes responsibility.

Whether he was responsible for 9-11 or not he became public enemy number one in America and served as the galvanizing force to return the West to its original position as a civilization based primarily on its opposition to Islam.

Since 9-11 carnage has ensued. A new Crusade by any other name. This time Jerusalem did not have to be taken because it is already occupied.  Iraq and the great city of Islam Baghdad drowned in the blood spilled by Americans. Afghanistan faced on invasion worse than that of the Soviets. No Muslim activist is safe anywhere. Predator Drones hover over the Muslim World ready to attack at will. Dungeons of tyrants are filled with the pious. Muslim men disappear in the middle of the night to torture and secret prisons with their only crime wanting a better world for their Muslim children.

The Swiss have banned the Minaret, the French have banned the Niqaab, the British have targeted their Muslim population, and in Europe a political career can now be made by bashing Muslims. America is at war with any Muslim, in any country, seeking to establish an Islamic State.  In the Muslim World a cycle of pathological violence and killing emerged in many societies. Some of these atrocities were committed in the name of al Qaeda. Make no mistake, these actions were horrific and un-Islamic such as bombing shrines, mosques, churches, and markets; but did bin Laden ever authorize or call for these actions? This is unclear.

The airwaves in America are now filled with those who curse Islam and the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). A full-time industry of Islamophobia has been created. Adapting to the new climate those Muslim organizations and leaders in America who were once strong are now weak. When the time came for a test they proved to be weak and not have the courage to speak truth to power. Rather, like Judas, sold their Muslim brothers out not for silver but for iftar meals at the State Department and White House, the government off their back, and government sponsored trips.

A new Islam has been created in America. One, not inspired by the Quran and Sunnah, but rather by the CIA, FBI and secular academia. An Islam with no teeth, no courage, and no message, subservient to the rule of the master. These organizations vary, some being for secular liberal New Age yuppies, others merely being get rich schemes for Muslim televangelists, and others just being tools of the State. What they all have in common is that none of them pose any kind of threat to the powers that be or give a message of hope and liberation to the masses. None of them call on the courage of the Muslim man; but rather seek to change Islam at any and every turn to please their masters.  In the shadows however, small groups of Muslim families gather here and there, dedicated to the Quran and Sunnah and shunning the spotlight and sanction of the State.

The Death of Usama bin Laden

It is too early to judge the story that has came out in the last few days regarding the death of bin Laden. A lot of questions remain such as;

-          If you had Usama bin Laden, the biggest terror mastermind in the world, and the most wanted man, why in the world would you kill him? Surely you could interrogate him and find out about current plots, how he is getting money, where he has been sending money, and who is in his organization.

-          Just within a couple of days the official story given by the American government has already changes several times.

-          If the story is true then the treatment of the body of Usama bin Laden constitutes a crime. To be dumped in the ocean when you have died on land is not in keeping with Islamic law. There was no proper ghusl, no Salat-ul-Janazah, and no burial in the ground. Why not let the media see the body and within hours he could have had a proper Muslim burial? If the US was told this was a proper way to bury a Muslim who gave them this advice? Or is this all just a farce and the story of the body being thrown in the ocean  part of a cover-up?

Muslims in America seeking to gain favor and enter the American mainstream (Sodom and Gomorrah) have issued statements praising the alleged death of bin Laden. Some Muslims have even publicly celebrated. How much of this is genuine and how much is some kind of an act to earn brownie points one never knows, but it is repulsive nonetheless. It is not becoming to celebrate the death of a fellow human, much less a fellow Muslim who worked so tirelessly on behalf of fellow Muslims. Usama fought for you, maybe he even died for you.

It should be noted that in the public celebrations amongst Americans a lot of sickening things have been observed. Cursing of Islam and Muslims, desecrations of the Quran, cursing of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and the use of racial slurs. These celebrations have shown the ugly side of America similar to the celebrations that would emerge after the lynching of black men in the South.

