Salah Soltan was the person who initially got me interested in keeping an eye on what different Islamic groups were doing in the Boston area. Dr. Soltan was the featured speaker at an Al Huda Society (of Revere) fund-raising dinner back in October 2005. (The dinner was held at the Irish American Club of Medford, MA of all the unlikely places. Faith and begorah!!) Dr. Soltan was also an invited lecturer at the Islamic Society of Boston prior to the Al Huda event.
I did some online research on Dr. Soltan, who lived in Columbus OH at the time, and what I found was disturbing: He supported suicide bombing, wanted to see Israel destroyed, counseled an American women to accept that her husband took a second wife, counseled another American women that she can't leave the house without her husband's permission. Yowzaa. Solomonia did additional research and published his findings here. I was dumbfounded that the Islamic Society of Boston and Al Huda would invite a man who held these beliefs. I thought back then, "If this is moderate Islam," we're in for trouble." And so we are.
Patrick Poole of Central Ohioans Against Terror has done a terrific job of tracking Dr. Soltan, and you can read about Soltan's latest diatribes against the US at Pajamas Media here. A few of Soltan's latest quotable quotes, made last week on Egytian TV:
"America, which gave [Israel] everything it needed in these battles, will suffer economic stagnation, ruin, destruction, and crime, which will surpass what is happening in Gaza. One of these days, the U.S. will suffer more deaths than all those killed in this third Gaza holocaust. This will happen soon."
Delightful! And invoking the classic saying about Jews hiding behind rocks and trees, he says:
"The stone, which is thrown at the Jews, hates these Jews, these Zionists, because Allah foretold, via His Prophet Muhammad, that Judgment Day will not come before the Jew and the Muslim fight. The Jew will hide behind stones and trees, and the stone and the tree will speak, saying: 'Oh Muslim, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.' The only exception will be the Gharqad tree."
As Poole points out:
"This harangue would be nothing new on television in the Islamic world; in fact, it is commonplace. What is unique about Sultan’s threats against America is that he holds U.S. permanent residency status and, according to one federal law enforcement official, travels regularly on a U.S. passport. And as I have reported elsewhere, Sultan is pursuing U.S. citizenship (the status of his application is unknown due to federal privacy laws). Thus, Salah Sultan has lived quite comfortably for more than a decade under the protections of the very country he now threatens with death and destruction."
Please write your congressman and point out that we have no business letting people like Salah Soltan live in our country and become residents or citizens. If you hate it so much, please stay away. Lots more links at Poole's piece, please read the whole thing.
A previous blogposts on Soltan's connection to Yusuf Qaradawi and ISB trustee Jamal Badawi here.
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