Did the person from the Utah Senate who invited Yussuf Awadir Abdi to deliver this prayer know that he was on the terror watch list? Did he or she care? Or was virtue-signaling the paramount imperative here, overriding all other considerations?
“Imam on terrorist watch list delivers opening prayer during Utah Senate Session,” Deplorable Kel, May 8, 2020 (thanks to George):
Yussuf Awadir Abdi, an Imam who is on a federal government terrorist watch list, delivered the opening prayer at a Utah Senate Session in February 2020.
After delivering the prayer, Abdi took to Facebook to praise “allah”. He wrote:
All praises is due to Allaah who gave me to mention his name and his prayer front of our state senators. Thank you UTAH Muslim Civic league for giving me this opportunity.
Abdi is the imam of Salt Lake City’s Madina Masjid Islamic Center.
mortimer says
Wailing the Islamic war cry (Allah Akbar) is NOT a ‘prayer’ … it is a war cry of supremacism.
gravenimage says
So true, Mortimer.
Vasil says
Only Islamic opening prayer? Utah is a Muslim state?
DHazard says
The Minnesotans from Minneapolis are proud of their liberal heritage and want everybody else to notice. But they draw the line at giving their own land back to the “indigenous” people their ancestors “acquired” it from, making a hypocritical mockery of their unified stance on BDS.
Here’s Ilhan (ill ham) Omar talking down to all the not like me-ers in her state:
Omar, who was a Somali refugee before coming to America and becoming a citizen, told fellow lawmakers Minnesotans don’t understand the cruelty Israel is inflicting on Palestinians living in occupied territories.
“We here in Minnesota, certainly in this body, who are not educated enough to understand the nuances of the people who are living in Israel and Palestine,” Omar said.
Minnesota that year overwhelmingly passed a law against BDS, forbidding the state to use any contractors who participate in the boycott against Israel. Today 27 U.S. states have similar laws.
This is a first tier ploy; you don’t “understand”. If only you had my experience you would know…if you could have been a child in war torn blah blah blah……you have to read the whole book in it’s original tongue….. the only real way to know is to read my book which is now available on Amazon….etc.
Luke Stoupenos says
DHazard, what is your book name on Amazon?
Ordinary Joe says
MADNESS!
What is it with these useful idiots??
mortimer says
Yussuf Awadir Abdi is on the watch list for terrorism. About 15% of Muslims self-identify as supporters of a jihad-terror group, while a similar 15% of Muslims attend the mosque regularly. Is there an OVERLAP of these two groups? Are they actually the same group?
The more a Muslim delves into Islam, the more he/she would meet the duty of jihad-terrorism against the dirty kufaar.
These Utah legislators would be shocked if they understood the supremacist messages and intent hidden in Islamic prayers.
gravenimage says
Utah: Imam on terror watch list delivers opening prayer at state senate session
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This is *just appalling*. How could whoever invited him not have known?
But this is *far* from uncommon–how many “moderate” Muslims have proven to be anything but?
wpm says
Some vetting processes ,would the good people representing the great state of Utah have a card carrying Nazi give the opening pray to the pagan Nazi gods to the assemble members of state ?All cultures ,,religions,and most important political systems are not equal,sane or moral .Islam political system falls into Nazism on moral scale and sane scale, on the world stage with a known 1400 year track record on hate, violence.terrorism,thief,rape,and blackmail in getting its way.
Wellington says
Madness of course, rank madness and sheer stupidity too, but there is something else.
Here is the “something else:” Mormonism, if I am not mistaken, officially, as opposed to all other Christian sects (and I don’t wish to enter in here respecting whether Mormonism is a Christian sect or not—this is for another “debate”), actually acknowledges Mohammed as a true prophet. Yeah, officially, the whole nine yards worth, and then some.
I know Mormon suicide bombers are kinda’ scarce, as are Mormons threatening death for criticizing their religion (N.B., Imagine instead of the Broadway parody play, The Book of Mormon, it had been The Book of Islam—think the reaction by Muslims would have been as non-violently engaged in as by Mormons?—if you do, then you are either ignorant or mendacious, no third possibility should really be entertained here).
Analysis and conclusion: Mormonism has a major influence in Utah. Frankly, I don’t have a real problem with this even though I think Brigham Young a less than laudable man. And as for Joseph Smith, to invoke a “Bidenism,” which finally is in concert with the truth, “c’mon, man.” But I digress. And how disgusting to have any Muslims in any legislative hall in America deliver a prayer to open the assembly. This is beyond egregious, stupid, foolish, etc. At least in spirit, if not far more than just in spirit, such is reprehensible and an insult to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America, two documents, among so many others like every state constitution, the Islamic sphere of mankind could have never created and will not ever create.
