Obama, the African Colonial

American Thinker ^ | June 25, 2009 | L.E. Ikenga

[neverdem]

Had Americans been able to stop obsessing over the color of Barack Obama's skin and instead paid more attention to his cultural identity, maybe he would not be in the White House today. The key to understanding him lies with his identification with his father, and his adoption of a cultural and political mindset rooted in postcolonial Africa.

Like many educated intellectuals in postcolonial Africa, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was enraged at the transformation of his native land by its colonial conqueror. But instead of embracing the traditional values of his own tribal cultural past, he embraced an imported Western ideology, Marxism. I call such frustrated and angry modern Africans who embrace various foreign "isms", instead of looking homeward for repair of societies that are broken, African Colonials. They are Africans who serve foreign ideas.

The tropes of America's racial history as a way of understanding all things black are useless in understanding the man who got his dreams from his father, a Kenyan exemplar of the African Colonial.

Before I continue, I need to say this: I am a first generation born West African-American woman whose parents emigrated to the U.S. in the 1970's from the country now called Nigeria. I travel to Nigeria frequently. I see myself as both a proud American and as a proud Igbo (the tribe that we come from -- also sometimes spelled Ibo). Politically, I have always been conservative (though it took this past election for me to commit to this once and for all!); my conservative values come from my Igbo heritage and my place of birth. Of course, none of this qualifies me to say what I am about to -- but at the same time it does.

My friends, despite what CNN and the rest are telling you, Barack Obama is nothing more than an old school African Colonial who is on his way to turning this country into one of the developing nations that you learn about on the National Geographic Channel. Many conservative (East, West, South, North) African-Americans like myself -- those of us who know our history -- have seen this movie before. Here are two main reasons why many Americans allowed Obama to slip through the cracks despite all of his glaring inconsistencies:

First, Obama has been living on American soil for most of his adult life. Therefore, he has been able to masquerade as one who understands and believes in American democratic ideals. But he does not. Barack Obama is intrinsically undemocratic and as his presidency plays out, this will become more obvious. Second, and most importantly, too many Americans know very little about Africa. The one-size-fits-all understanding that many Americans (both black and white) continue to have of Africa might end up bringing dire consequences for this country.

Contrary to the way it continues to be portrayed in mainstream Western culture, Africa is not a continent that can be solely defined by AIDS, ethnic rivalries, poverty and safaris. Africa, like any other continent, has an immense history defined by much diversity and complexity. Africa's long-standing relationship with Europe speaks especially to some of these complexities -- particularly the relationship that has existed between the two continents over the past two centuries. Europe's complete colonization of Africa during the nineteenth century, also known as the Scramble for Africa, produced many unfortunate consequences, the African colonial being one of them.

The African colonial (AC) is a person who by means of their birth or lineage has a direct connection with Africa. However, unlike Africans like me, their worldviews have been largely shaped not by the indigenous beliefs of a specific African tribe but by the ideals of the European imperialism that overwhelmed and dominated Africa during the colonial period. AC's have no real regard for their specific African traditions or histories.  AC's use aspects of their African culture as one would use pieces of costume jewelry: things of little or no value that can be thoughtlessly discarded when they become a negative distraction, or used on a whim to decorate oneself in order to seem exotic. (Hint: Obama's Muslim heritage).

On the other hand, AC's strive to be the best at the culture that they inherited from Europe. Throughout the West, they are tops in their professions as lawyers, doctors, engineers, Ivy League professors and business moguls; this is all well and good. It's when they decide to engage us as politicians that things become messy and convoluted.

The African colonial politician (ACP) feigns repulsion towards the hegemonic paradigms of Western civilization. But at the same time, he is completely enamored of the trappings of its aristocracy or elite culture. The ACP blames and caricatures whitey to no end for all that has gone wrong in the world. He convinces the masses that various forms of African socialism are the best way for redressing the problems that European colonialism motivated in Africa. However, as opposed to really being a hard-core African Leftist who actually believes in something, the ACP uses socialist themes as a way to disguise his true ambitions: a complete power grab whereby the "will of the people" becomes completely irrelevant.

Barack Obama is all of the above. The only difference is that he is here playing (colonial) African politics as usual.  

In his 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father -- an eloquent piece of political propaganda -- Obama styles himself as a misunderstood intellectual who is deeply affected by the sufferings of black people, especially in America and Africa. In the book, Obama clearly sees himself as an African, not as a black American. And to prove this, he goes on a quest to understand his Kenyan roots. He is extremely thoughtful of his deceased father's legacy; this provides the main clue for understanding Barack Obama.

Barack Obama Sr. was an African colonial to the core; in his case, the apple did not fall far from the tree. All of the telltale signs of Obama's African colonialist attitudes are on full display in the book -- from his feigned antipathy towards Europeans to his view of African tribal associations as distracting elements that get in the way of "progress".  (On p. 308 of Dreams From My Father, Obama says that African tribes should be viewed as an "ancient loyalties".)

