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Florida Association Of Criminal Defense Lawyers Held Event With Islamist Group EMERGE USA

June 10, 2012

MIAMI_DADE_JUDICIAL_CANDIDATES_FORUM_2012

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    • Wednesday, June 6, 2012
    • 5:30pm until 8:00pm in EDT
  • Date: MDCC Wolfson Campus 300 N.E. 2nd Avenue Miami, Fl. 33132 RM 6100
  • The Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (FACDL) in cooperation with EMERGE, USA would like to extend an invitation for you to attend the 2012 Miami-Dade Judicial Candidate's Forum. This is a prime opportunity for you to meet with the Miami-Dade Judicial candid...ates face to face and hear from them directly they should have your support as they compete for it August. The forum will be attended by the Miami-Dade legal community, representatives from many minority communities, and the general public.

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MIM: Information about EMERGE and their Islamist agenda:

EMERGE USA was founded as a non-profit corporation in the state of Florida, in November 2006, under its original name, Center for Voter Advocacy (CVA). In 2009, CVA merged with a Texas entity founded by current EMERGE board member and project manager of Shell Oil in Houston, Afaq J. Durrani, called the Coalition of New American Communities (CONAC). Apart from EMERGE, CVA still exists as a separate Florida corporation...

The Vice Chairman and main face behind EMERGE is Khurrum Wahid, a practicing South Florida attorney. According to the Florida Bar, Wahid "has defended individuals charged with allegedly committing or conspiring to commit acts of terrorism…"

Some of Wahid's clients include: Rafiq Abdus Sabir, who received a 25 year prison sentence for conspiring to provide material support to al-Qaeda; Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, who was given a life sentence for being a member of al-Qaeda and for plotting to assassinate President George W. Bush; and Hafiz Muhammed Sher Ali Khan, who is awaiting trial for conspiring with others to funnel at least fifty thousand dollars to the Pakistani Taliban for the purpose of murdering American troops overseas.

Wahid, as well, created a legal fund for Tashnuba Hayder, a girl who had been identified by the FBI as a potential suicide bomber and who was later deported to Bangladesh, as she was considered an imminent threat to the security of the United States. Currently, Wahid is soliciting funds on his law office's website for the defense of his client Hafiz Khan (above) and his son Izhar Khan, whom Wahid calls a "rising star."

Prior to helping found EMERGE, Wahid was a legal advisor for CAIR National and a director of CAIR's Florida chapter. In 2007 and 2008, CAIR was named by the U.S. Justice Department as a co-conspirator to the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas. At CAIR-Florida, Wahid had taken the place of Foad Farahi, an imam of a radical mosque, who the FBI has suspected of having had dealings with al-Qaeda operatives – "Dirty Bomber" Jose Padilla and Adnan Gulshair el-Shukrijumah – and who was arrested last month for "transportation violations."

Wahid is the Registered Agent for another radical entity, the Islamic Foundation of South Florida (IFSF). The Executive Director of EMERGE, Nauman Sabit Abbasi, is the President of Public Relations for IFSF. The IFSF Youth Group is run by Abdur Rahman al-Ghani, a fan of Hizb ut-Tahrir, whose Facebook site is littered with fanatical anti-America, anti-Israel and Islamic supremacist language. This month, al-Ghani posted to his Facebook, "[Y]es, Allah (SWT) has Decreed that we will over-take the World in numbers…"

Wahid also spoke at a May 2010 event sponsored by the American arm of the South Asian Muslim Brotherhood (Jamaat-e-Islami), the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), an organization that has been connected to the financing of both al-Qaeda and Hamas.

In May 2009, the former Executive Director and co-founder of EMERGE, Farooq Mitha, wrote an article asking the question, "What if Hezbollah gains influence in Lebanon?" In the piece, he speculates about how the U.S. will deal with groups like Hezbollah and Hamas, as they gain prominence and power in their territories. Mitha states, "It is impossible to imagine sustainable peace in the region without at least the implicit cooperation of these groups."

While Mitha is careful to appear ambiguous regarding U.S. collaboration with these terrorist entities in print, he has himself spoken at a radical Muslim event – as have many of his EMERGE colleagues – sponsored by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). ISNA, like CAIR, was named by the Justice Department as a party to Hamas fundraising and is the largest Muslim Brotherhood organization in the United States and Canada.

In February 2011, Mitha participated in an event sponsored by the Obama-linked Center for American Progress (CAP), a group exposed less than a year later as being a vehicle for anti-Semitic and anti-Israel statements and positions. Also participating was Khalilah Sabra, a representative from the Muslim American Society (MAS), a Muslim Brotherhood organization which has published numerous statements on the web calling for violence against Jews and cursing Jews and Christians.

Today, Mitha serves in the Obama Administration as the Special Assistant to the Director of the Department of Defense Office of Small Business Programs (DOD OSBP). As such, it would appear that Mitha exemplifies EMERGE's goal of placing those associated with Islamists into high positions of influence.

http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/5197

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