Traditionalism:
An Islamic Vision For America
An Interview With Dr. Robert D. Crane
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Dr.
Robert D. Crane |
Robert
D. Crane has been a personal advisor to American presidents, cabinet
officers, and congressional leaders during the past four decades.
From the time of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 until the
beginning of Nixon's victorious campaign for the presidency in 1967
Dr. Crane was his principal foreign policy advisor, responsible for
preparing a "readers digest" of professional articles for
him on the key foreign policy issues. During the campaign Dr. Crane
collected his position papers into a book, Inescapable Rendevous:
New Directions for American Foreign Policy, with a foreword by
Congressman Gerald Ford, who succeeded Nixon as President. On
January 20, 1969, Dr. Crane moved into the White House as Deputy
Director (for Planning) of the National Security Council. The next
day, the Director, Henry Kissinger, fired him, because they differed
fundamentally on every single key foreign policy issue. Kissinger
was determined to orchestrate power in order to preserve the status
quo. Crane was equally determined to promote justice as the only
source of dynamic and long-range stability.
In 1981, President Reagan appointed Dr. Crane to be U.S. ambassador
to the United Arab Emirates, but this also was short-lived.
President Reagan's best friend, Judge William Clark, who became
Director of the National Security Council, wanted Crane, as the
first Muslim American ambassador, to pursue two-track diplomacy by
developing relations with the various Islamist movements in the
Middle East. The new Secretary of State, Alexander Haig, whose
entire career was promoted by Henry Kissinger, wanted none of this.
Since
then, Dr. Crane has worked full-time as a Muslim activist in
America. He started as Director of Da'wa at the Islamic Center on
Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, D.C. In 1985 he joined the
International Institute of Islamic Thought as its Director of
Publications, and then helped to found the American Muslim Council,
serving as Director of its Legal Division from 1992 to 1994. From
1994 until the present time he has headed his own research center,
located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Washington, D.C. Since 1996 he
has also been a board member of the United Association for Studies
and Research and Managing Editor of its Middle East Affairs Journal.
a. Positivism: The Root of Chaos
b. Traditionalism: The Root of Cosmos
c. Culture War
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For comments or questions on this interview, please contact Dr.
Crane, and Dr. Mosleh at:
Bdcrane1@yahoo.com
Or
Mmosleh1@yahoo.com
