So hard to find good moderates these days. And what is Imam Hassan Mohamud preaching in his mosque? Does anyone know? Does anyone care?
“An attorney for a Minnesota man facing trial for conspiring to support the Islamic State group has been removed from the case after questions about a member of his trial team,” by Steve Karnoski, Associated Press, April 1, 2016:
MINNEAPOLIS — An attorney for one of five Minnesota men facing trial on charges that they conspired to support the Islamic State group was removed from the case Friday after prosecutors raised questions about a member of his trial team — an imam who allegedly taught another defendant about how to pray during jihad.
Patrick Nwaneri was one of two attorneys for Mohamed Abdihamid Farah until U.S. District Judge Michael Davis granted his request to be removed from the case. According to prosecutors, a member of Nwaneri’s staff, Imam Hassan Mohamud, taught a defendant who pleaded guilty earlier about the proper way to pray on the battlefield. Prosecutors said those alleged statements, coming from a member of the defense team, would have unfairly prejudiced the jury that will consider the case against Farah and his co-defendants. The trial is scheduled to begin May 9.
Nwaneri told Davis at a hearing that his presence on Farah’s defense team had become a distraction and that letting him withdraw would allow the remaining lawyers on the case to “concentrate on the real issues.”
Davis agreed, but only after questioning Farah extensively about whether he had freely and knowingly consented, and questioning his remaining attorney, Murad Mohammad, about his ability to provide a proper defense given that he was about to lose most of his team a month before trial.
“That’s a big loss,” Davis pointed out. The judge said his staff would contact the federal defender’s office about getting Mohammad some help.
Prosecutors raised concerns about the imam in filings last Friday and Monday, saying a recording of a conversation last April included a co-conspirator making reference to learning about prayer during jihad from Mohamud, who is also known in the local Somali Muslim community as Sheikh Hassan Jami. They asked Davis to determine whether the imam’s presence on the defense team created an actual or potential conflict of interest….
The imam declined to comment after the hearing. But Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the [Hamas-linked – Ed.] Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said prosecutors had misconstrued jihad as meaning “holy war.” Muslims typically define it broadly as struggle.
“It’s clear that the U.S. attorney’s office has used anti-Islamic tactics to undermine a good defense for this man,” Hussein said.

Angry Aussie says
Wouldn’t the proper way for a jihadi to pray on the battlefield be 6 feet under? It would be perfect for the rest of the world.
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
That would definitely be the best way Angry.
And: WHAT A CROCK. Here’s what really happened:
Emboldened by the boatloads of idiots-present even in our courts!-too terrified to breathe the words ‘islamic jihad’-the ‘Defense’ figured they’d pull a fast one and place an actual jihadist on their very own ‘team’. That would become known to the jury during the trial (for all we know they had this murdering muslim sitting at the Defense table!).
The jury then would think, ‘Hmm. If a guy who’s a jihadist himself is helping DEFEND the guy on trial, and the Judge ALLOWS it, the defendant-accused of something similar-must be not guilty!’.
Now the ‘Defense’-bullies all, now totally freaked out that the jig is up-loses both the jihadist and his sponsor, in a hurry. But since they’re muslims, they lie and say they don’t want to ‘distract’.
KUDOS to the prosecution for calling out the slimeball (I’m emailing the office the minute I’ve posted here.). Look for the nixed jihadist to face charges himself as a co-conspirator with the accused.
And in the best of all worlds, the Pros. would now prepare a hefty Bar Complaint v. Mr. Nwaneri which would wipe that arrogant grin off his ugly face and result in his disbarment.
Who’s smiling now Mr. Nwa? Not you, not any more.
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
Guess what? Mr. Mud’s on the record teaching ‘muslim youth’ (aka jihadists-in-training) that it’s ‘Hell In America’. And wouldn’t you know it? LOTS of Somalis in his very own community have just up and disappeared! To wage jihad of course.
Needless to say Imam Ugly knew none of them, nothing about it and whoopsie! He has to talk to his law-yuh before answering the questions of the meanie reporter seen here: https://youtu.be/O-0mX3Sruo8
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
Sorry, bad link. Here’s the right one: https://youtu.be/O_0mX3Sruo8
Shane says
Why are we still taking immigrants from pro-Jihad countries like Pakistan and Somalia? It is freaking insane. We need to elect a Republican this Novemeber as the Treasoncrat party sees no connection between Islamic terrorism and Islam!
