Update:
“Bridge Builder” Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf can’t condemn Hamas as a terrorist group and denies that he, like his father before him, are members of the Muslim Brotherhood.  He just crossed the red line, and once word of this gets out, his project is dead in the water.
“I am a peace builder. I will not allow anybody to put me in a position where I am seen by any party in the world as an adversary or as an enemy,” he said.
He refused to even condemn Hamas, just saying that terrorism is a “complex question.  More here>>
Imam terror error
By TOM TOPOUSIS/New York Post
Every Muslim is a terrorist: (ask Zakir Naik, he’ll tell you!)
The imam behind plans to build a controversial Ground Zero mosque yesterday refused to describe Hamas as a terrorist organization. Â Rauf also would not answer a question about Egypt’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.
Muslims engage in religiously mandated lying to protect the Islamic agenda:
“I have nothing to do with the Muslim Brotherhood. My father was never a member of the Muslim Brotherhood,” he said, disputing a rumor. Â More>>
Video here
“The building found us,” says Daisy Khan on the controversial center planned to house a community center and mosque near Ground Zero. “We want to reverse what happened on 9/11,” Khan added.
Submission in Philadelphia:
Muslims in Philadelphia celebrate Islamic heritage
“The Internet spreads a lot of hate, but people who know Islam know that we are not about blowing up planes and cars….” Really? Â Read it all>>
Some good news from Atlas:
Robert Spencer & Pamela Geller
NRO INTERVIEW: “We suffer from willful blindness now more than ever. Former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy, who prosecuted the Blind Sheik, who masterminded the first attack on the World Trade Center, warned us of our error in his terror memoir by that name; as we continue our denial of the threat Americans face, McCarthy names names in his new book, The Grand Jihad, which debuted on the New York Times bestseller list this weekend.
McCarthy backs up what we in the opposition have been expressing for weeks now.
TENSIONS BUILD AT MEETING ON GROUND ZERO MOSQUE
Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and the author of ten books on the nature of Islam expressed doubts about the purportedly benign views of Imam Rauf. “After the 9/11 attacks, Imam Rauf was quoted on the CBS 60 Minutes program of September 30, 2001 as saying, “US policies were an accessory to the 9/11 crime. In the most direct sense Osama Bin Laden was made in the USA”. It is clear from the language that Imam Rauf uses now as opposed to back in 2001 that he is a prototypical dissembler as he boldly insinuated that American foreign policy was to blame for the heinous atrocities that took the lives of close to 3,000 people on 9/11″ he said.
“Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is an open proponent of Sharia, which institutionalizes discrimination against Jews, Christians, women, and others, and denies freedom of speech and freedom of conscience” said Pamela Geller of SIOA. Her sober warning was crystal clear: “If we do not confront this threat now, then in the future we will see increasing assertiveness from Islamic supremacists in this country; demanding that we accept elements of Islamic law, and increasing conflict as free Americans see their rights being abridged and Muslims set up as a privileged class here.”  Posted by Fern Sidman/MAS
Fitzgerald:
What was it all about, really, that rally in Lower Manhattan a few weeks ago? I mean the one that was attended by thousands (though the police did not offer an official estimate, a policeman present told one of the organizers that he estimated the crowd at “5,000”). I mean the one where a man speaking loudly in Arabic was assumed by some to be conducting Da’wa on behalf of Islam, and responded to, by a few, in agitated tones. Yes, I mean that rally which Keith Olbermann both dismissed as too tiny for him to deign to notice (“300 people”) and at the same time took careful notice of, because to the keith-olbermanns of this world, any opposition to Muslim demands must surely be a sign of “intolerance” by crazed right-wingers. And those who had angrily responded to the man speaking in Arabic (in truth, a Copt recently arrived from Egypt whose voice was raised in fury and fear against the Mosque, as a sinister symbolic beachhead of Islam) were seen as “whites” attacking someone who was “brown-skinned.”
What the rally was all about was something we read about, when we read with affection and interest the Bill of Rights and come across that phrase about the right of the people “to peaceably assemble” and read, furthermore, about the right to a “redress of grievances.” For in truth that is all it was: a gathering of many people who were mightily offended, cut to the quick, by the prospect of there being erected a giant mosque on a spot right near Ground Zero, site of the largest Muslim terrorist attack in history so far, and of the deadliest foreign attack on American soil, rivaled in casualties only by Pearl Harbor. Who were these people? There were many who were relatives of those who had died in the World Trade Center, and who found the idea of a 13-story mosque complex on what they regarded as hallowed ground not merely unseemly but a cruel outrage, no matter how it was decked out by its sly promoter, and so far only would-be begetter, one Feisal Abdul Rauf. Many of those relatives of the victims, those who showed up at the rally and those who did not but not because their quiet fury was any less, knew that this would be an offense.
Some news stories did, at least, decently convey the feeling of those relatives:
Continue reading Lying for the Cause of Islam: for Muslim Brother Feisal Abdul Rauf its a Way of Life…
Eboo Patel, Chicago Muslim
