Masjid Al-Haqq
Detroit, MI
Ummah "The Brotherhood"
Luqman Ameen Abdullah, the now deceased Imam of Masjid Al-Haqq, was killed during an FBI raid in October of 2009. The complaint released after the raid charged Abdullah and his 10 of his followers of selling stolen goods, providing firearms to a convicted felon, possession of body armor by a person convicted of a violent felon and altering motor vehicle identification numbers.[1] An additional defendant, Acie Pusha was added in the indictment.[2]
The FBI agent on the case wrote that Abdullah was a "highly placed leader of a nationwide radical fundamentalist Sunni group" whose primary mission is to establish a separate, sovereign Islamic state within the borders of the United States, governed by Shariah law, under Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (a.k.a. H. Rapp Brown).[3]
According to the complaint, Abdullah encouraged members of the mosque, many of whom are convicted felons, to carry a firearm, and preached that "every Muslim should have a weapon, and should not be scared to use their weapon when needed." The complaint states that members and former members of the mosque have stated they are "willing to do anything Abdullah instructs and/or preaches, even including criminal conduct and acts of violence." A government informant said he saw and participated in "extensive and regular" firearms and martial arts training inside the Masjid Al-Haqq. According to the informant when the Masjid Al-Haqq was located at 4118 Joy Road, certain members carried firearms and trained in the martial arts of kickboxing, boxing, sword fighting and other types of self-defense within the mosque itself. When the mosque moved from this location for failure to pay property taxes the Detroit Police Department confiscated two firearms and approximately forty knives and martial arts weapons from Luqman Abdullah's apartment inside the mosque.[4] In June of 2008 Abdullah said that the mosque would be a good place to sell stolen merchandise.[5]
Abdullah used the mosque to preach a radical message. An informant said that on many occasions he heard Abdullah say that Islam should be spread through violent jihad and speak in favor of using violence against the government and law enforcement. As recently as October 2008 the following statement by Abdullah was recorded at Masjid Al-Haqq:
"Obama is a Kafir. McCain, all the rest of them Kuffars, are Kuffars. You can't make them a good Kafir, bad Kafir…" He added, "we should be trying to figure out how to fight the Kuffar. You see, we need to figure out how to be a bullet."
In August of 2008 Abdullah said the following inside the mosque:
"We can't just be saying, "O.K., everything is run by the U.S. government," we got to take out the U.S. government. The U.S. government is nothing but Kuffars… Even if we was to say, "Let's get us," if we came up with a program like, "Let's get us a candidate and, you know, vote for him, vote him in and stuff like that, he's a Muslim and stuff."… I mean he's still got to deal with the Kuffars [UI]. So Allah's not going to be with that."
[…]
"It's impossible for you to take and change this thing around, trying to go through it the same way. You know, like, "OK, let me become a part of it then. I'm going to change it." You cannot do that. It don't work like that. And you cannot have a non-violent revolution." [6]
[1] USA v. Luqman Ameen Abdullah, et al., 2:09-MJ-30436, "Criminal Complaint," (S.D. Mich. October 27, 2009).
[2] USA v. Mohammad Abdul Bassir, et al., 2:09-CR-20549, "Indictment," (S.D. Mich. November 10, 2009).
[3] USA v. Luqman Ameen Abdullah, et al., 2:09-MJ-30436, "Criminal Complaint," (D. Mich. October 27, 2009).
[4] USA v. Luqman Ameen Abdullah, et al., 2:09-MJ-30436, "Criminal Complaint," (D. Mich. October 27, 2009).
[5] USA v. Luqman Ameen Abdullah, et al., 2:09-MJ-30436, "Criminal Complaint," (D. Mich. October 27, 2009).
[6] USA v. Luqman Ameen Abdullah, et al., 2:09-MJ-30436, "Criminal Complaint," (D. Mich. October 27, 2009).
See: US v. Luqman Ameen Abdullah, et al.
