A Tweet by Boston’s Mayor Michelle Wu announcing the appointment of Yusufi Vali as her Deputy Chief of Staff.
Following is a summary of an Islamism.news article that I found on Jihad Watch.
— The Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has appointed Yusufi Vali as her Deputy Chief of Staff, who is someone that used to head the Islamic Society of Boston (ISB) which a 2016 report detailed as being one of the most radical mosques on the East coast, and he was also the trustee of the Boston branch of the Muslim American Society (MAS) which was designated as a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates.
— Federal prosecutors wrote in 2008 that MAS was founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America. Speakers at a MAS conference openly glorified terrorism in 2019, and the Philadelphia branch of the MAS made national headlines after it held an event in 2019 where children sang songs of Jihad and beheadings of Jews.
In this video, children in a 2019 assembly at the Philadelphia branch of the MAS sing songs of Jihad and beheadings. [Also see this article about that matter.]
— MAS’s Boston branch was previously headed by Yusuf Al Qaradawi, an infamously-extreme spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and admirer of Adolf Hitler, as well as Abdulrahman Alamoudi, who is an Al Qaeda fundraiser that was jailed in 2004 for conspiring with the Libyan regime to assassinate the Saudi Crown Prince.
In this video, Yusuf Al Qaradaw praises Hitler and the Holocaust.
Vali himself has close associations with many Islamic extremists, who he has featured in dozens of Islamic events, such as the following:
— In 2015, a speaker Mufti Hussain Kamani at an ISB organized conference reiterated the Islamic beliefs that a Muslim man may only fulfill his sexual desires “with his spouse..[or] with a sex slave that belongs to him.” He also said that those who have sex outside of those situations must be stoned to death. Kamani was joined by Abdul Nasir Jangda, who also defends the use of sex slaves within Islam, advocates for killing apostates and adulterers, and affirms the Islamic belief that wives cannot refuse having sex with their husbands. Vali appears to be a close acquaintance of both Islamists.
— In 2016, Vali oversaw the appointment of an overtly anti-Jewish associate Imam named Abdul-Malik Merchant, who has posted anti-Semitic Islamic scripture online such as saying “Oh assembly of Jews! You are the most disgusting of the creation to me. You killed the prophets of Allah…,” and he also posted hostile anti-homosexual messages on Facebook posts.
… Vali has never explained or renounced his associations with such people, and over the past decade he has been closely associated with leading politicians in Massachusetts, as the following points explain:
— In 2016, Vali organized an event at the ISB with Senator Elizabeth Warren and Boston’s previous Mayor Marty Walsh. Americans for Peace and Tolerance produced a photo of Walsh at the event shaking the hand of Abdullah Faaruug, a local imam who has championed an Al-Qaeda operative Aafia Siddiqui (who plotted attacks for mass casualties in New York City and tried to murder federal agents in Afghanistan) as a “brave woman,” and he even raised funds on her behalf. Faaruug also defended the Al Qaeda supporter Tarek Mehanna while he was awaiting trail on terrorism charges, and in response to their arrests he encouraged violence, urging Muslims to “grab onto the gun and the sword.”
— Elizabeth Warren later ran in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primary and Walsh now serves as Biden’s Labor secretary. Both politicians campaigned against the so-called “Muslim Ban” implemented by the Trump administration between 2016 and 2019, where they took part in protests and photo-ops around the state involving groups such as ISB and the [(terrorism linked)] Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
— Many other high ranking Boston officials have also been openly associating with Jihadists in recent years without being questioned about it by the media, such a the current Republican Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker. Islamists have been using such connections for political appointments, such as Nadeem Mazen, who is a former Cambridge city councilor, congressional candidate, and the founder of JETPAC, which is a Massachusetts nonprofit that works to “build American Muslim political infrastructure.” Such activity is serving as a blueprint for Islamists who are seeking election or appointment to office in other major cities as well.