Custos Custodum says
Nwaneri is Nigerian and as such familiar with the need to cooperate with Muslims if the fee is right.
Nigeria is some 2,000 miles from Somalia.
Ellenl says
Yes, let’s make good use of those tunnels they love so much.
somehistory says
Are they really going to find a moslim attorney who has not, would not, will not, does not, tell others how to prey (not pray, as they talk to satan, and that isn’t true prayer) if he/she is asked?
islam is a giant conspiratorial beast and its adherents are conspirators in the criminal enterprise to take over mankind for satan.
(Revelation 13)
Cecilia Ellis says
“’It’s clear that the U.S. attorney’s office has used anti-Islamic tactics to undermine a good defense for this man,’ Hussein said.”
Those tactics would be . . . to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic . . . and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same.
Shmooviyet says
PC & CAIR will get ’em if they continue with the tactics you mention.
Once again islam is being misrepresented and victimized by the ‘phobes.
The non-muslims at the Hennepin County Courthouse cannot possibly understand the religion, so naturally they’re going with… bigotry.
‘Oh for more Sharia, and finishing with this ‘Western law’ stupidness once and for all’, thinks Hussein.
Cecilia Ellis says
“But Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the [Hamas-linked – Ed.] Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said prosecutors had misconstrued jihad as meaning “holy war.” Muslims typically define it broadly as struggle.”
More disingenuous garbage. Like you said, Shmooviyet, PC and CAIR will struggle to see who can best mislead the public. Obviously, both the judge and the prosecutor are greasy Islamophobes. I see a mistrial in the making.
African infidel says
Somali muslims are vile and savage evil terrorists. One wonders why America is bringing in these Somali muslim killers every year in their thousands? Last year Somali jihadist killers murdered 150 Kenyan students for being Christians and these Somali muslims murdered thousands of their own Somali Christians for the last two decades. According to the “Open Doors” Somalia is the most dangerous muslim country to be a Christian.
Just google, persecution of Somali Christians and you will learn a lot.
Cecilia Ellis says
African infidel, thank you for your reply. Here is a link to the 2015 Global Terrorism Report, which I think supports your statement regarding Somalia, although the report addresses all Africa:
http://economicsandpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Global-Terrorism-Index-2015.pdf
Alan says
There are numerous sharia hell holes in the ME you could move to. Go to one be happy
Cecilia Ellis says
Alan, I think Smooviyet was being sarcastic. He is a strong advocate for those who dare to speak the truth about Islamic intolerance, supremacism, and violence. His remark, as I understood it, was to highlight the anticipated reaction of politically correct liberals and the Muslim Brotherhood front (CAIR), neither of which will acknowledge the truth. As such, both elements would prefer a lie rather than the proper recognition that the security of American citizens is in jeopardy.
Hope this helps . . .
Angemon says
Man, who would’ve thought that all those imams during those 1400 years of islamic history who defined jihad as being “holy war” were wrong all along. I guess muslim-majority countries are going to give back all the lands they conquered form Christians, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, etc., to their original owners?
Champ says
Minneapolis: Pro-jihad imam removed from defense team of accused ISIS supporter
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IS *is* islam, so this is a small step in the right direction …
And since islam is wholly evil then when will our leaders make the connection between IS and islam, and crackdown on *all* islamic supremacists? I already know the answer to this , I’m just sayin’ …
Jay Boo says
If we take the ( IS ) out of Islam — that leaves just ( lam )
According to merriam-webster.com
—–transitive verb
: to beat soundly : thrash
——intransitive verb
1 : strike, thrash
2 : to flee hastily : scram
merriam-webster’s — Examples of lam in a sentence
1.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lam
If we spell that backwards we get ( mal )
In French, Spanish and Portuguese ( mal ) refers to something evil or bad
No matter how we spell or parse Islam it still comes up evil.
Jay Boo says
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merriam-webster’s — Examples of lam in a sentence
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“let’s lam out of this hellhole while there’s still time”
Oliver says
A question ( rhetorical, I know)- would AN OPPONENT OF JIHAD GET A FAIR TRIAL IN AN ISIS CONTROLLED AREA?
IN ALMOST ANY MUSLIM COUNTRY?
Since the answer would be NO., why should an ISIS supporter get a fair trial here? Ldet them ALL go back to Somalia, Syria, Iraq etc.
