Khan job
Frank Gaffney
February 20, 2007
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/gaffney/070220The Blind Sheikh's remarks were translated by Dr. Khan's successor as the ISOC's director: a fellow Indian expatriate and former president of the Islamic Society of North America, Imam Muzammil Siddiqi. Press reports credit Siddiqi with converting American jihadi Adam Gadahn to Islam. Gadahn now sports the nom de guerre "Azzam the American" and serves as a kind of Tokyo Rose for al Qaeda, producing propaganda videos in which he glories in the prospect of slitting "the throats of infidels." (More on Siddiqi in a moment.)
Malika Khan
Suhail Khan's upbringing must have been further shaped by his mother, Malika Khan, who has her own troubling associations with pro-Islamist organizations. She was a founding member and served on the Board of the Muslim Community Association.<1><7> She also has been a Board member of the California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).<1><8>
The man who successfully put Sheikh Rahman behind bars, Andrew McCarthy, has noted that CAIR was "birthed by a Hamas creation: the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP)." <1><9> IAP was started by "high-ranking Hamas operative Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook," who is wanted on federal terrorism charges. In addition, McCarthy reports that CAIR's founder and executive director, Nihad Awad — was a "high-ranking IAP officer." The former federal prosecutor also observes that the Hamas/IAP tie is "so incestuous" that "in 2004 a federal judge found the IAP liable for Hamas' terrorist murder of an American citizen in Israel." Finally, four of CAIR's executives have been successfully prosecuted on terrorism-related charges.<1><10>