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Abdel Rahman Al Sudais ' Pimping for the Prophet' in Canada - Top Saudi cleric's FL appearence with Ralph Nader was cancelled in '03

Saudi state funded cleric calls upon Muslims to wage Jihad
May 12, 2004

Saudi Cleric Abdel Rahman Al Sudais - A Pimp for the Prophet

Once again Canada welcomes the Saudi kingdom's 'spiritual' leader Sheik Abdel Rahman Al Sudais.Any Islamists who were unable to make the Haj this year will be able to hear the Saudi cleric exhort them to kill Americans, Jews, and Hindus, and to wage Jihad against the infidels. Last year's conference in Toronto was also attended by Canadian public officials whose appalling display of dhimmitude has given Jihadis free reign in America's backyard.

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" Sheik Abd Al-Rahman Al-Sudayyis, the Saudi government appointed imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, will give a series of lectures in Canada next week and attend the Islamic Studies of North America conference in Toronto. Mr. al-Sudayyis's position is one of the most prestigious in Sunni Islam.

His sermons hold significant weight throughout the Islamic world.

The themes of his sermons are characterized by confrontation toward non-Muslims. Mr. al-Sudayyis calls Jews "scum of the earth" and "monkeys and pigs" who should be "annihilated."

Other enemies of Islam, he says, are "worshippers of the cross" and "idolworshipping Hindus" who should be fought. Mr. al-Sudayyis has been consistent in calling for jihad in Kashmir and Chechnya, for Jerusalem to be liberated, and for the "occupiers in Iraq" to also be fought. He often claims that Islam is superior to Western culture.

At the Grand Mosque in Mecca on February 1, 2004, Mr. al-Sudayyis called on Muslims everywhere to unite to defeat the world's occupiers and oppressors.

"History has never known a cause in which our religious principles, historical rights, and past glories are so clearly challenged…The conflict between us and the Jews is one of creed, identity, and existence."

By STEVEN STALINSKY Mr. Stalinsky is executive director of the Middle East Media Research Institute.
http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getmailfiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2004/05/12&ID=Ar00900

see complete article below :


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It is not well-known in the West that these clerics are, in fact, employees of the state. No one can ascend the minaret of the Great Mosque in Mecca, as Sheikh Abdelaziz al-Sudais does regularly, without the sanction of the king. After the latest terror attack in Saudi Arabia, al-Sudais was widely quoted for having declared that the perpetrators were "un-Islamic" because their victims included Arabs and Muslims. Just one year earlier, however, he was on Saudi state television, where he called on the faithful to murder Jews and American "worshippers of the Cross."

Kenneth Timmerman : For more information see this article and read his book "Preachers of Hate -Islam and the War with America"

http://www.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/timmerman200311210851.asp

Background on Sheik Al -Sudais's cancelled appearence in Florida together with Ralph Nader .

The event was arranged by Zulfiqar Al Shah, the Universal Heritage Foundation CEO and former president of the ICNA.

The UHF is part of the The Islamic Circle of North America and the Muslim American Society, which merged to form one of the largest Saudi funded Islamist organisations in North America.

Zulfiqar Ali Shah, who had appeared at other events featuring Al Sudais, feigned ignorance regarding tbe Saudi cleric's Jihadi statements despite their having been broadcast on Saudi state television .

Less then 3 weeks after Shah's claim he was unaware of Al Sudais's hatemongering and incitement, both were speakers at an Islamist conference in Toronto. (see below)

Ralph Nader's office claimed that the presidential hopeful, who had been billed as a keynote speaker with Al Sudais, had alternately "lost", and "never received", an invitation.

For an inside report on the militant Islamist agenda of the UHF "interfaith" conference click on the link below :

http://www.stevequayle.com/News.alert/04_Global/040105.Islam.Pt.1.html

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Monday, 22, March, 2004 (01, Safar, 1425)

Makkah Imam to Give Lectures in Canada
P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News —

JEDDAH, 22 March 2004 — Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, the imam of the Grand Mosque in Makkah, will give a series of lectures in Canada during a tour this summer, a Canadian Muslim leader said. "This is the first visit of Sheikh Sudais to Canada," Ibrahim Hussein Malabari, director general of the Toronto Islamic Center, said.

