ISCA - The Islamic Supreme Council of America

Domestic Extremism
News stories that look at the terrorist threat inside the United States.

A Rare Look at Secretive Brotherhood in America: Muslims divided on Brotherhood

9/19/2004

Chicago Tribune - Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Sam Roe and Laurie Cohen
A group aiming to create Islamic states worldwide has established roots here, in large part under the guidance of Egypt-born Ahmed Elkadi.

In Search Of Friends Among The Foes

9/11/2004

Washington Post - John Mintz and Douglas Farah
Some federal agents worry that the Muslim Brotherhood has dangerous links to terrorism. But some U.S. diplomats and intelligence officials believe its influence offers an opportunity for political engagement that could help isolate violent jihadists.

U.S. Eyes Money Trails of Saudi-Backed Charities

8/22/2004

Washington Post - David B. Ottaway
The collision of Saudi missionary work and suspicions of terrorist financing in San Diego illustrates the perils and provocations of a multibillion-dollar effort by Saudi Arabia to spread its religion around the world.

A Muslim Missionary Group Draws New Scrutiny in U.S.

7/14/2003

New York Times - Susan Sachs
Founded in rural India 75 years ago, Tablighi Jamaat is one of the most widespread and conservative Islamic movements in the world. It describes itself as a nonpolitical, and nonviolent, group interested in nothing more than proselytizing and bringing wayward Muslims back to Islam. But since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Tablighi Jamaat, once little known outside Muslim countries, has increasingly attracted the interest of federal investigators, cropping up on the margins of at least four high-profile terrorism cases.

Islam and the Unveiled Photograph

6/14/2003

New York Times - Edward Rothstein
A Florida judge ruled last week that a Muslim woman could not pose for a driver's license photograph in a veil, with only her eyes peering out. The state, the judge wrote, had a "compelling interest" in identifying its drivers; she rejected the arguments, supported by Muslim organizations, that the decision threatened "religious liberty." But what still puzzled Khaled Abou El Fadl, a professor of Islamic law at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law who had been a witness for the government, was why it had been so difficult to get any other Muslims to admit that the government had a plausible case.

American Muslim Groups Divided over Taking Money from Foreign Donors

5/3/2003

Nepa News
All he had to do was say yes. It was the 1980s, and Maher Hatout needed money for the Muslim community in Los Angeles. Saudi Arabia, Libya and other foreign governments were offering millions of dollars to help build mosques and Islamic schools in America.

Five Brothers Charged with Aiding Hamas

12/19/2002

New York Times - Judith Miller and Eric Lichtblau
Federal officials intensified their pursuit of terrorist financing today with the arrests of four brothers in Dallas who investigators said used their computer business to funnel money to a leader of the Islamic militant group Hamas.

Terrorism Agents Arrest 4 in Dallas: Brothers allegedly tied to terrorist group Hamas

12/18/2002

NBC News - Jim Popkin
Dec. 18 — A federal terrorism task force on Wednesday arrested four brothers in the Dallas area. Federal officials told NBC News that the men were arrested as part of a 33-count federal indictment alleging money laundering and illegal trade practices.

Feds Indict 7 in Texas Terror Probe

12/18/2002

Associated Press - Angela K. Brown
DALLAS - The leader of an Islamic militant group, his wife, and five brothers who work at a Texas computer firm were indicted on charges of trafficking with terrorist states Libya and Syria, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced Wednesday.

U.S. Probes Terror Ties to Boston Software Firm

12/06/2002

The Wall Street Journal - Jerry Guidera and Glenn R. Simpson
QUINCY, Mass. -- A software company raided here by antiterrorism investigators was targeted because several employees already are under scrutiny for alleged terrorist ties and because it does computer work for the military, the Federal Aviation Administration and Congress and may have access to classified information.

Boston-Area Firm Raided for Suspected 'Terror' Link

12/06/2002

Reuters - Tim McLaughlin
BOSTON (Reuters) - Federal agents early on Friday seized documents in a raid on a small software firm near Boston that does business with the U.S. government and is suspected of funding "terrorism"

Terror Investigators Raid Mass. Company

12/06/2002

Associated Press - Jay Lindsay
QUINCY, Mass. (AP) - A software company whose clients include the FBI was raided early Friday by Customs agents as part of a terrorist investigation.

Hotlink to Terror? Feds raid Boston Area computer firm suspected of links to al Qaeda

12/06/2002

ABCNews.com - Brian Ross
Federal agents have raided a Boston-area computer software firm looking for evidence that the company, which does business with key government agencies including the FBI, might have links to Osama bin Laden's terror network.

Terror Investigators Followed Funds to a Saudi Businessman: Mr. Qadi's deals are under U.S. scrutiny

11/26/2002

The Wall Street Journal - Glenn R. Simpson
Yassin Qadi is a tall, bearded businessman whose financial interests in the 1990s spanned the globe from Jeddah to Malaysia to the suburbs of Washington. In Saudi Arabia, he is known as pious, wealthy andmild-mannered. In the U.S., he is seen by government investigators as...

U.S. Fears Al-Qaida Recruiting Prisoners: Prisons are regarded as ideal place to develop terrorists, officials say

11/25/2002

The Baltimore Sun - Laura Sullivan
Federal law enforcement officials are concerned that al-Qaida is targeting what authorities fear is an increasingly fertile breeding ground for Islamic extremism: U.S. prisons.