Trump attends interfaith inaugural service with Islamic Imam's recitation of Quran

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If this news is confirmed by other sources, Trump was just anti-Obama but not anti all muslims as MSM repeatedly claimed?


Imam delivers message to Trump at inaugural service

By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor
Updated 4:58 PM ET, Sat January 21, 2017

Imam sends message to Trump at inaugural service 00:58

Washington (CNN)An imam who had been expected to deliver the Islamic call to prayer at an interfaith religious service for President Donald Trump instead recited two verses from the Quran that contained clear political messages for the new president and his administration.

Imam Mohamed Magid, executive director of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society, is a well-known figure in Washington, but he had been sharply criticized by fellow Muslims for agreeing to take part in the event Saturday at Washington National Cathedral.
Magid was one of 26 religious leaders from a diverse array of faiths to participate in the service, an inaugural tradition since George Washington. The event's program said Magid would recite the "Muslim call to prayer," leading many to believe he would intone the adhan, the melodic call to worship that issues forth from many mosques five times a day.
Instead, the imam chose two passages from the Quran with clear political implications, especially at a time of racial and religious strife, when many American Muslims feel marginalized and mistrusted.
Addressing the capitol's power brokers, including Trump's family and Vice President Michael Pence, Magid read first in Arabic and then provided an English translation.
The first verse he read was from Surah Al-Hujarat, in which God says:
"O humankind, We have created you a single male and female (Adam and Eve) and made you into nations and tribes and communities, that you may know one another. Really, the most honored of you in the sight of God is the most righteous of you, and God has all knowledge..."
The second verse he read was from Surah Ar-Rum:
"And among the signs of God is the creation of heaven and earth, and the variation in your languages and your colors. Verily, in that are signs for those who know."
A spokesman for Magid said his recitation of the verses had been approved by officials at the Washington National Cathedral.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/20/politics/trump-imam-magid/

 

[timosman]

"And among the signs of God is the creation of heaven and earth, and the variation in your languages and your colors. Verily, in that are signs for those who know."

This sounds anti-NWO.

 

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

Did he wear a towel on his head?

 

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This sounds anti-NWO.

It could be interpretted that way but CNN has its own spin going on in the reporting.


But if Trump is seen as having an inclusive vision for Americans of all religions/creeds etc, that would take away a major talking point from left wing neoconish groups in media.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Meh, MSM said this and a lot of other silly things without actually quoting teh Donald to prove it.Fake nooz is fake.

 

[enhanced_deficit]

Did he wear a towel on his head?

That is not mentioned in CNN report.

But he seems secure about his faith, unlike Obama, and probably could get away with it if he did.

Obama cancelled trip to Sikh temple for fear of looking moslem in photos





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[Muslim brother]

 

[juleswin]

Fake news, we have to wait for Trump to come out and confirm the person we are looking at is not a clone.

 

[nobody's_hero]

I'm not very good at reading deeply into religious texts, but I'm straining to figure out how those passages have anything to do with Trump.

I did however learn that apparently Muslims also believe in the creation of Adam and Eve, speaking as someone who has never opened a Quran before.

 

[timosman]

I'm not very good at reading deeply into religious texts, but I'm straining to figure out how those passages have anything to do with Trump.

I did however learn that apparently Muslims also believe in the creation of Adam and Eve, speaking as someone who has never opened a Quran before.

The most quoted prophet in Islam - Jesus(187 times) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_mentioned_by_name_in_the_Quran#Prophets

 

[enhanced_deficit]

Meh, MSM said this and a lot of other silly things without actually quoting teh Donald to prove it.Fake nooz is fake.

True that, Trump is a "prolific" speaker and MSM has often repeated inaccurate translations of his statements and presented as something written in stone pillars of his policy views.

It seem Melania is reading the translations of the recitation from the program booklet while Trump listens to the orginal content.
Guess we know who is the reader in the family and who is the listener/talker.

 

[enhanced_deficit]

I'm not very good at reading deeply into religious texts, but I'm straining to figure out how those passages have anything to do with Trump.

I did however learn that apparently Muslims also believe in the creation of Adam and Eve, speaking as someone who has never opened a Quran before.

It appears that, under the guise of religios freedom, the Imam may have been trying to lecture Trump that God created people in different colors and makes them speak different languages.






Semi-related

Muslim woman who voted for Trump asks Georgetown to intervene over professor’s ‘hateful, vulgar’ messages

By Justin Wm. Moyer January 6

A former Georgetown professor who wrote an opinion article in support of President-elect Donald Trump has asked the university to intervene after a current Georgetown professor responded with insults and an obscenity on social media.

After Trump was elected in November, Asra Q. Nomani, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and a co-founder of a Muslim advocacy group, wrote a Washington Post article titled, “I’m a Muslim, a woman and an immigrant. I voted for Trump.” On Thursday, Nomani filed a formal complaint with the university, alleging discrimination and harassment after comments made by Christine Fair, an associate professor in Georgetown’s School for Foreign Service.
[I’m a Muslim, a woman and an immigrant. I voted for Trump.]

“I am a single mother who can’t afford health insurance under Obamacare,” wrote Nomani, who taught at Georgetown from 2008 to 2012. “As a liberal Muslim who has experienced, firsthand, Islamic extremism in this world, I have been opposed to the decision by President Obama and the Democratic Party to tap dance around the ‘Islam’ in Islamic State.”

On Nov. 22, Fair responded to the post on Twitter.

Christine Fair. (Courtesy of Christine Fair)
“I’ve written you off as a human being,” Fair wrote in one message detailed in the complaint. “Your vote helped normalize Nazis in D.C. What don’t you understand, you clueless dolt?” Fair wrote, later adding: “YOU publicly voted for a sex assailant.” She went on to say that Nomani “pimped herself out to all media outlets because she was a ‘Muslim woman who voted for Trump.’ ”
Fair called Nomani’s appeal to her employer a “very dangerous trend.” She said Nomani, a former professor at Georgetown, has no standing at the university to complain.
“I am most concerned about the increasing appeal to employers to silence the criticism of citizens made in their private capacity as citizens,” she wrote in an email to The Washington Post. “Because most of us need our jobs, as few of us are financially independent, this is the most pernicious form of bullying of critics.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...vene-over-professors-hateful-vulgar-messages/