Ali al-Tamimi
Ali al-Tamimi is an American Islamic scholar. On April 26, 2005 he was convicted in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria, Virginia of soliciting others to levy war against the United States and inducing others to use firearms in violation of federal law. Soon after the September 11, 2001 attacks he told small group of young Islamic men to join the Taliban and fight the United States.
Al-Tamimi was born in Washington DC and raised a Catholic by his parents who worked at the Iraqi embassy. When he was 15 his parents moved to Saudi Arabia where he became interested in Islam. On returning to the US two years later he attended The George Washington University and University of Maryland, College Park. He received a doctorate in computational biology from George Mason University.
He lectured often at the Center for Islamic Information and Education in Falls Church, Virginia. He was a founding member of the Center also known as Dar al-Arqam. It was here that in September 2001 he told others to join the Taliban. He has yet to be sentenced, but the firearms charges carry a mandatory life sentence.
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