MY NON PC views
mortimer says
International laws prevent making people stateless. Western countries can only establish ‘Devil’s Islands’, such as Guantanamo and ask the detainees to find another country to go to. Or they can stay on Devil’s Island.
We’re dreaming.
Custos Custodum says
So-called “international law” is “law” only because we (the U.S. or other still civilized countries) AGREE to it, usually by signing a specific treaty.
Treaties can be UNMADE at the stroke of a presidential pen.
In practice, the real solution for Muslims getting out of line is to ship the entire clan (ESPECIALLY the smart elder sister who made it into med school) to any Third World country (Honduras?) willing to take them in and to feed and house (or rather: hut) them for, e.g. $1,200 per clan per year.
Of course, each clan will be provided with culturally appropriate hygienic supplies (i.e., one sack of sand per month, free of charge). The new residents will be taught subsistence-level agricultural techniques. As good Muslims, the transplants will soon accept their new environment as “Insh’Allah.”
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
I’m having trouble understanding the (enthymematic?) argument here, even if symbols are used to keep track of who is who. Part of the problem is the proliferation of characters in this narration, with multiple people bearing some spelling of the name Muhammad, sometimes as a surname and sometimes as a forename (hence a high Muhammad Coefficient, MC). There is a defendant D1 who has two defense lawyers D1L1 and D1L2. Defense lawyer D1L1 has a staff member D1L1SM. There is an unnamed co-conspirator CC, but it is not stated whom CC is conspiring with. CC was advised by D1L1SM about how to pray during jihad. There is a second, unnamed defendant D2, whose lawyer is D2L.
CAST OF CHARACTERS
D1 = Mohamed Abdihamid Farah
D1L1 = Patrick Nwaneri
D1L1SM = imam Hassan Mohamud, a.k.a. sheikh Hassan Jami
D1L2 = Murad Mohammad
J = U.S. District Judge Michael Davis
CC = (unnamed) co-conspirator
D2 = “another defendant”
D2L = D2’s lawyer Jon Hopeman
“Prosecutors said those alleged statements [what alleged statements? none are quoted] would have unfairly prejudiced the jury [how?] that will consider the case against Farah [D1] and his co-defendants [who are D1’s co-defendants, and how many of them are there? is CC one of them?].”
Further, the CAIR executive director says that the U.S. attorney’s office “has used anti-Islamic tactics to undermine a good defense for this man [D1]”. What are these anti-Islamic tactics, and what is the good defense for D1 that the CAIRer refers to?
As a side-issue, I am curious about how one should pray during jihad, and how it differs from how to pray during non-jihad. For example, does the qibla direction differ?
gravenimage says
Minneapolis: Pro-jihad imam removed from defense team of accused ISIS supporter
So hard to find good moderates these days. And what is Imam Hassan Mohamud preaching in his mosque? Does anyone know? Does anyone care?
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Damn good question. Imam Hassan Mohamud runs the Minnesota Da’wa Institute. He is a Hafiz–which means he has the Qur’an memorized. If anyone knows what Jihad really is, its someone like this Imam–and he knows it means war and terrorism.
More disturbing things–he is an immigration lawyer–which means he is bringing in more Muslims–and he is “Sharia Law Advisor to MN Lawyers”–why would lawyers in America need to know anything about brutal Shari’ah law in Minnesota–except to condemn it?
So this creep is going for both the fast *and* slow Jihad–through both violent Jihad and “lawfare”.
And here he is a year ago, meretriciously taking part in “anti-terror efforts”:
“Anti-terror efforts divide Twin Cities Muslims”
http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/02/18/anti-extremism
Check out his two-faced bs:
“Hassan Mohamud, imam of the Minnesota Da’wah Institute in St. Paul, said he supports fostering better relations between mosques and the U.S. Attorney’s office in the shared interest in keeping the community safe from terrorism.
But Mohamud said he fears mosques that become part of the pilot program will fall under suspicion in the Somali-American community unless the government offers more transparency and answers tough questions about previous outreach programs.
He also worries that Luger’s proposal to implement community-intervention teams in schools might wrongly target Muslim students.
“If my daughter made a decision to cover her face, she could be identified under a category that requires surveillance…”
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Disgusting–bu the foolish Infidels appear to be buying it…
More:
“It’s clear that the U.S. attorney’s office has used anti-Islamic tactics to undermine a good defense for this man,” Hussein said.
