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Imam of Portland’s Biggest Mosque Gets Citizenship Revoked Over “Violent Jihad”

May 9, 2019 9:00 am By Daniel Greenfield

“Violent Jihad” is really popular in Islam, but very unpopular with the people getting bombed, run over and knifed. Squaring this circle can be challenging.

And sometimes requires telling the Imam of Portland’s biggest mosque that he might enjoy his violent Jihad better far away from all the roses.

That’s exactly what happened to Imam Kariye.

The U.S. government has revoked the U.S. citizenship of the former imam of Portland’s largest mosque after he arrived in Somaliland last week.

Mohamed Sheikh Abdirahman Kariye is on the government’s no-fly list, but the government arranged for him to travel back to his homeland after reaching a settlement with Kariye in January.

Under the deal, Kariye agreed not to challenge an order revoking his citizenship and acknowledged having provided false information to immigration officials in July 1997 when he had applied for U.S. naturalization.

It’s a win-win.

They get an imam. We lose an imam.

In October, federal government lawyers told a federal appeals court that Kariye was placed on the no-fly list based on his history as a “mujahedeen fighter in Afghanistan against the Russians,” as well as his expressed support for “violent jihad” in conversations recorded between a cooperating informant and two members of the Portland Seven. They were a group of American Muslims from the Portland area who were prosecuted and convicted of trying to join al-Qaida forces in their fight against the United States military and coalition forces in Afghanistan.

During the process, the FBI informed U.S. Justice Department attorneys that Kariye had coordinated with Osama bin Laden and other known terrorist leaders and was associated with terrorist organizations including Makhtab Al-Khidamat, or MAK, a designated terrorist organization and pre-cursor to al-Qaida.

It’s odd how these ‘big mosques’ keep choosing imams who are into violent Jihad, as opposed to the peaceful kind, which involves handing out flowers and petting kittens.

It’s almost as if these big mosques are into… Jihad.

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  1. Truth says

    May 9, 2019 at 9:27 am

    Goodbye evil one.

    • CRUSADER says

      May 10, 2019 at 1:30 am

      It’s a lose and win — actually.

      They gain a violent imam, so we lose on that.
      We lose a violent imam, so we win on that.

      Additionally, it is still quite possible to be an evil-monger
      and also be into petting kittens and cats:

  2. Benedict says

    May 9, 2019 at 9:38 am

    -Imam of Portland’s Biggest Mosque Gets Citizenship Revoked Over “Violent Jihad”-

    That’s a flagrant violation of the first amendment … especially the part about “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.”

    Amendment I:
    “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

    Hope the Imam knows where and how to complain.

    • smooth lee says

      May 9, 2019 at 1:56 pm

      Are you serious!? Tell me you’re being sarcastic.

    • gravenimage says

      May 9, 2019 at 11:45 pm

      Is Benedict being sarcastic? Preaching violent Jihad is *not* peaceful.

      But then, I don’t expect anything but enabling of Jihad from someone who insists that Western women wear the Burqa.

    • Eric Jones says

      May 11, 2019 at 2:23 am

      A call for Jihad is a call for violence; which is not protected speech..

      Eric

  3. George DeCarlo says

    May 9, 2019 at 9:40 am

    Details on revoking naturalization citizenship:

    https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-l-chapter-2

  4. elee says

    May 9, 2019 at 10:40 am

    Mixed result……..who’s going to surveil this POS in whatever s******* country he lands in? Pakistan? Somalia?

  5. owensgate says

    May 9, 2019 at 11:52 am

    HOW were they able to accomplish this without the 9th Circus ordering a block to his “expatriation”? And did we miss the uproar from the good citizens of the City of Roses to fight this? Miracles DO happen after all.

  6. Dawne says

    May 9, 2019 at 12:54 pm

    That’s great! Now they need to start getting rid of the rest of the Jihadi Imams.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      May 9, 2019 at 2:06 pm

      Jihadi Imams

      Not to be argumentative, but isn’t this a redundancy?

