From: ShunkW <shunkw@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:44 PM
Subject: When Shuls Were Banned in America
To: ShunkW <shunkw@sbcglobal.net>
Thought this was an interesting take…From the Forward….which of course is an Israeli source……Little known fact….New Amsterdam was traded to America from the Dutch for the small Island of Run in Indonesia because it was rich in Nutmeg…..Then it became New York…. Funny how we never hear about that in our history books….We often hear it was originally Dutch but hardly ever hot the US got it….Harlem was originally a Jewish settlement…..
A bit more historical background…
"On August 22, 1654, the first Ashkenazic Jews arrived with West India Company passports from Amsterdam to be followed in September by a sizable group of Sephardic Jews, without passports, fleeing from the Portuguese reconquest of Dutch possessions in Brazil. The legal-cultural foundation of toleration as the basis for plurality in New Amsterdam superseded matters of personal intolerance or individual bigotry. Hence, and in spite of certain persons private objections (including that of director-general Petrus Stuyvesant), the Sephardim were granted permanent residency on the basis of "reason and equity" in 1655. Nieuw Haarlem was formally recognized in 1658."
When Shuls Were Banned in America
Now and Then
By Jonathan D. Sarna
Published August 11, 2010, issue of August 20, 2010.
When New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg stood on Governors Island, in sight of the Statue of Liberty, and forcefully defended the right of Muslims to build a community center and mosque two blocks from Ground Zero, he expressly made a point of distancing himself from an earlier leader of the city: Peter Stuyvesant, who understood the relationship between religion and state altogether differently than Bloomberg does.
As governor of what was then called New Amsterdam, from 1647-1664, Stuyvesant worked to enforce Calvinist orthodoxy. He objected to public worship for Lutherans, fought Catholicism and threatened those who harbored Quakers with fines and imprisonment. One might easily imagine how he would have treated Muslims.
When Jewish refugees arrived in his city, in 1654, Stuyvesant was determined to bar them completely. Jews, he complained, were "deceitful," "very repugnant" and "hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ." He wanted them sent elsewhere.
Stuyvesant's superiors in Holland overruled him, citing economic and political considerations. He continued, however, to restrict Jews to the practice of their religion "in all quietness" and "within their houses." Being as suspicious of all Jews as some today are of all Muslims, he never allowed them to build a synagogue of their own.
In 1685, with the British in control of the city, 20 Jewish families petitioned to change Stuyvesant's precedent so that they might establish a synagogue and worship in public. They were curtly refused. "Publique worship," New York City's Common Council informed them, "is Tolerated… but to those that professe faith in Christ."
Eventually, around the turn of the 18th century, Jews in New York won the right to worship in public, and Congregation Shearith Israel opened America's first synagogue. Subsequently, in Rhode Island, what is today known as the Touro Synagogue, the oldest synagogue building still extant in North America, was dedicated in Newport in 1763.
Elsewhere Jews were not so fortunate.
In Connecticut, for example, statutes limited the right of religious incorporation to Christians long after the Bill of Rights mandated religious liberty for all on the federal level. It took a special act of the state legislature, in 1843, to ensure that "Jews who may desire to unite and form religious societies shall have the same rights, powers and privileges as are given to Christians of every denomination." Thanks to this act, Congregation Mishkan Israel opened in New Haven that year; it was only the second synagogue in all of New England.
The New Haven Register viewed the synagogue as a public defeat for Christendom. "The Jews…," the paper thundered, "have outflanked us here, and effected a footing in the very centre of our own fortress. Strange as it may sound, it is nevertheless true that a Jewish synagogue has been established in this city — and their place of worship (in Grand Street, over the store of Heller and Mandelbaum) was dedicated on Friday afternoon. Yale College divinity deserves a Court-martial for bad generalship."
Jews continued to "outflank" Christians, owing to immigration, and by 1856 there were enough of them in the nation's capital to consider opening a synagogue close to the very heart of the federal government. Questions arose, however, as to whether this was legal under the District of Columbia's Religious Corporation Act. Some contended that only Christian churches could acquire real estate in Washington for public worship, not Jews. In the end, it took an act of Congress to resolve the question. Signed by President Franklin Pierce on June 2, 1856, it established the principle "that all the rights, privileges and immunities heretofore granted by law to the Christian churches in the City of Washington be… extended to the Hebrew Congregation of said City."
