[ May 1, 2024 ]
The largest mosque in Portland. Think of the implications. Monitor the mosques and stop jihad immigration. Catastrophe is not a matter of if but when. The Oregonian laments “The revocation of Kariye’s U.S. citizenship falls at the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.” Sick. National media ignored the story.
U.S. revokes citizenship of Portland mosque’s imam
By: GOP USA originally published by 2019 The Oregonian (Portland, Ore.), May 8, 2019:
The U.S. government has revoked the U.S. citizenship of the former imam of Portland’s largest mosque after he arrived in Somaliland last week.
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Mohamed Sheikh Abdirahman Kariye is on the government’s no-fly list, but the government arranged for him to travel back to his homeland after reaching a settlement with Kariye in January.
Under the deal, Kariye agreed not to challenge an order revoking his citizenship and acknowledged having provided false information to immigration officials in July 1997 when he had applied for U.S. naturalization.
The settlement appeared to be briefly in jeopardy Monday morning, when Kariye’s lawyers asked to rescind it after learning that Kariye had been detained during a stopover at the Dubai airport.
Kariye, 57, boarded a flight last Wednesday from Seattle for a 14-hour flight to Dubai and a planned flight four days later to Somaliland.
He arrived in Dubai as scheduled, according to court records, but soon sent his Oregon-based lawyers a text from the airport that read, “some thing is wrong.”
Kariye was detained and interrogated for seven hours in the Dubai airport by United Arab Emirates officials and questioned about the “Portland Seven,” the As-Saber Mosque in Southwest Portland and others who may have attended services there, according to his lawyers. He wasn’t allowed to contact his attorneys during the questioning and all his personal belongings were seized, according to his lawyers, Philip Smith and Nicole Nelson.
In October, federal government lawyers told a federal appeals court that Kariye was placed on the no-fly list based on his history as a “mujahedeen fighter in Afghanistan against the Russians,” as well as his expressed support for “violent jihad” in conversations recorded between a cooperating informant and two members of the Portland Seven. They were a group of American Muslims from the Portland area who were prosecuted and convicted of trying to join al-Qaida forces in their fight against the United States military and coalition forces in Afghanistan.
The U.S. sought to strip Kariye of his U.S. citizenship because he “provided false information and both willfully misrepresented and concealed material facts” when applying for naturalization to the United States.
During the process, the FBI informed U.S. Justice Department attorneys that Kariye had coordinated with Osama bin Laden and other known terrorist leaders and was associated with terrorist organizations including Makhtab Al-Khidamat, or MAK, a designated terrorist organization and pre-cursor to al-Qaida.
“The parties agreed denaturalization was appropriate, following which Kariye agreed to depart the United States,” said Kevin Sonoff, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the U.S. Department of Justice.
Kariye ultimately was able to fly to Hargeisa, Somaliland. He arrived last Friday.
His lawyers alleged the questioning in Dubai amounted to a “breach” by the government.
“It is inconceivable that UAE officials would have interrogated Defendant about the Portland Seven and activities at the As-Saber Mosque in Portland without having received information directly from” the government, Smith wrote to the court.
Kariye’s lawyers urged the court either to compel the government to explain why Kariye was detained Dubai or allow him to renounce his U.S. citizenship, instead of having it revoked, and withdraw his admission that he had lied previously to U.S. immigration officials when he obtained his naturalization certificate.
In a brief hearing before U.S. District Judge Robert E. Jones, attorney Christopher W. Hollis of the U.S. Department of Justice said by phone that he had no communication with the United Arab Emirates about Kariye.
Kariye’s lawyer said Hollis could have been kept in the dark, but the U.S. government still could have communicated with the United Arab Emirates about their client. Smith noted that the government had three months of advance notice of Kariye’s scheduled flight and itinerary.
“Plaintiff had a responsibility to not simply be silent but to inform the UAE that he is coming through and it is OK for him to fly,” Smith argued.
Jones denied Kariye’s motion. The judge ordered the settlement to stand and signed an order revoking Kariye’s U.S. citizenship.
The judge said it was “unfortunate” that Kariye was interrogated in Dubai, but that didn’t negate the settlement agreement. Jones said it appeared that the United Arab Emirates’ interrogation of Kariye was “done unilaterally” and that the “U.S. government played no role.”
When Kariye had first sought citizenship, he had lied on his application to federal immigration officials about not being arrested in the past, failing to acknowledge a 1993 arrest in Pakistan, according to court documents.
