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Jesse Curtis Morton: March 23, 2013 (I Hope to Hear from You Soon)

27 Mar

Assalamulaikum warahmatullahi wa barakatuhu:

Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, sender of the Messengers and the Revelation with them, Master of the day we die and the day we rise to be accounted for every second of our lives.

It’s been a while since I penned an article. (Available on IslamPolicy.com)- Mostly I’ve been busy memorizing and in study and other correspondence. This article is an important one about the IMF and Egypt. I also hope you might enjoy this recent interview about my situation here.

By the permission of Allah –Ta’ala- my family and I continue to persevere through this trial and I hope to be a bit more active in the coming period. Indeed it is as Shaykh al-Islam once described it,

“The one who is truly imprisoned is the one whose heart is imprisoned from Allah and the captive is the one who is a slave to his desires.”

In many ways, we prisoners are free on the inside but it would be a lie to belittle some of the environmental challenges that accompany a test like this one.

At this time, I am in need of a few minor donations in order to maintain family correspondence, acquire books and research material, and basic items for hygiene. So, I ask any of you that might be able to ease the affairs of this prisoner to assist me. To donate please email my wife or you can do so directly through Western Union’s Quick Collect Program. You can go to any location, call on the phone or go online but you must provide my [legal] name:

Name: 79274083MORTON
ATTN: Jesse Curtis Morton
City Code: FBOP 
State Code: D.C.

[Alternatively, you can send via MoneyGram Online with Receive Code (7932)]

I pray that Allah reward you all immensely and thank you for any support we may receive. We couldn’t make it without you.

Additionally, we prisoners are always in need of reminders and because I have settled in and some of the paranoia surrounding my case has subsided, it would mean the world to me were a few of you to write and send me words of encouragement. You can do so by emailing messages to my wife, islampolicy@gmail.com, or sending them direct to

Jesse Curtis Morton #79274-083
FCI Schuylkill
Federal Correctional Institution
P.O. Box 759
Minersville, PA 17954
USA

I thank the brave and courageous members of the Ummah that have overlooked the manipulations of the mainstream press, the blame of the blamers and the betrayal of fellow Muslims and continue to sustain contact through this ordeal. I pray that Allah rewards you all immensely and that He (SWT) makes a way to hasten the release of all the Muslim prisoners. I remind you that there is no might nor power except for Allah and that everything written for you will pass you by, that Allah turns tragedy into blessing if you face trials with patience and that the palaces of Kings and their dominions have passed to dust but that what remains with Allah is eternal and everlasting. I remain honored by the blessing that is Al-Islam and grateful each day for remaining a member of the Ummah of Muhammad (saws). Please remember us prisoners in your du’aa and know that we are remembering you in ours and praying for your steadfastness, success and adherence to the Sunnah. I hope to hear from you soon.

Your brother in deen,
Younus Abdullah Muhammad

(Recent article attached)

 
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Posted by on March 27, 2013 in Letters from Jesse Curtis Morton, Risala

 

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Jesse Curtis Morton: March 23, 2013 (Egypt and the IMF – An Economic Struggle for the Future of the New Middle East)

27 Mar

In the two years since the Arab Uprisings turned over the geopolitics of the Middle East, coherent outcomes have escaped concrete formulation. Debate amongst policymakers in the West tends to split analysis down traditional realist and liberal lines, but most insight has failed to acknowledge that political outcomes will ultimately be shaped by underlying economic decisions. Those decisions will have serious implications, not only for region, but for the future make-up of the global economy. Consequentially, the derivative political outcome may prove to determine whether the current unipolar order perpetuates or transitions into a balance of power system. In reality, the economic path chosen by Egyptians will largely determine the outcome of the Arab Spring and will resonate to affect the entire geopolitical order.

