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Disgraced Cardinal Praised ISNA and “True Islam”

Sep 13, 2018 12:19 pm By Andrew Harrod

“We know what Islam is and we know what lessons Islam is going to teach all of us,”  former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick declared reassuringly  on May 31, 2015, at Crystal City, Virginia’s Hyatt Regency Hotel. McCarrick’s comments before an Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) interfaith conference recall how this now disgraced Catholic clergyman led for many years the Catholic Church’s often horribly misguided dealings with Islam.

McCarrick offered dubious adulation for his ISNA hosts. “I have been privileged to know ISNA for 20 years and to see the growth and development of this extraordinary instrument of understanding, instrument of cooperation, and instrument of beauty.” Yet federal courts judged this Muslim Brotherhood (MB)-derived organization as an unindicted co-conspirator in 2007 in American history’s largest terrorism financing trial, given ISNA’s links to the MB terrorist organization Hamas.

McCarrick specifically praised ISNA leaders such as Mohamed Magid, Sayyid Syeed, Muzammil Siddiqi, and Azhar Azeez as “so much a part of America and the ummah is growing.” Their radical backgrounds notwithstanding, McCarrick stated that “here it is thoroughly American, here it is thoroughly patriotic,” and that ISNA fulfilled a national need for an “important, clear patriotic American voice from the Muslim community.” “ISNA is very important to me, because it is very important to my country, your country, our country,” he stated, yet ISNA’s latest 2018 conference featured a rogue’s gallery of anti-Western, anti-Israel speakers.

At the 2015 conference McCarrick expressed a questionable certainty that atrocities by jihadist groups like the Islamic State distorted Islamic doctrine. ISNA must be a “strong, and a clear, and a courageous voice” and declare for Muslims that “that’s not really us, that’s not what the Quran says, that’s not what the Prophet, peace be upon him, is teaching,” he stated. As is ubiquitous for Islam apologists, he distorted Quran 5:32 to claim that “these are the quotations that we need to underline, because these are the quotations which define ISNA today. Not the misquotations, not the bad translations.”

By contrast, McCarrick noted how he has talked around the world about a 2005 fatwa from ISNA’s Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA) against terrorism, notwithstanding FCNA’s radical ties. This fatwa “was one of the high moments in the life of American Muslims” and was “such a courageous thing” that showed the “ummah in America standing firmly, standing together and saying, this is what we believe and it is true Islam.” Meanwhile, the

other things are fake. When you go to kill innocent people, that’s not true Islam; when you go to destroy things that are beautiful, that’s not true Islam. The true Islam for me…is what you are living and you are preaching and you are giving to the American society.

McCarrick worried that this fatwa “has really never received the publicity it deserves.” Yet analysts such as Judea Pearl have noted the loopholes in this weak document that could allow for jihadist killings, including the murder of his son Daniel Pearl in Pakistan. As Jihad Watch’s Robert Spencer has noted, phrases such as “civilians” and “innocent lives” in the fatwa “are in fact hotly debated terms in the Islamic world.”

Nonetheless, McCarrick before ISNA remained unshaken that “who you are and what you believe are very beautiful things.” He lauded past “great Muslim leaders who fearlessly and graciously and wisely defended their people, defended ISNA” against “Islamophobia.” He hoped that young American Muslims would “take their definition of Islam from ISNA, and not from ISIS,” as ISNA had the “true vision of your community, the true vision of your religion.”

McCarrick’s 2015 ISNA appearance was merely one manifestation of this fixture at Islam-pandering activities in Washington, DC, and beyond. He was a prominent ally of Georgetown University’s Saudi-funded Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU). There he associated with ACMCU Islam-apologists including Professor John Esposito and Jordan Denari Duffner. Along with the ACMCU, he promoted the Islamophile propaganda films of Unity Productions Foundation, including The Sultan and the Saint.

McCarrick was also involved in the 2016 Marrakesh Declaration. He described this as a “truly a great document” for its religious freedom appeal on the basis of the seventh-century Medina Charter from Islam’s founding period. Yet more critical observers such as the Iraqi-American analyst Nibraz Kazimi have dissected the multiple problems with McCarrick’s reliance upon this historically questionable charter as a source of Islamic tolerance.

