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Muslim Family Day at Six Flags Well Organized, Say Guests By Arif Kabir

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In what has become an annual tradition, taking place for the fourth time in the Washington DC area, Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) held their annual ‘Muslim Family Day’ at Six Flags in

At UMCP Discussion on Islam, No Topics Oﬀ Limits | pg 4 Human Rights Rally Draws Few In DC | pg 5

With debates of moon-sighting still causing Eid Al-Fitr to be held on various days, many Muslims ﬁnd it difﬁcult to celebrate the Eid festivities with friends and relatives living in other communities. Fortunately, the ‘Muslim Family Day’ offers an opportunity for all Muslims to come together shortly after Eid to celebrate their faith amidst much fun and celebration.

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Somalis Meet with DHS, Fed Over Suspicions | pg 5 The crowd at Muslim Family Day, an estimated 5,000, was the largest yet for the local ICNA chapter that organizes the annual event. Photo courtesy of ICNA.

Largo Maryland, on September 18, 2011. An estimated ﬁve thousand Muslims attended the event and enjoyed the accessible halal food, bazaars, carnival rides, and roller coasters. The usual theme park’s music was replaced with

Islamic nasheeds, and signs displaying ‘pork’ and ‘beer’ were temporarily covered for the Muslim event.

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FBI Teaches Agents: ‘Mainstream’ Muslims Are At the Bureau’s training ground Spencer Ackermanz ‘Violent, Radical’ By in Quantico, Virginia, agents are Wired, September 14, 2011 The FBI is teaching its counterterrorism agents that “main stream” [sic] American Muslims are likely to be terrorist sympathizers; that the Prophet Mohammed was a “cult leader”; and that the Islamic practice of giving charity is no more than a “funding mechanism for combat.”

shown a chart contending that the more “devout” a Muslim, the more likely he is to be “violent.” Those destructive tendencies cannot be reversed, an FBI instructional presentation adds: “Any war against non-believers is justiﬁed” under Muslim law; a “moderating

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Community News At UMCP Discussion on Islam, No Topics Off Limits By Fatimah Waseem

Muslim Link Staff Reporter Congress would have been jealous. For as non-Muslim guests exited the University of Maryland, College Park’s lecture room on Friday, September 9, 2011, consent was unanimous: Yasir Qadhi’s question and answer discussion on his understanding of Islam post 9/11 was an undoubtable success. The event, hosted by the UMCP Muslim Student Association on Friday, September 9, 2011, was open to people of all religious backgrounds, attracting over 200 students and community members. Yasir Qadhi, the sole speaker, is one of the lead instructors at Al-Maghrib Institute and serves as its Dean of Academic Affairs. He holds a Bachelors in Hadith and a Masters in Theology from Islamic University of Madinah. Though the event began with commonly asked questions such as the true meaning of Jihad and the direct impact of 9/11, insightful questions posed by audience members and even more eye-opening and intellectual answers by Qadhi quickly

elevated the event to more than the usual inter-faith dialogue platform. Qadhi began the session by summarizing the outcomes of 9/11 and addressing common misconceptions of Islam including Jihad, the headscarf, and the Shariah. Having shelved these common concerns, Qadhi forced the audience to think of new and engaging questions. And the audience took up this challenge head-on, veering the dialogue into delicate and sensitive areas that often get the cold shoulder. Questions ranged from ‘How would you describe the love of an unitarian God?’ to a question debated by scholars across the globe “How ﬂexible is Islam?” to a question grounded in headlines that have blazoned the press “How should the Danish cartoon controversy have been handled?” Qadhi mulled every question over,

providing clear and succinct examples and using the launching pad of 9/11 to keep the conversation relevant for nonMuslims and Muslims alike. The Danish Cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahualayhiwasallam took a front-seat in the discussion. Qadhi emphasized that he would never call for censorship of the press– only respect. “Using the n-word is legal under the first amendment,” Qadhi said, “But does [that] mean we go ahead and use it?” Furthermore, Qadhi commented on the violent protests that followed the Danish cartoons, saying, “Their anger is justifiable, but not their repercussions.” He says many similar examples of Muslims protests and violence – including that of Al-Qaeda – are “100% political” and merely use “religion as a justification for violence though it is not the source of it.” Drawing a comparison between al Qaeda’s relationship with Islam and Anders Breivik’s relationship with Christianity, Qadhi said, “Al-Qaeda doesn’t represent Muslims just as Stephen Breverick doesn’t represent all Christians.” Breivik,

a devout Christian killed dozens of people in a Norway bombing July of this year on the grounds of protecting Europe against the threat of multiculturalism, particularly that posed by Muslims who aim to ‘Islamicize Europe.’ Qadhi continued the discussion by saying that the root problem of Al-Qaeda’s war against the west is that hijackers cannot make the distinction between American foreign policy and American values. Another hot topic was the Shariah – a system of law that continues to be the object of intense scrutiny by local and state legislatures. “There is no distinction between legality and morality,” Qadhi said in response to a question about the Shariah’s political aspects. “Every moral is legal and everything legal is moral .. but American Muslims are not asking for the resurrection of [this] ﬁne print. We simply want the preservation of our freedom of religion.” And according to Qadhi, throughout history, political and social freedoms >> DISCUSSION Pg 12

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Human Rights Rally Draws Few In DC by Mona Al-Mousa

Muslim Link Staff Reporter

against the erosion of civil rights and prevalence of anti-Islamic propaganda since the 9/11 attacks.

While many area Islamic organizations expressed their belief in peace by hosting or joining displays of national solidarity around the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, one small but dedicated group of Muslims rallied for peace – a halt on US attacks on Muslims and on peace activists –in front of the Department of Justice.

Shortly after 9 am on Saturday morning, Mauri Saalakhan, founder and director of operations of the Peace Thru Justice Foundation, spoke to the crowd, his voice on the microphone booming out onto the street compelling cars and pedestrians to hear him.

Dubbed the “Washington Peace Rally In Defense of Islam, Muslims, Peace Activists, And the better of the Two Americas”, the September 10, 2011 rally was organized by the Peace Thru Justice Foundation, a human rights organization based in Silver Spring, Maryland headed by Mauri Saalakhan, and co-sponsored by over a dozen other civil and prisoner rights groups.

The small crowd at the Washington DC Peace Rally organized by the Peace Thru Justice Foundation included lawyers, prisoner rights activists, and family members of Muslims incarcerated during the “war on terror”. Photo courtesy of Danyah Alwazir. Despite traveling throughout the Washington DC region and in other states to “beat the drums” for several weeks

before the rally, the turnout was barely over one dozen attendees. Saalakhan said the mobilization was a way to “push back”

“Assalamu Alaykum to all my Muslim brothers and sisters, and I extend greetings of peace to all non-Muslims,” he said. “We stand here today on the eve of 9/11, the tenth anniversary of the horrible attack on the United States.” He started off by pointing out that many Muslims have had fathers, brothers, and loved ones given jail >> RALLY Pg 10

Somali Community Meets with DHS, Fed Over Suspicions, Civil Rights By Muslim Link Staff Reporter On Saturday, September 17, 2011, the Somali American Community Association (SACA) held a joint event with leaders in various government agencies to address concerns of the Somali community regarding access to US government agencies and recent scrutiny they had experienced by the media and authorities. The event was held in the hope that increased involvement by the government in relatively isolated communities would help both groups. Close interaction would provide the US government valuable information to help protect its citizens from outside threats while upholding their civil rights and liberties, and also help the communities in question understand that the US Constitution serves as a protection of their rights. Though about ﬁfty community members attended, an impressive nine different government organizations from the Departments of Justice (DOJ), the Treasury, Homeland Security, Immigration and

Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and others were present. Department representatives discussed their involvement with communities such as SACA, and a panel discussion soon followed. Most of the questions addressed perceptions many people had about the government, ranging from administrative inefficiencies to outright violations of civil liberties under the guise of security policy. In response to such problems, FBI and other agency representatives, whose identities are kept hidden as some are not authorized to speak to the press, stated that through events such as the SACA – agency public outreach, the perceptions would be replaced with a factual understanding of rights, liberties, constitutional protections, and methods of reaching back to the US government if violations do indeed occur. Representatives mentioned the colored history of US security policy – the internment camps for the Japanese Americans during World War II, and the 100 year gap between adoption of equal rights for African Americans in the 1860’s and the civil rights movement that finally

brought about their implementation. However, they argued, and SACA representatives echoed – that upholding constitutional civil protections was part and parcel of government agencies’ duties and was something to be advocated now more than ever before. Thus the importance of this event; by enjoining the public to help the government do its ‘job’, the end result would be the protection of everyone’s civil liberties and more peace and prosperity to be enjoyed by all concerned. At the same time, there were the allegations such as FBI trainees being taught that ‘mainstream’ Muslims were ‘violent, radical’. There were the cases such as that brought up at the event of Sister Intisar Farah, whose citizenship was allegedly stripped without just cause. In addition, there was mention of individuals being caught as a result of developing a relationship over time with an undercover ‘weapons facilitator’ who then provides a ‘fake bomb’ to incriminate the radicalized citizen or US resident based on intent to do harm. Though in such circumstances the undercover agent gives ample time and opportunity for the ‘radical’ to refrain from carrying out a

supposed attack on US soil, it was argued by a SACA member during a break that this practice of weeding out potential threats to US security is not heard of among many other groups of potential terrorism sympathizers or radicals, such as those who rank themselves with racist and paramilitary groups. So a public perception of being targeted has developed and has become a barrier to further dialogue between government agencies gaining actionable evidence to support US security and people who fear saying the wrong thing and in fact implicating themselves despite their innocence. As a result, the question arose about the point of such practices. Speaking during a break in the meeting, a SACA member expressed his concern about Somali youth who are seen as [potential radicals] – why not both engage them and further improve lines of communication between isolated communities and the government, given the initial barriers of language, access, and eagerness to share information? If nothing else, it will give such communities further incentive for being more mainstream >> SOMALI Pg 12

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Policy Conference Examines Post 9/11 Arab-Muslim Community By Fatimah Waseem

Muslim Link Staff Reporter The Thursday, September 8, 2011’s conference organized by the AmericanArab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), was all about moving backward. To move forward. In the day-long conference, the DC based non proﬁt - dedicated to defending Arab rights in the US - journeyed back ten years to trace the effect of 9/11 on Arab Muslim’s civil rights and civil liberties in the US. But the event did more than diagnose civil rights and perception challenges. It wrote a prescription for the advancement of Muslim rights and liberties, drawing insights from a distinguished panel of grassroots advocates, academics, and Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice ofﬁcials including White House representative Paul Monteiro and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Director Laura Murphey. The event kicked off with the release

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Jerry Fleming, an employee of Six Flags, observed, “This event was very different than other cultural events that we host here. People usually walk around with frowns, but everyone here today is smiling. You can feel the peace and family spirit amongst everyone. It’s as if they all know each other”. Organizers worked diligently to make sure this year’s Muslim Family Day event would be even better and well-attended than previous events at the theme park. “There was much more community involvement this year. We had over twenty community booths and a good number of volunteers on the day of the event,” said organizer Arif Mannan. “The ﬁnal number is not out, but over

of ADC’s newest publication “Arab and Muslim American Civil Rights and Identity,” a collection of scholarly writings on the impact of 9/11 on civil rights and civil liberties.

