Yesterday, we published an editorial by Raheel Raza and Tarek Fatah, two moderate Muslims, in which they eloquently make the case against the proposed Ground Zero Mosque, an attempt by Islamist supremacists to appropriate sacred ground.
Appearing on Bill O'Reilly, Raheel Raza, one of the authors, eloquently articulates her arguments, founded on common sense, compassion, and an insider's suspicion of the motives that animate this monument to the 9-11 atrocity.
My friend, the very great blogger, Wolf Howling, pointed out in a comment on my post that Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf—the wolf in sheep's clothing behind the Ground Zero Mosque—is not a Salafist, as I indicated, but a Sufi Muslim, a more mystical branch of Islam.
But Andrew Bostom, an expert on islam, dissents from this view and presents compelling arguments here.
This is an landscape in which I have no expertise. But as an Orthodox Jew I have been taught all my life to concentrate on behavior, not abstract declarations or theological beliefs.
If you read the charter of the U.N., you walk away convinced that this is a gathering of righteous nations. But the U.N., in real life, is overwhelmingly a gathering of Jew-haters, tyrants and genociders.
The same goes for Islam. I really don't care if one espouses Sunni, Shia or Sufism. My only concern is how one actswithin that ideological framework.
