Islam akan berjaya kembali di Barat(Amerika) atas usaha dari Islam
berpaham maju, toleransi, anti kekerasan (liberal).
Imam Feisal Abdul rauf berjanji akan "fight" terhadap idology Islam
exterimist baik di Amerika,maupun di dunia.
Semoga ALLAH akan merahmati Beliau,Insya ALLAH.
Mari kita di Indonesia memerangiIdiology Islam Radikal(teror) yang
bercerikan;
----Islamic Law menjadi Peraturan pemrintah.
----Tidak menghormati keyakinan beragama, atau berbeda menafsirkan
Al Quran dan hadits2
----Dalam menegakan amar makruf nahi mungkar dgn paksa atau dgn undang
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ISLAM FOR PEACE AND TOLERANSI.
Who is Feisal Abdul Rauf the man behind the 'Ground Zero mosque'?
Moderate Muslim bridge-builder or secret terrorist enabler? Here's a guide to
the Iman who instigated plans for the controversial Park51 Islamic center
posted on August 25, 2010, at 11:25 AM
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is the man behind the proposed
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is the man behind the proposed "mosque" at Ground Zero.
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Almost as controversial as the proposed Park51 Islamic community center two
blocks north of Ground Zero is the man behind the project, Imam Feisal Abdul
Rauf. Opponents of the "Ground Zero mosque" are building a case that Rauf is a
"cynically brilliant" Islamic extremist in sheep's clothing, while supporters
call him and fellow Park51 organizers "the kind of Muslim leaders right-wing
commentators fantasize about: modernists and moderates who openly condemn the
death cult of al Qaeda and its adherents." Who is the real Rauf? (Listen to
some of Imam Rauf's controversial comments)
What's his background?
Born in Kuwait in 1948, Rauf has lived in New York since 1965, and has a
physics degree from Columbia. He's been imam of Masjid al-Farah, a Sufi mosque
in New York City's TriBeCa neighborhood, since 1983. Rauf has written three
books on Islam and how it fits into Western society. He's married to his second
wife, Daisy Khan.
Was he raised Sufi?
No. His father, Muhammad Abdul Rauf, was a more conservative Sunni Muslim who,
with the support of Egypt, taught and studied at universities and mosques
outside the Middle East. The elder Rauf moved his family around to England,
Malaysia, and then the U.S. The exposure to different religions and Islamic
traditions led Feisal to shift to the more moderate and mystical Sufi Islam.
What was Rauf best known for before the Park51 controversy?
Since the 1990s he has been heavily involved in interfaith dialogue with
Christian and Jewish leaders, and has founded two nonprofits focused on
building bridges between American Muslims, U.S. society, and the Muslim world:
The American Society for Muslim Advancement (1997) and the Cordoba Initiative
(2003). After 9/11, Rauf did sensitivity training for the FBI and has gone on
four U.S.-sponsored speaking tours to the Mideast since 2007 to discuss how
Islam meshes with American religious pluralism.
What's the case for him being a "stealth" extremist?
Critics say his peace-and-brotherhood talk covers up support for Palestinian
suicide bombers, Iran's repressive Islamic government, radical Muslim clerics,
and the imposition of Sharia law in the West. To support these charges, his
detractors cite Rauf's refusal to call Hamas a terrorist group and his equating
of certain U.S. actions with Islamic terrorism. The Cordoba Initiative and its
Park51 project aren't about dialogue, critics say, but rather about
proselytizing and spreading Islam.
Is the case persuasive?
Though a few of Rauf's speeches contain some jarring notes (see quotes below),
those who have known him for a long time are surprised by the allegations. "To
stereotype him as an extremist is just nuts," says the Very Rev. James P.
Morton, longtime dean of the Church of St. John the Divine.
What does the Muslim world think of him?
His views "place him as pro-American within the Muslim world," says Anne
Barnard in The New York Times. His outreach to Christians and Jews, liberal
views on female equality, criticism of several Muslim countries as less true to
core Islamic teachings than the U.S., and stated support for Israel have made
him suspect in some Islamic circles.
What are some of his controversial quotes?
"We tend to forget, in the West, that the United States has more Muslim blood
on its hands than al Qaida has on its hands of innocent non Muslims." (Speech
in Australia, 2005)
"I wouldn't say that the United States deserved what happened [on 9/11], but
United States policies were an accessory to the crime that happened... We have
been accessory to a lot of innocent lives dying in the world. In fact, in the
most direct sense, Osama bin Laden is made in the USA." (CBS 60 Minutes, Sept.
30, 2001)
"The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians. But it was
Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima,
neither of which were military targets." (Quoted in Sydney Morning Herald, 2004)
"The Prophet Muhammad has been known as the first feminist... Gender equality
is an intrinsic part of Islamic belief." (Huffington Post, 2009)
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