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DoJ hires imam who said Ayaan Hirsi Ali deserved death for leaving Islam

Mar 5, 2015 11:02 am By Robert Spencer

Fouad ElBaylyDoes the Justice Department do absolutely no vetting? No background checks? Or do they knows about this over at the DoJ and just don’t care, because after all, to care about such things would be “Islamophobic”?

“Imam Who Said Ayaan Hirsi Ali Deserved Death Penalty Was Hired By DOJ To Teach Muslim Classes To Federal Prisoners,” by Chuck Ross, Daily Caller, March 3, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

An Egyptian-born imam who in 2007 said that Somali-born activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali should receive the death penalty for her criticism of Islam is now a Department of Justice contractor hired to teach classes to Muslims who are in federal prison.

According to federal spending records, Fouad ElBayly, the imam at Islamic Center of Johnstown in Pennsylvania, was contracted by the DOJ’s Bureau of Prisons beginning last year to teach the classes to Muslim inmates at Cumberland Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Md.

The records show that ElBayly has two contracts worth $12,900 to teach the classes and to provide the inmates “leadership and guidance.” One of the contracts is dated Feb. 20, 2014, and the other is dated Dec. 8, 2014.

It was April 2007 when ElBayly, the imam at the Islamic Center of Johnston, protested Ali’s scheduled appearance at the University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown.

Ali, a former Dutch parliamentarian who fled Somalia with her family at a young age, has been vocal in her critique of Islam, claiming that women suffer greatly under the religion.

Those comments have angered many, including ElBayly, who called Ali’s statements “poisonous.”

“If you come into the faith, you must abide by the laws, and when you decide to defame it deliberately, the sentence is death,” the imam told a local newspaper ahead of her university visit.

ElBayly, along with Mahmood Qazi, the Islamic Center of Johnstown’s founder and past president, pressed university officials to block Ali from speaking.

“I don’t want her to poison anyone’s mind,” Qazi said. “She doesn’t believe in God. How can she talk about God?”

The men were unsuccessful, and ElBayly was heavily criticized for his comments, which gained national attention at the time. He apologized in a letter to the newspaper and seemingly resigned his post.

But that resignation was temporary, it turns out.

The federal Bureau of Prisons requires religious services contractors to provide credentials and other background information in their applications. One section asks applicants to list their associations with established religious organizations. According to recent news reports, ElBayly is once again the imam at the Islamic Center of Johnstown….

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  1. Draki says

    Mar 5, 2015 at 11:35 am

    I think the title should be changed to, he said Ali should be killed for “defaming” Islam, not leaving it as the article suggests. Is there another quote or article saying she should die for leaving? Granted, I think sharia considers both of those offenses deserving of punishment, and it’s stupid. We should convince more muslims to leave islam and let them kill each other.

    • PJG says

      Mar 5, 2015 at 6:17 pm

      You want to convince Muslims to leave Islam so that Muslims who don’t leave Islam can kill them?
      Gee, that’s nasty!

      • mortimer says

        Mar 5, 2015 at 10:13 pm

        Absurd. Ex-Muslims are the greatest opponents of Islam. The answer is to deprogram Muslims.

        I find your suggestion to encourage crimes against humanity extremely offensive and unwelcome in a serious forum like this that focuses on human rights, equality and the value of the person.

        Please stay away in future.

        • Rex Blanchard says

          Mar 6, 2015 at 4:55 am

          A Psychologist, a Syrian American woman has disavowed Islam and is the strongest opponent of Islam I have ever heard, declaring war on the religion. See You-Tube. She said that her teacher was murdered in the classroom and her niece, not even a teenager, was forced to marry a 50 year old man, legal under Sharia Law because Muhammad married his 7 year old stepdaughter saying Allah forbids adoption to eliminate the taboo of marrying a family relation. Her niece committed suicide after her own father refused to help her.

        • albert says

          Mar 6, 2015 at 2:09 pm

          The Syrian Psychologist Rex Blanchard mentions is one Wafa Sultan a very courageous lady, look her up on youtube.

    • M S case says

      Mar 6, 2015 at 6:51 pm

      Did everybody get what really hurts here……..DIDTHE DOJ HIRETHIS MAN TO TEACH ISLAM TO PRISONERS????? Now we are paying muslims with our tax dollars,to teach muslims islam so that when they get out of prison they will be more better prepared to kill us Man ain’t that solid!!!

  2. john spielman says

    Mar 5, 2015 at 11:40 am

    it is now the department of INjustice

  3. Kathy Brown, Esq. says

    Mar 5, 2015 at 12:19 pm

    How unjust to accuse the DOJ of ‘no vetting’!

    On the contrary: We all know from J. Christian Adams that they search high and low for ‘law-yuhs’ with the most radical possible pedigree. Here is just such a one.

  4. awake says

    Mar 5, 2015 at 12:44 pm

    Surreal doesn’t even begin to describe the current state of this administration.

    • mortimer says

      Mar 5, 2015 at 10:39 pm

      Why hire a teacher who hates America’s values of equality, freedom and the supremacy of the constitution?

      This Islamic supremacist preaches vigilante murder! No such teacher should receive government pay.

