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August 9, 2010
Ground Zero Mosque Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf: 'They Feel the Need to Conflagrate'
Topics: Political News and commentariesNRO has obtained another interview in which Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the leading figure behind the Cordoba House (the "Ground Zero mosque"), explains away terrorism - and if doesn't royally p*ss you off, nothing will (emphasis added):
[...] "They feel the feed to conflagrate," he says of Muslims who feel they've been "humiliated" and "ignored."Read more ...The interview was conducted for a Malaysia Matters podcast during the 2008 presidential campaign. (The Cordoba Initiative website references the podcast, but the provided link is dead.) While Rauf repeatedly positions himself as someone "trying to bridge the divide" between the West and the Muslim world, he also offers comments regarding the West's culpability for terror against it.
"Are you arguing, or am I misunderstanding you, that the slaps on the face, to use your term, from the Muslim world to the West, are all reactive to things that the West has done?" an interviewer asks.
"Predominantly, because the West is the global superpower. . . . It's the more powerful party in the relationship which sets the tone of the relationship," Rauf replies. "In terms of specific conflict, specific issues that have resulted in specific actions within recent history, those have to be tied in to the perceptions which were created around what people were actually reacting to at that given point in time."
When asked whether the U.S. bears "ultimate responsibility" for "any reactions," Rauf responds, "I wouldn't say ultimate. It's the one who leads in the dance."
Posted by Richard at August 9, 2010 5:51 PM
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