Muslims Speak Out Against the NYC Mosque

Raheel Raza and Tarek Fatah write an op-ed in the Ottawa Citizen concerning the plans of their fellow Muslims to build a mosque in the shadow of the World Trade Center site.  They close it this way:

It's a repugnant thought that $100 million would be brought into the United States rather than be directed at dying and needy Muslims in Darfur or Pakistan.

Let's not forget that a mosque is an exclusive place of worship for Muslims and not an inviting community centre. Most Americans are wary of mosques due to the hard core rhetoric that is used in pulpits. And rightly so. As Muslims we are dismayed that our co-religionists have such little consideration for their fellow citizens and wish to rub salt in their wounds and pretend they are applying a balm to sooth the pain.

The Koran implores Muslims to speak the truth, even if it hurts the one who utters the truth. Today we speak the truth, knowing very well Muslims have forgotten this crucial injunction from Allah.

If this mosque does get built, it will forever be a lightning rod for those who have little room for Muslims or Islam in the U.S. We simply cannot understand why on Earth the traditional leadership of America's Muslims would not realize their folly and back out in an act of goodwill.

As for those teary-eyed, bleeding-heart liberals such as New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and much of the media, who are blind to the Islamist agenda in North America, we understand their goodwill.

Unfortunately for us, their stand is based on ignorance and guilt, and they will never in their lives have to face the tyranny of Islamism that targets, kills and maims Muslims worldwide, and is using liberalism itself to destroy liberal secular democratic societies from within.

The one time in my life that I was in America but felt like I was in a foreign country was when I had to visit a mosque in San Diego for my work as a church insurer. As it turned out later this particular mosque was home to a couple of the 9/11 hijackers.

I felt every eye in the place glaring at me as I walked to the office to meet the administrator, and as we walked around the building during the inspection I've never felt so out-of-place in my life. Frankly, it was a very dark feeling in there and I was pretty glad to get in my car and get out of there. When they chose some months later to take their business to another insurer I didn't feel bad about that at all...and neither did the company following the 9/11 attacks because that mosque became the target of some anti-Muslim vandalism when the connection to the 9/11 attacks was revealed.

Mayor Bloomberg has been a pillar of jello in this whole matter.  He can't run to a microphone fast enough to condemn those who oppose the mosque.  You'd think a guy with the last name "Bloomberg" would be a little more cautious about trying to play nice with a religion that has vowed to wipe his people from the earth.  But no, Bloomberg is so terrified of offending Muslims that after the attempted bombing in Times Square the best explanation he could come up with was it was someone opposed to Obamacare.

Can you imagine what New York City would have been like on 9/11 had Bloomberg been the mayor that day?