The recent executive director of the controversial Council on
American-Islamic Relations' South Florida chapter is a founder and spokesman of
Occupy Miami, WND has learned.
Mohammad Malik currently is as an activist with several other Islamic groups.
He has led hate-filled anti-Israel protests in which participants were filmed
wearing Hamas paraphernalia while chanting "Nuke Israel" and "Go back to the
oven" – a reference to Jews being killed in the Holocaust.
Malik has been widely quoted in the Florida news media in recent weeks
speaking for Occupy Miami.
The Miami Herald identified Malik as one of the organizers of Occupy's
Miami's downtown campsite headquarters.
"We've established that we can be here," Malik told the Herald, speaking as
one of the first Occupy Miami organizers. "People said we were stupid amateurs
who don't know what we're doing. ... But we did it. We've survived and we're
growing."
Last week, the Florida Independent reported Miami police had asked Occupy
activists to temporarily leave their camp digs.
The Independent quoted Malik, identified as protesting with the group since
the beginning, as stating there were "a lot of cops" in the area, but protesters
were "trying to figure out the situation so that it doesn't escalate."
The Independent previously quoted Malik as an "unemployed Miami native who
has worked with the ACLU and is the current spokesperson for Occupy Miami."
In September 2010, Malik was appointed as the director of CAIR's South
Florida chapter, covering the region of Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade
counties.
In March 2010, Malik organized a CAIR dinner in Miami. The keynote speaker
was Siraj Wahhaj, who was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993
World Trade Center bombing. Wahhaj has also defended the convicted WTC bomb
plotters and has urged the Islamic takeover of America.
Malik departed CAIR several months ago. He previously worked for ACLU
Florida, coordinating its Racial Justice and Voting Rights Projects.
He did not return email and phone requests for comment.
Nezar Hamze, the current director of CAIR-South Florida, told WND yesterday
that Malik departed his Islamic group under friendly terms.
"He left several months ago, maybe almost a year ago," said Hamze. "He got a
better position, I think, at the ACLU," he said.
Malik has served as coordinator of several other Islamic groups, such as the
South Florida Palestine Solidarity Network, through which he has organized
hate-filled protests; the American Muslims for Emergency Relief; and Students
for Justice in Palestine.
Malik himself was the principal organizer of numerous anti-Israel rallies.
A rally in March was titled "Miami's Third Intifada Rally for Palestine."
During the demonstration,
protesters
reportedly chanted a slogan often used by Hamas and other Palestinian
radicals calling for the destruction of Israel: "From the river to the sea,
Palestine will be free."
A Malik-led rally in December 2008 reportedly drew 200 to 300 rowdy
supporters, with some screaming for Jews to "go back to the ovens."
The Florida Sun-Sentinel featured a picture with the caption "Malik incites
the crowd."
YouTube video and
Internet pictures from the protest depict rally-goers wearing Hamas logos on
hats and scarves.
The
Florida Jewish Voice newspaper reported Malik's rally began as the Islamic
crowd squared off against Israel supporters outside the First Baptist Church in
downtown Ft. Lauderdale.
One protester reportedly shouted, "Your mother is a wh*re," then broke into,
"Nuke, nuke Israel. Nuke, nuke Israel," followed by, "Go to hell; go to hell; go
to hell!"
Another woman, wearing a headscarf, shouted: "Go steal other lands. Go!
Murderers! Go back to the oven! You need a big oven."
Malik himself was quoted calling Israel's actions ''collective punishment,"
accusing the Jewish state of "fuel[ing] terrorism."
Wahhaj, brought in to keynote Malik's CAIR dinner last year, repeatedly has
urged the U.S. to accept Islamic law. Discover the Networks notes Wahhaj in 1991
predicted America will fall unless it "accepts the Islamic agenda."
The next year, he stated, "Hear what I'm telling you well. The Americans are
not your friends. ... The Canadians are not your friends. ... The Europeans are
not your friends. Your friend is Allah, the Messenger and those who believe."
Also, in a 1992 address to an audience of Muslims in New Jersey, Wahhaj
expressed his desire to replace the U.S. government with an Islamic caliphate.
"If we were united and strong," Wahhaj said, "we'd elect our own emir
(leader) and give allegiance to him. ... [T]ake my word, if 6-8 million Muslims
unite in America, the country will come to us."
