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Finland: Imam says “we have no extremists here,” his son-in-law and daughter join ISIS

Apr 3, 2019 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

Finnish authorities should investigate what Abdul Mannan teaches in this mosque, which they have no doubt taken for granted as being “moderate.” They would almost certainly be shocked at what they would find. But such an investigation is unlikely to be undertaken; it would be “Islamophobic.”

“MOT: Oulu imam’s son-in-law and business partner died in Isis ranks,” YLE, April 1, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

A man who left Finland to join the terrorist group Isis was the son-in-law and business partner of the imam of the Oulu-based Islamic Society of Northern Finland, Yle’s investigative journalism programme MOT reported on Monday.

As part of a programme on terrorism fundraising in Finland, MOT journalists found that those who have left the country to join Isis earned money through a variety of illegal and legal means, ranging from tax fraud to running pizzerias.

One of them was Taz Rahman, a Bangladeshi-born man who joined Isis and was later reported to have died in Syria.

He had co-owned a business with Oulu Imam Abdul Mannan, who is also from Bangladesh.

According to leaked Isis documents, Rahman joined Isis in the summer of 2014 and went to Syria with his wife, the imam’s son.

Before his departure, Rahman ran two companies in Finland. One was a pizzeria that still operates in Helsinki. His former business partner declined to be interviewed, saying only that Rahman had failed to pay money he owed.

Rahman’s second business was registered as a food kiosk at the address of the Oulu mosque, located in a nondescript building a couple of blocks from the Lutheran Cathedral in central Oulu.

Mannan, who is an Islamic instructor, served as a deputy city councillor for the Social Democratic Party from 2012 to 2017. According to the newspaper Ilta-Sanomat, Mannan moved to Oulu from Bangladesh in 1992 to study geology, earning a doctoral degree from the University of Oulu in 2002.
“He’s solely responsible”

Interviewed in English by MOT, Mannan denied several times that he personally knew anyone who had been radicalised.

“I know each and every person. We don’t have any extremists here,” he said in the interview, to be broadcast on Yle’s TV1 on Monday evening, and already viewable on its Areena web service.

Asked if he knew Rahman, Mannan replied, “I told you that I don’t want to answer these things, please.”

Pressed on the issue, he said, “He is my relative, my daughter’s husband, that’s all.”

MOT reports that Rahman and Mannan’s daughter went to Syria together in 2014, and that they had children together.

Mannan said he did not know that they were going before they left….

Mannan said he does not know whether his daughter is still in Syria, and has not heard from her in nearly two years.

“I told police; it is their responsibility to find out. Not only her, there might be some more Finnish nationals, so they are trying,” he said.

“All of them are members of this society,” he added. “So when they come back, they will be treated in a nice way. They will be rehabilitated and [we will] let them live a normal life. I hope it will work.”…

He hopes.

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Filed Under: Finland, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), mosques, Muslim clerics Tagged With: Abdul Mannan, Taz Rahman


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  1. Cunamarra says

    Apr 3, 2019 at 11:10 am

    The Zebiba on his forehead is indicative of all you need to know about him. He will work toward the destruction of your culture and to supplant it with Islam. All words spoken by him will have that fore mentioned goal as the objective of his speech.

    • antonia says

      Apr 3, 2019 at 3:57 pm

      Abdul Mannan is clearly moderately fanatical and his children whom he raised are COMPLETE fanatics.

      To him, a pious Muslim who goes on jihad is never ‘EXTREME’, because jihad is a NORMAL part of Islam.

      Members of ISIS are not ‘EXTREMISTS’ by his description.

      • Rufolino says

        Apr 4, 2019 at 5:11 am

        Quite right, Antonia. People still don’t get it that jihad terrorism is normative Islam. Probably because the media insist it is always “extremism”.

        The other day I told a guy who said, “Islam is a religion of peace” that Mohammed actually said, “I have been made victorious by terror.”. The guy was completely stunned.

  2. Tom says

    Apr 3, 2019 at 12:01 pm

    It is all about perspective with people like Abdul Mannan and with Islam itself. Islam is indeed a religion of peace, for those who follow it, submit and adhere to its every requirement. “Humans” are Muslim, NOT the Kaffir, who are apes. Radical is only a term used by the enemy of Islam, the fundamentals of Islam are inherantly violent, so their most fundamental followers will, of course, become more violent as they become more devout. Jihad is a requirement in Islam, so therefore how can it be wrong.

    Do you see the twisted logic involved?

    Most left wing and liberal people in the west just don’t get the Islamic mindset and believe that whatever Islamists say must be true, and in accord with western values.

    Nothing could be further from the truth and it is such willfull blindness that has led the west down a very dark path of lies and deceit from which it is going to be difficult to recover.

  3. David Curtin says

    Apr 3, 2019 at 12:22 pm

    Long way to deliver a pizza

  4. elee says

    Apr 3, 2019 at 12:56 pm

    Why moderate Muslims are dangerous. Well, at least these Muslims took their holy war to Dar-es-Salaam.

  5. antonia says

    Apr 3, 2019 at 1:02 pm

    A perfect example of taqiyya. Does anyone believe a word this guy says?

  6. Heidi says

    Apr 3, 2019 at 1:34 pm

    Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society (Aristoteles). We see, endure, and tolerate it on a daily basis. How much longer? Radical Islam in disguise according to the Taqqiya? https://www.theweek.co.uk/100557/is-hayat-tahrir-al-sham-the-new-islamic-state?_mout=1&utm_campaign=theweekdaily_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter

  7. KWJ says

    Apr 3, 2019 at 4:14 pm

    Mosques shouldn’t be trusted as too many are replete with shenanigans and lying mosque leaders who are duplicitous, to say the least. They also use Muslim mosque attendants’ zakat (charity) and not for just the poor; they may or may not know where their money is going for Allah’s cause.

    Religious diversity is so wonderful, isn’t it? Finland, Sweden and Norway used to seem like such nice low-population, low crime countries and now they’ve been whacked by jihadists, new rapes and crimes. (Sweden is now the rape and car-burning capital of Europe.) Lovely. 🙄

  8. gravenimage says

    Apr 3, 2019 at 11:16 pm

    Finland: Imam says “we have no extremists here,” his son-in-law and daughter join ISIS
    ………………………..

    More proof that Muslims use language differently than we do…

    • na says

      Apr 4, 2019 at 12:06 am

      Believe yourself

  9. na says

    Apr 4, 2019 at 12:05 am

    Our current work culture should be stopped. You should not work for others work for yourself, then only you can get the tree of life.
    Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.
    2
    But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
    3
    He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.
    4
    Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.
    5
    Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
    6
    For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

  10. Learn History says

    Apr 4, 2019 at 2:00 am

    Islam is a program to conquer the world and put everyone in it under the sharia doctrine while it disguises* itself as the “religion of peace” which is the exact opposite of it actually is.

    * through the use of TAQYYIA, which is a command to lie in order to promote islam

  11. Dano says

    Apr 4, 2019 at 5:18 am

    Muslims lie to non muslims. It is not only permitted in the koran, it is encouraged.

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