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Islamic Society of North America

Siraj Wahhaj has served as Vice President of Islamic Society of North America

Siraj Wahhaj Endorses Yusef Salaam

Siraj Wahhaj endorses 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.

Board of Directors/Staff

From the Islamic Society of North America website as of July 3, 2023:[2],[3]

Board of Directors

Staff

References

  1. ↑ City Council candidate touts endorsement from alleged terrorist plotter in 1993 WTC bombing (accessed July 3, 2023)
  2. ↑ Board of Directors (accessed July 3, 2023)
  3. ↑ Staff (accessed July 3, 2023)
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