Othman Atta heads up the Islamic Society of Milwaukee where he has likes and dislikes. Like Hamas.
Othman Atta, the executive director of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, argued that such designations are "political decisions" made by Congress: "It is clearly a political decision. When the PLO was designated as a terrorist group – political decision – Hamas, Hizballah and other groups, when they're designated as terrorist groups, it is a political decision.."
Yes, suicide bombing is so political.
Atta also hates Trump's Muslim ban.
Othman Atta is the executive director of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee and he says he's troubled by Donald Trump's comments about Muslim immigration. Atta says Trump is acting like a demagogue instead of being a leader. Atta says it's hard to imagine how he can be leading any polls.
"I think he's appealing to a very extreme xenophobic segment of the Republican Party right now they're supporting him wholeheartedly," Atta said. "He's criticize not only Muslims, he's criticize Mexicans, he's put out wrong information about African-Americans, he's made derogatory remarks about women he's lied about things."
Atta says painting Muslims with a broad brush is hateful.
Speaking of lying about things...
The state Supreme Court publicly reprimanded the leader of Wisconsin's largest Muslim organization Thursday for an ethical violation committed during his work as a private attorney.
Othman M. Atta, executive director of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, had earlier pleaded no contest to eight counts of professional misconduct the Office of Lawyer Regulation charged in 2014, related to having a sexual relationship with a client he was representing in a divorce and immigration matters.
Atta's former client filed the complaint with the OLR, claiming he had delayed filing divorce documents after she broke off their relationship. Atta initially denied having a sexual relationship with the client, and told OLR investigators she had threatened to accuse him if he did not marry her.
Based on the disciplinary documents though, Atta seems to have had an affair with a married Muslim woman.
This matter arose out of Attorney Atta's representation of BA–B. In April of 2010, Attorney Atta agreed to represent her in a divorce action and also agreed to assist her in immigration matters involving her husband, AAN. Both BA–B and her husband were born in Jordan. In the spring of 2009, the couple had discussed the possibility of divorce and AAN had returned to Jordan, received a divorce decree there, and married another woman. In seeking Attorney Atta's assistance, BA–B sought to protect herself, as well as her young daughter, from AAN's actions.
Under Islamic law, a man can divorce a woman unilaterally by saying so three times. This is known as the triple talaq. Either way, according to Islamic law, the woman was divorced. Not apparently under American law, but Atta was obviously far more interested in Islamic law.
This became even more ridiculous when Atta's client's ex-husband who was already married fought the divorce by citing the affair.
Attorney Atta's personal communications, interactions, and personal relationship with his client while he continued to represent her in her divorce action created a conflict of interest on Attorney Atta's part. In March 2013, near the end of the divorce proceeding, AAN accused Attorney Atta of having a romantic relationship with BA–B. On March 11, 2013, AAN's attorney emailed Attorney Atta expressing concern that his client was claiming Attorney Atta had some sort of relationship with AB–B. Attorney Atta responded to the email by denying that such a relationship existed and claimed that AAN and his new wife were spreading false rumors.
Atta was lying. But he got a slap on the wrist for it. Instead of a severed hand. Because luckily for him, we don't practice Sharia law here.