Muslim Georgetown to Offer Liberal Arts Education and Training in Islamic Scholarship

Stealth Jihad Alert:

US scholars planning Islamic college
May 17 12:37 PM US/Eastern
By RACHEL ZOLL
AP Religion Writer – Breitbart

PLAINSBORO, N.J. (AP) – A group of American Muslims, led by two prominent scholars, is moving closer to fulfilling a vision of founding the first four-year accredited Islamic college in the United States, what some are calling a “Muslim Georgetown.”

Advisers to the project have scheduled a June vote to decide whether the proposed Zaytuna College can open in the fall of next year, a major step toward developing the faith in America.

Imam Zaid Shakir and Sheik Hamza Yusuf of California have spent years planning the school, which will offer a liberal arts education and training in Islamic scholarship. Shakir, a California native, sees the school in the tradition of other religious groups that formed universities to educate leaders and carve a space in the mainstream of American life.
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In earlier years, Shakir and Yusuf had made some anti-American statements, but that rhetoric is not part of their teaching. Zaytuna Institute has clips on its Web site of a lecture by the two scholars called “Curing Extremism.” Following a White House meeting with President George W. Bush soon after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Yusuf made the now widely repeated comment that “Islam was hijacked” by the terrorists and he has condemned the attackers as “mass murderers.”

[Uhm, yeah...  Moderates, right?   Well, Zaid Shakir believes that Islam is not compatible with The Republic:

"The Koran pushes us in the exact opposite direction to the forces at work in the American political spectrum." -Imam Zaid Shakir, former Muslim chaplain and political science professor, Yale University.

And,  Sheik Hamza Yusuf [Yousuf] has said,  “There are times when you have to live like a sheep in order to live in the future like a lion.”

Hmmm…  Sounds like these two are working to replace our Constitution with Sharia Law…]

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“Who will talk for the religion?” Shakir asked. “We have to train a generation.”

[Well, first of all, the Lame Stream Media just loves to "talk for the religion" (as long as it's Islam and not Christianity).  But, the interesting thing to note here is that Yusuf and Shakir want to "train a generation..."   Gee, I wonder why...]

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