Sahar Aziz said, leaving the Associate Professor of Law at Wesleyan University skeptical of the NYPD’s activities. “This is a case of litigation. Why would you shred the evidence?”

Most of the day consisted of panels – academic discussions that transcended the ‘over-the-counter approach’ of traditional 9/11 reflection events as panelists spoke briefly and opened the floor for questions and discussion.

Recently, NPR covered a story on the “Mall of America” in Massachussetts were it was discovered that mall police arrested and interrogated individuals based on their race or ethnicity - a significant portion of which were Muslims - just one of many examples panelists discussed at the conference.

Government’s policies: ‘There’s something awry’ At the policy conference’s heart was a panel discussion on civil liberties and rights in the post 9/11 world, where panelists discussed the federal government’s disturbing post 9/11 practices such as racial proﬁling, employment discrimination, and insidious surveillance on Muslim communities.

The FBI has spent $3.3 billion on surveillance programs over the last ten years. This is compared with the $2.6 billion spent against organized crime.

remain hidden from the public eye as was the case in California where a hijabi was denied equal rights at clothing retailer Abercrombie and Fitch. For Aziz, the discussion of these examples pointed all ﬁngers to one idea: eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. “If we believe it when the government tells us their not violating our constitutional rights, we have surrendered [them],” the professor said. However, she regrets that the rights-ﬁght has gone on for far too long. “These reports [of civil rights violations] came out a few months ago. Its 10 years later. Why is this talk even necessary?” she said. ‘We cannot wait for another tragedy’

In past years, the New York Police Department has aggressively employed ‘mosque crawlers’ to spy on activities in mosques and Islamic faith communities - documents of which the police organization has “shredded regularly,”

Panelists also touched upon the disturbing rise of work discrimination. “Title seven of the civil rights act of 1964 empowers employers to segregate workers based upon their religious attire in accordance with their ‘corporate image policy,’” Rajdeep Singh, Director of Law and Policy- The Sikh Coalition said. Employers often hire workers with religious garb on the condition that they

ﬁve thousand is a decent estimate. There was good weather [allowing] all rides [to] open, so people were scattered all over and there was less congestion everywhere. The attendance was good alhamdulillah and we are getting very good responses from the people who attended the event,” he added.

DC, ICNA offered similar events at other Six Flags theme parks in Atlanta, Albany, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Buffalo, New Jersey, Dallas, and San Francisco. In recent years, ICNA organizers had to not only manage the various events but also deal with controversy at both the national and regional level.

Habib Ghanim, a bazaar vendor representing Rahma International Store, felt the event was well organized. “The event could have been better by having more Muslims here, but [it] was well put together,” he remarked.

The family-oriented events had caused a national stir last year due to the events taking place on the 9/11 weekend, but ICNA representatives defended the annual celebration and appeared on several media outlets, noting that one of the key founders of Muslim Family Day, Tariq Amanullah who worked on the 96th ﬂoor of WTC, Tower 2, was also killed in the attacks.

organizers worked closely with theme park ofﬁcials to ensure that intolerant acts would not take place this year. As part of their contract with ICNA, Six Flags ofﬁcials had to conduct several ‘diversity training’ sessions for the employees. The training seems to have paid off, event organizers say, as “no incident has been reported or observed this year”.

Mohamed Bangura, a 20-year-old attendee said, “This event was nice because it brought together so many Muslims. It really showed the brotherhood of Islam”. The ‘Muslim Family Day’ event began in New Jersey in 2000 and is organized by local ICNA chapters in conjunction with ICNA National. In addition to Washington

The local Washington DC ‘Muslim Family Day’ event was also marred with controversy when in 2008, Six Flags security ofﬁcials inappropriately handcuffed and harassed two Muslim men. Due to this unfortunate experience,

In an hour-long panel discussion titled ‘Coalition building: organizing and mobilizing in the pot 9/11 era,” panelists urged the Muslim community to strengthen coalitions and seek out new ones to >> POLICY Pg 12

ICNA organizers are now planning to make the next ‘Muslim Family Day’ event an even bigger hit. While they are still eliciting feedback and determining what to improve for the next year, they have already decided that they plan to include more youth in the management of this event. “We really want to involve young adults in this event”, Mannan said. “We will offer internships also in future years for this and other big events”. To ﬁnd out more about Muslim Family Day, please visit muslimfamilyday.com.

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Under Suspicion: Muslims in America

Imam Ser ves As Public Face Of An Embattled Mosque By William Wan

The Washington Post, Sept. 18, 2011

“There is nothing at Dar Al-Hijrah, no ideology or preaching, that somehow leads people to violent extremism,” Abdul-Malik declared. “We condemn terrorism.”

If he waits long enough, the reporters inevitably ask about Anwar al-Aulaqi, the radical cleric who once led the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque. They want to know about Maj. Nidal Hasan, the alleged Fort Hood shooter, and the two Sept. 11 hijackers who also once worshiped there. And they often come with a list of other terrorism suspects who have been connected in some way with the Northern Virginia mosque. But having defended Dar Al-Hijrah for so long, Abdul-Malik knows what they’re really asking: What exactly is going on at this mosque? Is this a breeding ground for terrorists? It is a suspicion that nearly all Muslim institutions have faced to some degree since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. But none more so than Dar AlHijrah. As its critics often point out, almost no other mosque in the country has been linked to so many cases of alleged terrorism. The notoriety has gotten to the point where after each attack or arrest of a Muslim suspect, the mosque often ﬁnds TV crews camped outside its doors. They are usually met by Abdul-Malik,

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After nine years of interviews, Imam Johari Abdul-Malik has learned to wait for the questions.

who was hired to be Dar Al-Hijrah’s public face. Charged with rehabilitating its image, he has become ubiquitous in the media, appearing on the major networks and holding countless news conferences. His answers, honed by repetition, are always conﬁdent and unequivocal: Aulaqi led their mosque for only one year, and there were no signs then of any radical, anti-American theology. As for Hasan, Abdul-Malik said, he was simply a man who snapped mentally. “There is nothing at Dar Al-Hijrah, no ideology or preaching, that somehow leads people to violent extremism,” Abdul-Malik declared. “We condemn terrorism.”

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But there is also much he doesn’t say.

‘A lot of anger’

He doesn’t always express the outrage within his mosque over the indignities suffered by Muslims throughout America’s war on terror. He doesn’t linger on the distrust harbored by many worshipers toward the government. He doesn’t lay out the divisions among the mosque’s leaders on how to handle such issues.

The mosque’s name means “land of migration,” and every Friday more than 3,000 worshipers from more than 35 countries pack into Dar Al-Hijrah’s prayer hall. Doctors from Pakistan kneel next to hotel workers from Sudan. Refugees from Somalia pray alongside naturalized citizens from Egypt.

And when it comes to Aulaqi, AbdulMalik only rarely mentions the ties that once connected the two of them. How before Aulaqi became an operative for al-Qaeda, before he became a target on the CIA’s kill list, he and Abdul-Malik had been companions for one of Islam’s most sacred rites. How in those early days he and others had considered Aulaqi a respected colleague, an admirable leader, perhaps even a friend.

It was founded by a group of Arab college students in the 1980s. Through local fundraising drives and assistance from a few foreign donors such as the Saudi Embassy, the congregation bought 3.4 acres in Falls Church and began constructing a $5 million prayer hall.

He says none of this because in this new battleﬁeld of perception that has emerged since Sept. 11 — where ammunition consists of past associations, loaded words and fear — there is seldom space for nuance.