Long afterwards, however, and even down to our own times, synagogues have frequently faced fierce opposition when they attempt to build in locations that some would prefer to see devoid of Jewish religious institutions. In the 1950s, new suburban synagogues commonly had to face down angry neighbors and change-averse zoning boards when they applied for building permits. As recently as 1999, opponents of a new Orthodox synagogue seeking to build in New Rochelle, N.Y., warned residents that the planned structure would bring with it "rats," "traffic" and "creeping commercialization." The real fear, one opponent confessed to the Forward, was that "the identity of the neighborhood would change."
Mayor Bloomberg likely had some of this history in mind when he asked "should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?" In distancing himself from Peter Stuyvesant and the many others who have defined American religious liberty in narrowly restrictive terms, he reminds us that if today's target is the mosque, yesterday's was most assuredly the synagogue.
Jonathan D. Sarna is the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University and chief historian of the National Museum of American Jewish History.
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From: sxrp@yahoogroups.com [mailto:sxrp@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Kenneth E. DeBusk
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 12:47 PM
To: sxrp@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [sxrp] The War Party's New Torchlight Parade
One of the pictures says "Mosques are monuments to terrorism". What
would the anti-mosque people think if I paraded with a sign saying
"Churches are monuments to torture"? It makes as much sense and there's
more truth. How many churches have a cross hanging in there somewhere? I
believe Christianity is the only religion in the world whose symbol
equates to torture and death.
And as the articles point out, we brought much of that movement into
existence or at least helped it. Mention religious freedom and they have
a ready answer: "It's just for good Christians." Oh yeah? That's not
what my copy of the Constitution says. And by "good Christians" I wonder
if they mean those who killed Jews in WWII, those who shoot abortion
doctors, and those who picket against homosexuals at military funerals?
Ken
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On 8/14/2010 1:31 PM, ShunkW wrote:
>
>
> *Thursday, August 12, 2010*
>
>
> *The War Party's New Torchlight Parade
> <http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2010/08/war-partys-new-torchlight-parade.html>
> *
>
> <https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVtIfe1DelwWLz6MdO8yy2CcHxEAQbioHO9GuKKQiXAPVIgrbzQUHw2TnDi_QNXuSTic-S2oxjVeOB5tJHyVcD-MnbMkHy_TZ4T2_jTbRLmVFjv-ZFZ2AO28Vfgm11d7XVeYZCukXnZUVv/s1600/No_Mosque_at_Ground_Zero_22.jpg>
>
> */Contrived Controversy: /*/Protesting the so-called "Ground Zero
> Mosque."/
>
> The most powerful patron of radical Islam is not Iran, Iraq, or Saudi
> Arabia. It is the government headquartered in Washington, D.C., which
> for more than a half-century has diligently cultivated Islamic
> terrorism. Yet millions of Americans are suffering what amounts to a
> collective loss of bladder control
> <http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/4280-controversy-over-ground-zero-mosque>
> over the purported threat
> <http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/opinion/sam-blumenfeld/4283-islamic-trojan-horse-at-ground-zero>
> embodied in the proposed Cordoba House -- the Islamic equivalent of a
> YMCA -- in New York City.
>
> Allowing the "Ground Zero Mosque" to be built, insists Newt Gingrich
> <http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2010/07/no_megamosque_near_ground_zero.html?hpid=talkbox1>,
> would be tantamount to "surrender" in a struggle against those
> implacably committed to our destruction. New York gubernatorial
> hopeful Carl Paladino
> <http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/04/tea_party_gov_candidates_racist_sexually_graphic_e.php>,
> a New York crony capitalist
> <http://blogs.buffalonews.com/outrages_insights/2010/04/paladino-post-on-government-contracts.html>
> who anointed himself a paladin of the Tea Party movement
> <http://www.afroarticles.com/article-dashboard/Article/Tea-Party-Hypocrites--Nathan-Deal--Rick-Scott-and-New-York-s-Gubernatorial-Candidate-Carl-Paladino/211630>,
> has made opposition to the "Ground Zero Mosque" the central plank of
> his campaign. Paladino, who has profited handsomely from government's
> redistribution of wealth
> <http://www.buffalonews.com/incoming/article44323.ece>, promises that
> if elected he will confiscate the property used for the Muslim
> Community Center through eminent domain
> <http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/63216.html> and use
> the land to erect a war memorial.
