Hijacking the First Amendment and Flying it into the Jefferson Memorial

We have heard more angry attacks on Americans from the so-called peaceful Muslim world for the mere mention that a Koran might be burned than we have ever heard from them in condemning their fellow Muslims for perpetrating terrorist attacks on behalf of their religion.

Just this week, in a 1,000 word op-ed in The New York Times, Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Imam leading the effort to build the Ground Zero Mosque, dismissed the concerns of 70% of America, labeling us “radicals,” thus giving us the same identifier that Obama gives to terrorists; gave short, arrogant shrift to the victims’ families; and he refused to denounce his own vitriolic statements regarding the U.S. in the aftermath of 9/11. Remember, he claimed America’s policies were an “accomplice” to the slaughter of 9/11…and “the U.S. must acknowledge the harm they have to done to Muslims before the terror can stop.” Quite a “peaceful” diplomat, this guy, this “universally well-regarded” “man of faith.” But Rauf did something else in his Times op/ed; he threatened Americans with violence if his Ground Zero Mosque location was moved away from the site of the devastating attacks:

“These efforts by radicals at distortion, endanger our national security and the personal security of Americans worldwide… Americans must not back away from completion of this project. If we do, we cede the discourse and, essentially, our future to radicals on both sides.”

There were no Korans burned or mosques opposed before the Islamic terrorists burned nearly three thousand Americans. And yet, we are not supposed to burn the book they say inspired them to do it…or there will be more violence, Obama and Hillary Clinton tell us. Let’s get this straight: not burning the Koran lead to the burning of nearly three thousand Americans. And now, burning the Koran – we are told – will lead to more Americans dying?

Here’s a dinner table-worthy question: What puts more American lives in danger than burning a Koran in Florida? Answer: having an unqualified, anti-American street punk for a president! So, if you liberals take Obama at his word, then you must call for his immediate resignation with the same enthusiasm that you are now denouncing the kookie Koran-burner.

Obama and Jabba the Hillary want to allow Osama bin Laden to rewrite the First Amendment. Boy, that will surely teach those “radicals” who is winning the war on terrorism! Killing unborn children causes violence too, and not only to the murdered children themselves, it turns out; the occasional abortion provider finds himself in danger too. So, the same lunatics demanding that the First Amendment be abrogated in order to shield Islamists from the slightest offense, are the very ones loudly declaring that the right to kill unborn babies is so sacrosanct, they must send federal marshals out to protect the abortionists. Mind boggling. It’s a shock some of these Democrats can even walk straight and upright, so contorted they become defending their so-called “principles.”

When Muslims threaten violence in response to any Constitutionally-protected act, the proper response should be to multiply those acts to demonstrate that this country is governed by laws, not threats. And wasn’t that the exact lecture they – the “peaceful” Imam and his wife, the pedantic Mayor Bloomberg, and all the newly minted Leftist First Amendment stalwarts – gave us about the Ground Zero mosque?

The media and the Far Left have labeled Tea Partiers as violent and racist due to the alleged paper signs and shouting of a very few. However, these elitists refuse to use the same filter of condemnation when talking about the Muslim faith and the murderous actions of the 19 Muslim hijackers on 9/11, or the Muslim underwear bomber on New Year’s Day, or the Muslim Fort Hood attacker, or the Muslim Times Square bomber, or pretty much any other Muslims like Osama Bin Laden, the rest of Al Qaeda, Hamas and the Taliban. In fact, anyone opposed to the Ground Zero Mosque, tea partier or not, is labeled insensitive, ignorant and racist.

The Left has attacked Christianity for decades and has succeed largely in taking God out of our classrooms, ensuring the Pledge of Allegiance is rarely recited, and removing Christ from Christmas. How ironic they are the first to stand up and fight for the Muslim faith. Anyone with even peripheral knowledge of the Muslim faith and Sharia Law understands how absurd it is for the Left – self-heralding champions of the feminist movement and the pushers of “gay rights” – to adopt this charge.

But since Obama seems to take such threats seriously, here is a thought: You know how the Democrats are constantly telling us how dangerous we Tea Partiers are? Okay. Why don't we apply the same policy domestically; Democrats in the media are always spouting shrill warnings that Tea Partiers are on the tipping point of violence, so shouldn't they then advocate for lower taxes, a halt in spending, and a hurry-up-and-appease us attitude before someone gets hurt?

Once again, the Left has constructed a box, tied themselves in knots, and climbed right in; they either really believe in appeasing dangerous people, or they have been lying about how dangerous they think we are.

“Once again, the Left has constructed a box, tied themselves in knots, and climbed right in; they either really believe in appeasing dangerous people, or they have been lying about how dangerous they think we are.”

Both.

Excellent article.

Amazed NOBODY calls out Michael Moore and the libs for supporting a religious place of worship (let’s just say take out the word ‘mosque’ for the debate) that supports KILLING gays and lesbians, marrying 9-year-old girls, no free speech rights for artists, no voting rights for women or basic human rights for women.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTQ_Gg17k3g

During the month of Ramadan there were 226 attacks by Muslims with a death toll of 1,028 people in several countries.

The below is a pretty heavy duty website, which was listed by a freeper over the weekend. It offers totals of attacks by month and year. Sometimes the facts say it all:

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

“Anything I wanted to know about Islam I learned on 9/11.”

Every day our Muslim president BO Plenty shows by his actions that he is doing everything he can to destroy Americans and our way of life.

I saw a few minutes of imam Rauf making his heartfelt, nearly (croccodile) tear-filled speech this morning, bewailing the rotten treatment he and his raghead buddies have been getting from American rabble who only want to use the mosque situation as a political weapon, when all the muslims want to do with the mosque is promote understanding and peaceful relations.

I really felt sorry for the poor man. It really is amazing that those unfeeling Americans can be against that mosque after all the kindness and courtesy muslims have shown to US around the world.

I thought about how tenderly and with such compassion they sawed off Daniel Pearl’s head. I thought about their respect and concern for Americans’ well-being when they bombed the WTC basement in ‘93, and the USS Cole, and the embassies in various countries. And of course, the epidome of everything was their tender loving expression of an enduring desire to be our friends as they carried out their missions of love on 9/11/01!

That fraudulent whiskery bastard had better be thankful that I don’t rule the world. He’d have been sent on to that great sand dune in the sky to claim his 72 virgin camels LONG AGO!

Exactly right. We need a "Muslim priorities are ALL wrong Day". Just recently in Pakistan, Sunni Muslim terrorists used 3 bombs to attack a religious procession by Shia Muslims. After the bombs killed dozens, they then opened fire on the survivors. Last I heard 84 people were murdered.

There hasn't been a peep of protest, that I have heard from Muslims anywhere. Why not?

Burn a Koran = the end of the world. Rage, protest, riots. Murder Muslims by Muslims = eh, nothing new, happens all the time. No protest. No calls for tolerance. No lectures by professional Muslims to end the violence.

How about this? Let's threaten a massive Koran book burning, unless Muslims stop killing people for one day. Just one day, no murders, bombings, terror attacks, assaults, acid attacks, girl school bombings. No murder for one day or we light the match.

I think we'll need to bring our marshmallows.

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