Wednesday, November 17, 2010
I wanted to draw your attention to a new web site monitoring the goings-on in our neighboring state of New Hampshire: The People of the Book. This should be an important resource.
For instance, if you were wondering what ever happened to one of the "Immigration Imams," Abdul Hannan (Imam Masood was deported), well, he's landed on his feet up north:
Abdul Hannan, an immigrant gas station attendant turned imam was serving as imam at ISGL in Chelmsford, MA but was recently "scrubbed" from the site. Abdul is currently listed as the Imam of Manchester's future cultural center. He is married to the sister of Mohammad Saeed, the man who co-founded Lashkar e Toiba (LeT), the Pakistani terrorist organization responsible for the Mumbai terror attacks. He says the Koran is, "the most miraculous book that you can find in the whole universe," thankfully, in the same article, he does not "tolerate terrorist tactics."
Abdul served time in jail in 2002 and in 2006. For his second stint in jail, he was as one of the immigration imams. At the time, he told the prison guards "you don't know who you are dealing with." Abdul also has had ties in the past with the Muslim American Society (MAS), a front organization for the radical Muslim Brotherhood...
See the site for more (including embedded links in the above quote).
In related news, there's also a site doing similar work out in Western Mass providing data on what's going on out there: New England Town Crier