MIT’s Muslim chaplain raised money for al-Qaeda-affiliated groups

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He was at MIT. MIT administrators were no doubt proud that he was there, as it showed their commitment to “diversity.” They would have dismissed concerns about his activities as “Islamophobia.”

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“Al Qaeda’s Base at MIT,” by Ilya Feoktistov and Charles Jacobs, Breitbart, May 11, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

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At the end of April, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology unveiled a permanent memorial to MIT Police Officer Sean Collier. Officer Collier was gunned down by the Boston Marathon bombers, Chechen refugees Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, three days after they blew up the Marathon.

It is painful to learn that in the late 1990s, there were students at MIT who helped recruit for the Chechen jihad and raised funds for Al Qaeda-affiliated groups operating in the Tsarnaevs’ homeland. It is even more painful that the man who led this fundraising effort was still on MIT’s staff when Officer Collier was gunned down.

Suheil Laher had been MIT’s Muslim chaplain for almost 20 years. Today he continues to preach at the Islamic Society of Boston, the extremist mosque founded by MIT students near campus, where the Tsarnaevs worshipped during their radicalization.

Americans for Peace and Tolerance have just released a mini-documentary, “Al Qaeda’s Base at MIT,” showing how MIT Muslim chaplain Suheil Laher used his leadership of the MIT Muslim Students Association as a vehicle for raising money for Al Qaeda causes around the world. We especially focus on the Al Qaeda affiliate in Chechnya, which Laher and his associates lionized, even as MIT trusted him to be its Muslim students’ spiritual guide.

Suheil Laher came to MIT as a student in 1990 and by 1998, he became the MIT Muslim chaplain. By the year 2000, he also became president of a Muslim charity based in Boston called Care International, which was founded by Osama Bin Laden’s mentor Abdullah Azzam and was originally called “Al Kifah Refugee Center.” Care International was, in essence, a fundraising vehicle for mujahideen. After the leader of Al Kifah in Brooklyn, “the Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdel-Rehman, was convicted for his role in the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, Boston’s Care International took over as Al Qaeda’s main base in the United States. Laher, then, was quite an important figure in Al Qaeda’s leadership here. His perch at MIT meant that he had easy access to the best American Muslim minds – and their world-class technical skills.

As a religious scholar and an engineer, Laher was both the spiritual and technological leader of Care International. He pioneered the Jihadist use of the new Internet medium to fundraise and recruit for Al Qaeda causes online. Laher’s personal website prominently featured Abdullah Azzam’s notorious call to Jihad, a tract called “Join the Caravan:”

Beloved brother! Draw your sword, climb onto the back of your horse, and wipe the blemish off your ummah. If you do not take the responsibility, who then will?

That same Jihadist tract was found on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s computer.

Laher’s website contained a large collection of his writings and of sermons he gave in the Boston area. These sermons are replete with calls for Jihad, such as this passage:

When the Muslim lands are being attacked, and the Muslims are being raped and killed, the only solution prescribed by Allah is jihad. Jihad is for all times. […] Jihad does not stop. Those of us who have not yet managed to go and physically help our brothers and sisters should support […] our mujahidin brethren with prayer, with money, with clothes, by taking care of their families, and at some point in person. Otherwise, we must face the wrath of Allah.

One of the MIT students who answered Laher’s call to join the Jihad in person was a bright young biologist named Aafia Siddiqui. She started out as a passionate and prolific fundraiser for Care International, but by the time she was arrested by the FBI in Afghanistan in 2008, she was known as “Lady Al Qaeda” and had become the most wanted woman in the world. She is now serving an 86-year prison sentence for attempting to kill the FBI agents arresting her. Her belongings upon arrest included two pounds of cyanide and plans for mass casualty attacks on New York using chemical and biological weapons, as well as literature about the Ebola virus.

While Laher’s sermons preached the general Islamic obligation to do Jihad, Care International’s website along with its newsletterAl Hussam” (“The Sword”) promoted what Laher and his fellow Care leaders saw as the concrete performance of that responsibility. In the late 1990s, Care International focused its fundraising activity on the Russian breakaway republic of Chechnya. Specifically, Care International backed the Al Qaeda-affiliated terrorists under the leadership of Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev.

Basayev can arguably be described as one of the cruelest Islamic terrorists in modern Jihadist history. Our documentary recounts one of his cruelest acts: the Beslan School Massacre. On September 1, 2004, during a ceremony marking the first day of school, Basayev’s men surrounded the school in the town of Beslan in southern Russia and took over 1,100 people hostage, nearly eight hundred of them children. They murdered several people on the spot in front of the children and herded everyone into a sweltering gymnasium, where the hostages were kept without food or water for three days as bombs were hung up from the rafters and basketball hoops above them. On the third day, the terrorists started setting off the bombs and Russian security forces stormed the school as shell-shocked children ran the other way and were shot in the back by the terrorists. Three hundred and eighty five people were murdered, among them one hundred and eighty six children. Subsequently, Shamil Basayev bragged about his “success” at Beslan and the fact that the attack only cost him 8,000 Euros to launch. He was killed by Russian security forces in 2006.

Care International raised huge amounts of money for jihad around Boston, $1.7 million according to Federal authorities. A large portion of this money came through checks that were specifically earmarked for “Chechen Muslim fighters.” Throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, Care International hosted dispatches and communiques from Basayev and his forces in the field. A Care International “Al Hussam” newsletter praised a previous Basayev hostage operation against a Russian hospital’s maternity ward:

Minute by minute the whole world watched with agony, as some of the Mujahideen (not exceeding 80), under the leadership of Mujahid Shamil Basyev took 1500 Russians […] We cannot depend on anybody’s help; we have to fight evil with evil. The operation of the Mujahid Shamil Basayev is perfect proof.

