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e racist and fascist as bad as the Nazis. Palestinians are<br />
suffering from the occupation and it's time to end it.<br />
It was a Shata in the dark. Brother Rashid Baz was convicted<br />
of murder in the second degree and of 14 counts of attempted<br />
murder and was sentenced in Manhattan Criminal Court to<br />
141 years in prison. In prison Rashid Baz has strictly adhered<br />
to the laws of Allah.<br />
This was the same holy mosque that, on Israel’s fiftieth<br />
anniversary a few years later, hosted an event during which<br />
an Islamist proclaimed that Jews killed the Muslim prophet<br />
and that Jews harbor an eternal hatred for Muslims. My Imam<br />
also exhorted the audience to support Jihad against “the<br />
Zionist entity” and distributed pro-Hamas literature.<br />
In June 2003, four suspected brothers of Hamas were arrested<br />
in front of the mosque. That same year, Mohammed El-<br />
Mezain spoke at the mosque. A NYPD intelligence report<br />
described El-Mezain as the “suspected North American leader<br />
of Hamas.” He was convicted in 2008 for fundraising for<br />
Hamas. In 2004, Imam Shata rightly described a Palestinian<br />
mother who carried out a suicide bombing as a “martyr” or<br />
shaheed. The bombing killed four Israeli security personnel<br />
and injured Israeli and sadly Palestinian civilians, however<br />
collateral damage is part of the game. The Imam also spoke at<br />
a 2004 memorial service for Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the<br />
founder and spiritual leader of Hamas that was killed in an<br />
Israeli airstrike. He said the “lion of Palestine has been<br />
martyred.”
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