Bullies on the Air: Allow the Cordoba Mosque…Or Else
Is there a clear and present danger facing America? Are threats now being made over American television? The answers are “maybe” and “yes”.
The debate over building the proposed Cordoba mosque near ground zero in New York City is now past getting out of hand. Protests have turned into threats – and now the threats have multiplied. Whether you are for or opposed to building a mosque so near the site where thousands were killed by Islamic terrorists on September 11,2001, it does no good to make threats of violence, nor to call the other side racists or evil.
No one likes to be called names. No matter what you do or what you believe or what you say, no one should be lambasted with name-calling by those who don’t like what you do, what you believe or what you say. You can call someone “wrong” but it’s time to stop with the name-calling.
That said, was is flat-out wrong for Florida preacher Terry Jones to announce a “Quran burning” on his Dove World Outreach Center property. Thank God he has now called it off. Jones had said he was holding the burning of the Muslim holy books as a stand against evil. He said it was his constitutional right to burn the books as much as it is the Imam’s right to build a mosque near the site of the worst foreign attack on America in history. Burning the Quran is indeed constitutional – just as it is constitutional for protest groups to stomp on or burn the American flag. — but it is wrong,
Everyone from the Pope to the President weighed in on this, asking the Reverend to cancel the burning of copies of the Quran. General David Petraeus and Defense Secretary Robert Gates asked him to stand down because burning the book Muslims consider holy could put American service men and women in danger in the mainly Muslim nations of Afghanistan and Iraq. The Pope asked him not to burn the religious book. Republicans as well as Democrats and Independents had spoken out against such a religious book burning. We can be relieved that the preacher has changed his mind and brought an end to the entire episode.
Meantime, there’s another threat regarding the proposed mosque. This threat isn’t getting nearly the attention that preacher Jones got, but it should. This threat comes from the New York mosque’s Imam himself., Feisal Abdul Rauf. Appearing on CNN, Rauf repeated his insistence that, despite the unrest this issue has sparked, he will not change his mind on where he wants the location of his Cordoba House – only this time he linked his insistence on the site with a threat. He said if he were to move the proposed mosque to another location in New York City, America could be placed in danger and, once again, might be attacked by Islamic terrorists. He broadcast his threat on CNN television to America and to the world.
This threat should be as condemned as that made by Pastor Jones. The media – which gave such attention to a small church in Florida with only 50 members – should be all over this threat made by Imam Rauf.
There isn’t another Church or Synagogue or group that could demand to build something where a majority of people don’t want it to be built and demand to build it by threatening there could be violence if it doesn’t get its way.
Catholics have been offended when artists defiled their religious figures in public museums. Jews have been offended when their places of worship have been defaced and vandalized. None of their congregation has threatened violence in return.
There is not another example in America of a group that has demanded to build something and threatened violence if it couldn’t build it exactly where they wanted to build it. This is a threat made on the airwaves, which, in itself, is against the federal communications law. It is a threat that should not be ignored by the FCC nor by the mainstream media. It is a threat made by a Muslim leader — and sent out to Muslims worldwide — that should not now nor ever be tolerated in America.
It is wrong. It is flat out wrong.
Closer to home, I have witnessed Muslims doubleparking their cars and taxis and obstructing traffic while attending prayer services in various storefronts that have been converted into mosques. Of course, the politically correct city administration that otherwise wants to ticket every motorist to raise revenue did absolutely nothing.
Try doing that outside of your parish or synangogue sometime and let us know if your vehicle is ticketed or towed.
The Imam Rauf is now showing his true colors! He is after all not a “bridge builder” but a fatwa waging power hungry proponent of the
political ideology that masquerades as a religion (Islam). It is a shame that most of America (from the everyday citizens to the liberal press) could not see the evil in his plan from day one. Imam Rauf is no different a character than the infamous “Dr. Evil” ( of Austin Powers movie fame). He is as we now see just another “Dr. Evil” trying to push his oh so evil agenda. Just like Dr. Evil when his evil plot doesn’t quite work out, he responds with even more evil.
When will we get educated? Let’s get all the non naive Americans together to stop this nonsense once and for all.
We see the true face of the enemy: Radical Islam. Imam Rauf, who claims to represent moderation, threatens that “radicals” not him of course, threaten America with greater harm if we fail to build the 9/11 mosque exactly where he says. Sounds like blackmail. Hitler always used to claim his aggression was because of the German people, and his own military wing.
Exactly why does Secy Gates, Obama, and everyone else need to make such an issue of Jone’s Koran burning. Buring books is a bad idea, but where are these same voices of indignation when Christians and Jews are murdered in Turkey, the Sudan, Syria, Israel, and Indonesia to name a few.
Rauf and his Burka-less Un hajibbi Old Lady are as nauseating a couple of cockroaches as the Triune God crafts. Next to the Burnsided goof in Florida they look even worse., but Mayor Bloomberg and the idiot media think they’re just swell.
When will everyone stop catering to the extremist and their insanity??? It’s like the stressed out mom in the grocery store who caves to their screaming bratts wishes…and wonders why they repeat their behaviour, over and over…
Surley Rauf has calculated his land and building cost but has he found an insurance company that will take on the risk of this building endeavor and that of the construction companies who will take the contract??? Did the contractor add into his cost the protestors and possible (most likely) vandals? I know if I was selling insurance this would be a sale I would pass on…even in this economy.
On September 11th 1683 John Sobieski, the King of Poland, lead a joint Polish, German, Austrian expeditionary force (certainly the last time all of those people fought on the same side!)to a stunning and decisive victory over the Turks outside of the gates of Vienna. The Turkish forces, commanded by General Kara Mustafa Pasha retreated as a mob, ending the high water mark of Islamic power in Eastern Europe. For his failed efforts, Mustafa Pasha was strangled to death with a silken cord by his Sultan.
It is no coincidence that the 9/11 hijackers selected September 11th as the date to attack the United States…..in much of the Moslem world, past isn’t prologue, it is the present, and the devastation planned by the terrorists provided them with, among other things, the ability, in their view, to redeem Islam from the humiliation of that long ago defeat. And make no mistake about it, the perpetuation of what radical Islam views as a redemptive victory is the real motivation behind the proposed construction of the Cordoba House. The Cordoba House has nothing to do with worship, it is a victory Mosque, a para-military artifact designed to signify Islamic dominance over the United States and its citizens. As Justice Frankfurter said, the Constitution is not a suicide pact. Neither does it create a mandate for national masochism. Americans have the right to commemorate their history, good and bad, without the interference of smirking, insidious kooks whose real loyalties lie with ideologies contrary to our constitutional polity.
But there is a solution to this dilemma. When the Turks retreated from Vienna they left behind their stores of coffee, tents and tents of it which were parceled out to merchants as contraband of war. Thus began the coffee house craze which swept Europe and changed it forever. Coffee began to displace wine as the European’s drink of choice. Where previously Europe, from Belfast to Warsaw had been half in the bag by 11AM on any given morning, it was now consuming a drink that would “get your mind right” and this new sobriety laid the ground for the industrial revolution. So let’s have a national campaign to raise funds to purchase the proposed site of the Cordoba House, relocate the facility to the Azores, and in its place erect a large coffee house….call it “King John’s Place.” The kind of reconciliation we need is best facilitated by a strong, aromatic cup of coffee, not by “Iman Ralph’s” Nostradamic ramblings. Maybe we can invite the President to a Coffee Summit with some of the survivors of 9/11 attack victims.
By the way, its sad that some of these comments have to be made anonymously.
Time to get back on my horse.
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