>
> Writing in /National Review/
> <http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=MmNhNTg0ZmY1NzA4NWJmMjM0YjI1MzAwNzljYjFiNDM=>,
> former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy insists that Imam Feisal
> Abdul Rauf -- the Kuwait-born U.S. citizen who leads the Cordoba
> Initiative <http://www.cordobainitiative.org/?q=content/about-ci> --
> is pursuing a "stealth jihad" as a fellow-traveler of the Muslim
> Brotherhood. "The Ground Zero project is a test of America's resolve
> to face down a civilizational jihad that that aims, in the words of
> its leaders, to destroy us from within," maintains McCarthy.
>
> <https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Q-rBL9S0dTAjqaiLWYVzcXRrt2-MUBTj2W8GLIEFtG1DPZ7fiYMuAmoG4tY9nOyr9nWMA6vHEYI4EVx0sET8zPYfDZXsdgXN4BeL8snCZ6E6u1izhqCRHW-CQ5PPgTVtQptuqLD7zFNr/s1600/Mosque+hypocrite.jpg>
>
>
> According to Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association
> <http://action.afa.net/Blogs/BlogPost.aspx?id=2147497353> (AFA) the
> problem isn't the proposal to build a Muslim cultural center two
> blocks from Ground Zero. Rather, it's the fact that the government
> ruling us permits the existence of mosques /anywhere/
> <http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/top_social_conservative_defends_his_no_more_mosque.php?ref=mblt>/
> in the United States. /
>
>
> Since "every single mosque is a potential terror training center or
> recruiting center for jihad," Muslims "cannot claim First Amendment
> Protections," maintains Fischer (who, in addition to supporting
> case-specific abolition of the First Amendment, has previously called
> for the abolition of the habeas corpus guarantee
> <http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2008/06/habeas-corpus-and-bush-bot-bulimics.html>
> as well).
>
> Rather than focusing exclusively on the so-called Ground Zero Mosque,
> the AFA and like-minded organizations have instigated a nation-wide
> campaign to protest construction of Muslim houses of worship in more
> than a half-dozen states
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/us/08mosque.html?_r=2>. Like
> McCarthy, Fischer treats Imam Rauf as an asset of the Muslim
> Brotherhood, which (according to Fischer) is "at the heart and
> center... the soul of Islam in America."
>
> Here's a quick digest of the charges leveled by Fischer, which are
> typical of this manufactured controversy:
>
> Islamic houses of worship serve as recruiting centers for soldiers of
> jihad, who will kill and die on behalf of Sharia Law. Many Islamic
> clerics, including Imam Feisal, are joined at the hip with the Muslim
> Brotherhood -- the most powerful element of the international Islamic
> terrorist network.
>
> <https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib8HC7TKiHLnm3I0IWCK59Ed6FsMvMgKAheYgpuAMQYfk3F_xoWNxdJPmTMM74hMIdgnvJZoCj-qZh64iftc7wvrlcfl4fpJJjIVUxo290cBFnovMJFOLf7RvNEh55pxVbBMRY7bZYswoR/s1600/imamfeisalandCatholicCleric.jpg>
>
> */Jihadist at work? /*/Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf (right)./
>
> Stipulating that those concerns are genuine, and that the proper
> course of action would be to target the greatest offenders first, the
> campaign to shut down the global jihad should target the United States
> Government -- and the Republican-dominated Evangelical Churches that
> serve as military recruiting stations for the Regime in Washington.
>
> During the past decade, a Middle Eastern nation of roughly 30,000,000
> people
> <https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/iz.html>
> once ruled by a secular government succumbed to Sharia Law. The
> predictable results of that catastrophe included a dramatic increase
> <http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/2897> in religious
> violence
> <http://www.womensenews.org/story/war/060608/iraq-womens-report-calls-violence-enemy-no-1>,
> such as the persecution of professional women whose dress and conduct
> are now seen as unacceptable <http://www.iheu.org/node/1020>. More
> than half of the Christian population of that country
> <http://www.khouse.org/enews_article/2009/1464> -- which includes
> congregations tracing their roots back to the original disciples
> <http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/novemberweb-only/11-3-31.0.html>--
> was driven into exile.
