Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatu
All praise is due to Allah; we praise Him and seek His aid and His
forgiveness. And we seek refuge in Allah from the evils of our own selves and
from our evil deeds. Whomsoever is guided by Allah, there is none to misguide
him. And whomsoever He misguides, there is none to guide him. And I bear
witness that there is no deity worthy of worship but Allah, Who is alone,
without any partner. And I bear witness that Muhammad ibn Abdullah is his
slave/servant and His Messenger. To Proceed:
Allah Most High has said: "And of mankind, there are some who say: 'We believe
in Allah and the Last Day' while in fact, they believe not. They think to
deceive Allah and those who believe, while they only deceive themselves, and
perceive it not! In their hearts is a disease and Allah has increased their
disease. A painful torment is theirs because they used to tell lies. And when
it is said to them: 'Make not mischief in the earth,' they say: 'We are only
peacemakers.' Indeed, they are the ones who make mischief, but they perceive
it not." [Al-Baqarah, 2: 8-12]
Imagine the late David Koresh creating an organization, placing himself as its
head, and naming it the "United Supreme Christian Council of America." He
would then hold a conference in a palatial, five-star hotel in a major city,
inviting elected officials, intellectuals and international representatives
from the Jehovah Witnesses, The Church of Scientology, The Mormons, The
Rosicrucian Fellowship, the Unification Church, and then entitling the
gathering, "The International Christian Unity Conference." Each speaker would
mount the podium to praise Koresh's leadership and would stress the need for
Christian unity as they enter the 21st Century. For maximum impact, this
entire event would be broadcast worldwide on cable television, and made
accessible live via the Internet. Obviously, the "Unity" theme would succeed
in drawing numbers of curiosity seekers and supportive people to the
conference.
Yet in spite of the outward display, no Christian church, council, archbishop,
individual or nation would formally acknowledge either Koresh or his "United
Supreme Christian Council of America" or say that they represented the
Christians or Christianity. In the end, the entire event would be none other
than a cleverly orchestrated ruse, specifically geared to place an official
stamp of legitimacy on a personality cult.
Such is the scenario at the Naqshbandi sufi "International Islamic Unity
Conference" in Washington DC. Hisham Kabbani, the creator and self-appointed
leader of the "Islamic Supreme Council of America", has succeeded in deceiving
the media and a number of non-Muslims into assuming that ISCA is a legitimate
Islamic council. Both Kabbani and his leader, Nazim Al-Qubrusi, have rocketed
to prominence largely on the merit of a circle of devoted followers, a number
of whom possess computer skills and internet savvy, far surpassing the efforts
of New Age cults like the Church of Scientology and Heaven's Gate.
Yet the reality is far removed from Kabbani's theatrics. The seven ISCA
organizations, and its three related sites, in spite of officially registered
addresses (three of them shared by up to four ISCA organizations, in Beverly
Hills, Los Angeles and the Mountain View, California area), all exist solely
in cyberspace via a single Internet service provider named "Meer.net"
(www.meer.net) located at P.O. Box 390804, Mountain View, California 94039.
ISCA however, and its main branch, "As-Sunna Foundation of America" (ASFA)
have always attempted to portray themselves as "several Islamic organizations
of Muslims working for Islam." However, the ISCA organizational structure was
officially launched on Sept 25, 1996 with "American Muslim Assistance" and
continued up to March 20, 1998 with the launch of "Kamilat" (although ISCA did
not officially issue a press release until June 27, 1998).
Hisham Kabbani's "Islamic Supreme Council of America" (ISCA) officially
consists of the following organizations (including commencement dates & web
site addresses):
* - [Sept. 26, 1996] American Muslim Assistance (www.amahelp.com)
* - [Oct. 23, 1996] As-Sunnah Foundation Of America (www.sunnah.org)
* - [Dec. 16, 1996] Naqshbandi.Org (www.naqshbandi.org)
* - [Feb. 3, 1997] Haqqani Sufi Foundation (www.naqshbandi.net)
* - [June 3, 1997] The Islamic Center of Beverly Hills (www.icbh.com)
* - [Nov. 28, 1997] Muslim Magazine (www.muslimmag.org)
* - [March 20, 1998] Kamilat (www.kamilat.org)
In addition to the above listed organizations, there are three related ISCA
sites, (along with commencement dates & web site addresses):
* - [June 4, 1997] Dr. Mike Mirahmadi (www.mirahmadi.com)
* - [July 22, 1997] High performance computers (www.computers-arcadia.com)
* - [Feb 23, 1998] UnityOne (www.unityone.org)
Meer.net, is ISCA's internet service provider (ISP) which supports all
California-based ISCA sites and associates. A common rule is that any Internet
web server domain or "hostmaster" which registers for a web site, is
automatically assigned a site registration number. This registration number is
then automatically attached to every web site originating from the ISP. The
site registration numbers for every ISCA branch or associate, irrespective of
their officially registered mailing addresses, are always the same:
140.174.164.2, 209.143.231.66 (for verification, check
http://site.register.com, type in any of ISCA's web site addresses, and then
simply follow the instructions).
