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Either A) Something has changed because they were silent for a long time or B) they weren’t silent but no one covered the story.
I’m curious.
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Timmeh Wed, Aug 18, 2010 1:43:38am |
Good. Wish there were more.
The leaders on the trip were Imams Muzammil Siddiqi of Orange County, Calif.; Muhamad Maged of Virginia; Suhaib Webb of Santa Clara, Calif.; Abdullah Antepli of Duke University in North Carolina; and Syed Naqvi of Washington, D.C., along with Dr. Sayyid Syeed of Washington; Sheik Yasir Qadhi of New Haven, Conn.; and Laila Muhammad of Chicago. U.S. government officials, the State Department’s special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, and an official from the Organization of the Islamic Conference also participated.
According to the Jewish Daily Forward, several of the leaders, all with large spheres of influence, had a history of anti-Semitic comments. Laila Muhammad is the daughter of American Muslim leader W.D. Muhammad and granddaughter of Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam.
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Bob Levin Wed, Aug 18, 2010 2:46:36am |
re: #3 Timmeh
I think you raise a very good, but possibly cynical point, whether or not you were intending to. It’s a reasonable hypothesis—here goes:
Farrakhan has his audience, and it’s built on—his own sense of anger and conspiracy.
But, in America, there is no national spokesperson for Islam. Islam, obviously, hasn’t been brought into the ‘melting pot’. And for that to happen in this culture, there has to be a ‘face’ of Islam. We don’t have that yet. And as long as Holocaust denial, antisemitism, and Islam are closely associated, Muslims can’t get into the mainstream of the American machine.
So, perhaps these folks would like to be that face. Whether you see this as opportunism, or actions stemming from a sense of spiritual necessity, that’s where the cynicism would come in.
I think a fair question to Muslims would be—to what extent do you feel that Saudi Arabia represents the Koran? Same question to me, to what extent do you feel that the Haredi in Israel represent the Torah? I would consider that to be a fair question.
I say this because the Saudis are indeed part of the American machine, and the most mainstream ‘face’ of Islam. But if I were a Muslim, I’m not sure how happy I would be about that.
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