It appears to me that many people all over the United States are still in awe over New York's leaders’ decision to go ahead and allow the building of the Islamic place of worship. President Obama made it very clear in his speech that it is the job of America to uphold the freedoms and liberties our nation has struggled day in and day out to maintain. The very blood of our service men and women spilled upon the altar of freedom so that we might have an abundant life, and a land of opportunity. I couldn't agree with the president more on that statement, but hardly the issue. The issue here is not whether Americans want to allow the Muslims to worship freely as they please wherever they please. After all, many of them are American citizens born right here in America.
The real issue here is the LOCATION of the building. I suppose there are literally hundreds, maybe thousands of reasons Americans could deny and withhold the Muslims the right to build in that area. However, not without the cost of being portrayed as a racist, or even prejudice by the liberal media. What our well meaning liberal friends fail to see is that these Islamic radicals and those pushing for the mosque to be built next to the WTC memorial, are using our own constitution against us! Don't believe me? Consider this, General Petraeus said that any burning of the Qur'an would endanger US troops because it would be viewed as an act of hostility from America. In this case, he is absolutely right. Our men and women are in hostile land. It is a natural response. However, the Imam who is heading the New York Mosque said these same exact words, but he changed it a bit. He said that our actions would bring about violence in and to America.
While I DO NOT condone the act of Qur'an burning, it is easy to see that this is not a warning but rather a threat. He went on to say any act to halt or stop the building may result in violence. So my question then is, what value is the voice of the people? Yes America was built on the idea that all men and women were created equal with equal rights and opportunities under the law. However, as Reagan said, "We are a nation with a government, not the other way around." We own the government. We tell IT what to do. Or that is how it should be. Regardless Islamic radicals in America hide behind the very laws and liberties we put in place to protect our citizens. It doesn't help that our liberal counterparts reinforce this notion all on the feeling of being politically correct. The whole purpose to this argument is America is not racist or intolerant of others beliefs or practices. While we as a nation might not agree with it, we harbor an environment where people are essentially free to do as they please in many respects. So America's cry is not, "Do not worship Allah in New York." America's cry is "Worship as you please, but build the mosque elsewhere."
If The Muslim citizens here in the United States, born foreign or domestic, cannot see the significance of the 9/11 attacks and the location of the mosque, then I suppose they have not earned the right to build there in the first place. It is not that Americans have grown prejudice of Islamic radicals through passing time, rather when Islamic radicals stand up against and threaten America politically and physically with acts of violence, these so-called fundamental Muslims do nothing about it. When was the last time you saw a group of Muslims opposing a radical group for terrorist attacks? When has there ever been a public gathering or demonstration? The most they say is "This is not Islam. Islam is peaceful". Anyone who has ever read and studied the Qur'an will see that, even in context, the text is violent and aggressive naturally. Like Newt Gingrich said, the Nazi groups would NEVER have been allowed to build a place of gathering and fellowship at a holocaust memorial site. Why then do our nation’s leaders think it’s OK to build a mosque there in light of the attack on America? I tell you the truth, if we allow this building, and this kind of guilt trip behavior to continue here in the last greatest country on Earth, we are in trouble. We might as well call that mosque a middle finger to America and a trophy to radical Islam.
