The United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than al-Qaida has of non-Muslims, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the leader of the effort to build a mosque near the site of the 9/11 terror attacks in New York, told an Australian audience in July 2005.
In a taped speech, Rauf made a number of comments that would make anyone who is not concerned about the mosque at the Ground Zero site rethink their support for the man tasked with heading the "bridge-building" center.
"We tend to forget, in the West, that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than al Qaida has on its hands of innocent non Muslims. You may remember that the US-led sanctions against Iraq led to the death of over half a million Iraqi children. This has been documented by the United Nations. And when Madeleine Albright, who has become a friend of mine over the last couple of years, when she was Secretary of State and was asked whether this was worth it, said it was worth it."
(Fact check: A report by the British government said at most only 50,000 deaths could be attributed to the sanctions, which were brought on by the actions by former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.)
The United States has supported authoritarian regimes, Rauf said, and it's understandable that people in those nations would take action into their own hands. "Collateral damage is a nice thing to put on a paper but when the collateral damage is your own uncle or cousin, what passions do these arouse? How do you negotiate? How do you tell people whose homes have been destroyed, whose lives have been destroyed, that this does not justify your actions of terrorism. It's hard. Yes, it is true that it does not justify the acts of bombing innocent civilians, that does not solve the problem, but after 50 years of, in many cases, oppression, of US support of authoritarian regimes that have violated human rights in the most heinous of ways, how else do people get attention?"(Fact check: This is justifying acts of terrorism by blaming the United States for the oppression of Islamic regimes of their own citizens. This also ignores U.S. aid of Muslim citizens in nations such as Kosovo and Kuwait).
Asked why Muslims commit suicide bombings, Rauf belittled the fanatical religious motivation of such attacks and said: "But what makes people, in my opinion, commit suicide for political reasons have their origins in politics and political objectives and worldly objectives rather than other worldly objectives. But the psychology of human beings and the brittleness of the human condition and how many of us have thought about taking our own lives, we may be jilted, had a bad relationship, you know, didn't get tenure at the university, failed an important course, there's a host of reason why people feel so depressed with themselves that they are willing to contemplate ending their own lives. And if you can access those individuals and deploy them for your own worldly objectives, this is exactly what has happened in much of the Muslim world. "
(Fact check: Here Rauf tries to negate that suicide bombings are driven by Islamic religious beliefs and trying to equate terrorist activity to someone who doesn't get tenure.)
On Israel, Rauf said he does not favor the plan to establish a Palestinian state along with Israel. Instead, "The differences, perhaps, may lie on whether the solution lies in the two-state solution or in a one-state solution. I believe that you had someone here recently who spoke about having a one land and two people's solution to Israel. And I personally - my own personal analysis tells me that a one-state solution is a more coherent one than a two-state solution. So if we address the underlying issue, if we figure out a way to create condominiums, to condominiamise Israel and Palestine so you have two peoples co-existing on one state, then we have a different paradigm which will allow us to move forward."
(Fact check: A one-state solution is a euphemism for the destruction of Israel, because Palestinian Muslims will quickly outnumber the Jewish resident of Israel. Such a position is advocated by radical groups, such as the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.)
"And when we observe terrorism," he said, "whether it was done by the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka or by al Qaida or whoever is behind the bombings in London or those in Madrid, we can see that they were target political objectives.
(Fact check: Rauf again seems to justify terrorist acts by equating hitting civilians with political objectives.)
Rauf, who was recently on a trip to the Middle East sponsored by Obama's State Department, gave the speech on July 12, 2005, at the University of South Australia.
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Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Reason #21 Why Obama Should be Impeached or NOT Re-elected
The developer of the Ground Zero "victory" mosque SharifEl-Gamel, a man who views himself as a peacemaker between the Muslim faith and the American people has a lengthy arrest record for assault, DWI, numerous disorderly conduct arrests and a $227,000 real estate tax bill that he hasn't yet attempted to pay. It is also reported that in an October, 2007 deposition for his assault case, El-Gamal responded "no" to the question had he ever been convicted or pled guilty to a crime. And let's not forget about Imam Feisal Rauf, and his apparent obsession with Shariah law - he founded the Shariah Index Project - an effort to rate which government best follows Islamic law. Many analysts see in the project his support for "a Taliban-style Shariah" or imposing Islamic law in the United States. The fact that these two very questionable men are behind the Ground Zero "victory" mosque have already raised the suspicions of New Yorkers - 71 percent of whom do not support a mosque built anywhere near Ground Zero. Given their backgrounds, and the historical context of theso-called "Cordoba House" mosque, this is nothing morethan a very thinly veiled attempt to, as Rush Limbaugh said,"hoist a victory flag" near the site where Muslim extremists murdered nearly 3,000 innocent Americans!
