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Anti-Muslim Hate Comes to Orange County [VIDEO]

Posted March 3, 2011 by Ted Hesson

Updated 3/3/11, 5pm

You can hear the crowd in unison as Muslim families walk from their cars to a fundraising dinner in Yorba Linda, California: “Go back home! Go back home!” Boos rain down in the manner of a rowdy football game, but instead of professional athletes, the targets are young children and their parents.

The proceeds from the dinner will benefit women’s shelters, homeless, and hunger in the US.

That message, however, is lost on several hundred protesters hailing from a mix of local conservative and Tea Party groups.

After gathering footage of the February 13 taunting, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim civil rights group, released a video documenting the incident (see below). I encourage you to watch the clip in its entirety:

Two keynote speakers at the event, Imam Siraj Wahhaj and Amir Abdel Malik Ali, may have drawn protestors. The OC Weekly reports:

Wahhaj was among 180 people named in a letter by a U.S. attorney as a potential un-indicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; Wahhaj was never charged and has denied involvement. Malik Ali is a Bay Area Islamic activist who spoke at the Muslim Student Union’s 2010 “Israeli Apartheid Week” at UC Irvine and has said he supports Hezbollah, which the U.S. has labeled a terrorist group.

To some degree, the abuse spewed at the families in this video mirrored the messages shouted by supporters of Congressman Peter King at a contentious peace rally in Massapequa last week. King intends to hold a series of congressional investigative panels on homegrown terror, focusing exclusively on Muslims.

Tags : cair, california, council on american islamic, muslim, tea party, video, yorba linda

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