Pandering to Islam or thinking it just another religion is about as foolish as a free people can be. Where Islam and freedom are concerned, there is, never has been, never will be, “mutuality.”
WF says
Sorry-life long member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints here- Prophets testify of Christ as the Son of God and of His atonement. They teach the plan of happiness. No. Mohammed wasn’t a prophet.
Westman says
Sorry, WF, sadly, you are incorrect. A First Presidency declared Islam to be from God and that makes its interlocutor a prophet.
“Latter-day Saint appreciation of Muhammad’s role in history can also be found in the 1978 First Presidency statement regarding God’s love for all mankind. This declaration specifically mentions Muhammad as one of “the great religious leaders of the world” who received “a portion of God’s light” and affirms that “moral truths were given to [these leaders] by God to enlighten whole nations and to bring a higher level of understanding to individuals.”
There is much more: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2000/08/a-latter-day-saint-perspective-on-muhammad?lang=eng
Frankly, it seems to show ignorance within the 1978 Presidency of Isam’s actual ideology that has been carried forward to the present time.
Of course, when EU Muslims discover the LDS church supports the gathering of Israel, in Israel, there will be real problems and perhaps the church’s first recognition of the true nature of Islam.
Kathy says
Westman, thank you for that link. I read the article, it makes for horrifying reading.
It would appear that you are quite correct, that the Mormons look upon Islam as a sister religion and upon the Muslims as most admirable, truly good and pious people and therefore most worthy of emulation. This goes a long way to explaining why the Mormons of Utah look favorably on a Muslim Imam delivering the opening prayer at their State Senate Session.
So maybe they are not as stupid as we thought they were, but rather duplicitous and underhand, instead? They would appear to be happily working hand-in-glove with the Muslims to further their aims of establishing a caliphate in Utah, as well as the rest of America. Maybe they really believe that they are working together towards a common goal? Maybe they truly believe that the Muslims will not turn on them once they have outlived their usefulness?
Either that, or else they are incredibly naive and gullible – and truly pathetic!
As for the ingathering of the Jewish exiles and the rebuilding of the Jewish homeland in Israel, the Mormons view this as merely the fulfillment of the prophecies necessary to bring about the Second Coming of Christ, at which time all unbelievers who do not accept Christ as their saviour will die and go to hell! Which means the Jews are all designated to end up in hell too, since the Jews firmly believe in the One True G-d and only the One True God!
Which, come to think of it, sounds awfully like the Muslim belief that all ‘unbelievers’ must accept their belief or die – whether by the Sword of God or by one wielded by a more mortal hand, what difference does it make, right?
Jeez, do I really have to add the Mormons to my “Wish you had never been born” list, too?
gravenimage says
WF, Joseph Smith himself was known as the “New Mohomet”. Moreover, the LDS Church initially adopted polygamy. Worse, early apostates were killed. Luckily, the last two have been jettisoned from the mainstream Mormon Church today–but, sadly, it is indeed part of its history.
This started early:
As early as 1855, at a time when Christian literature generally ridiculed Muhammad as the Antichrist and the archenemy of Western civilization, Elders George A. Smith (1817–75) and Parley P. Pratt (1807–57) of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles delivered lengthy sermons demonstrating an accurate and balanced understanding of Islamic history and speaking highly of Muhammad’s leadership. Elder Smith observed that Muhammad was “descended from Abraham and was no doubt raised up by God on purpose” to preach against idolatry. He sympathized with the plight of Muslims, who, like Latter-day Saints, found it difficult “to get an honest history” written about them. Speaking next, Elder Pratt went on to express his admiration for Muhammad’s teachings, asserting that “upon the whole, … [Muslims] have better morals and better institutions than many Christian nations.”
Latter-day Saint appreciation of Muhammad’s role in history can also be found in the 1978 First Presidency statement regarding God’s love for all mankind. This declaration specifically mentions Muhammad as one of “the great religious leaders of the world” who received “a portion of God’s light” and affirms that “moral truths were given to [these leaders] by God to enlighten whole nations and to bring a higher level of understanding to individuals.”
https://www.ldsliving.com/What-Prophets-Apostles-Have-Said-About-Muhammad/s/84360
I’m not saying that you agree with this, WF–but some of the founding members of the Church of LDS certainly did.
