This was originally linked at New Media Militia but given what an “active” topic this is I thought I’d share it here as well.
Jim Simpson, who’s been a friend of the Grok, more or less, since 2014, has written about the report by Dave Gaubatz shared here back on August 5th. Jim Comes to the defense of the rating system used to declare the mosque in Manchester as “a Sunni/Saudi and Pakistani front for Islamic based terrorists groups such as Al Qaeda and ISIS.”
Jim explains.
(Dave Gaubatz) has investigated over 280 mosques in the U.S. alone and uses a rating system developed by a former Islamist, Tafik Hamid.
U.S. Islamists and their allies in the American Left have long sought to discredit this rating system as contrived nonsense created by Islamophobes, but that very effort calls into question their motives, expertise, and integrity. Tafik Hamid is a former member of Jamaa Islamiya (also known as al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya or, in English, Islamic Group), — an Egyptian organization branded a terrorist group by the U.S. government, the United Kingdom, and the European Union. Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was a member of this group, as was Omar Abdel-Rahman, the so-called “blind sheikh” convicted as the mastermind behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Hamid has long since abandoned his radicalism and has become a widely-recognized Islamic reformer.
The rating system is based on numerous factors readily observant by how strictly the mosque conforms to Islamic standards and how aggressively it promotes Shariah (Islamic law).
Then there’s this.
The imam’s dedication to Shariah is especially important because Shariah is a doctrine of political dominance and conquest, and Muslims who promote it are likely to promote jihad as a means to impose it.
Be sure to read the whole thing, that way you can be properly outraged before commenting.
