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As some of you may know, last year a white nationalist organization by the name of SANE wrote a lying hit piece on the Dar Al-Hijrah community that contained many outright lies and distortions. However, since I exposed their lies and uncovered their openly white supremist views, they have been dormant and have not similarly attacked any other Muslim organizations with their paranoid filth as they promised. People of good will (Muslim and non-Muslim) rightly condemned this vile attempt to caricature the Muslims as all being terrorists and dangerous to America.

However, over the past few weeks the director of that effort has been trying to make a little noise and has spread some vicious rumors about the Northern Virginia Muslims from his little read cyber kennel to which I will not link. It is sufficient to know that major anti-Muslim bloggers have not even given this nut's paranoid rants the light of day.

Instead of completely ignoring him, I have decided to keep a running score of his antics as "updates" from last year's refutation of his garbage. You can read it here. Refer to it when you see this clown's name (David Gaubatz) or if he slanders your community

This article refers to an outreach program by the FBI to Muslims in the Dulles, VA area. It notes that 56+ FBI field offices are reaching out to Muslims. But one gets the sense that if all those meetings are like this one, we can scratch this FBI effort up in the dhimmi category.

Is the FBI supposed to be reaching out or investigating federal crimes - like terrorism, espionage, hate speech, and illegal money transfers for example? Based on this article it seems that the FBI was being interrogated, and there has never been any indication that any Muslim group is helping any law enforcement group anywhere in the US. Wouldn't that be harem? Thank God the Mapping Sharia project is really reaching out to Muslims - unbeknownst to them.

But what is especially disturbing is how white supremacists and racists use any case of black-on-white crime to "prove" the criminal tendencies of African Americans. Websites like American Renaissance, and neo-Nazis like David Duke regularly report on any such crime they learn of, anywhere in the country, even when there is no apparent racial motivation for the incident, as if to say "see, we told you so - these people are a threat to whites everywhere!" In other words, the criminal acts of a small handful of blacks come to represent blackness in the minds of weak-minded persons, the likes of whom are attracted to such sites and organizations. Lacking the ability to think critically, racists assume that the roughly 5000 blacks who commit murder each year, do so because they're black, which leaves one to wonder what it is about the other 35 million or so, also black, who don't?

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What racists demonstrate, by virtue of their reactions to horrible crimes like those at Virginia Tech, or the murders of Christian and Newsom in Knoxville, is that they have no scruples whatsoever. Anything that can be used, however dishonestly from an intellectual perspective, to further stoke white racial resentment, fear and hostility, is good, from their perspective. These are people who literally need white people to die at the hands of persons of color. Without such incidents to help whip the masses into a state of racist frenzy, their shtick only grows more and more tired. David Duke wants to see white people victimized by people of color, as do the hate-addled denizens of American Renaissance. If such crimes never occurred, they would have a much harder time convincing whites of what they consider the bottom line: the need to remake the U.S. into an all-white nation.

They hate people for not choosing to be born white.

UPDATE, April 3, 2008: White National Organization, SANE's website has gone down (allegedly for redesign, but that has been the case for months now) and their discredited "mapping sharia" project is inactive without a single other hit piece against another community since their libel against the Dar Al Hijrah community in June of 2007. People saw them for what they were

UPDATE 5: I'd like to thank all the people who wrote emails in support in the aftermath of the libelous attack on the mosque by a neo-white supremacist organization and the vandalism that happened after their article. As a black person I can not reason with a person who hates me on the basis of the color of my skin. I only pray that more people do not become convinced by their (not so veiled) racist and anti-black agenda

UPDATE 4: Some lunatic apparently inspired by slander posted by Mr Gaubatz threw stones through the window at Dar Al Hijrah last night. Also some idiot who apparently reads their trash called me a "sh*tskin" in the comments last night that I deleted afterwards. David and his minions are such "nice people". This is exactly why I refuse to link to their site so that I will not be overrun with racist trolls from their site

Please pray for Imam Shaker ElSayyid and Imam Johari Abdul Malik as they were targeted specifically by the Gaubatz hit piece and I fear that the two of them may be in danger of bodily harm of worse from these racists. More to come...

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I was forwarded one of the most outrageous hit pieces that I have seen in a long time from the so called "Mapping Sharia in America Project" - a groups that advocates making adhering to Islam an offense punishable by 20 years in prison

First, I will say to all those who may read this and try to paint me as an extremist, that my opposition to terrorism is unequivocal and known and that I have written many times condemning terror and terrorism and those who endorse it. If terrorism were being taught at Dar Al Hijrah, I would be the first to condemn it LOUDLY and clearly.

