Mosque at Ground Zero

I was going to write about how building this mosque is an Islamic middle finger towards any American who was affected by 9/11.  Then I was going to summarize all the reasons why this was a bad idea (the Imam with terrorist connections, etc.). Then I came across this short essay written by an old soldier from the Greatest Generation, and thought it did the job.

"Everyone has had the Jehova's Witness visit; Everyone has had the conversation with the Mormon missionaries; Everyone has been accosted on the street by some bible waving 'preacher' asking "Are YOU saved?"


None of them pulled an AK47 out from his bathrobe and blew your kids away, did they?

Did the Baptists down the street send their kid to school on the bus, with four pounds of Semtex in his lunchbox?

How 'bout those militant Methodists? Any of them dived a loaded plane into a building in your neighborhood? Lately, I mean?

Do those Hare Krishna hippies have a world wide conspiracy to kill all the Jews and forcibly convert the rest of humanity? No?

So there's a difference between Islam and most other religious observances? Ya think?

Is there such a thing as a 'moderate' Islamist? Like Major Hadam? If the argument is that there are 'moderate' Islamists, it is an admission that there are violent, murderous bastards running around.

Among us.

So why permit these killers of innocents; cowards and rabid dogs, to build at the very site of their biggest 'triumph', a mocking symbol of their victory? A symbol of your conquest.

In olden days, the conquerers came, killed whoever they would, raped and enslaved whoever they could. They took what they wanted whenever and wherever they found it, did what they pleased, to anybody and everybody.

And they built castles to remind you who was boss.

In later times, the castle became a fort, and then a base, and the soldiers were a little better behaved, thanks to the influence of Christianity.

Oh, I can hear some of you squalling that the Germans were Christians . . . and so they they were. But the Nazis were not. The Nazis were conquerers of the old school. Just like these Islamists.

Our enemy, these Islamists, live with a seventh century mindset . . . that's their religion. You behead sassy seven year olds.

How can you expect 'Christian' compassion from people who brutalize their own daughters?

How can you expect 'Peace, Love, and Tolerance' from the Sons of the Sword, who swear a blood feud against all non-believers? Mohammed led armies, not apostles. Hundreds of thousands of sword swinging fanatics; not twelve harried men going alone into the world to preach.

To build this there, after all that's happened, is a statement. Not of understanding or remorse, but a flat demonstration of intent. 'We have conquered here. We shall conquer everywhere. You shall be ours.'"