CAIR Fifth Columnists and Multiculturalists

On June 5th, the Los Angeles chapter of CAIR sponsored a community town hall meeting at the Islamic Center of Irvine (ICOI), a mosque that propagates venomously anti-Semitic and anti-Israel rhetoric. In a Khutbah (sermon) given at the ICOI last month, entitled ?The Abuse of a Religion to sustain a Racist State,? the ICOI?s Director of Religious Affairs, Sadullah Khan, stated, ?Jews who came [to Israel] brought with them a Western arrogance ... ? In the sermon, which is found on the ICOI website, Khan liberally quoted alleged neo-Nazi William Baker and described Zionism as ?racist,? ?diabolical? and ?sinister.?

Participating at the CAIR event was CAIR-LA Executive Director Hussam Ayloush. Ayloush?s appearance at ICOI makes sense, as he, himself, has been known to exhibit an extreme hatred towards the state of Israel. According to Dr. Daniel Pipes, whom Ayloush has likened to ?a KKK person,? he (Ayloush) has repeatedly used the term ?Zionazi,? when discussing Israelis. He has referred to Zionism as ?a political ideology whose tentacles are rooted in racism,? and he has stated that the violent Intifada (Uprising) that was twice perpetrated by the Palestinians against the Israelis ?really indicates standing up against injustice.?

Accompanying Hussam Ayloush as a participant at the June 5th CAIR event was the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI field office in Los Angeles, Stephen Tidwell. Tidwell, apparently, was there to quell concerns that the FBI was actively eavesdropping on local Muslims.