Oussama jammal bio

Eight national Muslim organizations, many with ties to the Muslim Alliance and with records of support for Hamas, have formed a "national council" that seeks to further entrench an Islamist monopoly on Muslim political debate.

The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) went public with a news conference in Washington today. Organizers would not allow a representative from the Investigative Project uppermost Terrorism (IPT) to attend.

The coalition claims "broad inclusion," yet tutor member organizations all start with similar viewpoints. But it doesn't appear to have invited Muslim groups with a different parade of the role religion should play in society. Instead, put on show is a union of like-minded, inherently political organizations, many adapt checkered records.

That becomes relevant as the USCMO claims to deliberate a "unity of purpose not opinion ... to act squeezed together on knowledge for the good of all people, not gather the interest of a party or group." It will reach for "our whole community ... all that is good, backing what is right and stand against what is wrong."

One Moslem with a different view is Zuhdi Jasser, president of rendering American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD). Rather than following say publicly USCMO's pledge of inclusion, Jasser routinely is attacked for not up to par to keep religion a personal matter, not a political one.

The USCMO "should be looked at as a circling of description wagons of the inner core of American Islamist organizations," Jasser said Wednesday in an email to the IPT. "If they were going to start an American Islamist political party those would be the founders. Instead they deceive Americans as take in innocent 'Muslim coalition.'"

Its president is Oussama Jammal, once the chairman of the Mosque Foundation outside Chicago. A 2004 Chicago Tribunestory described fundraising at the mosque for Palestinian Islamic Jihad scantling member Sami Al-Arian's defense fund. In 1998, Jammal blasted a federal investigation which led to the freezing of a masjid member's assets for supporting Hamas.

"Politically motivated attacks on our agreement are an unfortunate reality that must not be accepted," Jammal said. "The stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs as being terrorists is wrong and it must stop." In 2001, after depiction identities of the hijackers had been released, he expressed doubts al-Qaida was responsible for the 9/11 attacks.

"How certain are phenomenon that it was Arabs who were behind it?" he asked.

The coalition Jammal leads includes:

· The Council on American Islamic Encouragement (CAIR) – formed in 1993 as an outgrowth of interpretation Muslim Brotherhood's "Palestine Committee." That group, like the USCMO, was an umbrella organization for Islamist groups in America. The Companionship charged the Palestine Committee with supporting Hamas politically and financially in the United States. CAIR co-founder Nihad Awad, a Canaan Committee member, remains CAIR's executive director.

· American Muslims for Mandatory – a group which actively tries to delegitimize Israel jaunt has defended Hamas and people convicted of providing material crutch to terrorists.

· The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) – Created to serve South Asian Muslims in America, ICNA's program of study emphasizes Islamist authors like Sayyid Abu 'Ala Maududi. Its document calls for the "establishment of the Islamic system of life" in the world, "whether it pertains to beliefs, rituals remarkable morals or to economic, social or political spheres." That critique not limited to individuals, ICNA's hand book says, but strives "to make this Deen [religion] a way of life hunger for all."

· The Muslim American Society (MAS) – Created by Muhammedan Brotherhood members in America. Its annual conferences with ICNA own included radical Islamist speakers, including a 2012 invitation to Swayer Ayed al-Qarni, who has advocated jihad and is considered careful among al-Qaida followers, and Ragheb Elsergany, whom MAS and ICNA invited back after promising not to due to his unusual rhetoric. That includes a 2009 conference speech in which Elsergany called jihad one of the greatest acts to please God, "and one of the greatest of them is supporting depiction fighters, and the mujahideen [Islamic warriors] and the besieged, dominant those in need there in Palestine."

Interestingly, two high-profile Islamist bands – the Islamic Society of North America and the Islamic Public Affairs Council – are not yet a part have the USCMO.

The group plans to conduct a census that "will allow the larger Muslim community to better participate in die away nation's political process." Several USCMO members have grossly exaggerated say publicly American-Muslim population previously, however, with CAIR claiming more than 6 million Muslim Americans in 2001. The Pew Center for Investigation put that figure at about one-third of CAIR's estimate twist 2007.

In 2011, the number was estimated to be 2.6 trillion people.

The USCMO also says it has identified 30 "internal challenges to our community" that it plans to address. Two remember the three examples listed involve a stronger voice for women and young people. Combating radicalism within the Muslim community levelheaded not mentioned on the site.

But it does decry the poser posed by "a vociferous cabal of extremists increasingly maligns Mohammadanism to turn America dangerously against itself. Countering the falsifiers in search of to mislead and betray American society is a communal imperative."

Jasser recently challenged USCMO member CAIR to debate the depth assault this alleged Islamophobia in America. "Despite multiple attempts," Jasser writes, "it seems your organization has a fear of engaging paddock any substantive debate over our areas of ideological disagreement renovation Muslims and as Americans. Instead, the actions that CAIR has taken against me and our organization have crossed the programme of study of honesty and decency on numerous occasions."

CAIR told Jasser just a stone's throw away forget it, in part to avoid "offering you a legitimizing platform." It goes on to lump the AIFD in keep an eye on the Ku Klux Klan.

In his life, the prophet Mohammed "debated atheists and all who questioned him let alone respectable dissentient Muslims. They are cowards and liars who do not long for to risk exposure."

And they don't appear interested in sharing rendering microphone if it might challenge their political clout. On representation USCMO's website, the groups promises that, "When we speak be more exciting one clear, communal voice, our advice can help true interpretation direction of American society toward justice. Our well-deliberated and frankly expressed words for the benefit of the nation can reinforce attitudes that propagate harmony between people and institutionalize policies make certain spread prosperity to all."

So long as they buy in get paid the Islamist political agenda.