“Obi said in a phone interview that she believes Suliman had a vendetta against her because she refused to allow her to let more people live in her apartment. ‘I’ve never, ever made a rude remark against her,’ she said. ‘Why would I do that? I have three Muslims living in the house now.'” So why would this 73-year-old woman make “anti-Muslim remarks” and push a Muslim tenant down the stairs? There is a great deal that is suspect about this case — not least the fact that the judge ordered her to be reeducated and learn to love Islam. The Thought Police are truly in power today.
“Landlord ordered to learn about Islam after pushing Muslim tenant; did judge go too far?,” Associated Press, December 13, 2015:
BOSTON – After a landlord was convicted of pushing her Muslim tenant down a flight of stairs, a judge ordered her to respect the rights of all Muslims and to take an introductory course on Islam. Now the highest court in Massachusetts is being asked to decide whether the judge violated the landlord’s constitutional rights.
The Supreme Judicial Court will hear arguments next month in a case that poses interesting legal questions at a time when the country is grappling with anti-Muslim backlash following deadly attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, both allegedly carried out by radical Muslims.
The case centers on Daisy Obi, a 73-year-old ordained minister from Nigeria who is the pastor of the Adonai Bible Center in Somerville, just north of Boston. In April 2012, Obi rented an apartment in her multi-family home to Gihan Suliman, her husband and five young children.
Suliman complained about the heat and electricity not always working, while Obi complained Suliman appeared to have 12 to 15 people living in the apartment at one point.
Suliman testified that about a month after she moved in, Obi stood on the stairs outside Suliman’s apartment screaming anti-Muslim insults.
The following month, while Suliman was taking her baby out of the car, she said Obi yelled anti-Muslim sentiments at her other children.
Then, about a month later, Suliman said Obi accused her of ringing her doorbell, shouted at her and pushed her. Suliman said she fell backward down 15 to 20 stairs, hitting her face on the banister, cutting her lip and tearing a ligament in her shoulder.
While sentencing Obi last year, Judge Paul Yee Jr. called Obi “the landlord from hell” after pointing out that she had harassment prevention orders issued against her by two other tenants.
He sentenced her to two years in jail on the assault and battery charge for pushing Suliman but required her to serve only six months, with the remaining 18 months suspended if she complied with certain probation conditions.
“I want you to learn about the Muslim faith,” he said. “I want you to enroll and attend an introductory course on Islam.
“I do want you to understand people of the Muslim faith, and they need to be respected. They may worship Allah … but they need to be respected.”
Obi vehemently denied making any anti-Muslim statements to Suliman or pushing her. She testified she was inside her apartment praying when she heard a knock at the door from the police, who arrested her.
Obi said in a phone interview that she believes Suliman had a vendetta against her because she refused to allow her to let more people live in her apartment.
“I’ve never, ever made a rude remark against her,” she said.
“Why would I do that? I have three Muslims living in the house now.”
Obi also said she believes Suliman hates her because she is a Christian.
Suliman did not respond to messages left at her home and workplace.
Obi’s lawyer argues the probation condition that she learn about the Muslim faith “burdens Dr. Obi’s free exercise of religion.”
“It is beyond dispute that the Constitution guarantees that the government may not coerce anyone to support or participate in religion or its exercise,” attorney Kimberly Peterson wrote in a legal brief.
Prosecutors argued in their brief that the order to take a course on Islam is not coercive because it does not require her to adopt a religious practice or to attend a Muslim religious service, but merely to educate herself.
Two legal experts not involved in the case differed on the argument.
New York Law School professor Robert Blecker said the order does not appear to violate Obi’s constitutional rights.
“We’re not requiring her to embrace any (religious) principles. We’re requiring her to learn about them,” Blecker said.
Suffolk University law professor Christopher Dearborn disagreed, saying that although Obi’s conduct may be considered highly offensive, he believes the judge should have ordered her to attend anger management classes or counseling instead of ordering her to take a course on Islam.
“It’s requiring her to participate in something that she would be strongly opposed to on religious grounds,” Dearborn said….

JawsV says
“I want you to learn about the Muslim faith,” he said. “I want you to enroll and attend an introductory course on Islam. – Judge Paul Yee Jr
And what does Yee know about it? Answer: NOTHING. What a chump.
underbed cat says
Too bad the judge didn’t say and report back what you learn, if she got the truth, if she read the “book”, and then reported back, the judge might charge her with a hate crime. The reality is so absurd, and stays that way through ignorance and good misdirection…
Ralph says
In 2011 Sunni Muslims accounted for the greatest number of terrorist attacks and fatalities for the third year in a row.
