YOUR $$$ --> This Guy
beclowning a nation
He’s the ultimate Progressive; fitting like a glove with Ayers, Wright, et al.
“Predominantly, because the West is the global superpower. . . . It’s the more powerful party in the relationship which sets the tone of the relationship,” Rauf replies. “In terms of specific conflict, specific issues that have resulted in specific actions within recent history, those have to be tied in to the perceptions which were created around what people were actually reacting to at that given point in time.”
See? “Perception = Reality” Politics seen through the lens of contemporary Domestic Violence Theory [Feminist Separatist Strain]
When asked whether the U.S. bears “ultimate responsibility” for “any reactions,” Rauf responds, “I wouldn’t say ultimate. It’s the one who leads in the dance.”
Later in the interview, he says that “as a general rule, when people feel they’ve been humiliated, when people feel they’ve been frustrated, when people feel they’ve been ignored, when people feel that justice is not meted, then they feel the need to conflagrate.” Also: “In order to bridge the divide, we have to understand the dynamics, that there’s a certain — there’s a psychology. . . . If you do this, you get this reaction.”
Like a three-year-old.
[Conflagrate; like conversate with belt-bombs]
So who is this fella? Some goat-humper in a Hindu-Tush cave? err....no.
Those words belong to Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the leading figure behind the Cordoba House. Yanno, this one:
he recently refused to call Hamas a terrorist organization and he has said that the United States was partly to blame for the terrorist attacks on 9-11.
In an interview with “60 Minutes,” in 2001, Rauf claimed that U.S. policies were quote, “an accessory” to the 9-11 attacks.
He’s never been unclear in that position. No secret. So WTH is up with this?
State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley praised the Imam, calling him “a distinguished Muslim cleric,” who is part of a program where “we send people from Muslim communities here in this country around the world to help people overseas to understand our society and the role of religion within our society.”
Crowley also said that fundraising on the Imam’s trip for the Islamic Center would not be allowed.
Clearly demonstrating that State not only can’t speak Russian, it has less of an idea how Arabic/Moslem business interaction goes than I do—and I’m just a dumb redneck prole.
But wait—there’s more:
t turns out that this government supported trip will be the Imam’s third with the State Department. Crowley said the first was in 2007, during the Bush administration, and that Rauf went to Egypt this past January.
“We have a long term relationship with him,” Crowley explained. “His work on tolerance and religious diversity is well known and he brings a moderate perspective to foreign audiences on what it is like to be a practicing Muslim in the United States."
Well, compared to the audiences I expect he will seek out, he is a “moderate.” At least I assume he will not bring a suitcase nuke back to NYC; being, as he is, more interested in simply declaring Victory and having the ProgElite kiss his ...donkey.
Is there no one at State who even sees this? In the LSM? Bueller? Well, there is one...
Many of his statements support terrorism in effect. He has blamed terrorism on frustration and said it causes people to ‘conflagrate,’ a new word that he has apparently invented. That is the classic justification for radical terrorism. It is unacceptable to the overwhelming majority of American people and really civilized people around the world.”
..."The idea that U.S. tax dollars are putting somebody who is prepared to defend terrorism on the road internationally, on behalf of the United States, is just inexplicable.” ...
“This is not a question of repressing religious freedom or anything like that,” he says. “It’s a question of making sure that a program that’s intended to show America to the rest of the world, in fact is doing that instead of being used as a propaganda device by a highly radical, very tiny fraction of people in this country."
Yep: John Teh Moustache Bolton
"The State Department has no responsibility to send fruitcakes around as if they are representatives of America,” says former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton, who told Fox News that Imam Rauf should be dumped from the trip and that the State Department should investigate how he was included in the first place.
Keep buying ammo, because the government is the true enemy of the people.
Posted by on 08/12/10 at 07:55 AMGo out and get a copy of today’s Wall Street Journal. Look for an editorial by Josef Joffe. (Online, it’s still behind a subscription wall. It may come out later.)
He explains the Muslim practice of building mosques in the countries they’ve conquered or occupied. Starting with the mosque they built in Jerusalem.
The one in Hamburg - where Mohammed Atta stayed - is called the “9/11 mosque”.
He tells of “jihad vacations” young Muslims take: traveling around the world, visiting terrorist sites: Berlin, London, Spain, New York.....
Late breaking news: His Magnificence, the Imam-in-Chief, just came out and said he’s really cool with the New York mosque.
Posted by ZZMike on 08/13/10 at 05:13 PM
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