By Douglas V. Gibbs
Obama, after being in favor of the Cordoba Initiative, decided he was not in favor of the mosque being built, or something like that. I suppose it is akin to what he did in the Senate. Whenever he could be seen in a negative light by someone, somewhere, if he took a stance, he voted "present."
I never thought I'd ever see a President vote "present."
In the Nevada fight for Reid's Senate seat, Harry's Republican opponent Sharron Angle demanded that Reid take a position on the mosque in New York City, and Reid decided to come out against it.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) spoke through a statement issued by his spokesman, Jim Manley. "The First Amendment protects freedom of religion," Manley wrote in an e-mail. "Senator Reid respects that, but thinks that the mosque should be built someplace else."
Wow, Harry Reid must've jump started a couple of his remaining dozen brain cells.
Realize that in New York City there are at least 30 mosques, and nearly a dozen of them are already within 20 blocks of Ground Zero.
Should the Japanese build a Shinto temple right next to the Arizona memorial in Pearl Harbor?
How would the Democrats react if BP decided to build a grand headquarters in New York City? Or better yet, would they let BP build a more massive office building in New Orleans near the shore where the tar balls are appearing?
About seventy percent of the American people are against the mosque near Ground Zero because it isn't about freedom of religion, or being touchy-feely tolerant of our Muslim neighbors. The issue is about the victims and their families. 3,000 Americans died on 9/11, most of them when the Twin Towers fell after two airplanes, piloted by Islamists, flew into the buildings.
What happened to the resolve we had to stop the people who brought down those buildings? What happened to the cheers and applause when George W. Bush proclaimed that the Islamic Jihad would be stopped from ever attacking the U.S. again?
Now we wish to give the Islamists a recruiting center near Ground Zero? Now, on the spot where debris from the aircraft that struck the towers landed, we are going to allow Islam to plant a flag of conquest in the form of a mosque?
Obama says the building of the mosque must continue because of freedom of religion.
Do we truly have freedom of religion?
Some kids prayed on the steps of the Supreme Court and were stopped because they couldn't do anything religious on the steps of the court.
A cross in San Diego has been the center of attention because people can see it from the public right away.
Let's see how much religious freedom we truly have. Let's erect a Christian Nativity scene next to the mosque during the Christmas season, and see what happens.
Liberal logic is always the same. You can have freedom of speech as long as you don't speak out against their policies. Then you are a radical extremist, and you must be silenced (attacks against the Tea Parties is an example). You can have freedom of religion as long as the liberals approve of your religion, and if your religion teaches that the destruction of the United States is the religion's goal, that's okay with the Democrats. However, if your religion believes that God in the flesh died on a cross because He so loved the world, that religion must be silenced, removed from the schools, disallowed from exhibiting any religion on public property, and cannot preach regarding politics inside the church, nor in public.
So much for liberal logic.
The liberal Democrats endorse a mosque two blocks from Ground Zero, but demanded that a cross in the desert be taken down, for God's sake.
The erection of the mosque near Ground Zero is an act of provocation. The same imam has a mosque 12 blocks away from Ground Zero, but he now also wants to have one two blocks away. Why? Community outreach? Twelve blocks away isn't close enough to the community?
I am willing to bet the Muslims wouldn't allow a Jewish Temple or a Christian Church to be built in Mecca a stone's throw from their sacred Black Stone. Yet the hallowed ground of Ground Zero is supposed to welcome a mosque?
How many Christian churches are springing up in Saudi Arabia and Iran complete with church bells? Any?
"But what about the poor peaceful Muslims," I have been asked.
Do you know any? If they exist, God bless them. I was acquainted with a so-called peaceful Muslim on a job I held, and when he realized I am a Christian, he told me that under different circumstances he'd have to kill me. He laughed, but I wondered how serious he truly was.
Where are these peaceful Muslims? What is their opinion of the mosque in New York? Do they see it as insensitive as we do for Islam to build a mosque near where the Jihad attacked America? Does it bother them that the funds provided for the mosque comes from organizations that also fund terrorist groups? Do the peaceful Muslims feel shame about 9/11? Or were they dancing in the streets too? Do they believe that Israel has a right to exist?
"But Islam is a religion. We must afford them religious freedoms," say my opponents.
Would we have been required, then, to treat the Nazis different if Hitler had declared his fascist ideology to be a religion?
If the liberals are so worried about infringing on religious freedoms, then why are they fine with disallowing Mormons to practice polygamy, or for not allowing Native Americans to smoke Peyote for religious reasons?
The Law, is the answer. This is a nation of laws, and polygamy, and drugs like Peyote, are against the law. Therefore, despite religious freedoms, behaviors considered dangerous to our society are illegal - religious or not.
The liberal Democrats endorse a mosque two blocks from Ground Zero, but demanded that a cross in the desert be taken down, for God's sake.
The erection of the mosque near Ground Zero is an act of provocation. The same imam has a mosque 12 blocks away from Ground Zero, but he now also wants to have one two blocks away. Why? Community outreach? Twelve blocks away isn't close enough to the community?
I am willing to bet the Muslims wouldn't allow a Jewish Temple or a Christian Church to be built in Mecca a stone's throw from their sacred Black Stone. Yet the hallowed ground of Ground Zero is supposed to welcome a mosque?
