Today Hayat Sindi is the keynote speaker for the Leadership Summit at the Council for the Advancement of Muslim Professionals. Samia is at the Wyndham Princeton Forrestal Hotel, where the Summit is being held a friend also attending the conference, forwarded the correspondence below.
Samia was registered to attend the Summit. Ten days before the conference, she received the following email:
Dear Ms. El-Moslimany,
The Council for the Advancement of Muslim Professionals (CAMP) reserves the right to refuse entry to its events to anyone, at its sole discretion and without explanation. This email is being sent to you to inform you that your registration for CAMP's 5th Annual Leadership Summit has been canceled and you will not be permitted to attend. A full refund for your Summit ticket has been made.
Sincerely,
CAMP Leadership Summit team
Her reply to Imran Eba, the Executive Director, was:
In addition, her personal, professional and academic resume calls into question her credentials as a scholar and a professional. What might seem as trivial dishonesty or vanity about her age, has given her opportunities that should have gone to those who actually fit the “youth” criteria for specific awards. For example, at 40 years of age, Sindi was awarded the 2007 Arab-American Science and Technology Young Professional Award: which “recognizes the early career achievements of a young Arab or Arab-American scientist or technologist.” At 42 years Sindi was granted the 2009 PopTech Social Innovation Fellowship: for “high potential young leaders.” And at 43 years she was awarded a 2011 National Geographic Emerging Scholar Award: which “supports uniquely gifted and inspiring young adventurers, scientists, photographers, and storytellers—explorers who are already making a difference early in their careers.” By misrepresenting her age, Sindi robbed opportunities for recognition, public relations support, funding opportunities and career advancement, from the very youth she proclaims to support with her new institute, http://i2institute.org. Again, not the actions of a true role model, not the least a Muslim one.
Secondly, professionally, Dr. Sindi promotes herself as one of the “one of the world's leading biotechnologists” and her company Sonoptix Technology, “a UK company established with Saudi seed money” as developing clinical diagnostics tools for the detection of cancer. According to online sources, Dr. Sindi is the only director, and perhaps only employee of Sonoptix, the company is housed in a storefront in Cambridge, UK, and has not ever produced, marketed or sold any product. For the records available online (http://company-director-check.co.uk/director/909517346) Sonoptix has a total capital of £1000 UK, and has had no financial activity whatsoever since 2007. These are just a couple of the inconsistencies in Dr. Sindi’s professional resume.
CAMP cannot be faulted with having been mislead about Ms. Sindi’s questionable ethical behavior and debatable academic and professional accomplishments. However canceling my registration at the behest of Hayat Sindi is unjust and unprofessional. I once again request that you reinstate my registration. I look forward to being able to reregister when I come to the Summit tomorrow.
Sincerely,
Samia El-Moslimany
CAMP refused to reconsider, and sent the following email.
From: imran.eba
To: Samia El-Moslimany
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: Hayat Sindi and my canceled CAMP Summit Registration
Her reply to Imran Eba, the Executive Director, was:
Dear Mr. Eba,
I assume that you are
responsible for canceling my registration to the CAMP Summit and I would like
you to reconsider your decision. I am just one victim of Hayat Sindi's
manipulations. As a leader of an organization of Muslims, CAMP in general and the Summit in
particular, I hope you reconsider your association with, and implicit
endorsement of Hayat Sindi as a Model Muslim Leader.
As I mentioned in my previous email, Dr. Sindi has misrepresented both herself and her accomplishments as a Muslim and professional. Dr. Sindi has publicly been involved in an Islamically inappropriate relationship with my husband since December 2010, calling into serious question her commitment to social and Islamic ethics. In her home country of Saudi Arabia, she has brought a frivolous-lawsuit against me, the very woman whose marriage and family she has threatened to destroy. Moreover, she, herself, is currently under criminal investigation for the charges of seduction of my husband, for contributing to the destruction and damage of my 28 year marriage and family, and for an inappropriate relationship outside the bounds of Shariah with my haram (exclusive marital partner).
As I mentioned in my previous email, Dr. Sindi has misrepresented both herself and her accomplishments as a Muslim and professional. Dr. Sindi has publicly been involved in an Islamically inappropriate relationship with my husband since December 2010, calling into serious question her commitment to social and Islamic ethics. In her home country of Saudi Arabia, she has brought a frivolous-lawsuit against me, the very woman whose marriage and family she has threatened to destroy. Moreover, she, herself, is currently under criminal investigation for the charges of seduction of my husband, for contributing to the destruction and damage of my 28 year marriage and family, and for an inappropriate relationship outside the bounds of Shariah with my haram (exclusive marital partner).
In addition, her personal, professional and academic resume calls into question her credentials as a scholar and a professional. What might seem as trivial dishonesty or vanity about her age, has given her opportunities that should have gone to those who actually fit the “youth” criteria for specific awards. For example, at 40 years of age, Sindi was awarded the 2007 Arab-American Science and Technology Young Professional Award: which “recognizes the early career achievements of a young Arab or Arab-American scientist or technologist.” At 42 years Sindi was granted the 2009 PopTech Social Innovation Fellowship: for “high potential young leaders.” And at 43 years she was awarded a 2011 National Geographic Emerging Scholar Award: which “supports uniquely gifted and inspiring young adventurers, scientists, photographers, and storytellers—explorers who are already making a difference early in their careers.” By misrepresenting her age, Sindi robbed opportunities for recognition, public relations support, funding opportunities and career advancement, from the very youth she proclaims to support with her new institute, http://i2institute.org. Again, not the actions of a true role model, not the least a Muslim one.
Secondly, professionally, Dr. Sindi promotes herself as one of the “one of the world's leading biotechnologists” and her company Sonoptix Technology, “a UK company established with Saudi seed money” as developing clinical diagnostics tools for the detection of cancer. According to online sources, Dr. Sindi is the only director, and perhaps only employee of Sonoptix, the company is housed in a storefront in Cambridge, UK, and has not ever produced, marketed or sold any product. For the records available online (http://company-director-check.co.uk/director/909517346) Sonoptix has a total capital of £1000 UK, and has had no financial activity whatsoever since 2007. These are just a couple of the inconsistencies in Dr. Sindi’s professional resume.
CAMP cannot be faulted with having been mislead about Ms. Sindi’s questionable ethical behavior and debatable academic and professional accomplishments. However canceling my registration at the behest of Hayat Sindi is unjust and unprofessional. I once again request that you reinstate my registration. I look forward to being able to reregister when I come to the Summit tomorrow.
Sincerely,
Samia El-Moslimany
CAMP refused to reconsider, and sent the following email.
From: imran.eba
To: Samia El-Moslimany
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: Hayat Sindi and my canceled CAMP Summit Registration
Dear Ms. El-Moslimany,
The Leadership Summit is a private event and CAMP reserves the right in its sole discretion to deny entry to anyone. We regret to inform you that we will not be able to honor your request to reinstate your registration or allow you to register tomorrow.
Sincerely,
Imran Eba
Executive Director
CAMP
The Leadership Summit is a private event and CAMP reserves the right in its sole discretion to deny entry to anyone. We regret to inform you that we will not be able to honor your request to reinstate your registration or allow you to register tomorrow.
Sincerely,
Imran Eba
Executive Director
CAMP
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