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Originally posted by AceWombat04
My question has been and remains: is there any proof - at all - that this particular Imam and his particular followers or the prospective patrons of this particular prayer space, take a radical or violent interpretation of the Qur'an, or are planning, threatening, or committing violence, terror, or the espousement thereof?
Behind the Mosque: Extremism at Ground Zero
At least two of Imam Rauf's books, a 2000 treatise on Islamic law and his 2004 "What's Right with Islam," laud the implementation of sharia -- including within America -- and the "rejuvenating" Islamic religious spirit of Ibn Taymiyyah and al-Wahhab.
He also lionizes as two ostensible "modernists" Jamal al-Dinal-Afghani (d. 1897), and his student Muhammad Abduh (d. 1905). In fact, both defended the Wahhabis, praised the salutary influence of Ibn Taymiyyah and promoted the pretense that sha ria -- despite its permanent advocacy of jihad and dehumanizing injunctions on non-Muslims and women -- was somehow compatible with Western concepts of human rights, as in our own Bill of Rights.
In short, Feisal Rauf's public image as a devotee of the "contemplative" Sufi school of Islam cannot change the fact that his writings directed at Muslims are full of praise for the most noxious and dangerous Muslim thinkers.
Source:
NY Post
www.nypost.com...
Originally posted by ollncasino
Well, yes there is. As the NY Post puts its "his writings directed at Muslims are full of praise for the most noxious and dangerous Muslim thinkers".
Originally posted by fooks
any proof they won't?
any proof i won't do a certain thing next year?
any proof you will not do something next year?
any proof disclosure won't come in the future?
you see what kind of question you are asking?
it's like, should we fix the gas pipe now or after the explosion?
Originally posted by AceWombat04
So I ask again: is there any proof that he, or anyone associated with it are supporting, planning, financing, or committing acts of terror or subversion? Yes or no.
Originally posted by AceWombat04
is there any proof - at all - that this particular Imam and his particular followers or the prospective patrons of this particular prayer space, take a radical or violent interpretation of the Qur'an, or are planning, threatening, or committing violence, terror, or the espousement thereof?
Originally posted by ollncasino
You have narrowed your narrow question.
Your new question has only 22 words and only mentions criminal acts.
Your original question had 42 words and mentioned
”take a radical
Or
violent interpretation of the Qur'an
Or
criminal acts”
Your original question was
Originally posted by AceWombat04
is there any proof - at all - that this particular Imam and his particular followers or the prospective patrons of this particular prayer space, take a radical or violent interpretation of the Qur'an, or are planning, threatening, or committing violence, terror, or the espousement thereof?
With respect, why are you trying to move the goalposts?
I take it, by implication, that you support radical Imams building mosques in the USA. Yes or No?
Originally posted by AceWombat04
I'm not trying to (move the goal post). I was acknowledging that you answered part of my question, and then re-asked the rest.
Originally posted by AceWombat04
I haven't seen any proof that he is a "radical Imam," however
Originally posted by AceWombat04
All I've seen proof of is that he (the Ground Zero Imam) wrote something in two books more than half a decade ago that concerns me greatly.
Originally posted by AceWombat04
So I ask again, is there any proof that he/they are planning, threatening, or committing violence, terror, or the espousement thereof?
Originally posted by AceWombat04
Again, what one says and what one does are two different things from a legal perspective.
Originally posted by ollncasino
Acknowledging?
I answered your original question with a “Yes”, the Ground Zero Imam does take a “take a radical interpretation of the Qur'an” and proved it.
The Ground Zero Imam admires the "rejuvenating" Islamic religious spirit of Ibn Taymiyyah and al-Wahhab, both men who advocated violent Jihad against non Muslims.
More than half a decade ago?
My, that was a long time ago.
Espousement thereof?
Does admiring the "rejuvenating" Islamic religious spirit of men who made violent jihad against non-Muslims a central aspect of their teachings count?
Originally posted by babloyi
reply to post by ollncasino
Yes, the Imam supports shari'ah. To you, with your anti-islam slant, that probably rushes into your head words like "beheading, stoning, oppression", etc. Thing is, that isn't what the Imam was talking about when he's talking about Shariah, as you can see from his interviews posted here.
New York (CNN) -- The developer behind the controversial Islamic community center and mosque planned for Lower Manhattan has requested federal funding through the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to support the project known as Park51. The funding would come from money the Department of Housing and Urban Development allocated to help rebuild the neighborhood after the 9/11 attacks.
Originally posted by babloyi
reply to post by ollncasino
Yeah, see, there is a perfect example. Excuse me, but where in the Quran and Hadith is there anything about being stoned for being homosexual?
* The Hanafi school does not consider same-sex intercourse to constitute adultery, and therefore leaves punishment up to the judge's discretion. Most early scholars of this school specifically ruled out the death penalty, others allow it for a second offence.
* Imam Shafi'i considers same-sex intercourse as analogous to other zina; thus, a married person found to have done so is punished as an adulterer (by stoning to death), and an unmarried one, as a fornicator, is left to be flogged.
* The Maliki school says that anyone (married or unmarried) found to have committed same-sex intercourse should be punished as an adulterer.
* Within the Ja'fari schools, Sayyid al-Khoi says that anyone (married or unmarried) found to have committed same-sex intercourse should be punished as an adulterer.
www.religionfacts.com...
The two women were found guilty of selling food during the fasting hours of Ramadan, thereby violating Islamic sharia law.
The conservative province passed a law last year that imposes death by stoning on Muslim adulterers and a law under which homosexuality is punishable by long prison terms.
www.telegraph.co.uk...
Originally posted by babloyi
reply to post by ollncasino
Interesting to see you back on the Islam-Hate circuit! Was wondering where you'd gotten to .