Sherman Jackson |
A statement issued on “behalf of the American Muslim community” condemning Omar Siddiqui Mateen’s terrorist attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida and disassociating Islam from such “hate-fueled violence” has been signed by several academics who were involved in the recent funeral service for Muhammad Ali. As Campus Watch noted at the time, one of them, University of Southern California professor Sherman Jackson is on record advocating the implementation of Sharia (Islamic) law in America. Others, including former Georgetown U. adjunct Dalia Mogahed and Zaytuna College (an Islamic school in Berkeley, CA) founders Hamza Yusuf, Zaid Shakir, and Hatem Bazian (of UC Berkeley), have acted as apologists for Sharia and Islamic terrorism, while advocating an anti-Western, anti-Israel agenda that employs charges of “Islamophobia” to silence legitimate criticism. The primary organizations constituting the Islamist lobby in the U.S. (CAIR, ISNA, MAS, etc.) also endorsed the statement.
As with the 2014 open letter drafted by Islamic scholars that denounced ISIS while remaining ambiguous on crucial theological points, we have to ask, can such a statement be considered sincere if its signatories are Islamists?
