Ground Zero Imam Backs Ban on Free Speech and Urges incorporation of Sharia law into the legal systems of Europe and the U.S.

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Imam Faisal Rauf, the silver-tongued smake, invokes freedom of speech to kill freedom of speech and advances the the oppressive and brutal sharia under the guise of multiculturalism and tolerance. Rauf is in Scotland to receive a "peace" award.

Rauf advocates tolerance for the most radical and intolerant ideology on the face of the earth.

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US Muslim leader backs march ban Herald Sunday 28 August 2011

An American Muslim leader who spearheaded plans for a controversial Islamic community centre near the site of the World Trade Centre has supported the decision to ban a far-right group from marching in Scotland on the eve of 9/11.

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, whose proposed Park51 Islamic community centre was dubbed a "megamosque" by critics who objected to its proximity to New York's 'Ground Zero', has given a talk in Scotland's capital.

He was invited to speak at the Festival of Spirituality and Peace by Edinburgh University's Prince Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam.

His visit comes almost a fortnight ahead of the 10th anniversary of the September 11 2001 attacks, and six days after Edinburgh City Council turned down an application from the Scottish Defence League to march on September 10 amid public safety fears.

Speaking after the talk, Imam Feisal said: "I don't think we should allow, in our communities, space for those who wish to abridge the freedoms of another person on the basis of their religion, race, language or gender. I think we have to combat those tendencies."

He added: "I do believe that freedoms are not absolute. A famous American judge said: 'Freedom of speech does not give you the right to shout fire in a crowded theatre'. The outcome will result in innocent people being made victims. So the freedom comes with a responsibility."

Imam Feisal added that he supported the Scottish Government's decision to release Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the Libyan Muslim who is the only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, but he would have been equally supportive if they had decided to keep him in prison.

He said: "I am not a Scotsman so I don't have the jurisdiction to comment, but if the government of Scotland deem that it is in its best interests to do something then it is up to them, but I would have supported their decision either way."

Imam Feisal is also due to meet Glasgow MSP Humza Yousaf, who has been vocal on Muslim issues in Scotland since his election to the Scottish Parliament in May.

He will hold a second talk in Glasgow on Wednesday, and will receive a peace award from the festival, the city of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Interfaith Association, and the Conference of Edinburgh's Religious leaders.

Wait ……… there's more.

Ground Zero Mosque Imam Rauf: Greater integration between Islam and the West depends on incorporation of Sharia law into the legal systems of Europe and the U.S. Jihad Watch

More smooth deceptions, and some surprisingly revealing pro-Sharia Islamic supremacist statements, from the Islamic supremacist imam behind the Ground Zero Mosque. "Ground Zero imam gives Scotland his recipe for successful multiculturalism," by Vicky Allan for the Sunday Herald, August 28 (thanks to Ron):

AMERICA’S most controversial imam – the man at the centre of the storm over plans for the “Ground Zero Mosque” in New York last year – flew into Edinburgh yesterday to tell the Festival of Spirituality and Peace that greater integration between Islam and the West depends on the incorporation of Sharia law into the legal systems of the UK and the United States as well as Muslims adopting the culture of their host countries.

Many see Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf as an Islamic moderate even though he has been vilified in the US press as an apologist for radical Muslims. In an interview with the Sunday Herald, Rauf said he believes the world is in the grip of a “dangerous myth” and “self-fulfilling prophecy” that “Islam and the West are at war. But the real battleground is not between Islam and the West, but between the wise, fair-minded people of all faith traditions and the extremists.”

Although he is a pro-US imam who has argued that America is the embodiment of Islam’s ideal society, Rauf became a hate figure in the US over the so-called Ground Zero Mosque. The plan offended relatives of the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and led to a US pastor proposing a “Burn a Koran day”.

He's a "pro-US imam" who blamed 9/11 on the U.S. and said that Osama bin Laden was "made in the USA."

Rauf says that when the project – a community centre containing a mosque – was announced on the front page of the New York Times [in December 2009] there was no reaction. But six months later, it was picked up by conservatives like Sarah Palin and became one of the most divisive subjects in US society. Rauf later said: “If I had known this would happen, cause this kind of pain, I wouldn’t have done it.”…

Then stop it now. Join us at our 9/11 Freedom Rally at Ground Zero and announce that you're definitively abandoning the project.

An essential element of this interweaving of cultures, he says, will have to be the incorporation of Sharia law into the legal systems of Europe and the US. In this, he is in agreement with the Archbishop of Canterbury who said that the adoption of some aspects of Sharia law “seems to be unavoidable”.

Rauf points out that “the only truly clashing area is the penal code, and no Muslim has the intention of introducing that to America. The penal code is the area that people in the Western world are worried about – but these are things that aren’t even observed today in most of the Muslim world. Apart from the Taliban and a few places like that, where do you see this happening?”.

Hani Ramadan, Tariq Ramadan's brother, called for the stoning of adulterers in Paris a few years back. If Muslims believe that the Sharia, including its penal code, is Allah's perfect and immutable law, why wouldn't they want to bring it to America and Europe? Rauf does not and cannot point to a form of Sharia that does not contain the mandates for stoning, amputation, etc. So how firm and honest can his assurance that Muslims have no intention of bringing all that here really be? We're already seeing honor killings and female genital mutilation in America. Why shouldn't the rest follow when all of this is justified by Sharia?

