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		<title>NY Jets Player Spoke at Event Hosted by Designated Terrorist Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2014 05:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Kaufman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anti-Israel athlete regals the Muslim American Society after the group's banning from the UAE. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/unnamed.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246943" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/unnamed.jpg" alt="unnamed" width="319" height="247" /></a>The media, the NFL and the New York Jets organization can no longer overlook the problem that is Jets player Oday Aboushi. People can argue that he has the right to have pride in his family’s heritage or even that he has the right to voice his opinion against Israel, albeit in a town that has a huge Jewish population. But it is quite another thing for those to look the other way if Aboushi chooses to speak in front of a group labeled terrorist, which is exactly what he did earlier this year, when he delivered a speech to the Muslim American Society (MAS).</p>
<p>Since coming to the New York Jets as a fifth round draft pick in the 2013 NFL Draft, Oday Aboushi has been very public in his stance against the nation of Israel. On a number of occasions, he has used social media to demean and denounce the Jewish state.</p>
<p>His latest set of infractions happened this past July, when Israel’s military entered Gaza in response to thousands of rockets being fired into Israel by Hamas. Aboushi took the opportunity to bash Israel on Twitter. One of his messages could not have been clearer: “<a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Oday_Aboushi_Shame_On_You_Israel.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">#SHAMEONYOUISRAEL</span></a>.”</p>
<p>There are over two million Jews who live in New York and New Jersey, the locations of the majority of Jets fans. Yet, the NFL, the Jets and the media have all stood by Aboushi, whitewashing his actions as if he is merely exhibiting pride in his Palestinian heritage.</p>
<p>Indeed, when this author pointed out in a previous article that Aboushi had spoken at a conference sponsored by the El-Bireh Palestine Society, a group that does not recognize Israel’s right to exist, whose 2013 conference Facebook site contained numerous photos of Adolf Hitler and Hamas leaders, it was not Aboushi who was attacked by the media, but it was instead this author and anyone else who appeared to voice concerns based on my information.</p>
<p>When Jonathan Mael, then-new media coordinator for Major League Baseball’s official website, MLB.com, compared Aboushi to New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez, who had just been charged with murder, stating in a tweet that the Jets were “a disgrace of an organization,” there were calls for Mael’s firing. And those calls appear to have been successful.</p>
<p>Aboushi’s speaking in front of the bigoted El-Bireh Society, though, seems to have only been a prelude to his being featured at something far worse, as he has now spoken in front of a group that would soon be designated as a terrorist organization.</p>
<p>On the night of February 7, 2014, Oday Aboushi was the featured speaker at an <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Oday_Aboushi_Muslim_American_Society.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">event hosted by the Muslim American Society</span></a> (MAS), at the group’s youth center in Brooklyn, New York. The title of his speech was ‘The Easy Way vs the Right Way,’ and it was promoted by MAS on social media.</p>
<p>On November 15, it was widely reported that MAS was <a href="http://www.wam.ae/en/news/emirates-international/1395272478814.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">named a terrorist organization by United Arab Emirates</span></a> (UAE), on a list that included al-Qaeda, ISIS and Boko Haram. This was a fitting designation, as the links to terror from MAS are many and varied.</p>
<p>MAS was founded in 1993 by a group of individuals from the Muslim Brotherhood, which included the future global head of the Brotherhood (2004 &#8211; 2010), Mohammed Mahdi Akef.</p>
<p>In the recent past, MAS has used its official websites to praise Hamas and to call for violence upon and/or denigrate Jews, Christians, homosexuals and women.</p>
<p>The current National Executive Director of MAS is Mazen Mokhtar. From 1992 through 1996, Mokhtar made numerous statements on the internet in support of Hamas and suicide bombings. Prior to the September 11 attacks, Mokhtar served as a web designer for what was then the main website raising funds and recruiting fighters for al-Qaeda and the Taliban, Qoqaz.net. The site was a project of Azzam Publications, an organization named for Osama bin Laden’s mentor, Abdullah Azzam. In April 2007, Mokhtar was arrested for tax fraud.</p>
