August 17, 2009

Shock: Raleigh MAS Spokesperson and Apologist for Indicted Terrorists, Herself Trained in Terror Camps

Khalilah Sabra [right], a spokesperson for the Raleigh Muslim American Society, has been oft quoted by local media sources decrying the arrest of Daniel “Saifullah” Boyd and six others in North Carolina for their failed plot at joining violent jihadi groups abroad.

One of the would-be jihadists, Jude Kenan Mohammad, is still on the loose in Pakistan.

But as Creeping Sharia notes, Sabra herself was once recruited to the Pakistani jihad camps by none other than Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, the man who inspired Osama bin Laden to join the "caravan of martyrs" to the "jihad fields" of Afghanistan. Although killed in Afghanistan, his writings are still popular among those who support violent jihad and are redistributed by al Qaeda's media wing today.

Sabra notes, correctly, that fighting the Soviets with the "mujahideen" in Afghanistan was no crime in the 1980's. However, what she fails to mention in her interviews with the media and apologies for Boyd is that he went to fight in Afghanistan after the Soviets had left. Making Boyd's commitment to violent jihad something less than the "patriotic duty" she makes it out to be.

But it's Sabra's own past which is so troubling. A past which goes unreported by the MSM.

Creeping Sharia:

Do readers and news outlets know that Khalilah Sabra, like Boyd – a convert to Islam, also lived and trained in Pakistan like Boyd and therefore is defending herself when defending Boyd’s mujahid experience?

Do they know she was recruited to Pakistan by the so-called “godfather of jihad” and “one time mentor to Osama bin Laden” who was in the United States recruiting mujahid?

Do they know Khalilah Sabra was one of the people Osama bin Laden’s mentor did recruit to Pakistan?

Does anyone in the media care? Does the FBI care? Do any of our elected politicians care?

What's interesting to note here is not only how the local MAS is trying to undermine the case against these would-be terrorists, but also how the FBI and local media have gone out of their way to distance the Saifullah ring from the local Muslim community. Media reports indicate that Boyd and his followers were disenchanted with the local mosque they attended -- not radical enough, apparently -- which led him to begin holding services in his home. This flies in the face of evidence left on the internet connecting at least two of the indicted jihadis with a local Muslim youth group just days before they left the country in an attempt to join the jihad, but nevertheless that is how it is being reported.

So, the FBI and the local media are trying to distance the would-be terrorists from Muslims in Raleigh. How are they paid back? At least one prominent Islamist group in Raleigh is busy trying to apologize for and undermine the case against the potential terrorists among them.

If I was a Muslim I'd be outraged about the radical Islamist agenda of the MAS and their claims of speaking for the Muslim community.