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2 unusual facts about Dar Al-Hijrah


Dar Al-Hijrah

The mosque board member Esam Omeish was reported by the Washington Post as having been one of the mosque officials who hired al-Awlaki (Paul Sperry says he "personally" hired him).

The FBI Director of Counter-Intelligence for the Middle East, Gordon M. Snow was a frequent, weekly, attendee of the services in the spring and summer of 2001, while also completing his Master's Degree 3 miles away.


Al Shamal Islamic Bank

According to public records, 19 percent of the Faisal Islamic Bank is owned by the Dar Al-Maal Al-Islami Trust, or simply DMI Trust, also headed by Prince Faisal.

Al-Hajj Salim Suwari

Hailing from the Sahelian town of Ja (Dia) in the core Mali area, Al-Hajj Salim Suwari had performed the pilgrimage (hajj) to Mecca several times and devoted his intellectual career to developing an understanding of the faith that would assist Muslim minorities in residing in "pagan" lands (dar al-kufr).

Caravan raids

The belligerent attitude of the Quraysh was exposed in the heated argument between Sa'd ibn Mu‘ādh and ’Amr ibn Hishām after the Hijrah.

Dar Al-Handasah

With the acquisition of Perkins and Will and T.Y. Lin International, the firm expanded into North America and the Far East.

Dar al-Ulum

Sir Eldon Gorst, Annual Report for 1907, House of Commons Sessional Papers, Egypt.

Habib Munzir Al-Musawa

While he was at ma'had Al-Khayrat, he got acquainted with Habib Umar bin Hafiz, the director and founder of Dar al-Mustafa boarding school in Tarim, Hadramaut in Yemen who visited the school as part of his outreach.

Hijackers in the September 11 attacks

Nawaf al-Hazmi and Hani Hanjour, attended the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia in early April 2001 where the Imam Anwar al-Awlaki preached.

Ibrahim 'Ali Salman

The poetry about his homeland Dar al-Manasir and the ongoing issue of the relocation of his tribe as a result of the Merowe Dam project is written in the Colloquial Arab language of the Manasir.

It probably is the only literary document from within Dar al-Manasir.

Islamistan

The term is Persian, (also used in Pashto and Urdu) and refers to the concept of Dar-ul-Islam.

Johari Abdul-Malik

When Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, who worshiped at Dar al-Hijrah and had been a camp counselor for and taught Islamic studies at the mosque, was charged by American prosecutors with plotting with members of Al Qaeda to assassinate President George W. Bush, Abdul-Malik said in February 2005: "Our whole community is under siege. They don't see this as a case of criminality. They see it as a civil rights case. As a frontal attack on their community."

Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco

Salma married King Mohammed VI on 12 October 2001 (sadaq) and on 21 March 2002 (zafaf), at the Dar al-Makhzin, Rabat, and was granted the title of "Princess" with the style of Royal Highness on her marriage.


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