Below is the latest newsletter from the Tennessee Council for Political Justice.
Newsletter #162 — The Governor and Mrs. Haslam Promote a “Healthy Tennessee”… and Muslims
Since taking office Governor Haslam has tried different ways to leave his mark on improving the health of Tennesseans. He even tried to use his Medicaid Expansion plan “Insure Tennessee” to pay people to get healthy.
Haslam said he could use his own healthcare plans to “fundamentally chang[e] health care in Tennessee.” His “Healthy Incentives Plan” envisioned letting people “earn more money” of the free money by taking specific actions to get healthy.
Except Medicaid Expansion became another of Haslam’s “reforms” that failed.
Now Governor Haslam has launched his “Healthier Tennessee Communities” initiative, “a coordinated initiative supporting physical activity, healthy eating and tobacco abstinence at the local level.” The Governor’s Foundation for Health and Wellness will focus on individuals, workplaces and faith congregations.
In addition, the Tennessee Department of Health through their Office of Minority Health and Disparities Elimination, works with faith communities and trains congregants to become “certified Health Ambassadors” who will help make Tennesseans aware of how to lead healthier lifestyles.
Being the picture of an “overabundance” of health herself, Nashville resident, Aisha Lbhalla, a member of the Islamic Center of Tennessee (ICTN), has been selected to be one of these Health Ambassadors.
Let’s take a close look at Aisha’s mosque.
Individuals involved in establishing the ICTN in 2010, included Awadh Binhazim (Secretary of the ICTN Board) who had previously served on the Board at the Islamic Center of Nashville (ICN) during the time when Abdulhakim Mohamed was the imam there. He had the dubious privilege of being the imam at the al-Qaeda al-Farooq mosque in Brooklyn, New York, the same mosque attended by the “blind sheik” convicted for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Before splitting from the ICN to form the ICTN mosque, Binhazim (a CAIR chapter leader when he lived in Texas), conducted his dawa (proselytizing) through his Olive Tree Education project promoting online writings by al-Qaeda’s Anwar Awlaki. During this time he was the self-appointed Muslim “chaplain” at Vanderbilt University. It was in this position that he publicly admitted at a student forum that Islamic law mandates capital punishment for homosexuality and that “as a Muslim he does not have a choice of whether to accept or reject what Islam teaches.”
Did Nashville Mayor Karl Dean know Aisha’s background when he appointed her to the Metro Human Relations Commission? Is he trying to eradicate Nashville’s radical Islamophobia?
So Who is Aisha Lbhalla?
Various websites align an Aisha Teshara Washington with an Aisha Teshara Lbhalla who lives in Antioch, Tennessee.
Aisha Teshara Washington at one time lived at 147 Dreamwood Lane in Dover, Tennessee. This address corresponds to an area in Dover referred to as “Islamville,” the Muslims of America (MoA) compound. MoA aka Jamaat ul-Fuqra is a movement founded by the infamous Pakistani Sheik Mubarik Ali Gilani and is described as a “Sunni militant group.”
An Aisha Teshara Washington is also listed as having lived in Maryland.
Aisha Washington is associated with and/or operated a business in Maryland called “Loving Home Care.” This business ran into some difficulties with the Maryland State Department of Labor Licensing and was sued for failing to pay taxes. The suit was settled for over $8,000.
Aisha Lbhalla is associated with and/or operates a business in Antioch, Tennessee called “Loving Home Care”, although no business by this name was found in the Tennessee Secretary of State’s database. The website for “Loving Home Care” lists the Main Office contact in Antioch and a contact number for a Maryland-D.C.-Virginia office. Wonder why?
Like a growing number of sharia observant Muslims, Lbhalla and her husband live in a Habitat for Humanity home located in the Edison Park development in Antioch, Tennessee. The Habitat for Humanity program, a Christian ministry, has ironically become a convenient vehicle to impose the restrictions of sharia finance law to a part of the U.S. housing market.
The Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Sheikh al-Qaradawi describes sharia compliant finance as “jihad with money.”
