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Maryland imam allegedly helped finance arsenal for Islamic State jihadi in Detroit

Sep 23, 2016 6:13 pm By Robert Spencer

The imam says he doesn’t support the Islamic State, but “it might appear that way. I am an advocate of the United States and the West getting the hell out of the Middle East and the Muslim world.” As for the weapons accusations, he says: “It’s ridiculous. All I can say is it’s ridiculous. If this was the case, why haven’t they come to arrest me?”

In these days of the politically correct, willfully ignorant Obamoid FBI, who knows?

“It feels like McCarthyism,” the imam complains.

Do you really think law enforcement officials in September 2016 are persecuting innocent imams out of racism, bigotry, and “Islamophobia”?

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“FBI probes Md. terror link in Detroit case,” by Robert Snell, The Detroit News, September 22, 2016:

Detroit — FBI agents are investigating an alleged conspiracy involving Detroit terror suspect Sebastian Gregerson and believe he was plotting violent jihad with a Maryland imam, The Detroit News has learned.

The conspiracy angle is revealed in more than 200 pages of sealed federal court records obtained by The News that offer new details about an FBI counterterrorism investigation spanning at least three states. The investigation emerged July 31 when Gregerson of Detroit was arrested in Monroe after allegedly buying fragmentation grenades from an undercover FBI agent and amassing an arsenal of weapons.

Maryland Imam Suleiman Bengharsa allegedly helped finance the arsenal, which included two AK-47s, handguns, seven rifles, a shotgun and thousands of rounds of ammunition, according to the court records. It is unknown whether the imam was financing weapons purchases in other parts of the country.

“Based on the totality of the aforementioned information and evidence, there is reason to believe that Bengharsa and Gregerson are engaged in discussions and preparations for some violent act on behalf of (the Islamic State),” an FBI agent wrote in a Jan. 7 search warrant application.

The scope, targets and number of people involved in the investigation are unclear, but the case also involves Virginia.

Bengharsa, 59, of Clarksburg, Md., laughed away most of the FBI’s allegations, which he called “ridiculous,” and denied being an Islamic State supporter.

“No, no, no, that is absolutely untrue,” Bengharsa said during a phone interview with The News on Wednesday. “It might appear that way. I am an advocate of the United States and the West getting the hell out of the Middle East and the Muslim world.

“It’s ridiculous. All I can say is it’s ridiculous,” he added. “If this was the case, why haven’t they come to arrest me?”

Bengharsa, who also is known as Sheikh Suleiman Anwar, has not been charged with a crime during the ongoing investigation.

“It feels like McCarthyism,” Bengharsa said….

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Filed Under: claiming victim status, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Jihad in the U.S., Muslim clerics Tagged With: Sebastian Gregerson, Suleiman Bengharsa


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  1. Oliver says

    Sep 23, 2016 at 6:25 pm

    I agree with one part of what he says- the US should get out of the Muslim world.

    AND THAT INCLUDES NO AID TO THE MUSLIM WORLD. AND NO REFUGEES FORM THE MUSLIM WORLD.

    AND LET THE MUSLIMS IN THE US GO BACK TO THERI (ANCESTRAL IF NOT BIRTH) HOMELAND.

    And quickly

    • abad says

      Sep 23, 2016 at 6:28 pm

      This!!!

      I can top that one.

      We need to shut the borders and practice something called Self-Sufficiency for a five-year period.

      That will not kill us – literally or figuratively.

      • billdeserthills says

        Sep 24, 2016 at 3:53 am

        I agree, we need to help ourselves

    • Bob says

      Sep 24, 2016 at 8:21 am

      AMEN- shouted very loudly! Let’em sort out their own sandpits!

  2. Wellington says

    Sep 23, 2016 at 6:50 pm

    “I am an advocate of the United States getting the hell out of the Middle East and the Muslim world.”

    Translation: I am supporting the particular taqiyya that the reasons why so many Muslims hate the US is because the US supports Israel and, as well, on many occasions has come to the defense of one decrepit Islamic polity that can’t take care of itself (e.g., Kuwait) against another desultory Islamic polity (e.g., Iraq under Saddam Hussein).

