Good job! You certainly did your homework! Thank you for passing the information along.
Thanks for the kind words and you are welcome.
When I joined the national conversation about the mosque being promoted by Park51 and its supporters, I did not expect to find all like-minded posters in this forum. I read each opposing position to mine, and, as much as possible, not have my ego get in the way of a true exchange, or not let the other’s unsavory debating style get under my skin.
But I find surprising that enough Americans buy into the asymmetry of Islamic-West/American discord, heavily disfavoring American and Christian principles. The certitude of mosque proponents puzzles me, and yet, these same people are also too quick to put down the first amendment rights as it applies to one, albeit grandstanding, fringe Christian pastor from Gainesville, Florida.
Whither goest thou, America?
Imam Feisal seems set on this course of “stick in the eye” mosque near Ground Zero,
with the help of American supporters, who have become apologists for Islam without knowing the important facts about Islamic religious beliefs and practices.
But you don’t have to take this claim from me. Take if from Dr. Ashraf Ramelah, an Arab who has lived in Egypt before moving to Italy. He pursued studies in architecture, specifically its history and restoration of old monuments; he is also a founder of a human rights organization with offices in Italy and the U.S. He feels he has a decided advantage over his American friends in that he has grown up in clear view of the unfolding Islamic agenda, as well as having been victimized by it, as an Egyptian-born Copt.
Excerpts of what he said:
Islamic-Arab aggression began in 651 and repeated itself once again in New York City on September 11, 2001. For 1,400 years, the people of Arab-occupied countries have suffered a rewrite of their own histories, their identities erased for the purpose of satisfying Arab-Muslim occupation and supremacy.
After the 9/11 tragedy, Arab-Muslim media were reporting the success of bin Laden against the Kafirs in America. This same media, along with some Western media, spread rumors that the tragedy was planned and achieved through an inside job done by the FBI. Meanwhile, in this same timeframe, President Bush took a prompt from his Saudi Arabian associates and,
based upon abrogated verses from Qur’an, declared Islam a religion of peace!
Statements like this from America’s leaders, including some recently made by President Obama, have helped pave the way for us to receive the final emblem of triumph from the Arab Muslim over the American way, namely the Cordoba initiative, an Islamic Center to be built on hallowed American ground.
The groundbreaking of the Cordoba mosque at Ground Zero will be a symbol of Arab-Muslim Gazwa (Arabic term to mean successful attack on an enemy) of New York City, as currently projected in the Arab media, and will directly lead to the Islamization of America. This in turn will be the beginning of the demands by Muslims for separate Shariah law and Shariah courts.
What a far-fetched conclusion, our American reader might say – mainly because we have had no precedent for this in American culture. Shariahlaw compliance? Surely our Constitution will protect us from whatever this Shariah is.
Using America’s freedom of religion for the establishment of a religion that holds steadfastly to cutting off freedom of religion and freedom of speech in both principle and practice places the religion of Islam in direct contradiction with the American way of life. American secular culture, informed with Judeo-Christian principles, is heading on a collision course with its foreign antithesis, a culture I am all too familiar with.
When I ask my American friends about the proliferation of Islam in America, the typical response is that everything will work out just fine in America because America allows room for practice of all religions and all beliefs. Some even quote their Muslim friends who are adept at refuting the skeptics. Americans have become apologists for Islam without knowing the important facts about Islamic religious beliefs and practices, particularly the practice of taqiya (lying to promote the acceptance of Islam).
His full document dated 9.11.2010 here.
No, America hasn’t taken either Iraq or Afghanistan - and never will. You’ll save yourself lots of embarrassment by not bigging up Uncle Sam and giving it large - wait 24 months - let’s see who’s right.
). I’m sure that’s not the reality, but it’s easy to see it as such. And while we have an endless stream of JW’s and fundamentalists banging on the door, not to mention the street preachers on a saturday, I’ve not yet had the pleasure of meeting a catholic doing so. Which makes me wonder how, in 2010, is the Catholic church evangalizing?
, and thanks for your encouraging note.