Muzammil Siddiqi
Muzammil Siddiqi is the former head of the Islamic Society of North America and currently head imam of the Islamic Center of Orange County. He is arguably the most influential Muslim leader in America. He is active in interfaith events and is accepted as a true moderate Muslim by the establishment-including Rusty Kennedy of the OC Human Relations Commission, who presented Siddiqi with a community leader award a couple of years back that drew protests.
Siddiqi, in many ways, could be lumped together with those Muslims who have no violent intent but envision the day that Islam will take over due to peaceful means like outreach, proselytizing, immigration, intermarriage and changing demographics. The model or template can be found in Europe. People like Siddiqi know they will never live to see the day it comes about, but they consider it as part of their duty to advance the cause however far they can while on this earth. Here is what Siddiqi had to say on the subject a few years ago (Hat tip IPT).
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/45.pdf
"We must not forget that Allah's rules
have to be established in all lands, and all our
efforts should lead to that direction."
So you might say, "But Gary, don't devout evangelical Christians proselytize in order to save all men's souls? Don't Mormons do the same with their overseas missions? They even baptize dead people as Mormons."
True. Except that Christians have gotten away from that old idea of the Middle Ages-you know burning heretics at the stake and fighting the Crusades. Of course, Siddiqi doesn't advocate things like that as far as I know.
The question that must be asked of people like Siddiqi is what happens when, theoretically, Muslims become the overwhelming majority in the West. Let's say sharia law replaces the US Consitution. What happens to non-Muslims? Are they given dhimmi staus and allowed to practiced their faith as second-class citizens and pay the jizya tax? What happens if they refuse to convert or accept dhimmi status? Well, Islamic law has the answer to that question too. I'll leave you in suspense and let you look it up if you have to.
To be sure, Siddiqi doesn't engage in the inflammatory rhetoric of others like Amir Abdel Malik Ali or Abdul Alim Musa. Yet he shared a stage with Musa in October 2000 at the Washington Al Quds Day events. Another person who spoke that day was Abdur Rahman Alamoudi, who is now serving a 23-year sentence on terror-related charges. On September 9, 2001, two days before 9-11, Siddiqi and Musa shared the podium with Anwar al Awliki at a benefit event at UC Irvine for convicted cop-killer H. Rap Brown (aka Jamil Abdullah al Amin). In addition, the organization he previously headed (ISNA) is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
No, I am not suggesting that Siddiqi had any links to 9-11, but there are links between the late Awlaki to some of the 9-11 hijackers as well as to Major Nidal Hasan of Ft Hood fame.
But let us give Siddiqi the benefit of the doubt. Let's say Siddiqi is only dreaming of a far-off day when Islam will peacefully come to power in America, install sharia law, and everybody will be happy under the great big world-wide caliphate. I would say to Siddiqi that you are free to wordhip and dream of that if you like and even express it. It's a free country.
But we will remain a free country because that dream of yours will never come to pass in America.
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Any more monsters hiding in your anxiety closet Gary?
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