Saturday, May 11, 2013

US AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH HAMAS-CAIR AND OTHER MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD GROUPS AT OTTAWA MAIN MOSQUE, PROMISES TO FUND "FAMILY HONOR PROJECT"

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This is really BIZZAAR!!!!  

US AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH HAMAS-CAIR AND OTHER MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD GROUPS AT OTTAWA MAIN MOSQUE, PROMISES TO FUND "FAMILY HONOR PROJECT"

This is not Pakistan or Egypt, this is Canada. So why is the US Ambassador meeting with Muslim Brotherhood groups like CAIR in Canada and pledging American taxpayer dollars to fund Muslim projects there?
This is so bizarre. The only more peculiar aspect of it is his commitment to help fund the "Family Honour Project of the Muslim Family Resource Centre." I am sure it's not to save Muslim girls from honor killings. It's to laugh. It's to cry. 
Was this the mosque of the jihadis who were recently arrested in the massive terror plot to attack US and Canadian targets -- including a bacterial attack aimed at killing 100,000 people? Did the good Ambassador discuss that with this crowd, or was it all just Muslim grievance-mongering and the Newtown shooting?
US Ambassador Visits Ottawa Main Mosque Muslim Link, May 10, 2013 (thanks to Dal)
It was an evening of firsts as the Ottawa Main Mosque welcomed US Ambassador David Jacobson on his first official visit on April 8.
Almost 100 people attended the event titled “Strengthening Bridges & Working Together for a Better Future”.  Security was discreet and the question period was uncensored which was May_us_ambassadorunusual for a high-profile guest like the ambassador. But a unique set of circumstances had created the space for this gathering.  As Ambassador Jacobson explained at the beginning of his speech:
“On the 14th of December of last year, my country suffered a great tragedy, in Newtown, Connecticut, 27 people lost their lives at the hands of a deranged gunman, and among the 27 dead there were 24 very young children. A few days later, I received a card from Mrs. (Shano) Bejkosalaj (of the Ottawa Muslim Women’s Organization) and it was followed by an e-mail from the Imam (of the Ottawa Main Mosque), and they asked to meet in order to express their sympathy and their support. And so on January 4 this year, the Imam and Mrs. Bejkosalaj and Mrs. (Safaa) Fouda came to my office, they came in grief, they came in respect and most importantly of all, they came in solidarity. Because when children die senselessly, needlessly, tragically all of us serve as their parents. And to me that exemplified the connection between us. It wasn’t about national boundaries, it wasn’t about race, it wasn’t about religion. It was about people reaching out to people.”
Subsequently Ambassador Jacobson was invited to visit the Ottawa Main Mosque by the Ottawa Muslim Women’s Organization, the Ottawa Muslim Association (which runs the mosque), and the Council of American Islamic Relations-Canada (CAIR-CAN),  to engage in open discussion with the Muslim community.
In his opening speech, the envoy outlined a number of programs and partnerships that his embassy had undertaken with Canadian Muslim organizations. These included helping to fund the Family Honour Project of the Muslim Family Resource Centre in London, Ontario and collaborating with the Association of Progressive Muslims on an exchange for young Muslim community leaders to the US.
However, the focus of the event was the open discussion. Although respectful, the questions asked by participants did challenge US domestic and foreign policies on issues such as the rights of prisoners still in Guantanamo Bay, the treatment of Muslim-Canadians at the American border, attacks on Shia Muslims in Pakistan, US drone attacks in Northern Pakistan, the role of the US government in speaking out against Islamophobia, and the recognition of the State of Palestine.
Amb. Jacobson’s responses probably did not satisfy most present but the fact that people were able to ask questions so directly, without prior approval, was remarked upon.
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Throughout the discussion, Amb. Jacobson recognized participants as being both Canadian and Muslim and said he saw no contradiction in the duality of their identities. In an interview with the Muslim Link after the event, Amb. Jacobson made the following point:
“First of all the most fundamental tenet of American foreign policy is that the people of the United States have a good relationship with the people of every other country in the world. There are countries where our government and their government do not necessarily see eye to eye but everywhere Iran, North Korea, you name it, there is no space between the people of my country and the people of those countries.  There is no place where that is more true than the United States and Canada. And there are times when we have disagreements with governments, even here in Canada, but that doesn’t in any way draw a line between our two countries it just means that sometimes we have disagreements on certain policies. The second point is that if there is one thing that I have found in Canada it is that the best way to deal with these differences is through open and frank conversation. If we talk, if we listen, we are far more likely to come to the right conclusions and work out our differences.”

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