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Far-Right and Muslim Extremists Gather in Baltimore RULE Speaker Backgrounds

Posted: August 19, 2008


The Conference
Jamaat al-Muslimeen & Kaukab Siddique
Speaker Backgrounds

The following are the speakers listed on JAM's Web site as participating in the conference:

 

  • Charles ("Chuck") E. Carlson is a co-founder and director of We Hold These Truths, an Arizona-based Christian anti-Semitic group. We Hold These Truths has held demonstrations around the county outside churches it views as supporting Zionism. Carlson condemns Christian support for Israel, which he describes as "Judeo-Christianity." Carlson has appeared in front of various anti-Semitic groups, including the neo-Nazi National Alliance and the Institute for Historical Review, an anti-Semitic organization dedicated to Holocaust denial.

  • Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General, is the founder and leader of the anti-Israel International Action Center (IAC).  IAC views Hezbollah, Palestinian terror groups like Hamas and groups fighting U.S. forces in Iraq as legitimate popular resistance forces and a bulwark against U.S. imperialism and "Israeli terrorism." IAC's affiliated anti-war group, ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), has been one of the main anti-war protest movements in the U.S. since 2001. ANSWER rallies are often marred by anti-Semitism, with speakers openly supporting terror groups targeting Israelis, as well as the "resistance" fighting American forces in Iraq.  In 2003 Clark participated in a conference in Cairo that was held in solidarity with "acts of resistance in Iraq and Palestine," and featured a Hamas leader, Osama Hamdan.

  • Maulana Ehsanullah is a Muslim cleric in Pakistan who has expressed support for terrorists, including Al Qaeda. In September 2001, after the September 11 terrorist attacks, he reportedly gave a speech at a mosque in Pakistan in which he hailed Osama Bin Laden as "Allah's gift to Muslims." He further predicted: "The day is coming when America will cower at the feet of Muslims…What happened at the World Trade Center was step one. Stick around, step two is just around the corner." In the same speech, Ehsanullah reportedly blamed the Jews for "evil in the world."

  • Mark Glenn is a contributor to the American Free Press, an anti-Semitic, conspiracy-oriented publication, and the head of the Crescent and Cross Solidarity Movement, an anti-Semitic Muslim-Christian interfaith group he co-founded with Hesham Tillawi in 2005. Glenn has written that Jews "pride themselves on their collective character traits of haughtiness, callousness, violence, dishonesty and viciousness." Glenn has been a frequent speaker at events organized by adherents of Christian Identity, a virulently racist and anti-Semitic religious sect.  He has also been a board member of The Barnes Review, a Holocaust denial magazine.  On July 21, 2003, The Arab News, Saudi Arabia's largest English-language daily newspaper, printed "Israel, We Bless Thee," a hate-filled, conspiracy-laden diatribe by Glenn that blames Israel for a long list of events, including the September 11 terrorist attack, the 2001 anthrax mailings and the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

  • Abdulalim Abdullah Shabazz is a former mathematics professor at Lincoln University, in Pennsylvania.  He participated in a JAM event at Lincoln in April 2003 with Kaukab Siddique, who has called him the "educationist and philosopher of" the group. During the event, Shabazz argued that American policies in the Middle East, particularly support for Israel, are based on the concept of "white supremacy." Shabazz is a former member of the Nation of Islam.

  • Hesham Tillawi is a Palestinian-American anti-Semite who hosts a weekly cable access and Internet television show out of Lafayette, Louisiana, called "Current Issues." The show regularly features leading American anti-Semites, including former Klansman David Duke; white supremacist attorney Edgar J. Steele; Holocaust deniers Mark Weber and Bradley Smith and conspiracy theorists Willis Carto.  Tillawi is also a co-founder of Crescent and The Cross Solidarity Movement, an anti-Semitic Muslim-Christian interfaith group he co-founded with Mark Glenn in 2005. Tillawi denounces Judaism as inherently evil and argues that Israel wants to create a purely Jewish state based on Jewish racism. In addition to his show and online presence, Tillawi also travels to speak at events organized by anti-Semitic groups.

  • Mark Weber is the director of the Institute for Historical Review (IHR), which is dedicated to Holocaust denial. IHR's political philosophy is premised on the adulation of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime and the belief that modern life is a struggle between Christians of European descent and Jews. Its affiliated Noontide Press publishes and disseminates Nazi and anti-Semitic classics such as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Mein Kampf along with more recent titles like Roger Garaudy's The Founding Myths of Modern Israel. Weber got his start in the radical right in 1978, when he took the position of news editor for National Vanguard, a publication of the neo-Nazi National Alliance. He also wrote for The Spotlight of the anti-Semitic Liberty Lobby organization. He became IHR director in 1993. Weber claims that "Americans are [the] victims" of a "Jewish-Zionist power" that forces the U.S. to support Israel "through the Jewish-Zionist grip on the media, and the organized Jewish-Zionist corruption of our political system."



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