Under the settlement, Kariye is forever prevented from claiming any rights or benefits under any document that shows he had obtained U.S. citizenship on Aug. 14, 1998.
He’s also been ordered to complete a form abandoning any lawful resident status in the United States and must send his U.S. passport by DHL Express to the government lawyer, no later than five days after his arrival in Somaliland.
The revocation of Kariye’s U.S. citizenship falls at the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Calls to the Islamic Center of Portland were not returned on Monday.
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39 Comments
4 years ago
Exactly Pam, monitor all mosques, the Imams and the devotees. I’m sure they’ll uncover a hornet’s nest of Jihad activity right under our noses. Let’s not forget about the countless examples of rocket launchers, machine guns and other weapons of war discovered within mosques in Europe and other nations.
When it comes to Islam where there’s smoke there’s fire. If they catch one terrorist, they probably have a massive network hiding in his mosque. I think most of these Muslim traitors are very motivated to overthrow western civilization.
They should deport these scumbags as soon as they’re found out along with their entire family of 4 wives and litter of 40 piglets/future terrorists. Eventually there will be only a tiny handful of Muslims left, if any.
4 years ago
Reply to
Rick James
“Exactly Pam, monitor all mosques, the Imams and the devotees.” This can’t
be achieved without a huge cost- and resource-guzzling apparatus that lead
to a police state and thus to our own captivity. Your’re absolutely right: These
monsters and devils all have to disappear back to their ancestral homelands.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
I agree w/you 100%, who the hell is going to review hundreds of thousands of hours of video or audio from thousands of f’ing mosques, much less the imams, mullahs? This will devolve into nothing but an expensive, useless game of whack-a-mole and a Sisyphean task.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Do you have a better solution? If you call for deporting all Muslims, good luck trying to push that through Congress, it won’t go anywhere.
What you need is a powerful reason/evidence, which I cover in my post above.
4 years ago
Reply to
Rick James
Monitoring mosques without cause already violates the spirit of the 1st amendment and who’s going to be monitoring these mosques as your law enforcement, judiciary and legislature are increasingly subverted/infiltrated/co-opted by “moderate” muslums?
Violent jihad is only one malevolent aspect of islum and maybe even not the most dangerous.
Was Lebanon taken over by f’ing muslums by force? Or subterfuge? Maybe both?
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
We’ve already done that to an extent. The police don’t need to do the monitoring, we have the FBI and other intelligence services we pay billions that can handle it.
You don’t ofc need to follow every one of the 5 million plus Muslims in the US, just watch the mosques, imams and suspicious Muslims. The UK knows of 20,000 jihadists and they’re actively tracking over 2,000 of them.
The other solution is simply to deport them all but it’ll be hard to do without evidence and you’ll get a backlash from the Left. If however you can designate whole mosques as hotbeds of terrorism, then it’ll be easy to close them and deport all the members.
4 years ago
Reply to
Rick James
4 years ago
Reply to
Rick James
We can monitor the churches, synagogues- bec they have nothing to hide. And we will monitor the mosques-even if the Dems say we cannot. It is time the people enforce the law of the country, and stop the gov’t from the duplicate gamesmanship. “enough is enough”.
John Whitehead says it well- it is time to defend America!
4 years ago
Reply to
Rick James
Agree. Left/Liberals,Muslims are pathological liars. share this if anyone believes their Lies http://bit.ly/2rF8pfo
They protect jihadis/illegals, play victim and get away with supporting criminals.
4 years ago
Reply to
Rick James
Great suggestion, but I won’t believe it till I see it. Reinstate McCarran Act of 1952 and stop negotiating with muzzies-
4 years ago
Reply to
Dave
I did not know it was removed. IF it was removed, WHO removed it? IF the UNVETTED ILLEGALLY APPOINTED DemocRATic Nationalist Committee member 0bama had it removed – – – it is STILL a law!!!
4 years ago
Reply to
Dave
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4 years ago
GOOD!!! Revoke MORE MUSLIMS CITIZENSHIPS
Also GREAT NEWS!
Asia Bibi reunited with her family, God answered our prayer
She has been safely united with her family in Canada!!!!!!!
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a statement saying, “The United States welcomes the news that Asia Bibi has safely reunited with her family. This important step follows the decision of Pakistan’s Supreme Court to acquit her of blasphemy charges in October 2018 – a decision that was subsequently upheld in January 2019. Asia Bibi is now free, and we wish her and her family all the best following their reunification.”
