You don't have to dig very deep to understand the Cordoba Initiative, the Muslim group fighting to build a mosque near Ground Zero in New York City. Look at their website and read. There is nothing hidden. It is all right there spelled out in black and white. Just like Obama's policies, goals and beliefs before the election.

The separation of church and state is not acceptable to this group. In the Muslim world, the state is the church. Muslims in the western world, in courtries like America where the government doesn't control religion, this is a big challenge. So to better help Muslims in America and other countries where the head of your religion isn't the head of the government, the Cordoba Initiative is working on ways to intergrate their religion into the government.

Their website logo with their name: Cordoba Initiative Improving Muslim-West Relations. One of the group's initiatives is the Shariah Index Project. This project spells out the manner the Muslim group wants to improve relations with the west. In their eyes, to improve relations with the west is to intergrate Islam into our government.

The Cordoba Initiatve's Shariah Index Project is a "working team of Sunni and Shi’a legal scholars from Morocco to Indonesia achieved consensus on a final structure on philosophy, methodology, and approach to providing the general public, opinion leaders, and state officials in both the Muslim and Western worlds with an Islamic legal benchmark for measuring “Islamicity” of a state.

"In addition to producing The Shariah Index book, comprised of the essays and deliberations of these scholars, and which provides the Index’s theoretical foundation, Cordoba will present the Annual State of the Muslim World Index. This index, which involves a partnership with the Gallup Organization, polls people from 44 Muslim-majority nations (and members of the Organization of Islamic Conference) on how well their nations comply in practice with this Islamic legal benchmark of an Islamic State."

This is the first paragraph on the Cordoba Initiative's website about the Shariah Indes Project. "The Shariah Index Project seeks to address the religion-politics relationship question that has racked the Muslim World since the death of the Prophet Muhammad."

Think about this for a minute.



http://www.cordobainitiative.org/?q=...-index-project

Please read this article about the project. It isn't denouncing the Shariah Index Project or the leader Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf or the the Cordoba Initiative. It is just giving an update on the project with an interview of the cleric fighting to put the mosque at Ground Zero.

http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs....707209836/1138