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    May 9, 2019 at 12:56 pm

    In the book written by the scholar and expert on subjects of Islam and Islamic terrorism , Robert Spencer, which has the title of THE HISTORY OF JIHAD FROM MUHAMMAD TO ISIS on pages 367, 368 it’s revealed that “The early twenty –first century saw a sharp rise in jihad massacres perpetrated all over the West by individuals or small groups of Muslims : in London ,Manchester , Paris, Toulouse, Nice, Amsterdam , Madrid, Brussels, Munich, Copenhagen Malmo, Stockholm, Turku [in Finland] ,Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Beslan ,among other places.”

    The jihadist or jihadists attacks in Western nations be the Muslim terrorists in the city of ,Strasbourg, Stockholm, London, Manchester ,Brussels , Paris, Nice, Berlin ,Madrid. Those jihad-minded Muslim terrorists who engage in those vicious Islamic terror attacks cannot be and will not be reasoned with. They will not respond to either logic or reason. They aren’t interested, at all, in reason or logic. So they have to be dealt with by a strong force of might; either by the police or the use of force by the military. For to even try to reason with a jihad-minded Muslim terrorist is just as much an act of futility as trying to teach algebra to a rabbit.

    • CRUSADER says

      May 10, 2019 at 1:19 am

      Walter, I take it you don’t think rabbits can become De-Programmed enough to “get” Al-Gebra ?

      • St. Patrick says

        May 10, 2019 at 1:32 am

        Good one CRUSADER TY for that..

  8. gravenimage says

    May 9, 2019 at 11:42 pm

    Imam of Portland’s Biggest Mosque Gets Citizenship Revoked Over “Violent Jihad”
    ………………….

    Glad this Muslim thug has had his citizenship revoked! Deport him now.

  9. CRUSADER says

    May 10, 2019 at 1:18 am

    https://shariawatch.org.uk

    ECHR Judgement Relating to Sharia Law (2003)

    ECHR Ruling on sharia law:

    “sharia law is incompatible with democracy and human rights”

    Source:

    Annual Report 2003 of the European Court of Human Rights
    Council of Europe

  10. St. Patrick says

    May 10, 2019 at 1:23 am

    Hi Graven..So glad you’re still here (and JW for that matter)
    Why is it always only ONE and not a thousand? No reply necessary.. Just sayin’ and I know you know why.
    Hope you haven’t run out of paint!

  11. Terra Nova says

    May 10, 2019 at 4:35 am

    This is good info, never read or heard about this in Europe. The EU must have kept it secret (a little secret, but it is very good to know this. Thank you Crusader !

    • Michael Turnbull says

      May 10, 2019 at 7:07 am

      Pretty well known over here.

  12. Terra Nova says

    May 10, 2019 at 4:38 am

    How “strange” that people in Europe hear more about what is happening in the USA, and the Americans know more about the EU. Keep the info coming!

  13. underbed cat says

    May 10, 2019 at 1:48 pm

    Gee I wonder where this imam got his training? Gee wonder what “guidebook” he follows? Gee I wonder what “guide book” directs his directions? Removing his citizenship status will be of no consequence, still he is a citizen of the “Guide book” and the next imam will step in to guide the followers of the of the guide to read the” guide book”. As he steps into the mosque built by the followers of the “guide book’ to produce the radicalize guides who read the guide book. And the democrats/ marxist and islamist will guide his way back with their help along with the flow of the other guided to just walk on back. This time with ballots to bring in the “rightly guided” and erase the laws of the United States. Crazy ….dangerous, insane and smilely clever, acting very peaceful to silence the information about who and what is in control of the guides that teach “guide book” i.e. Quran, that teaches jihad, sharia law and dawah in the mosques they are just forbidden to expose the deception to Portland and beyond.

  14. infidel says

    May 11, 2019 at 10:00 am

    Good riddance

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