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Ground Zero Mosque’s Hidden Websites: Follow the Shariah
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</span><h1 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; xg-p: relative; top: -2px; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" class="entry-title"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13px;">Ground Zero Mosque’s Hidden Websites: Follow the Shariah</span></h1>
<div style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #89a4b4; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: white; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 5px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" class="entry-meta"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13px;"><span style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" class="meta-prep meta-prep-author">Posted by </span><span style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" class="author vcard"><a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: white; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" title="View all posts by Christine Brim" href="http://bigpeace.com/author/cbrim/" class="url fn n">Christine Brim</a></span> Aug 17th 2010 at 10:45 am in <a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: white; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Featured Story" href="http://bigpeace.com/category/featured-story/">Featured Story</a>, <a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: white; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Islamic extremism" href="http://bigpeace.com/category/islamic-extremism/">Islamic extremism</a> |<a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: white; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" id="IDShowCommentLink16205" title="Comment on Ground Zero Mosque’s Hidden Websites: Follow the Shariah" href="http://bigpeace.com/cbrim/2010/08/17/ground-zero-mosques-hidden-websites-follow-the-shariah/#idc-container" name="IDShowCommentLink16205">Comments (81)</a></span></div>
<div style="padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; clear: both; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #cccccc; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin: 0px;" class="entry-content"><div style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" id="lazyload_post_0"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Do the math. The <a style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #77a6c9; text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #77a6c9; font-weight: bold; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/11/nyregion/11mosque.html">15 floors planned for the Ground Zero Mosque </a>just don’t add up.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">What’s the goal? </strong>Maybe the Imam’s goal is not <strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">simply</strong> to force a provocative “insensitivity” about 9-11 on the American public, with the help of America’s elites. Maybe the Imam’s long-term goal is to force Shariah law on the American public – of course, again, with the help of America’s elites.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><img style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; display: block; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" height="323" width="468" alt="ground zero mosque" src="http://bigpeace.com/files/2010/08/ground-zero-mosque.jpg" title="ground zero mosque" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17041"/></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Why don’t the 15 floors add up?</strong> How many floors does Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf need for the mosque portion of this triumphal Islamic command center planned for the two building sites at 45-47 Park Place in New York City? Think about it: maybe 2 floors for the mosque itself and related offices. A 3rd floor for the swimming pool, a 4th for the 500 seat auditorium, a 5th for the halal restaurant and halal culinary school, a 6th for the art studios, the childcare center and library, a 7th for the gym and basketball court. Add an 8th floor for miscellaneous storage and offices. And then add a 9th floor for the September 11 memorial, an after-thought that <a style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #004890; text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #004890; font-weight: bold; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/muslim-leaders-and-developers-of-cordoba-house-community-center-in-lower-manhattan-thank-supporters-95658654.html">was recently added to the Imam’s plan</a>, although that may in fact be more of a room off to one side than a whole floor.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">That leaves six mystery floors empty – or dedicated to other activities. Six floors – that’s a lot of offices, a lot of employees, maybe more than half of the 150 full-time and 500 part-time jobs the Imam says he’ll bring to Lower Manhattan. What are Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s plans for those six mystery floors?<span style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" id="more-16205"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Follow the Shariah Index Project to solve the puzzle of the 6 mystery floors:</strong><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"> </strong>We found two hidden websites with copiously deleted information, all about the Imam’s Cordoba Institute Shariah Index Project. For reference, here’s the Imam’s most recent <a style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #004890; text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #004890; font-weight: bold; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" href="http://174.132.114.190/~arkdev/?q=content/shariah-index-project">hidden website</a> (also <a style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #004890; text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #004890; font-weight: bold; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" href="http://bigpeace.com/files/2010/08/http___174.132.114.190_arkdev__qcontent_shariah-index-project.pdf">available here as a pdf</a>). And here’s the Imam’s earlier<a style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #004890; text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #004890; font-weight: bold; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080731094405/www.cordobainitiative.org/recent_programs.html">hidden website </a>(also <a style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #004890; text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #004890; font-weight: bold; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" href="http://bigpeace.com/files/2010/08/http___web.archive.org_web_20080731094405_www.cordobainitiative.org_recent_programs.html.pdf">available here as a pdf)</a>. The information on those websites – information that the Imam tried to hide with a <a style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #004890; text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #004890; font-weight: bold; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" href="http://www.cordobainitiative.org/?q=content/shariah-index-project">new whitewashed version</a> – suggests that the six mystery floors of the Ground Zero Mosque will be dedicated to the Imam’s long-term goal: the Shariah Index Project, designed to benchmark Shariah compliance, to distribute Shariah propaganda, and to enforce Shariah law in America and worldwide.