Cordoba House Imam makes (truly) radical speech in Mid East

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Cordoba House Imam makes (truly) radical speech in Mid East
by senilebiker
Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 10:28:57 PM PDT

The Imam behind the "not Ground Zero not Mosque"is currently touring the Middle East and making Radical speeches that are sure to inflame the protestors back in the US.

Speaking last night in Bahrain to a multi faith audience at the Majlis of the Chairman of the Gulf for Council Foreign Relations, Feisal Abdul Rauf made the following statements.

He told religious leaders in Bahrain that the most important conflicts in the world were between the children of Abraham, whether the Israeli/Palestinian conflict or the US/Iran conflict and the challenge for them was how they could play a role in bringing peace.

"We are Christians, Jews and Muslims, but one of our faults is instead of worshipping God, we worship our religion and use that to cause division between us,"

He further went on to say:

"The sense of brotherhood and unity that the prophets had for each other as servants of the true God is the primary lesson we should all learn.

"The demand is on us (Muslims) to feel a special brotherhood with the Christian and Jewish faiths and certainly our own.

"We shouldn't see differences, but see the differences that unite us and are part of one theme.

And he concluded with:

"It's time we also saw that if we followed the laws of Moses, Jesus and Mohammed they were not opposed to each other."

Really this is the guy thats frightening the sheeple, and causing faux news to go into meltdown?

More detail can be found at Today's Gulf Daily News: http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=285458

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/8/25/895985/-Cordoba-House-Imam-makes-%28truly%29-radical-speech-in-Mid-East

[Jankyn]

1. No wonder...

...the far right is so afraid of him.

[okieinpain]

2. man repugs could have dinner with the guy the night before

they call him a monster, then have dinner with him the night after and act like nothing was wrong.

[G_j]

3. Imam Reportedly Eulogized Daniel Pearl, Saying "Today I am a Jew"

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/08/ground-zero-imam-i-am-a-jew-i-have-always-been-one/61761

'Ground Zero' Imam: 'I Am a Jew, I Have Always Been One'

Aug 19 2010, 11:13 AM ET

The right-wing campaign against the so-called "Ground Zero mosque" includes vicious personal attacks on the Muslim cleric who leads the Cordoba Initiative, the organization behind the plan. I know Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf, and I know him to be a moderate, forward-leaning Muslim -- yes, it is true he has said things with which I disagree, but I have never expected him to function as a member of the Zionist Organization of America.

In 2003, Imam Rauf was invited to speak at a memorial service for Daniel Pearl, the journalist murdered by Islamist terrorists in Pakistan. The service was held at B'nai Jeshurun, a prominent synagogue in Manhattan, and in the audience was Judea Pearl, Daniel Pearl's father. In his remarks, Rauf identified absolutely with Pearl, and identified himself absolutely with the ethical tradition of Judaism. "I am a Jew," he said.

There are those who would argue that these represent mere words, chosen carefully to appease a potentially suspicious audience. I would argue something different: That any Muslim imam who stands before a Jewish congregation and says, "I am a Jew," is placing his life in danger. Remember, Islamists hate the people they consider apostates even more than they hate Christians and Jews. In other words, the man many commentators on the right assert is a terrorist-sympathizer placed himself in mortal peril in order to identify himself with Christians and Jews, and specifically with the most famous Jewish victim of Islamism. You can read the full text of his remarks on the B'nai Jeshurun website, but here is an especially relevant portion:

We are here to assert the Islamic conviction of the moral equivalency of our Abrahamic faiths. If to be a Jew means to say with all one's heart, mind and soul Shma` Yisrael, Adonai Elohenu Adonai Ahad; hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One, not only today I am a Jew, I have always been one, Mr. Pearl.

If to be a Christian is to love the Lord our God with all of my heart, mind and soul, and to love for my fellow human being what I love for myself, then not only am I a Christian, but I have always been one Mr. Pearl.

And I am here to inform you, with the full authority of the Quranic texts and the practice of the Prophet Muhammad, that to say La ilaha illallah Muhammadun rasulullah is no different.

It expresses the same theological and ethical principles and values