Wajahat Ali was one of the five authors of the hard-Left Soros-funded Center for American Progress's attack piece "Fear, Inc.," a supposed takedown of "Islamophobes" including Steven Emerson, David Yerushalmi, Daniel Pipes, Frank Gaffney and me. My responses are here and here; Daniel Greenfield and Mark Tapson also expose the sinister agenda and propagandistic, truth-free nature of the report. Daniel Pipes shows here that the amounts the report says that he has received from donors are inaccurate, and that the CAP takes in almost as much in one year as it excoriates the "Islamophobes" in several different organizations from receiving over a period of nine years.
And now there is something new. Wajahat Ali reveals in the video above (thanks to Larry) that he was a Board member of the Muslim Students Association. The Muslim Students Association was established by members of the Muslim Brotherhood. In "An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America," by Mohamed Akram, May 19, 1991, the MSA is listed as one of the Brotherhood's allied organizations. And the memorandum explains that the Brotherhood's agenda in the U.S. is subversive: the Muslim Brothers "must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions."
Might the CAP's attempt to discredit and marginalize all who are standing up to jihad activity in all its forms be part of the larger effort of "eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within"? In a sane world, journalists would be challenging Wajahat Ali with just that question. But none of them will.
'Islamic Awareness' is 'Islamophobia' by another name: http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2010/01/islamic-awareness.html
The CAP's already blown its moral credentials. .can't wait until it's totally bankrupt.
Wajahat Ali is also connected to the San Jose California Tech Museum's latest exhibition, Islamic Science Rediscovered.
This exhibit includes the story of Abbas ibn Farnas, who is being compared with the Wright brothers.
Stereotyping Muslims, Myths and the Media
Sunday, November 13, 2:00 p.m.
Panel discussion, moderated by Angie Coiro
Wajahat Ali, local playwright, lawyer and humorist is joined by Aman Ali and Bassam Tariq's, authors of 30 Mosques in 30 Days.
Wajahat Ali's play, "The Domestic Crusaders" is one of the first major plays about the American Muslim experience premiering at the the Berkeley Repertory Theater to universal acclaim in 2005 and in New York on 9-11-09. Honored both as an "An Influential Muslim American Artist" by the State Department and as a "Muslim Leader of Tomorrow", Ali also received the prestigious "Emerging Muslim American Artist" award. He is a frequent contributor to the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and other publications. His first short story, "Ramadan Blues," was published in January 2009 and his first movie, "Ms. Judgments," was a finalist for the LinkTV Muslim American Film Contest. His blog, "Goatmilk: An Intellectual Playground" (goatmilk.wordpress.com), is ranked in the top 7% of political blogs by blogged.com. Wajahat practices law in the Bay Area, California.
Community partners of the exhibit include MSA, CAIR, Islamic Networks Group, and Muslim Community of America.
http://www.thetech.org/islamic_science_rediscovered/lectures.html
As with Bin Laden what gets me surprised is to both Bin Laden's and Wajahat Ali's demeaner. Looking at videos of them leaves one with the thought that what nice fellows they seem to be. I don't care how well sounding this young man seems, but it is his bedfellows that tells me he is not such a nice fellow. Hell, we all know that Bin Laden was insane and since Wajahat Ali has ties with groups that promote jihad he is nothing more than a Bin Laden Jr. to me.
Why is it that so few of these "moderates" look all that "moderate" on closer examination?
(This is, of course, a rhetorical question).