Mosque near Ground Zero - Verbal Diarrhea - Part TWO ( Archived) (611)

Interesting read though.

Not quite correct Stress me old friend. Sharia Courts are formed as Tribunials under the Arbitration Act of 1996. They only have limited (civil) cases under which that the can 'arbitrate', but of course, give them an inch and they'll take ten miles.

Sheikh Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi, whose Muslim Arbitration Tribunal runs the courts, said he had taken advantage of a clause in the Arbitration Act 1996.

Under the act, the sharia courts are classified as arbitration tribunals. The rulings of arbitration tribunals are binding in law, provided that both parties in the dispute agree to give it the power to rule on their case.

Siddiqi said: “We realised that under the Arbitration Act we can make rulings which can be enforced by county and high courts. The act allows disputes to be resolved using alternatives like tribunals. This method is called alternative dispute resolution, which for Muslims is what the sharia courts are.”

This does not sound like a man who wants to promote good will...

Ground Zero Mosque Imam: US Bloodier Than al-Qaida
Tuesday, 24 Aug 2010 01:58 PM Article Font Size


In a taped speech now available online, Iman Rauf makes a number of statements that would seem to counter his image as a moderate in the U.S. Muslim community.

"We tend to forget, in the West, that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than al-Qaida has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims,” he says at one point. “You may remember that the U.S.-led sanctions against Iraq led to the death of over half a million Iraqi children. This has been documented by the United Nations. And when Madeleine Albright, who has become a friend of mine over the last couple of years, when she was Secretary of State and was asked whether this was worth it, said it was worth it."

Rauf went on to recommend Michael Moore's provocative documentary, "Fahrenheit 9/11." Asked why Muslims commit suicide bombings, Rauf downplayed the role of Islam and instead placed them in a political framework, suggesting that in some cases they may be a legitimate military tactic:

“ . . . What makes people, in my opinion, commit suicide for political reasons have their origins in politics and political objectives and worldly objectives rather than other worldly objectives, he said. "But the psychology of human beings and the brittleness of the human condition and how many of us have thought about taking our own lives, we may be jilted, had a bad relationship, you know, didn't get tenure at the university, failed an important course, there's a host of reasons why people feel so depressed with themselves that they are willing to contemplate ending their own lives. And if you can access those individuals and deploy them for your own worldly objectives, this is exactly what has happened in MUCH of the Muslim world."

Oh yeah...He's our buddy.

yes...he sure is. Free flights, free hotels and expenseds of $200 a day I think it is.