“There Is Nothing to Fear in Islam,” Says DC Imam At Conference with Hamas-Linked CAIR Official

“There is nothing to fear in Islam,” proclaimed Imam Talib M. Shareef during the February 9 “Tackling Islamophobia at Home” presentation at Washington, D.C.’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library. Before over 300 largely sympathetic listeners in the library’s Great Hall entrance atrium, the panel presented an airbrushed understanding of an Islam perfectly at home within a “Red-Green” alliance.

Shareef, imam at a Washington, DC, area mosque, defined Islam as “surrendering to peace” and thus conjoined the disputed translations of this Arabic word as “peace” or, more accurately, “submission.” Among Shareef’s questionable Quranic interpretations, he indirectly referenced Quran 5:82 to suggest an Islamic scriptural basis for affinity between Christians and Muslims. Like many Islam apologists, he ignored how this very verse plays a central role among numerous Islamic canons supporting the antisemitism that is rampant among modern Muslims. Such inconvenient truths undercut his ludicrous contention that “there is nothing in the Quran that says anything against Christians and Jews.”

Shafeer’s fellow panelist, St. Mary’s College of Maryland professor Sahar Shafqat, strained credulity even more with her simultaneous struggles against “Islamophobia,” “homophobia,” and “transphobia.” She leads the Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD), whose diversity does not include criticism of Islam, as shown by how she cited…

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