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| UK Quickly Deporting US Citizen Who Claims Political Asylum |
| 2004-04-30 |
| A US-born Muslim cleric who sought asylum in the UK four months ago has been detained and told he may be deported within days. Imam Ramee Muhammed, 40, a preacher originally from Chicago, applied for asylum in January this year because he says he fears persecution if he returns to the US. But on Friday, days after an article on his case appeared in a Sunday newspaper, he was detained and his claim fast-tracked. His wife, Haneefa, who is due to give birth any day, fears he may be deported by the end of the week. Speaking at her home in Manchester, Mrs Muhammed, 38, said: "The government is doing what the papers say. No one has come to see if what my husband is claimed to have said is true ... They are playing religious politics." When Mr Muhammed attended an immigration appointment on Friday he was detained and transferred to London. His wife said they had no warning things would move so quickly. The family, who have eight children, came to the UK in 2001 when Mr Muhammed was offered a job at an Islamic institute in Birmingham. But, fearing persecution if he returned to the US because of the post-September 11 climate, he applied for asylum in January this year - and hit the headlines. An article published on the front page of last week’s Sunday Express, headlined "Maddest asylum plea yet", claimed Mr Muhammed taught Richard Reid - the so-called "shoe bomber"- and had links with the radical preacher Abu Hamza.. Imam Muhammed claims the article is untrue and has complained to the Press Complaints Commission. He admits Richard Reid attended a lecture of his at the Finsbury Park mosque, but says that was six years ago and that he was lecturing on brotherhood. He says he knows Omar Bakri Muhammed, leader of the fringe group al-Muhajiroun, but has no links with him. |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #10 oops - almost stepped all over your fisking .com, thks! How many lecturers remember someone attending a lecture six yrs ago? His lies stink |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-06-13 12:57:37 PM |
| #9 Leaving all of the fluffy bits aside, A5203, the issue is the root of his asylum claim: that he will be persecuted in the US. Period. Most of your post is your opinion on his other "activities" - some of which could only appeal to a fellow Muslim. Some of your post is purest Grade A bullshit. I'm a Comanche and I find the drivel you posted regards historical events to be your overactive victim mentality - decidedly not factual. In those particulars you (and your buddy) are laughable idiotarians and liars. And of course, his case WILL be heard - we're not talking about some backassward barbaric Islamic country of arbitrary fuckwits - there will be full judicial oversight, any and all rights will be protected, and the laws will be followed. Your post did not help your buddy in any way because the audience here isn't a bunch of dimwitted blind Lefty dipshits consumed by imagined guilt and self-hate. Play your tape elsewhere for the desired effect. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-06-13 12:30:10 PM |
| #8 What crime has the Imam committed? I know the Imam, he has taken nearly 35 at risk youth from the Ghettos of America abroad to study Arabic, and Traditional Islamic Theology.Many of whom were former gangsters and drug sellers. he was feautured in a World-wide documentary on the rise of Islam called Planet Islam, filmed in 1996 by the BBC. He and Community were shown closing down drug houses, stopping crime, and educating the down trodden. He was a former US Marine and Federal Bureau of Prisons Senior Officer Specialist. He has established 6 Masaajid in America, one Islamic School, and has encouraged hundreds of students from the West to go abroad and study Islam. In the past he has been outspoken against the illegal jewish state, and the slaughter of Muslims in Phillistine, Bosnia, Rawanda, Philiphines,Kashmir and all the upsurping of Muslim land, oil,natural resorces, and racism.Imam Muhammad is the Head of Jamaatul Qadir Educational Trust, at www.jamaatulqadir.co.uk. Which promotes the proper teaching of Islam from classical sources. He is a very motivated speaker, and full of compassion. He is a decendant of Muslim Afican Slaves, and Native Americans both of which were terrorized by the most vicous Paulean jewish scum the earth has ever seen, he is one of the victims of American physical and pcycological slavery that has never ended. He is the author of Why Love and The weapon of truth between truth and falsehood, and many videos and cassettes. He case should be heard. |
| Posted by: Anonymous5203 2004-06-13 12:14:28 PM |
| #7 The woman is only 38 and she is pregnant with her 9th child! Thanks A4617. And there you have it is all wrapped up in a nice clean, depressing box. Lot'sa different kinds of bio-weapons. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-04-30 4:49:43 PM |
| #6 they are playing religious politics I'll take fatwas for $100, Alex! |
| Posted by: Spot 2004-04-30 1:56:26 PM |
| #5 The plea for asylum is the least of the UK's or US's problems. The woman is only 38 and she is pregnant with her 9th child! She will keep on having kids until she no longer can (50 or so). At this rate, muslims are going to overun the native population and its culture. This is really frightening! |
| Posted by: Anonymous4617 2004-04-30 1:06:22 PM |
| #4 Guilty by association? If he is not guilty of any crime then why run to the UK? Is he starting to believe his own lies about the U.S.? Good thing the Brits don't! |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2004-04-30 10:58:57 AM |
| #3 from Iran? Maybe its different in the UK, but in the US most Iranians who have sought asylum are secularists, or supporters of the Shah, who would face serious danger back in Iran. |
| Posted by: Liberalhawk 2004-04-30 10:35:43 AM |
| #2 They are playing religious politics. They've implemented sharia? |
| Posted by: Cthulhu Akbar 2004-04-30 10:06:03 AM |
| #1 It is nice to see the western world wising up to the sham asylum claims. Everyone who was granted asylum from Iran or Afghanistan should have their cases reviewed pronto and given a timeline of when they are expected to return to their homeland. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2004-04-30 10:03:41 AM |