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CAIR and Wahhaj
October 20, 2009 by Bo Perrin
CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) has claimed to be a moderate Islamic group which had intimate ties with various Congresspeople as well as the FBI. Nevertheless, the Muslim Mafi, released this week, provides irrefutable evidence that CAIR is a terrorist front for the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt. Even if this book had not provided irrefutable evidence the people whom CAIR keeps company is a good indication that they are anything but moderate.
CAIRs 15th Annual Banquet was October 16th, 2009 and the two key-note speakers were Jesse Jackson and Iman Siraj Wahhaj. Jesse Jackson is simply a fool but Wahhaj is a different story.
Iman Wahhaj was a unindicted person who may be alleged as co-conspirators in the 1993 World Trade bombing and who has intimate ties with the Blind Sheik who was indicted and convicted for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. In addition, Iman Wahhaj calls for Muslims to rise up and create the Islamic Nation of North America by 2050. Finally, he also prostetizes youngs blacks in prison with firey speechs about fundamental Islam to convert more angry young people to his cause.
CAIR is not moderate and needs to be outlawed as a terrorist front.
A radical New York imam who was once investigated as a possible co-conspirator in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center will share the stage Saturday night as a featured guest and speaker when the Council on American-Islamic Relations celebrates its 15th anniversary in Washington.
Siraj Wahhaj, imam of the Masjid Al-Taqwa mosque in Brooklyn, N.Y., became the first Muslim to lead the opening prayer in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1991. Four years later, he was a character witness for Omar Abdel-Rahman, the so-called blind sheik convicted of conspiring to bomb the World Trade Center in 1993. Although Wahhaj was never charged, then-U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White identified him in 1995 in a list of unindicted persons who may be alleged as co-conspirators.
Stephen Schwartz, executive director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism, a Washington-based think tank, calls Wahhaj one of the most prominent and strident African-American Islamic preachers in America.
Hes a hatemonger, theres no question about it, Schwartz said. Hes the No. 1 advocate of radical Islamic ideology among African-Americans. His stuff is very appealing to young Muslims who are on a radical path. Schwartz identified Wahhaj born in New York as Jeffrey Kearse as a leading radical Islamist in Black America, Prisons and Radical Islam, a 2008 report by his organization. According to the report, which cited Federal Bureau of Prisons figures, some 175 titles of Wahhajs literature were found in prison libraries that year. Schwartz said Wahhajs writings seek to radicalize Muslims behind bars, particularly African-Americans. Saturdays speech, he said, will likely appeal to Muslims who feel theyve been targeted recently by conservatives.
Hell get up and say American Muslims are under attack, that their civil rights are being denied, Schwartz said. Hell say that anybody who questions the community of these Muslim groups, that theyre agents of the Zionists. Hell say that the criticism of CAIR, and of him, is all racism, the evil work of the Zionists and the media, and hell say that American should get out of Afghanistan and any involvement in the Muslim world.
CAIRs banquet, Leading the Change: 15 Years of Service, will be held Saturday night at the Marriott Crystal Gateway in Arlington, Va., just across the Potomac River from the Pentagon, where 125 people died during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization, said foreign affairs and lessons learned from the civil rights movement are potential issues to be covered at the event, which will be closed to the press although members of the press are welcome to buy a $65 ticket and attend as guests.
You can buy a ticket, Hooper said. Fox is free to come and harass us if you want.
Asked what Wahhaj and Jackson plan to say in their speeches, Ibraham characterized the inquiries as attempts to make an ordinary dinner a reason to tarnish us or harass us.
At some point, Hooper said, it becomes a level of harassment when were trying to exercise our civil rights as Americans.
Multiple calls seeking comment from Jackson and Wahhaj, who was said to be traveling this week in advance of the banquet, were not returned.
Wahhaj, a former member of the Nation of Islam who reportedly once called the FBI and CIA the real terrorists, denied any involvement in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Law enforcement has never come to me and asked me any questions about any of these allegations, Wahhaj told Foxnews.com last year. I have never participated in any planning against this nation.
Steven Emerson, executive director of The Investigative Project on Terrorism, said Wahhaj told a group of Muslims in New Jersey in 1992 that they could take over the country and institute a caliphate if they united.
Brothers and sisters, if we unite, nobody can stop us, Wahhaj said, according to material provided by Emerson. You wouldnt have to vote for Bush or Clinton If we were united and strong, wed elect our own emir and give allegiance to him.
Take my word, [if] 6 to 8 million Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us. Strong Muslims, strong and free, firm believers in Allah, Im telling you, the rest of the world will come to the Muslims.
Emerson said Wahhaj, whom he described as a full-fledged radical, will tone down his rhetoric on such a stage.
Hell obviously be careful, Emerson said. They know hes being watched. Hell talk about how CAIR is under attack, Muslims are under attack, his typical spiel.
Louay Safi, director of communications and leadership development at the Islamic Society of North America, defended Wahhaj, a former member of the groups board of directors, as a sought-after speaker among Muslim circles.
Hes a very popular motivational speaker, Safi told Foxnews.com. The sad thing is that the public is only allowed to see him through the veil of an unindicted co-conspirator. He has been charged in the press.
Safi urged Wahhajs critics to consider context while reviewing his controversial statements in the past.
Remember, he is a motivational speaker, he continued. If you take statements by anyone, from the president to congressmen to anyone else, you can take one sentence out of context.
Safi also credited Wahhajs work in revitalizing the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, where in 2003, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz declared Aug. 15 Imam Siraj Wahhaj Day in honor of a lifetime of outstanding and meaningful achievement.
Hes done a lot of good work in his community, clearing the area of drug addicts and trying to foster a great sense of community, Safi said. Hes done a lot of good work in the New York area."
Source: Fox News
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