Rolf how often do you go to a mosque and listen to
an imam speak?
>> «if so many people can't tolerate something like that, imagine how incensed they would be at the prospect of having a Muslim
imam speak at such a symbolic, emotionally - charged event as this.»
If so many people can't tolerate something like that, imagine how incensed they would be at the prospect of having a Muslim
imam speak at such a symbolic, emotionally - charged event as this.
While it may make sense to take a stand against the bigotry by having
an imam speak as one among many faiths, we know very well that the public will make fools of themselves and expose the ignorant nature of the other side of the coin.
A guest
imam spoke about the challenges of extending the spirit of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, which ended a week earlier, throughout the year.
Not exact matches
Imams and Muslims all across America have
spoken out against violence.
I don't because I know that many Muslim
imams and organizations
spoke out against the violence right after 9/11.
The remarks from Abdul Rauf, who has rarely
spoken to the media since his proposal for an Islamic center set off a firestorm of controversy this summer, came while the
imam is on a State Department - sponsored trip to the Middle East.
After prayers at al - Farah, the soft -
spoken imam would adjourn to a nearby Malaysian bistro with a handful of worshippers.
The confident and reassuring words of Feisal Abdul Rauf, the chairman of the Cordoba Initiative and the
imam of the Farah mosque in Lower Manhattan in his New York Times op - ed piece Tuesday, just four days shy of the ninth anniversary of the horrors of 9/11,
speak of a vision always dreamt of - and occasionally delivered - in this country.
Or are you just assuming no
imam ever has
spoken out against extremism because you base all of your opinions on the news, which hasn't chosen to extensively cover the views of
imams, seeing as we're not a Muslim country?
His claims about the
imam were countered by WSJ reporter The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, who noted Rauf
spoke at a memorial service in 2003 for Daniel Pearl, the Jewish WSJ reporter who was murdered by Al - Qaeda in Pakistan.
The event featured
imams, rabbis and pastors
speaking about the need for unity and deploring Mr. Trump's rhetoric.