But I can not and will not endorse smearing and flat out lies against people that are not terrorists nor endorse terrorism. If the aim is to get those who are trying to kill us all, then I am with you. But if the aim is to lie, slander and defame - even those that are working with law enforcement in many cases - then we can not join such an effort.

That said, I contend that this "report" is a COMPLETE fabrication and malicious LIE designed to dehumanize and slander Muslims. To say that this "report" is full of "mistakes" is giving too much credit. It is full of deliberate and malicious lies.

They also know that most who read their "report" will not read any refutation of their outrageous and slanderous piece.

I have taken it piece by piece. The "report" said:

Sporting a beard and Muslim dress, Gaubatz said he went on May 18 to the center, pretending to be an American interested in becoming a convert to Islam. He discovered the center espoused terrorism and jihad against America.

How many people interested in Islam come in "Muslim dress"? I was there on that day and any such person would have been directed to me since Imam Johari was not there that day. THAT DID NOT HAPPEN. I met no such person on that day. This sentence shows that this is clearly written for an audience that has preconceived notions of converts as being so romantic with the idea of becoming Muslim that they come into the door wearing "Muslim dress". I have been Muslim for 12 years and not once have I seen a person interested in becoming Muslim enter the door wearing "Muslim dress". Any Muslim reading that statement can see how ridiculous it sounds. Unfortunately a person with no experience in the mosque will not know that, and these people know it.

"They are teaching what they call Jihad Qital, which means physical jihad," Gaubatz said. "They're teaching violence and hatred of the United States."

So a complete stranger walks into a mosque and he is immediately indoctrinated into "jihad" and not the fundamentals of Islam? I have not heard any teaching of violence and hatred against the United States. To the contrary, the problem some who actually DO sympathize with the nutters complain about Dar Al Hijrah's message of civic involvement, registering to vote and reaching out to neighbors.

Further, Dar Al Hijrah is active in Fairfax County and has many other interfaith partners in the DC metropolitan area.

Gaubatz said that he met the two primary clerics at Dar Al-Hijrah, Imam Shaker Elsayed and Imam Johari Abdulmalik. Both men have been trained in Saudi Arabia. He says another key individual is Yusef Estes, an informal senior leader at the center and an internationally influential Muslim scholar who was trained in Saudi Arabia.

As I mentioned before, Imam Johari was not even present on the Friday they claimed to visit and he nor Shaker Elsayed were "trained" in Saudi Arabia. Neither was Yusef Estes for that matter.

On May 18^th 2007, Imam Johari left Washington on Air-Tran heading to Houston that morning and did not return to Virginia until Sunday May 20 ^th 2007, so he could not have met with Mr. Gaubatz as claimed in this hit piece.

Although, Yusuf Estes lives in the neighborhood, he is not a leader of the Dar Al-Hijrah community – informally or otherwise. He is a former southern Christian pastor and is well known and respected as a lecturer nationally. Why did they even throw his name out there?

"They put me through the process of learning their faith and ideology," Gaubatz said. "They felt close to me and they gave me literature and CDs. They told me to study. The literature is very Jihad Qital."

He speaks as if it is like becoming a Mason when he speaks of being "put through the process" and being given a secret mission of some type. Secondly, after just meeting him, they felt "very close" to him? This sounds like something written for a person who has seen Syrianna.

He said that the Islamic center has deep ties to Saudi Arabia and espouses Wahhabism, a virulent and puritanical version of Islam.

"Many members of the mosque provided me literature to study. Most of the literature they gave me was from Saudi Arabia," he said. "Their literature preaches that America and the West are decadent and evil, and that Muslims have a moral duty to engage in violence against the infidels."

Just had to throw that out there didn't they. There are no "deep ties" to Saudi Arabia. As for the literature, I don't believe this for a second. There is no such literature being given out at Dar Al Hijrah preaching violence against non-Muslims.

"Many members of the mosque" provided him with literature?? There are more than 3,000 people that come to Jumuah on Friday. Even if this fairy tale were true, most of the people would have had no idea that he was even there - especially since he was allegedly in "Muslim dress" - much less spoke to him - as 99.9% have to hurriedly return to work - and do not just have literature on them at all times to give to people.

Why did they not go into the mosque with a hidden camera to prove these outrageous lies? Because if they went to the masjid, the most likely scenario of a person that randomly shows up on Jumuah - especially in a mosque the size of Dar Al Hijrah - is that he will be (sadly) ignored by most of the people especially if he "looks Muslim"

Finally, there is NO literature distributed at Dar Al Hijrah that is anti-American or that advocates violence. This is a malicious and outright lie.

Gaubatz says that Dar Al-Hijrah and other radical Islamic centers in the U.S. are funded by Saudi Arabia, which is the primary sponsor of the Wahhabist brand of Islam.