Over 5,700 incidents were committed by Sunni Muslims, responsible for nearly 56 percent of all attacks and about 70 percent of 12,533 fatalities.*
Another 24 percent of the fatalities are on Shi´a Muslims. So in 2011, Muslims were responsible for 94 percent of the fatalities in terrorist attacks. Since 2011, with ISIS on the scene, the number of the fatalities –victims of the Muslim terrorist attacks- sharply grew, together with Muslims´ share in the world terrorism that is steadily closing in on 100%.
In 2013, according to the US Department of State, a total of 9,707 terrorist attacks occurred worldwide, resulting in more than 17,800 deaths and more than 32,500 injuries. In addition, more than 2,990 people were kidnapped or taken hostage. Information about perpetrators was reported in source materials for 32 percent of terrorist attacks in 2013.
And of these 32 percent, or 17,800 deaths, only three Muslim terrorist groups, namely the Taliban, ISIS and Boko Haram, were responsible for 5,655 fatalities, or for 31.76 percent! That means that 31.76 percent out of the 32 percent of terrorist attacks which had reported information about the attackers were perpetrated by only three Muslim terrorist groups, out of a good 50 more that exist in our turbulent world!
Muslim terrorists can be proud: their share in world terrorist attacks is now close to 100%.
Seems there is not a single country where Muslims would not show their true colors… But no! There is such a country. It’s one of the most developed countries on Earth, and its democratic nature is recognized worldwide, a true ally of the USA and a member of NATO. However, with all this, there was not a single terrorist attack perpetrated by Muslims in this country. Moreover, there was not a single, even minor, riot, disturbance or protest, no matter how many citizens of this country support cartoons of the prophet Muhammad published in some Danish newspaper or in a French magazine.
The name of this lucky country is Japan.
Of course, Japan achieved this by some super effective integration policy, through using the most advanced technologies and assigning billions of yen on the building of thousands of mosques and Islamic schools all over Japan, banning pork in all public places, introducing separate hours for boys and girls in swimming pools in all public schools, and Japanese male doctors do not dare touch their female patients, Muslim women get immense social aid each time they have a child, Shari´a courts were introduced in the judicial system of Japan, and the Koran is considered a Holy Book in Japan…
No, nothing of the kind. What Japan did to avoid problems related to Muslims was much simpler and cheaper; Japan is practically closed to Muslims.
Officially, immigration to Japan is not closed to Muslims. But the number of the immigration permits given to the applicants from Islamic countries is very low. Obtaining a working visa is not easy for adepts of Islam, even if they are physicians, engineers and managers sent by foreign companies that are active in the region. As a result, Japan is “a country without Muslims”.
There is no reliable estimate on the Japanese Muslim population. However, claims of thirty thousand made by some researchers are without doubt an exaggeration. Some claim that there are only a few hundred. This probably amounts to the number of Muslims openly practicing Islam. Asked to give an estimate on the actual number of Muslims in Japan, the ex-president of the Japan Islamic Association Abu Bakr Morimoto replied, “To say frankly, only one thousand. In the broadest sense, I mean, if we do not exclude those who became Muslims for the sake of, say marriage, and do not practice then the number would be a few thousand.”
One of the leaders of the Muslim community in Japan, Nur Ad-Din Mori, was asked: “What percentage of Japan’s total population are Muslims?” He responded, “The answer at the moment is: One out of a hundred thousand.”
Japan’s population is 130 million people, so if these Muslim leaders are correct, then there must be around 1300 Muslims. But even those Muslims who obtained immigration permits and lived many years in the country have very poor chances of becoming Japanese citizens.
Japan officially forbids exhorting people to adopt the religion of Islam (Dawah), and any Muslim who actively encourages conversion to Islam is seen as proselytizing to a foreign and undesirable culture. Too active “promoters of Islam” face deportation- and sometimes even a jail sentence.
The Arabic language is taught by very few academic institutes; I could find only one such institute: The Arabic Islamic Institute in Tokyo. But even the International University of Japan in Tokyo does not offer courses on Arabic or Islamic languages.
Importing the Koran in Arabic is practically impossible, and the only one permitted is the “adapted” version in Japanese.
Until recently, there were only two mosques in Japan: Tokyo Jama Masjid and Kobe Mosque. Now, the total number of Muslim praying sites in Japan is counted in some 30 single story mosques and about a hundred apartment rooms set aside for prayers.
