7/24, "Rauf's Dawa from the World Trade Center rubble," Andrew McCarthy, NRO
- Feisal Abdul Rauf is the imam behind plans to build a mosque at Ground Zero and is the author of a book originally published for a non-English-speaking audience. In Malaysia, it was titled," A Call to Prayer from the World Trade Center Rubble: Islamic Dawa in the Heart of America Post-9/11."
- Andrew McCarthy: "Now it emerges that a “special, non-commercial edition” of this book was later produced, with Feisal’s cooperation,
Both ISNA and IIIT have been up to their necks in the promotion of Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood’s ruthless Palestinian branch, which is pledged by charter to the destruction of Israel. In fact, both ISNA and IIIT were cited by the Justice Department as unindicted co-conspirators in a crucial terrorism-financing case involving the channeling of tens of millions of dollars to Hamas through an outfit called the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development.
- For the last 15 years, Hamas has been a designated terrorist organization under U.S. law.
- Islam is a comprehensive political, social, and economic system with its own authoritarian legal framework,
- sharia, which aspires to govern all aspects of life.
- Sharia prohibits the preaching of creeds other than Islam, the renunciation of Islam, any actions that divide the umma, and homosexuality. Its penalties are draconian, including savagely executed death sentences for apostates, homosexuals, and adulterers.
- These include extortion, cultivation of sympathizers in the media and the universities, exploitation of our legal system and tradition of religious liberty,
- infiltration of our political system, and fundraising.
In considering Imam Rauf and his Ground Zero project, Qaradawi and the Muslim Brotherhood are extremely important. Like most Muslims, Rauf regards Qaradawi as a guide, and referred to him in 2001 as “the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.” And indeed he is: a prominent, Qatar-based scholar whose weekly Al Jazeera program on the subject of sharia is viewed by millions and whose cyber-venture, Islam Online, is accessed by millions more, including Muslims in the United States. Not surprisingly, his rabble-rousing was a prime cause of the deadly global rioting by Muslims when an obscure Danish newspaper published cartoon depictions of Mohammed.
- Qaradawi regards the United States as the enemy of Islam. He has urged that Muslims “fight the American military if we can, and if we cannot, we should
- fight the U.S. economically and politically.” ...
- The original building block of that infrastructure was the Muslim Students Association (MSA), established in the early Sixties to groom young Muslims in the Brotherhood’s ideology — promoting sharia, Islamic supremacism, and a worldwide caliphate. As Andrew Bostom elaborated in a New York Post op-ed on Friday, Imam Rauf, too, is steeped in this ideology.
- Brotherhood created IIIT as a Washington-area Islamic think tank dedicated to what it describes as “the Islamicization of knowledge.”
- Marzook and other Brotherhood figures established the Occupied Land Fund, eventually
- renamed the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), to be Hamas’s American fundraising arm.
- The HLF was headquartered in ISNA’s Indiana office....
In 1991, the Muslim Brotherhood’s American leadership prepared an internal memorandum for the organization’s global leadership in Egypt. It was written principally by Mohamed Akram, a close associate of Sheikh Qaradawi. As Akram put it, the Brotherhood
must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.
The Ground Zero project to erect a monument to sharia overlooking the crater where the World Trade Center once stood, and where thousands were slaughtered, is not a test of America’s commitment to religious liberty. America already has thousands of mosques and Islamic centers, including scores in the New York area — though Islam does not allow non-Muslims even to enter its crown-jewel cities of Mecca and Medina, much less to build churches or synagogues.
- The Ground Zero project is a test of America’s resolve to face down a civilizational jihad that aims, in the words of its leaders,
- cover of book above from 911families.org.
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