Yusef Salaam — one of the exonerated “Central Park Five” defendants now running for a City Council seat in Harlem — is touting an endorsement from an unindicted co-conspirator in the 19…
“Can’t get much worse than that guy,” said Queens Democratic Councilman Bob Holden of the Wahhaj endorsement. “Anyone who is proud of that endorsement is unfit for public office in New York City or anywhere in the United States.”promotes him as a wise elder statesman and religious scholar “rooted in hope, faith, and the power of redemption,” he has family ties to terrorism which have continued.
In 2018, Wahhaj’s son — also named Siraj Wahhaj — was busted in a squalid New Mexico compound where was training young children for“The defendants in this case allegedly were preparing for deadly attacks and their targets included law enforcement and military personnel,” said Michael McGarrity, assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division at the time.
Imam Siraj Wahhaj was an unindicted coconspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombings and has close family ties to terrorism.Wahhaj has been a member of the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam since 1969 and in 1991 became the first Muslim to deliver an opening prayer to the United States House of Representatives, according to theOther contenders in the Harlem race include Assemblywoman Inez Dickens and Assemblyman Al Taylor.
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