Hisham Kabbani and Heritage Foundation

[Abu'l 'Eyse]

The "shaykh" of Haddad is at it again.....oh what a path of traditionalism these people follow I feel like vominting right on their path!

Muslim Figures Condemn Violent Tactics of Islamists
By Matt Purple
CNSNews.com Correspondent
July 13, 2007

(CNSNews.com) - A panel of Muslims leaders and filmmakers gathered at the Heritage Foundation Thursday to speak out against violent extremists whom they believe are corrupting Islam.

Muhammed Hisham Kabbani - chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of America and the Sufi Muslim Council of Britain - and Hedieh Mirahmadi - a political advisor to the Sufi Muslim Council of Britain - condemned Islamic violence and warned of the consequences of allowing Islam and government to be intertwined.

"The Muslims today are mixing religion with politics," Kabbani said. "They are using religion for their own political advancement."

Contrary to many who advocate for separation of church and state, he contended that politics corrupts religion and not vice versa. He said Islam and politics were fundamentally incompatible and called on Muslim leaders to advise politicians rather than seeking to obtain power themselves.

"The real connection between God and [individuals] has to be complete and continuous," Kabbani said. "And politicians don't say the truth sometimes. Instead they use religion to get their agendas enacted."

Kabbani and Mirahmadi subscribe to the Sufism tradition of Islam. Adherents say the tradition holds that knowledge and reason are necessary to achieve meaning and faith, although some scholars of Islam dispute the notion that Sufism is inherently moderate, citing the rhetoric of revered Sufi thinkers.

Kabbani disputed the notion that Muslims were called upon by their prophet, Mohammed, to engage in violent acts of jihad against non-Muslims, saying that true jihad was a personal and internal struggle for faith.

After the "war against the aggressors in Medina" was finished, he said, "Mohammed declared that [the war] is finished. We will build bridges with everyone. We will have good communities. We will have relationships with the Jews. We will have relationships with the Christians.

"Now we will have the greater jihad," Kabbani added. "And the greater jihad is against the self."

The film PBS didn't want you to see

Also on the panel were Martyn Burke, director of the documentary film "Islam vs. the Islamists," and producers Alex Alexiev and Frank Gaffney, both from the Center for Security Policy. The movie, which showcases Muslims with moderate views and the attacks they have faced from fundamentalists, was shown prior to the panel discussion.

The documentary made headlines in April when the Public Broadcasting Service refused to show it on the basis that it was "highly one-sided" and "alarmist."

"This film is a microcosm for what's happening in our society," Gaffney said. "Members of the left have made common cause with Islamists and their front organizations."

Burke agreed. "There is a certain hermetically sealed mindset, a certain moral relativism that I find astonishing," he said.

According to Burke, as soon as PBS discovered that Alexiev and Gaffney had signed on as producers, it wanted them fired. When he refused to do so, PBS appointed several advisors to the film's production, he said. One of the advisors was from the Nation of Islam, a group featured in the film.

"Do you appoint the mayor to advise an investigation on city hall?" Burke laughed.

Gaffney said that after the film was completed, PBS had another film made to replace it, entitled "The Muslim Americans." He described the replacement film as "propaganda for the Islamists from end to end."

"Islam vs. the Islamists" examines the efforts of Islamic extremists to establish a "parallel society" in which Muslims exist as citizens in western democracies but are governed by Islamic law (shari'a). Punishments under shari'a can include death by stoning for women who commit adultery and the amputation of limbs for theft.

The idea of such parallel societies is gaining a foothold in places like Denmark, Canada, and even America, the documentary asserts. A featured imam from Arizona said he believed shari'a would be the ideal form of government in the U.S.

A shari'a mindset has also occasionally been evident in Minnesota, where earlier this year it was reported that many Minnesotan Muslim cab drivers were refusing to pick up passengers carrying alcohol or accompanied by seeing-eye dogs.

The filmmakers said the root cause of such incidents was Saudi-funded mosque construction projects, whose explicit goal was to teach Wahhabism, the radical form of Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia. Gaffney estimated that about 80 percent of mosques and Islamic schools in the U.S. have received money from Saudi Arabia.

"You cannot understand Islam today without first understanding that the Saudis have spent $100 billion to promote Wahhabism," Alexiev added.

'Not representative of all Muslims'

While the documentary drew a generally positive response from the Heritage Foundation audience, several Muslims present criticized the film for unfairly portraying and dividing Muslims.

One questioner accused the movie of putting Muslims into two categories and failing to see the broad diversity of thought in the Muslim community. She said the film was "not representative of all Muslims."

Gaffney admitted that "the vast majority of Muslims probably find themselves between the two extremes [radicals and moderates]," but said that Muslims must ask themselves whether "Islam demands a political program that must be established in the place of western democracies."

Gaffney was also denounced by a non-Muslim audience member for his use of the word "Islamofascist," which he defended.

"I think it is a term that helps differentiate between faith and ideology," he replied.

Kami Butt, a writer for the Pakistan Chronicle, was also critical of the film. He accused it of painting a "one-way picture" and said it failed to accurately convey the sentiments and motives behind Muslim anger.

"Muslims are angry, because we are treating them like dogs and cats," he told Cybercast News Service. "How many Muslims are killed [in Iraq]? We don't want to give statistics of that. And these people are giving the impression that it's this narrow sort of black and white."

Butt also had concerns about attempts to separate Islam from government and the rule of law.

"In Islam, you really don't separate politics from religion," he said. "What was Mohammed (peace be upon him)? He was a commander. He was a politician. He was a head of state."

"They are not addressing the real issue," he added.


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laa hawla wa laa quwwata illa billah!

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Kabbani disputed the notion that Muslims were called upon by their prophet, Mohammed, to engage in violent acts of jihad against non-Muslims, saying that true jihad was a personal and internal struggle for faith.

After the "war against the aggressors in Medina" was finished, he said, "Mohammed declared that [the war] is finished. We will build bridges with everyone. We will have good communities. We will have relationships with the Jews. We will have relationships with the Christians.

"Now we will have the greater jihad," Kabbani added. "And the greater jihad is against the self."

The above shows Kabbani's extreme ignorance of the seerah and Islaam in general. This is another chapter in the ongoing treachery of Kabbani and his cavorting with the enemies of Islaam. He and his fellow Sufi, Mirahmadi, have no shame in seeking the pleasure of the Jewish NeoCon Gaffney and inciting the kuffaar against the Muslims.

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A picture of Kabbani sharing the podium with Bernard Lewis, one of the leading NeoCons.