Malik Ali, "dedicated to creating an Islamic revolution in the U.S."

From Eric Dondero:

Who is Amir Abdel Malik Ali?

According to discoverthenetworks.com:

Amir-Abdel Malik-Ali (also known as Abdul Malik Ali and Abd Al-Malik) is a black Imam associated with the Masjid Al Islam mosque in Oakland. A graduate of San Francisco State University and a former Nation of Islam member, he is a frequent guest lecturer at Muslim Student Union and Muslim Students Association events. A passionate supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah, he helped organize a July 1999 rally in San Francisco at which Imam Abdul-Alim Musa proudly displayed a cashier’s check made out to “Hamas, Palestine.”

A fervent admirer of the famed Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X, Malik-Ali is a leader of the As-Sabiqun movement which is inspired by Malcolm’s work and life. He is also part of the Al-Masjid movement which is dedicated to creating an Islamic revolution in the United States.

More from the OC Register "Emails flood Yorba Linda over Muslim speakers":

Islamic activist Amir Abdel Malik Ali spoke last year as part of "Israeli Apartheid Week" by the Muslim Student Union at UCI...

At that event, Malik Ali stated he supports Hamas and Hezbollah. Hamas is a grassroots movement with Palestinian followers. It opposes Israeli existence and has carried out suicide bombings in Israel. Hezbollah is a Lebanese organization believed to have Iranian ties that the CIA labels a terrorist group. Hezbollah is blamed for the 1983 bombing of a U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beruit that killed 240 soldiers.

Imam Siraj Wahhaj - "expressed desire for Muslims to seize control of the U.S., and replace constitution with Islamic Caliphate"

Who is Siraj Wahhaj?

Once again from discoverthenetworks.org:

Wahhaj was raised as a Baptist in New York City. He attended Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada, where he studied math education. His interest in Islam, he says, arose shortly after the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., which prompted Wahhaj to go "looking for more militancy."

In the course of that search, Wahhaj became involved with the Nation of Islam and its leader, Louis Farrakhan, under whose influence he converted to Islam in 1969. Aligning himself with Islam's Sunni sect, Wahhaj studied at Umm al-Qura University in Mecca in 1978.

Wahhaj expressed his desire to see Muslims seize control of the United States and replace its constitutional 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.”

Additional info from the OC Register:

A U.S. attorney named Wahhaj as a co-conspirator in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. He was one of 170 people who prosecutors said could have been involved in the plot but were never charged.

Headliner Speakers at event at City-Owned Event Facility

This Sunday, both Wahhaj and Malik-Ali will be the guest speakers at a fundraising event sponsored by the Muslim Circle at the Yorba Linda Community Center.

The City has been innundated with complaints, according to city officials over 75 emails from residents have flooded the mayor's office. The Mayor intervened. But according to the OC Register she was completely rebuffed:

The mayor said she'd met with ICNA representatives and asked that they consider alternate speakers. They declined.

"We take the (public's) concerns seriously. We're doing what we can legally and within the bounds of safety to monitor the event if they move forward," [Rec Dir.] Calkins said.