US jury convicts 4 Somali men of terrorist support

[Jeebus]

A federal jury in San Diego on Friday convicted four Somali immigrants — including an imam from a local mosque — of conspiring to funnel money to a terrorist group in their native country.

Those convicted Friday include 40-year-old Mohamed Mohamed Mohamud, who prosecutors said used his connections as a popular imam at a mosque in San Diego's City Heights neighborhood to raise money for the group.

The other defendants were two San Diego taxi drivers, 36-year-old Basaaly Saeed Moalin and 56-year-old Issa Doreh, and 37-year-old Ahmed Nasir Taalil Mohamud of Anaheim, whose financial transfer business Shidaal Express was used to route the money, prosecutors said.

Government attorneys played tapes of telephone calls, many of them between Moalin and the late Aden Hashi Ayrow, who was among the top leaders of al-Shabaab until he was killed in missile strike in May 2008. On the tapes, Ayrow can be heard telling Moalin it was "time to finance the jihad" and "you are running late with the stuff, send some and something will happen."

I for one am shocked that an imam from a mosque was involved in terrorist activities. He must have misunderstood that Islam is the religion of peace.

[SteamChief]

You appear to have such a narrow view of thing, You need to broaden your understanding of religions. I believe there are a few Christian groups who have in the past killed others for the sake of their beliefs.
I even think some of the Imam's in Christianity have caused harm to small children.

Not to pick on Christians, also read about the official Saudi version of Islam, not a nice bunch.

Tolerance.