Yahiya Emerick

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Yahiya Emerick is a vice principal at an Islamic school, President of the Islamic Foundation of North America and a Muslim author and has written many articles that have been published in local as well as national magazines, both in North America and abroad. He was born into an American Protestant Christian family and converted to Islam in 1989. Amirah Publishing was founded by Yahiya Emerick in 1992 in order to further his ideal of publishing American-oriented literature on Islam. In addition to being an author he is also a lecturer and educator with national recognition. One of Emerick's books has been adopted into the curriculum of Al-Azhar University in Egypt, the world's oldest college and the foremost in Islam.

Yahiya Emerick wrote an essay where he suggested militarizing all Muslims living in the United States with weaponry and martial arts training to prepare them to defend themselves against the non-believers, who, he argues, will form racially based groups after a "social order break down" and will target minorites, citing the LA Riots as precedent in this respect. Emerick argues that Muslims should unite on religious grounds as there is no dominant race in the Muslim community.^[1].