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FEBRUARY 6, 2019
Extremist Imam Keynotes 'Civil Rights' Fundraiser
Of all 50 states, Ohio has been one of the national hotspots for Islamist terrorism since 9/11. In 2016, Ohio State University was the site of an ISIS-inspired terror attack, and in January, investigators arrested a Muslim convert who was planning a synagogue shooting in Toledo.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) presents itself as a Muslim civil liberties organization and has been careful to condemn domestic terrorincidents like these. The Ohio branches of CAIR (“Protecting Civil Rights. Fighting Bigotry. Promoting Tolerance.”) have dutifully followed CAIR-National’s example, working hard to sanitize their image. But CAIR-Columbus’s choice of speakers at its annual fundraiser this past Saturday, February 2, shows that CAIR-Ohio is no more serious about fighting bigotry and promoting tolerance than the national branch -- which has been identified by an FBI agent testified in federal court as a front for the terrorist group Hamas.
Keynoting the CAIR-Columbus banquet was prominent imam, Johari Abdul-Malik -- who, though he has been featured in a 2009 State Department video on “Eid in America,” and asked to deliver the opening prayer for the Virginia House of Delegates, has openly expressed support for radical Islamist ideas.
Abdul-Malik’s involvement in both the State Department video and the Virginia House opening prayer were both met withcontroversy. In addition, not only have Imam Abdul-Malik’s longtime association with highly questionable organizations come under fire, but there has been publicity surrounding his own extremist statements.
Remarkably, in a 2001 speech to the Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP), a now-defunct sister organization of CAIR, he reportedly passed off his support for these terror attacks as a sign of moderation:
I am gonna teach you now. You can blow up bridges, but you cannot kill people who are innocent on their way to work. You can blow up power supplies… the water supply, you can do all forms of sabotage and let the world know that we are doing it like this because they have a respect for the lives of innocent people.
It should be noted that sharing the platform with Imam Abdul-Malik at the CAIR-Columbus fundraiser was former IAP official and now CAIR executive director Nihad Awad, who was personally named unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism financing trial in American history.
Equally problematic have been Abdul-Malik’s predictions of Islamic supremacy in America:
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Alhamdullilah [Praise to Allah] and we will live, will see the day when Islam, by the grace of Allah, will become the dominant way of life… I'm telling you don't take it for granted because Allah is increasing this din [religion] in your lifetime. Alhamdullilah [Praise to Allah] that soon, soon… before Allah closes our eyes for the last time, you will see Islam move from being the second largest religion in America – that's where we are now – to being the first religion in America.
These comments were delivered during a November 2004 sermon at the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in the Washington D.C. area where Abdul-Malik served as the longtime director of outreach.
To say that Dar al-Hijrah’s reputation is problematic would be an understatement.
As I’ve written previously, Dar al-Hijrah has seen a long line of convicted terrorists come through its doors over the past two decades, including several of the 9/11 hijackers. Also among the former attendees at the mosque was Fort Hood killer, Major Nidal Hasan.
For that and among other reasons, the Obama administration came under fire when it was reported that the U.S. Census Bureau was renting office space from the mosque to the tune of $500,000 annually.
One of Abdul-Malik’s predecessors at the mosque was Anwar al-Awlaki, an al-Qaeda cleric who was killed in a September 2011 CIA drone strike in Yemen. At the time of his death, Dar al-Hijrah issued a press release recalling Awlaki’s “interfaith outreach, civic engagement and tolerance.”
But even prior to Awlaki’s death, Imam Abdul-Malik had been at the forefront of rewriting Awlaki’s history by publicly misrepresenting the extremism of the mosque’s former imam when he had served at Dar al-Hijrah.
More recently, he was again embroiled in controversy following comments made by one of his fellow imams advocating female genital mutilation (FGM) to prevent women from becoming sexually promiscuous during a sermon at Dar al-Hijrah.
After considerable public criticism and media scrutiny, Imam Abdul-Malik attempted to distance himself from the mosque by resigning his position. And yet he still continues to deliver sermons and attend banquets at Dar al-Hijrah.
Imam Abdul-Malik’s troubling associations don’t end there. He is still listed as a member of the executive committee and the governing shuracouncil of the Muslim Alliance in North America.
One of his fellow shura members, Luqman Amin Abdullah, was killed in a December 2009 shootout with the FBI, and another MANA official Jamil Abdullah al-Amin is currently serving a life sentence for the ambush killing of a Georgia sheriff’s deputy and the wounding of another.
Notwithstanding the extremist statements and associations of Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, don’t expect the local Columbus media to get too worked up over concerns about CAIR-Columbus’ upcoming fundraising event.
Former Ohio State Treasurer Josh Mandel was repeatedly attacked by the local media for calling out CAIR’s terror-supporting past and expressing concerns about the rise of Islamic extremism in the Buckeye State.
But the Central Ohio media’s incurious attitude with respect to CAIR and parroting their talking points doesn’t make the ongoing problem of terror attacks and arrests in the community go away.
Yet when the next terror-related incident occurs in the area, the evidence for the source of the extremism that fuels the problem will have been staring them in the face all along.
Patrick Poole is a writer for Islamist Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum.
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