RICK WARREN'S GOOD MUSLIM FRIENDS
ARE RUBIO'S TOO!
FROM WIKIPEDIA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Stevens
"Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou, 21 July 1948)
In December 1977, Stevens converted to Islam, and he adopted the name Yusuf Islam the following year. In 1979, he auctioned all his guitars for charity and left his music career to devote himself to educational and philanthropic causes in the Muslim community. He was embroiled in a long-running controversy regarding comments he made in 1989 about the death fatwa on author Salman Rushdie." He had looked into "Buddhism, Zen, I Ching, numerology, tarot cards, and astrology". Stevens' brother David Gordon brought him a copy of the Qur'an as a birthday gift from a trip to Jerusalem. Stevens took to it right away, and began his transition to Islam. Stevens formally converted to the Islamic religion on 23 December 1977, taking the name Yusuf Islam in 1978. Yusuf is the Arabic rendition of the name Joseph; he stated that he "always loved the name Joseph" and was particularly drawn to the story of Joseph in the Qur'an. After a brief engagement to Louise Wightman, Yusuf married Fauzia Mubarak Ali on 7 September 1979, at Regent's Park Mosque in London. They have one son and four daughters and seven grandchildren; a second son died in infancy. They currently live in London, spending part of each year in Dubai. The Israeli government had deported Yusuf in 2000 over allegations that he provided funding to the Palestinian organisation Hamas, but he denied doing so knowingly. Yusuf, who repeatedly has condemned terrorism and Islamic extremism, stated "I have never knowingly supported or given money to Hamas". However, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) added him to a "watch list".
MARCO RUBIO'S CAMPAIGN ADVISORY BOARD ON RELIGIOUS LIBERTY INCLUDES RICK WARREN, SUPPORTER OF HAMAS LINKED "ISNA"
BY ROBERT SPENCER
SEE: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/01/marco-rubio-campaign-advisory-board-on-religious-liberty-includes-rick-warren-supporter-of-hamas-linked-isna; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Who better to advise on religious liberty issues than a useful idiot for a Hamas front? In July 2009, Warren addressed the annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America, despite the fact that it has been named an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas funding case. Federal prosecutors said that ISNA had an “intimate relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood,” and were “intimately connected with the HLF” — that is, the Holy Land Foundation, the Hamas-funding charity — “and its assigned task of providing financial support to HAMAS.”
Warren is also a close friend of Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam), despite Cat’s nasheed that contains the lines, “I’m praying to Allah to give us victory over the kuffar,” and his support for the murder of Salman Rushdie for offending Islam.
Yes, clearly Rick Warren is just the guy to advise Rubio on religious liberty. And that’s it for Rubio.
“Ballot Boxing: Rubio gets new religious advisers,” by Jamie Dean, World, January 5, 2016 (thanks to Alan):
______________________________________________________Less than a month before the presidential primary season begins with the Iowa caucuses on Feb. 1, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is set to announce a campaign advisory board focused on religious liberty issues.Rubio’s campaign tapped a handful of well-known evangelicals for the volunteer board, including pastor Rick Warren, theologian Wayne Grudem, Samuel Rodriguez of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, and Thomas Kidd, an author and professor of history at Baylor University (Kidd also occasionally writes for WORLD).
SEE OUR PREVIOUS POSTS ABOUT RICK WARREN, WAYNE GRUDEM, SAMUEL RODRIGUEZ.
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THE BOARD:
- Carlos Campo—president, Ashland University
- Vincent Bacote—associate professor of theology and director of the center for applied Christian ethics, Wheaton College
- Kyle Duncan—former general counsel of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and lead counsel for the Green family in the Hobby Lobby case
- Tom Farr—director of the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and associate professor of the practice of religion and world affairs, Georgetown University
- Kelly Fiedorek—legal counsel, Alliance Defending Freedom
- Wayne Grudem—research professor of theology and biblical studies, Phoenix Seminary
- Chad Hatfield—chancellor, St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Seminary
- Thomas Kidd—distinguished professor of history and associate director, Institute for Studies of Religion, Baylor University
- Daniel Mark—Villanova University and commissioner, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom
- Michael McConnell—Richard and Frances Mallery professor and director of the Constitutional Law Center, Stanford University Law School
- Doug Napier—senior counsel and executive vice president, Alliance Defending Freedom
- Samuel Rodriguez—president, National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference
- Meir Soloveichik—rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel and director of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, Yeshiva University
- Rick Warren—founding pastor, Saddleback Church
- Thomas White—president and professor of theology, Cedarville University
