NO MOSQUE AT GROUND ZERO BY HJS

HJS comments: Endnotes by Ideology of Islam. In the United States, we prefer to be just as tolerant of religions as we can—without being stupid or suicidal. Just as we do not want our lands to be a haven in which parents can ignore the well-being of their children by ignoring medical science, requiring that we reluctantly step in and enforce basic humanitarian rules whenever children are in danger; so also do we not want our cities to be hotbeds of anti-American planning for bombings and mass murder. For love of God and our fellow man we do not accept Female Genital Mutilation or Honor Killings. We do not allow parents to murder their children or their children’s children, although the laws of some Middle Eastern countries allow such atrocious events. And people in this country can worship as they choose (within certain reasonable limits) which includes leaving one religion for another without any penalties or recriminations.

Nonetheless, our tolerance is not a suicide pact. American leaders should not be fooled by their own sense of importance; the American people make up a nation of individuals, all of whom are more important than the leaders. The government handed to us by our founding fathers is a government of the people, for the people, and by the people. If you ignore the voice of the American People, you will be replaced by others who we know will listen and learn. We do not want the mosque at Ground
Zero; it is not up for negotiation.

The Saudis and others in Islam will not suffer the existence of another religion on the peninsula of the Arabs. (Bukhari 5:59:716) Is that tolerance? NO! Do we expect Muslims to change their position on that ever? NO! Nevertheless, we have not banned Islam from our shores as Muslims have banned Christianity and Judaism from theirs—despite the fact that both religions prospered with their Arab friends before Islam. I must repeat that we are a tolerant nation in the face of an intolerance Islam. Our tolerance, however, must not be mistaken for a suicide pact. No mosque will be accepted at Ground Zero! Move It!



Wed, Aug. 18 2010 02:54 PM EDT


Muslims Lobbying to Worship in Spain's Cordoba Cathedral
By Aaron J. LeichmanChristian Post Reporter


While the dispute over the proposed Cordoba House near New York City’s Ground Zero has been highly publicized over the past few months, less known is the debate over Spain’s Cordoba Cathedral, which was formerly the Great Mosque of Cordoba.

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In this Aug. 6, 2009 file photo, tourists visit what was formerly the Great Mosque of Cordoba in southern Spain. The mosque was transformed into a cathedral in 1236 when King Ferdinand III captured the city from the Moors. Since then, except on rare occasions, Muslim prayer rites have been forbidden inside.
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For quite some time now, Muslim groups have tried to convince leaders of the Cathedral of Cordoba in southern Spain to allow the Catholic church to be used for both Muslim and Christian worship as the site still remains significant for many Muslims.

The Bishop of Cordoba, Demetrio Fernandez, however, says sharing the space with Muslims would be like a man sharing his wife with another man.

"There are things that are shared and others that are not, and the Cathedral of Cordoba is not shared with Muslims," said Fernandez, according to the Spanish-language Europa Press.

Built in the 8th century after the Moorish invasion of Spain, the Cordoba house of worship was transformed from a mosque into a cathedral in 1236 when King Ferdinand III captured the city of Cordoba from the Moors.

Since then, except on rare occasions, Muslim prayer rites have been forbidden inside.

Earlier this year, in April, there was a scuffle between police officers and Muslim tourists from Austria who were trying to pray in what was once the Great Mosque of Cordoba.

Historically, however, relationships between Christians and Muslims in Cordoba have been cordial. The city is known as the City of Three Cultures because Muslims, Jews and Christians lived there in harmony during medieval times.[i] And today, for many, that still holds true.

Fernandez told the Europa Press back in June that his church reportedly has "a good relationship with Muslims" and wants to collaborate with Muslims in search of "peace, justice and coexistence between peoples.[ii]" “But that is one thing," he said. "[It's] another, very different, to want to share the same temple for worship, which is neither possible for Muslims nor for Catholics," he stated.

Despite the bishop’s rejections, efforts to open Cordoba Cathedral for Muslim prayer and worship are ongoing.

Mansur Escudero, who is leading a movement that is pushing for the right of Muslims to pray at the Cordoba Cathedral, said the issue is not only important for Muslims but for humankind.

The Spanish convert to Islam told CNN recently that the sharing of Cordoba Cathedral would be “a beautiful paradigm of tolerance, knowledge, culture.”
“We want it to be a place where anyone – whether Muslim, Christian or Jew – can do his meditation or his internal way of worshiping, or praying or whatever he wants to call it," he added.

Presently, Roman Catholics make up 94 percent of Spain’s 40 million-large population while Muslims make up a little more than two percent. The city of Cordoba is home to around 330,000 people.

[i] [NOTE: This is a myth! During Moslem rule, the Jews and Christians were always excluded from political power, and they were subject to the whims of the Moslem rulers and the Moslem mobs at any time.]


[ii] [NOTE: Unfortunately, the doctrines of Islam do not permit coeexistence with non-Moslems. The Koran and Muhammad call for perpetual war on non-Moslems, as circumstances permit.]