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From Seraphic Secret: For those who don't know, the majority position among Sunni Muslim clerics is that anyone who gives up the Islamic faith to join another should be put to death. Not so fast, says new Ground Zero Mosque Imam, Abdallah Adhami. They should not be beheaded, merely jailed - I assume until they repent, though this enlightened Imam did not specify. Tell me again, why are we treating purveyors of this Wahhabist screed as equal members of civilization? Actually, in Britain, they are treating the radicals as suprerior to their native population. Do see the horror story below, about multiculturalism gone mad.
Showing posts with label ground zero mosque. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ground zero mosque. Show all posts
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Monday, August 23, 2010
The Islamaphobia Card
Well, who could have seen this coming:
A leader of a planned Muslim community center near Manhattan's Ground Zero compared opposition to the project to the persecution of Jews, in comments that could add to the controversy over the center's proposed site.
We are deeply concerned, because this is like a metastasized antisemitism," said Daisy Khan, who is spearheading the project with her husband, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. "It's beyond Islamophobia. It's hate of Muslims."
Ms. Khan, appearing on ABC News's "This Week" on Sunday, vowed to push ahead with plans to build a 15-story complex two blocks from the site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in lower Manhattan, saying there was "too much at stake." . . .
The Islamaphobia card. You knew the Cordoba Project people would play it. But it is now the entire left in America throwing it with wild abandon. Obama played it implicitly during his speech at the White House Ramadan dinner. Others have been far less circumspect.
(H/T Seraphic Secret)
For but one other example, over the weekend, the New York Times drama queen, Frank Rich, didn't merely play the Islamaphobia card, but went further to say that those who oppose the Ground Zero "victory" mosque are betraying the war effort. The shameless hypocrisy of Rich, who spent 2004 to 2008 doing all in his power to undermine the war in Iraq, is stomach churning.
Demonizing opposition to the mosque is fraught with problems. It will of course provide the fodder for Islamists to claim that America is at war with Islam. All Islamists have to do is quote from Frank Rich or MSNBC or Obama. Two, because our government cravenly and wrongly treats Islam as a monolithic entity and the radical elements as non-Islamic, this really will cause an indiscriminate backlash against all of Islam in the U.S. And because of both of the above, it will seriously hurt the work of Muslim refromers and all Muslims who do not want to live under Sharia law. In the words fo Zhudi Jasser, refering to the remarks of President Obama, "[a]s a Muslim desperate to reform his faith, your remarks take us backwards from the day that my faith will come into modernity."
The one good thing that could possibly come out of this is a national education of sorts on the reality of Islam in the world today. Unfortunately, while the left is busy demonizing the opposition to the mosque, the talking heads on the right seem themselves clueless about the reality of the splits and faultlines in Islam, as well as the goals and strategies of those pushing Islamic supremacy. Given the existential nature of this conflict, it is depressing beyond words.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Miss USA - Move The Ground Zero Mosque
Daring to tread where Obama would not, America's first Miss USA of Arab descent, Rima Faqih, has weighed in on the wisdom of building the Ground Zero Mosque two blocks from Ground Zero. It is not wise. Move it. Bluegrass Pundit has the whole story.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Moral & Intellectual Bankruptcy Of Those Who Support The Ground Zero Mosque
The above cartoon, lifted from Seraphic Secret, pretty much sums up all of the moral and ethical arguments against the Ground Zero mosque. And yet, on MSNBC, Norah O’Donnell makes the argument that those who oppose the Ground Zero Victory Mosque are “like the people who attacked America and killed 3,000 people.” See Seraphic Secret for the whole story.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Crazy Nancy, The Media & The Ground Zero Mosque
Speaker of the House Crazy Nancy has called for an investigation into the funding of the Ground Zero Mosque the opponents of the Ground Zero Mosque. On what grounds? For exercising their right of freedom of speech? This is insanity.
The latest polls show opposition to the mosque by 70% of Americans and accross all demographics. This is hardly an issue of astro-turfing or faux outrage being played up by groups mouthing their opposition to advance some nefarious, secret agenda. So who is Crazy Nancy going to investigate and for what purpose? To hold opponents up to public ridicule? To threaten them with the police power of the federal government?
Can you even begin to imagine the incoherent outrage in the press if Dick Cheney had called for an investigation into the funding of anti-Iraq war protestors? Yet is there anyone who doubts that the MSM will give Pelosi a pass?
Conversely, it would make sense to investigate the funding of the Ground Zero Mosque. Many suspect that the mosque is a "victory" mosque meant to advance the same cause for which America was attacked by al Qaeda. If so, then this mosque represents a peaceful act of war against America. Under the circumstance, the public has a right to inquire - and our government damn well should inquire - into the source of funding for this mosque.
