The CD Position on the Ground Zero Mosque
Monday, August 30th, 2010One would think that the inappropriateness of a Muslim place of worship practically in the center of the World Trace Center site would be obvious. One would be wrong.
To be clear, no one is questioning whether or not people have a right to build a house of worship on any private property which they own. This issue does not concern rights or laws. Rather, it concerns propriety.
The World Trade Center site and its immediate surrounding area is hallowed ground, consecrated with the blood of innocents. Those innocents were murdered by radical Islamic terrorists who believed that by killing these innocents their God would honor them. Upon learning of the events of September 11, 2001 the vast majority of Muslims world-wide looked the other way and kept their mouths shut. Whether they meant to or not, by doing so they gave their tacit approval to the atrocity.
The Muslims involved with this project claim that they are building this “community center/mosque” to foster understanding and facilitate dialog between all faiths and peoples. Yet, by insisting on building this mosque on the Ground Zero Site, these very same Muslims display a complete lack of sensitivity towards the feelings of a majority of the people of New York as well as America. It seems that Muslims, for the most part, are unwilling to show a sensitivity to the culture of Americans, while at the same time demanding that Americans show sensitivity to Islamic culture.
None of this even begins to cover the Islamic tradition of building mosques on the sites of their conquered enemies.
If you must build a mosque, build it elsewhere. Just as with a Christian church, a mosque is nothing more than a building. What counts is what the people inside the building are doing.
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August 31st, 2010 at 12:37 pm
There is so much misinformation about this issue…. I would recommend you read over this excellent Wikipedia summary to ground yourself in some facts – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park51
As for the “hallowed ground” comment, I thought this New York Daily News article addresses it quite well – http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/08/16/2010-08-16_a_sea_of_filth_near_ground_zer0_mosque_gets_all_the_press_but_porns_around_corne.html
One thing I thought was especially interesting is that while national polls show most people opposed, and even most people in New York state opposed… the one group that was supporting the project is people living in Manhattan.
That’s because those are the people who actually see firsthand what is going on, who know the people involved with the project – their friends and neighbors – and are not getting all their information from Fox Noise, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh.
So think about that for a moment. What happened to the Right’s reverence for “property rights”? Imagine if a bunch of New Yorkers decided to tell folks in Texas what they could and could not do with their property. You would be outraged!
So what is the difference here? A bunch of misinformed Texans trying to tell New Yorkers what they can do with their property.
Are they building a mosque on Ground Zero? NO.
They are converting an abandoned building several blocks away into a community center – the Islamic equivalent of a YMCA with a gymnasium, auditorium, etc.
And the group that is doing it are pro-American Muslims who are ardently opposed to the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
The guy in the video is a complete nutcase who wants to blame all Muslims for the actions of a radical minority. That is like blaming all Christians for the actions of radical skinheads and Aryan Nation separatist groups or Eric Rudolph and Timothy McVeigh.