Denying Terror
Imagine for a moment that a Neo-Nazi group decided to build a Nazi Cultural Center near the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
Ignore for the moment that no zoning commission would be so insensitive, so stupid, so arrogant as to actually grant permission for such a travesty, but just suppose this were in the planning stage.
Imagine also that the lead spokesperson for such a project went on radio and said that the group had no ties to extremism. But when asked to denounce the Nazi Party as a terror organization, refused to do so, saying he avoids those issues, "The issue of terrorism is a very complex question."
No, it's not very complex. Either the Nazis were evil or they were not.
I know what you are thinking. This is preposterous. No one would permit such an insult to the memory of those who died in the Holocaust; in addition, there would be a thunderous display of outrage at the spokesperson's effort to deny terror.
So it was very revealing the other day when I was tuned to New York's WABC Radio and I listened to a live interview between Aaron Klein and Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. If that name isn't familiar to you, he is head of the Cordoba Initiative, which seeks to construct an insulting 13-story Islamic cultural center near the site of the 9-11 attacks.
During the interview, Klein repeatedly asked the Imam to denounce Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood as a terror group. Rauf responded with: "I try to avoid the issues. The issue of terrorism is a very complex question."
No, it's not very complex. Either they are terrorists or they were not.
A mosque at ground zero? I know what you are thinking. This is preposterous. No one would permit such an insult to the memory of those who died on 9/11; in addition, there would be a thunderous display of outrage at the spokesperson's effort to deny terror.
An audio of the interview can be heard below:
Some of my readers may excuse the Imam's reluctance to state his position openly. After all, he may not want to have a fatwa placed on his head.
Silence from Muslims at Muslim Violence
But this is precisely why we cannot allow any Muslims into western society. When Christian extremists bomb abortion clinics, 99% of Christian leaders, priests, and Christians in general denounce the violence. When a Jewish extremist attacks a mosque, 99% of Jewish leaders, rabbis, and Jews in general denounce the violence. But sadly, when Muslims bomb, when Muslims attack, not only is there is cricket-silence in denunciations from the Muslim leaders, imams, and Muslims in general, many times there are rallies and parties in support of those groups.
In fact, many Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan are so openly pro-Hezbollah that some pundits have referred to Dearborn as "Hezbollah USA."(1)
Until 99% of American Muslims denounce the terror activities of Hamas, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other such groups, we should not allow Muslims into this country. Certainly we should not allow the building of Mosques or Islamic cultural centers.
Leaving aside my Islamophobia, even if Muslims were not a threat to America, a mosque at ground zero is a stupid idea. Next I suppose we will be dedicating a Japanese War Memorial to Kamikaze Pilots at Pearl Harbor.
ENDNOTES
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THE U.S. VETERAN DISPATCH, First Muslim congressman excites crowd in "Hezbollah City" USA, a.k.a. Dearborn, Michigan
Today, Dearborn is dominated by Lebanese Muslims, with an Arab population that has grown to nearly 40,000 from 7,000 in 1970. It has evolved into a midwestern United States re-creation of the Middle East with the second largest concentration of Arabs and Muslims outside the Middle East, second only to Paris.
In July, the Congress of Arab American Organizations sponsored rallies in front of Dearborn's city hall supporting the terrorist group Hezbollah and its rocket attacks on Israel.
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Eight years ago, Dearborn schools banned pork from their lunches to accommodate Muslim dietary guidelines and pressure from organized groups of Muslim parents forced the separation of gym classes by gender in at least one school.
Because so many in Dearborn are so openly pro-Hezbollah, some pundits have referred to Dearborn as "Hezbollah USA."
