Khaleel Mohammed Apologizes Once Again

Khaleel Mohammed
In an exclusive statement for ObsessionWithHate, Dr. Khaleel Mohammed, the only Obsession interviewee who is an Islamic Studies Professor, delivers a new lethal blow to the film's credibility, exposing what many already knew:

"Sadly, it would seem that I have allowed myself to be used. I gave an interview to the makers of "obsession" wherein I explained the meaning of Jihad, and its misuse by extremists. I understood that the film would be used objectively, focusing on fanatics who seek to spread violence. I am aware that there is a disclaimer at the beginning of the film that says it is not about Islam in general, but only about extremist interpretations.

"But the material from some of the speakers gives the lie to the disclaimer: many of them are not experts, or have used the mantle of academic qualifications to purvey hate. That their alarmist drivel should be mixed with my whittled down interview proves that the intent of the film is not to educate, but to mislead. The free distribution of the film to voters in particular districts shows the political chicanery that is the motive, and the secrecy about the financing of the distribution only underlines the evil intent in circulating this vile piece of propaganda.

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To be honest, Dr. Mohammed's contribution beyond lending his name to the movie was fairly trivial. (He defined the term jihad and stated that it was a powerful concept among Muslims.)

In Web of Zionist enmeshment, Dr. Mohammed expresses "sadness" for possible misuse of some of his comments by anti-Mosque activists during the Roxbury Mosque controversy in Boston:

The ISB shared with TMO a June 1, 2004 opposition email which refers to an unnamed "pro-Jewish Muslim ally in Boston," who used Roxbury Community College connections to help conspirators investigate parking infractions the mosque might have committed inadvertently, that could be used in a legal attack.

Khaleel Mohammed, an academic who advocates "Islamic reform" to right-wing audiences, was also mentioned in the anti-mosque correspondence.

An October 1993 Boston Herald article linked a quotation from Mr. Mohammed about mosque financing with two succeeding anonymous quotations so that he would appear to accuse the ISB of connections to "fundamentalist Islamist politics."

In discovery emails, Mohammed discusses with professional Israel advocates the allegedly "Wahhabi" content of library materials at the ISB. Mohammed was invited to comment about his involvement with the anti-mosque group.

"I am sad to find out that organizations are now using government funds to combat the building of mosques," Mr. Mohammed began.

"I have imparted no 'secret' information to anyone…I don't know any of the people in the Boston Mosque. I would at most say that if they are into radical Islam, I would be against their building a mosque."

Mr. Mohammed informed TMO that he verified "some translations [of statements by] someone on the mosque board" for a good friend at the ADL.

Unfortunately, Dr. Mohammed has never apologized for his inexcusable record of pandering the rapaciousness and extremism of the Zionist ethnic Ashkenazi invaders that stole Palestine from the native population.

I link here to an email exchange I had with Dr. Mohammed shortly after a talk at Harvard on October 20, 2002. After the formal panel session Dr. Mohammed spent some time in dumping on Palestinians for not welcoming racist ethnic Ashkenazi Zionists, who colonized Palestine from the 1880s through 1940s for the purpose of imposing a Zionist state on the country despite the wishes of the majority native population.

I am ThorsProvoni@aol.com.
Dr. Khaleel Mohammed is kmoham1@brandeis.edu.
en_i_ne@yahoo.com is a NJ solidarity member named Bassem.
togethertalk@hotmail.com is Karin Friedemann.

In the past, even though Dr. Mohammed has condemned ignorant Islamophobes like Robert Spencer for making bigoted pronouncements about Islam without any genuine knowledge of Islamic studies, Dr. Mohammed has been willing to make equally if not more ignorant comments about Eastern European Jews and the crimes that Zionists have committed against the native Palestinian population.

It is time for Dr. Mohammed to apologize to Palestinians and either to learn something about ethnic Ashkenazi history and politics or to shut up, for he is not making a positive contribution to the debate as long as he lends his name and ignorance so casually to the cause of Islamophobic incitement. Sphere: Related Content