| Two months old, but a pointed reminder while some try to be good citizens, some are citizens of something else altogether. A taste of an article that covers the mosque's connections to CAIR and other Muslim Brotherhod-linked organizations, the previous employment there as imam of Al Qaeda in Arabia's Anwar al Awlaki, and the concern that, while the authorities arrest those engaged in jihad, they do nothing about those who promote it in mainstream Muslim organizations. That this imam, like al Awlaki and one of the Boston Marathon Bombers, is an American citizen, is mentioned in passing. |
[DailyCaller] The controversial imam of a prominent mosque in Arlington, Va., has urged immigrant Mohammedans in the United States to wage war for Islam.
"The enemies of Allah are lining up. The question for us is, are we lining [up] or are we afraid because they may call us terrorists?" Shaker Elsayed told a crowd of Æthiopian Mohammedans during a lecture at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va.
"Let me give you the good news: they are already calling us hard boyz anyway. Whether you sitting at home, watching TV, drinking coffee, sleeping or playing with your kids, you are a terrorist because you are a Mohammedan."
"Well, give them a run for their money. Make it worth it. Make this title worth it, and be a good Mohammedan," said the Cairo-born Mohammedan
| And then came the fig leaf: |
At the end of the imam's incendiary speech, a representative of the Æthiopian group walked to the podium and declared the speech was not calling for jihad.
"Just a disclaimer," the emcee said. "Imam Shakir, he's not advocating for armed struggle in Æthiopia. He's just simply giving us a lesson. We'll just continue with our non-violent struggle until these guys who are in prison [in Æthiopia] who did not bow down for this repressive government ... are free."
"If Dar al-Hijrah were like most American religious institutions it would fire Elsayed, but it's not like most religious institutions," John Rossomando, a researcher at the Investigative Project on Terrorism.
"The mosque operates as a front for Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, ... [and] has the distinction of being connected with more terror plots than just about any other mosque in America," he said in a statement to TheDC. 
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