A Conversation with Ingrid Mattson

In this Pennsylvania State University video, Ingrid Mattson, the first female president of the Islamic Society of North America, talks about converting to Islam and the need for understanding the Muslim community. Mattson is a professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary in Connecticut.

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[zherzog]

This woman is remarkable.

[MrRuggedboy27]

she hasnt given one dumb or insensitive reply, kudos to her, what an asset to the muslim community she is :) alhumdulliah

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Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri: The Prophet said, "Isn't the witness of a woman equal to half of that of a man?" The women said, "Yes." He said, "This is because of the deficiency of a woman's mind." - Sahih Bukhari Hadith, Vol. 3, Book 48, No. 826

"Narrated Aisha: that the Prophet married her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old, and then she remained with him for nine years (i.e., till his death)." - Sahih Bukhari Hadith, Vol. 7, Book 62, No. 64

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"Muslims must kill non-believers wherever they are unless they convert to Islam." - Ali Gom’a (He is grand mufti of Egypt.) source: Al Ahram, April 7, 2008

"Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam." - Sheik Saleh Al-Fawzan (member of the Senior Council of Clerics, Saudi Arabia's highest religious body)

"Our religion calls on us to kill everyone who does not believe in Allah and his Prophet Muhammed deeply," - imam Abdulrahman Abdullahi

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"No Muslim leader can survive in a Muslim country if he announces the end of Jihad against non-Muslim countries and states that all references to Jihad in Islamic law do not apply today. Treating non-Muslim neighboring countries and individuals as equals, with respect and in peace without trying to convert them to Islam, is simply against Islamic Law." - Nonie Darwish (She is a murtad = former Muslim)

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"There does not exist an identifiable body of Muslims, substantive in number or an outright majority, who could be described as "moderate" by their repudiation of Muslim extremists. Violence has been an integral part of Muslim history... and Muslims who unhesitatingly use violence to advance their political ambitions have created a climate within their faith culture that any Muslim who questions such practice is then deemed apostate and subject to harm." - Salim Mansur (He is a Sunni Muslim.)

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Mattson described Wahhabism as a reform movement and compared it to the European protestant reformation. She often quotes Muslim fundamentalists including Sayyid Qutb and Abul ‘Ala Mawdudi. Her favorite pastime is whitewashing the dangers of radical Islam.

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Mattson blames whites and Christians for everything, and she believes that Muslims can do no wrong. She was the president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), an organization with close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, which was labeled by the U.S. Justice Department as an un-indicted co-conspirator in U.S. v. Holy Land Foundation, a Hamas terrorism financing case.

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Muslims did not "discover the mysteries of the circulatory system." Muslim Ibn al-Nafis correctly described blood transit in the lungs, but he did not explain the circulation of blood in the rest of the body. European Michael Servetus discovered the pulmonary circulation in the entire body.

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Mattson said: "Muslims see Jesus and all the prophets as perfect recipients of the divine light." As a matter of fact, Muslims believe that Jesus and Jewish prophets distorted the true faith, and that prophet Muhammad corrected these distortions.

[gaffar402]

Alhamdulillah, There is no shia and sunni in Quran and hence every one is mouslim...

[piax00]

She was attracted to Sufism: Wiki: according to Idries Shah, the Sufi philosophy is universal in nature, its roots predating the rise of Isla the Sufi philosophy is universal in nature, its roots predating the rise of Islam and the other modern-day religions, save for perhaps Buddhism and Jainism; likewise, some Muslims consider Sufism outside the sphere of Islam"