If they had refused to invite Noman Hussain, they would have been accused of “Islamophobia.” And so now they’re allied with advocates of these destructive doctrines. This is the very apotheosis of Useful Idiocy.
“Democratic National Convention hosts imam from Islamic extremist institution,” by Jackson Richman, JNS, August 17, 2020:
(August 17, 2020 / JNS) The Democratic National Convention hosted an imam from an Islamic extremist institution on Sunday.
Noman Hussain, imam of ISM Brookfield in Wisconsin, was one of the religious leaders who took part in the convention’s “Interfaith Welcome Service.”
Hussain is a scholar at the Texas-based Qalam Institute, whose officials have advocated “the use of female sex slaves, the killing of adulterers, and incite hatred against Jews and other non-Muslims,” according to the Middle East Forum.
One of the Qalam Institute’s courses, “The Prophetic Code,” warns Muslims to strive for “cleanliness” and “purity,” so that they “do not resemble the Jews.”
The Democratic National Convention did not respond to a request for comment about Hussain’s affiliation with the Qalam Institute.
In 2012, Hussain shared a cartoon of an Israeli soldier appearing innocent on TV without it showing the soldier mercilessly shooting people in Gaza….