Now that Bin Laden is fish food his closet supporters feel free to share their beliefs.
(IPT) — A leader of a major American Muslim organization, the Muslim American Society (MAS), is arguing that there “was nothing wrong with” Osama bin Laden’s dream of creating a renewed Caliphate. Khalilah Sabra’s comments are the most recent and worrisome from the group, which has a long history of defending alleged terrorists.
Sabra, the director of the North Carolina branch of MAS’ Freedom Foundation, made the statement in a sometimes disjointed article entitled “Agreeing to Disagree About the Death of Osama Bin Laden” that was released Wednesday under the MAS logo. The statement aligns more with a period of Sabra’s life in the late 1980s, when she traveled to Afghanistan with bin Laden’s predecessor, Abdullah Azzam, to provide aid to the mujahideen fighting the Soviet Union.
Her statement doesn’t defend bin Laden’s terror attack on 9/11. But it does laud his vision of an Islamic state and his desire to “liberate” the Afghani people.
“He was a visionary who believed in the possibility of an Islamic state in Afghanistan and the possibility that this thing might someday be,” Sabra wrote. “There was nothing wrong with that dream, even if it differs from that one that all Americans have here for themselves.”
In 1997, bin Laden described his vision of a Muslim leader “who can unite them and establish the ‘pious caliphate.’ The pious caliphate will start from Afghanistan” and spread from there.
HT: Jack