Sayed Hassan AlQazwini
Sayed Hassan AlQazwini is leader of the Dearborn Michigan based Islamic Center of America (ICOA) and was a founder of the Young Muslim Association.
Early life
Born in Karbala, Iraq Qazwini's family moved to Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. After a religious education in Iran, Qazwini followed his family to the U.S. in 1992.
Cheering Farrakhan
According to Michigan journalist Debbie Schlussel, who went undercover in Qazwini's mosque[1];
- In 1998, the mosque hosted Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who delivered a long hate-filled rant against Jews and Christians (and in praise of Saddam Hussein). When Farrakhan called Jewish Americans “forces of evil” with a “Satanic mentality.” Imam Qazwini and his congregants gave him a standing ovation. That’s not to mention that the Imam and other Muslim officials introduced Farrakhan as “our dear brother” and “a freedom fighter.”
Radical ties
According to Debbie Schlussel, Imam Qazwini is also "tight" with Hezbollah spiritual leader, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, who issued the fatwa to blow up 300 U.S. Marines and embassy officials in 1983[2].
- Qazwini is tight with the Ahmadinejad government of Iran and is an open supporter of Hezbollah, HAMAS, and every other terrorist group you can think of (though he claims–like they all claim–that he is against Al-Qaeda).
Palling with the President
Debbie Schlussel also reports that in late 2000 (right after he was declared the winner of the Presidential elections), President Bush invited Imam Qazwini (more than once) to his Crawford, Texas ranch to help design his “faith-based funding” program. AlQazwini front and center, next to Bush, at his January 2001 press conference announcing the "faith-based funding tax-money giveaway".
According to Schlussel, in AlQazwini's book “American Crescent,” Qazwini details to him how Bush compared Christian “extremists” with Muslim terrorists and how Bush agreed to appoint Spencer Abraham (later one of three “National Co-Chairs” of Fred Thompson’s Presidential campaign) to his cabinet to serve yet again (as he had in the U.S. Senate) as the Muslims “emissary”[3].
- The book Qazwini describes meetings with Bush, including one in 2000 that was held weeks before the presidential election. Qazwini writes that Bush told him and others at the meeting that it was wrong to stereotype Muslims as extremists.
- Bush also talked about his love of Lebanese food, Qazwini wrote, and said there was no division between Muslims and Christians.“There are some Muslims who create trouble, but the majority are good people, just as there are some Christians who create trouble even though most are good,” Qazwini quoted Bush as saying. “People talk of Muslim extremists? Come with me to Texas, and I’ll show you the Christian extremists.”
- In the same meeting, Qazwini said he asked Bush to name a liaison to the Muslim community if he were to be elected. Bush replied that he would appoint Spencer Abraham, a Lebanese-American Christian who was then a U.S. senator from Michigan.
- “He will be your key to the White House,” Qazwini wrote, quoting Bush. After the election, Bush named Abraham as his secretary of energy. “The president had kept his word,” Qazwini wrote.
American Rights at Work
In 2008 Sayed Hassan AlQazwini served on the board of directors[4]of American Rights at Work.
Meeting Obama
Qazwini met with then Presidential candidate Barack Obama in May 2008, reportedly arranged through Qazwini's American Rights at Work colleague, David Bonior.
According to Michigan journalist Debbie Schlussel[5];
- Imam Hassan Qazwini, head of the Islamic Center of America, said in an email that he met with Obama at Macomb Community College. A mosque spokesman, Eide Alawan, confirmed that the meeting took place. During the meeting, the two discussed the Presidential election, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the Iraq war, according to Qazwini.
- At the end of the meeting, Qazwini said he gave Obama a copy of new book, "American Crescent," and invited Obama to visit his center.
- The meeting with Obama came about after Qazwini had asked David Bonior, the former U.S. Rep. from Michigan, if he could meet with Obama during his visit. Qazwini was not selected to be part of a group of 20 people who met with Obama, but Qazwini later got a private meeting with Obama, Alawan said.
- "They gave him an opportunity for a one-on-one," Alawan said. . . .
References
- ↑ http://www.debbieschlussel.com/3279/extremist-imambush-buddy-bush-told-me-christians-are-extremists-like-muslims-appointed-spence-abraham-for-us/
- ↑ http://www.debbieschlussel.com/3279/extremist-imambush-buddy-bush-told-me-christians-are-extremists-like-muslims-appointed-spence-abraham-for-us/
- ↑ http://www.debbieschlussel.com/3279/extremist-imambush-buddy-bush-told-me-christians-are-extremists-like-muslims-appointed-spence-abraham-for-us/
- ↑ http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/board-of-directors.html
- ↑ http://www.debbieschlussel.com/3770/the-company-he-keeps-obama-hangs-with-hezbollahs-iranian-agent-imam/