Like everyone else Usama bin Laden will be judged on the Day of Judgment for his deeds and Allah is The Judge. He is my Muslim brother and a part of our big family. For what he did wrong I pray for his forgiveness and for what he did right I pray for his reward. If he was behind airplanes being hijacked and blown up that is a major sin and he will have to answer for that not to Umar Lee or Muhammad Maged or the FBI, but to Allah.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

umarlee.com is not ran by Umar Lee

I let the URL umarlee.com expire and it was bought by some Russian named Igor. Now I am trying to get it back. This is called cyper squatting. So I am not responsible for any content at umarlee.com although most if it is my old stuff. Please stop emailing me to inform me. I KNOW

In the meantime here is a video about our situation in Missouri

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvY3Vs8oKtY]

Eid Mubarak

Eid Mubarak

 

To all of the Muslims of this neighborhood. Muslims are encouraged to enjoy the festivals of the two Eids even in times of hardship. If any families, Muslim or non-Muslim, would like to receive qurbani meat please contact Brother Umar at 314-324-1508 or stop by my unit at 1209 Hodiamont Ave Apartment C.

 

I would briefly like to address an issue that is affecting our Muslim community here. Many of you are new to this community and this country and are not familiar with the language, culture and customs.

 

Missionaries

 

There are those who are working to help refugees, both Muslims and non-Muslims, who are doing a good job and just seeking to be welcoming neighbors. A part of the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) that all Muslims should follow is to help the traveler and to welcome the migrant. However, there are others who are working to spread Christianity to vulnerable at-risk children and youth whose parents may not even speak English or understand what these adults are doing with their children. It is unethical for missionaries to target children. Inviting them to join in sports and theater activities which a child will be naturally attracted to only to entice them to change their religion before their minds are fully functional is unacceptable and should be stopped.   

 

As a reminder to Muslims a core teaching of Christianity is that Isa ben Maryam (peace be upon him) or Jesus as he is called in English is the S_n of God and belief in Jesus and seeking his forgiveness is the salvation for humanity. Allah tells us in the Quran “ He begets none nor is he begotten” meaning Allah is one, free of any partners, not in need of any helpers, He has no sons and no daughters, nor does he have a mother or a father. He says be and it is. No man can save you and stand in your place on the Day of Judgment. Salvation is in belief in Quran and Sunnah and each person will be judged based on their deeds. Paradise is promised to the true believers and martyrs and the Hell-fire is promised to those who reject the message. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) told the believers if you follow two things, the Quran and my Sunnah you will never go stray.

 

Local masjids have been offering classes to children and it is my sincere advice that you take part in these classes and if you do not have transportation contact me.

 

In addition to that all homes should have the following: a copy of the Quran, a reliable book of tafsir, a book of sirah of the Prophet Muhammad( PBUH) and some tracts by Ahmed Deedat or WhyIslam.org to pass out to the missionaries and study yourself. If you are in need of these items contact me.   

 

Concerned Muslims of St Louis Present

 

Islamist Discussion Series

 

A series of conversations on issues of Islam, Muslims, our present political condition, and the revival of the Muslim ummah.

 

 

Somalia: The Muslim Reality

Sunday December 5^th, 4:00 PM

 

In light of the recent arrest of our brother and the harassment of Muslim cab drivers with connections to Somalia we will have a discussion on Somalia and its past, present and future. Who are the terrorists in Somalia?

 

 

To attend this discussion and those we will be having in the future please call Brother Umar Lee at 314-324-1508

Our Brother

The arrest of Mohamud Abdi Yusuf for alleged financing of a grassroots Somali organization is another trumped up case against an immigrant Muslim for sending money to relatives. Immigrants sending money to less fortunate relatives in their home countries is a long tradition in this country and has not become an issue in our nation’s history until recent times. It should be noted that this comes at a time of heightened Islamophobia in America from opposition to a Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan, to the building of a mosque in Tennessee, to the rise of the bigoted Tea Party Movement. Just a short time ago a Muslim cab driver was stabbed in New York City for simply being a Muslim and today a Muslim cab driver in St. Louis is being stabbed by state-sanctioned judicial violence  for the alleged crime of being a patriotic Somali.

The government has an agenda for Somalia.  Any political movement which doesn’t serve the U.S. plans for control of the Horn of Africa is labeled terrorist. Somalis want a free, safe, peaceful Somalia and not for other countries to choose their leaders.

