By WILIAM MAYER and BEILA RABINOWITZ
September 19, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - As if more evidence was needed to question the direction of the U.S. State Department's Muslim outreach we note their current effort to elevate Khalid Latif, director of NYU's Islamic Center and the New York Police Department's Muslim chaplain.
In a flowery puff piece penned for the State Dept. by Howard Cincotta, Latif is characterized as, "deeply committed to interfaith dialogue and community service as integral parts of what it means to be Muslim in a modern, multicultural world."
In reality, as these authors have pointed out in a 2007 piece Khalil Gibran School Advisor Threatened NYU With Jihad Over Danish Cartoons that Latif, "During the height of the Danish cartoon controversy imam Khalid Latif - an advisory board member of New York's proposed Khalil Gibran school [and chaplain at NYU, NYPD and Rutgers University] - protested a NYU student group's intent to display the drawings by drafting an incendiary letter to the university's president John Sexton which contained veiled threats of violence." Read more ...
September 19, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - As if more evidence was needed to question the direction of the U.S. State Department's Muslim outreach we note their current effort to elevate Khalid Latif, director of NYU's Islamic Center and the New York Police Department's Muslim chaplain.
In a flowery puff piece penned for the State Dept. by Howard Cincotta, Latif is characterized as, "deeply committed to interfaith dialogue and community service as integral parts of what it means to be Muslim in a modern, multicultural world."
In reality, as these authors have pointed out in a 2007 piece Khalil Gibran School Advisor Threatened NYU With Jihad Over Danish Cartoons that Latif, "During the height of the Danish cartoon controversy imam Khalid Latif - an advisory board member of New York's proposed Khalil Gibran school [and chaplain at NYU, NYPD and Rutgers University] - protested a NYU student group's intent to display the drawings by drafting an incendiary letter to the university's president John Sexton which contained veiled threats of violence." Read more ...
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