It's the law, Stupid.

[T-Rock]

In reference to what was said by Obama’s legal council who‘s advising the POTUS, Rashad Hussein ~1:32-1:55: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dh-fvwGUuE

“whosoever of you sees an evil action, let him change it with his hand; and if he is not able to do so, then with his tongue….”

From a Muslims point of view, by following the Sunnah to some extent, what exactly does he mean? Is there a specific Islamic doctrine associated with the above quote?

The reason I ask is because the only time I’ve noticed this phraseology used, seems to be associated with those engaged in street Dawah. edited to add, see 9:40-10:00:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um3VIC7NYq8

[T-Rock]

...and it looks like we've found one of the lawyers who isn't fully advising the President of all aspects of the law:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dh-fvwGUuE

Looks like he just got a promotion.

President Obama names Islamic envoy

By MIKE ALLEN & LAURA ROZEN | 2/13/10 12:02 PM EST

Reaching out to Muslims around the world, President Barack Obama used a taped video address Saturday to make the surprise announcement that Rashad Hussain, deputy associate White House counsel, will serve as a special U.S. envoy to the 57-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference.

Obama made the announcement about his pan-Islamic overture to delegates at the U.S.-Islamic World Forum, an annual event hosted by the Saban Center at Brookings and the Government of Qatar.

Hussain’s work at the White House focuses on national security, new media, and science and technology issues. Hussain has also worked with the national security staff in developing the partnerships with the Muslim world that Obama outlined in his “On a New Beginning” address in June

The OIC calls itself “the collective voice of the Muslim world,” working “to safeguard and protect the interests of the Muslim world in the spirit of promoting international peace and harmony among various people of the world.”

“Appointing a special envoy to the OIC is an important part of the president’s commitment to engaging Muslims around the world based on mutual respect and mutual interest,” an administration official said.

“The special envoy will work to strengthen cooperation between the U.S., the OIC and its members in many areas of mutual interest such as education, entrepreneurship, science and technology, health and opposing violent extremism in all its forms.”

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton departs Saturday to address the conference in Doha on Sunday before heading on to Saudi Arabia for meetings with the Saudi King Abdullah and Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, expected to focus heavily on Iran.

Clinton is one of several senior U.S. officials recently dispatched to Persian Gulf states and Israel to discuss Iran. Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is due in Israel on Sunday after recent visits to the region by National Security Adviser Jim Jones and the National Security Council’s Iran strategist, Dennis Ross; CIA Director Leon Panetta, and Gen. Kevin Chilton, head of U.S. Strategic Command.

Since the president’s speech to the Muslim world, the U.S. has worked with the OIC on eradicating polio. Polio remains endemic in three Muslim-majority countries — Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan — and in India, where it disproportionately affects Muslim communities.

The International Islamic Fiqh Academy, an OIC affiliate, issued a statement in September urging health ministries in Muslim-majority countries to intensify polio eradication efforts and calling on parents to have their children vaccinated. Saudi Arabia quickly reconfirmed its intention to contribute $30 million toward polio eradication. Later, the president of Pakistan announced a national campaign to eradicate polio, and named his daughter, Aseefa Bhutto Zardari Benazir, to lead the campaign.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/32926.html


Interesting piece on Rashad here and his ties to the MB:
http://globalmbreport.org/?p=2173

[Warrior-Mentor]

More here:

VIDEO:
http://www.breitbart.tv/obamas-choic...ises-eyebrows/

[T-Rock]

Interesting...

Rashad Hussain’s Samigate
by Robert Spencer on Feb 17th, 2010

Someone is covering up for Rashad Hussain. But who?

And what did Barack Obama know, and when did he know it?

Rashad Hussain is the Obama administration’s newly appointed special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the thuggish international organization that is engaged in a full-scale campaign to intimidate Western governments into adopting hate speech codes that will effectively quash criticism of Islam – including jihad violence perpetrated in its name. Rashad Hussain is an apposite choice for this position, since several years ago he defended a notorious U.S.-based leader of a jihad terrorist group.

But someone doesn’t want you to know that, and made a clumsy attempt to cover it up.

In 2004, Rashad Hussain, then a Yale law student, declared that the investigation and prosecution of University of South Florida professor Sami al-Arian, who ultimately pled guilty to charges involving his activities as a leader of the terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad, was a “politically motivated persecution” designed “to squash dissent.”

