The imam claims never to have known him and implies that he was not a Muslim at all, but someone who frequented many different houses of worship. Another mosque leader says he didn’t know basics of Islam, and that “he is as far away from Islam as he can be.” Yet on his Facebook page, which allows for a revealing glimpse into how the mainstream media distorts the truth, Jah’Keem Yisrael frequently quotes Qur’an and exhorts fellow Muslims that they must pray and perform various rituals correctly.
Even if this is true, and Jah’Keem Yisrael is a bad Muslim, with the Islamic State beheading people and beheading called for in the Qur’an (47:4), these mosque leaders would do better to explain what they’re doing to keep this kind of thing from happening in the future. But of course they aren’t doing anything, and no one is asking them to do anything.
More below.
“Oklahoma beheading: Muslim religious leaders say Moore suspect visited local mosque,” by Carla Hinton, The Oklahoman, September 27, 2014:
Senior leaders of a prominent Oklahoma City mosque said several people remember seeing the suspect in the Vaughan Foods beheading at their house of worship and described him as being “quiet,” “low-key” and “odd.”
Friday, Imad Enchassi, senior imam of the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City, said he did not recognize Alton Nolen from photographs shown on television news, but some members of the society’s mosque told him they remember seeing Nolen at prayer gatherings at the mosque, 3815 N St. Clair.
His Facebook page suggests he was there often, as these screenshots demonstrate:

Enchassi said the people who said they saw Nolen at the mosque said the man exhibited “odd” behavior, such as praying differently than they are accustomed. He said members of the mosque said Nolen identified himself to them as a searcher, someone who had been seeking to connect spiritually at the mosque but also other places such as churches, synagogues and through Buddhism.
In reality, he clearly identified himself as a Muslim:
Nolen has tattooed on his abdomen “as-salaamu alaikum,” Arabic for “peace be with you,” according to state Corrections Department records. He has “Jesus Christ” tattooed on his chest, “Judah” on his left arm and praying hands on his right arm.
Corrections Department records list Nolen’s religion as “Islam.”
Saad Mohammad, the Islamic society’s director of news and information, said law enforcement representatives contacted his mosque during their investigation Friday.
Mohammad said he remembers yelling at Nolen when the man placed his Quran on the floor with his prayer rug during a visit to the mosque. Mohammad said Muslims are prohibited from placing the Quran, Islam’s holy book, on the floor.
On his Facebook page there is a photo of him reading, apparently in a mosque, but he is not reading the Qur’an; rather, he is reading about Muhammad’s Night Journey, which is not in the Qur’an. Did Saad Mohammed concoct his story after seeing this photo?
Mohammad said he and other people who recall seeing Nolen at the mosque remember him as being “quiet” and “low-key.” He said Nolen did not express violent sentiments nor did he indicate he agreed with the actions of the Islamic State terrorist group in Iraq and Syria known as ISIS.
Mohammad said more than 1,000 people attend Friday-evening prayers, the most popular prayer gathering of the week at the mosque.
Enchassi said he attends the five daily prayers at the mosque and did not remember ever seeing Nolen there.
Both Mohammad and Enchassi denounced Nolen’s actions, saying his behavior is not in keeping with Islam, which they emphasized is a religion of peace.
“He is as far away from Islam as he can be,” Mohammad said.
“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4). It would have been kind of them to explain that.
Mohammad told The Oklahoman that leaders of the society’s mosque decided to take extra security precautions to protect Muslims who gather there from any potential retaliatory violence.
Mohammad said anti-Muslim sentiments may have could be heightened because of the beheadings and violence overseas by ISIS.

Zoltar says
Jah’Keem Yisrael was missing a few marbles. Why was his new Muslim name Yisrael(Israel)? He explains this on this Facebook page.
““My Ancestors Who Are The True Jews Here In America Today Are Originally From Israel. They Were Bombed Outta Israel By The Roman Catholic Army So They Fled To Egypt And The Afrikans Sold Us To The White Man As Slaves Along With Any Other Black Person Here In Amerika Today Aka The True Jews From Israel. Our Ancestors Are Originally From Israel. Were Not from Afrika.”
He has had an incredible grasp of history.
somehistory says
Several years ago, while doing research for a paper, I came across some information on the belief by some that the “Lost Tribe of Israel” was to be found in the population of Africa.
