Posted on 08/18/2010 5:42:27 AM PDT by SJackson
Last week, a journalist who writes for the North Country Times, a small newspaper in Southern California, sent us an e-mail titled "Help." He couldn't understand why an Islamic Centre in an area where Adam Gadahn, Osama bin Laden's American spokesman came from, and that was home to three of the 911 terrorists, was looking to expand.
The man has a very valid point, which leads to the ongoing debate about building a Mosque at Ground Zero in New York. When we try to understand the reasoning behind building a mosque at the epicentre of the worst-ever attack on the U.S., we wonder why its proponents don't build a monument to those who died in the attack?
(Gallery: The Ground Zero Mosque debate)
New York currently boasts at least 30 mosques so it's not as if there is pressing need to find space for worshippers. The fact we Muslims know the idea behind the Ground Zero mosque is meant to be a deliberate provocation to thumb our noses at the infidel. The proposal has been made in bad faith and in Islamic parlance, such an act is referred to as "Fitna," meaning "mischief-making" that is clearly forbidden in the Koran.
The Koran commands Muslims to, "Be considerate when you debate with the People of the Book" -- i.e., Jews and Christians. Building an exclusive place of worship for Muslims at the place where Muslims killed thousands of New Yorkers is not being considerate or sensitive, it is undoubtedly an act of "fitna"
(Gallery: Remembering the tragedy of 9/11)
So what gives Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf of the "Cordoba Initiative" and his cohorts the misplaced idea that they will increase tolerance for Muslims by brazenly displaying their own intolerance in this case?
Do they not understand that building a mosque at Ground Zero is equivalent to permitting a Serbian Orthodox church near the killing fields of Srebrenica where 8,000 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered?
There are many questions that we would like to ask. Questions about where the funding is coming from? If this mosque is being funded by Saudi sources, then it is an even bigger slap in the face of Americans, as nine of the jihadis in the Twin Tower calamity were Saudis.
If Rauf is serious about building bridges, then he could have dedicated space in this so-called community centre to a church and synagogue, but he did not. We passed on this message to him through a mutual Saudi friend, but received no answer. He could have proposed a memorial to the 9/11 dead with a denouncement of the doctrine of armed jihad, but he chose not to.
It's a repugnant thought that $100 million would be brought into the United States rather than be directed at dying and needy Muslims in Darfur or Pakistan.
Let's not forget that a mosque is an exclusive place of worship for Muslims and not an inviting community centre. Most Americans are wary of mosques due to the hard core rhetoric that is used in pulpits. And rightly so. As Muslims we are dismayed that our co-religionists have such little consideration for their fellow citizens and wish to rub salt in their wounds and pretend they are applying a balm to sooth the pain.
The Koran implores Muslims to speak the truth, even if it hurts the one who utters the truth. Today we speak the truth, knowing very well Muslims have forgotten this crucial injunction from Allah.
If this mosque does get built, it will forever be a lightning rod for those who have little room for Muslims or Islam in the U.S. We simply cannot understand why on Earth the traditional leadership of America's Muslims would not realize their folly and back out in an act of goodwill.
As for those teary-eyed, bleeding-heart liberals such as New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and much of the media, who are blind to the Islamist agenda in North America, we understand their goodwill.
Unfortunately for us, their stand is based on ignorance and guilt, and they will never in their lives have to face the tyranny of Islamism that targets, kills and maims Muslims worldwide, and is using liberalism itself to destroy liberal secular democratic societies from within.
Raheel Raza is author of Their Jihad ... Not my Jihad, and Tarek Fatah is author of The Jew is Not My Enemy (McClelland & Stewart), to be launched in October. Both sit on the board of the Muslim Canadian Congress.
Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Mischief+Manhattan/3370303/story.html#ixzz0wxbLgHjJ
When the WTC crashed, muzzies laughed. They are still laughing.
So how many times have Raheel Raza and/or Tarek Fatah, authors of this piece, appeared on pmsnbc or any other major network? Just wondering...
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Most Americans had that figured out pretty fast.
Supporters of the terrorist training center in lower Manhattan.
Hamas
Obama
The democrat party
The main stream media
Birds of a feather.
You have to go to another country to get news. Here, everything is spun in favor of the Administration - or is it the regime?
How do Raza and Fatah get it and idiots like the MSM, Obama, and Bloomberg don’t?
Looks like those Muslims who are trying to move away from the seventh century have started to worry about the jihidis goading us into playing Cowboy and Mooslim.
Looks like those Muslims who are trying to move away from the seventh century have started to worry about the jihidis goading us into playing Cowboy and Mooslim.
How do Raza and Fatah get it and idiots like the MSM, Obama, and Bloomberg don’t?
I don’t know, but the Muslim Canadian Congress appears to promote a consistently anti-Islamist agenda. IIRC, in the past they have come out against the implementation of sharia in parts of Canada, for example. This is as opposed to the Canadian arm of CAIR, whose message we are all quite familiar with at this point, I think.
Islam = The "religion" of conquest, subjugation and death for all who reject "allah" their false-god and Muhamed, their false, murdering, pedophile, so-called "prophet".
If I read things like this more often, it would make me change my mind about Muslims in general.
How many Muslims agree with these writers and how many agree with the Mosque at 9-11???
I don’t see any polling on that issue. And so far the majority of Muslims have been pretty quiet about this one way or the other.
And I do see how Muslims behave in OTHER countries where they are the majority.
Raheel Raza was on O’reilly the other day. She was quite impressive.
Besides, if the Serbs were so bad, why did the Muslims under Fikrat Abdic in Tuzla (northern Bosnia) have a military alliance with them? (Because he and the other good Muslims did not want a Sharia-type theocracy, that's why.)
--moslem convert (and former heavyweight champ) Mike Tyson
They were threatened, don’t forget. It takes a lot of courage to speak out against Islam from within.
I have a Muslim student, 7th grade. His dad was raised in Algeria but came here for the freedom. He already mouths ‘Christians lived in freedom in Spain under Muslim rule.’ Straight from his Imam. I told him, “You will hear quite a different thing from Catholics/Christians.”
Already programmed.... He did do a paper on the Crusades ‘from the other side’ — ie, from a Christian perspective. I did not get to see it, but I did encourage it.
“I have a Muslim student, 7th grade. His dad was raised in Algeria but came here for the freedom. He already mouths ‘Christians lived in freedom in Spain under Muslim rule.’ Straight from his Imam. I told him, “
That is the problem with Islam, EVERY Muslim is a walking time bomb. The problem is ISLAM itself,ISLAM supports the acitons of the 9-11 bombes, the Egyptian Arabs who terrorize Copts, the Turks who massacred the Armenian, Greek, Assyrian and Chaldean Christians, the Moguls who massacred Hindus and Buddhists, the Sudanese who are killing and enslaving animists and Christians, etc.
ISLAM is in itself evil, even though some individual Muslims may not be.
“They were threatened, don’t forget. It takes a lot of courage to speak out against Islam from within.”
TRUE. Especially when you are in the MINORITY.
You sound like a great teacher - one of the FEW.
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