As the Clarion Project wrote about yesterday, an imam in Maryland has been arrested for involvement in a pro-Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorist plot, but he’s been on our radar for months.

We published the first article exposing him in July, prompting his mosque to label us as “anti-Islamic,” a rather dangerous label to have placed upon you by an ISIS supporter with over 1,000 Facebook “likes.”

We can now publicly reveal from our Muslim sources that the cleric threatened a Muslim woman who criticized his extremism. The preacher, Imam Suleiman Anwar of the Islamic Jurisprudence Center (who is also known by his actual name of Suleiman Bengharsa), also sent her a “letter to America” that expressed his solidarity with ISIS, Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, perhaps by accident.

The imam was not just talking to himself. Our Muslim sources provided us with information prior to his arrest about supporters of his outside of Maryland who discussed fundraising for him, despite their disagreements with some of his opinions.

The imam denied supporting ISIS to the Detroit News, but the FBI and his own private messages tell a different story. Below is the message he sent to the Muslim who dared to directly challenge him:

When he calls on Allah to harm her “in this world,” he is expressing a desire for her to be harmed unless she changes her ways. It is Islamist verbiage that falls just shy of a direct death threat.

He then sent to her—perhaps accidentally—a letter to America that he did not publicly post that made it clear he was on the side of ISIS.

Imam Suleiman Anwar wasn’t reckless enough to directly endorse the Islamic State by name, but he clearly acknowledged their declared “caliphate” as legitimate and praised its terrorism against the U.S. and Europe. There is no other way to interpret his statements.

The Clarion Project provided this information and additional details to the proper authorities.

We cannot say what kind of a role our information played in foiling the radical cleric’s alleged plot, if any. But we can say that our stance against Islamism has not precluded us from having valuable Muslim allies who are eager to help protect all of us.