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http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136374#.VCcOWFfDvxE
Taken from the article: British scientists have confirmed with DNA testing that an African tribe in northern South Africa that claims Semitic origins is telling the truth.
The Lemba, whose oral traditions state that their ancestors were Jews, practice customs that are remarkably similar to those of the House of Israel”
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Perhaps this would explain the name Nolen adopted when he converted.
Rob Crawford says
Are the Lemba in Ethiopia? Ethiopia has a long-known and well-documented connection with Israel and the Jews. Other than that… not very likely. People have been searching for the “Lost Tribe of Israel” for centuries, and at times thought they’d found them in Ohio, Oklahoma, and hundreds of different places.
They’re “lost” as in “dead”. Read up on what happened to the Jewish tribes in Arabia after Mohammed.
Mother Effingby says
I thought the Anglicans were the true Jews and that England’s fair hills was Jerusalem.
Walter Sieruk says
This Murderous Muslim was not “far away form Islam” at all. In fact Islam’s “holy book, the Quran, does indeed teach violence and killing. as in for example 9:111,112. It sure sounds some like some people are trying to engage in a cover up of the truth. In all fairness, the Islamic organization C.A.I.R. did make some kind of half-hearted denouncement of of that Muslim’s violence and murder. Nevertheless, C.A.I.R. ‘s denouncement also referred to the ruthless murder as a “gentleman.” What an inappropriate word to uses for the deadly guy. A choice of such a word says some about that group. Furthermore, the Quran does teach in 47;4. “Whenever you encounter the unbelievers strike off their heads…” That Muslim man did cut off a woman’s head.
Don McKellar says
Are we, the demanders of facts and truth, ever glad when people pounce on social media like Facebook pages and “freeze” them for posterity. That way there is no amount of taquiyya and kitman Islamic lying that these imams and moslems can do to obscure the truth in cases like this involving their death cult and the murderers/rapists/theives/pedophiles who are clearly learning and applying the Islamic texts when they commit their crimes.
jihad3tracker says
The problems which this member of Allah’s Army created for taqiyya peddlers like CAIR are enormous compared to ISIS beheadings :
1. A funeral is yet to come for Colleen Hufford.
2. Her co-workers witnessed the attack.
3. The killer survives, awaits charges, will be tried in public.
There are months of coverage ahead . . . Plus, of course, Perpetrator’s remarks during the legal process.
Message to “Honest Ibe” Hooper and Pals : get the giant size bottle of aspirin; you’re going to need it.
Lon Jim says
Maybe these imams should make a distiction between ‘Islam’ and Mahommetanism, if a distinction can be drawn.
Rob Crawford says
There is no difference. Islam is a pseudo-faith created to enforce allegiance to Mohammed’s totalitarian empire.
Ivan Bogdanov says
5 gets you 10 this mutt is J_Poo, our not so-esteemed, latterly arrived expert on all things moral and halal in islam. The MO is un-mistakable. Stupidity personified, erratic and prone to drivel.
More Later….
GP says
He is in his local mosques, with two of his fellow “brothers”, giving the IS finger of friendship salute, and nobody at the mosque knows anything except…he certainly wasn’t one of them.
London Jim says
Ivan, was your comment aimed at me, mate ?
ElderlyZionist says
Yisrael is not an orthodox Muslim name. His greeting on Facebook, ‘Shalom Haleikum’ is a mix of Hebrew and…something else. He quotes Timothy as an authority against masturbation…he’s a syncretist. His theology that American blacks are the true Hebrews is from the Moorish Science Church, the original wellspring of Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam. He takes elements from all the ‘prophetic’ religions.
He took beheading from Islam.
Kepha says
Quite a syncretist, eh?
ray says
the attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties, as in philosophy or religion.
2.
Grammar. the merging, as by historical change in a language, of two or more categories in a specified environment into one, as, in nonstandard English, the use of was with both singular and plural subjects, while in standard English was is used with singular subjects (except for you in the second person singular) and were with plural subjects.
BC says
The similarities between the Uk ‘beheader and this man are striking, both with records of violent behaviour, drug involvement and recent conversion to Islam. In both the Oklamhoma case and the UK one the motivation seems to be uncontolled anger. The coincidence that they both chose to behead people, in the US case more than one, does not necessarily indicate terrorism as such.
Although it is arguable that the recent spate of widely reported beheadings was an inspiration
Both were afflicted with the virus of religion which has produced similar results down the centuries.
dumbledoresarmy says
The virus of “religion”???