Like imperialists of Old World Europe, the ACP sees their constituents not as free thinking individuals who best know how to go about achieving and creating their own means for success. Instead, the ACP sees his constituents as a flock of ignorant sheep that need to be led -- oftentimes to their own slaughter.

Like the European imperialist who spawned him, the ACP is a destroyer of all forms of democracy.

Here are a few examples of what the British did in order to create (in 1914) what is now called Nigeria and what Obama is doing to you: 

1. Convince the people that "clinging" to any aspect of their cultural (tribal) identity or history is bad and regresses the process of "unity". British Imperialists deeply feared people who were loyal to anything other than the state. "Tribalism" made the imperialists have to work harder to get people to just fall in line. Imperialists pitted tribes against each other in order to create chaos that they then blamed on ethnic rivalry. Today many "educated" Nigerians, having believed that their traditions were irrelevant, remain completely ignorant of their ancestry and the history of their own tribes.
2. Confiscate the wealth and resources of the area that you govern by any means necessary in order to redistribute wealth. The British used this tactic to present themselves as empathetic and benevolent leaders who wanted everyone to have a "fair shake". Imperialists are not interested in equality for all. They are interested in controlling all.  
3. Convince the masses that your upper-crust university education naturally puts you on an intellectual plane from which to understand everything even when you understand nothing. Imperialists were able to convince the people that their elite university educations allowed them to understand what Africa needed. Many of today's Nigerians-having followed that lead-hold all sorts of degrees and certificates-but what good are they if you can't find a job?   
4. Lie to the people and tell them that progress is being made even though things are clearly becoming worse.  One thing that the British forgot to mention to their Nigerian constituents was that one day, the resources that were being used to engineer "progress" (which the British had confiscated from the Africans to begin with!) would eventually run out. After WWII, Western Europe could no longer afford to hold on to their African colonies. So all of the counterfeit countries that the Europeans created were then left high-and-dry to fend for themselves. This was the main reason behind the African independence movements of the1950 and 60's. What will a post-Obama America look like?
5. Use every available media outlet to perpetuate the belief that you and your followers are the enlightened ones-and that those who refuse to support you are just barbaric, uncivilized, ignorant curmudgeons.  This speaks for itself.

America, don't be fooled. The Igbos were once made up of a confederacy of clans that ascribed to various forms of democratic government. They took their eyes off the ball and before they knew it, the British were upon them. Also, understand this: the African colonial who is given too much political power can only become one thing: a despot.

L.E. Ikenga can be reached at leikenga@gmail.com.

[Fred Nerks]

BBC WORLD NEWS AMERICA VIDEO: Notes to Obama: Maya Angelou

'We needed him, the race needs him, the American Nation needs him, the Banks, the Insurance companies, the Stock market needed him, Germany, France, China and Britain need him...'

[Fred Nerks]

For the record:

http://emperors-clothes.com/dream.hexcerpt:

Reported ABC:

“This afternoon New York City police stopped a car in Queens, New York, which they suspected was used as a get-away vehicle in Tuesday’s Brink’s holdup. The suspects, both wearing bullet-proof vests, led police on a wild chase that ended in a gun battle. One suspect was killed, the other captured.”

– ibid.

The surviving suspect was Nathaniel Burns, aka Sekou Odinga.

“One of several Black Panthers indicted here [i.e., New York City – J.I.] in 1968 for a series of bombings, he had escaped prosecution by sliding down a drainpipe at his home as police approached.”

– “1 Killed, 1 Seized by Police Seeking Brink’s Suspects; Police Kill Suspect in Brink’s Robbery,” The Washington Post, October 24, 1981 [14]

As for the man who was killed:

“Samuel Smith, 37, slain in the shootout in which Mr. Burns was captured; a former convict with a record of attempted murder, assault and armed robbery; a bullet-proof vest he wore was dented over a body bruise suffered in a recent shooting; ballistics tests determined that a .38-caliber slug in his pocket had been fired from the gun of one of the police officers slain in Nyack.”

– The New York Times, October 27, 1981 [15]

On October 28th the Times announced that two Weathermen arrested in the Bronx on an outstanding bomb-making charge were arraigned in New Jersey, and that officials in Mississippi had arrested Cynthia Boston, suspected of involvement with the Brink’s gang, and were seeking her husband as well. Ms. Boston:

“was identified in arrest papers as the minister of information for the Republic of New Africa [sic! Said organization used the spelling ‘Afrika’ – J.I.], described as a terrorist organization. The arrest complaint said William Johnson, her common-law husband, who has eluded capture, was believed to be affiliated with the Black Liberation Army.”