Today, its immense stone facade — chiseled with a verse from the Koran and adorned with a minaret and domes — is just off Leesburg Pike, hidden by evergreens. Its members are, for the most part, intensely committed to their faith and >> MOSQUE Pg 8

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deeply conservative. Monday through Thursday, when many Muslims pray at home or near work, Dar Al-Hijrah regularly draws 200 to 400 worshipers, with many rising before dawn to get to prayer. Women must enter through a back door so as not to be seen by men, and they sit in a separate area. Sermons at the mosque often touch unapologetically on the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy, with sometimes fierce statements of support for the Palestinian cause. For years, the most serious accusations leveled at the mosque were neighborhood complaints about street parking. That changed, however, the day federal investigators realized that two of the Sept. 11 hijackers — Hani Hanjour and Nawaf Alhazmi — had briefly worshiped there in 2001. And the imam at the time was Aulaqi, who had not yet begun preaching the extremist theology he would become well-known for. Ultimately, the FBI and the federal 9/11 Commission were unable to determine whether Aulaqi saw with the hijackers at Dar Al-Hijrah in 2001. But they noted that he and some of the hijackers had met the year before at his former mosque in San Diego. The way the commission’s report put it, the two hijackers’ appearance at Dar Al-Hijrah in 2001 “may not have been coincidental.” That whiff of suspicion was seized upon by bloggers and authors, who dubbed Dar Al-Hijrah the “9/11 mosque” — a slur that its leaders have been fighting ever since. In those early days, the mosque often felt like an institution under siege. Its office received menacing calls. Several members’ homes were raided in the months after Sept. 11. And many believed that the FBI had the mosque under surveillance. “There was a lot of anger there,” said Michael Mason, former head of the FBI’s Washington field office who visited Dar Al-Hijrah as part of a region-wide outreach effort. “Sometimes you would go to mosques where people were overly

polite because you’re the FBI. That was not the case there.” At one early FBI town hall meeting, one Dar Al-Hijrah congregant essentially called Mason a liar, saying he wouldn’t believe anything Mason said. “I said, ‘I didn’t come here to be spoken to like that,’ ” Mason said. “Afterward, he

worshiped in Episcopal churches. He converted to Islam as a graduate student at Howard University in the early 1980s during the waning days of the black power movement. Before Dar Al-Hijrah, he worked as a biomedical researcher at the university’s hospital and served as Howard’s ﬁrst volunteer Muslim chaplain.

Most of all, Abdul-Malik tried to reshape the mosque’s defensive posture toward the media. came up and apologized, and I told him: ‘I’m a black man. I know something about being treated for what you are rather than who you are.’ ” Mason and Michael Rolince, the field office’s former head of counterterrorism, said their agents never came across any information that the mosque was somehow encouraging terrorism. But Rolince qualified it this way: “I’m not willing to say anyone was radicalized there or recruited there. But I’m not willing to say it didn’t happen, either. You look at the litany of people coming through there, and whether it’s through

But even then, he was gaining prominence, sparring with Bill O’Reilly on Fox News just weeks after Sept. 11 on whether the Koran promoted violence. Other Muslim leaders took note when AbdulMalik turned the questions on O’Reilly, asking him whether the Bible was violent because it was used as justiﬁcation by the Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. “We needed a native Muslim American like him, someone who could speak in unaccented English and articulate who we are to the outside world,” said Hossein Goal, who persuaded Dar Al-Hijrah’s

Today, he likens his job to that of a lightning rod — to redirect attacks on the mosque. But in the process, he has become almost as controversial. bad luck or bad timing or by design, you don’t know.” An outsider’s struggles The man hired in 2002 to change that perception was in many ways an unorthodox choice. Unlike Dar Al-Hijrah’s mostly immigrant members and leaders, Abdul-Malik was African American and a convert to Islam. Now 55, with a salt-and-pepper beard and solid frame, he almost always dresses in a traditional robe and Kuﬁ hat. But Abdul-Malik grew up as Winslow Seale Jr. in Brooklyn, where he and his family

board to hire Abdul-Malik. Too often, the mosque’s leaders felt that when they aggressively defended themselves, it was seen as proof of antiAmerican sentiment. But Abdul-Malik presented an alternative. In interviews, he talked of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, and how nothing could be more American than Muslims standing up for their rights. In some ways, Abdul-Malik was a replacement for Aulaqi, who had led Dar Al-Hijrah during the worst days right after Sept. 11 before leaving the country.

Aulaqi also spoke perfect, unaccented English and had a charisma that appealed to the world outside the mosque as well as to the younger generation within. In fact, just months after Abdul-Malik was hired in 2002, he and Goal met with Aulaqi at a nearby cafe to try to persuade him to come back to the mosque. Aulaqi had been frustrated during his time at Dar Al-Hijrah by all the media demands. Their pitch was that he and Abdul-Malik would work as a team. Abdul-Malik would handle the media; Aulaqi would focus on spiritual matters. Ultimately, Aulaqi decided to return to Yemen, leaving Abdul-Malik to press on by himself. “It was not easy at ﬁrst,” Abdul-Malik said. Some at Dar Al-Hijrah saw him as an outsider. Others saw no reason for the mosque to change. One member warned him after Friday prayers: “You know the leaders here are just using you, don’t you? They only bring you out to fundraise or to talk to reporters.” “Brother, I came here to be used,” AbdulMalik responded. At the ﬁrst interfaith event he organized, almost no one from the mosque showed up. “I had to explain to some, these churches are not inviting you so that they can convert you,” he said. “I had to give a few sermons to tell them these are not the Christians you know as occupiers and imperialists.” He also pushed the mosque to cultivate allies among local politicians and police. But when Fairfax County Supervisor Penelope A. Gross (D-Mason) visited during prayers to thank members for participating in a local cleanup effort, one man jumped up and loudly objected to the fact that a woman was standing in front to address them. “The man said: ‘There are no women allowed here. What you’re doing is wrong,’ ” recalled Gross, who remains >> MOSQUE II Pg 9

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Despite the uproar, when Abdul-Malik arrived to give the prayer, fewer than 10 protesters showed up.

a mosque supporter. “I think the leaders were a little embarrassed afterward. I told them I’ve dealt with political hecklers before.”

“It shows you that there are people seizing control of the narrative here,” he says. “That’s why we have to draw another narrative for the media to follow.”

Most of all, Abdul-Malik tried to reshape the mosque’s defensive posture toward the media.

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“The board kept saying, ‘When are they ever going to write a good story about us?’ ” Abdul-Malik said. “I told them, do you not realize the good we could do in these ‘bad stories?’ Each one gives us the chance to start crafting our own narrative again.” Given a free hand to speak for the mosque, he raced to respond to controversy instead of avoiding it and coached others to talk to reporters. Most weeks, between media interviews and interfaith events, the calendar on his MacBook looked like that of a presidential candidate, filled to the brim and lined with talking points. Today, he likens his job to that of a lightning rod — to redirect attacks on the mosque. But in the process, he has become almost as controversial. The same critics who once dubbed Dar Al-Hijrah the “9/11 mosque” now denounce Abdul-Malik as a radical cleric. They scour his sermons, looking for controversial quotes to post. A favorite, which Abdul-Malik argues was a misquote, is from a 2001 speech in which he said that if groups such as Hamas attack Israel, they should limit their targets to infrastructure such as bridges or utilities to avoid hurting innocent people. Last year, when Abdul-Malik was invited to give the opening prayer at the Virginia legislature, opponents flooded the offices of delegates with serious complaints. “I don’t think anyone has a problem with this being a Muslim prayer,” Del. C. Todd Gilbert (R-Shenandoah) said at the time. “This particular imam and this particular mosque have been a flashpoint for controversy because of the teachings they promote and the connections they have had.”

It is hard to gauge exactly how much Abdul-Malik has been able to change Dar Al-Hijrah’s relationship with the outside world. Interfaith events these days are routine and fairly well-attended. Community leaders and local police are now regularly invited to dinners honoring them. But the mosque leadership remains deeply suspicious of federal authorities. Many believe that the phones are tapped. Some attribute their hassles at airports and at banks to FBI interference. And most believe that Dar Al-Hijrah and other mosques are the target of infiltration by the FBI — a charge denied by the agency. “Any suggestion that the FBI sends agents roaming through mosques is not true,” a spokesman responded. “The FBI investigates people, not places.” Hostility toward the media remains equally strong. “We have never had difﬁculties explaining ourselves to the public,” said Shaker Elsayed, the mosque’s head imam and top spiritual leader. “It was an inept and biased media that twisted our message. And it was an inept FBI who instead of admitting their failures on 9/11, looked around and found places like this mosque to blame as their culprits.” Elsayed says he has been repeatedly and deliberately misrepresented by The Washington Post, the Associated Press and other media outlets. One 2005 story showed him preaching: “Islam forbids you to give allegiance to those who kick you off your homeland, and to those who support those who kick you off your homeland. We do have license to respond with all force necessary to answer our attackers.”

COMMUNITY NEWS He says such quotes are deliberately taken out of context to make it look as though he encourages terrorism, when he and the mosque have condemned it. “I was talking of the right of Muslim nations, not individuals. Even if we are talking about the case of individuals, if any man is attacked, not just Muslims, can he not defend himself?” But other area Muslim leaders worry that some who worship at Al-Hijrah could misinterpret such rhetoric as well as the mosque’s antagonistic attitude toward authorities. “One of the main issues all mosques are grappling with now is home-grown terrorism,” said one leader from another mosque, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of frequent work with Dar Al-Hijrah staff. “There is a sense sometimes in collective meetings that Dar Al-Hijrah is in deep denial about this, that they are skeptical it is even an issue at all.” Elsayed and other leaders are aware of such talk. “There is a false construction

that there are ‘good Muslims’ who work with the FBI and authorities and ‘bad Muslims’ who question the authorities,” Elsayed said. “We are painted as the bad guys so they can be the good.” Many of the same Muslim leaders who criticize Dar Al-Hijrah acknowledge that it is often the ﬁrst to stand up for the civil rights of accused Muslims despite the political heat. “To this day, every time I go to mosque people give me hugs and ask about my son,” said Anthony Benkahla, whose son is serving a 10-year prison sentence. Sabri Benkahla, who grew up attending Dar Al-Hijrah, was one of 11 men accused of training for jihad abroad in part by playing paintball in the Virginia countryside. Nine of the 11 were convicted or pleaded guilty in highly publicized trials. Benkahla was acquitted but was later brought back by the prosecutor for questioning before a >> MOSQUE III Pg 11

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Local Muslims Join Church To Mark 10th Anniversar y Of 9/11 Baltimore Sun, September 13, 2011 Members of the local Muslim community joined hands with a local Quaker church in Fallston to mark the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Dr. Rehan Khan of Masjid Al-Falaah Harford County Education Society, addressed the church congregants and shared his experience of Sept. 11, 2001. He stressed during the service Sunday that Muslims are contributing to the productivity and prosperity of this nation. He also mentioned that the tallest building in America, the Sears Tower, was built

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sentences in the aftermath of 9/11. In his speech, Saalakhan emphasized that not only have Americans suffered in the tragedy of 9/11, but that thousands of Muslims have died, and have endured hateful propaganda for 10 years as a result of the attacks. Attorney Kathy Manley, co-founder of Project Salaam in Albany, N.Y., who is involved in many cases involving Muslims prosecuted by the U.S., talked about the shocking disparity of justice she sees when lawyers attempt to defend Muslims charged with “terrorism” crimes, many times involving plots concocted by FBI informants. She urged those in attendance to not be silent.

by a Muslim architect, whose last name was Khan. Khan applauded the role of Americans right after 9/11 who accompanied Muslim women to grocery stores and other places so they were not attacked or harassed by angry individuals. He said that a nation is made great because of its people. It is the majority of Americans who make this country a great nation, and its citizens must remember that they live in a much smaller world. They need to be respectful and just in dealings with others.

