Hat tip Counter Jihad Coalition and Investigative Project on Terrorism
Last night, the Muslim Legal Fund of America (MLFA) held what was termed a (virtual) "charity gala" (see announcement below). Looking at the photos of the speakers below, 4 names jumped right off the page at me. Keith Ellison, Noor Salman, Hatem Bazian, and Hassan Shibly.
Keith Ellison, of course, is a former congressman from Minnesota, the current attorney general of that state, and a friend and associate of Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam.
Hatem Bazian, a Palestinian professor at UC Berkeley, has been featured on this site more times than I can count. He has a long history of being accused of hateful statements made not only toward Israel, but against Jews as well. He is a co-founder of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), the American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), and the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Center at UC Berkeley. He is basically a two-trick pony, an advocate for the Palestinian cause and Islamophobia. When he was a student at San Francisco State University, he called for an intifada in the US. He has also been accused of telling a student audience to go and count the number of buildings on their campus named after Jews.
Hassan Shibly is a lawyer and head of CAIR in Florida. He has also been featured on this site for his own associations and statements. Here is what the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has to say about Mr. Shibly.
As for the others, Osama Abuirshaid (also spelled Abu Irshaid) is the director of American Muslims for Palestine, mentioned above. AMP is a funding arm of SJP. Here is what IPT has to say about him.
Arshia Ali-Khan is described by IPT here. She has also been associated with the Illinois Muslim Civic Coalition as a board member. Below is her photo from their website.
Ayman Aishat, aside from his current association with the MFLA, has also been associated with the Muslim American Society and the notorious Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Fairfax County, Virginia, where he has preached. He came to the US from Jordan in 1989 and was involved in legal action with the US Government over delays in granting his citizenship due to reported ties to the Holy Land Foundation Islamic charity, which he reportedly failed to disclose. The Holy Land Foundation was the subject of a criminal trial in the Northern District of Texas in 2007-2008 due to funds that were diverted to Middle East terrorist organizations.
Khalil Meek is a convert to Islam and currently serves with the MLFA. He is listed as a scheduled speaker at the annual convention for the Muslim American Society (MAS) and the Islamic Circle of North America ICNA to be held December 2020 in Chicago. These two organizations have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Jammat e Islami, a South Asian Islamist group, respectively. Here is their list of 2019 speakers, which includes a veritable all-star team of controversial including Siraj Wahhaj, Linda Sarsour, Hatem Bazian, and others. It is also noted that the aforementioned Abuirshaid spoke in 2019.
Finally, Linda Moreno is an attorney with the Constitutional Law Center for Muslims in America (CLCMA). Her bio sheet states that she has represented Sami al-Arian (former University of South Florida professor, who has been deported and now resides in Turkey.) and the chairman of the board of the Holy Land Foundation. According to IPT, the CLCMA also represented the above-mentioned Noor Salman.
All in all, an interesting cast of speakers.
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