Who is Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf?

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[Tzimisce]

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf: the guy who is running the Mosque near the old World Trade Center Building. He is the one that seems to be at the heart of the recent news about a large Mosque being built near the site of the old Twin Towers.

I think it is fair to ask who he is and what he believes. After some digging, I found the following:

Belief Net Interveiw:

Question: Some Islamic charities are being investigated for terrorist ties. Have you seen what you consider to be reputable Islamic charities being financially damaged?

Well, it's become very difficult to send money abroad or receive money from abroad; everything now has to go through hoops to make sure it's legitimate--which is certainly understandable.

We believe that a certain portion of every charity has been legitimate. To say that you have connections with terrorism is a very gray area. It's like the accusation that Saddam Hussein had links to Osama bin Laden. Well, America had links to Osama bin Laden--does that mean that America is a terrorist country or has ties to terrorism? It's that type of logic.

Beliefnet

He's chairman of the Cordoba Initiative

In classical Islamic jurisprudence the ruler must be someone who is “wise and upholds the Shariah”, he explained."

“Early scholars debated a third point: whether the ruler must also be pious."

“And the answer is no. As long as the ruler is committed to upholding the Shariah, piety should not be a hurdle to reigning over people.

Snip

Similarly, a woman can sue a man, even a stranger, for a lewd or inappropriate comment that “undermines her honour”.

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf Cordoba Initiative

Abu Zubaydah's suffering

Second, his treatment was motivated by the bane of our post-9/11 world: rotten intel. The beat him because they believed he was evil. Not long after his arrest, President Bush described him as "one of the top three leaders" in Al Qaeda and "Al Qaeda's chief of operations."

But Abu Zubaydah, we now understand, was nothing like what the president believed. He was never Al Qaeda. The journalist Ron Suskind was the first to ask the right questions. In his 2006 book, "The One Percent Doctrine," he described Abu Zubaydah as a minor logistics man, a travel agent.

So two legs of the stool are fixed: They tormented a clerk. But there is a third leg that should not be left out. No one can pass unscathed through an ordeal like this. Abu Zubaydah paid with his mind.

Cordoba Initiative

He's also a Member of the ASMA

He condemns suicide bombings and all violence carried out in the name of religion. He meets regularly with Christian and Jewish leaders, not only to forge a common front but also to explain his belief that Islamic terrorists do not come from another moral universe - that they arise from oppressive societies that he feels Washington had a hand in creating.

Last week, Imam Feisal joined three other American clerics of various faiths in a 30-second advertisement, broadcast on Arabic television, in which they apologized for the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison.

A Muslim in the Middle East Hopes against Hope

[Tzimisce]

Judge for yourself.

[hennie pennie]

*ping*

[El Gato]

he described Abu Zubaydah as a minor logistics man, a travel agent. So two legs of the stool are fixed: They tormented a clerk

Yea, a clerk who was, at the least, complicit in the murder of 3,000 people on US soil.

First he was water boarded, not tortured. Second, remember the Nazi SS had clerks too. They recorded all the loot, including gold fillings from the mouths of and hair from the heads of the Jews they murdered. They also very precisely counted how many Jews they killed, for progress reports on the Final Solution.

Too bad someone didn't water board one of them at an appropriate time.

[stephenjohnbanker]

GUILTY

[ElayneJ]

Read later.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

He is a mohammedan, therefore an enemy of civilization.

That is all one needs to know.

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. Jihad by handsome means.