He emphasized that implicating Muslims for 9/11 is similar to implicating the religion of Timothy McVeigh, who committed the worst act of terrorism on American soil before 9/11.

“We are one big family of humanity. At

He also stressed the need of a study to

“Our numbers may be small but there are people who are paying attention,” Manley said.

passersby to stop and listen.

What started as a small group of about a dozen attendees soon grew as curious pedestrians stopped to listen, as law enforcement and security increased. Jihad Abdul-Mumit, representing the Jericho movement, an advocacy organization for prisoners of war inside the United States, urged the crowd to stand up and support political prisoners and recognize their existence. AbdulMumit served 23 years in the federal prison system. “If we do not speak out, then it’s a matter of time before a gathering like this will be absolutely illegal.” he said. As Abdul-Mumit spoke, six law enforcement vehicles parked by the curb directly in front of the rally, causing

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Many of the speakers, along, with AbdulMummit valued the fact that people were protesting. He explained that regardless of what direction these efforts are going, as long as they’re moving forward then the Muslims are in a good position. “If you’ve come here on this street corner to see, and listen, and be motivated, then you are being a great spender of your time” said Abdul-Mummit. Muhammed Al-Asi, a well-known imam, activist and speaker, discussed the 9/11 attacks. “9/11 is a crime not committed by Muslims,” he said, grabbing the attention of passersby. Al-Asi created a parallel between the Holocaust and the 9/11 attacks, stating that Israel has been, and will continue collecting money as a result of both horriﬁc tragedies. Another speaker also discussed the attacks. Enver Masud, author of 9/11 Unveiled, talked about the ﬂaws present in the investigation on the 9/11 attacks. Some attendees felt their statements about 9/11 made the rally seem unfocused.

assess the impact of 9/11 on Muslims in the U.S. and abroad. A moment of silence was observed to pray for the victims of 9/11 in U.S. and elsewhere. The members of church asked what they could do to improve relations with the Muslims and Khan suggested open dialogue and working together on common projects. They expressed their disapproval of American response to 9/11. Their legislative branch is asking Congress to work for peace and end the two wars immediately

towards Muslims in the Untited States. “Even though our numbers were low, the demonstration was a success because our message was heard loud and clear.” Said Saalakhan Two attendees disagreed with Saalakhan saying the protest was disjointed, jumping from one topic to the other, talking about too many things, and not having one main goal in mind. The message may have been loud, but not clear. Saalakhan said Muslims living near in the capitol are in a unique position, and they have a responsibility to be actively involved in supporting proactive pushback on major human rights issues. “Never will Allah change the condition of a people until they change it themselves,” said Saalakhan, quoting a verse from the Qur’an. Laila Yaghi, the mother of Ziad Yaghi, who was arrested along with six others in North Carolina after allegedly conspiring to join “violent Jihad” overseas, talked about the impact her son’s arrest has had on her family. “Today I stand here with no more tears left for me to cry,” she said.

When we stand up for Human rights, that’s a positive thing, it must be clear in our minds” said Abdul-Mummit

Attendee Shaka Abubaker along with several other attendees was not satisﬁed with the outcome of the rally.

Saalakhan expressed disappointment towards the amount of protesters at the demonstration; however he was content with the awareness that was raised about the ongoing discrimination

“Our goal here today was not achieved, because the Muslims are scared,” he said. “No matter what posture we as Muslims take, we are all in the same boat. We’ll either sink together or swim together.”

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grand jury. He was then convicted for making false statements during that second round of questioning.

But I never saw that in him, even with all the stresses of leading a group of that size through hajj,” Abdul-Malik said. The only words of condemnation he heard were when their bus passed a group of beggars and someone asked how poverty could exist in such an oil-rich country.

His father, who has attended Dar AlHijrah for almost two decades, said fellow worshipers raised money for Sabri’s legal defense, wrote letters to the judge and tried to organize carpools to visit him after he was transferred to a North Carolina prison.

“He said to me, ‘This is a country that takes the wealth of a nation to feed one family,’ ” Abdul-Malik recalled. “I remember admiring the word craft in what he said. It was a critique of the royal family, but there was no venom in it, just sadness and compassion.”

Publicly supporting his son and others couldn’t have been easy, said the father, who maintains his son’s innocence and believes that he was brutalized during a month-long detention by Saudi authorities before being handed over to U.S. agents.

But in the years that followed, Aulaqi’s sermons became increasingly radical and violent. Media reports surfaced that during his time in San Diego, Aulaqi had been arrested on allegations of soliciting prostitutes and was once spotted in Washington with escorts.

“There was a lot of pressure, I’m sure,” he said, “but people there know what’s right is right.”

The mystery of his transformation confounds Abdul-Malik. And it has made him wonder whether a kind of darkness existed in his predecessor all along, a poison that made him into this man of violence, this man who could praise the Fort Hood shootings and work for al-Qaeda. This man whose every action abroad sends reporters scrambling to Dar Al-Hijrah with still more questions.

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The mystery of Aulaqi Questions about cases such as the Virginia paintballers have begun to fade with time and outreach, Abdul-Malik said. But the one that has simply refused to go away is Aulaqi. In his ofﬁce on a recent day after prayers, Abdul-Malik described Aulaqi the way one would a ghost — a man long gone whose presence continues to haunt. When pressed, in especially combative interviews, Abdul-Malik often notes that he was hired after Aulaqi had left. “I never really knew him as the imam of Dar AlHijrah,” he said. But that is not the whole story, he said. In 2003, the year after Aulaqi left, AbdulMalik embarked on a pilgrimage to Mecca with his wife and children — one of the most important acts in a Muslim’s life — and ran into Aulaqi in Saudi Arabia. They wound up spending the entire tour together, eating together and sleeping in the same places for two weeks. Their wives chatted while Abdul-Malik and Aulaqi took turns leading fellow sojourners through the rituals of the pilgrimage, or hajj. “I’ve seen anger in other leaders before.

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and help them assess factions among themselves that wish to split off and pursue potentially harmful ideas. In response, the FBI representative stated that the statements made by one of their trainers about Muslims were indeed incorrect and the individual had since been relieved of his teaching duties. This point was mentioned by other agency representatives as well – that there were indeed some ‘bad actors’ that dealt the government harm in the public forum, but that with agencies dedicated to engagement, outreach, and

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solidify and strengthen Arab-Muslim’s standing in the political realm. “If we reach out to our allies - whether its the African American community worried about incarceration rates or the Latino community worries about immigration reform - they will come support us,” Margaret Huang, Executive Director of the Rights Working Group (RWG) said. Panelists conceded that that as inviting the slogans ‘cherishing diversity’ and ‘holding hands to better all’ sound, its easier said than done. “Unfortunately... racism in our Arab Muslim communities has prevented us from reaching out even within our own communities,” Khaled Beydoun, attorney and graduate of UCLA’s School of Law said, citing the example of barriers between dark-skinned and light-skinned

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have not be served on a silver platter; immigrant communities had to fight for their rights for years and ﬁnd their place in the fabric of America. “It’s the quintessential American thing to do,” Qadhi said, citing examples such as the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

internal review, such incidents were few. According to a representative “it is imperfect but there is a lot of government oversight.” A major issue mentioned by agency spokespersons and discussed later with SACA community members was the risk of charges being levied against Somali Muslim youths. It was concluded that this was due to public perceptions based on a pervasive fear of the US government’s strict and draconian approach to suspicions of terror. Many who have been questioned fear that the government will also come after them for alleged communication or involvement with suspicious entities. And that if due to their innocent admissions friend or family

Arabs. He lamented the fact that the Arab identity is marred by a battle of ‘choosing the right bubble’ on questionnaires that ask for race, a question that reveals the Arab community is still at an uncertain standpoint. Panelists also stressed that coalitionbuilding by professional advocates was not enough to lead a charge on establishing the Muslim voice in America. The answer - Suehaila Amen, Vice President of the grassroots Lebanese American Heritage Club said - lies in two words: grassroots advocacy. “Its one of the reasons why the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender organizations are so successful,” RWG’s Huang explained,“When a non-Muslims know someone who is a Muslim or is gay, it changes the dynamics.” And she says that this person-to-person engagement seems to be working, but given recent polls showing ever-present

He says the American Muslim community has come a long way. “We are actively speaking out against 9/11, but these kinds of things do not make the news,” Qadhi said in response to concern that ‘Muslims are not speaking out enough against terrorism.’ However, he is optimistic of the fruits the tragedy of 9/11 has bore. “Before [9/11], Muslims were so assimulated [in

within the close-knit Somali community may come under government scrutiny, they will experience a public backlash for disclosing personal information about others. However, representatives for the various government agencies repeatedly expressed their paramount concern – enforcing the safety for US citizens; “However, this is not at the expense of your civil liberties.”

must know, a SACA member said, that the government is there to protect you, but that ﬁrst it will come after you, and then determine if it should also protect you, if only you make sure it does that. Protections won’t ‘come running after you’ – though they are there, (like the DOJ Civil Rights Division, the DHS Ofﬁce of Civil Liberties), you must reach out to them.

