Hey fellows. Its been a bit of a while since I last posted on here, had a bit of busy week with study. This is an interesting development, the developer of the Ground zero mosque has Islamificative links.
Original article
here.
Ground Zero Mosque Developer and Muslim Brotherhood |
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Written by Alyssa A. Lappen |
Friday, 14 May 2010 16:13 |
The prospective developer of a $100 million, 13-story mosque 600 feet from Ground Zero presents himself as a
Muslim moderate (1). Yet Kuwait-born Faisal Abdul Rauf also boasts of his issue from an "Egyptian family steeped in
religious scholarship" (2). Indeed, Feisal Rauf's Muslim Brotherhood provenance, radical by definition, is as authentic as it gets.
Rauf's
father, Dr. Muhammad Abdul Rauf (1917-2004) - an Egyptian contemporary of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna - conveyed to Feisal his family's long tradition of radicalism, which he
acquired at Islam's closest equivalent to the Vatican, Al-Azhar University. The
elder Dr. Rauf studied and taught there before fleeing Egypt in 1948. That year, Feisal Abdul Rauf was born in Kuwait.
Feisal Rauf has planned for some time to further develop his father's U.S. Islamic expansionism. In 1990, Rauf opened the tiny al-Farah Mosque at 245 West Broadway in lower Manhattan. Area residents did not even notice the mosque until 2006, when the
New York State Liquor Authority (SLA)
refused to license a new bar on the same block and started yanking others' liquor licenses (3).
Rauf attended grammar school and high school in the UK and Malaysia, according to his biography. He probably first lived in America only in 1965, at age 17, when his father moved from Malaysia to New York to plan and head the Islamic Cultural Center (not built until the
mid-1980s) (4). Rauf then obtained a BS in physics at Columbia University (5). In 1971, the family moved to Washington, D.C., where Rauf'sfather headed the Islamic Center on
Massachusetts Ave. (6) His father, buried in Suitland, MD, at the
for-profit Washington
National Cemetery, also founded three Malaysian Islamic studies programs, including the International Islamic University of Malaysia (7).
Rauf's early UK education and familiarization with American popular culture and values made him an acutely adept practitioner of Islamic taqiyya - deceptive speech and action to advance the interests and supremacy of Islam (8). To further that Islamic advancement, Rauf in 1997 established the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA). His Kashmir-born wife Daisy Kahn, an interior designer by profession, has run the organization since 2005 (9).