Egypt is the most influential country in the new Middle East. With the Arab world’s most populous nation and a political-economy in rapid deterioration, meeting the aspirations that propelled initial uprisings will depend largely on the ultimate formation of economic structures in the country. A milestone related to Egypt’s economic underbelly may have occurred recently. Almost 2 years after President Obama pledged $1 billion in debt relief and assistance, his newly appointed secretary of state, John Kerry pledged to release $250 million in aid contingent on President Morsi’s pursuit of the conditionalities necessary to secure an IMF loan. The decisions, if fulfilled, would not only cement ties between the American hegemon and the Muslim Brotherhood but would sustain and extend Egypt’s participation in an unstable and uncertain international financial order. There are substantial risks for both sides. In releasing aid now, the U.S. is essentially accepting a role for political Islam. In agreeing to IMF dictate, the Muslim Brotherhood-backed Morsi would essentially be accepting participation with an economic order many Egyptians view as contrary to their independent interests.  In reality, if economic principles endorsed by both Western and Islamic systems were advocated a great deal of cooperation and prosperity would ensue and an effective step toward an inevitable, multipolar order would be taken.     Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Posted by on March 27, 2013 in Letters from Jesse Curtis Morton, Risala

 

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29 Jan

Justice Department prosecutors turn truth on its head. They lie. They target some of America’s best and brightest. They wage war on freedom. They spurn other democratic values.

They want prominent voices silenced. They imprison or kill them. On the Progressive Radio News Hour, Professor Rodney Shakespeare praised Muhammad. He called him a powerful voice for truth.

He explained what’s wrong with predatory money power. He did it with exceptional clarity. Shakespeare said his analysis was one of the best he heard. He was targeted to silence him.


Targeting Younas Abdullah Muhammad: Washington’s war on Islam.

 
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Posted by on January 29, 2013 in Biographies

 

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Islam Policy & Revolution Muslim Founder Younes Abdullah Muhammad Pleads Guilty!

09 Feb

Younes & Abu Talhah

A Muslim thirty-three year old convert from New York,  Jesse Curtis Morton, who is also known as Younus Abdullah Muhammed, agreed to enter a plea of “guilty” at a federal court hearing in Alexandria, Virginia today (Thursday 9 February) for his role in explaining the Islamic ruling regarding those who insult the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ in response to news in 2010 that the irreverent South Park television show was planing on airing an episode depicting the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ along with other religious figures such as ‘Isa ibn Maryam عليه السلام.

The writers of South Park were afraid at the prospect that someone might take offense to their disrespectful and provocative insulting depiction of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ or other venerated figures. As a result the Federal government has charged Younus with a count of “conveying threatening communication” and other criminal charges, the U.S. Justice Department said.

Younes was arrested in Rabat, Morocco, last year and brought back to the United States and has been in custody since his arrest in Morocco in October. He faces up to 15 years in prison, and his sentencing is scheduled for 18 May 2012.

As a result of his plea agreement Younes entered threepleas of guilty to “making threatening communications”, “using the Internet to put others in fear” and “using his position as leader of the Revolution Muslim internet sites to “‘conspire’ to commit murder”. He is facing up to five years in prison for each of the three charges.

Younes worked on website postings with Zachary Adam Chesser (Abu Talhah), a Virginia man who pleaded guilty in October 2010 to sending the same “threatening communications” to the writers of South Park. He admitted that he aided Abu Talhah in April 2010 to explain the stance of Islam regarding those who insult and degrade the Prophets عليهم السلام, and the writers of South Park in particular.

Islam considers any depiction of the Prophets as offensive and mocking the religion and Rasul Allah ﷺ is a capital offense. Younes and Abu Talhah posted where the writers resided and encouraged online readers to “pay them a visit,” according to court documents. Younes worked with Abu Talhah to draft a message for the website about the South Park episode and they posted a final version of the statement on various other online forums.

Younes is also also alleged to have conspired with Abu Talhah and others to solicit the murder of an artist tied to the “Everyone Draw Mohammad ﷺ Day” movement in May 2010, including posting online a magazine that included the artist in a hit list.

Four days after the arrest of Abu Talhah in July of 2010, Younes traveled to Morocco, where his wife and her family is from. He was arrested in that country on the request of the US government in May last year and then sent back to the United States.

