August 19, 2010

With the Terrorists, or Against Them?

A great, great post on Iman Rauf by Conor Friedersdorf, imaging how actual terrorists would see the Park51 project:

Every actual radical Islamist would know perfectly well that an imam who works with the FBI, tours on behalf of the State Department, denounces terrorism, defends the US constitution in an Arabic exchange with radicals from Hizb ut-Tahrir, has a good relationship with New York City rabbis, and preaches on behalf of women's rights isn't on their side. In fact, he is exactly the kind of imam that Islamist radicals target and kill when they dare to do these sorts of things in other countries.

Posted by Stephen Silver at August 19, 2010 11:48 AM
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