SIGNS OF THE TIME

  As-Salaamu 'Alaikum wa Rahmatullah Here's an interesting story that came out 2 months ago that you probably didn't see and public officials like NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and his supporters don'ttalk about publicly: Empirical Study Confirms That American Muslims Do Not Pose a Threat of "Homegrown Terror" " Today, the N.Y. Times reported that Charles Kurzman, author of a study by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, concludes American Muslims pose "a minuscule threat to public safety." The report found that 20 American Muslims were charged in violent plots or attacks in 2011, down from 26 in 2010 and 47 in 2009. It also found that not a single murder in 2011 resulted from extremist violence by Muslims in the United States. This empirical study provides further evidence against alarmist claims of a so-called “homegrown terrorist” threat from American Muslim communities. These false claims have done deep ...

 As-Salaamu 'Alaikum wa Rahmatullah ! READ THIS ARTICLE CONTAINING THE LATEST DISCLOSURES BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: http://news.yahoo.com/documents-show-nypd-infiltrated-liberal-groups-081951121.html MY COMMENTARY : For those who still don't understand the implications of the NYPD warrantless surveillance of the Muslim community, here is the latest evidence of what I have been saying for months. The NYPD has been illegally spying not just on Muslims but on non-Muslims as well, in defiance of the law (which prevents domestic spying upon US citizens) and previous legal agreements (like Handschu) http://thevillager.com/villger_293/asneakymoveon.html . This latest episode focused upon us Muslims is just part of a larger fight that has to do with the constitutionality of certain law enforcement tactics. The NYPD has an attempted media spin justification of its acttions, but mark my words . There will be HUGE court battles over this! The NYPD , with its lack of transparency an...

The following statement was written by me in my capacity as the Deputy Amir of The Muslim Alliance in Nortrh America (MANA) and the Amir (President) of the Majlis Ash-Shura of Metropolitan NY .It was written for an event that was held yesterday in Atlanta, organized by supporters of Imam Jamil, including the indefatigable Hajj Mauri Saalakhan: "A Day Of Action” for Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin Monday, March 19, 2012, at the Georgia State Capitol Statement by Imam Al-Hajj Talib 'Abdur-Rashid As-Salaamu 'Alaikum wa Rahmatullah, dear Brothers and Sisters in attendance at today's important event. Although I am not able to be with you today, I wish to add a voice of support on behalf of both The Muslim Alliance in North America, and the Majlis Ash-Shura (Islamic Leadership Council) of Metropolitan New York, for our beloved and respected brother in Al-Islam, Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin. Over the past decade as America has become absorbed in the dynamics of living in a...

“ WHOEVER RALLIES TO A GOOD CAUSE SHALL HAVE A SHARE IN ITS BLESSINGS; AND WHOEVER RALLIES TO AN EVIL CAUSE SHALL BE ANSWERABLE FOR HIS PART IN IT: FOR, INDEED, ALLAH WATCHES OVER EVERYTHING” (QUR’AN 4:85) U.N.I.A. MARCH FOR FREEDOM, HARLEM, 1922 EL-HAJJ MALIK/ MALCOLM X IN HARLEM, 1962 SANITATION WORKERS STRIKE IN MEMPHIS, TENN. 1968 (JUST BEFORE DR. KING IS MURDERED) MARCH 25, 1999 MARCH ON 1 POLICE PLAZA IN PROTEST OF THE MURDER OF AMADOU DIALLO BY NYPD SPECIAL UNIT CITY HALL 2011 FOLEY SQUARE, 2011 1 POLICE PLAZA NOV. 2011 MAYOR COREY BOOKER OF NEWARK, N.J. 2012 INTRODUCTION: As the struggle and call continues for greater accountability on the part of the Mayor and Police Commissioner with regards to the unjust , warrant-less surveillance of the Muslim community by the NYPD , lone acting imams and Muslim heads of not-for-profit organizations are “selling out” the masses of the people, intentionally or un-intention...

 Peter King's Dog and Pony Show   “You may fool all the people some of the time,    you can even fool some of the people all of the   time, but you cannot fool all of the people all   the time.” - Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)      Is that all? Is that it? You've gotta be kidding !!!! In a pathetically transparent demonstration of weak apologia and attempted media spin, the Peter King-Defend-the-NYPD-dog and pony show* came to New York City today.     Importing opportunists and apologists from out of town and out of the country, and backed by one local wanna-be (more on that later), King attempted to justify his roundly criticized and unsucessful 2011 waste of the American taxpayers ,otherwise known as the King Homeland Security Hearings on Homegrown Radicalization, by spouting more of the same rhetoric, distortions and misrepreesentations in a new year. This is to be expected of him . We k...

Right-wing bloggers call me un-patriotic because I don't accept the Thanksgiving mythology, nor do I celebrate it as a holiday. Hey, to me my way of  life (and to us, ours) and to you, yours. No problemo. But don't get it twisted and don't conflate my principled stance based upon justice with your jingoism. Africans don't celebrate slavery, the Japanese don't celebrate the days when the bombs were dropped on Hirsoshima and Nagasaki, the Jews don't celebrate the holocaust, Palestinians don't celebrate the Nakba, so why should I (or we) celebrate "Thanksgiving'" ? Because the colonizers of America do?  If those who dropped the bomb, manned the gas ovens, and usurped the holy land have their own public relations spin on their deeds, or celebrate doing so, then should those on whom the bomb was dropped, or who were marched into the ovens, or whose bones are buried beneath the cities of this land accept the spin and celebrate as well? The popu...

Every Muslim should denounce the continued bigoted and racist anti-Muslim statements of individuals involved in last night’s Republican candidate presidential debate. Stating “Obviously, Muslims would be someone you look at, absolutely," former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum identified Muslims who are “younger males” as deserving more scrutiny at airport checkpoints. He declared "The radical Muslims are the people committing these crimes, by and large, with younger males" . Herman Cain , who has made anti-Muslim statements before , continued to show us what black (meaning African American, as opposed to other ethnicities like Arabs, Southern Asians, etc. all of whom can be found in pluralistic America) Uncle Toms look like in the 21st century. In a GQ interview earlier this year Cain said "I have had one very well known Muslim voice say to me directly that a majority of Muslims share the extremist views." He never identified who the owner of that voice...