Siraj Wahhaj
Siraj Wahhaj
Endorse Yusef Salaam
Excerpt from an article titled "City Council candidate touts endorsement from alleged terrorist plotter in 1993 WTC bombing" dated June 24, 2023 in the New York Post:[1]
- "Yusef Salaam — one of the exonerated “Central Park Five” defendants now running for a City Council seat in Harlem — is touting an endorsement from an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
- Imam Siraj Wahhaj, 73, was identified with 170 others by U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White as one of the “unindicted persons who may be alleged as co-conspirators” in the terrorist attack which killed six people.
- Wahhaj later served as a character witness for Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman — the infamous “blind sheikh” who was convicted in 1995 of plotting terrorist attacks in the United States.
- While serving as vice president of the Islamic Society of North America, Wahhaj was “accused of urging his followers to overturn the U.S. system of government and set up an Islamic dictatorship,” according to the Department of Justice.
- In past remarks, Wahhaj has defended the convicted World Trade Center bomb plotters and disparaged the FBI and CIA as the “real terrorists.”...
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- In 2018, Wahhaj’s son — also named Siraj Wahhaj — was busted in a squalid New Mexico compound where was training young children for 'jihad' with firearms and hand-to-hand combat techniques, according to court documents.
- “The defendants in this case allegedly were preparing for deadly attacks and their targets included law enforcement and military personnel,” said Michael McGarrity, assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division at the time.
Rick Warren and ISNA
“As-salamu Alaykum. I come to you today deeply humbled and honored by this invitation. I truly mean that. I applaud your courage for inviting an Evangelical pastor. Thank you.” This was the opening statement of Rick Warren, the leading pastor of the influential Southern California Saddleback Church, as he stood in front of the attendees of ISNA’s 46th Annual Convention in July 2009.
ISNA is an American arm of the Muslim Brotherhood. It was founded in 1981 by a group of individuals which included the North American leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) Sami al-Arian.
In 2007 and 2008, ISNA was named by the United States Justice Department as a willing participant in the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas.
At the convention, Warren’s fellow speakers included: Siraj Wahhaj, an “unindicted co-conspirator” of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; Zulfiqar Ali Shah, the former South Asia Director of KindHearts, a Hamas fundraising group that was shut down by the FBI in February 2006; and Naeem Muhammad, a U.S. staff member of Islamic Relief, a “charity” that the Israeli government has claimed is a front for Hamas.[2]
Fatih Mosque, Istanbul
Hussam Ayloush June 30 2018:
It was such a pleasure to meet at Jumuah and then for lunch with so many of our beloved Imams and teachers who are attending a program in Turkey. Our community is blessed with their leadership and knowledge. Many others are missing from the photo. It was like a short lovely reunion. — with Lobna Mulla, Ahmed Soboh, Nomaan Baig, Mustafa Umar, Mohammed Ahmed Faqih, Imam Siraj Wahhaj, Emad Sabbah and Wassim Malak at Fatih Mosque, Istanbul.
Malcolm X Commemoration
February 21, 1990
Malcolm X Commemoration. The service was held at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, in New York City.
- Speakers were Calvin Butts Pastor Abyssinian Baptist Church (New York, NY),
- Benjamin Chavis, Jr. Minister United Church of Christ
- Deborah Robinson Representative National Malcolm X Commemoration Commission.
- Percy Sutton President Borough of Manhattan, NY
- Albert Vann State Representative New York, NY
- Siraj Wahhaj Imam Brooklyn, NY->Masjd At-Taqwa[3]