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Why did they ban a Founding Member?

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According to the Cease-and-Desist notice sent to me on July 18, 2022, the reasons given are

Our File Reference:20243008Margaret Gomez, Assistant margaret.gomez@mross.com Direct 780.482.9264
  Fax 587.410.6924

July 18, 2024   

Dear Sir:

Re:     Trespass to Premises Act Notice to Refrain from Attending Masjid in the Park and Notice to Cease and Desist Your Harassing Conduct in Relation to Members of the Westend Islamic Society of Edmonton

We act for the Westend Islamic Society of Edmonton (“WISE”), located at 125 Broadview Drive in Sherwood Park, Alberta (“Masjid in the Park”) with respect to the above-noted matter. WISE is compelled to send you this letter via legal counsel.

Our office sends you this cease and desist letter on behalf of and further to the July 10, 2024, WISE Board (“Board”) and Administrative Committee Meeting and the July 12, 2024, emergency meeting of the WISE Board and Administrative Committee in relation to your inappropriate and persistent harassing, disruptive and disparaging communications and conduct (see below) at Masjid in the Park in relation to WISE Members.

Despite repeated requests by WISE for you to cease and desist said behaviour, including your multiple attempts to hijack the mimbar, and despite the administration’s clear and repeated instruction in public announcements before prayers indicating that there would be consequence should there be further disturbances, you continue to create disruption at a sacred place of worship—creating distress and mental anguish for WISE members and elders.

It is not acceptable for you to disrupt and create chaos during the prayers, nor to make inaccurate disparaging announcements during prayer. The Board and senior administration have duties to its congregants to provide a safe, caring, welcoming and inclusive space, including:

  • ensuring Masjid in the Park is a safe place of worship;
  • protecting WISE members from harassment, disruption and interruption during prayer; and
  • ensuring our youth and elders are not exposed to an unacceptable level of argumentation, confusion and chaos (which has been created by you).

While every attempt has been made to allow you to continue to express your opinion and to exercise your right to engage in fair critique, your highly inappropriate disrespectful tone and harassing conduct (such as your continued interruptions at Masjid in the Park) are of deep concern to the Board and senior administration such that it is now necessary to issue you this cease and desist letter.

This letter serves as a formal written demand upon you to immediately CEASE AND DESIST from attending WISE property, including Masjid in the Park, until further notice. This means you are not to attend Masjid in the Park effective today until further notice. Consider this letter formal written notice, in accordance with the Trespass to Premises Act, RSA 2000, c T-7 (the “Act”), that you may not trespass on WISE property, including Masjid In the Park.

According to the Cease-and-Desist notice sent to me on July 18, 2024, the reasons given are:

Despite repeated requests by WISE for you to cease and desist said behaviour, including your multiple attempts to hijack the mimbar, and despite the administration’s clear and repeated instruction in public announcements before prayers indicating that there would be consequence should there be further disturbances, you continue to create disruption at a sacred place of worship—creating distress and mental anguish for WISE members and elders.

Anyone who attends the Friday prayers at the Masjid in the Park knows that this pack of lies cannot stand the test of objective fact checks:

  • I have spoken only twice in the Masjid in the Park, that is, when I was not giving khutbas.
  • Both times, to inform the congregation that what was just said from the Minbar, was incorrect; it distorts sacred history and plays havoc with our religion.
  • The first time, the deviant doctor who has hijacked my Masjid/Islamic Center project together with his wife, pushed me, his son, who used to come to my home for lessons, hurled abuses at me. Everyone in congregation on that Friday witnessed this. And I did not go to the Minbar.
  • The second time, I went to the Minbar to inform the congregation that what was said in the Khutba about the revelation of the Qur’an is an aberration of the worst kind; that this account (“Allah spoke to Jibril and Jibril spoke to the Prophet”) is sacrilegious as it distorts all known history of revelation, the Lawh-e Mahfuz, the Night of Power; in fact, this is a distortion of the message of the Qur’an.
  • On this second occasion, one bulky man and another not-so-bulky man pounced on me; snatched the microphone and stood in front of me. This was witnessed by everyone in the Masjid.

The notice goes on to say:

It is not acceptable for you to disrupt and create chaos during the prayers, nor to make inaccurate disparaging announcements during prayer. The Board and senior administration have duties to its congregants to provide a safe, caring, welcoming and inclusive space, including:

  • ensuring Masjid in the Park is a safe place of worship;
  • protecting WISE members from harassment, disruption and interruption during prayer; and
  • ensuring our youth and elders are not exposed to an unacceptable level of argumentation, confusion and chaos (which has been created by you).

While every attempt has been made to allow you to continue to express your opinion and to exercise your right to engage in fair critique, your highly inappropriate disrespectful tone and harassing conduct (such as your continued interruptions at Masjid in the Park) are of deep concern to the Board and senior administration such that it is now necessary to issue you this cease and desist letter.

This manifest falsehood shows how these sickly minds operate: Notice the tone of this text, notice how Trumpish it is: “It is not acceptable for you to disrupt and create chaos during the prayers.”

Everyone knows: I HAVE NEVER DISRUPTED OR CREATED CHAOS DURING THE PRAYERS.

A Critical Question:

Why did they ACTUALLY ban me?

The REAL Reason:

  • In my presence, they cannot do spread their deviations. I sit in front of the Minbar, guarded the sanctity of the Minbar, which is a sacred trust, as every Minbar in every Masjid in the world is related to the first Minbar, that of our beloved Prophet.

Why this ban is anti-Qur’anic?

Allah Most High says in the Qur’an, Indeed, Masjids are for Allah (Q 72:18).

And the Most High, Exalted is He, says: Surely (We will punish) those who disbelieve and prevent (people) from the way of Allah and from Al-Masjid-ul-Harām (the Sacred Mosque), which We have made for all men, where residents and visitors are all equal. And whoever intends therein to commit deviation with injustice, We will make him taste a painful punishment. (Q 22:25).

Why this ban is anti-Sunnah?

Everyone knows that our beloved Prophet faced hypocrisy in Madinah. There were known hypocrites who potted against him and Islam. They event plotted to kill him, upon him blessings and peace.

Did he, Allah exalt his station, ban them?

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