#Aafia Siddiqui death

[emergingpakistan]

کیا ڈاکٹر عافیہ صدیقی زندہ ہیں ؟

دم گُھٹتا جارہا ہے افسردہ دلی سے یارو! کوئی افواہ ہی پھیلا دو کہ کچھ رات کٹے

امریکی قید میں مظلوم ڈاکٹر عافیہ صدیقی کا معاملہ کئی برس سے حکمرانوں کی بےحسی کی چادر تانے پڑا تھا۔ کل سوشل میڈیا پر اچانک ہی ان کی موت کی افواہ نے ہل چل پیدا کر دی۔ انٹرنیٹ اب ہماری زندگیوں کا لازمی اور غالب جزو بن چکا ہے۔ ہم اس کی اطلاعات کی تصدیق کیے بِنا ہی متاثر ہو جاتے ہیں۔ پھر یہ متاثر ہونا لائک، کمنٹ اور شیئر کے ذریعے دیکھتے ہی دیکھتے وائرل ہو جاتا ہے۔ کل ڈاکٹر عافیہ کی موت کی خبر بھی ایک غیرمستند سائٹ پر سامنے آئی، اور چونکہ عافیہ قوم کی دُکھتی رگ ہے‘ لہٰذا یہ خبر جنگل کی آگ کی طرح پھیل گئی۔ لوگ بےچین ہو کر اپنی مظلوم بہن کی خیریت معلوم کرنے ان کی فیملی کی جانب لپکے 

فیملی ترجمان ڈاکٹر فوزیہ صدیقی کے مطابق :

ڈاکٹر عافیہ کی زندگی اور صحت سے متعلق ہمیں حکومتِ پاکستان، وزارت خارجہ اور امریکی جیل حکام کی جانب سے کوئی باضابطہ اطلاع نہیں ملی، اور کوشش کے باوجود پاکستانی اور امریکی حکام سے رابطہ نہیں ہو سکا۔ جبکہ دو سال سے زائد عرصہ گزر گیا، اہلِ خانہ رسمی رابطے سے بھی محروم ہیں۔ اس لیے عوام کسی افواہ پر یقین نہ کریں اور دعا کریں کہ اللّٰہ تعالیٰ جلد ہماری بہن کو مکمل عافیت کے ساتھ وطن واپس لانے والے حکمران عطا فرما دے۔ انہوں نے مزید کہا کہ امریکی پروٹوکول یہ ہے کہ سب سے پہلے فیملی کو اطلاع دی جاتی ہے، اور اس کے بعد جس ملک کا باشندہ ہوتا ہے اس ملک کے قونصلیٹ یا سفارتخانہ کو اطلاع دی جاتی ہے۔

امریکہ میں پاکستانی قونصلیٹ عائشہ فاروقی سے بذریعہ ای میل رابطہ کرنے پر جواب آیا ہے کہ وہ پیر کے دن کنفرم کر سکیں گی۔ سوشل میڈیا پر ڈاکٹر عافیہ کے انتقال کی افواہ کے بعد اندرون و بیرونِ ملک سے ٹیلی فون کالوں کا تانتا بندھ گیا۔ ہزاروں کی تعداد میں لوگ ٹیلی فون، ایس ایم ایس اور سوشل میڈیا کے ذریعے عافیہ کی خیریت دریافت کر رہے ہیں، عوام مظلوم عافیہ کی واپسی کے بغیر امریکی قاتل کرنل جوزف کو چھوڑ دینے پر شدید غم و غصے اور افسوس کا اظہار کر رہے ہیں۔ انہوں نے کہا کہ عافیہ سے متعلق افواہیں پھیلانے کا مقصد امریکی قاتل کرنل جوزف کی شرمناک واپسی پرشدید عوامی تنقید کا رخ موڑنا بھی ہو سکتا ہے۔

واضح رہے، ڈاکٹرعافیہ صدیقی کو 2003 میں مبینہ طور پر اس وقت کے حکمران پرویز مشرف کی اجازت پر کراچی سے تین چھوٹے بچوں سمیت اغوا کر کے بگرام ایئربیس افغانستان لے جایا گیا تھا۔ یہاں پانچ سال تک امریکی عقوبت خانے میں انسانیت سوز مظالم توڑے گئے۔ برطانوی نَو مسلم صحافی ایوون ریڈلے نے یہاں موجود قیدی نمبر 650 کے ڈاکٹر عافیہ ہونے کا انکشاف عالمی میڈیا کے سامنے کیا۔ اس کے بعد اس خاتون کے خلاف ایک عجیب و غریب مقدمہ تیار کیا گیا۔ جس کے مطابق یہ کمزور اور زخموں سے چُور خاتون M_4 گن اٹھا کر امریکی فوجیوں پر حملے کی مرتکب ہوئی ہے۔ ایک فوجی قریب سے گولی مار کر عافیہ کو زخمی کر دیتا ہے۔ وہ بچ جاتی ہے اور 2009 میں امریکہ منتقل کر دی جاتی ہے۔

امریکی قیدیوں پر حملہ کرنے اور مارنے کے الزام میں مقدمہ چلایا گیا۔ فرضی اور رسمی عدالتی کارروائی کے بعد چھیاسی (86) سال قید کی سزا سنا دی جاتی ہے۔ قید کی سزا کے طور پر انہیں 6×6 کی تنگ و تاریک کوٹھری میں رکھا گیا ہے۔ جسمانی تشدد اور برہنگی کی اذیت، قرآن کی بےحرمتی پر لباس دینے کی شرط، مظالم کا حصہ ہونے کے باوجود اس خاتون کا عزم مضبوط ہے۔ دوسری جانب اس کے اہلِ خانہ اس مظلوم بیٹی کے لیے انصاف کی تلاش میں مسلسل کوشاں ہیں۔ عدالتی فیصلے میں ان کو دی جانے والی سزا کو سیاسی سزا کہا گیا ہے۔ اس لیے اس معاملے کو سیاسی کیس کے طور پر ڈیل کیا جانا چاہیئے تھا۔ مگر افسوس! سیاست کے ایوانوں میں اس کیس کے لئے کوئی ڈیل نہ کی جا سکی۔

مبینہ طور پر، پرویز مشرف نے اس کی گرفتاری کے عوض ڈالرز وصول کیے اور اپنی کتاب میں اس کا شرمناک تذکرہ بھی کیا۔ آصف زرداری نے امریکہ سے آئی ہوئی کیس کی اہم دستاویز پر دستخط صرف اس وجہ سے نہیں کیے کہ یہ عافیہ کو بھیجنے والوں کا کام ہے۔ اس طرح پیپلز پارٹی کی حکومت نے عافیہ کی رہائی کے سلسلے کی اہم ترین کوشش کو ناکام بنا دیا۔ شائد یہی وجہ ہے کہ ڈاکٹر عافیہ کے اہل خانہ اور ان سے محبت کرنے والے اس معاملے میں حسین حقانی کے کردار کوسفاکانہ سمجھتے ہیں۔ انہوں نے بیوہ اور غمزدہ ماں کے ساتھ ان کی بیٹی کو واپس لانے کا جھوٹا مذاق کیا۔ حکومت سے پیسے بٹورنے کے باوجود عافیہ کو ٹارچر سیل کے حوالے کیا۔

سابق وزیر اعظم نواز شریف اپنی مدت کے ابتدائی 100 دنوں میں عافیہ کو وطن لانے کا اپنا وعدہ کیا بھولے، گویا اپنی نااہلی کے سفر کا آغاز کر بیٹھے اور بجا طور نفرت کے حقدار ٹھہرے۔ ڈاکٹر عافیہ پاکستانی قیدی ہے۔ اس کے کیس کو ریاستی طور پر حل کیا جانا چاہیے تھا۔ لیکن ہماری نام نہاد مصلحت کیش سیاسی پالیسیاں اس کی متحمل نہ ہو سکیں۔ ماضی اور حال میں امریکی سفارتکار، حادثاتی طور پر پاکستانیوں کے قتل کے مرتکب ہوئے۔ چیف جسٹس صاحبان کے بلند و بانگ دعووں کے باجود حکومت ہر بار امریکی غلامی کے آگے بےبسی کی تصویر بن گئی، نتیجتاََ دونوں قاتل سفارتکاروں کو باعزت ان کے وطن رخصت کیا گیا۔