Monday, August 30, 2010
Reason #17 Why We Should Impeach or NOT Re-elect Obama
Ground Zero Mosque Cleric Rauf says Parts of His Book Were Woven into Obama’sCairo Speech (CNSNews.com) – The cleric who wants to build a mosque and Islamic center near Ground Zero claims that ideas from his book were incorporated into President Obama’s landmark Cairo address to the Muslim world last year by one of the drafters of the speech. Feisal Abdul Rauf made the remarks during two media interviews in Egypt last February.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
The Tipping Point -- A Population that is 2% Muslim
"Islam is not a religion, nor is it a cult. In its fullest form, it is a complete, total, 100% system of life. Islam has religious,legal, political, economic, social, and military components. The religious component is a beard for all of the other
components.
Islamization begins when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their religious privileges. When politically correct, tolerant, and culturally diverse societies agree to Muslim demands for their religious privileges, some of the other components tend to creep in as well.
Here’s how it works: As long as the Muslim population remains around or under 2% in any given country, they will be for the most part be regarded as a peace-loving
minority, and not as a threat to other citizens. This is the current situation in:
United States — Muslim 0.6%, Australia — Muslim 1.5%, Canada — Muslim 1.9%,
China — Muslim 1.8%, Italy — Muslim 1.5%, Norway — Muslim 1.8%.
At 2% to 5%, they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs. This is happening in: Denmark — Muslim 2%, Germany — Muslim 3.7%, United Kingdom — Muslim 2.7%, Spain — Muslim 4%, Thailand — Muslim 4.6% and may already be happening in Canada.
From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. For example, they will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves — along with threats for failure to comply. This is occurring in: France — Muslim 8%,
Philippines — 5%, Sweden — Muslim 5%, Switzerland — Muslim 4.3%, The Netherlands — Muslim 5.5%, Trinidad & Tobago — Muslim 5.8%. At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves (within their ghettos) under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish Sharia law over the entire world.
When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions. In Paris , we are already seeing car-burnings. In Russia, grade-schools were attacked. Any non-Muslim action offends Islam and results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam, with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam. Such tensions are seen daily, particularly in Muslim sections, in: Guyana — Muslim 10%, India — Muslim 13.4%, Israel — Muslim 16%, Kenya — Muslim 10%, Russia — Muslim 15%.
After reaching 20%, nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues, such as in: Ethiopia — Muslim 32.8%.
At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare, such as in: Bosnia — Muslim 40%,Chad — Muslim 53.1%,Lebanon — Muslim 59.7%.
From 60%, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels, such as in:
Albania — Muslim 70%,Malaysia — Muslim 60.4%,Qatar — Muslim 77.5%,Sudan — Muslim 70%.
After 80%, expect daily intimidation and violent jihad, some State-run ethnic cleansing, beheadings, stoning, and even some genocide, as these nations drive out the infidels, and move toward 100% Muslim, such as has been experienced and in some ways is on-going in: Bangladesh — Muslim 83%,Egypt — Muslim 90%,Gaza — Muslim 98.7%,
Indonesia — Muslim 86.1%,Iran — Muslim 98%,Iraq — Muslim 97%,Jordan — Muslim 92%,
Morocco — Muslim 98.7%,Pakistan — Muslim 97%,Palestine — Muslim 99%,Syria — Muslim 90%,Tajikistan — Muslim 90%,Turkey — Muslim 99.8%,United Arab Emirates — Muslim 96%
Is this the future of the United States?"
Vote OUT all liberal Democrats in public office
components.
Islamization begins when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their religious privileges. When politically correct, tolerant, and culturally diverse societies agree to Muslim demands for their religious privileges, some of the other components tend to creep in as well.
Here’s how it works: As long as the Muslim population remains around or under 2% in any given country, they will be for the most part be regarded as a peace-loving
minority, and not as a threat to other citizens. This is the current situation in:
United States — Muslim 0.6%, Australia — Muslim 1.5%, Canada — Muslim 1.9%,
China — Muslim 1.8%, Italy — Muslim 1.5%, Norway — Muslim 1.8%.
At 2% to 5%, they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs. This is happening in: Denmark — Muslim 2%, Germany — Muslim 3.7%, United Kingdom — Muslim 2.7%, Spain — Muslim 4%, Thailand — Muslim 4.6% and may already be happening in Canada.
From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. For example, they will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves — along with threats for failure to comply. This is occurring in: France — Muslim 8%,
Philippines — 5%, Sweden — Muslim 5%, Switzerland — Muslim 4.3%, The Netherlands — Muslim 5.5%, Trinidad & Tobago — Muslim 5.8%. At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves (within their ghettos) under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish Sharia law over the entire world.
