http://www.lawyerjourno.com/2010/08/ground-zero-mosque-cordova-mosque.html On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 6:23 PM, M. Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> *"Crusaders of the Hal Lindsey variety remind us that Islam's Holy Koran > is replete with instructions to the faithful to kill infidels. It is common > to hear Islam portrayed as a shadowy system of government, bent on world > domination and terrorism, not a religion at all. If the Koran is full of > sociopathic calls to murder, can we not say the same thing of our own Holy > Bible? Have you read the Old Testament? Kill the women, kill the > children,<http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%2031&version=KJV>slaughter > the cattle and leave them to rot. Not > one shall be left > alive<http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Samuel%2015:3,7-8&version=KJV>. > They shall surely be stoned. Suffer not a witch to live. Slit the lamb's > throat<http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=leviticus1:%2010-13&version=KJV>and > spill his blood on the holy alter of God. Excuse that as you will, but > you can't deny it's there. As Christians we have to each come to terms with > it. " > > **Beware of Mosque-Building Muslims > *by Britt Combs > > Some ideas are so dingy you assume people must be kidding. When lunatics > like lawyer, > author<http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/topics/types/position/tags/lawyer-author/>and > Fox News contributor Andrew > McCarthy<http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/topics/types/person/tags/andrew-mccarthy/>bleat > that a secret > cabal<http://www.heritage.org/Events/2010/05/The-Grand-Jihad-How-Islam-And-The-Left-Sabotage-America>of > atheistic "liberals" like the > president<http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/topics/types/position/tags/president/>and > his loyal army of Muslim terrorists are working together to realize > their common goal – the imposition of "Sharia Law" on the American people, > well what else can you assume? > > This wild nonsense has been escalating for years. Ten years ago we heard > that 19 highjackers were merely the vanguard for "hundreds of millions" of > crack suicide troops, anxious, even gleeful, to martyr themselves killing > Americans. They hate our freedom, our way of life and democracy. They hate > semi-naked women and sausage biscuits so passionately they will gladly die > to hurt us. > > President<http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/topics/types/position/tags/president/> > Bush <http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/topics/types/person/tags/bush/> made > conciliatory comments even while mobilizing > America<http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/topics/types/continent/tags/america/>for > a permanent "War of Terror" by calling Islam a religion of peace. But > his followers knew he was speaking tongue-in-cheek. He had to say that to > keep the damn liberals from freaking out. > Bush<http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/topics/types/person/tags/bush/>could say > whatever he wanted, but Rush Limbaugh never repeated that hippie > talk. Ann > Coulter<http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/topics/types/person/tags/ann-coulter/>went > so far as to suggest we should literally launch a new crusade, > specifically to convert Muslims to Christianity at gunpoint. > > It's only gotten worse since then. > > One particularly nutty Web > site<http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/topics/types/industryterm/tags/nutty-web-site/>, > Jihad Watch, says there are two kinds of Islam: "Terror Jihad," which blows > up buildings as on 9/11 and "Stealth Jihad" which disarms its enemies by not > blowing things up. The stealth Jihadist pretends to be nice and neighborly. > Then, when your back is turned, Presto! he builds a mosque. Next thing you > know, it's Sharia Law. > > How do they think Muslims can enforce their religious code in America? > Breed like rats until they are the majority, then get elected to > Congress<http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/topics/types/organization/tags/congress/>and > change the Constitution? Never mind the logistics, friends; they'll put > Sharia on us if we don't kill them first. We must > nuke<http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2010/may/052410hawkeye-poll.html>the > enemy in order to preserve the peace. > > Today, as plans come together to build "Cordoba House" a sort of Muslim > equivalent to the YMCA, complete with a mosque, on the south end of > Manhattan, two huge city blocks way from the old World Trade > Center<http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/topics/types/movie/tags/world-trade-center/>, > hysterical right-wing > media<http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/topics/types/industryterm/tags/hysterical-right-wing-media/>turned > that into a "mosque at ground zero." As if there hadn't been mosques > in New York > city<http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/topics/types/city/tags/new-york-city/>before. > Sarah > Palin > <http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/topics/types/person/tags/sarah-palin/>told her > numbskulls that the very idea of a mosque in Manhattan is "a > provocation" and "a stab in the heart." > > It's not just in New > York<http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/topics/types/city/tags/new-york/>. > Lunatics <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXGSskiNVak&feature=related> in > Murfreesboro<http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/topics/types/city/tags/murfreesboro/>, > Tenn.