>
>
> That nation is Iraq, which suffered for decades under Washington's
> loathsome subcontractor Saddam Hussein
> <http://www.vmacedonia.com/archives/2984.htm> before Saddam's employer
> decided to remove the middleman.
>
> For a dozen years after the 1991 Gulf War -- which followed the
> Washington-instigated Iraqi assault on Kuwait
> <http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/glaspie.html>, which itself
> was a sequel to the Washington-abetted Iraqi war with Iran
> <http://www.iranchamber.com/history/articles/iran_iraq_war_american_interest.php>
> -- the country was suffocated by a murderous embargo punctuated with
> the occasional terror-bombing. After being softened up for more than a
> decade, Iraq was invaded and occupied by U.S. troops who killed and
> died in order to install an Islamist government
> <http://organizations.lawschool.cornell.edu/ilj/issues/40.1/burtondeeks.pdf>
> whose new constitution formally enshrines Sharia Law
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/28/international/iraqtext_new.html?pagewanted=print>.
>
> When American jingoists offer misty-eyed tributes to the soldiers who
> died in the course of "liberating" Iraq, it could be said that they
> are, in effect, praising the efforts of men and women who are martyrs
> to the cause of Sharia Law
> <http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2005/02/09/americans-die-for-sharia-in-iraq/>.
>
>
> This outcome is not an historical anomaly. For the past six decades,
> the Anglo-American elite (with Washington assuming the senior partner
> role after World War II) has assiduously promoted the most violent
> strains of revolutionary Islam, often -- but not exclusively -- as a
> strategic weapon in the context of the Cold War.
>
> <https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidRivFOgEVEhK3GF3HcbKUQYeIOgF5wSrrOhRucI6fz3TzgjY3vgfb-JD3jFoWYn9Cv-WwrI99rfNxe1l8-fnM9ibOIgwKcaaHy7IlcqQ8k2i6YvCd5oRJyyYY2kGcGZ-FDO42yP_Rcb5Z/s1600/Seyyed_Jamal_ad-Din_al-Afghani.jpg>
>
> */Professional revolutionary: /*/Afghani./
>
>
> The Muslim Brotherhood -- which grew out of the late-19th Century
> agitation of Persian-born professional revolutionary Jamal Eddine
> al-Afghani -- has long been one of the Anglo-American elite's most
> important strategic assets, as well as the talent pool that was used
> to staff the deadliest terrorist network in the Muslim world.
>
>
> While he was superficially the most devout and pious of Muslim
> believers, Al-Afghani, writes Robert Dreyfuss in his valuable book
> /The Devil's Game/
> <http://www.amazon.com/Devils-Game-Unleash-Fundamentalist-American/dp/0805081372>,
> "a heterodox thinker who was a Freemason, a mystic, a political
> operative, and above all ... someone who believed in the `social
> utility of religion.'"
>
> After serving as a Russian agent in the 1860s, Afghani defected to the
> British. He was in London's employ when he made a disciple of an
> Egyptian Sugist named Mohammed Abduh
> <http://www.newstatesman.com/religion/2010/02/abduh-islam-afghani-traditions>.
>
>
>
> During the 1870s, Afghani and Abduh used Cairo's storied Al-Azhar
> mosque as a recruiting center for a revolutionary network, which
> gathered cadres from throughout the Middle East and Europe. Afghani
> also founded a lodge of his Arab Masonic society, which became the
> headquarters of what Egyptian police called "young Thugs" -- a
> description invoking India's notorious Thugee Cult, an oath-bound
> fraternity of murderers.
>
>
> When Afghani was eventually expelled from Egypt, his disciple Abduh
> remained, eventually rising to become the nation's Mufti (supreme
> interpreter of Islamic law) in 1899. Like his mentor, Abduh considered
> revolution to be his religion, and the Islamic faith to be a vessel
> for his political ambitions. Among those who fell under Abduh's
> influence was Hassan Al-Banna, the schoolteacher who gave tangible
> form to Abduh's revolutionary designs by founding the Ikhwan
> al-Mulimeen <http://www.ikhwanweb.com/> (Islamic Brotherhood) in 1928.
