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JESSE JACKSON HEADLINE SPEAKER AT CAIR BANQUET

by

Paul L. Williams, Ph.D.

thelastcrusade.org

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced on Friday that Rev. Jesse Jackson will be headlining their annual banquet next Saturday. He will be sharing the stage with 1993 World Trade Center bombing un-indicted co-conspirator Siraj Wahaj.

The event will take place on Saturday, October 24, at the Marriott Crystal Gateway in Arlington, Virginia.

Rev. Jackson is revered throughout the Muslim world for his pro-Islamic stance, his condemnation of the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and his inflammatory remarks against Jews and Zionists.

On one occasion, Rev. Jackson referred to Jews and “Hymies” and to New York City as “Hymietown.”

On another occasion, he said that he was “sick and tired of hearing about the Holocaust” and that there are “very few Jewish reporters that have the capacity to be objective over Arab affairs.”

In the wake of 9/11, Rev. Jackson called Attorney General John Ashcroft a terror “suspect” and decried the waving of the American flag to support the war on terror.

It’s a small wonder to many observers that CAIR has opted to embrace him.

CAIR is allegedly America’s largest Muslim “civil liberties” and “advocacy” organization.

It has been charged with serving as a front for Islamic terror groups.

In 2008, the FBI severed its ties to CAIR after the organization was formally charged with funneling large caches of cash to HAMAS.

Several CAIR officials, according to Andrew C. McCarthy have been charged or deported for terror-related activities and assorted criminal offenses.

Siraj Wahaj, a revered figure for many Muslim Americans, will chair the podium with Rev. Jackson.

Mr. Wahaj is the imam of Masjid al-Taqwa at 1226 Bedford Street in Brooklyn, a mosque that reportedly supports a well-trained Sadr army. The fiery imam has been named an un-indicted co-conspirator in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

In one of his sermons, Wahaj announced that the “real terrorists” are the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency. In another, he said, “In time, this so-called democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing. And the only thing that will remain will be Islam.” He proclaimed that a society governed by strict Islamic law, in which adulterers are stoned to death and apostates beheaded, would be vastly superior to American democracy.

To a Muslim audience in New Jersey, Wahaj advocated the idea of Muslims forming a coup to take control of the federal government. “If we are united and strong,” he said, “we’d elect our own emir [leader] and give allegiance to him. Take my word for it, if six to eight million Muslims united in America, the country will come to us.”

His so-called “moderate” interpretation of the Qu’ran became clear by this remark: “If Allah says 100 strikes, 100 strikes it is. If Allah says cut off their hand, you cut off their hand. If Allah says stone them to death, through the Prophet Muhammad, then you stone them to death, because it’s the obedience of Allah and his messenger — nothing personal.”

Wahaj informed an audience of black women wearing Muslim head coverings in Orlando, Fla., that Islam condones a man’s marrying up to four wives, and that this rule, when introduced in the seventh century, served as a restriction on arrangements involving even more wives per husband.

The CAIR event has drawn little ink but it testifies to the strengthening ties between black activists and radical Islam – - a relationship that was formed in 1964 by Malcolm X.