Selling Sharia to America

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At one of the latest stops on his ongoing national speaking tour, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, most widely known for his work with the proposed “Ground Zero Mosque,” visited UNC Chapel Hill. Speaking at the biennial Weil Lecture on American Citizenship, held in Hill Hall on Wednesday night, March 16, 2011, Rauf addressed “Unfinished Dreams: America, Religion and Citizenship.”

The dreams of the Cordoba Initiative-founder will not be finished until he has promoted Shariah in every major university in the United States. On the 17th, Rauf spoke at Duke. In a few days time, he heads to Yale, where he will surely be embraced with open arms by the same intellectual elites who bared their naked dhimmi souls in a letter entitled naively, “Loving God and Neighbor Together.” This was a response to a letter issued by 138 Muslim scholars, including Imam Rauf, known as “A Common Word Between Us and You.”

Rauf received $20,000 plus expenses for speaking at Chapel Hill. Such honoraria should help make up for any penalties and lost revenue from the Union City tenements of which Rauf is a “slumlord,” in the words of the city’s mayor, Brian Stack. The Kuwait-born, thrice-wed Rauf is in great demand as the star of “moderate Islam.”

In his tailored suits and close-trimmed beard, Feisal Rauf poses quite an alternative to London rabble-rousing lawyer/jihadist, Anjem Choudary. To Americans, avid Shariah promoter Choudary, with traditional Islamic clothing and scruffy beard, is mostly a disturbing oddity. It is doubtful that an evening with Choudary would bring in the numbers of academics, Christian and Jewish leaders, and other devotees that have gathered reverently at the feet of the genteel Rauf.

Choudary’s demonstrations feature angry young British Muslims with signs that declare such sentiments as “British Soldiers Burn in Hell,” “Behead Those Who Insult Islam,” and the always popular “Jesus Will Destroy the Cross and Follow the Quran.” (When Islamists or their fellow travelers gush that “Jesus is even in the Quran!” they don’t tell you that he is there as a prophet of Islam, ready to do his part for the last and final jihad.)

At a 2008 meeting opposing the toughening of British anti-terrorism laws, Choudary raged, “As Muslims, we will not submit to any man-made law, any government, or any prime minister – Bush or Brown. . . We submit to Allah.” In the same speech he urged, “It is our religious obligation to prepare ourselves both physically and mentally and rise up against Muslim oppression and take what is rightfully ours. . . Jihad is a duty and a struggle and an obligation that lies upon the shoulders of us all. We will not rest until the flag of Allah and the flag of Islam is raised above 10 Downing Street.” When a burka-clad woman protested that Islam was about peace, Choudary responded that “Islam is not a religion of peace. It is a religion of submission. We need to submit to the will of Allah.” As many have said, at least he’s honest.

The radical Muslim leader, who receives government subsidies familiarly known as “the dole,” may have never had any intention of coming to Washington when he made the announcement that he would bring his campaign for Shariah to American shores. He may have just wanted to alert the faithful to a future goal and/or gin up more publicity for himself. Even a columnist in the leftist British newspaper The Guardian referred to Choudary as an “agent provocateur and master of the publicity stunt.” She added that the Department of Homeland Security “would have to be several sandwiches short of a picnic to let this guy in.”

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  • SoCalMike

    It actually nauseates me that Bill Ayers and Anjem Choudary feel safe in their skin in this country.
    They should not and don't deserve to.

  • SoCalMike

    Not Anjem.
    His name is Andy.
    My mistake.

  • http://www.resonoelusono.com/NaturalBornCitizen.htm Alexander Gofen

    It was a catastrophic blunder (or rather a deliberate sabotage) of the ruling elites, who widened the constitutional concept "religion" in America to mean "all religions of the world" (islam being "more equal" than others indeed).

    Yet it is an insult to our intelligence and dignity that the words "islam" and "sharia" are even mentioned as though a possible choice in public arena. We are being duped into believing as though our Constitution obligates us to "embrace" islam and to allow mo-o-o-oslems to proselytize it freely in our own country!

    Wake up America! We have an insidious islamic aggressor in our midst undermining our very foundations. We do not have yet a great leader of the Geerd Wilders caliber to confront this evil, or at least to loudly name the enemy! So let us do it ourselves. Islam does not belong to America. No amount of islam must be embraced. Love islam – leave America!

  • Andres de Alamaya

    The administrators of schools that have this snake speak are as guilty as he is in the plans to destroy America and their names should be recorded and published.

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