Different faiths will be represented on inauguration day. The Jewish religion will be represented by three different branches; reform, conservative and orthodox. They will be saying prayers at the National Prayer Service, as will the president of the controversial Islamic Society of North America, Ingrid Mattson:
"...Reform Rabbi David Saperstein, Conservative Rabbi Jerome Epstein and Orthodox Rabbi Haskel Lookstein are scheduled to take part in the Jan. 21 event at the National Cathedral in Washington, according to The Associated Press.
Muslim and Christian leaders are also scheduled to participate,including Ingrid Mattson, the first female president of the Islamic Society of North America."
Mattson is a questionable choice. First, in Islam she is not allowed to lead the required prayers before a group of Muslims males and females because she is a woman:
"...While many women seek change, they may not support the prayer venture. It is "violating a principle of Islamic law - the forms of ritual prayer are fixed by revelation" and can't be changed, says Ingrid Mattson, a professor of Islamic Studies at Hartford Seminary. "Yet outside of those obligatory prayers, it is very open," so that women can lead prayer in other settings..."
Secondly, her organization is an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land foundation terror funding trial where all defendants were found guilty last November in their quest to funnel money to Hamas. ISNA was named as such because some of their members are or were members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
ISNA denies they have anything to do with the Muslim Brotherhood all the while serving on their board of directors is Jamal Badawi, a known Muslim Brotherhood member!
Badawi is also on the board of directors of the Muslim Association of Canada ( MAC) a group who states in their preamble their allegiance to the Muslim Brotherhood:
"MAC adopts and strives to implement Islam, as embodied in the Qur’an, and the teachings of the Prophet (peace be upon him) and as understood in its contemporary context by the late Imam, Hassan Albanna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. MAC regards this ideology as the best representation of Islam as delivered by Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)."
(scroll down: zTruth saved web page, Oct 07 archive page or this archive page taken July 04)
After it was exposed Badawi was on this board, MAC took down their website.
In addition to this, the FBI listed Badawi as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land terror funding case and exposed Badawi's role in the plans laid out by the Muslim Brotherhood's North American operation.
Badawi also serves on several boards with known terror-supporter Yusef Qaradawi who is banned from the U.S. for his religious rulings approving of martyrdom against Israeli men, women and children.
Qaradawi is the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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See also:
Prayer speaker from group feds link to Hamas Politico
Obama prayer leader from group US linked to Hamas AP
Islamic leader urges Jews be wary of fundamentalists (Christians, that is) Ingrid Mattson
Ingrid Mattson: What is Islam? CNN 2001
CHAT PARTICIPANT: Osama bin Laden made a reference that Muslims have been living in humiliation for 80 years. Did he refer to the Treaty of Sevres in 1920 that dismantled caliphates and sultanates?
MATTSON: Yes, he is referring to that, to the overthrowing of the caliphate, which was a plan of European powers for many years. This deprived the Muslim world of a stable and centralized authority, and much of the chaos that we're living in today is the result of that.
Islamic Groups Named in Hamas Funding Case
Unindicted co-conspirator list (page 8)
Holy Land Foundation defendants guilty on all counts
Islamic Society of North America discoverthenetworks
ACLU CHALLENGES GOVERNMENT'S STIGMATIZING OF MAINSTREAM MUSLIM GROUPS IN HOLY LAND CASE ISNA website
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ISNA website
