Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf: “now it is our turn, as Muslims, to drink from this cup.”

This was in our local paper and what really irritates me is how the imam equates discrimination against American muslims equal to that which has happened to Blacks, Jews, the Irish, Catholics, Italians and many more. There is one big difference here that the imam keeps omitting, perhaps on purpose.
That is the main current of violence, persecution and death to those who refuse to convert to islam or bow down to it and live in a dhimmi state, under islamic sharia law. Over the last 1400 years there is no political ideology that can compare to islam for death and destruction. So how does the imam make islam equal to what the Blacks, Jews, or the Christians of the past, or today in islamic countries are suffering? He cannot successfully do this and he knows this. We don't see other races, religions or cultures refusing to pick up blind passengers with a sight aid dog or for having alcohol in their posses ion. Or Jews refusing to bag and pack pork products at Target stores, or Catholics demanding their own foot baths and prayer rooms in airports and on colleges across our country. You can see where I am coming from. The imam is playing the islamophobia race card and he is not doing it well. Americans are overwhelmingly against what he wants to do at Ground Zero. He is insulting so many Americans by what he is doing, and he does not care. Rauf knows that at the very least he can count on the support of the liberal left who have been brainwashed, duped by several decades of political correctness, diversity and multicultural stupidity at any and all cost to our freedom and liberty.


Please read the article to see what I am talking about. The only solution is for Rauf to completely back down and take this mosque elsewhere. My preference would be someplace far, far away in an existing islamic country. It will interesting to see what sort of deal or bargain is offered to the imam. Better yet, what he and his supporters will offer to do. I do not see him or islam giving much ground on this. If that is the case then islam and muslims in America will have two black eyes and broken nose for their arrogance and ignorance. It is up to US to learn from this as islam will just come back again and again. It is, up to us to put a stop to the islamization of our country and stop the spread of sharia law.

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Imam at center of debate weighs options
By Karen DeYoung / The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf said Monday that he and his advisers are considering “every option” for what to do about the controversial Islamic community center they plan to build two blocks from ground zero in New York, including delaying its construction or relocating it.


“We are exploring all options as we speak ... working through what will be a solution that will resolve this problem,” Abdul Rauf said in an appearance before the Council on Foreign Relations. “Everything is on the table.”


At the same time, he said, it is “disingenuous” of those who oppose the planned location of the center to say it is “hallowed ground” because of the people who were killed in the 2001 World Trade Center attacks by Muslim extremists. “There is a strip joint around the corner, betting parlors,” Abdul Rauf said. “It is hallowed in one sense, but it doesn’t add up. Let’s clarify that misperception.”


The planned center, he said, has been an important part of his efforts to raise the voices of what he said are “99.9 percent of Muslims in the world” who find terrorism “absolutely abhorrent.” He added: “I want a space where the voice of the moderates can be amplified. It’s not good enough to teach here — no students will hear you.”


Abdul Rauf said the center would be “a place for all faiths to come together as partners, stakeholders in mutual respect. It will bring honor to the city of New York and to American Muslims. The world is watching,” he said. “I offer you my pledge: We will live up to our ideals.”


He placed discrimination against American Muslims and objections to the construction in the context of the historical “rejection” of minorities, including “Jews and Catholics, Irish and Italians, blacks and Hispanics,” and said that “now it is our turn, as Muslims, to drink from this cup.”


Abdul Rauf, who has been the imam of a mosque 12 blocks from the World Trade Center since 1983, said, “I belong to this neighborhood. I am a devout Muslim. I pray five times a day ... and I am also a proud American citizen. Let no one forget that. I vote in elections, I pay taxes, I pledge allegiance to the flag, and I am a Giants fan.”

Original article is here from the Bend Bulletin