(UPI) Lou Marano - "For a long time, Muslim American organizations have been allowed to get away with all kinds of hate speech against the U.S., against Jews, against Christians - all forms of anti-Semitism - and somehow it's been accommodated within the whole program of multiculturalism," American Muslim scholar Ahmed al-Rahim told a forum at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington this week. The politics of these American Muslim organizations promulgates a Wahhabi political agenda, he said. Al-Rahim is a founding member of the American Islamic Congress, an organization formed after 9/11 in the belief that American Muslims should take the lead in rejecting Muslim extremism and promoting democracy in the Muslim world. Al-Rahim said many American Muslims are afraid to condemn violence and hate speech. "One of our board members (Tarek Masoud) published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Sept. 14 (2001), basically apologizing to America for what had happened." Masoud received no fewer than 20 death threats.
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