“Jesse Morton operated Revolution Muslim to radicalize those who saw and heard his materials online and to incite them to engage in violence against those they believed to be enemies of Islam,” U.S. Attorney Neil MacBride said in a statement.

Younes admitted that the Revolution Muslim websites contained writings of and/or contributed to the radicalization of some people, including Antonio Benjamin Martinez and Colleen R. La Rose (“Jihad Jane”) Before entering this plea Younes has written two statements from prison, the first from his cell in Morocco titled Seeking Clarification the second from his isolation unit in Virginia, A Letter to the Ummah.

Younes’ wife and lawyer comment regarding his guilty plea:

His wife made the following statement:

‘My dear brothers and sisters in Islam, Younes had no choice but agree for pleading guilty offer to three charges. They have pressed eight charges on him which made a total score of fourty years to life sentence. The case is [a] trap as usual, but this is the same method that many Muslim prisoners went through.

Wa hasbun Allahu wa ni3mal wakeel.’

Brother Younes’ lawyer James Hundley said the case against his client presented free speech issues, but that his client ultimately decided to take the plea the government offered rather than risk trial on more serious charges that could carry an even longer sentence.

‘Certainly, this case had that question: at what point are you exercising free speech and at what point are you verging into prohibited speech of a threatening or inciting nature? That was something we obviously looked at very closely. If he had rejected the plea offer, he’d be facing substantially more than 15 years’

 Please remember to support Younes and his family with your du’a. You can write to Younes at:

Jesse Curtis Morton A0153370
 Alexandria City Jail
 2001 Mill Road
 Alexandria
 VA, 22314
 
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Posted by on February 9, 2012 in News Items

 

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Jesse Curtis Morton: February 6, 2012* (A Letter to the Ummah)

06 Feb

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

I am writing this to let the ummah know that I have arrived on extradition from Morocco to the United States, while it is impossible for me to communicate at this time, I did want to express my gratitude to all of those that have assisted myself and family throughout this trial.

I have posted and an edited version of a document penned in Morocco that explains my situation, but you must know that while the conditions of Muslims incarcerated in America resembles Guantanomo at home I maintain belief both in Allah’s decree and the principle that Allah knows best what we all need. He ( Subhana wa Ta’ala) says:

مَا أَصَابَ مِن مُّصِيبَةٍ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَلَا فِي أَنفُسِكُمْ إِلَّا فِي كِتَابٍ مِّن قَبْلِ أَن نَّبْرَأَهَا إِنَّ ذَلِكَ عَلَى اللَّهِ يَسِيرلِكَيْلَا تَأْسَوْا عَلَى مَا فَاتَكُمْ وَلَا تَفْرَحُوا بِمَا آتَاكُمْ

وَاللَّهُ لَا يُحِبُّ كُلَّ مُخْتَالٍ فَخُورٍ

{No misfortune can happen on earth or in your selves but it is recorded before we bring it to existence. That is easy for Allah. In order that you may not despair in matters that pass you by, nor exult over favors bestowed to you.. }
[57.22-23]

My heart goes out to the prisoners and their families and all the muslimeen. I would still like to ask those of you that can help in any way to assist my wife and children. They can be contacted at knasri1982@gmail.com. To those of you that have assisted, then words alone do not suffice to express my gratitude. This ummah has provided me with the family I never had and it is in my love and passion for you that I grow everyday in this gift of Islam. I love you all so, so much.

The historical alterations of the last year document at once both the inspirational desire for change and the depravity of our present condition.

