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| Moderate Brit-Muslim Dr. Zaki Badawi Denied U.S. Entry, on terror watch list |
| 2005-07-15 |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Yeah, Steve, none of that quoted material is proof of this particular Badawi being a fake "moderate". Find me some juicy "infidels must die or pay the dhimmi tax" rhetoric, or at least a collection of bad associations - place him on the same stage as Qaradawi, forinstance, or smiling and nodding at somebody frothing about the Jooos in public. Or, even better, actually frothing in public about the Jooos. Not that I really think he's clean - the US entry denial is definitely a warning sign - but what you just threw at us is more in the way of confirming the "moderate" claim than not. I mean, co-founder of the Three Faiths Forum? That sounds pretty damned ecumenical. You seem to have made the circumstantial case that he's the Islamic equivalent of a World Council of Churches squish. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2005-07-15 16:04 |
| #2 Define moderate. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2005-07-15 13:05 |
| #1 Bio of our "moderate" muslim friend: Zaki Badawi is renowned for his interest in Islamic theology and law and as a representative and advocate of Muslims in Britain. He is currently the principal of the Muslim College in Britain, a postgraduate seminary responsible for the training of imams and Muslim leaders in the West which he founded in 1986, and frequently publishes and broadcasts on Islamic affairs. Dr Badawi was educated at Al-Azhar University and the University of London where he obtained his Doctorate in the area of modern Muslim thought. His teaching posts have taken him to universities in Malaysia, Singapore, Nigeria and the United Kingdom. Previously, Dr Badawi was Director of the Islamic Cultural Centre and the Chief Imam of London Central Mosque in Regent’s Park. He was also instrumental in establishing the Sharia Council as a facility to reconcile conflicts between Islamic law and the British civil code and was instrumental in in negotiating with the Bank of England in establishing the first licensed Islamic financial institution in the UK. In 1984, Dr Badawi was elected chair of the Imams and Mosques Council of the United Kingdom which he continues to hold until this day. In addition to publishing numerous articles, Dr Badawi co-edits Encounter Magazine with the Archbishop of York and the Chief Rabbi and is also chairman of The Arabic Forum, the Islamic Religious Council and the National Council for the Welfare of Muslim Prisoners. He is co-founder of the Three Faiths Forum, vice chairman of the World Congress of Faiths and director and trustee of the Forum Against Islamophobia and Racism (FAIR). |
| Posted by: Steve 2005-07-15 10:57 |