From Reverend Wright To Imam Rauf?

It's a provocative comparison, and one made by Victor Davis Hanson, who wonders Is Imam Rauf Going to Be Another Reverend Wright?. After all, when Reverend Wright's anti-American comments first came out, the media attacked the attackers--claiming they were right-wing racists, until more and more of Wright's comments came to light.

So too Imam Rauf. He has a vast record of quackery — the latest tidbit is his 2005 contorted assertion that Westerners have more innocent Muslim blood on their hands than does al-Qaeda (e.g., “We tend to forget, in the West, that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than al Qaida has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims”), presumably because between 1991 and 2003 America tried to stop Saddam’s aggressions and WMD program through non-violent sanctions. Given Rauf’s long paper trail and bad habit of talking in different personas to different audiences, much more will drip out each day, as was the case with Wright’s DVDs and occasional outbursts. And that might necessitate a correction of Obama’s grandstanding, disingenuous remarks to his iftar Muslim audience, in which the president deliberately conflated legal right with ethical and moral sensibility and earned a standing ovation for his distortion.

Time will tell whether the Left will dump Imam Rauf.
Maybe we could get the tapes of what Rauf is saying in Arabic these days on his US-sponsored tour in the Middle East...

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