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  • aziz 10:36 am on January 31, 2012 Permalink
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    the view from the muslim community in New York about the Third Jihad controversy:

    http://hijabirevolution.blogspot.com/2012/01/nypd-and-muslim-american-community-in.html

    Bad judgment after bad judgment. We have been lied to time and time again, and quite frankly, we are tired of it. If this would have happened to any other community, this would have been addressed immediately, someone would have been fired and an immediate response would have been issued. No one community in New York City is better or more worthy of a response than any other community.

     
  • aziz 6:41 am on August 24, 2011 Permalink
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    A months-long investigation by The Associated Press has revealed that the NYPD operates far outside its borders and targets ethnic communities in ways that would run afoul of civil liberties rules if practiced by the federal government. And it does so with unprecedented help from the CIA in a partnership that has blurred the bright line between foreign and domestic spying.

    http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_16026/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=pWphudFP
     
  • aziz 7:36 am on December 14, 2010 Permalink
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    Here’s the transcript of AG Holder’s speech at Muslim Advocates’ annual dinner. Key passage:

    Some have expressed concerns about the recent charges brought against Mohamed Osman Mohamud in Portland, Oregon, for his alleged involvement in planning – and attempting to execute – a terror attack during a Christmas Tree-lighting celebration.
    (…)
    I make no apologies for the how the FBI agents handled their work in executing the operation that led to Mr. Mohamud’s arrest. Their efforts helped to identify a person who repeatedly expressed his desire and intention to kill innocent Americans. As you may have read – and as the affidavit alleges – Mr. Mohamud chose the target location months in advance; provided FBI operatives with bomb components and detailed operational instructions; and repeatedly refused to change course when he was reminded that a large crowd – including children – would be in harm’s way.

    Because of law enforcement’s outstanding work, Mr. Mohamud is no longer plotting attacks. He is now behind bars. And he will be brought to justice. But you also have my word that the Justice Department will – just as vigorously – continue to pursue anyone who would target Muslims, or their houses of worship.

    Those who characterize the FBI’s activities in this case as “entrapment” simply do not have their facts straight – or do not have a full understanding of the law.

     
    • Abu Noor Al_irlandee 1:00 pm on December 14, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Of course, since no trial has taken place, there is no way we could know the full facts of the case…all we know is what the government alleges and/or admits to doing in its own indictment.

      I don’t think many people are arguing, however, that the defendant is likely to prevail based on entrapment at trial. The legal standard for entrapment, especially in federal court, and what most people think of as morally dubious government behavior which is often loosely referred to as entrapment are two different things.

      • aziz 7:37 am on December 20, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        agreed. entrapment is a broad moral issue and a much tighter legal issue. But I’mnot against entrapment in the former sense if it helps to isolate and identify people with a prediliction towards violence against innocents. Especially since that prediliction has now been channeled into a harmless outlet rather than succeed.

    • Abu Noor Al-Irlandee 1:10 pm on December 14, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

    • shams 8:52 pm on December 15, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      wallah we have MUCH BIGGER PROBLEMS Aziz.

      Sweden bypasses parliament with secret U.S. deal | http://is.gd/iNLz7
      about 7 hours ago via web
      For all U.S. troops: you can still access 2000 mirrors | http://is.gd/iNL7c
      about 8 hours ago via web
      U.S. Air Force bans troops from reading The New York Times | http://is.gd/iNKMo
      about 8 hours ago via web
      Columbia Journalism Faculty call for Government to recognise Wikileaks’ First Amendment Rights | http://is.gd/iLkqS
      6:05 PM Dec 14th via web

      Our Airforce just forbid American citizen soldiers enlisted in the Airforce from reading THE {EDITED} NEW YORK TIMES.
      we are living a police state RIGHT NAOW.

    • aziz 7:36 am on December 20, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      The Airforce is not a democracy – it IS a police state. But the existence of thousands of mirrors basically suggests to me that liberty is alive and well.

      I’ve been a big fan of @davewiner ‘s coverage of WikiLeaks, above all others. And he remains un-silenced or Gitmoed. Police state? Um, no.

      In the past year, I’ve traveled to Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and India. Even India – where you can’t buy a SIM card without providing your passport copy and verified address, is more of a police state than the US.

      Ironically, the people in front of me on my flight were griping about the etra flight security for US-bound flights … as evidence of a “police state”. I’m sorry but sometimes I think Glenn Greenwald does as much to foster cudlip-ism as anyone on the right side of the political spectrum,

