The Hate Mosque By HJS

I have noted that several democrats speaking as guests on Fox News have advocated President Obama's weighing in again on the Hate Mosque at ground zero, the cemetery where many heroes have left something of themselves on that now hallowed field. I had first called the mosque a Victory Mosque, recognizing that only the celebration of a major victory could provide the insensitive elites with such a critical impetus to spend huge sums of money and callously steam-roll over the wishes of Americans, specifically New Yorkers, to choose that particular spot, that sacred ground, for the mosque. There was no victory in that attack that killed thousands of innocent workers, no more than there was on December 7, 1941 when the Japanese Navy launched a sneak attack against an unwary and relaxing American Fleet and many innocent civilians. There is no victory when a trusted medical doctor without warning turns on his fellow service men and women and begins killing people who possibly moments before would have snapped a sharp salute and smiled as he passed them on the sidewalk. In all three cases, on the American side are innocent bystanders to a shameful event, with wonderful instances of heroes who dropped everything and ran to help, regardless of consequences.

As far as the president's weighing in is concerned, he needn't bother. As far as the mosque is concerned, because of the controversy surrounding the projected building of such a mosque at that location, pursuing the project would be counterproductive to Islam. That is not only my opinion, but also the opinion expressed by scholars at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, August 5th, 2010 as reported in the Egyptian newspaper, Al Masry Al Youm.

The Cairo university is one of Sunni Islam's most authoritative institutions. The scholars were convinced that the project is "a conspiracy to confirm a clear connection between the strikes of September 11 and Islam." Dr. Amna Nazir, professor of doctrine and philosophy at the university noted in her opposition to the mosque near the World Trade Center: "Building a mosque on this rubble indicates bad intention--even if we wished to shut our eye, close our minds, and insist on good will."*

As Lincoln said so well in his Gettysburg Address "we can not dedicate--we can not consecrate--we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men [and women] living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it , far above our poor power to add or detract."

And now it is for us to ensure that those American heroes and those of other nations who have left something of themselves behind in that resting place, indeed can rest secure in the knowledge that we remain true to them and to ourselves that we continue to honor them and continue to secure their resting place as a place of honor and a symbol of American pride and gratitude.

*Note: The information concerning Al-Azhar University was adapted from Raymond Ibrahim, Pajamas Media, August 19, 2010