  5. Jay Boo says

    Mar 5, 2015 at 12:45 pm

    Whenever (any religion) needs to find someone as a scapegoat then either that religion is being self-servingly misinterpreted or is accurately interpreted and cannot stand on its own merit. Islam cannot stand on its own merit.
    Muhammad committed apostasy.
    Muhammad worshipped the three jinn spirits in the satanic verses. He was a Muslim before he wasn’t a Muslim but then became a Muslim yet again. Yeah right.
    Muslims have recently offered up new and ‘improved’ explanations in an attempt to cover this up. They are following in the example of Muhammad who shamelessly claimed that the devil ‘tricked’ him. The only devil was Muhammad who also claimed to have revelations to ‘recite’. How then did Muhammad not know that everything he was told to recite might also be a trick of the devil. Muhammad claimed to be a prophet. Such an evil joke on the world was thus unleashed.

    • Raja says

      Mar 5, 2015 at 1:51 pm

      Your comment could have been more to the point. Islam doesn’t just have seeming contradictions through Koran etc it has blatant lies and mechanisms of lies from the day the evil started some 1400 years ago. I am a keen watcher of Islamist and their stupid activities. Koran does not have science as conned by some “scholars” Can any human body go to heaven and have 72 virgins for eternity?Is it plausible? Jesus said in eternity there will be no marriages or giving in marriages.. all will be like angels.It is very clear that the present human body cannot go anywhere else. One moslem kingdom bribed a western scientist to comment about embryology and Koran’s accuracy on the same. The list is endless. I hope I will contribute and expose their lie factories…

      • Jay Boo says

        Mar 5, 2015 at 3:03 pm

        I agree with all your points.
        Islam is by far, profoundly evil by design and I did not mean to imply any equivalence.
        I would also add that the greatness of Christianity is that it doesn’t need a scapegoats although admittedly some Christians will miss that point at times. Ironically the Left loves to paint all Christians as being intolerant and prudish about sex while going way too easy on Muslims who act as if they are above lust publically but surrender to the 72 virgin fantasy as if it were a religion which is something that is cautioned against in Christianity. Virtually all humans are tempted by lust for money, sex or both. Because our willpower alone cannot defeat such temptation we are lost if we rely only on willpower which always tells us what we want to hear. As soon as one admits this weakness with humility the temptations become more manageable. If a person could gratify all their financial desires they would eventually find out that great wealth has a hidden price and so too with any other lust including the unrealistic illusion of finding ultimate happiness from worshiping the fantasy of 72 virgin sex.

  6. vlparker says

    Mar 5, 2015 at 1:03 pm

    There is a third option, Robert. Perhaps the DOJ supports the jihad. Sounds crazy, but with Obama as president maybe it doesn’t sound that crazy after all.

  7. Angemon says

    Mar 5, 2015 at 1:47 pm

    DoJ giving SNL writers a tough act to follow – I can’t imagine them easily coming up with a more surreal scenario…

  8. Jeff says

    Mar 5, 2015 at 1:52 pm

    Just sent off an email to the DoJ stating my concerns over this new hire of theirs. Suggest others do the same.

  9. Frank Peters says

    Mar 5, 2015 at 4:59 pm

    He ONLY said he deserved death. He didn’t say beheading, or cutting off limbs, or being incinerated to death. Don’t be so hard on the guy!

  10. Ayatrollah says

    Mar 5, 2015 at 8:17 pm

    Shariah says she must be killed. He is a Muslim right? If you don’t agree with shariah you are not a Muslim.

    • mortimer says

      Mar 5, 2015 at 10:42 pm

      Exactly. Such a person is a munafiq (hypocrite…they also deserve the death sentence).

  11. pongidae rex says

    Mar 5, 2015 at 9:45 pm

    Government workers are as lazy and stupid as they come. I know, I used to be one before I left in disgust. As our Muslim in Chief says, the problem is not Islam. No arrests, no convictions, no problem.

  12. Dave J says

    Mar 5, 2015 at 10:42 pm

    We are paying Imams to teach prisoners…what? How to more devout and demanding Muslims?

    The only thing that should be taught to Muslims or non-Muslims in prison is that Islam is a dangerous, fraudulent Death Cult.

    Somehow I doubt that is what is being taught.

    • mortimer says

      Mar 5, 2015 at 10:46 pm

      Look at it this way, if prison inmates join Islam and then discover how amoral it is and then leave, he will be obliged to teach the Muslim inmates they have a duty to murder the apostate inmates!

      WONDERFUL! Talk about dysfunctional and counterproductive.

  13. noellsq says

    Mar 6, 2015 at 9:27 am

    Come on the DOJ is used to further the aspirations of Holder and Obama. They both hate yes hate and are corrupt mentally. If you are a black you have been persecuted and undocumented alliens are the new Democratic party. Congratulations to the POTUS he has succeeded in destroying this country.

  14. Tejpal says

    Mar 6, 2015 at 12:25 pm

    I’m pretty sure, if these criminals can lay their hands on her, they will make a decent keema (minced meat) out of her.

  15. Kasey says

    Mar 6, 2015 at 7:00 pm

    They do so because they have a “soft spot” for anyone who looks respectable and believes in a diety by any name….so as not to betray their basic cause of religion.

  16. ExpoCiter says

    Mar 10, 2015 at 4:56 am

    Egyptians who leave ISLam should be killed,
    according to vast majority of Egyptians (recently [?]).
    I suppose that Dennis Prager or Mike Gallagher said so, in 2014, via the conservative Salem Radio Network.

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