Suhaib Webb Goes to Washington

humazahImam Suhaib Webb is the new Resident Scholar for MakeSpace, a Washington, DC, area mosque meeting in Alexandria, Virginia’s Dunya Restaurant, MakeSpace announced October 29. Both Webb and MakeSpace have radical backgrounds belying their “moderate” Muslim pretensions.

An Oklahoma convert to Islam, Webb came to America’s capital from a Resident Scholar position at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center (ISBCC). Previously he served as the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City’s (ISGOC) imam. Praised by MakeSpace as a “world-class visionary,” Webb’s reputation as a modern Muslim thinker has placed him in “The Muslim 500: The World’s Most Influential Muslims.”

Yet examination of Webb reveals a radicalism suggesting more than coincidence in the fact that Oklahoma City beheader Alton Nolen and Boston Marathon bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev attended ISGOC and ISBCC’s sister mosque, respectively. Webb had been an associate of Anwar Al-Awlaki, a senior Al Qaeda propagandist killed by a September 30, 2011, American drone strike in Yemen. Webb appeared with Al-Awlaki two days before September 11, 2001, at a fundraiser for the legal defense of H. Rap Brown, an Atlanta Muslim later convicted of shooting two Georgia police officers.  The Muslim American Society, a Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group, meanwhile, runs ISBCC.

Webb himself has denounced “secularism…a radical, lunatic ideology” in contrast to the “dynamic, empowering, pluralistic Islam of the prophet’s era.”  “I love CAIR,” Webb says of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a radical faux civil rights group and an unindicted terrorism financing coconspirator.  Webb also critiqued his “demonization of others,” having “compared ISIS to Ebola. While I don’t agree with ISIS, al-Qāida, certain progressives and others, I…apologize to anyone that I have spoken ill towards or demonized.” Denunciations of America and Israel (e.g. “America’s Frankenstein monster”) along with anti-Semitism also appear in Webb’s views.

Webb “is hailed as a moderate,” anonymously wrote a former Muslim convert who attended ISGOC. Webb, though, “explicitly told me that according to Islam, three choices are to be given to non-Muslims: convert, pay the jizyah tax and live under Islamic rule, or jihad.” ISGOC members like Webb “try very hard to whitewash Islam when the media is around, but they believe in their religion and the ultimate goal of an Islamic caliphate.”

MakeSpace similarly proclaims itself a “non-judgmental community” with a “strong focus on youth and young professionals,” emphasizing “universal as well as Islamic values of compassion, cooperation and service.”  From an Afghan background, MakeSpace founder Imam Zia Makhdoom studied Islam in Pakistan and computer science at George Mason University before serving in Washington, DC’s Muslim community for a decade. MakeSpace also runs “Torchbearers, formerly known as Virginia High School MSA Council,” in order “to connect the Muslim Student Associations of every High School in Virginia.” The 1963-founded MSA, though, is a Saudi-supported organization aligned with MB.

This reporter’s introduction to MakeSpace occurred at a Dunya Iftar dinner at congregant Saba Ahmed’s invitation. This Pakistani-American Muslim achieved brief national notoriety in confrontations with ACT! for America’s Brigitte Gabriel at the Heritage Foundation and on Fox News. Interviewed at Dunya, Ahmed revealed herself as a 9/11 Truther, who believes that the federal government, not Al Qaeda, staged the September 11, 2001, attacks. MakeSpace, meanwhile, distributed literature for Guidance Residential, a “Leader in Islamic home financing” in the interest-free “Sharia Way,” whose chief sharia adviser is radical Pakistani Supreme Court Justice Muhammad Taqi Usmani.

Ahmed is apparently not the only 9/11 Truther to appear at MakeSpace, as precisely a week following my Ahmed interview, radical Imam Zaid Shakir addressed MakeSpace at Dunya on July 24. Shakir has entertained conspiracy theories involving America and Israel concerning not just 9/11, but also the first 1993 World Trade Center (WTC) bombing and condemned the “U.S. war machine” as the “single greatest threat to world peace.” Brooklyn mosque imam Siraj Wahhaj, who spoke at the October 24 MakeSpace banquet officially welcoming Webb, is also still seeking “correct information” about 9/11 while being a first WTC attack unindicted coconspirator.

Wahhaj joined at the banquet South African ambassador to the United States Ebrahim Rasool, who gave a keynote address to CAIR’s 2013 annual banquet where MakeSpace received CAIR’s Community Organization of the Year Award. Rasool specializes in equivalency, suggesting at Georgetown University, for example, that Jews founding Israel after escaping genocidal Nazism and Arab refugees from Israel’s 1948 independence war “all carry the burdens of victimhood.” A supposedly brutal America in its fight against Muslim terrorists also presented for Rasool “competing extremisms” at a New America Foundation event.