When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions. In Paris , we are already seeing car-burnings. In Russia, grade-schools were attacked. Any non-Muslim action offends Islam and results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam, with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam. Such tensions are seen daily, particularly in Muslim sections, in: Guyana — Muslim 10%, India — Muslim 13.4%, Israel — Muslim 16%, Kenya — Muslim 10%, Russia — Muslim 15%.
After reaching 20%, nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues, such as in: Ethiopia — Muslim 32.8%.
At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare, such as in: Bosnia — Muslim 40%,Chad — Muslim 53.1%,Lebanon — Muslim 59.7%.
From 60%, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels, such as in:
Albania — Muslim 70%,Malaysia — Muslim 60.4%,Qatar — Muslim 77.5%,Sudan — Muslim 70%.
After 80%, expect daily intimidation and violent jihad, some State-run ethnic cleansing, beheadings, stoning, and even some genocide, as these nations drive out the infidels, and move toward 100% Muslim, such as has been experienced and in some ways is on-going in: Bangladesh — Muslim 83%,Egypt — Muslim 90%,Gaza — Muslim 98.7%,
Indonesia — Muslim 86.1%,Iran — Muslim 98%,Iraq — Muslim 97%,Jordan — Muslim 92%,
Morocco — Muslim 98.7%,Pakistan — Muslim 97%,Palestine — Muslim 99%,Syria — Muslim 90%,Tajikistan — Muslim 90%,Turkey — Muslim 99.8%,United Arab Emirates — Muslim 96%
Is this the future of the United States?"
Vote OUT all liberal Democrats in public office
Comments on the Ground Zero Mosque
The European and the American left (neo-liberals) are missing the point that the classical liberals (American conservatives) are making: We are actually angry about losing our rights to speak freely. The First Amendment has been under attack from political correctness and identity politics for years. In much of Europe and England there is no equivalent to the American First Amendment. Prior to 9/11 we really had the right to speak freely even about the Muslims. Now we don't. We have been pretending the Muslim religion is somehow beyond reproach. That is what South Park tried to demonstrate when they were censored. Classical liberals really do like freedom of speech, freedom to say the unvarnished truth even when it is not politically correct. Somehow, though, the Muslims seem to get a special pass on the most atrocious aspects of their religion when Jews and Christians and EVERY other religion does not. If American Muslims are going to BE Americans, like American Jews and American Christians, they must respect the First Amendment and take their lumps just like everyone else. Wickedness is wickedness, but now we have to pretend some groups, like Muslims, Gays, Victim Feminists, etc. etc. are beyond doing what is wicked. All this mosque nonsense is nothing more than the continuation of the on-going antagonism that American Classical Liberals are focussing on neo-liberal paternalists. We classical liberals actually do believe the CONTENT of ones CHARACTER counts, neo-liberals do not. That is what is behind the conservative American antagonism to this mosque. It has nothing to do with any particular religion, everything to do with being bullied by Obama and the pc police.
jdcarmine wrote: Aug 23rd 2010 7:03 GMT
jdcarmine wrote: Aug 23rd 2010 7:03 GMT
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Building a Mosque near Ground Zero Creates a Monument to Terrrorists
Undermining Dee Perez-Scott's and President Obama's comments on the Ground Zero Mosque, the director of a Dubai-based, Arab television network writes that most of the world's Muslims couldn't care less about building a mosque near Ground Zero and that plans to do so would only create a "monument" to terrorists.
Abd Al-Rahman Al-Rashed, director-general of Al-Arabiya TV, wrote a
column in the Aug. 16, 2010, London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat arguing
that President Obama was wasting his time championing construction of
the proposed mosque, which Al-Rashed says the majority of world's
Muslims don't want anyway.
"I can't imagine that Muslims [actually] want a mosque at this
particular location, because it will become an arena for the promoters
of hatred, and amonument to those who committed the crime," writes
Al-Rashed in the column, which was translated by the Middle East Media
Research Institute. "Moreover, there are no practicing Muslims in the
area who need a place to worship, because it is a commercial district.
Is there anyone who is [really] eager [to build] this mosque?"
He adds, "I do not think that the majority of Muslims want to build a
monument or a place of worship that tomorrow may become a source of
pride for the terrorists and their Muslim followers, nor do they want
a mosque that will become a shrine for the haters of Islam."
New York Islamic leader Faisal Abdul Rauf, president of the Cordoba
Initiative, is leading the plan to build a proposed 13-story, $100
million Islamic cultural center and mosque near the corner of Park
Place and West Broadway – about two blocks from the site of the 9-11
terrorist attacks.
Al-Rashed, whose network competes with the more extremist-friendly Al
Jazeera TV, condemns Rauf's plan.
