Imam Talib Abdur-Rashid believes that Muslims were in America before Columbus and spread their religion to the Indians, and that a California earthquake was Allah’s warning to America. The Imam defended his refusal to celebrate July 4th by comparing the founding of America and Israel to dropping atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Rashid suggested that the Charlie Hebdo terror attack and the ISIS attack on the Mohammed cartoon contest in Texas were “examples of ‘chickens coming home to roost.’”
FrontpageMag – Daniel Greenfield The Imam expressed support for a variety of terrorists, including Aafia Siddiqui aka Lady al Qaeda, Al Qaeda medic Rafiq Sabir, and Sami Al-Arian who was tied to Islamic Jihad.
He defended former Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s call for destroying Israel and killing millions of Jews as a “sentiment born of the legitimate anger, frustration, and bitterness”, and accused Muslims working with the NYPD of being “collaborators” and “house negroes”. The Imam also falsely claimed that Black Friday got its name because “the day after Thanksgiving… slave traders would sell slaves for a discount.”
The site for Rashid’s Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood reportedly once featured the motto of the Muslim Brotherhood, “Allah is our goal. The Prophet Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullah is our leader. The Koran is our constitution. Jihad is our way.”
Imam Rashid endorsed Eric Adams in the mayoral election, although about half of the statement which he co-signed was dedicated to virulent attacks on Israel and the United States.
And Mayor Adams has named Rashid to a role on his civic engagement transition committee.
Twenty years after the Islamic terrorist attacks of September 11, the members of the transition committees for the city that experienced the worst of the carnage reflect the growing dominance of Islamists and their political allies and operatives in New York City’s Democrat politics. Unfortunately Rashid’s presence on Adams’ transition committees is not an isolated incident.
Imam Umar Abdul-Jalil, who appears on Adams’ clergy committee, a top clergyman in the city’s prison system and former drug dealer who converted to Islam, had declared during the Bush administration that “the greatest terrorists in the world occupy the White House”, ranted about allowing “the Zionists of the media to dictate what Islam is to us”, and urged that Muslims must be “compassionate with each other” and “hard against the kuffar (non-Muslim).”
An FBI memo noted that Jalil admitted that he was paid “to be a good Muslim, but [was] propagating the true Islam through his job.” Even the Bloomberg administration temporarily suspended Jalil. Adams however drew him in.
Former CAIR Community Affairs director Faiza Ali, whom Linda Sarsour described as a “close friend”, serves as a “lead” in the civic engagement transition team. Ali had come out of the Muslim Students Association which, like CAIR is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, and was involved in the campaign to support the Ground Zero Mosque and in attacks on the NYPD.
Sarah Sayeed, Bill de Blasio’s Muslim liason, and another member of the civic engagement transition team, has claimed that she’s afraid to leave the house on September 11, and has attacked the NYPD for trying to prevent Islamic terrorist attacks by monitoring terror mosques. She had excused Muslim anger at Mohammed cartoons, defended the Ground Zero Mosque, and claimed that killing Islamic terrorists “creates more radicalization and anti-Americanism”.
Aniqa Nawabi, another civic engagement transition team member, with the Muslim Community Network, had sent out an email during the Hamas attacks last year falsely accusing Israel of attacking the mosque occupying the holiest site in Judaism, and arguing that “Hamas alone is no military match for the IDF. It is misleading for media and policymakers to frame the conflict around counting the number of rockets fired from each side.”
Debbie Almontaser, (below) who was caught up in the scandal at the Khalil Gibran International Academy, a New York City public school, after promoting an “Intifada NYC” t-shirt, is listed as one of Adams’ transition team members on equity and food policy. The latter likely refers to the successful push to bring halal meals into the New York City public school system.
Eric Adams has listed Murad Awawdeh as a “lead” on immigration for his transition team. Murad Awawdeh, a “Palestinian” activist, has accused American law enforcement of a “two-decades-long campaign of terror against Muslim” and tweeted images of an anti-Israel protest accusing Jews of “settler violence and colonialism” for living in their own country.
Awawdeh has been quoted as saying that “Israel is a racist, apartheid, hostile, terrorist state.
