But, according to Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the main man behind the Cordoba Project, Hamas is not a terrorist organization. If he will not condemn Hamas, then he supports them. It’s not like he has ties to CAIR, Hamas, and the Muslim Brotherhood. And they want the mosque built
A leader of the Hamas terror group yesterday jumped into the emotional debate on the plan to construct a mosque near Ground Zero — insisting Muslims “have to build” it there.
“We have to build everywhere,” said Mahmoud al-Zahar, a co-founder of Hamas and the organization’s chief on the Gaza Strip.
“In every area we have, [as] Muslim[s], we have to pray, and this mosque is the only site of prayer,” he said on “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” on WABC.
And this is the way that hardcore Islamist spread their version of Islam. You know, the version that Mohammed and the Koran tells them to practice. The type that leads to an Afghan couple being stoned to death over a love affair.
“We have to build the mosque, as you are allowed to build the church and Israelis are building their holy places.”
Hey, Mahmoud, what say we build a church and synagogue in Mecca? Medina? How about allowing some space at the Temple Mount? What’s that? Your answer is “NO!”? Weird.
“First of all, we have to address that we are different as people, as a nation, totally different,” he said.
“We already are living under the tradition of Islam.
“Islam is controlling every source of our life as regard to marriage, divorce, our commercial relationships,” Zahar said.
Sharia law. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is a big supporter of Sharia law. Of course, Rauf refused to comment on Hamas stating unequivocally that the mosque (notice, al-Zahar did not say “cultural center”) should be built.
Others: Coalition to Honor Ground Zero, New York Magazine, Israel Matzav, Gateway Pundit and JammieWearingFool
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So, when’s that big Cathedral going up in Gaza, guys?
From President Obama’s remarks Fri Aug 13
“The principle that people of all faiths are welcome in this country and that they will not be treated differently by their government is essential to who we are. The writ of the Founders must endure.â€
Bob Belvedere wrote “I then remembered what one of The Founders wrote and I came to see the wisdom of what Barry stumbled into.â€
From John Quincy Adams:
“In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar (mohammed), the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent god; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE…Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. The war is yet flagrant…While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon the earth, and good will towards menâ€.
“The writ of The Founders must, indeed, endure.â€
This is but a highlight of an excellent post, well worth heading over to The Camp of The Saints
http://thecampofthesaints.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/the-house-of-the-rising-muslim/#comment-5227