North American Islamic scholars have issued a legal ruling or "fatwa" in the wake of Donald Trump's stunning victory and imminent presidency, instructing the faithful on what to expect and how they should respond to shifting political realities.

Changes are coming, warns the Assembly of Muslim Jurist of America, and Muslims are told to get ready. The fatwa is titled "AMJA Post-Election Statement: Principles and Roadmap."

While the fatwa received no media attention, this declaration contains the principles to which imams in the nation's more than 3,100 mosques will be looking for guidance on how to instruct their congregations.

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Philip Haney, a retired Homeland Security officer and co-author of the whistleblower book "See Something Say Nothing," said the document is loaded with coded language that signals a possible uptick in jihadist attacks during Trump's presidency.

The fatwa starts out by referring to a "political storm" that has "taken over this country."

The Islamic scholars at AMJA go on to explain that "Muslims of America are neither guests nor strangers" and they will strengthen their bonds with the country's civil rights organizations and work to defend Muslim rights "whenever needed."

"However, at the same time, we must always fulfill our obligations completely and be active participants in society working to protect the security and well-being of its inhabitants," the fatwa states.

And what are their "obligations?"

"Their obligations are set by Shariah law," Haney said.

The AMJA never had to issue such a declaration under President Obama because he gave the Muslim community everything they wanted, Haney said. Now, they are expecting to meet resistance and they are preparing the troops.

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"This whole fatwa is about fitnah," Haney said.

"Fitnah" is an Arabic word meaning "trial" or "test," which can take the form of oppression against Muslims in a society dominated by infidels. In the modern sense, "fitnah" equals "Islamophobia."

"And the whole fitnah they expect to encounter is the new administration of Donald Trump," Haney said. "That is what this whole fatwa is about, that the American Muslim community is about to encounter an intensification of what they consider Islamophobia."

The AMJA's Fatwa Committee is led by its senior member, the Egyptian-born radical Waleed Idris al-Maneese, imam of al-Faroq mosque in Bloomington, Minnesota, which has been attended by at least five Somali refugees who ended up being terrorists, as previously reported by WND.

The fatwa committee never mentions Trump by name, but it's clear who they are talking about. They quote the Quran to reiterate that they themselves are the proper authorities to which all American Muslims should look for guidance in the coming days of trial.

"They're laying the groundwork on the response to this fitnah," says Haney. And what is the response?

While they don't come right out and say it, the language of the directive will be understood by Muslims to mean that violent jihad could be within the realm of what is expected of them in the fight against the Trump-led fitnah or "oppression," Haney said.

The threat is made with the following statement:

"There is no blame upon a country if it does what is needed to protect its interests and security as long as it does not transgress or oppress by denying or violating rights."

Of course under Islamic law, where Muslims are able to rule, the government tramples all over people's "rights," especially those of Christians, Jews and other religious minorities. But in a Western democracy where Muslims are the minority, it helps further the cause of Islam to play the victim and claim to be "oppressed."

"Osama Bin Laden was always talking about oppression," Haney said. "These are capital offenses in Islam," he added, as long as it is non-Muslims who are doing the oppressing. Otherwise it is expected that Muslims should oppress and subjugate non-Muslims where Muslims have the upper hand in a Muslim-majority society.

The fatwa continues by stating that Islam, with respect to its beliefs and legal foundations, is "unalterably fixed. It does not accept any replacement for change."

That's a warning to any moderates within the Islamic community, that they have no standing to make any claims on behalf of Islam, Haney said.

"What about all this talk about moderate Muslims? This is AMJA telling you there is no conceivable flexibility in Islam, it's fixed, it will not change," he said. "This ruling or fatwa is to accommodate anybody through any time or place, that's why AMJA exists, to help Muslims in this non-Muslim community navigate the challenges of fitnah under Donald Trump."

The fatwa states that only the AMJA can be trusted to represent the face of Islam in America:

"One must refer to the people of knowledge to know that the principle is being applied properly. A Muslim must comply with his faith and refer confusing or troublesome matters to the well-grounded scholars. AMJA is of the view that there has yet to occur – and they do not expect to occur – a situation in which one is required to flee with one’s faith or wherein one is excused from performing some parts of the faith’s teachings."

"They're telling the people you have to comply with the parameters of Shariah law," Haney explains. "They're telling Muslims, 'we're about to go down into a danger zone, so don't go off on your own, you must listen to the enlightened ones.'

