In sunny Florida, a Muslim woman, Naima Khan-Ghany, has been serving as a member of the Broward County, School Board’s “Diversity” and “Human Relations” Committees. Now her long history of associations with radical Muslim groups and individuals, and her own antisemitic posts on social media, have been brought to light by investigative journalist Joe Kaufman, and his overwhelming evidence has led to her being discharged, as of July 1, from both posts.
The instructive story, with its unexpectedly happy ending — can be found here: “Islamist to Be Ousted from School Board Posts After Radicalism Exposed,” Focus On Western Islamism, June 9, 2023:
Joe Kaufman,A prominent educator and activist in South Florida will be removed from two committees associated with the Broward County School Board, after officials learned of her ties to radical Muslim groups and promotion of antisemitism. The decision came after her connections to Islamist organizations and her own promotion of antisemitism were brought to their attention by this author [Joe Kaufman].
Officials will remove Naima Khan-Ghany from her seats on the Broward County School Board Diversity and Human Relations Committees, at the end of June.
Janysse Edouard, the Executive Secretary of School Board member Dr. Jeff Holness stated, on June 6th, that “in light of what has taken place,” Khan-Ghany’s duties have been “put on hold,” and come July 1st, she will no longer be affiliated with either committee and will be replaced by other appointees.
For over seven years, Trinidad-born Naima Khan-Ghany has served in different capacities within the Broward County School Board, most notably on the Diversity and Human Relations Committees, the latter of which she chairs. Through much of that time and well before, she has affiliated with several Islamist groups, many of which are extensions of international terrorist entities.
Khan-Ghany has worked with the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which, in July 2014, co-sponsored a Miami rally where event goers repeatedly chanted “We are Hamas” and “Let’s go Hamas.” She has worked with the South Asian terror-linked Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) and spoke at a 2015 banquet for ICNA’s social services division, ICNA Relief. She has been photographed with ICNA Relief USA’s Government Affairs Coordinator Syed Ammar Ahmed, who once joked about threatening to blow up a school, and ICNA Relief USA’s COO Abdul Rauf Khan, who has used his social media to target Jews and gays.
Any one of those piquant associations should be enough to have her dropped from the Broward County School Board, but there is much, much more.
In April 2021, Khan-Ghani incorporated the Muslim Students Association of Middle and High Schools, otherwise known as the Broward County MSA Council, through which she is an advisor to local chapters of the MSA, an entity originally started by members of the Muslim Brotherhood. The next month, she used the Council to sponsor an anti-Israel lecture featuring former South Florida imam Ibrahim Dremali. Khan-Ghani was the event’s contact. Dremali told the crowd, “The Jews… want to destroy the Dome of the Rock,” the Muslim shrine. Days prior to the event, Dremali said, “If the Arab leaders open the borders for Palestine… the Jews they’ll be inside that ocean.”
The Muslim Students Association of Middle and High Schools, that Khan-Ghany helped to incorporate, is not just any Muslim student group – it was started by the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood is described as a terror group by the governments of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, and banned in all three countries. But despite that record, Khan-Ghany has been helping the MDA to extend its tentacles into schools, the better to influence the impressionable minds of young Muslim students, and perhaps of possible converts, in Junior and Senior high schools across Broward County.
She sponsored a talk by Imam Ibrahim Dremali, an anti-Israel rant in which he insisted that the “Jews want to destroy the Dome of the Rock,” a variant on the Muslim charge that “Al-Aqsa is in danger.” But no Jews have been planning to “destroy” the Dome of the Rock, nor Al-Aqsa, nor any other building on the Temple Mount. Jewish visitors scrupulously observe the rules that have been in place since June 1967: they may visit the Mount but cannot pray, either openly or silently, cannot bring prayerbooks, prayer shawls, or tefillin onto the Mount, and can visit the holiest site in Judaism on just five days of the week, and then only for three hours in the morning and one hour in the afternoon. There are no such restrictions on Muslim visitors. The only people who have been endangering Muslim holy sites on the Haram al-Sharif (Temple Mount) are Muslims themselves who, by using Al-Aqsa both as a storehouse for weapons – rocks, fireworks, and bottles for Molotov cocktails, and as a fort from which to throw those weapons at Jewish visitors, have desecrated it.
In 2011, Khan-Ghany hosted shows for Al-Hikmat TV, the media arm of the Darul Uloom Institute (DUI). DUI has been a haven for high-profile al-Qaeda militants, including “Dirty Bomber” Jose Padilla and al-Qaeda Commander Adnan el-Shukrijumah. At Al-Hikmat, Khan-Ghany used her MSA group to organize an event with el-Shukrijumah’s younger brother, Nabil el-Shukri. The leader/founder of DUI is Shafayat Mohamed, an imam who has been thrown off numerous Broward community boards for his hate-filled talks against homosexuals, complaining about the existence of gay Muslims and claiming natural disasters are caused by gay sex.
