You probably recall the DNC’s winter meeting, and the radical Islamic sheikh who delivered the invocation: DNC Meeting Opened by Terror Supporter.

It’s happened again; a bipartisan pair in the Texas Senate invited Imam Yusuf Kavakci of the Dallas Central Mosque to give an invocation this week, and he delivered the same sort of disguised supremacist statement that Al-Husainy did at the DNC meeting. Jihad Watch has details on the story: Pro-Khomeini imam prays anti-Jewish, anti-Christian prayer in Texas Senate.

Hot Air has more: Lone Star Dhimmis?

Imam Yusuf Kavakci has been featured in several LGF posts; he’s a follower of the Ayatollah Khomeini who has praised two of the world’s foremost radical Islamists, Yusuf Qaradawi and Hasan al-Turabi. His mosque, the Dallas Central Mosque, held a youth quiz competition sponsored by radical Islamist groups, in which children were tested on their knowledge of the works of infamous jihad ideologist Sayyid Qutb. He was a speaker at a tribute to Khomeini, and also took part in the all-star gathering of radical leftists and Islamists called “IslamExpo,” held in London during the anniversary of the 7/7 bombings.

Just the man to lead the Texas Senate in prayer.

UPDATE at 4/6/07 11:51:55 am:

At least one Texas Senator refused to participate: Houston senator boycotts imam’s prayer. (Hat tip: ChicagoBlue.)

AUSTIN – A Republican senator boycotted an opening prayer in the chamber by a Dallas Islamic spiritual leader on Wednesday, saying he didn’t want his presence viewed as an endorsement of the man and his views.

Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, said while he had no problem with Imam Yusuf Kavakci delivering the invocation, he didn’t want to be on the Senate floor during the prayer. “It is important that we are tolerant of all faiths as a people, but that does not mean we have to endorse all faiths – and that was my decision,” said Sen. Patrick, also a radio talk show host on stations in Dallas and Houston. …

Sen. Florence Shapiro, R-Plano, who arranged for Dr. Kavakci to deliver the invocation as part of the third Texas Muslim Legislative Day, said she was shocked to receive e-mails from the Houston area criticizing the decision. She said Sen. Patrick told her he had received e-mails suggesting that Dr. Kavakci “was not who I thought he was.”

Sen. Patrick acknowledged to reporters that he showed some senators a 2005 opinion piece in The Dallas Morning News that criticized Dr. Kavakci for allowing distribution of extremist literature at his mosque even though he personally disavowed those views.

Sen. Shapiro dismissed the criticism of her invitation, noting that every other senator – Democrat and Republican – had no problem at all with the choice of Dr. Kavakci to give the daily morning prayer. “Our country prides itself on freedoms; the most relevant today is freedom of religion,” Sen. Shapiro said in introducing Dr. Kavakci, one of her constituents.