Beyond the Marrakesh Declaration, McCarrick has affiliated with multiple initiatives led by the Mauritanian-born Sheikh Abdullah bin Bayyah, such as the 2018 Alliance of Virtue. Bin Bayyah’s multiple radical pronouncements in favor of jihadists fighting Israel or American troops in Iraq belie recurring efforts to present him as a Muslim “moderate.” Yet McCarrick in 2016 praised Bin Bayyah as the “prophet of light and the prophet of reason” with the “correct understanding of Islam,” while others in America want to “canonize an Islamophobia.”

McCarrick accordingly epitomized the benign outlook on Islam embraced by Pope Francis’ papacy to the concern of so many. McCarrick himself praised Pope Francis during a panel at the 2015 Reviving the Islamic Spirit conference in Toronto, Canada, an annual event that has a long history of radicalism. As a counter to “stupid Islamophobia,” McCarrick recommended that Muslims “listen to Pope Francis and feel better about yourselves.” With the scandals of McCarrick and others embroiling Pope Francis, it is questionable just who is listening to the Catholic Church now.

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  1. End PC says

    Sep 13, 2018 at 12:28 pm

    The man is a disgraceful fraud. These “Islam is a religion of peace” BS artists do a lot of harm.

    • Jon Sobieski says

      Sep 13, 2018 at 12:35 pm

      Imam McCarrick was a double agent inside the church. All the proof is there. Pedophilia, deceit, corruption,. McCarrick is a disgusting, evil man who will spend his life in hell, front row of course.

      • Andy says

        Sep 13, 2018 at 2:51 pm

        Globalist Cardinal must be related to BONO, another bone head globalist

        • Andy says

          Sep 13, 2018 at 3:19 pm

          I saw this comment by Mr White

          Bono is worth $700 million+ dollars, yet he wants us to give our money to charities that help everyone except our own people. While he lives a life of opulence and mingles with the globalist elites, most people are struggling to afford a vacation. Hey Bono, you’re a hypocritical poisoned dwarf, and your rambling resemble something that would be scrawled in excrement on the walls of a lunatic asylum.

        • FYI says

          Sep 13, 2018 at 5:43 pm

          bono is one of those virtue-signalling, superrich ,sanctimonoius,self-important hypocrites.

          To attack the Swedes for simply wanting to preserve their culture is disgraceful.

          Himself and that Whited Sepulchre,pope saint francis{CEO of a multibillion dollar corporation:the vatican}….just love to brag about their great love of the poor while
          they live in comfort and safety.

          So when will bono and pope saint francis be distributing their wealth to the needy?

          How many of his properties will bono be making available for refugees?

          Perhaps,along with his macPhisto, he could do with another persona:

          Swampy O ‘Leftard

        • Andy says

          Sep 13, 2018 at 5:49 pm

          +1

        • Andy says

          Sep 13, 2018 at 6:29 pm

          Here is another Idiot Globalist

          Trudeau 2019 Campaign Ad

        • Andy says

          Sep 13, 2018 at 6:33 pm

        • Max Modine says

          Sep 13, 2018 at 6:58 pm

          Since your relatively recent arrival on JW Andy – your content is by far the most useful – keep it flowing mate!

        • Andy says

          Sep 13, 2018 at 7:04 pm

          Hello Mr. Modine,

          I’ll sure give it a good try, As long as Mr. Spencer & JW allow me.

          Cheers!

        • infidel says

          Sep 13, 2018 at 11:26 pm

          Let me say this over and over again: Nordic people, esp Swedes, are one of the most beautiful looking races out there as beautiful as my own brown skinned Hindu race… but in a different way…

      • Kepha says

        Sep 14, 2018 at 8:36 pm

        It wasn’t pedophilia, but homosexual predation.

    • Rufolino says

      Sep 14, 2018 at 3:57 am

      And the Pope himself has done INCALCULABLE harm to Europe’s future by endorsing open-border policies, and by telling Europeans “there is nothing to fear” from Moslem migrants.

      • Andy says

        Sep 14, 2018 at 9:42 am

        To the Pope.

        Europe Is For Europeans, Refugees Go Home and Rebuild

        • Richard Kruse says

          Sep 14, 2018 at 10:09 am

          You’re right! The only difference betweem Muhammad and the Pope is the Pope hasn’t done quite as much harm.

