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Ingrid Mattson, ‘taqiyya’ queen and Barack Obama’s favorite radical Muslim woman, gets her ass whooped by a friend of mine
by barenakedislam
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Barack Hussein Obama chose Ingrid Mattson to offer a prayer at his inauguration
Ingrid Mattson, a Catholic
who was raised in Ontario, CA, converted to Islam, and went on to become
a major figure in the North American Islamic establishment. Until 2010,
she served as president of the Muslim Brotherhood front group, ISNA.
FrontPage Until
2010, Mattson she was head of the Islamic Society of North America
(ISNA), a leading national organization which, at the 2007 trial in
Dallas of a now-defunct Islamic charity, the Holy Land Foundation, was
named an unindicted co-conspirator on charges of aiding Hamas. The trial
proved to be an explosive event, uncovering a great deal of vital
information about the unsavory connections of supposedly innocuous
Muslim organizations in the United States.
Yet it was almost entirely ignored – and, when not ignored, whitewashed
– by the mainstream American media. Mattson “has been disturbingly
equivocal about Wahhabism, the repressive and backward strain of Sunni
Islam that is the state creed in Saudi Arabia,” describing it as “a
reform movement” and comparing it – incredibly – to “the European
protestant reformation.” (Read more of her quotes below the video)
In the video below,
Mattson is caught off guard, when Liz Trent starts asking her questions
about abrogation* and sharia, to which Mattson tries to tap dance around
the truth.
*ABROGATION : This is a key term in studying the Quran.
There are some peaceful, tolerant verses in the Quran. But the violent,
intolerant ones have abrogated (abolished, done away with) them. The
Quran itself explains what to do with conflicting verses. If two
passages conflict, it says, the one written later is better than the one
written earlier. The earlier passage has been abrogated by the later
one. The bad news for non-Muslims is that almost all the peaceful
passages were written earlier, and the intolerant, hateful, and violent
ones were written later (read more about this).
Because
the audio is hard to hear in parts, Liz has provided text describing
what is going on. At the end, Liz mentions she has read 'Reliance of the
Traveler,' A Classic Manual of Sharia Law, endorsed by most Islamic
authorities, that describes in detail how the purpose of jihad is to go
to war to force Islam on all unbelievers. With a look that could kill on
the face of Mattson, Liz wisely ends the discussion there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ47EVaaRrE
Most of the following links have been scrubbed from the internet, but fortunately, CAMPUS WATCH has saved them.
If
Muslim Americans are to participate in such a critique of American
policy, however, they will only be effective if they do it, according to
the Prophet's words, in a "brotherly" fashion. This implies a high
degree of loyalty and affection. This does not mean, however, that
citizenship and religious community are identical commitments, nor that
they demand the same kind of loyalty. People of faith have a certain
kind of solidarity with others of their faith community that transcends
the basic rights and duties of citizenship.
The
first duty of Muslims in America, therefore, is to help shape American
policies so they are in harmony with the essential values of this
country. In the realm of foreign policy, this "idealistic" view
has been out of fashion for some time. Indeed, the American
Constitution, like foundational religious texts, can be read in many
different ways. The true values of America are those which we decide to
embrace as our own. There is no guarantee, therefore, that
Americans will rise to the challenge of defining themselves as an
ethical nation; nevertheless, given the success of domestic struggles
for human dignity and rights in the twentieth century, we can be
hopeful.
There's
a prejudgment, a collective judgment of Muslims, and a suspicion that
well "you may appear nice, but we know there are sleeper cells of
Americans," which of course is not true. There aren't any sleeper cells.
CHAT
PARTICIPANT: What can you tell us about the Wahhabi sect of Islam? Is
it true that this is an extremely right wing sect founded and funded by
the Saudi royal family, and led by Osama bin Ladin? What is the purpose
of the Wahhabi?MATTSON: No it's not true to characterize
'Wahhabism' that way. This is not a sect. It is the name of a reform
movement that began 200 years ago to rid Islamic societies of cultural
practices and rigid interpretation that had acquired over the centuries.
It really was analogous to the European protestant reformation.
Because the Wahhabi scholars became integrated into the Saudi state,
there has been some difficulty keeping that particular interpretation of
religion from being enforced too broadly on the population as a whole.
However, the Saudi scholars who are Wahhabi have denounced terrorism and
denounced in particular the acts of September 11.
CHAT
PARTICIPANT: Osama bin Laden made a reference that Muslims have been
living in humiliation for 80 years. Did he refer to the Treaty of Sevres
in 1920 that dismantled caliphates and sultanates?MATTSON: Yes,
he is referring to that, to the overthrowing of the caliphate, which
was a plan of European powers for many years. This deprived the Muslim
world of a stable and centralized authority, and much of the chaos that
we're living in today is the result of that.
6) Mattson teaches the jihadists Sayyid Qutb and Syed Abu'l-`Ala Mawdudi in her course at Hartford Seminary – see the syllabus here.
