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[quote=Anonymous]Rauf will remain on the board of Park51, but the developers appointed Imam Abdullah Adhami to serve as Senior Advisor to the project to help create, “a robust and dynamic religious and interfaith component.”

“This is an extraordinary opportunity to be a key advisor on a project going forward that has enormous creative and healing potential for the collective good in New York City and in our nation,” Adhami said in the statement.
But critics of the mosque do not share Adhami’s belief in the healing potential of the mosque project, much less in his ability to help bring it to fruition.  They point to Adhami’s connection to Imam Siraj Wahhaj of Brooklyn.  Adhami, who holds a degree in architecture, volunteered to help design Wahhaj’s Masjid At-Taqwa mosque, and fetes him on his personal website as a “pioneer in the American Muslim experience.”  “Since the 1970s, Imam Siraj has tirelessly laid the foundations for many scholars and leaders that would follow him,” Adhami writes.

One of the “scholars” for whom Wahhaj laid foundations in the U.S. was Shiekh Omar Abdel-Rahman, the infamous “blind sheikh” and mastermind of the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993.  Abdel-Rahman spent time in prison in Egypt in the early 1980s on charges that he had issued a “fatwa,” or religious decree, calling for the assassination of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat.  He was also known to have ties to the terrorist groups Egyptian Islamic Jihad and Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya, serving as the leader of the second group.  Abdel-Rahman appeared on a State Department terrorist watch list before gaining entry to the United States in 1990.[/quote]

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