ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF BOSTON (ISB)

Here is Discover the Networks (DTN) profile on radical Islam in Boston by examining the Islamic Society of Boston (ISB). Why is it important to become aware of the ISB? It is important because the Boston Marathon Bombers the Tsarnaev brothers attended there.

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ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF BOSTON (ISB)

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Email Alert sent: April 30, 2013 at 2:08 PM

204 Prospect St.
Cambridge MA 02139

Phone: (617) 876-3546
URL: http://islamicsocietyofboston.org/

The Islamic Society of Boston (ISB) was established in 1981 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to help local Muslims “preserve their Islamic identity” and “observe their obligations as Muslims.” Promoting “a comprehensive and balanced view” of Islam's “universal and timeless” teachings, ISB “strive[s] to embody the 'middle path' to which the Qur’an calls—a path of moderation that is free of extremism.”

ISB was founded by Abdurahman Alamoudi, a supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah who is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence on terrorism charges. One of ISB’s original trustees (for at least 19 years) was Yusuf al-Qaradawi, spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. At ISB's Cambridge library in 2003, an official of the interfaith group Americans for Peace and Tolerance found a number of jihadi texts as well as writings by the late Muslim Brotherhood leader Sayyid Qutb, who pioneered the ideology that Islamic terror groups like al Qaeda embrace today.

ISB's Cambridge mosque is operated by the Muslim American Society, which federal prosecutors have identified as a U.S. front for the Muslim Brotherhood. In 2009, ISB members founded a sister mosque, known as the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center (ISBCC), in Boston's Roxbury section. Saudi funding sources supplied more than half of the $15.5 million that was used to create the new facility. Also key to ISBCC's successful launch was Boston Mayor Thomas Menino's decision to make available, for a small fraction of market value, the land on which the Cultural Center was to be built.

ISB's Cambridge and Boston mosques are both owned by the Islamic Society of Boston Trust. Sheik Basyouny Nehela, who serves as Imam of the Cambridge mosque, is a board-of-directors member of its Boston-based counterpart.

Over the years, a significant number of ISB figures (in addition to the aforementioned Abdurahman Alamoudi) have been implicated in terrorist and/or extremist activities and affiliations. For example:

o   FBI surveillance documents show that two days before the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks, Suhaib Webb, Imam of ISB's Boston mosque, joined al-Qaeda operative Anwar Awlaki in headlining a fundraiser on behalf of the Atlanta-based Muslim extremist Jamil al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown), who had recently murdered two police officers in Georgia.

o   Aafia Siddiqui, who occasionally prayed at ISB's Cambridge mosque, was arrested in Afghanistan in 2008 while in possession of cyanide canisters and plans to carry out a chemical attack in New York City. Siddiqui subsequently tried to gun down some U.S. military officers and FBI agents, and is now serving an 86-year prison sentence for that offense.

o   Tarek Mehanna, who worshipped at ISB's Cambridge mosque, received terrorist training in Yemen and plotted to use automatic weapons to inflict mass casualties in a suburban shopping mall just outside of Boston. In 2012 he was sentenced to 17 years in prison for conspiring to aid al Qaeda.

o   Anwar Kazmi, a member of the ISB Cambridge mosque's board of trustees, publicly called for leniency toward Siddiqui and Mehanna at a Boston rally in February 2012.

o   Jamal Badawi, a former trustee of the Islamic Society of Boston Trust (which owns both ISB mosques), was named as an un-indicted co-conspirator in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation terrorism trial that investigated illegal fundraising efforts which had been made in behalf of Hamas.

o   Yasir Qadhi, who lectured at ISB's Boston mosque in 2009 and again in 2012, advocates replacing American democracy with Sharia Law; characterizes Christians as “filthy” polytheists whose “life and prosperity … holds no value in the state of Jihad”; asserts that most modern Jews are descended from the Khazars and thus have no legal or historical claim to Israel; and accuses Jews of plotting to destroy Muslim peoples and societies. Further, Qadhi is an acolyte of Ali al-Timimi, a Virginia-based Imam who is currently serving life in prison for inciting jihad against U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

o   Imam Abdullah Faaruuq, who has occasionally served as a spokesman for ISB's Boston mosque, alleges that the USA Patriot Act permits American authorities to round up and arrest Muslims at will, even without evidence of criminal wrongdoing.

o   Walid Fitaihi, a current ISB trustee, says that Jews are the “rapers of the worshippers of Allah” and should be scourged.

o   Oussama Ziade, a leading financial supporter of ISB's Boston mosque, was indicted in July 2009 for taking cash from al Qaeda fundraiser Yassin Kadi.