SKA says
If the Mormons acknowledge Mohamet as a true prophet that means accepting his claim to be the final prophet. That make Joseph Smith, who cams after him, a false prophet and that makes Mormonism . . .
JamesC. says
Which makes Mormonism’s recognition of Ham-head moot – unless it means that the LDS kuffar are really crypto-Muslims.
somehistory says
This brings to my mind the tantrum the moslim woman in PA (I believe I have the correct State) threw when another member of the political establishment there said a prayer and mentioned Jesus Christ
The moslims claimed that she and others were being targeted by that prayer. However, the rest of us don’t have to “claim” to be the target of a moslim “prayer”….because in their speeches, “prayers,” books, etc., they freely admit to targeting us, esp Christians and Jews.
Therefore, those people in Utah are, not just allowing the targeting, but inviting it. As you stated, “stupid.” Beyond stupid. I think we are going to have to coin a few new words to describe the level of stupid, ignorance, inanity, etc. to define what these, and others like them, are doing.
mccode says
Most Americans are woefully ignorant of Islam’s true goals. As a whole, we as a people naively assume that what a person utters publicly is sincere and truthful. That is a guaranteed recipe for disaster for our country when applied to the Cult of Muhammad.
Unless and until the majority of actual Americans (those who possess an allegiance to Western values) wise up and demand that this insanity stop, the prospects for halting Islam’s treacherous advance here will not be successful.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, mccode.
James Lincoln says
+1
OREN WYSOCKI says
To many americans have A mental dysfunction, where they can’t seem to hold the idea in their head that islam is A discriminatory, expansionist, oppressive, violent organization that influences critical percentages of their adherents into committing discriminatory, insulting, threatening, and violent actions against non muslims. No identity group on earth, has been able to coexist with islam, regardless what religion they have or if they have no religion at all. So many people can’t seem to get into their heads that nobody can work out how to live with them in peace, because muslims ideas are not to live in peace with non muslims.
Like the nazis, the way that you deal with A group of violent people who do not want to tolerate others, is you make sure you as the self defender, commit more violence against them than they commit against you, so it is good and clear that they should not be motivated to try that again. Then you investigate the statements of their leaders, conduct polls to find out the opinions of their adherents, and research their books, and school teachings, to determine if they are secretly still dedicated to your destruction, or not. If they are not getting violent anymore, because it is clear there will be reprisals for that, but still teaching hatred of non muslims, then you can criticize them and insult the unfairness of their ideas.
Moral people try to reserve their violence for self defense against those who attack them. Clearly this is A problem, if muslims are black or half black and many americans are hysterical egalitarians who are unable to admit that muslims are attacking americans. The radical american believers in equality should also be exposed and insulted. Examples of worldwide muslim attacks against non muslims should play in the mainstream news, reminding them, that they are liars and corrupt.
Instead of inviting muslims to every single event that americans have, they should exclude muslims, insult them as the intolerant bigots that they are, and shame them until they distance themselves from the discriminatory beliefs and religious passages they currently celebrate, to A satisfactory amount, that will help people forget that islam was ever the religion of barbarity and terrorism.
For now, the situation is that cowardly americans demand that nazis be included in every single part of american ceremony and government. Except the nazis are intolerant muslims, and inclusion has not changed muslims in thousands of years, but these cowardly lying americans don’t care. And their media helps them live in denial. That is part of why muslims converted out of christianity in the first place. christianity did not allow muslims to express their hatred for Europeans and others sufficiently. It was not non violent up until the last 70 or say 150 years ago. For most of the history of christianity, non violence was not A real primary concept. Soldiers went out into battle with crosses painted on their shields. Turning the other cheek was never A discussion that ended wars as far as I know.
The muslims left Christianity in the middle east, because they wanted violence and oppression to be the primary ideal of their religion, they did not feel the equal to Europeans or Jews, and wanted the opportunity to rape and enslave Jewish and european women. They also mistakenly hoped that they were more equal to european men on the battle field, they were not. But with only the skill of being able to steal, they continued to pursue opportunities to rob caravans, and take over ships for slaves and riches.