"The individual who submitted the building application – I do not know
whether he [really] wants [to build] a mosque that will promote
reconciliation, or whether he is [just] an investor looking for quick
profits. Because the idea of a mosque right next to a site of
destruction is not at all an intelligent one," Al-Rashedwrites . "The
last thing Muslims want today is to build a religious center that
provokes others, or a symbolic mosque that people will visit as a
[kind of] museum next to a cemetery."
President Obama has released a pair of statements in regards to the
planned mosque, qualifying support for the religious freedom of
Muslims to build the mosque – even in the shadow that was once cast by
the World Trade Center – with a hint that the location of the proposed
construction may not be the wisest choice.
Al-Rashed's column addresses the president's comments as well:
"U.S. President Barack Obama took a difficult position when he
supported the construction of a mosque on a site where 3,000 U.S.
citizens were killed by Al-Qaeda terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001,"
Al-Rashedwrites . "Though the president's position was correct in
principle, that is, in terms of the principle of freedom of worship, I
think he took a political stand [on an issue] that is unnecessary and
unimportant, even for the Muslims. This mosque is not an issue for
Muslims, and they do not care about its construction."
Al-Rashed's comments prompted commentary from William Kristol, editor
of The Weekly Standard:
Al-Rashed's statement, Kristol writes, "should mean the end of plans
for a mosque near Ground Zero. Mr. Al-Rashed supports President
Obama's stand for the mosque in principle. … But his practical case
againstbuilding the mosque is irrefutable. It should lead well-meaning
liberals to join with us dastardly conservatives … in calling for the
organizers to shelve the plans for a mosque at this site."
WND reported earlier this week that Mahmoud al-Zahar, a co-founder of
Hamas who is regarded as the chief of the group is Gaza, says the
mosque must be built.
"We have to build the mosque, as you are allowed to build the church
and Israelis are building their holy places," he said during a radio
interview with Aaron Klein, WND's Jerusalem bureau chief and host of
an investigative radio show on New York's WABC Radio.
As Muslims, "We have to build everywhere," al-Zahar said. "In every
area we have, [as Muslims] we have to pray, and this mosque is the
only site of prayer, especially for the people when they are looking
[to be] in the group, not an individual."
He also said that Muslims around the world, including those in the
U.S., are united in a common cause.
"First of all, we have to address that we are different as people, as
a nation totally different. We already are living under the tradition
of Islam. ... Islam is controlling every source of our life as regard
to marriage, divorce, our commercial relationships. ... Even the
Islamic people or the Muslims in your country, they are living now in
the tradition of Islam. They are fasting, they are praying."
Link to article: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=192585
-- Chuck Morse
Abd Al-Rahman Al-Rashed, director-general of Al-Arabiya TV, wrote a
column in the Aug. 16, 2010, London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat arguing
that President Obama was wasting his time championing construction of
the proposed mosque, which Al-Rashed says the majority of world's
Muslims don't want anyway.
"I can't imagine that Muslims [actually] want a mosque at this
particular location, because it will become an arena for the promoters
of hatred, and amonument to those who committed the crime," writes
Al-Rashed in the column, which was translated by the Middle East Media
Research Institute. "Moreover, there are no practicing Muslims in the
area who need a place to worship, because it is a commercial district.
Is there anyone who is [really] eager [to build] this mosque?"
He adds, "I do not think that the majority of Muslims want to build a
monument or a place of worship that tomorrow may become a source of
pride for the terrorists and their Muslim followers, nor do they want
a mosque that will become a shrine for the haters of Islam."
New York Islamic leader Faisal Abdul Rauf, president of the Cordoba
Initiative, is leading the plan to build a proposed 13-story, $100
million Islamic cultural center and mosque near the corner of Park
Place and West Broadway – about two blocks from the site of the 9-11
terrorist attacks.
Al-Rashed, whose network competes with the more extremist-friendly Al
Jazeera TV, condemns Rauf's plan.
"The individual who submitted the building application – I do not know
whether he [really] wants [to build] a mosque that will promote
reconciliation, or whether he is [just] an investor looking for quick
profits. Because the idea of a mosque right next to a site of
destruction is not at all an intelligent one," Al-Rashedwrites . "The
last thing Muslims want today is to build a religious center that
provokes others, or a symbolic mosque that people will visit as a
[kind of] museum next to a cemetery."
President Obama has released a pair of statements in regards to the
planned mosque, qualifying support for the religious freedom of
Muslims to build the mosque – even in the shadow that was once cast by
the World Trade Center – with a hint that the location of the proposed
construction may not be the wisest choice.
Al-Rashed's column addresses the president's comments as well:
"U.S. President Barack Obama took a difficult position when he
supported the construction of a mosque on a site where 3,000 U.S.
citizens were killed by Al-Qaeda terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001,"
Al-Rashedwrites . "Though the president's position was correct in
principle, that is, in terms of the principle of freedom of worship, I
think he took a political stand [on an issue] that is unnecessary and
unimportant, even for the Muslims. This mosque is not an issue for
Muslims, and they do not care about its construction."
