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The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which bills itself as "the largest Islamic umbrella organization in North America," is meeting in Washington, D.C., this weekend for its annual conference. One former ISNA speaker won't be in attendance this year — al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in a CIA drone strike in Yemen on September 30, 2011.
On September 1, 2001, just days before the 9/11 attacks, Awlaki gave an infamous lecture on "tolerance" at the 2001 ISNA convention, just as some of his disciples were preparing to launch the largest terrorist attack in American history.
One of his co-panelists in 2001, Hamza Yusuf, is one of this year's keynote speakers. At the 1995 ISNA convention, Yusuf told the crowd that Judaism "is a most racist religion."