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| Is the purpose of the Cordoba Center Mosque to provoke? |
| 2010-08-20 |
| By Ralph Peters What if the purpose of the Cordoba Center is to provoke, to alienate non-Muslim and Muslim Americans from one another? That certainly would explain Imam Rauf's intransigence when it comes to insisting that his chosen site is the only acceptable site. Are the intended victims of this travesty our Muslim fellow citizens, so many of whom are integrating successfully? Is the Cordoba Initiative really about aggravating social divisions? How does it serve our society for our media to refuse to ask such questions? Even the use of the name "Cordoba" is brilliantly cynical. To Atlantis-will-rise-again! Leftists, medieval Cordoba, in Spain, is a fairy-tale example of Muslims, Christians and Jews living together amicably in a social compact called the convivencia. What's left out of the fable is that Christian and Jews were distinctly second-class members of society heavily taxed for their faiths and subject to the whims of Muslim rulers. After a brief cultural flowering, Cordoba's rulers for centuries were Islamist fanatics from North Africa. As Nikita Khrushchev, sneering at the Western powers, once said, "We will hang you ... and you will sell us the rope." One cannot help but suspect that Imam Rauf and his backers are mocking us, gleefully turning our Constitution against us, and exploiting a media terrified of being accused of bigotry. Last, but not least, this Ground-Zero mosque complex would be a symbol-not of reconciliation and tolerance, but of the greatest triumph of violent jihad in three centuries: 9/11. Islam's ghazis-religious warriors--have always understood symbols. That's why the hijackers struck the Twin Towers, not a housing project. This mega-mosque complex will be interpreted by hardline fanatics as a monument to their 9/11 "victory." |
| Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
| #3 "Is the purpose of the Cordoba Center Mosque to provoke?" Well, yeah. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-08-20 19:46 |
| #2 Park51 just announced they're organizing a 'freedom' march for 9/12/10 in NYC. What could go wrong??? BTW, they've decreed that NO signs are allowed. |
| Posted by: Sleque Barnsmell1141 2010-08-20 14:33 |
| #1 Yup. The mosque is supposed to open on 9-11-11. What do you think? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-08-20 12:22 |