The current U.S backed regime controls approximately a handful of city blocks in the capitol. It is widely unpopular and has no legitimacy with the people. It is being propped up by the US and forces from other African nations. This comes after the Islamic Courts Union brought relative peace and stability to Somalia only to have the US pressure Ethiopia to illegally invade Somalia and shatter the peace. Today there are groups who are seeking to bring peace and justice back to Somalia under the banner of Islam and remove the puppet-regime.  This would end decades of senseless infighting and ethnic conflict and would be a true blessing for the Somali people and those who love Somalia and love Islam will support that which is good as it is the job of the Muslim to enjoin what is right and stand against what is evil.

Our prayers today are with the family of our dear brother and with the people of Somalia and we are sure that he is innocent of all charges. We also pray that those who are a part of the problem, and not a part of the solution, such as the current puppet-regime in Somalia, the US foreign policy, and others are guided to the right path.

A press conference will be held in support of our brother tomorrow at the corner of Geraldine and Harney in North St. Louis this Friday at 1:50. It should be noted that this event is being sponsored by Concerned Muslims of St. Louis and not the mosque (Masjid Umar).

Eid al-Fitr 2010, Holy Islamville, and Seeing Islam For the First Time

I had a wonderful Ramadan this year alhamdulilah. I worked fewer hours and concentrated on getting the most out of the month and seeking the mercy of Allah. It was trying at times. Drama interfered more than once; but I stayed focus on observing the fast in all manners and trying to put things in proper perspective.

On most nights I prayed at Masjid Bilal in St. Louis to eat the good food of Sister Faika and hear the beautiful recitation of Imam Kamal. I did manage to make it to Masjid Umar a few nights ( although only 8 rakats are prayed there for taraaweh) and Dar al Islam once.

There were several Eid observations going on in St. Louis; but I wanted to do something special for Eid al-Fitr and Allah blessed me to do just that.

A week or so before Eid a brother suggested that I go to Holy Islamberg in New York for Eid and I seriously considered it; but when I looked at it on paper I just did not have enough funds to make the trip. I sort of resigned myself to doing Eid in St. Louis until about Tuesday or Wednesday when I said I am going to put off all other bills for now and make a trip to Holy Islamville in South Carolina which costs a few hundred less for me.

Several people had told me of how special this place was; but until you see it these words really have no meaning and I was blessed to see it. After I prayed Salat-ul-Maghrib at Masjid Bilal on Thursday night I did not even sit down for the meal and my daughter and I left for the 11 hour drive to Holy Islamville.

As I had not slept I left tired and struggled to stay awake through Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee until I got to the narrow lanes of the Smokey Mountains in North Carolina surrounded by 18-wheelers and that woke me up real fast.

A friend of mine, host, and worker for the deen in North Carolina told me to get a motel room in Charlotte near his home so that way I could spend time in Charlotte and Islamville: but the closer I got to the area the more and more eager I became to see Islamville and the Holy Khanqa. I decided to find a motel in York, SC and check in and then head out. Keep in mind that those going by calculation( and even some others) were observing Eid so I really was not sure if it was Eid or the last day of Ramadan. As I traveller I was not required to fast so I was drinking caffeine regardless to stay awake.

I was a little nervous to just show up on the land- even at Eid. The last thing the brothers probably want to see is a strange white man showing up from 550 miles away with a camera. For all they knew I could be Paul Williams son or little brother or some nut from the Christian Action Network. I emailed Brother J, a resident of Islamville now studying abroad, and he encouraged me to just show up and that the shrine is open for everyone to witness where the miracles took place ( even non-Muslims).

With my eldest daughter I drove to the land and was greeted by a very nice brother who told me the moon had not been sighted and Eid would be observed the next day. He told me jumma would be at 2:30 and gave me directions to a halal restaurant in Rock Hill, SC to go to before jumma prayer.

