The Masjid Al Fatima is a Shi’a mosque in Orangevale, California.
Its Muharram program for 2018 was led by Maulana Qaiser Abbas. [1] Abbas is an instructor for the Imam Ali Seminary in Adelanto, California, [2] which is run by Sheikh Mirza Muhammad Ali Baig. In October of 2018, Clarion Project reported on how Baig is a supporter of Iran’s leader, Ali Khamenei, as well as violent jihad. [3]
In addition, Abbas is an associate of Sayed Abbas Ayleya, a Washington-state-based sheikh who supports the ideas of Khamenei and the Islamic Republic of Iran’s founder, Ruhollah Khomeini. A Facebook post from December shows Ayleya and Abbas posing in a picture together. [4]
Also, Abbas’s Facebook information shows that he liked the page of Makarem Shirazi, one of Iran’s leading clerics.
[1] Facebook, Masjid Al Fatimah,
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155381997961537&set=t.1269001656&type=3&theater
[2] Imam Ali Seminary, Faculty,
https://www.imamaliseminary.com/member/sheikh-qaiser-abbas/
[3] “Why Is This Georgia Islamic Center Hosting Radical Iranian Clerics?†Clarion Project, October 21, 2018
https://clarionprojstg.wpengine.com/georgia-center-hosting-radical-iranian-clerics/
[4] Facebook,
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10217787857149338&set=a.2481672962372&type=3