– “2 New Brink’s Suspects Held in Mississippi and Manhattan,” The New York Times, October 28, 1981 [16]

Wrote the Times:

“The new names associated with the case also lent support yesterday to the view already advanced by the F.B.I. and the New York City Police Department that members of the Weather Underground had joined forces with members of black terrorist organizations.”

– ibid.

On October 30th, the Times reported that an FBI/police task force had been formed to pursue suspects still at large, including Ms. Boston’s husband and at least three other alleged members of the Black Liberation Army. [17]

Some have argued that the BLA was invented out of the whole cloth by the FBI and police and trumpeted by the media to spread fear of black people. I will discuss the media’s role in Part 6 of this series, but let me say here: if the Establishment was hyping the BLA to spread fear, it was helped by the accused and their defenders, who provided ample material from which the media could pick and choose. Case in point: during the New York State Brink’s trial, two defendants affirmed that they were BLA members and that the BLA and their white supporters (the Weathermen) were right to maim and murder people if they hindered ‘expropriations’ (robberies). [18]

In like fashion, speaking shortly after Cynthia Boston’s arrest, her attorney, Chokwe Lumumba, ‘defended’ her by saying that the so-called ‘provisional government’ of the Republic of New Afrika, of which she was part, was:

“not a clandestine offensive military formation. The BLA is. The provisional government [of which Lumumba was ‘Justice Minister’ – J.I.] has no control and no connection with the army. It shares with the army, however, a common determination to be free.”

[My emphasis – J.I.]

– “Bail Set at $250,000 for Cynthia Boston,” The Associated Press, November 3, 1981 [19]

(Notice that for Attorney Lumumba, the Black Liberation Army was “the army,” giving his disclaimer, that the “provisional government has no control and no connection with the army,” a coy ring.)

So, regarding the BLA: perhaps delusional; perhaps partly organized and/or led by agents provocateurs; not imaginary.

The FBI said the BLA was a “black terrorist organization.” The leading defense attorney said it was a “clandestine offensive military formation.” One might say, the alternative presented by the defense was not reassuring.

The extreme brutality of the robbery, confirmed and justified by the defendants, and the descriptions of the BLA made by the two supposedly opposing sides (“black terrorist organization” or “clandestine offensive military formation,” take your pick), could only spread fear of African-American men.

How did Obama react?

Based on what he has written and said, he didn’t.

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Obama dreams in black and white

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In his autobiographical Dreams from my father, despite spending sixteen pages writing about his three years in New York, Obama has not one word about the Brink’s affair.

Yet in the book, Obama presents himself as being concerned during this period – one might say, obsessed – with the question of black-white relations.

It is true that the Brink’s-Weatherman-BLA affair is not the only striking omission in Dreams. As the New York Times noted, Obama also did not write anything about his experiences at Columbia University, where the Times was told he was an outstanding student from Fall 1981 to Spring 1983. The Times pressed Obama and his campaign organization for any details about Columbia and got this lame reply:

“‘He doesn’t remember the names of a lot of people in his life,’ said Ben LaBolt, a campaign spokesman.”

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SEKOU ODINGA (Nathaniel Burns.)

“The teachings of Malcolm X, who was then with the Nation of Islam, became a big influence on me at that time. After my release, I became involved in Black political activity in New York, especially revolutionary, nationalist politics. In 1964, I also became involved in the Cultural Nationalist movement. By 1965, I had joined the organization of African American Unity, founded by El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X). I began to move with and among many young African Nationalists. My political consciousness was growing daily. I was reading and listening to many Afrikan Nationalists from Africa and the U.S. and became convinced that only after a successful armed struggle would New Afrikans gain freedom and self-determination. I also became convinced that integration would never solve the problems faced by New Afrikans...

http://www.thetalkingdrum.com/bla1.html

[Jet Jaguar]

Bump!

[Fred Nerks]

"My name is Sekou Mgobogi Abdullah Odinga. I am a Muslim and a POW. I was born in Queens, N.Y., on June 17, 1944. I was raised in a family of nine — Father, Mother, three brothers, and three sisters. I was kicked out of school in the tenth grade for defending myself against an attack by a teacher...

[Jedidah]

Lumumba? Odinga?

Deja vu?

You’ve got to be kidding me! What is it they say, that there are no coincidences?

Does anyone have crowd shots of the robbery, arrests, etc.? Or even of these cons and their followers? Just wondering if there might be other recognizable faces there.

[Fred Nerks]

the link I posted with that comment appears to be broken, here is a working link:

http://emperors-clothes.com/dream.htm

[Fred Nerks]

AMBUSH: THE BRINKS ROBBERY OF 1981

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/terrorists_spies/terrorists/brinks/1.html

Barack Obama’s
Close Encounter with the
Weather Underground

http://zombietime.com/obama_and_the_weather_underground/

[Jedidah]

Thanks. I had seen the zombietime.com article, but not the others.