>
> <https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhki0eWweKdyhL86N27O0CCZcAwLV9sLG_pdskoWpn6P17hrKxE5tntdnmcTkCUjz7VF4P_U38FtH_MmUC84RUhN17rU0kB5IHhgiYKM1dAvm1IY7eHeP9e-7imBBvyqwc_Lf9oN4ss8YA4/s1600/muhammad_abduh_w.jpg>
>
> */Disciple and organizer: /*/Abduh. /
>
>
>
> Reflecting the influence of Afghani and Abduh, Banna organized the
> Brotherhood into cells (called "families") of five to seven members.
>
>
> The Brotherhood "was more than a movement," writes Dreyfuss. "It was a
> cult, it was a revivalist party, it was an intelligence operation, it
> was a paramilitary unit, and it was an international organization that
> was rapidly building branches in many Middle Eastern countries."
> During World War II, Dreyfuss continues, Brotherhood cadres were
> recruited by British, Nazi, and Soviet intelligence agencies.
>
>
>
> "In the eastern regions of the Soviet empire, where the Nazis were
> more interested in oil than ethnic cleansing, the Third Reich
> mobilized Muslims and other ethnic minorities to fight for the
> liberation of their homelands," writes Eliza Griswold in /The New
> Republic/ <http://www.tnr.com/book/review/the-replication-cells>,
> summarizing the findings
> <http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052748703961104575226372646226094.html>
> in Ian Johnson's recent book /A Mosque in Munich/
> <http://www.amazon.com/Mosque-Munich-Nazis-Muslim-Brotherhood/dp/0151014183>.
> "The Nazis plucked Muslims from German prisoner-of-war camps; some
> Muslims became German soldiers, members of the SS; some, professional
> propagandists.... Once World War II ended, many of these men, stuck in
> Germany and having lost their homelands, found a new employer: the
> United States."
>
>
> <https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaQtpIZrV3qAb62nxEww0fZh-PeNSJ7n9Eu2yo4KopvXxrb2RUzzW9etITC1zm7buIx_CGBs8S_4YzVqx0Ch51TU9ZDLJPr9g3k8n0j_FM99TulkeJj-BVKmunaz616MAuQyunYOlXOCCH/s1600/Al-Banna.jpg>
>
> */Brotherhood founder al-Banna. /*
>
>
> A CIA-created propaganda arm called Radio Liberty employed "many of
> these former Nazi sympathizers," Griswold points out. In 1953 -- the
> same year the CIA and MI6, working through a network of Islamic
> radicals, brought down the Iranian government of Mohammed Mossadegh --
> the White House hosted 27-year-old Said Ramadan, the Muslim
> Brotherhood's chief international organizer in addition to being
> son-in-law to Hassan al-Banna's son-in-law, who had been assassinated
> in 1949.
>
>
>
> In subsequent years, many adherents of the Brotherhood -- including
> former Nazi sympathizers who worked with the CIA -- affiliated with
> the Al-Quds Mosque in Munich. Among them was Mahmoud Abouhalima, a
> Brotherhood member who became a leader in the CIA-funded Afghan
> mujahadeen and later played a prominent role in the 1993 terrorist
> attack on the World Trade Center
> <http://web.archive.org/web/20000203035335/www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1997/vo13no05/vo13no05_assets.htm>.
>
>
> Abouhalima, who spent the late 1980s networking with radicals among
> American Muslims, sponsored the 1990 visit of Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman,
> later convicted of "seditious conspiracy" in the 1993 WTC attack.
> Despite being on a State Department terrorist watch list, Sheik Omar
> was granted a visa at the U.S. consulate in Khartoum: As something
> other than coincidence had it, the CIA station chief personally
> attended to the matter by substituting for the consular official who
> was usually in charge of issuing visas.