"The ultimate goal for those at Dar Al-Hijrah is to instill Sharia law in the U.S. and have America adhere to the Islamic faith," he said. "They want America to be an Islamic state."

The goal of Dar Al-Hijrah is stated in the Mission and Vision of the masjid as listed on the website. Dar Al Hijrah is NOT funded by Saudi Arabia or any other foreign country. The accounting of the mosque's income and expenditures are posted on the wall each month for anyone to see.

Gaubatz said that the imams at the center encouraged him to read the works of their "friends"—some of whom have been convicted for terrorism-related activities. According to Gaubatz, one of those "friends" he was encouraged to read is Ali Al-Tamimi, a radical Islamist author, who was convicted of inciting terrorism in connection with the Virginia Jihad Network.

Firstly, anyone want to tell me what books that Ali Al-Timimi has written that someone would have suggested to get his books? To my knowledge Ali Al-Timimi has no books and was NOT an author. Anyone want to point to these books by Ali Al-Timimi? This alone shows how absurd this is. Regardless, Dar Al Hijrah does not distribute any materials by Al Al-Timimi

Secondly, Ali Al-Timimi and others established a seperate center near Dar Al Hijrah because of disagreements he and others had with the Dar Al-Hijrah.

Anyone GENUINELY interested in fighting terrorism will distance themselves from this SLANDEROUS hit piece filled with lies and complete fabrications designed to fool the people. It is really sad that the Washington Times would print something so blatantly false and malicious.

I also hope that Muslims will not read malicious "reports" like this and decide to become suspicious of those who visit our mosques.

These people say that they plan to "visit" all the mosques in the United States. That only means that we can expect more slanderous hit pieces. Their hoped conclusion of their "study" is that the Muslims are all irrational medievalists that can only be dealt with at the bottom of a nuke.

UPDATE: Seems that he did come, but not in a beard and "Muslim Dress" as indicated in the article which is why I contended earlier that no such person came. I suppose that was added for dramatization.

These people were treated with nothing but the utmost kindness and no one said anything about terrorism or jihad or anything of that sort. I suppose I should be glad that they spared me from their slander. The Father in the combo "took shahaadah" at Yusef Estes' hands on that Friday and left after that. I can personally bear witness that there was nothing anti-American said to him by Yusef Estes or anyone around at that time. And no one spoke of violence much less condoned any. His article is a LIE and FABRICATION

UPDATE 2: I want people to realize that you could be the next to be slandered. This guy is calling for everyone that adheres to Islam to be jailed for 20 years and in relentless. I see now first hand that he will lie and smile in your face (while despising you inwardly) to achieve his means to dehumanize. On their website (You can google Society of Americans for National Existence as I refuse to link to their website) this is what they are lobbying the government for:

Whereas, adherence to Islam as a Muslim is prima facie evidence of an act in support of the overthrow of the US. Government through the abrogation, destruction, or violation of the US Constitution and the imposition of Shari’a on the American People.

THEREFORE, IT IS RESOLVED THAT:

[1] A “Muslim” shall be defined as any person who adheres to Islam or acts in support of the adherence to Islam or who makes any written or oral declaration in support of the adherence to Islam. The “Muslim Nation” or “Umma” shall be defined as all Muslims.

[2] “Adherence to Islam” shall be defined as any act, including any written or oral declaration, in support of Shari’a or in furtherance of the imposition of Shari’a within any territory of the United States of America. “Territory of the United States of America” shall be defined as any territory under the civilian or military control or governance of personnel acting for and on behalf of the US Government.

[3] “Shari’a” shall be defined as any set of rules, precepts, instructions, or edicts which emanate directly or indirectly from the god of Allah or the prophet Mohammed and which include directly or indirectly the encouragement of any person to support in any way the abrogation, destruction, or violation of the US Constitution or the destruction of the national existence of the United States of America. Any rule, precept, instruction, or edict arising from the extant rulings of any of the five authoritative schools of Islamic jurisprudence (the Hanafi, the Maliki, the Shafi'i, the Hanbali, or the Ja’afariya school or fiqh) are prima facie Shari’a without any further evidentiary showing.

[4] It shall be a felony punishable by 20 years in prison to knowingly act in furtherance of, or to support the, adherence to Islam.

[5] The Congress of the United States of America shall declare the US at war with the Muslim Nation or Umma.

UPDATE 3: They are White Supremacists (Why am I not surprised?) This quote from their mission statement on their website:

America is a unique people bound together through a commitment to America’s Judeo-Christian moral foundation and to an enduring faith and trust in G-d and in His Providence. America’s founding, and its greatness was neither accident nor staging ground for some better existence or world state. America was the handiwork of faithful Christians, mostly men, and almost entirely white, who ventured from Europe to create a nation in their image of a country existing as free men under G-d.