[thouworm]

October 11, 2009
Black Nationalism Provides Foundation for African-American Islamist Movement
By Brendan Goldman

"America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem," Malcolm X wrote in 1964 during his pilgrimage to Mecca. Though Malcolm's anti-white rhetoric was moderated after his conversion from the Nation of Islam (NOI) to orthodox Sunni Islam, his disdain for the West, rooted in extremist black nationalism, remained integral to his Muslim identity.

Malcolm's words now appear on countless Islamist websites dedicated to finding black, English-speaking converts. The assumption that all African-American Muslims broke their ties with the anti-Western, anti-white, and anti-Semitic worldview of the NOI is a naive one.

Warith Deen Mohammed was born Wallace D. Muhammad. He was the seventh child of Elijah and Clara Muhammad.

Though Warith Deen Muhammed, who led the majority of the members of the NOI to Sunni Islam in the mid-1970s, was more interested in alleviating domestic problems like crime and poverty than in creating an Islamic political movement, many of his followers were loath to abandon their radical ideology.

Islamists have harnessed these radicals' anti-Western black nationalism for their own purpose: establishing an indigenous Islamist movement in the United States that can advocate their political agenda in the foreign and domestic policy spheres. The Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA) and the As-Sabiqun movement are proof that their efforts have not been in vain.

Born as Jeffrey Kearse, Imam Siraj Wahhaj was raised as a Baptist in New York City.
* Advisory board member of the Council on American-Islamic Relations
* Named as a possible co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
* Advocates the replacement of the U.S. government with an Islamic Caliphate
Discover the Networks

Imam Siraj Wahhaj, the founder of the primarily African-American MANA, is a product of the volatile intersection of black nationalism and politicized Islam. A former member of the NOI, Wahhaj often has been portrayed as a "moderate" by the mainstream media. However, his words speak for themselves: "In time, this so-called democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing, and the only thing that will remain will be Islam," Wahhaj has predicted.

Born in Arkansas as Clarence Reams, Imam Abdul Alim Musa was raised in Oakland, California during the 1960s, when he embraced the ideology of the Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam....Musa at that time became a "leading cocaine-exporter in Colombia" and he met exiled Black Panther leaders such as Eldridge Cleaver and Pete O'Neal in Algeria. Discover the Networks

Imam Abdul Alim Musa of the As-Sabiqun movement is even more overt about his Islamist worldview. As-Sabiqun, founded in the early 1990s, advocates the establishment of an Islamic caliphate in place of America's democratic system. Though officially a Sunni Muslim, Musa's views echo those of the NOI.

"Who ran the slave trade?" Musa asks rhetorically. "You'll study and you will find out: the Jews." His words suggest the influence of the NOI's The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, which first outlined this conspiratorial distortion of history.

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin was born Hubert Gerold Brown in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1943. Popularly known as H. Rap Brown, in May 1967 he succeeded Stokely Carmichael as the leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

* Sixties radical, led “black power” movement
* Former Executive Board President of the American Muslim Council
* Currently serving a life sentence for killing a police officer in 2000
Discover the Networks

Another prominent leader of the African-American Islamist movement is Jamil Abdullah al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown, who is now incarcerated for murder. Like his colleagues, Imam al-Amin has only disdain for his country of origin, saying, "[The main essence of the U.S. Constitution] is diametrically opposed to what Allah has commanded." At al-Amin's mosque in Atlanta, attendees sported combat uniforms and long robes, reflecting the influence of both Black Panther-style nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.

African-American Professor Robert F. Reid-Pharr, in his article "Speaking through Anti-Semitism: The Nation of Islam and the Poetics of Black (Counter) Modernity," ascribes the susceptibility of African-American Muslims to anti-Western and anti-Semitic rhetoric to their rejection of modernity and capitalism. According to Reid-Pharr, many African-Americans view Western modernity as flawed from its inception because it was built on the foundation of slavery.

This distrust for the modern world is evident in the words of Malcolm X, who said, "Show me a capitalist and I'll show you a bloodsucker." Many African-American Muslims have therefore embraced the Islamist agenda as a means to overcome inequalities they see as inherent to the modern Western system.

The irony of this situation is that the argument that politicized Islam inherently improves the position of racial minorities is entirely untenable from both a historical and a modern perspective. Though many Islamist websites make claims like "only ... through Islam has this idea [‘of racial equality and of human brotherhood'] ever been realized in action," reality tells a different story.

According to historian Bernard Lewis in his book Race and Slavery in the Middle East, slavery was an established practice in the lands of Islam from the time of Muhammad. The Islamic states later hosted an extensive slave trade network that rivaled that of the Europeans. A look at the modern world is even more telling: in the Arab Islamic states of Mauritania and Sudan, black slavery is still so pervasive that the word "black" in the local Arabic dialect has become synonymous with "slave."

