CAIR’s New Project: Abdullah Beard
Samantha Rose Mandeles
October 05, 2018
Was Abdullah Beard the victim of anti-Muslim police brutality?
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On Thursday, September 13th, tragedy struck a Detroit family when a gunman murdered five-year-old Isabella Coleman and severely wounded her young mother, Dejiza Coleman, as they lay in bed. The subsequent investigation led Detroit law enforcement to raid a nearby house in the early hours of the morning on the 14th. By the end of the operation, Detric Driver—a local man who’d been perched on the living room couch—had been fatally shot by police. Police body-camera footage showed that Driver was holding an AR-15-style rifle when police entered the house.
Years earlier, Driver converted to Islam, changed his name to Abdullah Abdul Muhiman (and was more often known by the nickname “Dullah Beardâ€), and joined a national Islamist group called Ummah. Led by former Black Panther Jamil Abdullah al-Amin (otherwise known as H. Rap Brown)—who is still serving his life sentence in Colorado's Supermax prison for killing a police officer—Ummah’s goal was to establish an Islamic state inside the U.S. In 2009, 11 members of Ummah—including Dullah Beard and local violence-preaching imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah—were charged with conspiracy to commit federal crimes and arrested. (Beard entered a ‘Guilty’ plea in his plea agreement, and was sentenced to prison for time served plus two years of supervised release.)
https://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/blog/october-2018/cair%E2%80%99s-new-project-abdullah-beard