And Japanese society expects Muslims to pray at home: no collective “prostrating” in the streets or squares; in Japan, for such “shows” the actors can get pretty high fines, and in those cases Japanese Police consider “serious”, the participants can be deported.
Quite often, Japanese companies seeking foreign workers specifically note that they are not interested in Muslims.
There is not even a trace of a Shari´a Law in Japan, and halal food is extremely difficult to find in there.
The Japanese tend to perceive Islam as a “strange and dangerous religion” that a true Japanese should avoid, and the recent murders of two Japanese nationals, Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto, by ISIS have not contributed to any improvement in the opinions of the Japanese on this matter.
And the most interesting thing in the Japanese approach to Muslims is the fact that the Japanese do not feel any guilt for such a “discriminatory” approach to Islam, and they evidently do not think they should apologize to Muslims for the negative way in which they perceive their religion. Arab gas and oil- yes, and Japan maintains good relations with Arab exporters. But Islam – no, and Muslim immigration– neither. Islam is something that is suitable for others, not for Japan, and therefore the Muslims must remain outside.
And Muslims in Japan do not riot, they do not brand the Japanese “racists”, they do not burn cars, smash windows, behead Japanese soldiers for having been in Afghanistan, Iraq or anywhere else on Earth – and not a single Japanese has been victim of a Muslim terrorist attack on Japanese soil in the last 30 years.
Maybe Europe and the USA should look at the Japanese model of dealing with Muslims more closely?
somehistory says
I believe she didn’t say those things, as it is well known that moslims lie. And they also believe they have rights no one else has…such as moving in as many relatives and friends as they choose to do.
And if the order stands, she is better of in jail than being forced to *learn* about islam unless she can do it by reading Mr. Spencer’s books and Mr. Ibrahim’s book and articles on islam.
Wellington says
If the situation were reverse, there isn’t a snowball’s chance in Hell that this useful idiot of a judge would rule that the Muslim attend an introductory course on Christianity. Not only is Islam a one-way street for Muslims but it also is for brown-nosing dhimmis. The Age of Nonsense marches on.
mortimer says
YES! Will an American judge demand that a Muslim learn about Islam?
Would that be ‘intolerant’? Why would that be intolerant?
underbed cat says
You first Judge. Would the Supreme Court allow an Islamic Judge, that would be inconcievable (other form of law) unless he was a muslim and just wanted a seat as a Judge.
underbed cat says
I would not have believed the story by the muslim without first checking how many people were occupying that apartment. If he found more than should be allowed( reason for group lie) the tenants could be asked to leave legally, unless there was a lease. No lawyer, but I cannot beleive how you can be arrested with out investigative information, unless as it seems to happen, multiply people can unite to lie, when they have a plan to do so.
mike ryan says
So utterly true!
Speaking objectively and truthfully about Islam is like talking to a cement wall when the dhimmi is complacent or in denial.
gravenimage says
So true, Wellington.
Mo says
“Landlord ordered to learn about Islam ”
I’m all for people learning about Islam. Read the Koran and about the so-called prophet, Mohammad. Learn what this ideology is all about!
I’m not buying this story for a minute. If the place was so unbearable, why didn’t they MOVE?
Adrian says
“…at a time when the country is grappling with anti-Muslim backlash following deadly attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, both allegedly carried out by radical Muslims.”
so here is the Obama agenda as proclaimed by the AP in this story – a firm avowal of a “backlash”… and at the same time, a questionable idea of “radical Muslims” !!
the more the press continues to lie and obfuscate, the more people will see through their agenda…
George Orwell would not have believed it….
Peggy says
So all the Muslims who hold signs which say to behead those who insult the pedo prophet and who incite hatred and murder against Christians and Jews should also be forced to study Christianity or is that a violation of their human rights?
What I don’t understand why this judge would go along with this insanity. The judge can make a ruling based on the law and not give in to forced conversion. Or can he./she? Is this judge making this ruling willingly or is it good for the judge to do it?
So many questions and no answers.
Sam says
“I want you to learn about the Muslim faith,” he said. “I want you to enroll and attend an introductory course on Islam.’
That sentence by itself is not bad provided the course is given by Robert Spencer.
I wonder what would liberal media say if the Judge ordered a Bible Study for any reason?
Crazy liberal culture of Modern America! Common sense does not apply anymore when Islam is involved.
