Goodbye Tashbih

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tashbih_Sayyed


From Jihad Watch:

Tashbih Sayyed was that most rare of human beings: a man absolutely fearless in his commitment to the truth. After 9/11, American Muslim advocacy groups began, with the willing complicity of the mainstream media, to flood the airwaves with a huge mass of disinformation and misinformation about jihad activity in the United States and around the world, and above all about its provenance within Islamic theology and tradition. Instead of acknowledging that there was a mandate to wage war against unbelievers that was rooted in the Qur'an and Islamic tradition, Islamic spokesmen routinely denied this, and castigated those who contended otherwise as "bigots" and "Islamophobes."

Amid all this Tashbih stood virtually alone as an honest man. He stood out sharply among contemporary Muslim spokesmen and activists by admitting that there was a problem within Islam that needed to be solved. As he once told me: "My whole life is devoted to one end: to make the Muslims understand that their theology needs to be reformed and reinterpreted. Anybody who thinks that there's nothing wrong with their theology is either a blind person or an apologist. There are many things in Muslim Scripture that need to be reshaped and reframed and reinterpreted, so that they cannot be used by terrorists to justify homicide bombings and honor killings."

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Hey Time. You forgot about Bush.

Time Magazine's top 100 most influential people in the world includes folks like:

Tiny Fey
Justin Timberlake
Usama bin Laden
Rosie O'Donnell
Brad Pitt
Kate Moss
Hillary Clinton
Fidel Castro's brother
Nancy Pelosi
Barack Obama

But no President Bush?

Okay so we have a guy who wants to be President of the United States, but not the President of the United States? What kind of logic is this? I'll tell you what kind of logic it is, the batty kind. Last year I came to the conclusion that TIME was just another Newsweek. Their coverage of the war in Iraq was completely one-sided. I can see why so many people are against the war, especially when they get their news from sources like this.

I was happy to see Tony Dungie on the list.

"World Press Freedom Press Day"

BEAKING: Oprah is endorsing Obama

Umm...Of course she does.

Florida Man Sues to Halt Mosque Construction, Claims Terrorism Ties

MIAMI — A man fighting the opening of a mosque in his suburban neighborhood filed a lawsuit Tuesday to try and halt construction, a move derided by Arab leaders as anti-Muslim.

Rodney Wright, who is Christian, claims the relocation of the Islamic Center of South Florida to a new, larger building in his Pompano Beach neighborhood "presents a substantial harm to the well-being, safety and health" of the community.

The lawsuit claims the leader of the mosque, Imam Hassan Sabri, has repeatedly been associated with others who are tied to terrorist groups including Hamas, Al Qaeda and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The connections outlined in the filing appear loose and there is no accusation of direct wrongdoing.

Sabri has not been charged with any criminal wrongdoing and neither he nor his mosque have been the target of any publicized investigation. The imam did not return a call seeking comment.

Larry Klayman, the attorney for Wright, said the filing does not amount to an anti-Muslim action but maintained that the mosque sacrificed public safety.

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