Backgrounder: Revolution Muslim
Introduction
Posted: June 1, 2009
Updated: February 12, 2010
Revolution Muslim (RM) is a fringe anti-Semitic Muslim organization that justifies terrorist attacks and other forms of violence against non-Muslims and seeks "the dismantlement of western, secular dominance across the world," according to its Web site. It is mostly active in New York.
While the group is not known to be involved in any terrorist activity, its statements include implicit, if not explicit, threats of violence and its radical ideology is rooted in the propagation of violence.
For example, on October 7, 2009, RM posted to its Web site a poem asking God to "kill the Jews" and listing ways Jews could be hurt, including by burning "their flammable sukkos while they sleep" and throwing "liquid drain cleaner in their faces."
The group, which has only a handful of active members, has reportedly received the attention of law enforcement. In January 2009, in response to the Israeli military operation against Hamas in Gaza, RM posted a picture on its Web site of Chabad's world headquarters in Brooklyn with a message encouraging readers to "make EVERY attempt to reach these people and teach them the message of Islam or leave them a message from Islam." The posting, which was titled "Do Not Let Orthodox Judaism Get Away From Murder in Ghaza," reportedly prompted a police investigation.
RM was founded in 2007 by Yousef al-Khattab and Younes Abdullah Muhammad, both converts to Islam, to promote the ideas of Abdullah al-Faisal, a Jamaica-born Muslim preacher who served four years in a British prison for urging his followers to kill non-Muslims, including Americans, Hindus and Jews. In December 2009, Al-Khattab issued a statement handing over the leadership to Abdullah as-Sayf Jones, a convert to Islam who organizes RM activity in Florida. Abdullah Muhammad serves as RM's spokesperson.
RM has organized and participated in several anti-Israel demonstrations. For example, in June 2009, members protested the Israel Day Parade in New York holding signs that read: "May Allah give victory to the mujahedeen in Palestine; May Allah wipe out the Zionist vermin in Palestine" and "every supporter of 'Israel' is an enemy combatant." Members taunted marchers with obscenities such as: "remember Auschwitz," "mushroom cloud over Israel" and "protect your behind children, these pedophile rabbis are out to get you." At the Israel day parade in 2008, members shouted obscenities at marchers such as: "control the animal population, reopen Auschwitz…sanitize the Zionists…get the ovens burning."
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