Cordoba Mosque at Ground Zero (Part 2)
The Constitution and Shariah law are incompatible. Basically, the political strategy is to try and keep the incompatibility a secret. This will be ruinous to our Constitutional liberties. Let us examine the facts:
*Muslims and liberals want to build a mosque in a building hit by the landing gear of a plane that collided with the Twin Towers. They want this 13 story building two blocks from Ground Zero from which they are still exhuming remains of victims.
*Cordoba House plans to open on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
Who is Feisal Abdul Rauf?
*The mosque's leader, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, refuses to declare Hamas a terrorist organization. He explained that "the issue of terrorism is a very complex question." When pressed further he responded "I am a peace builder. I will not allow anybody to put me in a position where I am seen by any party in the world as an adversary or as an enemy."
*According to former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy, Rauf is a prominent member of the Perdana Group, which sponsored the flotilla violence in Israel.
*In 2006, Rauf organized a Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow conference in Copenhagen where he hosted such radical Muslims as Yasir Qadhi
*On September 30th 2001, on 60 Minutes, Rauf suggested that Muslim terrorists did kill thousands on 9/11, but "United States policies were an accessory to the crime that happened."
*Speaking to Islamic media in March of this year, Rauf, speaking of the phrase "Religious Dialogue," says:
"This phrase is inaccurate. Religious dialogue as customarily understood is a set of events with discussions in large hotels that result in nothing. Religions do not dialogue and dialogue is not present in the attitudes of the followers, regardless of being Muslim or Christian. The image of Muslims in the West is complex which needs to be remedied."
*In May, Rauf said, "Throughout my discussions with contemporary Muslim theologians, it is clear an Islamic state can be established in more than just a single form or mold. It can be established through a kingdom or a democracy. The important issue is to establish the general fundamentals of Sharia that are required [For Muslims] to govern. It is known that there are sets of standards that are accepted by [Muslim] scholars to organize the relationships between government and the governed [emphasis added]."
*Rauf leads "The Shariah Index Project," which charts the “Islamic-ness” of countries, and provides a way for Muslims to check “Islamification” progress.
*What is the meaning of Cordoba?
The Cordoba center is named for Cordoba Spain which was the capital of a Western Islamic Caliphate and the place where a Christian cathedral was converted into a mosque. According to Fredrick Schweitzer and Marvin Perry's book "Anti-Semitism: myth and hate from antiquity to the present" Cordoba was the site of Muslim initiated pogroms that killed thousands of Jews and subjugated Christians and Jews both to second class status and repeated persecution.
* Cordoba is a perceived metaphor for Islamic victory in the West.
Who is funding the project?
*Rauf claimed to American news outlets that the 100 million dollar mosque would be funded by American Muslims alone. However, when speaking with a London-based Arabic paper "Asharq AlAwsat," Rauf asserted that the funds would be collected by American Muslims along with donations from Arab and Islamic countries.
*Rauf founded The American Society for Muslim Advancement. This is the group spearheading the Cordoba Initiative. The ASMA is funded by The Saudi Arabian Xenel Corporation. Xenel is implicated on the "Golden Chain" list. The list includes 20 or so top Saudi Business men. Xenel CEO Abdullah Alireza sits on the board of DMI, a bank in Switzerland. He is accompanied on the twelve member board by Osama Bin Laden's half brother. DMI is a defendant in a lawsuit brought by the families of 9/11 victims. They are accused of having "conspired with Al Qaeda and the other defendants to carry out terrorist attacks."
*The Center for American Islamic Relations has condemned the Jewish Anti-Defamation League's opposition to the Cordoba Mosque and asked them to retract their opposition. The deputy leader of the Islamic Extremist Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Habib, confirms a relationship between CAIR and the Egyptian Brotherhood.
*CAIR has its origins in the U.S. Hamas infrastructure.
According to the Left, what are we to believe?
- Sharia-advancing-Islamists, who don't allow religious freedom in Islamic nations, are motivated to build a mosque near Ground Zero by an uncharacteristic ecumenical spirit of religious dialogue.
- Ground Zero is the only place where the aims of Muslim outreach can occur.
- Opponents--who do allow the Muslims the right to worship at any of the many mosques in NY-- are bigoted racists bent only on the oppression of Muslims. However, a Muslim imam who freely associates with radicalized Muslims and who refuses to condemn Hamas as a terrorist organization is a pillar in the temple of multiculturalism.
Cordoba House's nearness to Ground Zero is less critical to a mission of interfaith outreach and more critical to a triumphalist memorial at the expense of the tragic victims that died on 9/11. The attack on 9/11 was a national attack. Therefore, this is a national issue. One on which the President and Congress have been largely silent. We ought not to allow the 10th anniversary of the tragedy of 9/11 to be marred by a morale booster to terrorists and what amounts to an “end zone dance” by progressive West-hating elites.
Added by Zach Franzen - Dave Edwards for Congress Campaign
