Shaykh Hisham Kabbani
The threat of ISIS seems to be omnipresent, including here in Michigan.
The FBI tells the Free Press it's aware of an ISIS threat against Shaykh Hisham Kabbani, who is Sufi Muslim and a prominent Muslim-American religious leader in the Flint-area known for criticizing extremism.
Niraj Warikoo of the Freep reports that ISIS claims Hisham Kabbani, 71, of Fenton (pictured here), and other leaders like him in the West are not true Muslims. The claims come in the organization's latest online issue of its magazine.
ISIS claims that Kabbani is one of five Muslim-American religious leaders and scholars who should be killed because they are "apostates" and "crusaders" who have deviated from Islam, the Freep reports.
Additionally, ISIS says five Muslim-American politicians or government officials also should be killed, including two who are former Michigan residents: U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., and Huma Abedin, a close aide to Hillary Clinton, the Freep reports.
"We are aware of the information, but beyond that, we are not commenting at this time," Detroit FBI spokesperson Jill Washburn, tells the Freep.
