Posted on 02/08/2007 9:32:41 AM PST by Alouette
Is there such a thing as 'Muslim humor'? I imagine laughter is rare in the Muslim world.
Ghazi Khankan is the former Interfaith Director of the Islamic Center of Long Island in Westbury, and the former NY Head of CAIR. He and Faroque Khan, also of the same mosque, have had a troubling history with words they've used...recently they were after Congressmen Peter King. Frontpage has a round-up of some of Khankan's more disturbing statements. Also note, Temple Beth El in Great Neck, and Telecare, (Diocese of Rockville Center) both have relationship with Khan and Khankan.
"Another speaker was Al-Haaj Ghazi Khankan, the Executive Director of the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. As a Board Member of the American Muslim Alliance (AMA), Khankan renounced his group’s support for then Senatorial Candidate Hillary Clinton, after she refused to accept the endorsement, and sent out a press release calling her opponent, Congressman Rick Lazio, a “racist” and “bigot.”
Khankan has declared that “‘Jihad’ is known in the West as waging holy war, which is utter nonsense.” Yet, at an anti-war rally held in Washington, D.C., where a previous speaker “called for the overthrow of the U.S. government,” Khankan addressed the protesters by stating, “I bring you salaams and greetings from the Mujahadeen at CAIR.” In Yossef Bodansky’s book, BIN LADEN: THE MAN WHO DECLARED WAR ON AMERICA, Mujahadeen is defined as “Those who wage the jihad; Islam’s holy warriors.” At another anti-war rally, Khankan was a featured speaker along with Sami Al Arian.
On numerous occasions, Khankan has refused to acknowledge that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the attacks on 9/11. And on a live chat hosted by ABC News, when asked the question, “What happened that these terrorists hate us so much?” Khankan answered that it was the United States’ own fault. He stated, “I believe that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Look at what our government has done overseas to other countries.”
In the November 15, 2001 edition of The Advocate, Ghazi Khankan stated the following: “We don’t support Hamas and Hezbollah just to support them. I look at the issues. The reason there is a Hamas and a Hezbollah is that the Israelis have terrorized the poor Palestinian people for the last 53 years.” When discussing possible Hamas targets, Khankan is quoted as saying, “Those who are below 18 should not be attacked.”
Through CAIR, Khankan helped set up the Emergency Family Fund to raise finances, including legal funds, for families of possible terrorist detainees, whom the United States has taken into custody. This was done in association with other groups, including the Islamic Circle of North American (ICNA), which “openly supports militant Islamic fundamentalist organizations, praises terrorist attacks, issues incendiary attacks on Western values and policies, and supports the imposition of the shar’ia.” (Steven Emerson, American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us, 2002)
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12246
Stop making fun of our guys cutting peoples' heads off or we'll, um, cut your heads off.
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