Saturday, June 22, 2013

Grand Opening of Rowland Hts, California Mosque

Hat tip Investigative Project on Terrorism.


On June 22, there is a grand opening ceremony for the new mosque in Rowland Heights, the Islamic Center of San Gabriel Valley (outside of Los Angeles). Here is the announcement with a list of VIPs attending and/or speaking. I would like to highlight some of the people listed. Much of my information linked below is via the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT).


http://www.benchmarkemail.com/c/v?e=2F3859&c=1F24A&l=229C924&email=arZlI681jmNvpUF5N1O%2F4CQbCF10flyCBJcAT8xErqg%3D&relid=4C4A98B5


As for Muzammil Siddiqi, the head imam of the Islamic Center of Orange County, and Maher Hathout, all you need to do is query their names on this site, as well as IPT. I have met and interacted with both, as well as with Saheel Syed, also listed. Amir Mertaban has spoken at UC Irvine, and I was present for his talk in 2011.

Here are some links to other listed attendees/speakers.

Ahmad Sakr

http://www.ahmadsakr.com/bio.html

Yassir Fazaga

http://www.investigativeproject.org/3860/justin-trudeau-islamist-revival

Iyad Hilal

Is this the same Iyad Hilal, an Orange County grocer, who is mentioned in this IPT article referring to an article in Khalif'ornia Journal? Check out this journal in and of itself. Highly troubling.

"In California, a small group of Hizb ut-Tahrir cadres began recruiting in the early 1990s. They set up an organization in Walnut, (located in eastern Los Angeles County) called the Islamic Cultural Workshop (ICW). The organization published Khalif'ornia magazine, which later became Khalif'ornia Journal. Although ICW and the Khalif'ornia publications are no longer in existence, their writings offer the closest thing to a comprehensive body of ideological and religious literature produced by HT's American supporters."

 Comment: Located in the same general area as the new mosque.

http://www.investigativeproject.org/1095/hizb-ut-tahrir-in-america-preaching-hate-building

"The April-June 1996 edition of Khalif'ornia Journal includes a speech given at Virginia Tech University by Iyad Hilal, a Palestinian–Jordanian who immigrated to the United States in the late 1980s. A grocer living in Orange County, Caliifornia, Hilal spoke about the conflict in the Middle East. Asked about the possibility that Arafat might make peace with Israel, Hilal said it would be no more legitimate than an agreement between Hitler and Vichy France:
"Nobody nowadays can say that this agreement is legally binding upon the French people. This is so, because the agreement was signed by an occupied people or prisoners of war under the Nazi occupation. The same thing applies to the people of Palestine who signed the agreement with Israel. Legally speaking, their signature will not be binding on the others, since they are occupied. You can expect that they will sign such an agreement under pressure from their occupier (Israel.) We cannot give their signature to Israel."
Even if Palestinians were willing to compromise with Israel, "it would not be binding" on other Muslims, Hilal said, because "Those who gave away Muslim lands were not delegated by Muslims to give away those lands." Any effort to compromise with Israel, Hilal emphasized "will cause more bloodshed" in the long run"

Aslam Abdullah- Is this the same Aslam Abdullah mentioned here by IPT?

http://www.investigativeproject.org/1995/the-administrations-misguided-outreach-to-mpac

Not satisfied with blaming Israel, MPAC has frequently criticized the United States for its support of the Jewish state. In an August 2001 article entitled Accomplice in Crimes, former MPAC Vice Chairman Aslam Abdullah said that Americans shared responsibility for Palestinian suffering:
"[The United States] is a partner in the killing of people in Palestine. Our administration is responsible for giving the apartheid state a free hand in murdering people and our Congress is supportive of the criminal deeds of the racist state. Our congressmen are accomplice in heinous acts committed in the name of religion and race. The world's only superpower in coordination with the Zionist State of Israel is presiding over the ethnic cleansing of the powerless, resource less, and unarmed Palestinians."
Or here?


 "Aslam Abdullah, MPAC Vice Chairman and Editor of the MPAC-linked magazine, the Minaret, in a 2002 online forum entitled, "The Truth behind America's War on Terrorism," wrote, "[t]here are three specific lobbies that are turning the ongoing war on terrorism against Islam. The Christian Evangelicals who want to see Muslims converted, the political Zionists who want to see Muslim [sic] politically obliterated, and the Hindu Extremists who want to see Muslim [sic] humiliated…Mr. Bush and his administration have not been able to challenge these lobbies. Many members of these lobbies are in the administration and in FBI, law enforcement and even Congress."[1] (emphasis added)• MPAC "hate crime prevention coordinator" in May 2004, speaking to the Inter Press Service article reported, "The war on terror is a war, really, on a community that is being connected to the (9/11) hijackers."[2]
• In a January 2002 article in the Minaret, stated that, "[s]ince the Sept. 11 attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, the U.S. government has pursued a policy where it has targeted Islamic, Arab and Palestinian organizations and individuals, in a manner that often lacks legal legitimacy."[3]"

Mahmoud Harnoosh

Harnoosh is associated with the controversial mosque project in Temecula, California  that was bitterly contested by local residents and organizations. He has also taught at California State University in San Bernardino. Here is what Family Security Matters has to say about Harnoosh.


In summary, many of the people listed on this announcement are troubling to say the least.



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