Former Hamas-linked CAIR official running for president in Egypt, pledges to "complete the implementation of Islamic law in Egypt"

What he says is not so surprising. Who he is is what is noteworthy here. "Egyptian Presidential Candidate Bassem Khafaji Pledges to 'Complete the Implementation of Islamic Law in Egypt,'" from MEMRI TV, March 7 (thanks to Benedict):

Following are excerpts from Egyptian presidential candidate Bassem Khafaji, which aired on Al-Nas TV on March 7, 2012:

Bassem Khafaji: Let me tell you, in all honesty, that as a Muslim Egyptian, I am convinced of [the need to] complete the implementation of Islamic law in Egypt. I do not hide this truth in any way, because it is in keeping with the inclination of the Egyptian people.

We Egyptians – both Muslims and non-Muslims – refer to the shari'a in many things. I often ask people: How did you get married? Wasn't it according to the shari'a, regardless of whether you are Muslim or not? Weren't you married in accordance with your religion? When somebody in our family dies, how we inherit him? Not in accordance with the shari'a?

No [candidate] should say that he is coming to implement the shari'a, because part of it has already been implemented. What the Egyptian people want is to complete this implementation. As president, I will personally assist in the completion of the correct implementation of the shari'a, by consulting the experts [in Islamic law].

Jihad Watch reader Benedict, who kindly alerted me to the above item, also points out that Bassem Khafaji, or Khafagi, used to work in the U.S. for Hamas-linked CAIR:

The former community affairs director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Bassem Khafagi was arrested in January 2003 on suspicion of aiding terrorists. Khafagi is also the founder of the Islamic Assembly of North America (IANA), a radical, Ann Arbor, Michigan-based organization. He pled guilty in a Detroit federal court to two counts of bank fraud and one count of visa fraud.

Hamas-linked CAIR constantly insists that Muslims in the U.S. don't want to implement Sharia here. So did Khafagi change his mind about Sharia when he went back to Egypt? Or does he think Sharia should be implemented in Egypt but not here? Or maybe he and others in Hamas-linked CAIR really do want to bring Sharia here? I confidently await the imminent explanation from Honest Ibe Hooper, clearing all this up!

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"His remarks were taken out of context."

I often ask people: How did you get married? Wasn't it according to the shari'a, regardless of whether you are Muslim or not? Weren't you married in accordance with your religion? When somebody in our family dies, how we inherit him? Not in accordance with the shari'a?

And he could add: And how do you murder Copts in Egypt? Isn't it according to Sharia? And why do we give young women virginity tests? Isn't that according to Sharia? And why do we prevent Christians from building Churches? Isn't that according to Sharia? And why do we sentence apostates to death? Isn't that according to Sharia?

Khafagi's a clown with a devil-may-CAIR attitude to human rights and freedom of conscience.

What is amazing to me is that CAIR a blatant enemy of democracy, as you can't be a muslim and be for democracy, can still continue to function in our country. They have the balls and the evident backing from the enemy with deep pockets. Shame on our legal system and administration which allows such obvious traison to civilization.

And of course unless you speak pure classical arabic then you can`t possibly comment

Obama's kiss up speech to muslims in cairo, a gift that keeps on giving.
That speech did nothing but to embolden the hard core islamists around the world. That they had nothing to worry about from the clueless and brainless western leaders.

Ah, no worries. If Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter are both so full of satisfaction and hope seeing the Muslim Brotherhood in power, what could possibly go wrong?

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And BHO treats this as an advance of "freedom." Try re-constituted slavery. Yah, a real "audacity of hope"

Too bad nobody made anything of Thomas Sowell's attack on Derrick Bell's agitation as "polarizing." '

I have a copy of Bell's Fascistic work, "Faces at the Bottom of the Well" (1992). He was a FRAUD. In the now infamous defense of Bell, BHO declared, "He speaks the TRUTH." Yah? According to Bell, racial harmony is impossible because racism is "integral, permanent and indestructible." Yah, that is why the minority percentile increases every year.

Bell/Obama explicitly attack Martin Luther King's harmonization, degrading same as "we shall overcome dogma." According to the jacket blurb, once the dogma is tossed, "Only then will blacks, and those whites who join them, be in a position to create viable strategies to alleviate the burdens of racism." So you create a perma-grievance apparatus at public expense, and "alleviate" inherent racism by subsidizing agitators.

Bell didn't anathemize parasitism. He commenced a boycott of Harvard Law, on the issue of minority female participation on the Faculty. Noble? Hardly, the campaign ran parallel to book promotion and speaking tours that were planned before his "principled' boycott. He learned that he could make more money from giving the same polarization speech a couple of times a week, while expecting sabbatical funds. When Harvard balked as subsidizing his elitism, he used his just termination for rhetorical ends. Well substantiated accusations were out there, when BHO decided that Bell "speaks the truth." Whose "truth"? Bell's ideas were closer to those of Adolf Hitler than to those of Thomas Jefferson. Bell refused to condemn Farrahkhan's anti-semitism, saying that it was "not his role" to condemn black leaders (except Martin Luther King).

