• Muslims have the same right to freedom of religion as everyone else in America.
• we're a country that in my view stands for freedom of religion and respect for others,
• This is a place where you're supposed to be able to practice your religion without the government telling you you can't."

  • But when Islam practices its religion it is also practicing temporal political beliefs as well. Why does the Left, who trumpets separation of church and state, not apply this equally to Islam?

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• Elkhateeb will teach the Arabic language, culture and traditions to Missoula students at Hellgate and anywhere else he is asked to visit.

  • Will he teach the tradition that women who are forcefully raped are to be stoned to death? Will he teach the tradition of honor killing?
• The Arabic world has all the diversity of viewpoints and ideologies that America does, he said.

  • Islam does not tolerate contrary beliefs. Anyone who says so is not telling the truth but is speaking from the mainstream Islam Al-Taqiyya.
• we have the spirit of tolerance, the spirit of respecting other people

  • Tolerance? Respect for other people? In Islam there are two worlds, the world of Islam and the world of war. That is not tolerance! Mainstream Islam calls for death for homosexuals, apostates, and those who do not convert or submit to Islam.
• the goal is for Americans to understand the Arabic and Islamic world

• Elkhateeb will meet with any interested groups, giving talks about his role as teacher and ambassador, spreading the culture of the Arab world to foster understanding and, ultimately, peace.

         

  It is what his Muslim faith, after all, commands him to do.

  • Define "Peace." Is it the absence of war? Or is it as defined by Islam: "Peace through submission to Allah."

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• The explicitly sectarian nature of the project does not contradict its scientific basis, according to Muslim scholars.
• in Islamic thought, all scientific inquiry is subordinate to the truth revealed in the Koran and the sayings and life of Muhammad. If Islam's prophet said Mecca is the center of the universe, it must be so. If observable facts contradict this claim, they must be reconciled or ignored.
• Another, more serious example is the proposal from the Organization of the Islamic Conference that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, one of the fundamental agreements in international law, be supplanted in Muslim-majority countries by Shariah law. In other words, the organization rejects the notion that universal human rights exist - at least, not as the rest of the world has defined them.

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  New poll results from CNN reveal that roughly the same number of Americans support the idea of an Islamic mosque just steps from the Ground Zero site where thousands died in an attack by Muslim radicals in 2001 as believe Barack Obama "probably" or definitely was born in another country.  

  "If we can call the former group 'fringe,' surely we can call the latter group fringe as well," said Erick Erickson in a commentary on the Redstate.com blog.
• "Sixty-eight percent of Americans oppose it.
• the percentage of people who think 9/11 was an inside job is equal to the percentage of people who think the Ground Zero mosque is a "good idea."
• The total of those who at least have doubts about Obama's birth story total 56 percent.
• The 29 percent of Americans who Barack Obama has decided to line up with are convinced that the 68 percent who oppose the mosque are prejudiced bigots who hate all Muslims,"
• "Barack Obama
• is declaring his party's values are those of the elite, not normal Americans,"
• if there are more people who are birthers than there are that support the mosque, then why aren't the people who support the mosque considered fringe according to their own standards?"

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• The list of both advisers and board members are still available in web archives.
• The Cordoba name reminds both Muslims and non-Muslims that a great Islamic civilization was once the most open and tolerant of its era."
• "Imagine: a Perfectly Islamic State," stated the deleted section of Cordoba's website.
   

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• Most of those deaths came in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers only a few hundred feet from the proposed site of the Ground Zero mosque, and one piece of a smashed jet's landing gear actually hit the building which is proposed to be replaced by a mosque.
• It may be useful in some stories to note that Muslim prayer services have been held since 2009 in the building

• the site was picked because it is linked to 9/11.  

  "The idea here that will be widely understood is that this mosque is another triumphal mosque, another victory mosque [like] the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the site of the Temple Mount and the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus," Spencer told WND today.  
• This is something the Imam Rauf has said himself.
• "In his own words he said, 'New York is the capital of the world and this location close to 9/11 is iconic.' He was happy that his mosque would be at the site of the building [where] the wreckage fell on 9/11," Spencer said.

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• Obama administration officials
• 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.
• Rauf wrote the afterword to Patel's 2006 book, "Building the Interfaith Youth Movement: Beyond Dialogue to Action."
• Patel boasts
• There is now a critical mass of Muslims in America."
• 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.
• 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 innocent lives dying in the world. Osama bin Laden was made in the USA."
• "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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• CAIR cofounder Omar Ahmad
• who subsequently pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Africa."
• American Muslim cleric Zaid Shakir, was secretly recorded giving a lecture in the San Francisco area advising his audience of fellow Muslim Americans to follow the strategy of the prophet when he fled to Medina and accumulated power first before waging violent jihad.
• Sami al-Arian:
• the 9/11 attacks preempted al-Arian’s audience with Bush. Today, he’s behind bars, convicted of fraudulently raising money and funneling it to Hamas and other terrorist organizations conducting suicide operations in Israel.
• Abdurahman Alamoudi:
• Alamoudi is serving a 23-year prison sentence. Busted in 2003 for trying to smuggle $340,000 in sequentially numbered bills into the United States from Libya, prosecutors connected him to Hamas and Hezbollah, and he eventually pled guilty to plotting terrorist attacks on the United States with support from Libya.
• Shiek Hamza Yusuf: The only Muslim in a group of religious leaders invited to the White House to pray with the president after 9/11, Yusuf is an American-born convert to Islam and cultivates his moderate image. But only two days prior to 9/11, he spoke to Muslims in Irvine, Calif., gathered in support of a cop-killing Muslim imam, "[T]his country [America] is facing a very terrible fate. The reason for this is that this country stands condemned. ... This country unfortunately has a great tribulation coming to it."
• Omar Ahmad: Co-founder of CAIR and also an honored guest at the Bush White House,
• "Islam isn’t in America to equal to any other faith but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America and Islam the only accepted religion." Before founding CAIR, Ahmad was a leader at the Islamic Association of Palestine, which was an Islamist organization that raised money in America for Hamas but was shut down by the government in 2005

• Here are a few government players who have been used by Islamists:

    Robert S. Mueller: FBI Director
• Brian Humphrey: In 2006, then-Customs and Border Protection Executive Director
• Valerie Jarrett: A longtime Obama associate from Chicago and now a senior advisor to the president, Valerie Jarrett had the dubious distinction of being the first White House official to address a national convention of Brotherhood front group ISNA.
• Eric Holder:
• the Brotherhood
• very popular throughout the entire world of Sunni Islam.
• Dalia Mogahed, also an Egyptian by birth, the chief advisor to Obama on Islamic affairs and the first veiled Muslim to work in the White House. "I can tell that she is very sympathetic to the Brothers."

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• It is a socio-political ideology with a religious element.
• the comparison to “missionary work” is quite insufficient to capture the overall objective. More accurately, the term “Colonization” seems to encompass the goals of Islam.

• A phobia is an unreasonable fear. Can a fear of Islam ever be considered unreasonable? - John StGeorge on 2010-08-30