Lynn says
The judge needs to receive a few copies of Catastrophic Failure and requested to watch Steven Coughlin’s Red Pill Briefings on securefreedon.org
Unless people stand up to every inference of complying; we are going to have sharia shoved down our throats. Between valerie and the bamster they will have us silenced by year’s end if they have their way.
underbed cat says
Listened to the Red Pill Briefings, excellent,…..you tube security briefing by John Guandolo on the MB…the organization that supported the subversive eniroment we are now encountering. Amazing.1-13.
underbed cat says
enviroment
mike ryan says
Would the same judge require landlords to learn Judaism or Christianity when they react to Jews or Christian tenants who are annoying?
eduardo odraude says
“Obi also said she believes Suliman hates her because she is a Christian.”
Other things being equal, the above is far more likely than the reverse.
Michael Copeland says
Memo for the judge:
Suliman’s ideology REQUIRES her to hate Christians:
“Between us and you animosity and hatred forever until you believe in Allah alone”
Koran 60:4, part of Islamic law.
Another memo for the judge
One who denies any verse in the Koran is to be killed.
Anyone may perform the killing, vigilante style and penalty-free
“since it is killing someone who deserves to die”.
Memo to both judge and landlord:
Just read Chapter 9, the “Sura At Tawba”:
it overrides and “abrogates” all peaceful verses elsewhere.
eduardo odraude says
“Prosecutors argued in their brief that the order to take a course on Islam is not coercive because it does not require her to adopt a religious practice or to attend a Muslim religious service, but merely to educate herself.”
Can she “educate herself” by reading Robert Spencer, Mark Durie, Raymond Ibrahim, and Andrew Bostom?
underbed cat says
She could be under considerable danger if she is a Christian, no judge should require her to enter a classroom teaching about the need of muslims to” slay the infidel”, if she had converted from Islam to Christianity. I say that because of her name.
eduardo odraude says
Obi, this site is pretty educational about Islam: http://www.quotingislam.blogspot.com
Richard says
The Judge required her to serve only six months, with the remaining 18 months suspended if she complied with certain probation conditions. Namely:
1. “I want you to learn about the Muslim faith, I want you to enroll and attend an introductory course on Islam.
An “introductory course” from Abu Waleed “Muslims Should Humiliate Christians To Make Them Convert To Islam…Equality to all of its members? – is there such a thing in Islam? Is there equality of faith? If we look to one hadith of the Prophet on the authority of Abu Huraira, Sahih Muslim … No Sunni Muslim could really argue against Sahih Muslim or Sahih Bukhari … ‘The Prophet said: Don’t greet the Jews and the Christians before they greet you, and when you meet any of them on the road, force them to go on the narrower side of it…..If a Muslim comes out on the day of ‘Eid and sees an infidel with nice clothes, the infidel has to take his clothes off and give them to the Muslim…”’
https://midnightwatcher.wordpress.com/2014/05/08/britain-islamic-teacher-says-muslims-should-humiliate-christians-to-make-them-convert-to-islam/
2. “I do want you to understand people of the Muslim faith, and they need to be respected. They may worship Allah … but they need to be respected.”
Quran – “Say: Was it at Allah and His communications and His Apostle that you mocked? ”
“…..Say: Go on mocking, surely Allah will bring forth what you fear. ”
“Lo! those who malign Allah and His messenger, Allah has cursed them in this world and the Hereafter,… Accursed, they will be seized wherever found and slain with a (fierce) slaughter.”
What law is this Judge disbursing? Islamic law? He should be adhering to the American constitution which prohibits the government from supporting any religion, which this judge is tacitly doing. By implication he is saying that Islam is good and needs to be studied by this woman.
somehistory says
He wants her to *feel subdued* or jail will be her jizya.
This is totally wrong.
It’s also a part of the *shaming*…saying that moslims and islam deserve *respect* in order to make non moslims compliant with the ungodly code they call a law.
Richard says
Well this judge is already subdued or a secret muslim. In any case what he’s dishing out is Islamic law not American law and he should be duly sacked and prosecuted.
shoehorn of africa says
Judge Yee should be forced to read the Qur’an … then pass a quiz – questions to be drawn up by Robert Spencer.
Bob says
I believe Bill Warner offers introductory courses on Islam. She could take that and also read Mr Spencers’ books, which would satisfy His Lordship the Judge…..
