Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf Refuses to Condemn Hamas
Will the Mother of All Gaffes Sink the 9/11 Mosque?
On KABC’s Aaron Klein Investigative Radio, Imam Rauf wouldn’t condemn Hamas as a terrorist group, despite their status as a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood that has carried out countless attacks on Israeli civilians. He just crossed the red line, and once word of this gets out, his project is dead in the water.
Additionally, here’s a little more info about this Imam’s mindset:
Cordoba House Backer Feisal Abdul Rauf Loves Shari’a
Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam behind Cordoba House, the giant mosque and Islamic cultural center planned just two blocks from Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan, speaks of tolerance. Yet he promotes one of the most intolerant sociopolitical systems on the planet: Shari’a law.
In 2009, Rauf’s organization, the Cordoba Initiative, launched a program to measure how closely various nations conform to Shari’a. An article quotes him musing about the criteria to be applied:
What are the principles that make a state Islamic? We can say among them is justice, protection of religion and minorities, and elimination of poverty, and so on.
Interestingly, the rest of the piece is far more open about what Shari’a actually entails, citing such freedom-crushing derivatives as outlawing religious satire and criminalizing adultery.
And finally, this Imam is also a financial supporter of a pro-Hamas org:
Ground Zero Mosque Sponsor Unmasked as Free Gaza Donor
The Muslim cleric behind the proposed giant mosque near Ground Zero is none other than a major donor to the pro-Hamas Free Gaza movement, the New York Post reported. The cleric, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf also is a key figure in Malaysian-based Perdana Global Peace Organization
Ground Zero Mosque Sponsor Unmasked as Free Gaza Donor