The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and Daisy Khan.
Some, like Feisal Rauf, go so far as to insist that shariah is compatible with the U.S. Constitution.
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It ended with Habibie and armed forces commander Feisal Tanjung sharing an embrace.
Feisal Abdul Rauf also published in 2004 a book entitled What's Right About Islam is What's Right about America.
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who will run it, hopes it will help improve relations between Muslims and the West.
In 1975, Prince Feisal Musaid was publicly beheaded in Riyadh for the assassination of Saudi King Feisal on March 25.
Then, there is another book by Feisal Rauf: Islam: A Sacred Law - What Every Muslim Should Know About Shariah.
Imam Feisal sees the 92nd Street Y, a community centre guided by Jewish principles but serving all faiths, as his model.
Feisal Tanjung, chief of the armed forces, said Sept. 16 a new generation of leaders should wait five years --for the nation to advance further economically.
After Gamal Nasser cracked down on the organization, the elder Rauf fled first to Kuwait, where Feisal was born, then made his way to Malaysia and ultimately America.
To the contrary, it is the brainchild of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, a well-meaning American cleric who has spent years trying to promote interfaith understanding, not an apostle of religious war like Osama bin Laden.
Jumana Ghunaimat, researcher and journalist of Al Arab Al Yawm newspaper Mr. Walid Husni, General Manager of Jordan News Agency PETRA Mr. Feisal Al Shboul, lawyer Dr. Sakher Al Khasawneh, former Ambassador to Russia Mr. Ahmed Mubaideen, and Lebanese journalist and lecturer at JMI Dr. Jean Karam.
By Saturday, however, he wanted the American people to know that he was not commenting on "the wisdom" of putting such a mosque by that hallowed ground - just "the right" of its backers like Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf to do it, pursuant to the Constitution's protection of religious freedom.
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