Al-Rashed's comments prompted commentary from William Kristol, editor
of The Weekly Standard:
Al-Rashed's statement, Kristol writes, "should mean the end of plans
for a mosque near Ground Zero. Mr. Al-Rashed supports President
Obama's stand for the mosque in principle. … But his practical case
againstbuilding the mosque is irrefutable. It should lead well-meaning
liberals to join with us dastardly conservatives … in calling for the
organizers to shelve the plans for a mosque at this site."
WND reported earlier this week that Mahmoud al-Zahar, a co-founder of
Hamas who is regarded as the chief of the group is Gaza, says the
mosque must be built.
"We have to build the mosque, as you are allowed to build the church
and Israelis are building their holy places," he said during a radio
interview with Aaron Klein, WND's Jerusalem bureau chief and host of
an investigative radio show on New York's WABC Radio.
As Muslims, "We have to build everywhere," al-Zahar said. "In every
area we have, [as Muslims] we have to pray, and this mosque is the
only site of prayer, especially for the people when they are looking
[to be] in the group, not an individual."
He also said that Muslims around the world, including those in the
U.S., are united in a common cause.
"First of all, we have to address that we are different as people, as
a nation totally different. We already are living under the tradition
of Islam. ... Islam is controlling every source of our life as regard
to marriage, divorce, our commercial relationships. ... Even the
Islamic people or the Muslims in your country, they are living now in
the tradition of Islam. They are fasting, they are praying."
Link to article: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=192585
-- Chuck Morse
Obama's Connections with Islam
Dee Perez-Scott is quick to defend the building of a mosque and Islamic community center near Ground Zero. With President Obama igniting political controversy by commenting on the right of American Muslims to do so, it is worth noting the close ties of several Obama administration officials to the cleric behind the proposed project.
The ties include a religion adviser to Obama, Eboo Patel, who discussed with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf – the controversial Muslim leader behind the mosque initiative – America as "the ideal place for a renewal of Islam."
Also, a scholar and charity head appointed to Obama's White House Fellowships Commission, Vartan Gregorian, wants to bring the imam's organization into a proposed Ground Zero museum to ensure it will represent the voices of American Muslims.
In February, Obama named Patel, a Chicago Muslim, to his Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Patel is the founder and executive director of Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Core,which says it promotes pluralism by teaming people of different faiths on service projects.
Rauf wrote the afterword to Patel's 2006 book, "Building the Interfaith Youth Movement: Beyond Dialogue to Action."
Patel is listed as one of 15 "Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow" on the website for the American Society for Muslim Advancement, which is led by Rauf.
In Patel's 2007 book, "Saving Each Other, Saving Ourselves," he recounts discussing with Rauf the future of Islam in the U.S. Rauf "understood the vision immediately and suggested that I visit him and his wife, Daisy Khan, at their home the following evening," Patel recalled.
Khan founded the society with her husband and has aided him in his
plans for the mosque near Ground Zero. "The living room of their apartment on the Upper West Side was set up like a mosque, with prayer rugs stretched from wall to wall," wrote Patel in his book.
Patel continued: I arrived at dusk, prayed the maghrib prayer with Daisy and Imam
Feisal and then talked with them about how America, with its unique combination of religious devotion and religious diversity, was the ideal place for a renewal of Islam.
"In the twentieth century, Catholicism and Judaism underwent profound transformations in America," Rauf observed. "I think, this century, in America, Islam will do the same."
Patel boasts of a "critical mass" of Muslims in the U.S. [just as others boast of a critical mass of Hispanic voters in america.]
"Islam is a religion that has always been revitalized by its migration," he wrote. "America is a nation that has been constantly rejuvenated by immigrants. There is now a critical mass of Muslims in America."
Patel last March wrote a Huffington Post piece referring to Obama's former "green jobs" czar Van Jones as a "faith hero." "In my last post on Van, I called him an American patriot," wrote Patel. "That is high praise in my book. But watching Van's speech at the NAACP, I have another title for him, one that I reserve for the
true giants of history. Van Jones is a faith hero." Jones resigned in
September after it was exposed he founded a communist revolutionary organization and signed a statement that accused the Bush administration of possible involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks. Jones also called for "resistance" against the U.S.
Jones previously stated his advocacy for green jobs was part of a broader movement to destroy the U.S. capitalist system.
WND reported that one day after the Sept. 11 attacks, Jones led a vigil that expressed solidarity with Arab and Muslim Americans as well as what he called the victims of "U.S. imperialism" around the world.
