Tuesday, September 22, 2015

FIRST DEARBORN, MICHIGAN AND NOW BALTIMORE, MARYLAND...WHERE NEXT?

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Maryland: Muslims buying row houses from city to ‘carve out a Muslim community’

Posted on September 21, 2015 by creeping
A Muslim community ruled by sharia where the call to prayer sounds out five times a day, as noted in this 2014 Creeping Sharia post, Mosque to sound call to prayer in area targeted “to make Islamic community”:

“…establishing Islam within the borders of the Gwynn Oaks area of Baltimore City, in accordance to the Quran and Sunnah”

via the Muslim Brotherhood’s newspaper The Muslim Link – Building Community
Masjid Al-Haq is located on 514 Islamic Way. It is the largest Masjid in Baltimore City. Out of state Muslim visitors are often pleasantly surprised at the masjid’s fitting street address. But for the masjid’s leadership, one street is not enough.
Still in the planning phases, the Masjid Al-Haq community is poised to purchase and renovate dozens of abandoned and foreclosed row houses within walking distance of the masjid, carving out a Muslim community in West Baltimore just blocks from the epicenter of this year’s riots in the city. That is, if they can raise the funds.
https://creepingsharia.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/img_1008.jpg?w=468On October 3, 2015, Masjid Al-Haq is pulling out all the stops, bringing in arguably the best Muslim fundraiser in the nation in Imam Siraj Wahaj who will push to raise $350,000 at a fundraiser themed “Let’s Build a Community.”
About $225,000 of that goal will be used to complete on-going remodeling of the masjid and the on-site Qur’an and Arabic Institute of Maryland. New wudu areas and bathrooms, a cafeteria and carry-out community restaurant to generate income, a ghusl area to wash and prepare bodies for burial, security system and lighting, and other renovations began in earnest last year. The rest of the goal is slotted for jump starting the housing development plan to realize a masjid-centered Muslim family demographic for Baltimore City.
According to Abdul-Hakeem Lucky, the amir of the shura which leads Masjid Al-Haq, the time is ripe to build a tangible Muslim community in the city.
“We can’t [not have] a nucleus, a center where we can manifest Islam [in Baltimore City]. It’s long overdue, and we saw during these [Freddie Gray] riots that the youth — including our own Muslim youth – have no direction. We can’t neglect our responsibility to the larger community. [Muslims] need to be the best example and we need to establish Islam in our environment. The Jews, the Italians, the Asians … they [establish communities], but we’re not doing it,” Lucky told the Muslim Link. [NOTE: This is a deliberate attempt to mix up the concepts of ethnicity and religion. Nowhere are there specifically Catholic neighborhoods, or Baptist neighborhoods.]
Realizing education is at the core of developing the Muslim community, Lucky said he recently returned from Egypt where he made contacts to set-up a “mentor-scholarship” program for Masjid Al-Haq youth who would be sponsored by the masjid to study under Islamic scholars in Egypt and then return to teach Islam and Arabic in the community.
With all the new Muslims entering the community, there is an urgent need for well grounded teachers who can fulfill the community’s religious education needs. The overwhelmingly African-American community sees one or two people per week entering Islam, the average age being 12-20 years old, said Lucky. A similar phenomenon is occurring in South East Washington DC where the very young – middle and high school age youth – are entering into Islam.
Masjid Al-Haq leaders have already opened discussions with city officials about buying area row houses, and a short list of addresses is ready. The homes would become a “waqf” or trust for the masjid, the rental income helping fund masjid operations.
Some Muslims say plans to build physical communities around masajid amounts to building a “Muslim ghetto.” Lucky laughed. “Islam does not create ghettos. Islam elevates people. With the proper tarbiyyah [Islamic upbringing], we can make a generation.”
The fundraising dinner is on October 3, 2015 at 4pm at Masjid Al-Haq. For event details and drawings of the renovation plans, see pages 20-21.

Who is funding the conversion of black ghettos into Muslim ghettos?

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