Hat tip Investigative Project on Terrorism, Algemeiner, and Deb
As a resident of Orange County, I am cross-posting the below article by Steven Emerson with concern. As we watched the latest round of fighting between Israel and Hamas, we have witnessed alarming outbreaks of Jew-hatred, both in our country and Europe.
Now we have an imam from a local mosque in Orange County literally calling for blood in a despicable sermon. His name is Tarik Ata, of the Orange County Islamic Foundation in Mission Viejo, and he is another Muslim leader who masquerades as a responsible figure.
While Ata had never come to my attention previously, the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California has often been featured on this site. This is the so-called happy face of Muslim leadership in Southern California, posing as moderates while consistently carrying water for the enemies of the US and Israel.
In 2017, Ata gave a sermon in which he condemned a recent attack in New York, as well as Al Qaeda and ISIS. Yet, at the same time, he said that Islam forbids such acts. This is the tact that so many Muslim religious leaders in America take. They condemn terrorism while assuring us it has nothing to do with Islam when all the evidence says otherwise. They are lulling us to sleep.
Another thing that distresses me about Ata is that he is American-born. Once I had hoped naively that there was hope in seeing more American-born imams in US mosques as opposed to the steady stream of imported Middle East imams who brought with them the medieval thinking of that region and a complete lack of knowledge or understanding of Western democracy and thought. Ata himself, while being born in the Chicago area, studied in Jordan. He obviously learned a lot there.
I can only hope that Jewish and Christian leaders here in Southern California who are so invested in inter-faith relations will learn their lesson, and at the very least, cease their association with individuals and organizations who engage in this kind of rhetoric. There is no way you can put a happy face on this.
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