<p>The fact that Aboushi made his speech at a “youth center” does not lessen the harmful nature of his event, as MAS Youth facilities have been and remain havens for extremist activity. One must note that, prior to becoming the National Executive Director of MAS, Mazen Mokhtar served as the Youth Director of MAS-New Jersey and has been a featured speaker at a number of MAS Youth camps and children’s retreats.</p>
<p>The Youth Coordinator at MAS Youth Center, where Aboushi spoke, is Amal Hussain. According to Facebook, Hussain was an attendee at Aboushi’s speech.</p>
<p>The very first posting on Hussain’s personal Facebook page was an <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Amal_Hussain_Siraj_Wahhaj.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">announcement for a speech that was to be given by Siraj Wahhaj</span></a>, the imam of the radical At-Taqwa Mosque, located in the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn. Hussain used the announcement as her Facebook cover photo.</p>
<p>In 1995, Wahhaj was named an “unindicted co-conspirator” for the federal trial prosecuting those involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Wahhaj had been linked to the bombmaker of the attack, Clement Rodney Hampton-El, and during the trial Wahhaj was a character witness for the spiritual leader of the attack – the “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdel Rahman – whom Wahhaj has openly praised.</p>
<p>On November 30, Amal Hussain posted a <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Amal_Hussain_Mohamed_Soltan.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">photo of Egyptian prisoner Mohamed Soltan on her Facebook site</span></a>, along with the following statement above it: “[Hosni] Mubarak walks away freely while Soltan is still ‘unjustly’ detained.” Soltan is awaiting trial for charges of funding a terrorist organization and conspiracy to commit violent acts. Soltan’s father, Salah Soltan, is a high-ranking official in the Muslim Brotherhood. Mohamed’s father is also a former leader of MAS.</p>
<p>Salah Soltan is the founder and former President of the MAS-run Islamic American University (IAU), which is based in Southfield, Michigan. The former Chairman of IAU is the current spiritual leader of the international Muslim Brotherthood, Yusuf al-Qaradawi. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) refers to al-Qaradawi as “Theologian of Terror,” and about Salah Soltan, the ADL states that, in June 2013, Salah delivered a sermon labeling Jews “the enemies of God… the cursed ones.”</p>
<p>Prior to going to jail, Mohamed Soltan tweeted a photo of himself <a href="https://causingfitna.wordpress.com/there-is-no-muslim-brotherhood-in-the-united-states-ummm-correction/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">together with his father and al-Qaradawi</span></a>, at what he claimed was al-Qaradawi’s house. He also tweeted support for Hamas.</p>
<p>The day after his speech to MAS, Oday Aboushi tweeted a <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Oday_Aboushi_Muslim_American_Society_2.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">thank-you note to the group</span></a>. He stated, “Thank you @MASYouthCenter for having me last night. Being available for our youth is the biggest hand we can lend in times of need.”</p>
<p>Question: Just how far is Oday Aboushi willing to go to lend a hand to a designated terrorist organization? And how far does he have to go before the NFL, the Jets and the media end their relationship with and their support for him?</p>
<p>As a professional football player, Oday Aboushi is considered by many to be a role model for kids, but what kind of role model legitimizes bigotry and terror?</p>
<p><i>Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.</i></p>
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		<title>NY Jets Player Speaks at Extreme Anti-Israel Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 04:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Kaufman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is Oday Aboushi associating with terrorism supporters and anti-Semites? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Oday-Aboushi-playercard.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-196216" alt="Oday-Aboushi-playercard" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Oday-Aboushi-playercard-450x342.jpg" width="270" height="205" /></a>Oday Aboushi has been touted as being the first Palestinian-American player in the National Football League (NFL), but his radical behavior since being drafted by the New York Jets less than three months ago could get him sent home early. His latest infraction was made as he gave a speech at a radical Muslim conference sponsored by a group denying Israel’s right to exist and associated with blatantly anti-Semitic and terrorist propaganda.</p>
