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Whereas I've just given you a quote where he directly calls for a pluralistic, tolerant society, and evidence that he condemnes the 9/11 bombers.
And yet compares the United States unfavorably to the 9-11 bombers, and yet calls for a Sharia compliant United States.
With regards to the claims themselves, the first is undeniably true,
The U.S. has more innocent Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has innocent non-Muslim blood on its hands?
And before you say he didn't say "innocent Muslim blood," he said "Muslim Blood," it is implied through the comparison with "innocent non-Muslim blood," unless you are suggesting killing guilty Muslims is akin to killing innocent non-Muslims.
the second and third are dubious but just about passable depending on the context,
They aren't passable they're false terrorist apologetics.
the fourth is understandable
You understand how someone can not label Hamas a terrorist organization?
and the fifth is so widely interpretable that without further context it's irrlevant.
He says that secular laws should not contradict the Koran or the Hadiths.
I'm sure you can cite all of these, of course?
I believe you have already requested me to provide these sources at least twice, but I'll do it one more time and this will be the last:
Bradley: Are you in any way suggesting that we in the United States deserved what happened?
Faisal: I wouldn't say that the United States deserved what happened, but united states policies were an accessory to the crime that happened.
Bradley: You say that we're an accessory? How?
Faisal: Because we have been accessory to a lot of innocent lives dying in the world. In fact, in the most direct sense, Osama bin Laden is made in the USA.
Prominent American Muslims denounce terror committed in the name of Islam
According to the State Department's assessment, "Hamas terrorists, especially those in the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, have conducted many attacks, including large-scale suicide bombings, against Israeli civilian and military targets."
Asked if he agreed with the State Department's assessment, Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf told WABC radio, "Look, I'm not a politician.
"The issue of terrorism is a very complex question," he told interviewer Aaron Klein.
"There was an attempt in the '90s to have the UN define what terrorism is and say who was a terrorist. There was no ability to get agreement on that."
Asked again for his opinion on Hamas, an exasperated Rauf wouldn't budge.
"I am a peace builder. 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," Rauf said, insisting that he wants to see peace in Israel between Jews and Arabs.
Rauf also would not answer a question about Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.
"I have nothing to do with the Muslim Brotherhood. My father was never a member of the Muslim Brotherhood," he said, disputing a rumor.
Muslim Imam leading push to build a mosque near Ground Zero wavers on questions about Hamas as a terror group - NYPOST.com
At the core of Shariah law are God's commandments, revealed in the Old Testament and revised in the New Testament and the Quran. The principles behind American secular law are similar to Shariah law - that we protect life, liberty and property, that we provide for the common welfare, that we maintain a certain amount of modesty. What Muslims want is to ensure that their secular laws are not in conflict with the Quran or the Hadith, the sayings of Muhammad.
On Faith Panelists Blog: How Islamic Law Can Work - Feisal Abdul Rauf
Why does this make something 'not a mosque'? It's an Islamic community centre - in other words, it's biased. That doesn't stop it being a community centre, though - it doesn't prevent non-Muslims from benefitting from the rest of it.
Words mean things:
Mosque - any place of Muslim worship. A jami-masjid or Friday Mosque is a major mosque where weekly prayer services are performed and a sermon or khutbah is given.
It's a Mosque.
That's not a reason to call it a mosque, though. It has far more purposes than Islam-related ones.
So do Evangelical Mega-Churches. :roll:
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