Posted on 06/15/2010 8:01:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
There's a time and a place for everything. For example, there may be nothing wrong with building a museum of Japanese military history, but would the place for that be Pearl Harbor? How about our First Amendment right to speak out -- that's important, isn't it? So does that mean it's supposed to be okay for the God hates f*gs crackpots to protest at funerals? How about burning an American flag? Know how the US Flag Code suggests you get rid of a flag?
The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.
However, if you take that same flag, drag it on the ground, stomp on it, and burn it at a protest, the act of burning it takes on a very different meaning, doesn't it?
That brings us to September 11, 2001. Radical Muslim terrorists, who used their faith to justify murdering Americans, killed almost 3,000 people and knocked the World Trade Center down. Fast forward to the present day, less than ten years later, and believe it or not, there's actually an acrimonious debate about whether or not a mega-mosque overlooking Ground Zero will be built. Let me tell you why we should not be doing that.
1) Radical Muslims knocked the World Trade Center down in the name of Islam. For other Muslims to try to benefit from that act by building a mosque on that spot is insensitive, disgusting, and utterly vile. Not only will many of the family members of the people who died on 9/11 be grossly offended, this in-your-face mosque will provoke volcanic levels of anger around the country. If you spent a billion dollars to promote loathing, dislike, and disgust with the Muslim faith, you probably couldn't accomplish more than building this mosque will.
2) Traditionally, Islam has built mosques on historical sites as a sign of conquest. Look at the Hagia Sophia in Turkey, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, and the Great Mosque of Cordoba in Spain. In every case, Muslims built mosques on those spots to send a message: "We conquered you, took your holy site, and now it belongs to us." That is the exact same message that building this mosque is supposed to send. In fact, just in case you missed what they're trying to do, they're naming it Cordoba House just to make sure no one can be confused.
3) The people involved with putting this project together can claim that they're "moderates," but they know that around the world, building this mosque will be considered the greatest victory for radical Islam since 9/11. Yes, Osama Bin Laden will be cheering. Radical Muslims will be handing out sweets in the streets, just like they did after 9/11. The people who hate our country with every fiber of their being will be heartened by this incredible "victory" over America. Is that the message we want to send to our enemies?
4) Europe has had an extremely difficult time assimilating Muslims into Western culture. Although percentage-wise, Muslims may make up a small part of the population, they often get away with behaving almost like an oppressive majority. Sharia and polygamy have become the law of the land in parts of Britain. Non-Muslim women in part of Amsterdam have started wearing veils for protection. Belgian police officers have been told not to drink coffee in public during Ramadan. In France, Muslim violence, riots, and car burnings are just considered to be a part of life.
You may say, "That can't happen here." Setting aside the fact that is most assuredly exactly what most of the residents of all the aforementioned nations once thought, it has already started here. Newspapers are afraid to show Danish cartoons of Muhammad. Comedy Central, which is planning a whole show dedicated to mocking Jesus, refuses to show Muhammad's image on South Park.
Even as the people building the mega-mosque at Ground Zero are remorselessly taking advantage of the American people's desire to be tolerant to get support for their project, what they're doing fits in perfectly with the sort of backwards, uncivilized, and anti-social behavior that Muslims have tried to force on Western culture in Europe. If we continue to allow political correctness to prevent us from standing up for what's right for our country, we will pay a price in freedom, civilization, and human decency that we may never get back.
Maybe we’ll get lucky and somebody will fly an airplane into it.
Four reasons:
American Airlines 11
United 175
American Airlines 77
United 93
BTTT. Should be required reading before any city council meeting, not that it’ll do much good with those progressive revolutionaries.
OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!!! There NEVER should be an islamic symbol there! Why is this even being considered????
“...Four Reasons There Shouldn’t Be a Mosque at Ground Zero...”
Americna Airlines Flight 11
United Airlines Flight 175
Americna Airlines Flight 77
United Airlines Flight 93
GMTA.
Only four?
At least one part of lower Manhattan won’t be hit next time.
For the same reason that Hitler never got a gravesite.
Don’t want to let the (Islamo)Nazis have a place to celebrate.
Some mosques are established to declare a place “a holy site” where some event occurred. For a number of those sites, the “event” was jihad.
Stabbing the Great Satan in the jugular of the financial district would be considered just that to a certain type of individual (even a stateside professor said that the Little Eichmanns there deserved to die).
Why would we encourage the new Western Capital of Islam to be at ground zero?
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war. - Ann Coulter
Must see!
Of Mosques and Men: Reflections on the Ground Zero Mosque
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxFzFIDbKpg
"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant." - Omar Ahmad (a joint founder of CAIR)
Indeed
All the properties adjacent to the mosque should be purchased and converted to meat packing plants specializing in pork.
Allowing a mosque to be built anywhere near ground zero is beyond the pale.
It’s a scalp on the Muzzie lodge pole.
End apartheid now.
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren’t punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That’s war. And this is war. - Ann Coulter .............................................. LOL, yeah right, she speaks like it was 1940. It isn’t 1940, its 2010 and we do not have 1940 people here today. 1940 people were tough, they lived through the great depression and fought a global war and were proud of their country and it’s accomplishments. Those type of people aren’t here any longer and the world recognizes it. We are soft, over weight, hedonistic and we have a country run by gutless politicians and a supporting press. Either we change or we will lose out in the end. Don’t depend too much on God, he is far too busy, what has to be done has to be done us.
Those "1940" people weren't that way in 1938.
We are still trying to live and work alongside an intolerant supremacist political ideology that discriminates under the law against Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, etc.
Now, we are threatened by the this ideology at the heart of our country, driven by hate-filled, literally brainwashed maniacs.
I hope you liberals are proud of yourselves.
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