Reader Justus Pierce was present at the open forum held last Friday night on "New Immigration Laws and Civil Rights in America" featuring representatives of the ACLU and members of the local Muslim community, including one of the two arrested local Imams. The following is his excellent must-read report.

Remarks noted at a meeting of the Muslim American Society (MAS, Boston Chapter) Friday, December 1st, 2006:

“It’s so dangerous when you talk to an FBI agent. They are there to trick you into saying things that will incriminate you.” –
Carl Takei, Board Member, American Civil Liberties Union, Massachusetts

“When they (the FBI or ICE agents) flash their badges and there are two of them and they say we want to talk with you, it takes a lot of courage to say ‘Im sorry I’m busy’ or ‘I’ll talk to you with my lawyer present’.
“You should practice that courage” (laughter from the audience).—
Jerry Friedman, Immigration Attorney, Partner in Kaplan, O’Sullivan and Friedman, Immigration Law Firm, Boston, Massachusetts

As the evening wore on with the obligatory cries of racism and islamophobia, it became clear that this was a workshop on how to avoid cooperating with America’s war on terror. The speakers on the dais included, among others, Imam Abdul Hannan of the Islamic Society of Greater Lowell (Massachusetts). The ISGL, like most Muslim centers in this country functions as a mosque, social center, place for Tafsir (Koranic exegesis) and Dada.(The Call to submit to Islam, often referred to as “Islam’s Invitation”). You may recall Mahmoud Ahmanidejad’s “Invitation” to George Bush:

Sura[3.64] Say : O followers of the Book! Come to an equitable proposition between us and you that we shall not serve any but Allah…

Such polite “invitations” have been issued by Muslims since the 7th century. Most of Muhammed’s earliest battles began with the “invitation” and most ended with genocide and enslavement. Declining RSVP’s may be hazardous to your health.

Bizarre as it may seem in our enlightened twenty first century, Dawah is alive and well, at times appearing like a wooly mammoth, retrieved from the frozen arctic thawing out quickly in our cities, awaking with an insatiable appetite for western societies. Mahmoud the Iranian Madman was closely following the Prophet Muhammad’s example by “inviting” the West to abandon liberalism and democracy and to recite the Shahada, the oath of submission to Allah. Whether issuing from the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran or from an imam of a Lowell, Ma mosque, the “invitation”, if refused, brings with it either military action to subjugate the invitee, or domination in the form of onerous tribute and subservience.

November 15th, 2006:
Two imams of Boston area mosques are arrested on charges of fraudulently providing religious worker visas to Muslim immigrants who used them to enter the United States for non-religious purposes.

Hafiz Abdul Hannan , imam of the Islamic Society of Greater Lowell in Chelmsford, and Muhammed Masood , imam of the Islamic Center of New England in Sharon, were among 33 people taken into custody nationwide after a multi-year investigation led by agents in Boston and New York.

November 17th, 2006
The ACLU Boston Civil Liberties Taskforce’s Nancy Murray leaps in to defend the two imams.

November 24, 2006
Masood and Hannan, his brother in law, are released on $7500.00 bail awaiting trial. Harvard University’s Pluralism Project celebrates their release.

All of this seems not particularly newsworthy were it not for the trailing information about Mr. Hannan. Besides being Mr. Masood’s brother in law, it seems that he is also someone else’s brother in law: Hafiz Saeed

Saeed is the leader of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), a Pakistani terrorist cell credited with masterminding the murder of Daniel Pearl with the help of Osama Bin Laden along with engineering many lethal attacks in Kashmir and India. He is currently under house arrest in Pakistan.

The plot gets thicker still. Mr. Hannan, also a native of Pakistan, used to work for one Mohammed Khalil, imam of the Dar Ehya Essunnah mosque in Brooklyn, New York. Imam Khalil is currently doing a long stretch for supplying fraudulent religious worker visas to some 200 Pakistanis. His mosque was disbanded. In the process he netted upwards of $600,000.00 for himself.

Imam Hannan, who had worked for Khalil for years told the audience that evening that Imam Khalil had made some “mistakes” but to make no connection between himself and Khalil. It would seem that Hannan had been hoodwinked by the Brooklyn imam.

The highlight of the evening came following attorney Takei’s and Friedman’s instructions not to cooperate with government investigators and to play the race card if arrested.

Imam Hannan then regaled the audience with an inspiring tale of Dawah. While languishing in the Suffolk County Jail, he weaned a number of “students” away from a Christian inmate who was reading the Bible to them. Hannan proclaimed that he had been the stronger preacher and succeeded in bringing them to the light of Islam through Dawah. When he left the prison, the formerly Christian “students” had embraced Islam and took the Shahada. He proudly exclaimed, “In that place the only thing that kept me going was Dawah!”

The audience went wild, shouting “Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar”

I glanced over at Attorney Friedman. When the shouts of the faithful rang out in the hall, his face noticeably reddened as he looked down meekly at his folded hands.

Dawah is where it’s at for the mujahideen. It will herald Sharia law and perhaps even a Caliphate of North America. They will use our system and all its democratic guarantees to subvert (a perfect use of the word) our world. And it would seem that they have willing and enthusiastic allies in the ACLU and in our “progressive” legal community.