اب شکیل آفریدی کی صورت میں ایک اور موقع موجود ہے۔ اس پر الزام ہے کہ اس نے سی آئی اے (CIA) کو اسامہ بن لادن کا سراغ لگانے میں مدد کی تھی۔ ایک روسی خبر رساں ادارے کے مطابق امریکا نے ڈاکٹر شکیل آفریدی کو چھڑانے کے بدلے پاکستان کو ڈاکٹر عافیہ صدیقی کی رہائی کی پیشکش کی تھی، تاہم پاکستان نے ایسا کرنے سے انکار کر دیا۔ ڈاکٹر عافیہ کے معاملے میں ہر حکومت کی پسپائی اس بات کا اعلان ہے کہ اس معاملے کو کسی سیاسی پارٹی کی مکمل/ غیرمشروط حمایت حاصل نہیں۔ نئے انتخابات قریب ہیں، ان کی تیاریوں کے سلسلے میں سیاسی وفاداریوں کی تبدیلی، اتحاد اور جلسے جلوس سبھی کچھ ہو رہا ہے مگر دیکھنا یہ ہے کہ عافیہ کتنا، کہاں، کس کس کو یاد رہتی ہے؟

بے حسی کی اس گھمبیر فضا میں اگر اس کی موت کی افواہ وائرل ہوتی ہے تو یہ ایک جھنجھوڑ دینے والی یاد دہانی ہی ہے۔ افواہ بذاتِ خود بِلاتحقیق خبر اور ممکنہ شر ہے۔ مگر شر سے خیر کو نکالنے پر بھی اللّٰہ ہی قادر ہے۔ ڈاکٹر عافیہ کی آخری خبر گیری کا تذکرہ بھی یاد رہے۔ امریکہ میں پاکستانی قونصل جنرل عائشہ فاروقی عافیہ سے ملاقات کرنے جیل گئیں۔ ان کے مطابق جنیوا کنونشن کی شق 2047 کا حوالہ دینے پر انہیں ملاقات کے لیے اس بیرک تک لے جایا گیا جہاں عافیہ قید ہے۔ 

عائشہ فاروقی کے الفاظ ملاحظہ ہوں! کیا حکمران اور سیاستدان یہ الفاظ اپنے جگر گوشوں کے لیے پسند کریں گے؟ “سلاخوں کے پیچھے بیڈ پر ایک خاتون منہ پر چادر اوڑھے لیٹے ہوئے تھی۔ ایسا محسوس ہوتا تھا جیسے ہڈیوں اور گوشت کا ڈھیر بیڈ پر دھرا ہے، بےحس و حرکت جیل حکام کی جانب سے بتایا گیا کہ یہی عافیہ ہے۔” اس طرح عافیہ کے زندہ ہونے کی تصدیق ہو گئی، ورنہ ماضی میں ��قریباََ گیارہ برس قبل صرف ایک مرتبہ پاکستانی سینیٹرز کے ایک وفد کو عافیہ سے ملاقات کی اجازت ملی تھی۔ جب کہ گذشتہ ڈھائی سال سے ٹیلی فون پر ہونے والی اہلِ خانہ سے چند منٹ کی گفتگو کا سلسلہ بھی منقطع ہے۔ 

اس کی صحت کی تشویش ناک اطلاعات کے بعد حکومت سے کئی بار نجی خرچ پر عافیہ سے ملاقات کروانے کی درخواست کی جا چکی ہے۔ ضعیف والدہ اپنی بیٹی، اور بچے اپنی ماں سے ملاقات کے لیے ساڑھے چودہ سال سے تڑپ رہے ہیں۔ ہمارے دفترِخارجہ کے ترجمان، ڈاکٹر محمد فیصل کے مطابق : “پاکستان کی جانب سے انسانی ہمدردی کا کام چودہ سو (1400) سال پہلے کی تعلیمات کی روشنی میں کیا جاتا ہے۔ ہمارے ہاں قیدیوں کی رہائی چودہ سو برس پرانی اسلامی روایات کی عکاس ہے۔ ” کتنے صدر، وزیر اعظم، چیف جسٹس اور آرمی چیف آئے اور چلے گئے… کیا عافیہ کو وطن واپس لانے کی سعادت کسی کو نہیں ملے گی؟

وقت کا مؤرخ سراپا انتظار ہے!

رضوانہ قائد   

[risingpakistan]

پاکستانی سفارتخانہ بتائے، عافیہ صدیقی کا کیا حال ہے

چیف جسٹس میاں ثاقب نثار نے امریکا میں قید پاکستانی شہری عافیہ صدیقی کی موت سے متعلق گردش کرنے والی رپورٹس پر اٹارنی جنرل اور امریکا میں پاکستانی سفارتخانے کو ہدایت کی ہے کہ 3 دن کے اندر عافیہ صدیقی سے زندگی سے متعلق رپورٹ عدالت میں جمع کرائیں۔ سپریم کورٹ میں چیف جسٹس کی سربراہی میں 3 رکنی بینچ نے ڈاکٹر عافیہ صدیقی کی زندگی اور پاکستان منتقل کرنے سے متعلق ان کی ہمشیرہ ڈاکٹر فوزیہ صدیقی کی درخواست پر سماعت کی۔ عدالت میں فوزیہ صدیقی نے بتایا کہ میڈیا کے ذریعے پتہ چلا ہے کہ امریکا میں پاکستانی قونصل جنرل نے عافیہ صدیقی سے ملاقات کی ہے لیکن جب ان سے اس بات کا سرٹیفکیٹ مانگا گیا تو انہوں نے وہ فراہم نہیں کیا۔

سماعت کے دوران چیف جسٹس نے ریمارکس دیے کہ عافیہ صدیقی کی زندگی کے بارے میں متضاد اطلاعات آرہی ہیں، اٹارنی جنرل اور امریکا میں پاکستانی سفارتخانہ معلوم کر کے بتائیں کہ عافیہ صدیقی کی کیا حالت ہے۔ خیال رہے کہ اس سے قبل کچھ ڈاکٹر عافیہ صدیقی کی موت سے متعلق افواہیں گردش کر رہی تھیں، جس کے بعد 23 مئی کو امریکی ریاست ٹیکساس میں موجود پاکستانی قونصل جنرل عائشہ فاروق نے کارس ویل، ٹیکساس میں فیڈرل میڈیکل سینٹر (ایف ایم سی ) میں موجود جیل میں عافیہ صدیقی سے 2 گھنٹے تک ملاقات کی تھی۔

اس ملاقات کے بعد ڈاکٹر عافیہ صدیقی کی موت سے متعلق گردش کرنے والی افواہیں دم توڑ گئی تھیں اور پاکستانی قونصل جنرل کی جانب سے ان افواہوں کو مکمل طور پر مسترد کرتے ہوئے اسے جھوٹا اور بے بنیاد قرار دیا گیا تھا۔ ہیوسٹن میں موجود پاکستانی قونصلیٹ جنرل کی جانب سے کہا گیا تھا کہ گزشتہ 14 ماہ کے دوران پاکستانی قونصل جنرل 4 مرتبہ ڈاکٹر عافیہ صدیقی سے ملاقات کر چکی ہیں۔ تاہم اس بارے میں ڈاکٹر عافیہ صدیقی کی ہمشیرہ ڈاکٹر فوزیہ صدیقی کا کہنا تھا کہ وہ اپنی بہن کی زندگی اور صحت سے متعلق کسی خبر کی تصدیق نہیں کر سکتیں، کیونکہ اس بارے میں انہیں حکومت پاکستان، وزارت خارجہ اور امریکی جیل حکام نے کچھ نہیں ��تایا۔

