The Flim Flam Imam

It would seem that the left has vetted their favorite religious figure with the same diligence they used on their presidential candidate.

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Faisal Abdul Rauf, leader of the Victory Mosque movement has a long history of fraud and chicanery. Pamela Geller explores Rauf’s resume;

"He has been exposed as a rat and vermin slumlord whose tenants live without basic services like hot water. He scammed New Jersey politicians and got taxpayer dollars for rehabilitation of his infested, dilapidated buildings in Union City and Palisades Park, but still his victimized tenants live in squalor."

At last, finding a religion they like—the one that requires the killing of innocent Americans—liberals have canonized Rauf as the consummate Moderate Muslim and Bridge Builder. Once again, they have elevated a huckster with a shady past to idol status. Not only is Rauf a conscience-free slumlord, he is filching from the tax payers, fraudulently enjoying the benefits of tax exempt “church” status. That's not all. It has also recently come to light that Rauf and his wife, Daisy ‘the Con’ Khan, listed their apartment as a mosque in order to conduct what amounts to tax fraud. Rauf was able to obtain tax-exempt status for his Muslim organization by deceiving the Internal Revenue Service: he told them that five hundred Muslims met regularly for worship at a ‘mosque’ that was actually a tiny one-bedroom apartment (also listed as Daisy's residence). Rauf sought ‘church status’ -- an official IRS term for a house of worship of any religion (though stealth Rauf, I am sure, is working the feds to change that term) -- for his organization, the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA), and the clueless feds granted the request. Thus, they not only avoid paying taxes like the rest of us; their financial dealings escape scrutiny. It’s easy to see why the left is so completely enamored of this guy. He recently made the entirely preposterous claim that Sharia slavery is 90% compatible with American constitutional laws. Absolutely! Stonings, beheadings and torture were exactly what our Founding Fathers had in mind! One can hardly blame liberals for thinking they could bamboozle us again. It worked in 2008.