Radical Ground Zero Mosque Imam Rauf Gives NYers, 911 Families, and America the Big Middle Finger

"We are proceeding with the community center, Cordoba House." -- The "healing" outreaching Imam Rauf

Rauf says, you don't like the Ground Zero mega mosque? Too bad, infidel. And so the 911 attack continues -- the imam is not moving the mega mosque off Ground Zero. Surprised? You wouldn't be if you have read his book advocating for the sharia, A Call to Prayer from the World Trade Center Rubble: Islamic Dawa [proselytizing]  in the Heart of Post 9/11 America, or if you have listened to the imam's explosive, extreme rhetoric, listen here and here.

From the imam who said:

"We tend to forget, in the West, that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than al Qaida has on its hands of innocent non Muslims. You may remember that the US-led sanctions against Iraq led to the death of over half a million Iraqi children. This has been documented by the United Nations. And when Madeleine Albright, who has become a friend of mine over the last couple of years, when she was Secretary of State and was asked whether this was worth it, said it was worth it." Imam Rauf

"9/11 was a watershed, was a major milestone, and a major catalytic force in, in catalyzing the attention towards the issue of Islam, it’s presence in the West, and it brought into much greater prominence our work and the importance of our work." Imam Rauf

"I am the head coach of this strategic initiative, and the President of the United States, or the President of Malaysia, or the President of England, is like a player you want to bring in for particular plays." Imam Rauf

So if we have strategic action plays, designed plays, in the area of foreign policy, in the area of healing the divide, and then you unpack and give up  Israel, and then what do you do, what are the specific actions that you might do, because things are always moving, things are always happening. Imam Rauf

Here is an excerpt of from his unchallenged Times oped piece (the Times has no shame, they are still running puff pieces on the gangsta Gamal)

Join Us September 11, 2010: Demonstrate the Ground Zero Mega mosque at 3 pm on Park Place (between Church and West Broadway)

Building on Faith  Imam Feisal Rauf

AS my flight approached America last weekend, my mind circled back to the furor that has broken out over plans to build Cordoba House**, a community center in Lower Manhattan.I have been away from home for two months, speaking abroad about cooperation among people from different religions. Every day, including the past two weeks spent representing my country on a State Department tour in the Middle East, I have been struck by how the controversy has riveted the attention of Americans, as well as nearly everyone I met in my travels.

We have all been awed by how inflamed and emotional the issue of the proposed community center has become. The level of attention reflects the degree to which people care about the very American values under debate: recognition of the rights of others, tolerance and freedom of worship.

Many people wondered why I did not speak out more, and sooner, about this project. I felt that it would not be right to comment from abroad. It would be better if I addressed these issues once I returned home to America, and after I could confer with leaders of other faiths who have been deliberating with us over this project. My life’s work has been focused on building bridges between religious groups and never has that been as important as it is now.

We are proceeding with the community center, Cordoba House. More important, we are doing so with the support of the downtown community, government at all levels and leaders from across the religious spectrum, who will be our partners. I am convinced that it is the right thing to do for many reasons.

But against the will of the American people and the majority of the 911 families.

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President Obama and Mayor Michael Bloomberg both spoke out in support of our project. As I traveled overseas, I saw firsthand how their words and actions made a tremendous impact on the Muslim street and on Muslim leaders. It was striking: a Christian president and a Jewish mayor of New York supporting the rights of Muslims. Their statements sent a powerful message about what America stands for, and will be remembered as a milestone in improving American-Muslim relations.

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The very word “islam” comes from a word cognate to shalom, which means peace in Hebrew. The Koran declares in its 36th chapter, regarded by the Prophet Muhammad as the heart of the Koran, in a verse deemed the heart of this chapter, “Peace is a word spoken from a merciful Lord.”

Considering that Islamic anti-semitism is a basic tenet of Islam. This is particularly disgusting. Talk about giving us the middle finger................. in an oped piece in, of course, the propaganda arm of the Islamic machine, The NY Times.

How better to commemorate 9/11 than to urge our fellow Muslims, fellow Christians and fellow Jews to follow the fundamental common impulse of our great faith traditions?

Yes, how better to "commemorate 911" than with a giant triumphal mosque named Cordoba. Cordoba, an Iberian and Roman city, was the capital of the Islamic caliphate which conquered and occupied Spain for nearly 800 years. During this time Cordoba was one of the largest cities in the world; its name continues to represent a symbol of Islamic conquest to many faithful Muslims around the world.

**Muslim armies invaded Spain in 711 and had conquered nearly all of it by 718. Before that, Spain was a collection of Christian Kingdoms in which there was a significant Jewish presence. After the Muslim conquest, the Christians and Jews in Muslim Spain were relegated to dhimmi status -- deprived of basic rights. Cordoba was a major Roman city in Southern Spain. In the 10th century it became the capital of the Caliphate of Cordoba from 929 to 1031. It was reconquered by the Christians in 1236.

Cordoba was the site of the caliphate of Cordoba and major pogrom in the year 1011.

Yet the philosopher Maimonides, a Jew who lived for a time in Muslim Spain and then fled that supposedly tolerant and pluralistic land, remarked, "You know, my brethren, that on account of our sins God has cast us into the midst of this people, the nation of Ishmael, who persecute us severely, and who devise ways to harm us and to debase us....No nation has ever done more harm to Israel. None has matched it in debasing and humiliating us. None has been able to reduce us as they have....We have borne their imposed degradation, their lies, and absurdities, which are beyond human power to bear."

Notably, Maimonides directed that Jews could teach rabbinic law to Christians, but not to Muslims. For Muslims, he said, will interpret what they are taught "according to their erroneous principles and they will oppress us. [F]or this reason ... they hate all [non-Muslims] who live among them." But the Christians, he said, "admit that the text of the Torah, such as we have it, is intact"--as opposed to the Islamic view that the Jews and Christians have corrupted their scriptures. Christians, continued Maimonides, "do not find in their religious law any contradiction with ours."