ڈاکٹر فوزیہ صدیقی نے آن لائن قیدیوں کے اسٹیٹس سے متعلق بتایا تھا کہ ڈاکٹر عافیہ صدیقی کا اسٹیٹس زندہ لکھا ہوا ہے اور اگر کسی قیدی کا اسٹیٹس تبدیل کیا جاتا ہے تو امریکی قوانین کے مطابق اہلخانہ کو معلومات فراہم کی جاتی ہیں۔ ڈاکٹر عافیہ کی ہمشیرہ نے ڈاکٹر فوزیہ نے مزید بتایا تھا کہ ان کا گزشتہ 2 سال سے عافیہ صدیقی سے کوئی رابطہ نہیں ہے اور ہزار کوششوں کے باوجود بھی پاکستانی اور امریکی حکام سے انہیں کوئی جواب موصول نہیں ہوا۔

بشکریہ روزنامہ ڈان اردو  

[prince-atom]

The gunman was allegedly named Malik Faisal Akram. He was heard calling for the release of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, who was arrested in Afghanistan in 2008 on "suspicion of terrorism," and convicted in 2010 and sentenced to 86 years. She is reportedly an inmate at a federal facility near Ft. Worth.

I know two other things that are alleged about Dr. Siddiqui: that she allegedly shot at and missed US soldiers and FBI agents while yelling "death to America," and that she allegedly wanted her jurors DNA tested to see if any of them were Jewish because she believed that she was being persecuted by a Jewish conspiracy.

I dunno that us goys need to be talking about this case in detail without giving serious thought to what we say, given the risk that it may blow back on people who are Muslim the way that Muslim gunman stories tend to do.

This time, thankfully, the four hostages escaped without being shot; unfortunately, the man with the gun is reportedly dead.

we need to have a serious talk about antisemitism in America. yesterday, there was a hostage situation in a synagogue in Texas, where a gunman took for people including a rabbi hostage. he wanted to have some guy released from prison. I forget who, but he was charged with 80 something years back in 2010. so what do you think this gunman does? does he contact the police or the president and demand the prisoner be released?

no. he tells the rabbi to call another rabbi in New York, and to have that rabbi release the prisoner. now, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that his plan was completely stupid. the rabbi in New York had no relation to with prisoner, the prison he was in, or even the justice system at all. so why did the gunman think that the new york rabbi would have the authority to release a random prisoner who was sentenced 12 years ago? one word. antisemitism

most antisemites have the insane belief that all Jews are secretly controlling the world, or the government, or the banks, or natural disasters, or... you get it. its entirely based on fake and antisemitic conspiracy theories, and it literally gets people killed. this gunman thought that a rabbi in New York had the authority and power and ability to release a prisoner who I'm pretty sure isn't even imprisoned in the state of New York (don't quote me on that though).

antisemitic conspiracy theories, even as jokes, literally get us Jews hurt or killed. those are your "lizard people". your "space lasers". your "new world order". your "George Soros money". all those insane baseless conspiracy theories, even as a joke, cause severe damage to Jews. because people will believe it.

I haven't seen any non-Jews talk about what happened yesterday. that's not surprising. very rarely will goyim care about Jews unless one of their close friends is Jewish. but it's still upsetting. there is still so much antisemitism and hate towards Jewish people in the world today.

[dailyawaznews-me-blog]

قوم کی بیٹی ڈاکٹر عافیہ صدیقی وفات پاگئیں

قوم کی بیٹی ڈاکٹر عافیہ صدیقی وفات پاگئیں

قوم کی بیٹی ڈاکٹر عافیہ صدیقی امریکہ میں سنائی گئی 80 سال کی قید با مشقت سے ہمیشہ کیلئے رہا ہو کر اس ��انی دنیا سے رخصت ہوگئیں۔ گاڑیوں کی خریداری پر آصف زرداری کیخلاف ریفرنس دائر Dr Aafia Siddiqui Death News in Urdu | Latest News in Urdu | Complete Details and Facts about Dr. Aafia Siddique

[reportwire]

'It was horrible': All hostages released at Texas synagogue, gunman dead after hours-long standoff

‘It was horrible’: All hostages released at Texas synagogue, gunman dead after hours-long standoff

A 10-hour long hostage ordeal at a synagogue in Texas ended with the death of the gunman, while all hostages were safely freed. The gunman had initially taken four people, including the rabbi, hostage during the Shabbat service which was livestreamed online. The man claimed to be the brother of Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui, jailed for 86 years in a federal prison. The family denied he…

[newspress-fan]

Pakistani consul general visits Aafia Siddiqui in Texas prison

Pakistani consul general visits Aafia Siddiqui in Texas prison

[ad_1]

Dr Aafia Siddiqui Photo: File

Pakistani consul general in Houston Aisha Farooqui visited Dr Aafia Siddiqui in Texas prison and rejected the death rumours circulating on social media about the imprisoned scientist.

Farooqui met with the Pakistani scientist at Carswell detention facility in Fort Worth, Texas. The meeting, which lasted about two hours, was the fourth in 14 months, the…

[tnsworldnews-blog]

Pakistani diplomat dismisses rumours about Aafia’s death in US jail

https://tns.world/pakistani-diplomat-dismisses-rumours-about-aafias-death-in-us-jail/

  Houston, May 24 (TNS): Pakistan Consul General Ayesha Farouqi on Thursday categorically rubbished ‘baseless’ rumours about Aafia Siddiqui’s death, says a statement issued by the Pakistani Consulate in Texas. According to statement Farouqi recently met Siddiqui at a Houston jail which laste...

[illegal-immigrants-suck-blog]

****BREAKING**** Sadiq Khan Has Been Directly Connected With Organizations Tied To Hamas, Al-Qaeda, Al Nusra, ISIS And The Muslim Brotherhood

