fund-raising to complete the 15-floor center, but the doors are open to the community. imam feisal abdul rauf is no longer associated with the project, but he still stands by it and explains why. he has a brand-new book, called moving the mountain: beyond ground zero to a new vision of islam in america. imam feisal abdul rauf is here. i didn t think you would ever come to this program. you know, i have been very critical of you. you know that? well, i m here to straighten the record. sean: i m glad you are. i have read in a recent interview that you said, you said, americans have on the question of americans treating muslims, you went on to praise them. you said, look, i go out the way americans have treated the muslim community is amazing. indeed. indeed. that s what i say whenever i travel to speak, which i have done on many, many occasions. our enemy is not islam. islam is not the enemy and
it s my country. and i you talk in your book, this is where i am having a conflict with you, you talk about bringing everybody together. i separate radical islamist, i separate hamas and hezbollah and the muslim brotherhood and al qaeda. i separate that from people who want to pursue their faith. i m a christian. they re muslim. there are peaceful muslims. here s the problem, though. you have been given multiple opportunities to condemn hamas. have you never done it. i have. sean: no! you were in a radio interview with aaron cline on my flagship station and you wouldn t do it. after that, i did. sean: after that? why are you changing that? well, look, again any any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist hamas is a terrorist organization? yes, it is. sean: hezbollah in.
[overlapping dialogue] sean: american law and our on the contrary i wrote a chapter on this i read it. i show that the american system of government, the american declaration of independence, the principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the sharia, both structure all and in the government you are dodging my question. would you want sharia courts in america? sharia requires muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land. this is what we are required to do. no american muslim wants to introduce the penal code here. sharia law stands for six major objectives, sean, the protection and furtherance of life, of religion, of family, of property, of intellect and of dignity. these are the things which life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is really all b. i have a whole chapter dedicated to this because i want to see
we are winning the battle. the moderates are winning the battle, between the law enforcement and the muslim leaders, this battle is being won. sean: i don t see t. i hope you are right. i pray you are right because the world needs safety from the razzicallism or there will be a world war. we have to win this. we have to win this war, sean. sean: appreciate your forthrightness and apal gee. i think if has clarified a lot. coming up, pen gillette skewered the president for enthusiastically doing drugs. find out why when he sits down right here, next on hannity. you know, we re a little early for this thing.
hannity. we continue with imam feisal abdul rauf. one of the things that concerns me, the leader for the presidency in egypt wants sharia law. we see sharia applied in saudi arabia, where women can t drive cars, where they can t be seen in public with men they are not married to, where, you know, in other case, women in afghanistan can t work, can t go to school. we see in iran, people s hands get chopped off. if you get raped as a woman, you need four male eyewitnesses that a rape happened. would you want separate sharia courts. this understanding of sharia is incorrect. in most there have been 7 or 9 muslim presidents in muslim countries that s not what i am asking. there are muslim women driving in every country, except saudi arabia. this is not islam, this is the cultural aspects. sharia is not defined by the penal code any more than american law is defined