Despite all the government oversight, protections, and redress processes if someone is labeled as ‘suspicious’, the fact remained, according to an event organizer, that people have to know their rights. “Don’t speak without an attorney present if you’re being questioned. You’re suspicious ﬁrst and innocent later.” People

May Allah (Subhanahu-wa-ta‘Ala) help SACA, the broader Muslim community, and their representative government agencies to come together and pursue their common goals of peace and prosperity. Ameen.

numbers of questions and suspicions of Islam, she says there’s a lot more to be done.

sense of a self-entitled citizen, saying it was the “American patriot thing to do.” Other panelists explained that every immigrant community in the US has had to face similar challenges, citing examples of Japanese internment camps in the 20th century and the more commonly known civil rights movement of the 1990s. Fighting against these challenges and demanding our rights, they said, is the most American thing to do.

“9/11 gave us a jump on the gun,” she said, “But we cannot wait for another tragedy to continue to mobilize us to act.” Muslim ‘should not have to condemn terrorism’ Panelists also agreed that in addition to not waiting for the next tragedy, the Arab American community must not succumb to the “model minority” paradigm in which they feel obliged to continuously assert their patriotism and American identity to vouch for acceptance in American society. “I am presumed innocent,” Professor Aziz said. “Thus every Christian doesn’t have to say that they’re not terrorist because of the Norway bomber, [and] I don’t have to either.”

ADC’s legal director Abed Ayoub concluded the event by sending out a message to the community at large. “We’re not going anywhere.” Founded in 1980 by former Senator James Abourezk, ADC is the largest Arab-American grassroots civil rights organization in the United States. For more about ADC, visit www.adc.org. For conference video footage, visit: http:// www.c-spanvideo.org/program/YearAf

She urged every Muslim to walk with the society],” he said, comparing this phase to sleeping like children, “But 9/11 woke us up and we have a lot of potential.”

on you face I hadn’t seen before,” Ben Kramer, a government and politics major at UMCP, said.

And just as 9/11 woke up American Muslims, 9/11 has indirectly opened up the world of American Muslims for nonMuslim Americans.

Many agreed that the process of humanizing Muslims and reaching out to spread more correct information about Islam begins with events like this one – where individuals like Kramer – can discover a new and profound perspective.

“I’ve walked away today with the most valuable I’ve gained in quite some time… [Qadhi] humanized Muslims, he put

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Muslim Americans: No Signs of Growth in Alienation or Support for Extremism Mainstream and Moderate Attitudes Pew Research Center

Released: August 30, 2011 As the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches, a comprehensive public opinion survey finds no indication of increased alienation or anger among Muslim Americans in response to concerns about home-grown Islamic terrorists, controversies about the building of mosques and other pressures that have been brought to bear on this high-profile minority group in recent years. There also is no evidence of rising support for Islamic extremism among Muslim Americans. On the contrary, as found in the Pew Research Center’s 2007 survey, Muslims in the United States continue to reject extremism by much larger margins than most Muslim publics surveyed this year by the Pew Global Attitudes Project. And majorities of Muslim Americans express concern about the possible rise of Islamic extremism, both here and abroad. A significant minority (21%) of Muslim Americans say there is a great deal (6%) or a fair amount (15%) of support for extremism in the Muslim American community. That is far below the proportion of the general public that sees at least a fair amount of support for extremism among U.S. Muslims (40%). And while about a quarter of the public (24%) thinks that Muslim support for extremism is increasing, just 4% of Muslims agree. Many Muslims fault their own leaders for failing to challenge Islamic extremists. Nearly half (48%) say that Muslim leaders in the United States have not done enough to speak out against Islamic extremists; only about a third (34%) say Muslim leaders have done enough in challenging extremists. At the same time, 68% say that Muslim Americans themselves are cooperating as much as they should with

Strikingly, Muslim Americans are far more satisfied with the way things are going in the countr y (56%) than is the general public (23%). law enforcement. The survey of 1,033 Muslim Americans, conducted April 14-July 22 by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, finds that far more view the United States’ efforts to combat terrorism as sincere than did so in 2007. Currently, opinion is divided – 43% of Muslim Americans say U.S. efforts are a sincere attempt to reduce terrorism while 41% do not. Four years ago, during George Bush’s presidency, more than twice as many viewed U.S. anti-terrorism efforts as insincere rather than sincere (55% to 26%). For Muslims in the United States, concerns about Islamic extremism coexist with the view that life for Muslim Americans in post-9/11 America is difficult in a number of ways. Significant numbers report being looked at with suspicion (28%), and being called offensive names (22%). And while 21% report being singled out by airport security, 13% say they have been singled out by other law enforcement. Overall, a 52% majority says that government antiterrorism policies single out Muslims in the U.S. for increased surveillance and monitoring. However, reports about such experiences and feelings of being subject to intense scrutiny have not changed substantially since 2007. Overall about the same percentage today as in 2007 say that life for Muslims in the U.S. has become

more difﬁcult since 9/11 (55% now, 53% in 2007). The percentage reporting they are bothered by their sense that Muslim Americans are being singled out for increased government surveillance also is no greater now than four years ago (38% bothered a lot or some today vs. 39% in 2007). The controversies over the building of mosques in New York City and other parts of the country are resonating in the Muslim American community. Most Muslim Americans (81%) have heard about the proposal to build a mosque and Islamic center near the site of the World Trade Center and a clear majority of those who are aware of the planned mosque (72%) say it should be allowed. However, 35% say either that the project should not be allowed (20%), or that it should be permitted but is a bad idea (15%). A quarter of Muslim Americans (25%) report that mosques or Islamic centers in their communities have been the target of controversy or outright hostility. While 14% report that there has been opposition to the building of a mosque or Islamic center in their community in the past few years, 15% say that a mosque or Islamic center in their community has been the target of vandalism or other hostile acts in the past 12 months. Nonetheless, Muslim Americans have not become disillusioned with the country. They are overwhelmingly satisfied with the way things are going in their

lives (82%) and continue to rate their communities very positively as places to live (79% excellent or good). At a personal level, most think that ordinary Americans are friendly (48%) or neutral (32%) toward Muslim Americans; relatively few (16%) believe the general public is unfriendly toward Muslim Americans. About two-thirds (66%) say that the quality of life for Muslims in the U.S. is better than in most Muslim countries. Strikingly, Muslim Americans are far more satisfied with the way things are going in the country (56%) than is the general public (23%). Four years ago, Muslim Americans and the public rendered fairly similar judgments about the state of the nation (38% of Muslims vs. 32% of the general public were satisfied). The current disparity may well reflect the fact that Muslim Americans are much more satisfied with the current political situation in the country than they were four years ago. Most Muslim Americans continue to identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party and they overwhelmingly support Barack Obama. Fully 76% approve of Obama’s job performance; in 2007, about as many (69%) disapproved of George Bush’s job performance. Support for Extremism Remains Negligible As in 2007, very few Muslim Americans – just 1% – say that suicide bombing and other forms of violence against civilian targets are often justified to defend Islam from its enemies; an additional 7% say suicide bombings are sometimes justified in these circumstances. Fully 81% say

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FBI Teaches Agents: ‘Mainstream’ Muslims Are ‘Violent, Radical’ FBI

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process cannot happen if the Koran continues to be regarded as the unalterable word of Allah.”

At the Bureau’s training ground in Quantico, Virginia, agents are shown a chart contending that the more “devout” a Muslim, the more likely he is to be “violent.”

“There may not be a ‘radical’ threat as much as it is simply a normal assertion of the orthodox ideology,” one FBI presentation notes. “The strategic themes animating these Islamic values are not fringe; they are main stream.”

Training at Quantico isn’t designed for intellectual bull sessions or abstract theory, according to FBI veterans. The FBI conducts its training so that both seasoned agents and new recruits can sharpen their investigative skills.

The FBI isn’t just treading on thin legal ice by portraying ordinary, observant Americans as terrorists-in-waiting, former counterterrorism agents say. It’s also playing into al-Qaida’s hands. Focusing on the religious behavior of American citizens instead of proven indicators of criminal activity like stockpiling guns or using shady financing makes it more likely that the FBI will miss the real warning signs of terrorism. And depicting Islam as inseparable from political violence is exactly the narrative al-Qaida spins — as is the related idea that America and Islam are necessarily in conflict. That’s why FBI whistleblowers provided Danger Room with these materials. Over the past few years, American Muslim civil rights groups have raised alarm about increased FBI and police presence in Islamic community centers and mosques, fearing that their lawful behavior is being targeted under the broad brush of counterterrorism. The documents may help explain the heavy scrutiny. They certainly aren’t the first time the FBI has portrayed Muslims in a negative light during Bureau training sessions. As Danger Room reported in July, the FBI’s Training Division has included anti-Islam books, and materials that claim Islam “transforms [a] country’s culture into 7th-century Arabian ways.”

An FBI presentation titled “Militancy Considerations” measures the relationship between piety and violence among the texts of the three Abrahamic faiths. As time goes on, the followers of the Torah and the Bible move from “violent” to “non-violent.” Not so for devotees of the Koran, whose “moderating process has not happened.” The line representing violent behavior from devout Muslims ﬂatlines and continues outward, from 610 A.D. to 2010. In other words, religious Muslims have been and always will be agents of aggression.

When Danger Room confronted the FBI with that material, an ofﬁcial statement issued to us claimed, “The presentation in question was a rudimentary version used for a limited time that has since been replaced.”

to counterterrorism-designated agents,” Allen adds. “This training was largely derived from a variety of open source publications and includes the opinion of the analyst that developed the lesson block.”

But these documents aren’t relics from an earlier era. One of these brieﬁngs, titled “Strategic Themes and Drivers in Islamic Law,” took place on March 21.