<p>When the New York Jets chose Offensive Lineman Oday Aboushi in the fifth round of the 2013 NFL draft, they did so because of Aboushi’s athletic skills. It seems, though, that his personal life was not a consideration, at least not enough to stop the team from picking him. Problems in the NFL usually revolve around drugs or alcohol abuse or players being bad influences in the locker rooms. Aboushi’s problem is an unusual one for pro sports. He’s a Muslim extremist.</p>
<p>In January, Aboushi posted a photo to his personal Twitter page <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/dfjk2xh6etk2gmx/Oday_Aboushi_old_woman_anti-semitic_photo.jpg">depicting an old woman looking down</a> while three clearly Orthodox Jews converse with one another in the background. The photo, which is attributed to the anti-Israel publication Middle East Monitor (MEM), was part of a large-scale smear campaign against the Jewish state. The caption over Aboushi’s tweet reads, “88 year-old Palestinian evicted from home in Jerusalem by Israel authorities to make room 4 Orthodox Jews.”</p>
<p>Aboushi might have gotten the idea to post the propaganda from his relative, Fatina Abuzahrieh, who also grew up in and resides in New York City. In November of last year, Abuzahrieh posted on her Facebook page a shockingly <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/uh8xwdu6mlmir56/Fatina_Abuzahrieh_Oday_Aboushi_anti-Jewish_cartoon.jpg">anti-Semitic cartoon portraying an evil looking Orthodox Jew</a> with a huge smile on his face, wearing an Israeli flag across his chest, and an old Palestinian woman looking down, crying, claiming to be “thrown out” of her “own home.”</p>
<p>From there, Aboushi’s conduct has continued to get more extreme.</p>
<p>On April 19th, just one week prior to the draft, Aboushi <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/cy8f70fbsakwu1m/Oday_Aboushi_Islamic-Relief.jpg">praised a conference sponsored by Islamic Relief</a> (IR), a charity that the Israeli government has labeled a front for Hamas and that has been cited for both receiving and giving huge sums of money to al-Qaeda related groups.</p>
<p>Only weeks after the draft, Aboushi tweeted the following: “<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/krl4qsnkde2h5kf/Nakba_Oday_Aboushi.jpg">65th anniversary of the Nakba</a> and palestinians all across the world are still thriving.” For persons unaware of the term “Nakba,” the statement might seem innocuous, but for those who care about Israel, the term is a very dangerous and provocative one. The Nakba or Catastrophe is a derogatory reference to Israel’s May 1948 founding as an independent Jewish state. It is used to spread enmity against Israel and to fuel terrorist attacks from groups like Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).</p>
<p>Lest anyone believe this was an honest misunderstanding on Aboushi’s part, Aboushi solidified his extreme anti-Israelism late last month when he was a featured speaker at a conference run by an organization which denies Israel’s existence and associates with those involved in violence against her citizens.</p>
<p>According to the group sponsoring the event, “El-Bireh Palestine Society was founded to perpetuate the strong ties among its members and to link their communities around the world together and with their ancestral roots in El-Bireh, Palestine.” One of the ways the group accomplishes this is by holding annual conferences.</p>
<p>Speaking at the Society’s <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/5fzncde8kfafe4c/Fouad_Rafeedie_El-Bireh_Palestine_Society.jpg">August 1986 Fifth National Convention</a> held in Dearborn, Michigan was Fouad Rafeedie. Two years later, the INS charged Rafeedie with being a high-ranking member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a terrorist group. The PFLP is currently named as such on the U.S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Also speaking was Osama Siblani, the publisher of Arab American News (Sada al-Watan) and a public supporter of Hezbollah and Hamas.</p>
<p>The three-day El-Bireh Convention 2013 (&#8220;Connect 2013&#8243;) began this past June 28thin Arlington, Virginia. Featured as a speaker at the event was Oday Aboushi. Also participating in the conference was Nitham Hasan, the President of the Islamic Center of South Florida (ICOSF). ICOSF’s mosque property is <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/uexe7l7nr56fl38/ICOSF_NAIT_3.jpg">owned by the North American Islamic Trust</a> (NAIT), a group named by the U.S. Justice Department as being a party to the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas.</p>
