Sahih Bukhari Volume 1, Book 12, Number 806:
Narrated Samura bin Jundab:
The Prophet used to face us on completion of the prayer.
Ha. 18k collected. $99982000 to go. We’ll see if this pans out. But I do think the whole experience is priceless, well worth the 18k they scrapped up from donation boxes. Specifically the direct anti-Islamic demonstrations, burnings, threats of bombs, and ridiculous statements from elected officials are a wakeup call for Muslims to reevaluate their ‘assimilation’ and ‘integration’ policies.
http://slatest.slate.com/id/2264490/entry/1/
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Bill Kristol may win this round. On Wednesday, the conservative columnist stated plainly, “There will be no thirteen-story mosque near Ground Zero.” He’s probably right—not because the political panic-mongering is going to shut the project down, but because it’s going to collapse under the weight of its planners’ incompetence. Politico reports that the Cordoba Project hasn’t even begun raising money for the project. The group needs about $100 million; it has $18,255. It also lacks “even the most basic real estate essentials,” like a blueprint, an architect, and an engineer. The group’s spokesman says that while they might build the cultural center with foreign money, they would prefer to use domestic funds. But “currently, they have none of either.” And they’re not likely to come up with much, either in the way of cash or professional expertise, with their project in the middle of a political flame war. Even a source who Politico described as a “prominent supporter of the project” is less than impressed. “This is amateur hour,” he said. “That’s why the idea that this is some big conspiracy is so silly. You could say this is not a well-oiled machine.”
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I’m keeping a list of bigoted statements by lawmakers and other officials recognized by the major political parties.
SEN. HARRY REID: My statement, I think, is pretty simple. Constitution gives us freedom of religion. I think that it’s very obvious that the mosque should be built someplace else, and that’s what I said.
GOV. DAVID PATERSON: “I think it’s rather clear that building a center there meets all the requirements, but it does seem to ignite an immense amount of anxiety among the citizens of New York and people everywhere, and I think not without cause,” Paterson said in a news conference in Manhattan.
LT. GOV. RON RAMSEY: Now, you know, I’m all about freedom of religion. I’ll obey the First Amendment as much as I obey the Second Amendment, as much as I’ll obey the Tenth Amendment, and on and on and on. But then you cross the line when they start trying to bring Sharia law here to the States, into the United States. We’re already in law, and we live under our Constitution, and they probably live under our Constitution. But it’s scary. Now, you could even argue whether being a Muslim is actually a religion, or is it a nationality, way of life or cult, whatever you want to call it. But certainly we do protect our religions, but at the same time, this is something that we are going to have to face.
RICK LAZIO (NY GUB CANDIDATE): “This is a time when we have to ask serious questions that will keep the people of New York and the people of downtown Manhattan feeling — and actually being — safe.”
RON MCNIEL (GOP FLORDIA CANDIDATE) “I’m totally against it. If I had my way, it would pretty much be over my dead body,” “That religion is against everything America stands for. If we have to let them build it, make them build it nine stories underground, so we can walk above it as citizens and Christians.” [http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/panama-32000-america-stands.html]
GOV TIM PAWLENTY: “I’m strongly opposed to the idea of putting a mosque anywhere near Ground Zero-I think it’s inappropriate,” he said. “I believe that 3,000 of our fellow innocent citizens were killed in that area, and some ways from a patriotic standpoint, it’s hallowed ground, it’s sacred ground, and we should respect that. We shouldn’t have images or activities that degrade or disrespect that in any way.”
GOV MITT ROMNEY: “”Governor Romney opposes the construction of the mosque at Ground Zero. The wishes of the families of the deceased and the potential for extremists to use the mosque for global recruiting and propaganda compel rejection of this site.”
MIKE HUCKABEE: “Even if the Muslims have the right to build it, don’t they do more to serve the public interest by exercising the responsible judgement to not build it, given that it’s really offensive to most New Yorkers and Americans? Or is it just that we can offend Americans and Christians, but not foreigners and Muslims?”"
PALIN: “”Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY provocation; it stabs hearts. .”"
REP. ERIC CANTOR (R-VA):: Everybody knows America’s built on the rights of free expression, the rights to practice your faith, but come on.
What the ‘Ground Zero’ Mosque controversy really proves is America is turning against its Muslim citizens. From discussions about ‘terror babies’ to burning of Qurans, and with CNN and FOX News polls both showing a majority of Americans against building a Mosque in New York City, the message to Muslim Americans is clear.
Even though their reasonings may be entirely different, America is joining in on the “Islam is not welcome” bandwagon of Europe and secularist states.
The reasons are also largely irrelevant. Whether it is miscommunication on the part of Muslims and their organizations, or the problems of American society, the rise of Evangelicals, or the loss of jobs, the fact of the matter is we’ve entered a new Mccarthyism, quite literally (link).
Five years ago I was interviewed by the Daily Record, and I was quoted as saying: “We’re on a very slippery slope in terms of how much diversification we accept in our communities and how tolerant we are. It doesn’t take much to make a tolerant person very intolerant.”
