Posted on 09/15/2010 5:34:29 PM PDT by Inappropriate Laughter
Imam Feisal Rauf, “founder and visionary” of the Cordoba Initiative, apparently sees the construction of a triumphal mosque within the 9/11 World Trade Center attack’s zone of destruction as a fulfillment of his vision for Islam in America. As Rauf stated in his 2004 What’s Right with Islam, a work limited to treacly Islamic propaganda:
For many centuries, Islam inspired a civilization that was particularly tolerant and pluralistic. …SNIP
Rauf envisions this invented past as a model for the future “Sharia-compliant” America he desires.
Reinhart Dozy (1820-1883), the great Orientalist scholar and Islamophile, wrote SNIP
All the churches in that city [Cordoba] had been destroyed except the cathedral, dedicated to Saint Vincent, but the possession of this fane [church or temple] had been guaranteed by treaty. For several years the treaty was observed; but when the population of Cordova was increased by the arrival of Syrian Arabs [i.e., Muslims], the mosques did not provide sufficient accommodation for the newcomers, and the Syrians considered it would be well for them to adopt the plan which had been carried out at Damascus, Emesa [Homs], and other towns in their own country, SNIP [and] the Christians were compelled to hand over half of the edifice. This was clearly an act of spoliation, as well as an infraction of the treaty. Some years later, Abd-er Rahman I requested the Christians to sell him the other half. This they firmly refused to do, pointing out that if they did so they would not possess a single place of worship. Abd-er Rahman, however, insisted, and a bargain was struck by which the Christians ceded their cathedral.
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The Victory Mosque will be built over our dead bodies over our dead bodies ...
All-purpose bacon.
Good to eat and easily concealed.
They can be lost in a thousand and one places - especially when the chaos of construction is going on.
Lost slices of bacon are a terrible things to waste.
Please, whatever else you construction workers choose to eat, please keep track of the precious bacon in your lunches.
It would be a terrible shame for a single slice (or thousands for that matter) to be lost in the million and one places that a modern building provides and then conceals during the process of construction.
Thank you.
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No, no, no.
Real Bacon Bits. Costco sells them in 2 lb bags. :)
"Do you think that's why they're so irritable and psychotic?
"You know, because they can't have bacon?"
There, fixed that.
There is an historical basis for the myth of tolerant, pluralistic Islam, and it rests on brief, local interludes when the Muslim ruling class didn't really care about Islam and wanted to consolidate its power rather than follow the dictates of whatever fiqh was interpreting the Qu'ran and Hadiths in those parts. It happens one of these brief, local interludes was in the middle of the Muslim occupation of Spain. The other occurred earlier in Syria and environs, when the Grand Vizier of the Caliph of Damascus, St. John of Damascus, wrote the first Christian critique of Islam (as a heresy, not a religion in its own right).
Great post. Thanks. HOORAY Andrew G. Bostom! GRRRREAT comments at the link.
BUMP-TO-THE-TRUTH!
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