No Place for Hate? Not at CGU...

C.G.U's Second Annual “Mirrors and Windows: Facing Religious Prejudices and Stereotypes” will take place all day on Sunday, April 13.

Sheikh Sadullah Khan, Executive Director of Religious Affairs at the Islamic Center of Irvine will be the keynote speaker.

By the way, he currently advises "the development of the post-graduate Islamic Studies program at Claremont Graduate University" and is listed as one of the Islamic Studies Council Members.

But Sadullah Khan is also a bigot who has said some very disturbing things about Israel. The disconnect about talking about "stereotypes" is apparently lost on CGU.

Here is a summary from a UC Irvine student that has been following Sheikh Sadullah Khan's more outlandish statements.

• Quotes Will Baker, a neo-Nazi
  
• Considers one of three Big Lies to be "Zionism is essential to Judaism"
  
• Thinks "Zionism is a nationalistic movement with a sense of racial superiority serving the interest of a specific group, exploiting religious sentiments, distorting history and vulgarizing interpretation of destruction as its sinister components"
  
• Paints Zionists as "opportunists"
  
• States "Jews who came [to Israel] brought with them a Western arrogance"
  
• Considers (assumedly) any country "hipocritical" if it refuses to assist the Palestinian Authority because the majority party (HAMAS) refuses to recognize Israel, renounce violence, and abide by prior agreements.
  

Here's an article about what Sadullah Khan has said about Israel and Zionism.

On June 5^th, the Los Angeles chapter of CAIR sponsored a community town hall meeting at the Islamic Center of Irvine (ICOI), a mosque that propagates venomously anti-Semitic and anti-Israel rhetoric. In a Khutbah (sermon) given at the ICOI last month, entitled ‘The Abuse of a Religion to sustain a Racist State,’ the ICOI’s Director of Religious Affairs, Sadullah Khan, stated, “Jews who came [to Israel] brought with them a Western arrogance…” In the sermon, which is found on the ICOI website, Khan liberally quoted alleged neo-Nazi William Baker and described Zionism as “racist,” “diabolical” and “sinister.”

Curiously, the sermon has now been taken done. A copy of the full sermon can be found here.

I think we ought to get together to protest this religion conference.