Mainstream Muslims have begun to realize that Islam is not a cure-all for society's racial ills. They have subsequently started to address the prejudice of immigrant Muslim groups against African-Americans. For instance, Altaf Husain, a former president of the Muslim Students Association, said at a 2007 MANA conference, "It is a shame that in the 21st century, the problem in the Muslim-American community is the color line."

However, fringe elements of the African-American Muslim community still identify with Islamist causes, because, from their myopic perspective, it is more important to impose the hijab or combat the "Zionist media" than to address issues like prejudice, drug abuse, or crime. This distorted set of priorities provides a catalyst for African-American Islamists' disregard for U.S. laws, expressed in numerous violent crimes and terrorist plots. These plots include those most recently against a U.S. military recruiting center in Little Rock, Arkansas, a Jewish community center in Riverdale, New York, and Jewish and U.S. government targets in Los Angeles.

Iman Warith Deen Umar
* Muslim cleric
* Former Islamic chaplain of New York's prison system
* In 1971 was a member of the Harlem Five, and was tried on conspiracy-to-murder charges

"Even Muslims who say they are against terrorism secretly admire and applaud [the 9/11 hijackers]. . . . This is the sort of teaching they don't want in prison. But this is what I'm doing."

Warith Deen Umar is a Muslim cleric who, prior to his retirement in 2000, spent some twenty years helping to run New York's growing Islamic prison program...He continues to visit New York state prisons as a volunteer chaplain.He believes that the 9/11 hijackers should be honored as martyrs... Discover the Networks

Today, many African-American prisoners are turning to radical Islam. The government has neglected its oversight responsibilities, allowing men like Imam Warith Deen Umar to become influential Islamic chaplains in the prison system. Umar has noted the utility of prisons for terrorist recruitment and made such reassuring statements as, "Even Muslims who say they are against terrorism secretly admire and applaud [the 9/11 hijackers]."

Under the supervision of men like Umar, Saudi-funded programs have introduced the most intolerant Salafi and Wahhabi interpretations of Islam to convicts. These interpretations, claiming that an Islamic caliphate will alleviate racism and societal strife, support the radical doctrines of imams like Wahhaj and Musa over the moderate positions of W.D. Mohammed.

Since abandoning the NOI and turning to orthodox Sunni Islam, most African-American Muslims have mitigated their anti-Western and anti-Semitic ideology. However, the danger of Islamists who seek to take advantage of black nationalism's legacy of intolerance remains. It is therefore imperative to marginalize fringe Islamist elements of the African-American Muslim community and empower those who seek personal fulfillment, not political dominance, in their Islamic faith.

Brendan Goldman is a senior at New York University, majoring in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, and an intern at the Middle East Forum. Research for the article was conducted under the auspices of Islamist Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum.

American Thinker

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2278969/posts?page=409#409

“...Malcolm’s words now appear on countless Islamist websites dedicated to finding black, English-speaking converts. The assumption that all African-American Muslims broke their ties with the anti-Western, anti-white, and anti-Semitic worldview of the NOI is a naive one...”

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Very powerful, informative comment. Lengthy, please read it all.

When Obama made that speech in Cairo and described the US as one of the largest muslim nations in the world, he wasn’t just counting the muslim immigrants, he included the muslim african-americans...and that would make his statement correct. Anything over 10 million qualifies.

[Fred Nerks]

Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)Nkrumah, Shirley Graham Du Bois.

no matter where one looks, the same characters hang together, bound by the same glue.

[Fred Nerks]

He read Du Bois, Hughes, Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, and concluded—as only a young man can—that each had ended his life exhausted and bitter. "Only Malcolm X's autobiography seemed to offer something different. His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me."

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[antisocial]

Bump

[skinkinthegrass]

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[Fred Nerks]

In 1956, at the age of 20 he moved to Nairobi, Kenya where he began working as a clerk. At this time while he was on vacation in Kundy Bay, Kenya he met a 16-year-old girl named Kezia at a dance. Kezia was so struck by him that she followed him back to Nairobi. Her father and brothers soon followed to try and force her to come back to Kundy Bay, but she refused. The two married in a tribal ceremony January, 1957. His family sent Kezia’s father 14 cows for her dowry. The following year the couple had their first son, Abongo.

Keziah Obama: My life with Obama Senior Posted on Thursday, October 15, 2009 2:59:50 PM by Red Steel LINK

Obama Senior left for the United States in 1959 for further studies during the famous airlifts organised by the late Planning Minister Tom Mboya.

“I remember escorting him to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, then known as Embakasi airport,” she says.

“He asked me to take care of our only child then, Malik Abongo, who was six years old. I was pregnant with our second child — Rita Auma.”

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How's your math? NOTHING adds up!

[Fred Nerks]

hat tip STARWISE; Radical Islam Tightens Ties to Black Community Posted by thelastcrusade - October 17th, 2009

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced on Friday that Rev. Jesse Jackson will be headlining their annual banquet next Saturday. He will be sharing the stage with 1993 World Trade Center bombing un-indicted co-conspirator Siraj Wahaj.

