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Are we a nation of cowards?
Author: Raine    Date: 08/16/2010 12:30:34

Suddenly and quietly the Cordoba House, the planned muslim community outreach center that is proposed to be built in a former Burlington coat factory has morphed from the "Ground Zero Mosque to the "9/11 Mosque" Don't think this shift in messaging is an accident. The former Half Term Governor herself, in a tizzy of somewhat bigoted tweets also mentioned this phrase this weekend. here is a sample:
Will Obama express US lingering pain& ask Muslims for tolerance by discouraging 9/11 mosque while he celebrates Islamic holy month tonight?
She is asking for the President to be tolerant of intolerance. The irony is painful. She's not alone.
The right-wing group Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) has announced that it will be hosting a rally against the proposed Cordoba House Islamic community center on September 11.

The confirmed list of speakers includes former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, Andrew Breitbart, and, notably, the far-right Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders. “Islam is not a religion, it’s an ideology,” Wilders told the Guardian in 2009, “the ideology of a retarded culture.”
CNN Contributor Erick Erikson Chimed into the so called controversy as well.

Personally, I don't care if the Mosque is built right on the alleged "hallowed Ground" of the World Trade Center or 2 blocks away. I don't care if a Christian Church is built there either. Right now, this so called sacred ground looks like this. Not very Sacred looking, is it? Of course it isn't, because it is being redeveloped for corporate use.

9/11 happened nearly 9 years ago and, while there is no longer a hole in the ground, the rebuilding process is extremely, painfully slow. I wrote this on 9/11 in 2008:
All the talk of rebuilding and honoring the victims and the victims' families, all the talk of honor & service to our country, all the promises of healing and rebuilding ... all of that talk, and 'Ground Zero' has become nothing more than a symbol of empty promises.

It took 8 years for us to put a man on the moon. One would think that we could close this gaping flesh wound sooner than that. There is no way a wound can heal if it is still open. 2749 people died in NYC that day. 184 people perished in Washington D.C. 40 people were lost forever to a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on September 11. Say a prayer for their families in whatever way you choose, but be angry that those who HAVE the power to close the hole in the ground have not. Ground Zero has become nothing more than a symbol of broken promises because of them.
Instead of outrage at the lack of progress there on that site, people are outraged that Muslims actually want to build a community center 2 blocks away from this sight. The outrage is so transparent it isn't even funny.

There's no denying the right is apoplectic about this so-called Mosque. I am reluctant to use the word, because as evidenced in the link above, it is far more than that.

For people who hold 9/11 sacred, they really don't seem to realize that it wasn't just Christians who died on 9/11. Some of the first responders at he sites of the attacks were of the Muslim faith. People of all faiths died on that horrible day. Al-Quaeda attacked America - not Islam. This should not be a religious issue. This is a chance to show the world that we are a tolerant and loving nation. As been said here on this blog (and in many other places as well) the terror attacks of 9/11 were the act of religious fundamentalists. It shouldn't really matter what religion they were. I don't need to remind you again about Timothy McVeigh, do I? He was a Christian, he was a lunatic, and he committed an act of terror on our nation's soil. Did the victims protest when St. Joseph's Catholic church built this near the memorial there? No they did not.

Did anyone protest the Mosque in the the Pentagon?
Yes, Muslims have infiltrated the Pentagon for their nefarious, prayerful purposes -- daring to practice their religion inside the building where 184 people died on Sept. 11, 2001. They haven't even had the sensitivity to move two blocks, let alone a mile, away from that sacred site.
Justin Elliot goes on to write:
Any guesses as to why no one has ever heard about Muslims praying at the Pentagon -- let alone cared? It's almost as if the entire "ground zero mosque" controversy was whipped up out of nothing by a right-wing tabloid and politicians in search of a wedge issue ...
I believe it is not just a wedge issue, but one that shows the religious intolerance that is evidenced by many of the leaders on the right. Whether you are a Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, Wiccan, or Atheist - everyone should be reminded that we are not a Christian Nation, no matter how much people want to push this issue. Perhaps a reminder of the Treaty of Tripoli is in order:
Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
The GOP needs to stop alienating our own citizens with this religious purity test. Make no mistake, these are AMERICAN citizens of Muslim faith they are talking about.

What I believe, If one mosque/community center (whatever you may want to call it) is going to bring this nation to it's knees then not only are we are a nation of cowards, the terrorists truly have won.

and
Raine



 

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