<http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/topics/types/provinceorstate/tags/tennessee/>showed > up to protest the construction of mosques, hoping the county > government<http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/topics/types/organization/tags/county-government/>will > block > building permits <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-wlboWWNA>. > > A mosque is just too painful for 9/11 survivors to see, we are told. I > imagine the sight of a Christian > church<http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/topics/types/organization/tags/christian-church/>might > be painful to American Indians. Surely French Huguenots feel a stab in > the heart when they see a Roman Catholic > church<http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/topics/types/organization/tags/roman-catholic-church/>under > construction. > > Crusaders of the Hal Lindsey variety remind us that Islam's Holy Koran is > replete with instructions to the faithful to kill infidels. It is common to > hear Islam portrayed as a shadowy system of government, bent on world > domination and terrorism, not a religion at all. If the Koran is full of > sociopathic calls to murder, can we not say the same thing of our own Holy > Bible? Have you read the Old Testament? Kill the women, kill the > children,<http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%2031&version=KJV>slaughter > the cattle and leave them to rot. Not > one shall be left > alive<http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Samuel%2015:3,7-8&version=KJV>. > They shall surely be stoned. Suffer not a witch to live. Slit the lamb's > throat<http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=leviticus1:%2010-13&version=KJV>and > spill his blood on the holy alter of God. Excuse that as you will, but > you can't deny it's there. As Christians we have to each come to terms with > it. > > We manage somehow. We don't go from getting saved at the alter call to > gunning down infidels next week because it's in the Bible that we should. At > least most of us don't; Eric > Rudolph<http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/topics/types/person/tags/eric-rudolph/>did. > As believers, we just assume the Lord was in a really bad mood that day > and skip ahead to the nice parts, like "love one another, for love is of > God…" > > Why is it so hard to imagine that Muslims generally take their holy book > with a grain of salt, just as we do? > > As I write, many Americans are urging Israel to attack > Iran<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamal-abdi/resolution-green-lighting_b_657608.html?ir=World>. > We send money to radical Israeli politicians, urging them to go for the > throat and show no mercy to Palestinians. House Republicans promise to join > the attack. Aside from a few half-hearted, vague promises to pull out a few > troops far in the future, the > president<http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/topics/types/position/tags/president/>has > shown none of his campaign dovishness. We surround > Iran<http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/topics/types/country/tags/islamic-republic-of-iran/>on > two sides. Whatever rank and file Democrats may believe, Democrats in > power are just as hawkish as the Republicans. Meanwhile American school kids > are taught the blatant lie that government spending and World War II ended > the Depression that freedom caused. > > Crusaders are thirsty for Muslim blood, > Israel<http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/topics/types/country/tags/israel/>is > governed by genocidal lunatics, both of America's political parties are > completely sold on endless war, the people are convinced that war brings > good living and prosperity and the military industry sees dramatic profits > on the horizon. And you wonder why on earth > Iran<http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/topics/types/country/tags/islamic-republic-of-iran/>would > want a nuclear bomb? > > The Lord once promised, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be > called the children of God." He must have known when he said it that he > probably wouldn't have to make good on it. How many peacemakers do you know? > ------------------------------ > Religious tolerance isn't something we do because it's an alleged founding > principle; who cares about the traditions and principles