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Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi, the founder and spiritual leader of the Islamic House of Wisdom (IHW) in Dearborn, Mich., is a well-connected man. In mid-July 2022, the IHW announced that “Imam Elahi joined the vaccination mobilization event addressed by Vice President Harris, Governer Whitmer, Lieutenant Governor and a group of state and national political leaders at TCF center in Detroit this afternoon.” Elahi got ready access to the headliners: “Talking with VP Harris, the imam congratulated the administration for their great achievements in fighting COVID 19 and advancing the vaccination services.” Yet as Focus on Western Islamism noted on Wednesday, Elahi has also “served as a key institution for the interests and agenda of the Iranian regime for decades.” Do the Democrats care? Come on, man! That would be “Islamophobic”!
Certainly, a steady stream of politicians from the Party of Jefferson Davis, Bull Connor, and George Wallace make their way to the Islamic House of Wisdom to pay their respects to the Imam Elahi and show their regard for his community. In January 2021, Whitmer also showed up there. The IHW announced: “Governor Gretchen Whitmer Joined Imam Elahi’s first Thursday prayer service of 2021!… During her speech, the Governor appreciated the service and at the end, she addressed the community members’ comments and questions! While some breaking news was happening and CNN was waiting desperately to interview Governer Whitmer, she generously spent a big amount of her evening time for this virtual visitation to IHW and the members of Muslim community of Michigan!”
Nor are Harris and Whitmer the only visitors. Elahi is a pillar of the Dearborn community. The IHW reported in November 2015: “With the presence of Congresswoman Debbie Dingle [sic], Mayor of Dearborn, interfaith community and hundreds of other dignitaries, community leaders and members, it turned to a great celebration of IHW’s accomplishments in the last two decades.” In April 2021, the Mayor of Dearborn Heights, Bill Bazzi, stated: “We do need to support the Islamic House of Wisdom financially.”
Elahi is a police chaplain for the city, and in May he met with Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud and “expressed his pride and admiration of the Mayor and his administration for their achievements in such a short time.”
Yet amid all this back-slapping and mutual congratulation, Elahi has, according to Focus on Western Islamism, “worked as an Iranian regime operative and maintained decades-long friendships with Iranian leadership.” Back in his native Iran in the 1980s, he “served as the head of ‘political ideology’ for the Iranian Navy.” According to the U.S. Institute of Peace, Elahi initially came to this country in 1991 in order to “inspect American branches of Hizbullah (Tehran’s network of agents) and to reinforce Tehran’s influence on Shi’ite communities.”
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Check Burry says
Why palling around? Because they are thick, dim, gullible.
Samer Ibrahim says
Perhaps this is because of the influence of Kamala’s husband, who is Jewish. It is known historically that the relationship between Jews and Muslims was mostly positive. And Jews living in Europe and America have always been in favor of cultural pluralism and Islamic immigration.This positive relationship between Jews and Muslims began to deteriorate when Muslims began to feel +at the beginning of the 20th century- that Jews wanted to establish a state for themselves on a land they considered Islamic.
Infidel says
Yeah, muslim countries all around Israel definitely demonstrate that ancient Judeo-islamic camaraderie by such a warm endorsement and embrace of Israel since 1948. And obviously, the Jews had no business having a heritage developed in a land that muslims later went on to conquer: what were those Jews thinking?
I doubt that Doug Emhoff has anything to do w/ it: Kamala was just following Gretchen Whitmer’s cue, and the unfortunate fact about Michigan politics is that politicians – both Democrat and Republican – tend to pander to muslims.
gravenimage says
What claptrap from the dishonest Samer Ibrahim. Islam has always persecuted Jews. The claim that it was the idea of the founding of Israel that disrupted this paradise is utter bullsh*t. Does Samer Ibrahim assume that everyone here at Jihad Watch is ignorant of both history and the texts of Islam?
And Kamala Harris was an idiot before she married. And how does Samer Ibrahim explain Gretchen Whitmer? Her husband is not Jewish.
And on another thread today he was claiming that Germany cannot elect any politicians who want to curb Islamic immigration because of Jews. Never mind that Jews make up less than one percent of the population in Germany. Ugly stuff, but all of a piece.
john smith says
Samer, what the hell are you talking about when say, “It is known historically that the relationship between Jews and Muslims was mostly positive”. It’s never been positive.
In order to be a good muslim it’s a duty to hate Jews, as islam was founded on Jew hatred. Once the Jews rejected mohammad they became his arch enemy.
Incidentally the hatred comes from one side only, and it’s not from the Jews.
somehistory says
this is political prostitution as it is for the purpose of the women staying in positions of power in politics and in politics, anything goes.
Infidel says
When Que Mala is a real prostitute in the way she rose to power in San Fran getting her heels up to Willie Brown, political prostitution seems a lot more respectable to her
Kenneth J Johnson says
Samer, The relation historically between Jews and Muslems has been mostly positive.
Man I recomend you do a little reading.. Start with Islam and the Jews by Mark Gabriel. Ken
john smith says
Agreed Ken, he must be living on another planet.
gravenimage says
Why Are Kamala Harris and Gretchen Whitmer Palling Around With a Supporter of the Iranian Regime?
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Useful idiots.
Andrew Blackadder says
The Foxes are well and truly enshrined in the Chicken Coop known as The USA and actual Americans brought these Foxes into the chicken coop which made the foxes very happy indeed as they can scream allo snackbar as loudly and as often as they wish and if you say anything about that bloody awful noise then you are the problem and not the loving peaceful tolerant compassionate islamic teachings.
The fox sure has succeeded in managing to keep the chicken silent even as it eats him.