      • shams 12:10 pm on December 22, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        wallah you have read nothing.
        there is a beta prototype closed information systems killer running loose on the web RIGHT NAOW.
        it is working as intended, american cant turn it off, and if it works as designed we will turn into a police state on our way to nonlinear system collapse.
        you totally dont get Assanges design do you?
        This is extremely frustrating for me….i guess it’s the whole first culture vs third culture dynamic. I understand the vast majority of readers and commenters here dont have the system theoretic or information theoretic background to assimilate what Assange is attempting to do.
        But it doesnt matter if you think he cant (technically) or shouldnt (morally) accomplish his STATED goals….. the system killer is WAI and it cannot be turned off..
        Assange has been very forward about his philosophy and what he is trying to accomplish.
        It is nothing less than a new world order.
        Highly radical, highly ambitious.
        The reason i think Assanges strategy has a 90% chance of working is that Assange just did in cyberspace what OBL did to us in meatspace.
        Granted, OBL’s tactical strike was not as well formed as Assanges hackitivist manifesto.
        It was really just junk-punching Big White American Christian Bwana in the economic junk.
        But it worked splendidly, pretty much bringing down the American economic house of cards and turning America into Soviet Russia in the worlds eyes.
        Now Julian Assange just junk-punched America in the security/diplomacy junk.
        And if America runs true to form, we will sting ourselves to death like the poisoned scorpion in the faery tale.
        i think the judiciary is our only hope.
        but right naow our never-torture-again president is apparently complicit in torturing Bradly Manning with solitary and drugs in order to get him to flip on Assange.
        the alternative is to suborn the judiciary to redefine “conspiracy” like they redefined torture under Bush.

  • abunoor 3:30 pm on March 28, 2010 Permalink
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    An FBI task force has arrested at least seven people alleged to be associated with a Christian militia group which reportedly had threatened violence against Islamic organizations.

    Sources have said the FBI was in the second day of raids around the southeastern Michigan city of Adrian that are connected to a militia group, known as the Hutaree, an Adrian-based group whose members describe themselves as Christian soldiers preparing for the arrival and battle with the anti-Christ.
    WXYZ-TV reports that helicopters were spotted in the sky for much of Saturday night, and agents set up checkpoints throughout the area. Witnesses told the station that it was like a small army had descended on the area. The Department of Homeland Security and the Joint Terrorism Task Force are also involved in the raids.
    Mike Lackomar, of Michiganmilitia.com, said both The Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia and the Michiganmilitia.com were not a part of the raid.
    Lackomar said he heard from other militia members that the FBI targeted the Hutaree after its members made threats of violence against Islamic organizations.
    “Last night and into today the FBI conducted a raid against homes belonging to the Hutaree. They are a religious cult. They are not part of our militia community,” he said.

    This interesting statement from the story as well

    One of the Hutaree members called a Michigan militia leader for assistance Saturday after federal agents had already began their raid, Lackomar said, but the militia member — who is of Islamic decent and had heard about the threats — declined to offer help. That Michigan militia leader is now working with federal officials to provide information on the Hutaree member for the investigation, Lackomar said Sunday.

     
    • Pretty Pink Unicorns 9:35 am on March 29, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      I perused their website and they are of the “gov’t gonna implant chips in us that will be the biblical mark of the beast” type. But what I can’t figure out is where the totally fabulous name “the Hutaree” comes from. They are the Hutaree? Sounds like bad sci-fi aliens!

      • shams 8:51 am on March 30, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        Hutaree is prolly a mispelling of Hatari, swahili for danger and the name of an Epic John Wayne Film featuring Black People in Africa and Very Large Guns.

      • shams 9:14 am on March 30, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        oops!
        i was wrong.

        Hutaree says on its Web site its name means “Christian warrior” and describes the word as part of a secret language that few are privileged to know.

    • Akhmad 7:29 am on March 30, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Should I say what everyone is thinking? HOME GROWN TERRORISTS!

    • shams 8:44 am on March 30, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Not-an-Onion-spoof
      Hutaree ranks– more than a WoW guild!

      RANKS:
      RADOK [RD]
      BORAMANDER [BM]
      ZULIF [ZL]
      ARKON [AK]
      GOLD RIFLEMAN [GR]
      SILVER RIFLEMAN [SR]
      BRONZE RIFLEMAN [BR]
      LUKORE [LK]
      MASTER GUNNER [MG]
      SENIOR GUNNER [SG]
      GUNNER [GN]

      • Dawood 7:21 pm on April 2, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        And here I am playing Wintergrasp religiously and trying to get my exalted reputation with Krin Tor and all the rest – I should just have joined these guys!

        • Willow 8:27 pm on April 2, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

          Dawood you WoW?? So do me and Aziz…

          • Pretty Pink Unicorns 8:43 pm on April 2, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

            omg i’m on Sentinels (horde)…

            • aziz 11:28 pm on April 2, 2010 Permalink

              Aabde on Staghelm (US)

          • Willow 9:58 pm on April 2, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

            This is so awesome. Muslim geeks ftw!

            • Dawood 6:32 am on April 17, 2010 Permalink

              Sorry I saw this late, Nagrand (Horde) ftw! … And the irony is that I am a Retri Pally!

            • Dawood 11:52 pm on July 12, 2010 Permalink

              Random comment after so long, but are you folks (Willow, Aziz, Shams et al.) on the same server? I am thinking of starting up a new toon, a bit sick of the daily grind etc.

    • bingregory 9:55 pm on April 2, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      • aziz 11:29 pm on April 2, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        firstt reaction: great!

        second reaction: a muslim member of a milita. great.

