PROCLAMATION OF THE ITALIAN MUSLIM ASSOCIATIONmailto:info@amislam.com
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Tuesday, December 2, 2003
As-salamu `alaykum wa rahmat-Ullahi wa barakatuH
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Brother Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, a pro-dialogue anti-fundamentalist Muslim journalist from Bangladesh, was arrested at the airport while leaving for Israel and is presently detained.
We attach the text of a recent article of his and ask all of you to support our courageous brother Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury with your supplications.
The Board of Governors of the Italian Muslim Association asks the authorities of Bangladesh for the immediate liberation of our detained brother.
Wa-s-salamu `alaykum wa rahmat-Ullahi wa barakatuH
Sheikh Professor Abdul Hadi Palazzi
Director,
Cultural Institute of the Italian Islamic Community
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Muslim Co-Chairman,
Islam-Israel Fellowship,
Root & Branch Association, Ltd.
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PROF. PALAZZI ON THE DETENTION OF THE BANGLADESHI JOURNALIST, CHOUDHURY
Note: It has recently come to our attention that Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, who we thought shared our pro-Israel sentiments for noble reasons, has been opportunistically defrauding at least two of his devoted Jewish supporters.
He exploited their passion for Zionism. This has been going on for a year and a half, as far as we know. He borrowed large sums of money from these women that he never repaid. To get their funds, he made up a business that never existed, stated that he was working with businessmen who did not exist either but whose emails he fabricated, put up as collateral a business he claimed to have but did not have, and wrote a counterfeit check.
He has been formally charged by the New York Police Department with Grand Larceny via Fraud. The commerce ambassador of the Bangladesh embassy said that Shoaib Choudhury was known in Bangladesh as a "total fraudster, liar and cheat."
Root and Branch has disseminated (via e-mail) the following Proclamation in the matter of the journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, who was arrested in Bangladesh when he was about to travel to Israel.
The Proclamation was released by Prof. Palazzi, and is consistent with the statements made by Prof. Palazzi in his interview with IsraPundit.