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U.S. Anti-Israel Activity
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| Imam Amir Abdul Malik Ali
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Posted: June15, 2007
Imam Amir Abdul Malik Ali is imam of the Masjid Al Islam mosque in Oakland, California, which is associated with Sabiqun, 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.
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li, who has made anti-Semitic speeches at numerous events around the country, is often invited to speak to Muslim student groups in California. He 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 Abdul Alim Musa.
In his campus appearances, Ali has described the U.S. government, the economy and the media as being part of a corrupt global supper-structure that is controlled by “Zionist Jews” and used against Muslims. He has praised Hezbollah, Hamas and the Iranian regime for confronting Israel and the U.S. and has encouraged students to see their campus activity as part of the same struggle, whose goals include dismantling Israel and the fall of what he calls the “American empire.” He has extolled martyrdom, often repeating the phrase: “we will not stop until we are either victorious or we are martyred.”
Below is a sample of radical and anti-Semitic statements that Ali has made
May 17, 2007: Ali gave two speeches during a three-day event organized by the Muslim Student Union at UC-Irvine called, “Israel: apartheid resurrected.”
From the first speech:
“Hamas are freedom fighters, not terrorists…. The Zionist Jews, the Israelis, these are oppressors. There is nothing honorable about what they are doing… the Palestinians are paying for the crimes of the Germans. Let the Germans pay…. And so now, Alhamdulillah [Praise God] we know that their time is coming to an end…. The Zionist Jew has only one fear… the ultimate fear of the Zionists are the Muslims. They never defeated us in history…. Even though we got the FBI coming down on us [Muslims], even though we got the media coming down on us, even though we have the government coming down on us, everyone… in terms of who are running the system; we are still not afraid of them… You are dealing with people who fight in the name of Allah, against your imperialism, against your colonialism, against your occupation, and against your racism. And we will not stop until we are either victorious or we are martyred.”
From the second speech:
“They [Zionist Jews] do things to make people think that it’s Muslims when it is actually them behind the scenes [that is] how they do this in Palestine, how they did this with the World Trade Center, both of them: in 1993 and in 2001…
“Massive civil disobedience wouldn’t be a bad idea. But it has to reach a critical mass. The system has to be shut down. That’s how bad it is. That’s how bad things have gotten….
“You know what Hezbollah are? The party of God. Do you know who the Hezbollah are? They are people with a higher moral character. Who are willing to sacrifice for the sake of the one God….
“[Iranian president Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad is a nice guy. He’s an honorable person… and what is being called for the annihilation of, is the apartheid system of Zionism…. Any unjust system has the right to be dismantled and destroyed. Any empire has the right to be dismantled and destroyed… apartheid ain’t cool, apartheid ain’t honorable. And so when he [Ahmadinejad] is talking like that, he’s talking about an oppressive system… that’s like, for example, when we say that America needs to fall as an empire, that doesn’t mean that America, all of America, needs to be destroyed… and so with respect to the apartheid state… That’s not the right system. So that’s what Ahmadinejad is talking about… And so, yes, it has to be dealt with.”
October 5, 2006: Ali spoke at UC-Irvine about the war between Israel and Hezbollah. Ali accused “the Western Zionist controlled media” of covering up the truth about what happened in the war. He praised Hezbollah and argued that every time Muslims fight Israel in the name of Islam they are victorious. In response to a question from the audience about peace between Israel and the Arab states, Ali said: “If history is any indication, there’ll be peace when you’re gone and we are in control again.”
May 18, 2006: During an event organized by the Muslim Student Union at UC-Irvine, “Holocaust in the Holy Land,” Ali gave a speech in which praised Hamas and Hezbollah. He added: “The truth of the matter is your days are numbered. We will fight you until we are either martyred or we are victorious…It’s about time that they [Israelis] live in fear.” He claimed that Israel’s defeat was imminent because unlike the Muslims, Israeli soldiers do not embrace death. During his speech, which was titled “Israel: The Fourth Reich,” Ali also claimed that the media in the U.S. is controlled by Jews, repeating several times: “Rupert Murdoch is a Zionist Jew!”
March 11, 2006: Ali spoke at UC-Santa Cruz as part of “Palestine Awareness Week” organized by the local Muslim Students Association and Students for Justice in Palestine. In his speech, Ali said:
“There are some good Jews and some bad Jews; we’re talking about the bad ones, the ones who refer to themselves as Zionists, the ones who are not really following the teachings of Moses… they’ve come up with a racist ideology… that is rooted in white supremacy, in imperialism and colonialism… The axis of evil: you’re talking Britain, you’re talking the United States and you’re talking the apartheid state of Israel.”
February 26, 2004: During Ali’s lecture at UC-Irvine, which was titled “America Under Siege: The Zionist Hidden Agenda,” he said that Zionism was a mixture of “chosen people-ness and white supremacy.” He claimed that Zionists had “Congress, the media and the FBI in their back pocket,” and blamed Israel for September 11: “The Israelis knew about and were in-control of 9-11,” which he claimed “was staged to give an excuse to wage war against Muslims around the world.”
December 14, 2001: Following the release of a videotape documenting Osama bin Laden celebrating the September 11 attack, Ali told the San Francisco Chronicle that he found the tape inspirational, and that it expressed “the importance of our commitment to Allah.” During the same interview, Ali said “this tape is not evidence. The U.S. government is justifying the killing of innocent people in Afghanistan, and the intention to kill Osama bin Laden, based on flimsy evidence…What speaks to me as a Muslim about it is to see Muslims around the world who are willing to stand up to the oppressive, imperialist system of the United States.” |
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