Liberty City mosque leader goes to prison for housing fraud

He must have a pious, oppressed Muslim fighting a usurious system that denies Believers of the goods of this world vouchsafed to them by Allah. /sarc

"Denies"--read, "deprives."

Too bad this Liberty City is not the Liberty City in Grand Theft Auto 4. If it was I'd load up on weapons and pay Muhammad Mosque No. 29 a friendly Kafir visit.

Moral uplift. Dinesh?

I wonder: people might say, well, he's simply a fraud, and all religious groups have their occasional con-man.

But I wonder what answer the reporter might have got, had they rung up the mosque and asked what they thought of the conviction.

A church, one of whose wardens or donors was exposed in and publicly convicted of fraudulent practices, would be deeply ashamed, and would not try to cover up the member's bad behaviour, nor defend it, since fraud explicitly contradicts the code of conduct taught by the Christian faith.

I have a funny feeling that a mosque - so long as the frauds were practised against kafir rather than Muslims - might not react in quite the same way.

In the absence of access to law enforcement and court records in the US or elsewhere, I can't pronounce on whether, given X number of convictions for fraud (this sort of property scam, plus identity theft, passport fraud, welfare fraud, you-name-it), Muslims in the USA, or Australia, or the UK, or India, or wherever, are more heavily represented among those thus convicted, than members of other faith groups or belief-systems.

I do recall reading, in a news report from the archives here, that Pakistani Muslim police officers, in the UK, had been found to be ten times more likely to be corrupt than their fellow officers of non-Muslim backgrounds

I also recall reading, in Geraldine Brooks' Nine Parts of Desire, that a police study in the UK in the early 1990s found that women with Muslim husbands were eight times more likely to be killed by their husbands, than women with non-Muslim husbands.

The pattern emerging does not look good.

Isn't this kind of property theft (often in concert with employees of the property records department) rampant in Muslim countries?

Uh, yeah. Visit Middle-East-info.org. The link is on the JW homepage (since I probably just botched it). They list the corruption index for every country in the Middle East and compare them to Israel, which is actually pretty corrupt, having a 15% Arab population. They're all as bad as bad can be.

Hahaha!

"Moral uplift, Dinesh?"

Hugh, this guy is so far from 'moral uplift' that brings to mind the old Beatles song:

He's a real Nowhere man, sitting in his nowhere land, making all his.......(fill in your own) for nobody....

Crimes against kaffirs don't count, do they? Allah and his alter ego muhammad said they didn't; in fact, they mandate that muslims expropriate the wealth of the infidels and share it. How are muslims supposed to thrive and grow if they can't lie, cheat, and steal from the filthy non-believers? Surely nobody expects the "best of people" to obey the law of the infidels or get their holy hands dirty doing honest work. I'm sure the congregation is extremely proud of him and outraged at his arrest and conviction. He was only being a good muslim and following islam to the letter. When do the police departments, politicians, and pundits of America intend to acknowledge the hideous reality of islam and its implications? Talk about an inability to connect dots! Even a child could sit down, assimilate the evidence, and conclude the obvious. Maybe that's what it will take---a child's epiphany!

Anyway, Christians are far more corrupt and the Jews are hoarding the world's money so at last they can rule the universe. Leave the poor, pitiful, persecuted muslims alone. They just want to live, pray, and breed in peace, dreaming of demographic conquest and sweet revenge.

What does a "vice-president" of a mosque do? Who's the president, the imam in charge?

I believe the protagonist of "The Emperor's New Clothes" was a litte boy. According to Pat Condell, it was also a little boy who coined the term "letter box ladies." It may very well the children who refuse to let this continue to happen. It may also be the children who decide that Mohammedanism stops with their parents.

A leader in a Liberty City mosque was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Tuesday for his role in a housing scam that stole homes from the elderly -- and even from dead people.
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This is *very* similar to the housing scams perpetrated by Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland, California. For some time, I paid little attention to news of these scams--I had thought they were along the lines of low-level tax fraud, where Bakery big-wigs would list their homes as non-profit Bakery property, or some such.

Later I found out the situation was *much* uglier, involving intimidation and coercion of homeowners and heirs, often people who were elderly or otherwise vulnerable. Why has there been so little coverage of these crimes?

Probably because the Bakery was responsible for even worse crimes, including organized underage rape of foster children, kidnapping, torture, theft, and a string of murders spanning several decades, including a power-struggle following the death of the Bakery's founder, Yusef Bey. The killings culminated in the assassination of journalist Chauncey Bailey in August of last year, who was investigating the group.