Their new imam is a prolific dontopedologist: he opens his mouth and his foot's in it pronto. When he speaks academically he is confusing, and when he speaks straightforwardly he's a bigot.
(And God, I hate calling it the GZ mosque, but hey - rhetoric be rhetoric and traffic be traffic!)
Quite a few media reports misquoted him on apostasy, claiming he said apostates should be jailed. Abdallah Adhami said no such thing. His crime is omission. Answering a question (and writing an article), he outlined historical attitudes to apostasy, leaving a gaping chasm as to how we should go about it today. His clear skepticism about protests at any whiff of challenge to the Muslim faith is smudged, smeared and scrambled by an abyssal communication - and political - ineptitude.
Today, he tasted patent leather for lunch by proffering his prejudice on the origin of homosexual drive. Gay people come from good, bad, Christian, Muslim, liberal, conservative, rich and poor families alike - a person of Adhami's scholarship should grasp as much.
Fully knowing how hot a seat he parked his ass on, he seems incapable of judging what to say, and if, when and how. Even I know that quotes can be taken out of context and that media will dumb down everything. They assume their audience to be as dense as pudding and to hold the same in lieu of brains.
The new imam of the Ground Zero mosque is undoubtedly a scholar and, in a few matters, a moderate. He also possesses the misfortunes of political clumsiness, prejudice and a bad case of verbal shlits.
This catastrophe in the making calls for a good PR man to train the guy in elementary succinction, political tact and good old-fashioned "silence is golden".
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Walmart recently dropped plans to build a store near a civil war battlefield for reasons, which I understand, are related to being sensitive to the emotional attachment of that sacred ground to Americans.
Too bad the Muslim community were not integrated enough to understand the make-up of the American psyche, in which case the Imam's comments would be totally moot since there would be no ground zero mosque.
Google: Walmart Drops Store near Civil War Site
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