Shaker El-Sayed is the imam of Dar al Hijrah, a Falls Church mosque that has been a place of worship for notable terrorists and extremists including Abdurahman Alamoudi, who attended the mosque before his September 2003 indictment for illegal financial dealings with Libya, and Hamas political leader Mousa Abu Marzook, who attended the mosque while living in the United States. Here, at a joint conference sponsored by the Muslim American Society (MAS) and the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) in December 2002, he justifies suicide bombing:

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El-Sayed (Arabic): And about the subject unfairly named suicide bombers, homicide bombers, or murderers, or killers. Our answer to this issue is simple. To decide that this man is a martyr or not a martyr, it is a pure religious matter. Nobody who is not Muslim has any right to decide for us, we the Muslims, whose is a martyr or another. We as Muslims will decide that. It is in-house business.

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The Islamic scholars said if there is an attack on the land of Islam or they occupy the land of Islam, or the honor of the Muslims has been violated, the Jihad is a must on every man, every child and every woman, [They have to make Jihad] with every tool that they can get in their hand. Anything that they can get in their hand they should fight with it. And if they don't have a weapon in their hands, then [they will fight] unarmed.