This Friday night, May 16th, Sheikh Khalid Yasin will speak at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. The title of his lecture is 'Survival of the Community Means Change" (see the event flyer here). Who is Khalid Yasin, and why is this relevant? Here's a sampling of his positions, courtesy of Patrick Poole of Central Ohioans Against Terrorism, who broke this story:
- Yasin says that the US government was behind the 9/11 attacks.
- Yasin claims that AIDS was invented at a US government lab and spread by Western governments through UN agencies and Christian missionaries.
- Yasin advocates for the death penalty for homosexuality.
- Yasin justified the terrorist bombings in Bali because of years of Western oppression.
- Yasin says that the Quran permits wife-beating and that equal rights for women is a “delusion” and “foolishness”.
- Yasin calls the beliefs of Christians and Jews “filth”.
- Yasin says that Muslims cannot have non-Muslim friends.
- Yasin rejects any separation between Islam and the state and openly advocates for the reestablishment of the caliphate.
- Yasin visited Jemaah Islamiah terrorist leader Abu Bakar Bashir in prison.
- Yasin has lectured with Hizb-ut-Tahrir hatemonger Omar Bakri Mohammed, who was banned from the UK in 2006.
- Yasin was in Saudi Arabia on 9/11 soliciting support from the Al-Qaeda front Al-Haramain Foundation, which was designated a terrorist organization in 2004 by the US government, to help finance his Islamic Broadcasting Company
Read it all. There's much more. Yasin's appearance at Sinclair Community College is being sponsored by a local Dayton mosque, Masjid at-Taqwa. Question: does Sinclair CC's president, Steven Lee Johnson, have any clue about Yasin and the views he represents? Would he cancel the event if he did? Remember, Ohio--as middle America as it gets--is no stranger to radical Islam, as I reported back in October.