Driving back to attend jumma after an excellent meal at Sahara I though of how America is changing. Even in a small town in South Carolina there is a halal restaurant. This is the state that gave us some of the chief architects of the Southern Rebellion in the Civil War, later on Sen. Strom Thurmond who ran for President on the States Rights ticket breaking away with the Democratic Party over his defense of Jim Crow, and in 2000 it was the Presidential campaign of John McCain which was torpedoed in South Carolina after allegations that he had a secret black child out of wedlock ( in reality an adopted child from Bangladesh). Even in this state, and even in a rural area, change had come.

I have been attending jumma prayer for almost 20 years every week all over the world. I have prayed at hundreds of masjids; but I want to tell you that I have never been to a masjid or prayer service anywhere in the world that can compare to this jumma prayer service.

The masjid was packed with people and the talk in English before the Arabic khutbah was simple yet powerful. However, it was not the words of the talk that grabbed me, it was the spirit behind the words and the sense that those in the room had full concentration on those words and a desire to implement the advice, It was not spoken; but it was something I felt as I sat next to big strong mean weeping. There was an energy in the room, something electric, I could feel a power in the atmosphere and these brothers were attached to that power. There was talk of the guidance of Abu ( Sheikh Gilani) and this is not the words of blind followers to a cult leader; but rather the words of grateful men thankful to be saved.

Jumma khutbahs and prayer services vary from masjid to masjid. Some are better than others and certain things depend on their madhab or understanding of the fiqh of the issues. But, I do have to say, in masjid after masjid that I go to I find people texting during jumma, talking on their phones even at times, going to sleep, and in Palestine I even remember seeing people smoke cigarettes while listening to the khutbah, none of those things were imaginable at this service.

After jumma I have to say I felt like a guy speaking Greek in Japan- I was completely lost. I do not even know the terminology to describe all that I saw let’s just say I was unfamiliar with these things and yet they seemed comforting. I was not a participant; but as a witness I felt like someone viewing Muhammad Ali from the front row at Madison Square Garden in the sense that I was viewing the graceful practice of an art at a high level. The guy in the front row at the Garden could not float like a butterfly and sting like a bee: but he knew the man in the ring was special and I knew what I was seeing was special.

A brother was kind enough to give me a tour of the Holy Khanqa after jumma and he taught me the duah to sya before entering and explained to me the miracles that occured at the site. I spent time in this Holy Site in prayer, duah and dhikr knowing that Allah could have chose to reveal His Name anywhere on Earth and yet it was revealed at this site.

I went back to the motel to rest and my daughter asked me if she could stay and I happily said yes. When I returned later that night I got a reminder that I was still in America and still in the South;  but Allah is the Protector and the best of planners.

For the day of Eid there are no words to describe what I saw; but as I told Brother J ” for the first time in my life I saw the deen of al-Islam practiced in its entirety”. To further that I am going to say after having been around as much as I have I am going to say this is the only time I ever saw Islam practiced in jamaat.

What do I mean by that?

Not only did I listen to a powerful and stirring talk, not only did I witness the beauty of the durud, and not only was I around sincere believers and lovers of Allah and His Rasul ( s.a.s.): but I was in a community dedicated to this love and the mission.

Older Muslim sisters sat and talked and played with grandchildren, young Muslim girls wore their Eid best, and brothers of all ages sat and congregated and the thing that united this community was the committment to Islam, the love of the Prophet ( s.a.s.), and guidance of a blessed Murshid. This community is not untited by hate, by race, by the love of money, or anything like that. This is a community born of sacrifce for the cause of Islam. This community is also not made up of part-time Muslims who spend a few hours a day quoting fatwas from Saudi Arabia and another few hours a day selling crack. Or a community substituting the Sunnah for deeds only approved by secular-liberals. .

When I looked at the children I became very emotional at the site of these beautiful young faces shining with Nur. These are 3rd, 4th, and as I was informed even 5th generation Muslims. Where else can I go to see such children please inform me of this?

Brothers and sisters how many of us know of entire masjids where all of the children grew up and either flat-out left the deen or just left the practice of the deen? How many of us know cute little Muslim girls raised in the masjid who slid from poles later on? Nice little brothers we played with as boys who now are in prison? Or just rebellious youth who thought they missed out on something by their strict Muslim parents protecting them from the horrors of this kufr around us and rebelling by not practicing the deen?

