(FrontPage) CAIR-Florida communications director Wilfredo Ruiz likes to call his organization a “civil rights group” and uses social media to denounce those who spread bigotry, yet Ruiz himself associates with individuals and groups who spread the same kind of hate. This past month, Ruiz did so once again, when he participated at an event hosted by the Darul Uloom mosque and moderated by the mosque’s imam Shafayat Mohamed, who has been thrown off different local boards for anti-gay speech and has claimed homosexual sex causes natural disasters.
On December 23, 2018, a panel discussion was held at the Pembroke Pines, Florida-based Darul Uloom Institute on the topic of “Religion and Politics in America.” Darul Uloom is infamous for being a haven for a number of al-Qaeda operatives, including “dirty bomber” Jose Padilla, who was a student at Darul Uloom, and now-deceased al-Qaeda global operations chief Adnan el-Shukrijumah, who was a prayer leader at Darul Uloom.
