Posted on 09/20/2010 7:20:49 AM PDT by nuconvert
A survey by Elaph, the most respected electronic daily in the Arab world, saw 58% object to the building of the WTC mosque.
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From his recent travels to the Persian Gulf—sponsored and paid for by the State Department—Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf returned with a none-too-subtle threat. His project, the Ground Zero Mosque, would have to go on. Its cancellation would risk putting "our soldiers, our troops, our embassies and citizens under attack in the Muslim world."
Leave aside the attempt to make this project a matter of national security. The self-appointed bridge between America and the Arab-Islamic world is a false witness to the sentiments in Islamic lands.
The truth is that the trajectory of Islam in America (and Europe for that matter) is at variance with the play of things in Islam's main habitat. A survey by Elaph, the most respected electronic daily in the Arab world, gave a decided edge to those who objected to the building of this mosque—58% saw it as a project of folly.
Elaph was at it again in the aftermath of Pastor Terry Jones's threat to burn copies of the Quran: It queried its readers as to whether America was a "tolerant" or a "bigoted" society. The split was 63% to 37% in favor of those who accepted the good faith and pluralism of this country.
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eff off rauf
woof woof
the mosque is a dead issue
ain’t happening
“our soldiers, our troops, our embassies,” he says, referring to American outposts. Where does this “our” come from? Our? What makes this man an American? What makes him one of us?
He obviously successfully entered the country and gained some legal status here, but he brought with him an alien, hateful, and hostile ideology. Yet our famous “tolerance” bathes him in immunity.
Our President Zero has proclaimed that Islam has been with us from the beginning and Moslems have made great contributions to our society, Two lies. Name the great Moslem Americans, name just one.
Islam was not here from the beginning. It was absent from our Founding Fathers and it was absent from our founding generations. It has come recently, and look what it jas brought with it.
Fouad Ajami has been living here for 47yrs and is a highly respected writer & educator. He’s a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Please read up on him before expressing ignorant, bigotted views.
Thank you.
Good grief!
Ajami knows what he is talking about.
Try reading some of his stuff.
You sir are an ignorant fool.
Burn the building to the ground.
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Again
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That is, IF any construction worker in New York/New Jersy will even fling a hammer at a nail there.
Could it be the Arab world is chock full of Islamaphobes?
Or could it be they’ve never read the Koran?
Maybe we could talk Robert Spencer into going on a tour to teach them about what Islam really is all about.
LoL. There’s a number of people right here who could help Spencer with that.
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