The Makkah imam will attend the annual conference of the ISNA conference in Toronto. He will also take part in a ceremony at the center marking the end of a four-week intensive course in Islamic and Arabic studies.

The course is organized by the center in association with Makkah's Umm Al-Qura University.

"Umm Al-Qura has agreed to send seven professors to lecture on various Islamic topics and Arabic," Malabari said.

Dr. Ibrahim Al-Jaeed, supervisor of educational programs, will lead the university's delegation to Canada. Dr. Suleiman Al-Abid, head of higher studies in Arabic, and Dr. Khaled Al-Qurashi, head of the department of Islamic dawa and culture, will be part of the delegation.

He said some 5,000 Muslim delegates from different parts of Canada would take part in the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference, scheduled for May 18-20 in Toronto.

"Islam for Peace, Progress and Prosperity" is the theme of the conference, which will be attended by prominent Muslim leaders like Dr. Muzzammil Siddiqui, Imam Siraj Wahaj, Dr. Mohammed Noor, president of ISNA in the US, and Dr. Ingrid Mathson, vice president of ISNA.

Malabari, a senior ISNA official, commended the favorable attitude of Canadians toward Islam and Muslims. "Canadians in general are against the ban imposed by the French government on hijab," he said.

Canadians are now more curious to find out about Islam than ever before, Malabari said. "The number of non-Muslims who visit mosques and Islamic centers in Canada has increased considerably," he added.

Canadian census figures released last year have shown for the first time that Muslims outnumber Jews.

"When the 1991 census was taken, about 25 percent more people said they were Jewish than Muslim," the daily Globe and Mail reported. But immigration from predominantly Muslim countries has reversed that dynamic.

Figures from the 2001 Canadian census released by Statistics Canada show that the number of people claiming to be of Muslim faith increased by 128.9 percent to 579,640 in the decade beginning in 1991.

Background information on the cancellation of Al Sudais's appearence in Florida due to media scrutiny after MIM and others informed the media regarding the miltant Islamist nature of the event and exposed the background of Al Sudais

March 4, 2004

Welcome to Militant Islam Monitor . We intend to live up to our name and provide the public with information about militant Islamist groups and individuals both locally and internationally. When it comes to the "War on Terror" offense is the only defense.This means exposing Islamists in our midst as well as their enablers and supporters.One example of this is the scuttling of a recent conference which was held to inaugurate the Universal Heritage Foundation in Kissimmee Florida.The event was billed as Islam for Humanity, and was to include two keynote speakers; Sheik Abdur Rahman Al Sudais and Ralph Nader. as well as representatives from America's largest militant Islamist organisations. http://www.pipelinenews.org/index.cfm?page=rabinowitz.htmhttp://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35941 Sheik Al Sudais is known for calling on Muslims to kill "Jews and worshippers of the cross". The editor of MIM send out information to the media which resulted in negative and unwanted media scrutiny.. The two main speakers cancelled due to the publicity, and at the last minute the conference venue was moved to a smaller premises which resulted in scheduling problems and less attendees then had been expected. A full account of the curtailed event can be read at http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36430

The success we had in hampering the event can be measured by the fact the leaders of the Universal Heritage Foundation, Zulfiqar Ali Shah and Ashraf Shaikh, invoked the name of Allah against the "plotters and planners" who started the campaign against their 'Jihadfest".

http://www.uheritage.org/inaug_conf_overview.html

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http://www.masnet.org/pressroom_release.asp?id=672

Universal Heritage Foundation, Inc.
INAUGURAL CONFERENCE

Islam for Humanity

December 19-21, 2003

Conference Flyer

(Adobe Acrobat req'd)

Hosted By: Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Shah, Chairman & CEO

Specially Invited Guests:
Shaikh Abdur-Rahman Al-Sudais Imam Ka'aba, Makkah
Mr. Ralph Nader (Civic Leader & Presidential Candidate – 2000)

Speakers:

Dr. Muzammal H. Siddiqui
Imam Siraj Wahaj
Dr. Syed M. Saeed
Dr. Talat Sultan
Dr. Abdullah Idris Ali
Dr. Sohail Ghannouchi
Dr. Mokhtar Maghraoui
Dr. Muhammad Yunus
Dr. Salah Sultan
Dr. Ihsan Bagby
Shaikh Wajdi Ghunaim
Dr. Ali S. Ali
Imam Abdul Malik
Shaikh Safwat Mursi
Imam Muhammad Musri
Shaikh Ala Ramadan
Maulana Shafayat Muhammad
Imam M. Bashar Arafat
Shaikh Walid K. Basyuni
Imam Tariq Rasheed
Br. Altaf Ali
Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Shah
Many Other Distinguished Scholars And Civic Leaders

Separate programs in Arabic and Urdu

Starts with Friday Khutba and closes at Noon on Sunday

REGISTRATION FEE: None
31 Acre pristine Campus of the Universal Heritage Foundation
233 Academy Drive
Kissimmee, FL
http://www.uheritage.org

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Here is Zulfiqar Ali Shah listed as a speaker at a 2003 conference


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With the support of our audience and blessings of Allah (SWT), 2003 Conference was a huge success. The conference witnessed a massive attendance of close to 3500 attendees, over the two days. The conference showcased an outstanding display of interest, solidarity and spirit.

Every listener took with himself a renewed passion to advocate the message of peace, tolerance and unity."

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Unfortunately Canada has become a welcoming venue for Islamo facists .

The Toronto police chief and other city officials were invited guests at the conference.

William Baker the neo Nazi director of CAMP was among the featured speakers.

Dr. Daniel Pipes writes :

http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1431

A just-finished, very large Islamist conference in Toronto (the Toronto Star says it attracted 7,000 participants) called "Reviving the Islamic Spirit" featured such stars of the Islamist circuit as Tariq Ramadan and Siraj Wahhaj. It also hosted a neo-Nazi named William W. Baker.

Baker was exposed in February 2002 in the Orange County Weekly in a major investigation by Stan Brin, titled "Hour of White Power: Reverend Robert H. Schuller relies on a man with ties to Neo-Nazis to build religious understanding." Brin established Baker's close ties to Willis Carto, the "dean of American neo-Nazi politics," and revealed Baker's many other insalubrious activities, including his chairmanship in 1984 of a neo-Nazi organization called the Populist Party. Soon after, the Crystal Cathedral's Schuller expelled Baker and cut all ties to him. ..

It also bears noting that such big-time authority figures as Toronto mayor David Miller, Toronto police chief Julian Fantino and Royal Canadian Mounted Police commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli participated in the "Reviving the Islamic Spirit" conference, thereby giving it – and by implication, William W. Baker – their blessing."

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http://www.revivingtheislamicspirit.com/conference/conference-program.htm

Program Schedule:

http://www.revivingtheislamicspirit.com/conference/conference-speakers.htm

We are pleased and honoured to welcome the following speakers:
(Click on to view speakers' profiles.)

  • Imam of Haram - Al Sudais (tentative)

  • Dr. Tareq Suwaidan (Kuwait)

  • Ustaad Amr Khaled (Egypt)

  • Sh. Abdullah Adhami (Syria)

  • Dr. Tariq Ramadan (Switzerland)

  • Imam Zaid Shakir (USA)

  • Sh. Hamza Yusuf (tentative)

  • Sh. Abdullah Hakim Quick (South Africa)

  • Imam Siraj Wahhaj (USA)

  • Sh. Abdalla Idris Ali (USA)

  • Dr. Jamal Badawi (Canada)

  • Sis. Amina Assilmi (USA)

  • Sh. Mokhtar Maghroui (USA)

  • Dr. Munir El Kassem (Canada)

  • Br. Abdal Rasheed Brown (South Africa)

  • Dr. William Baker (USA)

  • Br. Ziaullah Khan (Canada)

  • Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Shah (USA)

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MEMRI REPORT
Top Saudi Cleric To Spread Hate Doctrine in Canada
The New York Sun 12 May 2004 Foreign section, Page 9
By STEVEN STALINSKY Mr. Stalinsky is executive director of the Middle East Media Research Institute.
http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getmailfiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2004/05/12&ID=Ar00900

Sheik Abd Al-Rahman Al-Sudayyis, the Saudi government appointed imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, will give a series of lectures in Canada next week and attend the Islamic Studies of North America conference in Toronto. Mr. al-Sudayyis's position is one of the most prestigious in Sunni Islam.

