New York: Imam convicted of terrorism is deported

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What about his congregation and all the other Muslims who follow his teachings? Is the mosque being monitored? Yassin Aref conspired to aid a terrorist group and provided support for a weapon of mass destruction, as well as money-laundering and supporting a foreign terrorist organization, Jaish-e-Mohammed.

Masjid As-Salam in Albany

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Former Imam in NY Terrorism Sting Is Deported to Iraq

A former imam who served 13 years in federal prison after being convicted of terrorism in an FBI sting in upstate New York has been deported to Iraq.

By Associated Press, Wire Service Content,June 10, 2019:

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A former imam who served 14 years in federal custody after being convicted of terrorism in an FBI sting in upstate New York has been deported to Iraq.

The son and lawyer of Yassin Aref tell the Albany Times Union that he was deported Sunday night.

Aref was imam at an Albany mosque when he was arrested in 2004 for his role in a money laundering scheme involving an FBI informant who posed as an illegal arms dealer. The informant said he needed to launder money from the sale of a shoulder-carried rocket launcher to be used to kill a Pakistani diplomat.

“Albany mosque imam convicted of terrorism in sting deported,” by Mallory Moench, Times Union, June 10, 2019:

Yassin Aref, an imam at an Albany mosque convicted of terrorism in a post-9/11 FBI sting, was deported Sunday night, his son and lawyer said.

Aref, who is Kurdish, will return to Iraq after 13 1/2 years in federal prison and eight months in immigration detention in Pennsylvania.

His son Salah Muhiddin said he received a call from his father around 3:45 p.m. Sunday telling him that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told Aref to pack up his belongings and prepare to leave. A little later, the messaging system that he uses stopped working and ICE’s detainee locator stopped listing him as a detainee.

Muhiddin was expecting a call anytime Sunday evening to confirm Aref was at the airport.

“If everything goes smoothly, he should be back in his home country as a free man tomorrow,” Muhiddin said.

Aref’s long-term lawyer Kathy Manley said at a hearing in federal court arguing for Aref’s release last Friday, ICE said Aref would be deported soon.

“We were asking for him to be released because we didn’t know when he was actually going to go. They said you don’t need to do that, he’ll be deported next week,” Manley said.

Aref, who was imam at Masjid As-Salam on Central Ave., was convicted in October 2006 by a federal jury in Albany of conspiring to aid a terrorist group with Central Avenue pizza shop owner Mohammad Hossain, an immigrant from Bangladesh. Their 2004 arrest was based on recorded information gathered during an FBI counter-terrorism sting involving money laundering to purchase a shoulder-fired rocket launcher.

Prosecutors portrayed Aref as a religious fanatic. But Manley and others believe Aref’s arrest was a case of entrapment….

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romain reuter
romain reuter
4 years ago

He is just one of these terror-supporting savages.
How many more of his kind are there in America?

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

But everyone tells me the Kurdish muslums are “good”, “decent”, “honorable” muslums. I guess the imam didn’t get the memo.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago

I have had a few conversations with blithering idiots that referenced our “brave Kurdish allies”. When I showed evidence of their raping and murdering Christians and Yazidis that they had “rescued” … They had a difficult time accepting it. Always follow with, “A moslem is a moslem is a moslem. They (moslems) are ALL the same. A moslem the vilest of ALL creatures”. For some reason, that sets some off.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

If all muslums didn’t subscribe to the same Jew hating, fascist, vile, violent, totalitarian ideology then why would they call themselves muslums at all?
I hope Myanmar, Hungary and Poland realize the f’ing muslum apologists and sympathizers are just as much the enemy as the f’ing muslums
As for muslum collaborators:comment image?c9eaea&c9eaea

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
4 years ago

New York’s terrorist Imam, is one of copious Muslims who are of the same ambition, the destruction of America. I find it ironical that he did not have the likes of de Blasio, and the Islamic Party of America, the Democrats fight for his cause. They, after all, hold much in common with his objective, the downfall of this Republic.

AlgorithmicAnalyst
AlgorithmicAnalyst
4 years ago

Put them back in the jungle, where they belong.

(wilderness, desert, etc.)

Mohammed_Goldberg
Mohammed_Goldberg
4 years ago

Just hang him from a street light, and do the world a favor.

Suresh
Suresh
4 years ago

These illegals/jihadis must be crazy. when they are allowed to immigrate , get freebies as jizya why do they need to do violent jihad/crimes ?

But this Moderate jihadi post uses some Al-taqiya about Jesus and wants you to give “all your money and home to those in need (muslims/illegals)” https://tinyurl.com/ybxxx2q4

Rick James
Rick James
4 years ago

Exactly Pam, war is a numbers game. How much time, money and resources must be wasted for us to go after every single one of the approx 4 million Muslims in the US and other millions in Canada, UK and Europe?

During WW2 did we monitor, jail and then deport or execute every single Nazi we thought was an enemy combatant? We need to recognize patterns and realize they all belong to the same ideology. People during war live and die not because they did anything wrong necessarily but because they belonged to a group we called “the enemy.”

When the US bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, thousands of Japanese who might not have taken up arms against us still died anyway because their regime was at war against us.

If the Imam was a terrorist threat then it follows that he incited others to commit terrorism too. There’s a very simple solution to solve this problem overnight and with little cost, deportation. In Saudi Arabia 40,000 Pakistanis were deported because they were considered a terrorism risk and the world yawned.

That’s all we need to do, designate millions of Muslims as potential terrorists and kick them out. The truth is that we don’t know which one of them might stab, bomb, drive a van into us but what we do know is that they all belong to the same group where their fellow members have done exactly those things. So how many of us need to die until they finally decide enough is enough, send them all back?

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
4 years ago

Anyone convicted of terrorism should have their citizenship removed, at the very least. Then deported if possible.

Laddyboy
Laddyboy
4 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

Also all funds and materials must be confiscated to pay their fare back to the sandbox.

santashandler
santashandler
4 years ago

Deported. What a great day for the U.S. As a show of good will, maybe the U.S. gov can arrange to have his papers/green card, or whatever the hell he has, to be administered as a suppository to help make his flight home more comfortable.

Roma Mikhasev
Roma Mikhasev
4 years ago

i like it!!

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
4 years ago

All I know is there is some nervous goats and donkeys back in Iraq.

Michael Gerzen
Michael Gerzen
4 years ago

Deporting a live terrorist is not a solution! Lock it up for ever or shorten their forever.
Where is our “TERRORIST LIST”? I can find all the SEX OFFENDERS in this country but our government protects the rights of TERRORISTS.comment image

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  Michael Gerzen

LOL.

volksnut
volksnut
4 years ago

Its a start – but you’re right – nowheres near enough

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