I won't even go into the insanity of our State Dept. funding the leader of the Ground Zero Mosque project, Imam Rauf, to tour the Middle East as part of an outreach project. Here is a rule for the multiculturalists in our government - if a Muslim thinks that America brought 9-11 on themselves and refuses to denounce Hamas for terrorism, then they are not "moderate" Muslims. They are opponents of our nation and our way of life. That means Imam Rauf, CAIR, and every Muslim Brotherhood offshoot in America, should not be treated as partners by our government.
In the media, there are a bevy of articles the jist of which are to warn Republicans not to make an issue of the Mosque because . . . . well, pick your excuse. It might upset Muslims. It shows religious bigotry. It will tear Republicans apart. It is all prevarication by the MSM to try to cover for Obama for making the insanely tone deaf move of coming down on the side of building the Mosque.
The best thing for America would be for this Mosque controversy to become a huge issue with robust debate. We are ten years into a war . . . but against who?
Most Americans cannot tell the difference between al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood (goals the same, strategy different), Wahhabi Islam (more bigoted than the KKK) and Sufi Islam (ask Stephen Schwartz), CAIR (a supporter of political Islam) and AIFD (Jasser's organization to combat political Islam). America desperately needs a lesson in Islam for all the reasons I state here. We need it not only to protect ourselves, but also to protect Muslims. If this mosque controversy lights a debate that educates America, it would be the most important event to happen to America since 9-11.
Mark Levin Interview Muslim Reformer M. Zhudi Jasser
On one side of the Islamic World, there is al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Saudi Arabia, Wahhabi clerics, Iran, CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Muslim Students Association, the North American Islamic Trust, the Islamic Society of North America, the American Muslim Council, the Muslim American Society, the International Institute of Islamic, Imam Rauf, and countless other organizations and individuals who actively promote the imposition of Sharia law througout the world.
and on the other side of the divide . . .
There is Zhudi Jasser.
Here he is being interviewed by Mark Levin on the Ground Zero Mosque and Obama's endorsement of that mosque.
(H/T Hot Air)
If you have not done so already, go to his organization, the American Islamic Forum For Democracy (AIFD) and help his efforts in any way that you can.
And if you don't understand the difference between a person who wants to lead a reformation of his religion and the Wahhabists among us who want to impose Sharia law across the globe, go here and watch Zhudi Jasser debate a Wahhabi cleric.
Monday, August 16, 2010
The Ground Zero Mosque Story Gets More Outrageous
A commentor to a post below on the Ground Zero Mosque has pointed out one of the truly grotesque but underreported aspects of this insanity - the fact that, while Mayor Bloomberg and President Obama are out hawking for Imam Rauf, NYC has yet to allow the rebuilding of a church destroyed in the attack on the World Trade Center.
The Greek Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas was built in 1922. The World Trade Center Complex was later built next to the Church. Then, as the Church's website tells the story, "[o]n September 11th, the entire weight of World Trade Center Tower 2 came down on St. Nicholas Church, completely destroying the building and its contents. Only a handful of damaged icons and religious items were found amongst the rubble."
The Church has been seeking to rebuild since the act of war on 9-11. NYC, however, has apparently put up a series of bureaucratic delays and broken numerous promises along the way. In light of the recent acts of Bloomberg and Obama, this is truly outrageous. For much more on this story, see here.
Obama and the Ground Zero "Victory" Mosque Get The Coveted Hamas Endorsement
According to the Daily Mail:
. . . Islamist group Hamas today backed the mosque plan.
Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar said Muslims 'have to build everywhere' so that followers can pray, just like Christians and Jews build their places of worship.
Al-Zahar spoke Sunday on 'Aaron Klein Investigative Radio' on WABC-AM in the U.S. He is a co-founder of Hamas and its chief on the Gaza Strip.
Nice to see Hamas come out for freedom of religion. Does it surprise anyone to see Hamas and President Obama joined in agreement and at odds with the vast majority of the rest of America, including many American Muslims.
If you haven't read it yet, do see Zhudi Jasser's statement on this travesty below. In it, he takes the President to task for playing into the hands of political Islmists the world over and setting back the cause of reform of Islam.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Dr. Jasser On Obama's Endorsement Of The Ground Zero Mosque
This was the statement recently released by Muslim reformer Dr. Zhudi Jasser through his organization, American Islamic Forum For Democracy:
. . . Mr. President, this is America and you have fundamentally misunderstood the stakes in this discussion and the sentiments of the American people. Instead, you have focused on the very issue that the Islamist propagandists wish you to-- the narrative that Americans somehow need lectures about Islam, Muslims, and religious freedom.