Muslim-American comedian Aman Ali, an advocate for “mainstream American Islamic groups” like CAIR and another terrorism financing unindicted coconspirator, the Islamic Society of North America, also welcomed Webb at his inaugural banquet. “Islam unequivocally condemns terrorism….Grab a copy of the Quran…and find out for yourself,” Ali has previously asserted Islam’s supposedly self-evident peaceful nature. “Don’t rely on some cherry-picked crackpot interpretation…on some Islamophobic hack’s poorly designed website,” Ali caveats.

Mahkdoom himself was more equivocal while discussing the Islamic obligation of tithing or zakat for Islamic Relief USA, an American branch of the London-headquartered global Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW). IRW has numerous MB connections, and Israel banned IRW for supporting Hamas terrorism. In a video (beginning at minute 16) he discusses sequentially the eight categories of Muslim individuals (only Muslims or possible converts receive zakat under traditional Muslim teaching) allowed to receive alms.

Yet Mahkdoom actually only discusses seven categories, omitting the category of fisibillah or “In the Cause of Allah,” namely the “defense of Islam.” Jihadists around the world derive support from this category, as well as possibly from the fifth category for ransoming those “unjustly imprisoned.” Mahkdoom, though, slyly mentions in passing the Arabic fisibillah without English explanation as merely one category supporting orphans (whose parents have fallen in jihad).

MakeSpace and Webb thus disturbingly present more than meets the eye, veneers of Muslim moderation notwithstanding. Given the views Webb and his associates hold, Islamic violence in their surroundings in Oklahoma City and Boston is not surprising. Worrisome is whether Webb’s bloody track record will continue to Washington, DC.

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  • Hi there

    Make space for more dar-al-Islam. Why live in a house of war , when peace is spreading to a place near me?

    • Pete

      Muslims profess this, Libtardians ignore or cannot understand that Muslims mean what they say

  • Kruton

    Extermination!

  • FedUpWithWelfareStates

    Newsflash*** There is no moderate or radical Islam…There is only Islam! So get Islam out of my country NOW!

  • Saba Ahmed

    Lets just say we won’t be inviting you back to MakeSpace anytime soon! God Bless!

    • wileyvet

      Don’t you mean Allah bless? Your Allah is a fraud, an invention of a malignant narcissist whom you revere as the prophet of your death cult. The Koran is a cobbled together pile of crap, fabricated by the warlord Muhammad to threaten or reward his followers and to justify his abominable behaviour. Your Allah is a vicious, evil and capricious entity. One that delights in the suffering of others, and offers no guarantee of salvation. The sad joke about your beliefs is that Islam is a religion of predestination. Allah, according to the Koran and Muhammad has already decided who gets to paradise. So the fact that Islam is based in deeds and works, does NOT afford you the assurance of the debased paradise and rewards promised by Muhammad.
      You believe in a complete fiction, and 1400 years of the wretchedness of Islamic thought has produced a perverted and inverted ethical and moral standard, predicated on the teachings of perhaps the most despicable person to have ever lived. You base your entire lives on the teachings of a; liar, thief, brigand, assassin, ethnic cleanser, bigot, racist, mysoginist, murderer, rapist, slave trader, and pedophile, who married a nine year old girl.
      The foulness that is Islam needs to be expunged from every western nation. Islam only produces dysfunction within its own cultural environs and like a cancer it destroys everything it touches. Islam is the antithesis of everything that a healthy society depends on. Islam produces nothing, offers nothing but submission, slavery and death. It is a sad testimony of your religion and culture that the highest value you have is belief in a god that demands that you kill others to please him. To die in the process of the destruction of others is what Islam demands of you. You and all your fellow Mohammadans are evil incarnate.

      • Mary

        Actually, he married a six year old girl. According to the unholy Qur’an he was kind and waited till she was nine before he raped her.

        • Softly Bob

          And that ‘nine’ was nine years based on the Muslim lunar year which is shorter than a solar year, so she was probably eight when he raped her.

      • Softly Bob

        Well said!

    • Mary

      For speaking the truth about these radicals?

  • Space Cowboy

    Both Webb and MakeSpace have radical backgrounds belying their “moderate” Muslim pretensions.

