Suhail Khan, John Esposito, Karen Armstrong, Tariq Ramadan, Feisal Abdul Rauf appear at Hamas- and Muslim Brotherhood-linked ISNA convention

Imagine the outcry if a prominent Republican Party operative, an imam publicly dedicated to "building bridges" with non-Muslims, and three world-renowned Islamic scholars appeared at a convention of a group closely linked to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. You're right, there would be no outcry at all, for that is exactly what happened over the weekend, as Suhail Khan, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, John Esposito, Karen Armstrong and Tariq Ramadan appeared, along with Nihad Awad of Hamas-linked CAIR, at the annual convention of the Hamas- and Muslim Brotherhood-linked Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).

According to former FBI agent John Guandolo:

  • The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) is the largest Muslim Brotherhood (MB) organization in North America, created to be the “nucleus” for the Islamic Movement, according to MB documents seized by the FBI in Annandale, Virginia in 2004.
  • Because of the evidence ISNA is a Brotherhood front, as well as the numerous financial documents detailing money going directly from ISNA and their banks to Hamas entities overseas, ISNA is an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest Hamas trial ever successfully prosecuted in U.S. history (US v. Holy Land Foundation), which was adjudicated in 2008 in Dallas, Texas.
  • When ISNA filed a motion with the federal court to have their name removed from the unindicted co-conspirator list, the government stated that ISNA exists to be a financial support entity for Hamas. The federal judge agreed stating the government provided “ample evidence” and left ISNA on the list. A three-judge appellate panel unanimously agreed and left ISNA on the unindicted co-conspirator list.
  • ISNA’s two key directors and its President, Mohamed Magid (pictured above), all work with Secretary Clinton and her office. So, the leaders of a Hamas-supporting entity are advising the U.S. Secretary of State.

But none of that stopped these luminaries, who of course do not hesitate to try to tar the defenders of freedom with guilt by association at every possible turn, while not hesitating to associate with a highly unsavory group connected to violent jihadis and pro-Sharia Islamic supremacists.

From the ISNA convention program:

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I owe at hat tip on this post to none other than Nathan Lean, the threatening thug who works for another stealth Islamic supremacist, Boy Reza Aslan. Lean has his Tweets "protected," but has not, of course, reckoned with Zionist black arts:

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ISNA & Other MB "organizations always hold their "conventions/conferences on American Holidays.
ISNA for many yrs held their Labor Day(s) in Chicago at sites near O'Hare Int'l. Airport.
With people celebrating the Holidays,the Jihadis figure NO ONE will be watching.

Suhail Khan, John Esposito, Karen Armstrong, Tariq Ramadan, Feisal Abdul Rauf appear at Hamas- and Muslim Brotherhood-linked ISNA convention
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Why is it that so often Muslim "moderates" look an awful lot like the "extremists"? (This is, of course, a rhetorical question).

And the useful idiots have to go along for the ride. What tools...

I wonder if Congress can extend the statute of limitations on the crimes of the unindicted so that the prosecutions can resume from where they were postponed by Obama.

"With people celebrating the Holidays,the Jihadis figure NO ONE will be watching"

That is not the case. They have nothing to fear. They are backed by the media and the millions of liberals. They are practicing their religion of peace freely in the USA. Their religion happens to be the one that one day will dominate the world. So what is the fuss? Let's go our own way, close our eyes and maybe they will go away. Maybe not?

I thought Sigheil Khan was buddies with Grover Norquist - so there might be a Republican connection after all.
Is that convention supposed to be some kind of rogue's gallery? It seems to be mixing the cynical with the naive, but those two usually go together, like ticks and deer.

John Esposito is nothing more than an academic whore, being paid by a Saudi prince. Karen Armstrong is simply pathetic woman who rejected the light of Christ and is cavorting with Satan by her association with Islam. she risks a similar fate to Beverly Giesbrecht if she gets too cozy with the religion of DEATH.

Like Rumpelstiltskin, Nathan Lean will be dashing his foot against the floor and cursing! 'How did Spencer break the code?'

Lean's a clown!

A confederacy of malevolent and clueless dunces.

I see that Karen Armstrong for her Twitter account has chosen the name "KarenAnchorite". Perhaps a glimmer of a midlife crisis, remembering with not a little bittersweet fondness those years of the 60s when she was a Catholic nun, and she would look eagerly forward to the bimestrial visiting lectures of that distinguished professor who reminded her so much of Thomas Merton... or maybe it was just a hot flash.

