Ground Zero mosque purveyor Imam Feisal Rauf, in his book  Islam a Sacred Law, lionizes the Wahhabi movement of "Sheikh" al-Wahhab (d. 1792), and al-Wahhab's forbears, the 14th century jurists Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, as "rejuvenators,"  who "...fought against the blind imitation that had killed among the Islamic people serious thought and the spirit of independence and had extinguished the flame of activity."Evelyn Baring, Lord Cromer (1841-1917), served as British Consul-General in Egypt for almost a quarter century, from 1883 to 1907. As noted by the London Telegraph's Andrew Roberts, in February, 2004, ...despite all the multifarious benefits he bestowed during his time there, he is cordially loathed in Egypt today.Given past and present sentiments for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt among Egypt's Muslims ("...the Brotherhood has become the most important representative of the Egyptian masses."), this...(Read Full Post)