Another Inter-faith Fiasco

Hat tip Frontpage Magazine


Ryan Mauro has a report in Frontpage Magazine about a big interfaith event in Texas this month featuring some very questionable characters including the Islamic Society of North America.

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ryan-mauro/texas-mega-church-leader-partners-with-muslim-brotherhood-front/

There is nothing I need add to Siraj Wahhaj. Mauro has covered it fully. Ditto for the ISNA. As for Jamal Badawi, he is one of some 200 Muslim leaders in America who have received and refused to sign the Freedom Letter from Former Muslims United asking them to sign a declaration that American apostates from Islam should not be harmed.

The idea of interfaith activities is noble on its surface. However, it requires people of good faith on all three sides. All too often, however, the Muslim participants have a history of questionable associations and statements as is the case here. In addition, in many cases, the Jewish and Christian leaders are so far off the wall to the left that you wonder what their agenda is-or they are just plain gullible and easy to take advantage of.

So what is it with this Bob Roberts character and his concern about "Christian Zionsits"? That brings to mind Pastor Ed Bacon of the All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, who hosted the annual Muslim Public Affairs Council convention last December, where he referred to the history of the Christian church being littered with acts of evil and listed "Evangelical Zionists" along with the Crusades, slavery, Jim Crow, and the Holocaust as being examples. That can be heard in the second link below after the 1 hour mark.

http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2012/12/mpac-convention-at-all-saints-church-in.html

http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2013/01/more-video-on-mpac-conference-at-all.html

Another notable interfaith controversy has been going on in Boston, where the Islamic Cultural Center of Boston (Roxbury) became the focus of critics due to their questionable associations with folks like Yusuf al Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. Charles Jacobs of Americans for Peace and Tolerance was vilified by Jewish leaders and rabbis in the Boston community  for exposing the Roxbury Center's ties because they (Jewish leaders and rabbis)  were involved in interfaith events with the Islamic center.

It might be noted that the Roxbury Center's sister mosque was the Cambridge Mosque, previously attended by Tamarlan Tsarnaev.