Controversial Muslim Leader to Support Pro-Islam NYC Subway Program
FOX NEWS: NEW YORK — A Muslim group, in collaboration with a Brooklyn imam once investigated as a possible co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, paid $48,000 to run Islamic advertisements on the city’s subway cars this September.
According to reports, the Islamic Circle of North America has begun a campaign called the Subway Project to support dispelling of common misconceptions and the goodness within about Islam. However, the report states, that 1995,imam (prayer leader in a mosque) Siraj Wahhaj, a U.S.-born Muslim convert, is assumed to have provided supportive testimony for Omar Abdel-Rahman who was convicted to a life sentence for his role in the 1993 World trade center bombing.
Wahhaj has been qouted on the FOX website as saying in one sermon, “In time, this so-called democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing, and the only thing that will remain will be Islam.”
Hmm this sounds a bit Rev. Wright-like to me i.e., “So-called democracy will crumble” v. “Americas chickens are coming home to roost”. Hmmm? You make the call. Ironically the message on one one of of the posters I saw on the FOX site was completely harmless in my eyes. Yet, I am quite put off by Wahhaj’s statement above mainly for it’s ambiguous meaning. I’m really not sure where this campaign will go. I guess we’ll have to keep an eye out. Just in case he is up to anything, but we won’t really know until someone gets a bit more information on this guy. So until further notice… keep waxing poetically!
As luck would have it I read a post I came across on BlogCatalog and it seems that the group responsible for the campaign did not ask for, nor wanted the support of this extremest. It appears the media has done what it is all to commonly known for doing and that is reporting one side instead of reporting the NEWS (not yelling at you, LOL). That is the way I heard it so it is quite possible it is innocent enough. I wish I had the link to the post for you because it was getting quite a lively discussion on BlogCatalog and Blogger.
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