..."The reality is some Muslims are uneasy but I believe that that is God's will. I really believe that some of us feel, Muslims and non-Muslims, because I have talked to some of my non-Muslim friends, and they feel that what is happening with all these situations, the mosque in New York situation, the Florida situation with Pastor [Terry] Jones all of these things, if we continue to take them with the right spirit, it will bring us closer and make us more sensitive," he said.
He also called on those supporting the Reverend Jones' now dropped plans to burn Qurans in Florida and those opposed to the proposal for a mosque near the site of the terrorist attacks in New York to better understand Islam.You'd be better off educating other Muslims, I think, since they're the ones who keep pursuing a terrorist agenda and putting a lie to the claim that Islam is a religion of peace (and unicorns and kittens and other adorable, non-threatening things). Me? I've come to understand Islam and its central tenet of jihad in a particularly idiosyncratic--but I think smack on the money--way. Islam is like...the card game Hearts. If you aren't familiar with it (I am because I spent much of my last year of High School playing it), the game works something like this: the object, most of the time, is to get rid of all your cards, and have the lowest possible score. However, if you have been dealt the kind of hand such that you think you have enough cards in the heart suit to win every hand, and sufficent sang-froid to try to do so, you attempt to "Shoot the Moon" (yes, that's really what it's called).
"Those individuals have to come to understand what Islam is about, and understand that Islam is not anti-American, to be Muslim is not anti-American," said Imam Ben Abdul-Haqq.
Ide Bilo, a nursing student from Niger at the University of the District of Columbia, said he felt Islam was being manipulated by many American politicians before important congressional elections in November.
"These topics are hot topics here, topics that some politicians use to get people to vote for them," said Bilo. "Because of all the terrorist actions that are going on in the world, the Iraq war, the Afghanistan war, all these issues come together, because Islam is misunderstood, and most Americans do not even have a Muslim friend, most of them they do not understand Islam."
He said it was also up to him and other Muslims to reach out and better educate Americans to show them Islam is a religion of peace, and not the religion of terrorism...
So far in history, Islam via the jihad has successfully "shot the moon" on two previous occasions: the first time by Arabs; the second time by Ottomans. We are now in the midst of the third attempt, which, by all appearances, seems to be going pretty well so far. And why shouldn't it, when you consider the terrific hand the jihadists have been dealt: Western (especially European) self-loathing/decadence that gives rise to political correctness and moral relativism; the wealth beyond imagining of Saudi Arabia and Gulf oil states, an affluence that allows it to buy influence in the West and export Wahhabism world-wide; Barack Obama--though not a Muslim, certainly someone who has shown himself keen to debase himself to Muslim interests in the interest of "dialogue" and "outreach"--in the White House; a terrific "good cop"/"bad cop" routine going on ("good cop"--Iman Rauf and the interfaith bunch; "bad cop"--the jihadi terrorists) that keeps the infidels confused and off-balance; the UN taking its marching orders from its largest voting bloc, the 57 nation-strong Organization of the Islamic Conference; and, perhaps most crucially, humankind's pathological disinclination to (in T.S. Eliot's words) bear very much reality, which increases the likelihood of kafirs swallowing the "religion of peace" hogwash.
Now that's what I call a winning hand.
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