Asia Bibi Finally Released from Pakistan, Reunited With Family in Canada
By Will Maule
5/8/19
Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who spent almost a decade on death row after being falsely accused of blasphemy, has safely arrived in Canada to be reunited with her family…..
https://www.faithwire.com/2019/05/08/asia-bibi-finally-released-from-pakistan-reunited-with-family-in-canada/
I suspect Trump and Netanyahu are doing allot of talking and working together on this…
Trump imposes fresh sanctions on Iran amid new standoff
BY BRETT SAMUELS – 05/08/19 02:45 PM EDT
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/442742-trump-administration-imposes-fresh-sanctions-on-irans-metals
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Amazing. G-d bless her and her family but her struggles have only begun. There are probably plenty of f’ing muslums in Canuckastan that would gladly kill or her or alternatively, see her killed.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Is it not shameful that the UK-government refused ASIA BIBI`S application for asylum but grants visas to islamic hate-preachers from around the world?
4 years ago
Reply to
romain reuter
As much as I love Tommy, his country sold out its people- take most of the Lords out and shoot em; they sold their daughters!
4 years ago
One out, one million to go.
4 years ago
Well… Bye
4 years ago
I can only hope that this result will become the rule and not the exception. I have long favored prosecuting those of this belief system that promote hate and violence, as they do not belong in this country. Their conduct is very un-American, and I sincerely believe that those who preach Jihad conduct should be removed from this country effectively pushing back against their continuing to spread this anti-American philosophy.
4 years ago
Good riddance to a bag of flem.
4 years ago
not problematic at all for him, he can rent a kid from the coyotes for $150 and claim refuge status as Sheikh Mohamhead Gonzales, right leftards?
4 years ago
1 down, god knows how many more thousands, if not millions that NEED their citizenship revoked too.. The word ‘settlement’ bothers me a lot.. Did the US DOJ offer this POS money to quit USA? I’d like to know.
4 years ago
Good riddance. Tears over a terror sympathizing Jihadi? Are you freaking kidding me? They must be lacing the granola over there with kwat!
4 years ago
Draining the swamp, one person at a time…but not fast enough, if you ask me. Islamo-fascists are a small, yet an integral part of the swamp…and the swamp runs deep indeed.
4 years ago
All foreign Muslim clerics of Sunni and Shia sects of Islam need to-be deported, as they are definitely military threats inside the USA! Email Trump: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
4 years ago
No Mouslem should be on your soil. They swear your destruction. You and the Jews. Do not encourage them to come here and you won half the battle.
Encourage the ones here to leave. Win the other half of the battle.
4 years ago
“Kariye, 57, boarded a flight last Wednesday from Seattle for a 14-hour flight to Dubai and a planned flight four days later to Somaliland.”—-Can we send Rep Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) to Somaliland, too ???
4 years ago
Reply to
ed
NOT if you ask your DemonRat politician. But, our President will if enough Americans text/email/FB him and ask him to 😉
QURAN = ALL NEGATIVE LIBERTIES (direct opposite of our Constitution)
U.S. CONSTITUTION = ALL POSITIVE LIBERTIES
4 years ago
The logic of closing all mosques is irrefutable;
Premise: All Imans accept the Koran as the Word of Allah and infallible in all respects.
Therefore: All Imans must accept jihad as the command of Allah
Conclusion: Imans must accept, promote, preach, and promote jihad
What can be simpler? Even a LIbTard can understand this conclusion. Nothing else needs to be said.
4 years ago
Reply to
John Acord
But……..but…………..but………….SAID THE DEMOCRAT……………
I AGREE 200%. CLOSE ALL MOSQUES IN AMERICA!
4 years ago
Reply to
SoftwareBabeOHIO
It won’t happen because there are too many “churchians” in America. They are the future “protected class” also known as dhimmis. Or future Muslims.
4 years ago
One muslim leader?!? There are over a million jihadis in the U.S, plotting against us, and they revoke the citizenship of one because it’s politically feasible! Folks, if we don’t take back our country now, when we have a slim chance of success, then we will be forced to fight for our lives when there is no chance of survival.
4 years ago
I think they need to start the proceedings to revoke Omar’s citizenship & kick her out she is trying to destroy the US with her hateful agenda which involves replacing our constitution with Sharia Law
4 years ago
Bye bye, inbred Islamonazi savage.
Next up, the execrable feral Koranimal, immigration felon and genitally mutilated POS, Ilhan Omar.
4 years ago
Yeah, I feel safer already…
4 years ago
All mosques should be monitored very closely for what is being said inside, what the imams are teaching, where they are sending their money etc etc
Where there is a problem deport the imam and if necessary close the mosque !
