Wolf Howling: cordoba

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Cordoba House - An Obscenity At Ground Zero

I was planning a long post on the "Cordoba House" project to build an Islamic complex one block from ground zero. The project, headed by a Salafi Imam, Fesiel Abdul Rauf, is being undertaken ostensibly to improve Islamic-American relations. The reality is that this planned complex is an obscenity aimed at furthering the goal of Muslim supremacy. Even the name of the project - referring to Cordoba - the Spanish Christian territory once conquered by Muslim invaders only to be reconquered by Christians some seven centuries ago - should be a clue as to the intent of the Salafists seeking to build this Muslim complex next to ground zero. Salafists still view southern Spain as rightfully theirs and have dreams of reconquering the territory, just as they dream of imposing Islam throughout the world, with Sharia thereafter to be enforced by the sword as it is throughout all Muslim dominated countries.

At any rate, I could not do any better than Robert Avrech in explaining why the Cordoba Project has no business being built a block from Ground Zero. This from Robert at Seraphic Secret:

The Ground Zero Mosque is designed as a monument to the supremacy of Islam.

It is designed as a sign to Muslims everywhere that Islam will triumph over the Judeo-Christian West. . . .

The Imam and his wife—stealth jihadists with strong ties to The Muslim Brotherhood—use the language of tolerance to hide their true intentions. . . .

Mayor Bloomberg and the other quislings who invoke freedom of religion are a bunch of useful idiots.

Tolerance of the intolerant is not a virtue.

It is suicide.

Would Bloomberg and his Liberal mob allow some White Identity group to build a church at the motel where Martin Luther King was assasinated in the name of tolerance?

Of course not.

Islam is not just a religion.

It is a social, political ideology whose stated purpose is to impose Sharia on all of humanity.

Islam means submission.

And the Islamists intend to make us all submit to their barbarism.

In short, Islam is engaged in an endless war with non-Muslims.

And unless we in the West acknowledge this fact, we will lose.

Do see Robert's entire post.

The NYT Reporting On Islam, Salafi Dogma & The Muslim Occupation of Cordoba Cathedral

According to Islam, and most prominently Salafi Islam, it is dogma that if any land was once ruled by Muslims, then it must be returned to Islamic rule. Al Qaeda justifies their terror in large part on this dogma, citing, for example, the centuries old Reconquesta of Spain as a wrong that must be righted. Less ridgid is a Muslim philosophy that buildings of worship once used for Islamic worship than must remain - or be made into - mosques. For example, Caliph Omar, after capturing Jerusalem in the 7th century, is reputed to have refused an invitation to prayer in Christendom's holiest site, the Church of the Holy Sephulchre, lest his followers use that to justify turning the Church into a mosque.

The relevant background for this post is that Muslims conquered much of Christian Spain in 712 A.D. When they occupied Cordoba, they destroyed the Basilica of St. Vincent and erected over top of it the Great Mosque. Once King Ferdinand III reconquered Cordoba in 1236, he reconverted the mosque to a Church. It has remained a church for the 800 years since.

On 2 April, during Easter holy week, 120 Muslims occupied the Cordoba Cathedral and interrupted church services to loudly pray to Allah. When asked to leave, they became violent, sending two security personnel to a hospital. The NYT covered this story, leaving out the background as well as ignoring the underlying motivations of the Muslims and the dogma upon which they acted. The blogger at Winds of Jihad has written a far reaching critique of the NYT coverage as well as the NYT's entire coverage of Islam, all in addition to an exceptional analysis of the event. Read it here.