How could MIT’s Muslim chaplain have led a group that applauded and funded such a savage?

In 2003, the FBI began investigating Care International for terrorism financing. At the same time, Basayev and his organization were designated as foreign terrorists. The flow of money from Boston to Chechnya stopped. After the Beslan Massacre, Basayev complained that the lack of funding prevented him from seizing more schools in Moscow and Leningrad. Because Basayev was not officially considered a terrorist before 2003, there was little the FBI could do to prosecute Laher and his fellow activists. Three Care leaders, including the group’s treasurer, received minor sentences for tax evasion. After being questioned by the FBI, Laher walked free and continued to influence students at MIT for more than another decade. His successor as MIT’s Muslim Chaplain, Hoda Elsharkawy, is herself closely linked through her husband to Laher and to Islamic extremism in Boston, which will be the focus of our future reporting.

While Laher officially stepped down from his post as MIT chaplain in 2014, he continues to preach at mosques in the Boston area, including the Tsarnaev’s own mosque, the Islamic Society of Boston – giving a sermon there as recently as May 1, 2015….

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Lacouray Too
Lacouray Too
8 years ago

It is said that the eyes are the windows to the soul.
One could easily draw moohamhead using the evil, insane expression in this mooslim idjit’s eyes as a model.
Observe the moohamheadans; while the expression may be initially masked, as soon as they are called out or engaged about islam their masks fall and their faces and eyes
bear the identical expression.

VickiMMcElroy
VickiMMcElroy
8 years ago
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Lacouray Too
Lacouray Too
8 years ago
Reply to  VickiMMcElroy

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Politically Accurate
Politically Accurate
8 years ago
Reply to  VickiMMcElroy

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Six Cents
Six Cents
8 years ago

So much for the left’s narrative that the muslims jihadis are simply in need of better education and jobs.

Gary Rumain
Gary Rumain
8 years ago
Reply to  Six Cents

Maybe they are. MIT is evidently no longer the place for a better education.

Steve Brown
Steve Brown
8 years ago

Our enemy has totally infiltrated our; government, educational systems, financial institutions, even our churches (Especially black now apostate former christian churches) , media, scientific infrastructure. The vast majority of Americans are either; fearful of, indifferent to, or, blind to the reality that our republic is under attack from a highly organized enemy of both domestic and international combatants. While we Americans are focussed on: Tom Brady deflate, Basketball, baseball, football, facebook chatting, having a cheeseburger, french fries and a beer with your buddies, our enemy is praying and planning to how to implement Sharia Law into the good ole USA. They almost pulled it off in Texas where Sharia lost by a 5 to 4 vote.

"stop it, quit it, I mean it"
"stop it, quit it, I mean it"
8 years ago
Reply to  Steve Brown

I understand what you mean, but by no means will they ever infiltrate this assembly of believers…

And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.
– Acts 11:26 KJB

“they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people”

The true Church, as did the true texts of Scripture, traveled through Antioch

Others, including the perverted Biblical texts, went through Alexandria.

Google the subject, it’s true

Steve Brown
Steve Brown
8 years ago

Many will profess to be ” Christians’, however to me the litmus test to determine infiltration of the moon god into the soul of a believer is if a christian believes that the land promised to the 12 sons of Jacob belongs to Israel. I have spoken to many ”Christians” and they have gone apostate by taking sides against Israel and the, ”The Kingdom, Power and Glory” of the spoken word of the lord as revealed in the Holy Bible. Many ”Christians” hold up signs saying that Israel is illegally occupying Arab Lands. Ask your ”So called Christian” friends their opinion concerning Israel and the Palestinian issue. I think you will be shocked when many of your fellow ”Christian” believers have a dull stare in their eyes as they take sides against Israel and Gods chosen people. The Bible predicted that in the Last Days even the ”Elect shall be fooled into believing false doctrines”.Forget about all these nut cases with their Harbinger Blood Moon bull, and just read your Bible and keep your eye on Israel.

defcon 4
defcon 4
8 years ago
Reply to  Steve Brown

I’ve had arguments w/Christians before over Israel. I managed to win one argument when I told him the only place in the Mid-East and N. Africa where Christians aren’t being murdered, enslaved or forcibly converted to pi$$lam by muslims is Israel.

albeit
albeit
8 years ago
Reply to  Steve Brown

Yep, 100% correct in fact more of that land should be theirs as well

Steve Brown
Steve Brown
8 years ago

Paul (Of the new testament) cried when he saw that many Christians had been deceived and lost their faith in Christ.

ridgerunner
ridgerunner
8 years ago

MIT – Muslims in Training

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GenderEquality
8 years ago
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Cate
Cate
8 years ago

And therein is the reason that not one Muslim can be trusted, anywhere. Shame on the thousands of people who came across this guy. They questioned nothing, reported nothing.

Solsticewitch13
Solsticewitch13
8 years ago

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Nemisis
Nemisis
8 years ago

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defcon 4
defcon 4
8 years ago

2 POUNDS of cyanide? I wonder how many people that would kill if introduced into a municipal water supply? We know the islam0nazi Aafia wasn’t planning on going into the rat extermination business.

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