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Turborama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 04:22 AM
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Islamic center in NYC names iman
Source: AFP

JANUARY 15, 2011

NEW YORK — The imam who co-led the effort to build an Islamic community center near the World Trade Center has been given a reduced role in the project that made him one of the nation's most polarizing figures, the organization behind the plan announced Friday.

The nonprofit group Park51 said Feisal Abdul Rauf, who is set to start a national speaking tour today and spends much of his time out of the country, was focused on other initiatives and didn't have enough time to spend on the center.

The group announced it had named a new senior adviser to help lead religious programing: Shaykh Abdallah Adhami, a 44-year-old scholar with an architecture degree known for his lectures on gender relations. It said Adhami would be among several imams with a role in the project.

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Rauf announced late this fall that he would be starting a global movement to oppose extremism and promote better relations between people of different faiths. He will remain on the Islamic center's board and involved in the project, but Park51 said in a statement that it needed someone who could be more involved in the day-to-day business of building a local congregation.

Read more: http://www.dnj.com/article/20110115/NEWS02/101150333
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notesdev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 04:38 AM
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1. Doesn't she already have a name?
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 08:53 AM
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2. lol -- i had to read that again! you're right -- she does. nt
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CBHagman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 10:34 AM
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3. It's really unfair that Faisal Abdul Rauf should be called...
"...one of the nation's most polarizing figures," given that he appeals for interfaith dialogue and it's a bunch of demagogues who whipped up the controversy in the first place. Everlasting shame on the pundits and politicians and ordinary ignoramuses who made the nation expend so much energy on a a fake brouhaha.
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Posteritatis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 11:49 AM
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5. The polarization is the stuff that people make up about him
A lot of DUers were very adamant that he was a Wahabbist terrorist or worse back when this thing was eating the news cycle, and it was obviously worse in other places. It was one of the most over-the-top displays of wilful ignorance I've seen around here in all the time I've been active here.
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HankyDubs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 11:23 AM
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4. funny we haven't heard much
about duh terrur mawsk at ground zero since the election...
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crikkett Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-11 10:20 AM
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6. The holidays, and then a freakout assassination kind of ran off with the headlines
sorry ur disappoint
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