Imam Rauf is not the moderate he and the Libs make him out to be. Today on Fox News, a real moderate Muslim was translating Rauf's writing from Arabic and these would tell an entirely different story. We are attempting to find those translations. We won't be looking for them to come out of the White House not any left wing media publications.
From Gary Bauer's "End of the Day Report".
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the man at the center of the Ground Zero mosque controversy, is about to be deployed overseas, courtesy of the United States taxpayer, at the request of the State Department. His month-long trip to the Middle East will purportedly “help people overseas understand our society and the role of religion within our society.”
State Department Spokesman P. J. Crowley described Rauf as a “distinguished Muslim cleric.” The media routinely refer to him as a “moderate” and a “bridge builder.” But just how moderate is Rauf?
This week, the Emergency Committee for Israel, which I co-founded with Bill Kristol, Rachel Abrams and others, posted a column about Rauf’s double standard on terrorism. Here is an excerpt of that column:
“Feisal Abdul Rauf, a self-styled champion of moderate Islam, was recently asked whether he thinks Hamas is a terrorist organization. ‘The issue of terrorism is a very complex question,’ he replied. When pressed, he insisted that ‘I will not allow anybody to put me in a position where I am seen by any party in the world as an adversary or as an enemy.’ But surely there should be no middle ground when it comes to Hamas, just as there can be no middle ground when it comes to Al-Qaeda.”
Terrorism should not be a “complex question” for anyone speaking on behalf of our State Department. By refusing to condemn Hamas, Rauf seems to embrace the view that terrorism against Israel is acceptable. Three weeks ago, I reported Rauf’s disgusting post-9/11 comment that “Osama bin Laden is made in the U.S.A.” Either of those statements ought to disqualify Rauf from representing this country overseas. But taken together, it requires, as Secretary Clinton once said, “the willing suspension of disbelief” to call Rauf a “moderate.”
More Mosque Fallout
The Left is getting nervous as the Ground Zero mosque controversy continues to dominate the news cycle. You can tell because liberals are again smearing opponents in a desperate attempt to shut down the debate.
On MSNBC’s “Moring Joe” today, former White House Communications Director Anita Dunn made the following assertion regarding the mosque controversy: “The Republican Party is solidifying its reputation for intolerance in this year, for almost any kind of difference in American society… whether it is around revisiting the 14th Amendment, whether it’s around immigration, or whether it is around this now [the Ground Zero mosque] – the race to the bottom means 2012 could be very, very depressing to watch. It’s almost like the party decided to update itself as the Know-Nothing version 2.0.”
I suspect Dunn and other liberals are getting depressed about the elections because they know Obama is going to lose badly if he continues insulting the common sense of the vast majority of Americans.
But for those who still don’t get it, would it be a good idea to let the German government build a Nazi museum next to a synagogue in Philadelphia? Would it be a good idea to allow Japan to build a Shinto shrine near Pearl Harbor? Would we tolerate a KKK headquarters near the place where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated?
A bizarre combination of fear and political correctness is leading media and political elites to try to convince Muslims that they have nothing to fear from us. Radical Islamists attacked us on 9/11, yet many liberals feel it is up to us to prove to the Muslim world that we’re nice people.
A recent CNN poll found that nearly 70% of the public opposes the construction of a mosque at Ground Zero. Polls show overwhelming public support for Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration law, traditional marriage and less federal spending. You can’t ignore 70% of the country time and time again and expect folks to be happy about it. But Dunn and other left-wing elites have to add insult to injury by accusing us of being intolerant know-nothings.
The disconnect of our liberal elites is bad. But their arrogant insults and lectures about tolerance are insufferable.
Muslims Against The Mosque?
If left-wing elites want to portray conservative opponents of the Ground Zero mosque as intolerant Islamophobes, how do they explain Neda Bolourchi, Raheel Raza and Tarek Fatah – Muslims who oppose the mosque? Ms. Bolourchi lost her mother in the 9/11 attacks. She wrote a very moving editorial in the Washington Post last week describing the mosque as “a symbol of victory for militant Muslims around the world.”
Raza and Fatah are board members of the Muslim Canadian Congress. They recently wrote in the Ottawa Citizen, “we Muslims know the idea behind the Ground Zero mosque is meant to be a deliberate provocation to thumb our noses at the infidel.”
Are Neda Bolourchi, Raheel Raza and Tarek Fatah bigots too?