Do *all* religions say “strike at their necks”???
No.
The virus of Islam, which – as has been noted, numerous times, in connection with this case and many, many, many others – specifically instructs that heads should be struck off.
The imitatio Christi produces Francis of Assisi and Fr Damien and Gladys Aylward, and Corrie ten Boom, and Br Roger of Taize, and the Blessed Maximilien Kolbe.
The imitatio Mohammedi produces…people who grab a perfect stranger and chop off their heads.
Mirren10 says
” In both the Oklamhoma case and the UK one the motivation seems to be uncontolled anger.”
The murderers of Lee Rigby were, in fact quite calm, and stated their motivation for his murder, quoting from the koran, quite clearly, on camera for all the world to see. Did you somehow manage to miss it ?
As for this Oklahoma murderer, he hasn’t yet specifically said why he did it, and once it gets to court, I doubt his lawyers will allow him to state his motivation: the koran, and islam. If you have been following the threads, how is it possible you cannot see this ?
” The coincidence that they both chose to behead people, in the US case more than one, does not necessarily indicate terrorism as such”.
No, of **course** it doesn’t. And the beheadings of the journalists, tourists and aid workers, by the IS, on camera, not to mention the severed heads lining the streets of Mosul, and the children playing with severed heads, the Taliban playing football with severed heads; nope, none of this is ‘indicative’ of terrorism, ‘as such’. What, exactly, for you, **does** indicate terrorism ‘as such’ ? Good grief …
”Both were afflicted with the virus of religion which has produced similar results down the centuries”
More witless moral equivalency mongering. Dda has made some excellent points in her post, I suggest you read it carefully, and then put your brain into gear.
Clearly, you are an atheist. I’m an agnostic myself, but I can see very well the differences between what is taught in the decent religions, and what is taught in islam.
Certainly, individuals have, throughout the centuries, committed atrocities in the name of religion. The point is, this behaviour was **going against the tenets of their religion**.
In islam, committing atrocities is **mandated in the koran, hadith, and sira**. The perpetrators quote from the koran whilst sawing off someone’s head. They are **following the tenets of islam**.
Until you manage to grasp this **essential** difference, your strictures against *all* religions merely come across as unintelligent, and uninformed.
mortimer says
Mirren wrote: “the motivation seems to be uncontolled anger.”
This anger (called ghira in Arabic) is a highly prized ZEALOUS FURY FOR ISLAM. Ghira is a virtue in Muslims as aggression is prized in fighting bulls or police dogs!
The mullahs are COMPLETELY in charge of these rage-filled killers and send them out, but they deny knowing them when they commit atrocities in the name of Islam. Then they concoct stories about the killers! The mendacious taqiyya artists!
Mirren10 says
”Mirren wrote: “the motivation seems to be uncontolled anger.”
No, Mortimer, that was BC. I was quoting from his post.
That’s interesting about ‘ghira’; I hadn’t heard of it. Another thing I love about JW; one learns new things all the time.
Mirren10 says
By the way, I forgot to say, I loved ”islam has nothing to do with islam”. 🙂
Rob Crawford says
“I’m an agnostic myself, but I can see very well the differences between what is taught in the decent religions, and what is taught in islam.”
Same here.
Richard says
Memo for the attention of the FBI re: motive for Oklahoma beheading: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/isis-spokesman-supporters-should-kill-europeans-americans-canadians-any-way-possible-1466589
mortimer says
I’m getting a tattoo: “Koran 47:4 has NOTHING to do with Islam.”
‘Striking the necks of the disbelievers’ is in the Koran but OBVIOUSLY has nothing to do with Islam.
Islam has nothing to do with Islam.
Jack Gordon says
I know it will take what seems forever, but eventually we can hope that this murdering Mohammedan (pardon the repetition here) will be convicted and given the maximum penalty. Am I right in thinking that Oklahoma nobly resists the feeble-minded liberal temptation toward antiseptic execution, that it still employs the firing squad? If that’s indeed the case, would it be too much to ask that (1) the affair be public, perhaps even with camera crews there from local TV stations, and (2) that Nolen get his bullet from the muzzle of an AK-47 (we have plenty of them in government arsenals) in the back of the neck? Here I only mean to respect long-established Mohammedan practices, something I am sure even the traitorous Obama couldn’t object to terribly.