Not all counterterrorism veterans consider the briefings so benign. “Teaching counterterrorism operatives about obscure aspects of Islam,” says Robert McFadden, who recently retired as one of the Navy Criminal Investigative Service’s al-Qaida-hunters, “without context, without objectivity, and without covering other non-religious drivers of dangerous behavior is no way to stop actual terrorists.”

The Islam briefings are elective, not mandatory. “A disclaimer accompanied the presentation stating that the views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reﬂect the views of the U.S. government,” FBI spokesman Christopher Allen tells Danger Room. “The training materials in question were delivered as Stage Two training

Still, at Quantico, the alleged connection between Islam and violence isn’t just stipulated. It’s literally graphed.

In this case, the FBI’s Allen says, the counterterrorism agents who received these brieﬁngs have “spent two to three years on the job.” The briefings are written accordingly. The stated purpose of one, about allegedly religious-sanctioned lying, is to “identify the elements of verbal deception in Islam and their impacts on Law Enforcement.” Not “terrorism.” Not even “Islamist extremism.” Islam. According to this FBI training, religious Muslims have been and always will be agents of aggression. What’s more, the Islamic “insurgency” is all-encompassing and insidious. In addition to outright combat, its “techniques” include “immigration” and “law suits.” So if a Muslim wishes to become an American or sues the FBI for harassment, it’s all just part of the jihad. On Tuesday, the leaders of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, Joe Lieberman (I-Connecticut) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), warned that

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law enforcement lacks “meaningful standards” to prevent anti-Islam material from seeping into counterterrorism training. Some FBI veterans suspect the increased pressure on American Muslims has a lot to do with the kind of training that Quantico offers. “Seeing the materials FBI agents are being trained with certainly helps explain why we’ve seen so many inappropriate FBI surveillance operations broadly targeting the Muslim-American community, from inﬁltrating mosques with agents provocateur to racial- and ethnic-mapping programs,” Mike German, a former FBI agent now with the American Civil Liberties Union, tells Danger Room after being shown the documents. ”Biased police training can only result in biased policing.” (Full disclosure: This reporter’s wife works for the ACLU.)

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for waging the war on terrorism was to attack what he called “soft spots” in Islamic faith that might “induce a deteriorating cascade effect upon the target.” That is, to discredit Islam itself and cause Muslims to abandon their religion. “Critical vulnerabilities of the Koran, for example, are that it was uttered by a mortal,” he said. Alas, he lamented, he faced the bureaucratic obstacle of ofﬁcial Washington’s “political taboo of linking Islamic violence to the religion of Islam,” according to the website.

Back then, however, Gawthrop didn’t work for the FBI. He had recently stepped down from a position with the Defense Department’s Counterintelligence Field Activity. That agency came under withering criticism during the Bush administration for keeping a database about threats to military bases that included reports on peaceful antiwar protesters and dovish Church groups. It is unclear how Gawthrop came to work for the FBI.

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Through an intermediary, Gawthrop told Danger Room that he was unavailable for comment before our deadline. ‘Instead of looking for indicators of nefarious behavior, you have a sweeping generalization.’ The FBI didn’t always conﬂate terrorism

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The Qur’an: Your Gateway to a New World If we are like most Muslims, we probably have a copy of the Qur’an somewhere in our home. We may not know where it is, but that is only because we never needed to look for it. Most often, it occupies the top shelf in any stack of books (ensuring maximum accessibility!), or found wrapped in multiple layers of decorated cloth (ensuring optimum visibility!). More likely than not, it’s the one book with the most dust on it and the one we are least likely to pick for our night-time reading. There is a reason we treat this ‘holy book’ in such a disgraceful manner: we do not know why we have it and why we need it in the first place. By our indifference, we have ignored its awesome power to change people and transform societies. By our misguided love for the physical Book, we have made it “untouchable”, suitable only for occasional mouthing of its syllables, but otherwise to be stored away. By our overemphasis on minute details, we have erected barriers between the Qur’an and ourselves, counting on someone else to tell us how to understand it, so that we hardly ever interact with it personally! The Qur’an as Reality “Allah. There is no god but He, the Everliving, the Self-subsisting [by whom all subsist]. He has sent down upon you the Book with the Truth ... as a guidance unto mankind” (Qur’an 3: 2-3) For those who heard it for the first time from the lips of the Prophet, blessings and peace be on him, the Qur’an was a living reality. They had no doubt that, through him, Allah was speaking to them. Their hearts and minds were therefore seized by it. Their eyes overflowed with tears and their bodies shivered. They found each word of it deeply relevant to their concerns and experiences, and integrated it fully into their lives. They were completely transformed by it - both as individuals and as a community - into a totally new, alive and life-giving entity.

Those who grazed sheep, herded camels and traded petty merchandise became the shepherds and leaders of mankind! How do we make the Qur’an, again, a living, relevant force, as powerful for us now, 1420 years away, as it was then? Only by entering the world of the Qur’an as if Allah were speaking to us through it now and today, and by fulfilling the necessary conditions for such an encounter. Encountering the World of the Qur’an Firstly, then, we must realise what the Qur’an, as the word of God, is and what it means to us, and bring all the reverence, love, longing, and will-to-act that this realisation demands. Secondly, we must read it as it asks to be read, as Allah’s Messenger instructed us, as he and his Companions read it. Thirdly, we must bring each word of the Qur’an to bear upon our own realities and concerns by transcending the barriers of time, culture and change. The New World that Awaits You As you come to the Qur’an, you come to a new world. No other venture in your life can be so momentous and crucial, so blissful and rewarding, as your journey to and through the Qur’an. It is a journey that will take you through the endless joys and riches of the words that your Creator and Lord has sent to you and all mankind. Here you will find a world of untold treasures of knowledge and wisdom to guide you on the pathways of life, to mould your thoughts and actions. In it, you will find deep insights to enrich you and steer you along the right course. From it, you will receive a radiant light to illuminate the deeper reaches of your soul. Here you will encounter profound emotions, a warmth to melt your heart and bring tears running down your cheeks.

Undertaking the Journey To remain determined and steadfast on our road to its discovery, and to derive the maximum benefit from our undertaking of studying the Qur’an, we must approach it with certain convictions. First, our lives will remain meaningless and ruined unless they are guided by the Qur’an, the word of God. Second, the Qur’an, being the eternal guidance given by the Ever-living God, is as relevant for us, today; as it was fourteen centuries ago, and will remain so forever. Third, we almost have a right, in some sense and measure, to receive its blessings today as its first believers did; provided, of course, that we come to it and move in it in a manner that may entitle us to share its rich harvest. Fourth, every Muslim has a duty to devote himself to reading, understanding, memorizing and implementing the Qur’an. Fifth, one must abandon oneself totally, in thought and deed, to whatever the Qur’an has to offer. Any pride, arrogance, sense of self-sufficiency, reservation, or ingenuity that can mistakenly be read into it, is fatal to its understanding and would shut the door to its blessings. Sixth, the path of the Qur’an is the path of self-surrender, of practicing what it tells you, even if one learns only one Ayah. One Ayah learnt and acted upon is better than a thousand explained beautifully but which do not impart any beauty to the reader’s life.

to you, it may even bring misery and harm, unless you, from the first moment, begin to change and reconstruct your life in total surrender to God who has given you the Qur’an. Without the will and striving to act, neither the states of heart and enraptures of the soul, nor the ecstasies of mood, nor intellectual enrichment will be of any use to you. If the Qur’an does not have any impact upon your actions and if you do not obey what it enjoins and avoid what it prohibits, then you are not getting nearer to it. Reading the Qur’an should induce faith inside your heart; that faith should shape your lives. It is not a gradual piecemeal process, by which you first spend years reading the Qur’an, then understanding it and strengthening your faith, and only then act upon it. All things take place simultaneously: as you hear or recite the words, they kindle faith inside you; as you have faith inside you, your life begins to change. What we must remember is that to live by the Qur’an requires a major decision on our part: we have to completely alter the course of our life, irrespective of what may be the dominant thought-patterns around us, or what our society may be dictating, or what others may be doing. This decision requires major sacrifices. But unless we, as believers in the Qur’an being the word of God, are prepared to take the plunge, not much good will come out of the time spent with the Qur’an. ” O people! There has come to you an exhortation from your Lord - a healing for what is in the hearts, a guidance and a mercy for the believers. Say: In this bounty of Allah, and in His mercy, in it, let them rejoice!” (Qur’an10: 57-8)

Obedience, after all, is the real key to understanding.

Let us rejoice then and re-acquaint our selves with Allah through His Book.

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with Islam. “I never saw that,” says Ali Soufan, one of the FBI’s most distinguished counterterrorism agents and author of the new memoir The Black Banners, who retired from the bureau in 2005. “Sometimes, toward the end of my time, I started noticing it with different entities outside the FBI. You started feeling like they had a problem with Islam-as-Islam, because of the media. But that was a few people, and was usually hidden behind closed doors.” Soufan, a Muslim, has interrogated members of al-Qaida and contributed to rolling up one of its cells in Yemen after

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9/11. But by the logic of the FBI’s training materials, Soufan’s religious practices make him a potential terrorist. McFadden, the former NCIS counterterrorist, has a lot of respect for his FBI colleagues, who he believes are ill-served by these Islam brieﬁngs. “These are earnest special agents and police ofﬁcers who want to know how do their job better,” McFadden says. To o o f t e n , M c F a d d e n s a y s , counterterrorism training becomes simultaneously over-broad and ignorant. “Instead of looking for indicators of nefarious behavior, you have a sweeping generalization of things like, for instance, the Hawala system,” McFadden explains. “It’s a system that most of the developing

world and expatriates from it use to move money around, including terrorists. But you can’t say the whole hawala system is about terrorism, just like you can’t say that Islam as a whole has anything to do with bad behavior.”

Muslims to stop the next terrorist attack.

McFadden, a Catholic, believes that obsessing over obscure Koranic verses is as useful a guide to terrorist behavior as “diving into the rite of exorcism” is to understanding Catholicism.