<p>El-Bireh Palestine Society’s logo, found atop the organization’s website, contains a graphic of the <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/c5owt1ef4tau7re/El-Bireh_Convention_Oday_Aboushi_speaker.jpg">entire nation of Israel covered in a Palestinian flag</a> – a patent denial of Israel’s legitimacy and right to exist. Like Aboushi’s Nakba, images such as this fuel terrorism and hate abroad and potentially here at home as well. Worse still, the <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/pq3igq4v4y8fxdj/El-Bireh_Convention_2013_Facebook_page.jpg">Facebook page for the conference</a> – which is administered by the same individual who created the Society’s website, Ashraf Abed – is accompanied by horrifically anti-Semitic, anti-Christian and terrorist propaganda.</p>
<p>On the same El-Bireh Facebook site as the conference, there are contained different <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/wboi7hxbjraz7rr/Hitler_Deedat_El-Bireh_Facebook.jpg">images of Hitler</a> and rabid anti-Christian cleric Ahmed Deedat, who authored the infamous work <i>CRUCIFIXION OR CRUCI-FICTION?</i> There are <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/yctrkg8naes6m9t/Rantisi_Yassin_Arafat_Ayyash_PRC_El-Bireh_Facebook.jpg">terrorist memorials for Hamas leader Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi</a>, PLO leader Yasser Arafat, Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin and Hamas bomb maker Yahya Ayyash. About Arafat and Yassin, the site states in Arabic, “The martyr leader Yasser Arafat with the Mujahid Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. G-d have mercy on them.”</p>
<p>As well, there are a number of pictures of the imprisoned head of the PFLP, Ahmad Saadat, and a photo <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/yctrkg8naes6m9t/Rantisi_Yassin_Arafat_Ayyash_PRC_El-Bireh_Facebook.jpg">glorifying members of the Popular Resistance Committees</a> (PRC) in the process of launching rockets into Israel. There is also a photo of Oday Aboushi’s friend, Linda Sarsour, the Executive Director of the Arab American Association of New York (AAANY), and a picture of four individuals <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/x693d6zu3khc3ib/American_Flag_Stomp_El-Bireh.jpg">stomping on an American flag</a>, which they pulled down from atop a sign.</p>
<p>Following the conference, Aboushi tweeted, “<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/95tt4ek7ozh854b/El-Bireh_Convention_Oday_Aboushi_tweet.jpg">Al bireh convention was a pleasure.</a> Proud Palestinians is always a good sight.”</p>
<p>It is okay to be proud of one’s heritage. Few, if any, would disagree. But what is not okay is when the heritage that you are praising instills hatred and violence in its followers and threatens and brings terror to the lives of others. It is apparent that that is exactly what the organization Oday Aboushi spoke in front of believes.</p>
<p><b>What will the Jets do?</b></p>
<p>In a <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/joe-kaufman/new-york-jets-draft-pick-tweets-against-israel/">previous article</a>, this author detailed the extremist ties and behavior of football player Oday Aboushi, which resulted in Aboushi <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/3sfwnltre1aiy19/Mohamed_Mabrouk_missing_fr_Oday_Aboushi_Likes.jpg">removing material from his Facebook site</a>. Yet, to this day, the New York Jets have ignored the actions of their Islamist draft pick, only to see his behavior get worse. So far, the team has appeared to put Aboushi’s athletic ability over his ties to Muslim fanaticism. This author, however, believes that the Jets have much more to worry about than whether or not Aboushi can create holes in the opposing team’s defense or if he can provide protection for the quarterback.</p>
<p>Given the actions he continues to engage in and the dangerous persons and groups he chooses to surround himself with, the Jets must change the game plan they originally had when they took Oday Aboushi in the 2013 NFL Draft and release this player. In the end, those individuals Aboushi truly wishes to protect may very well be the ones we have to worry about the most.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.newyorkjets.com/footer/contact-us.html">Click here to contact the NY Jets</a> to tell the team your thoughts on this matter. Please be respectful in your comments.</p>
<p><i>Beila Rabinowitz, director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.</i></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 04:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The radical associations and extremist writings of Oday Aboushi.
