The people who brought you the controversial anti-Muslim-terrorist rally in Yorba Linda -- "the peaceful" part of it, anyway -- are prepared to hold a large protest outside the annual Orange County Human Relations Commission dinner if the group doesn't withdraw an award it plans to present to a local imam.
The protest organizer, Steve Amundson of Garden Grove, says Imam Muzammil Siddiqi has ties to terrorist organizations and supports repressive aspects Sharia law, including bans on homosexuality and some speech.
"The OCHRC individuals do not have much gray matter between their ears if they are going to give him this award without looking into his past," Amundson wrote in an email to me. I asked Amundson if the group was going to stage another protest. The one in Yorba Linda on Feb. 13 to protest two Muslim speakers at a private fundraiser drew between 500-1,000 people, and ended with ugly anti-Muslim heckling of families. Amundson says he did not organize or condone the splinter group that taunted the families.
"We are in the planning stages," Amundson said of the possible upcoming protest. "Hopefully, we'll get them to withdraw his name. If not, then something big has to be done."
Human Relations Commission director Rusty Kennedy told me he fully intends to give Siddiqi a Community Leader award at its May 5 banquet at The Grove in Anaheim. Other O.C. leaders being honored that night include the Sisters of St. Joseph and Rabbi Allen Krause.
They must be stopped!!
The Villa Park City Council meeting is Tuesday, March 22 at 7pm.
City Hall
17855 Santiago Blvd, Villa Park 92861
714-998-1500
www.villapark.org
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