This media report from the Detroit Free Press so sensationalizes Luqman Ameen Abdullah’s past that it literally communicates that they were trying to arrest him for running a “Sunni Muslim group with the mission of establishing a separate Islamic nation within the United States.” It’s not until the sixth paragraph into the story that we find out the charges were not religion or terrorism related.
Here’s the first graphs:
After a 2-year investigation, FBI agents descended on a Dearborn warehouse Wednesday hoping to capture the suspected head of an Islamic fundamentalist group.
The scene quickly turned chaotic, however, in a shootout that caused agents to gun down Luqman Ameen Abdullah, 53, leader of the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque in Detroit. Abdullah is accused in a federal complaint of heading a Sunni Muslim group with the mission of establishing a separate Islamic nation within the United States.
Eleven other men were criminally charged in the raids, which also occurred in Detroit.
Abdullah, known to some as Christopher Thomas, died after firing on officers during the raid, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. An FBI dog also was fatally wounded.
The suspects “are members of a group that is alleged to have engaged in violent activity over a period of many years and known to be armed,” a joint statement from the Detroit FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
Does anybody know what ‘violent activity’ that “Ummah” as a group has been involved in? WIkipedia has no entry for the “group,” but there is a paragraph on it in H Rap Brown’s entry, and there is no mention of any violent incidents that the “group” has committed.
