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February 05, 2007
What the hell is the DNC thinking?
Proving once again that politically-correct multi-culti sensitivity is their coin in trade, the Democrats invited a radical Muslim cleric to give the invocation at the winter conference of the Democratic National Committee.
Check out what the mullah said while the Dhimmis Dems bowed their heads in prayer.
In the name of God the most merciful, the most compassionate.
We thank you, God, to bless us among your creations. We thank you, God, to make us as a great nation. We thank you God, to send us your messages through our father Abraham and Moses and Jesus and Mohammed.
Through you, God, we unite. So guide us to the right path. The path of the people you bless, not the path of the people you doom.
Help us God to liberate and fill this earth with justice and peace and love and equality. And help us to stop the war and violence, and oppression and occupation. Amen.
According to Robert Spencer, this is a not-too-veiled threat to non-Muslims and Israel, although it's also a clear condemnation of the U.S. and Christians, too.
In mentioning "Abraham and Moses and Jesus and Mohammed" I expect that he sounded wonderfully generous and ecumenical to the assembled Democrats. But in fact, he was almost certainly invoking them in their capacity as Muslim prophets: it is mainstream Islam that all of these were prophets who taught Islam, and that the followers of Moses and Jesus corrupted their teachings to create Judaism and Christianity. The Qur'an says that Abraham was not a Jew or a Christian, but a Muslim (3:67), and depicts Jesus denying his own divinity (5:116) -- and this, of course, is the Imam's frame of reference. So what seems to be a gesture of ecumenical generosity is actually a declaration of religious imperialism and the delegitimization of other religions.
Also, imagine if a Christian priest or minister had prayed at a DNC meeting that those attending be guided away from the path of those doomed by God. In this, in any case, the Imam is echoing the Fatiha, the first sura of the Qur'an and most common prayer of Islam. It asks Allah: "Show us the straight path, the path of those whom Thou hast favoured; not the (path) of those who earn Thine anger nor of those who go astray." The traditional Islamic understanding of this is that the "straight path" is Islam ... The path of those who have earned Allah's anger are the Jews, and those who have gone astray are the Christians.
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It is interesting to see the Democrats standing with heads bowed piously while the Imam Husham Al-Husainy prays, in veiled terms to be sure, for their conversion to Islam, and oh yes, for the destruction of Israel ("And help us to stop the war and violence, and oppression and occupation").
I differ a bit from Spencer, in that I don't find it "interesting" to see the latest from the Dems; depressing, dispiriting, disturbing -- and, yes, infuriating.
It's as if we place our necks on the chopping blocks, expecting compliance when we ask for a little off the back and sides, instead of righteous decapitation.
Is it any wonder the Muslim clerics and their jihadi warriors have such contempt for the West?
Posted by Mike Lief at February 5, 2007 02:04 PM
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