All sites are maintained by the following four ISCA members:
Ahmad Salman:
* As-Sunnah Foundation of America (www.sunnah.org)
* Haqqani Sufi Foundation (www.naqshbandi.net)
* Dr. Mike Mirahmadi (www.mirahmadi.com)
* UnityOne (www.unityone.org)
Nurjan Mirahmadi (brother of Kabbani lawyer, Hediah Mirahmadi):
* The Islamic Center of Beverly Hills (www.icbh.com)
* Kamilat (www.kamilat.org)
* Naqshbandi.Org (www.naqshbandi.org)
* Worldwide Ads (www.wads.com)
Dilshad Fakhrouddin:
* Muslim Magazine (www.muslimmag.org)
Dr. Mike Mirahmadi (brother of Hediah and Nurjan):
* American Muslim Assistance (www.amahelp.com)
Since their inception, ISCA web sites have either mass marketed or tacitly
linked themselves to a variety of heretical Sufi doctrines which run counter
to the established precepts of Islam; such as worship of the dead, claiming
divinity for Sufi spiritual leaders, claiming that all beings are a
manifestation of Allah, etc. Kabbani's Sufi doctrines, unethical tactics
(including threats of lawsuit) and deceptive internet methods, share a common
bond with a smorgasbord of self-serving personality cults, such as the ill-
fated Heaven's Gate or L. Ron Hubbard's Church of Scientology. In the socio-
political realm, ISCA is the Islamic equivalent of the Unification Church, in
attempting a high-tech, craftily strategized, hostile takeover of Islam in
America. Indeed, in many ways, they are the Qadianis of the 21st century.
Yet ISCA is very quick to claim that they are not Sufis, nor a organization
revolving around the personality of a man. For example, according to ISCA
vice-chairman Mateen Siddiqui, in a letter posted on msa-net, dated Wed, 24
Jun 1998 03:04:36, it is incorrect for anyone to accuse ISCA of being "a
Kabbani organization", or to say that the Unity conference is a "sufi"
conference because according to Siddiqui, ISCA comprises "several Islamic
organizations of Muslims working for Islam."
However, in a letter also posted to msa-net, dated Wed, 13 Dec 1995 15:45:39,
Siddiqui states, "I am member of a Sufi group of Traditional Muslims who
believe in Islam as a way of Love and Peace and as such the MSA-Net
Maintainer's have decided that any discussion related to Sufism or Sufi Islam
are banned from the main MSA-Net. This has been their position recently and
they have tried to prevent me and many other persons with Sufi inclinations to
speak publicly about Sufism," (see http://www.msa-natl.org/msa-
net/shstmt.html) Also, the alleged Sri Lanka "debate" between Naqshbandi
Ismaeel dhul-Qarnayn and Abdur-Raheem Green of the UK, which never took place.
Yet according to Naqshbandi web sites, this "debate" resulted in a resounding
victory for the sufis.
Moreover, ISCA has been caught more than once, engaging in internet shamanism
and thuggery, such as the 1995-96 msa-net fiasco where several Kabbani
followers, Mateen Siddiqui among them, established several false e-mail
accounts and an imaginary "shura" and worked in tandem with other Naqshbandi
followers to portray MSA-net as a group of "fundamentalists and extremists"
and then worked to destroy Msa-net by shutting it down for three months (see
http://www.msa-natl.org/msa-net/shstmt.html).
Recently, Kabbani's ISCA attempted to publicly disassociate itself from its
one of its branches, the Islamic Center of Beverly Hills (ICBH), after it was
reported that ICBH distributed a booklet depicting the image of the Prophet
(saaws), which it urged Muslims to display them in their homes "to earn the
favor of Allah." ISCA, using its ASFA (asfa@world.std.com) account, issued a
statement dated Wed, 29 Jul 1998 22:10:30 saying, "…The ICBH has NO
affiliation with Shaykh Hisham Kabbani or any of his aforementioned affiliate
organizations. We deny any association with the ICBH…" ISCA's denials however,
backfired badly when official California state documentation verified both
ICBH and Kabbani are inextricably linked.
Indeed, ISCA's conference received public support from Omar S. Ashmawy, the
chairman of the heretofore unknown "Islamic Student Steering Committee" which
actively promoted the ISCA conference on the internet. On February 23, 1998,
Ashmawy and Mossad agent and Islam basher Steven Emerson testified before the
US senate on "Technology, Terrorism and Government Information" and "Foreign
Terrorists in America." Interestingly enough, Emerson praised Ashmawy's
presentation, and emphasized support for what Emerson termed "moderate Islam".
These are terms which ISCA regularly brandishes against any critic and in its
campaign against both MSA-net and last year against ISNA in Chicago, where
Kabbani mounted the outdoor podium to scream about "Wahhabis" and "extremists"
who he said controlled ISNA (and presumably were responsible for calling the
police on him).
In recent years, the onslaught against Islam has taken on a new dimension.
Today, this onslaught takes the form of perverting Islamic ideas and beliefs.
In his novel, "1984," the late George Orwell illustrated the dangers of
perverted semantics in which the redefinition of common terms lead to slavery
when it was allowed to pass unchallenged by a lethargic populace. In the same
way, the Naqshbandi sufi cult has done this with impunity with respect to the
terms "Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'at", "Salafi" and "innovation". They have
succeeded via internet slight-of-hand and perverted semantics, to delude
masses of people into assuming that sufism is the true path of Islam.
This however, is all but the "tip of the iceberg", as in the next segment
inshaAllah, we will explore Kabbani's practice of perverted semantics,
fabrication of evidence, misquotation and deliberate lies in each and every
one of his own books, as well as a full report on the Naqshabandi conference.
There is nothing outside of Paradise except Hellfire, there is nothing outside
of Truth but falsehood, and there is nothing outside of the Sunnah but bid'a.
Wa salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barkatu
Abu Umar
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