ISNA 2009 Speakers include:
-- Siraj Wahhaj - a character witness for convicted 1993 World Trade Center terrorist "blind sheik" Omar Rahman, and a man who reportedly called for replacing the American government with a caliphate. According to Siraj Wahhaj, "if only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional govt. with a caliphate. If we were united and strong, he said, we would elect our own emir and give allegiance to him. Take my word if 8 million Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us."
-- Hamza Yusef (also spelled Hamza Yousuf or Hamza Yousef), has described Judaism as a "most racist religion," and who promotes Jihad stating that Jihad is the duty and responsibility of all Muslims, further stating that "Jihad is actually considered a Rahma (mercy) in Islam." Yusef's idea of "compromise" is that "There are times when you have to live like a sheep in order to live in the future like a lion."
-- Zaid Shakir
states: "Every Muslim who is honest would say, I would like to see America
become a Muslim country"
-- ISNA's Ingrid Mattson who has
defended
the idea of an Islamic supremacist caliphate, who
has portrayed Christians as a threat to Jews. On the idea of the
Islamic
supremacist caliphate,
she has
stated that "the overthrowing of the caliphate... was a plan of European
powers for many years. This deprived the Muslim world of a stable and
centralized authority, and much of the chaos that we're living in today is the
result of that." Ingrid Mattson also
claims that
"Muslim women have the same legal rights as Muslim men," when we see daily
how women are treated as second-class human beings by Islamic supremacists who
seek the same "caliphate" that Ingrid Mattson defends.
-- Ihsan Bagby has been quoted: "we [Muslims] can never be full citizens of this country... because there is no way we can be fully committed to the institutions and ideologies of this country."