His sermons hold significant weight throughout the Islamic world.

The themes of his sermons are characterized by confrontation toward non-Muslims. Mr. al-Sudayyis calls Jews "scum of the earth" and "monkeys and pigs" who should be "annihilated."

Other enemies of Islam, he says, are "worshippers of the cross" and "idolworshipping Hindus" who should be fought. Mr. al-Sudayyis has been consistent in calling for jihad in Kashmir and Chechnya, for Jerusalem to be liberated, and for the "occupiers in Iraq" to also be fought. He often claims that Islam is superior to Western culture.

At the Grand Mosque in Mecca on February 1, 2004, Mr. al-Sudayyis called on Muslims everywhere to unite to defeat the world's occupiers and oppressors.

"History has never known a cause in which our religious principles, historical rights, and past glories are so clearly challenged…The conflict between us and the Jews is one of creed, identity, and existence."

He told those listening to "read history," in order "to know that yesterday's Jews were bad predecessors and today's Jews are worse successors. They are killers of prophets and the scum of the earth. Allah hurled his curses and indignation on them and made them monkeys and pigs and worshippers of tyrants. These are the Jews, a continuous lineage of meanness, cunning, obstinacy, tyranny, evil, and corruption…"

Mr. al-Sudayyis elaborated on the conflict between Muslims and Jews: "O Muslims, the Islamic nation today is at the peak of conflict with the enemies of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, with the grandsons of Bani-Quraydah, al-Nadhir, and Qaynuqa' [Jewish tribes in the early days of Islam]. May Allah's curses follow them until the Day of Judgment."

"The nation must know that these are people with a disgraceful history and a black record… They want to establish the Greater Israel with Jerusalem as its capital. They also aspire to demolish the Al-Aqsa Mosque and build their alleged temple in its place. They want to liquidate the State of Islam and the Koran, and build the State of the Torah and Talmud on its debris. They will get what they deserve from Allah…

"Our Al-Aqsa is crying out saying all mosques have been liberated, while I — a great holy mosque — am still being desecrated. Is the aspiration of over 1 billion Muslims to preserve their holy places [to be] considered savagery and terrorism? What a great lie, O Allah, O steadfast brothers in struggler and steadfast Palestine, the land of honor, loftiness, sacrifice, jihad, and bravery. The captivity of our Al-Aqsa in the hands of the tyrants makes us sleepless. May Allah please us with its liberation.Victory is coming soon, Allah willing."

"...Here are the flags of victory looming on the horizon. We can smell it. It is crowned by a brave jihad, an intifada, which is still the winning card and the lit candle in the hands of the devout sons of this nation…O nation of jihad and sacrifice, it is the duty of Muslims to support their brothers in creed in Palestine and elsewhere and to back them with material and moral support. Jihad with money sometimes supersedes jihad with soul, as mentioned in many Koranic verses and the prophet's traditions."

In a sermon on April 23, 2004, regarding Iraq, Al-Sudayyis said that "our Muslim brothers in the Iraq of history and civilization are facing another bloody chapter, particularly in the brave, steadfast city of Al-Fallujah."

He called on Muslims everywhere to unite "to defeat all their occupiers and oppressors" for the destruction of the enemies of Islam, to support "our mujahideen brothers in Palestine," and to disperse "the unjust Zionists."

Discussing plots by enemies of Islam, who he identifies as Hindus, Jews, and Christians, Mr. al-Sudayyis delivered a sermon on May 31, 2002, which said: "Those whom Allah cursed, got angry with, and turned into monkeys and pigs, the tyrant worshippers among the Jewish aggressors and criminal Zionists.

