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Jewish World Review Dec. 5, 2003 / 10 Kislev, 5764 What the Alliance for Marriage heads and board members either don't know or don't want you to know By Rod Dreher On Tuesday, we ran an expose questioning what we believe is moral irresponsibility by a leading "pro-marriage" group. (The article can be accessed via a link in the sidebar). Before publishing the piece, our offices were contacted by individuals who made thinly-veiled threats. Others, were more diplomatic. We should back-off the Alliance for Marriage because, they assured us, the group certainly did its homework before including Dr. Sayyid M. Syeed, the general secretary of the Islamic Society of North America, on its board. Well, apparently not, as detailed below. We've lost readers because we dared to have the "chutzpah" to speak out. And if doing so makes us "traitors to the cause," as one now ex-reader wrote, then so be it. We'll keep telling the truth. There is an obligation to do so. But will others finally listen and take action? — Binyamin L. Jolkovsky http://www.jewishworldreview.com | All I had done was ask a simple question of Dr. Sayyid M. Syeed, the general secretary of the Islamic Society of North America, who recently met with The Dallas Morning News' editorial board. Dr. Syeed's revealing reaction — he said that my query reminded him of "Nazism" and that I would have to "repent" — tells us a great deal about American Islam's extremist problem ... and ours. ISNA is the largest Islamic organization in the country, serving as an umbrella group for 300 or so mosques, cultural centers and affiliated groups. The North American Islamic Trust, a sister organization set up for what its Web site calls the "protection and safeguarding" of the finances of ISNA and other groups, owns between 20 percent and 27 percent of this country's mosques. ISNA is heavily funded by Saudi contributions and has been described in congressional testimony by terrorism expert (and Muslim convert) Stephen Schwartz as one of the chief conduits through which the radical Saudi form of Islam passes into the United States. Though ISNA portrays itself as mainstream, Islamic scholar Ali Asani of Harvard calls it "ultra-orthodox and ultra-conservative." Echoing similar reports from across the country, Dr. Khalid Duran, a moderate Muslim, and unnamed others like him told the St. Petersburg Times that extremists try to take over American mosques and hand the titles over to NAIT. Jamaluddin Hoffman, a Sufi and moderate, characterizes what's going on as "a war for the heart and soul of our religion." ISNA's advisory board (see www.isna.net) is thick with men who have espoused extremist opinions and have troubling associations. There's Siraj Wahhaj, a Brooklyn imam named by U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White as one of the "unindicted persons who may be alleged as co-conspirators" in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He also testified as a character witness for convicted terror mastermind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman. Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes has documented at least two occasions in which Mr. Wahhaj has urged followers to overturn the U.S. system of government and set up an Islamic dictatorship. There's Muzammil Siddiqui, a former ISNA president who spoke at an Oct. 28, 2000, "Jerusalem Day" rally in Washington, an event that degenerated into a hatefest in which the crowd chanted, "Death to the Jews!" Columnist Debbie Schlussel, citing a Pakistani news Web site, quoted Dr. Siddiqui as saying that Islamic rule has to be global and that "all our efforts should lead to that direction." ISNA board member Bassam Osman is the president of NAIT, which owns the Islamic Academy of Florida. That school was described as a criminal enterprise in the federal indictment handed down in February against school founder Sami al-Arian and others alleged to be Palestinian Islamic Jihad fund-raisers. ISNA sponsored a big conference this past summer in Dallas (www.dfwisna.com). Mr. Wahhaj, Dr. Syeed and Dr. Siddiqui spoke there, as did Imam Zaid Shakir, who said in a 1992 educational video that Muslims can't accept the American political system because "it is against the orders and ordainments of Allah." None of these people has been charged with any criminal wrongdoing. But they all have been affiliated with a brand of Islam that most Americans would, and should, find frightening. We are entitled to ask why. Given ISNA's leadership, it is no wonder Dr. Syeed wouldn't give a straight answer when a Morning News colleague of mine asked him three times what his organization was doing to fight Islamic extremism. READ THE ORIGINAL EXPOSE Were we wrong to have published the expose? Click here to read or re-read it. Comment by clicking here. When I asked the man how he squared his profession of tolerance and moderation with having radicals on the ISNA board, Dr. Syeed became hostile, sputtering that my question reminded him of Hitlerian persecution. That is blustering nonsense, of course, and an attempt to silence legitimate questions about ISNA's agenda through intimidation and misdirection. They must not get away with it. As benign as they sometimes sound, Dr. Syeed and his ilk are no friends of moderation and tolerance. As the late Seif Ashmawi, a moderate Muslim-American newspaper publisher, once put it, "Radical Islamic groups have now taken over leadership of the 'mainstream' Islamic institutions in the United States, and anyone who pretends otherwise is deliberately engaging in self-deception." Silence and a lack of curiosity, however well meaning or unwitting, are allowing a malignant ideology to grow unchecked in this country. American Muslims who want no part of Islamofascist ideology are its first victims. They won't be its last. Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes what many in Washington and in the media consider "must reading." Sign up for the daily JWR update. It's free. Just click here. Rod Dreher is an editorial writer and occasional columnist for The Dallas Morning News. Comment on this column and e-mail the author by clicking here. © 2003, Dallas Morning News