Meanwhile, another Obama official with ties to Rauf is Gregorian, the president of Carnegie Corp. charitable foundation who was appointed by Obama last year as a White House fellow.
Documentation shows Gregorian was central in William Ayers'recruitment of Obama to serve as the first chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge – a job in which Obama worked closely on a regular basis with Ayers, a co-founder of the Weather Underground domestic terrorist group. Obama also later touted his job at the project as qualifying him to run for public office, as WND previously reported.
Born in Tabriz, Iran, Gregorian served for eight years as president of the New York Public Library and was also president of Brown University. In his role as Brown president, Gregorian served on the selection committee of the Annenberg Foundation, which funded Ayers' Chicago Annenberg Challenge with a $49.2 million, 2-to-1 matching challenge grant over five years. Ayers was one of five founding members of the Challenge who wrote to the Annenberg Foundation for the initial funding.
Steve Diamond, a political-science and law professor and a blogger who has posted on Obama, previously posted a letter from Nov. 18, 1994, in which Gregorian, serving as the point man on Annenberg's selection committee, asked Ayers to "compose the governing board" of the Challenge's collaborative project with "people who reflect the racial and ethnic diversity of Chicago."
Ayers and other founding Challenge members then recruited Obama to serve as the project chairman. WND was first to expose that Obama and Ayers used the project grant money to fund organizations run by radicals tied to Ayers, including Mike Klonsky, a former top communist activist who was a senior leader in the Students for a Democratic Society group, a major leftist student organization in the 1960s, from which the Weathermen terror group later splintered.
National Review Online writer Stanley Kurtz examined the project archives housed at the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago, finding Obama and Ayers worked closely at the project.
The documents obtained by Kurtz showed Ayers served as an ex-officio member of the board that Obama chaired through the project's first year. Ayers also served on the board's governance committee with Obama and worked with him to craft project bylaws, according to the documents.
Ayers made presentations to board meetings chaired by Obama. Ayers also spoke for the Chicago School Reform Collaborative before Obama's board, while Obama periodically spoke for the board at meetings of the collaborative, the project documents reviewed by Kurtz show.
WND reported Obama and Ayers also served together on the board of the Woods Fund, a liberal Chicago nonprofit that granted money to far-left causes.
One of the groups funded by the Woods Fund was the Midwest Academy, an activist organization modeled after Marxist community organizer Saul Alinsky and described as teaching tactics of direct action,confrontation and intimidation.
WND reported Jackie Kendall, executive director of the Midwest Academy, was on the team that developed and delivered the first Camp Obama training for volunteers aiding Obama's campaign through the 2008 Iowa Caucuses.
Camp Obama was a two- to four-day intensive course run in conjunction with Obama's campaign aimed at training volunteers to become activists to help Obama win the presidential election.
Obama scholar linked to 'Ground Zero' imam Gregorian is closely tied to Rauf. Gregorian also serves on the board of the Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum. The museum is reportedly working with theAmerican Society for Muslim Advancement, whose leaders are behind the mosque, to ensure the future museum will represent the voices of American Muslims.
"[The Sept. 11 museum will represent the] voices of American Muslims in particular, and it will honor members of other communities who came together in support and collaboration with the Muslim community on September 11 and its aftermath," stated Daisy Khan, executive director of the society.
The future Sept. 11 museum's oral historian, Jenny Pachucki, is collaborating with the society to ensure the perspective of American Muslims is woven into the overall experience of the museum, according to the museum's blog.
Khan's husband, Rauf, is the founder of the society as well as chairman of Cordoba Initiative, which is behind the proposed mosque to be built about two blocks from Ground Zero.
With Gregorian at its helm, Carnegie Corp. is at the top of the list of society supporters on the Islamic group's website.
Carnegie is also listed as a funder of both of the society's partner organizations, Search for Common Ground and the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations. Gregorian was a participant in the U.N. body's first forum, as was Rauf.
Rauf is vice chairman on the board of the Interfaith Center of New York, which honored Gregorian at an awards dinner in 2008.
Rauf, meanwhile, has caused a stir with his proposed $100 million,13-story Islamic cultural center and mosque near the corner of Park Place and West Broadway.
Rauf sparked controversy when he refused during a live radio interview
to condemn violent jihad groups as terrorists. Rauf repeatedly refused
on the air to affirm the U.S. designation of Hamas as a terrorist organization or call the Muslim Brotherhood extremists. The Brotherhood openly seeks to spread Islam around the world, while Hamas is committed to Israel's destruction and is responsible for scores of suicide bombings, shootings and rocket attacks aimed at Jewish civilian population centers.
During the interview, Rauf was also asked who he believes was responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks.
"There's no doubt," stated Rauf. "The general perception all over the world was it was created by people who were sympathetic to Osama bin Laden. Whether they were part of the killer group or not, these are details that need to be left to the law-enforcement experts."
