Posted on 10/25/2012 11:47:57 PM PDT by Steelfish
October 25th, 2012 01:00 PM ET My Take: Muslims Must Engage Politically, Look Outside Themselves Editor's Note: Imam Khalid Latif is a chaplain for New York University and executive director of the school's Islamic Center.
By Khalid Latif, Special to CNN
My wife and I were on our way into Bed, Bath and Beyond in late August when I decided to check my office voicemail from my cell phone. I told her I'd meet her inside. When I did, she asked whether I had any messages.
"Just one,” I told her. “I was asked to deliver an invocation at this year's Republican National Convention." She responded with a smile on her face, "Of course you were," and then showed me the pillows she’d selected.
I didn't get a chance to decide whether I would accept the invitation, as Hurricane Isaac changed the RNC schedule and made the decision for me. But before the impending storm blew me off the schedule, I sought advice from friends and colleagues. What were the implications of my participating at the RNC? Would it make sense?
One conservative, evangelical Republican friend told me that it would have been a great way to start a conversation with members of his party who are fed up with the current platform and, amongst other things, the party’s highly anti-Muslim and Islamophobic rhetoric. Now, it seemed, that conversation wouldn't happen.
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There will be no peace possible until their scourge is eradicated!
Update me when you can bring your Bible to saudi arabia.
The seriously misogynistic, pedophile-worshipping, cult called mozlum offends me greatly.
This article is so bogus.
“One conservative, evangelical Republican friend told me that it would have been a great way to start a conversation with members of his party who are fed up with the current platform and, amongst other things, the party’s highly anti-Muslim and Islamophobic rhetoric.”
That gets the bs started in this drivel and it worsens from there. What an arrogant arse.
All I have to say to this moron is....take your lies and deceit somewhere else. You and your ilk aren’t fooling anyone...ever again!
Why are they allowed here?
Why should we rape our citizens at the airports to not offend murderers?
They are free to travel to a fetid jihadistanof their choice. The story is fiction..
“American Muslims”
You’re one or the other. It’s impossible to be both.
If this fellow is a muslim as described in the koran he is my and my country’s enemy forever. If he is something else perhaps it can be discussed.
LLS
The comments section is however encouraging, especially considering its a CNN site.
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