OUTRAGE – MUSLIMS PLAN MOSQUE at GROUND ZERO
I don't buy the arguments of political correctness and tolerance. Political correctness and tolerance are this country. It is destroying the heritage of this nation and fragmenting us. Stephen Prothero, professor in the Department of Religion at Boston University, argues that officials should allow the Ground Zero mosque to be built because it shows the terrorists have not changed one of America’s core values – religious tolerance. In fact, he stated: ““I believe a small mosque ought to be integrated into the redesign of the World Trade Center site itself – a reminder in steel and stone that the United States is not at war either with Islam or with our core values.” Methinks Prothero ate some fruit off the crazy tree. (Maybe Prothero needs to go back and read the Bush Doctrine).
We can't be fooled by the “tolerance” argument. We are already seeing what is going on around the world. Muslims intend to defeat us from within, by using our own tolerance and freedoms against us. Iman Rauf tells us that himself, in his book. He is dedicated to bringing Sharia law to the US. He also refuses to denounce religious militancy as a means to address the issues of the Muslim community. We cannot allow Islam to fight us from within by using our own laws against against us. We are a Christian nation (but thanks to our "Wall of Separation" mentality and the ACLU, that probably isn't apparent to them).
The United States built a battleship in honor of the events of 9/11 – the USS New York. We were able to forge heavy steel into the largest of battleships in honor to the memory of our most inhumane tragedy yet we can’t respect the very site of the heinous massacre ? The steel that was once twisted and weakened by the terrorists' attack on 9/11 was re-forged into a vessel designed to hunt down and fight those responsible. The ship will always carry with it the memories of all those innocent Americans slaughtered on that day, including those first responders who selflessly put their own lives at risk to save our falling fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters. It is a fitting and just dedication, and highly symbolic. The hope is that the twisted steel that once united us as a country in grief will once again unite us in determination to fight this enemy which silently and savagely plots our demise and rejoices at our grief. It's ironic that the ship's motto is "Never Forget" when so many of our elected officials and fellow Americans have done just that… including Mayor Bloomberg and other officials. How dare we claim to “Never Forget” when we can’t even dedicate Ground Zero properly and with true devotion to our fallen Americans. How dare we claim “Never Forget” when CBS and NBC rejected an ad from the National Republican Trust PAC which would have interjected footage of the 9/11 attacks with the sounds of Muslim prayer. (It’s not like the PAC wanted to also interject the sounds of Muslims shooting off fireworks and cheering). The site that the Muslims wish to establish a mosque is a site that was destroyed by the exploding aircraft, thereby bearing testimony to the carnage that day … carnage that sent thousands of Muslims all over the world into gleeful celebration.
Every day we are reminded that evil exists. We thought our brave men in service erased it when they fought and defeated the Nazis. But then on April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh made a calculated decision to bomb a federal building in Oklahoma City which housed a daycare facility, killing 168 (19 were children) Then we witnessed something just as evil on 9/11. In 2003, Arab-dominated factions slaughtered and otherwise committed genocide on as many as 400,000 members of non-Arab ethnic groups residing in the Darfur region of Sudan. And as Obama stated in an interview in 2008, we see evil on our streets in just about every major city in the US. Just ask the parents of slain Chapel Hill senior Eve Carson who lost their daughter to a thug who just wanted her car and money. Just ask any family who has had an innocent child violated, harmed, or killed by a deviant. And victims are always told to show compassion and tolerance to those who sought them harm. After all, it’s the Christian way, yes ?
But I don’t buy that argument. And it’s not that I’m any less of a Christian. I just believe we need be careful where we show tolerance. We must no
t relax our laws so that other groups will feel less uncomfortable. That is precisely when we should make sure our laws are bold and enforceable. People who come to this country should know exactly what we stand for and know exactly what they MUST respect if they wish to be a citizen and enjoy the freedoms that we cherish and protect. If we go down the path of relaxing our laws, we not only do we shout with a loud voice that those laws were not important in the first place, but we face the possibility that we will eventually forget why the greatest generation of Americans originally gave them to us .
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." --- Abraham Lincoln
Ground Zero is sacred ground. It marks the day and the event where fellow Americans were murdered because a religious group took its fundamental principles a bit too far. They were targeted for one reason only - because they were Americans. Evil had a face and it was radical Islam. Allowing the mosque at Ground Zero sends the message that we are willing to forget the evil and horror of 9/11 in order to accommodate Muslims. The hallowed ground of Ground Zero is NOT the place to show that Americans are more compassionate than Muslim groups. It is a place where Muslims need to show compassion and not seek to establish a presence to exercise their teachings.
REFERENCES:
http://standupamericaus.com.net-at-hand.com/americans-stand-up-against-ground-zero-mosque-in-nyc:35205 (for more info about the planning of the Cordoba Mosque)
http://www.aclj.org/News/Read.aspx?ID=3841 (Opponents of Ground Zero Mosque Push for Landmark Status)
http://www.aclj.org/ (American Center for Law and Justice is representing a firefighter who survived the attacks on the Towers on 9/11 and who lost over 100 friends that day. You can sign your name to the letter that the ACLJ is submitting on behalf of the firefighter)
http://www.aclj.org/media/pdf/The-Imam-Behind-Ground-Zero-Mosque_20100720.pdf [ Summary of Imam Rauf’s book entitled: "What’s Right With Islam is What’s Right With America: A New Vision for Muslims and the West." ]
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/06/pat-condell-on-ground-zero-mosque-is-it-possible-to-be-astonished-but-not-surprised.html (Pat Condell)
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/nyers_wage_jihad_vs_wtc_mosque_UgJiOBYEhrSOw4Q6hpvbQL#ixzz0vEWRJB95 (Tom Topousis and Joe Mollica, NY Post, May 26, 2010)
http://www.newt.org/newt-direct/newt-gingrich-statement-proposed-%E2%80%9Ccordoba-house%E2%80%9D-mosque-near-ground-zero (Newt Gingrich Statement on the Proposed Cordoba Mosque Near Ground Zero, Newt.org, July 21, 2010)
http://www.kmtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12801526 (Christian Salazar, “Opponents Pack Hearing on Mosque at Ground Zero,” Action 3 News, July 13, 2010)
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