Posted on 09/08/2010 11:18:37 PM PDT by Yardstick
As Scott noted this morning, Feisal Abdul Rauf has taken to the opinion pages of the New York Times to reiterate his intent to build the Ground Zero mosque. Rauf is no stranger to those pages. On February 27, 1979, the Times published Rauf's letter to the editor in which he criticized American for failing to apologize to Iran for past misdeeds. Rauf added that "the revolution in Iran was inspired by the very principles of individual rights and freedom that Americans ardently believe in."
When it reported on this letter, the Wall Street Journal, trying to be fair to Rauf, wrote that at the time of his letter, "Iran's revolution hadn't revealed all of its violent, messianic character." But a closer analysis of the timing of Rauf's letter undercuts this excuse and casts the imam in a worse light than the Journal supposes.
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I have always wondered if she was forced to write them because she had dated an infidel.
Have also personally know of 3 young American women who married Arabs who seemed very western, went back to Saudi and Jordan with their husbands and got locked into a burka and a veil. One managed to come home (no children.) The other two are still there with a couple of children each. The husbands come and go on business, but do not bring the wives. Westerners best beware of the very fundamental differences.
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He's a snake.
I’m sure “I’m a Flacid Alldung Woof” and Iranian nutjob “I’m a Dildo John” are good friends. Who but the same sort of madman would come up with national security as a reason for us to smile while he pokes a stick in the eye of everyone who remembers 9/11? The two are peas in a pod and those cheer leading for him are going to be right at the top of the list of those targeted by his radical pals.
I know an Iranian lady whose father worked in the Shah’s oil ministry. Her family was very westernized and pro-American but it was the late 70s and she was a campus lefty so she and her lefty friends took to the streets in solidarity with the Islamic revolutionaries against the Shah. She said it was exhilarating at first but that as the tide turned in favor of the revolution, the Islamic revolutionaries started to feel their oats and their mood towards their leftist comrades changed. They started threatening the leftwing young women with beatings if they wouldn’t wear Islamic garb. Her father had to flee the country when Khomeini took control, so he gathered up his family and fled to America and that’s where she lives now. They are Farsi speaking Persians and about as refined and gracious as they can be. Just incredibly elegant people. She’s still a leftwinger though. One of these days I hope to get a chance to talk with her about the revolution and Khomeini and whether she can see why the US (prior to Carter) backed the Shah.
The Muslim world has the appearance of modernity, but not the soul. This is why they destroyed Lebanon and why they want to destroy Israel, because of theirs character. Th secularism of Attaturk and of the Shahs were contraditions they cannot abide.
The left in the US was also very supportive of Khomeini at the time. They supported him because the Shah was friendly to the US, and the left always opposes our friends and supports our enemies. Now, the left seems to have conveniently forgotten how it rejoiced when Khomeini took control.
“Funny how people have their patterns.”
Remember Famagusta! Remember Bragadino!
Yep, very true, and as a result the left always winds up on the wrong side of history as they were with Khomeini.
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