Your message to Americans will be spun on Al Jazeera and by Islamists across the world that President Obama reassured a friendly global Muslim audience at the White House Ramadan dinner that he was going to remind Americans about the principles of religious freedom for Muslims since they seem to be trampling over those principles in the local dispute at Ground Zero in New York.
Mr. President this is not about religious freedom. It is about the importance of the World Trade Center site to the psyche of the American People. It is about a blatant attack on our sovereignty by people whose ideology ultimately demands the elimination of our way of life. While Imam Faisal Rauf may not share their violent tendencies he does seem to share a belief that Islamic structures are a political statement and even Ground Zero should be looked upon through the lens of political Islam and not a solely American one.
As a Muslim desperate to reform his faith, your remarks take us backwards from the day that my faith will come into modernity. I do not stand to eliminate Imam Rauf's religious freedom; I stand to make sure that my children's religious freedom will be determined by the liberty guaranteed in the American Constitution and not by clerics or leaders who are apologists for shar'iah law and will tell me what religious freedom is. . . .
(emphasis added) Do read the entire statement. As I have said ad inifinitum on this blog, Islam will never moderate unless and until our government becomes honest with the American people about Islam and stops treating all Muslims as a single group, all the while pretending that the Wahhabi religious dogma that gave rise to al Qaeda is an anamoly. Nothing could be further from the truth. On this, Obama is 180 degrees of wrong, hurting not merely all Americans, but indeed, Muslim reformers and all Muslims who wish simply to practice their religion in peace without having to live under the yoke of a theocracy.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Obama's Endorsement Of The Ground Zero Mosque
Is this a surprise to anyone? If Obama has a choice between supporting America's best interests or those of an entity opposed to America's freedoms and values, Obama chooses the latter every time.
And so it was yesterday, when at a White House dinner to commemorate the start of the Muslim Holy month of Ramadan, Obama pleased Muslim Brotherhood folks and the CAIR types by announcing his support for a Muslim victory mosque next to Ground Zero. And he did so in what is now easily identifiable as his own unique rhetorical pattern – create a straw man that misstates his opponents arguments, assume the moral high ground, and then announce that he has identified the greater good. Oh, and of course, prevaricate where necessary and ignore all inconvenient facts.
Obama starts off by calling 9-11 “a deeply traumatic event for our country.” Bull. It was not a “traumatic event.” It was an act of war against America by a subset of Muslims acting to advance the cause of political Islam. It is a war that is ongoing. Perhaps Obama chose his words so carefully in order to avoid having to acknowledge that the spearhead of the Cordoba Project, Imam Rauf, blamed America for bringing this war and the 9-11 attacks upon itself.
Equally outrageously, Obama fails to note the significance of the name Cordoba and its ties to 9-11. Cordoba was the capital city of Andalusia - a portion of Spain once conquered by an Islamic army and ruled as a caliphate for several centuries. Obama ignores that one of the reasons given by al Qaeda to justify jihad and the attack on 9-11 was the reconquista - the reconquering of Andalusia by Spanish Christians. Indeed, the “Tragedy of Andalusia” was the first thing mentioned by Osama bin Laden in the videotape released by al Qaeda one month after 9-11.
Obama ignores the fact obvious to very many Americans - that this Ground Zero mosque is a "victory mosque" for political Islamists of all shades. If you do not understand the concept of a victory mosque, Raymond Ibrahim, writing at PJM, helpfully explains:
. . . throughout Islam’s history, whenever a region was conquered, one of the first signs of consolidation was/is the erection of a mosque atop the sacred sites of the vanquished: the pagan Ka‘ba temple in Arabia was converted into Islam’s holiest site, the mosque of Mecca; the al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest site, was built atop Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem; the Umayyad Mosque was built atop the Church of St. John the Baptist; and the Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque upon the conquest of Constantinople.
Any doubt that this is a "victory mosque" was dispelled when NY Gov. Patterson offered to find Imam Rauf suitable space elsewhere in New York City for his mosque, away from Ground Zero. Rauf refused.
Obama referred to Ground Zero as “hallowed ground,” then added a “but.” Setting himself apart from those concerned with protecting this “hallowed ground,” he assumed the moral high ground.
I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country.”
That is a straw man of mammoth proportions. No one is suggesting that freedom of religion be curtailed for Muslims. Rather it is Obama's way of sidestepping the valid argument, that building a mosque overlooking Ground Zero would be, in the words of Charles Krauthammer, “sacrilege.” Indeed, building this mosque will do nothing at all to advance the cause of freedom of religion in America. To the contrary, it is, in the words of two Islamic authors, a "deliberate provocation" that will poison it as Americans push back against this obscenity.
