The three Muslim clerics are, respectively, the director of a Jamaica Muslim Center Koranic Memorization School in Queens, the deputy Amir (leader) of Majlis Ash Shura (a group that advocates the repressive theocratic code known as Shari'a Law) and New York University's imam, who forced the NYU administration not to display the Danish editorial cartoons of Mohammed that Islamofascists used to foment violence around the world.
Officials have restated their commitment to being part of a coalition of government agencies and universities trying to create the Jamaica Bay Science and Resilience Center, which will study how to conserve the sprawling wetland.