WND EXCLUSIVE
MINISTER'S BOND WITH JIHAD-LINKED MOSQUE CALLED 'DANGER'
'We do have the same shared values and we can work hand in hand'
The Christian minister in Ohio is being profiled by the Columbus Dispatch for her efforts to “blend” Christianity and Islam.
But
Jihad Watch,
which monitors Islamic jihad worldwide, noted that a leader of the
mosque with which Rev. Deborah Lindsay is working “previously was
an imam for another area mosque which at the time was the base of
operations for the largest known al-Qaida cell in the U.S. since
9/11.”
The
base was led by Hany Sazr, and the mosque included convicted
jihadists Iyman Faris, Nuradin Abdi and Christopher Paul, according
to Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer.
“Saqr
is one of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in North America,”
Spencer wrote. “Dr. Salah Sultan was the Noor Islamic Center’s
unofficial scholar in residence. A protege of Muslim Brotherhood
Sheikh Usuf al-Qaradawai, Sultan is now in the Middle East and has
appeared on Egyptian television approvingly quoting the genocidal
hadith about how the end times will not come until Muslims kill
Jews.”
The
mosque also played a role in the controversy
over teen Christian convert Rifqa Bary,
who fled from her parents because of their strict Islamic community
in Columbus.
The
Dispatch report Lindsay’s “Muslim-Christian bridge-building”
pairs members of her congregation, First Community Church in Marble
Cliff, Ohio, with members of the Noor Islamic Cultural Center.
Along
with crosses on the wall, the Dispatch said, bookshelves hold
Christian texts alongside Muslim scriptures.
“A
dish on a table holds Muslim prayer beads. Behind her door hang
clergy stoles, including one patterned with a colorful design adapted
from a Muslim prayer rug,” the paper said.
Lindsay
told the Dispatch that people in her congregation were “surprised
that we share common values with Muslims – the important of loving
your neighbor, compassion, taking care of people who need to be taken
care of.”
The
article said Lindsay has preached on a Lenton topic “that might not
have been so warmly welcomed at a less-progressive congregation.”
The
pre-Easter season of sacrifice and repentance, she said, has a great
deal in common with the Muslim concept of jihad.
“When
we think jihad, we think holy war,” Lindsay told the paper. “And
that may be what it means to fanatics and terrorists, but what the
vast majority of Muslims understand jihad to be is ‘struggling in
the way of God.”
Spencer
explained the danger for those working with the Noor Center.
“The
Noor Center has been directly linked to the Somali Muslims who have
gone from the U.S. back to Somali[s] for jihad terror training. Siraj
Wahhaj, a friend of the Blind Shiekh, and a potential unidicted
co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, has spoken at
the Noor Mosque. Mosque members threatened the life of Rifqa Bary, a
teenage girl who left Islam for Christianity,” he wrote.
He
criticized the description of jihad as “struggling in God’s way.”
“Lent
is for Christians traditionally a season of prayer, fasting and
almsgiving. There is no sect of Christianity that now or ever has
defined Lent as involving waging war against and subjugating
non-Christians. Yet a Shafii manual of Islamic law that was certified
in 1991 by the clerics at Al-Azhar University, one of the leading
authorities in the Islamic world, as ‘conforming to the practice
and faith of the orthodox Sunni community,’ says that ‘jihad
means to war against non-Muslims.’”
Spencer
said that to point out, as Lindsay does, that “other Muslims think
of jihad in other ways does nothing to stop that violent jihad for
even one second.”
He
also cited Islamic opposition to bridge-building.
“Muslim
Brotherhood theorist Sayyid Qutb once said, ‘The chasm between
Islam and Jahiliyyah (the society of unbelievers) is great, and a
bridge is not to be built across it so that the people on the two
sides may mix with each other, but only so that the people of
Jahiliyyah may come over to Islam.’”
WND
reported earlier when
the American
Freedom Defense Initiative,
or AFDI revealed details about the Noor Mosque.
AFDI
Executive Director Pamela Geller said in a statement: “In accord
with those calls for responsible law enforcement regarding subversive
activities in U.S. mosques, we are asking that government and law
enforcement officials launch immediate investigations into the
Islamic Society of Boston, the Dar al-Hijrah Mosque of Fairfax
County, Va., and the Noor Center of Columbus, Ohio.”
The
organization said the Noor Mosque:
- Is led by Dr. Hany Saqr, previously an imam for another mosque, which at that time was the base of operations for al-Qaida, including convicted jihadists Iyman Faris, Nuradin Abdi and Christopher Paul;
- Has been directly linked to the Somali Muslims who have gone from the U.S. back to Somali for jihad terror training;
- Has had members who threatened the life of Rifqa Bary.
The
Bary case eventually was resolved when
she obtained her independence from her parents and became a permanent
U.S. resident on track to become a citizen.
Bary
fled to the shelter of a Christian family in Florida whom she met
through the Internet, but the courts there ordered her return to
Ohio. However, the Florida courts did not order her back into her
parents’ custody. Instead, they kept her in protective foster care
until she reached her 18th birthday and became a legal adult.
SOUND
OFF ON 'CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM BRIDGE-BUILDING' BY CHURCHES
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/minister-blends-muslim-christian-beliefs/#uhOPAr2r7Ov4OoqY.99
My
comments:
Islam and Christianity cannot be “blended.” There is no common
ground. One either believes Christ Jesus and His Word or not. Christ
Jesus is alive and Muhammad is in his grave. There are only two
supernatural “spirits” active in the world today, the spirit of
Satan and the Holy Spirit of Christ Jesus. Everyone must choose which
to obey. And everyone obeys one or the other.
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