We Muslims Know The Ground Zero Mosque Is Meant To Be A Deliberate Pro

[StMichael]

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/sports/Mischief+Manhattan/3370303/story.html

Mischief in Manhattan

Last week, a journalist who writes for the North Country Times, a small newspaper in Southern California, sent us an e-mail titled "Help." He couldn't understand why an Islamic Centre in an area where Adam Gadahn, Osama bin Laden's American spokesman came from, and that was home to three of the 911 terrorists, was looking to expand.

The man has a very valid point, which leads to the ongoing debate about building a Mosque at Ground Zero in New York. When we try to understand the reasoning behind building a mosque at the epicentre of the worst-ever attack on the U.S., we wonder why its proponents don't build a monument to those who died in the attack?

New York currently boasts at least 30 mosques so it's not as if there is pressing need to find space for worshippers. The fact we Muslims know the idea behind the Ground Zero mosque is meant to be a deliberate provocation to thumb our noses at the infidel. The proposal has been made in bad faith and in Islamic parlance, such an act is referred to as "Fitna," meaning "mischief-making" that is clearly forbidden in the Koran.

The Koran commands Muslims to, "Be considerate when you debate with the People of the Book" -- i.e., Jews and Christians. Building an exclusive place of worship for Muslims at the place where Muslims killed thousands of New Yorkers is not being considerate or sensitive, it is undoubtedly an act of "fitna"

So what gives Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf of the "Cordoba Initiative" and his cohorts the misplaced idea that they will increase tolerance for Muslims by brazenly displaying their own intolerance in this case?

Do they not understand that building a mosque at Ground Zero is equivalent to permitting a Serbian Orthodox church near the killing fields of Srebrenica where 8,000 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered?

There are many questions that we would like to ask. Questions about where the funding is coming from? If this mosque is being funded by Saudi sources, then it is an even bigger slap in the face of Americans, as nine of the jihadis in the Twin Tower calamity were Saudis.

If Rauf is serious about building bridges, then he could have dedicated space in this so-called community centre to a church and synagogue, but he did not. We passed on this message to him through a mutual Saudi friend, but received no answer. He could have proposed a memorial to the 9/11 dead with a denouncement of the doctrine of armed jihad, but he chose not to.

It's a repugnant thought that $100 million would be brought into the United States rather than be directed at dying and needy Muslims in Darfur or Pakistan.

Let's not forget that a mosque is an exclusive place of worship for Muslims and not an inviting community centre. Most Americans are wary of mosques due to the hard core rhetoric that is used in pulpits. And rightly so. As Muslims we are dismayed that our co-religionists have such little consideration for their fellow citizens and wish to rub salt in their wounds and pretend they are applying a balm to sooth the pain.

The Koran implores Muslims to speak the truth, even if it hurts the one who utters the truth. Today we speak the truth, knowing very well Muslims have forgotten this crucial injunction from Allah.

If this mosque does get built, it will forever be a lightning rod for those who have little room for Muslims or Islam in the U.S. We simply cannot understand why on Earth the traditional leadership of America's Muslims would not realize their folly and back out in an act of goodwill.

As for those teary-eyed, bleeding-heart liberals such as New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and much of the media, who are blind to the Islamist agenda in North America, we understand their goodwill.

Unfortunately for us, their stand is based on ignorance and guilt, and they will never in their lives have to face the tyranny of Islamism that targets, kills and maims Muslims worldwide, and is using liberalism itself to destroy liberal secular democratic societies from within.

Raheel Raza is author of Their Jihad ... Not my Jihad, and Tarek Fatah is author of The Jew is Not My Enemy (McClelland & Stewart), to be launched in October. Both sit on the board of the Muslim Canadian Congress.

[Resurrexi]

Thank you, Mike, for posting this enlightening article.

[Hassan]

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[dominicansoul]

it is good to see muslims speaking about the error in their brothers ways...

[dominicansoul]

...goes to show not all think alike...

[HisChildForever]

[quote name='Resurrexi' timestamp='1282009889' post='2158610']
Thank you, Mike, for posting this enlightening article.
[/quote]

I agree. Your threads are quite interesting.

[Jesus_lol]

Kinda in the same way Jersey Shore is interesting.

[Hassan]

[quote name='Jesus_lol' timestamp='1282013060' post='2158652']
Kinda in the same way Jersey Shore is interesting.
[/quote]


I never heard of Jersey Shore until a friend of mine went to a Guido themes party this year.

[CatherineM]

I just assumed they wanted to build a mosque there as a pilgrimage site for their martyrs.

[Catholictothecore]

It's the same thing as the apology thread. Mans refusal to be humane to man.

[Socrates]

I think the Muslims who want the mosque built at the Ground Zero site are perfectly aware of what they are doing, and the reaction people will have to it. They're not idiots.

They know quite well that countless non-Muslims and Muslims alike will see it as victory flag raised for Islam, at the site of where the massacre took place which "radical" Muslims around the world cheered as a "victory for Allah."

The building of the mosque should be blocked. This has nothing to do with "freedom of religion." The Muslims are free to build mosques anywhere they like (though it won't make me happy) but the Ground Zero site.
Christians and Americans need to develop more backbone.

[Catholictothecore]

Building a mosque so close to ground zero would be the American secular equivalent of building the Dome of the Rock over the Temple in Jerusalem. The ancient Jews worshiped in the temple, and the Muslims of that day made sure no one would ever do that again. Our society worships money and finances, so the temple was destroyed. This mosque is to make sure no American ever forgets the Muslim extremists won.

I realize this is not a completely fair comparision, but it's the attitude I pick up behind it. This is absolutely not about freedom of religion. It is absolutely salt on an open wound. It should not happen, not there, and I wish there wasn't something we could do about it.

[dominicansoul]

i dont' think the muslim extremists "won..."

[Catholictothecore]

alright, you are right. What I mean is that it's a flagarant spouting of what they can do to us. Nobody ever saw it coming. It was the worst thing imaginable. And yes, my comparison above may be exagerated, but I believe the idea is accurate.

Edited August 17, 2010 by Catholictothecore

[HisChildForever]

[quote name='Socrates' timestamp='1282065918' post='2158942']
I think the Muslims who want the mosque built at the Ground Zero site are perfectly aware of what they are doing, and the reaction people will have to it. They're not idiots.

They know quite well that countless non-Muslims and Muslims alike will see it as victory flag raised for Islam, at the site of where the massacre took place which "radical" Muslims around the world cheered as a "victory for Allah."

The building of the mosque should be blocked. This has nothing to do with "freedom of religion." The Muslims are free to build mosques anywhere they like (though it won't make me happy) but the Ground Zero site.
Christians and Americans need to develop more backbone.
[/quote]

Exactly. Our politically correct, liberal-loving government is under the impression that catering to the Ground Zero mosque will continue to foster happy fuzzy feelings for all.