Khan’s Link To Hamas And The Muslim Brotherhood: Khan has openly associated in the past with individuals and organizations tied to Palestinian terror group Hamas. During his time as a legal advocate, Sadiq Khan served as the Chief Legal Advisor of the Muslim Council of Britain’s legal affairs committee. Khan was a member of a delegation organized by the Muslim Council of Britain in 2003 to protest what they described as “indiscriminate” arrests of Muslims for alleged terror ties. The Muslim Council of Britain was placed under investigation by the British government over “irregularities” surrounding £1,263,000 in aid given to it by the government. In the past it has admitted to funding groups tied to both Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and is banned from Israel as a result of its ties to terror. On September 19th, 2004, Khan spoke at an event where he praised Ibrahim Hewitt; Hewitt has decreed on record that adultery should be punished by stoning. Hewitt serves as the Chairman of The Palestinian Relief and Development Fund (Interpal), an organization which has been labeled as a Terrorist Entity by the United States Department of the Treasury for providing support to Hamas and acting as a part of its funding network in Europe. Despite the US Treasury’s designation, Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn has described Hewitt as a “very good friend.” That same year, Khan spoke out in defense of Qatar-based Egyptian cleric Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi praised suicide attacks and decreed that homosexuality is a crime under Islam. Qaradawi has travelled directly to Gaza for the purpose of providing Hamas with ideological legitimacy and stated that Palestinian suicide attacks against the nation of Israel are justified. Qaradawi was also barred from entering into the United States in 1999, the UK in 2008, and France in 2012. In 2007, Khan and Jeremy Corbyn were present at a tenth anniversary celebration of the Palestinian Return Centre (PRC). The PRC is accused by the Israeli government of being affiliated with Hamas and had invited Hamas Minister of Refugee Affairs Atef Ibrahim Adwan to speak at the same event the year before. While the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) claims to be non-sectarian, a government report released in 2015 revealed that supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood “played an important role in establishing and then running” the MCB and continues to exert “significant influence” in it. In 2009 the UK government cut ties with the MCB after it signed a public document which appeared to condone violence against any country supporting an arms blockade of Gaza. The government report also found that a number of Brotherhood groups have for years been raising funds in the UK. Some of those funds have been linked to Hamas, whose military wing was proscribed by Britain as a terrorist organisation in 2001. The MCB was also criticized for its ties to Jamaat-e-Islami, an Islamic group linked to a number of terror organizations in Pakistan whose members have been accused of war crimes in Bangladesh. Khan Supported Convicted Taliban Sympathizers In 2009, Khan acted as a member of an international campaign which sought to resist attempts to extradite Babar Ahmad and Syed Talha Ahsan for their role in providing material support to the Taliban and Chechen jihadist groups via a number of websites they ran under the name of Azzam Publications. Ahmad and Ahsan were ultimately extradited to the United States, where they pled guilty to terrorism charges. Khan went to visit Babar Ahmad on multiple occasions between May 21, 2005 and June 2006, while he was being held in Woodhill prison awaiting a ruling on his extradition request. It was reported that Khan visited Ahmad, not in his capacity as an MP, but as a friend, as the two had known each other since they were children. In September of 2005, in an attempt to thwart Ahmad’s extradition to the United States, Khan presented a petition containing 18,000 signatures to then Home Secretary Charles Clarke, calling for him to be tried in the UK instead. However, Ahmad was ultimately extradited to the US on October 5, 2012, where he was held in custody until his release in July 2015. Khan Has Involved Himself With Groups Connected To Al-Qaeda, ISIS and Al-Nusra Sadiq Khan has historically maintained close relational and professional ties with groups associated with both Al-Qaeda and ISIS. During the 1990’s, Khan’s brother in law Makbool Javaid gave fiery public addresses advocating jihad and whose name even appeared on a fatwa calling for holy war against the United Kingdom and United States. Javaid was a member of the Islamic group Al-Muhajiroun. Al-Muhajiroun was founded by Islamic hate preacher Omar Bakri Muhammad, who has been banned from the UK since 2005 and acted as a sponsor and recruiter of British jihadists seeking to join ISIS. Al-Muhajiroun was also lead by Anjem Choudary, a British Islamist who was jailed in 2016 for supporting the Islamic State after he released guides on making bombs and establishing “Muslim gangs” for the purpose of committing terror attacks. The guides are indicative of an increasingly tight relationship between organized crime and ISIS in Western Europe previously reported on by Disobedient Media. Other connections to Al-Muhajiroun include Parliament attacker Khalid Masood, Lee Rigby’s murderer Michael Adebolajo and Abdul Waheed Majeed, an Al-Nusra affiliated militant who in 2014 became the first British born jihadist to carry out a suicide attack in Syria. While Khan has tried to distance himself from his brother in law and Al-Muhajiroun, in 2003 he shared a stage with Sajeel Abu Ibrahim, another member of Al-Muhajiroun and convicted terrorist who ran a camp in Pakistan which trained Taliban militants and Al-Qaeda 7/7 bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan. Also speaking at the same event was Yasser al-Siri, a terrorist who has been sentenced to death in absentia by Egyptian authorities over a political assassination attempt there which left a young girl dead. In 2004, Khan made an “error of judgement” by attending four meetings organized by Stop Political Terror, a group supported by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula senior recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki. Stop Political Terror was later merged with the Islamic organization CAGE, who represented the ISIS executioner “Jihadi John” (Mohammed Emwazi) as a “beautiful young man.” Khan claimed that he was merely there as part of his efforts to help fight the extradition of convicted terrorist Babar Ahmed to the United States. He has furthermore stated that he condemns CAGE despite his appearances at events organized by their affiliates and the fact that he wrote a forward for a report run by CAGE in 2006. In 2008, reports revealed that Khan was serving as a legal consultant for convicted 9/11 plotter Zacarius Moussaoui. It was further revealed that Khan was the only practicing Muslim on Moussaoui’s defense team. Moussaoui was ultimately extradited to the US, where he pled guilty to taking part in the 9/11 attacks. Moussaoui is currently being held at the Federal ADX Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, where he is serving 6 life sentences without parole. Khan also regularly attended Tooting Islamic Center (TIC), which was run by Suliman Ghani. Gani is a vocal supporter of convicted Al Qaeda operative Aafia Siddiqui, as well as a supporter of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Shaker Aamer. Khan has shared a platform with the controversial imam at least nine times between 2004 and 2013. Khan Has Used His Political Influence To Fuel Sectarianism And Has Routinely Failed To Speak Out Against Those Who Denigrate Women’s Rights Promotion Of Sectarianism: Sadiq Khan claims that much of his association with various individuals and groups tied to jihad and terrorism was a result of his work as a human rights lawyer. However, The Daily Beast has noted that Khan did not attend the majority of these events in his capacity as a lawyer at all. Khan has a long history of making off color comments justifying sectarianism and terror. He has repeatedly had to apologize for comments he has made smearing moderate Muslims and telling Europeans and Americans to expect terrorism as a part of living in metropolitan areas. In 2009, while serving as the “Minister for Community Cohesion,” Khan was interviewed by Iranian-backed Press TV. During the interview, he referred to moderate Muslim groups who commonly lead the fight to curb Islamic extremism as “Uncle Toms.” While Khan apologized for the remark, he has had no qualms about fomenting sectarian strife against Islamic minorities for political gain. In 2010, while running for re-election as Shadow Justice Secretary, Khan worked with the Tooting Islamic Center (TIC) to attack his political opponent, Nasser Butt based on his ties to the Ahmadiyya Islamic minority. The Muslim Council of Britain also contributed to sectarian attacks against the Ahmadiyya community in the UK. In September 2016, Khan stated in the wake of the New York and New Jersey bombings, which injured 35 people that he believes the threat of terror attacks are simply “part and parcel of living in a big city.” Khan has demonstrated a ready willingness to label Scottish nationalism as promoting racism. Yet he was silent when huge crowds of Muslims descended upon London in December 2016 for a week of protests calling for the establishment of a global Caliphate. Protestors at the event openly waved flags and bore placards supporting the Taliban and Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain. Failure To Speak Out Against Marginalization Of Women On many occasions, Khan has spoken alongside individuals who promote Salafist principals advocating the abuse of women. In 2008, Khan was filmed delivering a speech at the Global Peace and Unity festival in 2008 organised by the Islam Channel. The Islam Channel was found guilty by the UK Office of Communications (Ofcom) of extremism both before and after the MP’s appearance. Members of the audience during Khan’s speech were openly waving the black flag of jihad and sporting headbands with extremist slogans written on them. The network’s head, Mohamed Ali Harrath was arrested on terror charges in South Africa after he was sought by Interpol and Tunisia due to his involvement with a militant group there. Ofcom specifically criticized the Islam Channel for comments it made labeling women who wore perfume as prostitutes as well as for advocating marital rape and violence against women. In addition to his appearances at events alongside individuals who have demeaned and denigrated women, Khan also accepts funding from financial backers who promote extremist figures who have repeatedly expressed contempt for women’s rights. In 2016, the Daily Mail revealed that Muslim millionaire Farouq Sheikh had donated £15,000 to Khan’s mayoral campaign. Mr. Sheikh has also donated at least £150,000 over a three-year period to a charity founded by Dr Zakir Naik. Dr. Naik is a Indian cleric who has been barred from entering Canada and the UK after making very controversial comments exhorting Muslims to become terrorists as well as stating that “Jews are our staunchest enemy.” Naik is also the founder and owner of Peace TV, which is believed to reach a global audience of nearly 100 million. Despite having such a large audience, Dr. Naik’s preaching has been banned in India, Bangladesh, Canada, and the UK, due to the many extremely controversial statements he has made and beliefs he holds. In 2016, The Huffington Post condemned Naik over his comments supporting female sex slavery, beating one’s wife, the death penalty for those who renounce Islam and the prohibition of homosexuality. In addition to taking funds from mutual supporters of Dr. Naik, Sadiq Khan has also advocated for groups which support his brand of extremism. In 2011, Khan defended a controversial organization known as iEngage, from being barred from involvement with the All Party Parliamentary Group. In Parliament, iEngage was described as having a track record of aggressive anti-Semitism, homophobic, as well as having links to terror in Tunisia & the Middle East. That same year, the Chief Executive of iEngage wrote a letter asking the Home Secretary to lift the ban that had been placed on Dr. Naik. Khan has also failed to address a growing epidemic of acid attacks in London; roughly 80% of victims of such attacks globally are on women. In 2016 alone, London saw 431 acid attacks, a rise of over 170 cases from the previous year. The instances of attacks in London represent a rising number of crime related incidents as the city has grown increasingly lawless. Authorities Have Sought To Minimize A Wave Of Terror Affecting London And The UK For well over a year now, London has been hit with a number of terror incidents. In some cases, these incidents appear to have been minimized by both authorities and the media in an attempt to stile public panic. Despite the denials by authorities in many cases, the confiscation abroad of large weapons shipments destined for London and the recent attack on Parliament makes it clear that the city’s terror problem is more serious than is publicly acknowledged. October 6th, 2016: News World India reported that police in Karachi, Pakistan had recovered the largest ever cache of NATO weapons in the hands of Islamic jihadists in the city’s history. Karachi’s police chief stated that the weapons were scheduled to be shipped to militant groups in London for a major operation they were planning. How the militants were able to acquire the massive supply of NATO arms is unclear. October 21st, 2016: BBC News reported a “chemical scare” at London City Airport. Paramedics treated 26 people at the scene and took two to hospital. The cause was claimed to be a CS gas spray which was “accidentally” released. The incident came several days after an explosion at facilities belonging to German chemical manufacturer BASF left two dead. November 9th, 2016: BBC News reported that a tram derailment in Croydon, London left seven dead and 50 injured. The driver was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter. The next day The Guardian cited a survivor of the crash who stated that the driver told him he had “blacked out.” The story was then dropped from the press and not followed up on. ISIS has in the past targeted trains in a number of different geographic locales, including India and the United States. January 24th, 2017: The Evening Standard reported a huge explosion in Hornchurch, East London that sent five to the hospital. A Met Police spokesman said that two men were arrested on suspicion of arson. No further details were released about the suspects. February 8th, 2017: Metro reported an explosion on an East London train where several were injured and passengers jumped onto the track in panic. The explosion was blamed on an “overheating battery.” The incident happened just hours after the Daily Mirror reported an explosion on the Paris metro which injured eight passengers and forced dozens to evacuate. The media immediately reported that the blast was caused by an “electrical fire” despite also reporting that it was unclear what caused the explosion. February 27th, 2017: The Express reported that a junction in Shoreditch high street in London was evacuated and bomb squad trucks called in to deal with what they said was a “suspected explosive device.” Police stated afterward that the device was an “inert WWII bomb.” How a WWII era munition had managed to sit undetected next to an incredibly busy intersection of London for decades was not explained. March 14th, 2017: The Evening Standard reported that a 60-year-old man was stabbed by a machete-wielding attacker outside of the Horse and Groom pub in London. The attacker was arrested by the Met Police and no further information was released. March 22nd, 2017: A terror attack targeting Westminster Bridge and Parliament has resulted in over 40 injuries and five dead, including an attacker. Authorities stated that the assailant acted alone despite multiple eyewitnesses claiming they saw multiple assailants during the attack. March 23rd, 2017: Londoners reported a series of blasts coming from inside the city the day after the attack on Parliament. The Express subsequently reported that authorities had destroyed a suspicious package near the scene of the previous day’s attack in a controlled demolition. Police also raided six addresses in London, Birmingham and other areas of the UK in the aftermath of the terror incident, undermining official claims that the Parliament attacker had acted alone. March 25th, 2017: The London Met responded in force to an incident where a car ran over multiple pedestrians in the Islington area. Despite the Met’s insistence that terrorism was not a factor, multiple knives were recovered from the scene invoking striking similarities to the Parliament attack just days earlier. The Islington incident occurred on the same day as a massive explosion in the town of New Ferry on Merseyside that authorities attributed to a gas leak. Conclusion David Cameron’s 2016 attempts to foster a conversation about the Mr. Khan ties to extremism resulted in detractors branding him as a rampant racist. Yet the extremely concerning connections between Sadiq Khan and those who participate in terror, promote extremist ideologies and advocate for the marginalization of women’s and LGBT rights raise very serious concerns about Khan’s willingness to take a firm stand against the threats facing London. Khan has shown that he has no qualms about fostering sectarian persecution against religious minorities not in line with mainstream Sunni Islam when it benefitted him politically. His unique history shows that he is prone to protecting the interests of his own cultural peers, but not those who differ from him culturally. As London descended into what appears to be a weekend of terror, it is apparent that the city faces these threats without a leader who is ready to take a bold stance to protect those who look up to him for guidance and protection.

