Dar al-Hijrah Imam Calls For Armed Jihad
by John Rossomando • Feb 22, 2013 at 4:18 pm
http://www.investigativeproject.org/3928/dar-al-hijrah-imam-calls-for-armed-jihad
Sheik Shaker Elsayed, the imam of the Dar al-Hijrah Mosque in Falls Church, Va., advocated armed jihad before an Ethiopian Muslim group gathered at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va. last week.
"Muslim men when it is a price to pay, they are first in line," Elsayed said in comments seen on a YouTube video found by the Creeping Sharia blog. "They are the first in the prayer line. They are the first in the zakat (charity) line. They are the first in the hajj line. They are the first in the clean-up line. They are the first in the community-service line. They are the first in jihad line. They are the first in the da'wa line."
"But they are last if anything is being distributed, unless it is arms for jihad," Elsayed said. "We are the first to rush and run to defend our community and defend ourselves. The enemies of Allah are lining up; the question for us is, 'Are we lining, or are we afraid because, because they may call us terrorists.'"
Being called "terrorists" should not matter to Muslims because Muslims are being called terrorists anyway, Elsayed said.
"You are a terrorist because you are a Muslim," Elsayed said. "Well give them a run for their money. Make it worth it. Make this title worth it, and be good a Muslim."
Elsayed then told Muslims to accept peace when they receive peace, but to fight back when their families, communities, nations and dignity come under attack.
He has been Dar al-Hijrah's imam since 2005. Law enforcement officials have described the mosque as being "associated with Islamic extremists" and "operating as a front for Hamas operatives in U.S.
Elsayed's comments contradict statements he made in a 2005 interview on National Public Radio.
"I believe there is no apology for terrorism. We condemned it; we condemned it on 9/11, I personally signed a paper on behalf of the organization I worked for at that time and sent it everywhere to the press. I spoke with the press," Elsayed said.
This isn't the first time Elsayed has endorsed terrorism. He denounced calling terrorists "suicide bombers, homicide bombers, or murderers, or killers" in a December 2002 speech.
"To decide that this man is a martyr or not a martyr, it is a pure religious matter," Elsayed said. "Nobody who is not Muslim has any right to decide for us, we the Muslims, whose is a martyr or another. We as Muslims will decide that. It is in-house business."
His name also appears in a 1991 Muslim Brotherhood document detailing the group's plan to wage a non-violent civilization jihad to destroy "Western civilization from within."
Related Topics: John Rossomando, Shaker Elsayed, Dar al-Hijrah, jihad
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little information is just as bad as ignorance
Submitted by Sugar Bear, Jul 26, 2014 21:20
this Imaam OR ANY Imaam that speaks about Jihad has NO understanding of what Jihad is or the rules pertaining to Jihad...Jihad can not be called for just by any body...Jihad has to..has to be called by the Khalifa....the Amir...the Leader of ALL the Muslims...and at this time..there is none.....! just like you had David Koresh...Charles Manson...and the Millitia and the Klan....they call or called for a war on people...they've killed people believing in the Bible...man...always destroys what is good...so what i am saying is....we have to have..get knowledge of a situation..depending on the Media is crazy as we know they only report half truths or know truths at all...and we know this...this Imaam or any other one that is talking this trash...is not speaking to the majority...only those in their community..and most of them don't heed his words...the news will never tell you...what the scholars of Islam are saying...they can't excite you if they did....all i want to say..is IF you want the truth about these things...look past your regular Media...look at foreign media..ask somebody who knows...knowledge is always better than ignorance...too many people have died due to......ignorance !
response to call for armed jihad
Submitted by militiaman, Nov 16, 2013 11:53
I am a Christian American, I do not stand against people of other faiths, however I do not allow those same people to tell me that I must live as they do or die in fact I will stand my ground and fight any and all who wish to destroy me and mine simply because they don't like us or our ways I will defend this nation against all enemies both foreign and domestic. The Constitution ensures that everyone who lives here has the right to freedom of worship. Please do so in peace.
THINK before you make a comment about RELIGION!!!
Submitted by debbie, Aug 25, 2013 00:05
Jesus Christ was NOT a pacifist! To even say that tells me you don't know anything about the time Jesus was alive. To be persecuted as someone that committed treason, you had to have fought and spoken AGAINST the Romans at that time. They didn't just kill pacifists for GODSAKE! The Romans killed him because he was nonconformist and didn't care for the status quo. He fought for people to rise up and change the way they were thinking. However, after the Romans killed him, they convinced people hundreds of years later that Jesus was a pacifist to encourage ignorant people to be submissive. It's what's happening now thanks to powerful people wanting to make all the poor people submissive against the regimes in charge.
Imams living in United States and incite killig of U.S. citizen.
Submitted by Muna, Feb 27, 2013 22:07
There are muslim imams living in United States, that in their sermon call our Christianity a " dumb and does not make sense" and criticize our culture in U.S., and call our freedom as "social pressure and cultural slavery", and we keep granting them our freedom..... I do not understand why we keep accepting muslims in the United States?? and why we do not have law, that allow to withdraw citizenship of any individual that incite killing of U.S. citizen?? and why we keep Imams in U.S. ??? All Imams (muslim religon speakers) are the same, they will always have two faces one that sell lies to our Government, and face that speakes inciting Muslims living in United States to further Muslim ideology. and without no respect to U.S. that opened its land for them to live and have better life, that they once had in middle east. Muslims also are killig each others in middle east countries like Egypt and Iraq, vying for influence. and their justification for the killing is RELIGION !!!!!! so religion is the pretext that all muslim Imams and religion speakers used to incite muslims.
What????
Feb 26, 2013 22:33
Che? He was a communist and a terrorist. Jesus Christ was a pacifist and tried to help people, not slaughter the masses.
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THINK before you make a comment about RELIGION!!! |
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Imams living in United States and incite killig of U.S. citizen. |
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lulu |
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muslim threat by imam |
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He told beaten raped and killed people to fight back with their money and life |
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muslim threat,by amam. |
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