Imam Musa wants to establish an Islamic State of America by 2050 and has called Iran’s Khamenei the “best leader in the world.” Nor is this the first time he has spread paranoid fantasies about “Islamophobia” in the Iranian press. But was even he able to keep a straight face when claiming that the U.S. government was waging “open warfare on Islam and Muslims”? The U.S. Muslim establishment plays the victimhood game very skillfully, but even they don’t make such wild claims.
“Top Ameican [sic] Imam: 9/11 used as ‘pretext’ to attack Muslims,” from Iran’s state-controlled Ahlul Bayt News Agency, February 23:
(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) – The September 11 attacks in the United States were used by the US government as a “pretext” to “declare open warfare on Islam and Muslims,” an American activist says.
“It’s totally illegal what the government is doing,” said Abdul Alim Musa, the director of Masjid Al-Islam in Washington, D.C., criticizing a federal judge’s dismissal of a lawsuit alleging the New York City Police Department illegally spied on Muslim Americans in New Jersey.
On Thursday, the court in Newark in the state of New Jersey ruled that the plaintiffs had failed to show that the NYPD’s intelligence unit had discriminated against Muslims by spying on mosques and other locations in the state.
The 2012 lawsuit was the first to challenge the NYPD’s spying operations against Muslim groups and individuals in the US. It had accused the police of spying on Muslims at several mosques, restaurants and schools since 2002.
“My belief is it’s a waste of time for Muslims to use all of their energy seeking justice in the United States courts,” Musa told Press TV on Saturday. “The United States court system is totally controlled by American Zionism and they’re not going to allow Muslims to gain any justice in that court system.”
Musa also said American Muslims and “the whole world is tired of US spying” after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden released thousands of classified documents on NSA global spying programs.