Chad Groening OneNewsNow.com
February 8, 2007
Robert Spencer, one of the America's foremost experts on Islam, says members of the Democratic National Committee may have been ignorant what the words meant when an Islamic imam recently gave the invocation at the party's 2007 winter meeting.
One of the nation's leading experts on the Islamic religion says those in attendance at the Democratic National Committee's 2007 winter meeting were apparently unaware of what an Islamic imam was really saying when he gave the invocation.
Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, a project of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, says the imam from a Shiite Muslim mosque in Dearborn, Michigan, essentially asked Allah to assist in converting the party members to Islam. But "because they don't know anything about Islam," says Spencer, those at the meeting do not realize the words used by the iman "don't mean the same thing to non-Muslims that they mean to Muslims -- and this is what fools them."
According to Spencer, the imam spoke of being guided to a "straight path," which -- to a Muslim -- is the path of Islam. Explaining further, he says in traditional Islamic theology it is the Jews who have incurred God's anger and the Christians who have gone astray, and both must be guided to that "straight path."
Spencer says the DNC is obsessed with multi-culturalism. He suggests it is highly unlikely that the Democrats would have asked a Christian to deliver the invocation at their meeting. But he says it is even more unlikely that they would have remained silent if the Christian leader had spoken as the imam did.
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