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Dec 2015
Rabbi Matt Soffer visits Islamic Society of Boston
(installed at Judea Reform four years later in July 2019)
YouTube video: "Rabbi Matt Soffer - Healing
from Tragedy. Rabbi Burns Stanfield of the 4th
Presbyterian Church and President of the GBIO
joined our community for Jummua in show of solidarity."Oct 2015
Islamic Society of Boston hosts Islamists promoting violent ideology
"In October 2015, the Islamic Society of Boston (ISB) hosted a two-day
conference on behalf of the Qalam Institute... [speaker] Mufti Hussain
Kamani, has a history of expressing extremist statements.
ISB speaker, Hussain Kamani, has elsewhere... called upon God to
'reward the martyrs of Palestine'... in a pamphlet titled, ‘The Prophetic
Code'... cites Quranic verse... 'do not resemble the Jews.'"Sept 2014
New York Post reports that Ahmad Abousamra was “regular worshipper”
at the Islamic Society of Boston's mosques.
Abousamra was a key ISIL / ISIS official who was on the FBI’s ‘Most
Wanted’ list. In June 2015, the media reported Abousamra may have
been killed in an airstrike carried out by Iraq forces.
Abousamra is the son of Abdulbadi Abousamra, the vice-president of
the Muslim American Society’s Boston branch, which runs the ISB’s
Roxbury mosque.2011 to 2024
"Suhaib Webb served as the Imam of the ISB’s Roxbury mosque from
2011 to 2014. Webb has claimed that animosity toward Jews is
understandable... has described secularism as a 'radical, lunatic ideology.'
In addition, according to FBI surveillance documents, Webb spoke at a
dinner in 2001 alongside the late Al Qaeda leader, Anwar Al Awlaki, to raise
money for the legal defense of Jamil Abdullah Al Amin, who murdered two
police officers in Georgia."July 2012
BBC: "An American supporter of al-Qaeda has pleaded guilty to trying to
blow up the Pentagon and US Capitol with explosives-laden remote-controlled
model planes. US citizen Rezwan Ferdaus, 26, was arrested after a sting
operation in which federal officers posed as al-Qaeda members to supply
explosives."
Ferdaus was a congregant of the Islamic Society of Boston for about 6 months.March 2012
"In 2012, Yasir Qadhi spoke at the Islamic Society of Boston... In 2001, Qadhi
told an audience: 'The Hoax of the Holocaust, I advise you to read this book...
In 2008, Qadhi claimed to have renounced his anti-Semitism... however, Qadhi
expressed support for the Holocaust denier David Irving.
Qadhi is also a staff member at the terror-linked Al Maghrib Institute, where his
colleague... Abdullah Hakim Quick... called upon God to “clean and purify
Al-Aqsa from the filth of the Yahood [Jews].”April 2013
"Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev – the Boston marathon bombers.
Tamerlan died while attempting to flee from Boston police. In May
2015, Dzhokhar was sentenced to death by a federal court for his
role in the attacks. Both the Tsarnaev brothers worshipped at the
Islamic Society of Boston"June 2015
"Usaama Rahim – a Boston Muslim under round-the-clock
surveillance by an anti-terrorism task force. In June 2015,
Rahim was shot and killed by a Boston police officer and
an FBI agent after he lunged at them with a “military knife.”
Rahim had worked as a security guard at the ISB. His
brother, Ibrahim Rahim, is an imam who frequently spoke
at the Islamic Society of Boston"April 2013
"Ibragim Todashev – a friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was shot
by an FBI agent in 2013 after he attacked the officer. According to
ABC News, just before the attack, 'Todashev was on the verge of
signing a statement that implicated himself and Tamerlan Tsarnaev'
in a triple murder case of three men found dead in Massachusetts.
As with Matanov, Todashev met Tamerlan Tsarnaev at the Islamic
Society of Boston’s Cambridge mosque."March 2019
Judea Reform hosts "interfaith prayer service" at Islamic Association of Raleigh
(under an interim rabbi after Rabbi Larry Bach resigned in May 2018 due to
sexual misconduct)
Invitation: "An interfaith prayer service tonight, 6 pm, at Islamic Association of
Raleigh.
Please join us for an evening of healing, strength, solidarity and mutual
support as we gather to remember the victims and families of the
Christchurch terrorist attack."Oct 2023
Boston Imam Abdullah Faaruuq at Islamic Society of Boston
(via MEMRI):
"Israelis Are Not Jews, They Are Zionists; Saying They Are
Crazy Is Not Enough, Their Souls Are Tainted with the Evils
of Greed; All of Us Will Pay, If We Don’t Stop Them"Dec 2017
Syrian Imam Abdullah Khadra calls for violence against Jews in a speech
to an unknown Raleigh mosque
(Khrada spoke to the Islamic Association of Raleigh in 2015:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMgTkTfqpu4)
Cited an antisemitic hadith stating that at the End of Time, Muslims "will
fight those Jews until the rocks and the trees will speak". Explicitly
references a violent prophecy calling for Muslims to kill Jews, portraying
it as a religious duty"Nov 2023
Hirsham Sarsour at Islamic Association of Raleigh (via MEMRI)
Claimed most October 7 Israeli civilian deaths were
by "Israeli fire," not Hamas; said Hamas only targeted/killed
soldiers for "booty" and hostages; accused Zionists of
'spreading lies' while resistance posted 'achievements'" (copy)Oct 2022
Dana Al-Hasan at the Islamic Association of Raleigh (via MEMRI)
"Martyrdom And Dying For Your Land Are An Integral Part Of Palestinian
Culture; This Is An Important Religious And Cultural Element We Need
To Tell Non-Muslims About"Oct 2022
Imam Muamar Dahnoun at the Islamic Association of Raleigh (via MEMRI)
"Islamic Identity Is More Important Than One's Life; Palestinians Are
'Saviors' Of The Islamic Nation"July 2018
Dana Al-Hasan, a future Islamic Association of America speaker (in 2022),
posts violent imagery (then living in South Carolina)
"On July 1, 2018, AlHasan participated in a protest at the South Carolina
state house, wearing a shirt with an illustration of Leila Khaled holding
an assault rifle and the phrase: 'Resistance is not Terrorism.'"
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