of dead men? We > practice tolerance because we are decent; we are not dogs. We act like we > weren't raised in a shed out back. Recent debate about the religious > liberties of American Muslims has not only cast tolerance aside, but > unearthed deeper issues from the darkest parts of the human soul. > > The dispute about Cordoba House – which upper-class politicians and pundits > have deceptively (and opportunistically) dubbed the "Ground Zero Mosque" – > has simply got to stop. It's no longer funny. After last week's column, one > McDowellNews.com reader promised to bomb the mosque. Imagine that. Readers > are publicly threatening, promising to commit acts of murder and terror mere > "steps away" from Ground Zero. > > Bill > O'Reilly<http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/transcript/big-mistake-white-house>, > Sarah > Palin<http://gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com/former-governor-palin-on-pres-obamas-ground-zero-mosque-comments-oil-drilling-in-america-anwr/>, > Jay > Sekulow<http://www.aclj.org/OnTheTv/?aP=5c4d792e-9a59-4c08-bc09-be243854cf9c&mmType=4>, > Bill Bennett and hosts of lesser pundits plumbed new depths of depravity, > manufacturing a scandal where there was none. They did everything they could > to get the unwashed masses' panties in a collective wad about the Cordoba > House, and it worked. To America's everlasting shame, the people let > themselves be reduced to a ravening mob. > > In a regrettably rare moment of right-mindedness, the president accurately > and correctly framed the situation. He said he has no dispute with people > exercising their constitutional religious rights on private property in > accordance with local laws and ordinances. Part of that statement is so > important it deserves a line of its own, without qualifiers. > > Private property <http://mises.org/rothbard/ethics/fifteen.asp>. > > There. The most beautiful words in the English language. And the > opportunistic and treacherous Republican intelligentsia completely missed > it. Republicans and Tea Partiers, I implore you: you cannot, must not, > simply cannot demand that government force be brought to bear against the > exercise of property rights. > > We slept and woke up in a bizarro universe, where Democrats (God help us > all) are championing property and religious freedom and the Republicans are > brazenly and unashamedly demanding that big government use the violence and > power at its disposal to prevent the free exercise of religion and the > development and use of property. > > The lies have barraged us in machine gun bursts. Cordoba House is blocks, > not "a few steps" as the simple-minded and incurious Sarah Palin said – from > the old World Trade Center site. > > Andrew McCarthy said that Cordoba House is an example of Islamic > triumphalism, the tendency to build mosques on sites of great victories. No > it is not. It is an example of Islamic exercise of private property rights. > Something that until last week Republicans used to claim to favor. > > O'Reilly admitted the Muslims had rights to the property they own, but said > it was "inappropriate" and "insensitive." So now Republicans suddenly > believe we should legislate based on "feelings" and being all "sensitive." > Do Republicans, of all people, now honestly mean to say that Americans must > refrain from any act that hurts others' feelings? Our freedoms end when > someone gets their feelings hurt? > > We discussed this business about hurt feelings last > week<http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/news/2010/aug/10/new-cold-war-beware-mosque-building-muslims-ar-328984/>. > I said there were plenty of people who no doubt get their feelings hurt > remembering massacres and injustices committed by Christians against > Indians; American soldiers against Muslims. I asked if we should stop > building Christian churches to spare the Indians' feelings, or stop > displaying the U.S. flag to spare the feelings of Filipino Muslims. I got > lots of hysterical responses, but not one reader addressed that blatant > double standard. No, we must abolish all religious liberty and property > rights to spare the "families of 9/11" but we needn't bother about the > namby-pamby feelings of our victims; they deserved it. > > No one addressed that point, because they can't justify it. What can they > say? > > Bryan Fischer <http://action.afa.net/Blogs/BlogPost.aspx?id=2147497353>, > of the American Family Association, an ostensibly Christian organization, > said that "permits should not be granted to build even one more mosque in > the United States." He said he can literally see into the hearts of each and > every mosque, every cleric, every worshipper, and he has seen that they are > all animated by one goal; the overthrow of America and, of course, Sharia > Law. Fischer has single-handedly judged more than a billion human souls and > found them all wanting and damnable. > > Not long ago, Christians found that sort of presumption to be not only > objectionable, but blasphemous. No longer. Today we have a New