Hussam Ayloush at UC Irvine

On November 19, CAIR Southern California director Hussam Ayloush gave a presentation on Syria at UC Irvine. I didn't know about it, so I didn't attend. After reading about it in the campus paper, New University, I decided to send in my comment to the online edition.

http://www.newuniversity.org/2013/11/news/syrias-war-and-uci/


Last week, Ayloush spoke at the super-progressive Universalist Unitarian Church in Riverside on Syria. What he didn't cover was the fact that Syrian Christians are fleeing for their lives, mostly  from the Syrian rebel forces. Many have been killed, but Ayloush couldn't even bring himself to talk about that in a Christian church. (Not that this particular audience much cared.)

During the q and a, I asked him why he didn't address that. I also asked him why CAIR had as a featured speaker at their annual convention in Anaheim the previous week, Siraj Wahhaj, a NY-based imam, who has referred to America as a "filthy garbage can", repeatedly advocated the Islamic takeover of America and testified as a character witness in the trial of Omar Abdel Rahman, the so-called Blind Sheikh, who was convicted of plotting bombings in NYC.

In his "answer", Ayloush skipped over the massacre of Syrian Christians by saying that all ethnic groups in Syria including Christians were fighting against Assad. As for Wahhaj, he called him "one of the most respected religious leaders in America", (a hoot) was obligated to testify truthfully in court, and that in the same "garbage can" statement, Wahhaj told his listeners not to be bitter, but to be loyal to America. Of course, Ayloush concluded his "answer" by calling me a bigot and Islamophobe. That is what he does. He did the same thing at the above-mentioned CAIR convention when an interviewer asked him if he or CAIR would condemn Hamas. (They never will). Ayloush stormed off in a huff calling the interviewer an Islamophobe.

I don't believe anything this man says.
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It seems that not all of the Syrian-American students in the UCI audience agreed with Ayloush's assessment of the situation in Syria.

I am in the process of posting the above-referenced appearance by Ayloush in Riverside along with the video.