My latest in PJ Media:
The state of Utah has given us Mitt Romney in the Senate, and as if that weren’t enough punishment, they’re not finished frog-marching us into the glorious multicultural future. In a new display of just how enlightened and woke flyover country can be, the Utah State Senate has had Yussuf Awadir Abdi, imam of the Madina Islamic Center of Utah in Salt Lake City, deliver the opening prayer at one of its sessions. Those who can never let a multiculti love feast go by without throwing a rotting cabbage onto the sofa, however, will have the bad manners to point out that Abdi, for all his doubtless impeccable liberal credentials, is on a terror watch list.
It’s unclear whether or not the Utah solons were aware of Abdi’s exalted status, or if they simply thought it would be too “Islamophobic” to have the temerity to check into his background before inviting him to beseech the Almighty on their behalf. Abdi, for his part, was thrilled, effusing on Facebook: “All praises is due to Allaah who gave me to mention his name and his prayer front of our state senators. Thank you UTAH Muslim Civic league for giving me this opportunity.”
Nor was this a singular event, an oversight from an otherwise vigilant political class. The Madina Islamic Center of Utah’s Facebook page features greetings for the end of last year’s Ramadan from Senator Romney (“Eid Mubarak!” writes Mitt happily, without the slightest indication that he is aware that the mosque’s imam is on the terror watch list). Last October, the Islamic Center noted that “our congressman ben mc Adams came to madina masjid today and we discussed a lot of issues specially our brothers and sisters in Kashmir and much more. Thank you Utah muslim civic league ( UMCL) for working hard to establish a good relationship with the leaders. Good job guys.”
There is much more. Read the rest here.
Wellington says
Pretty damn sad.
Here’s what else is pretty damn sad: Mormonism not just implicitly but explicitly acknowledges in its theological blueprint that Mohammed is a legitimate prophet chosen by the Almighty. I know of no other Christian sect (and I am assuming here that Mormonism is a Christian sect which I know many Christians would disagree with) that formally does this. Here Mormonism “stands out”—to its eternal shame and discredit.
Hmmm, wonder if Mitt Romney gets any or this? I will presume he doesn’t since he has manifested many times over cluelessness, incompetency (think the 2012 Presidential election here) and rank pettiness (think the bogus impeachment of Trump which Romney, alone among any other Republican, went along with).
To all Mormons: You can have your Joseph Smith and Brigham Young if you want (though I personally don’t see why) but your religion’s approbation of Mohammed is rooted in massive ignorance, if not downright stupidity. Shame on you all until you change this, rather like the way you changed your previous positions on polygamy and the black race.
Update needed where Mo is concerned. Pronto like.
mortimer says
Mormon’s and their political leaders may not know that Islam opposes ‘polytheism’. The Mormon concept of the deity is POLYTHEISM and that makes them targets for extermination according to the Koran and Mohammed. Mormonism doesn’t endorse the historic creeds, so it is not ‘Christian’.
The Utah legislators are naïve Polyannas. Polytheists are the principal targets of Islam for extermination and genocide.
Jeff says
Sad, but true.
Jeff says
I couldn’t have said it better!
Rob Porter says
Wellington, well said. Till now I had no idea that Mormonism considers Mohammad a “legitimate prophet chosen by the Almighty”. The ignorance and stupidity truly is astounding.
Kepha says
Joe Smith certainly imitated aspects of Islam in coining the Mormon church. However, is there anything in the writings of Joe Smith or Brigham Young that explicitly endorses Muhammad as a prophet? I’ve done some critical study of Mormonism; and while I note that Joe Smith noted Muhammad’s descent from Abraham, I never ran across anything that recognized Muhammad as a prophet.
Zarquon ExpoCiter says
The Roman Catholic Catechism since circa 1994 says that Mooslims can enter Paradise since they are monotheists
(—Robert Albert Morey, whose Doctorate of Ministry degree in Comparative Religion was conferred by Westminster Theological Seminary near Philadelphia, PA;
Proprietor at “Faith Defenders” org., Which find @
https://www.FaceBook.com/faithdefenders ).
Jade Maiko says
Terror Watch listed And glad to be connected with US Government Leadership. HORRIFIC state of dereliction and inexcusable lacking in any virtue or honor of intention.
gravenimage says
Jade, are you new to posting at Jihad Watch? If so, welcome.
James Lincoln says
Welcome Jade!
gravenimage says
Diversity in Utah: Imam on Terror Watch List Delivers Prayer at State Senate
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Yes, this is utter insanity. How could *no one* have vetted this thug? It wouldn’t have taken much.
Peter35 says
Yes, that’s my thinking too, but all over the western world, it’s as though we can’t wait to thrust honours and titles on moslems; to put them into positions of power, when in fact they are almost always completely unworthy of any such advancement.
Infuriating.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Peter.
mortimer says
An important feature of standard Islamic prayers is the Islamic WAR CRY of supremacism and other prayers that are curses against Jews and Christians.
The prayers were pronounced in English, the legislators would realize that they are EXCLUSIVE of non-Muslims, and actually target them with abuse.
Prayers that are deliberately EXCLUSIVE should not be tolerated by conscientious members of the legislature. They should walk out.
mortimer says
correction: “IF the prayers were pronounced in English …”
… that’s the value of untranslatable, ambiguous Arabic. It can mean whatever the mullah wants it to mean.
gravenimage says
Yes–Infidels seldom know what curses are being pronounced against them.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
Most infidels don’t even know the contents of the adhan islamic call to prayer…
gravenimage says
True, James.
eduardo odraude says
How someone gets on the terrorist watch list is to some extent explained in the first two paragraphs on page 2 of the document here:
https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/terrorist-screening-center-frequently-asked-questions.pdf/view
ronit says
What next ? A musical by ISIS ”actors” in the name of promoting diversity and multi-cultuarism ? Diversity might work between humans of different races… but not between Humans and Muslims.
