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via Knowing Your Muslim Neighbors – South Washington County Community Education.

What is Islam? Who are Muslims and what are their core beliefs? Since Minnesota’s Muslim population has increased in recent years, it makes sense to uncover the myths from the facts. Understand Islam’s pillars which include Shahadah (declaration of faith), Salat (daily prayers), Zakat (special tax given to the poor), Sawn (fasting) and Hajj (pilgrimage). Other topics include women in Islam, the media’s presentation of Islam, and Islamic extremists.

This class is designed to be educational and allow for open dialogue with question and answer time. Mashood Yunus and volunteers from Building Blocks of Islam will be the presenters.

Mashood Yunus

MASHOOD YUNUS,originally from Pakistan, came to MN/USA in 1992 and finished two bachelors in electrical engineering and computer science from Mankato State U. He was raised in United Arab Emirates. He is quite involved with many volunteer opportunities. Mashood has been teaching Arabic locally for 7 years besides occasionally teaching Islam 101.

If you really want to know some of your Muslim neighbors, save your $10 and freely read our 2014 Year in Review posts and search our archives for Muslims who have been arrested, indicted, convicted, sentenced, are wanted or were killed waging jihad here and abroad. Or check your state in the Archive dropdown.

And search any of those terms discussed above too…like zakat – which funds jihad. According to Islamic sources, financial support for the fighters of jihad is part of jihad, and fighting the unbelievers is most deserving of zakat. It’s #9 in 44 Ways To Support Jihad.

• Why Do Islamic Charities Send Zakat to Terrorists? Shariah Says They Must
• Zakat is not about charity, but jihad

We could elaborate on women in Islam (second class citizens segregated, covered and one of 4 wives entitled Muslim men) and the media’s almost always positive portrayal and defense of Islam, but we’ve done it hundreds of times previously.

Citizens should do research Mashood Yunus as well. A quick look online notes he likes notorious Muslim cleric Yasir Qadhi. To connect the dots with the 44 Ways to Support Jihad noted above, Qadhi’s group sold products from that author and so notorious was that author that Barrack Obama killed him in a drone strike. Qadhi himself is on terror watch list!

…in response to the CNN report, a post at the Jawa Report observed that Qadhi’s Ilmquest media company had been selling more than a dozen audio CD sets by al-Qaeda cleric Aulaqi, even after the cleric had been tied to the Ft. Hood shootings (the post included a screen shot of Ilmquest’s Aulaqi products — all since removed from the Ilmquest website). Aulaqi’s sermons have also recently been sold at Al Maghrib seminars. These sales of Aulaqi’s sermons continued while Qadhi criticized Aulaqi on his MuslimMatters website.

Additionally, Qadhi has been one of the most outspoken advocates for convicted “Virginia jihad network leader” Abu Al-Tamimi, and his MuslimMatters website openly champions the cause of captured al-Qaeda operative Aafia Siddiqui.

Qadhi has not reserved his special brand of hate just for infidels. In 2006, Qadhi took to the AlMaghrib online forum to denounce prominent Sunni Islamic scholar Sheikh Alawi al-Maliki as a polytheist (and thus deserving of condemnation to hell). After Muslim bloggers began calling for a boycott of AlMaghrib in response to Qadhi’s takfiri ideology, the post quickly disappeared from the AlMaghrib forum.

And just last April, the UK-based Islamic group Quilliam Foundation issued analert noting Qadhi’s anti-Jewish tirade, and also noting statements he had made attacking Shia Islam as “the most lying sect of Islam,” including: “The Shias are allowed to lie and it is their religion to lie.”

These are the folks and this is what won’t be taught at this event.

Considering South Washington County Community Education focus is early education, citizens should be very concerned about what is taking place on its premises and if it is creeping into any educational materials. Ask them.