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Contents : Portrait of a Wahhabi (so-called Salafis) Below is an interesting article that depicts facts on the wahhabi faction that claims to be salafis following the sunni stream but in reality Ahlus-Sunnah are clear of the wahhabi radical and extreme beliefs. Portrait of a Wahhabi By Stephen Schwartz FrontPageMagazine.com June 30 2003 On Thursday June 26 I testified before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism Technology and Homeland Security chaired by Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz). My topic was "Wahhabism and Islam in the U.S." I outlined the outrageous degree to which Saudi-funded Wahhabi extremists who are supporters of terrorism have come to dominate Islam in the U.S. My testimony was not greeted with enthusiasm by James Zogby the phony civil rights leader who heads the "Arab American Institute." Zogby a Lebanese Christian once known for his moderate camouflage on Israel but now a shameless apologist for the Saudis immediately fired off a press release. He described me and my fellow witness Alex Alexiev of the Center for Security Policy with mangled syntax as "virulent anti-American Arab and Muslim critics whose writings and statements display a consistently misinformed and hurtful tone. Schwartz denigrates American Muslims by describing Wahhabism as an extremist puritanical and violent movement ' " he alleged. In reality it is Zogby who may be described with perfect accuracy as a "virulent anti-American Arab." He demanded that his supporters send e-mails to Sens. Kyl and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif) protesting against the very fact that the hearing was held. 1/7 Portrait of a Wahhabi (so-called Salafis) While this was taking place federal agents were poised to arrest six Muslim men in the Washington area and in Pennsylvania. Two of their codefendants were already in custody. Three of them have fled to Saudi Arabia. They total 11 and are charged with conspiring with a Wahhabi group based in Pakistan Lashkar-i-Taiba or "Army of the Righteous" to commit terrorism in Kashmir Chechnya and elsewhere. The lead indictee arrested early Friday is a man named Randall Royer who calls himself by the Islamic name "Ismail." He's someone I know pretty well. But I know some of his playmates even better. Royer used to operate a "blog " which remains accessible on the net: ismailroyer.blogspot.com. Go to the page and look in the right column and you will find me described as "Washington Bureau Chief The Forward " a position I have not held for almost two years. This of course is his way of identifying me as Jewish. And if you hit the link at my name you go straight to the Nazi swill of Bill White the compulsive liar from Silver Spring Md. writing in the depraved Pravda organ of the red-brown Communazi alliance. I first heard of Royer in January 2002 when I was working at the Voice of America. He had called my successor at the Forward and identifying himself as Randall not Ismail asked if he could talk to me about religion in Bosnia. The Forward reporter passed the message on and being the kind of free-speaking person I am I responded. But as soon as I e-mailed Randall Royer what did I get back From an e-mail address in Bosnia he falsely identified himself as writing for beliefnet a religious news website. He sent me a defamatory quote from the notorious Saddamizer and admirer of Axis seditionists Dennis "Justin" Raimondo proprietor of the antiwar.com website. Royer added a false description of the Forward as "far-right " and also referred incorrectly to my "former colleagues at the ADL " i.e. the Anti-Defamation League the Jewish civil rights organization. So Royer had obviously done "opposition research" on me. However the Forward when I was its Washington bureau chief happened to be the most left-wing and pro-Arab of all American Jewish publications and I never worked for the ADL except as a volunteer prison lecturer on 2/7 Portrait of a Wahhabi (so-called Salafis) Black-Jewish relations and as an unpaid rapporteur on the situation of Croatian and Bosnian Jews. In his next e-mail "Randall" came out as "Ismail" and now fraudulently labeling the Forward as "neo-con " and charged that my own acceptance of Islam reflected "infiltration" and "an attempt by pro-Israel groups to install a more compliant Israel-friendly alternative Muslim leadership" in the U.S. His comments were framed in a smarmy polite tone but a threat was obvious. The role of Raimondo in this maneuver remains extremely interesting. Raimondo has inexhaustibly assailed me because like Royer I have taken an Islamic name although unlike Royer I have never used it for deceptive purposes. Royer employed Raimondo's propaganda as a fig-leaf to cover his own attempt at intimidation. On his blog Royer dropped the mask and directly attacked me linking to the degenerate Nazi White. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and others have similarly recycled Raimondo and some have reforwarded Bill White's Pravda depravities. But Royer was not satisfied to send me a nasty quote from a scurrilous nitwit decorated with feeble gossip. Later he resumed his e-mail harassment of me and my organization the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. One of his polemics was republished on Raimondo's site antiwar.com. Royer became even crazier attacking in his blog another close friend and colleague of mine Michael Sells pilloried by Islamophobes not long ago for his book Approaching the Qur'an which set off a ridiculous controversy at the University of North Carolina. In a full access of violent demagogy he accused Michael one of the most sensitive commentators on comparative religion alive today of "bigotry-fueled hysteria" because like me Michael has denounced Saudi-Wahhabi vandalism under the pretext of reconstruction of Ottoman-era mosques in Bosnia-Hercegovina and Kosovo. Naturally I was not excluded from that blast Royer called me a "racist" for the same putative offense. But Royer revealed his own grotesque racism in the same blog entry when he declared that no Bosnian Muslim woman had ever married a non-Muslim man. His argument regarding a country famous for intermarriage Such a woman could not be considered a Muslim. He also claimed of "the wahhabi' sect " that its "existence is a figment of the imagination of extreme Sufis Westerners and others who feel threatened by authentic Islam." 3/7 Portrait of a Wahhabi (so-called Salafis) There is more to be said about Royer but not all of it may be disclosed at present. For example he should be asked about his relationship with John Walker Lindh the "American Taliban " with whom he shared the trajectory of involvement with Yemen Pakistan and Kashmir. But that is another matter entirely at least at this point. The most important things to be pondered about Royer come from the federal indictment in U.S . vs. Royer et al . Royer and his 10 codefendants are alleged to have: * Supported Lashkar-i-Taiba by actions to "provide for prepare a means for and take part in" terrorist adventures in Kashmir as well as in Chechnya the Philippines and elsewhere. * Carried out acts " w ithin the United States to unlawfully knowingly and intentionally enlist and engage with intent to serve in armed hostility against the United States." * Used false passports as well as pursuing activities to "transport and receive firearms and ammunition in interstate commerce with reason to believe that such firearms and ammunition would be used to commit a felony." These charges are contained in 41 counts and 71 evidentiary items of information comprising extensive arms acquisition military training and recruitment operations continuing through travel to and violent acts and training in Kashmir and including clandestine propaganda for terrorism in Kashmir and terrorist training in Bosnia-Hercegovina among other illegal activities. Among the evidentiary items: 4/7 Portrait of a Wahhabi (so-called Salafis) "50. On or about September 11 2001 Unindicted Conspirator #1 told YONG KI KWON to gather those who possessed firearms for a meeting. "51. On or about September 15 2001 at a meeting at the house of YONG KI KWON in Fairfax Virginia Unindicted Conspirator #1 told RANDALL TODD ROYER KHWAJA MAHMOOD HASAN MASOUD AHMAD KHAN MOHAMMED AATIQUE HAMMAD ABDUR-RAHEEM and CALIPH BASHA IBN ABDUR-RAHEEM that the time had come for them to go abroad to join the mujahideen engaged in violent jihad in Kashmir Chechnya Afghanistan or Indonesia... "53. On or about September 15 2001 at a meeting at the house of YONG KI KWON in Fairfax Virginia Unindicted Conspirator #1 told the conspirators that American troops were legitimate targets of the jihad in which the conspirators had a duty to engage... "95. On or about October 15 2001 during the meeting Unindicted Conspirator #1 provided historical examples from Islamic history justifying attacks on civilians. "96. On or about October 15 2001 during the meeting Unindicted Conspirator #1 told his listeners that fighting Americans in Afghanistan was a valid jihad for Muslims. "97. On or about October 15 2001 during the meeting Unindicted Conspirator #1 told his listeners that mujahideen killed while fighting Americans in Afghanistan would die as martyrs or shaheed ." An especially disgusting item appears as number 104: "On or about February 1 2003 in a message celebrating the crash of the Space Shuttle Columbia Unindicted Conspirator #1 advised his followers that the United States was the greatest enemy of Muslims." This tidbit is fascinating because in 2002 Royer was employed as Communications Director of the Muslim American Society (MAS) a major component of the "Wahhabi lobby" or Islamic political establishment in the U.S. At the time of the shuttle disaster Eric Erfan Vickers then-executive director of the American Muslim Council (AMC) another element in the 5/7

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