Monday, April 3, 2006
Miss Kelly takes note of Patrick Poole's article in FrontPage today: Hometown Jihad, featuring Ohio jihadist, Salah Soltan (or Sultan). (see previous: Salah Soltan - A moderate's guest? and Decisions of a Moderate's Guest -- note the comment thread on that first one, particularly)
Poole is worried about what's becoming of his home town. It's not an irrational concern.
But the local Islamic school’s connection to the international Muslim Brotherhood terror network is far from the only manifestation of the hometown jihad. Among the regular speakers at the school is Hilliard resident, Dr. Salah Sultan, who gives monthly lectures on a number of Islam-related topics. Sultan was the founding president of the Islamic American University in Dearborn, Michigan, and still serves on the European Council for Fatwa and Research . He has self-published a number of Islamic titles available through his own publishing company. On his online resume, Sultan lists as his personal vision: “To live happily. To die as a martyr. To meet the beloved ones in the Paradise of the Lord of Heaven and the earth.”...
“I want every child to sleep on the wound of Palestine and the actions of martyrdom, just like that mother in the country whose son wrote to her that they are to meet in Paradise.â€
Soltan quote.
The scary part is that so many American Muslims find this kind of sentiment normal and "moderate."