Inspecting her bibliography, amongst her copiously chockfull oeuvre of oeufs she has laid over the years (none golden, I'm afraid, though quite a few goose's), one caught my eye:

Islam: A Short History (2000, Modern Library Paperback Edition)

What she should have written therein -- what we know she didn't -- would indeed have been short.

Islam: A Short History

Chapter One: Kill, kill, kill.

Chapter Two: More killing, plus looting, raping, burning.

Chapter Three: Kill, kill, kill, loot, loot, loot, rape, rape, rape, burn, baby, burn == again.

Chapter Four: A Retrospective Prospectus: Justifying Killing in the Name of a God Who Suspiciously Resembles a Mesopotamian War God.

Chapter Five: Kill, kill, etc.

Chapter Six: Kill, kill, etc.

Chapter Seven: Arms Briefly Tire of Hacking and Chopping and Slicing and Dicing.

Chapter Eight: Kill, kill, kill anon.

Chapter Nine: And kill, kill, kill some more.

Chapter Ten: The Dawn of a New Era: Crash, Explode, Invade, Deceive, Accept Invitations to the Highest Places, Seduce Innumerable Western Idiots Who Include Self-Hating Former Catholic Nuns, Plot and Plan.

Epilogue: What The Future Holds for Islam.

The Islamic Society of North America is pushing full steam ahead for respectability. As such, it provides cover for a host of speakers of questionable character but plausible credentials. It also provides effective cover to display Islam in the US as a mainstream religion, the same as Judaism, Catholicism, or Methodism.

The strategy seems to be working. There is no shortage of mainstream religious organizations, such as the Union for Reform Judaism, and the Catholic hierarchy in the US, that lend their name and support to the ISNA.

The end goal, it seems to me, is to stifle examination of an aggressive political philosophy and religious organization which is devoted to fundamentally changing the principles of US government. The strongest wedge of Islam in the US is, of course, immigration. There is virtually no discussion of using standards for immigrants as a means of excluding people who are devoted to an ideology specifically contradictory to the US Constitution. This means most Muslims, of course.

As shown by the presence of Suhil Kahn, a major fundraiser for the Republican Party (where does he get his funds, by the way?), the Muslim push for penetration and respectability is by no means limited to liberals and the Democrats.

"...an imam publicly dedicated to "building bridges" with non-Muslims"

"building bridges" with sadist Allah, e.g. Q. 5:38 "thieves cut off hands" (also from kids)

THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IN AMERICA: TEN PART VIDEO COURSE

Overview
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
Part 9
Part 10

And the useful idiots have to go along for the ride. What tools...

"Useful Idiots" was a good description of the leftist propagandizing for the Soviets in the cold war time, but today the term doesn't fully convey the pivotal role they play in islam's war against us.
They much more than useful idiots - they are indispensable idiots.
Without them the jihad against the West wouldn't be possible.

A jihadist could be sawing off Nathan Lean's head, and he'd thank them for doing it to his last gurgling breath. That's how far-gone narcissists like him are.

A jihadist could be sawing off Nathan Lean's head, and he'd thank them for doing it to his last gurgling breath. That's how far-gone narcissists like him are.

You're assuming Lean didn't already lose his head long ago.

Ramadan still pushing those 'ethics'!!

Trying to hoodwink western society into adopting his Islamic laws.

I mean - a county's laws can't be made by man alone - we need 'ethics' - but not any old 'ethics' - Islamic ones!

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Islam is one of the best examples we have of intellect and wasted talent. Ramadan continues the tradition of the best minds in the Islamic world being dedicated solely to thinking only on Islam.

And you do have to wonder - what it is after 1000 years - that is motive to continue to do the same.


But Ramadan understands the problem with Islam and western society - and that is that it has nothing to offer - in reality. So his next step - would be to attempt to create insecurity - in the hopes that people will call for Islam. That Islam will be wanted - where men are not forced to take it.

Look at Islam's treasured science - gained or obtained from the at the time of conquest of more advanced nations or from passing travellers - such as with the number zero - and claimed as Islamic or 'Arab' - is like an old encyclopaedia that was never updated.

They were outdone in every way - believing all the while - they were superior.