    • whirlwinder says

      Sep 14, 2018 at 3:43 pm

      He got it from his boss, the pope who stated in an encyclical that, “there is no violence in Islam.”
      These people are a part of the cabal that is assisting Islam with the global jihad.

  2. Sherif says

    Sep 13, 2018 at 12:45 pm

    It is very clear that this man should be expelled from the Church. He is not a Christian and it is highly likely he has converted to Islam.

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Sep 13, 2018 at 1:01 pm

      I suspect you are right, Sherif. He certainly has plenty in common with the paedophile Muslims.

    • JM says

      Sep 14, 2018 at 5:15 am

      If he hasn’t yet converted to Islam, he may well do so in prison, where his crimes against young people ought to take him . Lots of muslim paedophiles in gaol for him to pal up with. What’s not to like for the cardinal?
      If the “prince of the Church” still retains any vestige of Christian conscience, he might ponder on Jesus Christ’s words in Matthew 18:6 and Mark 9:42.

    • whirlwinder says

      Sep 14, 2018 at 3:44 pm

      I did not know that Catholics were part of Christianity.

  3. Jaladhi says

    Sep 13, 2018 at 12:59 pm

    What the heck this guy know about Islam? Zilch!
    True Islam is followed by ISIS and al Qaeda and that is why no imam worth his salt will condemn these groups!! Case closed!

    • Redfeather says

      Sep 13, 2018 at 1:54 pm

      He knows how to sodomize!

    • Joe says

      Sep 14, 2018 at 5:36 am

      “True Islam” throws gay Cardinals off roofs.

      • Kepha says

        Sep 14, 2018 at 8:39 pm

        Today is the day
        They throw cardinals away
        Through twenty-story breeze!

  4. CogitoErgoSum says

    Sep 13, 2018 at 1:09 pm

    When it comes to horribly misguided dealings, McCarrick must truly be a master. If this man is as much of a patriot as he is a good Catholic, God help the United States. When he speaks of taking great pleasure in seeing the growth of an instrument of understanding, cooperation and beauty, you can bet that’s a line he used on his favorite seminarians before bestowing upon his idea of a blessing. Hopefully, his ability to use his own instrument has been taken away from him now forever.

    I wonder if McCarrick has ever confessed his sins to the Pope and if the Pope has ever confessed his sins to McCarrick. Might each one have granted absolution to the other? Would they have told each other to go and sin no more? Of course, I’m assuming that each of them knows what is sinful and what is not; however, I could be wrong and perhaps their understanding of sin is no better than their understanding of Islam.

  5. rooare says

    Sep 13, 2018 at 1:19 pm

    This stooge and those like him are what Joseph Stalin called “useful idiots” and they continue to prove him correct. Of, course as a person with pedophilic tendencies why would he not love Islam in which sex with children is by divine sanction.

  6. Notmoron says

    Sep 13, 2018 at 1:52 pm

    Islam supplies then with young boys.

  7. Ray Jarman says

    Sep 13, 2018 at 2:02 pm

    Had this pedophile been living in some of the estates in the UK, he would have invited himself to the feasts upon young innocent girls, especially if there were a few boys to dine upon. It seems that both McCarrick and Francis have forgotten that the slug, Mehmet Ali Agca, who attempted to kill Pope John Paul II was member of the cult of sub-human pedophiles.

  8. Terry Gain says

    Sep 13, 2018 at 2:07 pm

    All this praise for an evil ideology which is responsible for more killing than any other ideology in history and which claims that Christ was a fraud who faked his own death – with the help of Allah.

    McCarrick and Bergoglio are frauds. It pains me to see what they have done to my Church.

    • Andy says

      Sep 13, 2018 at 7:03 pm

      HI Terry, I don’t know if you have seen this but,

      I thought you would get a laugh out of this ad.

  9. Voytek Gagalka says

    Sep 13, 2018 at 3:03 pm

    “instrument of cooperation, and instrument of beauty…”

    Can you play anything on that “instrument,” cardinal? Instead, Mohammedans are “playing” on our nerves long enough. 1400 years and counting… Enough is enough!

  10. Wellington says

    Sep 13, 2018 at 4:42 pm

    A shithead twice over.

  11. gravenimage says

    Sep 13, 2018 at 5:54 pm

    Disgraced Cardinal Praised ISNA and “True Islam”
    ……………………..