Journalist Patrick Goodenough of Cybercast News Service reports that Hussain’s remarks in support of Al-Arian were published in the jihad-enabling Washington Report on Middle East Affairs in November 2004. But now all that has gone down the memory hole. The Washington Report’s archived version of this November 2004 article lacks two paragraphs that were included in the original version: the ones quoting Rashad Hussain. Otherwise the article is unchanged.

The Washington Report editors, caught red-handed, decided to brazen it out, and blame their accusers – a tried-and-true tactic that is also frequently employed by jihadists in the West. They insist that there was no cover-up, and anyone who thinks otherwise is a venomous Islamophobe: according to Goodenough, “WRMEA news editor and executive director Delinda Hanley denied there was a ‘cover-up,’ and implied that anti-Muslim discrimination was behind the fact this was now being raised.”

Sure. It’s just “anti-Muslim discrimination” to be concerned about Rashad Hussain’s support for Al-Arian, a vicious suicide-bombing supporter who chanted “Death to America” and “Death to Israel,” and clearly meant it. When two Islamic Jihad suicide bombers killed eighteen people in Israel in 1995, Al-Arian called them “two mujahidin martyred for the sake of God.”

But there was no cover-up! It was all a mistake, you see: according to the Washington Report now, Sami Al-Arian’s daughter, Laila Al-Arian, actually said the words that were attributed to Rashad Hussain.

But this explanation doesn’t make sense, since the article was altered just to remove the quotes, not to change the name of the person quoted. Also, the author of the original story, Shereen Kandil, contradicts the Washington Report’s explanation, telling Goodenough:

“When I worked as a reporter at WRMEA, I understood how important it was to quote the right person, and accurately. I have never mixed my sources and wouldn’t have quoted Rashad Hussain if it came from Laila al-Arian. If the editors from WRMEA felt they wanted to remove Rashad Hussain from the article, my assumption is that they did it for reasons other than what you’re saying. They never once contacted me about an ‘error’ they claim I made.’”

Was the Washington Report covering for Rashad Hussain at its own discretion, or at the behest of someone else? Did Barack Obama himself know about this cover-up? Did* someone in the White House or the State Department find out about Hussain’s defense of Al-Arian, and act to cover for the bright young special envoy before this defense was discovered and he became known as a terror apologist?

Or is the Obama Administration wholly uninvolved – and unaware of the fact that the President has chosen as an envoy to the world’s leading organization of Islamic states a man who has openly declared his support for an admitted leader of a jihad terror group?

Alternatively, is Hussain’s disdain for the war on terror and support for Al-Arian precisely what Obama thought might make him appealing to the OIC? In 2007 Hussain declared that federal law should prohibit “the targeting of non-citizens solely on the basis of their racial, religious, or ethnic backgrounds.” In other words, airport security officials should keep on pretending that eighty-year-old Iowa grandmothers present just as much of a terror risk as do young Muslim males. It’s an outrage to common sense and a waste of resources, but it pleases Barack Obama, Rashad Hussain, and the Islamic countries to which the Administration is so desperately and fruitlessly reaching out.

Whoever is covering up for Rashad Hussain should come clean. And in the process, Obama should reevaluate the wisdom of sending a man like Hussain, with the views that he holds, to an organization such as the OIC – as should question whether he should really be sending an envoy to the OIC in the first place.

But Obama is in far too deep for that.

http://frontpagemag.com/2010/02/17/r...%99s-samigate/

[T-Rock]

Obama’s OIC Envoy (Rashad Hussain) didn’t Just Defend Al-Arian, he condemned the United States for prosecuting just about everyone who was under indictment on terror charges at the time. Listen to his remarks at the MSA conference:

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt8Y_...layer_embedded

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/33210.html

http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/02/...ian/#pageTitle

[Warrior-Mentor]

Impressive find. Internet's a bitch, isn't it?

How can he cover this up?

[T-Rock]

How can he cover this up?

I don't know but the more I learn, the more it disturbs me...

In reference to what was said by Obama’s legal council who‘s advising the POTUS, Rashad Hussein ~1:32-1:55: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dh-fvwGUuE

“whosoever of you sees an evil action, let him change it with his hand; and if he is not able to do so, then with his tongue….”


From a Muslims point of view, by following the Sunnah to some extent, what exactly does he mean? Is there a specific Islamic doctrine associated with the above quote?

I found the answer to my question regarding "evil action":

"It is not possible under any circumstances that Islam would oblige the person who sees an evil action to change it, then at the same time tell him that it is better not to denounce it".