In 1995, Wahhaj was named by U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White as an unindicted
co-conspirator to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. He objected to
that designation, noting in his defense that he had eaten "dinner with Secretary
of State [Madeleine] Albright – after the list" of co-conspirators had been
released.
Discover the Networks notes that in the summer of 1999, Wahhaj testified as a
character witness for convicted terror mastermind Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman.
Wahhaj stated, on the record, that he considered it an honor to have had an
opportunity to host Abdel-Rahman at his mosque, describing him as a "respected
scholar ... bold ... [and] a strong preacher of Islam."
Islamic connection to Wall Street protest
Malik is not the first CAIR personality to be involved with Occupy.
Earlier this month, CAIR-New York led a prayer service at Occupy Wall Street
in conjunction with the Islamic Leadership Council and the Arab-American
Association of New York.
The groups are strong supporters of ending Israel's blockade of the
Hamas-ruled Gaza, while scores of other organizations tied to Occupy Wall
Street, including Code Pink and several unions, took part in flotilla attempts
to reach Gaza.
WND reported the
communications firm tied to the Occupy Wall Street movement recently spearheaded
a major campaign to end Israel's naval blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza
Strip.
Scores of radical groups backing the anti-Wall Street movement also helped to
spearhead activism in support of the Gaza Strip, including several attempts to
send aid flotillas to the coastal territory's Hamas rulers.
WND broke the story that Fenton Communications helped represent the anti-Wall
Street march past millionaires' homes in New York City last month. Fenton works
closely with the Tides Center, a George Soros-funded group that donates to
thousands of liberal and far-left groups.
Another grantee of Tides is the Adbusters magazine, which is reported to have
come up with the Occupy Wall Street idea after Arab Spring protests toppled
governments in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia.
Since protests first broke out in Wisconsin in February, organizers,
including those behind Occupy Wall Street, have not been shy about likening
their cause to the Mideast and North African uprisings.
A tour of the downtown Manhattan square where protesters are holed up,
Zuccotti Park, usually finds at least some protesters wearing "Free Gaza"
t-shirts or distributing material in support of Gaza.
WND was among the first to
report on the far-left U.S. involvement in the Free Gaza Movement, which was
behind many of the flotilla attempts.
Fenton Communications reportedly developed a communications action plan for
an 18-month campaign, known as the Al Fakhoora Project, aimed at delegitimizing
Israel's naval blockade while garnering support for the Hamas-led government and
the people of the Gaza Strip.
Newsmax
last year reported Fenton signed contracts worth more than $390,000 with
Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned, the wife of Qatar's ruler, as well as a
separate foundation she chairs.
The contacts were for "developing and managing" the campaign website,
"including regularly advising and updating the site with new content," according
to the contract documents reviewed by Newsmax.
Al Fakhoora claims it is working to secure "freedom" for Gazan students to
"pursue a quality education without the danger of conflict or the torment of
occupation."
The main goal of the Fenton-represented Al Fakhoora is to end Israel's naval
blockade of Gaza.
Israel maintains the blockade to ensure Hamas cannot rearm itself. The
Islamic group has been caught at sea many times attempting to bring weapons into
Gaza.
Fenton, meanwhile, is tied to Occupy Wall Street. The movement's march past
millionaires' homes was first announced in a press release titled "Community
Groups and Progressive Organizations Join Together to Plan 'Millionaires March'
with Occupy Wall Street Protestors."
The release detailed how a group calling itself 99 New York was joining the
Occupy Wall Street movement as a partner. The 99 organization is a coalition of
unions and community organizations, such as United NY, Strong Economy for All
Coalition, N.Y. Communities for Change and the Working Families Party.
It was the 99 New York group, which claims to represent the will of 99
percent of the U.S. population, that led to the Occupy Wall Street march on New
York streets.
The press release was sent to reporters and was also posted in various Occupy
Wall Street-affiliated websites, including StrongForAll.org.
The release listed contact information for 99 New York's spokesmen, Doug
Forand of Red Horse Strategies, a firm that has represented scores of Democrat
politicians; and Doug Gordon, senior vice president of Fenton Communications.
Gordon's Fenton email was provided on the release. Prior to joining Fenton,
Gordon worked for years on Capitol Hill and in Democratic Party politics. He
spent seven years as the top aide to Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio.
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