This morning I just posted Fox News' article about the Students for Justice in Palestine, a bunch of college trouble makers who frequently resort to brown shirt tactics of intimidation. The article noted that a founder of SJP is none other than UC Berkeley professor Hatem Bazian, an obnoxious guy, who when he isn't complaining about so-called "Islamophobia" is on the college lecture circuit speaking against Israel. Bazian is also a national board member of American Muslims for Palestine.
http://www.ampalestine.org/index.php/about-amp/amp-national-board
Here's more on that group:
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2014/04/american-muslims-for-palestine-amp.html
One of the other board members listed is a guy named Shakeel Sayed (alternate spelling-Syed). He is based in Southern California, and as such, I have had occasion to cross paths with him from time to time. The last time Bazian spoke at UC Irvine, he was accompanied by Syed who sat in the audience and during the q and a, threw up a planted question to Bazian about the "racist and genocidal regime in Israel" or some such rot.
Syed is also the head of the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California. In that role, he was front and center at the trail of the so-called "Irvine 11", the arrogant Muslim Student Union bunch who disrupted the speech of the Israeli ambassador to the US when he spoke at UC Irvine in 2010.
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/shakeel-syed-executive-director-islamic-shura-council-southern-photo-214801284.html
He's the bald-headed guy with his back turned hugging one of the convicted MSU students.
Here's a frontal view of Syed at the trial. He's the one with the blue lipstick. To his left appears to be Salam Al Marayati, another well-known "moderate", who is head of the Muslim Public Affairs Council.
But I digress.
Syed was also the chief organizer when the Islamic Circle of North America (another "moderate"group with ties to the Jihadist Pakistani group, Jamaat e Islami) invited Amir Abdel Malik Ali and Siraj Wahhaj to speak at a ICNA benefit dinner in Yorba Linda in 2011. Ali is a regular speaker on California college campuses. He is an Oakland-based imam identified with the As Sabiqun branch, which is radical, un-American, and favors a world-wide Islamic caliphate. Their founder is the odious ex-con Abdul Alim Musa.
As for Ali, he would be offended if you called him moderate. He is most noted for his anti-Semitic rants calling prominent figures, "Zionist Jews" whether they are Jewish or not. Wahhaj is noted for rants in his Brooklyn mosque about arming black ex-cons with Uzis and calling America a "filthy garbage can".
He should know.
He was also named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the first World Trade Center bombing in New York and testified as a character witness in the defense of the "Blind Sheikh" Omar Abdel Rahman. Yet, CAIR LA chapter head Hussam Ayloush told me last November in Riverside that Wahhaj was "one of the most respected religious leaders in America" and called me an Islamophobe for bringing it all up.
But I digress.
Prior to the Yorba Linda event community leaders met with Syed, pointed out the radical ties these two speakers had, and asked him not to bring this pair to Yorba Linda. Syed angrily refused stating it was their right to bring whomever they wanted. The event proceeded and a protest ensued.
The point here is that no matter where you turn with these people and their organizations, they are all tied in with radical elements who seek to impose Islam on the rest of the world whether we want it or not. The fight against Israel is only one front. In the US, the principle battleground is on our college campuses.
And that is where we need to take a stand and fight it.
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