The saga of the duplicitous Cleveland imam continues. After imam Fawaz Damra of the Islamic Center of Cleveland was charged with federal terror-related crimes on Tuesday morning, his mosque voted to retain him Tuesday night:
- But the meeting was rancorous, according to sources, and some mosque members are urging their leadership to find a way to remove Damra soon.
"I believe I speak for the educated, silent majority when I say it's time to ask Imam Damra to re sign," said Walid Dardir, who de scribes Damra as a friend and mentor.
Dardir, the contracting manager for Cuyahoga County, said Damra's increasing notoriety is hurting all Arab-Americans.
"It's not about whether he's right or wrong," he said. "It's about moving forward, for the betterment of our community. It's time to ask him to resign." [Cleveland.com]
- Arab-American groups that had stood with Damra kept a wider distance Tuesday.
The local American Arab Anti Discrimination Committee issued a statement saying only: "We really do not know the exact details of what happened. We only hope that due process will be followed."
Two new stories in the Cleveland Plain Dealer today - Amanda Garrett:
- Far beyond the shattered glass and bloody bodies, across a desert and vast ocean, it started with a Cleveland dollar.
....Federal investigators say the Cleveland money was mixed with donations from across the country and ultimately ended up in Israel, where it paid for suicide bombers who blew up themselves and scores of Jews on buses, on streets and in cafes.
The charity, it turned out, was merely a front for Hamas, the largest of the Palestinian terror groups, investigators said, and the widows and orphans were the families of suicide bombers.
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