The event will take place on Saturday, October 24, at the Marriott Crystal Gateway in Arlington, Virginia.

Rev. Jackson is revered throughout the Muslim world for his pro-Islamic stance, his condemnation of the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and his inflammatory remarks against Jews and Zionists.

On one occasion, Rev. Jackson referred to Jews and “Hymies” and to New York City as “Hymietown.”

On another occasion, he said that he was “sick and tired of hearing about the Holocaust” and that there are “very few Jewish reporters that have the capacity to be objective over Arab affairs.”

In the wake of 9/11, Rev. Jackson called Attorney General John Ashcroft a terror “suspect” and decried the waving of the American flag to support the war on terror.

It’s a small wonder to many observers that CAIR has opted to embrace him.

CAIR is allegedly America’s largest Muslim “civil liberties” and “advocacy” organization.

It has been charged with serving as a front for Islamic terror groups.

In 2008, the FBI severed its ties to CAIR after the organization was formally charged with funneling large caches of cash to HAMAS.

Several CAIR officials, according to Andrew C. McCarthy have been charged or deported for terror-related activities and assorted criminal offenses.

Siraj Wahaj, a revered figure for many Muslim Americans, will chair the podium with Rev. Jackson.

Mr. Wahaj is the imam of Masjid al-Taqwa at 1226 Bedford Street in Brooklyn, a mosque that reportedly supports a well-trained Sadr army. The fiery imam has been named an un-indicted co-conspirator in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

In one of his sermons, Wahaj announced that the “real terrorists” are the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency. In another, he said, “In time, this so-called democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing. And the only thing that will remain will be Islam.” He proclaimed that a society governed by strict Islamic law, in which adulterers are stoned to death and apostates beheaded, would be vastly superior to American democracy.

To a Muslim audience in New Jersey, Wahaj advocated the idea of Muslims forming a coup to take control of the federal government. “If we are united and strong,” he said, “we’d elect our own emir [leader] and give allegiance to him. Take my word for it, if six to eight million Muslims united in America, the country will come to us.”

His so-called “moderate” interpretation of the Qu’ran became clear by this remark: “If Allah says 100 strikes, 100 strikes it is. If Allah says cut off their hand, you cut off their hand. If Allah says stone them to death, through the Prophet Muhammad, then you stone them to death, because it’s the obedience of Allah and his messenger — nothing personal.”

Wahaj informed an audience of black women wearing Muslim head coverings in Orlando, Fla., that Islam condones a man’s marrying up to four wives, and that this rule, when introduced in the seventh century, served as a restriction on arrangements involving even more wives per husband.

The CAIR event has drawn little ink but it testifies to the strengthening ties between black activists and radical Islam – - a relationship that was formed in 1964 by Malcolm X.

SOURCE

[Fred Nerks]

"...In June 1991, Siraj Wahaj, a black convert to Islam and the recipient of some of the American Muslim community's highest honors, had the privilege of becoming the first Muslim to deliver the daily prayer in the U.S. House of Representatives. On that occasion he recited from the Qur'an and appealed to the Almighty to guide American leaders "and grant them righteousness and wisdom."

A little over a year later, addressing an audience of New Jersey Muslims, the same Wahaj articulated a rather different vision from his mild and moderate invocation in the House. If only Muslims were more clever politically, he told his New Jersey listeners, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate. "If we were united and strong, we'd elect our own emir [leader] and give allegiance to him. . . . [T]ake my word, if 6-8 million Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us." In 1995, Wahaj served as a character witness for Omar Abdel Rahman in the trial that found that blind sheikh guilty of conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States. More alarming still, the U.S. attorney for New York listed Wahaj as one of the "unindicted persons who may be alleged as co-conspirators" in the sheikh's case...

THE DANGER WITHIN.LINK

[Fred Nerks]

"..."The Black Muslims learned much from Marcus Garvey and Noble Drew Ali. Like those earlier prophets of black nationalism, they capitalize on the lower-class Black Man's despair and reservations about the white man, and they have developed black consciousness into a confession of faith. The Black Man, they teach, has a manifest destiny, and the white man is the personification of the evil that separates the Black Man from his freedom, his moral development, and his God. . . .For the black nationalist, the Black Man's Zion is where the white man is not."[1]

...The first American Black Islamic society was formed in New Jersey in 1913 by a man named Noble Drew Ali and was called the Moorish Science Temple Movement.[19] By 1920, there were 25,000 Moorish Scientists.[20] Unsettling for whites, some of the more outspoken members of the Movement took great pride in informing whites that they were devils and that Allah, through the Prophet Noble Drew Ali, was going to destroy white America.[21] By 1929, Ali was taken into custody by Chicago authorities and mysteriously disappeared.[22] Once their leader was gone, the Movement could not sustain itself and so ended.[23]

NATION OF ISLAM HISTORY. LINK

prophet Noble Drew Ali

THE MOORISH SCIENCE TEMPLE OF AMERICA. WEBSITE LINK

Prophet Noble Drew Ali

from the website:

Moorish Leader's Historical Message To America

...In connection with the aims, objects, rule and regulations of the Moorish Science Temple of America. I deem it proper to submit to you a brief statement of our organization, covering its inception, rise and progress and of the Mohammedan religion, which I hope will be satisfactory to you and be the means of causing you all times to adhere to the principles of Love, Truth, Peace, Freedom, and Justice in your relations with mankind in general...

