MURDOCH PUBLISHED IMAN RAUF'S BOOK ON ISLAM & AMERICA!

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Murdoch published Imam Rauf's book on Islam and America
by Jed Lewison
Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 09:40:35 AM PDT

Book Cover
Published by Rupert Murdoch


Check out this revealing nugget at the end of Todd Gitlin's take on Cordoba Initiative leader Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's book What’s Right with Islam is What’s Right with America
http://www.tnr.com/blog/foreign-policy/77176/ground-zero-mosque-the-subversive-theology-imam-rauf-contd(my emphasis):

The book closes with an appendix containing a fatwa issued by five Muslim clerics on September 27, 2001, at the request of the most senior Muslim chaplain in the American armed forces. Ending his book with a fatwa! Yes! Cunningly, it’s a “Fatwa Permitting U. S. Muslim Military Personnel to Participate in Afghanistan War Effort.”

What’s Right with Islam, by the way, was published by HarperSanFrancisco, which last I looked is owned by Rupert Murdoch.

In 1989, Collins was bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, and the publisher was combined with Harper & Row which NewsCorp had acquired two years earlier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarperCollins

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/8/24/895800/-Murdoch-published-Imam-Raufs-book-on-Islam-and-America