Patrick Poole has an excellent article at Frontpage that details some of the family connections the "Immigration Imams" have both to each other, as well as to Pakistani terrorist leader Hafiz Muhammad Saeed (want to sign that petition now?): The Immigration Imams:
...none of the imams’ supporters made mention of the terrorism connections involved in this case. Not only was Hafiz Abdul Hannan an associate and former employee of convicted immigration smuggler and
jihadist preacher Muhammad Khalil, Hannan is also the brother-in-law of the notorious
Pakistani terrorist leader Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, who heads the al-Qaeda financed Jamaat al-Dawa. Saeed, known as the “pious murderer,†is responsible for launching suicide attacks against India’s Parliament House in 2001 and the killing of thousands of Indian soldiers over the past decade in what he claims is the “freedom struggle†to liberate the disputed Kashmir region from “Indian occupation.†Saeed’s operations in the region have come close to provoking nuclear war between India and Pakistan. And in addition to the involvement of Saeed’s entire family in Pakistan in the running of the Jamaat al-Dawa facilities, a
July 2002 report by the
Kashmir Times states that not only is his brother-in-law, Hannan, residing in the U.S., but so are two of Saeed’s brothers – one runs a mosque and another is obtaining a Ph.D. from an American university. Hannan, in addition to serving as imam of the Islamic Society of Greater Lowell’s Chelmsford mosque, is a Muslim chaplain for the state prison system and the Middlesex County Jail...
Miss Kelly has more musings on the case, here.
The petition to sign is here.
Update: Miss Kelly links to the Patrick Poole piece, as well as this VERY interesting article at the Daily Times of Pakistan. There are actually three Imams here in Massachusetts related to one another and Al Qaeda's Saeed: Hafiz Saeed’s relatives under check in US
Two imams recently arrested for visa violations and released on bail in Boston are related to Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, founder of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, now operating as Jamaat-ud-Dawa...
...The two imams, Hafiz Muhammad Hannan and Hafiz Muhammad Masood are relations of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Masood being his brother and Hannan being his brother in law. Masood is an imam at the Islamic Centre of New England, Sharon, Massachusetts, while Hannan is an imam at the Islamic Society of Greater Lowell, Massachusetts. Hamid is an imam at the Islamic Society of Greater Worcester, Massachusetts. Masood’s son, Hassan was also arrested. Another member of the family, Imam Hafiz Mahmood Hamid is the brother of both Hafiz Saeed and Hafiz Masood...
Just because the media happens to blame a relative for being a terrorist doesn't mean that the rest of the family should be held accountable.