American-Born Imam Spews Message of Hate in England

Fox News ^ | January 17, 2007 | George Kindel

[Ben Mugged]

A New Jersey-born Muslim cleric with links to a suspected Al Qaeda operative who surfaced at a college not far from the cleric's Peoria, Ill., mosque the day before the Sept. 11 attacks has found a new home.

The imam now is spewing his message of hate to a growing group of followers at a mosque in Birmingham, England.

His target: the United States, the United Kingdom, Christians and Jews.

Abu Usamah at-Thahabi, who preached at the Islamic Center of Peoria in 2001, is the subject of a British news documentary that revealed Monday how he regularly exhorts worshippers at the Green Lane Masjid, or mosque, in Birmingham to hate Westerners, whom he calls "pathological liars" and "kuffar," a derogatory term for non-Muslims.

Abu Usamah also calls for the public crucifixion of all "kuffar" and says they should be "left there to bleed to death for three days."

~snip~ Abu Usamah, in the days immediately after Sept. 11, asked Peoria residents not to judge the Muslim community by the actions of the terrorists who carried out the attack and thanked the local Christian community for its support.

"More faiths, different groups reached out to us," he told the Peoria Journal Star newspaper a year after the attacks.

He went on to thank "those open-minded people who judge everyone individually."

The New Jersey-born imam, who claims to have studied a strict version of Islam at the Islamic University of Medina in Saudi Arabia, has since changed his tune.

"Lying is part of their religion," Abu Usamah is heard telling his followers in the special report by the British news show "Dispatches" on Channel 4.

"They do whatever they want to do. They are liars, they are terrorists themselves. They are lying, you can't believe them.

"They are pathological liars," he rants.

[Ben Mugged]

Spokesman for the religion of peace. Soon his apologists will speak out.

[wideawake]

How do they know he's from NJ?

All we know about the guy is that he speaks English with an African-American accent and that he lived in IL for a while.

No one seems to even know what his real name is.

[ishabibble]

I looked all over the Internet trying to find out who this guy is, and I found nothing. Why can't some intrepid reporter take his picture around to the lowlife, ex-con places in NJ and get his name?
If he fled to England, chances are good that he's got a warrant or two here in the U.S. One other thing I noticed was that he seemed to be trying to hide his NJ accent, his speech seemed very affected.

If he didn't want to get on board with Calypso Louie's gang here in the U.S., then I think he hates white people even more than Louie himself. That's saying something!

[Ben Mugged]

If he traveled to England from the US, he had to have a US passport. His passport data would specify his home town.

[batter]

Here are the links to the recent British documentary on radical Islam in the UK. Check out Part 1. Guess who the American imam is....

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6

A choice quote of his comes at about 4:16:

"He's better than a million George Bushes, Osama Bin Laden, he's better than a thousand Tony Blairs, because he's a Muslim."

Earlier, he rails against the 'kufaar' (non Muslims) and referring to terrorists, states: "I don't agree with those individuals, but at the same time, they're closer to me than those criminals of the kufr."

[wideawake]

If he traveled to England from the US, he had to have a US passport.

And who knows how or from where he obtained the passport he used.

[Red6]

Well put and accurate. Truth is stranger than fiction.

[cookcounty]

"Why can't some intrepid reporter take his picture around to the lowlife, ex-con places in NJ and get his name?"

Because it would take repoorters away from the DestroyBushFest, which is their reason for being.

[Ben Mugged]

Notice the outrage from the "peaceful" muslim community.

[Ben Mugged]

[zlala]

Abu Usamah also calls for the public crucifixion of all "kuffar" and says they should be "left there to bleed to death for three days."

I have a question...
IF I, the "kuffar" die in, say 2 days, do practitioners of the religion of peace feel cheated? Or if I take 4 days to die...what happens then? So many questions left unanswered....

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

People like this have to be expelled from civilized countries.

[Dark Skies]

He was one of the speakers at the Monthly Potluck Dinner and Educational Program at the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh and his brief bio stated he was from NJ (Source: http://omega.icp-pgh.org/archives/may02.html).

Of course, the speaker may be a different imam of the same name or the agenda may be in error otherwise. But if it was the same imam that was captured on film in the UK report, you can bet he was spewing the same vile poison.

[PGalt]

Abu Usamah at-Thahabi should have a bounty on his head.

[antiRepublicrat]

Time to invent another acronym: ABBO, American By Birth Only.

[showme_the_Glory]

Jess, beddy beddy sooon.

[Gay State Conservative]

If he traveled to England from the US, he had to have a US passport. His passport data would specify his home town.

The passport itself would only list the state in which he was born...not the city/town.

[mallardx]

People like this should be taking a dirt nap - the sooner, the better. The world is too tight and unstable for this nonsense. Snuff it.

[Emile]

Bump for later

[Proud_USA_Republican]

He'll fit right in at the islamic paradise the UK has fostered.