“America needs Islam”? And how did he expect America to get Islam? Does he want to see a Sharia state here?
From the Houston Chronicle, with thanks to all who sent this in:
WASHINGTON – Hakeem Olajuwon told an audience at a 1995 conference in Houston sponsored by a group later linked to a terrorist organization that America was near morally bankrupt and Islam was the only solution.
Those remarks came five years before his mosque made unwitting donations to other suspected terrorist groups.
The 1995 gathering was hosted by the Muslim Arab Youth Association, now defunct, a group that had been involved in fund-raising efforts by the terrorist organization Hamas, according to FBI documents and former federal law enforcement officials.
The former Houston Rockets basketball star told a crowd of mostly young people, “America needs Islam, Islam is the only solution and the only way of life.” He added, “The morality of America is almost bankrupt. There is no morals.”…
There is no evidence Olajuwon knew of MAYA’s links to terrorist groups when he spoke in 1995. But experts said as an admired Muslim, his remarks could have been used as a recruiting tool without his knowledge.