How many Christian churches are springing up in Saudi Arabia and Iran complete with church bells? Any?
"But what about the poor peaceful Muslims," I have been asked.
Do you know any? If they exist, God bless them. I was acquainted with a so-called peaceful Muslim on a job I held, and when he realized I am a Christian, he told me that under different circumstances he'd have to kill me. He laughed, but I wondered how serious he truly was.
Where are these peaceful Muslims? What is their opinion of the mosque in New York? Do they see it as insensitive as we do for Islam to build a mosque near where the Jihad attacked America? Does it bother them that the funds provided for the mosque comes from organizations that also fund terrorist groups? Do the peaceful Muslims feel shame about 9/11? Or were they dancing in the streets too? Do they believe that Israel has a right to exist?
"But Islam is a religion. We must afford them religious freedoms," say my opponents.
Would we have been required, then, to treat the Nazis different if Hitler had declared his fascist ideology to be a religion?
If the liberals are so worried about infringing on religious freedoms, then why are they fine with disallowing Mormons to practice polygamy, or for not allowing Native Americans to smoke Peyote for religious reasons?
The Law, is the answer. This is a nation of laws, and polygamy, and drugs like Peyote, are against the law. Therefore, despite religious freedoms, behaviors considered dangerous to our society are illegal - religious or not.
Yet, when mosques are being built as symbols of conquest, as recruiting centers for more violent jihadists, as information centers that spread anti-American rhetoric, are funded by organizations that also fund terrorist groups, and are ultimately designed to help in the spread of Shariah law, they are being embraced. In reality, because of their agenda, which is against American law, Islam is no longer religious, and must be stopped.
Is that offensive? Are we not supposed to tell the Muslims what they can and can't do, yet Obama could dictate to Israel on whether they should be able to build more housing in their capital city of Jerusalem?
What about the victim's families and the 9/11 survivors? Have they been taken into account? Do you think the folks directly affected by the murderous actions on 9/11 want a mosque in the shadow of Ground Zero? It is sacred ground. This whole issue is about more than a war we are engaged in against the Islamic Jihad. This issue is also about the victims of that attack, and their families. They were Americans. They are watching as we are blessing the erection of a symbol of conquest by the ideology that killed their loved ones. And what is worse, that symbol of conquest is being essentially built on top of the graves of those that died.
The building of the mosque in New York is a provocation by a bloody and violent ideology, to see if they have defeated us. To see if they can plant their flag of conquest on the battlefield upon which they killed thousands of Americans. And if we let this mosque be erected, it will signal to Islam that we have submitted. We have been conquered, they will surmise. And then the onrush of Islamists, and Shariah law, into this nation will increase ten-fold.
Just you watch.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Harry Reid weighs in on N.Y. mosque: It 'should be built someplace else - Washington Post
Mischief in Manhattan: We Muslims know the Ground Zero mosque is meant to be a deliberate provocation - Ottawa Citizen
Supreme Court Police Told School Teacher It’s ‘Definitely Contrary to the Law’ to Pray on Supreme Court Steps, Says Alliance Defense Fund - CNS News
CNN Poll: Nearly 70% Of Americans Oppose NYC Mosque Plan - NY Daily News
Mt. Soledad Cross is Safe for Now - CNS News
Is that offensive? Are we not supposed to tell the Muslims what they can and can't do, yet Obama could dictate to Israel on whether they should be able to build more housing in their capital city of Jerusalem?
What about the victim's families and the 9/11 survivors? Have they been taken into account? Do you think the folks directly affected by the murderous actions on 9/11 want a mosque in the shadow of Ground Zero? It is sacred ground. This whole issue is about more than a war we are engaged in against the Islamic Jihad. This issue is also about the victims of that attack, and their families. They were Americans. They are watching as we are blessing the erection of a symbol of conquest by the ideology that killed their loved ones. And what is worse, that symbol of conquest is being essentially built on top of the graves of those that died.
The building of the mosque in New York is a provocation by a bloody and violent ideology, to see if they have defeated us. To see if they can plant their flag of conquest on the battlefield upon which they killed thousands of Americans. And if we let this mosque be erected, it will signal to Islam that we have submitted. We have been conquered, they will surmise. And then the onrush of Islamists, and Shariah law, into this nation will increase ten-fold.
Just you watch.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Harry Reid weighs in on N.Y. mosque: It 'should be built someplace else - Washington Post
Mischief in Manhattan: We Muslims know the Ground Zero mosque is meant to be a deliberate provocation - Ottawa Citizen
Supreme Court Police Told School Teacher It’s ‘Definitely Contrary to the Law’ to Pray on Supreme Court Steps, Says Alliance Defense Fund - CNS News
CNN Poll: Nearly 70% Of Americans Oppose NYC Mosque Plan - NY Daily News
Mt. Soledad Cross is Safe for Now - CNS News
Cross in Mojave Desert Preserve Barred - Washington Post
Pence: Obama 'most anti-Israel' president in modern history - The Hill
Obama: "Wants Israel NOT to build settlements in East Jerusalem." Now "Supports Mosque in New York" - Free Republic
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