Notorious hate preacher Sheikh Suleiman Anwar Bengharsa (aka Imam Bengharsa) has a master’s degree in theology, a degree in economics and had once worked for the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Bengharsa was Imama for the Islamic Society of Annapolis (May 2009-April 2010) and then the Tazkia Center and Masjid Umar (January 2011-October 2014). He accepted invitations to deliverJumu’a Khutbas (sermons) and lectures at fourteen Islamic organizations in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C. and Toronto, Canada.
He was was a chaplain in the Maryland prison system.
His most recent ‘post’ was as imam at the Masjid Umar mosque in Woodlawn and founder and director of the Islamic Jurisprudence Center, an independent legal resource center in Clarksburg near Baltimore that promotes understanding of Shariah law. The center’s mission was “to promote and advance the understanding of and compliance with Islamic law (Sharia) in all aspects of life.
The Islamic Jurisprudence Center (Maryland) is so extreme it considers designated terror org the Council on American Islamic Relations apostates.
Imam Bengharsa of Clarksburg, Maryland, poses in a striking way the dilemma for the F.B.I. in deciding when constitutionally protected speech crosses into inciting violence or conspiring to commit a terrorist act (in Virginia against more moderate Muslims).
In June 2015, Imam Bengharsa, supplied $1,300 to a Detroit a Muslim convert Sebastian Gregerson (aka Abdurrahman Bin Mikaayl) who used it to expand his arsenal of AK-47s, seven rifles, tactical knives (similar to those used in videos of Islamic State extremists beheading western hostages, according to the FBI), a shotgun, thousands of rounds of ammunition and fragmentation grenades. The arsenal was hidden in an underground ammunition storage container.
Next to the notation for the $1,300 check, Imam Bengharsa wrote “zakat,” an obligaory act of Islamic charity. Gregerson is on trial for weapons charges and may also be yet indicted on terror charges, given his ideology and planning to use the weapons aqllegedly against moderate Muslim leaders who opposed Wahhabist extremism. “Gregerson told the (undercover FBI agent) that he watched al-Baghdadi’s speech some five times that day and celebrated the event with associates,” “Gregerson stated: ‘We could not stop smiling.’ During the investigation, the FBI said Gregerson also praised Islamic State-inspired extremists, including Omar Mateen, the American-born man who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando in June.
Gregerson, a Target employee who converted to Islam after high school, called Mateen his “brother” and offered constructive criticism about how the Orlando shooter could have boosted the body count, according to court records. .
During the raid of Gregerson’s home on July 31, agents also found several CDs marked “Anwar al-Awlaki,” the al-Qaida recruiter who met with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab before the failed Christmas Day 2009 terror attack on a Detroit-bound plane… after extremists killed 130 people in a series of suicide bombings and shootings in Paris, Gregerson supported the attacks on Facebook.”
