Posted on 10/10/2010 8:59:32 AM PDT by Trafalgar123
Next month, some of us will be commemorating the 72nd anniversary of Kristallnacht -- the Night of Broken Glass, as it is so vividly referred to. On the night of November 9, 1938, synagogues all over Germany were destroyed, the windows of Jewish-owned shops were smashed and the merchandise looted, Jewish schools and community institutions were laid to ruin, and Jewish residents were beaten, arrested, and sometimes killed.
My family lived in the city of Breslau. I was seven years old and staying at my aunt's apartment. Late that afternoon, we heard a mob of singing and laughing merrymakers invading the building, waving Nazi flags and hurling threats as they headed for the small synagogue tucked away in a corner of the backyard. Soon we heard the sound of shattered glass.
Terrified, my young cousins and I cowered under the window sill, furtively watching as the Torahs were thrown into the yard, unfurled, trampled, ripped and spat upon.
That night's well-coordinated attacks marked a turning point in the Nazi's escalating persecution of Jews. Kristallnacht is widely viewed by historians as the opening shot of the most virulent phase of the Holocaust, in which six million Jews were murdered over the next seven years.
The next morning, walking with my mother through streets still littered with shards of broken glass, we came upon the site of the city's main synagogue. Like many synagogues in Europe, the building itself had stood unobtrusively behind a thick wall, not visible from the street. The prudent placement of synagogues was intended to offer them and their worshipers a measure of protection from the periodic anti-Semitic outpourings they were subjected to.
But that night, there was no protection to be found. The stately synagogue had not escaped the mob's fury, nor had the nearby Jewish school I had attended. The signs of the night's wild rampage were all around us, in the ripped prayer books strewn in the courtyard, the gaping doors smashed open by brute force, and the piles of shards from the shattered windows.
These memories came flooding back to me when I saw the newly released design for the Ground Zero Mosque. At first glance, the design is attractive, featuring a quasi-Moorish motif with modern abstract touches. But as I looked more closely, I perceived that esthetics have been used here in the service of an ideological agenda completely alien to the America that has been my land of refuge. In shock, I noticed a pattern of intertwined cascading Stars of David that disintegrate on their downward path. Could it imply anything else but a not-so-hidden message to Israel and to America's Jews? Watch out! Be afraid! We are here to make you do our bidding!
The sponsors of the mosque will decry this interpretation, and perhaps change the façade's appearance in response to criticism. But the questions will not go away: is this design a warning, meant to instill fear in America's Jews?
After all, the builders of the mosque insist on erecting a sixteen-story structure within the ghostly shadows of the missing World Trade Towers, where once they stood before their murderous destruction by Islamic terrorists on September 11, 2001. The area is sacred ground -- the graveyard of three thousand innocent people, forever mourned by their families, fellow-citizens and an entire nation.
The point has been made that this plan is insensitive, highly offensive to the families whose pain is still raw. That it is, but it is much more than that -- it is a clear, deliberate affront to the American people, an arrogant display of victory by the perpetrators of this unspeakable crime. To assure that the whole world grasps the subliminal message, the initial announcement projected an unrealistic but symbolic opening date: September 11, 2011. There was no chance of missing the triumphal declaration of victory: just look at us now! A mere decade after we crushed a powerful symbol of America's ethos, we are grinding its face in the dust. We turned its protections of religious freedom against them, cleverly playing the injured party victimized by intolerance and religious discrimination. It worked!
And now comes the unveiling of the design itself, with its unsettling evocation of Jewish symbols in freefall. Is the design inadvertent, produced without any awareness that a nefarious motive can be read into it? If so, it lays bare the promoters' total incomprehension of what America is about. They have a lot to learn, and a short time to do it in.
Recalling that little girl walking with her mom through the shards of glass that littered the streets of Breslau on that November morning in 1938, I fear for my grandchildren.
Gisele Bierzon has enjoyed freedom and safety in America since 1946.
I got the same message that she did from the Ground Zero mosque design.
The “mosque” is actually a rabat, that is, an outpost established by Muslims when they conquer a place which serves as their administrative, sharia and military headquarters. These places include a mosque, but the “community center” is actually the administrative headquarters for their newly conquered territory.
The falling Stars of David symbolize the falling people and the falling towers, which according to Muslims were a seat of Jewish power. It’s an evil, taunting design and I am surprised that so few people have commented on it.
Dude!I have no doubt that the mosque will be built and a lot sooner than WTC 2. We could use a Horatio Nelson today.
Dear, you have ample & justified fear for your grandchildren, and their future even here in America!!! Sadly too many American Jews are asleep at the wheel and like the lost soul Jews of the past they are aimlessly wandering through an unending desert of danger!!! It is amazing to me that the poor politically blinded souls just don’t get it. How any Jew can support POTUS Barack Hussein Obama and his anti-American and Jewish Democrat Party is absolutely mind boggling to say the least. Shucks, his close association and relationship with Black Racist and Jew Hater, Reverand Jeremiah Wright is clearly and directly, “the handwriting on the wall”. More, need not be said!! Sad, go figure!!!
Fixed that.
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If you have not already seen this, please check this link out as well - http://www.aim.org/aim-column/an-ecofascist-crescent-moon-near-ground-zero/. The so-called Ground Zero mosque is also scheduled to be a green mosque, which has an anti-Semitic history all its own.
Then, on the first day muzzies come to their services, A LARGE TRUCK PULLS UP....SEVERAL MEN GET OUT AND LOWER THE TAILGATE.....THEY PROCEED TO DRIVE A HERD OF DIAREEAL SWINE THRU THE FRONT DOORS....TO MINGLE WITH THE MUZZIES...THE SWINE SPEWING THEIR LIQUID QURAN JUICE OVER EVERYONE & EVERYTHING!!
/wishful thinking
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