Allah’s messenger (SAWS) said ,” The ummah is like one body, if a part of it hurts then the whole body hurt” and one important identification to draw from recent events in the heart of the Muslim world is that it is representative of the whole; everywhere and anywhere we are in chains, shackled not so much by the external, but by an internal clash of civilizations. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Posted by on February 6, 2012 in Letters from Jesse Curtis Morton, Risala

 

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Jesse Curtis Morton: October 27, 2011 (Seeking Clarification)*

27 Oct

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

Seeking Clarification : A Reaction to my Arrest for South Park Opposition
Younus Abdullah Muhammad

واتل عليهم نبأ نوح إذ قال لقومه ياقوم إن كان كبر عليكم مقامي وتذكيري بآيات الله فعلى الله توكلت

فأجمعوا أمركم وشركاءكم ثم لا يكن أمركم عليكم غمة ثم اقضوا إلي ولا تنظ رون

And recite to them the news of Noah, when he said to his people: O my people if my stay with you and my reminding you of the Ayat of Allah is hard on you then I put my trust in Allah. So devise your plot, you and your partners, and let not your plot be in doubt for you. Then pass your sentence on me and give me no respite. [10:71]

In reaction to the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration enacted sweeping reforms that largely altered (or revealed) the American landscape. 10 years later, the world is a very different place and the American canvas has now been decorated with a colorful array of fresh sentiment and perspective; a redefined flora that has certainly altered the impressions of many onlookers and added lexicon, that includes previously unknown terms such as “Patriot Act”, “Abu Gharib”, “Rendition”, “Warrantless wiretapping”, “water boarding” and “TSA body scanner”-to name but a few. Such alterations are byproducts of a paradigm introduced as the “Global War on Terror” subsequently rebranded as the “War on Islamic Extremism” but, nevertheless, perpetuating into the foreseeable future despite, or perhaps because of, the ignorant bliss that accompanies American exceptionalism!

On May 25, 2011, I was arrested for writing a clarification statement connected to an admittedly inflammatory post on an Islamic website I ran. The post was a reaction to the announcement that the “South Park “cartoon was going to portray the prophet Muhammad, something considered sacrilegious and part of an ideological accompaniment to a comprehensive Western war on Islam. The clarification statement intended to reduce the sensationalist nature of an initial overreaction but is now being utilized by U.S.law enforcement to imprison me for something I am innocent of. As a young activist wholeheartedly opposed to the wars, the contemporary paradigm and especially the exceptionalism, I feel it is necessary to respond to the affidavit that accompanied the arrest and that is typical of the one-sided perspective and manipulative tactics that have marked what is realistically a western war on my religion. I hope that by commenting I may counter such propaganda and also add a few strokes of grey onto the contemporary canvas’s seemingly inevitable bloody horizon.  Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Posted by on October 27, 2011 in Letters from Jesse Curtis Morton, Risala

 

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Jesse Curtis Morton: September 23, 2011

23 Sep

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

All praise and thanks be to Allah, Lord of Alamin and peace be upon the master of the messengers Muhammad (SAWS). I pray that this message finds you all in the best of health and iman. As I belive all of you know, I am presently incarcerated in Morocco and awaiting extradition to the U.S. on criminal charges.

I have much to say about my situation and other events unfolding around us; nevertheless, now is not the time. I am sending this to my companions on the path because I must ask for assistance in a matter that a some of you have already assisted in and for that I thank you immensely and pray that Allah account you for it.

I must admit that I was not sufficiently prepeared for the financial ramification of my presents circumstances. Over the past few years I completed paying for a college education absent Ribaa, was thrown from Saudia Arabia suddenly on pressure from the U.S., returned in the middle of a resession to the U.S, and then relocated to Morocco, only to find myself in my condition now. In between these escapades my wife and I also had two lovely children , Abdulahaqq and Zubair, may Allah protect them. Needless to say, much of my savings are depleted.

The idea of stopping Dawa in lieu of financial difficulty or the pressure of the Kuffar never occurred to me and for that I remain grateful, but sending this e-mail in hopes that you or those around you may be able to assist my family in relocating back to U.S, yet again, to be close to me.

I believe, my dear brothers and sisters, that we are on the threshold of an immaculate Victory, and with certainty we will be tested before that Victory comes as Allah says:

ما كان الله ليذر المومنين على ما أنتم عليه حتى يميز الخبيث من الطيب

Allah will not leave the believers in the state in which you are in now until He distinguishes the wicked from the good. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Posted by on September 23, 2011 in Letters from Jesse Curtis Morton

 

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