The Terrible Reality of, Um, Reality
When first I heard of the idea to build a mosque at Ground Zero, I assumed it was a vulgar joke intended to mock Islam.
Sadly, it quickly became abundantly clear that this scheme was quite genuine and being fast-tracked by the ever reliableAmerican left, willfully oblivious to the tactics of Islamists and the brutality of Sharia, the strategic goal of international Islamists who are overwhelmingly funded by Wahhabist Saudi Arabia.
Check out Muslims Against Sharia. Do not miss my ever articulate friend Wolf Howling, who points out the the Ground Zero Mosque story is growing ever more outrageous. And Soccer Dad, as always, eloquently unwraps and analyzes the swirling controversy, focusing on the shades of moderation.
Stealth or silent terrorism has been, in modern times, advanced by The Muslim Brotherhood, who advocate infiltrating non-Sharia societies—they are poised to grab a chunk of power in Egypt when Mubarak dies—and slowly but surelyinsinuating Sharia into every corner of life. At some point, the center of gravity, demographically and politically, will shift in favor of the Islamists and freedom will be defeated.
In America, The Muslim Brotherhood counts on the political left to advance their brutal 7th century theocratic program.
The oh-so-tolerant left can be counted on to demonize large coroprations—but big government is fab-u-lous—and kvetch endlessly and tediously about the dangers of, ahem, global warming. With great skill, the Brotherhood, like Al Qaeda, appropriates Liberal language and bumper-sticker philosophy. They talk about tolerance and interfaith dialogue, they speak of the poor and the oppressed, and lately—what a shock—they earnestly call for the the redistribution of wealth. Naturally, like the Left, stealth jihadists cheerfully carry water for the genocidal yearning Palestinians. These jihadists self-righteously blather about peace, never explaining that peace for the Islamist means submission to radical Islam, the eradication of Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, all isms not Muslim.
Give Peace a Chance, Islamist Style
Naturally, Sunni Muslims consider Shia Muslims to be heretics, and Shia reciprocate. It's up for grabs which sect will dominate and attempt to liquidate the other. In truth, the only true Islamophobia exists and is encouraged by Islamist dogma.
To clarify: Seraphic Secret is not anti-Islam.
We are anti-Sharia.
Anyhoo.
Peace for the Islamist also means torture and death to homosexuals, bisexuals, transgender, and whatever sexuality does not conform to Islamist doctrine.
Oh, and women are cattle.
In America, the left have one argument in favor of building the Ground Zero Mosque: It ls legal.
Well, gee, thanks so much for enlightening us.
The legality of the proposed mosque has never been questioned.
We ask: Is it moral? Is it appropriate? And hey, here's the language the left claims as its own: Is it sensitive to the feelings of the 9-11 families?
For Seraphic Secret, the Ground Zero Mosque is a welcome controversy. The dividing line between liberal progressives and conservatives could not be more clear.
Obama, Alinsky, Tourettes and Yup, Israel
In the crude manner in which Obama has interjected himself into the controversy, Barack Obama is unmasked as an irredeemable Alinsky leftist.
To a Muslim audience, he gives the distinct impression that he is in favor of the mosque. The very next day, and a thousand miles away, he refuses to comment on “the wisdom of building the mosque.”
Typical Alinsky tactics. Say anything to make your audience believe that you support them.
But Alinsky was writing before the new media. Now, when Obama shape-shifts, the intellectual dishonesty, the cowardly dissembling are flashed across You Tube and the blogosphere.
The American people now understand that Obama is a rigid ideologue with a severe case of political Tourettes.
Which is why his poll numbers should hit the 30's in the next few weeks and by 2012 he will go the way of Jimmy Carter.
Take my word for it, Obama will spend his post-presidency bashing, you guessed it, Israel.
Caroline Glick understands that Obama's position on the Ground Zero Mosque is just another form of bigotry, a radical and ugly reflex in support of Jew-hatred.
US President Barack Obama's warm endorsement of the plan to build a mosque by the ruins of the World Trade Center tells Israel - and its enemies - everything we need to know about the President of the United States of America.
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But for Obama, there are some groups who must be denied the same civil rights he upholds as absolute in his defense of the plan to build a mosque at Ground Zero. As Obama has made clear since his first days in office, he believes that Jews should be denied the right to their property in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria simply because they are Jews.
Obama is so firm in his belief that Jews should be denied civil rights in Israel's capital and in the heartland of Jewish history that he has provoked multiple crises in his relations with Israel to advance this bigoted view. Almost from his first day in office Obama has struck out a radical position in which he has insisted that Jews must be prohibited from building anything - synagogues, homes, nurseries, schools - in Judea, Jerusalem and Samaria on land they own. Jews - Israeli and non-Israeli - should be barred from exercising their property rights even if their construction plans have already been approved "in accordance with local laws and ordinances."
At the same time, Obama has insisted that Israel take no action to enforce its "local laws and ordinances" against illegal structures built by Arabs in Jerusalem, Judea, or Samaria.
Next month the deeply discriminatory and legally dubious 10-month moratorium on Jewish building in Judea and Samaria that Obama coerced Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu into instituting is set to end. So now Obama is putting the full weight of the White House on Israel to again coerce Netanyahu into prolonging the discriminatory ban that denies the civil rights and property rights of Jews simply because they are Jewish.
Obama claims to be embracing the nullification of Jewish civil right in the interests of peace. In his stated view, to forge peace in the Middle East it is necessary for the Palestinians to achieve statehood. But it hard to see how the establishment of a Palestinian state squares with Obama's purported dedication to civil rights.
In a briefing with the Egyptian media last week Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas told reporters that no Jews will be allowed to live in a future Palestinian state. He also said that while he would agree to allow NATO forces to deploy in the future Palestinian state, he would not permit any Jewish soldiers to serve in the NATO units stationed on the territory of such a state. As he put it, "I will not agree that there will be Jews among NATO forces and I will not allow even one Israeli to live amongst us on the Palestinian soil."
The notion that an inherently anti-Semitic Palestinian state, predicated on Jew hatred that strong, could possibly live at peace with Israel is simply ridiculous. But tellingly, in all the American pressure that has been placed on Abbas to begin direct negotiations with Israel, at no time has the administration been reported to have insisted that Abbas abandon his anti-Semitism. Obama has made no statement addressing the fact that the Palestinians demand that Jews be barred from living in the future Palestinian state. He has certainly not objected to this position although it squares with none of the American values of tolerance and property rights he upheld so strongly in his remarks on the Ground Zero mosque.
So the ideology Obama holds so strongly that it provokes him to take positions antithetical to the political interests of his party during an election season is not civil rights. Rather it has to do with his commitment to advancing the interests of a specific group or groups over the interests of other specific groups. In the case of the Ground Zero mosque he prefers the rights of Muslims over the values of the overwhelming majority of Americans. In the case of the Palestinians, he prefers their anti-Semitic nationalism over the civil rights of Jews.