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/OD.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-189871" alt="OD" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/OD.jpg" width="280" height="288" /></a>Oday Aboushi leads a double life. On the one hand, he is an American football player with professional-level athletic skills. On the other, he is a fundamentalist Muslim with radical associations and a heritage that pushes him towards a destructive world of violence and hate.</p>
<p>When the New York Jets football team chose Oday Aboushi with the eighth pick of the fifth round of the April 2013 NFL Draft (141st pick overall), the organization knew that it was getting an elite player who could wreak havoc on the field – one of the top offensive linemen in the entire draft. At 6-foot-5, 310 pounds, no doubt, Abousi is an imposing figure. What the Jets didn’t know, though, was the type of havoc he could potentially cause off the field.</p>
<p>Although Aboushi was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, he proudly refers to himself as a “Palestinian-American.” His parents both arrived in the U.S. from the town of Beit Hanina in the West Bank. The first time he had been to the area was during his freshman year of college. In an <a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/jets/post/_/id/23229/a-closer-look-oday-aboushi">article published by ESPN</a>, the sports network stated about Aboushi’s trip, “It was a completely different world, although filled with the same kinds of people he knew growing up in Brooklyn.”</p>
<p>One long-time friend of the family is Linda Sarsour, a rabid anti-Israel activist, who has Hamas-related family serving prison sentences in Israel and has herself been questioned by U.S. authorities. Less than one year ago, Sarsour posted on her Twitter account, <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/3791/more-radicalism-from-another-white-house-guest">“Nothing is creepier than Zionism.”</a> In a May 2012 tweet, she claimed that the al-Qaeda “Underwear Bomber,” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who plotted to blow up a civilian aircraft, was actually a CIA operative.</p>
<p>When Aboushi was chosen by the Jets in the draft, Sarsour used that same Twitter account she placed her fanatic missives on to post two dozen messages about it, including <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/03qqgb9q7frj3cq/Linda_Sarsour_Oday_Aboushi_1.jpg">Twitter conversations with Aboushi</a>. She also tweeted <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/29up6covagdyzcw/Linda_Sarsour_Oday_Aboushi_4.jpg">photos of herself with Aboushi</a>.</p>
<p>Sarsour holds the position of Executive Director of the Arab American Association of New York (AAANY). Oday Aboushi’s sister, Tahanie, who also uses Twitter to attack Israel, is a lawyer for the organization. Together with the Executive Director of CAIR-NY, Muneer Awad, Tahanie Aboushi <a href="http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/09/staten_island_spokespersons_re.html">condemned ads speaking out against Islamic jihad</a> – ads which would soon be placed throughout New York City’s subway stations.</p>
<p>Awad, like Sarsour, is obsessed with Israel and has used Twitter to attack the Jewish state. He tweeted <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/at9xdej9gmpguym/Muneer_Awad_CAIR-NY_Israel_1.jpg">“GOP kissing Israel’s ass hurts Israel,”</a> and condemned a speech made by President Barack Obama in praise of Israel as <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/gp1l4e9r84rddkn/Muneer_Awad_CAIR-NY_Israel_2.jpg">“racist and untrue.”</a> For Awad to state such things makes sense, given the fact that the organization he works for, CAIR, has its roots with Hamas.</p>
<p>And like Sarsour, CAIR-NY went out of its way to praise the Jets drafting of Aboushi. The group called the signing <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/xvz0bcgmexabbvy/CAIR-NY_praises_Oday_Aboushi.jpg">“an American dream story.”</a></p>
<p>Far from being an American dream, Oday Aboushi has exhibited this exact type of extremism. He too has targeted Israel with his Twitter account, one tweet even having anti-Semitic overtones. This past January, he posted a photo depicting an old woman looking down while three clearly Orthodox Jews talk to each other in the background. The caption reads, “88 year-old Palestinian evicted from home in Jerusalem by Israel authorities <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/dfjk2xh6etk2gmx/Oday_Aboushi_old_woman_anti-semitic_photo.jpg">to make room 4 Orthodox Jews</a>.”</p>
<p>The photo contains the logo of Middle East Monitor (MEM), an anti-Zionist publication based in England. The picture has recently been used in a smear campaign against Israel and her observant Jewish citizens. Aboushi chose to be one of the smear merchants.</p>
<p>On April 19, one week before the NFL Draft, Aboushi wrote a <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/cy8f70fbsakwu1m/Oday_Aboushi_Islamic-Relief.jpg">tweet exalting a fundraising dinner</a> sponsored by Islamic Relief (IR), an organization with numerous ties to terrorism. He wrote, “Beautiful NJ fundraiser event for the kids of Palestine in refugee camps.” The affair was held in Hasbrouk Heights, New Jersey and was titled, ‘A Night for Palestine.’</p>
