"They are cancer in everywhere, in every generation as they get in power. People turn their face, and they know they are tyrants, they know they are oppressors. They know that they kill the children of Muslim[s] all the time. But everybody permits it because they controlling the money and the position in the whole entire world."
- Imam Mustafa Elazabawy
As previously reported, certain Islamists in the US have lodged complaints about the 9-11 Memorial Museum's video which refers to Islamists and jihadists. They say it casts an unfair light on Islam and Muslims.
One of the imams protesting is Mustafa Elazabawy of Manhattan. However, it seems that Elazabawy is not shy about casting dispersions on other faiths. Steve Emerson has the report in family Security Matters.
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/imam-pushing-to-sanitize-911-museums-al-qaida-film-slurs-jews
Here is the letter (via Investigative Project on Terrorism) signed by Elazabawy.
Can you say, "hypocrite"?
2 comments:
He has no problem attacking Jews in general for all the ills in the world but he wants us to make a distinction between al-Qaida and Islam... as if they were different entities. I wonder if he ever condemned the 9-11 attack. None of the leading imams in the middle east (or anywhere else) that I know of ever spoke out and condemned the attack.
There was no expression of outrage by Muslims over the 9-11 attack (or any other Muslim attack). They even gave out candy to kids in celebration in Gaza.
If we avoid saying the name of our enemy, we will never have a coherent policy of defending ourselves or defeating them.
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given the content of the video, museum visitors who do not have a very sophisticated understanding of the issues could easily come away equating al-Qaeda with Islam generally. We continue to posit that the video may very well leave viewers with the impression that all Muslims bear some collective guilt or responsibility for the actions of al-Qaeda, or even misinterpret its content to justify bigotry or even violence toward Muslims or those perceived to be Muslim (e.g., Sikhs)
It seems his concern is no more and no less than something Gary Fouse has been at great pains to make clear... that al Qaeda is not representative of all Muslims, and Muslims should not be perceived ipso facto and as a group to be terrorists.
The critique of the film may or may not be valid, video of the film was not posted with the letter, but if this is hypocrisy, then Gary is a hypocrite every time he writes the caveat 'I know there are many good patriotic American Muslims and all Muslims don't support terrorism..."
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