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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (72971)	10/1/2009 7:34:25 AM
From: FJB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224744

Founder of Muslim College, Shaikh Hamza Yusuf, background: It celebrates his collaboration with a notorious American Islamist, Shaikh Hamza Yusuf [Hanson]. Hamza Yusuf was known before September 11 for his radical preaching. In 1991, Hamza Yusuf "gave a provoking speech about why 'Jihad is the Only Way,'" at an International Islamic Conference held at the University of Southern California by the local unit of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), a front for the al Qaeda-allied Jama'at-i-Islami movement in Pakistan. The same Los Angeles event was addressed by Imam Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator named in 1995 in a plot to blow up New York City monuments. At the 21st ICNA Annual Convention, held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, in 1996, Imam Hamza Yusuf declared, "I am a citizen of this country not by choice but by birth. I reside in this country not by choice but by conviction in attempting to spread the message of Islam in this country. I became Muslim in part because I did not believe in the false gods of this society whether we call them Jesus or democracy or the Bill of Rights or any other element of this society that is held sacrosanct by the ill-informed peoples that make up this charade of a society. . . . [T]here should be no voting or debate . . . [W]e have no room for ayes or nays." After September 11, Hamza Yusuf adopted moderate camouflage and boasted of meeting with and "advising" President George W. Bush. However, at this year's convention of the Islamic Society of North America, on September 3, 2004, Hamza Yusuf declaimed, "the Republican party is basing an entire political platform, in the most powerful military nation on the earth . . . on the idea that Islamic fanatics are a threat to the security of this country, and this must be condemned. . . . I have never believed in my lifetime that a presidential election had any significance. . . . We must reject what is happening in the current administration in our name. . . . Those neoconservatives . . . that claim that this country was designed by people that wanted Christianity to be the law of the land . . . are telling a grave lie to the people of the United States." Hamza Yusuf followed up these rantings with fantasies of Islamic conquest of the United States and an endorsement of none other than Patrick J. Buchanan as a defender of "indestructible" Islam. 97.74.65.51

To: lorne who wrote (72971)	10/1/2009 7:37:29 AM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224744

Stealth Jihad College Proposed By Faux Moderate Sheikh Hamza Yusuf May 18, 2009 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - A group of Muslim activists, headed by "Sheikh" Hamza Yusuf is now actively promoting a Muslim-centric college system in an effort to institutionalize da'wa, or faith propagation with the eventual goal of Islamizing America. Yusuf currently heads the Zaytuna Institute in Berkeley, CA, modeled on "classical Muslim scholarship" [source, LA Times, latimes.com]. Though Yusuf founded Zaytuna in 1996, he is probably most widely known for coining the thoroughly misleading quip that Islam was "hijacked" on September 11, 2001. Though Yusuf is often characterized as a moderate and sometimes even held up as an iconoclastic Muslim, when examined, his record of public statements demonstrate quite the opposite, that he is a doctrinaire Muslim apologist, intent only on spreading Islam's influence. Below from a PBS interview on Frontline [source, zaytuna.org] republished on the Zaytuna website. Yusuf's outlook reveals a moral blindness in which Osama bin-Laden and George Bush become ethically equivalent, "There's good and bad in all of us, and I want to get rid of the cartoon scenario of George Bush's world and Osama bin Laden's world, and I want to see it nuanced." Yusuf blames the West with stoking Muslim radicalism, "If you had one word to describe the root of all this rage, it's humiliation.... It's everywhere. You don't think it's humiliating to have a foreign force come into your land?" He invokes the nonexistent specter of the American police state, "Well, I think we've all become much more acutely aware of the state apparatus in terms of monitoring. I don't like the feeling that I have to think about what I say when I say things." The "Sheikh" engages in rewriting and fabricating history, "Muslims have been an almost entirely benevolent force in the 20th century. They did not wreak the havoc the Western powers wreaked on the world. They have not come anywhere near to the environmental degradation that we've done to the planet." In the end, it's all about promoting Islam, "Who will talk for the religion?" stated Zaid Shakir, Yusuf's partner in this venture, "We have to train a generation." [source, LA Times interview]