We organized as the Moorish Temple of Science in the year of 1925, and were legally incorporated as a civic organization under the laws of the State of Illinois, November 29th 1926. The name Moorish Temple of Science was changed to the Moorish Science Temple of America, May 1928...

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October 28, 2009 DETROIT–A man described as a leader of a radical Sunni Islam group in the U.S. was fatally shot this afternoon while resisting arrest and exchanging gunfire with federal agents, authorities said.

Agents at a warehouse in Dearborn were trying to arrest Luqman Ameen Abdullah, 53, on charges that included conspiracy to sell stolen goods and illegal possession and sale of firearms. Ten followers listed in a criminal complaint were also being rounded up in the area. Three – Mujahid Carswell, 30, Mohammad Alsahi, 33, and Yassir Ali Khan, 30 – are Ontario residents, the FBI said in a release.

Abdullah refused to surrender, fired a weapon and was killed by gunfire from agents, FBI spokeswoman Sandra Berchtold said.

In a court filing, the FBI said Abdullah, also known as Christopher Thomas, was an imam of a Black Muslim radical group named Ummah whose primary mission is to establish an Islamic state within the United States.

No one was charged with terrorism. But Abdullah was "advocating and encouraging his followers to commit violent acts against the United States," FBI agent Gary Leone said in an affidavit.

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The group believes that a separate Islamic state in the U.S. would be controlled by JAMIL ABDULLAH AL-AMIN, formerly known as H. RAP BROWN, who is serving a life sentence in a federal prison in Colorado for shooting two police officers in Georgia in 2000, Leone said. Al-Amin, a veteran of the black power movement, started the group after he converted to Islam in prison.

"They're not taking their cues from overseas," said Jimmy Jones, a professor of world religions at Manhattanville College and a longtime Muslim prison chaplain. "This group is very much American born and bred."

The movement at one time was believed to include a couple of dozen mosques around the country. Ummah is now dwarfed in numbers and influence by other African-American Muslim groups, particularly the mainstream Sunnis who were led by Imam W.D. Mohammed, who recently died.

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Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, known fomerly as H. Rap Brown

My general profile and major accomplishments

I was born Hubert G. Brown in 1943 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In my childhood, I carried a gun to protect myself against older boys in my dangerous neighborhood and gained a reputation of always being ready to fight. I attended Southern High School, which was affiliated with Southern University, an African-American college.

In the spring of 1960, my high school class attended a college class at Southern University which was connected to the civil rights demonstrations. I felt I could not return to school when African Americans needed so much to be done for them. I began to work with NAG in Washington and the SNCC [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee], headquartered in Atlanta. I was eventually elected chairman of NAG even though I wasn’t a Howard student. In May 1967, I became chairman of the SNCC.

I continued "hate preaching" and was considered an even greater menace than Stokeley Carmichael, the previous chairman, had been. After a speech in Cambridge, Maryland in July 1967, during which I said, "Violence is as American as cherry pie," police and African Americans clashed in a riot in which I was hit in the head with shotgun pellets. After I received first aid, I returned to Washington. Officials issued a 13-state warrant for my arrest. I was placed on the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted List and in 1971, was wounded and captured in a gun battle with police in New York City. Convicted in 1973, I was released from prison on October 21, 1976.

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60's:

Popularly known as H. Rap Brown, in May 1967 he succeeded Stokely Carmichael as the leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a civil rights and anti-Vietnam War student organization that had emerged 7 years earlier. Carmichael and Brown together were key activists in the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, which sported a black panther on its flag.

They rejected Martin Luther King, Jr.’s nonviolent and integrationist politics while calling for “Black Power.” Brown’s most famous statement was “Violence is as American as apple pie.” A 1967 Newsweek article described Brown as a man who “preaches armed eye-for-an-eye self-defense for Negroes and packs a 12-gauge ‘cracker gun’ in his own dusty Plymouth.”

In July 1967 Brown was arrested for inciting a riot at a civil rights rally in Cambridge, Maryland. At the event, Brown declared, “Black folks built America, and if America don’t come around, we’re going to burn America down.” At a rally in Oakland, California the following year, Brown was named the Minister of Justice for the Black Panther Party, a radical group that engaged in much criminal activity including drug dealing, pimping, extortion, assault, and murder.