    McCarrick regarding Islam is a fool at best.

  12. Indiana Tom says

    Sep 13, 2018 at 6:10 pm

    “We know what Islam is and we know what lessons Islam is going to teach all of us,”
    That is an understatement and not for the better.

  13. infidel says

    Sep 13, 2018 at 11:39 pm

    I have been saying this for long and LET ME REPEAT IT: The biggest mistake the Greater West is doing today and has been doing for decades is to make artists and sports-people as the TOP ROLE MODELS of their society….Many of these Sports and Artist superstars, while no doubt excelling in their respective realms, are men and women of flawed characters AND TOTALLY UNFIT TO LEAD SOCIETY. Artists, esp the way they are wired, do not have much governing skills and their views on politics are often more RIGHTS BASED than RESPONSIBILITY BASED and often their solutions to many REAL WORLD PROBLEMS are very simplistic to say the least!! Both Artists and Sports-people need to be very selfish to rise to the top and often they end up with one rule for themselves and one rule for others. They also are masters in changing their stances according to the prevailing polity so as to not jeopardize their endorsements and contracts and favourable perception.. Hollywood has been SINGULARLY responsible for the moral collapse of the society and family in the Greater West. It is the teachers and the farmers and the soldiers, who are the real rolemodels … It is high time the West rectifies this, else it will just self destruct. These opoid artists and the megalomaniac sportsstarts are going to take Ur society NOWHERE!!!

    • infidel says

      Sep 13, 2018 at 11:46 pm

      Both artists and sports-people NEED LOTS of real resources from society in terms of patronage and time and what they give back in return is JUST PLAIN ENTERTAIMENT and not any real contribution in terms of actual work. Of course, some of the top ones do indulge in charity, but in the overall scheme of things, sports and art are JUST PLAIN ENTERTAINMENT and DO NOT SOLVE society’s immediate problems. Now that does not mean that there should be no sports or music as I myself am a huge sports and music lover…But we need to set our priorities right and not put these artists and sportsmen at the top of the society and reward them with mindless contracts. Many times, these mindless contracts are just rewarding BAD AND IRRESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR. Our True role models are the ones that do the yard yakka and give real productivity back to society.. OUR SOLDIERS, FARMERS, TEACHERS, SCIENTISTS etc etc..

  14. infidel says

    Sep 14, 2018 at 12:51 am

    Mike Tyson once made this famous statement when he was asked as to he has landed himself in so many problems.. He said: ” U took the black boy straight out of the ghetto and then U gave him a million dollars”

  15. Douglas McRill says

    Sep 14, 2018 at 12:56 am

    The devils disciples are working together relentlessly to further evil in this world. He claims none of what we see us true Islam, and yet Muhammad was a war lord and he butchered and slaughtered and raped and pillaged and enslaved and was a pedophile. This man knows all this. How could he not. He is a liar and and fraud doing the work of Satan to further evil in the world

  16. Richard Kruse says

    Sep 14, 2018 at 4:51 am

    “True Islam” is Islam as muhammad would have it. He would be beaming with pride at the accomplishments of ISIS.

  17. DexDecuman says

    Sep 14, 2018 at 4:59 am

    Pope Francis by not condemning the paedo hierarchy in the Catholic Church has set the church on a downward spiral to non-existance…..
    Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Matthew 7:15-23

  18. Linda Goudsmit says

    Sep 14, 2018 at 6:04 am

    Let’s review – disgraced pedophile Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is an apologist for Islam. Islam endorses pedophilia – where is the surprise in that? The Catholic Church can only resurrect its credibility by ridding itself of those within its ranks who disgrace the institution and destroy its infrstructure including the current Pope.

  19. J.W.K. says

    Sep 14, 2018 at 5:57 pm

    What a disgusting excuse for a human being. Perhaps he was looking for those “precious little pearls” to cozy up to and make pillow talk with, God forbid!

  20. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Sep 14, 2018 at 7:12 pm

    Re:
    “We know what Islam is and we know what lessons Islam is going to teach all of us.”

    Yes, indeed we do LOL!

    Was Muhammad Honest? Islam’s Sealed Nectar Explained!

    http://unclevladdi.blogspot.com/2018/09/was-muhammad-honest-islams-sealed.html

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