Ground Zero mosque and liberalism

The most important thing to liberals is to show everyone how far they've come. Making people feel good is more important than doing the right thing.

The Ground Zero mosque is an example. The mosque will be a magnet for radicals, and everyone knows it. The people are against the mosque because we all know that Islam is a violent religion. The myth that a tiny minority of radicals, impoverished by cruel U.S. foreign policy, have distorted a great, benevolent religion is false. Only one fatwa has been issued against Osama bin Laden, and that came several years after 9/11, and it was, of all places, in Spain. After 9/11, a Jewish group did a survey of literature found in thousands of mosques across the United States. They found books and pamphlets saying the U.S. must be subjugated to Islam, and the government should be overthrown, and that it's okay to kill infidels, particularly Jews.

George Bush's presidency brought the "tiny minority" propaganda to the forefront of liberal thinking, and we got to taste it every day in the liberal press (85% of the press in the U.S. is left wing). But we know that Muslims hated Clinton, and they have no love for Obama. Islamic violence was in full swing well before Bush, and it continues to this day. Fact is, Islamic violence has nothing to do with our foreign policy, it has to do with the central tenets of Islam, which, thankfully, are now well known.

The imam behind the new NYC mosque has said that the U.S. is a collaborator in the 9/11 atrocity because of foreign policy. Ward Churchill was ridiculed and thrown out of his comfortable university job for these disturbing views, and yet this imam is not only going to be allowed to build a 13-story mosque two blocks from Ground Zero, the U.S. State Department is funding a trip for him to visit the Middle East this week. What is wrong with this country, and liberals?

It's not surprising liberals want this mosque -- they view the world through the same prism as the imams do. The USA is evil and must be weakened. Giving the ideology (Islam needs to be de-certified as a religion in the U.S.) that claimed around 3,000 lives on 9/11, in a most grizzly manner, would be giving them a victory monument -- and they know it.

They are laughing at us, or rather, they are laughing at our liberals who have a suicidal desire to show the world how "progressive" they are. If a Muslim was stabbing a liberal in the neck, the liberal would shout, "I'm not xenophobic, see? Everything is fine, all religions and all cultures are equal and beautiful!" as the lifeblood drained from him.

Here's the general leftist view, written by Andy Ostroy, at the Huffington Post:

I am truly saddened by what's happening in America today. Saddened that so many are forgetting what our nation stands for and the principles on which it was built. America is a refuge for millions who suffer discrimination all over the world. This is where people come to be free, to escape religious persecution, not to find it. The conflating of the 9/11 terrorists with the overall Muslim faith, and the fear-mongering that goes along with all the incendiary political rhetoric being tossed around, conjures up memories of Japanese internment camps, McCarthyism, the KKK and other ugly chapters in U.S. history. Terrorists attacked us on 9/11, not the Muslim faith. As such, suggesting that this mosque shouldn't exist two blocks from Ground Zero is tantamount to suggesting that, because of the priesthood's pedophilia scandals, that a Catholic church shouldn't be two blocks from a school. Both assertions are equally irrational. Have we as a nation learned nothing since the 1940's?

When people of a particular religious faith want to cut off our heads and post the video on the internet, things change. Freedom of religion stops when the murdering begins. If Hitler had included a deity in National Socialism, good old Andy would be singing the praises of the Nazis. Perhaps Andy will come to understand that, some day, somehow. And Andy is particularly misguided when he compares those of us opposed to the mosque to the KKK. The people building the mosque are like the KKK, and we are opposed to them.