Why They Can’t Condemn Hamas

National Review ^ | Andrew c. McCarthy

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Hamas is a shibboleth. If you want to know whether an ostensible Muslim “moderate” is really moderate, ask him if Hamas is a terrorist organization.

It is really not a hard question, even if Feisal Rauf can’t — or won’t — answer it. Rauf, the would-be imam of the controversial Ground Zero mosque, is also a stud in the State Department’s stable of ready-to-travel-on-your-dime “moderates.” That same State Department has branded Hamas a terrorist organization, and we can’t even get it to say that about the Taliban, the guys we’re fighting in the overseas contingency operation formerly known as the War on Terror.

During a WABC radio interview, Aaron Klein three times pressed Rauf to admit that Hamas is a terrorist organization. Rauf bobbed and weaved in classic Islamist style. “I’m not a politician,” he replied, as if only politicians trouble themselves over whether terrorists are terrorists. “I try to avoid the issues. The issue of terrorism is a very complex question.” Avoid the issues? You don’t say!

But it is not a complex question, no more complex than “Does Derek Jeter play for the Yankees?” It is a straightforward question that Islamists complicate with clever casuistry, carefully designed to ring all the right chimes for our opinion elites and their media pitchmen.

[Tzimisce]

He has no problem condemning the US for “terrorism”.

[BusterBear]

But, but...the Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of New York has told us that Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and his wife Daisy Khan are people of peace.

At the Episcopal Diocese of New York we know the leaders of this project, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and his wife Daisy Khan. We know that they are loving, gentle people, who epitomize Islamic moderation. We know that as Sufis, they are members of an Islamic sect that teaches a universal belief in man’s relationship to God that is not dissimilar from mystic elements in certain strains of Judaism and Christianity.
-Bishop Mark Sisk

http://www.livingchurch.org/news/news-updates/2010/8/24/bp-sisk-urges-calm-about-51-park-center

[JCG]

That they are Sufis is meaningless. Here's another Sufi:

Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani (Mubrik Ali Shah Jilani) is a Hanafi Sufi cleric from Pakistan and founder of the Muslims of the Americas organization.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mubarak_Ali_Gilani

And what has he been up to?

According to a profile of al-Fuqra by the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT), the group is believed to have been founded by Pakistani cleric Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani Hashemi in 1980. Gilani, who lives in Pakistan and was questioned there in connection with the abduction of Daniel Pearl,[10] founded the group on a trip to the United States. Members initially engaged mostly in attacks against Indians and Indian religious figures in the US.[11]

The group is separatist, and is described by MIPT and a similar profile in the database of the South Asian Terror Portal as a cult.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaat_ul-Fuqra

And...

“Act like you are his friend. Then kill him.”– Sheik Muburak Gilani, explaining how to kill American infidels
 
The 2006 Justice Department document that exposes 35 [Jamaat ul-Fuqra] terrorist training compounds in the U.S. was marked “Dissemination Restricted to Law Enforcement.”

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.2589/pub_detail.asp

Sufis? Just another name for killers.

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[BusterBear]

Thanks for the info. The leaders of the Episcopal Church are about on the same level as the editorial page of the NYTimes, in terms of honesty and political leanings.

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