Resume-Enhancers

There are those who believe that further disclosure of the thirty-plus year wealth of anti-Semitic, jihadi-symp, Islamic Fundamentalist (apologies for the rendundancy) ravings of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf at this point would constitute piling on.  Blessedly, Commander Dyer is from the Bobby Bowden school of political moderation:

The Wall Street Journal today highlights (subscription required) a letter written by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf in 1977 after Anwar Sadat’s historic visit to Israel. WSJ quotes:

“For my fellow Arabs I have the following special message: Learn from the example of the Prophet Mohammed, your greatest historical personality. After a state of war with the Meccan unbelievers that lasted for many years, he acceded, in the Treaty of Hudaybiyah, to demands that his closest companions considered utterly humiliating. Yet peace turned out to be a most effective weapon against the unbelievers.”

Says the author:

He’s referring to a treaty in the year 628 that established a ten-year truce between the Prophet Muhammad and Meccan leaders and was viewed by Muslims at the time as a defeat. But Muhammad used that period to consolidate his ranks and re-arm, eventually leading to his conquest of Mecca. Imam Rauf seems to be saying that Muslims should understand Sadat’s olive branch in the same way, as a short-term respite leading to ultimate conquest.

Also interesting is Rauf’s view of Israel:

“In a true peace it is impossible that a purely Jewish state of Palestine can endure. . . . In a true peace, Israel will, in our lifetimes, become one more Arab country, with a Jewish minority.”

On the Iranian revolution, in a letter written in 1979:

“The revolution in Iran was inspired by the very principles of individual rights and freedom that Americans ardently believe in.”

The piece juxtaposes this with the Rauf’s widely reported advice to Obama in 2009 (after the Green Revolution protests) to:

“…say his administration respects many of the guiding principles of the 1979 revolution—to establish a government that expresses the will of the people; a just government, based on the idea of Vilayet-i-faquih, that establishes the rule of law.”

WSJ points out that Vilayet-i-faquih “means Guardianship of the Jurist, which in practice means that all power resides with the mullahs.”

And here's the punchline:

Queried for comment, Rauf responded as follows:

“It is amusing that journalists are combing through letters-to-the-editor that I wrote more than thirty years ago, when I was a young man, for clues to my evolution. As I re-read those letters now, I see that they express the same concerns—a desire for peaceful solutions in Israel, and for a humane understanding of Iran—that I have maintained, and worked hard on, in the years since those letters were published.”

The swerve?  In that last quote, he's absolutely right.  From 1977 to now Rauf has been the same anti-Semitic, jihadi-symp Islamist.  He hasn't changed one jot or tittle.  The lone dent in his candor is that he purports to be willing to settle for conquering Israel and reducing the Jews (back) to a slave race, as opposed to the mullahgarchy's "humane" nuclear Final Solution.  And because he isn't strapping on bomb jackets beneath his robes, he's got the American Left eating the dhimmi food out of his hand (think about it....) - in the name of "religious freedom" - and paying him our money for the privilege.  Heck, why would HE seek seventy-two virgindom?  He's far more value to The Cause right propagandizing right where he is.  They're getting their Islamic Victory Monument at Ground Zero, aren't they?

Mayhap they will, mayhap they won't:

The mosque developers are tax deadbeats.

Sharif El-Gamal, the leading organizer behind the mosque and community center near Ground Zero, owes $224,270.77 in back property tax on the site, city records show.

El-Gamal’s company, 45 Park Place Partners, failed to pay its half-yearly bills in January and July, according to the city Finance Department.

The delinquency is a possible violation of El-Gamal’s lease with Con Edison, which owns half of the proposed building site on Park Place. El-Gamal owns the other half but must pay taxes on the entire parcel.

This comes after a rap sheet slimier than camel drool.

Pregnant point to ponder: How's Mohammed's Middle Finger going to get built with problems borne of scumbags like this stoutly standing in the way?  That one's rhetorical, and leads to the true exit query: Who's gonna pony up for GZM - Rauf's shady sources, U.S. taxpayers (as "reparations" for the "Islamophobic bigotry" of the American people), or all of the above?  We're already paying Rauf to panhandle around the Middle East, and we're already subsidizing the construction of numerous mosques all over the world (in the name of "religious liberty"); would it really be much of a stretch?