According to their web site, IMAN (Inner-City Muslim Action Network) receives funding from the city of Chicago and the Federal government.
City of Chicago Department of the Environment
Chicago Department of Housing and Economic Development
Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity
United States Department of Agriculture
Should there be a separation of mosque and state as there is a separation of church and state?
Should taxpayer money be used to promote religion?
Likewise, should government agencies promote Islam?
Luby Ismail- Founder, Connecting Cultures, LLC
Clients of CC include:
Government Agencies include the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Federal Judicial Center, DC Federal Court, Food and Drug Administration, Foreign Agricultural Service, Foreign Service Institute, AmeriCorps, Brookhaven National Laboratories, African American Labor Center, Amtrak, and Freddie Mac.
Military and law enforcement clients include the Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force Academy, the U.S. Marines Law Enforcement, the FBI, the Transportation Security Administration, the Michigan National Guard, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Aisha Rahman- Executive Director, Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights
Saafir Rabb II-CEO, Interculture, who is also from the Islamic Center in Baltimore, MD.
The Mosque has been an Islamist stronghold.
The mosque was led for over a decade by an Imam who justified suicide bombings in some circumstances and who helped found a mosque with ties to Al Qaeda.
The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)–which has been declared a terrorist organization in the United Arab Emirates and was named by federal prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation’s Hamas-funding operation.
Numerous members of the Baltimore Islamic Center have Islamist terror ties.
Mohamad Adam el-Sheikh
Mohamad Adam el-Sheikh, a native of Sudan and former member of the Muslim Brotherhood, led the institution for eighteen years as its Imam.
Before becoming Imam there, el-Sheikh helped found the Muslim American Society, an outfit created by Muslim Brotherhood members.
In 2004, he told the Washington Post, commenting on Palestinian suicide bombers: “If certain Muslims are to be cornered where they cannot defend themselves, except through these kinds of means, and their local religious leaders issued fatwas to permit that, then it becomes acceptable as an exceptional rule, but should not be taken as a principle.”
El-Sheikh also helped found the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque, which was once led by the deceased infamous Al Qaeda terrorist Anwar Al Awlaki.
When he left the Islamic Society of Baltimore, El Sheikh became the Imam of Dar Al-Hijrah, following Awlaki’s escape from the U.S. after the September 11 attacks.
The Dar Al-Hijrah mosque was founded thanks, in part, to a large grant from Saudi Arabia’s Embassy in the United States, which allowed for the large facility to accommodate some 5,000 Muslims.
Likewise, the associated mosque of the Baltimore Center, is connected to several Islamist terrorists.
Likewise, the associated mosque of the Baltimore Center, is connected to several Islamist terrorists.
Dar Al-Hijrah, which is located right outside Washington, D.C., is connected to several high-profile Islamic terrorists who prayed there, including Major Nidal Hassan – the Ft. Hood massacre jihadi, two September 11 hijackers, and an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
El-Sheikh was also the former Baltimore regional director of the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA), which the U.S. Treasury Department later designated a specially designated global terrorist group for its support of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
While in Baltimore, el-Sheikh served as a regional director for the Islamic American Relief Agency. That group’s parent organization is the Islamic African Relief Agency, which the Treasury Department says provided funds to Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, Hamas and other terrorist organizations.
After leaving Baltimore, el-Sheikh served as imam at the infamous Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church. That mosque has a lengthy roster of known terrorists and terrorist sympathizers. Its imam during much of the 1990s was Mohammed al-Hanooti. He was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six people.
Dar al-Hijrah came under the control of Anwar al-Awlaki in 2001. He’s the American al-Qaeda recruiter who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2011. Nidal Hasan, the U.S. Army major who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in Nov. 2009, is said to have attended the Virginia mosque when al-Awlaki served there. The pair also reportedly exchanged emails. Two of the 9/11 hijackers also attended Dar al-Hijrah during al-Awlaki’s tenure.
Should American schools promote ideas formed by Islamists, terrorists, and bigots?
Moreover, tolerance does not appear to be a virtue shared by ISB’s resident scholar, Yaseen Shaikh.
A 2013 Youtube video shows Shaikh, who previously served as imam at a mosque in Plano, Tex., speaking out forcefully against homosexuality in Islam.
Islamist sermon against homosexuality.
During an hour long diatribe, Shaikh called homosexuality a psychological disorder that has no place in Islam or society. He also lamented that gay rights groups have “hijacked” political discourse.
“This whole subject of homosexuality in the public sphere…is no longer a religious issue, unfortunately, as much as we want to use the religious card and try to defeat this, now it’s become a politicized issue,” Shaikh says in the video.
“Politicians are highly influenced by people who back them, and we find that these politicians who are calling for gay rights and marriage and supporting gay rights are lobbied and campaigned by gay activists, by gay groups. And they are throwing money at it left and right to gain some acceptance in society, to be considered normal people, to be treated normally.”
“We have to counter the efforts that are taking place elsewhere,” Sheikh says in the video, advising that “if our children are taught that [homosexuality is] okay, we have to teach them it’s not okay.”
The Baltimore center and mosque are associated with anti-homosexual prejudice, the 9/11 terrorists, and violent Islamists.Should American schools promote ideas formed by Islamists, terrorists, and bigots?
Dalia Mogahed- Director of Research, Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2428
Mogahed supports Islamist organizations: Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), the Muslim American Society (MAS) and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) as well.
Should American school children be taught by Islamists such as Mogahed?
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2428
Mogahed supports Islamist organizations: Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), the Muslim American Society (MAS) and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) as well.
Should American school children be taught by Islamists such as Mogahed?
Mark Sageman – Author, Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the 21st Century
Eli Clifton - Co–Author, Fear Inc: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America
Erin Miller – Program Manager, Global Terrorism Database
Tarek Elghwary – CEO, Coexist Foundation
Imam Mohammad Magid – Imam, ADAMS Center
Tarek El-Messidi – Founder, Celebrate Mercy
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Executive Producers – Alex Kronemer, Michael Wolfe
Producer– Daniel Tutt
Producer– Jawaad Abdul Rahman
Production Coordinator – Faiza El-Hibri
UPM – Jeremy Morrison
Director of Photography – Nick Gardner, Jeremy Hall
Gaffer – Steve Scott
1st AC – Jason Remeikis, Sunil Davadanam
2nd AC – Matthew MacIntyre
Grip – Danny Balsamo, Ashley Bensel
Sound Recordist – Alex Jennings
Makeup – Jessie, D’Angelo, Christine Wasilewski
Foundation for IntelligentExecutive Producers – Alex Kronemer, Michael Wolfe
Producer– Daniel Tutt
Producer– Jawaad Abdul Rahman
Production Coordinator – Faiza El-Hibri
UPM – Jeremy Morrison
Director of Photography – Nick Gardner, Jeremy Hall
Gaffer – Steve Scott
1st AC – Jason Remeikis, Sunil Davadanam
2nd AC – Matthew MacIntyre
Grip – Danny Balsamo, Ashley Bensel
Sound Recordist – Alex Jennings
Makeup – Jessie, D’Angelo, Christine Wasilewski
Inner-City Muslim Action Network
According to their web site, IMAN receives funding from the city of Chicago and the Federal government.
City of Chicago Department of the Environment
Chicago Department of Housing and Economic Development
Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity
United States Department of Agriculture
Jessica Censotti - Censotti Communications IMANA Medical Relief SaveSmile Mission in Sudan Islamic Medical Association of North America
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