    Meanwhile, please don’t look behind the Islamic veil which, if you did, would demonstrate to you conclusively that Islam is not really aggrieved by what I said (again, that was just taqiyya) but rather by the fact that you refuse to accept the true faith, Islam, and it is the duty of Muslims like me to use any deception available to insure that eventually all the world, including the US of course, becomes dominated by followers of the true faith, Islam. I do indeed, a la CAIR, look forward to the day when the American Constitution will be replaced by Sharia as the supreme law of the land in America. Allah willing.

    This is all for now. Guaranteed, though, more taqiyya will follow as is allowed by the Holy Koran in Sura 3 and by every major school of Islamic theology to this very day. Have a good day and know everyone in America is deficient, other than my fellow blessed Muslims, until they accept the true faith as so magnificently demonstrated by Mohammed (N.B., please ignore Mohammed’s “apparent” psychopathy, narcissism, pedophilia, et al. as this is something beyond human comprehension which only once again demonstrates the magnificence and divine astuteness of the one and only true God, Allah).

    Long live the USA (under Sharia of course).

    • dave says

      Sep 24, 2016 at 1:19 pm

      very well delivered. an imam, who is skilled in lies, tells us he has done nothing wrong. yes sir and the Easter bunny and Santa clause are real too.

  3. Angemon says

    Sep 23, 2016 at 7:35 pm

    Bengharsa, 59, of Clarksburg, Md., laughed away most of the FBI’s allegations, which he called “ridiculous,” and denied being an Islamic State supporter.

    “No, no, no, that is absolutely untrue,” Bengharsa said during a phone interview with The News on Wednesday. “It might appear that way.

    Funny how, despite admitting it “might appear that way”, he doesn’t explain why it “just” “appears” and is not, in fact, a fact.

  4. Johan elzinga says

    Sep 23, 2016 at 8:44 pm

    This seems to be the case: as long as you do not use the weapons, it is allowed to acquire weapons of almost any kind. Is this indeed a fact in the US or are there limits? Are ak47 allowed? Grenades? In Europe you would go to jail for the posession of any of those weapons. I would personally be in favor of an on the spot execution of anyone who posesses weapons like these, with the help of his own weapons. But the public here are against that. Until of course they lose their own family members by one of these criminals.

    • ElderlyZionist says

      Sep 24, 2016 at 8:19 am

      Law-abiding American citizens who can pass a background check are allowed to own and legally use many kinds of weapons. It is possible to legally become licensed and insured to own some pretty advanced weaponry, including noise suppressors and fully automatic firearms, but the cost is prohibitive for most people. Buying hand grenades from some guy in an alley is very illegal.

      If this imam was financing arms purchases by terrorists, he’s an accessory before the fact to mass murder. Charge him. Try him. Convict him. Hang him.

  5. eagle says

    Sep 23, 2016 at 8:59 pm

    I think Maryland Imam Suleiman Bengharsa is Al Takeyya Just a wild guess.

  6. Larry A. Singleton says

    Sep 24, 2016 at 12:02 am

    Just finished Andrew Bostom’s book Sharia vs. Freedom. The last chapters on comparing Communism and Islam were particularly interesting. I try to spread this information to as many Democratic Party and liberal Fakebook pages as I can. I don’t know why people don’t extend their comments to the “news”papers and other liberal/fascist/Islamist “sources” cited here at JW.

    And I’m praying to God that if Trump and Hillary debate he won’t pull any punches. He could crush her like a bug by exposing her criminal past and corruption.

    Debates are usually a sham. It’s like the Democrats and Republicans are a tag team from Hell. Trading off every four or eight years so that they can fill up their pockets and screw over the American people.

