Some Muslims turning against radical Imams overseas, praying for the US, not against it.
The Counterterrorism Blog reports a fascinating set of incidents - Kuwaiti Muslims drowning out their radical Imams when they rail against the US, instead praying FOR the US.
“The Al-Siyasah newspaper has received news that several mosques in Kuwait have begun to exhibit a new phenomenon manifested in the rejection by worshippers of extremist prayers expressed by some of the Imams during their Khutbah [friday prayer]. These prayers included invitations to fight the Americans and to become more hostile towards them. An example of this [phenomenon] was when Nabil al-Awadi, who is an Imam at one of the mosques in the southern region of Al-Surrah, began preaching against the Americans in his last Friday Khutbah. As a result, the people at prayer cut off his speech and demanded that he stop talking. Additionally, the worshippers at the mosque of Aisha Shabib in the Al-Jabiriyah neighborhood shouted, ‘O’ Allah, make Islam and America stronger’ in response to what the Imam of that mosque had said during friday prayer about America and the current war [in Iraq].”
It’s not so surprising to me that Kuwaitis would be pro-American, but the “drowning out” is utterly remarkable to me. Maybe there’s a Muslim Martin Luther out there, waiting to nail some paper to the doors of a Mosque.