Mixed Reaction to Imam Damrah Arrest

Cleveland area Muslims have been jolted by the arrest of Fawaz Damrah, Imam of the Grand Mosque, for violating immigration laws by concealing ties to terrorist organizations. Some civic leaders in the Arab-American and Muslim communities, usually defenders of Damrah, are now silent. Some feel that the Muslim community needs new and moderate representation.

But, not Haider Alawan, a member of the mosque's council of elders, who believes that Damrah is "being framed by Zionists for supporting a Palestinian homeland and perhaps inadvertently supporting groups wrongly labeled terrorist." He says he doesn't know who or where the Zionists are, but he loves the Hezbollah.

It might be worthwhile to take a good look at Haider Alawan.