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March 16, 2006
Important: University of Central Florida Sponsors Visiting Jihadist
Readers should make their voice heard by contacting: John C. Hitt, Ph.D., President of the University of Central Florida. Phone: , Fax: , or use this form.
On March 10 we posted that a University of Central Florida Muslim Student seminar would be presented by three "preachers of fundamentalism": Ibrahim Dremali, a documented radical Islamist who completed his Islamic studies at the fundamentalist Al Azhar University - best known for being the alma mater of Abdullah Azzam � bin-Laden's mentor, Radwan Koualti, a fanatical adherent to a strict Muslim fundamentalism, and Yahya Abdulbary, an instructor at the Al Maghrib Institute whose radical Islamist agenda is expounded by the director Muhammed Alshareef, who teaches a course entitled, "History of the Chalifate: Conquest," and the author of a tract entitled, "Why the Jews were cursed."
Today, Joe Kaufman at FrontPageMag.com, reminds us that throughout America, universities are turning a blind eye while their campuses are being invaded by those propagating a violent form of hatred known simply as radical Islam (as in Yale's Taliban Man), and that begining tomorow, March 17th, for two days, the University of Central Florida (UCF) event is still scheduled to occur. UCF, in hosting Ibrahim Dremali, will be hosting an imam who has ties to terrorists and has publicly pledged his support for those who commit suicide in the name of Allah:
Ibrahim Dremali, the Family ManApparently Kaufman spoke with UCF�s Director of Student Involvement, Kerry Welch, who after meeting with Muslim Student Association student leaders, was �assured� that the upcoming event �is a legitimate program/conference, designed to inspire the Islamic community to live a spiritual life.� But look who Welch, serving as one of many "resident dhimmis" at UCF, is getting his information from (notice the image of a headless body adorning the site�s masthead)!!!As a Muslim extremist, Ibrahim Dremali has had an eventful life. He grew up in terrorist-saturated Gaza, where many of his family still live. This includes his brother, Ishaq, who is the former Gaza Coordinator for the Health Resource Center for Palestine (HRCP), a now-defunct, Hamas-related American charity run by Ibrahim�s wife, Lamyaa Hashim (a.k.a. Um Ahmad).
Ibrahim Dremali was educated at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, where the school�s Grand Imam, Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, has issued Fatwas in favor of violent Jihad against America and in support of suicide bombings. It is at Al-Azhar that Dremali was said to have been indoctrinated into a militant organization. This gives historical context for an event that happened on July 1, 1996, during which Dremali was detained by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) and told that he was not to leave Gaza indefinitely. Subsequently, on July 5, 1996, against Israeli orders, he arrived in Cairo.
Dremali would soon make his way to sunny Florida, where he resided previous to the IDF incident. Later, he would be chosen as the Imam of a radical Boca mosque, the Islamic Center of Boca Raton (ICBR), and the home of an Al-Qaeda operative, Rafiq Sabir, and an associate of Sami Al-Arian, Bassem Alhalabi, who would receive a sentence in 2003 for shipping a $13,000 piece of military equipment to Syria.
In October of 2000, as reported by Lamyaa Hashim in Islam Online, Dremali spoke at a rally where Israeli flags were burned and the crowd shouted, �With jihad we'll claim our land, Zionist blood will wet the sand.� Dremali told the audience �not to be sad for those who were martyred and to not be afraid to die for what they believe in.� Dremali�s support for suicide bombers didn�t end there, as he wound up being a witness for the defense of Adham Hassoun, the Florida contact for the Benevolence Foundation and the Global Relief Foundation, two �charities� closed down by the U.S. government for providing funding to Al-Qaeda and/or Hamas.
Today, Dremali, who claims he was run out of town by this author, has �sought refuge� � with his second wife and his four children � in Des Moines, Iowa, where he is the Imam of the Islamic Center of Des Moines (ICDM). Recently, he was interviewed wearing a black and white checkered Fatah kaffiyeh, and he stated that, for him and his congregants, the prophet Mohammed is �more valuable than even our own lives, own kids.�
On March 17, 2006, Ibrahim Dremali is set to make a return appearance in Florida. The Muslim Students Association (MSA) at UCF � using funds from the school�s Student Government Association (SGA) � is having him, along with two other radical imams, speak at its two-day conference entitled, �Returning to Our Rabb.�
As Kaufman points out in his FPM.com piece, schools across the United States can deal with this in one of two ways: They can recognize the problem and take action against it, so that it will not poison their campuses any more than it already has, or they can ignore it and make like the problem does not exist.
However, by allowing Ibrahim Dremali and other Islamists onto its premises, and going so far as to actually pay for their services, the University of Central Florida UCF is demonstrating that it is choosing to ignore the problem and instead of fighting terrorism, do the opposite by endorsing it. UCF has chosen to become part of the problem.
Readers should make their voice heard by contacting: John C. Hitt, Ph.D., President of the University of Central Florida. Phone: , Fax: , or use this form.
Related: King Fahd's plan to conquer America [a dated (2002) article but still highly relevant]
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Cross posted by Hyscience
Posted by Richard at March 16, 2006 8:52 AM