In 1968 Brown wrote his first book, Die Nigger Die, in which he claimed that white people wanted all blacks dead. Then, rather than face criminal charges stemming from the Cambridge incident of 1967, he jumped bail and disappeared for two years, thereby earning himself a spot on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted List.”

70's

Brown was captured and arrested at a 1971 shootout in New York City and was sent to prison for five years. During this time, his lawyer was the radical William Kunstler, who previously had represented Stokely Carmichael and Angela Davis. While serving his sentence, Brown converted to Islam. A fellow inmate recommended that he call himself “Al-Amin,” which translates to “the trustworthy” in Arabic. From then on, Brown was known as Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.

When he was paroled in 1976, Al-Amin became Imam of the Atlanta Community Mosque.

80's

In 1983 he established Imam Jamil Al-Amin’s National Community, a coalition of 30 mosques that fell under his guidance.

90's

In 1990, Al-Amin was elected Vice President of the American Muslim Council, which would later become a member organization of Sami Al-Arian’s National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom.

In 1992, Imam Jamil Al-Amin’s National Community became a member of the Bosnia Task Force, an alliance of ten Muslim groups supporting Muslims affected by the Bosnian War. The following year Al-Amin helped organize the Islamic Shura Council of North America, which brought together the Islamic Society of North America, the Islamic Circle of North America, the Ministry of Imam W. Deen Mohammed, and Imam Jamil’s National Community.

During the second half of the 1990s, Al-Amin was investigated for a number of murders but was never formally charged. Then in 1999 he was charged with possessing a stolen car, driving without insurance, and impersonating a police officer. Al-Amin refused to appear for his court date, prompting police to issue a warrant for his arrest.

When two sheriff deputies tried to serve the warrant on March 16, 2000, which was the Muslim holiday Eid ul-Adha, they were shot. Deputy Ricky Kinchen was killed and his partner Aldranon English was wounded. English later identified Al-Amin as the shooter, and after a five-day police manhunt the suspect was caught and arrested on March 21 in a wooded area near a small town in Alabama. The gun that had been used in the police shootings was found near the arrest site.

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In 2002 Al-Amin was tried and found guilty of Deputy Kinchen’s murder and is now serving a life sentence in prison.

Along with Philadelphia cop-killer (and former Black Panther) Mumia Abu Jamal, Al-Amin ranks among the most celebrated “political prisoners” championed by the political left. A supportive Mumia has written: “Imam Jamil has lived a good and rich life in service to his spiritual and ethnic community. He richly deserves the fullest support in all efforts leading to his freedom, so that he may return to the community.”

Also supportive of Al-Amin's cause has been the organization International ANSWER, which, at an April 20, 2004 demonstration in Washington, DC, played for the crowd a taped message from the incarcerated Al-Amin. The stated purpose of ANSWER’s demonstration was to show “support for the Palestinian people battling the U.S.-backed Israeli aggression.” “FREE PALESTINE! No new war on Iraq!” was the event’s oft-repeated slogan.

Other supporters of Al-Amin include the Muslim Students’ Association, the National Lawyers Guild, the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade, the Workers World Party, the Muslim Alliance of North America, Amnesty International, and Campaign to End the Death Penalty.

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Thursday, October 29, 2009
FOX Reports Ummah Imam Abdullah Shot Dead in FBI Raid
PASTORIUS CUTTING IN:

Check this out. Note the following sentences in the following report:

"Federal authorities say a leader of what they describe as a nationwide radical Sunni Islam group ... at a Dearborn warehouse on charges that included conspiracy to sell stolen goods and illegal possession and sale of firearms. Authorities also conducted raids elsewhere to try to round up 10 followers named in a federal complaint."

Do you realize Federal authorities are admitting here that there is a nationwide radical Sunni group involved in CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY.

We may be seeing the Feds working on their first RICO prosecution of radical Isalmists.

According to my theory, and it is only a theory, they could probably close almost every Saudi funded mosque in the USA if they used RICO correctly.

We may be seeing the beginning of a real break in the dam. This group is relatively small, and they are American-born, prison-converted Black Muslims. But, now the Feds are setting the precedent for busting up radical Islamists using Criminal Conspiracy charges.

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Incredible, when I saw the report that he had been killed, I immediately wondered if he was one of the ... on #409.

In 2002 Al-Amin was tried and found guilty of Deputy Kinchen’s murder and is now serving a life sentence in prison.

How did he get out? I'll have to read it again. What a long 'career' he had, all the way back to Stokely Carmichael...

We may be seeing the beginning of a real break in the dam. This group is relatively small, and they are American-born, prison-converted Black Muslims. But, now the Feds are setting the precedent for busting up radical Islamists using Criminal Conspiracy charges.

'Relatively small...' I think that's rather optimistic, islam is literally hiding in the open in numerous black 'churches' such as Trinity.