And now they find themselves swamped by modernity - they took no part in creating.

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The egotistical nature of the Islamic religion - means that it is difficult for it to accept loss.

But in its audacity - it wants the west to help it to regain its strength so that it can one day take it over.

Delusional?

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Interesting John Esposito should be involved in the section clearly promoting Shari'a - in a 'Moral' - read Islamic society. It seems to point to the promotion of the Islamic religion over human rights. Saudi sponsored - bought and paid for. Marked as SOLD.


Imam Rauf - He'll say anything! While praising how shari'a is practised in Iran - tells us that there is no conflict between the shari'a and the US Constitution.


Karen Armstrong - Sister Clueless. She once said that she understood Muslim women's dress as when she dressed in a nun's habit men did not look at her. A very confused statement - that's because - You were a NUN!! Obviously there was an underlying suggestion - that dress denotes or influences behaviour - but on visiting the Islamic world - hookers wear the same long gown and headscarf as all the other women. Her statement is set on undermining western society - based on a utopian vision of the Islamic world that doesn't exist.


My suggestion for a title of a bio of Ms Armstrong: "The Decline and Decline of Karen Armstrong".
Nun to ex-nun to ex-Catholic to ex-Christian to (does she believe in God these days?)..
I wonder what her beliefs are now. Marxism maybe? (I've really no idea. I lost interest in her story a long time ago.) That would explain her love of Islam: Red-Green Alliance.
A sad story. Makes me shiver.

Thomas H wrote:

"Useful Idiots" was a good description of the leftist propagandizing for the Soviets in the cold war time, but today the term doesn't fully convey the pivotal role they play in islam's war against us.
They much more than useful idiots - they are indispensable idiots.
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Agreed, Thomas. I still think "useful idiots" is pretty descriptive, though.

In any case, they still serve the same purpose as cheerleaders, enablers, and white-washers of evil; out of willful blindness, intentional naïvite, or actual malice.

LemonLime wrote:

I see that Karen Armstrong for her Twitter account has chosen the name "KarenAnchorite". Perhaps a glimmer of a midlife crisis, remembering with not a little bittersweet fondness those years of the 60s when she was a Catholic nun...
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I rather doubt it, LemonLime. Even though "Anchorite" is a specifically Christian term, she just uses it to describe herself living alone and without love.

Even though she openly admits that "those she has loved 'have tended to be no good'", she still believes that we should uncritically accept her bowdlerized take on Islam.

Here's more stupidity, including her insistence on the importance of building a triumphal Mosque at the site of the World Trade Center so that we can "make peace with the other".

Of course, that can be problematic when the "other" is trying to kill you...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2010/oct/03/profile-karen-armstrong-religion

In this article, she regards civilized men such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens as of a piece with Al Qaeda.

Karen Armstrong is almost the definition of the useful tool—pathetic, clueless, and needy; but no less dangerous for all that.

As demonstrated by this program, ISNA & the MSA are OBSESSED with fighting islamophobia, insults and perceived aggression against muslims, either by the NYPD or in Burma or Kashmir. But NOT ONE DAMNED WORD of concern or condemnation for the thousands of acts of violence and subjugation of non-believers around the world. Thirty-three pages of whining & navel-gazing and not a single break-out session to discussing combating all the "misunderstanding" of islam practiced by their fellow musselmen. What a pathetic, self-congratulating taqiyyah fest.

Gravenimage,

..they still serve the same purpose as cheerleaders, enablers, and white-washers of evil; out of willful blindness, intentional naïvite, or actual malice.

Yes, and increasingly more out of actual malice. That category's primary motivation is not so much love of islam as hate of the Christian West. And they are not exactly idiots. Not more than the Devil is an idiot. The know what they want and how to get there. I hate them more than I hate islam.

They're a mixed bag, Thomas. I know a fairly large number of clueless enablers who are actually pretty decent people on a certain level, but who simply cannot bring themselves to believe that Islam represents any sort of actual danger—so they cling to PC/MC fables.

But I agree—increasingly, there are those who actually *do* understand that Islam is a threat, but who hate the civilized West more than they are troubled by Jihad and Shari'ah.

The truth is, though, that these people would be some of the first violently purged under an Islamic state.

Of course, the same was true of hard-core Communism, and that didn't stop the Walter Durantys of the world then, either...

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