As-Sabiqun

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Abdul Alim Musa, Circa 2007

“The American ship is going down. And it’s clowns like that that’s driving it down. We don’t have to do nothing. Just step back, pray, fast, do good deeds, and stuff like that. And let that guy go…When he finishes, nobody will love, nobody will trust, and nobody will believe anything coming from the United States of America.”Dan Morse, “Case Against Ex-Guard Brings Scrutiny of D.C. Imam,” Washington Post, September 19, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/18/AR2007091802154.html.

Abdul Alim Musa, October 5, 2006

Asserting that 9/11 was a conspiracy perpetrated by the Americans: “We got to get rid of this new Hitler…Just like Hitler burned the Reichstag…to gain full power over the people…George Bush brings down the World Trade Center, blames it on us [Muslims] and then claims himself dictator over the world. So we're here to say it's all over for George.”“Sabiqun and Anti-Semitism on Campus,” Anti-Defamation League, September 11, 2009, http://archive.adl.org/main_anti_israel/sabiqun_anti-semitismc089.html#.VWhmbM9Viko.

Abdul Alim Musa, Interview in the San Francisco Bay View, January 2004

“When 9/11 happened, the only people who understood it really was Black people. They know that when you have an election-stealing president that has no credibility, he needs something to make him presidential. If you remember before 9/11, the big conference they held in Durban, South Africa, Black people was [sic] attuned to Zionism is racism- we know that as a people. Amerikkka (original spelling) needed something to take them off of the most-hated list, but it never worked.” (Interview in the San Francisco Bay View)“Sabiqun and Anti-Semitism on Campus,” Anti-Defamation League, September 11, 2009, http://archive.adl.org/main_anti_israel/sabiqun_anti-semitismc089.html#.VWhmbM9Viko.

Abdul Alim Musa, Al-Sabiqun newsletter, March 2002

In reference to the U.S.: “the united forces of kufr [non-believers]…the criminal constitutional dictatorship of the USA.” (Al-Sabiqun newsletter)“Sabiqun and Anti-Semitism on Campus,” Anti-Defamation League, September 11, 2009, http://archive.adl.org/main_anti_israel/sabiqun_anti-semitismc089.html#.VWhmbM9Viko.

Abdul Alim Musa, Speech at University of California, Irvine, September 9, 2001

Paraphrasing Jamil Al-Amin a.k.a. H. Rap Brown, prominent Black Panther and convert to Islam: “If you don't stay out of our way and leave us alone, we're going to burn America down.” (Speech at University of California, Irvine)Dan Morse, “Case Against Ex-Guard Brings Scrutiny of D.C. Imam,” Washington Post, September 19, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/18/AR2007091802154.html.

Abdul Alim Musa, Speaking at an event organization by Jamaat al-Muslimeen in Baltimore, 2000

“Islam went everywhere in the [ancient] world…so why can't Islam take over America…We are on the right road.” (Speaking at an event organization by Jamaat al-Muslimeen in Baltimore)“Sabiqun and Anti-Semitism on Campus,” Anti-Defamation League, September 11, 2009, http://archive.adl.org/main_anti_israel/sabiqun_anti-semitismc089.html#.VWhmbM9Viko.

Abdul Alim Musa, Early 2000s

In reference to holding up a check made out to “Hamas, Palestine” at a rally in 1999: “I would love to have a case in court with the FBI. I would love for them to arrest me on any trumped-up charges. I tried to get a case several years ago. We had a demonstration. I waved a check for Hamas, cashier’s check, by the way. And I said, ‘I’m donating this to Hamas.’ Then I waited for them to arrest me. They didn’t arrest me. So I put the thing back in the bank.”Dan Morse, “Case Against Ex-Guard Brings Scrutiny of D.C. Imam,” Washington Post, September 19, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/18/AR2007091802154.html.

Abdul Alim Musa, Speech to the Associated Students of the University of Washington and the Black Students Commission, 1990

“Yahuds [Jews] are the enemies of humanity.” (Speech to the Associated Students of the University of Washington and the Black Students Commission)Benjamin Ginsberg, The Fatal Embrace: Jews and the State (University of Chicago Press, 1999), 164.

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