“Now, once you’re considered ‘food,’ that means you’re ‘food’ for all the Bloods factions, not just the faction that is targeting you. The source explained that the Bloods consider themselves as “dogs,” and that anyone with whom they have a conflict is “food.” But the Bloods have declared them as ‘food,’” said the source. So they can’t reach out to him to resolve it. “They don’t know who the father of the boy is. So, if they get caught with a gun inside an MCP car, the city will probably shut those cars down.”Īnother problem for Muslim Patrol is that they don’t know exactly which Bloods faction is targeting them. Second, they’re going to be armed and that’s illegal in New York City. “First, they don’t want the Bloods targeting them while they sit in a marked MCP car. “There are two reasons for that,” the source said.
And those mosques are friends with Siraj Wahhaj at the Taqwa masjid,” the source said.Īs a precaution against expected Bloods violence, Muslim Patrol members have been instructed to sit in their “civilian” cars, rather than their patrol cars, outside the three mosques. The Farooq and Khalifah mosques sit between the home of those gangstas. They’re one of the most dangerous in Brooklyn. The anticipated violence against the Al-Farooq and Khalifah mosques is attributed more to “bad location” than any offense the mosques may have caused the Bloods. We must be protected.”īloods retaliation is expected not only against the Taqwa mosque but two other Brooklyn mosques as well, Masjid Al-Farooq on Atlantic Avenue and Masjid Khalifah on Madison Street.
We have to protect the Masjid by whatever means necessary. “You got to arm yourself, so we are going to be armed. “We can’t close the Masjid,” Karim reportedly stated. The idea was quickly dismissed by Ali Karim, who serves directly under the mosque’s radical imam, Siraj Wahhaj. Some Taqwa mosque members suggested the mosque be closed until the threat passed. “And he attended the Masjid, so that was good enough for them.” “The Bloods picked him because they couldn’t find an MCP officer that night,” the source said. Though the Muslim who was attacked did not work for Muslim Community Patrol, he did attend the Taqwa mosque, which has been deploying marked cars made to look like NYPD patrol vehicles in the Brooklyn area. “They told the women not to go outside after dark because they don’t want anything to happen to them.” “They (the mosque leaders) held a meeting, and they asked all Muslims who attend Masjid Taqwa and who own guns to come in armed,” the source said. “They knew it was coming,” said one member, who asked not to be identified. Leaders at the Taqwa mosque were not surprised by Saturday’s retaliation against one of its members by the Bloods. “This is going to be a showdown,” said one witness. One member of the Bloods, however, turned toward the Taqwa mosque and told the Muslim Patrol members, “This is not over.