Islamic University in Minnesota is alleged to be breeding extremists
By Mark Ellis, Senior Correspondent for ASSIST News Service
MINNEAPOLIS, MN (ANS - May 6, 2016)
-- An Islamic university in Minnesota is alleged to be led by a man who
espouses writings in the Hadith that have motivated Muslim terrorists
to kill Jews and believes Sharia [Islamic] law should supersede man-made
law.
Waleed Idris al-Meneesey is the president and chancellor of the Islamic University of Minnesota (IUM), located in Minneapolis.
He
also serves as an imam at a Bloomington, Minn. mosque where at least
five young men left the U.S. to fight with ISIS and al-Shabaab,
according to a report by John Rossomando, senior analyst at The
Investigative Project on Terrorism.
“During
a sermon in November 2015, al-Meneesey referred to the Hadith, a saying
from Islam’s prophet Muhammad, describing how Jews had been punished by
God repeatedly for “corruption,” Rossomando notes.
In
the sermon, al-Meneesey said, “God Almighty has promised them (the
Jews) destruction whenever they cause corruption.” History will repeat
itself, he added.
“The
Prophet related that in the Last Days his Umma [people] would fight the
Jews, the Muslims East of the Jordan River, and they [the Jews] west of
[the Jordan River] … Even trees and stones will say: O Muslim, this is a
Jew behind me, kill him…”
Jerusalem
“remained in the hands of the Muslims until it fell into the hands of
the Jews in 1387 AH [1967], and has been a prisoner in their hands for
34 years, but the victory of God is coming inevitably,” al-Meneesey
declared.
IUM
has other radical affiliations. “IUM also professes to serve as the
official representative of Sunni Islam’s most important institution –
Al-Azhar University, which has grown increasingly radical – in the U.S.
and Canada,” Rossomando notes.
IUM’s curriculum offered to American students endorses many practices used by ISIS.
These
include: killing a Muslim who does not pray, one who leaves Islam, and
prisoners and infidels within Islam. It allows gouging their eyes and
chopping off their hands and feet, bans the construction of churches and
allows discrimination between Muslims and Christians and Jews,
according to Rossomando’s sources.
In
2007, al-Meneesey wrote that Muslims should not participate in
non-Islamic courts that do not follow sharia law, particularly those in
the West guided by “man-made” law.
“The
authority to legislate rests with Allah alone,” al-Meneesey wrote.
Muslims who adhere to secular law and refuse to follow the sharia are
infidels. Classical interpretations of the sharia say that apostates
should be killed, Rossomando notes.
Al-Meneesey’s
Islamic Center and his youth and family Center are claimed to have
produced at least five people who left to fight for ISIS or al-Shabaab.
Photo captions: 1) Graduation ceremony at IUM. 2) Mark Ellis.
About the writer: Mark Ellis is Senior Correspondent for the ASSIST News Service (www.assistnews.net), and also founder of www.GodReports.com),
a website that shares stories, testimonies and videos from the church
around the world. He is also co-host for "Widows on the World" with ANS
Founder, Dan Wooding, which is airred on the Holy Spirit Broadcasting
Network (http://hsbn.tv).
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