From the Cleveland Plain Dealer's David Briggs, quoted in entirety for fair use and discussion purposes -- the news and the preceding posts explain it all:
New Cleveland imam quits before he starts
Imam Ahmed Alzaree announced Monday, three days before he was to start work as the spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of Cleveland, that he was resigning.
Alzaree said allegations by bloggers that he was anti-Semitic and was associated with individuals suspected of having terrorist ties so poisoned the atmosphere in Northeast Ohio that he and his wife, Marwa, decided to look elsewhere.
"Cleveland now is a nightmare for her," Alzaree said. "It will never be a good start for me and the Jewish community.
The mosque has accepted Alzaree's resignation, Zahid Siddiqi, general secretary of the mosque's executive committee, said Monday afternoon.
"We certainly don't want to impose on him and his family," Siddiqi said.
Alzaree is the former spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of Omaha.
Links to previous posts are after the jump.
Update: Briggs posted a much longer piece just after 5PM, apparently for the Metro section.
Previous NewsBusters and Other Posts:
- Sept. 25 -- Cleveland Plain Dealer Misses New Imam's 2003 Anti-Semitic Rant, and Other Troubling Associations
- Sept. 29 -- Ahmed Alzaree Follow-up: Who WAS That Cleveland.com Blogger? (at the Plain Dealer's Wide Open blog)
- Oct. 2 -- COAT's Imam Ahmed Alzaree Follow-up (at BizzyBlog)
- Oct. 25 -- Imam Ahmed Alzaree and the Islamic Center of Cleveland Follow-up: Part 1
- Oct. 25 -- Imam Ahmed Alzaree and the Islamic Center of Cleveland Follow-up: Part 2
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com and the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Wide Open Blog.
—Tom Blumer is president of a training and development company in Mason, Ohio, and is a contributing editor to NewsBusters
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October 29, 2007 - 21:18 ET by Lame CherryIf the imam is leaving after a few inquiries into his background, there is probably a big problem no one knows of yet.
In studying his "advocacy", he is a mirror image of Keith Ellison and all the Muslim Brotherhood, the ultra fascist group whose main purpose is:
To overthrown all governments using political means FIRST.
And when that does not work to resort to terrorism and violence.
This imam quoting the Koran verses in murdering Jews and basically hunting down the last survivors is beyond what is the norm. To choose those verses is one reason this imam is runing. It would be probable he has some very deadly ties to people in the Middle East by his lying about his associations before and that is why he is being shown the door here........so as not to bring those ties to light and expose people he wants to protect.
*HIC IACET ARTORIVS REX QVONDAM REXQVE FVTVRVS
Do the math: 72 virgins for all of eternity;;71;70;69; ...ZERO
October 30, 2007 - 00:58 ET by upcountrywaterNon virgins is NOT ALLOWED soo for a quadrillion years or so NO SEX ,NO SEX ,NO SEX..
Think-again YOU wanna -be ,fire starting, C-4 ,ball bearing ,rat poison, laden,VESTED SLEPS
Entitlement over infrastructure every SINGLE time.
}}---> Interesting
October 30, 2007 - 01:08 ET by Cool ArrowThe preoccupation of Islamic men with sex in the afterlife must be very flattering to their earthly wives.
Likely the wife is wondering what evil these young virgins did in their lives to deserve such punishment.
Yes! Cool Arrow;. additional anti-woman crap.
October 30, 2007 - 22:21 ET by upcountrywaterI think most (not all) C-4 rat posion ball bearing vesters, are single young males, without wives.
Push the red button, woah 72 disposable use ONLY once wives.
Entitlement over infrastructure every SINGLE time.