We have a crisis with our youth and second generation and the community is short on solutions. Some belive the solution is to water down the down, for Muslims to unite at the Lowest Common Denominator, and to say as long as you say you are Muslim you are cool with me no matter how deviant or misguided you are.

The joy and admiration that made me so emotional at the site of these children was knowing where their families came from. They came from places like Brownsville, East New York and Bed-Stuy in Brooklyn, Newark, Philly, DC, and Detroit. Growing up in the hardest neighborhoods in some of the toughest cities in America. From that poverty, from that oppression, from that welfare lifestyle, these pioneers sacrificed not some things, but everything, for Islam after receiving the guidance from Sheikh Gilani. Today you can see the results of the tremendous sacrifices made in these children who run around freely on Muslim land yelling for their Abu who have never known kufr and have only known Islam. These children, like their parents, are being raised as Muslims first and foremost and are organic Muslims, Muslims like fish swim, Muslims like birds fly.

This is a community where you can be born and your children will be educated, you can live and you will have the opportunity to live all of your life as a Muslim and not just play Muslim at jumma for a few hours a day then go back to kickin it with kafirs, and where they have land to put you in the ground after you are checked out. They are guided were others are misguided, they have a sheikh who has led where others have misguided, and they have an adab consistent with their stated positions. 

These brothers are warm and friendly living in this organic Muslim community. As I talked to these brothers, looked at the children, and thought of the words and leadership of the leader of this community Sheikh Mubarak Gilani, I said to myself ” how can anyone spread the lies and hate they do about this community”? The answer is simple; these are devils who hate the people of the Sunnah and those who do not conform to the evil norms of this sick world. The same people who make videos against the jamaat of the Muslims of the Americas 50 years ago would have put the noose around the neck of the grandfathers of these brothers and centuries before waged the Crusades. They serve their master, Satan, their leaders, politicians and men of money, their organizations, the Tea Party, CAN and it’s ilk, and are destined for their home- Hell. While this community serves God, is led by a blessed Murshid, operates an organization dedicated to the highest principals in existence, and is destined for paradise insha’Allah.

I drove back to St. Louis with my daughter feeling I had witnessed what brothers have talked about for years; but have never created and that is a living and breathing cradle to grave Muslim community in America. The glue that keeps it together from what I have seen is the leadership  of Sheikh Gilani and I cannot imagine any Muslim in their right mind objectively looking at what this community has accomplished, the miracles that have taken place, the generations which have sprung forth, and not loving this man. To know the facts, and not love this man, reveals a sickness in your heart.

Today it is back to work, back to bills, and back to family. Yet what I took from my visit will not leave me and I pray it will not leave my daughter either.

Ramadan Message to the Enemies of Islam

In 1992 when I took shahadah there were two mosques in St. Louis and only a couple of places to get halal meat ( one of them being a meat packing house). Today there are almost 20 mosques in the metro area and dozens of places to get halal meat. Sisters wearing hijab in certain areas of the city are a regular site much to the chagrin of those like the bigots Gateway Pundit and Ed Martin.

The growth of Muslims in St. Louis has included sending three Muslims to the Missouri State House. Today Muslims have the ear of Mayor Francis Slay and are a vital part of the lives of St. Louisans. Up to half of the cabbies in St. Louis are Muslim. Muslim doctors can be found at all area hospitals. There are Muslim businesses operating in all sections of the St. Louis region.

Is St. Louis unusual? No, not at all. Rather, instead of St. Louis being a hotbed and a hub for the Muslim community in America. the St. Louis Muslim community is seen as a sleepy backwater. Islam developed in St. Louis late and we are still on the “late show”. The community is growing here; but at a much slower pace than anywhere on the East Coast, Upper Midwest, Atlanta, Carolinas, California, etc.

What is my point? Since 9-11 Islam and Muslims have been under constant attack in America. FOX News and radio talk shows run non-stop anti-Muslim programming trying to whip up a hysteria against the American citizens of America ( along with those on the left such as Bill Maher).  Enemies like Robert Spencer, Pam Geller, David Gaubatz, Paul Williams, Daniel Pipes the Christian Action Network and others have made money hyping the “Muslim Threat”.  Sellouts have emerged in the Muslim community such as Abdur-Rahman Muhammad who are willing to do the work of the enemies of Islam. Yet, despite all of these Satanic forces Islam has grown in America and Muslims have prospered.

