Leader of Muslim Brotherhood-linked group to speak at Democratic National Convention

jihadwatch.org ^ | August 22, 2008 | Robert Spencer

[Free ThinkerNY]

From the DNC website (thanks to Steve):

Democratic Convention To Highlight Diverse Community Of Faith Leaders Working Toward Common Good

August 16, 2008

First-Ever Faith Caucus Meetings to be Held at Democratic Convention

Invocators and Benedictors to Include Pastor Joel Hunter, Rabbi David Saperstein, Sister Catherine Pinkerton, Reverend Cynthia Hale, Archbishop Demetrios, Cameron Strang

[...]

INTERFAITH GATHERING

The interfaith gathering will be held at 2:00 pm MT, Sunday, August 24 at the Wells Fargo Theater, inside the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.

Bishop Charles E. Blake, Presiding Prelate of the Church of God In Christ, Inc. and pastor at the West Angeles Church of God in Christ; Dr. Ingrid Mattson, President of the Islamic Society of North America; social activist Sister Helen Prejean and Rabbi Tzvi Weinreb, Executive Vice President of the Orthodox Union, will keynote the event. Musical selections will be performed by Grammy® award winning gospel artist Richard Smallwood & Vision, The Spirituals Project of Denver and The Trinity United Methodist Church Choir....

Ingrid Mattson is a Canadian convert to Islam and president of the Islamic Society of North America, which was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror funding case. ISNA was also named as a “friend” of the Muslim Brotherhood in the infamous May 1991 Brotherhood memorandum that spoke of Muslim organizations in the U.S. being dedicated to “a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands ... so that ... God’s religion [Islam] is made victorious over all other religions.”

Mattson herself has spoken out against Geert Wilder's Fitna in terms that could lead to free speech restrictions.

[Linden1209]

I will go along with your conclusions. I still feel so sorry for our people suffering in that heat, cold and dirt along with the camel spiders, horned vipers and scorpions. All that in addition to crazy people.
BTW our fight for independence was fought by us with some help from others. It wasn’t imposed from outside. Sometimes I think our military has been sent on a fool’s errand.

[piasa]

Heard on news that military was donating heavily to Obama

Whoever said that must be on crack.

[SmoothStone]

This is really outrageous and it’s more evidence that the Democrat leadership just doesn’t give a damn about America’s core values.

[sonic109]

Ok , is anyone going to do anything abou tit ? Will SOME Republican call a news conference and make a BIG BIG BIG deal of this ? No , we won’t . And that’s why the Dems do it and get away with it , because WE let them .

[SmoothStone]

Thanks for picking up my links, everyone, I really appreciate it.