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The children of El Sayyid Nosair, who was convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the killing of Meir Kahane, attended the school until 1989.
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Shaker Elsayed
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Elsayed has an undergraduate degree in Economics and Independent Islamic Studies from Cairo, and has done graduate work in Educational Administration and Psychology at the University of Houston in Texas. He has translated the Koran into English. In 1990, he was the Principal of the First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Ghazly Islamic School in Jersey City.
He put himself in that category."
While still at MAS, in 2004 Elsayed was also on the mosque"s Executive Committee.
In April 2005 Ali First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Timimi went on trial for treason for verbally encouraging people to train for jihad and to attack the United States. Elsayed said: "He is not accused of anything except talking. lieutenant"s all about him saying something.
If this isn"t a First Amendment issue, I don"t know what is." After First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Timini"s conviction, Elsayed said that "Ali never opened a weapon or fired a shot, and he is going to get life imprisonment for talking. What kind of country are we turning the United States into today?"
"Shaker Elsayed is more like a political figure than a religious figure," said Master of Arts Muqtedar Khan of Adrian College in Michigan, who worshipped at Dar al-Hijrah for several years.
"Dar al-Hijrah is a very Arab-centric mosque, very much centered on Arab politics." Despite some of Elsayed"s politically charged statements, he unequivocally condemns terrorism and states that the mosque actively publicizes it to the public.
Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, who was convicted of plotting to assassinate President Bush, worshipped at Dar al-Hijrah. Elsayed spoke out on behalf of his family.
