Baltimore: Muslim conference featured speakers who’ve called for intifada in US, executing homosexuals and apostates
BY ROBERT SPENCER
Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.
No one minds. But imagine the uproar if the Baltimore Convention Center had even dared to host a conference featuring speakers who oppose jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women.
“Conference in Baltimore features Islamist speakers with antisemitic histories,” JNS, June 12, 2023 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) and the Muslim American Society (MAS) concluded their three-day annual conference late last month at the Baltimore Convention Center.
A number of activists and clerics with histories of antisemitism and anti-Israel statements were listed on the docket at the gathering, which featured more than 500 vendors and drew some 30,000, according to the Turkish embassy in Washington.
One panel, titled “Countering and Dismantling Islamophobia, Locally and Globally,” featured Hatem Bazian, chair and founder of the University of California-Berkeley Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project. Bazain presented on “Palestine: Century of Settler Colonialism.”
An advocate of boycotting Israel and a defender of Hamas, Bazian said at a 2004 San Francisco rally: “It’s about time that we have an intifada in this country.”…
Among dozens of speakers on the docket were Siraj Wahhaj (who has defended executing gay people and had associations with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing mastermind); Omar Suleiman (who, among other things, rejects Jewish claims to Jerusalem); and Abdul Nasir Jangda (who has advocated executing Muslim apostates).