ISB made headlines in the spring of 2013, when it was reported that Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Chechen Muslim brothers who detonated a pair of deadly bombs at the Boston Marathon on April 15, had occasionally attended worship services at ISB's Cambridge mosque. In the aftermath of the bombing, ISB advised its members: “If you get contacted by the FBI [in connection with its bombing investigation] ... [y]ou have the right to legal representation. Please contact the ACLU—they have lawyers in the legal department who are present and ready to talk to you.”

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Radical Islamic Chaplain at Northeastern Must Go!

Abdullah Faaruuq

I received an email that talks about Radical Islam on the campus of Northeastern University in Massachusetts. The email is from Charles Jacobs of Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT).

This kind Radical Muslim infiltration in American government and American Universities is becoming more common in America, yet the Mainstream Media and police authorities on levels – Federal, State and Local – are largely ignoring the homegrown radicalization of Islam while looking primarily for Islamic terrorist plots from abroad.

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Radical Islamic Chaplain at Northeastern Must Go!

By Charles Jacobs

Sent: August 23, 2012 1:46 PM

Americans for Peace and Tolerance

We will soon be releasing a video expose on Imam Abdullah Faaruuq, the official Muslim chaplain at Northeastern University who may be steeping Northeastern's Muslim students in radical Islamic extremism.

Here is our column explaining the issue, published in the Boston Jewish Advocate.

 

Stay tuned,

 

Charles Jacobs

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The Jewish Advocate

Has NU done its homework on Islamic extremism?

Charles Jacobs

Written with Ilya Feokstisov

Back in March, Northeastern University's president, Joseph E. Aoun, was appointed to an academic board that advises the Department of Homeland Security on how American universities can contribute to antiterrorism efforts. Aoun told The Boston Globe: "We need more research and training related to security." Ironically, Aoun's own Northeastern campus may be an appropriate place for him to start.

Perhaps we can help: Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT) will soon release a 10-minute video documenting Islamic radicalism at Northeastern. Based on several months of research, the video will describe a culture of extremism residing at Northeastern's officially sanctioned and financially supported Muslim student group, the Islamic Society of Northeastern University (ISNU).

The campus group has received thousands of dollars in funding from Boston's Roxbury mega-mosque run by the Muslim American Society (MAS), a group federal authorities describe as an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood. The ISNU is headed by the university's Muslim chaplain, Abdullah Faaruuq, who is closely associated with the Roxbury mosque.

Two Muslim students who attended Northeastern and who had ties to the Roxbury mosque have been charged with terror plots. Two other convicted terrorists from Boston are being actively supported by Faaruuq and Northeastern's Muslim students.

*Rezwan Ferdaus, a 2008 Northeastern University physics grad who frequented the Roxbury mosque, described himself to undercover FBI agents as a fan of Al Qaeda and was arrested in 2011 for a plot to attack the Capitol building and the Pentagon.

*Tarek Mehanna, who was convicted and sent to prison for 17 1/2 years for providing material support to Al Qaeda and conspiring to kill Americans. At the time of his arrest in 2009, the FBI alleged that he and others plotted to attack a mall in North Attleboro in an automatic assault rifle rampage similar to the Mumbai attacks in India. Before his arrest, he would frequently give classes on Islam at Northeastern for ISNU's evening "Deen and Dine" programs.

*Ahmad Abusamra, another Northeastern graduate and son of the Roxbury mosque's former vice president, was indicted together with Mehanna and is now a fugitive in Syria.

*Aafia Siddiqui - an MIT student who prayed at Imam Faaruuq's mosque near the Northeastern campus and became his friend - had been the most wanted woman on FBI's list of Al Qaeda terrorists and was caught with plans for a chemical attack on New York City. She was sentenced in 2010 to 86 years for attempted murder of FBI agents in Afghanistan.

