It has become well known that something fishy is going on...lets see...
1) Your "legal actions" against the Muslim Students' Association, which resulted in MSA-NET's shutting down for 3 months (you were really representing "Islamic unity" there!); and your condemning of MSA as fundamentalists and extremists (tactics reminiscent of Steven Emerson and The Ashmawy Gang*)
2) Your misrepresentation of events on your website, i.e. the fiasco you caused at the ISNA outdoor rally. I was there and the scene was a disaster--by the way, when you described the incident on your website that you "addressed the crowd," you forgot to mention that ISNA officials cut off the electricity, announced from the stage that your tirade was NOT sponsored by ISNA, and they even asked that the police be called (the scene is on videotape);
3) Your racist, vicious, and decidedly anti-"unity" "talking dollar" cartoons and "anti-wahabi" books (hey, if you disagree with someone or with a message, you could express yourself without drawing hook-nosed caricatures of Arabs and portraying them as subhumans interested only in woman and gambling--besides, "Shaykh," havn't you read the hadith about making images?;
4) The support for your organization by Omar Ashmawy, a member of the infamous Ashmawy Gang, associated with Mossad agent Steven Emerson. Ashmawy, of course, is the guy who begged the US Senate to support HIS and Emerson's version of Islam, which would presumably make that the "official" version. Are we to understand, therefore, that the Kabbani cult is the "official" version of Islam that Mossad and their cronies would like to see co-opt the American Muslim community (as opposed to the alleged "EXTREMISTS" at MSA and other mainstream groups)? Just like the "official" version of Islam represented by the communist and atheist appointed Ulama that you are flying in to your conference?
5) Your aggressive, transparent, and laughable attempt to co-opt the American Muslim community by declaring yourselves the "Supreme Islamic Council," Perhaps you've forgotten the decades of work put into establishing Islam on this continent. So now, "Shaykh" Kabbani, you just get off the boat and declare yourself Supreme Leader?
6) The mystery regarding exactly WHERE you get the money for your projects, i.e. the impossibly expensive "Muslim" magazine which you distribute FREE, something which no-one else claiming to be "independent" has the money to do;
7) Your association and support for communist- and dictator-appointed government ulama that defend or defended atheist regimes (the mufti of SYRIA, for Allah's sake!), dozens of whom you are flying in from around the globe (but of course, you are "independent" and don't receive any $$ for this kind of stuff).
8) Your $767,000 house (with a pool) in Beverly Hills. I thought Sufis were supposed to be detached from the dunya!!
9) NOT TO MENTION your backwards, ignorant, warped understanding of Islam, which anyone with a rudimentary understanding of Islam and an ounce of instinct to research an issue--instead of blindly following what allegedly charasmatic cult leaders tell them--will see through in an instant!
10) The cult of personality you, Mr. Kabbani, have built around yourself. No thanks, I don't need to drink out of paper cups of water that you blew into in order to get "baraka"!
11) Your RIDICULOUS, arrogant parades through every Islamic convention you descend upon, as if you are some kind of celebrity. Any Muslim who has met REAL scholars and leaders knows how humble they are, to the extent that you wouldn't realize who they are unless someone told you.
12)Your general flakiness, "Shaykh Kabbani," for example, statements in a Montreal newspaper that you listen to Madonna, and your recent appearance at a fundraiser for the murderous O.J. Simpson...
13) The fact that you wallpaper everyone that disagrees with you (or that you perceive to disagree with you) with threatening letters from your lawyers. THAT'S real Islamic adab (ettiquette), wouldn't you say?
14) Plus the fact that, with rare exception, no Muslim organizations or leaders in the U.S. will even allow their pictures to be taken with you.
15) Plus the generous $$$ support for your movement from an Iranian Shi'ite financier...if you want me to post the details, then PLEASE just try to deny this fact, "Shaykh" Kabbani!
And ironically, you are conducting this not-so covert operation under the banner of "Islamic unity"!! A textbook example of propaganda, since if someone opposes you, they oppose "Islamic unity"! And who can oppose Islamic unity? Crafty. Fortunately (hopefully), Muslims aren't that gullible.
Those who have an irrational fear of Islam KNOW that it is experiencing a resurgence. Therefore, just as they did in the sixties and seventies with the civil rights movement, they have an interest in "guiding" the movement in a "safer" direction more pleasing to them.
Is your organization simply an innocent group of ex-hippies and blind followers?
Or is it a covert "COINTELPRO"-style operation designed to co-opt the Islamic movement in the United States (in the tradition of British support for the Qadianis/Ahmediyyas in India)?
More research definitly needs to be, and WILL, insha Allah, be done.
Abulhasan
PS I fully expect to get a threatening letter from Shaykh Kabbani's Jewish lawyers. If and when I do, I'll post it, insha' Allah.
*Footnote: The Ashmawy Gang, for those who don't know, consists of Saif Ashmawy, the now-deceased crony of Mossad agent Steven Emerson; his brother, the former egyptian supreme court justice known for his contempt for the Noble Shariah, who has been declared a kaafir by independent non-government Ulama (Ulama disctinctly absent from Kabbani's conference); and Omar, chosen by the US government as spokesman of the "moderate voice" of the American Muslim community, despite his lack of qualifications for such a status (except, that is, for his association with Emerson).