The thoughts of the arab muslim are very different than those of the white gentile women. White Jewish and gentile women need much more clear conversations and examples of human suffering backed up by statistics. Our access to media is also very limited. We should pray to G-d to grant us A chance to break through all the censorship that the white gentiles women support, or He gives us the ability to neutralize their considerable influence, or should I specify the influence of the lefts leadership. In G-d I trust.
gravenimage says
Wait–you think that censorship is white gentile women?
Gene Easley says
Mormonism is “white mans” Islam, I got videos kicked off Youtube for stating that some years ago. Lucifer appearing as an angel of light is happening a lot now, Donald J Trump for example appeared to be good but he’s not. Yesterday Trump announced he’s going to deploy the military to vaccinate the entire American population when the vaccine is ready (Fox News). There will be a civil war soon…probably months if not sooner.
God told me not to follow Trump anymore because he is an antichrist preparing the way for THE ANTICHRIST and if you look at what Trump has done it all fits, he’s bought and paid for by the New World Order, an underling of Bill Gates; Trump has brought America to it’s knees, buckling the economy, soon to force Gates influenced vaccines into our arms, tag us like cattle (digital tattoos), require Nazi style travel documents (health certificates), introduce real-time social distancing/contact tracking/tracing…essentially all of the Democrat policies are being implemented in the name of Covid-19–socialism–monthly economic stimulus checks; don’t need a literal green deal when nobody is travelling, businesses aren’t manufacturing–a locked down nation doesn’t produce ‘green house gases’. All politicians are working together for the almighty dollar–no difference between Dems and Republicans. Trump not addressing social media censorship is just a hint that he doesn’t care because he knows it’s all part of the New World Order takeover of humanity.
gravenimage says
Wait–you think that a vaccine for the Coronavirus is “THE ANTICHRIST”?
Then is spreading the disease to your vulnerable neighbors somehow the work of god?
OLD GUY says
Why are our political leaders so hell bent on kissing up to the islamic/muslim political “religion” that is hell bent on taking over the freedoms we have in America and replace it with sharia type law and disorder. This is like letting the fox into the hen house and then later wondering what went wrong. Nothing good will come from a growing population of islamic/muslim people in America, their beliefs and life style is not compatible with wester society.
Brian Hoff says
What will you hater react when the Time Catholic join together as one religion.
gravenimage says
How would *that* work, since Muslims do not believe that Jesus is the Son of God, and regularly slaughter Christians for this belief?
Would Islam adopt some forms of Catholicism? Let me guess not.
So what “Brian Hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–is *really* saying is that Islam plans to try to swallow Catholicism and then murder any Christians who don’t convert to Islam.
Brian Hoff says
The Roman Catholic sholar and miuslim sholar are in talk for the last 10 year.
CogitoErgoSum says
Are you ready to be baptised yet?
gravenimage says
Note that “Brian Hoff” is unable to answer any of my questions, nor to cite where Catholics are “in talk” to submit to Islam.
In fact, the Pope himself–as Islamophilic as he is–denies this claptrap:
“No, Pope Francis didn’t say Christianity and Islam should merge”
Vatican City, Jan 3, 2017 / 02:10 pm MT ().- Widely shared quotes attributed to Pope Francis, in which he advocates for a merging of the religions of Christianity and Islam, have been debunked by the Vatican as fake.
One of the quotes falsely attributed to Francis states: “Jesus Christ, Mohammed, Jehovah, Allah. These are all names employed to describe an entity that is distinctly the same across the world. For centuries, blood has been needlessly shed because of the desire to segregate our faiths.”
Another false quote states: “We can accomplish miraculous things in the world by merging our faiths, and the time for such a movement is now.”
Vatican spokesman Greg Burke told the Associated Press that the quotes are “invented.”…
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/no-pope-francis-didnt-say-christianity-and-islam-should-merge-89329
Yet “Brian Hoff” is still flogging this tripe over three years later.
Donovan Nuera says
I could barely understand his “prayer”; he mumbled the whole thing. Not that it matters as he really doesn’t give a rat’s patootie about any of the legislators in that Chamber and he hopes secretly that they die and burn in Lake of fire in hell for being kuffar. I also bet that not one legislator or staff member has opened their holeeee boohk to see what it says. Perhaps the female legislators had worn a hijab in “solidarity” when their daughters had to wear one in class for awareness day and were fascinated by the various fabrics! To find out who let this jihadist say a “prayer”, just look up the name of the chaplain administrator of the chamber who schedules these and ask him what he knew.
phyllis says
Muslims and mormons treat women as sex objects with no rights; both of them are idiotic beliefs.
wake up folks