“Since September 11th, every one of our 56 field offices and the leadership of those offices have had outreach to the Muslim community,” Mueller said. “We need the support of that community … our business is basically relationships.” That is exactly the opposite message sent in the training rooms of Quantico, where the next generation of FBI counterterrorism is shaped.

On April 6, barely two weeks after the “Islamic Motivations for ‘Suicide’ Bombers” briefing at Quantico, FBI Director Robert Mueller defended the bureau’s budget before a congressional committee. Among his major points: the FBI needs cooperation from American

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that suicide bombing and other forms of violence against civilians are never justified. A comparably small percentage of Muslim Americans express favorable views of al Qaeda – 2% very favorable and 3% somewhat favorable. And the current poll finds more Muslim Americans holding very unfavorable views of al Qaeda than in 2007 (70% vs. 58%). There is much greater opposition to suicide bombing – and more highly negative views of al Qaeda – among Muslims in the United States than among Muslims in most of the seven predominantly Muslim countries surveyed by the Pew Global Attitudes Project. In the Palestinian territories, 68% of Muslims say suicide bombing and other forms of violence are at least sometimes justified, as do 35% of Muslims in Lebanon and 28% of those in Egypt. In the other Muslim publics surveyed, the median percentage saying that suicide bombing and other violence against civilians are never justified is 55%; by contrast, 81% of Muslims in the U.S. say such violence is never justified. Similarly, the median percentage across the seven Muslim publics with very unfavorable views of al Qaeda is 38%, compared with 70% among Muslim Americans. (For more, see “U.S. Image in Pakistan Falls No Further Following bin Laden Killing,” June 21, 2011; “Muslim-Western Tensions Persist,” July 21, 2011.) Opposition to violence is broadly shared by all segments of the Muslim American population, and there is no correlation between support for suicide bombing and measures of religiosity such as strong religious beliefs or mosque attendance. Yet opposition to extremism is more pronounced among some segments of the U.S. Muslim public than others. Overall, just 5% of Muslim Americans express even somewhat favorable opinions of al Qaeda. Yet hostility toward al Qaeda varies – 75% of foreign-born U.S. Muslims say they have a very unfavorable opinion of al Qaeda, compared with 62% of all native-born Muslims and 56% of native-born African American Muslims.

However, the proportion of African American Muslims expressing very unfavorable opinions of al Qaeda has increased from 39% four years ago. Perhaps relatedly, 40% of native-born African American Muslims believe that there is at least a fair amount of support for extremism among U.S. Muslims, compared with just 15% among foreign born Muslim Americans. Middle Class and Mostly Mainstream A majority of Muslim Americans (56%) say that most Muslims who come to the U.S. want to adopt American customs and ways of life; just 20% say that Muslims in this country want to be distinct from the larger American society. In contrast, just a third (33%) of the general public believes that most Muslims in the U.S. today want to assimilate. Moreover, only about half of U.S. Muslims (48%) say that most of their close friends are Muslims, and just 7% say that all their close friends are Muslims. These figures are little changed from 2007. Nearly three-quarters (74%) of Muslim Americans endorse the idea that most people can get ahead if they are willing to work hard; just 26% say hard work is no guarantee of success. Among the general public, somewhat fewer (62%) say that most people who work hard can get ahead. U.S. Muslims are about as likely as other Americans to report household incomes of $100,000 or more (14% of Muslims, compared with 16% of all adults), and they express similar levels of satisfaction with their personal financial situation. Overall, 46% say they are in excellent or good shape financially; among the general public, 38% say this. Muslim Americans are as likely as the public overall to have graduated from college (26% of Muslims vs. 28% among the general public). Because as a group Muslim Americans are younger than the general public, twice as many report being currently enrolled in a college or university class (26% vs. 13%). Similar numbers of Muslim Americans and members of the general public report being self-employed or owning a small business (20% for Muslim Americans, 17% for the general public). When it comes to many other aspects

CONTINUED | 23 of American life, Muslim Americans look similar to the rest of the public. Comparable percentages say they watch entertainment television, follow professional or college sports, recycle household materials, and play video games. About one-in-three (33%) say they have worked with other people from their neighborhood to fix a problem or improve a condition in their community in the past 12 months, compared with 38% of the general public. When asked to choose, nearly half of Muslims in the U.S. (49%) say they think of themselves first as a Muslim, while 26% see themselves first as an American; 18% volunteer that they are both. In a 2011 survey by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, 46% of Christians in the U.S. say they identify as Christian first while the same number identify as American first. White evangelicals are much more likely to identify first as Christian (70%). The survey also finds that compared with Muslims elsewhere, Muslim Americans are more supportive of the role of women in society. Virtually all Muslim Americans (90%) agree that women should be able to work outside of the home. Most (68%) also think that there is no difference between men and women political leaders. These are not the prevailing views of Muslims in most predominantly Muslim countries surveyed by the Pew Global Attitudes Project. And on a key foreign policy issue, Muslim Americans are far more likely than Muslims in the Middle East to say that a way can be found for the state of Israel to exist so that the rights of the Palestinians are addressed (62% say this; 20% disagree). In this regard, the views of Muslim Americans resemble those of the general public, among whom 67% say a way can be found for the state of Israel to exist while protecting the rights of the Palestinians; 12% disagree. Who Are Muslim Americans? A 63% majority of Muslim Americans are first-generation immigrants to the U.S., with 45% having arrived in the U.S. since 1990. More than a third of Muslim Americans (37%) were born in the U.S., including 15% who had at least one immigrant parent. Despite the sizable percentage of immigrants, 81% of Muslim Americans are citizens of the

U.S., including 70% of those born outside the U.S. This is a much higher rate of citizenship among foreign-born Muslims than among the broader immigrant population in the U.S.; 47% of all foreignborn are citizens. First-generation Muslim Americans come from a wide range of countries around the world. About four-in-ten (41%) are immigrants from the Middle East or North Africa, while about a quarter (26%) come from South Asian nations including Pakistan (14%), Bangladesh (5%) and India (3%). Others came to the U.S. from sub-Saharan Africa (11%), various countries in Europe (7%), Iran (5%), or other countries (9%). Among the roughly one-in-ﬁve Muslim Americans whose parents also were born in the U.S., 59% are African Americans, including a sizable majority who have converted to Islam (69%). Overall, 13% of U.S. Muslims are African Americans whose parents were born in the United States. A 55% majority of Muslim Americans are married, comparable to 54% among the U.S. general public. Most Muslim Americans (83%) are married to someone of their own faith, as is the case generally in the U.S. For example, among married U.S. Christians, 92% are married to a Christian. Muslim Americans’ Political Attitudes Muslim Americans have liberal attitudes on a number of current political issues. A substantial majority (68%) says they would rather have a larger government providing more services than a smaller government providing fewer services. That compares with 42% of the general public. Most Muslim Americans (70%) either identify as Democrats (46%) or lean toward the Democratic Party (24%); just 11% identify with the Republican Party or lean toward the GOP. Nearly half of Muslim Americans (48%) say they feel that the Republican Party is unfriendly toward Muslim Americans; just 15% say the party is friendly toward them. By contrast, 46% say the Democratic Party

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is friendly toward Muslim Americans, and 64% feel that way about Barack Obama. Among Muslim Americans who say they voted in 2008, an overwhelming 92% say they voted for Obama. In comparison, the 2007 survey found that 71% reported voting for Democrat John Kerry in the 2004 election.

By these measures, Muslims in the U.S. are about as religious as Christians in the United States: 70% of Christians say that religion is very important in their lives and 45% attend services at least weekly according to recent surveys by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.

One issue on which Muslim Americans do not stand out as especially liberal is on societal acceptance of homosexuality. About as many Muslim Americans say homosexuality should be discouraged by society (45%) as accepted by society (39%). The general public, by a 58% to 33% margin, says that homosexuality should be accepted. Still, there is greater support for societal acceptance of homosexuality, among both U.S. Muslims and the public, than there was a few years ago. In 2007, Muslim Americans, by more than two-to-one (61% to 27%), said homosexuality should be discouraged.

Overwhelming numbers of Muslim Americans believe in Allah (96%), the Prophet Muhammad (96%) and the Day of Judgment (92%). Yet the survey ﬁnds that most reject a dogmatic approach to religion. Most Muslim Americans (57%) say there is more than one true way to interpret the teachings of Islam; far fewer (37%) say that there is only one true interpretation of Islam. Similarly, 56% of Muslim Americans say that many different religions can lead to eternal life; just 35% say that Islam is the one true faith that leads to eternal life.

