With a wink, Yasser Arafat referred to the “Quraysh Model” in a speech he gave in Arabic to a Palestinian audience shortly after he signed Clinton’s vaunted Oslo Peace Accords and shortly before he issued yet another bloody intifada. He was referring to a ten-year treaty that Mohammad had signed with the Quraysh tribe who ruled Mecca, a truce that the Prophet broke as soon as was strong enough to capture the city and kill all the Jews.

Taqiyya is a tenant of Islam that is uniformly understood by all Muslims with even a rudimentary knowledge of the Koran and the teachings of Mohammad. It not only condones but some would say commands the Muslim to lie to the infidel if done so in the advancement of Islam.

In short, any and all pronouncements that Imam Rauf has made or will make regarding the construction of the mosque at ground zero must be thoroughly fact checked. More »