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Muslim confab invited anti-Semitic clericToronto event advertised presence of controversial Saudi sheikh Posted: January 7, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Sherrie Gossett© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com A Saudi Arabian cleric who prayed to God to "terminate" the Jews and was dropped from a Dec. 19 Florida program amid the ensuing media controversy was subsequently scheduled for an appearance at a similar conference in Toronto, along with the same Florida Muslim leader who had advertised his visit to Orlando. Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Shah, CEO and chairman of the Universal Heritage Center in Orlando, had listed Sheikh Abdul al-Sudais' name at the top of the center's "Islam...

Editor's note: Today WND features the first of a three-part report by Sherrie Gossett, who went inside a recent "mainstream" Muslim conference in Florida to discover the true attitudes and ideas of the leaders of the Islamic movement in the U.S. Gossett attended portions of the conference after all other media representatives had packed up and left the event. In Part 1, Gossett analyzes the words and backgrounds of some of the keynote speakers at the conference – imams and sheikhs who openly voice their disdain for America, Jews and "unbelievers" in general, and who defend the practice of suicide...

ISLAM IN AMERICA, PART 1 WND goes inside 'mainstream' Muslim conference Extremist leaders who support terror stir up crowd at Florida event Posted: January 3, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern Editor's note: Today WND features the first of a three-part report by Sherrie Gossett, who went inside a recent "mainstream" Muslim conference in Florida to discover the true attitudes and ideas of the leaders of the Islamic movement in the U.S. Gossett attended portions of the conference after all other media representatives had packed up and left the event. In Part 1, Gossett analyzes the words and backgrounds of some of the...