Just Because It's Legal Doesn't Make It Right

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Originally the mosque to be built near Ground Zero was to be called the Cordoba Initiative/American Society for Muslim Advancement mosque and community center.  That sounds pretty harmless until you take a closer look at the role of Cordoba in Muslim history.  Cordoba is a city in Spain (called Andalusia by the Muslims) which was captured by Muslims in 716 and became the capital of their caliphate in that area.  The city was freed, recaptured and finally freed in 1236.   Cordoba represents a Muslim caliphate.  The history of Muslim conquest is that they win a victory in battle and erect a mosque.  If you remember the celebrations by Palestinians and some Muslims on September 11, you understand that the successful attack on the World Trade Center is considered a victory by radical Islam.  That is one of the reasons they would like to build a mosque there rather than in another part of New York City.  Just for the record, there are many non-radical Muslims who were horrified by the events of that day.

There are some serious questions regarding the funding of this mosque as well as the appropriateness of the location.

Today's New York Post reports:

"The Anti-Defamation League, the nation's leading Jewish rights group, came out last week against the mosque and Islamic community center.

""Some legitimate questions have been raised [about possible ties to] "groups whose ideologies stand in contradiction to our shared values," the group said.

""Ultimately, this is not a question of rights but a question of what is right," it added.  "In our judgement, building an Islamic center in the shadow of the World Trade Center will cause Some victims more pain unnecessarily, and that is not right."

"Families of 9/11 victims have also protested the plan over the past year."

According to the concept of Freedom of Religion which is a basis of our Constitution, the Muslims have every right to build their mosque at Ground Zero.  However, if their true intention is to encourage tolerance and understanding between Muslims and non-Muslims, they will not continue with their plans.

Today's Wall Street Journal points out:

"...how is it that the planners, who have presented this effort as a grand design for the advancement of healing and interfaith understanding, have refused all consideration of the impact such a center will have near Ground Zero? Why have they insisted, despite intense resistance, on making the center an assertive presence in this place of haunted memory? It is an insistence that calls to mind the Flying Imams, whose ostentatious prayers--apparently designed to call attention to themselves on a U.S. Airways flight to Phoenix in November 2006--ended in a lawsuit. The imams sued. The airlines paid.

"Dr. Zuhdi Jasser--devout Muslim, physician, former U.S. Navy lieutenant commander and founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy--says there is every reason to investigate the center's funding under the circumstances. Of the mosque so near the site of the 9/11 attacks, he notes "It will certainly be seen as a victory for political Islam."

"The center may be built where planned. But it will not go easy or without consequence to the politicians intent on jamming the project down the public throat, in the name of principle. Liberal piety may have met its match in the raw memory of 9/11, and in citizens who have come to know pure demagoguery when they hear it. They have had, of late, plenty of practice."

Just because the building of this mosque may be legal, that doesn't make it right.

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