{"id":1801,"date":"2013-02-06T18:17:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T01:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?page_id=1801"},"modified":"2016-01-12T13:18:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T20:18:36","slug":"was-the-elca-scammed-by-the-muslim-brotherhood-part-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?page_id=1801","title":{"rendered":"Sayyid Sayeed gets three standing ovations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sayyid Sayeed, National Director of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), was a featured <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/assemblynews\/page\/2\" target=\"_blank\">speaker<\/a> at the 2011 ELCA Churchwide Assembly in Orlando. He praised the ELCA for fighting against \u201canti-Muslim bigotry.\u201d He received three standing ovations.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1802\" title=\"sayeed\" src=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sayeed.jpg\" alt=\"sayeed\" width=\"125\" height=\"178\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.granddeception.com\" target=\"_blank\">documentary<\/a> shows that ISNA and other \u201cmoderate\u201d Muslim organizations present a fa\u00e7ade of being peaceful when, in fact, they harbor more radical goals. The documentary shows Sayeed <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/JSUrAY9cNZ4\" target=\"_blank\">announcing<\/a> at the podium at an ISNA meeting: \u201cOur job is to change the Constitution of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In another clip journalist Rod Dreher <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ZF_VJQXf4RI\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> how when he asked Sayeed why certain radical Islamists served on ISNA\u2019s Board, Sayeed shook his fist at Dreher and accused him of anti-Muslim bigotry. Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/17_1_sndgs02.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For groups like ISNA, interfaith fellowship is about more than building friendships between Muslims and non-Muslims. It is political coalition-building designed to legitimize Brotherhood-allied groups and delegitimize critics of radical Islam.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1803\" title=\"hanson\" src=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/hanson.jpg\" alt=\"hanson\" width=\"533\" height=\"220\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sayyid Sayeed, National Director of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), was a featured speaker at the 2011 ELCA Churchwide Assembly in Orlando. He praised the ELCA for fighting against \u201canti-Muslim bigotry.\u201d He received three standing ovations. A new documentary shows that ISNA and other \u201cmoderate\u201d Muslim organizations present a fa\u00e7ade of being peaceful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1801","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2210,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1801\/revisions\/2210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}