Al-tamimi family

Al tamimi & company
Ali at-Timimi is one of a small group of highly educated, second generation immigrant Islamic activists who were born and raised in the United States.
Ali Mohsen Hudal Al Tamimi (Arabic: علي التميمي, born 1975 in Baghdad) is an Iraqi politician and former governor of Baghdad.

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Ali al-Tamimi

American Muslim preacher (1963–present)

Ali Al-Tamimi (also Ali Al-Timimi; born December 14, 1963) is an American computational biologist and Islamic teacher from Fairfax County, Virginia, who was convicted of solicitingtreason and attempting to contribute services to the Taliban based on comments he is alleged to have made to a group of followers at a private dinner shortly after 9/11.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] He was subsequently sentenced to life in prison in 2005. His direct appeal has not yet completed and has been pending for more than nineteen years. Al-Timimi was held in solitary confinement for more than fifteen years including over a decade under special administrative measures at the maximum securityUnited States Penitentiary ADX Florence, Colorado. In August 2020, the district court ordered his conditional release into home confinement pending appeal after concluding that his case raised substantial legal issues.^[5]^[6]

Early life and education

Al-Timimi was born in 1963 and grew up in the Pal

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The Education of Ali Al-Timimi

Global

Describing him as a “rock star” of Islamic fundamentalism in the United States, the government sent an American Muslim scientist to prison for life. But has justice been served?

By Milton Viorst

Back in the late seventies Ali al-Timimi used to hang around our house with my son Nick. They were twelve or thirteen, classmates at a very liberal, heavily Jewish, private day school that was founded by New Dealers when the public schools in Washington were still segregated. Small and slight for their age, both were outsiders. They went to rock concerts and drank beer together, and to this day Nick acknowledges the comfort the friendship brought him as they faced the burdens of intruding adolescence.

Soon after Nick entered high school, Ali went off with his parents to Saudi Arabia, and the two never met again. A year ago Nick called me to say he had learned from the newspapers that Ali had been sentenced to life in prison for what the FBI described as recruiting followers after 9/11 to prepare for an anti-American jihad

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'Ali at-Tamimi was born in 1963 in Washington DC. He grew up at a time when they were not many Muslims in the Washington DC area.In 1978, when Ali was about 15 years old, his parents moved to Saudi Arabia. Since 'Ali did not speak Arabic, he attended a private school that was divided into two sections, Arabic and English. In Ali’s second year in the School in Riyadh, the school hired a man by the name of Bilal Philips to teach Islamic Studies in English. This was another turning point in 'Ali’s life. The young Canadian Bilal Philips was a recent graduate of the Islamic University in Madinah. Philips — who would later become one of the most well known Islamic lecturers in the English speaking world — taught his young students directly from his own university class notes. Philips stressed the importance of following the Sunnah and not blindly following a personality or culture. He taught them the importance of supporting any Islamic arguments by evidences from Qur'an or Hadeeth. In a short period of time, the amount of knowledge the students amassed was massive. The Canadian teacher