Rauf has been on record several times blaming U.S. policies for the Sept. 11 attacks. He has been quoted refusing to admit Muslims carried out the attacks.
Referring to the Sept. 11 attacks, Rauf told CNN, "U.S. policies were an accessory to the crime that happened. We (the U.S.) have been an accessory to a lot of nnocent lives dying in the world. Osama bin Laden was made in the USA."
Madeline Brooks, a reporter who attended a sermon this year by Rauf, quoted the Islamic leader as stating "some people say it was Muslims who attacked on Sept. 11."
Rauf's 2004 book had two different titles, one in English and the second in Arabic. In the U.S., his book was called "What's right with America is what's right with Islam." The same book, published in Arabic, bore the name "The Call From the
WTC Rubble: Islamic Da'wah From the Heart of America Post–Sept. 11."
Da'wah, an Arabic term, refers to the preaching of Islam, or,literally, "inviting to the way of submission and surrender to Allah."
The ties include a religion adviser to Obama, Eboo Patel, who discussed with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf – the controversial Muslim leader behind the mosque initiative – America as "the ideal place for a renewal of Islam."
Also, a scholar and charity head appointed to Obama's White House Fellowships Commission, Vartan Gregorian, wants to bring the imam's organization into a proposed Ground Zero museum to ensure it will represent the voices of American Muslims.
In February, Obama named Patel, a Chicago Muslim, to his Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Patel is the founder and executive director of Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Core,which says it promotes pluralism by teaming people of different faiths on service projects.
Rauf wrote the afterword to Patel's 2006 book, "Building the Interfaith Youth Movement: Beyond Dialogue to Action."
Patel is listed as one of 15 "Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow" on the website for the American Society for Muslim Advancement, which is led by Rauf.
In Patel's 2007 book, "Saving Each Other, Saving Ourselves," he recounts discussing with Rauf the future of Islam in the U.S. Rauf "understood the vision immediately and suggested that I visit him and his wife, Daisy Khan, at their home the following evening," Patel recalled.
Khan founded the society with her husband and has aided him in his
plans for the mosque near Ground Zero. "The living room of their apartment on the Upper West Side was set up like a mosque, with prayer rugs stretched from wall to wall," wrote Patel in his book.
Patel continued: I arrived at dusk, prayed the maghrib prayer with Daisy and Imam
Feisal and then talked with them about how America, with its unique combination of religious devotion and religious diversity, was the ideal place for a renewal of Islam.
"In the twentieth century, Catholicism and Judaism underwent profound transformations in America," Rauf observed. "I think, this century, in America, Islam will do the same."
Patel boasts of a "critical mass" of Muslims in the U.S. [just as others boast of a critical mass of Hispanic voters in america.]
"Islam is a religion that has always been revitalized by its migration," he wrote. "America is a nation that has been constantly rejuvenated by immigrants. There is now a critical mass of Muslims in America."
Patel last March wrote a Huffington Post piece referring to Obama's former "green jobs" czar Van Jones as a "faith hero." "In my last post on Van, I called him an American patriot," wrote Patel. "That is high praise in my book. But watching Van's speech at the NAACP, I have another title for him, one that I reserve for the
true giants of history. Van Jones is a faith hero." Jones resigned in
September after it was exposed he founded a communist revolutionary organization and signed a statement that accused the Bush administration of possible involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks. Jones also called for "resistance" against the U.S.
Jones previously stated his advocacy for green jobs was part of a broader movement to destroy the U.S. capitalist system.
WND reported that one day after the Sept. 11 attacks, Jones led a vigil that expressed solidarity with Arab and Muslim Americans as well as what he called the victims of "U.S. imperialism" around the world.
Meanwhile, another Obama official with ties to Rauf is Gregorian, the president of Carnegie Corp. charitable foundation who was appointed by Obama last year as a White House fellow.
Documentation shows Gregorian was central in William Ayers'recruitment of Obama to serve as the first chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge – a job in which Obama worked closely on a regular basis with Ayers, a co-founder of the Weather Underground domestic terrorist group. Obama also later touted his job at the project as qualifying him to run for public office, as WND previously reported.
Born in Tabriz, Iran, Gregorian served for eight years as president of the New York Public Library and was also president of Brown University. In his role as Brown president, Gregorian served on the selection committee of the Annenberg Foundation, which funded Ayers' Chicago Annenberg Challenge with a $49.2 million, 2-to-1 matching challenge grant over five years. Ayers was one of five founding members of the Challenge who wrote to the Annenberg Foundation for the initial funding.
Steve Diamond, a political-science and law professor and a blogger who has posted on Obama, previously posted a letter from Nov. 18, 1994, in which Gregorian, serving as the point man on Annenberg's selection committee, asked Ayers to "compose the governing board" of the Challenge's collaborative project with "people who reflect the racial and ethnic diversity of Chicago."
