Revolution Muslim

Revolution Muslim (RM) was an organization based in New York City that advocated the establishment of a traditionalist Islamic state through the removal of the current rulers in Muslim-majority nations and an end to what they consider "Western imperialism". It was founded in 2007 by two American men, one of them Jewish, who had converted to Islam.

They operated both on their website "RevolutionMuslim.com" and through street preaching and protests. They frequently protested outside the Islamic Cultural Center of New York, a moderate Muslim mosque.

The website was eventually shut down on November 2010, shortly after the arrest of one of the leaders. One of the leaders announced the group was reforming as a new organization called "Islam Policy", to be a think tank on Islamic issues. He was operating the website for Islam Policy from Morocco.

By November, 2013, Younis Abdullah Muhammad, Zachary Adam Chesser and Yousef Al-Khattab—the organization's leaders—had all been arrested and convicted in US courts. Although Muhammad occasionally posts to the Islam Policy website from prison, the arrests can be seen as considerably weakening the organization. On May 23, 2015, it was announced on the Islam Policy website that Muhammad had been released from imprisonment.

The group of 5–10 members was co-founded in 2007 and run by two American converts to Islam, Yousef al-Khattab (born Joseph Leonard Cohen) and Younes Abdullah Mohammed (Jesse Morton), who said their spiritual leader was Abdullah al-Faisal. Khattab had been born to a secular Jewish family from Queens in New York City. He later became an Orthodox Jew and moved to Israel, where he studied at an Orthodox rabbinical school. After returning to New York, he converted to Islam about 2000. he is said to have worked driving a taxi, operating a pedicab, or running a restaurant. At that time, he took the Arab name, Yousef al-Khattab. Morton, a Columbia University graduate, was a friend of Cohen's. As he embraced Islam, he took the name Younes Abdullah Mohammed. The group promoted propaganda against the United States, Jews, Israel and others on its website, including moderate Muslims. The website was largely run by member Jesse Curtis Morton, aka Younes Abdullah Mohammed, a New York resident, but other contributors were from outside New York.

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