Rusty Shackleford over at the Jawa Report (thanks to Nicolei) has some very interesting additional information about the Bush assassination plot: “Did Omar and Faten Ali and know of their sons jihadism?”
The jihadi connection only gets deeper. From this NY Times article (ht: Katherine) we learn that Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, the man indicted on charges of working with al Qaeda to plot the assassination of the President of the US, taught Islamic studies to children at the Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center while still in high school. According to the Washington Post, the Center has been a gathering place for Islamist and jihadi activity in the US.
Two of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers worshiped at the mosque and several of the group’s founders were active in the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. It is no surprise that the Muslim American Society pushed for Ahmed Abu Ali’s release and its members showed up in force to laugh at the judge during Ali’s indictment. The Muslim American Society is also associated withe the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Muslim Brotherhood is the original al Qaeda. Al-Ikhwan, as it is known in Arabic was started in 1928 as an Islamist organization with the goal of seeting up the world-wide Islamic state. The radical goals of the Muslim Brotherhood and the political teachings of its founder were the inspiration behind Ossama bin Laden’s al Qaeda organization.
Are we to believe that Mr. Omar Abu Ali was not aware of the Salafiyya dogma being taught at the Mosque he attended? A dogma which calls for the introduction of sharia law into the Muslim world? A dogma which calls for violent jihad against regimes in the Middle East?
Additional links about the Brotherhood and the Center over at Rusty’s place.