by David J. Rusin • Apr 27, 2011 at 11:05 am
Two years ago today, Qasim Ahmed became "possibly the first" imam to open a session of the Florida House of Representatives with a prayer. Subsequent findings by Islamist Watch suggest that he made history in another sense — as the first polygamist to be so honored.
Critical information comes from the website of the Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA), an African-American Muslim organization whose Islamist-heavy leadership is topped by radical cleric Siraj Wahhaj. Ahmed is listed as a member of MANA's executive committee; his important role in the group lends credence to descriptions of him carried on its site.
One post summarizes an August 2009 workshop in Atlanta by Services for Human Advancement and Resource Enhancement (SHARE), the "organizational vehicle for implementing MANA's agenda in a local area." The gathering was titled "A Refreshing Look at Polygyny with Qur'anic Insights and a Focus on Justice & Freedom in an Adverse Environment." (Polygyny refers to a man being married to multiple women at once.) MANA's write-up notes that presenters included "Imam Qasim Ahmed and his wives Nadiyah Ahmad and Aminah Muhammad." A later post reiterates this, stating that the event "featured … Imam Qasim Ahmed and his two beloved wives." Furthermore, Word documents advertising the 2009 workshop have been located: one version in which the women are labeled as Ahmed's "wives" and a second in which they are not.
Google turns up another page mentioning all three individuals, but it contains no hint of any marital links. However, even shallow searches of public records databases show that the histories of Ahmed and the women identified by MANA as his "wives" overlap in intriguing ways.
read more: http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2011/04/did-a-polygamous-imam-lead-prayer-in-the-florida
Critical information comes from the website of the Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA), an African-American Muslim organization whose Islamist-heavy leadership is topped by radical cleric Siraj Wahhaj. Ahmed is listed as a member of MANA's executive committee; his important role in the group lends credence to descriptions of him carried on its site.
One post summarizes an August 2009 workshop in Atlanta by Services for Human Advancement and Resource Enhancement (SHARE), the "organizational vehicle for implementing MANA's agenda in a local area." The gathering was titled "A Refreshing Look at Polygyny with Qur'anic Insights and a Focus on Justice & Freedom in an Adverse Environment." (Polygyny refers to a man being married to multiple women at once.) MANA's write-up notes that presenters included "Imam Qasim Ahmed and his wives Nadiyah Ahmad and Aminah Muhammad." A later post reiterates this, stating that the event "featured … Imam Qasim Ahmed and his two beloved wives." Furthermore, Word documents advertising the 2009 workshop have been located: one version in which the women are labeled as Ahmed's "wives" and a second in which they are not.
Google turns up another page mentioning all three individuals, but it contains no hint of any marital links. However, even shallow searches of public records databases show that the histories of Ahmed and the women identified by MANA as his "wives" overlap in intriguing ways.
read more: http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2011/04/did-a-polygamous-imam-lead-prayer-in-the-florida
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