Faaruuq has been publicly campaigning on behalf of Siddiqui and Mehanna. The chaplain praised Siddiqui for trying to shoot FBI agents in Afghanistan, telling worshippers at a mosque in Worcester in 2011: "They say that she took up a machine gun while they held her captive in the other room... What a brave woman she is. What a brave woman she continues to be, and how much her bravery and her faith and her belief, warrant our support at this time."

In 2010, Faaruuq told a group at a mosque in Allston to be brave in supporting Tarek Mehanna and Siddiqui because after the US government is done with them it could come after other area Muslims. Referring to Boston, he read from the Quran: "Rescue us from this town, whose people are our oppressors." For years, the extremist nature of Northeastern's Muslim student organization has been clear for anyone to see. Until 2010, when we first began exposing Faaruuq, the ISNU Web site openly recommended a reading list to Northeastern's Muslim students that included much of the main canon of modern Jihadist ideology. Among the suggested authors was Yusef Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood who for years was listed as trustee of the Roxbury mega-mosque and on multiple occasions has called for the murder of Jews and homosexuals. How Northeastern's administration officials ignored the promotion of his views by their Muslim student group is unfathomable.

The same can be said of another recommended author, Sayyid Qutb, whose book "Milestones" calls for Muslims to hate the West and to refuse to accept Western values like the emancipation of women.

In the 1990s, Faaruuq's mosque, which is on Shawmut Avenue near Northeastern, housed CARE International, designated and shut down by the federal government as an Al Qaeda fundraising front in 2002.

Northeastern's radical Muslim leadership joins in the campus's anti-Israel activities. In 2011, the Spiritual Life Center at Northeastern hosted a talk by the virulently anti-Semitic son of Jewish Holocaust survivors, Norman Finkelstein.

In his speech, Finkelstein denied the true number of Jews killed in the Holocaust, accused Jews of being too rich and claimed that Israel is behaving like the Nazis. Sitting in the front row and wearing keffiyahs were some of the center's faculty, including Faaruuq, who joined the others in a standing ovation at the conclusion of Finkelstein's talk.

The Jewish students were appalled that the religious leaders at Northeastern would so enthusiastically support open anti-Semitism. Their complaints about the Spiritual Life Center and the subsequent investigation by Northeastern resulted in organizational changes at the center.

It is the Muslim students of Northeastern, however, who may be the biggest victims of extremists in positions of influence on campus. Faaruuq may well be exerting a strong radical influence on young and impressionable students. Yet, to date, the administration of Northeastern has failed to remove Faaruuq from his position as Muslim chaplain.

In response to emailed concerns raised about Faaruuq in 2011, Madeleine Estabrook, interim vice president for student affairs, wrote: "We are aware of concerns about our Muslim chaplain, Imam Abdullah Faaruuq, based on various Web site accounts. However, our interactions with the Imam have been reasonable and appropriate." We're speechless.

Northeastern University should remove Faaruuq from its Office of Spiritual Life, appoint a truly moderate Muslim chaplain, and fully investigate Islamic extremist activity on its campus.

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APT Mission

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Americans for Peace and Tolerance is a Boston-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to promoting peaceful coexistence in a ethnically diverse America by educating the American public about the need for a moderate political leadership that supports tolerance and core American values in communities across the nation.

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Americans for Peace and Tolerance is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization composed of concerned citizens, academics, and community activists. As Christians, Moslems, and Jews, we are united by the need to keep America hate-free. We believe peaceful coexistence among diverse ethnic populations is only possible if we promote  a climate of tolerance and civil society.

Americans for Peace and Tolerance is headed by Dr. Charles Jacobs, named by the Forward as one of America’s top 50 Jewish leaders. Jacobs has founded and led several highly successful organizations characterized by groundbreaking ideas and initiatives. In 1989, Jacobs co-founded the Boston branch of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America. In 1993, together with Muslim and Christian Africans, Jacobs founded the American Anti-Slavery Group, dedicated to bringing international attention to the enslavement of black Africans in Sudan. For his efforts, Jacobs was presented with the Boston Freedom Award by Coretta Scott King and the Mayor of Boston.

I n 2002, Jacobs co-founded The David Project, which has since grown into a premier international educational institute that works to bolster the Jewish community’s response to the ideological assault on Israel with educational programs, advocacy training, and easy to implement campaigns on campuses, in high schools, churches, the media, and in the general community.

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