Why the Ground Zero Mosque Must Be Stopped

American Thinker ^ | May 10, 2010 | Madeline Brooks

[neverdem]

Planting a mosque just two blocks from where Muslims murdered Americans on 9/11 in the name of Islam is a huge slap in the face. Why shouldn't Muslims be sensitive enough to realize that a huge mosque planted right near the horrific wound to the U.S. created at Ground Zero by Muslims is outrageous to us? They claim a right to be insulted by cartoons mocking their prophet, even to the point of beheading people.

The Imam of the Ground Zero Insult, Faisal Abdul Rauf, is not the nice guy he likes to hold himself out to be. At his Friday afternoon khutbah services and in his book What's Right With Islam Rauf states that he wants the mosque to be a place where inter-faith understanding is fostered. His sonorous voice is smooth and almost hypnotic. His writing style appears to be rational and unthreatening.

However, this does not jibe with the aspects of him that are downright hostile and frightening.

During a recent Friday sermon, this writer did due diligence as a mosque monitor and heard Rauf deny that Muslims perpetrated 9/11. In an interview with CNN shortly after 9/11, Rauf said, "U.S. policies were an accessory to the crime that happened. We [the U.S.] have been an accessory to a lot of innocent lives dying in the world. Osama bin Laden was made in the USA." Elsewhere, Rauf has stated that terrorism will end only when the West acknowledges the harm it has done to Muslims. And that it was Christians who started mass attacks on civilians. 

Rauf has numerous ties to CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Department of Justice funding case brought against Hamas, an openly terrorist organization. CAIR is also the initiator of numerous cases designed to intimidate non-Muslims from criticizing aggressive Muslim behavior, and to use our own legal and democratic processes to undermine and dominate America, forcing it to become Islamic. 

Rauf calls himself a Sufi, evoking among non-Muslims a "peace and love" image. But that's not the whole picture. Sufism has many sides to it, including the Koranic injunction to spread Islam one way or another, and it has a rich history of waging war, too. Could it be that one of the frequently used tools of war, lying to the enemy, explains the contradiction between Rauf's image as reconciler of religions and his sympathies and associations with terrorists?

A previous Rauf project, Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow, clearly shows on its website that it is headed and funded by individuals from Saudi Arabia, the country that spawned fifteen of the nineteen jihad jockeys who rode the 9/11 planes of destruction. The funding for the mosque at Ground Zero is much murkier so far. All that has been publicly disclosed is that the support comes from unidentified sources in Saudi Arabia and Muslim-ruled Malaysia. Rauf reportedly says he paid $4.85 million for the property -- in cash. Where exactly did this money come from? Was it Wahhabist-supporting Saudi sources, which have already funded many other mosques in New York City?

The mosque is called Cordoba House. Muslims like to refer to Spain and especially the city of Cordoba as a place where their rule reached a glorious peak. Contrary to the myth of a Golden Age of equality during the Muslim occupation of Spain (and in particular in Cordoba), Spain and Cordoba were places where Christians and Jews suffered as social inferiors under Islamic oppression. Equal civil rights never existed for non-Muslims under Sharia, or Islamic law. Rauf even admits as much when he writes, "Jews and Christians living under Muslim rule simply had to pay a tax to finance their protection by their Muslim overlords." This is not equality! Americans do not demand a special tax to protect Muslims from ourselves. That would be extortion, not "protection."

Through another organization Rauf started called the Cordoba Initiative, he created the "Sharia Index." This will measure how closely countries follow Sharia, or Islamic law. While Sharia can cover such relatively innocuous aspects of Muslim life as religious weddings (hopefully not to twelve-year-old girls), it also demands that all Muslim life be governed by laws derived from the Koran, without the intervention of civic institutions, such as democracy. And the Koran dictates that everyone, even non-Muslims, must ultimately live under Sharia. Do you understand how that is in direct conflict with our Constitution and other aspects of our secular society? 

Rauf gets even trickier here. He states in What's Right With Islam that a society that follows natural law, such as America, is already practicing Sharia. However, he does not note that his peculiar definition of Sharia acceptance is shared by just about no other Imam. So what prevents him from adjusting his singular idea of Sharia back to the norm of forced conversions, murdering non-Muslims and apostates, amputations of thieves' hands, stoning of adulterous women, execution of homosexuals, etc.? Throughout his writing, Rauf floats an image of a harmonious, pleasant Islam -- nice to everybody. But this is totally disconnected from Islam's actual history of bloody conquest, enslavement, and humiliation of other people -- which he never acknowledges. 

Still another unsettling part of Rauf's problem mosque is why the city has given the building a pass. Records for the Department of Buildings have shown numerous complaints for illegal construction and no access, yet the issues were listed as "resolved."

Community Board One's financial district committee needs to reconsider its endorsement of this mosque. The prestigious American groups that are reportedly also financing the mosque, The Ford Foundation and The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, need to think again about what they are getting into. The Department of Buildings needs to reassess its action. The Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs, which supports the project (Why? What has a religious building got to do with immigration?) needs to reevaluate its approval. 