Lbhalla serves on the Executive Committee of the Nashville chapter of the Religion Communicators Council’s (RCC), which is led by the Scientologist Brian Fessler. The RCC leadership has heavy representation by the United Methodist Church (UMC), which makes it highly unlikely that they would find Lbhalla’s anti-Israel tweets problematic for a group that is supposed to be an interfaith association.
The first imam at Lbhalla’s mosque was AbdulRahman ibn Esa Chao. He was trained at the Islamic University of Medinah, Saudi Arabia, an institution highly associated with the Salafi branch of Sunni Islam. Salafists have been described as trying to return Sunni Muslims to the “practice of the pious ancestors, i.e., the first three generations of Muslims.”
That is, they seek to practice Islam in its most original, purest and “authentic” form without relying on cultural practices or clerical interpretations. Does this mean that reformation or moderation is out of the question?
Probably so. Too bad our elected leadership is so gullible.
This is sickening, the political class thinks nothing of pandering , actually prostituting themselves to any organization just for votes. Of course when the ‘supporters’ are found to be of less than stellar in character and reputation, the denials will abound . “We never knew or suspected, they seemed so genuine” and the usual litany of lame excuses.
Sent this article to volunteer state’s gov. Hope he gets the shock of his life!
The governor already knows about Islamville and the influence of Muslims of America there. He has seen the money put into the mega-mosque and knows about the recruiting that goes on in Tennessee colleges.
There was a recent brouhaha when a black professor at Vanderbilt spoke out against the Islamization of her school:
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2015/01/21/black-professor-bullied-by-campus-muslims-for-truthful-op-ed-about-islam-174312
I always avoid calling them “Muslims of the Americas” as this name is just another attempt at deceiving people into thinking that they’re totally different now.
Ideally, everyone should keep referring to them as Jamaat Al Fuqra to pound into people’s heads (especially the politicians) that they’re still the same Jamaat Al Fuqra group who follows the same Jamaat al Fuqra jihadi Sheik in Pakistan, and they’re still the same Jamaat Al Fuqra that is jihadist, denies the legitimacy of American law, and holds that only sharia law is valid.
Wonder if FGM is considered a good lifestyle and good for the gals ??
I don’t think FGM is an American Muslim thing. Jamaat-ul-Fuqra mostly recruited ex-cons when they got out of prison. Or rather, they could be recruited while still inside as part of the Muslim chaplain org.funded by Saudi Arabian money.
Given the endemic resentment about the US, it wouldn’t be hard to snag the disaffected. But that doesn’t mean they’d be down with FGM for their wives/children. Islam is a focus for behaviors in daily life, but black women in black culture are strong – much less submissive than Somali or Middle Eastern women would be – and used to being in control.
So to answer your question, “No way”. IMHO.
The Jaamat-ul-Fuqra in America is not the same as native Islam. The men are ex-felons recruited while in prison or shortly after they get out. The rules for behavior are appealing to those who’ve mostly never had any meaningful structure or rules before. But for women, the game is different: they are black American women, no matter how much they resent whitey, within their own community they have power. They are used to being in control and no way are they going to let someone cut on them or their daughters.
Salafism is Islam’s reformation. It is the “back to the roots” movement that revives the pure Islam of the early followers, eliminating later practices like worshipping shrines of scholars. It does not, and cannot alter the Islamic texts.
The photos are a hoot. The one with the visiting first lady is revealing. Smiling, though she may be, her hands are visibly clenched tightly together in front of her crotch. The second photo appears to be cropped, again in a curiously telling manner. Nashville Mayor Karl Dean’s most amusingly uncomfortable smile is rather fitting, given a small child’s hand is visibly dangling from the veiled one’s grip – sans child.
Note how the Muslima is beaming in contrast to the guarded, uncomfortable gestures from the elected representatives.
She knows full well she has spread the Ummah to a new corner of Dar-al Harb and is extremely proud of this fact.
Treachery is the new patriotism.
“Office of Minority Health and Disparities Elimination…works with faith communities…certified Health Ambassadors”.
Those expressions, whether motivated by a Muslim interest or not, should be a clear wake-up call. Best wishes to all right minded Tennesseans.
Poor starving muslimas! (sarc.)