PL says
It is hard for a European to understand the american legal system, how can a person aged 73 without a criminal record be sentenced to prison unconditionally for 2 years for someting more looking like an accident than an assault? No wonder that USA has the world`s largest (4 million) prison population. Did she have any legal support during the trial? In my country Sweden or any European country she would be aquitted, based on what is presented in the article.
Guamanian Pie says
I for one would be happy if the landlord had made it plain the woman and her relatives weren’t wanted. Maybe if enough people do this, they’ll go back to whatever sand dunes they came from and not bother/kill us any more.
Dennis says
I can’t believe a US judge ordered this. I am glad I am leaving the United States!
TheBuffster says
The only proper lesson Obi needs to learn (if she actually did what she’s convicted of doing) is about rational ethics and law. Because it doesn’t matter what you think another person believes – what a Muslim or a Christian or a Jew or Buddhist or Hindu or atheist Wiccan or Satanist believes. All that matters is that you are obliged to deal honestly, without fraud or violence, when dealing with other non-violent human beings, whether you like them or not, whether they make you angry or not. Period. The judge doesn’t need to get creative with the penalty. Even if Obi would read beyond the course material and gain an in-depth understanding of Islam that leads her to despise the religion intensely, she would still be obliged to respect other people’s rights whether she respects their religions or not.
And would the court specify the particular introductory course that Obi must attend? If so, by what criteria would the judge decide which course is officially right? Can a court of a secular government make such determinations under the US Constitution? Upon whose advice would the court depend regarding such a course?
TheBuffster says
Correction – there should be a comma and an “or” after “atheist” in my post above. I’m not referring to an “atheist Wiccan”.
*We need an EDIT button!*
richard courtemanche says
Another misfit as a judge.
Jim Peters says
I can just imagine a Muslim giving “evidence” in a western courtroom. Every word would clearly be a lie. The judge had shit for brains to suck up to this Muslim deceit. As usual, the judge had to get the case off his/her desk, render a decision and move on. Next!
Carolyne says
This is outrageous. I believe Dr. Obi did nothing she is accused and apparently convicted of on the evidence given by the Muslima. Most cities and states have a specified number of tenants who may live in certain sized apartments and since Muslims live like animals anyway, likely they had 15 to 20 Muslims living in the apartment and thought it was wonderful. They should have been prosecuted and convicted on that alone.
This judge is one of Islam’s “Useful idiots” as well as a plain idiot who appears to be ignorant of the Constitution. A judge cannot force an American to participate in a religion in any way, even learning about it. I suggest that the judge take these lessons and perhaps he will realize that Islam is a barbaric, murderous religion which has no place among the civilized.
Carolyne says
It also occurs to me that the judge is violating this woman’s right to freedom of association as guaranteed in the Constitution by forcing her to associate with a group with which she may not wish to associate; a group studying Islam.
Angemon says
The f***? How does that even compute?
What an imbecile. Respect is *earned* at an interpersonal level, not enforced by the government on the grounds of religion.
Lenny Thetruth says
How much more do we really need to learn about Islam that you don’t already know from the newspapers? Is it right to take one person’s word against another if they have a vested interest? Does the judge, himself, know that Muslims are allowed to lie? Did he read the Koran, or the Cliff’s Notes version?
UNCLE VLADDI says
The “judge” is endorsing and promoting a known global crime-and-murder gang.
Isn’t that illegal? Shouldn’t his actions get him impeached and disbarred?
Jack says
That violates the 1st Amendment and is also known as Sharia law.
gravenimage says
Massachusetts judge orders landlord to learn about Islam after dispute with Muslim tenant
……………………..
WTF? Now balking at having more than 15 tenants in an apartment is “Islamophobic”?
And these charges of insult and assault sound pretty suspect. Did anyone in authority ever vet these supposed injuries?
Never rent to Muslims, and never hire them–unless you want more of this harassment.
Of course, the worst of this is the sickening dhimmitude from the judge.
steve says
Its either the christian “nice” attitude or the humanistic “money” attitude that thinks it can win over or take advantage of a situation and come out ahead and either way with this cult you will most times lose. I’ll bet this landlord thought she was being pretty “diverse”.
steve says
I guess that o’dumber transformational change is going over well in the black community based on this story and that that diversity card seems to be backfiring. The prediction is that all this diversity of so-called progressives and the o’dumber selling out of America includes even his own people in order to try to get fringe votes. They are ignoring that they are opening the gates not only for socialism but rather than transformation change for good it will be more like transformation change where the fringes will square off for whatever they can get and anyone who doesn’t want to be swept up in it better take heed.