R Thomasson says
National Geographic Channel aired yesterday a program on the Manhattan Project. Only two of the leading scientists were US born, and got their degree in science in American universities. It is unnecessary to mention the contribution European refugees, who came to Amerika during the ’30, had brought to American society. That truth stands also for European immigrants who came to US and Canada after WWII. Citizens of Utah can ask themselves: what benefit do they gain in accepting uncivilized primitive people from the most backward part of Africa? People for whom death cult of Allah is more important than human values? New comers who are not qualified for anything, apart from endangering their environment by terror attacks. Having a man like Yussuf Awadir Abdi in the State Senate, is like having a Senate member who comes in with his jungle outfit and feathers crown on his head and tel everyone how Allah is grate. . .
sweetolbob says
Home of Romney ! ……………… What can I tellya ?!
gravenimage says
Inadequate as Romney was, he still would have been better than Obama, Bob.
Giacomo Latta says
Isn’t anybody wearing a pair of shoes they can waste on this guy (Abdi)?
FYI says
If mormons claim to be christians then perhaps they might like to explain why they pander to muslims given the following facts{most likely not known by those who claim to be christians either through naivete,willful ignorance or stupidity}
….
1]allah’s greatest enemy is a MAN.
“The messenger of allah said,’the most hated of men before allah on the day of resurrection and the most wretched and the man most hated to him will be a man called MALIK AL AMLAK{the King of Kings} for there is no king but allah”
Sahih Muslim Vol 5 hadith #5611
You Mormons surely know who the king of kings is…{Revs 19:16}:Only ONE man has that title.
And yet you facilitate and pander to that which is antiChrist!
Why are you not preaching the Gospel to the muslims as the Gospel commands you to?
Do you think you will fool the Jesus Christ you claim to follow?
Matthew 7 v 21-23
2]allah’s greatest commandment?
“Belief in allah and JIHAD is his cause”
Muslim 1:149
Compare with the First Chief Commandment of God{Deuteronomy 6 :4-9}:LOVE GOD
3]allah teaches “Do not love your neighbor” as he is an infidel.
“oh ye who believe!take not the Jews and Christians for friends” {koran 5:51} as they are
“the WORST of created beings” koran 98:6
Compare with the Second Chief commandment of God{Leviticus 19:18}:LOVE OTHERS
islam’s Doctrine of HATE[al walaa wal baraa] is a violation of the 2 chief commandments of God and the Golden Rule{Matthew 7 v 12,defined as being =the MEANING of the Law of Moses
allah is NOT the Judeo-Christian God:allah even admits to being a champion deceiver k3:54.allah is the diabolus simius Dei{although many christians seem unable{or unwilling} to see that.
4]the koran CURSES Christians for believing in Jesus Christ {koran 9:30}
denies Christ’s crucifixion 4:157 and the Trinity koran 4:171{notice the HOLY SPIRIT is missing in islam},in fact allah puts MARY in the Trinity koran 5:116
I suggest you mormons{and catholics and protestants etc}take the Gospel warnings very seriously about pandering to that which is antiChrist:Read your Bible and know what the koran teaches OPPOSES the Gospel.you cannot have muslim “prayers” in your churches:who do you think muslims “pray” to?It is NOT the Biblical God.
Tay says
Why wasn’t a Buddhist monk asked to do it? Or a Rabbi or Hindu? etc…. Why does everything have to do with islam????
The enemy of America has wormed its way into almost everywhere across the country.
Yet time and time again we are told there is no conspiracy!
Horseman says
Awe man, come on! How stupid are we?
Wayne Roberts says
Absolutely incredible!
Western nations inviting the regressive curse of islam into their midst are akin to the fool who raises a baby tiger and is subsequently eaten by it.
jayell says
Mr Spencer talks about good Americans being ‘frogmarched.into a glorious multicultural future’. If Americans want to know whar that means, they only need to look this way across the pond and see what an inholy mess that would be, or look back at the unholy mess in downtown Manhattan where the World Trade Centre used to be. In any case, mankind was never programmed to exist in a ‘multicultural’ situation within a single confined piece of territory. You simply CANNOT have a ‘multicultural society’; that term is a thoroughly stupid oxymoron describing a ridiculously contrived concept that at best belongs in the plot of a Walt Disney cartoon fantasy rather than real life, as insanely fanciful as the term ‘islamophobia’ is ignorantly inaccurate. A ‘society’ is a group of like-minded individuals who respect each other and who freely come together with a single purpose or vision. Where people are clearly NOT of a single purpose or vision and groups of them appear on someone else’s patch only to grab a bit of the local action because they can’t get their own act together unaided back home or/and they think they’ve got some kind of right to have whatever they fancy wherever it us, you then end up with separate ‘societies’ with their own agendas, competing for control over local resources – and mutual respect just doesn’t come into the picture. That’s how you get violence, murder and destruction in ‘peaceful’, ‘civilsed’ countries like Sweden, industrial-scale organised rape in the UK such as hasn’t been witnessed in the place since the days of the Dark Age Viking invaders, and aircraft being flown into skyscrapers in New York, killing thousands much as Hitler did with his bombers in London. Then, as history has shown time and time again, you get civil war. Very clever!