The scenario is anything but unique: a local Imam from a local mosque, portrayed as a "moderate Muslim" who publicly denounced terrorism actually facilitated it through his vitriolic, hate-filled speeches and sermons to selected audiences. And as investigation and research shows, he did more than preach hatred and advocate the annihilation of the Jews, Christians and all non-Muslims. While local religious and community leaders were entranced by his charisma and his condemnation of Islamic terrorism, Imam Fawaz DAMRA was engaged in the Islamic tactic of "al-Taqiyya," a Qu'ranic tenant that permits lying and deceiving non-believers to advance the stated goal of radical Muslims - complete world and religious domination through whatever means necessary. This tactic was clearly identified by Cleveland's Plain Dealer reporter Amanda Garrett on February 23, 2003:
"Blood money for deadly bombings of buses and malls in Israel may have been paid for, in part, from a secret fund established in Cleveland, according to a federal indictment unsealed this week.....Damra - who for years portrayed himself as a moderate who tried to bring local Muslims and Jews together - declined to comment Friday. He nearly lost his job shortly after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, when a grainy video emerged showing him with Al-Arian in Cleveland on April 7, 1991."
In another fantastic bit of investigative reporting, Cleveland's Plain Dealer reporter Amanda Garrett provided her readers with more damning evidence about DAMRA in her report dated September 16, 2004:
On Feb. 5, 1993, an FBI agent investigating international terrorism visited Imam Fawaz Damra at his Cleveland mosque, hoping to learn more about a group of Muslim radicals in New York City.Do you know El Sayyid Nosair, the man accused of assassinating the founder of the Jewish Defense League? the agent asked the young cleric.No, Damra answered, according to court documents.How about Mahmoud Abouhalima, one of Nosair's friends?No, Damra replied again.Three weeks later, on Feb. 26, 1993, a truck bomb exploded beneath the World Trade Center.Nosair, it turned out, had helped the bombers, and Abouhalima had masterminded the scheme. And by year's end, Damra had conceded to the FBI that he knew them both.
Research also determined that In the mid-1980s, Fawaz DAMRA co- founded the Alkifah Refugee Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. Like many Alkifah centers around the world, the Brooklyn chapter was assimilated into Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network and later fell under the control of Omar Abdul Rahman, also known as the "blind sheik," who was later blamed for the February 26,1993 bombing of the World Trade Center . It has also been widely reported within the recent "Able Danger" revelations that the USSOCOM data mining operation had identified Moahmmed Atta and other members of his cell by name in June 1999 in Brooklyn, New York . Coincidence?
The more radical DAMRA also hid in plain sight as he was invited to speak at the College of Wooster (Ohio) as reported in this February 19, 2004 article by Jihad Watch and excerpted here:
Also disturbing, Wilson adds, is the response some of the more virulently antisemitic [sic] speakers receive. "Fawaz Damra (imam of the Islamic Center of Cleveland and recently cited for lying about his ties to terrorist organizations) was invited here, and while I don't mind having him on campus, I was disturbed that no mention was made of his recent past."
While he's not sure how many students or faculty came to hear Damra, Wilson says there was a "very large turnout of people from the area who cheered him and cheered him."
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