Maududi on jihad (Jihad in Islam, page 9): "Islam
wishes to destroy all States and Governments anywhere on the face of
the earth which are opposed to the ideology and programme of Islam
regardless of the country or the Nation which rules it. The
purpose of Islam is to set up a State on the basis of its own ideology
and programme, regardless of which Nation assumes the role of the
standard bearer of Islam or the rule of which nation is undermined in
the process of the establishment of an ideological Islamic State. It
must be evident to you from this discussion that the objective
of Islamic 'Jihad' is to eliminate the rule of an un-Islamic system and
establish in its stead an Islamic system of State rule. Islam
does not intend to confine this revolution to a single State or a few
countries; the aim of Islam is to bring about a universal
revolution." "Islamic 'Jihad' does not recognize their right to
administer State affairs according to a system which, in the view of
Islam, is evil.
8 Although
she recommends and teaches Abdul ala Maududi, who advocates violent
jihad against non-Muslims (see above), Mattson is highly critical of
Christians who make the factual statement that texts by Muslims support
violent jihad against non-Muslims -- and she equates Christian critics of violent jihad with Osama bin Laden, who wages violent jihad.
Mattson on critical statements by Christians about Muslims:
"I
don't see any difference between that and al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden
[using] Islamic theology to justify violence against Americans. What's
interesting is if you compare [their] statements about what Islam is and
what Muslims believe, you'll find they are almost identical, and I
reject both interpretations -- both the non-Muslims who are saying that
Islam justifies violence against Christians and Jews, and the Muslims
who are saying it. "
"As
a practicing Muslim, I believe that there is a core of fundamental
beliefs and practices that distinguish authentic Islam from deviations. I
also believe that apart from this essential core, the task of
interpreting the application of Islamic norms to human society is an
enormously complicated task, which inevitably leads to a broad range of
opinion and practice. I agree with " Sunni" Muslims, the majority of the
Muslim community worldwide, that after the death of the Prophet
Muhammad, no one has the right to claim infallibility in the
interpretation of sacred law."
Ingrid
Mattson, the first woman president of the Islamic Society of North
America, said Friday at the opening of the group's 43rd annual
convention that labeling terrorism as "Islamic" was not helpful to people of her faith."
If our major concern is security, security of this country, this is a
term that has very bad resonance in the Muslim majority world and makes
us feel uncomfortable here," Mattson said. Mattson said her group would
argue for a change in rhetoric away from "Islamic fascism."
.....As
an alternative to "Islamic fascism," Mattson suggested the words
"terrorism, crime, violence," adding that she and other Muslims don't
understand why the label "Islamic" is included when Bush and other
leaders talk about terrorism.
11) Mattson denies the actual state of women's rights under Shariah law:
"MATTSON:
Muslim women have the same legal rights as Muslim men. The Prophet
Mohammed's wife was a businesswoman. The legal rights of women were
enshrined in Islamic law. However, cultural practices in many societies
have prevented those rights from being enforced."
CHAT
PARTICIPANT: Does the Taliban place blame upon women for the weakness
of men in their society? Is that why they place such restriction upon
them?MATTSON: The Taliban place restrictions on everyone in their
society, men and women. In their minds, they are protecting women from
other men by placing these restrictions on them.
"That
can be frustrating. I want to also make sure people understand that
although American Muslims do have a responsibility to clarify their
views on terrorism and violence done in the name of Islam, we don't have
control over these situations. We don't have some sort of magic power
over all Muslims in the world."
"‘Right-wing
Christians are very risky allies for American Jews,' Mattson said,
‘because they [the Christians] are really anti-Semitic. They do not like
Jews' and enter into the alliance on the basis of fundamentalist
beliefs that it would be desirable for all Jews to return to Israel. She
suggested that fundamentalist Christians might turn against Jews or
that there could be backlash from ordinary Americans against Jewish and
fundamentalist Christian supporters of Israel."
"The
American government has not criticized sufficiently the brutality of
the Israeli government, believing that it needs to be "supportive" of
the Jewish state. The result is that oppression, left unchecked, can
increase to immense proportions, until the oppressed are smothered with
hopelessness and rage."
"Thus,
it is not permitted for a Muslim to maintain a close friendship with a
highly intelligent person who engages him or her in stimulating
conversation, if that person continuously derides the sacred (Qur'an
5:57-58). Indeed, since preserving faith is the highest
priority, it is important that Muslims avoid demoralizing dependence on
other faith communities for their protection and material
needs....Clearly there are groups among American Christians and Jews who
are so hostile to Muslims that we should not join with them even in
shared concerns, lest we lend any credibility to their organizations.
ISNA,
which URJ has accepted, apparently uncritically, as a "partner," has a
long history of association with extremist trends in Islam. ISNA has
served as a front group for Wahhabism, the official sect in the kingdom
of Saudi Arabia; the jihadist ideologies originating in Pakistan with
the writings of a certain Mawdudi and the Deoband schools in that
country — the latter of which produced the Afghan Taliban, and the
Ikhwan al-Muslimun, or Muslim Brotherhood.