Imam Abdul Malik, formerly of CAIR-New York, is the New York City Metro Transit Authority Chaplain, and is called by Islam On-Line “the permanent khatib [speaker] at the United Nations Masjid [Muslim place of worship] in New York.” In a letter addressed to the White House, Marty Elsant, the co-founder of the Virtual Israel Political Action Committee (VIPAC), stated that, in an October 17, 2002 speech given to a student organization at the City College of New York entitled “Women in Islam,” Malik had “defended terrorist-murder in Israel.”