VICTOR SHARPE: IMAM FEISAL’S BRIDGE TO NOWHERE

Posted By on August 25th, 2010

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Imam Faisal’s Bridge to Nowhere

by Victor Sharpe

The Imam who is pushing for the construction of the Cordoba victory mosque is strangely and troublingly embraced by the U.S. State Department to an extent that leaves many puzzled and alarmed. Why has Hillary Clinton funded this Imam as he tours the Middle East at U.S. taxpayer cost?

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is being portrayed by the Obama regime as a sincere Moslem whose sole effort in life is to foster greater harmony among Moslems and non-Moslems and “greater understanding” about Islam among non-Moslem Americans. How nice. But is it really true?

Imam Rauf has said he is not interested in talking about political matters. He is a cleric after all, which is why, he states, he will not involve himself in condemning the bloody history of Hamas or the Moslem Brotherhood of which it is a part. Yet in interviews and speeches he has given, he has said that the Arab-Israel conflict should be resolved through a “one state solution.” That is political speech if ever there was. And by calling for such a solution, he knows only too well that it would mean a “final solution” for the Jewish state and for the Jews living in it.

This Imam has a silver tongue and is most adept at promoting Islam in America – but it is supremacist jargon when his words are parsed. He is not truly interested in peace and harmony but, as with so many Moslems, he wants Islamic Sharia law to eventually supersede the United States Constitution. Oh, he will vehemently deny such a thing, but the very mosque he espouses and works tirelessly to create just yards from the tomb that is the blasted World Trade Center, will be the thirteen story high tangible symbol of Islam’s victory over America and Judeo-Christian civilization. That is the empirical fact that all those liberals and multiculturalists fail to grasp as they waffle on about freedom of religion – which they surely know is not denied anyone in the Constitution, certainly not Moslems in the United States.

So why is Clinton’s State Department paying for the Imam to visit Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi and Qatar? Why is State Department spokesman Crowley saying that Imam Faisal will not be permitted to raise funds in the oil rich Persian Gulf states by claiming, “… that would not be something he could do as part of our program.” Indeed, Rauf himself stated that funds for the mega-mosque would only come from Moslems and members of the congregation.

But according to a report in the NY Post, a London-based Arabic-language newspaper that interviewed Abdul Rauf reported that he will also collect money from Muslim and Arab nations around the world – raising the possibility his goodwill mission could help him build contacts in oil-rich states. So who is telling the truth and just what is behind this State Department’s current cozying up to Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf? Is there a guiding hand, perhaps called Barak Hussein Obama?
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Meanwhile a family member of a 9/11 victim of that barbaric Moslem destruction of the iconic New York Twin Towers landmark, Debra Burlingame, asks: “Does the State Department have any idea they are sending a guy to the Middle East who is going to be fund-raising perhaps among the very same people he will be meeting with?”

She continued: “We know he has a fund-raising association with Saudi Arabia. It is known that the Saudis have contributed money to underwrite programs by the American Society for Muslim Advancement, a not-for-profit that Abdul Rauf runs with his wife and that is one of the sponsors of the Ground Zero mosque.”

Ms. Burlingame points out that the State Department knows what the Imam is up to. As she says, ” … he’s going to the well, and how can they say they do or don’t know what he’s doing?”

Walid Shoebat, former Moslem and Palestinian Arab terrorist, and now a Christian and supporter of Israel, quotes in his blog from an article by the Mega Mosque Imam titled, Sharing the Essence of our Beliefs, published in the Jordanian newspaper, Al-Ghad on May 9, 2009: “For that, we collectively believe that the state that was erected by the prophet in Medina was the ideal model for an Islamic state. The challenge today in the Islamic world is how do we accomplish this in our current era.”

As Mr. Shoebat points out, “Now you will know why Imam Faisal refused to describe Hamas as a terrorist organization.”

Mr. Shoebat mentions an article written in the Middle East about Imam Rauf titled, “The Most Prominent Imam in New York,” in which the writer avers that Rauf does not believe in religious dialogue. Summing up his impression of Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf and his associates, Mr. Shoebat states clearly that, “Abdul Rauf uses stealth strategy to make it difficult to detect their Sharia driven agenda while under the guise of interfaith dialogue and building bridges in what they say in English. In Arabic, their statements are clear – the bridge is to build Sharia.”

Victor Sharpe is a freelance writer and author of several books including Volumes One &Two of Politicide: The attempted destruction of the Jewish state.

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