At the time I was discussing the tolerance in the event of another attack, but America hasn’t even been attacked in those 5 years, yet America has already reached the limits of diversification.
What will be the situation of Muslims in America if there is another attack?
Muslim American organizations such as ISNA, ICNA, and all the rest founded by immigrants with inferiority complexes have been constructed from the beginning to integrate Muslims into American society in a complete manner.
You have conferences? We have Islamic conferences.
You have mega churches? We’ll have mega mosques.
You have cartoons? We have Muslim cartoons.
You have music videos? We have Muslim music videos.
You have colleges? We have colleges.
You have rice krispie treats and chicken nuggets? We have HALAAL rice krispie treats and chicken nuggets.
But even with all this ‘Americanization’, Muslims are failing miserably to appease their American overlords.
Every one of us has given up some part of our Islamic identity at the alter of Americanization, whether its your beard or your jummah schedule and guess what, they still DON’T LIKE YOU.
What do you think the next steps are for Muslims in the West? Your most liberal ‘Imam’ is being bombarded for trying to build a Muslim ‘YMCA’ in an abandoned Burlington Coat Factory.
We are in panic mode, we’re even making a major campaign to thank CNN when they don’t totally attack us.
Why is this? Because we want our cars and our suits and our fancy phones, and most overarchingly, to live the upper-middle class American lifestyle, we’ve lost sight of the fact that Muslims are a different community.
We do have our own core values. Even though we are trying, we can’t just make our religion church on Sundays (or less than that).
Now it seems we will apparently lose our ‘right’ to these values in this country, before we even lose them to our own selves.
Then, where will we turn to?
This controversy proves American Muslims need to have a real leader and a real community. This controversy proves the integration efforts are for naught. Lectures in Universities don’t make things better. Speeches to the State Department don’t make things better.
Decades of supposed ‘progress’ in the hearts of minds of the majority of Americans can be swept away overnight.
We need a leader and a community that is not focused on compromising every Muslim principle in order to be accepted while living next-door to the mall, but one which represents our values and allows us to practice our faith. A group which makes this the ultimate goal will realize who the friends are of the Muslims, but while that will be appreciated and respected, we wouldn’t be forced to rely on their Daily Shows and Olbermanns to defend our right to practice our religion, because such an Islamic community would be able to stand on its own.
Excerpted from Sohbet of Seyh Mevlana “Only One Can Be Proud”
You must try to know something according to your capacity or according to your ability you may understand something that granted to you. And you, as a man, you know about yourself in a direction of understanding that a second one (is) not using that way of understanding. You may understand or you have been granted an understanding about yourself and then you have been granted to know around yourself from creatures through creation. Creation. (N)ever-ending oceans. Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar! (N)ever-ending oceans.
Even you, O proud ones, you are learning some lines of knowledge, you are saying that the level of different creatures you may say something, commonly, but there is through that existence of creatures, there is so many levels of understanding because every creature must know about their Creator. But about your knowledge, according to your knowledge level, if you are losing yourself in it. Therefore we must give more time – perhaps we must give whole our ability, capacity, understanding, willpower, mentality and heartly sacred powers through your heart, to understand something, something, more and more. But if you are saying it is not a too big claiming, that I may say one atom you may know something about that atom. But your knowledge about that atom is not last point of your knowledge.
You must take care what you are speaking that making a weak servant to speak on such a things. I am saying on that way, to give an understanding our Lord’s (n)ever-ending Power Oceans, (n)ever-ending Ability and Capacity and Authority and Endless Wills for creating and bringing creatures in existence, countless, countless creatures. Do you think that you are, Professor Abdullah, that two atoms, each one knowing a second atom as it is necessary to know or to understand? Do you think that one atom just understanding reality of second atom? No, it is impossible. It is from a capacity as well as a ability to know for itself, but I don’t think that any scientist or any doctor, or nature may claim that in atom just knowing a second atom as second atom knowing about itself. Hydrogen: two hydrogen atoms. Do you think that both of them knowing about their secrets as they knowing (themselves)? Can’t be.
You, you are a man, but you can’t know secret for another man. It has identity, as well as you have another identity. You have a personality as well as second person, he has a identity and personality. Everything can’t be on same category as the second one. Each one, each one category belongs to that one but a second one can’t enter wholly through that category. There is one moon; there are ten billion people. Each one’s knowledge about that moon, it is different. Moon just coming and appearing through our knowledge and mentality in another way, different; different; different.
All of them they are making me to speak on such a subjects for understanding the Greatness of the Lord of Heavens, the Lord of Creation.
If you are going to be as… (unable) unable for understanding and to be understandings of you never getting to be same as another one. Therefore everyone’s understanding for moon getting different, different. Millions and billions difference. That is the Lord of Creation’s position to make people to know that the Creator is not someone that you are, you are imagining. The Creator, Allah Almighty, out of our knowing, out of our imagination, also. Even your imagination can’t reach. He is (absolute) Great One, the Lord of heavens, the Lord of creation.
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