In The Days

• Source: WND
• Author: Art Moore
• News Date: 10/20/09
• Submitted By: Mike Raley

Imam Siraj Wahhaj

Imam who seeks demise of ‘filthy’ U.S. featured speaker at fundraiser

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Ishmael

“And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.”
—Genesis 16:12

Perilous Times

“This know also, that in the last days perilous•Strongs 5467: chalepos, khal-ep-os´; perhaps from 5465 through the idea of reducing the strength; difficult, i.e. dangerous, or (by implication) furious:—fierce, perilous. times shall come.”
—2 Timothy 3:1-2a

”But evil•Strongs 4190: poneros, pon-ay-ros´; from a derivative of 4192; hurtful, i.e. evil (properly, in effect or influence, and thus differing from 2556, which refers rather to essential character, as well as from 4550, which indicates degeneracy from original virtue); figuratively, calamitous; also (passively) ill, i.e. diseased; but especially (morally) culpable, i.e. derelict, vicious, facinorous; neuter (singular) mischief, malice, or (plural) guilt; masculine (singular) the devil, or (plural) sinners:—bad, evil, grievous, harm, lewd, malicious, wicked(-ness). See also 4191.
•Strongs4192: ponos, pon´-os; from the base of 3993; toil, i.e. (by implication) anguish:—pain. men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.”
—2 Timothy 3:13

Editors note about the word perilous•FYI: The Greek word (chalepos) (perilous) is only used one other time in the New Testament, Matthew 8:28. There it is translated as (fierce) when describing the nature of the devils that possess Legion and his cohort.

A nonprofit activist group that “alerts Americans about the threat of radical Islam” has launched a campaign to urge a Washington-area hotel to cancel its hosting of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ annual banquet this week, which features a controversial Muslim imam who foresees a violent overthrow of the “filthy” U.S. government assisted by jihad warriors armed with Uzis.

The New York City-based Clarion Fund points out co-keynote speaker Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing investigation, was featured on a panel in 2005 titled, “Replacing the Constitution with the Koran: ‘Conquest or Conversion’ through Islamic Propagation.”

Clarion Fund spokesman Alex Traiman said his group is urging citizens to send a letter to the host hotel, the Marriott Crystal Gateway in Arlington, Va., through a special website.

“The theme of this year’s conference is ‘Leading the Change,’ but we must ask ourselves what ‘change’ they are leading,” said Raphael Shore, founder of the Clarion Fund, producers of the films “Obsession” and “The Third Jihad”.

The campaign follows the release of the book “Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That’s Conspiring to Islamize America,” which cites internal documents obtained in an undercover operation that establish CAIR functions as a front group for the terrorist group Hamas and its parent, the Egyptian-based Muslim Brotherhood. CAIR itself, along with a number of its leaders, was designated an unindicted co-conspirator in the recent prosecution of the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation, the largest terror-financing case in U.S. history

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Traiman told WND his group – which has 30,000 people on its e-mail list, along with the names of 50,000 people who purchased its film “Obsession” – already has prompted a substantial number of people to write the Arlington hotel.

‘We’re just a venue’

A spokesman for the Marriott Crystal Gateway, Thom Puccio, told WND, however, the CAIR event would go on Saturday night as planned.

“We’re simply providing hospitality services as a matter of hotel operations,” Puccio said in response to the Clarion campaign. “In no way do we support or endorse any group or individual by virtue of accepting their business. We are simply carrying out our function as a venue provider.”

Puccio, the director of sales and marketing, was asked if there is a line the hotel would draw, however, regarding the types of groups it would host. Would it allow the Ku Klux Klan to hold an event, for example?

“I would not comment on that,” he said.

“We’re just a venue, we’re just an option,” Puccio continued. “If there are 50 hotels or 100 hotels in the D.C. area, we’re just one of those hotels. It’s not a matter of supporting anything regarding any of these groups, whether they be associations or corporations. We’re simply providing the space for them to hold their events.”

But while you wouldn’t endorse any group, Puccio was asked further, are there not certain groups you wouldn’t want associated with your hotel, such as the KKK?

“I would not comment on that,” he said.