Moderate Muslims Must Take A Stand

Muslim Woman Takes A Stand

It's sad this type of courage doesn't appear to exist in America.

Only when moderate Muslims stand up against radical elements in Islam will the bloodshed stop.

ABC - What Is Going On Here?

ABC News recently did a 20/20 special titled "Islam: Questions and Answers," with Diane Sawyer, Bill Weir, and Lama Hasan. The program drew attention to moderate Muslims who will serve as America's "first line of defense" against terrorism. Unfortunately, one of the moderate Muslims presented by ABC isn't so moderate.

U.S. Embassy sponsors Irish Muslim business conference.

Imam calls for Sharia Law in all business dealings...

The U.S. Embassy in Dublin has sponsored a seminar on Muslim entrepreneurs and business in Ireland. A main point of the conference was the need for Sharia law compliant financial products to be used.

The U.S. Embassy supported the conference as part of President Obama’s outreach to Muslims around the world.

Ambassador Dan Rooney congratulated the organizers on Wednesday and said that the U.S was “solid partners” in the venture.  He gave a copy of President Obama’s book   “The Audacity of Hope “ to  Imam Hussein Halawa, of the Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland, who opened the event.

At the conference, Thomas Cooney, academic director of the Dublin Institute of Technology, stated that 76 per cent of Muslim business people in Ireland say securing finance is their biggest problem and 90 per cent said there is a need for financial products  to be compliant with Islamic law. 

There are 45,000 Muslims in Ireland and Islam is the third largest religion reported on census forms.

Imam Hussein Halawa said the Muslim culture was deeply dependent on ethics in business and that the paying or charging of interest on loans was forbidden.

“The Islamic objective is to avoid all transactions leading to disharmony among people,” he said.

Tayyibah Taylor, the founder of the American Muslim women’s magazine Azizah, said Islam was more than a religion, it was a way of life.

“If you would feel uncomfortable about having the activity you are doing spread across the front page of a newspaper, you shouldn’t do it,” she said.
 

Dan Rooney, US Ambassador to Ireland

When is the Embassy seminar on Jewish entrepreneurs and business in Ireland? When is the Embassy seminar on Christian entrepreneurs and business in Ireland? When is the Embassy seminar on Hindu entrepreneurs and business in Ireland? When is the Embassy seminar on Buddhist entrepreneurs and business in Ireland?

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Ground Zero mega-mosque design is Islamic supremacist: tumbling, broken stars of David, Pentagons, crosses

Unmistakable and shameful. Pamela Geller has the details and more background here, here and here.

The Atlas commenter TyeDye is dead-on when he says:

Regarding the visual design of the facade of the mosque: Yes, there are many Stars of David, and as well, there are pentagons. They are stylized, but definitely there: the "clusters" of very thick framework within the design are all groupings of pentagon shapes.

Also, the "dip" in the roof line has the eye seeing two buildings, and the varying light and darker areas do give the impression of smoke - all this besides the sloped rows of Stars of David.[...]

Finally - considering what this building is, and where it is to be - there is not even the smallest possibility of the visual impression being coincidental....

Those that oppose the building of this monument to Islamic supremacy are not racist Islamphobes. They understand the meaning of the structure.

 While the design incorporates many distorted and tumbling stars of David/crosses/pentagons, what I found most interesting was the fact that, as far as I can tell, the only UN-distorted geometrical shapes are a number of quintessentially Islamic eight pointed stars (Rub el Hizb). Most strikingly, there are three "uncorrupted" designs just under half way up in a diagonal line. This is intended to show that Islam is the only pure or perfect religion (among other, corrupted ones), and since the Rub el Hizb is used to separate sections of the Quran, it's also intended to place an Islamic seal or mark of completion on the Ground Zero site.

A rabbi was once asked by his students….

“Rebbi. Why are your sermons so stern?” Replied the rabbi, “If a house is on fire and we chose not to wake up our children, for fear of disturbing their sleep, would that be love?” Kinderlach, ‘di hoyz brent.’ Children our house is on fire and I must arouse you from your slumber.” . . .
Democracies don’t always win.
Tyrannies don’t always lose.
My friends – the world is on fire and we must awake from our slumber.