“Moderate” Muslim lawyer Hassan Shibly admits to being Sharia Adherent…. but do his actions also suggest he is a JIHADIST!

By Randy McDaniels                                                                                                                    

During an interesting turn of events this past week, I found myself at a luncheon sitting across the table with none other than Hassan Shibly, the Executive Director of the Tampa Chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Alan Kornman of the United West.

This was quite extraordinary since I had just briefed the Education Coalition at the River Church on Shibly and other Muslim Brotherhood operatives in the Tampa Bay area, as well as showing the documentary     “Losing our Sons”exposing homegrown radicalization prior to Tuesdays School Board meeting

I delayed my trip home to attend the debate “Is Islam the Enemy” at the luncheon, between Tom Trento of the United West and Chris Ingram, hosted by the Tiger Bay Club at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts.  Ingram wrote an apologetic article titled “The Enemy isn’t Islam”, labeling protesters as “Knuckle Draggers”.  Trento took exception to this article after discovering Ingram was a Republican campaign consultant and issued the challenge to debate.

Ingram’s “Knuckle Draggers” happened to included military veterans (Hero’s in my book), patriots from the 912 and TEA Party movement, Tampa Community Issues Council, The United West and concerned citizens who were protesting the Islamic Society of North America’s (ISNA) Pro-Sharia Law Conference, as well as the Education Coalition for protesting HAMAS Operative Hassan Shibly and CAIRspeaking to public schools students over the past (3) years. 

In his article and debate Ingram minimizes CAIR and ISNA’s designation as co-conspirators in largest terror finance trial in US History (US vs. HLF Trial of 2008).  I had planned on rebutting some of the WHOPPERS, however an article this morning in the P.J. Tatler titled “Rep. Keith Ellison Rewrites History on his Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR Ties” expertly lays out facts refuting Ingram’s claims.  Kudos to my friend and author Patrick Poole, this is a MUST READ for anyone with questions about CAIR or the Brotherhoods objectives in America.

As I assisted videographer J. Mark Campbell, his United West associate Alan Kornman had engage in discussion with Shibly and others at an adjacent table to include a prominent Tampa Attorney John B. Neukamm.

The discussion turned to the topic of Sharia Law and Shibly made some outlandish statements regarding Sharia, Islam, and non-Muslims.  In a soft spoken and jovial manner he fed prominent members of the community a diet of partial truths (Kitman) and counter factual statements (Taqiyya) which these otherwise intelligent men seemed accept without any critical though. 

In a benevolent tone Shibly paraphrased verse 5:32 from the Quran ”If any one slew a person,  it would be as if he slew all humanity: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved all humanity”.  Alan Kornman adeptly asked Shibly to cite the following verse 5:33 to put the scripture in proper context.  Verse 5:33 “The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter;  and further clarity is gained by reading Verse 5:34 “Except for those who repent (convert to Islam) before they fall into your power (defeated by Islamic force): in that case, know that Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful”. 

Hassan Shibly provides us with a prime example of deception via partial truth, the Islamic doctrine of Kitman, foisted on community leaders no less, and why he, CAIR, or any Muslim Brotherhood member should never have access to our children.

Shibly told listeners that “Sharia and Islam were inseparable; that there can be no Sharia without Islam, and no Islam without Sharia…the two cannot exist separately.” And then counterfactually said “Sharia forbids imposing Islam on Jews, Christians, or non-Muslims”.  Both statements are profound; they reveal the true nature of Hassan Shibly, exposing a deceptive nature and a belief system which align with those of a practicing Jihadist.

Questioning Shibly, I asked if he was Sharia Adherent?  His reply without hesitation was definitively yes.  He subsequently restated for me that Sharia forbids forcing Islam on others and was inseparable from Islam.   I asked Shibly to reconcile his first statement with Authoritative Islamic law which only defines Jihad as warfare against non-Muslims to establish the religion; thereby imposing Islam on non-Muslims.  Reflexively he replied with the old faithfull and standard “you’re taking it out of context” and “you’re misinterpreting”.

Producing an official English/Arabic translation of the Sharia Law Manual bearing seals of approval from the most respected Islamic legal institutions in the world today, to include the Fiqh Council of North America… Shibly was asked to explain how Jihad was being taken out of context? And would he denounce Jihad?  He would not address the issue at hand and declined to denounce Jihad.

Book of Justice o9.0 JIHAD:  Jihad means to war against non-Muslims, and is etymologically derived from the word mujahada signifying warfare to establish the religion,  

Hadiths as the one related by Bukhari, that the Prophet Muhammad (Allah bless him and give him peace) said: 

``I have been commanded to fight people until they testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and perform the prayer, and pay zakat.   If they say it, they have saved their blood and possessions from me, except for the rights of Islam over them. And their final reckoning is with Allah''

Under Islamic law there is permissible lying and obligatory lying, when the act is obligatory as is the case regarding Jihad and the Hijrah (migration to conquer foreign lands).  However, lying about Islamic law specifically is a very serious matter and only allowed under extreme duress or threat of death.  Obviously our exchange did not rise to the level required and therefore would have been an act of apostasy, which is why his reaction and failure to denounce Jihad was anticipated.

In order to determine if Hassan Shibly or anyone for that matter might fit the profile of a Jihadist, it is necessary to be able to not only define Jihad, but the types of Jihad and how it is waged (I will not address the greater Jihad or personal struggle because it has zero authority under Islamic law…only the lesser Jihad or violent Jihad carries such weight).  Islamic warfare can be waged in many ways; politically, legally, militarily, economically, socially, and culturally to name a few…  the techniques used to wage war typically falls into the following: 

Violent Jihad – Acts of what we would call terrorism.  It is import to understand Islamic doctrine defines terrorism as the unjust killing of a Muslim only.  This is why so many Jihadists willingly denounce terrorism, or the killing of innocent human beings, these terms do not apply to the infidel since all are guilty, sub-human and deserving of death in accordance with Islamic Scripture and/or Sharia Law.