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Drawing from those hidden webpages and other sites, we’ve constructed a timeline for the Shariah Index Project and a partial list of Rauf’s partners in the Project. In Part 2, we’ll reveal the disturbing background and views of those partners. And in Part 3, we’ll present the bottom line – how this all ties together as a historic Islamist effort to market and to enforce Shariah in America, starting from Ground Zero.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Numbered Documents, for everyone’s convenience!</strong> Below, from the hidden websites, is the evidence Rauf tried to cover-up. We’ve even numbered the Shariah Index Project documents he mentioned, to make it easy for the Imam and his staff – for example, Courtney Erwin, <a style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #004890; text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #004890; font-weight: bold; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" href="http://www.cordobainitiative.org/who_we_are.html">attorney and director of the Shariah Index Project</a> and<a style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #004890; text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #004890; font-weight: bold; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" href="http://www.taxexemptworld.com/organization.asp?tn=1196329">corporate contact for the Cordoba Institute</a> - to provide copies to the American public.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Courtney Erwin could end the cover-up of these documents today, given her leading role in the Shariah Index Project since its inception. Erwin, by the way, <a style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #004890; text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #004890; font-weight: bold; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" href="http://twitter.com/courtneyerwin/status/15129419082">has been working in Doha</a> (Qatar, home of <a style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #004890; text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #004890; font-weight: bold; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" href="http://lynch.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/07/09/qaradawis_revisions">jihad-supporter Sheik Qaradawi</a>, so <a style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #004890; text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #004890; font-weight: bold; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/12/us/nation-challenged-religious-opinion-muslim-scholars-back-fight-against.html">admired by Imam Rauf)</a> for the past three months. She states that her team includes a “<a style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #004890; text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #004890; font-weight: bold; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" href="http://twitter.com/courtneyerwin/status/14432636825">Qatari legal researcher,”</a> presumably for ongoing work on the Shariah Index Project. She may also be working with one of the core Shariah experts partnering in the Shariah Index Project, Dr. Jasser Auda, since January 2010 an Associate Professor in the Public Policy Program, Faculty of Islamic Studies, Qatar Foundation in Qatar. (Qatar is also one of the countries Imam Rauf is scheduled to visit on his State Department-funded trip this summer.) Look for much more on Erwin and Auda in Part 2.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">American citizens and their elected officials should ask Rauf, Erwin and their associates to end the Shariah Index Project cover-up, and to disclose all documents, meeting notes, emails and attendee lists from 2006 to the present day. You don’t ask, you don’t get.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">August 2006 – The Planning Meeting – Meeting #1<br/></strong></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">We know from the first hidden website that the Shariah Index Project (SIP) had its initial meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in August 2006. Attendees explored the idea of creating an “index” to measure the degree of Shariah governance for ALL nations, and deliverables from the meeting were <strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">(1) a “vision” statement </strong>and <strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">(2) a roadmap for the project.</strong> Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf convened and chaired this meeting, which included “four scholars from India, Malaysia, and Pakistan.” From the second hidden website, we know that these first four participants Rauf recruited were international leaders affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood - and on key advisory boards in Shariah Compliant Finance:</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px initial initial;">Professor Dr. Mahmood Ahmad Ghazi, <em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Pakistan</strong></em>, (Chairman of the Shariah Board for the State Bank of Pakistan and former president of International Islamic University);</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px initial initial;">Professor Dr. Mohammad Hashim Kamali, <em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Malaysia</strong></em> (Dean of the International Institute of Islamic Thought & Civilization and Former Interim Chairman, Constitutional Review Committee, Afghanistan);</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px initial initial;">Professor Dr. Tahir Mahmood, <em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">India</strong></em> (Founder/Chairman, Amity University Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, New Delhi, and former Dean of the Faculty of Law, Delhi University);</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px initial initial;">Dato’ Abdul Hamid Mohamad, <em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Malaysia</strong></em> (Judge, Federal Court of Malaysia … Malaysian Supreme Court). [Such a small world here at Big Peace - this is the <a style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #004890; text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #004890; font-weight: bold; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" href="http://bigpeace.com/cbrim/2010/07/19/elena-kagans-active-promotion-of-shariah-law/">same judge honored by Elena Kagan in the Al-Sanhuri lecture series at Harvard on November 11, 2008</a>, as we reported here a couple weeks ago.]