Not only did Dalia Mogahed (pronounced mujahid), President Obama's faith-based Muslim advisor, participate on a British TV show, via telephone, hosted by members of the extremist Islamic supremacy group Hizb ut Tahrir, she claimed Sharia Law is misunderstood by the West and told the audience that most Muslim women she interviewed wanted it! Mogahed also did not challenge any anti-West statements made by the HT members on the show. Nasreen Nawaz, Huzb ut Tahrir 's representative for women was also on the show. The video of the 45 minute show is proudly posted on HT's website in the UK. (Update the video is not at the link but is post on YouTube here) and is embedded below.
Additionally, and this is the real kicker, Islam Channel, the station where this show is aired, is an "Islamist" TV outlet run by CEO Mohammed Ali Harrath, a convicted terrorist who is wanted by Interpol!
The participation by phone by Mogahed, a high profile Muslim associated with the Obama administration, on this extremist show is certainly troubling.
"Miss Mogahed, appointed to the President's Council on Faith-Based and Neighbourhood Partnerships, said the Western view of Sharia was "oversimplified" and the majority of women around the world associate it with "gender justice". (that is Muslim women she interviewed not all women)The White House adviser made the remarks on a London-based TV discussion programme hosted by Ibtihal Bsis, a member of the extremist Hizb ut Tahrir party. The group believes in the non-violent destruction of Western democracy and the creation of an Islamic state under Sharia Law across the world.
Miss Mogahed appeared alongside Hizb ut Tahrir's national women's officer, Nazreen Nawaz.
During the 45-minute discussion, on the Islam Channel programme Muslimah Dilemma earlier this week, the two members of the group made repeated attacks on secular "man-made law" and the West's "lethal cocktail of liberty and capitalism".
Miss Mogahed made no challenge to these demands and said that "promiscuity" and the "breakdown of traditional values" were what Muslims admired least about the West.
She said: "I think the reason so many women support Sharia is because they have a very different understanding of sharia than the common perception in Western media.
...Sharia in its broadest sense is a religious code for living, which decrees such matters as fasting and dressing modestly. However, it has also been interpreted as requiring the separation of men and women...
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Video from show dated October 4, 2009 (45 minutes):
Cover of HT's September Issue (khilafah is a state, or country or world under Islamic rule):
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Also see:
Dr Nazreen (Hizb ut-Tahrir) interview on BBC
Hizb ut-Tahrir: Spread Islam or Die Trying :: Audio and Video ...
Hizb ut Tahrir- An Outcry to the Islamic Ummah
Khilafah Conference USA - Hizb ut Tahrir
BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight | Hizb ut Tahrir
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