The Arkansas Shooting as Islamic Jihad
How Will Obama Label the Attack?

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
June 3, 2009

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/568/shooting-in-arkansas-islamic-jihad

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According to my esteemed colleague Steven Emerson, (and as I noted yesterday), Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammed has been under investigation in an effort to understand his "possible contacts with extremists overseas." Emerson believes that Muhammed probably attended "the (Al-Da'awah Center) madrassa in Dammaj, a tribal area of Yemen, run by a Salafi cleric named Yahya Hajuri." Unbelievably, Hajuri is the designated heir to one Muqbil ibn Hadi, who once launched an attack on Mecca and a war against Christians in Indonesia.

Yemen: What do I recall about Yemen? Osama bin Laden's father is from Yemen, from a place called Hadramut which, I am told, means "Death has come."

More important, according to Emerson, Abdulhakim M. Muhammed "was urged by members of the local Muslim community, (in the United States), to travel to Yemen, for more education. The Gulf nation is considered a hotbed for terrorists, and Muhammad may have been exposed to more radical ideas there."

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