‘O you who believe! Take care of your ownselves. If you follow the (right) guidance [and enjoin what is right (Islamic Monotheism and all that Islam orders one to do) and forbid what is wrong (polytheism, disbelief and all that Islam has forbidden)] no hurt can come to you from those {Kafir} who are in error’
[al-Maa’idah 5:105]

I heard the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) say, ‘When the people see an oppressor {Kafir}but they {Muslim}do not try to stop him {Kafir}, soon Allaah will cause all of them to suffer punishment because of him {the Kafir}.’”
(Narrated by al-Tirmidhi, 2168; Abu Dawood, 4338; Ibn Maajah, 4005).

"Undoubtedly, whoever does not believe that it is obligatory to rule {Sharia}according to that which Allah has revealed to His Messenger is a Kafir, and whoever thinks it is permissible to rule among people according to his own opinions, turning away and not following which Allah has revealed is also a Kafir...So in matters which are common to the Ummah as a whole, it is not permissible to rule or judge according to anything except the Quran and Sunnah. No one has the right to make the people follow the words of a scholar or Ameer or Shaykh or King. Whoever believes that he can judge between people according to any such thing, and does not judge between them according to the Quran and Sunnah is a Kafir." [Minhaj as-Sunnah an-Nabawiyyah, 5/130-132]

"Nay, by Allah, you either enjoin good and forbid evil {Kufr} and catch hold of the hand of the oppressor{Kafir}and persuade him to act justly and stick to the truth {Sharia}, or, Allah will involve the hearts of some of you with the hearts of others and will curse you as He had cursed them". (Abu Dawud and At-Tirmidhi)

"When the people see an oppressor{Kafir} but they do not try to stop him, soon Allah will cause all of them to suffer punishment because of him." (Narrated by al-Tirmidhi, 2168; Abu Dawood, 4338; Ibn Majah, 4005) This hadith was classed as sahih by al-Tirmidhi and Ibn Hibbaan, 1/540.

Whoever adopts laws other than Allah’s is a Kafir and the Muslims must declare war on him until the laws of Allah are adopted; the laws prescribed by Allah and His Prophet” (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam)" - Tafseer ibn Kathir Vol.2/67

"Whoever among you sees an evil action{Kufr}, let him change it with his hand (by taking action); if he cannot, then with his tongue (by speaking out); and if he cannot, then with his heart (by hating it and feeling it is wrong), and that is the weakest of faith." (Muslim)

Rashad isn't fully advising the President of all aspects of the law, is he a disciple of Ahmad Ibn Taymiyyah ?

http://www.islam-qa.com/en/ref/10081
http://globalmbreport.org/?s=Rashad+Hussain
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&&...l.2/67&spell=1
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&e...&start=10&sa=N

[Thomas Paine]

Originally Posted by T-Rock

I don't know but the more I learn, the more it disturbs me...

Agree.

Originally Posted by T-Rock

Rashad isn't fully advising the President of all aspects of the law, is he a disciple of Ahmad Ibn Taymiyyah ?

How do you KNOW he isn't advising the President fully?

And of which law? US? or Sharia?

[T-Rock]

And of which law? US? or Sharia?

US Law... otherwise, IMO, he wouldn't be defending Islam.
{establishment clause}

[Warrior-Mentor]

[T-Rock]

How do you KNOW he isn't advising the President fully?

IMO, he appears to be advising Obama more in the ways of dhimmitude and Sharia than US law since he announced to the world that Rashad Hussain's title will be America's "Educator-in-Chief” on Islam - not bad for promoting Islam considering Obama bragged about how Hussain had memorized the Qur‘an, and bragged about how Hussain was extremely devout.

Whoever adopts laws other than Allah’s is a Kafir and the Muslims must declare war on him until the laws of Allah are adopted

The duo embodies the melding of the left with Islamist forces at home and abroad - a "post-Cairo" conference that welcomed Islamist (Ikhwan) ideologue Tariq Ramadan to Washington - opening welcome arms to the Islamic Society of North America (front for Saudi-financed radicalism) - working together with the UN and the OIC towards the issue of defamation of religion, which seeks BTW to outlaw free and honest discussion of Islam and undermine the national sovereignty of free nations. (1st Amendment )

The dhimmitude in Washington is astounding and the policy direction Obama has taken are reflective of those put forth by Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan) entities, and the OIC.

Rashad Hussain advising Obama (National Security) is disturbing on too many levels.

That is how I know…I can feel it in my bones...