MD Rabbi Alam, A Democrat to Watch?

According to a report by Adam Kredo, Alam is "an Obama campaign ally and Missouri-based Democratic activist who chairs the National Democratic Party Asian American Caucus (NDPAAC), a Democratic National Committee-sponsored organization that liaises with Asian minorities." He's also president of the North American Bangladeshi Association for Bangladesh, "a non-profit Educational based organization working closely with the US Department of Education," as well as a candidate for Missouri secretary of state. Oh, and he's "a 9/11 Truther who has associated with a radical Muslim cleric and trafficked in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories."

MD Rabbi Alam's campaign poster of the secretary of state position in Missouri.

Alam, who was born in Bangladesh, served as a "satellite campaign manager" for then-candidate Barack Obama and the Democratic Party during the 2008 elections, and has since been invited to the White House. Alam has speculated about Jewish involvement in the September 11^th terrorist attacks and participated in an event with a Muslim cleric who has accused Israel of terrorism and alleged that the U.S. invented the HIV disease.

"Why [was] 9/11 was a official holidy [sic] for all jewish [sic] people worked in the the [sic] WTC?" Alam asked in an Internet discussion titled, "Was 9/11 a conspiracy??" Alam went on to tout the 9/11 Truther film Loose Change 9/11, and challenged readers to "tell me how many of the Jewish people died on the 9/11 tragedy?" …

Alam is also on record decrying the arrest of Sami Al-Arian, a Muslim activist who pled guilty to soliciting money on behalf of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which had been designated a terrorist group committed to Israel's destruction. "Who does not know about Dr. Arian, a Florida university professor falsely accused and victimized by [the] war on terror?" Alam asked in a 2009 video recorded for the Islamic Society of Greater Kansas City.

Comments: (1) Will such views hinder Alam's rise in the Democratic party? (2) I shall be keeping an eye on him, with periodic updates. (July 10, 2012)

Sep. 6, 2012 update: Jason Kander, a member of the Missouri House of Representatives and a member of the New Reform Temple, defeated Alam to run as the Democratic candidate for Missouri secretary of state.

Jan. 5, 2013 update: Of all things, in a debate with me on Press TV, the Truther-conspiracy theorist Kevin Barrett praised Alam: "Thank God there are a few brave men like MD Rabbi Alam, the high-level democratic politician from Missouri who is standing up for the truth."

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