Obama also makes the case for allowing the Ground Zero mosque to go forward on the basis of property rights – that Imam Rauf has every right to build a mosque on “private property in Lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances. This is America.” This is the strongest argument for allowing the Mosque to be built - though we in fact limit the right of owners of private property to build what they want all the time. Regardless, no one expects Obama to do anything more than use the bully pulpit in regard to this issue. But for him to use that bully pulpit to support the Ground Zero mosque is itself an obscenity.
I have to note as an aside that for Obama to make a private property argument is cynical beyond belief. Are we to believe that Obama is now the great defender of property rights? I am sure the senior creditors of GM and Chrysler who were demonized by Obama and strong-armed into giving up their property rights so that Obama could make a massive gift to the UAW will be pleased with his change of heart. Likewise, I am sure that all of the dealerships who lost their livelihood at Obama's direction will take similar comfort.
Back to Obama's justifications. Obama eventually got around in his speech to giving us the most dangerous lie of all.
Al Qaeda’s cause is not Islam -– it’s a gross distortion of Islam.
That is a treasonous lie. The members of al Qaeda and its supporters are true believers in all of the toxic dogma of Wahhabi / Salafi Islam emanating out of Saudi Arabia. It is a toxin infecting virtually all other forms of Islam today as it speeds around the world on the back of Saudi petro-dollars. (See here)
While Obama pretends otherwise, America and the entire West remain under attack not merely from al Qaeda, but from all of political Islam. Al Qaeda is merely a splinter off of the Muslim Brotherhood and its many associated organizations. All want to attack the West, displace Western freedoms and put in place Sharia law. The only issue dividing the organizations is tactical, not strategic. Bin Laden wants to use the sword, the Muslim Brotherhood wants to use the freedoms of the West and taqqiyah – in which they are aided by the Western secular left with whom they have made common cause. Certainly this victory mosque will be a grand monument to both. And indeed, it is being built while we are still in the middle of what promises to be a war that will last many decades into the future.
If nothing else, Obama has now nationalized the issue of the Ground Zero mosque. And to anyone that is paying any attention, it has made absolutely clear that this President is dangerously out of touch with reality when it comes to Islamic supremecists and political Islamists.
Some final thoughts - one, Islam poses such a unique problem for America because, as practiced by many throughout the world, Islam is less a religion and far more a triumphalist political ideology that promotes violence to impose its will. The two most aggressive manifestations of this are the theocracy in Iran and the Wahhabi based monarchy in Saudi Arabia. To the extent that Islam is practiced as a religion and concerns itself only with improving the lives and saving the souls of its practitioners, then it clearly should be accorded the status of religion and given all the Constitutional protections associated therewith. But going beyond that, into the realm of the political, wherein lies everyone and everything from al Qaeda to the Muslim Brotherhood to CAIR and the MAB, should we extend the protections of the 1st Amendment to it? Moreover, given the nature of this issue, should our government begin funding true Muslim reformers to advance their cause? Our First Amendment requires that the answer to that be no, but we are clearly in a position that the drafters of our First Amendment never contemplated.
And finally, there is a way for New Yorkers to take care of Imam Rauf and this mosque come next election. Toss Bloomberg out on his ear and only elect a mayor who will promise to use the power of eminent domain to take the property of this planned mosque and set that property to a public purpose. Indeed, making that an issue today may well limit the ability of Rauf to get funding for his planned obscenity.
Update: John at Powerline picks up on a point in Obama's speech that I missed - Obama's sophomoric multiculturalism:
This was the climax of Obama's lecture:
For in the end, we remain "one nation, under God, indivisible." And we can only achieve "liberty and justice for all" if we live by that one rule at the heart of every religion, including Islam-that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us.
This is revealing: the ultimate destination of multiculturalism is platitudinous stupidity. All religions, Obama tells us, are really the same, and can be summed up in the Golden Rule. Actually, there is no religion that can be reduced to the Golden Rule, least of all Islam. Islam does not enjoin believers to do unto infidels as you would have infidels do unto you. On the contrary! Islam tells its followers to subdue infidels; to kill them; to, at best, reduce them to dhimmitude. The Golden Rule is antithetical to Islam. Here is a thought experiment: compare HADITH Sahih Bukhari [4:52:176] with the parable of the good Samaritan.
Multiculturalism, in short, reduces its adherents (like President Obama) to a low intellectual plane. If you really think that all religions are the same, and they all exemplify the Golden Rule, then you won't understand the point of Cordoba House.
Update: A day later, and our Prevaricator in Chief is already backtracking on his endorsement of the Ground Zero Mosque. Obama is now claiming that, in his speech the other night, he didn't express support for the “wisdom” of building a mosque blocks from the 9/11 site, rather only the right of Imam Rauf to build there. That is a nuance you will not find in his speech. Here is Obama's speech in full. See for yourself.
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