>
>
>
> <https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGL_NlGsBh91FTxT6miGFuA5NMRcV3Vt8Zi05l8a0jAfQzUOfYeG0pFxlBXXK04fX6rp4MhMaB4pLIc1FSuHvi5Rf34dQJ-CWjB9xsJVT73F88oPgadlZIP9cM48Hoimpvur8KalzYeWQ3/s1600/said-ramadan-eisenhower.jpg>
>
> */Ike and Ikhwan: /*/Brotherhood leader Said Ramadan is at the far
> right, holding papers./
>
>
> Like practically everyone else involved in the 1993 WTC plot, Omar had
> also been an asset of the U.S. Government. The same is true of former
> U.S. Army Special Forces Captain Ali Mohammed
> <http://www.investigativeproject.org/187/osama-bin-ladens-special-operations-man>,
> who -- according to investigators
> <http://intelfiles.egoplex.com/ali-mohamed-coleman-affidavit.pdf> --
> most likely "called the shots" in the bombing conspiracy. Despite --
> or perhaps /because of /-- that fact, Mohammed went on to become a
> "privileged asset" of the FBI.
>
> In 2001, Mohammed pleaded guilty -- "in exchange for considerations"
> -- to charges arising from the 1998 bombings in Kenya and Tanzania
> <http://www.infoplease.com/spot/newsfacts-sudanstrikes.html#axzz0wQh3OxGT>.
> He then disappeared into the witness protection program, where he
> remains to this day.
>
>
> The extent to which the Muslim Brotherhood is (in Bryan Fischer's
> phrase) "the soul of Islam in America" reflects the tireless efforts
> of our rulers to nurture radical Islam as a strategic asset -- both
> for prosecuting war abroad and making war on us at home by terrorizing
> us into supporting its corrupt, needlessly bellicose foreign policy.
>
>
> In his eagerness to strip American citizens who profess the Muslim
> religion of their rights, Bryan Fischer offers an analogy to the
> recent arrest of the so-called Hutaree Militia in Michigan on charges
> of seditious conspiracy
> <http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w140.html>. "The fact that
> they were a Christian militia did not stop them from being locked
> up,"Fischer told an interviewer
> <http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/top_social_conservative_defends_his_no_more_mosque.php?ref=mblt>.
>
>
>
> Had his research into the Hutaree case been more exhaustive than
> scanning headlines, Fischer may have discovered that the rapidly
> disintegrating case against that group
> <http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/57041.html> was built
> entirely on the claims made by an informant-provocateur employed by
> the FBI
> <http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2008/01/snitch-in-time.html>.
> The same is true <http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w13.html> of
> practically every <http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w17.html>
> recent "terrorism" case involving American Muslims
> <http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w138.html>.
>
>
> If there is reason to be suspicious of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf,
> <http://www.slate.com/id/2263334> it would not be his sensible
> criticism of Washington's foreign policy
> <http://www.islamfortoday.com/60minutes.htm>; instead, it would be his
> willingness to cooperate with the FBI
> <http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2003/03/11/2003-03-11_imam_briefs_agents_here__cra.html>,
> which seems more interested in manufacturing "terrorist plots" than
> interdicting them.
>
> Not having access to his unspoken plans and motives, I cannot say
> whether Imam Rauf is sincere or duplicitous in his efforts to
> encourage mutual respect and understanding among people of different
> faiths. However, I am impressed by the answer he gave in 2006 when
> asked what his "Ramadan wish" would be for the world
> <http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2006/09/19/seven_questions_the_cross_and_the_crescent>:
>
>
> "[I would wish that] we would remember that the two greatest
> commandments that God gave us through the mouths of his many prophets
> and messengers, including Jesus, Moses, and Mohammed -- to love the
> Lord our God and to love our neighbors. It also means do not do unto
> others what you do not want others to do unto you. If that can be the
> criterion of our foreign policy, I guarantee you that our foreign
> policy will be successful and wildly popular."
>
> As the treatment given to its Author demonstrates, preaching the
> Golden Rule will always provoke the murderous hostility of the ruling
> elite. Apparently, the last thing many American Christians can abide
> is the spectacle of an American Muslim leader who -- whatever else he
> may be up to -- insists that we abide by the central moral tenet of
> the Christian faith.
>
> */If you can, /**please**/ help keep Pro Libertate on-line with a
> donation. Thanks, and God bless! /*
>
> http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2010/08/war-partys-new-torchlight-parade.html
>
>
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