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Perhaps not surprisingly, Muslim Americans have a far more positive view of immigrants than does the public generally. About seven-in-ten (71%) say that immigrants today strengthen the country with their hard work and talents; just 22% say that immigrants are a burden because of their impact on the availability of jobs, housing and health care. The general public is evenly divided on this question; 45% say that immigrants strengthen the country, while 44% say immigrants are a burden. Religious, But Not Dogmatic Many Muslim Americans are highly religious: 69% say that religion is very important in their lives, and about half (47%) report at least weekly attendance at

In this respect, Muslim Americans differ from many of their counterparts in the Muslim world and are similar to U.S. Christians. In the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life’s 2007 U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, 28% of Christians said that there was only one way to interpret the teachings of their religion. About the Muslim American Survey The 2011 Muslim American Survey is based on telephone interviews conducted April 14-July 22, 2011 with 1,033 Muslims in the U.S. Interviews were conducted in English, Arabic, Farsi and Urdu. The survey was conducted by landline telephones and cell phones, using a

nationally representative random sample combining interviews from three sampling sources. (1) About a third (35%) of the interviews (358) were obtained from a geographically stratified randomdigit-dial (RDD) sample of the general public, which entailed screening 41,689 households. (2) An additional 501 came from a commercial database of 113 million households, of which more than 600,000 included people with likely Muslim ﬁrst names or surnames who also had a telephone number; Muslim households from this database were excluded from the geographically-stratiﬁed RDD sample but were included in a separate stratum as part of the general public RDD sample. (3) An additional 174 interviews were obtained by recontacting Englishspeaking Muslim households on landlines and cell phones from previous nationwide surveys conducted since 2007. The results of all three sampling sources were combined and statistically adjusted to the demographic parameters of the Muslim population, as estimated by the results of the interviews from the geographically-stratified RDD and listed sample (excluding the recontact interviews). The margin of sampling error for results based on the full sample is plus or minus 5 percentage points. Details about the study’s sample design and the overall methodological approach are contained in the survey methodology. The study’s design was nearly identical to that used in the 2007 survey of Muslim Americans. [For a full report with data graphics, see http://people-press.org] ---------------------------------------------In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------All Muslim Brothers Association 3900 King Street, Alexandria, VA 22302 Tel: 703-647-0515 Jumma Prayer Only - 1:15 P.m --------------------------------------------------------------------------ICNA VA Center: 2913 Woodlawn Trail, Alexandria, VA 22306. Tel: 703-660-1255 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Idara Dawat-o-irshad: 4803 VAlley St, Alexandria, VA 22312 Tel: 703-256-8622 ww.irshad.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Mustafa Center: 6844 Braddock Rd., Annandale, VA 22003 Tel: 703-658-7134 www.mustafacenter.org E-mail: Mustafacenter@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------Baitul Mukarram: 2116 S Nelson St., Arlington, VA, 22204, Tel: 703-778-1550 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Zakaria Islamic Academy: Galesbury Lane, Chantilly, VA 20151 Tel: 571-969-2123 www.ziacademy.org E-mail: Contact@ziacademy.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Badr Community Center Of Dumfries: 17794 Main Street, Dumfries, VA 22026 Tel: 703-585-1689/703-554-7983 www.bccd.org E-mail: Info@bccd.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Dar Ul-ghuraba (Masjid Ur Rahmah): 155 Baker St., Emporia, VA 23487 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Dar Al Hijrah: 3159 Rowe St., Falls Church, VA 22044, Tel: 703-536-1030 www.hijrah.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Islamic Center Of Northern VA Trust (Icnvt): 4420 Shirley Gate Road, Fairfax, VA, 22030 Tel: 703-591-0999 www.icnvt.org E-mail: Info@icnvt.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Dar Al-noor (Muslim Assoc. Of VA): 5404 Hoadly Rd., Manassas, VA 20112, Tel: 703-580-0808 Fax: 703-221-8513 www.daralnoor.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Manassas Mosque: 12950 Center Entrance Ct, Manassas, VA Tel: 703-257-5537 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Islamic Center Of Virginia: 1241 Buford Rd., Richmond, VA 23235 Tel: 804-320-7333 www.icVA1.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------Islamic Society Of Greater Richmond (ISGR): 6324 Rigsby Road, Richmond, VA 23226 Tel: 804-673-4177 www.isgr.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Masjid Al Rahman: 1305 Hull St., Richmond, VA 23224 Tel: 804-232-7640 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Masjidullah Of Richmond: 211 North Ave., Richmond, VA 23222 Tel: 804-321-8864/804-647-4297 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Dar-ul Huda: 6666 Commerce St., Springfield, VA 22150, Tel: 703-922-0111 www.darulhuda.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Islamic Foundation of America: 6606 Electronic Drive, Springfield, VA 22151 Tel: 703-914-4982 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Masjid Noor: 8608 Pohick Rd, Springfield, VA 22153 Tel: 703-451-7615 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Adams Center: 46903 Sugarland Rd, Sterling,VA 20164, Tel: 703-433-1325 www.adamscenter.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Islamic Heritage Center (IHC): 262 A-3 Cedar Ln., Vienna, VA 22180 Tel: 703-206-9056 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------First Hijra Muslim Comm. Center: 4324 Georgia Ave, NW Washington, D.C. 20011 www.ﬁrsthijrah.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Ivy City Masjid: 2001 Galludet St. NE, Washington, D.C. 20002 Tel: 202-529-3100 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Masjid Al-islam: 4603 Benning Rd., SE, Washington, D.C. 20019 E-mail: Imammusa@hotmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------Masjid Muhammad: 1519 4th St. NW, Washington D.C. 20001 Tel: 202-483-8832 | www. masjidmuhammad.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------Muslim Society Of Washington, D.c. (MSWDC): Howard Center, Room 805 (Above Hu Bookstore)

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------Islamic Society Of Annapolis (ISA): 2635 Riva Rd. Suite 110, Annapolis, MD 21401 Tel: 410-266-6660 www.isamd.org Email: Info@islamannapolis.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Bait-Allah Masjid of Baltimore Inc 1935 Frederick Ave Baltimore, MD 21223 Imam’s cell: 571-721-9938 email: baitallahmasjid@yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------Bilal Dawah Center, Inc: 1910 Frederick Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21223 Tel: 410-945-1515 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Dar ul Uloom: 6334 Dogwoood Rd, Baltimore, MD 21207, Tel: 410-493-0785 Email: Darululoommd@aol.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------Masjid Ul-haq: 514 Islamic Way (Wilson St. ), Baltimore, MD 21217 Tel: 410-728-1363 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Masjid Al-mumineen: 2642 Harford Rd., Baltimore, MD 21218 Tel: 410-467-8798 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Masjid Jamaat Al-Muslimeen: 4624 York Rd., Baltimore, MD 21212 Tel: 410-891-8451 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Masjid Al-rahmah/ISB: 6631 Johnnycake Rd., Baltimore, MD 21244 Tel: 410-747-4869 | www.isb.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Masjid As Saffat: 1335 W. North Ave., Baltimore, MD 21217 Tel: 410-669-0655 --------------------------------------------------------------------------IRHSCA (Islamic Research And Hum. Services Center Of America): 1 Chambers Ave, Capitol Heights, MD Tel: 301-324-5040 www.irhsca.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Islamic Society Of Southern Pg County (ISSPGC): P O Box 99, Clinton, MD 20735 5410 Indian Head Hwy, Oxon Hill, MD 20745 Tel: 240 603 4618 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Dar-us-Salaam: 5301 Edgewood Rd.,

College Park, MD 20740, Tel: 301-982-9848 www.duscommunity.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Masjid Zamzam 1510 Lynch Road, Dundalk, MD 21222 Tel: 410-284-2840 www.masjidzamzam.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------Dar al-Taqwa: 10740 Rte. 108, Ellicott City, MD 21042, Tel: 410-997-5711 www.taqwa.net --------------------------------------------------------------------------Masjid Al-Hikmah: 11064 Livingston Road Unit L (101) Ft. Washington, MD 20744, Tel: 301 292-9009 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Islamic Society Of Frederick (ISF): 1250 Key Parkway, Frederick,md 21702 Tel: 301-682-6090 www.isfmd.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Islamic Center Of Maryland (ICM): 19411 Woodﬁeld Rd. Gaithersburg,md 20879 Tel:301-840-9440 www.icomd.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Makkah Learning Center (MLC): 814 Brandy Farms Ln., Gambrills, MD 21054 Tel: 410-721-5880 www.isamd.org Email: Info@mlcmd.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Islamic Society Of Germantown (ISG): 19900 Brandermill Rd., Germantown, MD 20876 Tel: (240)-277-7758 www.isgtown.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Masjid Ibn Taymiyyah: 8000 Mlk Highway, Glenarden MD Tel: 301-461-9325 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Islamic Society of Western Maryland: 2036 Day Rd., Hagerstown, MD 21740 Tel: 301-797-0922 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Southern Maryland Islamic Center (SMIC): 1046 Solomons Island Rd, Huntingtown, MD, 20639 Tel: 410-535-0000 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Avondale Islamic Center: 4637 Eastern Ave., Hyattsville, MD, 20782 Tel: 301-779-9292 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Prince Georges Muslim Assoc.(PGMA): 9150 Lanham Severn Rd., Lanham, MD, 20706, Tel: 301-459-4942 www.pgmamd.org Imam’s Ofﬁce: 301-459-1441

E-mail: Imam@pgmamd.org. --------------------------------------------------------------------------Turkish American Community Center 9704 Good Luck Rd, Lanham, MD 20706 Tel: 301-459-9589 www.taccenter.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------La Plata Masjid: 111 Howard Street, La Plata, MD 20646 Tel: 301-609-8769 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Islamic Com. Center Of Laurel (ICCL): 7306 Contee Rd., Laurel, MD 20707 Tel: 301-317-4584 www.icclmd.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Masjid Al-Ghurabaa: 8220 Washington St., South Laurel, MD 20724. Tel: 301-604-3295 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Islamic Center Of Lexington Park 22583 Three Notch Road, Lexington Park, MD 20619 Tel: 240-538-7839 or 561-414-0994 www.iclpmd.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Medina Center: 11600 Falls Road, Potomac MD 20854 www.medinacenter.net E-mail: Admin@medinacenter.net --------------------------------------------------------------------------Randallstown Islamic Center 9019 Marcella Ave. Randallstown, MD 21133 Tel: 410-971-4018 www.ricbaltimore.org E-mail: Info@ricbaltimore.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Islamic Society Of The Washington Area (ISWA): 2701 Briggs Chaney Rd., Silver Spring, MD 20904 Tel: 301-879-0930 www.iswamd.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Muslim Community Center (MCC): 15200 New Hampshire Ave. Silver Spring, MD 20905 Tel: 301-384-3454 www.mccmd.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Imaam: (Jumuah Only) Jumuah: 12:50pm 3201 Randolph Rd, Wheaton, MD 20906 www.imaam.org Email: Fridayprayer@imaam.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Masjid An-nur: 5418 Ebenezer Road, White Marsh, MD 21162 Tel: 410-663-9637 Fax: 410-663-9817 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Masjid Al-inshirah: 7832 Fairbrook Road, Windsor Mill, MD 21244 Tel: 410-298-2977

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