Imam Wahhaj is scheduled to speak on campus this Friday, February 25th, as one of the scheduled events the MSA has lined up to ‘combat the misconceptions of Islam and its practices’.
Upon closer examination, though, it seems the decision to include the imam could not be more contradictory toward that end. It turns out that Wahhaj has a very questionable past and is widely viewed as being a terrorist sympathizer.
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“He’s a hatemonger, there’s no question about it,” Schwartz said. “He’s the No. 1 advocate of radical Islamic ideology among African-Americans. His stuff is very appealing to young Muslims who are on a radical path.”
Siraj Wahhaj, imam of the Masjid Al-Taqwa mosque in Brooklyn, N.Y., became the first Muslim to lead the opening prayer in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1991. Four years later, he was a character witness for Omar Abdel-Rahman,...
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