| Feisal Abdul Rauf Takes Credit for Obama's Cairo Speech |
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By Walid Shoebat “The blue print,” Rauf elaborated, “included everything from US policy to Jewish and Christian relations with Muslims…” In the recording dated February 5th, 2010 Rauf boasted that: “We have to look at it [as] how to engineer solutions. At the Cordova Initiative we think of ourselves as an engineering shop. Yes. We have an analytical approach. Our work has been that. “In the book, chapter six, I wrote about 'The Blue Print,' as to what has to be done by the US government, what has to be done by the Jewish community, what has to be done by the Christian community, what has to be done by the Muslim community, what has to be done by educators, what has to be done by the media. For example, in my book, in the Arabic version, page 293, what did I write? What are the things that the United States needs to do. If you examine this chapter you will find that the Obama speech in Cairo was all taken from this section [Section 6]…” His story was even coroborated in a written article in an interview with Hani Al-Waziri of Egypt. The clue was revealed while Rauf was answering a question regarding President Barack Obama’s speech in which Rauf replied: “The speech was wonderful and wise in his choice of words, the Prime Minister of Malaysia after the speech disclosed to me that it is now easy for any president of a Muslim country to establish good relations with America, and I am not going to hide from you that one of those who participated in writing the speech transferred entire parts of my book, 'A New Vision for Muslims and the West,' which he referred to US interests being compatible with top interests of the Muslim world.” Rauf did not disclose the name of the speechwriter who included Rauf’s work in President Obama’s historic address to the Muslim world. It is crucial to note that the Arabic version of Feisal Abdul Rauf’s book was published in Malaysia titled “A Call to Prayer from the World Trade Center Rubble: Islamic Dawa in the Heart of America Post-9/11.” Islamic “dawa” translated means “summons to Islam.” In a February 2010 interview with Hani Alwaziri intended to discuss Rauf’s plans for what he terms “American Style Islam” and the Cordova Initiative goals for the US, Rauf stated that his goal was, “…to establish an American style Islam in the United States” in which he explains his aspiration of spreading Islam in America by using flexibility and molding Islam to become palatable to the American culture while preserving the integrity of Islamic ideology: “If we look how Islam was spread from Hijaz (Arabia) to Morocco then Turkey, we note that Islam was shaped by the culture and society, hence showing a Muslim version of the architecture and culture and the arts, but with preservation of the framework of belief and worship. We need to provide a global Islam in accordance with the nature of each society.” The Shoebat Foundation was founded by Walid Shoebat, a world renowned former Palestinian terrorist turned advocate for the US and the West, who exposes the jihadist political agenda. |
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