In the UK, he says, we need to recognise that the radicalisation of Muslim youth is not a problem of religion. “You have to consider how we would approach it if these people were not Muslims, but were Christian, for instance. The source of the problem is not religion, but an economic one.”

That idea has been debunked in study after study. But if enough easy marks believe Rauf, the Muslim communities in the UK will pick up some more jizya.

Another myth which Rauf tries to counter is the idea that Islam is at odds with Western concepts of gender equality. “Look around the world, and you see six or seven predominantly Muslim countries that have had heads of governments and heads of state who were women. Glass ceilings have already been broken for many countries in the Muslim world.”

Yes, that certainly proves that women have equal rights in Muslim societies!

The rise of the extreme right in Europe is something he perceives as a “reaction of fear to a threat of the loss of identity”. He says: “What it means to be Dutch, or what it meant to be British, in terms of ethnicity or language, is undergoing a shift.” The tensions this provokes have to be “addressed by both the host community and the immigrant community … We need to develop a local Muslim culture. Dutch Muslims have to become increasingly Dutch. The same for British Muslims. We should dress like the people of our country.”…

Cut out the jihad terror plots? Not a word about that. Dress like the natives? Yeah, that'll fix everything.

Rauf supported the decision by Edinburgh City Council to ban the far-right Scottish Defence League from marching on the eve of the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001 amid safety fears.

He also supported the Scottish Government’s decision to release the Lockerbie bomber….

What a surprise.

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Frank
Frank
12 years ago

“I don’t think we should allow, in our communities, space for those who wish to abridge the freedoms of another person on the basis of their religion, race, language or gender. I think we have to combat those tendencies.”-Rauf
Then Rauf should be focused on “communities” in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt (especially since gender based clit-sniping is so widely practiced in Egypt), as well as numerous other Muslim “communities” in order to combat “those tendencies.” (Don’t you think so, Rauf?)
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I think Rauf is basically a bourgeois “tolerance” peddler (“communities”-LOL) selling BS to fellow Western bourgeoisie PC fools. Of course, if he were sincere, he would direct his criticism at those who “abridge the freedoms of another person on the basis of their religion, race, language or gender” in all the Muslims “communities” that do that. Instead, he is concerned about Scotland. (Really, Rauf?)
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He (Rauf) added: “I do believe that freedoms are not absolute. A famous American judge said: ‘Freedom of speech does not give you the right to shout fire in a crowded theatre’.
Rauf is not very bright, either. Expressing ideas and opinions re Islam is not incitement, the equivalent of shouting “fire” in a crowed theater.
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I have noted before that Pamela has two main motives re Islam. 1) She sees Islam (as it is currently configured) as a potential existential threat to the Jewish people. I think she is absolutely right re that. 2) She sees Islam (especially via Sharia peddled as “tolerance”) as a potential threat to the free and open exchange of ideas and opinions in America (what we call political speech) and that free political speech could eventually be abridged via the Trojan Horse of “tolerance”-even in the USA. She’s right on that, too.
This time Cassandra had better be listened to so that even the intellectually challenged Rauf might be able to see who is yelling fire and setting fires in crowded theaters almost everyplace in the the world in the name of Islam.

Betty Pierce
Betty Pierce
12 years ago

I look at it like this muslims you get islam so we have to stop both in the USA now

sean
sean
12 years ago

How Sharia will produce hell on earth for women and non-Muslims once it’s implemented in Europe and America: http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2010/01/sharia-stoning-sex-and-slavery.html

GMcCal
GMcCal
12 years ago

“Apart from the Taliban and a few places like that, where do you see this happening?”.”
Well, let’s see. How about here in the USA with the increase in honor killings and demands for special privileges? How about the United Kingdom with demands for Islamic zones? How about France where streets are illegally blocked on Fridays by crowds of Muslims praying? How about the Phillipines where Christians and non-Muslims are attacked? How about Thailand where Buddhists are routinely slaughtered? How about Canada, where a teenage girl (Aqsa Parvez) was brutally murdered and left in an unmarked grave by her family? How about Russia, or China, which are under regular attacks by Muslims?
Wherever in the world large groups of Muslims live or gather, there is a neverending push to make the local society more Islamic and to implement Sharia law, if not all at once because of local “sensibilities” (i.e., an awareness of the danger that is Islam), then incrementally.

dcat
dcat
12 years ago

rauf can eat camel shit and die!

rogersdaughter
rogersdaughter
12 years ago

235 years ago the United States of America was founded by people escaping from religious persecution. Today Islam and Shariah want to replace our U.S. Constitution with what we rejected then…fought against in the Revolution, and will fight to reject again today if necessary – freedom from oppression.
Islam is Shariah is Islam. No Islam. No Shariah. No oppressive religious laws.

Vardit
Vardit
12 years ago

Nu, vu den? I feel sorry for North America in about another 20 years. I truly fear our grandchildren will not know freedom.

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