    Damn…in the very first paragraph the writer reveals himself to be a loon blinded by PC multiculturalism. Of course, because of his adherence to PC multiculturalism he no doubt regards me as being a racist, i.e., an Islamophobe, and a prude of some form. In any event, the reality is like most Americans and especially elitist Americans, he is incredibly ignorant of the scourge of Islam. You would think that they would all study the subjects they intend to write about. Yeah right!

    Nevertheless, I have to rain on the writer’s very naïve parade, because the notion that Muslims can be moderates, while others can be radicals is a ludicrous and suicidal PC multicultural myth. As waging jihad, which is a so-called holy war waged by ALL MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD in the cause of Allah against ALL INFIDELS IN THE WORLD to ultimately make Islam and its followers supreme throughout the world, is a fundamental holy obligation COMPULSORY for ALL MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD in one form or another.

    Thus, ALL MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD are jihadists in one form or another. Either of the violent variety (a tiny minority) or of the non-violent variety (the vast overwhelming majority). Especially when you consider the harsh reality that in Islamic totalitarian society, which is totalitarian to the core, all non-conformers are summarily executed for the capital offenses of apostasy and blasphemy according to the dictates of Islam.

    Therefore, since ALL MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD are also jihadists in one form or another, otherwise they are dead apostates and dead blasphemers, then how can the writer consider some of them to be so-called moderate Muslims, while at the same time others are so-called radical Muslims?

    Indeed, the notion that peaceful and radical Muslims somehow by osmosis become foaming at the mouth radical Muslims and terrorists via some sort of mysterious radicalization process over the Internet, or via attending a radical mosque, or via a radical Muslim, or via a radical Imam is ridiculous. As ALL MUSLIMS ARE already JIHADISTS in one form or another, depending upon circumstances, from the time they are born. It’s the notion that they are peaceful and moderate Muslims that is ludicrous and that is a suicidal PC multicultural myth.

    The truth is the millions of Muslim migrants living in America, exactly like the millions of Muslim migrants living throughout the infidel world today, are all stealth jihadists waging jihad intentionally non-violently by design and on purpose for the strategic purposes of mass Muslim infiltration of our governments, Islamization of our societies, and for eventual demographic conquest. As waging jihad over here in the infidel world violently isn’t feasible, as it would quickly be defeated and all Muslim infiltrators would also quickly be deported. Thus, stealth jihad is the Islamic totalitarian world’s version of the Cold War.

    Meanwhile, the unequivocal proof of it is Muslim migrants no matter where they migrate to in the infidel world never ever assimilate and integrate. As they first form Muslim enclaves that in time morph into Muslim no-go zones ruled by Sharia that are in effect tiny Islamic statelets residing within the various host infidel states. In fact, a few years ago the government of France counted in excess of 700 Muslim no-go zones in France alone.

    Indeed, Muslim migrants to the infidel world never ever assimilate and integrate, because to do so requires them to morph into becoming an infidel, and becoming an infidel in Islamic totalitarian society, which again is totalitarian to the core, for a Muslim is an automatic death sentence. As apostasy and blasphemy in Islamic totalitarian society are both capital offenses.

    As a matter of fact, the tenets of Islam must always be strictly enforced. Otherwise, Islam would quickly fall apart. Indeed, it’s the glue that holds everything together.

    • AEHarrod

      It is Webb and MakeSpace making “moderate” pretensions, not I. This single thesis of yours is getting a little old.

      • Space Cowboy

        However, you were insinuating that they may have participated in radicalizing Muslims and that I’m afraid is a myth. The only people that become radicalized are Muslim converts. Since waging jihad in some form or fashion is a fundamental holy obligation compulsory for all Muslims. Nevertheless, since all Muslims in the world are jihadists, or otherwise dead apostates and dead blasphemers, jihadists are all actually mainstream orthodox Muslims.

        Now, of course, there will always be a certain percentage of pretenders pretending to be faithful to the tenets of Islam, but for all intents and purposes these people are irrelevant since they are forced into silence.

        Nevertheless, I apologize for the first paragraph as I composed the post very fast as I was hurrying because I had to leave to go to a concert way out of town. I often compose overly harsh first paragraphs as a joke to myself and then delete them before I post them. However, this time I never read over the post before posting it until just now when I got back, and when I did that first paragraph even shocked me. It should have been deleted. So sorry about that. Under normal circumstances it never would have been posted.

  • mathewsjw

    author should have noted “No relation to former Senator James Webb, except for being leftists.”

  • William James Ward

    People who convert to Islam are sick and dangerous individuals
    that are attracted to the violence and mayhem, though disgusting
    it is exactly what they want. Rejecting American life and values
    and turning to evil is a choice and judgment must be made for
    such a perversion, ostracize these people and separate them
    from our Nation………………William