</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"> </em></strong></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">February, 2007 - Expanding the Core Group – Meeting #2<br/></strong></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">The original five Shariah authorities (1 from Pakistan, 3 including Rauf from Malaysia, 1 from India) met again, adding five more members from <em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Indonesia</strong></em>, <em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Iran</strong></em> (to “represent the Shi’a perspective,” possibly Mohammad Javad Larijani – see Bayefsky’s research below for August 2008), <em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Turkey</strong></em>, <em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Pakistan </strong></em>and <em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Malaysia</strong></em>. This new Group of Ten Shariah Index Authorities created a new <strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">(3) Roadmap (2.0)</strong>, and a new <strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">(4) Basis for Evaluation Document</strong>,which sets out an initial list of Islamic legal principles relating to governance. The group also distributed <strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">(5) Research Assignments</strong>, which would support the project and which they would present at the next meeting.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"> </em></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">May 2007 – The First Draft of the Shariah Index – Meeting #3<br/></strong></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">This was a very productive session, involving the same ten Shariah experts. They refined the Basis for Evaluation document, resulting in the “creation of two new documents: <strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">(6) Essential Features of Shariah-Compliant Governance</strong> and the first iteration of the <strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">(7) Shariah Index (1.0), inclusive of seventy-four principles of Islamic governance derived from Islamic law</strong>.”</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">“Additionally, the group developed a <strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">(8) Strategic Plan for the project, </strong>which highlighted key dates and tasks<strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">.</strong>They also identified a <strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">(9) short and long-list of scholars</strong> to approach for support.”</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">October 2007 - Expansion and Operations Plans – Meeting #4<br/></strong></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">The Core Group of Ten grew to at least 14 members, with new Shariah authorities from <em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Bahrain</strong></em>, <em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">England (possibly Dr. Jasser Auda <a style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #004890; text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #004890; font-weight: bold; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" href="http://www.jasserauda.net/modules.php?name=Biography">who may have been in the UK</a> at the time?)</strong></em>, <em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Morocco</strong></em>, and <em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Lebanon</strong></em> (to “include the Arab Shi’a perspective”). Interestingly, it also included three ratings experts – identified later as unnamed representatives from Gallup Organization, Pew Research Center, and Dr. Robert Rotberg of Harvard University. The meeting’s deliverables were closing in on the final product:</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px initial initial;">“the group further refined the <strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">(10) Index [ie, Shariah Index 2.0]</strong>, which they organized into four major sections—1)Normative Declarations, 2) Qualifications ofLeaders, 3) Governance, and 4) Maqasid al Shariah—with each of these sections broken down into a number of measurable principles derived from Shariah. “</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">The group also revisited and refined their <strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">(11) strategic plan [2.0] </strong>and committed to <strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">(12) three detailed research and writing tasks:</strong> 1) long articles, 2) sourcing and citing principles, 3) proxy questions for each principle.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">November 2007 – July 2008 – Building the Shariah Index Apparatus – Individual Meetings #5</strong></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Over the next eight months, the Cordoba Initiative staff worked with the 14 Shariah experts – and the 3 “ratings experts” from Gallup, Pew and Harvard – to write the <strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">(13) Preamble to the Project </strong>and “further refine the philosophy, overall structure, and organization of the <strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"> (14) Index [ie, Shariah Index 3.0]</strong> as well as each of the principles.”