        • bingregory 4:43 am on April 3, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

          Third reaction: if he had two more muslim friends with him in the militia, HE’D be the one getting arrested!

          • Pretty Pink Unicorns 12:36 pm on April 3, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

            Just in case we were unclear about whether or not Muslims could be xenophobic nationalist Americans: apparently, yes, they can.

            Also, good on him: Savino apparently recognised that the Hutaree were threats to the Muslim community – as we learnt, they allegedly planned on making the Michigan Muslim communities their terror targets!

  • abunoor 1:11 pm on February 3, 2010 Permalink
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    The Department of Justice confirms it has launched an investigation into the killing of Imam Luqman Abdullah, but says it is “routine” and connected with the receipt of the FBI’s own internal investigation, the contents of which are not public, and not the result of any pressure from Rep. John Conyers or the public.

    Also, the Imam’s wife, who is from Tanzania, claims that the government is seeking to deport her from the United States.

     
    • abunoor 1:13 pm on February 3, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      CAIR is continuing to raise questions about whether the FBI had set up cameras in the warehouse and has demanded any video of the incident under a Freedom of Information Act request.

  • abunoor 11:55 am on February 2, 2010 Permalink
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    According to Rep. John Conyers, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S.Justice Department has opened an investigation into the FBI killing of Imam Luqman Abdullah.

    Detroit — The civil rights division of the U.S. Justice Department has launched an investigation of the Oct. 28 FBI shooting death of Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah, U.S. Rep. John Conyers said at a news conference today.
    Joined this morning by a coalition of civil rights groups who, along with Conyers, has been calling for an investigation, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said he received confirmation of the investigation from Washington late Monday and again today.
    A call to the civil rights division of the Justice Department was not immediately returned this morning.

     
  • abunoor 4:32 pm on February 1, 2010 Permalink
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    The autopsy done on Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah was released today. You can read it in full here. (pdf)

    Dearborn Police Chief Ronald Haddad, at whose request the autopsy had been withheld until today (it was complete in November) held a press conference today at which he apparently said nothing except that the investigation will be continuing for a number of weeks. Rep. John Conyers, Chair of the House Judiciary Committee has already previously written to the Justice Department requesting an independent federal investigation of the killing.

    The autopsy confirmed that Imam Luqman sustained 21 gunshot wounds…

    The autopsy found Abdullah was hit twice in the chest, four times in the abdomen, twice in the groin, four times in the left hip and side, seven times in the left thigh, once in the scrotum and once in the back.

    “At some point his back was turned,” Schmidt said. “Whether that means someone meant to shoot him in the back or not, I couldn’t say. He must have been slightly turned to the left (at the time of the shooting).”

    Schmidt said his investigation could not determine whether Abdullah was shot while lying down.

    The county’s medical examiners routinely testify in other cases that they use police reports about circumstances and investigator’s observations in helping them arrive at their conclusions. But Schmidt said today his office received no information from law enforcement sources to aid in the autopsy’s findings.

    The autopsy also noted abrasions to the hands and face of Imam Luqman, although there was no speculation as to the source of those injuries. The medical examiner said he received no information from law enforcement in coming to his findings, and that it was not part of his examination to do any tests to see if Imam Luqman had fired a weapon.

     
  • abunoor 11:23 pm on January 29, 2010 Permalink
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    3 months after he was killed, the autopsy of Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah is scheduled to finally be released on Monday. The autopsy has been complete since December, but was withheld from the public at the request of the Dearborn Police.

    Dawud Walid is quoting a Detroit reporter on his blog (who is quoting a confidential source) indicating that the autopsy will confirm what has long been rumored: that the Imam was shot 21 times, including in the back, and that he was handcuffed.

    The Detroit Free Press reports on a forum that took place Thursday where the special agent in charge of the FBI office defended the actions of the FBI in the case, although from the story it seems like he defended it with platitudes (“We did what we had to do”) rather than explaining what happened.

     
  • aziz 10:15 am on January 19, 2010 Permalink
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    The FBI broke the law routinely between 2002 – 2006 by illegally accessing phone records without a warrant.

     
  • johnpi 8:28 am on December 22, 2009 Permalink
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    Refusal to release imam’s autopsy raises suspicions.

    The Wayne County medical examiner’s refusal to release its autopsy report on Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah is fueling concerns in the Muslim community about a possible cover-up of facts surrounding his death, a community leader said Monday.
    ….

    The county Medical Examiner’s Office denied a Nov. 2 request The Detroit News filed for Abdullah’s medical examiner report, saying it was not complete.

    Dawud Walid, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations of Michigan, said the county office has not responded to a request from his organization requesting a copy of the report once it is completed. The office also quoted exorbitant fees for copies of autopsy photos, he said.

    Dennis Niemiec, a spokesman for the county, confirmed Monday that the report is completed but is being withheld at the request of Dearborn Police Chief Ronald Haddad, who does not want the report released until his department completes its investigation. The county will seek more information from Haddad about how the release of the report would hamper his investigation, Niemiec said.

    They can stall, but eventually that autopsy report will be released to the public. There is too much attention and pressure about this case for them not to…

     
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