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Irshad Manji’s WSJ Article on the Ground Zero Mosque August 30, 2010 - <http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/authors/id.162/author_detail.asp> Andrew McCarthy Print This <javascript:%20printVersion()> E-mail This <javascript:%20emailVersion()> <javascript:void(0);> http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/images/share.png ShareThis <javascript:void(0);> Comments <http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/comments.asp?id=7208> (1) http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/imgLib/20100829_IrshadManji.jpgAs those following the mosque debate may recall, I am an <http://www.nationalreview. com/articles/244349/which-islam-will-prevail-america-andrew-c-mccarthy> admirer of Irshad Manji (pictured), a real Muslim reformer. But I was disappointed in her <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703632304575451433090488678.h tml?mod=WSJ_article_related> op-ed in the Wall Street Journal this week, beginning with her above-it-all pronouncement that both the opponents and proponents have it wrong. (After painting the opposition as “antimosque crusaders” and the advocates as “warriors for tolerance,” it’s a bit rich to find Irshad decrying the “bombast” in the debate.) Omitting any mention of Imam Feisal Rauf’s <http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/243536/raufs-dawa-world-trade-center -rubble-andrew-c-mccarthy> ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, his <http://pajamasmedia.com/michaelledeen/2010/08/23/imam-raufs-love-of-iranian -democracy/> praise for the prinicples of Khomeini’s 1979 Iranian revolution, his <http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/245004/why-they-can-t-condemn-hamas- andrew-c-mccarthy> refusal to condemn Hamas, and his <http://bigpeace.com/cbrim/2010/08/17/ground-zero-mosques-hidden-websites-fo llow-the-shariah/> promotion of sharia (and mind you, Irshad expressed consternation about the Brotherhood, Khomeini, and sharia in her <http://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Islam-Today-Muslims-Reform/dp/0312327005/ref= sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282309261&sr=1-1> book), Irshad conclusorily asserts that Rauf is “not an Islamist” but “a man of dialogue.” Then, after blasting Rauf’s “insensitivity” in insisting on having the mosque near Ground Zero - because she is “offended by its proximity to the site of 9/11″ (does that make Irshad an “antimosque crusader”?) - she lists several of the things about which we are suspicious, but in the dark, regarding Rauf’s project: Will it discriminate against women? Will it extend reciprocal tolerance to non-Islamic religious rites? Will it reaffirm Islam’s intolerance of homosexuals, apostates, and non-believers? Will it make gestures of inclusion to the likes of Salman Rushdie, condemned to death by Khomeini’s fatwa? This is incoherent. Every Muslim terrorist is an Islamist, but not every Islamist is a terrorist. You can be a “man of dialogue” and still be an Islamist if your agenda is to spread sharia. Does Rauf want to spread sharia? His record certainly suggests that he does. To know with certainty, though, we would need straight answers to the questions Irshad poses. But we don’t have them, do we? And Rauf is obviously not anxious to provide them, notwithstanding that answers displaying enlightened tolerance could assuage a lot of people’s concerns. Meaning … we’re entitled to infer that, if he would deign to respond, Rauf would give Islamist answers - although he would no doubt do it in his clever, ingratiating manner. Irshad’s got the cart before the horse. Wouldn’t it be better first to press Rauf on the important questions she has posed, and then to decide whether he’s an Islamist? <http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/> FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributor <http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/authors/id.162/author_detail.asp> Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at the <http://nrinstitute.org/> National Review Institute, author of <http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=1594032130> Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad and most recently <http://www.amazon.com/dp/1594033773?tag=familysecur08-20&camp=213381&creati ve=390973&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=1594033773&adid=1521DZ5NZAM7NBNWNE4Y&> The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America. He blogs at National Review Online's <http://corner.nationalreview.com/> The Corner. _____ India has been a land of tolerance welcoming all religions and assimilating them in the Indian culture from times immemorial. Unfortunately while the Jews, the Zorastrians from Iran and the Christians picked up the Indian ethos and assimilated, many of the followers of Islam did not and that resulted in the division of the country into India and Pakistan.After all Quran calls for the believers to rule over the unbelievers! The strict adherence to Quran and Hadiths by the followers of Islam and their refusal to challenge or change even a word of Quran (as they believe it is God given and cannot be altered) irrespective of the age or society in which the believers live in is the cause why one is vary of Islam. USA should learn a lesson from India which got divided due to the intolerance of strict adherents of Islam. Irshad Manji should do some research on the Quran and Hadith and bring out a version which is acceptable to a multicultural, multi-religious society of the 21st century instead of the ONE given out for a warring tribes of desert Arabia 1400 years ago. 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