H. Rap Brown? New meaning to the words "blast from the past"

Another example of the mutant marriage of the far left and radical Islam.

So who is Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin?

He got his start under the name H. Rap Brown in the 1960s registering black voters in Alabama and working with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

"For a time, he was fairly well-known," said Fabio Rojas, an associate professor at Indiana University who wrote a book on black radicalism called "From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline." "He wasn't a leader, but he hung around a lot of famous people like Stokely Carmichael."

Carmichael was the activist credited with coining the phrase "Black Power." Self-described radical lawyer William Kunstler represented Brown in a 1960s case when he was accused of advocating burning a school building.

In his autobiography, first published in 1969, Brown wrote that blacks were enslaved by a white capitalistic system.

"Revolution is indeed inevitable, and, as the cycle of change closes around America's racist environment, the issue of color becomes more pertinent," he wrote in a work that includes a racial slur in its title. He said in the book that rap was a term for trash talking in large groups.

"That's why they called me rap, because I could rap," he wrote.

Gee, he sounds like a "community organizer."

Robert Spencer has more:

According to the indictment, in his mosque in Detroit Luqman Abdullah was preaching “offensive jihad” and the establishment of a Sharia state in North America. This sovereign Isamic state would be ruled by Islamic law – and by the apparent godfather of Abdullah’s movement, Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin. Al-Amin is the former Black Panther and convert to Islam who gained fame under the name H. Rap Brown. Al-Amin is now serving a life sentence for murdering two police officers, while his disciples, like Luqman Abdullah, carry on the message he articulated so memorably in the 1960s: “If America don’t come around, we’re gonna burn it down.”

In the spirit of his mentor, Abdullah has told his flock: “America must fall.” He has encouraged the Muslims in his mosque to support Hizballah, the Taliban and Osama bin Laden. He exhorted them to bestir themselves to pious deeds: “We should be figuring out how to fight the Kuffar” – that is, unbelievers. “We got to take out the U.S. government. The U.S. government is nothing but Kuffars.” Among the unbelievers were FBI agents, about whom Abdullah declared: “Deal with them, deal with them the way, the way they supposed to be dealt with…. It’s not that complicated, man….If they are coming to get me I’ll just strap a bomb on and blow up everybody.” A law enforcement official wrote in an affidavit that “Abdullah and his followers have trained regularly in the use of firearms, and continue to train in martial arts and sword fighting” – in accord with Abdullah’s dictum that every Muslim believer should “have a weapon and should not be scared to use their weapon when needed.”

Abdullah found justification for all this in the Islamic holy book, the Qur’an, which he said “justified stealing, robbing and other illegal acts, as long as they profit Islam.”

One would think that Muslim spokesmen in America would be anxious to prove their moderate bona fides by repudiating Abdullah, praising the efforts of law enforcement officials, and announcing new measures to teach against the understanding of Islam that prevailed at the Masjid al-Haqq and to shore up the moderate Islam that politically correct orthodoxy insists prevails in all mosques in America in the first place. But no such luck.

What's next, news that Angela Davis has traded her 'fro for a burka or Niqab?

The National Ummah was established in 1987 by former FBI ten most wanted fugitive, Black Panther "Minister of Justice," H. Rapp Brown, who has been known as Jamil Abdullah Al Amin following his conversion to Islam while in prison from 1971 to 1976 for his role in a robbery that ended in a shootout with New York police.

The National Imam of the National Ummah, Al Amin’s group is composed mostly of African-American converts to Islam who seek to establish a separate Sharia-law governed state within the United States.

Al Amin currently is serving life in prison without the possibility of parole for the March 2000 shooting that killed Fulton County, Georgia Deputy Sheriff Ricky Kinchen and the wounding of deputy sheriff Aldranon English. The deputies - both African-Americans - were attempting to serve Al Amin a warrant for failing to appear in court to face charges of driving a stolen car and impersonating a police officer.

During Al Amin’s murder trial, the Masjid Al Islam mosque in Los Angeles – which called Al Amin "one of the pillars of our local Islamic communities," declared that his arrest was nothing less than a challenge to "establishing Islam in America."

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In his 1994 book. Revolution by the Book, Al Amin wrote that "when we begin to look critically at the Constitution of the United States, we see that in its main essence it is diametrically opposed to what Allah has commanded."

During the period he was a leader of the Black Panthers, Al Amin stated that "violence is as American as cherry pie” and that "if America don't come around, we're gonna burn it down.”

A former Black Panther colleague of Al Amin was Angela Davis, who also was a prominent Communist Party USA member and political candidate in the early 1980s.

Davis was a notorious black nationalist from the mid-1960s through the early 1970s, at which time she became the subject of an intense manhunt and a FBI “Most Wanted” designee after a shotgun registered to her was used during the killing of a judge in an attempt to free a black convict.

Davis eventually was caught, tried and acquitted because the jury decided that just because she owned one of the guns used in the judge’s murder it was not sufficient to establish her involvement in the plot. She temporarily relocated to Cuba following her acquittal.

Aren't you glad Obama's in the White House? His conciliatory tactics should cool all this talk of setting up a Shariah state in the United States, no? And don't you feel safe with Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State? Too bad H. Rap Brown and his eager followers didn't get the memo.

Hillary prayed at the shrine of the Muslim saint Muhammad Iqbal in Lahore today.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, second right, prays together with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, right, in front of the grave of the Poet Muhammad Iqbal, at the Iqbal Memorial in Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009. Clinton is on a three-day state visit to Pakistan. (AP)