“Bob,\u00a0 you have written a lot about Imam Feisal Rauf, accusing him of being a Radical Muslim who believes in Jihad,\u00a0 but I have heard that the man is a moderate.”<\/p>\n
That is correct.\u00a0 You have heard <\/em>such an appraisal.\u00a0 It\u2019s not true, but, yes, you heard<\/em> it.\u00a0 The only evidence for Rauf being moderate is that he calls himself one.\u00a0 And yet, his alleged moderation refuses to label Hamas a terrorist organization.\u00a0 The Hamas charter not only denies the right of Israel to exist but calls for the extermination of Jews all over the world. <\/em><\/strong>Shouldn’t this fact end our discussion?\u00a0 Do we even need to mention other things, like Rauf’s connections with Muslim Brotherhood (whose stated goal is to make the entire world Sharia compliant) or his belief that America was partly responsible for 9\/11?<\/p>\n I realize Mr. and Mrs. Rauf are good looking and charming and they both smile a lot.\u00a0 The Associated Press sure likes to point this out. They have a snapshot of Rauf\u2019s smiling mug in the midst of his current overseas trip. Next to the picture is a caption telling us that he is smiling. Not that it wasn\u2019t already a great big, obvious smile, but I guess this was just their loving way of saying, \u201cGee,\u00a0 the guy doesn\u2019t really look so bad.\u201d<\/p>\n Yeah, he must be a moderate if he smiles. I heard the same thing when Iranian dictator Ahmadinnejad was interviewed by Mike Wallace: \u201cHe looked good. He smiled.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to view him as a liar or a murderer when he smiles.\u201d<\/p>\n I won’t insult the intelligence of my readers by commenting on the smile thing as I’m sure they’ve seen films of Hitler and his Nazis also smiling.\u00a0 You probably remember a lot of smiling bullies in school as well. Instead, I will remind everyone that Mohammad himself told his followers that lying was permitted during times of war and frankly, Muslims see themselves at war quite often.<\/p>\n \u201cLying is wrong, except in three things; the lie of a man to his wife to make her content with him, a lie to an enemy, for war is deception, or a lie to settle trouble between people.\u201d (Hadith, Mussnad Ahmad 6:459.\u00a0 See Also, Surah 3:28)<\/p>\n I’m sure there are many tricks to pulling off a convincing lie . I’m sure smiling is included amongst those skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Bob,\u00a0 you have written a lot about Imam Feisal Rauf, accusing him of being a Radical Muslim who believes in Jihad,\u00a0 but I have heard that the man is a moderate.” That is correct.\u00a0 You…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-otherreligions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}