"They're saying we're not at that point yet where you need to flee. They're telling you you're not excused from observing Shariah law and we are telling you now you are obligated to keep it. You will flee America before you compromise with Shariah law. "

The fatwa exhorts Muslims to "reach out to the other ethnic and religious group as well as political movements on the left and right. This will be the only way to stop those who deal in hate."

The fatwa authors then re-emphasizing that Muslims must double down and support civil rights organizations, which signals that the Muslim community plans to step up its filing of lawsuits against governments and businesses that do not continue the Obama-era policies of affording special rights and privileges to Muslims and mosques that practice Shariah.

Without naming them, the call for donations is clearly directed at lining the coffers of the Council on American-Islamic Relations or CAIR, which is an offshoot of the extremist Muslim Brotherhood, identified as a co-conspirator in funding Hamas terrorists in the Holy Land Foundation trial of 2007.

The fatwa states:

"From among the most important obligations during this stage is to support those institutions and organizations that serve the Muslim community, such as those interested in defending freedoms, civil rights and political activism, those dedicated to social services and relief, and those dedicated to dawah, religious instruction and providing religious rulings. "It is most unbelievable that there are some who cry over the state of the community and then they are too stingy to donate their time or money to such organizations. Worse than that are those who are even too stingy to pray for them or give them a kind word. But the worst of all are those who seek to destroy such organizations."

'Prepare for any possibility'



Haney said this is perhaps the most revealing segment of the fatwa.

"They're telling you the whole structure of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States right there, and when you see it it's as clear as day," he said. "And they're saying it is your obligation to support them."

They see oncoming time of trial or Islamophobia as a test but that doesn’t alleviate the consequences for those people who are causing the difficulties for Muslims.

"That last line, where it says, 'But the worst of all are those who seek to destroy such organizations' is very revealing," Haney said. "That is directed at those who go around trying to get CAIR out of our police departments, out of the FBI and out of our military. This could include Congress itself if they designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. This is the worst kind of fitnah, and what is the fate of those people? Jihad."

The last admonition in the fatwa is perhaps the most chilling.

"No one knows the unseen except Allah. It is possible that an individual hates something while Allah has placed a lot of good for him in it. We must prepare for any possibility while hoping for the best outcomes."

This comes directly from the Quran.

"The thing you hate you may have to do," Haney says. "Devout Muslims know when they hear that phrase what it means. So it's written in shorthand for those who know what it means."

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Flurry of lawsuits, activism on the way

So Haney, the career DHS officer who developed a database that could predict jihad attacks only to see it deleted from the DHS system by the Obama administration, expects to see an uptick not only in terrorist activity under the Trump administration. He believes America Muslims are also going to become more Shariah compliant.

"And that will spill over into the courts," he said. "We will see more lawsuits filed, more allegations of hate crimes, hijab ripping, mosque defiling, and all those other things they consistently harp on are going to go up, because they see them as catalysts that reinforce this fatwa. They are going to be hyper-sensitive as a community to any perceived offense, because they are going into this new administration with the expectation that Trump is going to be oppressive, that they're going to suffer, in other words an increase in Islamophobia, which is all fitnah is.

"So you're going to hear the drumbeat of islamophobia louder and louder and it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. Because if Trump actually does designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terror organization, then AMJA is going to be one too, because they are a front for the Brotherhood that provides the guidance."

"It will edge them closer to violence because they're told they must comply with the principles of Shariah and fitnah, and when you're presented with the fitnah you must fight against it," he said.

Haney believes the AMJA fatwa should be studied by the Trump administration as he believes it telegraphs the Muslim leaders' plan to "set the stage" for a new level of activism and violence.

The AMJA is not just an American organization. It's a part of the global Islamic hierarchy.

"They come to these fatwa decisions after consulting with their brethren around the world. This is not an independent organization," he said. "It's a global consortium that speaks in a unified voice, and they wrote this fatwa specifically about their expectation of fitnah with the election, but did it in consultation with the global community of Islamic scholars."

"It is a declaration," he added. "They are telling the community how to respond to the new administration, and what they should do. This is a paramilitary declaration, a clarion call to the minutemen, 'the British are coming, the British are coming' and they are expecting an open confrontation and telling them in advance that those trying to shut these organizations [like CAIR] down are the worst."