[creepingsharia]

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Muslim Students Association: What Americans Need to Know

A Short History of the Muslim Students’ Association in America 

The first chapter of the MSA was founded way back in 1963 at the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign. It was founded by members of the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization that most Americans would not even be remotely aware of for another half century.

Among the founders of the MSA in America was Hisham Al Talib, a man who would later go on to become a co-founder of the SAAR Foundation, an organization that was dissolved in 2000 when it became the target of an FBI investigation for providing funding to HAMAS, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Al Qaeda.

Another founder of the MSA was Jamal Barzinji, who, in 1991 was also the founder of the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia. Dar al-Hijrah is perhaps most famous for being the mosque at which Nidal Malik Hasan (the Fort Hood shooter) worshipped under Anwar al-Awlaki, who later became the head of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (more on Awlaki shortly).

According to a 2008 New York Times report, right from the outset the MSA received its funding and direction from Saudi Arabia. The MSA was a product of the Saudi Wahhabi-run Muslim World League, a Saudi NGO with a history of ties to Jihadist terrorism. In fact, the MSA was the first effort in America by the Saudis to establish Islamic organizations around the world to promote Wahhabi Islam, the strain of Islam that would eventually give birth to Al Qaeda.

In other words, the MSA was founded and established in the USA by what should rightly be considered a hostile foreign power, namely Saudi Arabia.

MSA solicited donations for the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, whose assets the U.S. government seized in December 2001 because that organization was giving financial support to the terrorist group Hamas. MSA also has strong ties to the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), a Saudi-based Islamic organization with chapters in 57 countries, including the US chapter, which was founded by Osama Bin Laden’s nephew. WAMY promotes jihad and anti-semitism and has raised funds for HAMAS.

Not only does the MSA have a troubling history, its members and leaders have included more than just a few jihadists:

• On October 22, 2000, Ahmed Shama, president of the UCLA Muslim Students Association, led a crowd of demonstrators at the Israeli consulate in chants of “Death to Israel!” and “Death to the Jews!”

• The University of Southern California MSA invited Taliban ambassador Sayyid Hashimi to speak on campus six months before 9/11.

• In 2003, University of Idaho MSA president Sami Omar Al-Hussayen, who had sought access to a chemical lab containing nuclear material, was ordered deported because he worked for the al Qaeda-tied Islamic Assembly of North America.

• In April 2003, FBI agents, who had secretly videotaped foreign student members of MSA who were illegally engaged in weapons training, raided the apartment of Hassan Alrefae and Jaber Al-Thukair, Arizona State’s MSA president and vice president, respectively.

