Maryland Imam: Goal of Jihad Is to Implement Sharia

Maryland imam: ‘Goal of Jihad is Sharia…Sharia Spread by the Sword’ 

This is the same Maryland imam being investigated for funding a Muslim ISIS supporter’s arsenal in Detroit.  via MEMRI TV

Sheikh Suleiman Anwar Bengharsa, head of the Islamic Jurisprudence Center in Clarksburg, Maryland, gave a lecture in Toronto, Canada in 2010, in which he said that Muslims could only live in the land of the infidels under certain circumstances, one of which was to do da’wa. “When the caliphate is established, you need to pack your bags and go home,” he said. In the lecture on the jurisprudence of interaction with non-Muslims, which was delivered at the Abu Huraira Center in Toronto and posted on YouTube in August 2010, Bengharsa stressed that historically, Islam had been spread by the sword and said that the purpose of Jihad is to establish the law of Allah and that while you can’t force a person to believe in Allah, “you can force him to live by the shari’a.”