"Their course is supported by the advocates of usury and worshippers of the cross, as well as by those who are infatuated with them and influenced by their rotten ideas and poisonous culture among the advocates of secularism and Westernization…

"The enemies of Muslims among the atheists insist on their arrogance and aggression against our people and our holy places in Chechnya? The idol-worshipping Hindus indulge in their open hatred against our brothers and holy places…in Muslim Kashmir, threatening an imminent danger and a fierce war in the whole Indian subcontinent?...O Allah, support our brother mujahideen for your sake and the oppressed everywhere. O Allah, support them in Palestine, Kashmir, and Chechnya. O Allah, we ask you to support our Palestinian brothers in Palestine against the aggressor Jews and usurper Zionists. O Allah, the Jews have oppressed, terrorized, and indulged in tyranny and corruption. O Allah, deal with them for they are within your power."

According to Mr. al-Sudayyis, Islam is superior to Western culture. He told worshippers in Mecca in February 2002: "The most noble civilization ever known to mankind is our Islamic civilization. Today, Western civilization is nothing more than the product of its encounter with our Islamic civilization in Andalusia [medieval Spain]. The reason for [Western civilization's] bankruptcy is its reliance on the materialistic approach, and its detachment from religion and values.

"[This approach] has been one reason for the misery of the human race, for the proliferation of suicide, mental problems…and for moral perversion…Only one nation is capable of resuscitating global civilization, and that is the nation [of Islam]… While the false cultures sink in the swamp of materialism and suffer moral crises…our Islamic nation is the one worthy of grasping the reins of leadership and riding on the back of the horse of pioneering and world sovereignty."

"Read history," Mr. al-Sudayyis said in another sermon in May 2002, "and you will understand that the Jews of yesterday are the evil fathers of the Jews of today, who are evil offspring, infidels, distorters of [others'] words, calf-worshippers, prophet-murderers, prophecy-deniers...the scum of the human race ‘whom Allah cursed and turned into apes and pigs...' These are the Jews, an ongoing continuum of deceit, obstinacy, licentiousness, evil, and corruption..."

The concluding supplications of Mr. al-Sudayyis's sermons are often filled with statements concerning current affairs. He consistently calls for "Muslims to humiliate the infidels [non-Muslims], as well as their destruction."

For example, on November 1, 2002, he stated "O Allah, support our mujahideen bothers in Palestine, Kashmir, and Chechnya and destroy the aggressor Jews and the tyrannical Zionists, for they are within your power."

In a June 21, 2002, sermon, Al-Sudayyis gives supplication: "O Allah, support them in Palestine, Kashmir, and Chechnya. O Allah, deal with the Jews and Zionists for they are within Your power. O Allah, scatter their assemblies, make them a lesson for others, and let them and their property be a booty for Muslims."

In another sermon in May 2003, Mr. al-Sudayyis condemned what he termed the "serpents" to "spit their venom" by harming the Islamic religion, ridiculing the pious, and blaming the school curricula and religious and welfare institutions.

Mr. al-Sudayyis said: "O Lord, support our brother mujahideen for your sake everywhere. O Lord, support them in Palestine. O Lord, deal with the aggressor Jews and sinful Zionists. O Lord, deal with them for they are within your power. O Lord, deal with the enemies of religion and show us the miracles of your power on them."

Also, on July 11, 2003, he said: "O Allah, support our mujahideen brothers everywhere. O Allah, help them score victory over the unjust Jews and aggressive Zionists in Palestine. O Allah, destroy the Jews and their supporters. O Allah, destroy them, for they are within your power. O Allah, disperse them and make them prey for Muslims."

According to statements beginning in June 2003 made by Saudi Embassy spokesman Adel Al-Jubeir, "Hundreds of imams [in Saudi Arabia] who violated prohibitions against preaching intolerance have been removed from their positions and more than 1,000 have been suspended and referred to educational programs."

Clearly, this is not the case with Saudi Arabia's leading imam, Sheik Abd Al-Rahman Al-Sudayyis, who continues to preach incitement from the most holy site in all of Islam.

This item is available on the Militant Islam Monitor website, at http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/80