The defenders of the radical Imam killed in yesterday’s shootout with police are already emerging and calling into question police “tactics” in their use of force against Abdullah.
“This tragic shooting raises deep concerns regarding the use of lethal force by law enforcement agents,” the Muslim Alliance in North America said in a statement today about Abdullah. “We urge law enforcement and the media not to take undo advantage of this tragedy in order to demonize … African American Muslims in particular.”
Abdullah was on an advisory board for the Muslim Alliance, and he often met with local imams, said local Muslims.
Catherine Wessinger, a professor of history of religions at Loyola University in New Orleans who studies religious violence, said today this was the first case of a religious leader who was killed on American soil by the U.S. government since the Branch Davidian case. In that incident, Koresh and many of his followers died after a siege by federal officers that ended in a fire and shooting.
In its statement, the Muslim Alliance said, “Luqman was a representative of the Detroit Muslim community to the “National Ummah” and the general assembly (Shura) of the Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA).”
yea, so? what do his so called “credentials” have anything to do with it?
In the complaint, federal authorities described Abdullah as a radical Sunni fundamentalist who advocated violence to establish Islamic rule.
“America must fall,” he said at one point, according to the criminal complaint.
But the Alliance said the “reference to the ‘Ummah’ as a ‘nation-wide radical fundamentalist Sunni group consisting primarily of African-Americans’ is an offensive mischaracterization.”
David Nu’Man of Detroit said he knew Abdullah, describing him as a “good humanitarian.”
“He helped youth,” Nu’Man said, adding that he was a very giving person. “He would help feed the homeless.”
The epitome of the problem with so called “moderates” in this country.
They pretend to condemn any form of radicalism, but when it comes to actually standing up and doing so, they fail miserably everytime.
The REAL moderate Muslims are folks like these.
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