Confronting Islamic extremism in the United States is not something one person or single community can do alone. Protecting the public square from the forces of religious authoritarianism and supremacism requires a coalition of people willing to stand firm in the face of hostility and intimidation.
IslamismNews On March 19, 2022, a group of 50 people, mostly members of South Florida’s Jewish and Hindu communities, gathered to protest outside the first annual conference organized by the South Florida Muslim Federation (SFMF). SFMF, an umbrella group for many of South Florida’s most radical Islamic institutions, had invited Khalid Griggs, whose antisemitic proclivities are well known, to speak at the event.
One goal of the protest was to educate passersby about Khalid Griggs, promoted by SFMF as a “human rights leader.” He is no such thing. Griggs, a black Muslim convert, has used social media to spread propaganda glorifying Adolf Hitler, promote the notion that America is “owned and controlled” by Jews, and has posted material calling for the destruction of Israel.
“In October 2018, Griggs posted a photograph on his Facebook page depicting Hitler with his arm around Olympian Jesse Owens, both of the men with big smiles on their faces. It was a doctored photo and a hoax. During the Olympics, Hitler refused to shake Owens’ hand, solely because he was black… The photo that Griggs posted was not just a hoax. It was made to make Hitler appear good and decent.
Griggs is also the national Vice President of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), an Islamist group with ties to extremists in South Asia. For 30-plus years, ICNA has affiliated with a Ashrafuz Zaman Khan, who was convicted in 2013 by a court in Bangladesh for the murders of numerous individuals during the 1971 Bangladesh genocide.
FYI: ICNA (Islamic Circle of North America) is a Muslim Brotherhood front group affiliated with designated terrorist group CAIR. ICNA is the American arm of South Asian Islamic extremist group Jamaat-e-Islami, a body openly sympathetic to the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
The Middle East Forum has reported that ICNA’s international aid branch, Helping Hand for Relief and Development, has organized events with Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation, the charitable wing of the Pakistani terrorist organization, Lashkar-e-Taiba.
A recent hearing on human rights in South Asia focused almost exclusively on the issue of Kashmir, a disputed region which is claimed, at least in part, by India, Pakistan, and China. Legislators and witnesses at the hearing spent a great deal of time denouncing the Indian government’s response to the Pulwama attack of February 2019, in which terrorists killed 40 Indian police officers.
Pakistan’s role in all this, however, went largely unmentioned. Just a few days before the hearing, Pakistani Sen. Sirajul Haq declared, “There is no resolution of the Kashmir problem except through jihad” and that “[t]he entire [Pakistani] nation is ready to fight against India.”
Haq is the emir of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan, a multinational radical Islamist movement with a decades long history of violence. It was recently banned in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir for supporting terrorists. As such, Haq’s statement deserves more attention, not only because of the explosive nature of the Kashmir dispute, but because there is substantial evidence that American institutions, including the federal government, have been helping fund the violent jihad advocated by Haq.
The protestors also highlighted the status of Izhar Khan as the main speaker of the SFMF conference youth session. Khan is the imam of Masjid Jamaat al-Mumineem (MJAM) in Margate, Florida, which promotes various texts in an online library that respectively label Jews and Christians enemies of Islam, endorse death penalties for gays and legitimize domestic violence against women.
Linda Rivera says
Hindus have suffered extreme, horrendous persecution from Muslims for centuries. Consequently, Hindus join Jews in protesting tremendous, horrifying MUSLIM EVIL.
pamcalh says
Every last Muslim in this country needs to be sent back to the Middle East. They don’t belong here. We don’t want them here.
allanivarsson says
pamcalh, will never happen. Not even Trump tossed them out. And not one Politician has expelled enemy no one… CAIR.
Rebel Patriot says
It is a shame Gov. DeSantis of Florida cannot do something against these vile muslim scum.
Reader says
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BareNakedIslam says
Love that!
Baboon says
Hindus can’t fight for long.Jews will.
Note how Hindu girls are easily swept off their feet by Muslim (if fairer) in India.
Linda Rivera says
DIRTY, DEMONIC LIES.
Every year, a large number of Hindu girls as well as Christian and Sikh girls in India are kidnapped, raped, tortured and forcibly converted to Islam and forcibly married to their EVIL, Muslim kidnappers.