Muslim To Muslim
A Muslim who builds mosques around the country calls Imam Rauf on the crap he's been peddling to a gullible American public and its gullible pundits, most of them wildly uninformed about Islam.
In the WSJ, M. Zuhdi Jasser has some questions for Rauf in a piece subheaded "He may not appear to the untrained eye to be an Islamist, but by making Ground Zero an Islamic rather than an American issue he shows his true allegiance." An excerpt:
I must ask Imam Rauf: For what do you stand--what's best for Americans overall, or for what you think is best for Islam? What have you said and argued to Muslim-majority nations to address their need for reform? You have said that Islam does not need reform, despite the stoning of women in Muslim countries, death sentences for apostates, and oppression of reformist Muslims and non-Muslims.Bret Stephens on the book-burning Florida Pastor
You now lecture Americans that WTC mosque protests are "politically motivated" and "go against the American principle of church and state." Yet you ignore the wide global prevalence of far more dangerous theo-political groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and all of its violent and nonviolent offshoots.
In your book, "What's Right With Islam," you cite the Brotherhood's radical longtime spiritual leader Imam Yusuf Qaradawi as a "moderate." Reformist American Muslims are not afraid to name Mr. Qaradawi and his ilk as radical. We Muslims should first separate mosque and state before lecturing Americans about church and state.
Imam, tell me if you can look into the eyes of children who lost a parent on 9/11 and convince them that this immodest Islamic center benefits them. How will it in any way aid counterterrorism efforts or keep one American any safer? You willfully ignore what American Muslims most need--an open call for reformation that unravels the bigoted and shoddy framework of political Islam and separates mosque and state.
There are certainly those who are prejudiced against Muslims and who are against mosques being built anywhere, and even a few who wish to burn the Quran. But most voices in this case have been very clear that for every American freedom of religion is a right, but that it is not right to make one's religion a global political statement with a towering Islamic edifice that casts a shadow over the memorials of Ground Zero.
As an American Muslim, I look at that pit of devastation and contemplate the thousands of lives undone there within seconds. I pray for the ongoing strength to fight the fanatics who did this, and who continue their war against my country with both overt violence and covert strategies that aim to undo the very freedoms for which so many have fought and died.
Imam Rauf may not appear to the untrained eye to be an Islamist, but by making Ground Zero an Islamic rather than an American issue, and by failing to firmly condemn terrorist groups like Hamas, he shows his true allegiance.
This article mentions what a lot of people haven't realized. This is not just a religeous movement it's also a political movement.
That is why Islam is such a threat. Sharia law anyone? Ask France, England and Canada about Sharia law for muslims.
David M. at September 10, 2010 6:42 AM
This is not just a religeous movement it's also a political movement.
To amplify this, the ultimate Islamic "Republic" is like the one in Iran: the mosque is the state, the state is the mosque. There is no seperation, they are one in the same.
I R A Darth Aggie at September 10, 2010 7:08 AM
Dr. Jasser is a wise, brilliant man and exactly the kind of Muslim that so many in the West say they're looking to hear from. But he's unequivocally dismissed by the Left and most of the MSM because he has conservative political views. Thus, by their definition, he's not really a Muslim.
Ditto with any minority person with conservative views. :-(
Robert W. (Vancouver) at September 11, 2010 4:37 PM
Posted by: David M. at September 10, 2010 6:42 AM
"This article mentions what a lot of people haven't realized. This is not just a religeous movement it's also a political movement."
What is a political movement. The effort to build the mosque?
"That is why Islam is such a threat. Sharia law anyone? Ask France, England and Canada about Sharia law for muslims."
Islam is no threat, except to those who engaging in multiple evil acts and would like to pull the wool over the eyes of the unsuspecting public to garner their uninformed support. It is also a threat to a certain group9 i'll let you guess which one) that is intent on peddling its own religious ideology. It's a competition. i really doubt you know what shar'ia is.
Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie
"To amplify this, the ultimate Islamic "Republic" is like the one in Iran: the mosque is the state, the state is the mosque. There is no seperation, they are one in the same."
Iran is the example of a theocracy, the only one in the Muslim world, and a totally unIslamic form of government.Though you are right about no separation of state and mosque in one sense, but the analogy doesn't really hold.
Posted by: Robert W. (Vancouver)
"Dr. Jasser is a wise, brilliant man and exactly the kind of Muslim that so many in the West say they're looking to hear from. But he's unequivocally dismissed by the Left and most of the MSM because he has conservative political views. Thus, by their definition, he's not really a Muslim.
Ditto with any minority person with conservative views. :-("
Jasser is one of the worst examples of a mainstream Muslim and is a traitor. The type of Muslim many in the west seem to be looking for is a ex-Muslim. You should really read up on his views to see just how Muslim he is and why many in the MAINSTREAM of Islam repudiate him.
Peace
muhammad 'abd-al haqq at October 23, 2010 11:49 PM
where's my comment?
muhammad 'abd-al haqq at October 24, 2010 12:17 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2010/09/10/muslim_to_musli.html#comment-1770334">comment from muhammad 'abd-al haqqComments aren't erased here and free speech is permitted, unlike in Muslim countries. Obviously, you didn't leave a comment, perhaps because Sura 9:5 and other violence the Quran demands of Muslims is uncivilized and unforgivable.
Amy Alkon at October 24, 2010 1:10 AM
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