• In June 2006, Ali Asad Chandia, who had served as president of the Montgomery College (Maryland) MSA in 1998 and 1999, was convicted on terror charges as part of a Northern Virginia jihad network; he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for three separate counts of conspiracy and material support to the Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba.

• Abdurahman Alamoudi, who served as MSA national president in 1982 and 1983, is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence for his extensive international terrorist activities, which included fundraising for al Qaeda.

• In February 2010, Aafia Siddiqui – a woman who had been captured in 2008 with explosives, deadly chemicals, and a list of New York City landmarks – was convicted of attempting to murder a U.S. Army captain while she was incarcerated and being interrogated by authorities at a prison in Afghanistan. Described variously as “al-Qaeda’s Mata Hari” and “Lady al-Qaeda,” Siddiqui had previously been a member of the MSA chapter at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied neuroscience.

• Wael Hamza Julaidan, who served as president of the University of Arizona MSA in the mid-1980s, went on to become one of al Qaeda’s co-founders and its logistics chief. In September 2002, the U.S. government listed Julaidan as a specially designated global terrorist, identifying him as a close associate of Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders, and as a director of the Rabita Trust, which had already been designated a terrorist finance entity that supported al-Qaeda.

• University of Idaho MSA president Sami Omar Al-Hussayen, who operated nearly a dozen Arabic-language websites for anti-American, pro-suicide-bombing clerics, was accused by federal authorities of using his academic studies as a cover for terrorist support activities. Al-Hussayen was deported to Saudi Arabia in June 2004 after agreeing to a deal with federal prosecutors.

• In December 2009, Howard University dental student Ramy Zamzam, who had served as the president of MSA’s D.C. Council, was arrested in Pakistan along with four other D.C.-area men (all of whom were also active in MSA). All five were charged with plotting to join the Jaish-e-Muhammed terrorist group with plans to attack U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan; all five were convicted in a Pakistani court in June 2010 and sentenced to at least 10 years in prison.

• Syed Maaz Shah, secretary of the University of Texas-Dallas MSA chapter, was arrested in December 2006, for his involvement in paramilitary training at an Islamic campground, where he was preparing to join the Taliban in order to fight U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Shah was convicted on weapons charges in May 2007.

• Ziyad Khaleel, president of the Columbia College (Missouri) MSA, was a representative of the Islamic Association for Palestine (a Hamas front). He also registered and operated the English-language website for Hamas, and served as al Qaeda’s chief procurement agent in the United States during the 1990s. Among the items Khaleel purchased was a $7,500 satellite phone for Osama bin Laden. That phone, dubbed by intelligence authorities as the “jihad phone,” was used to plan the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings.

• Anwar Al-Awlaki served as president of the Colorado State University MSA in the early 1990s, and as chaplain of the George Washington University MSA in 2001. In Washington, DC, he delivered sermons that were attended by two of the 9/11 hijackers and by Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan. In 2002 Alwaki fled the U.S. for Yemen, where he developed ties to al Qaeda and reportedly played a role in the Fort Hood massacre of 2009, the failed Christmas Day underwear-bomber plot of 2009, and the attempted Times Square bombing of 2010.

• Carlos Bledsoe, aka Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, was a member of the MSA as a student at Tennessee State University in Nashville, TN. Bledsoe went on to receive terrorist training at a jihadist training camp in Yemen and returned to the US and murdered US Army Private Andy Long outside a Little Rock, Arkansas recruiting office on June 1, 2009.

• Abu Mansoor al-Amriki, aka Omar Hammami was an American-born member of al Shahab, a Somali Islamic militant group aligned with al Qaeda. Hammami served as president of the MSA chapter at the University of South Alabama.

• Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who would later go on to mastermind the September 11th terrorist attacks as the number 3 man in Al Qaeda, was a member of the MSA chapter at North Carolina A&T in 1986.

Given the history of the MSA right from the point of its founding, and the activities of its members and leaders in recent years in particular, there is every reason to be concerned about the MSA and anyone who was a leader in its ranks.

It is certainly not unreasonable to expect at least an explanation from Abdul El-Sayed of his affiliation with the MSA and disclosing any other Muslim Brotherhood organizations with which he is associated.

[creepingsharia]

The growing list of Muslim Student Association (MSA) terrorists – with updates

The MSA - established by members of the Muslim Brotherhood - has branches on hundreds of campuses in the U.S. and Canada. And many of its campus leaders have engaged in and been arrested for waging jihad.

Originally posted on April 25, 2015

The MSA has a growing list of terrorist alumni as noted in this post, Why Muslim Student Group Concerned the NYPD:  *updates below

The list is extensive, but among the MSA alumni who went on to terrorist involvement are:

Anwar al-Awlaki, an influential American-born al-Qaida cleric who recruited a series of homegrown jihadists before being killed by a U.S. drone strike;

Aafia Siddiqui, convicted of attempted murder and assault on U.S. officers and employees in Afghanistan;

Zachary Chesser, convicted of attempting to provide material support to the Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab and soliciting attacks on “South Park” producers for an episode in which the prophet Muhammad was shown in a bear suit;

Jesse Morton, convicted with Chesser of threatening the South Park producers with murder;

Adam Gadahn, an al-Qaida spokesman who is on the FBI’s Most Wanted List for treason and material support to al-Qaida;

Waheed Zaman, who was convicted of plotting to blow up transatlantic flights;

Adis Medunjanin, who is awaiting trial for plotting to bomb New York subways;

Ramy Zamzam, who was convicted in Pakistan of conspiring to carry out terrorist attacks;

Omar Hammami, who was indicted on charges of providing material support to al-Shabbab and is designated by the U.S. Treasury Department for his terrorist connections;

Muhammad Junaid Babar, who pled guilty to his support to al-Qaida; and

Syed Hashmi, who pled guilty to providing material support to al-Qaida.

MSA was founded in the United States in 1963 by members of the Egyptian-based Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood seeks a global Islamic state and has spawned leaders of a series of Sunni terrorist groups, including al-Qaida, Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

The Muslim Brotherhood motto established by founder Hassan al-Banna is, “God is our objective, the Quran is our Constitution, the Prophet is our leader, jihad is our way, and death for the sake of God is the highest of our aspirations.”

MSA members remain faithful to Brotherhood ideology. At the closing session of the MSA West conference in January 2011 at UCLA, attendees recited a pledge, “Allah is my lord, Islam is my life, the Quran is my guide, the Sunna is my practice, Jihad is my spirit, righteousness is my character, paradise is my goal. I enjoin what is right, I forbid what is wrong, I will fight against oppression, and I will die to establish Islam.”

Update 1 via the Hayride: h/t terrortrends

In June 2006, Ali Asad Chandia, who had served as president of the Montgomery College (Maryland) MSA in 1998 and 1999, was convicted on terror charges as part of a Northern Virginia jihad network; he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for three separate counts of conspiracy and material support to the Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba.

Abdurahman Alamoudi, who served as MSA national president in 1982 and 1983, is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence for his extensive international terrorist activities, which included fundraising for al Qaeda.

In February 2010, Aafia Siddiqui – a woman who had been captured in 2008 with explosives, deadly chemicals, and a list of New York City landmarks – was convicted of attempting to murder a U.S. Army captain while she was incarcerated and being interrogated by authorities at a prison in Afghanistan. Described variously as “al-Qaeda’s Mata Hari” and “Lady al-Qaeda,” Siddiqui had previously been radicalized by the MSA chapter at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied neuroscience.

Wael Hamza Julaidan, who served as president of the University of Arizona MSA in the mid-1980s, went on to become one of al Qaeda’s co-founders and its logistics chief. In September 2002, the U.S. governmentlisted Julaidan as a specially designated global terrorist, identifying him as a close associate of Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders, and as a director of the Rabita Trust, which had already been designated a terrorist finance entity that supported al-Qaeda.

