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Title: Ground Zero Mosque Imam (Feisal Abdul Rauf): Obama Took Speech From Me
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URL Source: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=195853
Published: Aug 26, 2010
Author: Aaron Klein
Post Date: 2010-08-26 21:20:55 by Murron
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Ground Zero Mosque Imam (Feisal Abdul Rauf): Obama Took Speech From Me Rauf claims his book forms heart of Cairo address to Muslim world JERUSALEM – Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the controversial Islamic leader behind the proposed Ground Zero mosque, has claimed President Obama's historic address to Muslim world was "all taken" from Rauf's book. "If you examine this chapter you will find that the (Obama) speech in Cairo was all taken from this section," Rauf stated in a February recording, which was first posted by Islam critic Walid Shoebat. Rauf mistakenly referred to Obama as "Bush" but was clearly speaking about Obama's address to the Islamic world from Cairo, Egypt June 4, 2009. Speaking in a combination of Arabic and English, Rauf was describing chapter six of his 2004 book, "What's Right with Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West." That chapter, entitled "Toward a New Cordoba," presents the strategies of Rauf's organization, the Cordoba Initiative, for "healing" the relationship between the Islamic World and the West. The same book was translated into Arabic under a different title, "The Call From the WTC Rubble: Islamic Dawah From the Heart of America Post–Sept. 11." Dawah refers to the preaching of Islam. In the February recording, Rauf said the book "taken" by Obama mapped out a "blueprint" outlining how the West and Islam can reconcile. "What has to be done by the U.S. government. What has to be done by the Jewish community. What has to be done by the Christian community. What has to be done by the media," stated Rauf. Obama's speech in Cairo was a lengthy address in which the president broached multiple issues. Obama pointed to "violent extremism in all of its forms." He vowed "America is not – and never will be – at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists who pose a grave threat to our security. Hear Rauf's comments: HERE "Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism – it is an important part of promoting peace," Obama declared. The president did not once use the word "terrorism" during the speech. Two weeks ago, Obama ignited political controversy by commenting on the rights of American Muslims to build an Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero. WND, meanwhile, has reported on the close ties of several Obama administration officials to Rauf. The ties include a religion adviser to Obama who wrote a book with Rauf, with the two documented together discussing America as "the ideal place for a renewal of Islam." Also, a scholar and charity head appointed to Obama's White House Fellowships Commission is tied to Rauf, bringing the imam's organization into a proposed Ground Zero museum to ensure the future museum will represent the voices of American Muslims.
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In February, Obama named a Chicago Muslim, Eboo Patel, to his Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Patel is the founder and executive director of Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Core, which says it promotes pluralism by teaming people of different faiths on service projects. Rauf wrote the afterword to Patel's 2006 book, "Building the Interfaith Youth Movement: Beyond Dialogue to Action." Patel is listed as one of 15 "Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow" on the website for the American Society for Muslim Advancement, which is led by Rauf. In Patel's 2007 book, "Saving Each Other, Saving Ourselves," he recounts discussing with Rauf the future of Islam in the U.S. Rauf "understood the vision immediately and suggested that I visit him and his wife, Daisy Khan, at their home the following evening, "Patel recalled. Khan founded the society with her husband and has aided him in his plans for the mosque near Ground Zero. "The living room of their apartment on the Upper West Side was set up like a mosque, with prayer rugs stretched from wall to wall," wrote Patel in his book. Continued Patel: "I arrived at dusk, prayed the maghrib prayer with Daisy and Imam Feisal and then talked with them about how America, with its unique combination of religious devotion and religious diversity, was the ideal place for a renewal of Islam." "In the 20th century, Catholicism and Judaism underwent profound transformations in America," Rauf observed. "I think, this century, in America, Islam will do the same." Patel boasts of a "critical mass" of Muslims in the U.S. "Islam is a religion that has always been revitalized by its migration," he wrote. "America is a nation that has been constantly rejuvenated by immigrants. There is now a critical mass of Muslims in America." Patel last March wrote a Huffington Post piece referring to Obama's former "green jobs" czar Van Jones as a "faith hero." "In my last post on Van, I called him an American patriot," wrote Patel. "That is high praise in my book. But watching Van's speech at the NAACP, I have another title for him, one that I reserve for the true giants of history. Van Jones is a faith hero." Jones resigned in September after it was exposed he founded a communist revolutionary organization and signed a statement that accused the Bush administration of possible involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks. Jones also called for "resistance" against the U.S. Jones previously stated his advocacy for green jobs was part of a broader movement to destroy the U.S. capitalist system. That one day after the Sept. 11 attacks, Jones led a vigil that expressed solidarity with Arab and Muslim Americans as well as what he called the victims of "U.S. imperialism" around the world. Meanwhile, another Obama official with ties to Rauf is Vartan Gregorian, the president of Carnegie Corp. charitable foundation who was appointed by Obama last year as a White House fellow. Documentation shows Gregorian was central in Ayers' recruitment of Obama to serve as the first chairman of the project, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge – a job in which Obama worked closely on a regular basis with Ayers. Obama also later touted his job at the project as qualifying him to run for public office.
"What has to be done by the U.S. government. What has to be done by the Jewish community. What has to be done by the Christian community. What has to be done by the media," stated Rauf. I think the above statement says it all what lies in store for this nation if Islam gets a foothold ...a blueprint all mapped out of what Islam expects of the American people, our government, our media, and our religions!
It will never be built.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
I agree...
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In the February recording, Rauf said the book "taken" by Obama mapped out a "blueprint" outlining how the West and Islam can reconcile.
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It will never be built.
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