Nidal Malik Hasan in 2003 |
The suspected Fort Hood terrorist's former mosque in Maryland is controlled
by the radical Muslim Brotherhood, a Saudi-funded worldwide jihadist
movement which controls many of the mosques in America.
Conventional wisdom holds that Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan
"self-radicalized" without any help from the Muslim establishment before
allegedly shooting 46 fellow soldiers and security guards, and murdering 13
of them at the sprawling Texas base.
Witnesses say the devout Muslim officer jumped up on a desk and shouted,
"Allahu akbar!" – Allah is greatest – before opening fire and spraying
more than 100 bullets inside a crowded building where troops prepared to
deploy to Afghanistan and Iraq.
However, WND has learned that the Maryland mosque where Hasan worshiped
before his transfer to Fort Hood preaches violent jihad and a harsh
Saudi-style Islamic doctrine that denies women the right to individual
expression.
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Imam Faizul Khan ministered to Hasan when he worshiped at the Muslim
Community Center in Silver Spring, Md. Khan has been portrayed in the media
as a moderate, but he sits on the national
board of directors of the radical Islamic Society of North America, or
ISNA.
Federal prosecutors recently named ISNA as an unindicted terrorist
co-conspirator in the largest terror finance case in U.S. history. ISNA,
they say, is a front group for the Muslim Brotherhood, parent of Hamas and
al-Qaida.
"ISNA has a long and disgraceful record of promoting radical Islam," says
Islamic scholar and author Stephen Schwartz, a practicing Sufi Muslim.
The Brotherhood, which supports violent jihad and Islamic rule, is the
subject of the bestselling new book, "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret
Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America."
Khan recently was replaced as head prayer leader by Mohamed Abdullahi Sheikh
Mohamed, who also knew Hasan. "He was not violent; he seemed calm," Mohamed
said of the suspected terrorist. "I was shocked."
He added: "Islam is not responsible."
Mohamed studied Islam at the Muslim Brotherhood–controlled Al-Azhar
University in Cairo, Egypt, world headquarters of the dangerous Brotherhood.
He also holds a degree in Shariah law from the National Somali University in
Mogadishu, Somalia.
The Muslim Community Center has held fundraisers for Chechen jihadists,
and promotes on its website a Shariah-based financial product offered by a
Muslim Brotherhood front group under federal investigation.
The mosque distributes a pamphlet on Islam that says "it is permissible to
fight" in jihad "warfare." It also requires women to wear headscarves.
"When leaving the home, a Muslim woman must at least cover her hair and body
in loose and unrevealing clothing, obscuring the details of her body from
the public; some also choose to cover their face and hands," the mosque
pamphlet advises. "Islam forbids any sex appeal."
Hasan, the American-born son of Palestinian immigrants, refused to have his
picture taken with women.
His longtime mosque also forbids charging any amount of interest on a loan,
calling such Western transactions a "gross violation of God's law."
The pamphlet, titled "Islam Is ...", is authored by Abu Yunus, an officer
of the Saudi-based Al-Haramain Foundation, a suspected charitable front for
terrorism. He recently was indicted by the Justice Department for terror financing.
Before attending Muslim Community Center, Hasan worshiped with his mother
at the ultra-radical Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Va. While
there in 2001, he worshiped alongside some of the hijackers who attacked
the Pentagon on 9/11.
He reportedly came under the spell of the mosque's imam Anwar al-Awlaki, who
ministered privately to the hijackers.
Witnesses at Fort Hood say Hasan's eyes "lit up" when discussing al-Awlaki's
teachings, which include graphic descriptions of carnal pleasures and
rewards in paradise awaiting jihadi martyrs who fight infidels in the cause
of Allah. Hasan, 39, was unmarried.
U.S. intelligence now believes the American-born al-Awlaki, who after 9/11 fled
to Yemen, is one of al-Qaida's top spiritual advisers and recruiters.
The Senate, led by Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., plans to investigate how the
Army missed numerous warning signs about Hasan's radical views.
"The murders of these 13 people was a terrorist act and, in fact, it was the most destructive terrorist act to be committed on American soil since 9/11,"
remarked Lieberman, who heads the Senate's Homeland Security and Government
Affairs Committee.
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