A Debate Over "Obsession"
by Jerry Gordon (Nov. 2008)
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Shoaib Khan, 25, is a Muslim graduate student studying mathematics at USF. Khan, the only Muslim student in the audience, spoke out against the way Obsession was similar to much of the anti-American propaganda he has seen in the Middle East.
“It falls victim to its own verdict,” Khan said. “It’s equivalent. It’s just a mirror image of what happens there (the Middle East) to create fear.”
“I came here because I wanted to learn more about American culture so that when I go back to Pakistan, I can tell them they are wrong,” he said.
Susson noted that the film was shown as part of Israel’s 60th anniversary. According to him it generated heated protests and debates including signs on campus that read, “60 Years of Occupation.” At one point he was surrounded by 30 Muslim students shouting at him. He feared “several of them would take the protests to the next stage.”
Who are Imam Darsani and his son Mohammed T of ICP and what is their game?
April 5, 2008 at Edison College in Naples, Florida, Darsani and members of the ICP confronted of the background leading to the clash with Darsani in Naples, Florida:
With the tenacity of the FSC, within six weeks I had an official debate with Imam Mohammed Al-Darsani, with Michael Cromartie of the
The two-plus hour long debate covered a lot of ground. Most poignantly, it highlighted the great chasm between the corruption of Islamist apologetics and the struggle to renew the moral truth of spiritual Islam separated from Islamist demagoguery. A review of the debate demonstrates the wide abyss which separates so many faithful anti-Islamist Muslims from Imam Al-Darsani and other similar Islamist apologists. One has to give the Imam credit for showing up and having the courage of his convictions. Sadly, it is those very convictions which are the primary fuel for terrorism worldwide. Once we understand the relationship of political Islam and its various permutations from Wahhabism to Salafism to Deobandism to militant Islamism and its terror, we will be able to effectuate and progress a global anti-Islamist movement.
The ICP paper author, Mohammed Tammam, derisively dismissed Jasser’s views.
Dr. Jasser’s article titled “The War of Ideas: Revealing the Moral Weakness and Hypocrisy of the Islamist Imam” The United American Committee MSA/Darsani confrontation
When asked why the UAC team was there, Campbell responded:
We let them know that they were being watched. We wanted to challenge their Islamist views.
here. Here is the complete suite of UAC USF videos.
Imam Al-Darsani;
Mohammed T;
Dr. Khaleel Mohammed, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at San Diego State University, a fixture on the Muslim Jewish dialogue circuit;
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David Gaubatz, former USAF Office of Special Investigations counter intelligence expert and senior leader of the Mapping Sharia Project.
Ali Al-Tamimi, now serving 16 consecutive terms for a total of 80 years in a Federal prison, for recruiting Islamic terrorists in America.
Timothy McVeigh, the perpetrator of the Oklahoma City terror bombing in 1995.
Note this news report following the conviction of Ali Al-Tamimi in 2005:
Five days after Sept. 11, al-Tamimi addressed a small group of his followers in a secret meeting and warned that the attacks were a harbinger of a final apocalyptic battle between Muslims and non-believers. He said they were required as Muslims to defend the Taliban from a looming U.S. invasion, according to the government.
We noted earlier that the MSA students in the USF audience at the “Obsession “ panel debate were ‘disappointed’ that neither Mohammed T nor Dr. Khaleel Mohammed offered up Pure Islamic rebuttals in their presentations.
Kulliyat al-Shariah, Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University, in M.A. in religion (majoring in Judaism and Islam) at Concordia University, and then obtained his a PhD in Islamic law at Canada’s McGill University. He currently holds an Assistant Professorship in Religious Studies at San Diego State University in California. Mohammed proudly asserts his Canadian citizenship, when matters come up regarding American policies antithetical to the doctrine of multiculturalism. As Trento and I commiserated, Mohammed is an ‘item’ on the American Jewish-Muslim dialogue circuit. He commands large fees from events held at Jewish Community Centers and synagogues because of his spiel that the Koran decrees Israel belongs to the Jews. Here is his Quranic reference:
FrontPageMagazine symposium in 2004.
The Q+A
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