Safi is coy about specifics, but here they are: the Investigative Project on Terrorism published a report yesterday, "'Mainstream' Islamist Convention Features Hate Speech and Hezbollah Defense" in which it broke the news that the conference "featured speakers spewing raw anti-Semitism, homophobic rhetoric and defense of the terrorist group Hezbollah." It then provides details on several speakers but zeroes in on Warith Deen Umar, the former head of the New York state prison chaplain program who lost his job after the Wall Street Journal exposed his pro-bin Ladin views in front-page story in February 2003. Umar appeared at ISNA on July 5 to promote a new book, Jews for Salaam: The Straight Path to Global Peace, in the context of a "Meet The Author" program. In the course of it, he
attacked "unholy Jews" such as Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod, two of President Obama's top aides, by name as [Israelis and] part of a conspiracy "to control the world."

He then claimed that in the Holocaust—the systematic Nazi murder of 6 million Jews—Jews were “punished for a reason because they were serially disobedient to Allah.” He praised the notorious anti-Semitic forgery, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and claimed “the Protocols actually explain and reveal what others observe about the real activities and results of Jewish diplomatic, industrial, business, and political involvement among the peoples of the world…”