Gaubatz ( and the feds) have sent spies in the mosques. Have promoted fake-conversions.The money of Muslim charities has been seized. Muslims have been targeted in political and judicial witch-hunts. Enemies have paraded dogs outside of a masjid in California, vandalized mosques throughout the country, targeted peace-loving groups in videos, fought the opening of a mosque near the site of the 9-11 hoax in Manhattan, and despite all of that venom Islam is still spreading in America.

The Rev. Terry Jones can hold a ceremony to burn the Quran. It speaks to the evil that is in his heart and the hearts of the klansmen who follow him. Ramadan is a month of prayers being answered I make the prayer for the fire that he uses to burn the Quran to burn him…Ameen.  Terry Jones may succeed on that day, or he may be disrupted by the Muslim brothers gathered on that day; but in the long run he is a loser because long after he is gone children will be memorizing Quran in his hometown.

Similarly for the Zionists and bigots in NYC. Hundreds of mosques already exist in the New York Tri-State Area and there will be one more whether you like it or not. The Pro-Israel politicians can complain, the workers in the racist construction workers unions can complain, and FOX can complain; but it will be built.

In St. Louis Ed Martin can run for congress and run his mouth and write his columns in the Evening Whirl; but Islam will continue to grow in St. Louis and there is nothing he or the Tea Party can do about it. Truth will prevail over falsehood and the Muslim voters in his district will send him a message.

The rest are either out for fame, votes, tribal alleiagnce or money and they may get that in this life; but the Day of Judgement is coming.

To the believes make the most out of these last days of Ramadan and stay close to the masjid, remembrance of Allah and prayer and stay away from infighting. May Allah protect the believers and His Awliya and guide us back to a position of strength and give us the upper-hand over our enemies.

Questions for Abdur-Rahman Muhammad and Advice to His New Pals

It seems that the one time Pro-Black and hardcore Islamist speaker and DC-based activist Abdur-Rahman Muhammad after having made a name for himself by trashing other Muslims (particularly African-American Muslim leaders) has finally went all the way to the other side. He is now writing for the ultra-right wing Pajamas Media which is a Tea Party, anti-Muslim, media site which operates kind of like an online version of the Glenn Beck Show. His first assignment is calling against the “Ground Zero Mosque”.

Here is a little background for Muslims on Abdur-Rahman Muhammad. He is a Rhode Island native of Cape Verdean origin. He arrived in DC to attend Howard University and since his young days has been a great admirer of Malcolm X (like I am and so many others) and has even organized trips to NYC to see sites related to Malcolm.

An early admirer of Imam Siraj Wahhaj who he studied deen with ARM later jockeyed to get the chaplain position at Howard University; but the position was given to Imam Johari Abdul-Malik who would go on to fame and prestige in the Muslim community while ARM wallowed in obscurity.

Imam Johari told me “ there is only one thing Abdur-Rahman has remained consistent about over the years and that is he hates Brother Johari”. ARM would bounce around after that. He had his own masjid which failed miserably. He would give fiery pro-Iranian jihadi khutbahs with the Muhammad al-Asi crowd in front of the Islamic Center in DC. Later he would surface as a quasi-Salafi who challenged the Saudi ruling family for their lack of implementation of shariah and commitment to Muslims worldwide.

After years of failure and inability to gain a following in the black Muslim community and his resentment at those such as Imam Mahdi Bray who were able to form good and profitable relationships with mainstream Muslim organizations ARM finally became bitterly jealous and began attacking all of the black imams and leaders he once admired who led the lives he wanted to live and stoked racial resentment between African-Americans and immigrant Muslims at his blog.

Now this is for the non-Muslims, the new friends of Abdur-Rahman Muhammad. You know the up-tight white guys worried about a Muslim takeover of America, Mexicans having too many babies, and keeping black people in their place. You may want your boy ARM to answer these questions to make sure he isn’t doing taqiya.