Ayers and other founding Challenge members then recruited Obama to serve as the project chairman. WND was first to expose that Obama and Ayers used the project grant money to fund organizations run by radicals tied to Ayers, including Mike Klonsky, a former top communist activist who was a senior leader in the Students for a Democratic Society group, a major leftist student organization in the 1960s, from which the Weathermen terror group later splintered.
National Review Online writer Stanley Kurtz examined the project archives housed at the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago, finding Obama and Ayers worked closely at the project.
The documents obtained by Kurtz showed Ayers served as an ex-officio member of the board that Obama chaired through the project's first year. Ayers also served on the board's governance committee with Obama and worked with him to craft project bylaws, according to the documents.
Ayers made presentations to board meetings chaired by Obama. Ayers also spoke for the Chicago School Reform Collaborative before Obama's board, while Obama periodically spoke for the board at meetings of the collaborative, the project documents reviewed by Kurtz show.
WND reported Obama and Ayers also served together on the board of the Woods Fund, a liberal Chicago nonprofit that granted money to far-left causes.
One of the groups funded by the Woods Fund was the Midwest Academy, an activist organization modeled after Marxist community organizer Saul Alinsky and described as teaching tactics of direct action,confrontation and intimidation.
WND reported Jackie Kendall, executive director of the Midwest Academy, was on the team that developed and delivered the first Camp Obama training for volunteers aiding Obama's campaign through the 2008 Iowa Caucuses.
Camp Obama was a two- to four-day intensive course run in conjunction with Obama's campaign aimed at training volunteers to become activists to help Obama win the presidential election.
Obama scholar linked to 'Ground Zero' imam Gregorian is closely tied to Rauf. Gregorian also serves on the board of the Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum. The museum is reportedly working with theAmerican Society for Muslim Advancement, whose leaders are behind the mosque, to ensure the future museum will represent the voices of American Muslims.
"[The Sept. 11 museum will represent the] voices of American Muslims in particular, and it will honor members of other communities who came together in support and collaboration with the Muslim community on September 11 and its aftermath," stated Daisy Khan, executive director of the society.
The future Sept. 11 museum's oral historian, Jenny Pachucki, is collaborating with the society to ensure the perspective of American Muslims is woven into the overall experience of the museum, according to the museum's blog.
Khan's husband, Rauf, is the founder of the society as well as chairman of Cordoba Initiative, which is behind the proposed mosque to be built about two blocks from Ground Zero.
With Gregorian at its helm, Carnegie Corp. is at the top of the list of society supporters on the Islamic group's website.
Carnegie is also listed as a funder of both of the society's partner organizations, Search for Common Ground and the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations. Gregorian was a participant in the U.N. body's first forum, as was Rauf.
Rauf is vice chairman on the board of the Interfaith Center of New York, which honored Gregorian at an awards dinner in 2008.
Rauf, meanwhile, has caused a stir with his proposed $100 million,13-story Islamic cultural center and mosque near the corner of Park Place and West Broadway.
Rauf sparked controversy when he refused during a live radio interview
to condemn violent jihad groups as terrorists. Rauf repeatedly refused
on the air to affirm the U.S. designation of Hamas as a terrorist organization or call the Muslim Brotherhood extremists. The Brotherhood openly seeks to spread Islam around the world, while Hamas is committed to Israel's destruction and is responsible for scores of suicide bombings, shootings and rocket attacks aimed at Jewish civilian population centers.
During the interview, Rauf was also asked who he believes was responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks.
"There's no doubt," stated Rauf. "The general perception all over the world was it was created by people who were sympathetic to Osama bin Laden. Whether they were part of the killer group or not, these are details that need to be left to the law-enforcement experts."
Rauf has been on record several times blaming U.S. policies for the Sept. 11 attacks. He has been quoted refusing to admit Muslims carried out the attacks.
Referring to the Sept. 11 attacks, Rauf told CNN, "U.S. policies were an accessory to the crime that happened. We (the U.S.) have been an accessory to a lot of nnocent lives dying in the world. Osama bin Laden was made in the USA."
Madeline Brooks, a reporter who attended a sermon this year by Rauf, quoted the Islamic leader as stating "some people say it was Muslims who attacked on Sept. 11."
Rauf's 2004 book had two different titles, one in English and the second in Arabic. In the U.S., his book was called "What's right with America is what's right with Islam." The same book, published in Arabic, bore the name "The Call From the
WTC Rubble: Islamic Da'wah From the Heart of America Post–Sept. 11."
Da'wah, an Arabic term, refers to the preaching of Islam, or,literally, "inviting to the way of submission and surrender to Allah."
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