New Covenant > and the Golden Rule no longer applies to us. > > Sarah Palin was near tears Monday night on Fox News, demanding that the > president use his "clout" and "pull" to "encourage" the Muslims to choose > another site for their mosque. O'Reilly had similar comments. It didn't dawn > on either of them that they might offer to purchase the old Burlington Coat > Factory fair and square, just like the Muslims did, and use their property > rights to put it to more "appropriate" use. > > Why didn't that occur to them? Because they want the issue to excite the > dumbest voters into a rage that will endure through November. O'Reilly was > practically dancing on his chair that 60 percent of Americans oppose the > Cordoba House's construction. Obama, O'Reilly said, is on the unpopular side > of an issue that will "do him no good at all." I don't often say this, but > good for Obama. For once he has taken the right side of an issue without > weighing the political consequences. > > It seems puerile to say this, but a lot of you seem to have forgotten it: > Right is right and true is true, even if no one acknowledges it. Justice > doesn't need to be popular. If 60 percent of Americans are vehemently > opposed to religious liberty and the free exercise of private property > rights, then 60 percent of Americans are stupid and wrong. > > I shudder for my country. We're a hair's breadth from a new national > socialist republic of America. It sounds absurd, but what can you say when > the majority of Americans are absolutely zealous about depriving the basic > human rights of their fellow Americans? > > You can object; you can say that denying them the right to build mosques on > their private property is not the same as rounding them up into camps and > gassing them. But how far removed is it? The majority of Germans in the late > 1930s had no problem seeing Jews barred from commerce and run out of their > homes. They probably wouldn't have approved of the camps and the gassings, > but once government learned that the people approved stripping the Jews of > their rights, the camps and the killings were a natural progression. All it > took was a general contempt among the masses for the Jews' humanity, and > government handles the rest. There is a general disregard for the humanity > of Muslims in America today. > > That's an extreme scenario, granted, but I submit that you cannot use the > dehumanizing, exclusionary rhetoric these Republicans have been invoking > recently, whipping the uncivilized, unschooled and unsophisticated masses > into a vengeful frenzy, without inviting bloodshed. > > Are Democrats any defense against the rising tide of ethnic cleansing? > Sensitive to the political winds, Democrats like Sen. Harry Reid are > cynically jumping ship, opposing Cordoba House. Of course, he is a man who > hates property and religious liberty. It's no surprise if he acts > spinelessly. But I tell you this: No man of principle wishes to see > government force trump religious and property rights. Not one. > > The day after his religious and property rights comments sparked a Fox > News-proclaimed "firestorm," the president said that he had no comment about > the "wisdom" of building a mosque in Manhattan. Republicans quickly > proclaimed that a "backtrack," but his clarification was in no way > inconsistent with the earlier comment. > > Do you Tea Partiers see what you're doing? Has it penetrated your concrete > skulls that the one time Obama stands up for constitutional liberty you are > cussing him and demanding big government move to crush the free exercise of > property rights? Does that seem at all ironic to you? > > You've had your emotions manipulated. You've been played for fools. As we > discussed last week, the war enthusiasts, frustrated with their inability to > sell Obama on attacking Iran, now hope to present him with a fait accompli > by getting Israel to attack. They hope to force Obama to join the bloodbath > already in progress. Former U.N. ambassador and infamous vampire John Bolton > has publicly invited > Israel<http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/08/17/israel-weeks-end-strike-iran-nuclear-facility-bolton-says/>to > let some blood before the weekend. The neoconservatives are pulling all > the stops, and they hope to manipulate you into supporting it by getting you > worked up over an issue no one in his right mind could possibly give a damn > about. > > If the Republican leaders and their fellow war enthusiasts across the aisle > get their way, we could be quite possibly in the midst of World War III by > next week. And if you spent the week before the war broke out sweating about > some damn fool mosque, my friends, then shame on you. Shame on you. > > * > http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/news/2010/aug/10/new-cold-war-beware-mosque-building-muslims-ar-328984/ > > > * http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/combs2.1.1.html > > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. 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