Backgrounder: Revolution Muslim
New Jersey Terror Suspects
Posted: June 30, 2010
Two New Jersey men arrested on June 5, 2010, for planning to kill American soldiers overseas and fight with the Somali-based terrorist group Al Shabaab, participated in a number of Revolution Muslim (RM) events, as well as events organized by the Islamic Thinkers Society (ITS), which often cooperates with RM. The following is a sampling of RM and ITS events that Mohamed Mahmood Alessa and Carlos Eduardo Almonte.
- June 1, 2010 - Islamic Thinkers Society – Both Alessa and Almonte participated in an ITS protest in front of the Israeli consulate in New York.The protest was part of a larger rally to protest the Israeli Navy's raid of a flotilla of ships heading towards Gaza. At the protest, which took place less than
 a week before the two were apprehended in JFK airport, Almonte held an ITS poster with the slogan, "Exterminate the Zionist Roaches." Both men were documented in an ITS video standing next to the group's spokesman as he read ITS's statement condemning Israel.
- May 23, 2010 - Islamic Thinkers Society and Revolution Muslim – Alessa attended ITS's protest of the annual Salute to Israel Parade in New York. An ITS video of the protest shows Alessa leading various chants, including the anti-Jewish slogan, "Khaibar, Khaibar ya Yahud, jaish Muhammad sawfa ya'ud," evoking the Quran's account of a battle between the Prophet Muhammad and the Jews of the town of Khaibar, which resulted in the subjugation of the Jews of Arabia. An RM video of the event shows Alessa standing next to RM leader Younes Abdullah Muhammad as he condemns Israel.
- May 1, 2010 - Revolution Muslim – Alessa manned an RM information table in Times Square, helping with the sound system and organizing the display.
- March 20, 2010 - Islamic Thinkers Society and Revolution Muslim – Alessa was in attendance at ITS and RM protests in Washington, DC, coinciding with a mass antiwar rally." An ITS video of the protest that was posted on ITS's Web site, starts and ends with prolonged shots of Alessa marching in front of the White House with a flag bearing the Islamic declaration of faith. In a separate RM video, Alessa and Abdullah Muhammad stand next to Zachary Chesser as he read RM's statement. Chesser, an RM member form Virginia who threatened the creators of South Park in April 2010, was arrested and charged in July 2010 for attempting to travel to Somalia to fight with the terrorist group Al Shabaab.
- June 1, 2008 - Islamic Thinkers Society and Revolution Muslim – Almonte was in attendance at a joint ITS/RM protest of the annual Salute to Israel Parade in New York. One ITS member held a hand-painted sign that that read "death to all juice" (Almonte carried a similar signs at a ITS/RM rally in December 2008).
|