</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">August 2008 - Final Publication Plans – Meeting #6</strong></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><a style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #004890; text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #004890; font-weight: bold; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/an-iranian-connection-to-the-cordoba-house-ground-zero-mosque/">Anne Bayefsky identified</a> the Iranian participant in Shariah Index Project from this photo from the August 2008 meeting: Iranian Mohammad Javad Larijani, who has justified torture of Iranian dissidents as legal punishments under Shariah law. This August 2008 meeting planned the publication of the Shariah Index Project book – and associated polls done by Gallup and Pew – for March 2009:</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px initial initial;">At the most recent meeting in August 2008, the scholars agreed that the index would be a Maqasid al Shariah Index [the influence of Jasser Auda who had possibly joined in October 2007], measuring a state’s Islamicity through both its governance and society. Representatives from the Gallup Organization governance index pioneer, Dr. Robert Rotberg, joined the discussion by phone on the second day. Following these conversations with rating and indexing specialists, the scholars worked to <strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">(15) finalize the index, including its methodology and measurable indicators [ie, Shariah Index 4.0]</strong>. The scholars also finalized preparations for the book to be published concurrently with the Index and findings. After the formal meetings concluded, Cordoba staff worked one-on-one with a number of the scholars, soliciting additional information requested by the ratings experts prior to their formal work on the Index as well about the Indexing methodology and the book, with significant work with Gallup and Dr. Rotberg as well as production of the book scheduled for the upcoming 6 months. The target date for the <strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">(16) Index results and book is March 2009</strong>, with the public launch to follow.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">November 21, 2008 – The Book Launch Celebration with the Muslim Brotherhood’s IIIT- Meeting #7<br/></strong></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">The International Institute of Islamist Thought (IIIT), a Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated organization in Northern Virginia,<a style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #004890; text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #004890; font-weight: bold; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" href="http://www.iiit.org/NewsEvents/News/tabid/62/ArticleType/ArticleView/ArticleID/113/PageID/105/Default.aspx">met to launch the publication</a> (<a style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #004890; text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #004890; font-weight: bold; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" href="http://bigpeace.com/files/2010/08/http___www.iiit.org_NewsEvents_News_tabid_62_ArticleType_ArticleView_ArticleID_113_PageID_105_Defaul.pdf">pdf here</a>) of an abridged edition of Rauf’s “What is Right with Islam is what is Right for America.” The meeting was chaired by IIIT Vice President Jamal Barzinji, and the publisher of the abridged edition is a group called American Muslims for Constructive Engagement (AMCE). Also promoted in that series of “Reader’s Digest Condensed Islamism”: Harvard’s Noah Feldman’s “Fall and Rise of the Islamic State,” “1) Who Speaks for Islam: By John Esposito and Dalia Mogahed. Dalia Mogahed is head of the Gallup project on Muslim public opinion, the most likely contact at Gallup for the earlier meetings on the Shariah Index Project (more on that relationship, and on the AMCE and their U.S. government backers in Part 2).</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">The book series, by the way, was funded by the <a style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #004890; text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #004890; font-weight: bold; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" href="http://www.kingdom.com.sa/en/CorpCocialRes_KF.asp#">Kingdom Foundation</a> – as in the Alwaleed Bin Talal Kingdom Foundation of Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">December 19, 2008 – Final Coordination with the Muslim Brotherhood’s IIIT – Meeting #8</strong></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Rauf <a style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #004890; text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #004890; font-weight: bold; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" href="http://www.iiit.org/NewsEvents/News/tabid/62/ArticleType/ArticleView/ArticleID/115/PageID/107/Default.aspx">met with Muslim Brotherhood’s IIIT leadership to discuss the Shariah Index Project</a> (<a style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #004890; text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #004890; font-weight: bold; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" href="http://bigpeace.com/files/2010/08/http___www.iiit.org_NewsEvents_News_tabid_62_ArticleType_ArticleView_ArticleID_115_PageID_107_Defaul.pdf">here as pdf</a>). A key figure, Dr. Jasser Auda, met with Rauf at IIIT Headquarters in Northern Virginia. Auda has the background and the brains to be coordinating the Shariah Index Project behind the scenes from Qatar, making Rauf simply a U.S. salesman for an effort that may actually be directed by others. More on Auda in Part 2.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Let’s Review. All those numbers begin to add up:</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">The Ground Zero Mosque has at least 6 mystery floors. We suggest that they’ll be used by the Shariah Index Project.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">The Shariah Index Project was built by at least 14 Shariah experts. We have the identities probably of 7 of them, and Rauf should reveal the other 7 right away.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">The Shariah Index Project generated at least 16 documents and maybe a final book, and Rauf should release all of these – right away.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">The issues at stake in the Ground Zero Mosque and the Shariah Index Project are not about Americans supporting the Constitution’s protection of religious freedom. Americans support that protection.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">The issues at stake here are about Americans protecting the Constitution from Shariah-adherent groups using the protective guise of religious freedom to attack the Constitution itself – using a triumphal Ground Zero mosque as “the base” for a project to institutionalize Shariah in America.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15pt; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><a href="http://bigpeace.com/cbrim/2010/08/17/ground-zero-mosques-hidden-websites-follow-the-shariah/">http://bigpeace.com/cbrim/2010/08/17/ground-zero-mosques-hidden-websites-follow-the-shariah/</a></p>
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