Al-Maghrib and ILMFest

Muslims held an IlmFest at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, Washington January 11, 2015. This was an effort of the AlMaghrib Institute of Houston, Texas to promote Islam and defuse criticism of their faith, lead by Shaykh Waleed Basyouni and Shaykh Yasir Qadhi and many other speakers with degrees from universities in Saudi Arabia. Al-Maghrib (an Arabic term for the west, once described North Africa, the Moors) has a history of Wahhabi extremism and connection to the Muslim Brotherhood through Al-Ahzar University in Cairo, according to Frontpage Magazine. Its founder, Muhammead Alshreef, a Canadian, was educated in Saudi Arabia at the University of Medina and has a degree in shari'a.

Yasir Qadhi teaches in the Religion Studies Department of Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee and can be found on Youtube desperately trying to explain away the crisis of faith many young Muslims are having in view of all the publicity Islam is getting as a result of worldwide terrorism. He made a name for himself in a tirade he made regarding the television special entitled Undercover Mosque in which the teaching of many extremists in the UK were secretly videotaped and aired. Qadhi has taught curriculum speaking loudly against Sufi Muslims and Al-Maghrib has not been shy about their disdain for Jews and the Christian Kufar as well. According to an article by Patrick Poole, Al-Maghrib, is known for teaching holocaust denial and jihad and they have blamed the supposed Jewish media for many of their woes, while spreading their ideological cancer through lectures on the internet and in mosques around the world.

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Mohammed killed by a Woman!

The death of Mohammed is rarely discussed, and it turns out it is a rather embarrassing topic. After Mohammed had besieged the Jewish community of Khaibar in June of 628 and his followers killed quite a number of the residents in battle a treaty was negotiated.

A woman named Zeynab, whose husband had been among those slain, prepared a meal for the prophet as a gift. Mohammed along with one of his friends named Bishr Ibn al-Bara ate a shoulder of lamb she had prepared. Bishr tasted poison in the meat but said nothing because the prophet who had divine guidance from Allah was eating it and said nothing until it was too late. Soon it was realized that they had been poisoned and in a day or two Bishr was dead. Zeynab was dragged before the prophet and interrogated. She explained that because her husband, an uncle and father had been killed by Mohammed's clan she wanted to rid the world of their killer. If he was indeed a prophet she reasoned he would not be harmed. She was handed over to Bishr's family who murdered her.

As a result, according to Muslim sources, Mohammed suffered much pain for the next four years then died. So not only did Allah not reveal to Mohammed about the plot, nor protect him and his friend, but he was put down by not only a woman but a Jewish one at that.

Bukhari 2:617, 3:786, 5:713
Ibn Saad Vol 2, pp 249-252
Tabari 8, pp. 123-124

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Muhammad's hatred for the Jews is clearly seen in the Quran

Jihad and the Rifle Alone

We interviewed a young black man with a white embroidered scull-cap, or takiah (“piety”), at the final Ramadan service in San Diego, California in 2001, where there were 7,000 Muslims. He wore a denim jacket with the words “JIHAD AND THE RIFLE ALONE, NO Negotiations! NO Conferences! NO Dialogue!” embroidered in yellow on his back. It is a quote from the book Join the Caravan, a popular book written by the late Shiek Abdullah Azzam.¹ When we asked him if he could explain his understanding of Jihad to us he said, “Any Muslim who does not believe in jihad, is not a good Muslim.” He went on to write down familiar Qur’an references regarding jihad on a piece of paper for us. He went on to tell us that Mohammed the prophet was noted to have said the only reason he would be willing to come back from the dead would be to fight in jihad. I found the reference in the Saudi authorized version of the Qur’an “Call to Jihad” commentary. “I would love to be martyred in Allah’s Cause and then come back to life and then be martyred and then come back to life again and then be martyred and then come back to life again and then be martyred.” (Sahih Al-Bukhari, Hadith No. 2797).

The same commentary from the Hadith reads, “Jihad is a great deed indeed and there is no deed whose reward or blessing is as that of it, and for this reason, it is the best thing that one can volunteer for.” Jihad is seen as the ultimate form of Shahada, or testimony for God.

The man with the denim jacket was asked if he felt that flying commercial airliners into the twin towers in New York was a good expression of jihad. He said that he thought the targets should have been kept military. But, then he shrugged his shoulders and said, “But who am I?” This is the attitude of many in the Muslim world who are not really of the militant Islamist temperament themselves. Though they may not be partakers in the violence they are not too eager to condemn it either.

1 Azzam studied Sharia at Damascus University and joined Afghan Jihad efforts for a time. In 1989 he and two of his sons were killed in a bomb blast, giving him a new status as martyr author.

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In the words of the prophet Islam is a death cult.

Mohammed's Flying Buraq

Muhammad flew on a Buraq?

After his first wife died Mohammed had an experience, whether real or a dream it is debated, but he claimed to have gone on a Nocturnal Journey to Jerusalem¹ (though the word Jerusalem does not actually appear in the Quran) on a celestial beast called Buraq. There, it is claimed he ascended to the seventh heaven and met Abraham, Moses and Jesus on the site where now stands the famous mosque, the Dome of the Rock (As-Sakhra). This is no small matter seeing as how it is also on the foundation of what was once Solomon’s temple, the “Holiest of Holies” for the Jews. After a heavenly experience with the angel Gabriel Mohammed was back in Mecca early the next morning. Jerusalem was destined to become the third most holy site for his later followers. Though Jerusalem does not appear anywhere in the Qur’an this legend stands. In some English versions of the Qur’an the word “Jerusalem” is interjected into the text in brackets in Surah 17:1 a clear effort to deceive the naïve English readers. Tradition has it that the rock wanted to follow Mohammed to heaven but was restrained by the angel Gabriel whose fingers left imprints on the western side of the stone.² Muslims can often be seen praying in Jerusalem with their backs to this domed structure (completed in A.D. 715) while facing south toward Mecca.

This flying camel story has been embellished so that it appears at other religious tourist spots as well. A beautifully illustrated book of colored lithographs by the British artist David Roberts illustrates his travels from Egypt to Syria in 1838. He records a stop at the summit of Mount Sinai where there was both a chapel and a mosque in disrepair. He examined a legend in the mosque where there is claimed a paw print from Mohammed’s Buraq made during the prophet’s famed night journey. Why Mohammed would go out of his way to stop at this remote site defies logic, (but most of the Quran defies logic).

1 Hejirah, or flight, marks the beginning of the Muslim era, which is designated Anno Hegira, A.H. in the Muslim dating system.

2 Biblical Archaeology Review, Jan/Feb 1996, The Ark of the Covenant, pg. 52, by Leen Ritmeyer

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