New Ground Zero Mosque Imam

Visit our News page The New Ground Zero Mosque Imam Lisa Piraneo, Director of Government Relations; Guy Rodgers, Executive Director; and Brigitte Gabriel, on the set of ACT! for America’s new television program. The networks airing the show have a presence in over 190 markets nationwide. Check your local listings for Family Net and ALN. The program premieres Feb. 5th at 2:30 PM ET on Family Net and Feb. 6th at 4:00 PM ET on ALN. We are being told Imam Rauf is no longer the imam of the Ground Zero Mosque. He's been replaced by Shaykh Abdallah Adhami. The NewsRealBlog column below by Joseph Klein provides some initial glimpses into Adhami's background. No quotes on sharia law yet but a lot of other smoke there. We're wondering if the line from The Who's hit song "Won't Get Fooled Again" is appropriate: "Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss." Have you added your name to our Keep America Safe and Free appeal to the new Congress? The New Ground Zero Mosque Imam Selection Rubs More Salt Into The Wound - Past Connections To Terrorist Supporters Exposed by Joseph Klein Posted on January 19 2011 4:49 pm http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/01/19/the-new-ground-zero-mosque-imam-selection-rubs-more-salt-into-the-wound/ Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is out as the religious face of the Park 51/Cordoba House mega mosque community center complex proposed to be built near Ground Zero. Rauf became too radioactive for the project's developers, so he was pushed aside. Despite efforts by some apologists to defend this faux 'moderate, the evidence of his true stealth jihad agenda was overwhelming. Therefore, to keep moving ahead with their Ground Zero mosque project, the developers turned to Shaykh Abdallah Adhami as Rauf's replacement. This is just like rubbing more salt into the wound. All that the new imam represents is a different mask hiding the same radical Islamist agenda. As Jamie Glazov wrote in his Front Page Magazine column, there is terror behind both Rauf's and Adhami's masks. Let's start with the fact, uncovered by Pamela Geller on her Atlas Shrugs blog, that the new Ground Zero Mosque imam has a deep admiration for Siraj Wahhaj, who was named as a possible co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and advocates the replacement of the U.S. government with an Islamic Caliphate. Adhami has called Wahhaj "Our Beloved Imam" and the "voice of the spirit of Islam in America and its pride." Imam Adhami's website Sakeenah has also carried a glowing description of Siraj Wahhaj: Imam Siraj Wahhaj is the first in the Celebrating Our Elders series. He was selected not simply because of his devoted leadership to the community, but also for his role as a pioneer in the American Muslim experience. Since the 1970s, Imam Siraj has tirelessly laid the foundations for many scholars and leaders that would follow him. From activism to challenges, to the Nation of Islam to revolutions, follow Imam Siraj as he retraces the footsteps of his life. I wonder if this retracing of Siraj's footsteps included his testifying as a character witness for convicted terror mastermind Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman or telling his Muslim audience in New Jersey that If we were united and strong, we'd elect our own emir [leader] and give allegiance to him. . . . [T]ake my word, if 6-8 million Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us. Maybe, to give the new Ground Zero Mosque imam the benefit of the doubt, he just wasn't aware of this side of Imam Siraj, although Adhami's website did mention favorably Siraj's association with the Nation of Islam. And maybe it's not fair to ascribe Siraj's radical views to Admani through a single episode of guilt by association. I might possibly be inclined to cut Imam Adhami a break if we were talking about only this one questionable association. But unfortunately that is not the case. For example, Shaykh Abdallah Adhami showed up as a guest speaker at the annual convention of the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP) back around Thanksgiving 200o. The theme of the convention was "All Palestine is Sacred!" Adhami was joined at the speakers' rostrum by Dr. Sami Al-Arian who pled guilty in 2006 to conspiracy to contribute services to or for the benefit of the Palestine Islamic Jihad. Defunct since 2005, the Islamic Association for Palestine was established in 1981 by Hamas operative Mousa Abu Marzook. Indeed, it functioned as a front for the terrorist organization Hamas. IAP was named in a May 1991 Muslim Brotherhood document -- titled "An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America" - as one of the Brotherhood's 29 likeminded "organizations of our friends." IAP was the parent organization of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which was co-founded in 1994 by Nihad Awad (IAP's President and Dr. Sami Al-Arian's brother-in-law). Awad has said "I am a supporter of the Hamas movement." Given the clear terrorist -supporting agenda of the Islamic Association for Palestine, why did the new Ground Zero Mosque imam Shaykh Abdallah Adhami agree to participate in this pro-Hamas group's annual convention and address the gathering? If Adhami wants to convince us that he has no hidden stealth jihad agenda, then he should release the transcript of his speech if it is still available. While he is at it, Adhami should also explain whom he was referring to during a speech of his in New York in 2008 when he attacked critics of Islam and Prophet Muhammad as engaging in Fraud that is being perpetuated now and spread among the entire world. Adhami actually labeled such criticism as "horribly unconstitutional and egregiously un-American." Obviously, the new Ground Zero Mosque imam has much to learn about our Constitution. He evidently does not realize that free speech is an essential part of what it means to be an American. The sponsors of the Ground Zero Mosque appear to have picked another stealth jihadist as the new face of their despicable plan to project Islamic power within shouting distance of hallowed ground. It's time to stop rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic and move the ship to another port. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACT for America P.O. 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