The inimitable Claudia Rosett, one of her generation’s most accomplished and tenacious investigative journalists (she exposed, for example, the “Oil for Food” scandal), is hot on a new scent: It was she who first revealed that the imam behind the Ground Zero mosque, Feisal Abdul Rauf, is on a fifteen-day, government-underwritten tour of Middle Eastern petrocapitals.
Americans were outraged to learn that their tax-dollars were being used to promote the promoter of an idea they overwhelmingly oppose: a triumphalist symbol of toxic shariah supremacism on some of our country’s most hallowed ground.
Now, in her latest splendid Forbes.com column, Ms. Rosett brings us what is, if anything, an even more outrageous revelation: The State Department plans shortly to send Daisy Khan, the imam’s voluble wife, to join him on his all-expenses-paid foray. Our intrepid reporter says the couple will actually pull in between them nearly $1,000 per day for representing the United States to these Arab nations as “goodwill ambassadors.”
What is wrong with that picture? Let’s start with the decided lack of “goodwill” Daisy Khan, a Kashmiri expat, feels towards her adopted country. She just denounced the United States on ABC’s “This Week” for treating Muslims so badly that, “It is like metastasized anti-semitism. It’s not even Islamophobia, it’s beyond Islamophobia – it’s hate of Muslims. And we are deeply concerned.”
Is that the kind of message Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wants communicated to Muslims already disposed to believe that we are their enemies — and that they are entitled, pursuant to shariah, to murder, subvert, and otherwise compel us to submit to their global theocracy and totalitarian politico-legal system? Is that the kind of message any Americans would want their taxes spent to amplify?
For that matter, do we want to have Muslim audiences encouraged to believe what Ms. Daisy’s husband is saying — at least when non-Muslims are listening? It seems that, with an eye towards the American audience, he is trying to burnish his increasingly implausible credentials as a “moderate” by engaging in the shariah-approved practice known as taqqiya – lying for the faith.
For example, Bahrain’s Al Wasat newspaper reported that, during his stop there, the imam “said America’s sweeping constitutional rights are more in line with Islamic principles than laws imposed by some Muslim nations. ‘I see the [Declaration] of Independence as more compliant with the principles of Islam than what is available in many of the current Muslim countries.'”
This unadulterated rubbish may pass for “moderation” with the likes of President Obama, Mayor Bloomberg, and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. But most sentient Americans will intuitively understand that the “principles of Islam” enshrined in shariah have nothing in common with the Declaration of Independence, let alone the U.S. Constitution. They are, instead, faithfully expressed and enforced by “current Muslim countries,” notably Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Imam Rauf’s taqqiya is, in short, simply cover for the realization of the goal set by his Shariah Index Project: facilitating the achievement of the “perfect Islamic state” by first legitimating, then inexorably insinuating shariah everywhere, including here.
It is a travesty that our government is underwriting or otherwise enabling the dissemination of such pap, let alone facilitating a prime perpetrator’s ambitions to bring shariah to America by building a megamosque within spitting distance of Ground Zero. Team Obama must not compound its many missteps to date in this matter by next driving Ms. Daisy, as well as her husband, around the Middle East at our expense – in every sense of the word.
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