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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.
>
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