Khan-Ghany has had no qualms about being associated so closely with Al-HIkmat TV, the “media arm” of the Darul Uloom Institute, which has links to such Al-Qaeda militants as José Padilla and the Al-Qaeda commander Adnan el-Shukrijuman (later killed by the Pakistani army). The Darul Uloom Institute was founded by an imam, Shafayat Mohamed, who rants against homosexuals and insists that homosexual sex is responsible – just how is not explained – for natural disasters. As a result, he has been removed from Broward community boards – just as Khan-Ghany soon will be.
Khan-Ghany has targeted Jews and Israel, herself. In May 2021, she made a series of posts on social media questioning Israel’s right to exist and right to defend herself and calling for Israel’s outright destruction. She wrote that Israel’s claim of “self-defense” was a “usual excuse.” She posted a call for prayers for the “liberation of Palestine… from the river to the sea.” She called for a boycott of Israeli products. And she promoted videos of notorious anti-Semite Rick Wiles equating Jews with Communists, Bolsheviks and Satanists, referring to European (Ashkenazi) Jews as “so-called” Jews, and spewing the age-old libel about Jews owning the media.
Khan-Ghany looks forward to the destruction of the state of Israel, to be replaced, she ardently hopes, by a Palestinian state “from the river to the sea.” She has called for a boycott of products from all of Israel, not just from the West Bank. She has endorsed the positively Der Stürmer-like mad fantasies of Rick Wiles, an antisemite of the most extreme sort, whose short videos she posted with the comment “needs to go viral.” Take a good look at Rick Wiles spewing his poison here.
After Joe Kaufman exposed Khan-Ghany’s activities in an article, it was announced that she will be removed from all of her posts. A splendid result from the hard work by investigative journalist Joe Kaufman. Parents in Broward County and all over Florida don’t know just how much they owe him. Naimi Khan-Ghany has now been outed as a hideous antisemite, with louche links, over many years, to Islamic fanatics. Perhaps some of those parents will read his report, or the account of its effects, and realize what a service he has performed.
Hoi Polloi says
Thank you, Joe Kaufman.
Anonymous says
Omgsh. We had heard the rumors but you proved that they were factual. Thankfully you investigated, found the evidence, and unveiled the truth.
We are indebted. Sleep well you made the world a safer place tonight.
Jerry Dobson says
Great work, Mr Kaufman.
Linde B. says
The US and the free world needs more truthful reporting like this eye-opener from Joe Kaufman. (Thank you Mr. Kaufman, for your excellent skills in giving the facts, not the phony hype the way some reporters do.)
This Naima Khan-Ghany questions Israel’s right to exist? I question her right to exist!
I have been a reader and fan of JihadWatch since the latter part of 2015. And I personally think there is something wrong with the brains of certain Muslims. It is not only Islam that is evil, (which is horrible enough😈) but it is also in my opinion, people like Naima Khan-Ghany have brains that cannot differentiate or distinguish how other people might perceive, feel or think about an idea or doctrine. To me this is a narcissistic mental disorder or disillusion; when a person is unable to put himself or herself in the same place as the human that is being condemned for having a different point of view and has not been aggressive or threatening to the narcissist type.
I also think our high schools can do a better job of dissecting the doctrines of Islam so that world history students know all the real intentions behind Islam. 😈
Kenneth Johnson says
One small victory, but it souinds as if Broward County has almost been taken over by Islamists. KEN.
Fitna says
Great work ofc, but this is a drop in the bucket…it seems many of these Muslim moles have ties to hateful and terrorist groups.
Really the gov’t should be hunting these people down and jailing or deporting them.
Is this how we have to defeat Islam? Catching one Muslim at a time? We can’t we see the pattern here?
Fitna says
*why
OLD GUY says
Sadly there are thousands just like her all over the country. And they all want one thing the destruction of America and non-islamic followers.
Linde B. says
To OLD GUY- I think you are 100% right. And I just called the Broward County Schools-
754-321-0000 and asked to speak with the Superintendent’s
office. I told the secretary about this article citing the ouster of Naima Khan-Ghany and I said I was happy that she was ousted because she is very anti-Semitic and a radical Muslim, and there is no place for any person like that on any school board. The secretary said she would pass on my comments to the Broward County acting superintendent, Earlene Smiley. I thanked her and said “good-bye”.
There should be no more radical Muslims on any school board in the US.
James Lincoln says
Linde B.,
Good work.
Linde B. says
To James Lincoln- Thank you kindly.
At 72 years of age I want to be as politely outspoken as I can be regarding antisemitism.
Subhash Garg says
Good riddance. Islamists are trying to take over DEI positions throughout America, and targeting Jews and Israel as well as Hindus and India. And extremist liberals are cheerung them on.
Marcie Hamilton says
The cancerous hate by this thing has NO place in ANY schools let alone in America’s schools!