Questions for Abdur-Rahman Muhammad

Iran: Abdur-Rahman once espoused a pro-Iranian line and acted as a mouthpiece for Iran-inspired jihad. When and why did he cease believing in the pro-Iranian position?

Imam Abdul-Alim Musa: In all of his attacks on Muslim leaders such as Imam Siraj, Imam Talib, the old Dar al Islam Movement, Imam Mahdi Bray and others it seems that ARM has remained silent about one of the most outspoken and militant brothers around who lives in DC not too far from ARM. You may want to ask ARM what he thinks of Imam Musa and Masjid al-Islam where he has attended. Does he condemn the pro-Islamist and anti-Zionist talks of Imam Musa? Has he told you guys “how to punk the FBI?” Would seem kind of odd that ARM would condemn the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” and not his old pal Imam Musa.

Malcolm X: ARM is a great admirer of Malcolm X. I cannot imagine there are too many right-wing Americans who are fans of the late Brother Malcolm. Malcolm believed in global liberation of the dark-masses from Western-domination, neo-colonialism and economic exploitation. He believed America was a fundamentally racist country (as I do) and that unless black people “did for self” they would not be able to confront the system and live sustainably. He taught that if the Black Man could not achieve his rights in the political system it would be necessary and justifiable to violently and military confront the US government to achieve liberation. Does anyone else at Pajamas media share such admiration for Brother Malcolm (el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz) and these positions?

Islamic Party: In 2007 ARM hosted a talk given by former Islamic Party member Lut Williams in which Brother Lut stated why the IP was a good movement and how it was partly based on the teachings of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Pakistani Islamist Mawdudi . ARM agreed that what was needed for African-American Muslims was to turn back to the organizing methods of the IP.  Does he still share admiration for the IP? And if he does how does he juxtapose that with his now fierce hatred of the Muslim Brotherhood?

Mosque Questions: ARM has came out against the building of a mosque in Lower Manhattan. He is echoing the words of those who are a part of the “No More Mosques” Campaign and Newt Gingrich who do not want to see any mosques anywhere in America. The same people protesting this so-called Ground Zero Mosque (a mix of Zionists, undercover klansmen, opportunists and bigots) oppose the opening of mosques in suburban Nashville, Wisconsin, Temecula, CA and other places. Do you also oppose the opening of these mosques?

Quran: Muslims believe that the Quran is not the word of man; but rather the uncreated Speech of Allah revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). As the Quran is the Speech of Allah, the Creator of the Heavens and Earth and Master of the Day of Judgment, it is perfect and free from error. Does Abdur-Rahman Muhammad still believe that the Quran is free from error and is the Speech of Allah? If so how does that jibe with those at Pajamas Media and other right-wing pals of yours who call the Quran a “hate book”, desecrate the Quran, call for the burning of the Quran, and seek to outlaw the Quran from libraries?

Prophet Muhammad ( Peace be Upon Him): As Muslims we believe that Holy Prophet Muhammad ( s.a.s.) is the Messenger of Allah, the Seal of the Prophets, a Mercy to Mankind, the Greatest of the Sons of Adam¸ and that his Sunnah ( life example) is free from error. Pajamas media, commenters on the site, and those PM links to have defamed the Messenger of Allah ( PBUH), called the Prophet “evil, possessed, demon-filled” are you willing to condemn this speech and defend the Prophet Muhammad ( PBUH) from these attacks from your friends? Or do you not agree with their characterizations of the Messenger of Allah ( PBUH)?  Do you find the Sunnah perfect or free from error or is their anything in the life of the Messenger of Allah ( PBUH) you criticize or disagree with?

Shariah: Frank Gaffney, one of the loudest and foulest voices on the far-right opposing the so-called Ground Zero Mosque, has said he would oppose anyone with a love for and who teaches shariah. Given that shariah is the Islamic law for the lives of Muslims and that no human can be a Muslim and not follow shariah what do you say to this?

To be honest I do not know what ARM believes. He told a brother I know forget the Muslims and just “get money” and that I know he is after. Other than that he needs to answer these questions.

National Anti-Mosque Movement

A Look at the national anti-Mosque movement at Muslim Bricks