Mayor Bloomberg himself needs to withdraw his support for this mosque, especially in light of the recent Times Square car bomb attempt. If not, he will be helping to provide a handy meeting place for future terrorists, those who understand Imam Rauf's real message: Speak sweetly, appear to be a well-adjusted member of American society, and plan the destruction of America, either with bombs or "peaceful" undermining. 

Madeline Brooks is an NYC resident and writer.

[neverdem]

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They think we're chumps. I don't want to pay taxes to provide police protection for any Ground Zero mosque when cops have no duty to protect any individual civilians except the likes of Bloomboob.

[Tzimisce]

Why shouldn’t they?

Americans (and New Yorkers) are idiots. Muslims, bullies and dictators know this.

We’re a dumb nation - look at who we elected President.

Wish I could say otherwise, but it’s the truth....

[TigersEye]

btrl

[aquila48]

I’m afraid you’re right...

To claim anything as your own you have to be willing and able to defend it... and right now we as a country have no will.

We deserve whatever comes our way for being such pathetic wusses!!

[Talisker]

Americans (and New Yorkers) are idiots. Muslims, bullies and dictators know this. We’re a dumb nation - look at who we elected President. Wish I could say otherwise, but it’s the truth....

Your over-simplification is insulting to millions of Americans. It's also hypocritical, since you're posting this on a board that is full of people who have fought tooth and nail against such idiots.

[NoLibZone]

For 9 long years I have watched as NY fought each and every action to secure this nation.

The mosque is a symbol of NYC dweller’s loyalties.

I threw away all my I love NY Caps , Twin towers key fob and tee shirts while Bush was still president.

Let them call upon Mecca to secure their city.

[Tzimisce]

You know the biggest irony?

Those millions that you’re talking about right now, they’d be more pissed to read my reaction to the Mosque going up than they would be about the Mosque going up - and I’m not the one making speeches about how we should kill and murder them!

What would ANYONE think when faced with this?

[Mobile Vulgus]

No kidding. We should be making Islam illegal in this country not letting these barbaric self-professed enemies set up shop amongst us.

[blasater1960]

Like London is now Londonistan....New Yorkistan. Liberals are destroying Western Civ and laying the groundwork for the muzzie hords to take over.

[neverdem]

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[LeoWindhorse]

throughout it’s sordid history , this cult has a long and oppressive record of laying claim to other peoples holy ground . A good example of this is the Mosque of the Patriarchs , laid directly over the cave of Machpelah ,where the Hebrews Abraham , Isaac and Jacob ( and their wives) are buried . Once erected , the muslims claim the location as their own and scream to high heaven if the original owners should ever mention or try to reclaim . Ask the Hindus in India . Hindus , Buddhists and apparently even the Jews of Israel have allowed them to get away with this stuff , with very little push back . Of those pushing back , the Hindus have pushed the hardest . They get it ....
Where will we rate in the scale of ‘push back’ against this cult of plagiarism and intolerance ?
It’s time

[livius]

I like the part where they’ve been cited for building code violations (including “no access,” in other words, they refuse to admit the inspectors) and yet never penalized. Muslims are given a free pass on everything here because nobody wants to make them mad.

BTW, I think this group (which claims to be Sufi but seems pretty orthodox) is part of what is known as the Marabitun (spelling?). This was a group founded by Oxford intellectuals, mostly upper class British converts, and has been both effective and dangerous. They have a huge colony in Cordoba, Spain and also recruit heavily among radical leftists. The head of ETA in Spain a few years ago became a Muslim through them and is now combining his two radical ideologies; he was part of a group that was in Chiapas, where they have had considerable success in recruiting Indians.

I think this is also the group to which Prince Charles is rumored to belong.

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[Quix]

thx.

[TennTuxedo]

A mosque in NYC on the World Trade Center grounds is just like the Rock of the Dome in Jerusalem. An insulting footprint atop an important place.

[Lorica]

bttt

[metmom]

And the muslims disdain for us is increasing by the second as we show that we have no backbone to stop their slap in the face to us.

This is only inviting another muslim attack like the kind at the WTC.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[angcat]

Exactly
I could care less and I'm a NYer. Let them rot and get nuked. I can't worry about all this nonsense anymore since no one else gives a crap.

[Ro_Thunder]

Mobile Vulgus wrote:

No kidding. We should be making Islam illegal in this country

I can’t agree with that. “Who said I may not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it”. This is the intent of the 1st amendment of the US Constitution - freedom OF speech, not freedom FROM speech. It’s the same freedom OF religion - from freedom FROM religion.

However, there are consequences for yelling “FIRE” in a movie theatre/mall/public space, and there should be consequences for terrorist threats of murdering people, as well.

You are free to say anything you want - but keep in mind there are consequences for what you do say.