University of Idaho MSA president Sami Omar Al-Hussayen, who operated nearly a dozen Arabic-language websites for anti-American, pro-suicide-bombing clerics, was accused by federal authorities of using his academic studies as a cover for terrorist support activities. Al-Hussayen wasdeported to Saudi Arabia in June 2004 after agreeing to a deal with federal prosecutors.

In December 2009, Howard University dental student Ramy Zamzam, who had served as the president of MSA’s D.C. Council, was arrested in Pakistan along with four other D.C.-area men (all of whom were also active in MSA). All five were charged with plotting to join the Jaish-e-Muhammed terrorist group with plans to attack U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan; all five were convicted in a Pakistani court in June 2010 and sentenced to at least 10 years in prison.

Syed Maaz Shah, secretary of the University of Texas-Dallas MSA chapter, was arrested in December 2006, for his involvement in paramilitary training at an Islamic campground, where he was preparing to join the Taliban in order to fight U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Shah was convicted on weapons charges in May 2007.

Ziyad Khaleel, president of the Columbia College (Missouri) MSA, was a representative of the Islamic Association for Palestine (a Hamas front). He also registered and operated the English-language website for Hamas, and served as al Qaeda’s chief procurement agent in the United States during the 1990s. Among the items Khaleel purchased was a $7,500 satellite phone for Osama bin Laden. That phone, dubbed by intelligence authorities as the “jihad phone,” was used to plan the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings.

Anwar Al-Awlaki served as president of the Colorado State University MSA in the early 1990s, and as chaplain of the George Washington University MSA in 2001. In Washington, DC, he delivered sermons that were attended by two of the 9/11 hijackers and by Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan. In 2002 Alwaki fled the U.S. for Yemen, where he developed ties to al Qaeda and reportedly played a role in the Fort Hood massacre of 2009, the failedChristmas Day underwear-bomber plot of 2009, and the attempted Times Square bombing of 2010.

Carlos Bledsoe, aka Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, was a member of the MSA as a student at Tennessee State University in Nashville, TN. Bledsoe went on to receive terrorist training at a jihadist training camp in Yemen and returned to the US and murdered US Army Private Andy Long outside a Little Rock, Arkansas recruiting office on June 1, 2009.

Abu Mansoor al-Amriki, aka Omar Hammami is an American-born member of al Shahab, a Somali Islamic militant group aligned with al Qaeda. Hammami served as president of the MSA chapter at the University of South Alabama.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who would later go on to mastermind the September 11th terrorist attacks as the number 3 man in Al Qaeda, was a member of the MSA chapter at North Carolina A&T in 1986.

Update 2 via a CJR reader in Canada: h/t lburt

Here are some names in Canada

Ahmed Said Khadr MSA University of Ottawa Ahmed Said Khadr’s radicalization at the University of Ottawa

Ferid Imam MSA University of Manitoba Archive.Today (Former MSA Manitoba president Shariq Kidwai said that Ferid Imam has been a president of the association before him.)

Muhanad Al Farekh MSA University of Manitoba After being deported to the U.S. from Pakistan, former MSA Manitoba leader Al Farekh appears in a New York court to face terrorism charges

Maiwand Yar MSA University of Manitoba RCMP Warrant https://archive.is/kWAqF MSA Manitoba https://archive.is/0lxuS

Update 3: Add a pedophile to the list – Ahmad Saleem

Orlando community activist Ahmad Saleem drove to a Clermont-area house intending to meet a 12-year-old girl he had been chatting with online for sex in a vehicle with a specialty “Invest in Children” license plate, authorities said Tuesday…Saleem was also the Orlando regional coordinator for the Council on American-Islamic Relations…

He attended the University of Central Florida, where he was President of the Muslim Students Association. He later became the MSA National Service Director before founding the Saleem Academy.

Update 4: Middle Tennessee State University added to the list:

Dareen Ahmad, leading active member in the university’s Muslim Student Association, tweeted: “…we need a new Hitler”

Dana Swaies, a well-known representative for the school’s MSA chapter stated: “May Allah annihilate the Jewish dogs”

Shaden Hamdulla contemplated putting Jews in concentration camps and called for a new Hitler to wipe them out

Update 5: Abdul Kareem Saeed Alkady – Twitter jihadi

Update 6: This list just got a lot longer.  CANADA: Biographies of MSA Alumni with Terrorism Connections (excerpts only, full description at the link)

Awso Peshdary: Ottawa born accused terrorist Awso Peshdary was arrested in February 2015 as part of operation ‘Project Servant’ by the RCMP Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET). He was charged with participation in the activity of a terrorist group

Khadar Khalib (aka AbdulBaqi Hanif): Grew up in Ottawa and later moved with his family to Calgary. Khalib was a member of the Algonquin College MSA. It is believed he was radicalized by Awso Peshdary. According to the RCMP, Khalib travelled to Syria in late March 2014 with the alleged assistance of Peshdary and former University of Ottawa business student John Maguire, who was already in Syria at the time. Khalib is now believed to be in Syria fighting with the Islamic State, therefore he was charged by the RCMP in abstentia in February 2015. Weeks before Khalib left for Syria, both he and Peshdary took part in Islam Awareness Week on Algonquin College’s Woodroffe Avenue campus, which was sponsored by the MSA.[61]

John “Yahya” Maguire: Grew up in Kemptville, ON. He received a scholarship to study in Los Angeles in 2010 and returned to Canada enrolling at the University of Ottawa in 2011, at which point friends claimed he had already begun making extremist claims, and became involved with the university’s MSA. He joined IS in 2012, travelling to Syria on a one-way ticket, and posted a propaganda video in 2014.[62] He was charged in abstentia with participating in a terrorist group in Syria, Iraq and Turkey, and conspiring with a terrorist network in Ottawa. He was reportedly killed in battle, but no official agency has confirmed his death.

Ahmed Said Khadr: Born in Egypt, Khadr moved with his family to Montreal in 1975, and then to Toronto several months later. He enrolled at the University of Ottawa, studying engineering. While there he joined the MSA, agreeing with their notions of Sharia law, and became a vocal advocate for Islamic rule in his native Egypt.[65] …Khadr was killed on October 2, 2003, along with al-Qaeda and Taliban members, in a shootout by Pakistani security forces near the Afghanistan border. An al-Qaeda website profiling “120 Martyrs of Afghanistan” described him as a leader of Bin Laden’s organization and praised him for “tossing his little child [Omar] in the furnace of the battle.”[68]

Salman Ashrafi: Originally from Pakistan but raised in Calgary, Ashrafi was enrolled at the University of Lethbridge, where he completed a bachelor degree in management. During his university years, Ashrafi started to practice Islam in a more serious manner and became heavily involved with Islamic activism in the campus, serving as president of the MSA. Following graduation, he worked at Calgary’s Talisman energy for one year before quitting in 2012, and flying to the Persian Gulf.[71] He blew himself up in November 2013 in a double suicide bombing at an Iraqi military base, reportedly killing 46 people on behalf of ISIS, using the nom de guerre Abu Abdullah al-Khorasani.[72]

Chiheb Esseghaier: A Tunisian national and scientist, who was a doctoral student with a research arm at the Université du Québec at the time of his arrest. Esseghaier admitted to “La Presse” in an interview to only becoming immersed in religion after arriving at the University of Sherbrooke, when he read books and websites about Islam and joined the local chapter of the MSA, and began attending a local Mosque. He was charged with plotting an attack on a VIA rail train in the Niagara region, and did not deny the charges, stressing that there is “no shortage of reasons” to launch a terrorist attack on North America.

Ferid Imam: University of Manitoba student who served as the local chapter of the MSA’s president.[75] He is wanted by the RCMP on terrorism related charges following a four-year investigation.

Imam has also been charged in the foiled al-Qaeda plot against New York City subways.

