would you prefer a monument for the jews? On May 18, 3:40 pm, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > To Those Opposed to the Ground Zero Mosque > > Posted By *Debbie* On May 13, 2010 @ 4:04 pm In *Blog Posts*, *Columns* | *58 > Comments<http://www.debbieschlussel.com/21824/to-those-opposed-to-the-ground-z...> > * > > By *Debbie Schlussel* <http://www.debbieschlussel.com/> > > For about a week, I’ve been getting e-mails from people asking why I haven’t > commented on the Muslims building a *mosque at Ground > Zero*<http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/mosque_madness_at_ground_zero_O...>, > right near the former home of the World Trade Center. They bought the site > of an empty Burlington Coat Factory and will spend over $100 million to > build their shrine to the moongod cult. It’s ironic that the store is > closed because Americans and New Yorkers didn’t see to it that business was > quickly rebuilt and bustling at the site of the 9/11 attacks. But the > business of Islam has been chugging along the whole time with a lot of help > from crappy people on both the left AND the right who still refuse to > condemn Islam, but just “a few radicals” and “Islamists,” a phony and > dishonest word. Ditto for “radical Islam,” a redundant phrase. They keep > telling us the BS they know is fertilizer: that “most Muslims” are against > terrorism. Among them are not just Muslims and lefties but Sean Vannity, > Sarah Palin, Daniel Pipes, Bill O’Reilly, etc. If you support or listen to > any of these people, you are part of the problem of the Ground Zero mosque > and have no right to complain. > > [image: islamiccrescent.jpg][image: groundzeromosque] > > I’ve said nothing about the Ground Zero mosque because even though I don’t > like the mosque going up there (or anywhere), I don’t think there’s a case > here. It’s too late, and it’s a waste of time to whine about it. And we > brought ourselves to this point. We need to pick causes and battles where > we will actually be victorious. Many of those opposing the Ground Zero > mosque were part of the problem b/c they did nothing for 8 of the last 9 > years, since a Republican was their President. Again, they miss him and > fawn over false memories of safety and security that brought us here. I > don’t miss him yet . . . or ever. The time to stop barbarians was before > they were at the gate. Not once they were inside of it and held the deed. > The people who did nothing for almost a decade are now circulating petitions > against the mosque. Will they teach jihad at the mosque? Of course. That’s > what they teach at every mosque and Islamic school in America, none of which > these people did anything to stop. Now, it’s a waste of time. Will do > nothing to stop it. If you are against mosques at Ground Zero, you should be > against them everywhere in America, as I am, and against Muslim immigration > to America. So where have you been on that for the last 9 years, during most > of which Bush was Prez? > > For eight years, we had a President–who claimed to be the counterterrorism > Prez–who did nothing to stop Muslim immigration to the U.S. He, in fact, > increased it through visa lotteries for underrepresented (read: Muslim) > countries, through quadrupling the number of Muslim student visas, and > through handcuffing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and > largely keep them from arresting Muslim illegal aliens. Now, we have a > President, who is continuing those policies, because he said he would. He’s > kept his word. > > Yes, I blame Bush and not Obama because Obama said he supported these groups > and that he would do these things. Bush, on the other hand, said we were > fighting the terrorists over there “so we wouldn’t have to fight them over > here,” while he was kissing their asses over here and promoting them with > your tax dollars every step of the way. He paved the way for them, when he > had the mandate to deport them or at least stem their invasion into > America. He didn’t. Instead, he (not Obama) set up–within his own Justice > Department–a special civil rights unit to go after every American expressing > his/her free speech about Muslims, and refused to prosecute, for instance, a > Muslim woman who made repeated death, rape, and torture threats against me > and my family members. > > So, now, those Muslims are here in bigger and more influential numbers than > ever because for 8 years these conservative citizens saw no reason to set up > Tea Parties against a Republican President who expanded the Islamic presence > and power in America and pandered to it. They’re suddenly only upset now > that Obama is in office . . . when it is toooo late. Yes, they are the > same types that fall in the Tea Party movement. And I ask them: where the > heck were you for the last 9 years? Huh? You have a problem with > selectivity in battle-picking. Boycotting Muslim-owned businesses, opposing > Muslim obstacles to free speech–those are effective. This faux-protest > won’t be. > > Now they pick a battle they will not win, but is a cleverly designed PR > vehicle for people like car loan fraud scammer Scamela Geller and others who > are using them to raise money and get attention. Because having a whole car > dealership making gazillions by ripping off banks with car loan scams using > Muslim straw buyers wasn’t enough. Nor was the murder of an investigating > cop and the execution of the one honest car salesman employee who told > police. Behavior worse than a mobster’s wife apparently breeds no shame. > But it does breed faux-outrage in a “battle” that we already know won’t be > won. It’s already lost. They have the property. Move on to something we > can win, not a car loan defrauder’s attention-whore trick, just weeks before > her book is about to be released and needs to earn back a bloated advance. > If you think it’s anything other than this, you are a malleable tool, easily > manipulated and not of much substance. > > The only way you can stop a mosque is if it violates zoning laws, will be a > disturbance/extreme nuisance, or if it is somehow funded with terrorist > money you can get the government to freeze, etc. Good luck with that. I > was involved with citizens of a local Michigan township, trying to help them > keep a mosque from expanding a residential lot into a giant parking lot. > And while they won, it was tough. In Warren, Michigan, for example, a > mosque had the Bush Justice Department as its guardian and Bush’s U.S. > Attorney Stephen Murphy III a/k/a “Abu Porno” (now a Bush federal judge and > a big liberal), breathing down the neck of Warren, threatening City Council > members with civil rights lawsuits if they didn’t acquiesce to the mosque. > > The Muslims and their mosque at Ground Zero are no different. I don’t like > them or that they are there, and it is certainly and in-your-face > nose-thumbing at America. But, hey, this is the same America that still > doesn’t have the courage to rebuild the Towers in our own F-You to them. > This is the America that won’t even call it Freedom Towers because we might > offend Islamic terrorists. This is the same America that welcomed more and > more of them here for the last 9 years, even after a huge terrorist attack > they fomented, and more that they tried to commit (some successfully, like > the Fort Hood massacre). If you’re not gonna stop them from entering the > nation, you can’t stop them from buying property and opening mosques. > > There are no legitimate legal grounds that will succeed in stopping the > Ground Zero mosque people. They paid big bucks to real estate charlatans in > a bad economy to buy the land near the site of the 9/11 Islamic terrorist > attacks on America. And they legitimately have the land. We did nothing > for the last 9 years to stop them from coming here and becoming citizens. > Now, we are going to tell them we let them in but that they don’t have the > same rights as everybody else? Good luck with that. It’s a losing > argument. The ACLU and others will make sure of that–just as Bush’s Justice > Department did it right after Muslims murdered 3,000 Americans. > > Pick your battles wisely. You will not win all of them and may lose the war > because you had the wrong focus. This is the wrong focus. And it won’t be > stopped, despite what publicity hounds with unchecked egos may tell you. > > And as anyone who actually knows something about Islam can tell you, the > more you lose battles to Muslims, the more empowered they become. Just ask > HAMAS and Hezbollah after Israel attacked them in wars they knew they would > not win and had no intention of winning because they refused to flatten > their opponents. We can’t flatten the Muslims who are here. > > The cancer has spread and metastasized. We can only slow it down by > fighting things we know we can stop. But opposing the Ground Zero mosque is > the equivalent of Suzanne Sommers’ medical quackery. > > It won’t work. And it’s a waste of resources . . . unless you have a book > and website to pimp on the gullible. > > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help seehttp://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community athttp://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
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