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A member of the Muslim Public Affairs Council board of directors spoke recently before a Jewish organization based in Southern California, despite his past involvement with an Islamist magazine well-known for virulently anti-American and anti-Semitic material.
This week, MPAC reported that Magdy Eletreby, an MPAC board member, spoke to the "Left, Right, and Center," a Jewish group of retirees based in Orange County, Calif. According to the MPAC press release "Eletreby gave an overview of Muslim beliefs pointing out the areas of commonality between three Abraham faiths, as well as doctrinal differences." What's missing from this story is Eletreby's past association with a radical publication.
According to public records, Eletreby was listed in 2000 as a board member of Multimedia Vera International (MVI), "a non-profit organization dedicated to the needs of Muslims and others in the field of education and information." From 1985 to 2005, MVI was responsible for publishing The Minaret, a publication which the Investigative Project on Terrorism has shown has a history of publishing virulent hate speech.