{"id":9593,"date":"2010-08-20T20:03:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T00:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=9593"},"modified":"2010-08-20T20:03:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T00:03:05","slug":"ground-zero-mosque-an-irishman-has-a-better-grip-on-whats-going-on-than-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/ground-zero-mosque-an-irishman-has-a-better-grip-on-whats-going-on-than-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Ground Zero Mosque: an Irishman has a better grip on what\u2019s going on than Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

First<\/a> the truth about jihad: it really is a military imperative:<\/p>\n

It is disturbing to note that the President Obama<\/a> and his advisers are now routinely saying things about Islam and American history that are, basically, not quite true.<\/p>\n

John Brennan<\/a>, the president’s top counter-terrorism adviser recently called jihad a \u201clegitimate tenet of Islam,\u201d and stated that \u201c[we do not] describe our enemy as ‘jihadists’ or ‘Islamists’ because jihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one’s community\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

However, a more knowledgeable voice, the respected historian Bernard Lewis, finds that “the overwhelming majority of [Islamic] classical theologians, jurists, and traditionalists\u2026understood the obligation of jihad in a military sense.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Second, the truth about Islam: it is an all encompassing ideology that is political, militarily aggressive and advocates killing those who don\u2019t submit to it:<\/p>\n

The Ayatollah Khomeini has said: \u201cIslam makes it incumbent on all adult males, provided they are not disabled or incapacitated, to prepare themselves for the conquest of [other] countries so that the writ of Islam is obeyed in every country in the world. . . . But those who study Islamic Holy War will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world. . . . Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers \u2026 Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to Paradise, which can be opened only for the Holy Warriors! There are hundreds of other [Qur’anic] psalms and Hadiths [sayings of the Prophet] urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all this mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Third, Obama is in a state of advanced delusion about the historical role of Islam in the US:<\/p>\n

In a recent editorial entitled \u201cObama\u2019s Islamic America \u2013 What country is he talking about?\u201d The Washington Times says, \u201cPresident Obama says Islam has always been part of America, which raises the question, does the president know something about American history that we don’t? \u2026. Mr. Obama said the rituals of Ramadan \u2018remind us of the principles that we hold in common and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality. And here in the United States<\/a>, Ramdan is a reminder that Islam has always been part of America\u2026.\u2019<\/p>\n

The Washington Times says \u201cThat Islam has had a major role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings may come as a surprise to Muslim women. Young Afghan girls who are having acid thrown in their faces on the way to school might want to offer their perspectives\u2026.Most puzzling is the President’s claim that \u2018Islam has always been part of America.\u2019 Islam had no influence on the origins and development of the United States. It contributed nothing to early American political culture, art, literature, music or any other aspect of the early nation.\u201d
\nThe Washington Times\u2019 version of history is not as nice as Mr. Obama\u2019s. It does, however, have the advantage of being far closer to the truth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fourth, the Cordoba Initiative is disseminating lies:<\/p>\n

The Cordoba Initiative, the group behind the Ground Zero Mosque<\/a>, also have a penchant for rewriting history and making dubious statements. Their website says: \u201cDespite what many think, Islam and the West have a long history of coexistence and harmony. For nearly 800 years, the city of Cordoba in Spain<\/a> endured as a shining example of tolerance among the three monotheistic religions.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is a complete falsification of history. Sadly, Islam and the West do not have a long history of harmony, as the Crusades and almost continuous conflict for 1400 years testifies. The Cordoba Initiative harks back to the Caphilate of Cordoba as a paradise of religious tolerance. It was in fact an imperialist Islamic state which had invaded and occupied Spain, a state in which Jews and Christians were either second class citizens or slaves until the native Spanish Christians repulsed Islam from Iberia in 1492.<\/p>\n

Yet the Cordoba Initiative continues: \u201cthere is a close similarity between the values expressed in American secular documents and those characterizing Islamic Law\u2026\u201d
\nThe idea that Sharia Law bears any real resemblance to the United States\u2019 constitution, with its Enlightenment, common law and Christian-based values is beyond parody. It is, for example, reported that Imam Rauf, the man behind the Cordoba Initiative, will not sign a document saying that apostates from Islam should not be killed. Such killing is an accepted\u00a0 tenet of Sharia law. However, I can\u2019t recall reading that in the US Constitution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fifth, Obama is a weak leader, the last thing that the US needs at the moment:<\/p>\n

Last Friday the president said that Muslims\u2019 right to religious freedom \u201cincludes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan<\/a>.\u201d If that\u2019s his opinion, fair enough.<\/p>\n

However, the very next day he said: \u201cI was not commenting, and I will not comment, on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there\u2026\u201d
\nExcept, very obviously, he was.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps the good that will come out of all this is that it will wake everyone up to the fact that a president who won’t comment on the wisdom of building a mosque at ground zero shouldn’t be <\/em>president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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