Park51 Imam callED for end of Jewish state.

[Mediocrates]

http://www.onejerusalem.org/2010/09/...led-for-en.php

We guess the term "moderate" is a relative value judgment. In the debate over the 9-11 Mosque we have heard time and again that the Imam and his wife are "moderate" Muslims. Those who have promulgated this line have not moderated their descriptions even as evidence piles up that he (they) may not be so moderate. There has been exposure given to his statements equating the United States with Al-Qaeda, his refusal to call Hamas a terrorist organization, his Muslim Brotherhood connections, and his association with visual anti-Semites, but his defenders keep on promoting him as a moderate.

Now the Wall Street Journal adds more non-moderate musings of the Imam. In a published letter, the Imam commented on Sadat's peace with Israel. He argued that there are times when you make peace with your enemy but your battle continues on until you have the advantage. He cites an historical example and ends with this prediction: "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."

[Djinn]

Your subject line makes the Imam's words sound current, rather than from 1977. Now in his 60s, Imam Feisal was in his 20s at the time he made those comments.

[Mediocrates]

fine

[Yala]

Your subject line makes the Imam's words sound current, rather than from 1977. Now in his 60s, Imam Feisal was in his 20s at the time he made those comments.

so what? when confronted with this interview he did not say he changed his views or his mind. and let's not forget he made his other inflammatory remarks 9 days after 9/11. what's your excuse for that?

[bararallu]

Abbas never refuted his Holocaust denial/revisionism either. We forget and forgive, they dont however. Leopards don't change their spots.

[Djinn]

so what? when confronted with this interview he did not say he changed his views or his mind. and let's not forget he made his other inflammatory remarks 9 days after 9/11. what's your excuse for that?

The link in the OP doesn't suggest that he was confronted with the interview. Where are you reading this?

[Mediocrates]

My only point is that Sufi liberal moderate Islam is allowed to hold such views and still be deemed moderate.