OOOOOOOPS: THE FBI GOT ONE JIHADI BY ACCIDENT

NYTIMES/AP:

Federal authorities say a leader of what they describe as a nationwide radical Sunni Islam group has been fatally shot during an FBI raid in the Detroit area.

The U.S. attorney's office in Detroit says Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah refused to surrender during an FBI raid Wednesday and was killed in an exchange of gunfire.

OH HOW AWFUL. (SARC OFF.)

IOW: ROPMA.

UPDATE: NYT/AP UDPATE WITH MORE INFO HERE; EXCERPT:

In the complaint, the FBI said Abdullah, also known as Christopher Thomas, was an imam, or prayer leader, of a radical group named Ummah whose primary mission is to establish an Islamic state within the United States.

He told them it was their ''duty to oppose the FBI and the government and it does not matter if they die,'' Leone said.

Abdullah regularly preached anti-government rhetoric and was trained, along with his followers, in the use of firearms, martial arts and swords, the agent said.

Leone said members of the national group mostly are black and some converted to Islam while in prisons across the United States.

... The group believes that a separate Islamic state in the U.S. would be controlled by Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, who is serving a life sentence in a federal prison in Colorado for shooting two police officers in Georgia in 2000, Leone said. Al-Amin, a veteran of the black power movement, started the group after he converted to Islam in prison.

''They're not taking their cues from overseas,'' said Jimmy Jones, a professor of world religions at Manhattanville College and a longtime Muslim prison chaplain. ''This group is very much American born and bred.''

The movement at one time was believed to include a couple of dozen mosques around the country. Ummah is now dwarfed in numbers and influence by other African-American Muslim groups, particularly the mainstream Sunnis who were led by Imam W.D. Mohammed, who recently died.

• BTW: THINGS HAVE HEATED UP SINCE OBAMA WAS SWORN IN.
• GLOBALLY AND HERE AT HOME.
  
• YA KNOW WHY?
• BECAUSE HIS WEAKNESS HIS DITHERING AND HIS APPEASING JUST INVITES MORE JIHADO-THUGGERY.
• APPEASEMENT ALWAYS DOES.

THE SAD NEWS: AN FBI DOG WAS SLAIN DURING THE RAID.

UPDATE: 5 HRS LATER AND BIGTIME BLOGGER GLENN REYNOLDS NOTICES THE STORY AND POSTS A SIMILAR EXCERPT AND A VERY SIMILAR COMMENT:

HMM: F.B.I. Raid Kills Islamic Group Leader in Michigan. “Federal agents on Wednesday fatally shot a man they described as the leader of a violent Sunni Muslim separatist group in Detroit. The 53-year-old leader, Luqman Ameen Abdullah, was killed in one of three raids conducted in and around the city, in which six followers of his were taken into custody. . . . Mr. Abdullah, the authorities said, led a faction of a group called the Ummah, meaning the Brotherhood, which advocates the establishment of a separate nation within the United States governed by Islamic laws. He was one of 11 men from Detroit and Ontario whom the authorities had charged with conspiracy to commit federal crimes.” Is it just me, or are there an awful lot of domestic counterterror operations going on these days?

Posted at 10:43 pm by Glenn Reynolds

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