The Canadian Muslim who thinks it’s a bad idea is being threatened:
Muslim opponent of mosque reports threat
OTTAWA – She spoke out against the Ground Zero mosque, now a Canadian Muslim woman says she is being threatened. Raheel Raza, a founding member of the Muslim Canadian Congress, calls the idea of a mosque within 300 metres of Ground Zero “a deliberate provocation.”
Plans to rebuild the Greek Orthodox Church destroyed on 9/11 have been killed by government:
Greek Orthodox leaders trying to rebuild the only church destroyed in the Sept. 11 terror attacks expressed shock this week after learning, via Fox News, that government officials had killed a deal to relocate the church.
The St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, once a tiny, four-story building in the shadows of lower Manhattan, was destroyed in 2001 by one of the falling World Trade Center towers. Nobody from the church was hurt in the attack, but the congregation has, for the past eight years, been trying to rebuild its house of worship.
While demanding the right to build a mosque at the site of the mass murder that was inspired by Islam, the Muslim country that is probably financing it won’t even allow non-Muslims into some of its cities: as an act of reciprocity, how would Saudi Arabia respond to a plan to build a cathedral next to Masjid Al Haram, I wonder?
Non-Muslims are barred from entering the cities of Mecca and Medina — not merely barred from building synagogues or churches, but barred, period, because their infidel feet are deemed unfit to touch the ground. This is not an al-Qaeda principle. Nor is it an “Islamist” principle. It is Islam, pure and simple.
“Truly the pagans are unclean,” instructs the Koran’s Sura 9:28, “so let them not . . . approach the Sacred Mosque.” This injunction — and there are plenty of similar ones in Islam’s scriptures — is enforced vigorously not by jihadist terrorists but by the Saudi government. And it is enforced not because of some eccentric sense of Saudi nationalism. The only law of Saudi Arabia is sharia, the law of Islam.
Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi wants to investigate groups who have made this a “political issue”. Obviously they are deranged conspiracy theorists: how could a flag-planting exercise by an ideology whose dominant aim is to subdue everyone who disagrees with it possibly have anything to do with politics?
Nancy Pelosi wants some answers.
The house speaker is calling for an investigation into groups protesting the building of the Ground Zero mosque.
“There is a concerted effort to make this a political issue by some,” she told San Francisco’s KCBS radio on Tuesday.
Still, at least we have Mr. “Change You Can Believe In” providing unswerving, consistent leadership.
The last word must go to Kathleen Parker who has this unusual puritanical approach to urban planning:if you don’t want something built, then obviously you should build it.
The mosque should be built precisely because we don’t like the idea very much. We don’t need constitutional protections to be agreeable, after all.
Hit me again Barack, it hurts, so it must be good for me.
