DNC Proceeds With 2-Hour Islamic ‘Jumah’ Prayers After
Rejecting Cardinal’s Blessing (And You Won‘t Believe Who’s Invited))
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 8:25pm by Erica Ritz
The Democratic National Committee is raising a number of eyebrows after
choosing to proceed with hosting Islamic “Jumah” prayers for two hours
on the Friday of its convention, though it denied a Catholic cardinal’s
request to say a prayer at the same event.
The event is being promoted on the official Charlottein2012.com page.
Watch the promotional video, via the Bureau of Muslim Affairs, which is
partnering with the DNC for the event.
The first two minutes are rather dry, but around 2:04
a muezzin sings the call to prayer with an American flag background, and
the video “picks up” considerably:
In particular, the event will target the Patriot Act,
the NYPD, the National Defense Authorization Act, and anti-Shariah
sentiment.
And while Muslim-Americans undeniably face distinct
challenges, those who are well-informed on the dangers of radical Islam
are expressing their doubts about the event.
(Photo: Bureau of Indigenous Muslim Affairs)
The leaders of this event – Jibril Hough and Imam
Siraj Wahhaj [are not] moderates. They are radicals. These individuals
embrace Islamist supremacy and have demonstrated support for radical
ideologies.
A quick Google search by the DNC would have shown them that Hough and
Wahhaj are leaders in the separatist American Islamist movement. While
they may be able to get a few thousand Muslims to attend the event, they
are NOT going to be mainstream Muslims. Most will likely come from Hough
and Wahhaj’s radical networks that have long been entrenched in the
Charlotte area. Make no mistake they are part of the Islamist movement.
Their jummah (group) prayer is…about empowering their
Islamist and MB sympathetic groups into the very fabric of the political
system so that Americans become anesthetized. We need American Muslims
to speak up and marginalize these radicals. The DNC needs to understand
and reject them because of their radical history and ideas.
(Photo: Bureau of Indigenous Muslim Affairs)
The mosque of Jibril Hough, mentioned by Dr. Jasser,
is owned by the North American Islamic Trust, which was named as an
unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial as one of
the entities “who are and/or were members of the U.S. Muslim
Brotherhood.”
Siraj Wahhaj, the “Grand Imam” for Jumah at the DNC,
is often considered a “moderate” because he was the first Muslim to give
an invocation in the U.S. Congress, but as Robert Spencer notes, he has
a number of troubling ties to dangerous radicals. In the early 1990′s
the man reportedly sponsored talks by “the Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdel-Rahman
in New York and New Jersey mosques, and told his followers that the
United States will fall unless it “accepts the Islamic agenda.”
Wahhaj elaborated, according to bestselling author
Brigitte Gabriel, to say: “If only Muslims were clever politically, they
could take over the United States and replace its constitutional
government with a caliphate.”
He continued: “Take my word. If 6-8 million Muslims
unite in America, the country will come to us.”
When an imam like Siraj Wahhaj says “it his duty and
our duty as Muslims to replace the US Constitution with the Quran…we
need to speak up!” Dr. Jasser reiterated in response, adding that
Americans “should be concerned” if this is who the DNC is “consorting
with.”
Robert Spencer speculates that the Democrat National
Committee is simply so “in thrall with multiculturalism” that “few, if
any” are even aware of the radical connections.
“To raise any concerns about such a speaker would be ‘Islamophobic,’
violating every rule of the anti-American, anti-Western ethos that
prevails among so many Democrats today,” Spencer writes.
He concluded: “There is about as much chance of that
as there is of the Democrats ditching Obama and nominating David
Horowitz as their candidate for President of the United States.”