Jihad with the mouth– speaking in glowing terms about Sharia, Islam, and Muslims.  Painting them in a positive light and using deceptive means to include lying/holy deception (taqiyya) or partial truths (Kitman) as needed, as well as to silence critics or counter any criticism.

Jihad with the Pen– writing articles which accomplish similar goals above.

Jihad in the Heart – To hate Infidels and despise living under non-Islamic governments until such time you can replace them with Sharia compliant governments.  While in enemy lands (lands not under Sharia law…America for instance)the following applies:

Ibn Kathir on 3:28—Allah said next, (unless you indeed fear a danger from them) meaning, except those believers who in some areas or times fear for their safety from the disbelievers. In this case, such believers are allowed to show friendship to the disbelievers outwardly, but never inwardly. For instance, Al-Bukhari recorded that Abu Ad-Darda' said, "We smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse them.'' Al-Bukhari said that Al-Hasan said, "The Tuqyah is allowed until the Day of Resurrection.''

Jihad with Money as Yousef Qaradawi calls it AKA Sharia Compliant Finance – making up $2.4 Trillion dollars a year although it was only introduce about a decade ago.  Portions of this money go to Zakat a type of charity for Muslims only.  The 7th category of Zakat actually finances what we would call terrorism against ourselves.  Banks offering these products have Sharia boards which ensure the money goes where it is supposed to go.

The organization of which Hassan Shibly is a leader, CAIR not only advertises they are Zakat eligible, but their giving has been classified as 100% fi-sabilillah, or for those fighting in the cause of Allah in other words these “Religious” Scholars understand CAIR is in fact waging Jihad.

Now that we understand what authoritative Islamic Law supported by Scripture Sais Jihad is; and we understand some of the methods for waging Jihad…. Let’s take brief snapshot of Hassan Shibly and see if he would fit any of the criteria?

Hassan Shibly Exec Dir. CAIR Tampa

CAIR

• Federally designated Muslim Brotherhood entity
• Federally designated as Palestine Committee in America (HAMAS)
• Congresswoman Sue Myrick of Counter Terrorism Caucus labeled them the Propaganda Arm of Hamas.
• All Muslim Charity collected goes to Jihad according to their web page.
• Sued for fraud by (approx 200) clients (Sayyid vs. CAIR) and (Lopez vs. CAIR), after failing to perform services using a non-licensed lawyer, then attempting to bribe clients to suppress information going public.
• Several CAIR members convicted of terrorism and/or supporting of terrorism.
• CAIR has acted as the defender of virtually every terrorist acting on US soil to date
• CAIR co-founders Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmad were member of IAP a terrorist organization.
• CAIR leaders have openly called for replacing the Constitution with Sharia law.
• CAIR National Board Member Ishan Bagby openly stated Muslims could NOT be loyal American citizens.

HASSAN Specific (Short Version)

• Shibly Sr. & Family are friends with Bashar Assad president of Syria who tortured and killed thousands.
• Shibly Sr. studied under the Grand Mufti of Syria Kuftaro an extremist who supported Assad’s genocide in Syria who among other things stated “All Muslims are obligated to do JIHAD on Zionist”.
• Hassan Shibly was THROWN OUT of University of Buffalo student body leadership by fellow students for extremist views and statements to include statements against America.
• Hassan Shibly was rebuked in the University of Buffalo paper for trying to play the race card after being removed from student body leadership.
• Shibly openly supported both Hezbollah and Hamas and said they were not terrorist but legitimate orgs.
• Shibly personally attacked Sam Kharoba a Counter Terrorism expert who factual trains FDLE on the cultural and Sharia aspects of Jihadist working in Florida.
• On Facebook noted, Shiby equates Israelis with Nazis, juxtaposing images from the Holocaust with images of Israeli soldier interacting with Palestinians.
• Frequenty speaks for various civic groups to promote Sharia and deceive as shown above.
• Shibly’s Blog page is often used to promote Sharia and condemn the FBI and other law enforcement
• Hassan Shibly frequently speaks about racism, bigotry, Islamophobia and violence against Muslim despite the FACT the DOJ/FBI Hate crimes statistics dont support the claim... stats put violence by religion against Muslims at about 5-7% (9% on 911), equivalent to Christians, the most disparaging is against Jews at 66-71% every year since 911.
• Failed to denounce JIHAD Islamic Law calling for Muslims to wage war against non-Muslims to establish Islam.
• Sister Thawab Shibly, founded Students for Justice in Palestine a TOP 10 Anti-Semitic group in America according the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
• Hassan Shibly and family were detained by ICE after attending a conference in Toronto where Muslim with terrorist ties were going to be in attendance.  The conference was to promote among other things Sharia.
• Hassan Shibly Proclaims to be Sharia Adherent; Sharia Law is diametrically opposed to the Constitution.
• Shibly Claims Islam and Sharia cannot be separated, which means he believes in the POLITICAL aspects of Islam… and not as a pure religion like Dr. Zudi Jasser of American Islamic Forum for Democracy which opposes Sharia law and embraces only the religious components of Islam (1^st Meccan period)

While the accolades and accomplishments of CAIR and Hassan Shibly are much more extensive…there is enough to consider in this article…..I leave the conclusions up to you!

Hassan Shibly.... Human Rights Activist?   OR   Cultural Jihadist?