Imam Hassan Akbar, on Adams’ clergy team, denounced Christmas trees as “idols” and warned Muslims against even taking pictures next to them. In another post, he used the hashtags “#ChristmasIsShirk #SantaShirk #ElvesShirk”. The term Shirk refers to polytheism. While a Muslim cleric is obviously not expected to celebrate a Christian holiday, defining Christians as idolaters and polytheists can be used to invoke Koranic verses justifying terrorism and violence.
Akbar libeled Thanksgiving as a “massacre” and condemned Islamic organizations who send out Thanksgiving greetings. He used the hashtag “Amerikkka” and responded approvingly to a call to replace Muslim leaders with a caliphate. After the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, he defended Sharia law and mocked potential media headlines questioning the justice of Sharia law such as “Women Stoned For Adultery” and “Taliban Will Bring Back Cutting Hands”.
For example, Mohammed Al-Wahhab, the figure associated with Wahhabism, a popular theocratic terror movement among Muslim settlers in America, wrote that if someone guilty of shirk his “blood may be shed” and his “wealth is lawful”. The former means that under Islamic law he can be killed and his property stolen. This applies not just to Christians, but to Muslims who deviate from Islamic law and may be declared infidels, and hunted down and killed.
While Adams certainly bears the ultimate responsibility for his transition team, the makeup also reflects the political reality of Islamist ascendence in New York City’s Democrat party. Some, like Awawdeh and Almontaser, are associated with the Muslim Democratic Club, others with CAIR-NY and other Islamist organizations that have gone from the margins to the mainstream.
The various Islamist players in controversies over the Ground Zero Mosque, the Khalil Gibran International Academy, and NYPD surveillance of terror mosques took on significant political roles in the De Blasio administration. Some were named to official positions on his team while others found jobs with influential members of the increasingly radicalized New York City Council. Their organizations, formerly reviled as extremists, benefited from a flow of city grant money.
In the decade after September 11, Islamist outrages in New York City benefited from some media coverage and investigations. Afterward even the New York Post mostly ceased reporting on the Islamist insurgency even as, or perhaps because, it gained power and influence.
Counterjihad investigative groups such as the Middle East Forum, Center for Security Policy, Jihad Watch, and the Investigative Project continue to do important work in the face of declining interest from conservative media. In researching this article, I found a plethora of material in the media from the ‘oughts’, but far less from the previous decade, let alone from this new decade.
Changing demographics have made New York City’s Islamists into political power brokers. They joined the anti-Trump “resistance” and allied with anti-Israel lefties of Jewish descent. And in the absence of a single major devastating Islamic terror plot, just a steady stream of smaller ones, mostly unsuccesful, fewer are paying attention to the ticking time bomb of Islamist influence.
Much like the silence before the storm on September 11, that is an error we will come to regret.
What’s with the cartoon? You make this Imam dude look like a DC Comics villain.
I do think a lot of Muzzies need to work on their appearance. They look shabby and full of third world crap. I prefer a clean cut look. When I wear a suit and tie, noone will imagine I’m unemployed. 🙂
I inherited this looks obsession from my late mother. She always used to be so conscious of her appearance. Modestly dressed but rarely covered her hair. Always looked young and full of life till her last breath. Unfortunately I couldn’t be there for her in her last moments.
There are no cartoons in this post. What are you referring to?
Not on this page.
I see a cartoon profile pic of Imam Talib Abdur-Rashid on the homepage.
Why don’t you cover some handsome, good-looking Muslims for a change? Like film actors & actresses, models, celebrities.
I think Omar Sharif is dead. Don’t know any others.
Check David Letterman’s interview of Shah Rukh Khan. It’s on Netflix. He’s a #1 muslim actor — with a really wicked sense of humor. He makes situational jokes but doesn’t put anyone down. Graceful.
There’s another video of Shah Rukh Khan and Brad Pitt shooting the breeze.
Few other Muslim celebs that are good but I personally like Shah Rukh more since he’s a distant relation of mine (we originate in the same province paternal side).
OK
The Imam expressed support for terrorists, including Aafia Siddiqui aka Lady al Qaeda, Al Qaeda medic Rafiq Sabir, and Sami Al-Arian who was tied to Islamic Jihad.
Imam Talib Abdur-Rashid believes that Muslims were in America before Columbus and spread their religion to the Indians.
