Rant Wraith (thanks to LGF) has found some exceedingly interesting information about the Muslim imam who said a prayer during the Democratic National Convention last night.
He works at Georgetown, “the first American university to hire a full-time Muslim chaplain. He earned a B.A. degree in Islamic Law and Theology from the University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan. He’s a Ph.D. Candidate in Islamic Theology at American Open University, Fall Church, VA.”
What is the American Open University? The offical site is mostly (and quite conveniently) in Arabic. But this site has the university curriculum from the summer of 2000 as taught in Fresno, CA.
What do they teach you ask? My favorite lesson is titled, Secularism is Shirk in the Lordship of Allah. Here are some high points of the lesson (tauhid or tawhid is the unity of Allah; mushrik and shirk are Islamic terms for polytheism, a grave sin for Muslims – Christians are considered shirk because they “attribute partners to God” through the divinity of Christ and the Trinity; shirk equals unbelief and infidelism; emphasis in bold added):
Whoever calls the people (and/or himself) to the following and obedience of another law other than the shari’a is a disbeliever and a mushrik.
The scholars of Usool-ul-Fiqh have all agreed on the axiom that “None has the right to legislate but Allah.”…
That would rule out human documents like, say, the U.S. Constitution, wouldn’t it?
Rant Wraith concludes:
What the hell is the DNC thinking? Did they research this guy before they signed him up? Do they even care?
UPDATE: DNC’s Imam Testified for Sami al-Arian — search the page for “Yahya Hendi.” (Thanks to Charles at LGF).