Agents expose Islamic leader’s insurrectionism
Imam Siraj Wahhaj of the mosque Masijid Taqwa in New York, told Atlanta TV news interview viewers recently his literature and statements from decades ago do not reflect his current views.
In numerous references to America and “shatan,” Wahhaj had said the nation should fall to Islam, and America was “the most evil government on the face of this earth.”
“If that man were speaking and I sat in the audience, I would disagree – I do not believe America is by-and-large of the devil or a friend of devils,” he said.
In the past, Wahhaj said the pattern for Muslims is to fight for Islam, and that would make violent jihad a matter of martyrdom – were the September 11, 2001, attacks justified jihad?
“Wrong, wrong – wrong, they did not have justification to do it,” Wahhaj responded, “In my opinion, they are not martyrs, they are murderers…they have a reward in Hell fire.”
He said he would like to have prior statements, literature and video copies of his teaching pulled from the shelves of shops like An Nur Books in Atlanta. But that’s just one side of his story.
David Yerushalmi of the Society of Americans for National Existence said he has exposed fundamentalist Islam as insurrection in violation of federal law, and Wahhaj is on his watch list.
“He feigned shock,” Yerushalmi said in a PRB News interview. “Apparently, he has not learned…enough to go back to his own mosque to cleanse [it] of the same type of literature.”
Wahhaj notes he is “a tireless supporter of Islamic causes” and since his 1969 conversion to Islam, he has trained to become an Imam and is now an international speaker on Islam.
Yerushalmi said Wahhaj is just one of a vast majority of Islamic leaders who are divulging evidence to under-cover agents about their insurrectionism.
Yerushalmi is turning that evidence over to federal and local authorities, but the response has been feeble.
“We are sending counterterrorism intelligence experts who speak Arabic, Urdu and Farsi into mosques and Islamic day schools to collect data,” Yerushalmi said.
They have evidence of terrorist cell groups forming and of terrorist networks in place, but “The federal authorities are brain dead to this issue,” he added.
Field agents know what’s going on, and local law enforcement authorities are “scared to death,” and “shocked” by the evidence his team is showing them.
Yerushalmi said Wahhaj demonstrates a typical change of tune following September 11, 2001. “They have tempered down the message but Shari’a Islamic law demands chauvinism,” he said.
When alone with someone figured to be a confidential comrade for Islam, Imams are putting out their true intentions of an insurrection to take America by force.
Wahhaj said in the TV interview, “I don’t carry weapons, and I tell my followers not to carry weapons.”
Yet he is a believer in fundamentalist, Shari’a Islam, Yerushalmi countered. “Shari’a Islam demands that they pursue this with every fiber of their being, so they pursue it,” he said.
So the literature and teachings remain in effect as the message multiplies, Yerushalmi said, as taught in an estimated 70 to 80-percent of America’s 2,300 major Islamic centers.
Wahhaj was an “un-indicted co-conspirator in the case of the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, and sits on the board of CAIR, the Center for American Islamic Relations.
In 1991, Wahhaj delivered the daily prayer at the U.S. House of Representatives, reciting from the Qur’an and praying for “righteousness and wisdom.”
A year later, Wahhaj told a New Jersey Islamic group that Muslims should be “more clever” about taking over the U.S., replacing the Constitutional Republic with Islam.
“If we were united and strong, we’d elect our own emir and give allegiance to him,” he said. “If 6-8 million Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us.”