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Months after Karen Hughes assumed the role of diplomat-at-large to the Muslim world, she told Time magazine that one of her two key influences on understanding Islam was Georgetown Prof. John Esposito. She’s not alone. The FBI has repeatedly consulted him, and much of academia holds him in high regard. But when he’s not busy shaping U.S. policy toward the Muslim world, Prof. Esposito mentors a man who wishes he could be a suicide bomber and who recently (and publicly) reinforced his support for “martyrdom.” He has collaborated on two books with Dr. Azzam Tamimi, and he still maintains a...

Tuesday, August 15, 2006 Azzam Tamimi Uncensored LGF reader Alfred emailed a transcription of this video, featuring the Associated Press go-to guy, Azzam Tamimi, raving about jihad and destroying Israel. TO SEE THE VIDEO CLICK HERE ... anybody in the world, with faith or without faith, must come together in order to eradicate this cancer from the body of humanity. [Crowd: Allah –u-Akbar] We are ever grateful to the late Imam Khomenei for starting this occasion. Because the world . . . must never forget al-Quds, must never forget Jerusalem. For us Muslims, Jerusalem is the mother of faith. Al-Quds...