'For a number of years in the mid-2000s, Hassan Abedin was a board member with the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS), based at Oxford University in England. Also on the board were a number of Muslim Brotherhood members, most notably IMMA founder Abdullah Omar Naseef (an extremist affiliated with al Qaeda and the Muslim World League) and Yousuf al-Qaradawi (the most influential Islamic scholar in the world today).
Hassan Abedin has expressed an interest in “spreading Islam to the West.” He once met with the billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, whose $10-million-dollar check for post-9/11 disaster relief was famously rejected by then-New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani when the prince suggested that U.S. policies in the Middle East had provoked the al Qaeda attacks.''
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