"And somehow the Bush administration missed all that when they sent him out to engage is dialog with Muslim countries on behalf of the US?"
So what? At one time, the US funded Osama Bin Laden in his fight against the USSR. "Maybe I'm totally wrong though and he is really a secret fundamentalist who has just been broadly advocating for peace and tolerance for all these years as a clever disguise for his true purpose." Maybe he is, maybe he isn't. Here is one interpretation of Rauf's book. It is not my opinion, but I find it interesting. Raufs book has two different titles, one for non-Muslims and one for Muslims. In English, it is called Whats Right With Islam: A New Vision For Muslims and the West. But in Muslim-ruled Malaysia a country whose language Rauf knows well since he has spent a great deal of time there the book was published as A Call To Prayer From the World Trade Center Rubble: Islamic Dawa in the Heart of America Post-9/11. The word rubble stands out. It means wreckage reduced to rubbish. Trash. Garbage. An Islamic call to prayer is made by a muezein, the Muslim who ritually calls the faithful to prayer. The muezein issues his call from a tall minaret, high above the rest of the world. Now we get an image of Rauf in the position of a muezein standing tall in his fifteen-story mosque looking down at the rubble of the World Trade Center, the buildings reduced to rubbish by his own religious group (although he has denied that Muslims perpetrated the 9/11 attacks). The image is of conquest Islam over the West. If Rauf is indeed a bridge builder, as he calls himself, we must question where the bridge is going. Is it towards Islamic dominance over non-Muslims? J - Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny - Thomas Jefferson on gov ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:325534 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