    • Oliver says

      Sep 24, 2016 at 3:10 pm

      I DO NOT KNOW IF TRUE–HEARD ON MIKE SAVAGE LAST EVENING THAT HE SAW THE FOLLOWING ( MY ORDER, NOT HOW SAVAGE PRESENTED IT) ON THE DRUDGE REPORT.:

      1. Clinton asked for a stool as Mr. Trump is taller, and ” has a height advantage.”. Denied

      2. There were to be specifically/ custom built podium(s) for the debate. (I was unsure form the way Mr. Savage said it if just for Clinton or both.

      THE GOOD PARTS:

      The moderator has given instructions:

      NO CUTTING OFF EITHER SPEAKER-SOUND OR VIDEO- FOR ANY REASON, AT ANY TIME, WHEN THEY ARE TO BE SPEAKING. (IE. IF CLINTON AHS A COUGHING FIT, CANNOT CUT IT OFF-VIDEO OR HER COUGHING);

      NO BREAKS DURING THE 90 MINUTES. Point made- Clinton’s longest conference or appearance at a rally was (at any one stretch- again, as I heard Mr. Savage say) was about 20 minutes.

      The moderator has apparently been around a long time, and is neutral.. (or, at least, not open in his bias)

      • dave says

        Sep 24, 2016 at 4:10 pm

        yes sir. saw the same info on the NET. going to be interesting if everyone follows the declared debate rules. hope HILLARY’s bladder fails her. be fun to watch her squirm on national tv.

  7. Paul Clark says

    Sep 24, 2016 at 1:34 am

    Not only do the Muslims hate the US because of Israel. It is because we are ” the people of the book” Most Christians do not know this. Many are clueless about Islam. This is why I ask where have all the Christians gone? Have they fled the cross? We need all of them to tell the world about the evils of Islam. This is “their cross.” They need to pick it up. They need to get out of their pews and sacrifice for their Lord. The Muslims want to kill his “bride.” Christians are the “bride.”

    Muhammad demands they convert or kill us as he does all other religions. Unlike Hindu, Buddhist, etc., nations, we are one of the few nations that protects all religions. Another reason that Muslims hates us even more.

  8. Rich Corraro says

    Sep 24, 2016 at 8:33 am

    Why hasn’t he been arreasted, or is Obama stoping this one too!

    • eagle says

      Sep 24, 2016 at 12:54 pm

      This has to be a hate crime against the American people. Don’t you think?

  9. Allan says

    Sep 24, 2016 at 10:45 am

    Show me an imam who is not helping or encouraging Muslims to build up arsenals, and I will show you an apostate or poseur who has never been a Muslim at all.

    • eagle says

      Sep 24, 2016 at 12:48 pm

      Very true, Very true, no Al Takeyya found here. I hope this means no lies found here. :.)

    • eagle says

      Sep 24, 2016 at 12:50 pm

      Also to say to Obama, this is not a narrative, not a story?.

  10. Kepha says

    Sep 24, 2016 at 4:55 pm

    Clarksburg, MD? Why, that’s almost within hailing distance of where I live. It’s within spitting distance of a place called Damascus, where they still have anti-liquor laws, and where a Syrian Orthodox Church (albeit of the originally South Indian kind) has bought what was once a respectably-sized Methodist building and cemetery.

    If this imam is not a citizen, I sure hope they deport him after whatever time he serves.

  11. RL Robison says

    Sep 24, 2016 at 7:42 pm

    Maryland Imam Suleiman Bengharsa says that “I am an advocate of the United States and the West getting the hell out of the Middle East and the Muslim world”. And yet this joker comes to the West he hates, sets his butt on our soil, and lectures us about “getting out of the Muslim world”. Well, I would be really happy if HE would get out of OUR world and go back to the Middle East that he loves so much.

    • eagle says

      Sep 24, 2016 at 8:23 pm

      Maryland Imam Suleiman Bengharsa says that “I am an advocate of the United States and the West getting the hell out of the Middle East and the Muslim world”. I think the American people is an advocate for the Muslims getting the hell out of America and the American culture. You first Suleiman Bengharsa, get the hell out of the United States and take all you ill minded Muslims with you.

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