BHO doesn't subscribe to any notion of "universal hope." Bell was his Fascist mentor; he is Bell's frontline agitator. BHO's First Principles are clearly declared by his mentor as: RACIAL REALISM THEORY. The practise of same is obvious: the last three years of American governance under the apostle of Derrick Bell and Jeremiah ("god damn America") Wright. If BHO is elected, expect 4 more years of white reparations and subsidized ISLAMIC RACIAL REALISM on every continent. Don't expect much sympathy to the minorities who challenge the Obama-Ikhwan Gang.

"I can't imagine how ol' Honest Ib is going to tap dance around this one".

He won't. " Honest Ibe " will simply ignore this whole thing, and nobody in the media will ask him about it, either.

Does anyone know more of Khafagi's background?

Was he part of national CAIR? a local/state chapter?

Are there direct links to or perhaps in a few photos with Honest Ibe or A Bedier or any of the rest of the CAIR posse?

Many people know the fact that Hamas is a terrorist genocidally anti-Jewish organization which is an official branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.

However, what is not known by many people is the fact that Fatah-PLO-PA is an actual Nazi genocidally anti-Jewish organization.

Haj Amin al-Husseini - The founder of the 'Palestinian movement' (and an early leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the mentor of, and an uncle of, Egyptian-born Yasser Arafat (Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini))

I just saw the link given by Bielak,we are all doing what we can to spread more information to enlighten others.

This is off-topic but there is a similar case of deception:

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CAIR wants sharia law in the West. Their policy was established clearly and explicitly through their Canadian branch (CAIR-CAN) in 2005 when they were promoting the wonders of sharia, while blasting their opponents with charges of--you guessed it--Islamophobia, ignorance, bigotry, racism, etc.

Yet CAIR, with few exceptions (i.e., occasional slip-ups), continues to engage in ambiguous rhetoric and denials in the United States, posturing as though they really don't want sharia and that it is only Islamophobic, ignorant, bigoted, racist people who would accuse them of wanting to set up sharia.

The mainstream media and government authorities are largely to blame for continuing to allow CAIR in the U.S. to maintain their "hide the ball" farce regarding their position on sharia.

"What the Egyptian people want is to complete this implementation."
O the beauty of Sharia!!!
Liar. No reasonable, decent and free person wants this satanic law to be implemented in Egypt or anywhere else.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/05/islamic-amputations.html

I was just recently having technical difficulties with my blog (I accidentally removed the contents of the post: "Haj Amin al-Husseini - The founder of the 'Palestinian movement'", and I panicked and I tried to put the contents of the post back up, and, in the process of doing that, I messed some other things up).


My blog is back up in good condition.

Buraq wote:

And he could add: And how do you murder Copts in Egypt? Isn't it according to Sharia? And why do we give young women virginity tests? Isn't that according to Sharia? And why do we prevent Christians from building Churches? Isn't that according to Sharia? And why do we sentence apostates to death? Isn't that according to Sharia?
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Brilliant, Buraq—grim but true.

Just one point—I'm not sure Egypt has actually sentenced apostates to death in modern times—mostly they confiscate their IDs, making it impossible for them to legally work or to flee the country, since they are unable to travel, a;ll while exposing them without protection to pious Muslims who want to kill them.

That's what they did with Maher El-Gohary and his young daughter Dina. One of the very few good things about the chaos of the "Arab Spring" is that these two were able to escape to Europe in the confusion.

But I'm sure sentencing apostates to death is one of the things Bassem Khafaji will do when he "completes the implementation" of Shari'ah law there if elected.

Speaking of apostates: Egypt has produced quite a string of them, really.

There's 'Mark Gabriel', author of the very useful book 'Islam and Terrorism'\, which is in my library. He now lives in exile.

There's Nonie Darwish, who apostasised in America (though she was already disaffected with Islam when in Egypt).

There's Maher El Gohary and his daughter, whom you mentioned.

And most famously, Magdi Cristiano Allam, who - resident in Italy - slowly and inexorably thought his way free of Islam, eventually embracing Christianity and choosing to be publicly baptised by the Pope in Rome, during the Easter liturgy, in front of an international audience of millions of witnesses. Probably *the* most public baptism of a convert from Islam to Christ, that has ever been conducted. (He chose to do it to 'up the ante', to draw attention to the fact that the church has been fearful, and has tended to baptise converts from Islam in secret, even on Italian soil).

Oh yes, and there was Mohammed Hegazy, who converted to Christianity, and his young wife, and their new baby; I wonder what has happened to *them* in the 'new' improved rapidly sharia-izing Egypt. He and his wife were trying to get their ID cards changed to read 'Christian' rather than 'Muslim', and the Egyptian authorities wouldn't hear of it, and they were being deluged with death threats and having to live in hiding.

And there was a young woman who took the Christian name 'Martha', who was arrested - and tortured - by Egyptian authorities when they caught her trying to leave the country. I think her story was covered here at jihadwatch, too.

Western countries should be putting a LOT more pressure on Egypt about its sharia-inspired human rights violations, most notably its vile treatment of apostates like El-Gohary and Hegazy and Martha.

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