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A clear admission that opposing violent Jihad is considered “anti-Islamic”.
And what about the remaining attorney? Despite his own *partner* having enabled violent Jihad, he has the gall to say this:
“I think the public needs to be aware that, when somebody uses the word jihad, they’re not referencing terrorism,” said Murad Mohammad, who, for now, will defend Farah by himself.
“1 Lawyer is Off Minnesota Terror Case Amid Imam Scrutiny”
http://kstp.com/news/mohamed-abdihamid-farah-attorney-minnesota-terror-case/4092109/
Blatant Taqiyya.
Custos Custodum says
GI – thanks as always for your careful elaboration.
FWIW, the coverage of the case suggests that the Somali “Imam” Hassan Mohamud is not a qualified lawyer, but he may have obtained some qualification as a paralegal. Reading between the lines, one would assume that “Hassan Mohamud’s” main role is to acquire and manage Somali clients for Patrick Nwaneri’s practice. Nwaneri himself is Nigerian.
News reports over the years indicate that legal cases against Somalis are severely compromised by the fact that virtually all Somali interpreters are Muslim men who tend to censor or recast statements made in Somali in favor of the defendant. Any judge seeking to supervise Somali interpreters (e.g. by checking sample tape recordings) would be decried as “wwwwaaaciiissttt!” and “culturally insensitive” etc.
mortimer says
Quote: “It’s clear that the U.S. attorney’s office has used anti-Islamic tactics to undermine a good defense for this man,” Hussein said.
No! The US attorney found that one of the defense team was an OBVIOUS TRAITOR who taught Somalis living in the US how to pray before they attacked AMERICANS.
That’s what this is about…traitors. If Muslims aren’t traitors to the countries they live in, then they are traitors to JIHAD.
So, Muslims, which do you want to betray?
scherado says
Quote: Nwaneri told Davis at a hearing that his presence on Farah’s defense team had become a distraction and that letting him withdraw would allow the remaining lawyers on the case to “concentrate on the real issues.”
Could it be that someone wants to prevent the prosecution from becoming a total mockery of decency, not to mention justice? Well, two days ago, it was 79 degrees and today it’s snowing, 25 degrees and someone in Chicago might be spending the summer deciding what to call “re-education camps” in 2016, US of A., as it is a likely outcome that one of two “socialists” might get elected President in November. Oh, wait, I think the typical College campus is doing and will do just fine for the “camps”.
Eagle says
. Obama has made certain the Muslim culture people are already in many positions within the government, including DHS. This administration and congress cannot or will not recognize the terrorism threat we have comes from the Muslim culture. The Muslim culture is not compatible with the United States Constitution and the American culture. This is not Islamophobia, this is the truth. This is a fact. The American people will soon have to bare this down onto congress and the new administration. Islam is a totalitarian ideology and not a religion. The Muslim culture cannot co-exist with the US Constitution. Terrorism will occur again and again until they are recognized for what they are and directly dealt with. In the mean time the American people will suffer from the weakness of our inapt congress.
American Infidel says
This congress has been asleep at the wheel allowing Obama to insult the constitution and destroy the American Judeo-Christian culture without opposition. The Muslim people are not here to assimilate into the American culture. Christ is the son of God, the Koranic account is a false account and Muhammad is a false prophet. Islam is a totalitarian ideology and not just a religion. The Muslim culture cannot co-exist with the US Constitution. Terrorism will occur again and again until they are recognized for what they are and directly dealt with. In the mean time the American people will suffer from the weakness of our inapt congress. God bless America and god help the American people to understand what is going on. Just look around the world. The Muslim culture, the Muslim people have been the cause of the majority of all terrorism in the world. The American people have the right to be free of this insult to the constitution and free to live the Judeo-Christian American culture. Sharia Law has no place in America.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Well that sucks!
I’m still waiting for an honest islamic defense of the indefensible!
I want to hear it go on the record, in open court, how the defense attorney claims:
“Yes, your honor! My client did indeed commit rape, murder, and arson against those so-called victims, but you have no jurisdiction over him because GOD TOLD HIM TO COMMIT THOSE “CRIMES!”
😉
SoCalMike says
I’m less sick to my stomach listening to Jihadis blowing their smoke in our faces as I am of our political, legal and media officials of inhaling and swallowing it, then turning around and demanding we all do the same.
The ones of need the point of a sword thru their necks are them.
they are traitors.
MV