Khaled al-Qazzaz: Khaled al-Qazzaz was born on July 3, 1979 in Cairo, Egypt. He moved to Toronto in 2000 to do a Masters in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Toronto, where he met his wife, Sarah Attia. He served as the UTSG MSA President in 2002-2003.[97]…

He was taken in a wave of arrests alongside several other top Muslim Brotherhood aides after a military coup toppled the government on July 3, 2013. After spending 18 months in prison, he was released by Egyptian authorities in January 2015.[98]

Maiwand Yar: Born in Pakistan in 1983, Yar is a former student of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Manitoba, and was the local MSA chapter’s treasurer.[105] According to the RCMP, in 2007, it is believed that Yar departed Canada with accomplice Ferid Ahmed Imam for Pakistan. Yar is being sought on charges of conspiracy to participate in the activities of a terrorist group and participation in the activities of a terrorist group.[107]

Muhannad al-Farekh: Born in Texas, al-Farekh grew up in the United Arab Emirates and was educated in Jordan.[108] In Canada he lived with his grandmother in Winnipeg. He is a former business student at the University of Manitoba, who served as the office manager of that chapter’s MSA from 2005-2006. On April 2, 2015, an arrest warrant for Muhannad al-Farekh was unsealed after an RCMP investigation. The allegations against al-Farekh date back to 2007.[109] It was then that he disappeared to Pakistan along with University of Manitoba colleagues Farid Imam and Maiwand Yar. Though both Imam and Yar were charged in 2011 with terrorism offences following an RCMP national security investigation called Project Darken, al-Farekh was only indicted in April 2015. The criminal complaint accused him of travelling “to Pakistan to join al-Qaida” and helping a terrorist group targeting American citizens and military personnel.[110]

Omar Kalair: President and CEO of United Muslims (UM) Financial, Kalair is wanted by the RCMP with respect to a sharia banking fraud investigation. Videos of previous RIS (Reviving the Islamic Spirit) conventions available on YouTube show that UM Financial sponsored the Toronto Islamist convention in 2005 and 2006. A profile of Omar Kalair posted on a Wilfrid Laurier University alumni’s website indicates that, during his years as an Economics student, “Kalair founded the Muslim Students’ Association [MSA] and remained its President for four years.”[113]

There are many others with links to MSA in the TSEC expose.

Update 6B: New link here and additions below:

Qutbi al-Mahdi:  Involved with the Islamic movement in Sudan from a young age. While studying for his PhD in Islamic Studies at McGill University, Qutbi was active with MSA and then ISNA, where he served as President from 1984-1986.

Youssef Sakhir, Samir Halilovic and Zakria Habibi:  All three are from Sherbrooke QC, and became friends through a local Muslim association in the Eastern Townships. They were Facebook friends with the University of Sherbrooke MSA. They vanished from Quebec last year at around the same time and are currently being sought by RCMP and CSIS.

Dr. Wael Haddara (aka Al-Muraqqash Al-Akbar):    Dr. Haddara has been active with Muslim Brotherhood organizations since at least 1991 when he was listed as the contact person for the Memorial University Muslim Students Association.   He sat on the board of CAIR-CAN from 2003-2012. He sat on IRFAN’s board from 1999-2003. The group had its charity status revoked in 2011 after it was found that from 2005-2009 alone, it transferred $14.6 million to Hamas. He has also been involved with MSA national, which was mentioned in a 2011 MAC newsletter.[81] Dr. Haddara was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood delegation that was sent to meet with, but refused by, the US State Department, to advocate against the current Egyptian government.

Khaled al-Qazzaz:  He moved to Toronto in 2000 to do a Masters in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Toronto, where he met his wife, Sarah Attia. He served as the UTSG MSA President in 2002-2003.[97] In 2005, al-Qazzaz returned to Egypt. In 2011, and according to his own Twitter account, al-Qazzaz was working in Egypt as “Secretary on Foreign Relations, Office of the President Politics: Freedom & Justice Party.”  This refers to Dr. Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood president of Egypt in 2012 and 2013.  The Freedom and Justice Party is the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. He was taken in a wave of arrests alongside several other top Muslim Brotherhood aides after a military coup toppled the government on July 3, 2013.

Many more in the link above.

At  least eleven (11), and counting…

Update 7:  Al Qaeda’s Base at MIT

MIT Muslim chaplain Suheil Laher used his leadership of the MIT Muslim Students Association as a vehicle for raising money for Al Qaeda causes around the world. We especially focus on the Al Qaeda affiliate in Chechnya, which Laher and his associates lionized, even as MIT trusted him to be its Muslim students’ spiritual guide.

…and now Brandeis Univ. Hires Terror-Linked, Jihad-Supporting Muslim Cleric

While at MIT, Laher did not hide his Islamist views. His personal website at the time featured attacks on Jews, Christians, and kuffar (non-believers):

The kuffar, including the Jews and Christians, can never become our intimate friends, confidantes or close allies.

Laher’s personal website featured al-Qaeda leader Abdullah Azzam’s infamous call to jihad. It also linked to an al-Qaeda fundraising website. It urged Muslims to reject the “evils” of the West.

His personal website also declared: “[T]he only solution prescribed by Allah is jihad.”

Update 8: Pakistani convicted of infiltrating DC for Pakistani intelligence

Ghulam Nabi Fai, the executive director of the Kashmiri American Center (KAC) who admitted in a 26-page Statement of Facts at the time of his plea deal last December that he was an influence agent working for the Pakistani intelligence service, the ISI. He penetrated the halls of Congress and successive administrations over a 20-year period to help shape U.S. foreign policy in Pakistan’s favor.

Fai served as national president of the Muslim Students Association (MSA), during which time, according to an email cited in the FBI affidavit, he began serving on behalf of his Pakistani ISI masters.

Update 9: Imam Mahmoud Shaker Shalash at the Islamic Center of Lexington charged in murder-for-hire plot is former MSA

According to a LinkedIn profile, In addition to running the Islamic Center of Lexington, a man of that name owned a mobile home park and the Bluegrass Extended Stay motel (guest reviews have complained about roaches, stained beds and unfriendliness to service dogs), was a member of the Muslim Students Association (a terror linked Muslim Brotherhood hate group) while working on a degree in electrical engineering at the University of Chicago...

Update 10: One-time president of the Muslim Student Association (MSA) at the University of Alabama Pleads Guilty to Concealing Terrorism Financing to al Qaeda

Alaa Abu Saad aka Alaa Mohd Abusaad, 22, who was arrested Oct. 23 in Ohio. She was a former student at the University of Alabama and her LinkedIn profile said she was president of the Muslim Student Association.

Abusaad pleaded guilty to concealment of terrorism financing, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2339C and 2.

Abusaad instructed an FBI undercover employee (UCE) about how to send money to the mujahedeen—fighters engaged in jihad.  Abusaad told the UCE that money “is always needed.  You can’t have a war without weapons.  You can’t prepare a soldier without equipment.”  Abusaad also advised the UCE on how to send money in a manner that would avoid detection by law enforcement, including by using fake names and addresses when conducting electronic money transfers.  Subsequently, Abusaad introduced the UCE to a financial facilitator who could route the UCE’s money to “brothers that work with aq” (meaning al Qaeda).

Update 10:  Mohamed Soltan - arrested as leader of Muslim Brotherhood uprising in Egypt

His father, Salah Soltan was recently given the death sentence in Egypt and Mohammed will likely receive the same verdict on April 11th, just days from now for his accused role in Muslim Brotherhood operations. It should also be noted that Mohammed Soltan was former President of the Muslim Students Association at Ohio State University

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Readers: If you know of other MSA jihadists, let us know and we’ll update the list.

We leave you with Amir Abdel Malik Ali at UCLA reciting the Muslim Student Association Pledge of Allegiance:

Jihad is my spirit, I will die to establish Islam