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U.S. Anti-Israel Activity
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| Imam Abdul Alim Musa
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Posted: June15, 2007
Imam Abdul Alim Musa, an African-American convert to Islam, is the head of Masjid Al Islam mosque in Washington DC and founder of Sabiqun (Arabic for “vanguard of Islam), a movement that propagates a radical and anti-Semitic ideology.
Sabiqun traces its ideological roots to 20th century Islamic revivalism, including the radical Muslim Brotherhood and Imam Khomeini of Iran, as well as to Malcolm X. Sabiqun has established mosques in several cities, including mosques in Oakland, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Washington DC which Musa helped establish. The mosques, typically located in poor neighborhoods, claim to provide a service to the communities where they are located.
Musa views Sabiqun as a part of a historical process that will make Islam dominant in America. Speaking in 2000 at a gathering in Baltimore, Musa said: “Islam went everywhere in the [ancient] world…so why can’t Islam take over America…We are on the right road.” The Sabiqun Web site further claims that “as of September 11, 2001” there is “open warfare” between Muslims and “the united forces of kufr…the criminal constitutional dictatorship of the USA.”
Musa is a “senior” member of the Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought (ICIT), an international pro-Iranian, pro-Hezbollah Islamist think tank that distributes anti-Semitic propaganda in its magazine, Crescent International. Musa appeared in several conferences organized by ICIT abroad, including a conference in Pretoria, South Africa, in February 2000 that was titled “Imam Khomeini and the Just World Order.”
Musa also sits on the governing body of the Muslim Alliance in North America, which is made up of prominent American-born Muslims. In 2004, the San Francisco Bay View described Musa as “one of the highest-ranking Islamic leaders in the Black community, nationwide and specifically in the Islamic movement.”
Musa is often invited to speak to Muslim student groups in California and has made some of his more radical speeches at anti-Israel events organized by the Muslim Student Union at the University of California – Irvine. These events often feature a handful of radical speakers who espouse anti-Semitic rhetoric, including Imam Mohammad al-Asi and Imam Amir Abdul Malik Ali.
Musa has made anti-Semitic speeches at various events around the country, and has appeared at events organized by radical fringe groups like the anti-Semitic and racist New Black Panther Party and the small anti-Semitic Jamaat al-Muslimeen, which distributes and promotes Holocaust denial literature, including books by David Irving.
Below is a sample of radical and anti-Semitic statements that Ali has made:
May 9, 2007: During his appearance at the “Holocaust Memorial Week” event organized by the Muslim Student Union at UC-Irvine, Musa said:
“Who ran the slave trade…who funded [it]? You’ll study and you will find out: the Jews…It was the Jewish bankers…in Vienna, with pockets full of money, funding and insuring, that’s who did it…. you can’t tell us about no holocaust. Between the African Americans and the Native Americans, everybody else’s stuff was small potatoes.”
October 5, 2006: Musa spoke at a protest organized by the antiwar group outside the White House in Washington, DC.
“We got to get rid of this new Hitler…Just like Hitler burned the Reichstag…to gain full power over the people…George Bush brings down the World Trade Center, blames it on us [Muslims] and then claims himself dictator over the world. So we’re here to say it’s all over for George.”
January 2004: In an interview in the San Francisco Bay View, Musa talked about September 11 and other issues:
“When 9/11 happened, the only people who understood it really was Black people. They know that when you have an election-stealing president that has no credibility, he needs something to make him presidential….
Black Amerikkkans understand the Amerikkkan system… If you remember before 9/11, the big conference they held in Durban, South Africa, Black people was attuned to Zionism is racism—we know that as a people. Amerikkka needed something to take them off of the most-hated list, but it never worked.”
April 20, 2002: Musa served as the moderator of an anti-Israel rally, sponsored by ANSWER, during which many speakers called for the destruction of Israel. A large Hezbollah flag was on display from the stage throughout much of the event next to where Musa stood.
October 31, 2001: Musa joined the leader of the anti-Semitic and racist New Black Panther Party, Malik Zulu Shabazz, for a news conference at the National Press Club blaming Jews and Israel for the September 11 terrorist attacks. During his speech, Musa compared Israel to a cancer: “America placed this sword, this cancer, this Zionist state in the center of the crossroads of the world.” He also assailed “Zionists in Hollywood, the Zionists in New York, and the Zionists in D.C.” who “all collaborate” to oppress Blacks and Muslims.
June 2000: At a gathering in Baltimore organized by Jamaat al-Muslimeen, Musa spoke about Imam Jamil al-Amin, a Muslim activist who has since been convicted for killing an Atlanta, Georgia, deputy sheriff:
“Al-Amin…turned his ideas, his belief in Islam, into practical solutions for society. And they can’t stand that. Just like our brother said: the Zionist are the same today as they was then. In those days [in Arabia before the ascendance of Islam] they controlled the liquor market in Madina… and the Zionists kept the Arab leaders broke and drunk…the yahud [Jew, in Arabic] were seating back and had each one of them [Arab clans] fighting each other because the leaders was both drunken and they was all in owe (sic) to the same Yahud… he was manipulating the Arabs…then Islam came [and abolished riba, or interest]
“We’re the pioneers here of Islam in America… Islam went everywhere in the world… so why can’t Islam take over America… We are on the right road.”
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