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| Another Moderate Proves Unpopular |
| 2006-06-19 |
| Original story behind subscription wall. Basically a moderate Muslim -- the type we're told makes up the vast majority of Muslims in the West -- lost every fight he made against the extremists in his mosque. This makes three cases like this that I know about. How many more are there? When will the press start, um, pressing this question? After his firing, the Egyptian-born imam, Safwat Morsy, opened a new mosque in a basement just around the corner from the Islamic Society, in the heart of this city's gritty Tenderloin district. To swelling crowds, the Sheik Safwat has railed against "the traitor criminal Souleiman Ghali" and called for jihad, or holy war, against Israel and U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. "Our killed ones are in paradise and their killed ones are in hell," he told worshipers in 2003, in a sermon that was translated from Arabic for the court case.... Beware of "the new American Islam," Sheik Safwat warned followers in the 2003 sermon translated for the court case, "a faith that does not talk about the jihad; a faith that does not talk about the confrontation with tyrants; a faith that does not talk."... |
| Posted by:Robert Crawford |