Why Can’t the MSM Investigate Rauf’s Shariah Index Project?

http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/08/25/why-can%E2%80%99t-the-msm-investigate-rauf%E2%80%99s-shariah-index-project/

2010 August 25

by NewsReal Blog

by Carel Brendel

The Shariah Index Project seeks to address the religion-politics relationship question that has racked the Muslim World since the death of the Prophet Muhammad. …

After two years of work, the Shariah Index Project’s Sunni and Shi’a working team of legal scholars from Morocco to Indonesia achieved consensus on a final structure on philosophy, methodology, and approach to providing the general public, opinion leaders, and state officials in both the Muslim and Western World with an Islamic legal benchmark for measuring “Islamicity” of a state.

On their website you can only find pieces of information about the Shariah Index Project, one of the main activities of the Cordoba Initiative, the organization of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. But thanks to Christine Brim, chief operating officer at the Center for Security Policy, we know now a lot more about it.

Brim published a very informative background article, exposing the Shariah benchmark project run by the “close-to-Ground-Zero” imam.

Read the full article.