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Home Front: Culture Wars
Letters From the Imam: Feisel Abdul Rauf on Israel and Iran.
2010-09-02
Rauf in a letter to the NYT published November 1977 concerning Israeli-Egyptian detente:
"give peace a chance."
but also
"For my fellow Arabs I have the following special message: Learn from the example of the Prophet Mohammed, your greatest historical personality. After a state of war with the Meccan unbelievers that lasted for many years, he acceded, in the Treaty of Hudaybiyah, to demands that his closest companions considered utterly humiliating. Yet peace turned out to be a most effective weapon against the unbelievers."
IOW peace is just a "Hudna" the desired end result being total victory for Islam.
Posted by:Snert Grang2025

#5  Why am I getting this strong feeling that this guy isn't who he pretends to be?

Because you've been paying attention.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2010-09-02 12:50  

#4  Why am I getting this strong feeling that this guy isn't who he pretends to be?
Posted by: JohnQC   2010-09-02 10:00  

#3  Just an aside. The latest I heard is that this imam and Daisy are slum lords in New Jersey. They own an apartment complex. The residents complain that they never fix anything such as leaking roofs, etc. Daisy comes and makes notes but then nothing ever happens.
Posted by: JohnQC   2010-09-02 09:58  

#2  Rauf's Ground Zero Mosque project is arguably a private affair of his, but Rauf is also an official, paid representative of the US government in the arab-islamic world.

Does the Obama administration agree with Rauf's long term plan for peace in the middle-east?

Do they share his vision of arab-majority post-Israel with a jewish dhimmi minority?

Do they believe in the legitimacy of iranian islamofascism?

If the answer is no, then why was Rauf hired in the first place?
Posted by: Snert Grang2025   2010-09-02 07:30  

#1  DAILY TIMES.PK > [Ex-UK PM] BLAIR: WORLD MUST PREPARE FOR IRAN MILITARY OPTION, arguing that a Nuc Iran will alter REGIONAL BALAnCE OF POWER, but also widin ISLAM itself.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-09-02 02:13  

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