In this interview, Sr. Akanke Rasheed speaks with Kairi Al-Amin, the son of Imam Jamil Al-Amin, about his father's case, an upcoming docu-series, and efforts to increase awareness and get his father's release. The docuseries "What Happened To H. Rap Brown?" is a gripping true crime tale complete with everything you typically only see in big Hollywood blockbusters! Espionage, government conspiracies, murder confessions, witness disappearances...but what really happened to H. Rap Brown that fateful night in March of 2000?

Listen to the interview here: https://soundcloud.com/manajustice/kairi-imam-jamil

In this interview, on behalf of The Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA), I speak with Brother Bilal Sunni Ali, Amir of The Imam Jamil Action Network (IJAN). IJAN serves as the advocacy arm of the legal campaign to free and exonerate Imam Jamil Al-Amin. Bilal gives an overview of the case and recent developments, including that The Innocence Project has taken on Imam Jamil’s case.

Listen to the interview here: https://manajustice.org/imam-jamil-al-amins-case-an-interview-with-bilal-sunni-ali/

Bismillahi Rahman Ar-Raheem

Sekou Mgabazi Abdullah Odinga was a Muslim who fully understood that fighting on behalf of
the oppressed is imcumbent upon us as believers. He demonstrated that understanding by
joining and fighting with other oppressed people in South Africa, Lebanon and Palestine just to
name a few people and places. He returned to continue the fight for liberation of the oppressed
here involving his own people.

As Salaamo Alaikum wa Rahmatullah beloved brothers and sisters , fellow believers in Islam.

I am  your brother Bilal Sunni-Ali,  Amir of IJAN, the Imam Jamil Action making this request of all believers that we make duah for our brother Kamau Sadiki. 

Historical note: 

Brother Kamau Sadiki who‘s trial for the murder of a City of Atlanta Patrolman was presided over by Judge Stephanie Mannis, the same judge who only months earlier presided over the case of our Imam Jamil Al-Amin. Both cases which had serious issues of lack of evidence being tied to the defendants were pushed to conviction through the same summarily sustaining and approval  of prosecutors motions and denial of defendant’s motions. Kamau’s trial which took place over thirty years after the actual death of the policeman relied heavily on the emotional public response to a policeman being murdered than on any direct evidence being tied to the one being accused of committing the crime. Kamau’s trial came as a direct result of the FBI’s threatening to have him spend the rest of his life in prison for not cooperating with them. Kamau Sadiki, the father of Assata Shakur’s daughter had been asked to be a part of a scheme that would lure Sister Assate away from Cuba, where she now  enjoys political asylum to somewhere where she could be  taken into custody by U.S. authorities.

Request for duah: 

 The time that the  duah is requested to be offered is Friday February 16, 2024 . This is three days before Kamau’s 71st birthday but more importantly it is the beginning of a week of an Inter Faith Conference calling for the release of elderly political prisoners. As participants in the conference i along Sister Shafeah M’Bali, southern coordinator  of IJAN will be presenting as part of a panel held also on Saturday February 17th between 4 and 6 pm on the topic Islam and political and social movements in the U.S.A.

Further information about the conference and related activities will be soon to follow.

UPDATE 2024-02-15 - Flyer for the 2024 Interfaith Conference to Liverate our Elsders from Prison:

Jan. 2, 2023 | 19 Jumada al-Akhirah, 1445

In the name of Allah the Most Gracious, most Merciful. Indeed all praises are due to Allah, so we praise him. We rely upon Him and seek His forgiveness. We bear witness that there is no god but Allah, and that Muhammad Ibn Abdullah, born fourteen centuries ago on the Arabian Peninsula, is His last messenger, Peace be Upon Him.

The Quran is the most truthful of words and the best of guidance is the guidance of Muhammad, Peace be Upon Him, (the Sunnah). The most evil of things are the muhdathaat; these are the hangups or ideas people make up in their own minds that prevent them from practicing Islam as it came to the Messenger, Peace be Upon Him. Every one of these hangups (muhdathaat) are innovations/Bid'ah. And, every Bid'ah is in the hell fire.

In translation of the meaning of what Allah has said in Surah 3 Ayah 102: "O believers! Be mindful of Allah in the way He deserves, and do not die except in a state of full submission to Him."

To Proceed:

Post-October 7th, 2023, the world begins a valiant resistance against being pushed back into a state of ignorance after having witnessed the most recent set of Zionist-led crimes against humanity. On Dec. 29,  South Africa launched a case against the Zionist Occupation at the UN’s international court of justice (ICJ) charging the Zionist occupiers with genocide during it’s most recent criminal operations.

The British daily newspaper, the Guardian, reported:
 

The Imam Jamil Action Network stands in support of South Africa raising this case to the ICJ and for its call for a ceasefire. However, we call humanity to recognize the rotten heart of the true Axis of Evil that is the United States government and its allies.

The human devils making up the core of United States government, having a few centuries more experience than the fledgling Zionist colony, is committing protracted genocide against black, brown, and indigenous people. It is also this cabal of human-looking-beings that send support and arms to the Zionist Occupation in evil aid against humanity. 

The Imam Jamil Action Network invites humanity to not ignore the role of the United States government in the genocide going on in Palestine and we invite humanity to struggle to put a stop of all genocide and crimes committed by evil-doers. In the end, there is no power nor any might except with Allah. Allah is sufficient for us and the best of those on whom to depend.