Build the Ground Zero Mosque, or else...

[John81]

EDITORIAL: Build the Ground Zero Mosque, or else...
Muslim nations despise America no matter how much we pander
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf, mastermind of the Ground Zero Mosque, warns that moving the proposed structure somewhere less controversial would generate a barrage of negative press in Muslim countries. America is regularly demonized in that part of the world anyway, and Islamic radicals already hate this country. A mega-mosque in Manhattan won't change that.

In an interview on ABC's "This Week,"Mr. Rauf claimed that if he'd known the controversy the mosque proposal would stir, he "would never have done it," but reversing course after having come this far would only fuel anti-American sentiment. "[T]he headline in the Muslim world will be, Islam is under attack in America," he predicted. Moving the mosque would "strengthen the radicals in the Muslim world, help their recruitment, this will put our people - our soldiers, our troops, our embassies, our citizens - under attack." In other words, build the Ground Zero Mosque or else.

Mr. Rauf's argument is disingenuous and mirrors his comments in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. "In the most direct sense, Osama bin Laden is made in the USA," he said. In his view, whatever grievances Muslims have against America are justified, and Islamic radicalism is a justified response to American insensitivity. Proponents of the Ground Zero Mosque see no reciprocal need to be sensitive to the feelings of the vast majority of Americans who oppose their project. Muslims deny any link between their offensive behavior and the Koran-burning response it generated. In the interests of placating foreign Islamic radicals, they require Americans to ignore their own history and sense of place. The hallowed ground where the World Trade Center stood must accept a mosque or risk offending people who habitually show contempt for the United States and riot at the merest presumed slight.

Citizens of Muslim nations rarely hold the United States in high regard. Even President OBama's much heralded and embarrassingly OBsequious outreach-to-Islam effort has not improved matters. A June 2010 report from the Pew Research Center's Project on GlOBal Attitudes showed U.S. favorability ratings among most Muslim-majority countries surveyed were either close to or below the levels they were in the final year of George W. Bush's administration. Pakistan, Turkey and Egypt are in a three-way tie for the world's least favorable opinion of the United States, at 17 percent. These people need no excuses to despise America, and building a mosque near Ground Zero simply to placate their most radical elements would be cowardly and ineffective.

Mr. Rauf's claim that the failure to plant a mega-mosque in Lower Manhattan would incite a new wave of anti-Americanism and give fuel to terrorism must be examined against the continual anti-U.S. vitriol that emerges from the Middle East. Headlines already condemn the United States for a variety of imagined crimes. The slightest perceived criticism of Islam drives mOBs into the streets. The ritualized burning of American flags is so common in some parts of the world that flags are manufactured locally just to be torched. Last week, a suicide bomber was apprehended in Copenhagen; his presumed target was the office of Jyllands-Posten, the newspaper that depicted Muhammad in cartoons five years ago.

In the era of glOBalization, when cultures increasingly collide and tolerance is an important watchword, Muslim countries and mOBs are demonstrating they aren't ready for prime time.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/sep/13/build-the-ground-zero-mosque-or-else/

[JerryNumbers]

Sad, isn't it, moving ground zero mosque might generate negative press in Muslim countries.

Why does not the America media go to press each day with what Muslims in foreign countries do to Christians? Murdering them and persecuting them, they could fill their papers up each days just printing about Christian persecution of Christians in Muslim countries.

I feel there is more than one reason why they American newspapers will not do this..

They fear retaliation, scared for their life.

They do not want to write anything that would put the real terrorist in a bad light while they will write very bad thoughts towards the America Christian and conservatives. {remember, they were the ones who set the precedent for calling the setting president a liar.

They have to be political correct, no matter if they have to print lies, of course politics is all about lying and deceiving.

[John81]

This iman is taking his cue from the media, OBama and company, and even the unwise statements of many professing Christian leaders. All of these proclaimed as the major reason that Florida pastor shouldn't burn Korans was because doing such would upset Muslims around the world, make America and Americans look bad and would cause Muslims to act violent against us.

This iman is wisely using their words to support his case for the mosque being built where he wants it as a statement of victory for Islam.

[JerryNumbers]

This iman is taking his cue from the media, OBama and company, and even the unwise statements of many professing Christian leaders. All of these proclaimed as the major reason that Florida pastor shouldn't burn Korans was because doing such would upset Muslims around the world, make America and Americans look bad and would cause Muslims to act violent against us.

This iman is wisely using their words to support his case for the mosque being built where he wants it as a statement of victory for Islam.

Yes, and most Americans are swallowing it hook, line, and sinker, even most professing Christians.