On Sunday, I forced myself to sit through Christiane Amanpour's stroke session with Feisal Abdul Rauf. Amanpour is not a journalist. And Rauf is not a moderate. Thus, it was a perfect fit. Rauf made one outrageous statement after another and Amanpour just nodded her head like a bobble.
Rauf has deliberately created a political and social crisis on the graves of 3,000 Americans who were slaughtered by Muslims in the name of Islam. And the elites have utterly failed to stand up to his vile incitement. Instead, the chattering class have—what a shock—declared all oppositon to the Ground Zero Mosque to be racist.
Which means that 70% of Americans are rascist.
As Rauf gleefully adopted Muslim victimhood—conveniently ignoring the fact that in America, crimes against Jews outnumber crimes against Muslims by over 90%—and smoothly drip multi-cultural platitudes, it became clear to me that he and Amanpour are the twin enemies of freedom and Judeo/Christian values.
Rauf represents Islamist totalitarians and Amanpour is a useful idiot of Dhimmitude.
Rauf and his terrorist allies are planning on building an ode to terror and the chattering classes are willfully turning a blind eye in the name of political correctness.
The final calculus looks like this: Conservatives fight evil, and liberals fight, so-called global warming.
And just as the left cozied up to Communism even as that horrific doctrine murdered and oppressed millions of innocent souls, the left has now embraced radical Islam, an even more murderous ideology.
Radical Islam will not conquer America in a paroxysm of war and bloodshed.
Victory for the Sharia yearning terrorists and their enablers will arrive by the sword of practised, Orwellian-speak where the intolerant will demand tolerance for their genocidal ideology.
Rabbi Daniel Gordis offers some observations on the Ground Zero Mosque and what America should learn from Israel:
In its basic form, the Ground Zero mosque debate boils down to a conflict between two competing values – American freedom of religion versus the sensitivities of the families of the victims of 9/11.
The freedom-of-religion argument suggests that if Jews sought to build a synagogue at Ground Zero (or anywhere else, for that matter), they would be within their rights. That’s the American way. The opposing view suggests that while not every Catholic was guilty in the Holocaust, and not every Muslim perpetrated the crimes of 9/11, sensitivities still matter. Pope John Paul II had the decency to force the Carmelite nuns out of Auschwitz, and Muslim leaders, too, ought to relocate their project.
Similarly, the mutual accusations are parallel: If you are opposed to the mosque, you are an Islamophobic racist. And if you’re in favor of it, you’re simply insensitive to the pain of those who lost loved ones in the attack.
But we Israelis have learned from our experience that matters are more complicated. One need not be racist or Islamophobic to be concerned about the mosque. For life in our region has taught us that the first necessary step to defending yourself is acknowledging that someone else is out to destroy you.
Snip.
It’s fine to say that “America is not at war with Islam,” to point out that most Muslims are not terrorists and that many American Muslims are moderates. That’s true, as far as it goes.
But it only goes so far. Because America is at war and its enemies are Muslims. Politically correct hairsplitting runs the risk of Americans blinding themselves to that simple but critical fact. It makes no difference what percentage of the world’s Muslims wants to destroy America. There are enough of them that US air travel is now abominably unpleasant and, more importantly, enough of them that more strikes on America appear inevitable.
Full article here.
