[Vision2020] Update on Muslim Center in Lower Manhattan

[Ron Force]

No, but this one does:


http://www.salon.com/entertainment/comics/this_modern_world/2010/08/24/this_modern_world



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From: "whayman at roadrunner.com" <whayman at roadrunner.com>
To: nickgier at roadrunner.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
Sent: Thu, August 26, 2010 11:35:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Update on Muslim Center in Lower Manhattan

I hope the link works.

Warren Hayman

Ground Zero outrage on Parallel Earth
www.credoaction.com

---- nickgier at roadrunner.com wrote: 
> Good Morning Visonaries,
> 
> New information has been pouring in about the NYC Muslim Center controversy.  
>The most dramatic revelations have to do with initial positive responses from 
>Fox news personalities and the moderate contents of Imam Rauf's highly acclaimed 
>book, published by Rupert Murdoch's HarperSanFrancisco.
> 
> Additions to my column, the edited version of which is attached:
> 
> Rauf's book "What’s Right with Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West" 
>was picked as one of the best five books of 2004 by the Christian Science 
>Monitor. The book was published by HarperSanFrancisco, which is owned, along 
>with Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, by Rupert Murdoch. In a December, 
>2009 interview with Imam Rauf’s wife Daisy Khan on Fox News' "The O’Reilly 
>Factor," Laura Ingraham had this to say about the plans for the cultural center: 
>"I can't find many people who really have a problem with it. I like what you're 
>trying to do." Fox News is now leading the charge against the project.
> 
> In "What’s Right with Islam" Rauf goes back to the beginnings of Islam and 
>shows how a fatal mistake was made by those who built autocratic political 
>institutions on a basic Abrahamic ethic shared with Judaism and Christianity. 
>Early Muslim government was based on elections, broad deliberation (including 
>women) and consensus, and religious pluralism. The rule of force dramatically 
>came into the play with the assassination of the third caliph in A.D. 656, and a 
>switch to hereditary rule, which as been the norm in Muslim countries for 
>centuries. Rauf believes that Islamic countries should "recognize in the 
>American form of governance a genuine substantive workable expression and model 
>of their centuries-old longing for the kingdom of heaven on earth."
> 
> I also added some material on a parallel reaction against Catholics in American 
>history, up do the Nixon-Kennedy election in 1960:
> 
> In announcing the decision not to preserve the old building at 51 Park Place, 
>Mayor Michael Bloomsberg--with the Statue of Liberty as backdrop--reminded his 
>audience that the early Dutch settlers refused to grant Jews permission to build 
>a synagogue, and that they had also prohibited Quakers and Catholics from 
>holding services. In the 19th Century there were objections to the construction 
>of Catholic churches, and some of them (including some convents) were burned 
>down. (One priest was tarred and feathered by a mob.) Strong anti-Catholic 
>sentiment flared up during the 1960 election with many people fearing that a 
>president John F. Kennedy would mean an alliance with the papacy.
> 
> Finally, here is what Imam Rauf said about the 9/11 attackers in 2006 on ABC 
>News.  Glen Beck was sitting in on the conversation with Diane Sawyer and 
>indicated how important it was to have good moderate Muslims such as Rauf:
> 
> "[Jihadist] reactions are not at all called for by Islamic teaching. The 
>teachings of Islam are very similar to the teachings of Christianity, of loving 
>the one God and loving thy neighbor. These are the two common principles."
> 
> As Muslims and their places of worship are threatened all over the country, I 
>fear for the sanity of my country.
> 
> Nick
> 
> 

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