Mayor Adams has named Rashid to a role on his civic engagement transition committee.
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Among other nefarious, profoundly evil statements, the Imam spews forth the WICKED LIE that other Muslim LIARS perpetrate.
Muslims were NOT in America before Columbus.
Muslims did NOT spread Islam to our Native Americans! That’s a vicious attack on Native Americans and the most EVIL and horrifying SLANDER.
Native Americans do NOT believe in barbarian savage, warlord Mohammad’s dark, death god of MASS MURDER.
Native Americans are a beautiful people who Almighty God used to bless Europeans who came to the new land. Native Americans showed the Europeans how to survive in America.
Our precious Native Americans believe in, and worship the HOLY ONE, our Precious, Wonderful, Awesome Creator.
The NYC mayor is new khmer rouge allied with moslem terrorists (very little difference).
Quran (9:5) – “So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captive and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush….
Democrat American Haters! ANTI HUMAN TRAITORS!!!
Democrat House Members unanimously vote to empower the Sharia law edict that prohibits criticism of Islam.
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A taste of Eric Adams –
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Thanks LE, moved video to Main page.
The NY Post endorsed Adams for Mayor, and I hoped that he would be a law-and-order mayor from his statements and his being an ex-cop. He seemed more intelligent than Warren Wilhelm, Jr., AKA Bill De Blasio But I am wrong again!
As a native of New York City, I am appalled to see this latest Democrat POS Mayor continuing the downfall of one the greatest cities in the world. He, like his fellow Dems, can’t do enough to crush and destroy the city of my birth. Glad I’m out of that hellhole now. Sympathy to all the decent New Yorkers stuck there.
I never trusted Adams for one reason. His fellow cops would not endorse him, and I’ve heard they hated him.
Hard to believe New York era would vote crud like that in the first place. Maybe time to go to the land of endless summer.my turban must be dirty
De Blasio was tight with the Muslims, too. He made the cops stop spying on potential Muslim terrorists.
This is the biggest load of bullshit I’ve ever read. For me black Muslims are the stupidest of all Muslims, And why if any black person stands alone away from victimhood are they called ‘House negroes’ ‘Uncle Tom’s’ ‘Oreos’ and the like?
The ‘Black American Hebrew Israelites’ or whatever they think they are have always astounded me with their wild claims. They have to be stupid.
They seem to think their ancestors lived in Israel before there were any Jews there. So why do they call themselves Hebrews? Nutjobs, all of them
Good grief! It’s only getting worse. Hard to believe this islamic crap is tolerated.
Well, this new mayor is sure putting forward who he really is. To be an Democrat today really means all of this, and so much anti-American stuff.
We shall have our day
This same mayor claimed, after the woman was murdered, that the NYC subways are safe. Neither the city nor its subways are safe with stealth jihadists in his administration!
That Islamist mayor said that Turks are the greatest civilization to man kind. Their needs to be a regime change in the USA urgently. Forget about the threat from Russis.
So the new NYC mayor approves of the EXTREMELY SATANIC Armenian genocide (and so many other genocides) where millions of Christians were starved, raped, gang raped, horribly tortured and barbarically slaughtered by Muslim Turks.
Christian girls were raped and crucified.
Bible, Romans 12:19
“VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY,” says the Lord.
Well Eric Adams seems even worse than the prick before him.. Who knew that would even be possible.
These people really do hate everything about America but I never see any of them leaving… for Canada, Saudi, Ghana, Mali, Senegal, ”Palestine”, Kuwait, Indonesia, Morocco, Brunei, but they stay in the USA and whine like the wee low life bitches they are.
The USA is really turning into a complete lunatic asylum, and it would seem that so does Western Europe, Canada under Justin Trudeau, and now also Australia, just to name a few countries around the Planet! Soon we will back to the Middle Ages, where anyone will be burned at the stake, just like under the Spanish Inquisition, for challenging “The Authorities”!
I am so glad my parents are no longer around to see what the Western World has turned into, and that I have no children of my own who are stuck with the consequences of having to clean up the mess of what the “woke elite” are doing to our societies today!
This sinister medieval cult has to demonize anything that is a threat to their dominance. So they will make up any story to make it happen. The end justifies the means in Islam.