<p>In May 2006, Israel <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2006/may/31/voluntarysector.israel">labeled Islamic Relief a front for Hamas</a> after arresting the group’s Gaza program manager, Ayaz Ali, for providing “funds and assistance to various Hamas institutions and organizations.” Ali admitted that he had cooperated with local Hamas operatives.</p>
<p>As well, in 1999, IR collected and <a href="http://www.tribuneindia.com/1999/99nov02/world.htm">sent more than $6 million</a> to Chechen rebels with ties to al-Qaeda. The same year, IR received $50,000 from Human Concern International (HCI), a charity that the U.S. Department of Treasury described as a “Bin Laden front.” Shortly after the September 11 attacks, IR itself was <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2001/nov/04/news/mn-79/2">investigated by the Treasury Department</a> as a possible source of funding for al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.”</p>
<p>Besides Twitter, Oday Aboushi also has a Facebook account. Currently in the <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/2cbwu5uxt70mc2n/Oday_Aboushi_Mohamed_Mabrouk.jpg">‘Likes’ section of his Facebook page</a> is the imam of the Islamic Center of Temecula Valley (ICTV), Mohamed Mabrouk. Mabrouk was previously the imam of the Islamic Society of Greater Lansing (ISGL). Both of these mosques have ties to terrorism.</p>
<p>Last March, ICTV held a conference and banquet at the Anaheim Hilton, titled, <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/gown35m3pbz39fu/Islamic_Center_of_Temecula_Valley_Islamic_Relief_Conference.jpg">‘Muhammad (pbuh): The Prophet for Our Times.’</a> The event was co-sponsored by Islamic Relief. Among the speakers for the function was the imam of Brooklyn’s al-Taqwa mosque, Siraj Wahhaj. Wahhaj had previously been named by the U.S. government as an “unindicted co-conspirator” for a trial dealing with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Wahhaj had been <a href="http://www.moralgroup.com/NewsItems/Islam/p13.htm">linked to the bombmaker of the attack</a>, Clement Rodney Hampton-El, and during the trial, he was a character witness for the spiritual leader of the attack, Omar Abdel Rahman, whom Wahhaj has openly praised.</p>
<p>According to the January 2006 ISGL Constitution, which is located on the official ISGL website, the ownership of the mosque property was <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/6bw7mtwnakyt0ff/Islamic_Society_of_Greater_Lansing_NAIT.jpg">“entrusted” to the North American Islamic Trust</a> (NAIT). And according to the ISGL website, ISGL is a subsidiary of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). In 2007 and 2008, both NAIT and ISNA were named by the U.S. Justice Department as <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/dx8rkppus3ek665/ISNA_NAIT_Unindicted_Co-Conspirator_List.jpg">“unindicted co-conspirators”</a> for two federal trials dealing with the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas. ISNA, as well, was co-founded by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) convicted terrorist Sami al-Arian.</p>
<p>Oday Aboushi, himself, is an observant Muslim. While playing football for the University of Virginia, during the month of Ramadan, he would fast every day from sunrise to sunset. This bit of information has made its way into a number of articles written about Aboushi, in admiration for his commitment to his religion. But what cannot be praised or tolerated are the radical behavior and associations that Aboushi has embraced.</p>
<p>During <a href="http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/oday-aboushi-nfl-american-dream/5183de1502a76036530003e0">one of his post-draft interviews</a>, Aboushi mentioned how each of the teams interested in picking him sat him in a room and “grilled” him with questions for up to a quarter-of-an-hour. He said that these “formal meetings” were attended by all the team staff, including athletic director, head coach and owner.</p>
<p>At their meeting, either the Jets didn’t ask the right questions about Aboushi’s personal background and affiliations which might conflict or cause damage to the Jets’ image or Aboushi didn’t answer the questions honestly. The only other possibility is that the team only cares about Aboushi the exceptional athlete and nothing else.</p>
<p>In April 2009, the Jets front office <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/jets/jewish-fans-jolt-jets-nfl-article-1.363585">contacted the NFL</a> to ask that the date of its home opener be moved, as it was going to coincide with the Jewish high holiday of Rosh Hashanah. The team did the right thing to complain on behalf of their Jewish fan base, and they need to do the same in the case of their Islamist draft pick.</p>
<p>As of now, Aboushi’s name <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/rdmkd96m0dcufqw/Jets_roster_Oday_Aboushi.jpg">sits atop the Jets website roster</a>. How long he will remain there is up to management.</p>
<p><i>Beila Rabinowitz, director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.</i></p>
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