Abu Usamah
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Abu Usamah (born March 4, 1964) is an Imam at Green Lane Masjid in Birmingham, England.
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[edit] History
Abu Usamah, Khalifah At-Thahabi was born in Paterson, New Jersey, the youngest of 5 children. He was raised in Paterson until his family moved to Passaic, New Jersey.
He converted to Islam in 1986 and applied to attend the University of Madinah as was the practice of many new converts to Islam at that time. He completed his BSc in Usool-Ul-Fiq and learned the Arabic language.
After his graduation from the University, Abu Usamah went to teach in the UK before returning to the US in 1996 in order to pursue his first position of Imam in Orlando, Florida. He was an iman at a mosque in Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Peoria before he moved to the UK, where he surfaced briefly in Keighley before moving to Birmingham to take us his place at Green Lane Mosque.
[edit] Radical Preachings
In January 2007, Usamah was filmed by the Channel 4 documentary programme Dispatches in their investigation titled Undercover Mosque. Some of his preaching that was secretly filmed included a number of anti-Western, anti-Israel, antisemitic, anti-American, anti-Christian, and other controversial sentiments.[1][2]
Abu Usamah has told worshippers Osama Bin Laden is "better than a million George Bushes and a thousand Tony Blairs" and that non-Muslims are "pathological liars."[1]
Abu Usamah stated that Muslims shouldn't be satisfied with living in anything other than a total Islamic state. He says that apostates of islam should be killed.[3]
Regarding women, he said, "Allah has created the woman - even if she gets a PhD - deficient. Her intellect is incomplete, deficient. She may be suffering from hormones that will make her emotional. It takes two witnesses of a woman to equal the one witness of the man."[1]
Abu Usamah said, "No one loves the kuffaar, not a single person loves the kuffaar. We hate the kuffaar."[1]
Abu Usamah stated in defense that the documentary had quoted him "out of context."[4]
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[edit] References
- ^ a b c d Radical cleric praises bin Laden Daily Mail
- ^ Terror suspects going home The Scotsman.com News
- ^ American-Born Imam Spews Message of Hate in England Fox News- January 18,2007.
- ^ Muslim preacher defends TV comments Birmingham Mail- January 18th 2007
